Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has said that the All Progressives Congress, APC, is seriously planning on how to outplay the African Democratic Congress-led coalition in 2027.
He proclaimed the defection of another governor to the APC soon, insisting that defections were part of APC’s counter plans to ADC’s.
Asked whether the APC is prepared to face the challenge posed by the coalition and if they have been able to discuss within their ranks in the APC what this means for 2027, the governor told Channels Television:
“Yes, we have discussed. And it is not something, actually, that I will disclose here. You know, as they are planning, we are planning. You know, we are in politics. We are in this indeed. We are not going to just sit down watching them planning. You know, so as they plan, we are planning, and at the end of the day, you know, the better plans will take over.
“So now, as it is, we are planning. We keep getting more and more governors from PDP joining us. Very soon you will hear another governor joining us.
“You hear every day senators that are decamping and coming back to APC every day. These are all part of the plans. They are not happening just by magic.”
Further reacting to the ADC’s claim that the reason why some of the governors or some heavyweights are not able to come to ADC now is because of a witch-hunt by the APC government, the governor added, “I don’t underrate anybody. And from my background, from my training, from my family background, I don’t insult anybody, not even the opposition. I don’t insult them. I don’t underestimate them. I don’t make negative statements about any one of them. You know, that is me based on my own upbringing, my own background, my own profession, my own career, and the rest of that.
“But the bottom line is that they must find something else to say.”
Reminded that in the days of Goodluck Jonathan, prior to the 2015 election, there were a lot of defections that happened, but Jonathan lost that election to Buhari, Mr Sule said, “Jonathan’s era is completely different from this era. We didn’t see what we are seeing during Jonathan that we are seeing today.
“We didn’t go through the challenges that we are having during the time that we are going today with the caliber of people that came together to form the alliance of the APC, you know, ANPP, ACM, CPC, as well as all these other parties, the new PDP, and the rest of that.
“It’s not the kind of thing that you are seeing in this new opposition.”