The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed claims by the African Democratic Congress (ADC) that the ruling party and President Bola Tinubu are plotting to destabilise the opposition coalition.
In a statement issued Tuesday in Abuja, Felix Morka, national publicity secretary of the APC, described the allegations as “phantom lies” and accused the ADC of projecting its internal crisis onto others.
“The ADC is drowning in its own confusion and needs no help from our great party to unravel,” Morka said.
The ADC had, on Monday, alleged that its state chairmen in the north-east and north-west were invited to a “secret meeting with officials of the federal government” in a bid to intimidate the party.
But the APC said the statement was riddled with “vague references” and lacked any shred of credible evidence.
“Clearly, there was no such meeting, and certainly, no one could have been coerced or intimidated at a meeting that never was,” Morka said.
He described the claim as the product of “warped imaginations” and a pretext to excuse what he called the ADC’s inevitable collapse.
Morka said the Tinubu administration and the APC had no interest in interfering with a party “mortally wounded by confusion” and suffering from the consequences of a “Gestapo-like takeover” by self-serving politicians.
He claimed the ADC is now a collection of failed political actors driven by vendettas and blind ambition, lacking any real plan for governance.
“What good can possibly come out of a coalition of our country’s most inept politicians and architects of misrule, corruption, poverty and underdevelopment?” Morka asked.
The APC spokesperson said the ADC’s only strategy is to vilify the APC and disparage Tinubu’s “unassailable record of economic reconstruction and national transformation”.
“While the opposition wallows in self-inflicted confusion, the Tinubu administration and our great party remain undistracted and will continue to build a virile and vibrant country,” the statement concluded.