NIGERIA: APC Mocks Aregbesola Over Claim That ADC Will Take Over Lagos, Aso Rock In 2027

By Onoja Baba, Nigeria 

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed as laughable the recent boast by former Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) would “take over” both Aso Rock and the Lagos State Government House in 2027.

In a strongly worded statement issued on Sunday, September 14, by its spokesman, Hon. Seye Oladejo, the APC described Aregbesola’s declaration as a desperate attempt to stay politically relevant, branding it “political suicide of the highest order.”

Oladejo said Aregbesola, who once rose from Lagos Commissioner to Osun Governor and later to a federal minister under the APC, had now reduced himself from being “a proud landlord in the progressive family” to “a wandering tenant in a mushroom opposition party.”

The statement read in part, “When Aregbe condemns the APC, he is not damaging us – he is shredding his own résumé. Every attack on APC is an attack on the very foundation of his career. Nigerians know better than to take such a self-destructive messenger seriously.”

The APC spokesman further ridiculed the ADC’s choice of Aregbesola as its arrowhead, insisting that such a decision was tantamount to preparing for “a funeral, not a victory.”

According to the ruling party, elections in Nigeria are won on performance and visible records, not “soundbites and fairy tales.” The APC cited its achievements in roads, schools, hospitals, and reforms as proof that Lagosians and Nigerians would continue to vote for competence and consistency rather than “boasts without substance.”

“The woeful and embarrassing performance of the ADC in the recent by-elections should give them no cause for hope. They need to first learn humility before they inevitably bite the dust in 2027,” Oladejo added.

He maintained that the 2027 general elections would serve as a reality check, stressing that voters would reward the APC for delivery while reminding Aregbesola and his allies that “betrayal is not a political strategy.”

Concluding, the party dismissed Aregbesola’s comments as a “public obituary of his own political relevance.”

“APC is here to stay. Movements don’t collapse because one man chooses to self-destruct,” Oladejo declared.