Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Navy, Hon. Yusuf Gagdi, has expressed confidence that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will retain power in the 2027 general election, declaring that he has never imagined the ruling party losing an election.
Speaking on Channels TV programme, Gagdi said the APC’s nationwide political activities and grassroots mobilisation had placed it well ahead of all opposition parties.
“I have never, in my political imagination, thought that my party APC will lose election,” he said.
The lawmaker maintained that the ruling party had remained politically active across the country while opposition parties lacked visible structures and strategies.
“You have seen APC’s activities in the last one year across Nigeria, in the four angles of Nigeria where our political activities is ten times the political activities of any opposition political party in Nigeria.”
“So who is supposed to talk to another person about planning to win election?”
Gagdi dismissed claims that only opposition politicians were preparing seriously for the 2027 contest.
“You think Bola Tinubu and the APC are not trying to win elections in 2027?”
He argued that there was little evidence that opposition leaders had developed a credible plan to challenge President Tinubu.
“What are the opposition doing? What are the opposition planning or doing?
“I have not seen, with the activities of opposition, those you mentioned, Peter Obi or Atiku, I have not seen any effort being put in place by them to unseat or defeat the President come 2027.”
The lawmaker further accused some opposition politicians of politicising Nigeria’s security challenges.
He said, “By the time we keep drifting to a perspective of playing politics with the security and lives of the people of this country, it will be unfortunate.”
“We must collectively be patriotic. We must be united against terror.”
According to Gagdi, constructive criticism of government was necessary, but should not be motivated by electoral calculations.
“We should commend government where government needs to be commended and equally draw a line where government needs to make adjustment.”
“But when we escalate the mistakes not with the view of calling the attention of government to adjust its deficiencies, but with the view of trying to play politics and get political advantage, God will ask us at the end of the day.”
While acknowledging that insecurity remains a serious national concern, Gagdi insisted that the Tinubu administration had made genuine efforts to address it.
“I will not refuse to tell you here that the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu did make efforts towards solving the security problem.
“Promising to fix the security problem and putting effort toward fixing the security problem should be recognised.”
He urged Nigerians and political leaders to place patriotism above partisan interests.
“What can we collectively do to make sure Nigerians sleep and snore? These should be the major things we should be talking about, and this should be what the opposition should be thinking.”
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