The Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ambassador Umar Damagum, on Thursday, April 24, said the 2027 elections would be a direct contest between President Bola Tinubu and the living conditions of Nigerians, not between political parties or personalities.
Speaking in Abuja while presenting the Certificate of Return to the PDP’s candidate for the Anambra State governorship election, Chief Ezenwafor Jude, Damagum urged Nigerians to recognise what he described as a critical moment for the nation’s future.
“This election in 2027 is not about how many governors you have or how many leaders. It’s about Tinubu and Nigerians,” he said.
“The ordinary man is feeling the pain, and the decision is his. So I want to use this opportunity to tell Nigerians that it is their election. It is APC versus Nigerians.
“It’s not APC versus any governor or senator or anything but APC versus Nigerians. So I want to urge all of us to close ranks and rescue ourself from this hardship that is inflicted on us by design, not any coincidence.”
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Damagum also addressed the shock defection of Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, his predecessor Ifeanyi Okowa, and the entire state cabinet to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
“It’s very sad and unfortunate because to me, if there’s any state that should think that way, not Delta, because the party is very magnanimous. I thank God that in their message, they didn’t say that the party did anything wrong to them other than good,” he said.
“It’s a decision taken by them, but the pains will be in us, not because of anything, but because we have given Delta State all our support, from the emergence of the governor to his predecessor, who also doubled as our vice presidential candidate.
“I think we’ve done it all for them in Delta State. We least expected this action from them. All the same, this is a party that have seen more than that, but it’s still standing.”