2015: You cannot reclaim the South-West – APC tells PDP

The All Progressive Congress, APC, has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, cannot reclaim power in any state of the South West through credible elections.
This was contained in a statement issued by the Osun State chapter of the party in Osogbo on Monday. The statement was made by the APC Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi.
The APC said that the people of the South
West region were abandoned during the reign of the PDP and would not allow the party to seize power again.

The APC called on Yoruba people to be wary of "those politicians of preys assembled in the PDP". He said that they had no plan for them than to squander their resources.

The statement reads in part, "It was during the PDP reign, some Yoruba leaders were killed without trace of their killers and the essential infrastructure for human capital development as well as the industrial infrastructure that Awolowo laid down were recklessly destroyed or sold off to competitors of the race within Nigeria and to foreign interests.

"Since 2010 when Awolowo’s loyalists assembled in the Action Congress of Nigeria and later merged with other political parties to form the All Progressives Congress and finally recaptured all the states in the South-West except Ondo. The Yoruba nation has since been trying to reconstruct itself to attain the standard that Awolowo left and move forward from there.

"It is therefore inconceivable that these people, who have been so hurt by the PDP will, for any reason whatsoever vote that party into power again."