APC not worried about ADC coalition, says Felix Morka

Felix Morka, national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the party is not worried about the emerge of an opposition coalition seeking to unseat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 elections.

Speaking during an interview on Arise TV on Sunday, Morka claimed that current leaders of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) the adoption party for the coalition, plunged Nigeria into economic stagnation and poverty.

According to him, Tinubu is confronting Nigeria’s toughest challenges with uncommon political will.

“The All Progressives Congress is not jittery; we have no reason to be jittery at all,” he said.

“We are not jittery because the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who is the leader of our party, is doing exactly what Nigerians elected him to do.

“In my experience, this president, unlike any other president that has come through generations of presidents in our country, decided upon his swearing in that some of the most acerbic challenges confronting our country must be confronted with seriousness and with total devotion.

“He summoned the political will, which no other president has done before him, to confront those challenges.”

Morka said the results of Tinubu’s bold reforms are beginning to emerge, even if slowly, and dismissed criticisms from the opposition as “insincere and predetermined”.

“You will recall that this judgment by these characters who have now construed themselves to the ADC began very early on in the life of this administration to vilify this government and issue a report card that this government has not met the expectations of Nigerians,” he said.

“Even in the first few days of this administration, individually, they all came to that conclusion — this is a predetermined judgment.”

Morka described the opposition’s claims as “bogus in the extreme” and accused its members of being the same individuals responsible for the country’s decline.

“These are many of the architects of Nigeria’s misfortune that has now become totally generational,” he said.

“They are the architects of Nigeria’s economic stagnation. They are the architects of Nigeria’s incredible dimensions of corruption and underdevelopment and extreme poverty.”

He said Tinubu is being “unfairly” blamed by individuals who have held power at the national level for decades.

“This president has only been the governor of Lagos state. He’s never been on the national stage. Yet, the people who have occupied and saturated the political stage nationally today dare to suggest that this president is the reason Nigeria is on its knees,” Morka said.

“Nigeria is no longer on its knees. They brought Nigeria to its knees. But Nigeria, by virtue of the commitment of this president, has decided that no longer will Nigeria crumble to fall on its knees.

“Nigeria has arisen. Our economy has arisen. The hope for Nigeria and for the future has arisen. He has jettisoned the popularity — the need to be popular with Nigerians — because he’s putting Nigeria first. And when he puts Nigeria first, he puts Nigerians first. Our collective, your best interest first.”

He concluded that the APC is unshaken by any political movement under any name.

“We’re not concerned about any kind of coalition, whether under the ADC or under ADA or any other nomenclature that they choose,” he said.