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The All Progressives Congress (APC) described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as dead and not capable of capturing Lagos in 2019.

Abiodun Salami, assistant publicity secretary of the APC in Lagos, said this in a statement issued on Wednesday.

He said PDP had been completely decimated and can no longer make an impact in the governorship election, let alone winning.

Salami was reacting to the opposition party’s threat that it would win Lagos and take over government in 2019.

Taofeek Gani, spokesman of the PDP in Lagos, had told NAN on Tuesday that 2019 would be the beginning of the end of APC administration in the state.

“We will shock the APC in 2019.Take my words. We already have a lot of novel ideas to wrestle governance from them,” he had said.

“For now, we will keep our strategies sealed. When the game starts, we will unleash them.

“Ambode has failed in purposeful governance. The only thing we see is propaganda .Lagosians desire a change, and that change is PDP.”

But Salami said the statement was an empty threat as Lagosians knew the difference between the light and retrogression and would continue to vote the APC.

“The assertion made by the PDP that it would win the state in 2019 is a huge joke. In fact it is laughable,” he said.

“How do they want to achieve that? A party that had been deserted and left for dead by Lagosians. A party where virtually all their bigwigs, such as Obanikoro and others had deserted because they have seen the light and are now in the fold of APC.

“Who is left in the PDP in the state? I think they are living in a fool’s paradise by thinking they would make an impact let alone win in 2019. PDP in Lagos is dead and buried.”

He said he was surprised that PDP was still boasting of winning some house of assembly seats in 2015 when all but one elected lawmakers had since defected to the APC.

Salami said Lagosians trusted the APC government in the state to deliver impactful leadership, saying PDP lacked the drive for progress.

“Governor Akinwumi Ambode has been rendering purposeful leadership in the state in line with his electoral promise,” he said.