The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has read with customary amusement the latest declaration by Bello Mohammed Turaki, who is busy announcing grand plans to “return power to Nigerians.”
A fascinating proclamation – especially from someone who could not even muster the honesty to introduce himself properly.
Let it be said clearly:
Turaki is a factional chairman of a broken, scattered, leaderless PDP.
And it is dishonest – deliberately so – for him to pretend otherwise.
Before he dreams of returning power to Nigerians, he should first seek legitimacy from his own party members and leaders. A man who cannot unite his own divided platform cannot unite a country. Someone needs to respectfully remind him:
You cannot build something on nothing.
You cannot give what you do not have.
- PDP: A Party Seeking Redemption Without Repentance
For 16 long years, the PDP had all the power Turaki now speaks about so casually. What did they return to Nigerians?
• A depleted treasury
• Collapsed infrastructure
• Rampant oil theft
• Monumental corruption
• A nation pushed to the brink of economic paralysis
• A security architecture weakened by mismanagement
If this is the “power” Turaki claims he wants to return, Nigerians must beware of recycled calamity.
- Nigerians Already Reclaimed Power – By Rejecting the PDP
Turaki forgets a simple fact:
Nigerians reclaimed power in 2015 when they voted PDP out.
They reaffirmed it in 2019,
And reinforced it again in 2023.
The PDP has not only been rejected – it has been reduced to a coalition of bitter factions, each one engaged in endless court battles, contradictory rulings, and shameless forum shopping.
Before talking about returning power, the PDP should first return order to its house.
- A Party That Cannot Govern Itself Cannot Govern a Nation
How can a party drowning in internal disputes talk about saving Nigeria?
How can a factional chairman with no consensus backing claim authority over a party that is indistinguishable from a political war zone?
Turaki should prioritise:
• Returning honesty to PDP’s leadership,
• Returning unity to its fractured structure,
• Returning discipline to its errant members, and
• Returning sanity to its rampant judicial shopping.
Until then, his declarations remain beautifully wrapped emptiness.
- APC is Focused on Governance; PDP is Focused on Illusions
While President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is:
• Stabilising the economy,
• Re-engineering institutions,
• Executing infrastructure renewal,
• Driving security reforms,
• Expanding investment inflows, and
• Repositioning Nigeria for sustained growth,
the PDP is busy producing press statements that sound like bedtime stories for its dwindling supporters.
Nigeria needs constructive opposition – not political comedians issuing empty promises.
CONCLUSION
Bello Turaki should first earn legitimacy within his own party before attempting to lecture Nigerians about power. Pretence and grandstanding cannot substitute for reality.
A factional chairman cannot speak for a fragmented party.
A party without coherence cannot promise national salvation.
And a platform without credibility cannot return power to anyone.
APC remains committed to a future built on stability, reforms, democratic consolidation, and genuine empowerment of Nigerians – not the fantasy politics of those who lost power, lost public trust, and now seek attention through hollow declarations.
Mogaji (Hon) Seye Oladejo
Lagos State APC Spokesman
18/11/25.
