‘I Have Never Thought My Party Would Lose An Election’ – APC Chieftain, Gadji

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Navy, Hon. Yusuf Gagdi, has dismissed suggestions that only opposition politicians were strategising ahead of the 2027 general election.

Naija News reports that Gagdi, while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, said the All Progressives Congress (APC) is far ahead of the opposition in political mobilisation.

Gagdi insisted that he had never thought the APC would lose in an election, stressing that the ruling party had maintained sustained political activities across the country, unlike opposition parties.

The lawmaker explained that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and presidential candidate of the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, lack the required political capacity to defeat President Bola Tinubu in the forthcoming election.

He said, “I have never, in my political imagination, thought that my party, APC, would lose an election.

“What are the opposition doing? What are the opposition planning or doing? I have not seen, with the activities of the opposition, those you mentioned, Peter Obi or Atiku. I have not seen any effort being put in place by them to unseat or defeat the president come 2027. I would say this any day, anytime.

“You have seen APC’s activities in the last one year across Nigeria, in the four corners of Nigeria where our political activities are ten times the political activities of any opposition political party in Nigeria.

“So who is supposed to talk to another person about planning to win an election?

“You think Bola Tinubu and the APC are not trying to win elections in 2027? Atiku and Obi have always been defeated.”

Gagdi further stated that political parties naturally prepare for elections, adding it would be wrong to suggest that only opposition politicians were planning for 2027.

“If you think they are planning, what makes you think that the APC is not planning to win elections? Are we sleeping? What planning are they doing?” he asked.