{"id":122251,"date":"2025-09-16T16:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=122251"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:11:33","slug":"apc-pdp-wrecked-nigeria-ada-chieftain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/apc-pdp-wrecked-nigeria-ada-chieftain\/","title":{"rendered":"APC, PDP Wrecked Nigeria \u2013 ADA Chieftain\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div>By Oscar Okhifo<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Fiery political advocate, Dr. Umar Ardo, has lashed out at Nigeria\u2019s two dominant parties the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) declaring them failures that have dragged the country into poverty, insecurity, retrogression and hopelessness.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ardo, championing the All Democratic Alliance (ADA), branded the party as \u201cNigeria\u2019s Ark of Noah\u201d, vowing it would rescue the nation from what he called the \u201cclaws of political predators.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cFor over two decades, a corrupt, visionless, and insensitive political class has milked our nation dry looting the treasury and sowing ethnic and religious division to hold onto power,\u201d he thundered.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThey get richer while the masses sink deeper into poverty. They have dismantled the moral foundations of governance, leaving Nigeria rudderless and adrift.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>With the 2027 elections looming, Ardo warned that Nigerians are being led into another tragic cycle, as the same politicians who \u201cwrecked the present and mortgaged the future\u201d jostle for power under the same old banners of APC and PDP.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThis curse must be broken,\u201d he said. \u201cSilence is betrayal, indifference is cowardice. True patriots professionals, intellectuals, clerics, entrepreneurs, journalists and youths must now step into the arena.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He insisted that the ADA is the only vessel that can deliver Nigerians to safety, but stressed that the \u201cArk\u201d was still under construction and required collective effort to complete.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe recycled politicians of APC and PDP have forfeited every moral right to lead. Their continued grip on power is a death sentence for Nigeria\u2019s survival. But a new dawn is possible if Nigerians unite under the ADA banner,\u201d Ardo declared.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The ADA, recently certified by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) among 14 political parties, is positioning itself as the platform for what Ardo calls a \u201cpolitical renaissance rooted in justice, sacrifice, innovation and unity.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201c2027 must not be business as usual,\u201d he warned. \u201cTogether, we can rebuild the moral fabric of our nation and restore trust in governance.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oscar Okhifo Fiery political advocate, Dr. Umar Ardo, has lashed out at Nigeria\u2019s two dominant parties the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) declaring them&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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