Senator Dino Melaye, a former lawmaker who served in the Kogi West senatorial constituency, has declared the Peoples Democratic Party to be “dead and buried,” claiming that the ruling All Progressives Congress now controls the party.
Melaye said the opposition party no longer functions independently in an interview on Arise Television, dismissing any chances of a comeback.
No one can rise from the grave but our Lord Jesus Christ. PDP is no longer in existence. I doubt they ever received the purchase receipt, but the party was sold. You now have a PDP under APC control,” he stated.
Melaye, a former PDP candidate, charged anonymous APC operatives with infiltrating and controlling the party presidential election.
It is a party that has been controlled from the villa. I have said before that as far as we are concerned, it is the agents of the APC that control the PDP,” he added.
The former senator, however, stated that he is no longer a member of the PDP and has now pitched his tent with the African Democratic Congress which he described as the platform capable of defeating President Bola Tinubu’s APC government in the next general elections.
“I’m a proud member of the ADC, and by the grace of God, that is the party that will unseat Tinubu and send APC out of the villa come May 29, 2027,” Melaye stated.
While steering the discussion away from the PDP’s internal issues, Melaye urged Nigerians to focus on pressing national challenges.
“There are critical issues bedevilling this country: hunger, malnutrition, misgovernance, and maladministration. Those are the issues I think we should discuss, not a dead party,” he said.
