Lagos APC Hails South East Realignment with Ruling Party

... Says handshake across the Niger marks unity, maturity, and shared progress

The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the ongoing political realignment in the South East as a welcome development that signals a new dawn of inclusion, national cohesion, and political maturity.

In a statement titled “Handshake Across the Niger - Building Bridges, Breaking Boundaries”, the party said the growing embrace of the APC in the region represents “not just a symbolic handshake across the Niger, but a decisive step toward unity, progress, and shared prosperity.”

According to Lagos APC Spokesman, Hon. Seye Oladejo, the development reflects the region’s increasing recognition that meaningful participation in governance, rather than “sterile opposition,” remains the surest path to both regional and national advancement.

“For decades, political sentiment and emotional posturing kept the South East on the fringes of national power. That era is ending,” Oladejo said. 

“By joining forces with the national mainstream, the South East is now at the table where decisions are made, not outside where complaints echo without consequence.”

He added that President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda is providing every region with a fair opportunity to flourish, anchored on equity, inclusiveness, and national unity.

In a sharp critique of opposition parties, the Lagos APC said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) have become “fractured and rudderless,” accusing them of losing focus and direction while the APC continues to build bridges across regions.

“The so-called main opposition has become a theatre of absurdities, a gathering of strange bedfellows bound only by mutual frustration,” the statement read. 

“While the APC is consolidating as a truly national movement, the opposition is imploding under the weight of its contradictions.”

Oladejo described the PDP as “a relic of its old self — leaderless, rudderless, and adrift,” and the Labour Party as one that “rode on social media emotion without structure or strategy.”

He said Nigerians can now clearly see the difference between a united, purposeful ruling party and a divided, disoriented opposition. “The 2027 elections will not be a contest but a coronation of continuity,” he declared.

The statement commended political leaders from the South East for “choosing partnership over protest, development over division, and progress over propaganda,” adding that the APC remains the only credible platform for national stability and development.

“With every handshake across the Niger, we are building bridges, breaking boundaries, and securing Nigeria’s future,” the Lagos APC spokesman said.