Nigeria's ruling APC will be in power for 100 years - Lawmaker

A lawmaker with Nigeria's ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the party will remain in power for 100 years.

According to Yusuf Gagdi, a lawmaker representing Pankshin/Kanke/Kanam constituency, in the northwestern Plateau State, the party had done enough since 2015 to remain in power for that long.

Whiles addressing the press after partaking in a party membership revalidation exercise, he projected that the party was in line to win the next election slated for 2023.

“From the crowd you have seen here today, it is crystal clear that APC, our party, is on ground,” the lawmaker said on Saturday.

“Though God decides what happens, but with the achievements of our party at various levels, we will retain power beyond 2023.

“In fact, it is not just about the next general elections, but the party will remain in power for the next hundred years.”

Since the return to democracy in 1999, the APC is the second party to rise to power. The first was the current main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; which produced three presidents - Olusegun Obasanjo, Umar Musa Yar'Adua and Goodluck Jonathan.

The APC won power in 2015 when Muhammadu Buhari defeated Goodluck Jonathan. Buhari secured re-election in 2019 on the APC ticket beating PDP's Atiku Abubakar, a former vice-president.

For lawmaker Gagdi, the party's membership revalidation will afford it the opportunity to widen its base and to secure victory in successive elections.