The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the newly formed opposition coalition party as hoaxers and self-obsessed merchants of vendetta.

This was contained in a statement by the party’s spokesman, Felix Morka, on Thursday.

He called the unveiling of the coalition a roll call of Nigeria’s me-or-nothing politicians, who equate their selfish interest with the interest of Nigerians, and who cannot bear to be out of the corridors of power and patronage.

He said the coalition members are desperate to grab power for themselves by guile and subterfuge, adding that they lay claim to an immoral birthright to power, even while draped in an odious record of betrayal of public trust and rapacious public service.

Recall that the opposition coalition on Wednesday adopted the African Democratic Congress, ADC, as a platform to lock horns with the APC in the forthcoming 2027 general elections.

The new opposition coalition party also chose former Senate President, David Mark, as its interim National Chairman, with former Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, as interim National Secretary.

Reacting to the unveiling, the APC said the speech delivered by David Mark was disgracefully vacant, without substance or purpose, adding that it was nothing but stitches of untruths and baseless allegations against the APC-led administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“From beginning to end, Senator Mark said nothing about the purpose of the so-called coalition other than a loud declaration of desperation for power. What value does the coalition bring to Nigerians? Why should any Nigerian be concerned about a coalition of a bunch of egotistical maniacs for whom power and patronage are the oxygen on which their lives depend?

“One would have expected that, after months of vacillating between the devil and the deep blue sea, in search of a host platform, Senator Mark and his co-travelers would take Nigerians seriously enough by telling them what their coalition would do differently regarding the administration’s bold economic and sectoral policy reforms.

“What key alternative policy approaches would the coalition implement, and with what prospects of success compared to the high value and transformative impact of the administration’s reform policies?

“What exactly is the philosophical or ideological leaning of the coalition or its new party, aside from desperation for power at all cost, by all means necessary and unnecessary?

“Senator Mark’s speech was loud in its silence to these questions because himself and his coalition partners are disgracefully clueless, without a care or concern about Nigeria and Nigerians, only filled with wolfish quest for power for their own mendacious end,” the statement read in part.

Several persons have been confirmed dead, with many others injured, following a horrific multiple-vehicle accident that occurred on Thursday evening along Kugbo Hill near Karu Bridge on the Nyanya-Keffi-Abuja road.

The accident reportedly happened after a trailer suffered brake failure and rammed into more than six vehicles.

The incident has caused a major traffic gridlock on the busy route.

Former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi has said President Bola Tinubu can only be removed from Aso Rock in 2027 if Nigerians decide to take their fate into their own hands.

Amaechi was speaking at the formal launch of the 2025 Nigeria Social Cohesion Survey Report by the Africa Polling Institute in Abuja on Thursday.

He said, “The only way you can stop Tinubu from being the president of Nigeria in 2027 is to run an election of Nigerians versus the bandits.

“If you think you will just sit down and do that, may God be with you.”

The former Governor of Rivers State also criticised the citizens for grumbling in private.

In Amaechi’s words, “they know you are not happy. But you are helpless not because the elites made you helpless, you made yourself helpless.”

Amaechi, who resigned from the All Progressives Congress, APC, earlier this week, was present at an event where the opposition coalition formally adopted the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Abuja on Wednesday.