CRITIQUE: APC Cannot Run From Its Own Shadow
By Chris Osa Nehikhare
…Nigeria is too important to be left in the hands of people who break everything — and then claim they found it broken.
I find it intellectually insulting and politically dishonest to hear the current Federal Government attempting to distance itself from the immediate past administration. Listening to them, you would think they belong to some newly-formed party, unconnected to the eight years of disastrous leadership that preceded them. But Nigerians are not fools. If President Buhari failed — and he did on almost every critical score — it is the failure of the APC. They were one. They are one. And the consequences belong to them collectively.
Now we hear minister after minister, and congressman after congressman, lamenting the “mess they inherited.” It is baffling. The Finance Minister, especially, is guilty of this blame-shifting rhetoric. Instead of sermonizing about inherited problems, he should be apologising — for the mess created by his incompetent, financially reckless, and clueless party. APC authored the fiscal disaster. They presided over the collapse. They stamped their logo boldly on the suffering of Nigerians.
On the economy, APC’s performance has been nothing short of abysmal. From the collapse of the naira, to skyrocketing unemployment, to industries shutting down or fleeing the country — this is not a failure that began yesterday. The security situation tells the same story. Terror, banditry, kidnapping — these scourges did not magically appear overnight. They grew under APC’s watch and have continued because the same party, the same ideology, and in many cases the same individuals remain in charge.
Their incompetence did not end at Abuja’s gates; it cascaded into the states. Edo is the clearest proof. The moment a performing PDP-led government was replaced by an APC government, decline immediately took root. Projects stalled. Institutions weakened. Governance became a joke. No state can rise above the values — or lack thereof — of the party in control.
APC must stop pretending it inherited a mess from aliens. They inherited themselves. They are pointing fingers at their own reflection.
The problem is not just personnel; it is party, philosophy, and competence. And Nigerians deserve much better than a ruling party that fails, forgets, and then pretends its failures belong to someone else.
If APC cannot fix the disaster it authored, then it should step aside. Nigeria is too important to be left in the hands of people who break everything — and then claim they found it broken.
