September 9, 2025
The peoples democratic party, PDP, candidate in the November 2023 Kogi state governorship election, Senator Dino Melaye, has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party is “dead and buried,” alleging that the party is now being controlled by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
Melaye, in an interview on Arise Television, dismissed any hopes of revival for the PDP, saying it no longer operates independently but controlled by the ruling APC.
He said, “Apart from our Lord Jesus Christ, no dead can rise again. PDP is dead and buried. The party was sold, and I’m not sure they even got the payment receipt. What you have now is an APC-controlled PDP.”
Melaye, who previously contested under the PDP platform, accused unnamed agents of the APC of infiltrating and steering the affairs of the party from the presidential villa.
READ MORE; PDP To Hold National Convention In November.
“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 lawmaker representing Kogi West senatorial district however, stated that he has left the PDP and has now a member of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, which he described as the platform capable of defeating the current President Bola Tinubu led APC government in 2027 general elections.
Melaye affirmed that. “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.”
He steered the discussion away from the PDP’s internal issues and urged citizens to focus on current situations in Nigeria.
“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,” Melaye said.
