Thirteen Years as a Party. Eleven Years in Power. Zero Years of Governance.
Thirteen years of the APC is not an anniversary. It is a forensic exhibit in national destruction. A living archive of broken promises, institutional vandalism, and economic cruelty inflicted on a captive population.
This is not rhetoric. This is record. Documented. Dated. Paid for in hunger, in fear, and in the slow erosion of national dignity.
Aare Amerijoye DOT.B
They came with a broom. They swept Nigeria clean. Clean of savings. Clean of jobs. Clean of dignity. Even the broom, it turned out, was stolen.
They Lied. Nigeria Is Paying. Let the Record Stand.
Let us begin where truth is most uncomfortable, with facts stripped of propaganda, disinfected of spin, and presented without apology. In 2013, the APC was not born out of vision. It was assembled, crudely and opportunistically, by displaced power brokers and a coalition of ambition masquerading as ideology.
They sold one word, Change.
It was not a promise. It was a calculated deception. Not casual. Not accidental. A sustained, industrial scale falsehood executed over eleven uninterrupted years of power.
The outcome is not debatable. Nigeria today is poorer, weaker, more indebted, more insecure, and more psychologically exhausted than at any point since the end of military rule.
Do not let them intellectualise this failure. Do not let them hide behind jargon. This is not complexity. It is collapse.
In 2015, one dollar exchanged for 197 naira. Today, the naira staggers beyond 1,700 like a wounded currency abandoned by its own government. That is not economic evolution. That is policy driven destruction.
Thirteen years as a party. Eleven years in power. A country brought to its knees, deliberately, systematically, and without remorse.
The APC did not merely fail Nigeria. It disfigured expectation, weaponised disappointment, and converted hope into a recurring national punishment. What was sold as rescue became ruin. What was advertised as reform became regression. What was marketed as salvation became a long, brutal apprenticeship in suffering.
APC13YearsFail #11YearsOfRuin
2013: A Party Without Soul, Built Only for Power
The APC was never an ideological movement. It had no philosophical backbone, no coherent doctrine, no national blueprint. It was a political contraption, engineered for conquest, not governance.
A merger of convenience. A coalition of impatience. A gathering of men united not by belief, but by appetite.
They converged from rival camps, conflicting loyalties, and contradictory histories. The only common denominator was ambition, raw, unfiltered, and unrestrained. Nigeria was never the mission. Power was.
And a structure born in opportunism can never produce governance rooted in responsibility.
What we are witnessing today is not an accident. It is the natural consequence of a party that entered power without purpose and governed without conscience.
It was, from inception, a machine of acquisition. It wanted office, not order. It sought control, not competence. It desired possession of the state, not service to the nation. That original sin has never left it.
APCExposed #NigeriaDeservesBetter
2015: The Most Expensive Lie Ever Sold to Nigerians
February 2015. A hopeful nation. A trusting electorate. A country desperate for redemption.
Into that moment, the APC injected illusion. Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler who once dismantled democratic order, was repackaged as its saviour. Rebranded. Sanitised. Marketed as discipline in human form.
It was one of the most audacious political rebrands in Nigerian history.
Three million jobs annually. A stable naira. Boko Haram crushed in sixty days. Free education. Functional healthcare. Integrity in governance.
Every single promise collapsed. Not gradually. Not reluctantly. Completely.
This was not failure. This was betrayal executed with precision.
Nigeria did not vote for suffering. Nigerians were deceived into it.
Name one promise fulfilled. Just one. Silence has been the APC’s most consistent answer.
The tragedy was not only that Nigerians were lied to. The greater tragedy was that the lie was repeated so often, marketed so aggressively, and swallowed so completely that millions mistook performance for principle. A political costume was mistaken for character. Packaging was mistaken for capacity.
ChangeWeLament #APC11YearsOfLies
Buhari: Eight Years of National Regression Disguised as Leadership
Eight years of Buhari did not merely stagnate Nigeria. They reversed it.
The naira collapsed. The economy contracted. Youth unemployment metastasised into a generational crisis. Food inflation turned markets into theatres of quiet despair.
In the north, his political base, hunger expanded brutally. Communities he once claimed to defend were abandoned to deprivation and violence.
Security became theatre. Boko Haram endured. Banditry flourished. Kidnapping industrialised itself. Entire regions adjusted to fear as a permanent condition of existence.
This was not governance. This was abdication.
And while Nigeria deteriorated internally, it haemorrhaged externally. Doctors fled. Engineers emigrated. Academics disappeared. The most educated generation Nigeria ever produced walked away from a country that offered them nothing but uncertainty.
Nigeria did not just lose stability. It lost its future in real time.
Buhari did not hand over a healed nation. He handed over a weakened republic, a battered economy, a frightened population, and a governance culture in which failure had become normal, excuses had become official language, and silence had become the preferred response to catastrophe.
What Buhari damaged, Tinubu deepened. What Buhari normalised, Tinubu intensified. What Buhari left wounded, Tinubu has kept bleeding.
JapaUnderAPC #NigeriaDeservesBetter
Tinubu: When Suffering Became Official Policy
If Buhari weakened Nigeria, Tinubu institutionalised the weakness.
On his very first day in office, with no preparation, no cushioning, and no empathy, he removed fuel subsidy in a single, reckless declaration. That sentence detonated the cost of living across the entire country.
Fuel prices tripled instantly. Transport costs surged. Food prices spiralled into cruelty. Inflation became a daily assault on survival.
There was no transition plan. No social protection. No strategic sequencing. Just economic shock imposed on millions already at breaking point.
This was not reform. This was ambush governance.
Then came the telecom tariff increase, demanding more from citizens already crushed by policy failure. Nigerians were asked to pay more to communicate, more to survive, more to exist, while infrastructure remained broken and power supply unreliable.
The message was unmistakable. Hardship is now policy.
Tinubu did not arrive as correction. He arrived as escalation. He did not interrupt the APC’s culture of misrule. He sharpened it. He did not soften the pain of the Buhari years. He converted pain into doctrine and marketed endurance as patriotism.
Under this dispensation, the citizen is treated not as the subject of governance but as raw material for extraction. Pay more. Suffer more. Endure more. Explain less. Ask nothing. Accept everything. That, in effect, has become the ruling philosophy.
Tinubu3Years #NigeriaOnItsKnees
Final Verdict: Guilty on All Counts
Thirteen years as a party. Eleven years in power.
No transformation. No redemption. No defence.
The APC did not reform Nigeria. It deformed it. It did not strengthen institutions. It weakened them. It did not improve lives. It made survival harder.
Every promise collapsed into consequence.
This is not misfortune. This is responsibility.
And in 2027, Nigeria will decide whether this record is rewarded, or rejected completely.
Nigeria is no longer asleep.
Nigeria is watching.
And Nigeria will answer.
History will not remember the APC as a vehicle of change. It will remember it as a long and punishing detour through arrogance, incompetence, and avoidable suffering. It will remember a party that inherited a difficult country and returned it in worse condition. It will remember a ruling class that confused propaganda with performance and called cruelty reform.
And when the final democratic reckoning comes, as it surely must, the most devastating judgment may well be the simplest one. They were trusted with a nation, and they broke it.
Aare Amerijoye DOT.B
Director General,
The Narrative Force (thenarrativeforce.org)
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