Nigeria, July 29 -- As political parties in Nigeria are preparing for their national convention ahead of the 2027 general elections, a former presidential aspirant of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) said his party "inherited a non-existent" country in 2015.

After 16 years in power, the PDP was ousted by the APC in 2015, in an election that former President Goodluck Jonathan lost to late Muhammadu Buhari of the APC.

Speaking on AIT's Focus Nigeria on Nigeria, Adamu Garba, who was an APC aspirant in the 2023 presidential election, said his party inherited a "non-existent country" in 2015.

"The entire instruments of power were destroyed. We have four instruments of power, which we refer to as DIME: diplomacy, intelligence, mili...