A professor of law at the University of Lagos, Akin Oyebode, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) is yet to get its grip on Nigeria’s governance.

He said this on Sunday during his appearance on a special programme on Channels Television, to review the political events in the country since the beginning of 2017.

Despite the fact that it has been more than two years since the APC took over power at the centre from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the political expert said the ruling party is yet to acknowledge that it won the election.

“The APC has not demonstrated the requisite panache for governance,” he said. “I think they are still yet to come to terms with the fact that they won an election.”

According to the don, the seemingly unstable condition of both leading parties has led Nigerians to a situation he described as a “terrible conjuncture” in the nation’s politics.

“You have the bus of the APC with a knocked engine and you have the bus of the PDP verging us for a second ‘one chance’ (you know what Nigerians mean by one chance); we have … a really no choice and people are talking of a third force,” he added.

The professor further stressed the need for the ruling party and other political parties to be up and doing to ensure adequate checks and balances in the nation’s governance.

He was worried that the PDP was unable to deliver as much as possible to the people during its 61-year reign, while the APC is yet to take a stand as the ruling party.

Oyebode said: “PDP lost the presidential election but by default, APC is in power but in the last two and a half years, we’ve not seen that grip on the nation stay – including the last few days, what we have seen.

“So what I am saying really is that the PDP was in power for 16 years and with all the thieving, stealing which I understand was not the same thing as corruption, and then you have the APC government unable to establish a firm grip on the political system.”