ADC alerts, Tinubu trying to weaken coalition from within, using Northern individuals
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Bola Tinubu is using his presidential reach to target leaders of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the North East and North West to weaken the opposition coalition out to contest against him in the 2027 election.
A statement issued by ADC National Publicity Secretary Bolaji Abdullahi, who raised the alarm, said the coalition would not stand by and watch while some individuals gang up to push Nigeria into a one-party system.
The coalition on July 1 adopted the ADC as its political platform to contest the 2027 ballot.
Abdullahi alleged that former state Chairmen and senior members of ADC state executives in the North East and North West have been invited to a closed-door meeting with high-ranking officials of the Tinubu regime.
“We have credible intelligence that the aim of this meeting is not for national security or peacebuilding,” he said in the statement.
“It is to intimidate, coerce, and if possible, co-opt these individuals into a fabricated scheme against the opposition coalition. This is not politics. This is sabotage.
“The motive is clear: to sow confusion within the party, delegitimise its new leadership, and derail its rising momentum as the new face of the opposition in Nigeria.
“Let it be clear, this surreptitious dalliance with the ADC state Chairpersons by appointees of the federal government who should be focused on urgent national security priorities and challenges that the country is facing is a coordinated assault on multiparty democracy.
“This is how one-party states are born, through intimidation.
“The July 1st Coalition Declaration and the July 2nd unveiling of the ADC have clearly rattled the ruling party.
“It is now obvious that the Tinubu administration, having lost the trust of the Nigerian people, cannot withstand the pressure of a united and credible opposition.
“But rather than correct its ways, it has resorted to its old playbook of destabilising opposition parties.”
Abdullahi cautioned Tinubu and stressed that the ADC is owned by the Nigerian people.
“Let it be clear: the coalition movement is an idea whose time has come.
“This party belongs to every Nigerian who is tired of the lies, the manipulation, and the hardship.
“It belongs to every Nigerian who wants to restore decency, vision, and justice to governance.
“We would therefore not allow a handful of desperate men to turn Nigeria into a one-party dictatorship. And it would be our patriotic duty to resist it with every democratic means available to us.
“We call on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to take note of these sinister moves by some of his appointees and call them to order.
“The president needs to prove to Nigerians that he is indeed a democrat.
“He needs to remind his men that if the Goodluck Jonathan administration were as intolerant and as subversive of the opposition, the APC would not have come to power in 2015 and he would not have been a President today.”
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