ADC Exposes Tinubu’s Moves To Hijack Party

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has raised the alarm over alleged plan by some elements working in a cahoot with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration to destabilize the party.

As part of the plan to undermine the party some former Chairmen and other members of the ADC state executives have been summoned to a secret meeting with a top official of the president.

The ADC spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi made the allegation in a statement he released to journalists on Monday, accusing the ruling APC and President Tinubu of trying to sabotage the party.

Abdullahi said ADC is a party that came at the right time, to rescue the country from the “lies, the manipulation, and the hardship,” imposed on Nigerians by the Tinubu administration, stressing that the party which belongs to well meaning Nigerians will “restore decency, vision, and justice to governance” in the country

“We have credible intelligence that the aim of this meeting is not for national security or peacebuilding. 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 statement reads.

According to the ADC, 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 ADC said.

“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.”

“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 this 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,” the statement noted.

The magazine reported that the ADC, the coalition of key opposition elements in the country such as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, the 2023 Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, former governors Ahmad Nasir El Rufai, Rotimi Amaechi, Rauf Aregbesola, and others have last week vowed to challenge the ruling APC and President Tinubu in the next election.