Distribution of Reelection Cars: ADC Asks For Tinubu’s Resignation

By Gideon Njoku

For distributing what they termed vehicles for his 2027 Presidential Campaign, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, on Thursday, urged President Bola Tinubu to seriously sit up in  terms of governance or ship out.

Bolaji Abdullahi, National Secretary of the Party, made  the call on the President in response to, according to him, appalling reports that President Tinubu distributed fleets of Hilux trucks, Land Cruisers, and Hummer buses to his political agents across Nigeria to begin his 2027 re-election bid.

In a statement, Abdullahi, like Peter Obi, 2023 Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, is insensitive. He said that the purchase and distribution of the vehicles, and the kick-off of the 2027 Presidential Election, at this time when Nigeria is under a declared state of emergency due to the frightening state of insecurity, confirms that the President’s declaration of security emergency was a mere joke for newspaper headlines for a President whose main focus is re-election.

Said Abdullahi: “While ordinary citizens are being kidnapped, displaced, and killed, the President is handing out branded vehicles and building a partisan mobilisation structure. Entire communities are living under siege, our armed forces are stretched thin, yet the ruling party is preparing for rallies.

“At a time when children are being kidnapped and countless communities are under attack, the President is focused on re-election, seeking to continue presiding over a nation that has become more diminished, more fractured, and more dangerous than he met it.

“A nation under emergency rule is expected to adopt extraordinary conduct and behaviours that reflect the desperate nature of its condition. More importantly, the leadership of that country must demonstrate that nothing else matters in a time of emergency than tackling the situation that necessitated it.

“What we have seen under President Tinubu is that, apart from the declaration itself and a few symbolic gestures, nothing of substance has changed; no new safety measures, no heightened security alertness or presence, nothing. Instead, it has been business as usual.

“Leadership in times of crisis demands focus, sacrifice, and moral clarity. Lavish convoys and early campaigns are not the answers to national trauma. The President must return to the business of governance or step aside and admit that his political ambition now stands in the way of Nigeria’s recovery.”