The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said that its July 1, 2025 declaration of the Coalition and the subsequent unveiling of the ADC on July 2, 2025, have clearly rattled the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The ADC said it is now so obvious that the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, having lost the trust of the Nigerian people, cannot withstand the pressure of a united and credible opposition.
A statement by Mr Bolaji Abdullahi, Interim National Publicity Secretary of the ADC, noted that rather than correct its ways, the Tinubu administration has resorted to its old playbook of destabilising opposition parties.
Abdullahi said the Tinubu-led APC Administration is now adopting a desperate and dangerous plot by some aides of the president to undermine and destabilise the growing opposition coalition.
According to Abdullahi; “Former State Chairmen and key members of the party’s state executive committees in the North East and North West have been summoned to a secret meeting with top officials of the Tinubu government.
“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,” he stressed.
The ADC noted that the motive of the Tinubu government aides is clear as they are desirous of sowing confusion within the party, delegitimise its new leadership, and derail its rising momentum as the new face of the opposition in Nigeria.
Abdullahi further said; “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. 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,” he said.
