…says Tinubu, having lost the trust of Nigerian people have resorted to its old playbook of destabilizing opposition parties.
The iNews Times reports that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has raised concerns about a perceived plot by elements within the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to undermine and destabilize the growing opposition coalition.
According to a statement by Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary and National Spokesperson, 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 Federal Government.
The ADC believes that the aim of this meeting is not for national security or peacebuilding but to intimidate, coerce, and co-opt these individuals into a fabricated scheme against the opposition coalition. “This is not politics. This is sabotage,” the statement read.
The party accused the Tinubu administration of resorting to its old playbook of destabilizing opposition parties, having lost the trust of the Nigerian people.
“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,” the ADC said.
The party emphasized that the coalition movement is an idea whose time has come, belonging to every Nigerian who is tired of lies, manipulation, and hardship.
“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,” the party declared.
The ADC has called on President 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,” the statement read.
