Despite the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) decision to no longer recognize the ADC factional party’s leadership due to a court ruling, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has vowed to run in the 2027 general election under its own platform.
Bolaji Abdullahi, the national publicity secretary for the ADC, appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday and voiced optimism that the opposition party will overcome all obstacles.
“One thing I can guarantee is that we will contest the 2027 election on the ADC platform,” Abdullahi said.
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“Regardless of what has happened in Nigeria, we still have confidence in the judiciary. We believe we have a slam-dunk case. If we are granted the accelerated hearing today and the court sits, we are confident that justice will be done. We have no doubt in our minds about that. While we are hoping for the best, we are also preparing for the worst.”
The ADC spokesperson argued that, since the party had given INEC the recommended 21-day notice for its congresses, it has nothing to fear, adding, “If the same INEC that swore in an affidavit that it was aware of the leadership change in the ADC is now turning around to say what they are saying, they are not going to stop us.”
He stressed that the party will not just quit up, cautioning that doing so would make them complicit in the deterioration of Nigeria’s multiparty democracy.
Abdullahi vowed that the ADC would oppose the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Bola Tinubu’s attempts to turn Nigeria into a one-party state.
“We in the African Democratic Congress (ADC) are saying that Nigeria will not become a one-party state in our generation. We will do everything within the law to resist it,” he said.
According to him, President Tinubu is aware of his unpopularity, and the ruling party’s internal polls have pushed it into panic mode.
“The APC has almost all the governors and lawmakers, but Nigerians do not want the party anymore,” he said.
Abdullahi further accused the ruling party of making efforts to destabilize opposition political parties because it wants a situation where Tinubu will be the only viable presidential contender in 2027.
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“It is the same agenda. They want a situation whereby when we arrive in 2027, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be the only viable contestant. This is the agenda.
“It is the reason they decapitated the PDP and made it an appendage of the ruling party now; it is the reason they destabilize the Labour Party; it is the reason they destroyed NNPP,” he said.
When asked if the ADC will follow other opposition parties’ requests to abstain from the 2027 election, Abdullahi replied that the party would never do so.
“We are not going to boycott. Like I said, to boycott is to surrender. I mean, you boycott, you make headlines — then what?” he said.
He went on to say that the ADC will not let millions of Nigerians who have suffered over the past three years down by abstaining from a procedure that could make their lives better.
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