ADC Accuses Tinubu of Orchestrating Secret Operations Against Opposition Alliance

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has sounded an alert regarding what it describes as a frantic and perilous scheme by figures within the Tinubu government to weaken and disrupt the expanding opposition alliance.

Through a statement released on Monday by the party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary and National Spokesperson, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC disclosed that previous State Chairmen and prominent members of the party’s state executive committees from the North East and North West regions have been called to a clandestine meeting with senior Federal Government officials.

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“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.

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The ADC states that the intention is evident: to create disorder within the party, undermine its new leadership’s legitimacy, and obstruct its increasing influence as Nigeria’s emerging opposition leader.

‘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,” the ADC said.

“This is how one-party states are born—through intimidation.

“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.”