ADC Raises Alarm Over Alleged Tinubu Plot to Cripple Opposition Coalition

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused key figures within President Bola Tinubu‘s administration of orchestrating a desperate and dangerous plot to destabilise the growing opposition coalition in Nigeria.

In a strongly-worded statement issued on Monday, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary and National Spokesperson, revealed that former ADC state chairmen and members of state executive committees from the North East and North West have been secretly invited to a closed-door meeting with top officials of the Federal 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,” the statement read.

According to the ADC, the motive is clear:

“To sow confusion within the party, delegitimise its new leadership, and derail its rising momentum as the new face of the opposition in Nigeria.”

The party described the moves as part of a broader agenda to erode Nigeria’s multiparty democracy.

“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.”

The ADC further stated that the July 1st Coalition Declaration and the July 2nd unveiling of the party’s leadership have clearly rattled the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

“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.”

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Reaffirming its commitment to democratic principles, the ADC declared:

“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.”

The statement ended with a call to President Tinubu to rein in his appointees:

“We call on President Bola 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.”