‘You’re a One-Term President’, ADC Challenges Tinubu

• The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has declared that President Bola Tinubu will be a one-termer, warning that Nigerians will not renew his mandate in the 2027 elections.

• The party said recent remarks about extending his tenure to 2031 were “presumptuous and patently undemocratic,” citing insecurity, economic challenges, and governance failures under his administration.

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has declared that President Bola Tinubu will be a one-termer, insisting that Nigerians will not extend his mandate in the 2027 elections.

In a statement by its interim National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, the party described recent remarks by the Presidency that Tinubu will not leave office until 2031 as “presumptuous and patently undemocratic.”

Admonishing the President to begin preparing to leave office in 2027, the ADC expressed confidence that Nigerians would not want Tinubu to stay in power “even for a day beyond May 28, 2027,” citing insecurity and economic challenges across the country.

“The Presidency’s desperate response to the recent remarks by former governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, that President Bola Tinubu has plans to be a life President only serves to confirm what Nigerians have long suspected: this administration is not only out of touch with reality, it has also become dangerously self-satisfied,” the party said.

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ADC added that Tinubu’s administration, in just two years, has divided the country and worsened poverty:

• “More innocent lives have been lost under him, and bandits have effectively taken control of a large swathes of our Northern territory. While the President taxes people and businesses to death from Abuja, bandits exert their own taxes in various states of the North.

• “Under his watch, national security has degenerated into a cruel joke. Terrorists, bandits, and criminals now operate with total impunity. Citizens are kidnapped in broad daylight. Rural communities have become warzones. Insecurity has metastasized into national trauma, and the government has neither the will nor the capacity to stop it.
• “The economy, meanwhile, is in a free fall. The naira has collapsed. Inflation is out of control. Food prices have tripled in many parts of the country. Jobs are vanishing. The middle class is disappearing. Businesses that once thrived are collapsing under the weight of punitive taxes and policy inconsistencies. Nigerians are now poorer, hungrier, and angrier than they were before Tinubu took office.
• “As for the power sector, it remains comatose despite yet another cycle of empty promises. Blackouts are the norm, not the exception. Billions have been spent, but megawatts have not increased. The darkness, both literal and metaphorical, persists. National grid has continued to collapse, while official greed get even bigger.
• “On social development, the picture is equally bleak. Nigeria’s Human Development Index continues to slide. Education is underfunded, healthcare is collapsing, and millions of children are out of school. The youth—Nigeria’s greatest asset—are increasingly hopeless, jobless, and restless. Meanwhile, government intervention remains cosmetic.

• “Human rights have been trampled on. Court orders are ignored. Journalists are harassed. Peaceful protesters are brutalized. And all of this is happening under the watch of a President who once claimed to be a democrat. Today, he presides over a system that is increasingly authoritarian in tone, arrogant in posture, and hostile to accountability.
• “Transparency and fiscal discipline have become relics of a forgotten era. The administration has embraced secrecy as a governance principle. Budget padding, wasteful spending, opaque palliatives, and inexplicable loans have defined its fiscal conduct. The fuel subsidy saga alone is a national scandal yet to be properly explained.”

The ADC further stated that discussing a second term for Tinubu is “insensitive” and “dangerous,” warning against the notion of a “life president”:

“Nevertheless, let no one be deceived into thinking that the idea of a ‘life president’ is too far-fetched. After all, this is the same man who, since leaving office in 2007, has single-handedly anointed every governor of Lagos State, handpicked Speakers, and installed virtually every major public office holder in the state. What he perfected in Lagos, he now seeks to replicate on a national scale. But let it be said clearly and without ambiguity: Nigeria is not Lagos. Nigerians are watching. And come 2027, it won’t be APC versus ADC, it will be APC versus the Nigerian people,” the party concluded.