The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of orchestrating a covert campaign to destabilize the newly formed opposition coalition ahead of the 2027 general elections.
In a statement issued on Monday, July 7, by the party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary and National Coalition Spokesperson, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC alleged that former state chairmen and members of the party’s state executive committees from the North East and North West regions were invited to a secret meeting with senior Federal Government officials.
“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 declared.
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The ADC claims this alleged move is designed to create internal divisions within the party, discredit its leadership, and undermine the growing influence of the coalition as a viable political alternative. According to the statement, this strategy is part of a broader effort to weaken multi-party democracy in Nigeria.
“Let it be clear, this surreptitious dalliance with the ADC State Chairpersons by appointees of the federal government… is a coordinated assault on multiparty democracy,” Abdullahi asserted, adding, “This is how one-party states are born—through intimidation.”
The party pointed to recent events, specifically the July 1st Coalition Declaration and the July 2nd unveiling of the ADC as the opposition’s new platform, as the triggers for what it described as a reactionary pushback from the ruling party.
“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,” the statement continued.
The ADC called on President Tinubu to intervene and restrain his aides and appointees allegedly involved in the plot. “The president needs to prove to Nigerians that he is indeed a democrat,” Abdullahi stated.
“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 party concluded by affirming its commitment to building a broad-based opposition ahead of the next elections and vowed to resist any attempts to stifle democratic space.
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