The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of orchestrating a covert plan to weaken Nigeria’s opposition coalition by targeting its state leadership.
In a statement issued on Monday by Bolaji Abdullahi, the party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, the ADC alleged that some of its former state chairmen and executive members in the North East and North West were summoned to secret meetings with top federal government official.
“We have credible intelligence that the aim of this meeting is… to co-opt these individuals into a fabricated scheme against the opposition coalition,” Abdullahi stated.
Describing the move as “sabotage” and “a coordinated assault on multiparty democracy,” the ADC warned that these actions reflect an emerging strategy to establish a one-party state.
“This is how one-party states are born—through intimidation,” the party declared.
According to the ADC, the Tinubu administration has been unsettled by the success of its July 1st and 2nd coalition events and is resorting to old tactics of opposition destabilisation. The party called on President Tinubu to rein in his appointees and prove his democratic credentials.
“If the Goodluck Jonathan administration were as intolerant… Tinubu would not have been President today,” the statement concluded.
