By Kingston Magare 25.5.2026
Following Sunday’s coronation of President Bola Tinubu as the All-Progressives Congress candidate for the 2027 presidential elections, the African Democratic Congress said it was absurd for the President to celebrate his 10.9 votes when the country is in tatters.
After he was declared winner on Sunday, Tinubu berated the opposition parties as lacking in ideas, saying he would reposition the country if given another four years.
But according to the ADC it was ironic Tinubu could speak of another four years when his first four years had nothing to show for the well-being of Nigerians.
“In a process designed for President Tinubu to contest against himself, one may be tempted to dismiss the figure as laughable, if it were not recognisable for what it truly represents,” ADC said in a statement Monday.
According to the ADC President Tinubu’s administration has presided over one of the most painful periods in Nigeria’s democratic history, and he is now awarding himself a pass mark and seeking for another four years of disastrous outing.
“This is a government under which inflation has devastated household incomes, food prices have become unbearable, insecurity has continued to spread across the country, and millions of Nigerians now live with a level of economic anxiety and hopelessness never before experienced in recent national history.”
“The truth is that the opposition did not create the hunger in the land. The opposition did not destroy the value of the naira. The opposition did not create the insecurity that has turned farming communities into killing fields.
“The opposition did not push businesses into collapse or force millions of young Nigerians into despair and economic uncertainty. Nigerians understand clearly who is responsible for the hardship they are currently enduring, and no amount of political subterfuge can erase the reality of daily suffering across the country.
“Nigerians are asking simple questions: Why is food unaffordable? Why are businesses collapsing? Why are citizens increasingly unsafe? Why are more Nigerians falling into poverty despite endless promises of reform and recovery?”