• Says it won’t anoint a presidential candidate
From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said that Nigerians will grant President Bola Tinubu his wish by denying him their votes, in the 2027 presidential poll, over poor power supply in the country.
The ADC, in a post by its interim spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, on his verified X handle @bolajiADC, yesterday, quoted President Tinubu as telling Nigerians not to vote for him in the next election, if he fails to give them electricity.
Abdullahi noted that while he promised to give Nigerians 24 hours uninterrupted power supply within four years, electricity supply has been abysmal in the two years of his administration.
He wrote: “Today, we just want to take some time to remind President Tinubu that he promised Nigerians uninterrupted electricity within four years.
“Yes, that’s right, Mr. President promised us 24/7 power. All by himself. Yet today, the facts speak louder than Mr. President’s penchant for broken promises: Since Tinubu took office, electricity tariffs have jumped by 240%, but the grid has collapsed 12 times, plunging millions of homes and businesses into repeated darkness.
“Over 90 million Nigerians still lack electricity, while many get just 4 to 6 hours a day under Tinubu’s failed Band A–E system.In rural communities, most of Nigeria’s 50 million families remain completely off the grid, with no access to electricity at all.”
The ADC spokesman added “yet, Mr. President still has not moved the needle. In 26 months, there has been no major power sector reforms, no clear roadmap, and no sense of urgency.
“We are past the halfway mark of this administration, and millions of Nigerians are still charging their phones at mobile charging kiosks, and spending hundreds of thousands to fuel their generators.
“So, Mr. President, on this fine Sunday morning, we ask: Where is the light? What happened to your promise? And how much longer do Nigerians have to wait in the dark?
“Mr. President, you once said: ‘If I don’t give you electricity, don’t vote for me.’ Well, Nigerians are listening. And come 2027, we intend to grant your wish.”
Meanwhile, the party has said it has no preferred candidate for the 2027 presidential poll, noting that it was committed to providing a level playing field for all the presidential aspirants on its platform.
Abdullahi said all the presidential aspirants in the party understands that in a democracy, no one would be anointed.
Reacting to questions on alleged insistence of presidential aspirants that they must be the candidate for the next presidential poll or no deal, he said he was not aware of any such insistence by the aspirants.
A group of opposition politicians, including former vice president Atiku Abubakar, Obi, former minister of transport, Rotimi Amaechi and former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, recently, unveiled the ADC as their preferred platform for the 2027 polls.
In the aftermath of the unveiling, the camps of the opposition leaders have been pushing for their preferred aspirants to be made the ADC 2027 presidential candidate, if the coalition must gain traction.
However , Abdullahi said: “I have not heard Peter Obi or Abubakar Atiku say if it is not them, then it is nothing. It is their supporters or people who purport to speak for them that are saying this. Whether it is Peter Obi or Alhaji Atiku Abubakar or any other aspirants on the platform of African Democratic Congress; understand that this is democracy and we are not going to anoint any aspirant or candidate.
“Like our chairman has emphasised, we don’t have a predetermined agenda. We don’t have any favorite candidate. We are going to provide a level playing ground and a transparent process for the emergence of our presidential candidate.
“I am not aware, therefore, that any of these aspirants have directly said that it’s either them or they are no longer part of the coalition.”
He added that anybody, who has a preference for any particular person to be ADC candidate, should obtain the party’s membership card, so as to be in a position to vote for their preferred aspirants, at the right time.
On members of the opposition coalition, who are yet to formally register as members of the ADC, he said Obi and El-Rufai were granted leave to complete pending elections, including bye- elections into vacant legislative seats, in their legacy parties, before moving fully into the coalition party.
“I can speak specifically in respect of Peter Obi and Malam Nasiru El-Rufai. Those are the two leaders of our party that we are aware of. They were granted leave to complete the process of elections, the by-election and the election of their governorship candidates, like the case of Mr. Obi, in their legacy parties. Because they have people who have obtained nomination forms to contest elections on the platform of those parties.
“So, it is only logical and fair that they are allowed to complete that process. But they are solidly in the coalition and as soon as that process is completed, they will move it fully,” he stated.
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