Tinubu’s 10.99m Votes In Primary Prelude To Rig 2027 Poll — ADC

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ABUJA – The African Democratic Con­gress (ADC) has raised concerns over the All Progressives Con­gress (APC) presidential prima­ry results, which gave President Bola Ahmed Tinubu 10.99 million votes, describing the figure as an “unbelievable concoction” and warning that it could provide the basis for rigging the 2027 general elections.

The party also condemned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent comments attacking the opposition, describing them as self-serving and deeply insensi­tive.

While delivering his accep­tance speech as the presidential candidate of the ruling APC in next year’s election, President Tinubu had declared that oppo­sition leaders would only take the country backwards because they lacked alternative vision.

Reacting to this remarks by the president, ADC, in a swift statement by its National Pub­licity Secretary, Bolaji Abdulla­hi, said it was a grand irony that such a statement was coming from a president whose tenure would be remembered as one of the worst periods in Nigeria’s democratic history.

“With millions of Nigerians suffering under the president’s catastrophic economic policies, debts spiralling out of control, corruption enjoying unprece­dented prosperity, and the nation flowing with the blood of inno­cent victims, it is indeed astonish­ing that the president could still attempt to position his govern­ment as a positive benchmark.

“If the opposition is going to take the country backwards, it would be to reset it from the edge of the dangerous precipice that the current administration has placed it on, because to con­tinue on the same trajectory is to plunge the country into the abyss,” the party said.

The party said: “The African Democratic Congress (ADC) is genuinely shocked and saddened that President Bola Ahmed Tinu­bu, whose administration has presided over one of the most painful periods in Nigeria’s democratic history, would speak so dismissively about the oppo­sition and the Nigerian people while awarding himself a medal for one of the most catastrophic economic policies in recent his­tory.

“It is both ironic and tragic that a government under whose watch nearly 35 million Nigeri­ans are now projected to face acute food insecurity in 2026 would accuse the opposition of lacking ideas or vision. 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 party also lamented that “under President Tinubu’s administration, millions of fam­ilies have been forced to reduce meals, businesses are shutting down daily under unbearable economic pressure, and farmers across many parts of the country can no longer safely access their farmlands because of banditry, kidnappings, and violent attacks. International organisations have repeatedly warned that Nigeria is facing one of the worst food insecurity crises in the world, with recent assessments pro­jecting that about 34.7 million Nigerians could face severe food and nutrition insecurity during the 2026 lean season. At the same time, over 2.3 million Nigerians remain displaced by violence and insecurity, while communities across the North West and North Central continue to suffer repeat­ed attacks with little assurance of safety from the government.

“Yet, instead of humility, accountability, or empathy, President Tinubu has chosen to attack an opposition that has consistently demonstrated more seriousness about governance than many members of his own administration. The ADC finds it deeply unfortunate that a president under whose watch the naira has collapsed in value, purchasing power has evaporat­ed, and poverty has deepened at an alarming rate would attempt to caricature the opposition as lacking vision. Nigerians know where they were before this gov­ernment came into office, and they know where they are today.

“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.”

ADC cautioned that President Tinubu must understand that Ni­gerians are no longer interested in speeches or political grand­standing, adding, “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?”