2027: ADC Accuses APC Of Making Polls About Attacks, Not Issues

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of trying to make the 2027 elections about personalities and attacks instead of addressing Nigeria’s worsening poverty, insecurity and cost-of-living crisis.

In a statement signed by the ADC National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party said the APC had “shamelessly latched on” to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s comments on Atiku Abubakar, while also attacking Catholic Bishops for speaking “truthfully about the country’s terrible condition” under President Bola Tinubu.

ADC argued that the Tinubu-led ruling party is desperate to shift attention from what it described as a

“catastrophic” record on the economy, security and the wellbeing of Nigerians.

“It’s inability to defend its catastrophic record after the Catholic Bishops laid bare the true state of the nation during their recent meeting with President Bola Tinubu has led it to seize on comments by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in a desperate attempt to shift the national conversation,” the party said.
The ADC said the APC has developed a pattern of attacking critics instead of answering for its record.
“This has become a familiar pattern. Whenever respected Nigerians point to the deepening poverty, worsening insecurity, rising cost of living, or the collapse of public confidence under this administration, the APC never answers for its record. Instead, it looks for someone to attack. Yesterday, it was the Catholic

Bishops. Today, it is Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Tomorrow, it will be someone else,” the statement read.
The party said the result is “a government that spends more time arguing with its critics than answering the concerns of ordinary Nigerians,” adding: “What Nigerians have not heard is a convincing explanation for why life has become so much harder under Tinubu and his APC.”

On Obasanjo’s remarks, ADC said the former president is entitled to his opinion, but that “opinions do not erase records.”

“While President Obasanjo was in office, with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar serving as Vice President and Chairman of the National Economic Council, who also managed and coordinated economic planning between the States and the Federal Government, Nigeria experienced stronger economic growth, greater macroeconomic stability, stronger investor confidence, and a far more affordable cost of living than Nigerians endure today under Tinubu’s chaotic economic policies,” ADC stated. “Whatever political differences may now exist between the two men, that record remains a matter of public history and can not be erased.”

The party then listed questions it said the APC government must answer ahead of 2027, including rising food prices, poverty levels, job creation, debt servicing, and insecurity.

It added: “These are the questions Nigerians expect the APC government to answer as we prepare for elections. But, the APC wants the 2027 election to be about personalities because it can not defend its performance. They want this election to be about Obasanjo’s personal opinion of Atiku based on a distant past because they can not defend Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s record based on current performance.”

“Ultimately, the election will not be decided by the opinion of any one individual. It will be decided by the lived experience of more than 200 million Nigerians who are poorer, more insecure, and more uncertain about their future than they were before the Tinubu administration took office,” the statement concluded.