Sunday, July 20, 2025 - The opposition party, African Democratic Congress (ADC), has criticized President Bola Tinubu’s recent appointments, alleging they are a strategic move to win back the trust of Northern Nigerians after years of perceived neglect.
The party, which stated this in a statement on Saturday by
its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, said the move amounted to
political panic management rather than sincere efforts at national inclusion.
“You cannot marginalize a region for over twenty-five months
and expect applause because you suddenly remembered on the twenty-sixth month
that Nigeria is bigger than Lagos State,” the statement read.
The opposition party also alleged that Tinubu’s
administration has neglected Nigerians, stressing that the North had been
systematically sidelined from critical decision-making since the inception of
the Tinubu presidency.
ADC maintained that every major policy and appointment under
the current administration had occurred with minimal Northern representation,
reiterating that recent gestures were nothing more than consolation prizes.
“But Northerners, as co-owners of our great federal
republic, know better than to be deceived by these token appointments. They see
through President Tinubu’s actions, and can sense that this is not genuine.
Tokenism is not inclusion, and symbolism is not governance,” the
ADC National Publicity Secretary said.
The party, however, urged the President to abandon what it
termed Bourdillon-style appeasement politics and instead pursue genuine
national unity through broad-based consultation, policy fairness, and adherence
to the principles of federal character.
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