Thursday, July 10, 2025 - The African Democratic Congress, ADC, on Wednesday said President Bola Tinubu will be removed through the ballot and not bullets.
It dismissed insinuations that the coalition is interested
in truncating democracy in Nigeria.
ADC’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji
Abdullahi, accused Tinubu of laying the foundation for a clampdown on
opposition leaders.
He made the remark in response to a tweet by Tinubu’s
spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, who alleged that the opposition was planning to
overthrow the President.
Onanuga had said the coalition had ganged up to
overthrow Tinubu’s administration.
Rubbishing Onanuga’s comment, Abdullahi described his remark
as reckless and unsubstantiated.
In a statement he signed, Abdullahi said Onanuga’s comment
shows that Tinubu’s administration is out to intimidate and repress opposition
political leaders in Nigeria.
He noted that ADC would explore Democratic means to ensure
Tinubu’s removal from office and not by overthrowing him.
The statement reads partly: “ADC condemned the tweet made by
an aide of President Bola Tinubu, Onanuga, which alleges that the opposition is
planning to overthrow the Tinubu government before 2027.
“If anything, it potentially lays the grounds for systematic
clampdown on opposition leaders.
“The ADC is not interested in truncating democracy, we are
solely committed to saving the nation from the irredeemable incompetence of
this government. We are not soldiers, we are politicians.
“We don’t have bullets; we only have the ballots. When the
time comes, we will only present our solutions and an alternative vision of the
future to the Nigerian people and leave them to make their choice.”
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