{"id":69544,"date":"2025-07-03T06:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69544"},"modified":"2025-07-03T06:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:03:27","slug":"adc-coalition-of-shame-and-display-of-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/03\/adc-coalition-of-shame-and-display-of-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"ADC: Coalition of Shame and Display of the Same"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nigeria today is beset by a host of existential challenges-from soaring hunger and poverty to daily insecurity, collapsed institutions, mass unemployment, failing power and road networks, and households crippled by fuel subsidy removal.<\/p>\n

Yet the African Democratic Congress (ADC), and its so\u2011called leadership have chosen political posturing over meaningful solutions.<\/p>\n

Their latest stunt is a hastily assembled alliance to \u201cblock one\u2011party dominance\u201d and snuff out President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s purported bid for a second term-is little more than a desperate scramble for power masquerading as national salvation. But let us be frank: this is not about Nigeria. It\u2019s about them.<\/p>\n

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A Bunch of Recycled Failures<\/strong><\/p>\n

From former governors and ex-ministers to past vice presidents and Senate presidents, this coalition is a gallery of Nigeria\u2019s political has-beens.<\/p>\n

Many are charged with embezzlement, mismanagement, and using the state as a piggy bank. Yet today, they parade under the banner of reform.<\/p>\n

As Dumebi Kachikwu, a past ADC presidential candidate, lamented on Channels TV: these are \u201cenemies of progress\u2026 back\u2011door people\u2026 people who destroyed Nigeria cannot claim to be the ones to fix it\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Elite Capture, Grassroots Desertion<\/strong><\/p>\n

This coalition wasn\u2019t born of the grassroots; it was hijacked. Factions inside ADC rejected the takeover, accusing the alliance of ignoring party structures, bypassing members, and staging an illegitimate takeover.<\/p>\n

Interim chair, Rauf Aregbesola and David Mark top\u2011down appointments that was allegedly without due process, have drawn scathing rebukes.<\/p>\n

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Mocked As “Politically Displaced”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Tinubu administration, far from silent, has derided the coalition as a gathering of \u201cpolitically displaced individuals\u201d and \u201cwild\u2011goose chasers,\u201d warning that it resembles a \u201cstructure of criminality\u201d not serious opposition.<\/p>\n

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No Vision, Just Vendetta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Analysts like Dr. Okey Ikechukwu have pointed out the alliance\u2019s glaring omissions: no grassroots base, no coherent policy alternatives, no plan to tackle insecurity, revitalize power, or create jobs. Instead, it shows up when the spotlight arrives, not when Nigeria bleeds.<\/p>\n

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Nigeria and Nigerians Deserve Better<\/strong><\/p>\n

What Nigerians deserve is clear: leaders who stand up not just for elections, but for schools, clinics, roads, and security.<\/p>\n

Leaders prepared to challenge graft and spark real reform, not merely undermine one man to snatch his seat.<\/p>\n

The self-assembled ADC coalition isn\u2019t a beacon of change, it\u2019s a mirror. A mirror exposing ambition over altruism, ego over empathy, and hypocrisy over hope.<\/p>\n

This is not unity. It is a coalition of shame; a self-serving display by political elites who repurpose old corruption for new rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Nigeria deserves leadership grounded in action and integrity, not recycled elites running blind vendettas. And until this coalition meaningfully addresses national crises, it remains unfit, unprincipled, and utterly shameless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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