2027: ADC Accuses Tinubu of Prioritising Re-Election

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has criticised President Bola Tinubu over alleged distribution of vehicles to political allies across the country, accusing him of prioritising his 2027 re-election campaign over Nigeria’s worsening security crisis.

ADC’s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, issued the condemnation in a statement on Thursday, describing the reported distribution of Hilux trucks, Land Cruisers and Hummer buses as “appalling.”

Abdullahi said the action, coming at a time Nigeria remains under a declared state of emergency due to escalating insecurity, shows that the President’s security declaration was “a mere gimmick to grab headlines.”

He said: “While ordinary citizens are being kidnapped, displaced and killed, the President is handing out branded vehicles and building a partisan mobilisation structure.

Entire communities are living under siege, our armed forces are stretched thin, yet the ruling party is preparing for rallies.”

The ADC spokesman lamented that instead of strengthening national security, the President was more concerned with securing a second term.

“At a time when children are being kidnapped and countless communities are under attack, the President is focused on re-election, seeking to continue presiding over a nation that has become more diminished, more fractured and more dangerous than he met it,” he added.

Abdullahi noted that a nation under emergency rule is expected to adopt extraordinary measures and behaviour reflective of its condition, stressing that leadership must demonstrate that “nothing else matters” beyond tackling the crisis.

He accused the Tinubu administration of failing to introduce any substantive changes since the emergency declaration.

“Nothing has changed — no new safety measures, no heightened security alertness or presence. Instead, it has been business as usual,” he said.

The ADC maintained that leadership in turbulent times demands “focus, sacrifice and moral clarity,” insisting that “lavish convoys and early campaigns are not the answers to national trauma.”

“The President must return to the business of governance or step aside and admit that his political ambition now stands in the way of Nigeria’s recovery,” the statement concluded.