- The party’s statement is in reaction to a tweet by Tinubu’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, who alleged that the opposition was planning to overthrow the President.
The African Democratic Congress, ADC, says it has no plan to truncate Nigeria’s democracy in its bid to oust President Bola Tinubu from office.
The party said Tinubu will be removed via democratic means and not bullets, dismissing insinuations that the coalition’s goal is to torpedo Nigeria’s democracy.
The party’s statement is in reaction 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 conspired to overthrow Tinubu’s administration
Reacting to Onanuga’s claim, ADC’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, described his remark as reckless and baseless.
In a statement he signed, he accused Tinubu of laying the foundation for a clampdown on opposition leaders.
Abdullahi said Onanuga’s comment indicates that Tinubu’s administration is out to intimidate and gag opposition political leaders in Nigeria.
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 a 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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