Tinubu Government Reacting Out Of Fear Of 2027 — ADC Accuses Presidency Of Political Panic, Weaponising Poverty

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said that the presidency is already in a panic mood since the launch of the coalition platform and the growing influence of the opposition in the country.

This is as they also accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration of “calculated incompetence”, stating that the government’s sudden reform push is not born of compassion, but of “political panic, sparked by the growing influence and credibility of the ADC.”

Reacting to the recent disclosure by Mr. Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, that government plans to remove bottlenecks to food security and export, the ADC, Interim National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, wondered why it has taken the emergence of the coalition to make the Tinubu government start thinking of how to make food available to Nigerian people.

Bolaji, in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja on Sunday, noted that without the pressure mounted on the government with the successful unveiling of the opposition coalition, the government would “have persisted on its calculated indifference to the plight of the Nigerian people.”

According to him, “On Saturday, when Bayo Onanuga tweeted before the world that, moving forward, all bottlenecks hindering “the realization of the Tinubu administration’s potential” would be removed to enable food sovereignty and export, he didn’t just issue a statement, he issued a confession.

“A confession that this government had, by design, been sitting on its hands while Nigerians starved. Now, under mounting political pressure, they want applause for doing the bare minimum? This is not reform. This is not leadership. This is a scramble for survival by an administration that has been cornered by its own failures.

“Let us make one thing clear, it took the emergence of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the growing momentum of a united opposition to push this government into action. It wasn’t the hunger of hundreds of millions of Nigerians that moved them, it was fear. Fear of the 2027 elections. Fear that Nigerians have woken up. Fear that, with a united opposition, 2027 will be a clearcut election between the APC and the Nigerian people.”

The opposition spokesman claimed that the APC had “deliberately” weaponized poverty. “After Bayo Onanuga’s statement that they would no longer delay in removing bottlenecks that had hindered food security, the only conclusion possible from that statement is that the government had deliberately sat on its hands and watched Nigerians starve in the last two years.

“We must all begin to ask this government the obvious questions: If the bottlenecks that Onanuga alluded to in his press statement could have been removed earlier, why did they keep them in place while millions went hungry and businesses collapsed? Was it so they could stage a last-minute, propaganda-driven performance closer to the 2027 elections?

“This is a pattern. This is a strategy. This is not a government reacting to an urgent national crisis, it is a political machine managing optics. Every move they have made has been about political calculation ahead of 2027. Nigerians, shine your eyes.”

He also said President Tinubu is already campaigning, “two years early, because he knows he’s in trouble. He knows Nigerians have had enough. And the worst part? He is risking the country’s future, all in the name of his re-election bid. Onanuga’s declaration is not about food security or economic diplomacy, this is about politics and 2027.”