The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has alleged that President Bola Tinubu’s reforms to remove obstacles affecting food security and boost exports, is birthed out of fear.
Contained in a Sunday statement on X by the ADC’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party states that Tinubu and his supporters are only engaging in the recently announced reform for survival rather than concern for Nigerians.
This was in response to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, who recently announced that the federal government would take steps to eliminate obstacles blocking food security and exports.
According to them, the government is barely trying to survive after the ADC coalition movement was announced and has gained popularity within a short while.
Abdullahi said that the movement is not genuine reform or leadership, but rather a desperate attempt to stay afloat after being overwhelmed by its own shortcomings.
The coalition group further claimed that the government has now grown desperate and trying so hard by making a late move under political pressure.
He stated that Nigerians should not praise the government for taking minimal action after sitting back for a long while and watching Nigerians suffer.
The statement read; “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.
“Make no mistake, the APC has been deliberately weaponizing 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.
“The President is not governing. He is 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.
“The ADC calls on all Nigerians, do not be swayed by choreographed press releases and sudden awakenings. This is not governance. This is desperation.
