Former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in South Africa, Mr Bola Babarinde, has described the African Democratic Congress, ADC, as a political home for “power-hungry veterans.”
Babarinde made the remark in a statement made available to the newsmen on Sunday in Lagos.
Newspot reports that the former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar-led National Coalition, alongside some aggrieved APC members, on Tuesday, adopted the ADC as a platform to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
Since this announcement was made, a couple of opposition politicians, especially, from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,, Labour Party and others have declared support for ADC.
Babarinde said: “In any thriving democracy, political alignment is rooted in values, conviction, and consistency. Unfortunately, the Nigerian political space continues to drift dangerously away from these ideals.”
According to him, this is not a coalition of ideology but a gathering of political drifters.
He noted that the same people who had occupied the highest levels of power in PDP, APC, and LP had converged in ADC, “not because of shared vision but because of individual calculations.”
Babarinde said: “What binds them is not policy or principle but ambition, specifically, the laughable idea that they all want to run for President, just for one term.”
He said that each man involved in the coalition carried the baggage of past failures, unfulfilled promises, and public disillusionment, “yet, they present themselves again as if the Nigerian people suffer from collective amnesia.”
Babarinde, while contrasting this with the political trajectory of Tinubu, described the leaders of coalition as the band of opportunists seeking reinvention under new party labels.
He said that Tinubu had demonstrated remarkable political consistency.
