President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be removed through the ballot and not bullets, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) said on Wednesday, just as it dismissed insinuations that the coalition was interested in truncating democracy in Nigeria.
Bolaji Abdullahi, ADC’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, accused Tinubu of laying the foundation for a clampdown on opposition leaders.
He made the remark in response to a tweet in which Tinubu’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, alleged that the opposition was planning to overthrow the President.
Onanuga had said the coalition had ganged up to overthrow Tinubu’s administration.
Dispelling Onanuga’s comment, Abdullahi described his remark as reckless and unsubstantiated.
In a statement he signed, Abdullahi said Onanuga’s comment showed that Tinubu’s administration was out to intimidate and repress opposition political leaders in Nigeria.
He noted that ADC would explore Democratic means to ensure Tinubu’s removal from office and not by overthrowing him.
Read the statement in part: “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 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.”
