{"id":120451,"date":"2025-07-08T05:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T04:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=120451"},"modified":"2025-07-08T05:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T04:21:56","slug":"2027-apc-in-secret-meeting-with-adc-state-chairmen-to-frustrate-coalition-party-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/2027-apc-in-secret-meeting-with-adc-state-chairmen-to-frustrate-coalition-party-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: APC in secret meeting with ADC State Chairmen to frustrate coalition, party Alleges\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Myke Agunwa<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has raised alarm over what it described as desperation and dangerous plot by the Tinubu administration to destabilise the growing acceptance of the coalition by planting discord among state chairman of the party.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement issued on Monday by the party\u2019s Interim National Publicity Secretary and National Spokesperson, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC alleged that former State Chairmen and key members of the party\u2019s state executive committees in the North East and North West have been summoned to a secret meeting with top officials of the Federal Government.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe have credible intelligence that the aim of this meeting is not for national security or peacebuilding. It is to intimidate, coerce, and if possible, co-opt these individuals into a fabricated scheme against the opposition coalition. This is not politics. This is sabotage,\u201d the statement reads.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the ADC, the motive is to sow confusion within the party, delegitimise its new leadership, and derail its rising momentum as the new face of the opposition in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLet it be clear, this surreptitious alliance with the ADC State Chairpersons by appointees of the federal government who should be focused on urgent national security priorities and challenges that the country is facing is a coordinated assault on multiparty democracy. This is how one-party states are born\u2014through intimidation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe July 1st Coalition Declaration, and the July 2nd unveiling of the ADC, have clearly rattled the ruling party. It is now obvious that the Tinubu administration\u2014having lost the trust of the Nigerian people\u2014cannot withstand the pressure of a united and credible opposition. But rather than correct its ways, it has resorted to its old playbook of destabilising opposition parties.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLet it be clear: the coalition movement is an idea whose time has come. This party belongs to every Nigerian who is tired of the lies, the manipulation, and the hardship. It belongs to every Nigerian who wants to restore decency, vision, and justice to governance. We would therefore not allow a handful of desperate men to turn Nigeria into a one-party dictatorship. And it would be our patriotic duty to resist it with every democratic means available to us&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coalition called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to take note of the moves by some of his appointees and call them to order. 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