{"id":122455,"date":"2025-09-23T21:19:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=122455"},"modified":"2025-09-23T21:19:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:19:41","slug":"tinubus-tenure-ends-2027-not-2031-adc-counters-onanuga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/tinubus-tenure-ends-2027-not-2031-adc-counters-onanuga\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu&#8217;s tenure ends 2027 not 2031, ADC counters Onanuga"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Myke Agunwa<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has faulted suggestions from the Presidency that President Bola Tinubu could remain in office until 2031, insisting that his constitutional mandate ends in 2027.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to the opposition party, any plan to extend Tinubu\u2019s stay in office beyond 2027 would be disastrous for the nation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Presidency had responded to comments by former Kaduna State Governor, Nasiru El-Rufai, who warned that Tinubu risked becoming another \u201cPaul Biya\u201d if re-elected in 2027. Clarifying its position, the Presidency said Tinubu does not intend to be a lifetime President and that his tenure would end in 2031.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Reacting in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC argued that Nigerians have endured enough hardship under Tinubu\u2019s administration and would not wish to extend his tenure by \u201ca single day\u201d beyond May 2027.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cGiven the spate of banditry and killings across the country, the widespread hunger and suffering, the punitive taxes, and the flagrant abuse of power at a scale never seen before, the President should be preparing to leave in 2027. Any plan to stay in office beyond that date would indeed be a confirmation that this government is incapable of reading the room,\u201d the statement read.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The ADC described the Presidency\u2019s response as evidence that presidential aides were \u201cout of touch with reality\u201d and had become \u201cdangerously self-satisfied.\u201d It said Tinubu\u2019s suggestion of remaining in office until 2031 betrayed a mindset that treated re-election as a mere formality rather than a constitutional test of performance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cRe-election is not automatic, and President Tinubu has not earned a second term. In two short years, he has divided the country like no other President before him and sent millions of Nigerians deeper into poverty. More innocent lives have been lost under him, while bandits now control large swathes of the North,\u201d the party charged.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The ADC further accused the government of failing in its most basic duty of security. \u201cUnder his watch, national security has degenerated into a cruel joke. Terrorists, bandits, and criminals operate with total impunity. Citizens are kidnapped in broad daylight. Rural communities have become warzones. Insecurity has metastasized into national trauma, and the government has neither the will nor the capacity to stop it,\u201d the statement declared.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On the economy, the opposition party said the country was in \u201cfree fall.\u201d It lamented the collapse of the naira, uncontrolled inflation, skyrocketing food prices, and the erosion of the middle class. \u201cBusinesses that once thrived are collapsing under punitive taxes and policy inconsistencies. Nigerians are now poorer, hungrier, and angrier than they were before Tinubu took office,\u201d the ADC noted.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The party also decried the condition of the power sector, saying it remains \u201ccomatose despite yet another cycle of empty promises.\u201d According to the statement, blackouts have become the norm, billions have been wasted, and the national grid continues to collapse.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It added that Nigeria\u2019s social development indices were worsening, pointing to underfunded education, a failing healthcare system, and millions of out-of-school children. \u201cThe youth\u2014Nigeria\u2019s greatest asset\u2014are increasingly hopeless, jobless, and restless. Meanwhile, government intervention remains cosmetic,\u201d it stressed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The ADC accused the Tinubu administration of authoritarian tendencies, human rights abuses, and disregard for the rule of law. \u201cCourt orders are ignored, journalists are harassed, and peaceful protesters brutalized. Transparency and fiscal discipline have become relics of a forgotten era. Budget padding, wasteful spending, opaque palliatives, and inexplicable loans have defined its fiscal conduct. The fuel subsidy saga alone remains a national scandal,\u201d the statement read.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Concluding, the ADC insisted that the Tinubu government has failed comprehensively and warned that talk of a second term was both \u201cinsensitive and dangerous.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIt is not only insensitive but downright reckless for anyone in the Presidency to speak of a second term instead of plotting an exit in 2027. 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