Governors reluctant to join ADC over fear of intimidation - Publicity secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi

 The interim national publicity secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Bolaji Abdullahi, says serving governors are reluctant to join the party due to fear of intimidation from the presidency and the ruling party APC.

Abdullahi made the comment on Saturday, July 26 during the third expanded meeting of the national political consultative group (north) in Abuja.

 

He said the “fear” among governors was part of a wider “conspiracy against the Nigerian people”.

 

“We know that no serving governor will want to come to us now because of the kind of intimidation that they are facing. We know what they are doing to them. Some of them who cannot jump to their party (APC) are saying we are endorsing their presidential candidate (Tinubu). No problem.

But what you are seeing is a conspiracy against the Nigerian people. The ADC welcomes everybody, but we are convinced that we are a movement that has the backing of the majority of Nigerians who are not happy with the direction this country is going.”

 

He insisted that the ADC was not built around any individual’s ambition.

 

“ADC is not going to be hijacked. You see, the process for the building of the party ensures that the party does not coalesce around any individual.

 

Like I repeatedly emphasised, the ADC is not built for anybody’s ambition. ADC is a party that is determined to give a different trajectory to Nigerian politics.

 

We don’t have any predetermined agenda. We don’t have any favourite aspirant or candidate.

 

We are not having any conversation at the moment. Nobody has ever had any conversation about who will be the party’s flag bearer.

 

We believe that it is too early in the day. Our focus now is to build a political party that is strong enough to deliver on the mission that we have set for ourselves.”he said