The African Democratic Congress Presidential Campaign Council has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s re-election campaign, accusing him of avoiding questions about his administration’s performance and relying on personal attacks and unfulfilled promises to woo voters.
The council said the President had failed to provide Nigerians with a convincing account of his nearly three-and-a-half years in office, particularly on electricity supply, insecurity, food prices, borrowing and the impact of fuel subsidy removal.
In a statement signed by its Director of Media and Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan, the ADC-PCC said Tinubu’s campaign appearances in Kaduna, Rivers and Jigawa states had been characterised by verbal attacks against political opponents rather than concrete explanations of his administration’s achievements.
It challenged the President to account for his earlier pledge that Nigerians should deny him a second term if he failed to provide stable electricity, arguing that millions of households and businesses were still grappling with unreliable power supply.
The council also faulted Tinubu’s renewed electricity promises during his Jigawa campaign, describing them as a recycling of commitments made earlier but yet to be fulfilled. It equally questioned the whereabouts and impact of the 2,000 tractors reportedly imported from Brazil to boost mechanised farming.
The opposition group further accused the President of taking credit for projects initiated under his predecessor, the late Muhammadu Buhari, while failing to demonstrate sufficient achievements of his own.
It also raised concerns over what it described as the administration’s growing interference in democratic institutions, alleging undue influence over the National Assembly and attempts to undermine the independence of the judiciary.
The ADC-PCC cited Tinubu’s recent political outing in Rivers State as another example of what it called contradictions in his democratic credentials, questioning his decision to praise and promise rewards to a political figure whom it alleged had been unlawfully removed from office and denied political participation.
The council urged Nigerians to reject what it described as divisive politics and recycled campaign promises, calling on voters to use the 2027 general election to end the APC-led government and elect the ADC and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
