The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of “calculated incompetence,” stating that the government’s sudden reform push is not born of compassion or policy, but of political panic sparked by the growing influence and credibility of the ADC.
Challenging the recent disclosure by Mr. Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, that Tinubu’s government plans to remove bottlenecks to food security and export, the ADC, through its Spokesperson and Interim National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, wondered why it took the emergence of the coalition to make the Tinubu government start thinking of how to make food available to Nigerian people.
He noted that without the pressure mounted on the government with the successful unveiling of the opposition coalition last week, the government would have persisted on its calculated indifference to the plight of the Nigerian people.
“Let us make one thing clear, it took the emergence of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the growing momentum of a united opposition to push this government into action.
“It wasn’t the hunger of hundreds of millions of Nigerians that moved them, it was fear. Fear of the 2027 elections.
“Fear that Nigerians have woken up. Fear that, with a united opposition, 2027 will be a clearcut election between the APC and the Nigerian people.
“Make no mistake, the APC has been deliberately weaponizing poverty.
“After Bayo Onanuga’s statement that they would no longer delay in removing bottlenecks that had hindered food security, the only conclusion possible from that statement is that the government had deliberately sat on its hands and watched Nigerians starve in the last two years,” he said.
He stayed that the federal government was not reacting to an urgent national crisis, but rather a calculated political optics.
“Every move they have made has been about political calculation ahead of 2027. Nigerians, shine your eyes.
The President is not governing. He is campaigning, two years early, because he knows he’s in trouble.
“He knows Nigerians have had enough. And the worst part? He is risking the country’s future, all in the name of his re-election bid. Onanuga’s declaration is not about food security or economic diplomacy this is about politics and 2027,” he said.
