{"id":169055,"date":"2025-07-11T11:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-adc-aims-to-take-power-from-apc-democratically"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:31:11","slug":"2027-adc-aims-to-take-power-from-apc-democratically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-adc-aims-to-take-power-from-apc-democratically","title":{"rendered":"2027 ADC Aims to Take Power from APC Democratically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The newly formed opposition coalition party, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has stated that its mission is to wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, through democratic means.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by the party\u2019s interim National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, ADC emphasised that it is not interested in truncating Nigeria\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>This clarification followed a tweet by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi said Onanuga had accused the opposition of plotting to overthrow President Bola Tinubu\u2019s government before 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not soldiers, we are politicians. We don\u2019t have bullets; we only have the ballots,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Stressing that the health of Nigeria\u2019s democracy depends on a free, open, and competitive political environment, Abdullahi affirmed that ADC remains committed to building a better Nigeria through peace and democratic participation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The newly formed opposition coalition party, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has stated that its mission is to wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, through democratic means. In a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by the party\u2019s interim National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, ADC emphasised that it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":169054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[118,8281,254],"class_list":["post-169055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adc","tag-bolaji-abdullahi","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2027 ADC Aims to Take Power from APC Democratically - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The newly formed opposition coalition party, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has stated that its mission is to wre ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-adc-aims-to-take-power-from-apc-democratically\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027 ADC Aims to Take Power from APC Democratically\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The newly formed opposition coalition party, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has stated that its mission is to wre ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-adc-aims-to-take-power-from-apc-democratically\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-11T10:06:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-11T11:31:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752220903.629918.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"808\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-adc-aims-to-take-power-from-apc-democratically#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-adc-aims-to-take-power-from-apc-democratically\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2027 ADC Aims to Take Power from APC Democratically\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-11T10:06:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-11T11:31:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-adc-aims-to-take-power-from-apc-democratically\"},\"wordCount\":168,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-adc-aims-to-take-power-from-apc-democratically#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752220903.629918.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ADC\",\"Bolaji Abdullahi\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-adc-aims-to-take-power-from-apc-democratically#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-adc-aims-to-take-power-from-apc-democratically\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-adc-aims-to-take-power-from-apc-democratically\",\"name\":\"2027 ADC Aims to Take Power from APC Democratically - 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