{"id":169685,"date":"2025-07-16T09:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/adc-coalition-seems-like-business-as-usual-princewill"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:18:06","slug":"adc-coalition-seems-like-business-as-usual-princewill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/adc-coalition-seems-like-business-as-usual-princewill","title":{"rendered":"ADC coalition seems like \u2018business as usual\u2019 \u2013 Princewill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Movie producer and politician, Prince Tonye Princewill, has said that the recently formed political coalition led by the African Democratic Congress (ADC) lacks clear ideas and appears to be doing \u201cbusiness as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on Arise TV, Princewill noted that while it is still early days for the coalition, he is a little disappointed with what he has seen so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at the coalition, one of the problems I have personally is the absence of fresh blood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil we can encourage the younger generation to start taking active roles in our politics, I am afraid it\u2019s going to be business as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Princewill said that for any coalition to succeed in unseating the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), it must offer more than just opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe argument is that you can see what they are against, but you might not necessarily see what they are for,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the problem with our politics today, there is a big vacuum because of the absence of ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He warned that without clear policies and principles, even a united front might not lead to meaningful change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you ask most political parties what their plans are for youth or job creation, they have none. If they take power without a clear idea of what to do, it will still be business as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Princewill advised the APC not to underestimate the growing frustration among Nigerians, saying the ADC still has a chance to win future elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be unwise for the APC to underestimate what the ADC is doing. There\u2019s a lot of dissatisfaction with the APC government. If you took a genuine poll, you would see that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ADC might win the next election. It\u2019s not impossible. But to defeat the APC, you need more than what I have seen so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Princewill stressed that winning elections should not be the only goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe priority should not just be about winning but about winning for Nigeria and moving the country forward,\u201d he said.<\/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. Movie producer and politician, Prince Tonye Princewill, has said that the recently formed political coalition led by the African Democratic Congress (ADC) lacks clear ideas and appears to be doing \u201cbusiness as usual.\u201d Speaking in an interview on Arise TV, Princewill noted that while it is still early days for the coalition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":169684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[118,18024,254],"class_list":["post-169685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-adc","tag-idealogies","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>ADC coalition seems like \u2018business as usual\u2019 \u2013 Princewill - 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