{"id":176671,"date":"2025-08-29T08:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/adc-momentum-fades-as-opposition-leaders-delay-defection"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:30:29","slug":"adc-momentum-fades-as-opposition-leaders-delay-defection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/adc-momentum-fades-as-opposition-leaders-delay-defection","title":{"rendered":"ADC Momentum Fades as Opposition Leaders Delay Defection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By John Owen Nwachukwu<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The initial momentum that came with the announcement of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, as the platform for the opposition coalition, appears to be on the decline.<\/p>\n<p>This has been attributed to the reluctance of some presidential candidates, Peter Obi and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to officially join the party.<\/p>\n<p>Former Governor of Anambra State and 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, former vice president and two-time presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar and former Governor of Rivers State and 2023 presidential aspirant, Chibuike Amaechi are some of the bigwigs in the coalition of political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Abubakar, Obi, former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, former Senate President, David Mark, former Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, among others came together and adopted the ADC, as the official platform of the opposition coalition.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition also has the likes of prominent figures such as former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal and former Justice Minister Abubakar Malami, once pillars of the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Together, these men were said to have found a new political vehicle in the ADC which also controversially adopted David Mark as interim national chairman and Aregbesola as national secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Several credible sources within the coalition have now disclosed that the ADC is struggling to gain traction due to the refusal of Atiku, Obi, and other key political figures to officially join its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the ADC National Working Committee, NWC, are reportedly worried that presidential hopefuls Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi are yet to formally register with the party.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku has since left the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, but has remained partyless and is obviously reluctant to join the ADC.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Obi, on the other hand, has not even left the Labour Party, LP, and in one of his interviews, maintained he would remain in the LP while following up on activities of the ADC.<\/p>\n<p>However, some political analysts believe the former Anambra State governor might be shooting himself in the foot since such action could be counted as anti-party.<\/p>\n<p>The body language of these politicians have remained unclear and very difficult to read as a lot of Nigerians are not even encouraged to also join the party.<\/p>\n<p>The Hon Nafiu Bala-led faction of the ADC has repeatedly pleaded with Abubakar, Obi, and Aregbesola and others to formally resign from previous parties and join the ADC.<\/p>\n<p>ADC maintained that, according to its constitution, the new entrants must also register as members at ward levels in home states in line with the regulations of the Electoral Act 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, failure to comply with the rules, the politicians risk legal challenges that will undermine the coalition\u2019s credibility.<\/p>\n<p>While their next moves remain in the dark, there is the rumour that Obi could be returning to the PDP which gained traction after former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff, claimed on Channels Television that Obi was considering rejoining the main opposition party ahead of the 2027 elections to contest its presidential ticket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeter Obi wants to be President. Atiku has been Vice President, and for him, it\u2019s President or nothing,\u201d Sheriff stated, suggesting that both men were likely to clash over the ADC\u2019s 2027 nomination if Obi joins the coalition party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation available to me is that any moment from now, Obi would go back to the PDP and run as a presidential candidate under the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that leaves Vice President Atiku and (Rotimi) Amaechi. So tell me, which states do they control?\u201d He queried.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the ADC has since pushed against the idea of Obi defecting to the PDP, with its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Arise TV, describing the such move as a risk which the former Anambra governor \u201ccannot take.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeter Obi knows better. It\u2019s good to see that ADC\u2019s involvement is forcing the PDP to make moves, but he is with us,\u201d Abdullahi maintained.<\/p>\n<p>Some political observers say Obi and Atiku\u2019s action or inaction could fracture the unity of the coalition and derail efforts to mount a strong challenge in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The Acting National Chairman of a faction within the ADC, Bala, told DAILY POST he had expected the political leaders to officially join the party in their wards after it was adopted by the coalition political party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy expectation was that the next day after their declaration that they are interested to join us, I expected every one of them to go to their respective ward levels and register as a party member.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut surprisingly, they did not. But they\u2019re instead going about calling themselves coalition party members. Even David Mark who is posing to be the national chairman is not even a card-carrying member of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose people parading themselves as ADC members are not registered. They\u2019re not yet members of our party and the reason is I don\u2019t know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A chieftain of the APC and former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, told DAILY POST that the delay in joining the ADC by Atiku and Obi is a strategic move by the opposition politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two leaders\u2019 reluctance or rather delay in joining ADC formally is both strategic and innovative,\u201d Eze said in line with what a source in the camp of one of the leaders told our correspondent earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir move is to checkmate the plot of Tinubu and his APC hatchets to destabilize ADC before its take off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment, the two leaders are working behind the scene to ensure that the ADC structure is properly set up and her vision and ideology tallies with their own vision in reshaping and repositioning the country into a proper democratic State unlike what Tinubu has turned her into at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe care and interest of every Nigerian, including both Atiku and Obi is how to remove Tinubu and his vision-less administration from office<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment both Amaechi, Senator David Mark, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and others are already formally registered with the party and are working assiduously in recruiting Nigerians into the party so there is no fear or need for any panicking on the party\u2019s mission and drive for a better Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am convinced that within the end of September both two leaders will formally join ADC knowing very well that ADC is the only path road and key in rescuing Nigeria from her present messy situation under Tinubu,\u201d Eze said.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking with DAILY POST on the subject matter, Chief Peter Ameh, a former presidential aspirant and National Secretary of the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, told DAILY POST that Obi is the strongest force within the members of the coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever way, Ameh said that what is of utmost importance at this point is to save the country which, according to him, is on the brink of collapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeter Obi is the biggest political commodity in the country today. He is the biggest politician on the front stage of our discussion today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is not a day on national television, radio station, social media that he is not the subject of national discourse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are so many political parties that are seeking to take Obi as their candidate and it is an added advantage to their political themes, public acceptance and public appeal and he brings the momentum of the support base across Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObi has over 12 million votes, forget about what they tell you. The data is there. What INEC announced [is what is in the public]. The data that is hiding on the Irev that was also established by INEC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won in Rivers State. He is the only politician to defeat Tinubu in Lagos. If you put his vote together in Lagos you know that his mandate was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe with all my full chest that Obi is the only politician that will defeat Tinubu in 2027. I believe that with all my heart, with all the strategies that that man put in place in Lagos, no party in history since 1999 has been able to defeat Tinubu in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo party since 1999 with no senator, no House of Rep member, nothing, no political machinery behind him, but Obi defeated Tinubu in Lagos. Obi is the most viable option for the opposition to get back to the Presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Amaechi, one of the 2027 presidential aspirants who embraced the coalition, has taken the ADC to Rivers State and appears to be the only one whose intentions are clear and straightforward at this point.<\/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>By John Owen Nwachukwu Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The initial momentum that came with the announcement of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, as the platform for the opposition coalition, appears to be on the decline. 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