@ishaqsamaila5 During previous administrations, Nigeria had fuel subsidies while institutions such as the PTDF, TETFund, and others continued to exist and function effectively. Therefore, even if the fuel subsidy is restored, NELFUND can still remain operational.
We will continue to push with all our strength to help save Nigeria from its current situation. Together, through unity, determination, and responsible leadership, we can build a better future for every Nigerian.
Competence, capacity, and audacity. In Sha Allah, this is what @ahmadbabbakaita represents as the next Governor of Katsina State.
Katsinawa, don't let anyone mislead you with propaganda or empty promises. Leadership is about vision, integrity, and delivering meaningful results. If you believe Katsina deserves a new direction, then this is the man for the job.
#ABK2027 In Sha Allah
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) welcomes the prompt clarification by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which unequivocally confirmed that the document circulated by Mr. Nafiu Bala purporting to show that he had obtained the Commission's access code and uploaded candidates on behalf of the ADC for the 2027 general election was forged, and that the claim itself was entirely false.
The issue before us is no longer simply about the continuous false statements that have been issued by Nafiu Bala Gombe at the behest of his sponsors. It is about the clear and unmistakeable attempt to mislead the Nigerian public.
To publicly claim that one has gained access to INEC's restricted nomination platform and exercised powers reserved for duly recognised party officials is a grave matter that deserves the immediate attention of law enforcement agencies.
As a responsible party, the ADC therefore calls on INEC to take all the necessary steps to ensure that Mr. Nafiu Bala and anyone else involved in originating or promoting this falsehood are investigated and prosecuted in accordance with the law.
It has become increasingly evident that the APC and its leadership are afraid of Atiku Abubakar ahead of the next general election. If they truly believed they had the support of the Nigerian people, they would have no reason to fear any opposition candidate.
I'm not defending him, and I have no personal interest in his case. If he broke the law, let him be investigated and prosecuted through due process. But justice must never be selective or politically driven. The rule of law must apply equally to every Nigerian.
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) is deeply alarmed by reports that today, officials of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) forcefully denied Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai access to medical care, arrested his personal physician and physically assaulted his wife.
Information reaching us is that El-Rufai was billed for treatment at the National Hospital in Abuja today. But against the hospital's advice that he would require hospitalisation in view of his failing health, officials of the ICPC insisted on returning him into custody. Protests by his personal physician and his wife led to scuffles during which his wife was assaulted and the doctor subsequently arrested.
The actions of the ICPC and the Tinubu government have for months now gone beyond the realm of law enforcement.
Their actions have become an assault on the Constitution of 200 million Nigerians, on human dignity, and on the most basic principles of justice and human rights.
The world should know today that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is holding a political prisoner in Nigeria by the name of Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai.
No democratic government that claims to respect the rule of law should deny a detainee access to medical care or prevent close family members from seeing him in flagrant disobedience of the courts, which granted him unfettered access to his lawyers, physician and family members.
Such conduct belongs to authoritarian regimes that use state institutions to break political opponents rather than to uphold justice.
This is no longer about Mallam El-Rufai alone. It is about whether Nigeria remains a constitutional democracy or has descended into a republic where law enforcement agencies have become instruments of political persecution.
As we have said since this treatment of Mallam El-Rufai began: โToday it is El-Rufai. Tomorrow it could be any Nigerian whose only offence is to disagree with those who wield power.โ
The ICPC owes Nigerians immediate explanations. On whose authority was access to his family denied? Why has access to his doctor been refused despite concerns about his health? What legal basis exists for these actions? Why were El-Rufaiโs wife and doctor assaulted by the ICPC operatives?
President Tinubu cannot continue to hide behind anti-corruption agencies while pretending that these actions are independent of his administration.
Under our Constitution, the buck stops with the President. Every day that Mallam El-Rufai remains in custody under these circumstances is another day that Bola Tinubu keeps criminalising political opposition instead of confronting the grave crises of insecurity, unemployment, inflation, and hunger confronting millions of Nigerians.
The ADC therefore demands the following:
1. Immediate and unrestricted access for Mallam El-Rufai to his wife, children, legal team, and personal medical practitioners.
2. An urgent review of the punitive and disproportionate bail conditions imposed on Mallam El-Rufai, with a view to ensuring that they conform with the Constitution and the fundamental principle that bail is intended to secure attendance at trial, not to inflict punishment before conviction.
3. An immediate end to the harsh, degrading and unnecessarily restrictive conditions under which he is being held and supervised, and his release from what has become a regime of political persecution masquerading as lawful process.
4. Full compliance with all constitutional guarantees and internationally recognised standards governing the treatment of persons in custody.
5. Complete transparency from the ICPC regarding the legal and factual basis for every restriction imposed on him.
6. An immediate end to the use of state institutions as instruments of political intimidation, vendetta and selective justice.
Signed:
Mallam Bolaji AbdullahiโจNational Publicity SecretaryโจAfrican Democratic Congress (ADC)
It's not just an election, it's another independence, let vote them out, forget regionalism, forget religionalism think Nigeria and it future after 2027 elections before 2031.
There is no need to introduce him or persuade Katsinawa to vote for the Golden Senator. Katsinawa's votes will make him His Excellency in 2027, In shaa Allah.
New Katsina is possible. @ahmadbabbakaita is a man of vision with a clear mission.
Katsinawa, vote for him to build a better Katsina. Reject incompetent leaders who spend billions on vehicles while abandoning clinics and then expect those same clinics to operate with Keke Napep
I feel truly honored and proud to have been followed back by the National Publicity Secretary of the ADC. It's a privilege to be recognized, and it strengthens my commitment to working for the growth of our great party and a better Nigeria @BolajiADC
We can all work hand in hand to save Nigeria in 2027. But if the goal is to democratically unseat the APC, then we must rally behind a platform with capacity, and national reach to make it happen.
In my view, that platform is the ADC.
Every meaningful journey passes through three stages: Accumulation, Manipulation, and Distribution. Accumulate with patience, endure manipulation with wisdom, and let your success become your distribution.
They have been considering the consensus that holds in Katsina as the APC survival solution, but we know it's the APC selection solution that can lead them to lose Katsina completely in 2027