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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has cautioned supporters of presidential aspirants on its platform for the 2027 polls against making divisive utterances.
The ADC interim National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, who spoke on Spaces hosted on the microblogging site X on Saturday, said such divisive utterances by supporters of presidential aspirants are tantamount to advancing the cause of President Bola Tinubu.
Presidential aspirants on the platform of the ADC include former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Anambra governor Peter Obi, as well as Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers State.
Bolaji noted that he has already met Atiku, Obi, Amaechi and former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, and that the consensus is that the opposition party has a job to do to make the country better.
According to him, “I spent time talking to His Excellency Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Rotimi Amaechi, who have indicated interests in vying for the presidential ticket of our party, as well as the likes of Mallam Nasir El-Rufai to strengthen our party and unite it, and the general consensus seems to be that we have a job to do to make this country a better place.
“Our leaders are all aware of the task ahead and every one of them is committed to ensuring that we win this election.”
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Abdullahi added, “Let me also say this, those supporting this divisiveness by supporters of any of the aspirants should stop what they are doing because they are clearly working to the advantage of the APC and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“Saying it is either this candidate or nothing is not helpful because getting the ticket alone means nothing; what is important is winning the election and we cannot carry this divisiveness and expect to win.
“We believe that all our aspirants are eminently qualified and vilifying anybody or any region is not helpful and will make it more difficult. We are going to commence the process of strengthening and having our leaders speak unity amongst themselves.
“We are going to ignore people creating exceptionality and we are going to focus on what we are doing because we want to win this election.
“Those shouting Peter Obi or nothing are equally not helping him. They are preaching division and they are not selling him. They are not providing the room for people to support him from other places; they should stop making other people take hard stances because everyone needs to be on board for us to win this election.”
