The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has blasted reports of assurances that President Bola Tinubu does not plan to extend his stay in office beyond 2031. The party recently revealed that BAT’s constitutional mandate will still expire in 2027, and Nigerians have been reacting.
In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC shared that Nigerians would not wish to extend the President’s rule by a single day, given the widespread insecurity, economic hardship, and abuse of power under his government.
Bolaji warned against any attempt to normalise tenure elongation, stressing that Tinubu should prepare to leave office in 2027.
“Given the spate of banditry and killings raging across the country, the widespread hunger and suffering, the punitive taxes, the flagrant abuse of power at a scale never seen before, the President should be preparing to leave in 2027.
Any plan to stay in office beyond that date would indeed be a confirmation that this government is incapable of reading the room,” it read.
ADC further accused Tinubu of treating re-election as a given, stating that the APC does not take accountability to the Nigerian people seriously.
The party concluded by blasting the ruling party for allowing bandits and terrorists to take control of swathes of the North and freely operate with impunity while levying taxes on innocent citizens.
“The Presidency’s desperate response to the recent remarks by former governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, only serves to confirm what Nigerians have long suspected: this administration is not only out of touch with reality, it has also become dangerously self-satisfied.
That the President is already speaking of remaining in office till 2031 betrays a mindset that dismisses re-election as mere formalities, rather than a constitutional requirement to present his score card to the people. But re-election is not automatic, and President Tinubu has not earned a second term.
Under his watch, national security has degenerated into a cruel joke. Terrorists, bandits, and criminals now operate with total impunity. Citizens are kidnapped in broad daylight. Rural communities have become warzones.
The naira has collapsed. Inflation is out of control. Food prices have tripled in many parts of the country. Jobs are vanishing. The middle class is disappearing. Businesses that once thrived are collapsing under the weight of punitive taxes and policy inconsistencies.
Given this comprehensive failure, it is not only insensitive but downright dangerous for anyone in the Tinubu presidency to speak so glibly of a second term. The President should not be plotting to stay. He should be preparing to leave. He has done enough damage.
Let it be said clearly and without ambiguity: Nigeria is not Lagos. Nigerians are watching. And come 2027, it won’t be APC versus ADC, it will be APC versus the Nigerian people,” he added.
