Buba Galadima has issued a stern warning to the ruling All Progressives Congress, saying Nigerians could unleash their fury at the polls in 2027 if the government fails to tackle worsening economic conditions and persistent insecurity.
Galadima, a prominent figure in the New Nigeria Peoples Party, made the remarks during an appearance on Politics Today on Thursday, where he launched a sweeping attack on the APC’s record in government and flatly rejected official claims that living standards are improving.
The veteran politician raised alarm over what he described as a dangerous pattern of silencing dissent, pointing to the arrest and prosecution of young men in Kano for expressing opinions on radio programmes.
“Sometimes tried in the night by judges who are forced to jail them,” he said, warning that such heavy-handed tactics could ignite broader public anger if left unchecked. “Things start small, small. You don’t know how they can blossom and become something else.”
Galadima urged the government not to take Nigerian voters for granted, drawing a sharp comparison with the 2015 general election, when former President Goodluck Jonathan was voted out of office largely due to the Boko Haram insurgency ravaging the North-East.
“When things got to less than 10 per cent of the situation we find ourselves in today, Nigerians rose to the occasion and removed that government,” he said. “If you can remove Jonathan’s government for a simple insecurity in the Northeast, what would you be doing to the APC government? I think we have to cut them into pieces.”
Beyond security concerns, Galadima accused the Federal Government of deliberately undermining agriculture through what he called reckless import policies and soaring production costs that have made farming unviable for millions.
“This government has killed agriculture deliberately, disenfranchising farmers who are 75 per cent of the Nigerian population,” he said, noting that a bag of fertiliser now sells for between 60,000 and 70,000 naira.
He questioned how any administration could justify policies that hurt the vast majority of its citizens for the benefit of a handful of contractors and political supporters. Galadima said a recent visit to Maiduguri confirmed his fears, with dry season farming activity almost entirely absent from the region.
He warned that without urgent intervention, widespread food scarcity looms, and that the over 1,000 rice mills established during the Buhari administration risk shutting down completely.
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