CITIZENS COMPASS—Former Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday, said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will not win the 2027 general elections.
Aregbesola who doubles as the National Secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) also said that President Bola Tinubu will lose the 2027 presidential election.
The former Minister cited two major reasons behind these failures; growing public resentment as well as intolerance of the party toward opposition voices.
He spoke in Ilorin, Kwara State, at the official commissioning of the ADC state secretariat.
Aregbesola said the APC’s increasing clampdown on political opponents exposed its deep fear of rejection at the polls.
“If APC is confident of its strength, it won’t be so hyped and charged as to be hounding and hunting opposition all over the place,” he said. “They are harassing and intimidating our members nationwide — in Lagos, Kebbi, Kaduna, and elsewhere. If they are truly popular, they will be calm, but the reverse is the case. What does that tell you? They know they are not popular, and the party that will harvest their unpopularity is the ADC.”
According to Aregbesola, the first reason the APC and Tinubu will lose in 2027 is that it has lost the confidence of the people, as hardship, insecurity, and intolerance have alienated the very masses that once supported it. The second reason, he said, is that the party’s growing habit of intimidating the opposition reflects a fear of democratic competition, a weakness that will fuel voter backlash across the country.
“Regardless of their grandstanding, by the grace of God, ADC will take over the mantle of leadership in Nigeria and in most of the states,” Aregbesola affirmed of his confidence that Tinubu and the APC will lose in 2027.
Also speaking, former Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, who recently dumped the PDP for the ADC, said the party’s emergence marks the beginning of a new political order.
“This is the beginning of a new direction in our political experience. The ADC has come to stay, and we are poised to take over leadership of the country in 2027,” Ahmed said.
In the same vein, the party’s National Publicity Secretary and former Minister of Youth and Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, dismissed the PDP as “a dead party waiting for its obituary,” insisting that the ADC had become the only credible opposition.
“The ADC represents a new people-driven movement that reflects the collective aspirations of Nigerians,” Abdullahi said, adding that rising insecurity and economic hardship under the APC would accelerate its fall.
