“APC Will Fail Integrity Test” – ADC Leader
A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Ladan Salihu, has declared that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will be swept from power at the 2027 general elections, warning that President Bola Tinubu’s administration cannot survive the weight of public anger bearing down on it.
Salihu made the assertion during an appearance on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme, delivering what he framed as an unsparing verdict on the direction of governance under Tinubu ahead of the next electoral cycle.
“When it comes to credible elections and elections that are based on integrity, this government will fail the integrity and credibility test at the polls. This government will not measure up with the anger and the frustrations of the Nigerian people,” he said.
Beyond the electoral prognosis, Salihu used the platform to intensify the ADC’s campaign for the resignation or removal of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, accusing him of failing both integrity and competency standards — allegations INEC has denied, insisting that its chairman remains neutral.
“Amupitan should resign or should be removed because in public service today, Amupitan to me is the number one persona non grata,” Salihu said, adding that the INEC boss had not presented himself as the impartial umpire a country of 250 million people deserves.
“By his actions, his utterances and the way he conducts government business, he scandalises every person that has integrity in Nigeria,” he added.
When pressed on whether the ADC would boycott the 2027 elections should Amupitan remain in office, Salihu declined a definitive answer. “The election is our own constitutional responsibility as the leading opposition movement. When we get to that stage, we will make a decision about it,” he said, while warning the opposition would escalate its removal campaign if Amupitan neither resigned nor was sacked.
Despite the APC’s commanding grip on 31 state governorships and legislative majority in the National Assembly, Salihu maintained that institutional dominance did not translate to popular support.
“They have 31 governors, they have control of the Senate and the House, but they don’t have control of the people,” he said, expressing confidence in the ADC’s electoral prospects come 2027.