ADC Accuses APC Of Plotting One-party Dictatorship With Expanded Campaign Council

Thursday October 15, 2026

By thenewsdesk.ng

The African Democratic Congress presidential campaign council, ADC-PCC, has described the inauguration of an expanded All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential campaign council as a calculated attempt to impose a one-party dictatorship on Nigeria.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, Kola Ologbondiyan, ADC-PCC director of media and publicity, alleged that the ruling party was undermining Nigeria’s multiparty democracy by “coercing opposition governors into its fold or incorporating them into its presidential campaign council despite their refusal to defect from their respective political parties”.

“You cannot claim to be a democrat while using state power to force opposition governors into your party and then drafting them into your campaign council. This is political banditry.”

Ologbondiyan added that the APC was pursuing a political agenda that could concentrate power in the hands of one individual.

He said key national institutions, security agencies and the judiciary were being deployed to weaken opposition forces.

The ADC-PCC spokesperson urged Nigerians of conscience to resist what he described as an immoral political order driven by the desire to retain power at the expense of citizens’ welfare.

He accused the ruling party of showing little concern for the economic hardship, hunger and insecurity confronting ordinary Nigerians.