₦airaland Forum

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Atiku Abubakar @atiku

I wish to express my profound appreciation for the privilege, which you have bestowed on me, of leading our great party, the African Democratic Congress, into the next elections as its Presidential Candidate. I am truly humbled and excited by this singular honour.

We demonstrated that while democracy is being strangled and squashed by the ruling party and its oppressive and anti-democratic government, democracy is alive and well in the African Democratic Congress. In our party, members are allowed to express their views, to have ambitions and to contest for elective positions in a free, fair and transparent process.

Our great party is a coalition built through hard work, immense sacrifices and compromises, guided by our determination to rescue our country’s democracy which is facing its greatest threat since the return to democratic rule in 1999.

As I speak, virtually all opposition political parties in the country have leadership crisis engineered by the APC government, the INEC and elements in the judiciary. And opposition figures continue to be harassed and intimidated, including those languishing in detention, such as Mallam Nasir El-Rufai who distinguished himself as a public servant, including as a Minister and two-term Governor of Kaduna State. He has been in detention for three months despite court orders granting him bail. He has been denied the right to celebrate two important religious holidays with his family in addition to being denied the opportunity to be by his mother’s side as she took her last breath. All because he is a leading opposition figure! This kind of cruelty must stop. The government continues to harass, intimidate and coerce opposition politicians to join the APC using the security agencies as well as the agencies which were set up by a previous government to fight corruption. Under this government, once a person joins the APC, the harassment ceases and the charges against them magically disappear. This abuse of power must stop.

Great care was taken to ensure that due diligence was done in the process of forming this coalition. Yet the government and the INEC continue to undermine it, even trying to deregister it. Let me warn that any further attempt to interfere in the affairs of the party by the Presidency, INEC and judiciary will be fiercely resisted. Enough is enough.

I congratulate my fellow contestants for this ticket to represent our great party in the elections scheduled for early next year. I know that you are driven by your patriotism and commitment to a better Nigeria and improved life for our people. I know that, like me, you are deeply concerned about the rapid descent of our country into economic disaster, catastrophic insecurity, extreme nepotism, political intolerance and the drive towards a one-party state by the current government and its party. I thank you for your healthy participation in this democratic process.

I must state at this juncture that this is not the time to celebrate. No one was defeated because we are one party and we all need to recognise the fierce urgency of the moment. Therefore, we have to unite, as we pledged before this process, to work to pull our country and our people out of the destructive grip of a corrupt, incompetent and polarising APC government.

I thank the primary elections Committee for organising peaceful, free, fair and transparent primaries. I thank the various leadership organs of our party, the various stakeholders, and volunteers for their hard work and dedication and all our party members and supporters for their efforts, patience and conduct during the process.

With the primaries behind us, the real hard work is about to begin. We have to prepare to campaign hard to win the next general elections in order to begin the difficult process of rescuing our country and its long-suffering people from this government.

We will be guided by clear national plans with set targets and timelines in line with commitments enshrined in our party’s manifesto. We will provide clear leadership that will empower our states to competitively attain the potentials of meeting the expectations of citizens. That will include working with them to guarantee well-outlined minimum standards of welfare provision in line with international best standards. Ours will be a new era of accountable leadership.

We shall prioritise Security, Education, the Economy, Healthcare and the challenge of power- sharing among the constituent units of our country.

Security

Every region of this country is gripped by insecurity, the worst kind in our history. Our people are being slaughtered in large numbers and the government has failed to take decisive and effective action to stop it and bring the perpetrators to justice.

The most disturbing is that members of our security forces, including military generals, are being slaughtered wantonly in a manner that can only be embarrassing to our military, which fought to keep the country together and is highly respected in various parts of the world where they distinguished themselves in international assignments. All we have been getting from the government is silence and, on occasion, expression of condolence and empty promises to deal with the murderers.

An ADC government under my leadership will take decisive action to address insecurity and protect lives and property in the country. We shall strengthen the armed forces, the police and other security agencies with massive new recruitment, provision of modern and adequate equipment, training, improved welfare and effective leadership. We shall also ensure accountability and proper coordination and intelligence sharing among all our security agencies.

It is obvious to us in the ADC that we can only secure our country long-term if we educate our young people and create an economy in which they and their families can thrive and help to change Nigeria and the world for the better.

Education

Under the watch of this APC government over 20 million of our school-age children are not in school. This cannot be tolerated in the modern world where education is the surest path to descent employment, wealth creation, national development and enlightened citizenry. We will, therefore, implement free and compulsory education at the primary and secondary levels and invest in leadership, entrepreneurial, technological and innovation skills amongst our teeming youth.

We shall embark on a holistic revival of our educational system by ensuring that staffing, buildings and all infrastructures are in place to make Nigerian youths competitive again. And the welfare of teachers will reflect their critical importance in nurturing the young.

Economy

This APC government has failed woefully on the economy. The poverty gripping our people is at a level that we have never seen in our history. The government brandishes statistics claiming that the economy is growing. But what has really been growing is the ill-gotten wealth of a few in and around the corridors of power while our people have extreme difficulty finding food to eat, paying for transport, medical treatment or their children’s school fees.

We commit to building an economy that benefits all Nigerians. Building an economy that works for Nigerians can only gather momentum when we address our utterly embarrassing and economy-destroying energy crisis. The provision of electricity is a minimum requirement for industrialization, be it in the factory or in the farm, for big business and for small enterprises. We shall remove the various bottlenecks limiting investments in various sectors of our economy in order to attract local and foreign investments that would create jobs and create meaningful growth in our economy. And we shall provide incentives where necessary to promote investment and job creation.

The government promised improved welfare for our people with the removal of fuel subsidy. Needless to say, the savings from subsidy removal has not been accounted for and the economic hardship resulting from the action has been unbearable. To make matters worse, borrowing has become the cornerstone of the economic policy of the APC government under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. External borrowing alone has reached 30 billion dollars in the last three years. And the massive amounts being borrowed are given away in contracts to friends and cronies of those in government without competitive bidding and with no pretensions of due process. The future of our younger generation is being mortgaged with no accountability. That has to change and will change under an ADC government.

Healthcare

In the face of glaring healthcare challenges facing the country, we learned recently that the Federal Ministry of Health received only 30 million naira for capital expenditure in the preceding fiscal year. This is clearly a government that doesn’t care about the health of our people. Our ADC government will prioritise healthcare, with emphasis on prevention. Therefore, we will make massive investments in primary healthcare. In addition, we shall properly equip and staff our medical centres of excellence to ensure that our people receive the best specialist care here in Nigeria rather than travel abroad for same. We shall establish more such centres where needed and also incentivise the private sector to establish world class medical facilities across the country to meet the needs of our people.

In the coming weeks and months, we shall be rolling out our platform addressing these priorities and other issues in more details and with clear timelines.

Fellow citizens, where the APC government offers meaningless renewed hope, we will provide renewed action to repair the damage that they have done to our economy and society in the last twelve years of misrule.

My dear friends, we have gone through great challenges to build this coalition. Let us now turn our energies to continuing to build this party as we prepare for the campaign to win the elections and to rescue this country from the current misrule. We have a sacred responsibility to build a party that will stand as a great institution not only in Nigeria but as a great example to the world.

I, therefore, appeal to all those who feel aggrieved to come back to our party and close ranks with the rest of us. I appeal to all those who contested for various positions in our primaries to close ranks with us. In particular, I invite Chief Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and Alhaji Mohammed Hayatu-Deen to join me in this fight to save our democracy and our country. As I said previously, there are no winners and no losers. Our people look up to us for leadership. I am ready to lead. I shall work with you all to continue to build our party. I will campaign with you and, if Nigerians give us the mandate, govern with you to build a country that works for all.

Thank you and may God bless you and bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria. -AA

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Waiting for the supporters of Atiku's girlfriend in NDC to respond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyguIzqGyQQ?si=iI88uN61-tUWJRuZ

2027 Polls: ADC Declares Atiku Winner Of Presidential Primary

The party said Atiku polled 1,846,370 votes to beat his closest rival, Rotimi Amaechi, who polled 504,117 votes.

By Friday Okeregbe
May 27, 2026

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been declared the winner of the presidential primary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

The party said Atiku polled 1,846,370 votes to beat his closest rival, former Rivers State governor Rotimi Amaechi, who polled 504,117 votes.

It also said businessman Mohammed Hayatu-Deen got 177,120 votes in the primary.

In his acceptance speech, Atiku commended the party for demonstrating that democracy is alive in the ADC.

He also decried the challenges faced by opposition parties and leaders in the country.

“We demonstrated that while decmocrtacy os being strangled and squashed by its ruling party and its operatives, democracy is alive and well in the African Democratic Congress,” he said.

National of the party, Senator David Mark, said that the party allowed a free contest and allowed the members to make their choice.

He said that though the exercise was not perfect, there was room for improvement.

Mark said each of the aspirants was qualified to lead, but only one person could fly the flag of the ADC.

The battle for the presidential ticket intensified on Monday as Atiku, Amaechi, and Hayatu-Deen squared off in the party’s nationwide direct primary election.

Voting took place across Nigeria’s 8,809 wards, with members openly queuing behind their preferred aspirants under the Option A4 voting system.

But while Atiku lauded the process, the former Rivers governor and Hayatu-Deen faulted the process.

Amaechi, who is a former Minister of Transportation, rejected the outcome, alleging widespread voter disenfranchisement during the exercise.

“Following reports of widespread voter disenfranchisement in most parts of the country during the African Democratic Congress (ADC) Presidential Primaries yesterday, I unequivocally reject the concocted results being announced,” he stated on X.

Similarly, Hayatu-Deen said he would not attend the announcement of the party’s presidential primary election results, citing allegations of widespread vote rigging.

“I will not be attending the announcement of the ADC Presidential Election Results today. I am concerned by reports from across the country of widespread vote rigging, some of which I myself observed, and will therefore be taking advice on my next steps,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.

Atiku and Amaechi joined the ADC in July 2025 along with other opposition figures like former Anambra governor Peter Obi as part of a broader opposition realignment aimed at wresting power from Tinubu and the APC in the 2027 general election.

But Obi defected to the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) with a former Kano State governor, Musa Kwankwaso.

Atiku, who has contested for president multiple times, is relying on his national political network and northern influence, while Hayatu-Deen is presenting himself as a technocratic alternative focused on economic reforms and governance.

The result of the primary marks a defining moment for the ADC ahead of the 2027 presidential election as the party seeks to position itself as the main opposition platform capable of challenging President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress.

With the primary concluded, Atiku will fly the ADC’s flag in the 2027 presidential election.

https://www.channelstv.com/2026/05/27/breaking-2027-polls-adc-declares-atiku-winner-of-presidential-primary/

Previous threads

President Tinubu Votes In APC Presidential Primaries
https://www.nairaland.com/8677210/president-tinubu-votes-apc-presidential

Bola Tinubu Defeats Stanley Osifo In APC Presidential Primaries.
https://www.nairaland.com/8677769/bola-tinubu-defeats-stanley-osifo

ADC Presidential Primaries Holds Today
https://www.nairaland.com/8677942/adc-presidential-primaries-holds-today

Atiku, Amaechi, Hayatudeen Vote In ADC Primaries (Videos)
https://www.nairaland.com/8678325/atiku-amaechi-hayatudeen-vote-adc


2027: Peter Obi Emerges As NDC’s Only Presidential Aspirant
https://www.nairaland.com/8674380/2027-peter-obi-emerges-ndcs

Full Text Of Omoyele Sowore's Acceptance Speech As AAC Presidential Candidate
https://www.nairaland.com/8679297/full-text-omoyele-sowores-acceptance


Sandy Onor Announced As The Consensus Presidential Candidate Of The PDP
https://www.nairaland.com/8679190/sandy-onor-announced-consensus-presidential

ADC Faction Chooses Dumebi Kachikwu As Presidential Candidate For 2027 Election
https://www.nairaland.com/8677922/adc-faction-chooses-dumebi-kachikwu

SDP Picks Adewole Adebayo As Consensus Presidential Candidate
https://www.nairaland.com/8668954/sdp-picks-adewole-adebayo-consensus

Atiku's major problem is pride, arrogance, bigmanism and inability to learn from his past mistakes. He also lack political tact.


Atiku everyone knows that once you declare interest to run under ADC, you will definitely win other aspirants under ADC. But your failure to manage other aspirants like Rotimi Amaechi who has been going about saying things that are demarketing ADC and yourself is a big failure on your side. This happened with Wike, you never made any serious effort to pacify Wike and his 4 Asoebi friends, you ignored their cries of injustice.


Atiku you don't ever make sacrifices for your own good and to achieve your most desired goal. All you do is to contest for President every electioneering year without sitting back to reflect on your journey and restrategize for a better result.


Anyway, I wish you the best. I know you will be a bit better than Tinubu, especially in uniting Nigerians, which is key to Nigeria's communal progress, in which Tinubu failed woefully by making his regime a Yoruba run government.


Congratulations HE Atiku Abubakar, please try and reach out to Amaechi and others, don't repeat the same mistake you made in 2023.

Wickedfacts:
Waiting for the supporters of Atiku's girlfriend in NDC to respond.

imagine Been the cry baby that you’re
Your first thought was about the ndc
Ire oo

We might fault Atiku for his political greed, but we cannot claim he suffers from Obiphobia - the fear of political contest, especially party primaries.

The presidential candidates for the 2027 election are emerging

All the best to Atiku

Now that’s much more reassuring

Atiku is contesting for Academic exercise 📌💯.

Can't see Rotimi Ameachi there.

History about to happen, Wike dealth with ATIKU , now Ameachi .

Rivers are after his life

This man is arsenal fans ooo.
His curse may break this year 2.

M. Buhari has ruled for 8 years. It’s now the turn of a Southerner to rule for the same 8 years.

Wickedfacts:
Waiting for the supporters of Atiku's girlfriend in NDC to respond.

You mean Atiku's side chick from Agulu?

now we have atiku , tinubu , peter obi,and seyi makinde , we still need extra 2 making it 6 . let all of them go to the polls, let us have variety of options to choose from

Which faction of the ADC does he belong to, ? Kachukw was announced as ADC presidential candidate. In 2023,it was Kachukw.

If not for this man we will not be talking about opposition now, it will have been just one party breathing.

Anguldi:
Atiku is contesting for Academic exercise 📌💯.

Will Tinubu even allow him to contest and be on the ballot with his legally crippled ADC party, which Amupitan's INEC and Wike's courts are hellbent on preventing from existing, just as they killed ADA party before it was even born

iwaeda:
Wike Boasts Of Helping APC Use Judiciary To Kill Osun LG Funds Case, Warns Party Leaders Against Ingratitude

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has openly boasted that he assisted certain elements within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in deploying the judiciary to frustrate the Osun State local government allocation lawsuit.

In a video now circulating widely on social media and obtained by SaharaReporters, Wike made the claim while addressing a crowd in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The former Rivers governor accused the APC National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Basiru, of benefitting from judicial actions against the Osun State Government without knowing those who did the work behind the scenes.

The suit in question led to the withholding of local government funds in Osun State, a development widely seen as targeting the administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke as opposition in the state.

Wike, who spoke angrily, suggested that the court action supporting the APC’s position against the Osun government did not happen by chance, boasting that powerful political forces worked quietly to ensure the outcome.

“Don’t take our support for Mr President for granted,” Wike warned, in an apparent message to APC leaders defending Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara. “You have to be careful about the statements you make. You have to be very careful.”

He accused Basiru of political ingratitude, claiming the APC was enjoying in Osun State without understanding who engineered their advantage.

“Today, you are enjoying in Osun. You don’t know those who did the work,” Wike said. “You are opening your mouth to talk about Rivers State.”

https://saharareporters.com/2026/01/08/wike-boasts-helping-apc-use-judiciary-kill-osun-lg-funds-case-warns-party-leaders

Minister Wike has warned the National Secretary of the APC, Ajibola Basiru to stay clear of Rivers State.
Lol 😆 https://t.co/sNKjJfb8qn pic.twitter.com/E9SgSwASil

— Emma ik Umeh (Tcee )🇳🇬 (@emmaikumeh) January 5, 2026

Throwback:
We might fault Atiku for his political greed, but we cannot claim he suffers from Obiphobia - the fear of political contest, especially party primaries.

Peter obi is an heavy weight just like atiku.... They won't be any primaries to contest because of that . know this n know peace

Okay, virtually. From Dubai

Tonim:
M. Buhari has ruled for 8 years. It’s now the turn of a Southerner to rule for the same 8 years.

Why did Tinubu break that cycle twice in 2011 and in 2015?
Any idea why he made Jonathan a one term president, by asking Buhari to come out of retirement to get the job of president after three failed attempts

BY next year, the south would have ruled for 17 years and the north for 11 years of our 28 years of enduring democracy since 1999, due to Jagaban of Borgu's Machiavellian greed and selfishness to please his fellow northerners as usual.

EponObi:
Obidents go too abuse Alhaji Mikano 🤣

That vibe though 😂😂😂😂

How is Obi's 2019 saviour, Alhaji Mikano

piriton:
If not for this man we will not be talking about opposition now, it will have been just one party breathing.

are u blind ?... Someone that destroy the turn of a southern in PDP.... He contributed to the emergency of APC in 2019 and repeated it again in 2023... His the reason Nigerians are suffering from bad APC government.

anonimi:
Why did Tinubu break that cycle twice in 2011 and in 2015?
Any idea why he made Jonathan a one term president, by asking Buhari to come out of retirement to get the job of president after three failed attempts

BY next year, the south would have ruled for 17 years and the north for 11 years of our 28 years of enduring democracy since 1999, due to Jagaban of Borgu's Machiavellian greed and selfishness to please his fellow northerners as usual.

G. Jonathan should have held on to the presidency. Tinubu was just being a politician (in the opposition).

I blame Jonathan for not holding on to power.

Well done Atiku. You want cooperation from Amaechi and Hayatu Deen, as if you would have cooperated assuming you lost in the primaries. In 2015, you teamed up with Tinubu and Co joined APC just to ensure Jonathan did not win a second term because according to you, it's the turn of the North. Now is the turn of the South, in as much as Asiwaju is tribalistic and suffering from Dementia, having nothing to offer to Nigerians, we will join you to play the ethnic card you played in 2015 by voting him back.

Only to lose yet again , delusional man

The price for handkerchiefs and toilet paper should rise significantly. Some folks will need it in 2027.

Anguldi:
Can't see Rotimi Ameachi there.

History about to happen, Wike dealth with ATIKU , now Ameachi .

Rivers are after his life

Is it more serious than how All Promises Cancelled, APC leaders looters led by Tinubu have been after the lives of 200 million Nigerians since 2015?

How much do you estimate that you have paid Buhari and Tinubu as FORCED subsidy on each litre of petrol you bought or used through various other means in the last 11 years, due to the massive corruption in APC's oil sector

anonimi:
Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC

January 19, 2015

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.

On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.

But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.

It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.

https://www.thecable.ng/petrol-never-cost-n70-per-litre-says-apc/

So, you believe Atiku will be a Unifier?
He talked about Nasir El Rufai because of his political ambition. Why is he not talking about Nnamdi Kanu that has been in detention for long.
Peter Obi will be a better President than Atiku. Atiku can never be better than Tinubu.

tonesky:
Well done Atiku. You want cooperation from Amaechi and Hayatu Deen, as if you would have cooperated assuming you lost in the primaries. In 2015, you teamed up with Tinubu and Co joined APC just to ensure Jonathan did not win a second term because according to you, it's the turn of the North. Now is the turn of the South, in as much as Asiwaju is tribalistic and suffering from Dementia, having nothing to offer to Nigerians, we will join you to play the ethnic card you played in 2015 by voting him back.

Is it possible that you are also suffering dementia like Jagaban of Borgu, who recruited his fellow northerner Buhari from Kaduna to make Jonathan a one term president 11 years ago

By the way is Yoruba lokan not playing the ethnic card by the ayederuu man who has betrayed Yorubas severally since June 12 saga?




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