Former National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has urged President Bola Tinubu to listen to the cries of Nigerians and do the needful to lessen their pain.
Adamu made the appeal yesterday while speaking with journalists at his Keffi, Nasarawa State country home as part of activities marking the end of the Ramadan season.
He acknowledged that the country’s leadership was doing its best in the circumstances, but said their best had not been enough.
Adamu’s comments came as Conference of Professionals in the Peoples Democratic Party (CP-PDP) advised Tinubu to do himself good by shelving the thoughts of retaining the presidency beyond May 29, 2027.
The group said Nigerians would never reward failure and purveying of hardship with re-election or allow anybody to manipulate the outcome of the 2027 presidential election.
Adamu, a former two-term governor of Nasarawa State, implored government at all levels to heed the grievances of their citizens and exercise genuine leadership.
He, nevertheless, commended the Tinubu government’s restructuring initiatives, and also encouraged the citizenry to keep on praying for the country’s leadership.
Adamu stated, “Thus far, our best (APC government) is not yet good enough, unfortunately. People are suffering, and they are complaining.
“We are here at their level, we listen to them and we just ask them not to cast aspersions on the leadership.
“Let’s pray for the leadership. To get the right bearing, the right thinking, have the right plan, uplift the fortunes of this country.”
‘Nobody can manipulate Nigerians in 2027’
The Conference of Professionals in the Peoples Democratic Party (CP-PDP), in a statement by its chairman, Obinna Nwachukwu, said no amount of electoral manoeuvring, intimidation or coercion from APC would yield electoral control of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), which was a stronghold of PDP, to APC in the coming February 2026 FCT Area Council election.
According to Nwachukwu, ‘’This is part of the resolution reached by the conference in its meeting on Monday, 31st of March 2025 in response to the open confession by President Tinubu on Sunday, 30th of March 2025 that he consented to the request by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja,Chief Nyesom Wike to remove the FCT from the Treasury Singe Account (TSA) for the partisan reason of winning election in the FCT.
‘’President Tinubu also confessed that he threatened to sack the FCT minister if the PDP again lead the FCT election, even when the FCT is an undisputed stronghold of the PDP, where the president was defeated in the 2023 presidential election and where the PDP has 42 councillors and three council chairmen over APC’s three chairmen and 20 councillors.’’
The conference hoped that the quest to capture FCT for APC was not the driving force behind the condemnable allegations of harassment, land grabbing, vindictive revocation and demolition of property, reportedly, targeted to intimidate perceived APC opponents, and the reported hazy contract allocations to favour APC apologists in the FCT.
Nwachukwu said in any event, with a badly battered image, worsened by bad governance, it was clear that APC had no chance in the FCT and the 2027 general election, despite its rigging plots.
