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Following President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s recent promise to remove barriers to food security and increase exports, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has charged that the government is doing more out of fear than real care for Nigerians.

The ADC called the reform announcements a “scramble for survival” spurred by the ADC’s and other opposition groups’ increasing popularity, according to a statement posted on X and issued on Sunday by Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party’s interim national publicity secretary.

The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, recently declared that the federal government would take action to remove obstacles preventing food security and exports. The ADC was responding to this announcement.

The announcement’s timing was questioned by the ADC, which implied that it was made for political reasons.

“On Saturday, when Bayo Onanuga tweeted before the world that, moving forward, all bottlenecks hindering “the realization of the Tinubu administration’s potential” would be removed to enable food sovereignty and export, he didn’t just issue a statement, he issued a confession.”

”The statement indicated that the Tinubu government deliberately chose not to take action while Nigerians faced widespread hunger.”

It made the case that the government shouldn’t be commended for its meager action because it is now acting late due to political pressure.

The ADC claims that this is a last-ditch effort to survive after being overtaken by its own failures rather than true reform or leadership.

“Let us make one thing clear, it took the emergence of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the growing momentum of a united opposition to push this government into action. It wasn’t the hunger of hundreds of millions of Nigerians that moved them, it was fear. Fear of the 2027 elections. Fear that Nigerians have woken up. Fear that, with a united opposition, 2027 will be a clearcut election between the APC and the Nigerian people,” the statement read in part.

The ruling APC was charged by the ADC with purposefully exploiting poverty as a political tactic.

It contended that it was evident from Bayo Onanuga’s recent statements regarding the removal of barriers to food security that the government had purposefully decided to do nothing for the previous two years, allowing widespread hunger to continue.

Nigerians should begin challenging the government, the ADC stated.

“If the problems blocking food supply could have been fixed earlier, why did the government leave them for so long while people went hungry and businesses failed? Was it part of a plan to fix things suddenly before the 2027 elections just to gain support?

“This is a pattern. This is a strategy. This is not a government reacting to an urgent national crisis, it is a political machine managing optics. Every move they have made has been about political calculation ahead of 2027. Nigerians, shine your eyes.

According to the statement, the President is campaigning two years early, “Because he knows he’s in trouble. He knows Nigerians have had enough.”

Ahead of the 2027 elections, the ADC urged the public to seek practical answers rather than political spectacle.

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