Registration Of ADA Will Enhance Tinubu’s Second Term Victory – Osita Okechukwu

A founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has warned that the proposed All Democratic Alliance (ADA) will enhance President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the 2027 election.

The National Opposition Coalition Group had formally requested the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) approval to register ADA.

However, speaking to newsmen on Sunday, Okechukwu stated that the possible registration of ADA would be a welcomed development.

He expressed hope that INEC would register the ADA, relying on the Supreme Court judgment that the All Progressives Congress received when it was in opposition.

According to Okechukwu: “My take on the formation of All Democratic Alliance (ADA) is that it is a welcome development, one because I am an apostle of a multiparty system, which allows all the flowers to blossom and all the voices to be heard.

“Methinks sincerely that the ADA, contrary to their promoters’ success mindset, will enhance our party’s victory, especially President Tinubu’s second term.

“ADA promoters are benchmarking their strategy on the false premise that the northern electorate is quartered in dormitories and will be hauled to the polling booths to vote for a would-be northern presidential candidate.

“As if either they forget or deliberately ignore that the northern electorates are one of the most sophisticated electorates in our political landscape.”

On the claims that the North is very angry with Tinubu, he opined that the village square story may be assuming that the president’s major infrastructural development projects in both the North and South are flukes.

“And that the geographical development commissions, plus financial autonomy of local government councils, are idle talk?” he queried.

Okechukwu recalled that recently, the ADA promoters flew the kite that by 2027, the South will have presided over Nigeria for 17 years, whilst the North will have presided for only 11 years.

He said that this fraudulent calculation is purely based on conviction bias, especially when “we recall that the proper calculation is that the North has presided more years over Nigeria since independence in 1960 than the South.”

He added: “That the North has presided over Nigeria more than the South was the premise that people of goodwill and patriotic Nigerian politicians considered before instituting the rotation convention that the president should rotate from North to South and vice versa in 1999.”