ADC dismisses alleged merger talks with PRP

By Ayorinde Oluokun

Leaders of African Democratic Congress (ADC) have dismissed reports that they are in talks with Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) as a possible platform to contest the 2027 election if the judgements from the cases filed against the party were not in their favour.

“We would like to state categorically that this is not true,” Bolaji Abdullahi, the spokesperson for the ADC said in a statement on Monday.

He was emphatic that the leaders of coalition parties that defected from other leadership is not having any such conversation with any political party at the moment.

Abdullahi added that the leaders of the ADC are fully committed to upturn the cases filed against the party and what he described as the illegal action taken against its leadership by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and “other agents of the ruling party”.

The statement partly reads, “We are fully committed to ensuring that the illegal action taken against our leadership by INEC and other agents of the ruling party is upturned. We believe that this is the only path to safeguarding the rule of law and ensuring that multiparty democracy survives in Nigeria.

“While we are open to expanding the coalition to bring all opposition elements in the country together to rescue our country, we remain clear about the responsibility that this moment has imposed on us. We will not abdicate that responsibility.

“Therefore, any suggestion that we are considering abandoning the ADC is preemptive and speculative and should be ignored.

“Notwithstanding the flagrant bastardisation of democratic institutions, the ADC leadership remains confident that the judicial institutions will, at this defining moment, resist the pressure to be complicit in undermining Nigeria’s democracy,”