ADC home for power-hungry politicians – Babarinde slams Atiku, El-rufai, Amaechi, others

By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja –

Former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in South Africa, Mr. Bola Babarinde, has described the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as a political home for “power-hungry veterans.”

Babarinde made the remark in a statement, reacting to the recent adoption of ADC by a coalition of prominent politicians, including former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former Governors Rotimi Amaechi and Nasir El-Rufai.

Babarinde said, “The ADC has suddenly become the new political home for an unlikely coalition of power-hungry veterans… not because of shared vision, but because of individual calculations.”

He described the coalition as a gathering of political drifters, who have abandoned their former parties and are now seeking relevance in ADC.

Babarinde noted that the politicians involved in the coalition have shown a disturbing pattern of abandoning their parties when they no longer serve their ambition.

“When internal democracy threatens their dominance, they destroy it.

“When the people demand accountability, they switch parties and rebrand themselves as. saviours,” he said

Babarinde contrasted the coalition’s actions with the political trajectory of President Bola Tinubu, who he said had demonstrated remarkable political consistency.

“From Tinubu’s early days in the Alliance for Democracy (AD), he nurtured that platform into the Action Congress (AC), evolved it into the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), and later led its merger into the ruling APC,” Babarinde said.

The ADC has been touted as a third force in Nigerian politics, with the potential to challenge the dominance of the APC and PDP.

However, Babarinde’s statement suggests that the party’s new coalition may be driven more by individual ambition than a shared vision for the country.