Aare Amerijoye DOT.B
My dear leaders, brothers, sisters and courageous members of our great Party,
I want you to stop for a moment before you read another word.
I want you to think about your mother.
Think about what she is paying for a bag of rice today. Think about what she paid three years ago. Think about the look on her face when she has to choose between eating and buying medicine.
Think about whether that look should ever exist on the face of a woman who gave everything to raise you and this country.
Now tell me you are not angry.
Now tell me you are willing to be silent.
This is not a time for fear.This is not a time for confusion.This is not a time for retreat.
This is the moment history has been preparing us for. This is the moment we were born to meet. And if not us, then who? And if not now, then when?
Let us be blunt about what is happening in Nigeria today.
A man who stood before American courts and forfeited $460,000 as the proceeds of narcotics trafficking now sits at the apex of this nation’s power.
A man whose certificate controversies have never been resolved.
A man whose economic decisions have pushed more Nigerians below the poverty line in three years than any government in living memory. As the respected economist and elder statesman Pat Utomi has repeatedly warned, Nigeria is haemorrhaging human capital and economic possibility at a rate that will take generations to reverse.
That man and his co-travellers are now attempting to manipulate institutions, suppress opposition and frighten the Nigerian people into silence.
They want us quiet. They want us still. They want us afraid.
Because a quiet, still and afraid people cannot unseat them in 2027.
But I ask you: can you afford to be quiet when the naira has been slaughtered? Can you afford to be still when your children are dropping out of school because you cannot pay their fees? Can you afford to be afraid when every passing month makes the lives of the people you love a little harder, a little more desperate, a little more diminished?
They will not succeed. Not while we breathe.
Every great political movement that has ever challenged injustice has passed through moments like this. When those who occupy stolen power begin to feel the ground shifting beneath their feet, their first instinct is always the same: intimidate, suppress, divide and demoralise.
But let us remember one eternal truth that history has never once contradicted.
Repression is always the clearest sign that a movement is winning.
When they panic, it is because they can see what we can see.
The people are awakening. The coalition is growing.
The mathematics of 2027 are already against them. The combined opposition votes of 2023 already exceeded what Tinubu received at the polls. They know the numbers. They know what is coming. And they are afraid of us.
Good. Let them be afraid.
What we are witnessing today must not weaken us by a single fibre. It must awaken us. It must harden us. It must pour fire into the engine of every ward, every local government, every state chapter of this movement.
Think about the young man in your neighbourhood who has a degree he cannot use because there are no jobs.
Think about the trader in the market whose business has collapsed because the cost of goods has become impossible.
Think about the nurse, the teacher, the farmer, the okada rider, the small business owner.
Think about the millions of ordinary Nigerians who did not choose this suffering, who did not vote for this suffering, and who deserve far, far better than what they are being subjected to.
Every one of them is depending on us. Every one of them, whether they know it or not, has their hope invested in what we do from this day forward.
We cannot let them down.
Therefore I say to every member of the ADC, from the northernmost ward to the southernmost village, from the riverine communities to the highlands of Ekiti, from the ancient city of Kano to the streets of Lagos:
Do not slow down. There is no slowing down. This train does not reverse.
Intensify the struggle. Double the pace. Treble the commitment.
Let our mobilisation roll forward with a force that nothing can withstand.Let our membership registration reach into every home, every compound and every corner of this country.
Let our ward structures become the most formidable political infrastructure in Nigeria’s history.
Every member must now become an organiser.Every supporter must now become a mobiliser.
Every leader must now become the rallying point their community has been waiting for.
This is not the time to wait for someone else to act. Waiting is what costs us the futures of the children who are watching us.Waiting is what we will have to answer for if 2027 slips through our hands because we hesitated when we should have moved.
We will not hesitate.
Fill the party offices and do not leave them empty.
Organise the wards and leave none unattended.
Strengthen the local government structures until they can carry the full weight of victory.
Bring new members into this Party every single day, from sunrise to sunset, and let every recruitment feel like the rescue it truly is.
Let our members dominate every platform with the courage, intelligence and conviction that this moment demands. Let truth travel faster than their propaganda, which is all they have left. Let our handles and platforms become centres of political light where Nigerians can see clearly that the future of this country does not belong to a naira that has been murdered, does not belong to a fuel pump that prices families out of survival, does not belong to a man whose first instinct is to silence those who challenge his record.
The future of Nigeria belongs to those who love her enough to fight for her.
We love her. We are fighting for her. And we will not stop.
Silence is a betrayal in moments like this. Silence is a vote for more of the same. There can be no silence from any one of us.
Where they try to intimidate us, we must respond with organisation so formidable it makes their intimidation irrelevant.
Where they attempt to suppress us, we must respond with mobilisation so sweeping that suppression becomes impossible.
Where they attempt to divide us, we must respond with a unity so unshakeable that every tactic they deploy crumbles on contact.
To our respected leaders across every state of this federation, I speak to you now with love and with urgency.
The Nigerian people are not asking you to be perfect. They are asking you to be present. They are asking you to be courageous. They are asking you to love this country more than you love your comfort, your position or your personal grievances.
They have waited long enough.
Ego must give way to mission. Whatever remains unresolved between leaders must be set aside tonight, because the people who are suffering cannot wait for us to settle our differences. The mother who cannot feed her children cannot wait. The graduate sleeping on his school certificate cannot wait. The farmer watching his harvest lose value before it reaches the market cannot wait.
They are waiting for us to rise to this moment.
Come together immediately. Not tomorrow. Not after the next meeting. Not when conditions are perfect. Now.
Deploy what must be deployed.Merge resources where resources must be merged.Combine energies where energies must be combined.
Bring together the best minds, the strongest organisers and the most fire-tested patriots within this Party.
The task before us is not just political. It is moral. It is a duty to the millions who have no voice except through us.
Nigeria has survived dark moments before. It survived the death of hope under military jackboots. It survived the annulment of June 12 and the agony that followed. It survived every man who believed that brute power was stronger than popular will. And every single time, without exception, the Nigerian people discovered that their spirit was stronger than any chain placed upon them.
That spirit is alive today.
It is alive in every organiser who rises before dawn to build this movement.
It is alive in every young person who refuses to accept that this is all Nigeria can be.
It is alive in every Nigerian who looks at the suffering around them and chooses action over despair.
We must now rise higher than we have ever risen before.
Let our determination be more powerful than their intimidation.Let our unity be more unshakeable than their manipulation.Let our love for Nigeria be louder and more lasting than their contempt for her people.
I want you to make a promise today. Not to me. Not to the ADC. But to the Nigerian who is struggling in your street, in your family, in your community. Promise them that you will not rest. Promise them that you will not be silenced. Promise them that when the story of this moment is told, your name will be on the side of those who fought.
History is watching this moment.
And history will remember, with honour and with gratitude, those who stood firm when democracy was tested and ordinary Nigerians were depending on them.
We have made our choice.
Stand strong. Stand united. Stand determined.
The struggle continues.
And together, we shall prevail.
Aare Amerijoye DOT.B
Director-General,
The Narrative Force
