Why Tinubu Has Failed, Atiku Is the Answer, and ADC Is the Vehicle
Aare Amerijoye DOT.B
There is a stark truth that no amount of presidential media handlers can wish away: Nigeria is bleeding. Not metaphorically. Not rhetorically. Nigeria is bleeding in the literal, daily, devastating sense of the word.
Citizens are being murdered on highways. Armed robbers operate with impunity near police checkpoint. Farmers cannot return to their lands. Families cannot bury their dead in peace. And in Abuja, the handlers of power argue about optics.
The failure of the Tinubu administration is not incidental. It is structural. It is ideological. And it is, above all, a failure of character.
Every government exists for one fundamental purpose: to integrate the social, political and economic systems of a nation in a plan that serves all its citizens. By this elementary standard, the APC has failed comprehensively, catastrophically and without remorse.
“Tinubu’s APC has had nearly three years to govern. What it has delivered is not reform. It is organised suffering imposed on a people who deserved better.”
What has nearly three years of APC federal governance delivered? Fuel subsidy removal without a safety net. An exchange rate that has reduced the purchasing power of ordinary Nigerians to near zero. Electricity tariffs that have strangled small businesses across every state.
In Lagos alone ,Tinubu’s own political base, the city he governed for eight years and claims as his greatest achievement , traders in Balogun and Alaba confirm turnover collapses of over 60 per cent since the subsidy removal. The city that was supposed to be his monument has become his indictment. A security architecture so compromised that bandits negotiate with state governments while soldiers die without adequate equipment. And a presidency that responds to mass suffering with photoshoots and foreign junkets.
The figures are not fiction. Nigeria’s inflation remained above 30 per cent for consecutive months. The naira, once trading at under 500 to the dollar, collapsed past 1,500 before any meaningful intervention.
More than 133 million Nigerians live in multidimensional poverty, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. These are not opposition numbers. These are the government’s own numbers. The APC cannot escape them by attacking those who quote them.
“More than 133 million Nigerians live in multidimensional poverty. These are not opposition numbers. These are the government’s own numbers.”
Into this crisis walks a man who has spent decades preparing for the moment Nigeria now desperately needs him. Atiku Abubakar is not merely a candidate. He is a correction. A course change. A return to the foundational idea that government must serve the governed rather than the other way around.
His economic vision is not borrowed from textbooks. It is drawn from lived engagement with markets, enterprise and the practical science of job creation. As Vice President between 1999 and 2007, he championed privatisation reforms that attracted over 2 billion dollars in foreign direct investment into the telecommunications and energy sectors alone, laying the infrastructure upon which Nigeria’s modern economy was built.”As Vice President, Atiku attracted over 2 billion dollars in foreign direct investment. He did not just talk about development. He delivered it.”
As a private citizen, he built the American University of Nigeria in Yola , an institution that has trained over 10,000 graduates. He understands, in the way that only builders understand, that governance is not a ceremony. It is a delivery contract between leaders and the led.
Critics will ask: why the African Democratic Congress? The answer is simple and it is historical. The ADC represents what the two dominant parties have catastrophically failed to offer , a clean slate, a fresh covenant, and a structure not yet corrupted by the recycled patronage networks that have hollowed out the PDP and turned the APC into a vehicle for elite self-enrichment.
Registering with the ADC is not an act of desperation. It is an act of deliberate political intelligence. It is the choice of Nigerians who refuse to keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result. The platform is clean. The candidate is tested. The mission is national rescue
Registering with the ADC is not desperation. It is deliberate political intelligence ,the choice of Nigerians who refuse to keep repeating the same costly mistake.”
The APC’s governance has been one of sustained division: North against South, elite against masses, the connected against the vulnerable. Atiku’s entire political philosophy, by contrast, has been anchored on unity as infrastructure.
He has said, consistently and credibly, that no zone of Nigeria is his enemy. That no tribe is beneath his governance. That no religion disqualifies a citizen from the full benefit of federal power. That is not a slogan. That is a governing principle forged across decades of national engagement.
The 2027 election will be decided not by those who remain comfortable in their political silos, but by those who make the harder, braver, more consequential choice to step into unfamiliar territory for the sake of national survival.
We are motivated by evidence. And the evidence is unambiguous: Tinubu’s APC has had its chance, and it has squandered it at the expense of every Nigerian family.
Democracy is not a philosophy seminar. Democracy means getting things done — for the well-being and security of citizens, in every community, in every ramification.
The APC has had its season. It has produced suffering on an industrial scale. The obligation now falls on every patriotic Nigerian to make a different choice, register under a different banner and fight for a different future.
Nigeria deserves a government that gets things done. Nigeria deserves Atiku. Nigeria deserves the ADC.
Aare Amerijoye DOT.B
Director General,
The Narrative Force
Aare Atayese of Odo Oro Ekiti
