{"id":18897,"date":"2025-12-05T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=18897"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:44:13","slug":"lagos-apc-to-adc-stay-in-your-lane-governance-is-not-a-playground-for-internally-displaced-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/lagos-apc-to-adc-stay-in-your-lane-governance-is-not-a-playground-for-internally-displaced-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos APC to ADC: Stay in Your Lane &#8211; Governance Is Not a Playground for Internally Displaced Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re- 2027: ADC Knocks Tinubu Over Alleged Early Campaign Amid Security Emergency<\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) categorically dismisses the latest infantile rant from the African Democratic Congress (ADC) &#8211; a party that survives on political leftovers yet seeks to lecture a sitting President on how to run a country.<\/p>\n<p>For clarity, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is governing Nigeria, not campaigning.<br \/>\nBut we understand why the ADC is confused: leadership is a language they neither understand nor speak.<\/p>\n<p>ADC: The Party That Cannot Manage a Ward But Wants to Manage the Nation<\/p>\n<p>It is nothing short of political comedy for a party that cannot win a councillorship election in its own backyard to accuse the President of \u201cearly campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When a party has no structure, no ideas, no national footprint, and no future, the only option left is to bark at every moving shadow in hope of getting noticed.<\/p>\n<p>The ADC should not mistake its own obscurity for a national emergency.<\/p>\n<p>On Security: The ADC Should Be Ashamed<\/p>\n<p>While President Tinubu is:<br \/>\n\u2022 Deploying more personnel,<br \/>\n\u2022 Expanding intelligence infrastructure,<br \/>\n\u2022 Clearing long-abandoned security bottlenecks,<br \/>\n\u2022 Taking personal charge of rescue missions,<br \/>\n\u2022 And confronting saboteurs with full federal might,<\/p>\n<p>the ADC is weaponizing insecurity for cheap political mileage.<\/p>\n<p>A party that has never contributed one actionable idea to national security should not insult Nigerians by pretending to care now.<br \/>\nWhen the nation was bleeding from the 16-year misrule of its political ancestors, where was the ADC\u2019s voice?<\/p>\n<p>Leadership Does Not Pause Because a Mushroom Party Is Uncomfortable<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria cannot freeze because the ADC wants silence.<br \/>\nA President must communicate, mobilize, direct, and reassure &#8211; every single day.<br \/>\nOnly a party addicted to irrelevance will confuse governance with campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu will not reduce his leadership tempo to accommodate the insecurity of a party whose electoral value cannot fill a classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Stop Dragging 2027 Into Every Issue &#8211; The Election You Stand no Chance of Winning.<\/p>\n<p>It is always amusing that a party struggling for survival is the one crying most loudly about 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Only parties with no pathway to power carry election fever two years ahead.<br \/>\nThe APC is governing; the ADC is daydreaming.<br \/>\nThe contrast is glaring.<\/p>\n<p>A Final Advice to This Political Kiosk Called ADC<\/p>\n<p>Before commenting on national matters:<br \/>\n\u2022 Win one polling unit in Lagos.<br \/>\n\u2022 Hold one successful congress without dissolving into quarrels.<br \/>\n\u2022 Prove to Nigerians that your party is not just about the lifelong ambition of one man<br \/>\n\u2022 Produce one serious aspirant not on political exile from another party.<br \/>\n\u2022 And acquire one ounce of credibility.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, spare the nation your noisy ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu remains focused on restoring security and steering Nigeria through the storm. No amount of barking from the ADC will distract him or derail his mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is moving forward &#8211; with or without the approval of political spectators.<\/p>\n<p>Mogaji (Hon) Seye Oladejo<br \/>\nLagos APC Spokesman<br \/>\n05\/12\/25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re- 2027: ADC Knocks Tinubu Over Alleged Early Campaign Amid Security Emergency The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18898,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18897\/revisions\/18898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}