“Like ADC, The NDC Has No Plan For Nigeria Yet,” Onanuga Tackles Obi’s New Party

By Rotela Oguns

Bayo Onanuga, Senior Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, has said that there’s no marked difference between the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) stressing that both parties have no documented or mapped out policies by which they will steer the ship of state should either of their candidates win the 2027 presidential election.

The presidential aide noted that the NDC is just like an extension of the ADC as the party lacks a clear-cut vision for the governance of Nigeria.

Onanuga made these claims in a statement issued on Friday, Onanuga describing the NDC as “a camp for the politically displaced and desperate”.

“Like ADC, the NDC has no plan for Nigeria yet,” Onanuga said.

Onanuga said that out of sheer curiosity, he has twice in the last few days searched the NDC website to find out whether it has “a markedly different vision for the governance of Nigeria,” one better than President Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda.

Onanuga said he was, however, disappointed, noting that although the site invited visitors to click on the party’s manifesto to read it, the result was negative.

“‘No document found’ was the response I got each time I tried to download the manifesto,” Tinubu’s aide said.

He expressed dismay that “the party whose national leader, Senator Seriake Dickson, said would wage an ideological battle in the 2027 poll has not uploaded any manifesto since it was court-registered in February.”

The presidential aide dismissed the six policy nuggets which the NDC has on its website and characterised as pillars as nothing but a regurgitation of a prominent politician’s personal political views adding that they “sound more like the platitudes the party’s newest catch, Peter Obi, has bombarded the nation with in the last six years”.

The presidential spokesperson added that despite the initial disappointment, he still looks forward to NDC’s vision and mission for Nigeria.

The NDC became a force to reckon with on the Nigeria’s political space following the defection of Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, ex-governor of Kano, from the ADC.

There are speculations that the duo will run for the presidency in the party on a joint ticket in 2027.