What does it take to forge a new political coalition in Nigeria’s thoroughly abused and abased political ecosystem? A few grumbles, a handful of disgruntled politicians or poli-militias as the case may be and the hope that people can beat their vituperations into votes.
In 2014, as the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) entered the fifteenth year of its catastrophic chokehold over Nigeria, the All Progressives Congress was formed by a collection of politicians from other political parties, many of them former PDP members. In historic elections the next year, the PDP’s sixteeen-year-old stranglehold on power was finally shattered. It was a seismic upset in Nigeria’s political history. For the first time in national elections, the ruling political party crumbled.
It Is now official. The African Democratic Congress (ADC) can count itself one of Nigeria’s many political parties which is set to give the ruling APC a run for its money in the 2027 elections. What this means is clearly that there is a new entrant into the race that is shaping up to become one of Nigeria’s most exciting in years.