2027: ADC not afraid, defections don’t decide election outcomes — Party chieftain

A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress Chieftain, ADC, Ibrahim Mani, says the party is not afraid of the spate of defections into the All Progressives Congress, APC, stressing that the size of a party does not decide the will of the people.

Mani, who stated this during an interview on Daily Politics, a programme on Trust TV, maintained that Nigerians know what they want and are not happy about the current economic situation of the country, stressing that the voting population would decide the next government in 2027.

“If you take the defection of a governor as the defection of the entire state into a party, then I’ll agree with you, but you definitely know that that is not the case.

“The people know what they want, and the people are aware of what is happening. The people know that the APC has failed at all levels. So, the defection is neither here nor there.

“It doesn’t really matter per se, and that is why we’re not worried about these defections. We know who will definitely call the shots at the end of the day. It’s not those who defected, but it’s the people of this country, the voting population in this country, the people that are really at the receiving end of things today,” he said.

According to the party chieftain, the ADC does not support any violent takeover of government, maintaining that as a party, it strongly believes the democratic process in Nigeria is getting mature and strengthened.

Mani further explained that the ADC prefers a credible process of change of governments or regimes through the electoral process, through the ballot boxes, through the will and the wishes of the people than through the barrel of the gun.