June 12: Nigerians must resist state capture under Tinubu – ADP 

The national leadership of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) has called on Nigerians reject all forms of State capture under the current administration of President Bola Tinubu. 

The opposition party said Nigerians must rise up and defend the country’s democracy by ensuring accountability at all levels.

Speaking at a press conference to commemorate 2025 Democracy Day, the party’s national chairman, Engr Yabagi Sani, in company of other leaders, said Nigeria’s democracy must be protected “not with passivity, but with passion. Not with despair, but with determination.”

According to him, Nigerians will resist betrayal and state capture.

“Never again to the recycling of impunity. Never again to the return of dictatorship by other means.

“Let the lesson of June 12 be clear: when responsibility fails, accountability must rise. If we forget that, we dishonour the heroes who gave everything for the democracy we now take for granted. Let every citizen rise—for freedom, for justice, for Nigeria. Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The ADP chief said the President was insincere in his address to the joint session for he national Assembly that he had no hand in the crisis rocking the opposition parties in the country.

“Bola Tinubu is dismembering the political space and he is saying he’s not killing the political space. That’s what I think is happening.

” The rhetorics do not match what their actions are. So this is why I believe he has to wake up to the fact that Nigeria of today is different from what it used to be.

“We don’t want to lose this democracy. We’ve invested so much into it and that’s why we are saying what we are saying. Because he’s a democrat, he knows what we are talking about. But perhaps because he has an echo chamber around him, in the sense that the only people he has good talks with are his cronies, he doesn’t hear something different from another person.

“So saying that it’s not killing democracy or Nigeria is not moving towards one party state is a lie.

It is a lie because as a President, I was even disappointed when he said that he’s praying that the oppositions will be in disarray. I mean, when you’re a president of the country, at that point in time, you are not representing your PARTY. You represent the interests of

everybody, including the opposition and what have you.

He warned that trampling on multiparty democracy could lead to a situation whereby those frustrated by the development May be forced to flirt with dangerous alternatives antithetical to democratic rule.

He accused President Tinubu of perpetrating a deliberate act of state capture by placing his business partners as well as members of his ethnic Yoruba in control of the oil and gas sector, security and the economy and financial resources which have a direct bearing to the control of the political space in the country.