The African Democratic Congress Presidential Campaign Council (ADC-PCC), has described the attack of members of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) and Allied Peoples Movement (APM), in Kaduna, Kogi, Katsina, Kebbi and Sokoto States, as a disturbing pattern of violence against opposition parties.

ADC-PCC in a statement by Director, Media and Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan, alleged that attacks were state-sponsored terror against democracy.

The council expressed concerns over the preparedness and neutrality of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to conduct free and free elections in 2027.

It alleged the compromise of the commission’s voter register database, and the deployment of sympathisers of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to sensitive positions within the electoral body.

The ADC-PCC also alleged that security agencies were used to harass, arrest and intimidate opposition members across the country.

The council said the APC was manipulating the judiciary and deploying security agencies against opposition parties in a desperate bid to retain power.

It faulted the involvement of a serving director of a security agency in the APC Presidential Campaign Council as a co-Director of National Security and Intelligence, describing the development as a violation of the law establishing the agency.

According to the ADC-PCC, the use of state institutions against political opponents reflects a government more interested in retaining power than submitting itself to a credible electoral contest.

“One thing is now very clear to all Nigerians: Tinubu is not preparing for an election. He is preparing for a coronation,” it added.

The campaign council, however stated that the alleged manipulation of judicial processes and electoral institutions would not guarantee President Tinubu’s re-election, and said Nigerians would resist any attempt to impose a president through what it described as compromised judicial decisions or electoral fraud.

The ADC-PCC urged the international community, civil society organisations, religious leaders and traditional institutions to pay closer attention to what it described as the deteriorating political and security environment in the country. (New Telegraph)