Since the coalition of opposition leaders adopted the African Democratic Congress, ADC, as an official platform to contest the 2027 presidential election against President Bola Tinubu, there has been an influx of political actors into the party.
DAILY POST reports that the coalition led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Senate President, David Mark, 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, former governors of Rivers and Kaduna States, Rotimi Amaechi and Nasir El-rufai, among other bigwigs from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Labour Party and Social Democratic Party, SDP, adopted ADC on Wednesday July 2, 2025.
Some aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress, including a former National Chairman of the APC, John Oyegun, former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, ex-Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami and former Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola are also part of the coalition aimed at wrestling power from President Tinubu in 2027.
It was reported that the emergence of ADC reignited hope and re-birthed the formidable voice of opposition political parties.
While David Mark emerged as Interim National Chairman of the ADC, Aregbesola assumed the position of the party’s Interim National Secretary.
-Dailypost
