Tinubu’ll destroy Abuja, return Nigeria’s capital to Lagos if re-elected – Amaechi

A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Rotimi Amaechi, has warned that President Bola Tinubu could harm Abuja and adjacent displacement the Federal Capital Territory to Lagos if re-elected successful 2027.

Amaechi made this remark connected Wednesday during a protestation successful Abuja, wherever helium stressed that the ADC is determined to region the All Progressives Congress, APC, from power, conscionable arsenic the APC unseated the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, successful 2015.

According to him, “The APC forced PDP retired of office, and present it is our crook to bash the aforesaid to them. If they stay successful power, they whitethorn destruct this superior oregon relocate it to Lagos. Nigerians indispensable ballot them out.”

The protest, tagged #OccupyINEC, was organised by the ADC successful effect to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s determination to retreat designation from immoderate of its leaders amid an interior crisis.

Key figures of the party, including Amaechi, Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Rabiu Kwankwaso, David Mark, and Rauf Aregbesola, were contiguous astatine the demonstration, each maintaining that Tinubu should not proceed successful office.

Amaechi besides accused the president of undermining Nigeria’s ideology and suggested that the APC fears losing aboriginal elections.

“They claimed to beryllium popular, truthful wherefore are they acrophobic of elections? Tinubu says helium was portion of NADECO, yet ideology is being weakened nether him. In 2015, the APC benefited from Jega...