Former Governor of Niger State, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, has said that the administration of President Bola Tinubu is performing well but lacks an effective communication strategy to relay its achievements to Nigerians.

Aliyu made the statement on the Thursday edition of Arise Television’s ‘The Morning Show’, while reacting to the outcome of a recent public accountability session held in Kaduna.

Aliyu, reflecting on the discussions at the Kaduna Forum, said the government is facing public dissatisfaction not because it hasn’t delivered, but because it is failing to tell its own story effectively.

The ex-governor said it is proper for political leaders in the North to make demands from Tinubu’s administration since the bulk of the votes that took power came from the region.

“Let the people understand what is happening on the ground. If by what we say that 63/64 percent of the vote came from the north, it is only logical that the north will be expecting so much from the government.

“But from what we have seen so far is that the government is doing well but they do not know how to communicate very well,” he said.

Former Kaduna governor, Nasir El-Rufai, appeared to have taken a reverse from the coalition’s adopted political platform, ADC

This is as the former governor took to social media and asked the people of Zaria, Chikun to vote for another party in the Saturday, August 16 (today), bye-elections in the constituencies in Kaduna

Recall that the former governor recently visited Sokoto to canvass support for the ADC, while criticising President Bola Tinubu and the APC government.

Click to watch El-Rufai’s video here

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— Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai (@elrufai) August 14, 2025

Nasir El-Rufai, the immediate past governor of Kaduna, has fueled speculations that he dumped the recently adopted coalition political platform, African Democratic Congress (ADC), as he called on the people of Chikun/Kajuru federal constituency and Zaria Kewaye and Basawa state constituency to vote for the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

However, in a dramatic turn, the former governor urged the people of Zaria and Chikun to vote for the SDP in the Saturday, August 16, by-election, a poll which was meant to test the opposition’s strength ahead of the 2027 general election.

Recall that El-Rufai defected to the SDP after dumping the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), but soon after joining the party, the SDP fell into a leadership crisis, and the former governor has been silent on his membership and allegations against him.

El-Rufai recently visited Sokoto on a mission to gather support for the ADC. He described his action as a patriotic one to rescue Nigeria from the grip of ‘nepotism’ and ‘incompetence’.

During his visit to Sokoto, the former governor attended two important events meant to sensitise the people and political stakeholders working to achieve the agenda of sacking President Tinubu and the APC in the next general election.

During his address at the event, the former governor lambasted the ruling party and called them ‘a failed, clannish, and visionless administration that has plunged Nigeria into deeper socio-economic misery’.

He declared that it was time for Nigerians to rise against the APC and accused the party of ‘broken promises and elite conspiracy’. He warned that any move to vote for the APC beyond 2027 would be a greater doom for the country.

However, in a sharp turn, the former governor, in a video posted on his social media page ahead of the by-election, urged the people in the constituencies where the poll will be held in Kaduna on Saturday, August 16, to vote for the SDP rather than the ADC he went to Sokoto to canvass for.

Former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, has alleged that certain individuals linked to the Presidency are working covertly to destabilise the African Democratic Congress (ADC) ahead of the 2027 general election.

Speaking in an interview with the Nigerian Tribune, Abdullahi, who is the party’s National Publicity Secretary, claimed the plot was aimed at weakening opposition parties to prevent them from mounting a credible challenge.

His words: “It is the Presidency, the ruling government! They know that on their records alone, Nigerians won’t vote for them. They want to foist a fait accompli so that by 2027 no party willbe strong enough to challenge them for power,” he alleged.

Abdullahi recalled President Bola Tinubu’s remark at the National Assembly suggesting he was “enjoying” the problems facing political parties, including the PDP and SDP.

“If I were advising the President, I’d tell him to encourage opposition parties to get their acts together because democracy is stronger when there’s competition,” Abdullahi said.

He added: “But to say you are enjoying the crisis shows where this is coming from and what the agenda is”

On allegations by some state chairmen and former ADC presidential candidate Dumebi Kachikwu that a coalition group had hijacked the party, Abdullahi dismissed them as baseless.

“Kachikwu was expelled from the party in 2022. He was just a presidential candidate, not an official. His contract with the party ended after the election,” he said.

He explained that all 36 state chairmen were invited to Abuja , assured of retaining their positions until the next party congress, and raised no objections at the time.

“It is the same hands of destabilisation that destroyed other opposition parties at work. But they won’t succeed with ADC,” Abdullahi stated.

The ADC chieftain went further to dismiss speculations about the zoning of its presidential ticket ahead of the 2027 elections, insisting thep party iS focused on issues that directly affect Nigerians.

He stressed that the conversation about where the next president should come from is driven by political elites rather than ordinary citizens.

“It is the same poverty afflicting a man from Kano that afflicts a man from Umuahia or Damaturu,”he said.

He added that Nigerians want leaders who can solve their problems, not debate over regional origin.

He criticised the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for “weaponising regions, religion, and ethnicity” to an unprecedented level.

Recalling past politics, he noted that in the Second Republic, voters were more concerned with party policies, such as the UPN’s promise of free education, than with a candidate’s background.

He compared the situation to the U.S., where parties internally decide whether to change candidates, as the Democrats did after President Joe Biden’s poor debate performance by rallying behind Kamala Harris.

The ADC leader insisted that the selection of a presidential candidate remains an internal party decision and warned against turning it into “a national referendum.”

He accused the APC of trying to frame the 2027 election around regionalism, ethnicity, and religion rather than governance and policy issues.