The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo, has described the opposition coalition’s new political party All Democratic Alliance as a joke.
According to him, the party with the acronym ADA cannot be considered a coalition or a merger because no recognised party was part of it.
Keyamo said if the party’s promoters are aiming to recreate the All Progressive Congress’s 2013 success, then their attempt is a “mockery of that seismic political coalition that birthed APC”.
He added that the emergence of ADA is no different from “several political associations springing up” ahead of every election.
“This is just a simple application for party registration,” Keyamo posted on X on Friday. “There is nothing like a ‘coalition’ here.
“It is an unnecessary hype the promoters have been struggling to create all along; it is just psychological warfare against Nigerians — a weak attempt at mass appeal.
“No recognised existing political party is part of this.
“If they are thinking of recreating what the APC did in 2013, then this is nothing but a pedestrian joke; a complete mockery of that seismic political coalition that birthed APC in 2013.
“A few individuals exercising their constitutional right to form a new political party cannot be described as a ‘coalition’ or even a ‘merger’.”
On Friday, the opposition coalition, which is being spearheading by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Governor of Kaduna State Nasir El-Rufai, applied to the National Electoral Commission requesting for the registration of ADA as new political party ahead of the 2027 general election.
In 2013, the Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change, All Nigeria Peoples Party, and New Peoples Democratic Party merged to form the APC.
In 2015 general election, Muhammadu Buhari was put forawad as the alliance’s presidential election and defeated the People’s Democratof Party.
