Former Governor of Borno State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress APC, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has dismissed the African Democratic Congress ADC as a fragile political experiment driven by conflicting presidential ambitions, predicting that the party will collapse within three months.
Sheriff made the statement during a television interview on Monday, July 28, where he laughed off reports linking him to the ADC and insisted that the party lacks the structure or strength to make a national impact.
“You said people are mentioning my name, that I was going to the ADC. Wrong. Which ADC? Do they have a political party?” he asked.
“Give them three months. The party will die down because all of them are ‘presidential materials’. And it is only one person that is going to be a presidential candidate among them.”
Several notable political figures including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi, and former Governor of Kaduna State Nasir El-Rufai have been linked to the ADC as they explore new political platforms ahead of the 2027 general elections.
However, Sheriff argued that the ADC cannot mirror the formation and rise of the APC in 2013, noting that the APC was built on the merger of parties with sitting governors and national political structures.
“When we were coming to form the APC, there were almost 15 state governments involved. President Bola Tinubu came with four states. All Nigeria Peoples Party ANPP came with about five or six. Breakaway PDP came with four. Today, we have 73 senators, a clear majority in the House of Reps, and more than 20 states,” he said.
He characterised the ADC’s current political movement as a disjointed coalition of individual presidential hopefuls with no cohesive structure or electoral viability.
“They all want to be president at all costs. They have a right to aspire, but as far as this politics is concerned, they don’t exist. ADC does not exist.”
