ADC National Secretary Rauf Aregbesola tears into President Bola Tinubu for legalizing forgery and trapping Nigerians in endless suffering with double prices, total blackouts and fake hope that will never arrives.
Ordinary families can no longer buy fuel or enjoy steady light while the same leaders keep selling empty dreams that get pushed further away every day.
Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola the national secretary of the African Democratic Congress delivered a powerful speech at the ADC national elective convention in Abuja on the fourteenth of April twenty twenty six. He accused the ruling All Progressives Congress of ramming through an electoral law that wipes out punishment for forgery and false claims in election documents. This move turns serious crimes into something the people in power can commit without fear.
He made it clear that the ADC fights on because Nigeria deserves every genuine sacrifice to pull it back from the edge. The country must reject any attempt at military style control dressed up as democracy.
The government claims small drops in exchange rates show they have mastered the economy but Aregbesola called the boast completely false. When this administration started in twenty twenty three the naira exchanged at about seven hundred to one dollar in open markets. Today it stands at one thousand four hundred. That full one hundred percent collapse has devastated a nation that depends heavily on imported goods.
Fuel prices have climbed out of reach for regular people. Before this government took over a liter cost between one hundred eighty five and two hundred thirty eight naira depending on the location. Now it sells for around one thousand four hundred naira and keeps going up. Transport costs have become so expensive that many workers find it impossible to even reach their jobs.
This administration once told Nigerians that if they failed to fix power and give constant supply the people should not vote them back in. Yet the power situation has become far worse than before. Some parts of the country now get only two hours of electricity a day on average while others stay completely dark for weeks or full months at a time.
Any honest president who made such a serious promise and failed so badly would step down at once and refuse to seek another term. Instead the country is seeing the most desperate fight in Nigerian electoral history by any candidate to hold onto power at all costs even if it means dragging the entire democratic system down with him.
Four years ago this government promised Nigerians renewed hope. Now three years into its four year term it is still promising renewed hope. When exactly will this hope come into fruition. The answer is simple it is a scam. If allowed this regime will continue chanting renewed hope to eternity. We have the duty to stop these scammers from keeping power through the ADC.
On education the number of children out of school has grown from eighteen point three million to nearly twenty million. Many more children are being forced by government neglect and their parents poverty straight into extreme hardship and crime. One hundred thirty million Nigerians now live in multidimensional poverty. The crowd was urged to declare shame on this record once again.
Security has sunk to the worst levels ever with banditry and terrorism spreading across the land. What pains even more is the total lack of empathy from a rudderless presidency that seems directionless.
After the massacres in twenty twenty five the president went on a trip called a condolence visit but he never entered the affected communities. He stayed safely inside the Benue State Government House before heading back to Abuja.
In twenty twenty six after the Rukuba killings he refused to visit the area despite it being only a forty minute drive from the city. All surviving victims and their families were brought to him instead. He was quoted saying he must leave urgently because there would be no power at the airport. The audience was called once more to shout shame on the whole matter.
