2027: El-Rufai, Ego Wars and the Dwindling Fortunes of the ADC
By Jamilu Isa Kwarbai
Forget the grand talk of “rescuing Nigerian democracy.” The African Democratic Congress (ADC) is learning the hard way that a political movement cannot capture the presidency in 2027 if it is busy eating itself alive from within. While the party’s national leadership sells the illusion of a grand, unified opposition alternative, its foundational structures are fracturing under the weight of oversized egos. And the man holding the fork in this latest feast of self-destruction? Nasir El-Rufai.
Salihu Mohammed Lukman — former APC Vice Chairman and one of the men who actually built the ADC coalition brick by brick — just walked. And he was point blank; he bombed Elrufai and his lackeys in Kaduna State, while taking Amaechi to the cleaners.
In a scathing letter to ADC National Chairman, Senator David Mark, Lukman didn’t mince words: months of “painful, hostile treatment” from El-Rufai and his loyalists had pushed him out. The final straw, he said, was being reduced “to the status of a bastard”, sensing how leadership positions were being carved up.
