Rauf Aregbesola, the National Secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) says the party is ready to rescue the country by providing good governance at levels if voted into power in 2027.
The former Osun State governor also stated that the party will allocate 50 percent elective and appointive positions to the youth and women, while also focusing on welfare Nigerians.
Aregbesola, made this remark at the affirmation ceremony, where like-minded stakeholders from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party and others formally joined the ADC and was received by him.
Delivering a speech entitled “When good people unite, Nigerians wins” Aregbesola, who described ADC as a party for the youth, said that ADC was out to rescued Nigeria and change the narrative.
Aregbesola said Nigeria’s future lies in giving voice and power to the youth, adding that ADC’s constitution boldly affirms the place of youth and women in leadership.
According to him, the country is passing through a season of hardship and uncertainty under the current leadership, hence, the need to rise above partisanship and chart a new course.
The immediate past Minister of Interior said the people are the centre of politics and governance, warning that any government who failed to make their welfare and wellbeing the basis would lose relevance.
He said: “ADC constitution boldly affirms the place of youth and women in leadership. Youth, this is your party.
“This is not tokenism, but a recognition that Nigeria’s future lies in giving voice, space, and power to those who have long been underrepresented.
“The ADC’s constitution allocates 35 per cent representation each for women and youth. Since these demographics overlap, their combined representation will be no less than 50 per cent.
“This structure makes the ADC “unquestionably, the party of the youth. We are equally committed to internal democracy where every member’s voice matters and every vote counts.
“We are not a party owned or financed by one individual, but a collective of patriotic citizens coming together as equals to salvage a nation fast sliding into a precipice.
“The people are the centre of politics and the government.
“Any government, whether, democratic, military, authoritarian, monarchical, or by whatever definition, that does not make their welfare and wellbeing the basis of governance, will soon lose relevance and die.
“There is a limit to which the people can be squeezed and pushed before something eventually gives.
“This is why our mission is urgent and our intervention has become absolutely necessary. We must act now to save the nation,” he said.
Aregbesola told the defectors that the task was to rescue the country and build a new Nigeria that the yet unborn would be proud to inherit.
“The task before us is clear: we must rescue this beautiful country from the path of destruction and build a new Nigeria—a nation our children will be proud to inherit.
“ADC’s intervention is an urgent and absolutely necessary mission to save the nation. The ADC’s strategy is to build from the ground up and avoid conflict,” he added.Aregbesola advised party members to avoid non-productive engagement of debates and strife with agents of “dying dinosaurs”.
“I appeal to us all to diligently face our task of building the party from bottom up and sell our ideas to the people.
“We should avoid the distraction of non-productive engagement of debates and strife with the agents of the dying dinosaurs”, he stated.
Expressing hope that Nigeria would survive, Aregbesola said that both PDP and APC had lost vision and dreams, but had reduced to just mere political parties
He said: “But we must note that it is not going to be business as usual. We must avoid the pitfalls of the APC and PDP and start on a new note.
“We are going to place the people at the centre and make our party largely representative of their distribution.”
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