Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has declared that the current APC-led administration has inflicted more damage on Nigeria than even the military regimes that ruled before 1999.
However, Abubakar expressed confidence that the African Democratic Congress offers the country a path to redemption.
The former vice-president spoke on Tuesday, January 27, in Abuja during the public launch of ‘The Loyalist’, a book authored by Bolaji Abdullahi, national publicity secretary of the ADC.
“If there is anything positive in our recent political development, it is this coming together to rescue the country from what I consider the worst administration I have witnessed in nearly four decades of political life,” he said.
“Not even the military dictatorships before 1999 damaged our national life and consciousness in the way this administration has done.”
Abubakar described the ADC as a unique coalition of political forces from different backgrounds united by a common goal.
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“We have a unique opportunity within the ADC as a political party. It is a convergence of various political leanings across the country, united in an effort to reunite Nigeria and renew our democratic journey,” he said.
The former vice-president recalled that many of those present at the event helped form the APC but have since become frustrated with its performance.
“Many of us here were part of the formation of the APC; unfortunately, what we believed would rescue the country has not happened,” Abubakar said.
He urged Nigerians to once again rally together and build a credible opposition.
“Just as we once took responsibility to come together and form a political alternative, we must again come together to ensure the emergence of a new political organisation capable of salvaging this country for the benefit of its people,” he added.