African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday accused President Bola Tinubu of meddling with the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, election as a test run to rig the 2027 elections.
Atiku said Tinubu has brought his ‘state-sponsored toxic politics of coronation’ to bear on the NBA election.
In a statement signed by his Media Office, the former vice president said the NBA election has shown that there is nothing Tinubu can’t compromise.
The statement read: “We are concerned that President Bola Tinubu has brought his state-sponsored toxic politics of coronation to bear on the election of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
“Curiously, this same strategy of imposition without allowing for free, fair and credible elections is what the Tinubu-led APC administration is working assiduously towards in the 2027 General Elections. To achieve this, the President is weakening opposition parties by instigating crises in the parties, destroying our democratic institutions and focused on rigging the elections.
“Sadly, the wild seeds of coronation that is being sowed all over the place, has found accommodation in the NBA Election.
“There have been media reports of how this government and its agents have resorted to the use of the courts to railroad members of the Bar into settling for its preferred candidate. This, to say the least, is a dangerous precedent that is capable of widening our fault lines, which this administration’s politics has turned into craters.
“What is playing out in the NBA is clearly a confirmation that what Tinubu cannot compromise does
