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By Aare Amerijoye Dotb:
It is no longer a whisper in the wind. It is a roar rising from the belly of Nigeria’s wounded conscience. A revolution is taking shape, not in the shadows, not in the dark alleyways of political cynicism, but in the open theatre of suffering, where every citizen is an actor in the tragicomedy that has become the Tinubu-APC experiment.
But just as history has always delivered salvation from the most unexpected crucibles, a phoenix is rising from the ashes of political betrayal. That phoenix is the African Democratic Congress (ADC) ,not merely a party, but now the vessel of national anger, a repository of unspent energies, and the symbol of a new ideological reawakening.
The ADC, once a murmur on the political terrain, is now the epicenter of a historic coalescence ,a grand unification of previously scattered parties, weary of the farce masquerading as governance under the APC. Parties are not merely dissolving into the ADC; they are resurrecting through it. This is not politics as usual. This is dialectical alchemy: thesis, antithesis, and finally, the synthesis of all the betrayed voices coalescing into a people’s party.
As Karl Marx so famously observed: “Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” What we are witnessing in the ADC-led coalition is the movement from interpretation to action ,from analysis of oppression to orchestration of liberation.
Let us journey through the trenches of Nigerian hardship.
Inflation, as of June 2025, stands at 39.2%, the highest in over three decades. The price of rice, once a staple for the average Nigerian, has surged from ₦8,000 in 2015 to over ₦88,000 per bag. A meal is now a privilege, not a right.
Youth unemployment hovers at 53.4%, according to NBS. Graduates sell recharge cards; engineers ride okadas; doctors migrate to Kigali and Kampala.
Public debt has ballooned to ₦97 trillion, yet hospitals lack syringes, and public universities remain on the ventilator of incessant underfunding.
Electricity tariffs have jumped by over 400% since the start of 2023, but 92 million Nigerians are still off the national grid , a paradox so profound, it needs no satire.
Petrol, the lifeblood of Nigerian mobility, now retails above ₦950/litre in most parts of the country. The subsidy is gone, but the suffering remains ,and metastasizes.
This is not governance; this is institutionalized punishment. This is not policy; this is wickedness carved into law. The people are not citizens anymore; they are survivors in a state-sponsored catastrophe. And behind the façade of political sophistication lies a festering boil of incompetence and corruption , the DNA of the APC regime under Tinubu.
Tinubu’s regime is not merely failing; it is weaponizing failure. It is not incompetent; it is brutally calculated , a regime that feeds on the fatigue of the masses. It governs not with policy but with punishment. Every economic decision is a dagger in the belly of the poor.
In the taverns of Zaria, the streets of Aba, the markets of Ibadan, and the classrooms of Nsukka, one question echoes louder than any campaign jingle: “How did we get here?”
And the answer, like a riddle too bitter to solve, points to one party and one presidency , APC under Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The man who sold the illusion of renewed hope but delivered nothing but weaponized hunger, industrial-scale deceit, and elitist arrogance. This regime is not only a failure , it is a machinery of misery.
But now, across ideological, regional, and religious divides, a fireborn coalition has emerged , the ADC and its revolutionary alliance of conscience. The bruised remnants of Nigeria’s betrayed democracy are fusing into fire. Formerly scattered and bruised opposition parties , the moral remnant of Nigeria’s betrayed democracy , are fusing into one formidable force. This is not just political arithmetic. It is revolutionary calculus. The masses are done asking. They are done waiting. They are rising.
This is not a campaign season. It is a rescue mission.
In Kogi, a 12-year-old named Hassan sells roasted maize by the roadside. Once a primary school pupil, he dropped out when his parents couldn’t afford ₦6,500 in school fees. Asked who the President is, he replies with a shrug: “Na one man wey make everything cost.”
Hassan does not know Marx. He has never read Lenin. But he lives the reality that economic injustice is the highest form of violence. His hunger is a political statement. His bare feet are marching toward the ADC , whether he knows it or not. For Hassan, like millions of others, the ADC is not a ballot option. It is revenge by the ballot.
As the prophet Amos once cried out: “Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” The anger of the Nigerian masses is now that stream , seeking a path, a channel, a vessel.
And that vessel is the ADC , now rebaptized by the fire of public indignation and sanctified by the sacrifices of the poor, the unemployed, the hungry, and the forgotten.
This coalition is not just a political movement. It is the social dialectic in motion. The class struggle is no longer abstract. It is raw. It is real. And it is rising.
Why is the presidency jittery? Why are agents of the APC suddenly activating propaganda warfare? Because they see it , the storm is gathering. The ADC-led coalescence is not another election footnote. It is a declaration of war against injustice, corruption, and poverty. Tinubu can no longer hide behind Yoruba chants and empty policy slogans. The game is up. He will answer to history, if not to the ballot.
As Marx would insist, history is the history of class struggle. In 2025 Nigeria, the ruling class has overplayed its hand, and the oppressed are learning to strike back.
ADC today is not just another acronym in Nigeria’s political alphabet. It is the articulation of a nation’s existential pain. It is the breath of the frustrated civil servant. It is the cry of the single mother in Zamfara. It is the revolt of the university graduate with no future. It is the dream of every Nigerian child who dares to believe in something better.
ADC is not an abbreviation , it is the anthem of the abandoned. It is the unwritten chapter of our national redemption.
The ADC-coalition has not merely formed; it has ignited. And this fire is not dying soon. It will burn through the injustice of the current regime. It will consume the lies and illusions. And it will reforge Nigeria, not in the image of the past, but in the imagination of the possible.
To those who ask whether it can succeed, let them remember this: every empire falls. Every tyrant trembles. Every darkness ends. History will not whisper this moment ,it will thunder it. This is not the birth of a party. It is the resurrection of a people.
As Gandhi once said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you , then you win.”
This coalition is not about winning an election alone. It is about winning back our country.
And the revolution?
It has begun.
Aare Amerijoye DOT.B
Director General
The Narrative Force.
SB E-news
SB events magazine
Efficiency magazine
Efficiency award for Excellence EAE.
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