The National Publicity Secretary of the African Democratic Congress, Bolaji Abdullahi, says the party has spent more time dealing with court cases than campaigning or building its structures since its emergence as a coalition opposition platform in 2025.

Abdullahi said this during an interview on Arise Television on Thursday.

“The party since the start has been burdened by this avalanche of court cases, to the extent that I like to say that we spent more time in courts than we spent on the campaign ground or trying to build our party structure,” he said.

He, however, said the party had made progress despite the challenges, describing it as a formidable opposition platform.

“But in spite of all these encumbrances, we’ve built a formidable opposition political party. Two, three years ago, I doubt if we’d be having this conversation about the African Democratic Congress.

“But the fact that we’re talking about this now is also a mark of the progress we’ve made since we came on board as a coalition in 2025,” he said.

Abdullahi alleged that the legal challenges were part of efforts by the ruling All Progressive Congress to weaken the opposition ahead of the 2027 general elections.

“We said it at the start that the idea is to discourage opposition and create a situation whereby in 2027, only President Bola Tinubu will be a viable candidate on the ballot.

“That’s the agenda of the ruling party. So everything you’ve seen since then is not so much about the opposition. It’s about what the ruling party is trying to ensure, that they don’t have any real challenge,” he said.