Former Kogi lawmaker, Dino Melaye, says the African Democratic Congress (ADC) is positioning itself to unseat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 general elections.

Melaye made the remarks during an appearance on Friday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today.

“Those of us in the ADC, we need to create a comfortable, stable platform. And I believe that platform will produce a candidate that will unseat President Ahmed Bola Tinubu in 2027.

“But I have made it a point of duty that I will not be talking about a presidential candidate or aspirant or preference for anybody until we get the party completely stabilised and organise a transparent convention that will produce a presidential candidate of the ADC who, by the grace of God, will kick,” he said.

Describing the ADC as a “national altar call,” Melaye urged Nigerians to rethink the party’s role in national politics, noting that those who join the ADC are driven by conscience and a desire for change.

“Why Nigerians should think differently about the ADC is that once there’s an altar call in the church of God—only those who are emotionally affected, have conscience, and are ready to leave darkness and move into light respond. So ADC is a national altar call.

“Not everybody in ADC is a saint, but what I’m telling you is that everybody who moved into ADC is concerned about Nigeria. We want to see a Nigeria where we’ll be able to answer questions from our grandchildren who will ask us, when we’re 90 and toothless: ‘When Nigeria was being destroyed, Grandpa, what did you do?’ We want to be able to say we did A, B, C and D,” he said.

His comments follow a major opposition coalition meeting held on 2 July at the Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, where leaders of various political blocs endorsed the ADC as a unified platform to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the next presidential election.

At the meeting, the party’s founder, Ralph Nwosu, presented ADC membership cards to former Senate President David Mark and former Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola, who were announced as interim national chairman and secretary of the coalition, respectively.

Notable political heavyweights such as Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar, Nasir El-Rufai, Rotimi Amaechi, Ireti Kingibe, Dele Momodu, Emeka Ihedioha, and Melaye himself were present at the gathering.