In an interview with the Sun on Sunday, May 10, 2026, the National Publicity Secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Bolaji Abdullahi, made a striking behind-the-scenes revelation about the inner workings of the opposition coalition, disclosing that Peter Obi had quietly wielded far more control over the group’s affairs than was publicly known.
Abdullahi, who served as secretary of the coalition before it formally aligned with the ADC, revealed that the entire scheduling of coalition meetings was effectively in Obi’s hands. “I was the secretary of the coalition, before we even came to the ADC,” he noted, establishing his firsthand knowledge of the arrangement.
He went on to describe a process in which no meeting could be convened without first receiving clearance from Obi himself. “We would not hold any meeting if I did not get a confirmation from Peter Obi about when he would come, whether he would be available or not,” he disclosed.
The level of deference extended even to the basic logistics of setting dates. “We would not even fix a date, until he decided the date,” Abdullahi revealed.
He acknowledged that this was information that had been kept from most of the coalition’s other senior figures, framing it as a well-guarded operational secret. “That’s a secret that other leaders probably did not know — that it was Peter Obi that was determining when we would have a meeting,” he said….Read_More…