By Musa Bakare.
In the theatre of Nigerian politics, few performances are as predictable or as exhausting as the periodic proclamations of a serial presidential hopeful who jumps from one political party to another with the agility of a desert nomad. Every election cycle, without fail, Nigerians are treated to yet another declaration: This is the party that will save Nigeria. This is the platform Nigeria needs. This is the prophecy for national salvation. Same messenger, new microphone.
What makes the latest sermon even more comical is that the newly refurbished ADC has now inherited this same tired gospel, packaging stale rhetoric as fresh revelation. But Nigerians are not political amnesiacs. History may be patient, but it is not forgetful.
Let us revisit the timeline of contradictions. 1996: Only UNCP can salvage Nigeria. 1998–2006: Suddenly, only PDP can rescue Nigeria. 2007: Another new prophecy only AC holds the key. 2014: The tune changes again, only APC can save Nigeria.
2023: A familiar chorus returns, only PDP is the answer. 2025: Now the sermon is that only ADC can salvage Nigeria, thirty six years m, six parties, one ambition, zero ideology.
A leader who truly believes in party principles does not abandon ship at the first sign of internal dispute. A statesman does not treat political platforms like rented vehicles, used today, returned tomorrow, and exchanged for the next available ride. But over three decades, this particular politician has perfected an art: not politics of conviction, but politics of convenience.
This is not a man trying to save a nation, this is a man trying to save his ambition.
If Nigeria had followed his political predictions, the country would have drifted like nomads chasing greener pastures across dry seasons, wandering without direction, leadership, or development.
Today, yet another party has picked up this recycled script for 2027, different party, same desperation. A refurbished diatribe, repackaged for unsuspecting voters.
But Nigeria and Nigerians has changed.
Under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigerians have witnessed leadership built on courage, reforms anchored on conviction, and governance shaped by results.
President Tinubu’s emergence as a political force, from Senator to Governor to a national institution and ultimately to President was not powered by political tourism or prophetic theatrics. It was powered by consistency, structure building, strategic planning, ideological loyalty, institutional building, empowering followers across generations and standing firm through storms
That is leadership.
That is maturity.
That is political integrity.
Nations do not grow under leaders who change parties like wardrobe. Parties do not become strong when defectors dominate their ranks. Democracy does not flourish where ambition suffocates ideology.
Political prostitution is the mother of instability.
And political instability is the graveyard of development.
The question writes itself:
If a politician cannot remain loyal to his own political home, how can he remain loyal to the nation?
As 2027 approaches, Nigerians will not forget the pattern. They will not forget the contradictions.
They will not forget the six parties in over thirty years.
They will not forget the recycled prophecies.
And they will choose continuity, consistency, stability, reform, and national rebuilding of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
They will choose leadership that has shown consistency, courage, and clarity of purpose. They will reject the seasonal presidential tourist whose only constant is his obsession with power.
They will renew the mandate of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR.
Nigeria is too important, too delicate, and too strategic to be handed over to anyone who treats political parties like old garments, worn today, discarded tomorrow, and replaced when ambition demands a new costume.
If in 2027 they insist ADC is the only solution, Nigerians must remember:
They have said the same thing six times in thirty years.
– Musa Asiru Bakare is a member of the APC and a political analyst writing from Lokoja, Kogi State.
