ADC condemns attack on PDP headquarters, says democracy is under threat

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has denounced the violent invasion of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, national secretariat in Abuja, describing it as a disturbing assault on Nigeria’s democracy and a worrying sign of creeping authoritarianism.

In a statement issued on Tuesday and signed by its national publicity secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party accused senior figures in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, of deploying armed men to forcefully take over the opposition party’s headquarters on 14 November.

It described the move as part of what it sees as a broader strategy by the government to weaken multiparty politics.

The ADC statement expressed alarm that the Bola Tinubu administration…