A member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Adamu Garba, has said that sycophants surrounding President Bola Tinubu are misleading him to believe that all is well with the country.
Mr. Adamu let this out during an interview on Tuesday while speaking on Channels Television.
He described members of the opposition coalition formed under the platform of the African Democratic Congress, as vultures poised to feast on APC and exploit the weakness of the ruling party..
Adamu added that 12 million northern bloc votes that former president Muhammadu Buhari was known to have gotten in previous elections before his victory in 2015 were no longer available, even before his death in early July 2025.
He said:
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“They (ADC coalition) hope for our loss, and that is why we need to be serious.
“That is the more reason why we need to be very sincere with ourselves and make sure that the leadership of the party is somebody that is truthful and capable of listening to criticisms and accepting the facts without any flattery, without any sycophancy because I believe there is a lot of sycophants around the president; people are telling him that things are okay, things are not okay.
“Naturally, there is going to be this kind of tension.
“Buhari left the presidency in 2023, and when you look at the outcome of the 2023 election, the APC had only 5.5 million votes in the north. Where were the 12 million votes?
“But yet we won the election based on the system that was established, the structures in place and the strategies deployed.
“What we need now is to re-engineer our strategies again now with his absence.”