Bayo Onanuga on Friday said the Nigeria Democratic Congress has no plan for Nigeria yet, after he visited the party’s website twice in recent days and found no manifesto to download. The senior special adviser on information and strategy to President Bola Tinubu said the site invited visitors to click on its manifesto, but each time he tried, the response was: “No document found.”
Onanuga said the NDC has not uploaded any manifesto since it was court-registered in February, even though it now flaunts six policy nuggets as pillars on its website. He also said Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso joined the party from the African Democratic Congress, calling the NDC “a camp for the politically displaced and desperate.”
His criticism landed as the party has been drawing attention for that high-profile pair of arrivals and for the way it has presented itself ahead of the 2027 poll. Onanuga framed the attack against the backdrop of Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, arguing that a party led nationally by Seriake Dickson is talking about an ideological battle without putting any governing blueprint on the page.
The gap he pointed to is the uncomfortable one: a party trying to look like a serious national platform while leaving its central document blank. For now, the strongest thing the NDC has online is the promise of a manifesto that does not appear to exist.
