KADUNA, Nigeria – The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has unveiled a comprehensive 10-point regional governance charter outlining structural interventions its governors will implement across the North-West geopolitical zone, pledging an ambitious socio-economic overhaul designed to stimulate economic growth, defeat rural insecurity, and restore grassroots prosperity, party chieftains confirmed in Kaduna on Thursday, September 10, 2026.
The policy document, titled “10 Things ADC Governors Will Do Differently in the Northwest,” serves as the opposition party’s developmental blueprint for the seven contiguous states in the zone—Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto, Jigawa, Kebbi, and Zamfara—ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Okay News reports that the declaration prioritizes immediate economic relief for low-income households, headlined by a targeted sub-national fuel subsidy mechanism designed to force down retail premium motor spirit (PMS) prices, reduce intra-state transportation fares, and cushion families against soaring living costs.
To restore worker purchasing power, the party committed to instituting a mandatory ₦110,000 monthly minimum wage across all public service cadres in ADC-administered North-West states, establishing a competitive baseline to ensure civil service compensation keeps pace with macroeconomic inflation.
Addressing the protracted banditry and kidnapping crises plaguing the agrarian zone, the party pledged to establish a unified, technology-enabled regional security and rapid-response network covering all 21 senatorial districts, facilitating real-time intelligence exchange, cross-border surveillance, and rapid tactical interdiction across state boundaries.
In the public health sector, the ADC blueprint guarantees the construction and commissioning of 21 modern specialist hospitals, establishing one tertiary medical facility in each senatorial district to decentralize specialized healthcare access and eliminate the burden of long-distance medical travel for rural communities.
The party declared a comprehensive state of emergency in basic education, committing to aggressively curb the out-of-school children deficit through mass school enrollment drives, competitive teacher recruitment, continuous professional training, and the formal institutional integration of traditional Almajiri and Tsangaya education systems into the mainstream academic curriculum.
To tackle widespread food shortages and revive agrarian commerce, the charter provides for the creation of secured farming corridors and the large-scale rehabilitation of derelict public irrigation dams, enabling displaced farmers to return safely to their agricultural lands, scale up staple crop output, and bring down soaring food inflation.
The opposition party promised to address youth unemployment by floating a dedicated North-West Youth Fund, engineered to provide non-collateralized growth capital, micro-credit lines, and business incubation for young entrepreneurs and nascent manufacturing enterprises across the region.
Complementing the enterprise fund, the party outlined an aggressive regional skills development initiative aimed at expanding vocational apprenticeship centres, setting up digital innovation hubs, and equipping hundreds of thousands of youths with marketable technical competencies for emerging digital economy vocations.
On macroeconomic integration, the ADC pledged to build a unified “One Northwest Market” to deepen commercial synergy among the seven states through synchronized transport infrastructure, cross-border trade facilitation, harmonized tax regimes, and joint capital investment drives to attract domestic and international industrial conglomerates.
Anchoring the agenda on institutional transparency, the party affirmed that all ADC governors will publish comprehensive quarterly performance report cards every three months, establishing an open-governance mechanism for citizens and civil society coalitions to track executive deliverables against campaign commitments and hold elected officials directly accountable.
