ADC Website Crashes Amid 2027 Election Coalition Surge

The official website of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), a rising political party in Nigeria, has been inaccessible since at least July 4, 2025, displaying a “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded” error. The issue, spotted by users attempting to access adcparty.org.ng, suggests that the website’s server capacity was overwhelmed by a high volume of traffic. As of now, the website remains unavailable, leaving potential supporters and curious citizens unable to access party information or register online.

Posts on X indicate that the downtime may be linked to a surge in Nigerians attempting to join or access the ADC website. Some users estimate that millions visited the site following a recent announcement. The exact cause of the traffic surge remains unclear, but it aligns with growing public interest in the ADC as an alternative to Nigeria’s dominant political parties.

A “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded” error can occur when a website’s hosting plan cannot accommodate the data transfer demands placed on it. Many hosting providers impose monthly bandwidth caps, especially on shared or budget hosting plans, which restrict the amount of data that can be transferred between the server and users. If ADC is using an entry-level hosting package, it did not anticipate the data demands of its growing user base, leading to the website becoming inaccessible once the allocated bandwidth is exhausted. Upgrading to a higher tier will be required.

Technical issues on the server side, such as misconfigured settings or insufficient resources, can also trigger a bandwidth-exceeded error. For instance, improper server optimisation might cause excessive data usage for routine tasks, like loading images, videos, or forms on the ADC’s website. Limited server resources, such as low CPU or memory allocation, could also prevent the server from handling requests efficiently, mimicking a bandwidth overload. Such issues often require intervention from the hosting provider or a website administrator to reconfigure or scale up resources.

Another potential cause of this error is malicious activity, such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, where a website is deliberately flooded with automated traffic to overwhelm its server. If bad actors targeted the African Democratic Congress’ website, perhaps due to its rising political prominence, this could consume its bandwidth allocation, rendering the site inaccessible. While there is no confirmed evidence of such an attack on the ADC’s website, political organisations are often targets of cyber disruptions, necessitating robust security measures like firewalls or content delivery networks (CDNs).

The design and content of the ADC’s website itself could contribute to excessive bandwidth usage. Websites with large, unoptimised media files, such as high-resolution images, videos, or downloadable documents, consume significant bandwidth with each visitor’s request. If the ADC’s site includes such elements without proper compression or caching, even a moderate number of visitors could push the site beyond its bandwidth limits. Implementing techniques like image optimisation, lazy loading, or a CDN could reduce the strain on the server.

African Democratic Congress coalition leaders, including former vice president and presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar; presidential candidate of Labour Party in 2023 election, Peter Obi; former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and ex-Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, on July 2, 2025, took over control of African Democratic Party, ADC, as the platform to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027. The party’s chairman, Ralph Okey Nwosu, and secretary, Alhaji Baba Abdullahi, stepped down for the coalition’s Interim National Chairman, Senator David Mark, who has resigned his membership in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Interim National Secretary, Rauf Aregbesola, former governor of Osun, to take over. This was made known via social media posts by many opposition bigwigs, including a former Kaduna governor, Nasir el-Rufai; Dele Momodu, and Kola Ologbondiyan, among others.

In a post on his X account, Ologbodiyan, a former national publicity secretary of the PDP, wrote, “African Democratic Congress (ADC) has been adopted as the political party for the coalition. The party has elected Sen. David Mark as the interim National Chairman and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as the interim National Secretary.” The coalition asked Nigerians to join in helping to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027. And, in a communiqué issued after the meeting, they called on all PDP members and Nigerians to come together in a broad coalition committed to national unity, democratic principles, security, economic recovery, and a strong fight against corruption. They emphasised the need for coalition partners to develop strategies that reflect both national and local political realities, in preparation for future elections.

Other members of the African Democratic Congress coalition include Peter Obi’s running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed; former governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal; former governor of Cross River State, Liyel Imoke; and, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Engr. Babachir Lawal.