SUMMARY

The Alliance for Democracy (AD) was a political party in Nigeria formed in September 1998. In the 1999 elections, it formed an electoral pact with All People’s Party (APP). In September 2006, the party split after a leadership struggle between Mojisola Akinfenwa and Adebisi Akande, and the Akande faction merged with other opposition parties into the Action Congress party.

AD drew its main support from the Yoruba people in south-west Nigeria, and from the cultural organisation Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba group. The party’s platform was progressive and its motto was “Justice, Peace and Progress”. The party was formed ahead of the democratic elections following the end of military rule in 1998. It launched a presidential candidate, Samuel Oluyemisi Falae, jointly with the APP, but the presidential election was won by Olesegun Obasanjo of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), which also won a majority of parliamentary votes. AD proceeded to get 8.8 % of the parliamentary vote in 2003, and very few votes in 2007 after the factional split.

The supporters of AD have been involved in the non-state category of UCDP organised violence.