The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has made its stance known on the leadership crisis plaguing the African Democratic Congress, ADC.
Attempt by Ralph Nwosu, ADC founder, to relinquish his position in respect of that of the party chairman, and changed the party’s exco, culminating in the controversial emergences of a caretaker committee that has former Senate President David Mark, ex-governor Rauf Aregbesola, and Bolaji Abdullahi as the party’s National Chairman, National Secretary and Publicity Secretary respectively polarised the party.
It threw the party into crisis with some of its state chairmen and the party presidential candidate in 2023, Dumebi Kachikwu, disgruntled.
The latter in their pushback insisted that there is no regime change in the party and have been calling the David Mark-led faction names such as “impostors and “hijackers.”
Investigation reveals that ADC portal still has “No 1 Capital Plaza Nyanyan-Kuru Road, Abuja” as the party national secretariat while the contact number on it remains: 08059969415.
INEC has now weighed in on the controversy the party leadership crisis is generating in an interview the Chief Press Secretary to the electoral body Chairman, Rotimi Lawrence, granted The Guardian.
“The old exco is still in charge as of today (yesterday),” Lawrence told the publication.
