Barely three months after the
fusion of Coalition of Nigerian Movement (CNM) and African Democratic Congress
(ADC), a faction pulled out on Tuesday, announcing itself as New African
Democratic Congress (N-ADC).
Precious Elekima, protem national
chairman of the group, made the
announcement at a news conference in Abuja.
He said the group withdrew from
ADC because it did not want to be a party in Coalition of United Political
Parties (CUPP), explaining that ADC leadership joined the alliance without
consulting stakeholders.
Elekima said the formation of the
group was to keep alive the mission of ADC to free Nigeria from backwardness,
which the party (ADC) wanted to truncate by joining the coalition.
He said CNM, which he claimed now
had at least five million members across the country, was formed after the
publication of the “famous open letter’’ by former President Olusegun Obasanjo
in January 2018.
He said by joining the alliance,
the ADC defied the clarion call by Obasanjo for the rejection of Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC).
Elekima said without collecting
any money from the former president or any of his associates, Nigerians
organised themselves from the wards to state level, toiled and sacrificed
towards salvaging the country.
“On May 10, without any form of
consultation with the components of the federation, that is the states, the
teeming members of CNM fused into ADC as the third-force with the mandate to
salvage Nigerians from oppressive leadership,” he said.
“These teeming Nigerians believed
in the good intentions as set out in the clarion call so meekly embraced by the
ADC.
“They gave flesh and blood to the
ADC, reinvigorated and rebranded it to aspire as the third-force in the
political landscape of the country.
“This again, they did without any
sponsorship from the former president or his associates. They invested their
time and resources to building the ADC whose star was on the rise.
“Suddenly, without any consultation
with the party chairmen and stakeholders in the 36 states and Abuja, the ADC
was taken into a place for unholy intimacy with the PDP.
“As if that was a small matter,
defectors from the APC were also called in to take part in this unholy political
orgy clothed as memorandum of understanding for the CUPP on July 16.’’
The N-ADC chairman said with
respect to Obasanjo, Nigerians and the international community were not being
informed about cleansing in APC and PDP, to certify fit for ADC to be in alliance
with them.
According to him, Nigerians
cannot be fooled as ADC has become just another vehicle for recirculation of
the people that were common problem of the nation.
“Since majority of the members in
the ADC never set out to deceive Nigerians, it has become necessary for the
sake of these innocent members and the hope held for Nigerians that we step out
of the ADC,” he said.
“It has become necessary to step
out with the mission and mandate of the clarion call and leave behind those
leaders who for reasons best known to them have become like those in APC and
PDP.
“We are, therefore, happy and
proud to announce that these gallant Nigerians who believe in the Third-Force
for Nigerians have now constituted themselves out from the former ADC as the
New–ADC.
“We call on members of ADC
nationwide, the CNM and all progressives to rally round the N-ADC as we set out
on a mission to free Nigerians from their slave masters.”
Elekima, who was Coordinator of
CNM in Rivers, apologised to Nigerians, saying his group was not part of
decision to join CUPP.
He disclosed the factional group
had already written the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to
notify it of the formation of N-ADC, with temporary national secretariat in
Maitama, Abuja.
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