By MBACHU GODWIN, Abuja
The African Democratic Congress, ADC has declared that it is ready to reconcile with all it’s Aggrieved Members in the interest of cohesion and building a national opposition party.
Addressing a press conference at the weekend, National Publicly Secretary, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi who commended the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for recognizing it’s new executives led by the former Senate president, Sen. David Mark said the party leadership will be willing to address genuine grievance of members
He said “On reconciliation with aggrieved members
We’ll be happy to talk to anyone who is willing to talk. We have people, even those within the leadership, the rank of the leadership that voluntarily resigned their position. We had people who had expressed one grievances or another.
“We have managed to recognize some grievances, legitimate grievances, and we have dealt with them. But when people are just being belligerent, to the extent that you have no reason to doubt that they had ulterior motive, which is to destabilize the party and create a condition that makes it difficult for the party to move forward, then we can’t continue to appease those kind of people. So tomorrow, if whoever is willing to sit down to have a conversation to say, look, this is my grievance, or these are my grievances, and I will be happy for it to be addressed, I can assure you that those grievances will be addressed to the extent that they could be accommodated.
“But if what you are doing is to continue to drag the party back, to continue to create a condition that Nigerians would think that we are permanently in crisis, don’t forget this was the same thing that was done to PDP. This was the same thing that was done to Labour Party. This was the same thing that was done to SDP.
“It is these same agents that were driving this, the same forces that were driving this, that are also driving these particular individuals. The person that went to court, with due respect, I’m very confident that I know him, I’m very confident that he doesn’t have the resources to push this. So who is funding it? Who is encouraging it? So if they are willing to talk, we are willing to talk to them. But if what they want to continue to do these thing that they are doing, we’ll move on and we’ll be willing to match them for whatever it is worth.”
He berated the former ADC presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Dumebi Kachikwu for his divisive and inflammatory comments, adding that such comments should be condemned, adding that agents of destabilization trying to destabilize the party will not succeed as the party is now more focused to build it’s structure ahead of the 2027 general election.
