By MBACHU GODWIN, Abuja,
African Democratic Congress, ADC, has said that it will discipline and challenge in the Court of law any of it’s Representatives who defects to another political party, even as it claimed it is not bothered by such planned defection.
National Chairman of African Democratic Congress, ADC, Chief, Ralphs Okey Nwosu, said the party is not perturbed by the planned defection of Rep. Leke Abejide (ADC-Kogi) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He stated this in a statement in Abuja following the rumoured planned defection of Abejide to the APC.
Hon Abejide at a news conference in Abuja Monday disclosed that he would move to the APC if the crisis in the ADC persisted.
Recall that his colleague, in the House of Representatives, Rep. Salman Idris, representing Kabba-Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency of Kogi State, also defected to the APC on July 24 at plenary.
Nwosu, said: “On the defection or defections to APC from our party, we have been inundated with calls from party chieftains, concerned citizens, patriots, national leaders, and civil society organizations.
“We appreciate their concerns and commend their patriotism.
“I wish to assure them all that, as a disciplined organisation with a transformational leadership philosophy, we are taking appropriate steps to maintain the integrity of our great party, the ADC.”
He noted that the party had set up a committee led by Dr Bamidele Ajadi, the Deputy National Chairman (Politics), to look into the defections to enable us to apply the law justly.
“To deepen ADC’s grassroots penetration and engagements, the National Executive Committee of our great party resolved to participate roundly in all local council elections”, he said.
This, according to him, is based on the Supreme Court ruling on the financial autonomy of the Local Government Areas (LGAs).
Nwosu stated that the party had set up the Local Council Elections Committee to schedule, strategies, and supervise all LGA elections in all the states of the country.
The chairman appealed to all stakeholders at the subnational level, especially governors, to ensure that all democratic processes were conducted in an atmosphere of impartiality.
“The NWC will like to make it abundantly clear that one Shola Samuel, aka GADAFI, who has been parading himself as a BoT member of our party, ADC, is not a member of the party’’, he said.
He also said that he had been using the designation to call meetings in Kogi, adding that he was not a registered member of ADC, let alone a BoT member.
