Crisis appears to be brewing within the coalition party as a group, an umbrella body of state chairmen of the party, Concerned State Chairmen of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has rejected the new national leadership of the party led by former Senate President David Mark.
In a statement, titled, “Rejecting the Political Junta by Defending ADC and Nigeria’s Democracy Against Subversion,” signed by the chairman, Amb. Elias Adokwu, and the publicity secretary, Godwin Alaku, the chairmen described the recent takeover of the party by the opposition coalition as an “orchestrated political coup”.
The ADC state chairmen further condemned what they described as the hijack of the party by the coalition, which included former Vice President AtikuAbubakar, who had already resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to join ADC.