The Dumebi Kachikwu-led faction of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has announced plans to convene a national convention and constitute an interim leadership to manage the party’s affairs.
Spokesperson of the faction, Norman Obinna, disclosed this on Tuesday during a media briefing after what he described as an emergency National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting, in Abuja.
Reports says, Kachikwu was the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections.
Obinna pointed out that the meeting was attended by state chairmen and other NEC members, and was convened to address the party’s ongoing leadership crisis.
He added that one of the key outcomes of prior Alternative Dispute Resolution, ADR, efforts was an agreement that the party would hold a national convention to produce a new leadership, a process he said has yet to be implemented nearly two years later.
The key outcome of the ADR, which was signed by both parties, was that the ADC would inevitably go into a convention to produce a new leadership. This has not been done for almost two years,” he said.
According to him, the former national leadership under Ralph Nwosu attempted to unlawfully transfer control of the party to individuals who were not members, while also trying to sideline existing state chairmen.
The group disclosed that it has instituted two court cases challenging the legality of those actions, even before the recent position taken by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
