The National Executive Council (NEC), of the African Democratic Congress, (ADC), has inaugurated a Caretaker Committee to steer the affairs of the Party ahead of the forth coming 2023 General elections.
This was happening following the expiration of the tenure of the immediate past national Chairman and his National Working Committee (NWC) members.
Recall that the party’s National Working committee’s tenure expired on the 28th of August, the immediate past national chairman Ralph Okey Nwosu after 17 years on the saddle was alleged to be reluctant to relinguish the position as he had moved for an extention of tenure through the backdoor.
It was alleged that he even issued an unsigned statement purporting to have suspended the party’s Presidential candidate, Dumebi Kachukwu, however the State chapters’s charmen of the party rose to the ocasion to enforce the party’s constitution.
Speaking during the inauguration the new caretaker chairman, Senator Patricia Akwasheke stated that the constitution of the Party is supreme and all hands must be on deck to ensure that they go into the elections as a united front.
Akwasheke said that they have accepted to act as the caretaker committee to ensure smooth running of the Party.
According to her, “We will try to go into the elections as a united front, no one person is greater than the Party, we are all part of the Party and ADC is supreme, we should all respect ourselves and act according to what is expected of us.”
She further stated, “The law given to us by NEC, said six weeks and we will try to work and bring peace to the Party in six weeks, we don’t want any crisis in our Party, there is no crisis in the Party, we are all stronger together and we are solidly behind our candidates.”
She assured that the Party will go out campaigning as one and will bring all issues to a peaceful end.
Also the Chairman, ADC State Chairmen Forum, Hon. Kingsley Temitope Ogga adviced Party leaders to get acquainted with other Party members so as to avert any other crisis at any level adding that distancing themselves could be used against them to cause rancour in the Party.
Ogga said, “You should be familiar with ADC members in your State. If you are not together they can use that against you, they can even call for your suspension.”
He further tasked all State Chairmen of the ADC to have good rapport with their members so that they can move the Party forward.
Members of the Caretaker Committee of the ADC representing six geo-political zones are Senator Patricia Akwasheke – Chairman
Kenneth Odion – Secretary
Lady Anglia Johnson
Prof. Kabiru Dangogo
Manzo Ibrahim
Hon. Lesanmi Omolayo
Hon. Kingsley Temitope Ogga
Emma Dibia