Crisis brews in ADC as faction petitions US over alleged hijack of party

A caller enactment situation is brewing successful the African Democratic Congress, ADC, arsenic a faction of the enactment has formally filed a petition with the United States embassy successful Abuja, accusing immoderate members of trying to instrumentality power of the enactment and undermine interior antiauthoritarian processes.

The faction led by Nafiu Bala Gombe is asking the US to see imposing sanctions, including visa restrictions, connected individuals allegedly progressive successful the unconstitutional takeover of the party’s leadership.

In a ceremonial ailment sent to the embassy, Gombe, who says helium is the existent person of the party, claimed that immoderate unnamed politicians broke the party’s rules and didn’t travel the due steps.

Gombe stated that the incidental occurred aft the resignation of the party’s erstwhile National Chairman, Ralph Okey Nwosu, on with different members of the National Working Committee, NWC.

Gombe stated successful the petition, “I americium penning to you successful my capableness arsenic the Authentic National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress, ADC. I privation to item a superior contented wrong our enactment that we deliberation is putting the antiauthoritarian process and the regularisation of instrumentality successful Nigeria astatine risk.

“As a awesome of ideology and a guardian of law processes astir the world, we are asking the Embassy to admit the concern and instrumentality enactment against the undemocratic takeover of our party.

“Our ailment stems from the evident bre...