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The only African Democratic Congress (ADC) lawmaker in the House of Representatives, Hon Leke Abejide, has rejected the opposition coalition created to oust President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from power in 2027.
The lawmaker, who represents Yagba East, Yagba West and Mopamuro Federal Constituency, Kogi State, accused opposition politicians of attempting to forcefully takeover the ADC’s National Executive Committee (NEC), describing such move as illegal.
Speaking during the meeting of “Critical Stakeholders of the Leke Abejide Political Family” held in Abuja on Friday, the lawmaker distanced himself from the coalition, saying the plot to unseat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 election is “bound to collapse”.
He called on his supporters to join hands with him to “chase out marauders” from ADC.
Abejide affirmed that as the party’s lone and highest elected office holder, he remains a member of the “original ADC” in Kogi State and at the federal level, not what he termed as the “Kangaroo Coalition ADC “with the intent to seize the party.
Abejide said: “We shall join hands to chase out political marauders from People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP), and other parties that have formed a coalition (in ADC). We have been watching their characters since they claimed to have joined ADC as a coalition. It is clear now that they came with a notion to hijack the party structures, suppress original members of the party, and want to use the party to achieve their aims and objectives, which is dead on arrival.
“Their recent activities in Kogi State are a mockery of democracy; those who came through the window and back doors are now claiming to be leaders of ADC in Kogi State. When we were nursing the party and maintaining the structures of the party, both at the National level and in Kogi State, where were they?
“It is evident that they destroyed their political parties and have come to ADC solely to achieve the same aim. We will not allow them to destroy ADC. On this premise, we shall seek legal actions by approaching the court of law, as the highest member of NEC, to challenge the illegality of the so-called Interim National Working Committee.”
He said, “Everything the so-called coalition has done is a nullity and thereby rejected by the original ADC members in Kogi State. There is going to be a new coalition of ADC, with other parties, to support President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for a second term in office. For the naysayers, they are only digging their political graves, as you will all go into political oblivion after 2027. We remain the original members of the African Democratic Congress.”
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