Kwankwaso’s defection: ADC makes fresh allegation against APC, INEC
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of plans to destabilise the party.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Bolaji Abdullahi, the National Publicity Secretary of the collation party said the APC has been rattled over the recent defection of former governor Rabiu Kwankwaso to the ADC.
Abdullahi alleged that the ruling party is working effortlessly to pressure INEC into taking illegal action on the court case seeking to void the emergence of the David Mark-led leadership of the ADC.
In the statement titled, “APC’s Desperate Plan Uncovered”, Abdullahi said, “Yesterday, we disclosed a sinister plot by agents of the ruling APC government to pressure INEC into taking illegal action to destabilise our party, following the milestone movement of H.E. Rabiu Kwankwaso to the ADC.
“After meeting a brick wall with INEC, they have now changed tactics, but the objectives remain the same,” Abdullahi stated.
He also said the party has got wind of a planned protest sponsored by an unnamed APC minister to give life to the matter.
“Information reaching us this morning is that a public protest is being planned for tomorrow, Thursday, 2nd April, in Abuja, sponsored by a particularly notorious minister. Their expectation is that a protest will give oxygen to a case that is already suffocating in the courts under the weight of its own illegality.
“The plan is simple: a paid crowd, posturing as aggrieved party members, will take to the streets demanding “David Mark Must Go.”
“This, they hope, will create “public pressure” on the INEC Chairman to magically upgrade and recognise an individual who resigned his position and was subsequently expelled from the ADC, to the position of National Chairman of a party he no longer belongs to.
“The plan by the ruling APC government to hijack the leadership of the ADC, the only viable opposition party left in the country, is real. If anything, it has assumed a new level of desperation in the past few days. They are not just afraid of our momentum. They are afraid of what happens when the Nigerian people start paying attention and begin to believe that change is possible,” he said.
Abdullahi further added that the ADC remains focused on its duty to Nigerians, and shall remain law-abiding.
“We will, however, resist by all lawful and necessary means. If they are not acting on his orders, President Tinubu should rein in his enforcers before it is too late,” he said.
