Politics
Factions trade accusations as battle for control of Adamawa ADC persists
The leadership crisis within the Adamawa State chapter of African Democratic Congress, ADC, has taken a new turn with a leading stakeholder, Comrade Umar Yakub, condemning the faction led by Shehu Yohanna for rejecting a four-man reconciliation committee constituted to address the party’s internal contentions.
The ADC family in Adamawa State began to fall apart in July this year when prominent politicians started to step into the party.
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar led the entrance of high profile persons into the party when he officially resigned from the PDP.
Atiku was quickly followed by the 2023 governorship candidate of the APC, Senator Aishatu Ahmed (Binani), and then Adamawa State governor in 2015-2019, Senator Jibrilla Bindow.
The swelling of the ranks of the ADC by these prominent individuals and their supporters has also led to a contest for relevance in the party, hence the friction that has since ensued.
Although Shehu Yohanna has appeared to be the most accepted state chairman of the party over the past couple of months, another leading party member, Mustapha Arabi, has not submitted to Shehu’s leadership but insisting that he is indeed the chairman.
In his own submission on the crisis, Umar Yakubu, in a statement issued under the banner of the Concerned ADC Stakeholders in Adamawa State, accused the Yohanna group of desperation and a deliberate attempt to frustrate efforts at restoring unity in the party.
He said the faction’s move to disown the committee headed by retired Brigadier General Ishaya Bauka to reconcile the differences among members is an attempt to cover up its waning legitimacy.
“To label this committee as fraudulent is defamatory and exposes the Shehu Yohanna faction’s fear of accountability and genuine reform,” Yakubu stated.
He urged the national leadership of the ADC to urgently validate the work of the committee and reconstitute the state leadership that reflects the will of all members.
The national ADC leadership had last week established committees to resolve crisis in Adamawa and Gombe states, but the Shehu Yohanna group had in a statement dismissed the reconciliation committee for Adamawa State, saying, among other claims, that the committee was never authorized by the duly recognized leadership of the ADC.
The group, asserting that the ADC in Adamawa is united, warned ‘detractors’ against dragging the party into needless controversies.
“The individuals named in the circulation are not card-carrying members of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Adamawa State. Consequently, the Adamawa State Executive Committee unequivocally and categorically distances itself from the said committee and its activities,” the group stated.
Martin Amaewhule, Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Tori News reports Amaewhule defected along with 15 other members of the House on Friday.
Amaewhule said the defection is due to clear division in the PDP.
Recall that President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in the state earlier this year in March, suspending the Governor, Sim Fubara and his Deputy alongside members of the State Assembly.
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has intensified his call for the establishment of state police to contain the wave of insecurity in Nigeria.
George made this call on Friday when he appeared during an interview on Arise Television monitored by Ekwutosblog.
He was reacting to the worsening insecurity situation in the country where innocent Nigerians, including women and schoolchildren are kidnapped and others killed in the process.
“First of all, what is wrong with establishing state police? We have seen nobody is going to cancel the Federal Police, but policing is local.
“When you now turn the boys who live in the same area and legalize their existence to put smiles on the faces of the people, it will be better to manage because they will understand the language of the locals. They know the do’s and don’ts in their own area. So why are we wasting time?
“I am happy I read something last week after the Arewa Consultative meeting in the North. They met and took a decision that they have agreed to a state police.
“Then the Southwest met with their governors, and the governors’ statement made after that conference is that they also accept having state police.
“What are we wasting time for? Because the way it is, you don’t even know who is telling the truth or who is telling the lie,” he said.
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Friday declared that he’s still a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Wike’s comment followed his expulsion from the party by the faction led by National Chairman, Kabiru Turaki.
Turaki had formally dispatched expulsion certificates to 11 prominent party chieftains, including Wike, former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, Umaru Bature, Kamarudeen Ajibade, SAN, Abdurahman Muhammad Senator Mao Ohuabunwa.
He said their expulsion was aimed at sanitising the party ahead of the 2027 elections.
Reacting to the development on Friday, Wike dismissed the claim while assuring that he would continue to work with other party members in making PDP a relevant opposition party.
The minister spoke while addressing journalists after inspecting the Interchange bridge and road linking Gwarinpa with Jahi and direct to Katampe, Gishiri and Maitama.
He said, “Those that are factionalized are bound to leave the party, I’m still in PDP and you can see that not everybody has left.
“We still have good numbers and we will continue to work together and that’s what I have said to the party. Put your house in order because at the end of the day, if you don’t put your house in order, it’s the party that is losing.
“So those who are worried, we can work together to see how the party can remain a relevant opposition.”
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