David Mark: ADC Yet to Endorse Any Presidential Aspirant

Nigerians have been reassured by Senator David Mark, the African Democratic Congress’ (ADC) interim national chairman, that the party has no preferred presidential candidate.

At the same time, he declared that ADC would be “completely transparent” under his direction.

All party members are “equal stakeholders,” according to Mark, who made this statement while speaking to the Kogi State chapter of the ADC’s stakeholders at a meeting in Abuja. Owners and joiners are equal.

Instead of having a favorite or preferred presidential candidate, the ADC aims to present a platform that will appeal to and be accepted by the majority of Nigerians.

“We are taking this action because we do not want Nigeria, this great ship, to sink because they will sink us all if we do not rise up now.”

Mark added: “I urge all members to get ready to demonstrate to Nigerians that ADC is a different party, and I don’t own this party more than any of our members.”

“A different party that is prepared to manage our nation’s democracy effectively.” It is imperative that all Nigerians unite and assume responsibility for the ADC.

“We must bond together to build the par­ty before we can talk of ambi­tions,” he said, urging members to set aside their differences and work as a team.

He urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) members to focus on their policy shortcomings, which the ADC has brought to light, rather than continuing to disparage specific people.

Would Nigerians still support them if they acknowledged that insecurity is a problem and promised to make improvements, only to make it worse? “No” is the response.

For the benefit of future generations, he argued, “Let us keep working to rebuild our country and bring out her best.”

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Additionally, the ADC filed a lawsuit against the APC and its interim leadership, accusing the party of misleading Nigerians by utilizing the names of non-ADC members.

The party said that neither the Kogi nor Nasarawa state ADC physical nor digital registers had the names that the APC used to bring their lawsuit.

“That a party elected to govern the lives of at least 200 million people can go shopping for its citizens’ names in an attempt to pursue Machiavellian politics smacks of desperation.”

In the meantime, the ADC’s National Legal Support Group has stated that it is prepared to defend the party in court against the party and its temporary executives.

Mohammed Sheriff, the group’s chairman, made this announcement in Abuja on Tuesday, claiming that 97 lawyers have shown their willingness to support the party.

APC Makes Fun of ADC for Supposedly Threatening the Coalition

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has been ridiculed by the All Progressives Congress (APC), which claims that it is afraid of its bogeymen shadow due to a plot by the ruling party to destabilize the coalition party by intimidating its executives in the country’s northeast and northwest.

Days after its introduction, the ADC is, predictably, already following the same route of falsehoods and deceit as its opposition rivals, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labor Party (LP), according to a statement released on Tuesday by Felix Morka, its National Publicity Secretary.

The APC claims that in its statement on Monday, the coalition accused the APC and President Bola Tinubu’s administration of a fictitious plot to weaken and destabilize the party.

The party asserted, citing “credible intelligence,” that state chairmen in the nation’s North East and North West regions were called to a “secret meeting with officials of the Federal Government” as part of a scheme to threaten and pressure the opposition coalition.

“The statement provided no substance whatsoever, except from the hasty and ill-conceived accusations. Its ambiguous allusion to “officials of Federal Government” only serves to highlight the malicious intention of its creators, who want to stir up emotions, sway public opinion, and divert Nigerians’ attention from the obvious futility of their political phishing scheme.

Otherwise, why can’t ADC give Nigerians the specifics of the alleged “secret meeting” where its top party officials were “coerced and intimidated”? Instead, the party bases its sly accusations on illogical “credible intelligence.”

No one could have been forced or intimidated in a meeting that never happened, because it is obvious that there was no such gathering. Only in the distorted imitation of masters of deception and raiding invaders of the ADC could this have occurred.

Morka went on to say, “Neither the President nor the APC should waste time or effort attempting to cause disarray inside ADC, which is already gravely damaged by the turmoil brought about by its invaders.

“To the dismay of legitimate leaders and party members, the ADC needs no assistance from our great party to disintegrate because it must do so on its own due to internal disharmony, conflicts, and dissension caused by self-serving and vain-glorious people who carried out a gestapo-style takeover of the party.

Like Humpty Dumpty, whose enormous fall could not be put back together, the ADC’s remark is really a premeditated preemptive explanation for its obvious doomed future of dissolution. Its leadership’s incapacity to handle its looming internal problems, just as they were unable to handle the internal affairs of the opposition parties they repeatedly looted before the ADC, has been made public.

And what good might a coalition of our nation’s most incompetent leaders and masterminds of corruption, poverty, and underdevelopment—now united in ADC—do? What else is to be expected from a group of unsuccessful and restless presidential candidates who are ready to destroy the roof on the altar of their excessive aspirations?

“The ADC, a group of politicians vying for presidential power, has nothing to offer Nigerians and has not presented any alternative vision of Nigerian development and governance beyond the clamor of resentment, personal grudges, and irrational aspirations of its leaders. Their approach seems to start and finish with demonizing our great party and criticizing President Tinubu’s unbeatable and unquestionable record of reviving our economy and transforming our nation in a positive way.

“The ADC and its leaders may believe they can use deception to win the presidency, but they must compete with a very perceptive and sophisticated Nige­rian electorate.

They say something, mean something else, and then do something else. From Mr. Peter Obi’s desperate vow to serve a single term of four years if elected as president, and his pledge to fly only commer­cial airlines as president, even though he campaigned with steeze and opulence in private jets throughout the 2023 elec­tion season; to Mallam El-Ru­fai who failed spectacularly in comparison to mind-blowing transformation of Abuja by the award-wining incumbent Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barr. Nyesom Wike; to Ogbeni Rauf Aregbe­sola whose lack-luster perfor­mance as Minister of Interior is now so glaring in the face of the innovation and super efficiency introduced by the current Minis­ter, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo; to Hadi Sirika whose tenure as Aviation Minister was characterised by invidious scandals, aside float­ing a phantom Nigerian Air, now even more disgraceful in comparison with the drastic improvements in our airports and the aviation sector, in gener­al, under the watch of Olorogun Festus Keyamo (SAN), Minister of Aviation and Aerospace De­velopment, none of the propo­nents of the coalition has the vision, the courage, competence, credibility, track record, zeal and patriotism to serve Nigeria bet­ter than President Bola Tinubu is already doing.”