The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has inaugurated an interim leadership for the Adamawa State chapter with a vow to stop a drift of Nigeria to a one-party state.
The ADC said Saturday that it would not only provide a viable opposition to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, but would take power from it come 2027.
The new leaders of the ADC who took turns to speak during their inauguration in Yola, said the long-standing opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has steadily lost its steam and yielded too much grounds to the ruling APC, making it incumbent on the ADC to seize the initiative.
The ADC National Vice Chairman in charge of the North East, Babachir Lawal who chaired the Saturday Adamawa leadership inauguration, said ADC would take over power come 2027 as APC has lost its credibility.
“APC has become the refugee camp for people running from EFCC,” Babachir said, adding, “Nigerians know why they are running there and will reject them.”
Also speaking, Senator Ishaku Abbo who represented Adamawa North Zone in the National Assembly in 2019-2023, said the ADC which has long been accepted by leading opposition personalities, would retain its growing momentum as the party of choice until it overtakes ruling APC.
Abbo asserted, “We are the opposition force to block the path to one party”, adding that ADC as a party for young people, has a huge pool of the young to drive its vehicle to greatness.
Another ADC leader, Senator Abdulazeez Nyako who was in the Senate between 2015 and 2019 for Adamawa Central and was Adamawa State ADC governorship candidate in 2019, said the ADC would be prioritising fairness for all so that it could produce widely accepted candidates at all levels for maximum impact come 2027.
Babachir, Bindow, Abbo and Nyako and some others are all members of the large Adamawa State Steering Committee which the ADC inaugurated during the Saturday event.
The new interim leadership has a former speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Sadiq Dasin, as chairman.
In his speech during the inauguration ceremony, the new interim chairman explained that the interim leadership became necessary after two factional leaders of the ADC in the state failed to bury their hatchets and give the party a harmonious leadership.
He pledged a fair playing ground for everyone, particularly as the match towards the 2027 general elections gathers momentum.