Olusegun Ariyo
Leke Abejide, House of Representatives member representing the Yagba East/Yagba West/Mopamuro Federal Constituency of Kogi State, has warned that coalition leaders like Atiku Abubakar, Rauf Aregbesola, David Mark, Rotimi Amaechi, and Peter Obi will be sent out of the African Democratic Congress, ADC.
Abejide said the Atiku-backed coalition is not in control of the ADC and he would prove it soon.
The opposition coalition recently adopted the ADC as its official political party.
Following the adoption, Mark was appointed as ADC’s Interim National Chairman, and Aregbesola as Interim National Secretary.
There are permutations that Atiku, Obi, and Amaechi are likely contenders for the party’s presidential ticket.
Dismissing their grip on the party, Abejide said ADC’s constitution stipulates that one can only occupy a national office after two years in the party.
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Customs and Excise disclosed this while appearing on the Mic On podcast on Saturday.
He also spoke about the ADC’s leadership crisis in Kogi State.
Abejide said: “The coalition people are sponsoring Ogah and co, the coalition people are those that came from Labour, PDP, and a fraction from APC.
“In my state, they are there, people like Dino Melaye and former senator Tunde Ogbeha, they are the ones behind all these crises.
“Kingsley Ogah and Adaji are not in the NWC. According to our constitution, before you are suspended, you have to go to the Ward.
“It’s the Ward Chairman and board executive that can suspend me and not the state working committee. The two of them can’t constitute themselves as be State working committee.
“Give me a few days, whether I’m the National leader of ADC or not, you will know. We will send them (Atiku, David Mark, Aregbesola, Amaechi, Peter Obi) back to where they came from.
“It’s a lie, they have not taken over the party.
“According to our constitution, you can’t hold a National office except you are two years in the party and there is no room for an Interim leader.
“In the next few days we will know whether I’m the National leader of ADC or not, we will send them back to where they came from.”
