2027: ADC lawmaker slams coalition, plots Tinubu’s re-election

Sole African Democratic Congress (ADC) member in the House of Representatives, Hon Leke Abejide, has described the attempted “forceful takeover” of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of his party by the coalition of politicians as illegal. Abejide said the coalition to unseat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 election is “bound to collapse”.

Abejide, a second-term serving lawmaker who represents Yagba East, Yagba West and Mopamuro Federal Constituency, Kogi State, won his elections to the Green Chamber back-to-back in 2019 and 2023 on the platform of the opposition ADC. He was also the governorship flagbearer of the ADC in the 2023 Kogi State governorship election. Abuja Formula 1 Grand Prix tickets

Speaking during the meeting of “Critical Stakeholders of the Leke Abejide Political Family” held in Abuja on Friday, he dissociated himself from the coalition, calling on his supporters to join hands with him to “chase out marauders” from ADC.

Participants at the meeting represented various political parties, including the All Progressives Congress (APC), the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and the ADC, from all three senatorial districts in Kogi State and other regions of Nigeria.

Abejide said the meeting became imperative to clarify his status of party allegiance. Amid recent calls from various groups of supporters in Kogi State for him to join the APC and his sustained vocal support for President Bola Tinubu’s reelection in 2027, speculation was rife as to whether he had defected to the ruling APC or remained in the PDP.Nigerian cuisine recipes

He, however, affirmed that as the party’s lone and highest elected office holder, he remains a member of the “original ADC” in Kogi State and at the federal level, not what he termed as the “Kangaroo Coalition ADC “with the intent to seize the party.

Abejide noted that “we shall join hands to chase out political marauders from People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP), and other parties that have formed a coalition (in ADC). We have been watching their characters since they claimed to have joined ADC as a coalition. It is clear now that they came with a notion to hijack the party structures, suppress original members of the party, and want to use the party to achieve their aims and objectives, which is dead on arrival.”

He added, “Their recent activities in Kogi State are a mockery of democracy; those who came through the window and back doors are now claiming to be leaders of ADC in Kogi State. When we were nursing the party and maintaining the structures of the party, both at the National level and in Kogi State, where were they?

“It is evident that they destroyed their political parties and have come to ADC solely to achieve the same aim. We will not allow them to destroy ADC. On this premise, we shall seek legal actions by approaching the court of law, as the highest member of NEC, to challenge the illegality of the so-called Interim National Working Committee.”

He pointed out that while the normal procedure requires the NEC to meet to consider the resignation of members of the National Working Committee and the election and ratification of new members, in this case, “there was nothing as such at all.”

Therefore, he said, “Everything the so-called coalition has done is a nullity and thereby rejected by the original ADC members in Kogi State. There is going to be a new coalition of ADC, with other parties, to support President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for a second term in office. For the naysayers, they are only digging their political graves, as you will all go into political oblivion after 2027. We remain the original members of the African Democratic Congress.”

A chieftain of the APC, Chief John Fabola, stated that the meeting was a deliberate joint action of supporters loyal to Abejide across party lines in Kogi State and beyond.

“He has said he is still in the ADC like a rock of Gibraltar. Any steps he decides to take further, he will not hesitate to let us know. This is what he has made clear to us, and I believe we understand that. He is the landlord of ADC, not only in Yagba Federal Constituency,

Kogi State, but at the federal level. The aim of the coalition is to unseat President Bola Tinubu. We are here to ensure they did not succeed and they will not succeed,” he said.

Ardo  Zubairu 

National Secretary 

TInubu Re- Election Project 2027 . Office Phones: 08098885195

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