Obasanjo’s Party Splits As New ADC Emerges

PDP-led coalition threatened as ADC faction pulls out
August 7, 2018Agency Report
Barely three months after the fusion of Coalition of Nigerian Movement
(CNM) and African Democratic Congress (ADC), a faction pulled out on
Tuesday, announcing itself as New African Democratic Congress (N-
ADC).


Protem National Chairman of the group, Precious Elekima, made the
announcement at a news conference in Abuja.
The CNM, founded by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, had in May
adopted ADC as its political party.

In July, the ADC joined 36 other opposition parties and Reformed All
Progressive Congress (R-APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) to form an alliance called Coalition of United Political Parties
(CUPP).

The parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to contest
the 2019 general elections under one platform.
Mr Elekima said the N-ADC withdrew from ADC because it did not want
to be a party in CUPP, explaining that ADC leadership joined the
alliance without consulting stakeholders.

He said the formation of the group was to keep alive the mission of
ADC to free Nigeria from backwardness, which the party (ADC) wanted
to truncate by joining the coalition.

He recalled that CNM, which he claimed now had no fewer than five
million members across the country, was formed after the publication
of the “famous open letter’’ by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in
January, 2018.

He said that by joining the alliance, the ADC defied the clarion call by
Obasanjo for the rejection of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All
Progressives Congress (APC).