Because the profile of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, continues to rise in Adamawa State, so too is its management more and more being contested.
The social gathering’s adoption on the nationwide degree as a platform for notable opposition politicians has lengthy triggered a scramble for management throughout the state, prompting a fierce battle for its management.
The competition surrounding the management of the Adamawa chapter seems to have intensified earlier within the week when a son of the soil, and one of the vital distinguished political figures, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, formally adopted ADC.
An in depth loyalist of Atiku, Usman Jada, who can be his kinsman, acknowledged the disaster over who leads the social gathering within the state on Saturday when he declared assist for one of many contenders.
Usman Jada, higher recognized merely as Calculate, asserted that Shehu Yohanna is the substantive chairman of the Adamawa ADC, dismissing Arabi Mustapha’s declare to the management.
Calculate mentioned the dispute between Yohanna and Mustapha was orchestrated by fifth columnists searching for to take advantage of ADC to serve their ulterior motives.
“There isn’t any manner a mega coalition like our personal will come into play with out some hiccups however we’re on prime of the sport,” he mentioned, emphasising that there is no such thing as a ambiguity concerning the management of ADC in Adamawa State.
He added, “In Adamawa ADC now we have just one substantive management. And that’s the management of Comrade Shehu Yohanna. It’s the management recognised by the nationwide secretariat of the social gathering.”
