The management disaster throughout the Adamawa State chapter of African Democratic Congress, ADC, has taken a brand new flip with a number one stakeholder, Comrade Umar Yakub, condemning the faction led by Shehu Yohanna for rejecting a four-man reconciliation committee constituted to handle the celebration’s inner contentions.
The ADC household in Adamawa State started to collapse in July this 12 months when outstanding politicians began to step into the celebration.
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar led the doorway of excessive profile individuals into the celebration when he formally resigned from the PDP.
Atiku was rapidly adopted by the 2023 governorship candidate of the APC, Senator Aishatu Ahmed (Binani), after which Adamawa State governor in 2015-2019, Senator Jibrilla Bindow.
The swelling of the ranks of the ADC by these outstanding people and their supporters has additionally led to a contest for relevance within the celebration, therefore the friction that has since ensued.
Though Shehu Yohanna has gave the impression to be essentially the most accepted state chairman of the celebration over the previous couple of months, one other main celebration member, Mustapha Arabi, has not submitted to Shehu’s management however insisting that he’s certainly the chairman.
In his personal submission on the disaster, Umar Yakubu, in a press release issued underneath the banner of the Involved ADC Stakeholders in Adamawa State, accused the Yohanna group of desperation and a deliberate try and frustrate efforts at restoring unity within the celebration.
He mentioned the faction’s transfer to disown the committee headed by retired Brigadier Basic Ishaya Bauka to reconcile the variations amongst members is an try and cowl up its waning legitimacy.
“To label this committee as fraudulent is defamatory and exposes the Shehu Yohanna faction’s concern of accountability and real reform,” Yakubu said.
He urged the nationwide management of the ADC to urgently validate the work of the committee and reconstitute the state management that displays the desire of all members.
The nationwide ADC management had final week established committees to resolve disaster in Adamawa and Gombe states, however the Shehu Yohanna group had in a press release dismissed the reconciliation committee for Adamawa State, saying, amongst different claims, that the committee was by no means licensed by the duly acknowledged management of the ADC.
The group, asserting that the ADC in Adamawa is united, warned ‘detractors’ in opposition to dragging the celebration into useless controversies.
“The people named within the circulation aren’t card-carrying members of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Adamawa State. Consequently, the Adamawa State Govt Committee unequivocally and categorically distances itself from the mentioned committee and its actions,” the group said.
