ABEJIDE APPEALS FOR CALM OVER EXCLUSION OF ADC IN KOGI LG ELECTION
The national leader of African Democratic Congress party ADC Elder Leke Abejide has appealed to the party’s teeming supporters in Kogi State to remain calm and focused amidst the current challenges bedevilling it over the disqualification of the party in the kogi state local government elections slated for later in the year.
He made the appeal while interacting with the leadership of the party in the state, recently at his Abuja office.
According to the national leader, ” We have taken the up the matter with the state commission and shortly the outcome would be made known to the party members on the way forward.
He, however, urged all the party’s candidates (chairmen and councillors), to redouble their campaign activities at their various councils in the state .
Elder Abejide further assured that everything humanly possible would be done to correct the anomaly through the right channel, charging all aggrieved members and candidates to be law abiding.
“Don’t involve yourselves in any form of demonstration or create any crisis in the state because of the prevailing issue, which will be sorted out soon in our favour,” he assured.
He further stressed that the party would not abandon them, no matter the outcome of the ongoing discussion with the commission and its relevant stakeholders.
He maintained, “We encouraged you to pick up the forms for contest and we are still the one telling you to calm down. If the challenges are bigger than us, we would tell you, but be assured that we will manage the situation and all of you will come out triumphantly.
Earlier at the interactive meeting, the secretary of the party in the state Pastor Mamman Akpena told the national leader that members and candidates had continued to call to know the exact position of the party in the fourth local government coming elections in the state, since the alleged disqualification of the party by the state electoral commission.
He said the party’s leadership in the state wanted to hear from the national leader on the way forward, as members were trooping to the party’s secretariat on the matter.
Pastor Akpena told the national leader that the alleged disqualification of the party has not been communicated to the party.
, no main stream media has used the news for us to authenticate the realities of the disqualification.
The state ADC secretary further urged the national leader of the party to hasten the resolution of the matter so that proper activities could commence in earnest, across the 21 local government areas in the state..
