Big Blow To Edo ADC As Owie, Ex-Senate Chief Whip, Other Big Wigs Walk Out On Party Into NDC Amidst Allegation Of Hijack, Favouritism By Leaders

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It not only rains in the embattled African Democratic Congress, ADC, it pours, as the leadership crisis that had rocked the party in Edo State on Wednesday snowballed into the defections of prominent party leaders and financiers into the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC.

Former chief whip of the Nigerian senate, Roland Owie, Sunny Aguebor, one of the financiers, alongside their teeming loyalists, dumped the party citing alleged hijack of the party in the state and the crisis affecting it at the national level.

Asserting that the way and manner the state leadership emerged was not proper, and accusing Odigie-Oyegun of hijacking the party, Owie claimed that tickets of the party were being kept for people who were yet to join the party.

Aguebor, for his part, noted that the NDC is clean and without legal encumbrances, unlike the ADC that is facing legal battles.
According to Owie, “The administration of the party, especially in Edo South, became lunatic. The position of chairman of the party was zoned to Edo South, and it was micro-zoned to Oredo local government area. Oredo local government, in their wisdom, did a mini-primary for the two aspirants that indicated interest for that position but along the line, Oyegun and one or two persons took a decision and said they have chosen another candidate.

“That is one of the major reasons for our people coming to me to say that they were tired, we are going to NDC. So, we have moved; let them keep the ADC.

“Do you know some of them were reserving senatorial seats, House of Reps seats for people who have not joined ADC? What they say at 8am is not what they say at 10am; what they say, I say, at 10am, will not be the same they say at 2pm.

“I can tell you that all real members of the ADC in the state have gone to NDC. When I say real members, I mean those who were not one leg in APC and one leg in ADC.”

When asked how he would handle the national politics of the NDC being a supporter of Atiku Abubakar who is still in the ADC, Owie said “You know, politics is local; national politics will come at the appropriate time.”

Contacted for his comment on the effect that the defections could have on the party, the State Publicity Secretary-elect of the ADC, Christopher Ojeikere, said the party was not perturbed by the development and that it was preparing for its primaries to pick its candidates for the 2027 elections as prescribed by the Electoral Act 2026.