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AMINDA:
Tinubu just approved another 712 billion naira for renovation of an airport terminal in Lagos out of a 900 billion naira allocation for airports in the entire country but yet Yorubas feel Lagos is solely for Yorubas. Don't forget the 15 trillion naira coastal road that federal loans are being acquired for. There's a 2 billion dollar loan earmarked for the Lagos Greenline project in the recent 23 billion dollar approval. These loans will be serviced by taxes from all Nigerians irrespective of state of origin. When you concentrate a nation's common patrimony in only one state, its only natural to expect an influx of people into that state. If Lagos should be solely for Yorubas, then development should be equitably distributed across all states. Then there's the obviously skewed appointments of only ethnic Yorubas into Federal government positions. Actions like these only further create resentment in the country.

Nafi’u Bala, a former governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Gombe State and erstwhile national deputy chairman of the party, has declared himself as the interim national chairman of the ADC.

The announcement was made at a press conference held on Wednesday night in Abuja.

Bala accused the David Mark-led interim leadership of the ADC of hijacking the party through unconstitutional means and warned of impending legal action to challenge what he described as a “total surrender” of the party’s structure to external political actors.

“We wish to draw the attention of all members of our great party and Nigerians at large, to the ongoing acts of political hooliganism being perpetrated by some individuals who were hitherto entrusted with the leadership of the party,” Bala said.

His declaration comes weeks after a coalition of prominent opposition figures, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate Peter Obi, adopted the ADC as a platform to unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027.

The coalition arrangement was formally announced on July 2 by Ralph Nwosu, founder and pioneer chairman of the ADC, who also revealed the resignation of the National Working Committee (NWC) and endorsed an interim leadership led by Mark.

But Bala insists the move lacks legal and moral legitimacy.

“We are all living witnesses to the show of shame and acts of lawlessness being displayed by these unscrupulous leaders, who, without any qualm or sense of moral restraint, plunged our party into a needless crisis and leadership uncertainty,” Bala declared.

He condemned what he called an unprecedented and undemocratic transfer of party leadership to “political strangers,” vowing to defend the party’s constitutional order.

“The idea of mortgaging the future of our great party, by abdicating the constitutional duties and responsibilities of all elected officers of the party, to some powerful outsiders who never belong to the party, is condemnable,” he added.

Bala described the internal shake-up as a “shoddily rehearsed political melodrama,” saying it would be resisted through both party mechanisms and legal channels.

“In case these individuals choose to ignore our urgent calls to obey our constitutional guidelines and thus remain very obdurate and recalcitrant in their aberrant behaviour, we shall proceed with gusto to challenge these gross acts of impunity in the courts and bring them to justice,” he said.

Bala emphasized that the party’s constitution clearly outlines the processes for leadership succession and that, in line with those provisions, he was now assuming the position of interim national chairman.

He called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to “urgently” recognise him as the legitimate leader of the party.

LagosOrigin:
Lobatan

All the yoruba leaders are telling tinubu the truth that he's a failure .

If your kinsmen are telling you that you've failed, then truly you have failed.

SeeWahala:
There's no length these people won't go to push this their agenda. These people will set this nation on fire soon and we will all be the best for it

Mariangeles:
Imagine renaming a bus-stop to Baddo bus-stop.
Sounds thuggish.

Tochi360:
What is this one saying??

Let me tell you,in Real life, People on the streets just wants this Tpain disaster that happened to the Country to end.
Tpain own suffering and calamity pass politics oo,in the hands of Tpain there might be no Nigeria to even play politics with.
No be by mouth them the run am. Most of you lots making noise online will be either drunk or nacking your woman while elections are ongoing. Your noise online doesn't change a thing

Sane Nigerians from all Tribes will support even Abacha from the grave than fall into the hands of this demon of mass economic destruction called Tpain.

Tochi360:
Nigerians should rally around ADC anyone who wins the primary election should be supported. Saving Nigeria from the hands of Tpain is the only thing that makes sense right now.

zelnababa:
sweasea is playing in English championship league

Jayboi:
Who is omisore? People dey talk and that one dey talk too.