By Tunji Adedeji The African Democratic Congress (ADC) South East Zone has berated governors of the five states in the South East re...
By Tunji Adedeji
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) South East Zone has berated
governors of the five states in the South East region over the security
situation in the zone which has resulted in an increasing state of insecurity
and militarization in the region.
ADC stated this in a release jointly signed by the National
Vice Chairman ADC South East, Chilos Godsent and Agumadu Frank, Zonal Secretary
made available to DAILY POST on Sunday in Owerri, Imo State capital.
The party said it is no longer news to everyone that
governance in the five states in the South East is in a state of comatose and
complete collapse.
ADC said the five states in South East Zone cannot boast of
any infrastructural development, nor can they boast of economic prosperity.
”Since the 1999 democratic experiments, governance in the
five states of South-East has been dominated by political mediocre
characterized by leadership ineptitude and treacherous tendencies”, the
statement said.
On the forthcoming 2023 general elections, ADC South East
Zone passed a Vote of No Confidence on the Governors of the five states and
called on the masses to intensify mobilization for the forthcoming Ballot
Revolution’ to change the regime of who they described as reactionary and inept
political leadership.
The release read, “The stock in trade of these political
mediocre and rascals is to shamelessly loot the treasury of the state entrusted
to them to a near state of bankruptcy. Thus, the aforementioned ruling class
has consciously enforced the regime of poverty and impunity on the masses of
the South East who have for many years now, been politically inactive.
“This leadership ineptitude and sheer corruption by the
South East ruling class has drastically increased the militant agitation for
self-determination by the youths of the zone which has driven the region into a
hopeless state of insecurity, wanton killings etc.
“The African Democratic Congress (ADC) South East Zone
hereby condemns in its totality the increasing state of insecurity and
militarization in the region characterized by banditry, kidnapping, ritual
killings and other forms of criminalities currently ravaging the South East
region because of the collapse of governance and leadership.
“This has no doubt set the region backwards in terms of
investments and indices of economic growth and development.”
ADC further called on the various State Governments of the
South East Region and the Federal Government of Nigeria to immediately review
the security architecture towards demilitarization of the region and increased
intelligence gathering.
According to the party “We note that African Democratic
Congress is the fastest growing political party in South-East Nigerian since
after the shameless celebration of corruption and sheer impunity by the All
Progressive Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during their
last National Convention.
” We wish to use this opportunity to appeal to the National
Working Committee (NWC) of our great party, the African Democratic Congress
(ADC), to reject the letter of resignation from Prof Kingsley Moghalu – one of
the top Presidential Aspirant at the Abeokuta Convention 2022 as a step towards
recompilation.
“We, therefore, use this medium to appeal to Prof Kingsley
Moghalu and all other aggrieved Presidential aspirants who have left the party
or planning to leave the party to review their decision and come back to the
ADC Family and continue their mobilization to Rescue Nigeria from the present
state of hopelessness.”
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