{"id":6738,"date":"2025-08-27T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=6738"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:17:00","slug":"party-politics-crisis-brews-in-the-adc-as-ex-deputy-chairman-challenges-leadership-change-says-he-is-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/party-politics-crisis-brews-in-the-adc-as-ex-deputy-chairman-challenges-leadership-change-says-he-is-in-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Party Politics: Crisis brews in the ADC as ex-deputy chairman challenges leadership change   &#8230;.. says he is in charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Our Correspondent<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">There are indications that fresh leadership crisis are emerging in the African Democratic Congress, (ADC), as the party\u2019s former Deputy National Chairman, Nafiu Bala, declares himself the acting National Chairman.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This development\u00a0 followed the resignation of the party\u2019s founder and National Chairman, Ralph Okey Nwosu.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking to journalists in Bauchi, Nafiu Bala said the decision of Ralph Okey Nwosu to hand over the party\u2019s leadership to newcomers violates the party\u2019s constitution.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He insisted that he has not resigned as Deputy National Chairman, and therefore, remains the constitutionally recognised leader of the party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to Nafiu Bala, the ADC constitution clearly empowers him as the rightful acting National Chairman, making his leadership legitimate.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Fielding questions from journalists on whether he was being sponsored to create confusion within the coalition seeking to challenge the ruling APC, Nafiu Bala denied.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He emphasised that due process must be followed, and called on those laying claim to the party\u2019s leadership to respect the constitution under his stewardship.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The former deputy chairman also dismissed reports that he had been expelled from the party at the ward level, describing the claim as malicious attempts to tarnish his image.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He maintained that he remains firmly in charge of the ADC leadership.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent There are indications that fresh leadership crisis are emerging in the African Democratic Congress, (ADC), as the party\u2019s former Deputy National Chairman, Nafiu Bala, declares himself the acting National Chairman. This development\u00a0 followed the resignation of the party\u2019s founder and National Chairman, Ralph Okey Nwosu. Speaking to journalists in Bauchi, Nafiu Bala [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[826,1436,1190,2350,4299,275,4300],"class_list":["post-6738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-attempts","tag-claim","tag-coalition","tag-constitutionally","tag-indications","tag-malicious","tag-recognised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6739,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions\/6739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}