Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia
The South-East Zonal leadership of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has hailed the expulsion of the suspended presidential candidate of the party, Dumebi Kachikwu, by the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party over “gross misconduct and anti-party activities and reckless breach of the ADC constitution.”
This was contained in the text of a press conference addressed by the National Vice Chairman of ADC, South-East, Chilos Godsent; and the Zonal Secretary, Pastor Agumadu Frank, at a press conference Saturday in Umuahia.
The party expressed deep worry over the rising insecurity in the zone which it blamed on lack of jobs, infrastructural decay and gross neglect by Government.
It claimed that over 100 lives are lost weekly in the South-East zone due to insecurity, banditry, robbery, depression among others.
The zone also urged members of the National Assembly to throw away the “obnoxious” Water Resources Bill re-presented before them, alleging that it is a ploy to seize ancestral lands for nomadic Fulani.
According to them the promoters of the controversial bill do not mean well for the country.
It blamed the menace of insecurity in the zone on infrastructural dilapidation, collapse of the education sector, lack of jobs and exclusion by the Federal Government.
The text of the press conference made available to Ikengaonline read in part:
“The country is on the wheel of near collapse because of the escalating state of insecurity, and abject poverty that is ravaging the helpless citizens of our dear country in the means of abundant human and natural mineral resources.
“The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in collaboration with their counterpart – the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has continue unabated to unleash an untold misery and hardship on the innocent citizens of this country.
“Emphatically speaking, over hundred people die every week in the South-East Region as a result of rising cases of kidnapping, armed robberies, banditry, ritual killings, depression, hunger etc. The aforementioned have scared investors and tourists who were willing to come and invest in the region thereby increasing the economic crises, hardship and human capital flight in South-East Region of Nigeria.
“It’s now obvious that the APC and PDP led governments in the South-East Region has no iota of ideas on what will be the workable solution to the rising insecurity and sufferings in the region.
“It is now evidently clear that the lack of infrastructural developments, workable educational system and progressive economic blueprint in the South-East states has become a dangerous catalyst in fueling insecurity in the region.”
ADC called on the South-East to reject the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC; and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, accusing both parties of masterminding the woes of the zone.
“We therefore reiterate as follows: That the African Democratic Congress (ADC) is the only alternative political platform that will effectively liberate the South-East Region from the present political, economic and security mess, and transform the Region if elected to power in the forthcoming 2023 Ballot Revolution in Nigeria.”
ADC urged the Federal Government to heed the critical demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, in order to save the education sector from total collapse.
“The Federal Government under the leadership of APC must totally heed to the critical demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as the only way forward to rescue the educational system from total collapse.”
