2027: ADC inaugurates 26-member executive in Imo

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has inaugurated its 26-member executive in Imo State ahead of the 2027 general elections in the country.

Also inaugurated are the state zonal committee members of Owerri, Orlu and Okigwe zones respectively.

In his speech at the inauguration of the state exco held at the party secretariat in Owerri, the National Vice Chairman of the party in the South/East, Bon Unachukwu, enjoined eligible voters to reject the ruling APC at the polls and embrace the ADC.

He said that ADC has all it takes to rescue the Nation from its current state of abyss.

Unachukwu, who chronicled the woes of the masses since the inception of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration, regretted that the man in the street had suffered the worst form of hardship, poverty, hunger, deprivation and frustration since 2023.

He assured that the ADC, which is a conglomeration of experienced, tested bureaucrats, emerged to rewrite the nation’s sordid history of destitution, hunger and agony in the land.

“This inauguration is the beginning of 1000 miles to trek, a call-up duty for patriotic service to all Nigerians and Imolites in particular,” he said.

The ADC chieftain also charged Nigerians to queue into the sacrifices made by the founding fathers of the party through manifest commitment and sacrifice.

He paid glowing tributes to the foundation National Chairman of the party, Ralph Nwosu, for making the coalition possible by his voluntary resignation to pave the way for the emergence of the current National Chairman, Senator David Mark and the National Secretary, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.

In his speech earlier, the state chairman of ADC, Prof. James Okoroma, lamented that “Nigeria of today is the opposite of what Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello handed over to us, saying ‘we are here to rescue our land and her children from further hardship.”

Okoroma, a former governorship candidate of the ADC, regretted that the Tinubu-led administration had so far taken the nation several years backwards in growth and in development, noting that loans so far borrowed by the administration had far exceeded those borrowed between 1960 and 2023.

“No nation can develop in the absence of infrastructures, reliable and dependable security networks and sound education,” he said.

The Imo ADC chairman argued that the unabated tempo of insurgency resulting in ceaseless massacres, killings, kidnappings, abductions and destruction of properties ravaging the nation is an indication that the civil war which erupted in 1967 is yet to end, saying the journey to rescue Imo which is now the most backward state in the southeast and the nation at large which has become a laughing stock among the comity of nations is the reason we are here.

He said,”There is a collapse of leadership in Imo state, and we are out to lay a solid foundation for the future of our youths and our children.”

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