The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has dismissed the adoption of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) by opposition politicians.
Wike, speaking on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ on Tuesday, asserted that the ADC is not a coalition, as widely reported, stressing that the movement of a group of individuals from one party to another does not constitute a coalition.
The former Governor of Rivers State cited the merger of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which led to the formation of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2014.
According to Wike, a coalition occurs when two or more political parties come together to form a new one, adding that the outcome of the recently conducted by-elections in 13 states across the country shows that Nigerians are not looking up to the ADC.
He said, “There’s no coalition. What is coalition? You can talk about coalition when CPC and AC and some PDP members went to form another party, that you can call coalition.
“From what happened in the by-election, how can you say Nigerians are looking up to them (ADC)?”
Wike further stated that it is not enough for coalition members, who have previously held elective positions, to tell Nigerians, ‘I will do this’ without showing their track records.
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