The Interim National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Sen. David Mark, says the party has no preferred or favorite presidential aspirant for the 2027 general election.
Mark stated this while addressing stakeholders of the Kogi State chapter of the ADC at a meeting in Abuja on Tuesday.
He assured Nigerians that, under his leadership, the party would be absolutely transparent.
“The ADC has no preferred or favorite presidential aspirant but has set out to first put out a platform that would be attractive and acceptable to the majority of Nigerians.
“We are doing this because we do not want this great ship called Nigeria to sink, because if we do not rise up, and now, they will sink all of us,” he counseled.
Mark added that all members of the party were “equal stakeholders, equal joiners, equal owners.”
“I don’t own this party more than any of our members, and I urge all members to prepare to show Nigerians that ADC is a different party.
“A different party that is ready to properly run democracy in our country. All Nigerians must come together and take ownership of the ADC,” he added.
He urged members to put their differences aside and work as a team, adding that, “we must bond together to build the party before we can talk of ambitions.”
He charged members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop attacking individuals but should concentrate on addressing insecurity and other challenges confronting the country, which the ADC had raised.
“Let us continue to work to rebuild our nation and bring out her best in the overall interest of future generations,” he submitted.
Meanwhile, the National Legal Support Group for ADC, Mohammed Sheriff, has said that names of non-ADC members were being used to file a suit against the party and its interim leadership.
Sheriff alleged that the names being used to file the suit were neither in the ADC physical nor digital registers in Kogi or Nasarawa State.
Sheriff expressed the group’s readiness to represent the ADC in the courts over the matter filed against the party and its interim officers.
Sheriff disclosed that no fewer than 97 lawyers had indicated their preparedness to stand for the party.