ADC: Candidates Who Represented Us In Bye-Election Not Known By Party

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has revealed the reason why the party lost the recently conducted by-elections in the country.

Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC spokesman said on Wednesday on Channels Television programme, Politics Today that the party failed to perform well in the election, because its candidates were not well known by the party.

According to the results released by the electoral umpire,  Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC the ADC performed woefully because none of its candidate won in all the federal constituencies in which elections were conducted.

Out of the 16 constituency seats in which elections were conducted, ADC did not win any seat. The three political parties which won include the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, PDP and APGA.

Abdullahi said the party lost because most of the candidates were strange to the party, urging Nigerians to watch out for the ADC in the upcoming election in less than two years.

He also explained that the ADC was only adopted few weeks before the election by key apposition leaders in the country as their party for the next election, as such, there was no enough time to prepare for the election.

Abdullahi: “We’ve explained it, we’ve issued a statement, we’ve talked about it several times. For us, the election happened less than a month after we came into the party. Most of the candidates, we didn’t even know them, and that’s why we said we cannot judge the ADC by that.

“You’re just talking about us transitioning into establishing our real leadership at this time. So, the by-election that you talked about happened too early in terms of transition for the party.

“So, we don’t want to be judged by the outcome of that election; other elections are coming, and we will be ready for those.”