Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the first substantive National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has obtained the membership card of the newly-rejuvenated African Democratic Congress (ADC).
He took the step when he visited the Edo State Secretariat of ADC on Tuesday June 15.
The former Governor of Edo State collected his membership card from the ADC State Chairman, Hon. Odion O. Kennedy.
A former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Governor of Edo State, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, has received a membership card of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Edo State.
Odion, who presented the card at the party’s secretariat in Benin City, said Oyegun was not new to forming a coalition and had previously put one together that succeeded.
.According to Odion, Oyegun was repeating history to redeem the nation from its economic quagmire.
Odion said: “In mathematics, once you understand the formula, the answer is in view. So, he understands how he did it before, so doing it again is not a difficult task.
“So as God may have it, he is not from any other state but from the heartbeat of this nation cum Edo State, and we are moving the coalition together.
“He was Che chairman of the implementation committee that decided that ADC would be the platform.”
Oyegun said pressure from Nigerians resulted in the formation of the coalition.
He said: “We talked to a lot of people about seven others. Up till the very last minute. We made a report and we said ADC. And some said, ‘No, no, no, you must still talk to this, you must still talk to that.’ So, we delayed the decision for another fortnight.
“At the end of our meeting, we still came back. I said, “Yes, what do you ask us to do? We’ve done it. We’ve talked to the others, but we have not seen a party as dedicated as the ADC.”
According to Oyegun, the ruling APC brought hunger and starvation in the country, lamenting that the nation had never been divided as it is under the present administration.
The former Edo Governor blamed the APC-led government for its inability to tackle the rising insecurity in the country.
He dismissed talks that the ADC was planning to disrupt Tinubu’s administration, saying such talks were to diminish the aims and objectives of the coalition, which is to rescue Nigerians.
Oyegun said the party was growing by the day, saying more notable politicians were coming to join the party.
“One can say we are the largest party in this nation. We are growing by the day, we are growing by the week. We are growing by the month. People understand. In all parties, we are not talking; it’s still ADC, but ADC is now a mix of the best of PDP.
“Some of the best of APC, a lot of them are still coming on the way. And all the other parties. And the good thing is that you haven’t seen a lot of the faces yet, both professionals, people who never thought of politics, people who just finished handling heights of the economy, but in whatever service, I don’t want to mention the various services.
“The ADC today is a movement, and it is a movement that is driven by the people. You won’t believe how much we had to worry. We have not planned to unveil just yet, but the pressure from Nigerians was just unbearable. They keep talking to us about what the platform is. What is the platform? So we sat down one day and said, okay, this very next week, let us unveil whatever it is. We are still going to do a proper launch. But the pressure from Nigeria was so much that we had to hurry with what we then called unveiling.
“So, a lot of good things. We are not against anybody. We are just for our country, Nigeria. And we want to save this very precious country, Nigeria, specially put together by God himself for the black race. 230 million people.”
