Former African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential aspirant, Prof Kingsley Moghalu, has dumped the party over what he described as a fundamental clash of values between himself and the Okey Ralph Nwosu-led leadership of the party.
Recall that Moghalu finished second in the ADC presidential primary, scoring 589 votes, losing to Dumebi Kachikwu who became the party’s flagbearer with 977 votes.
Moghalu stated the resignation of his ADC membership in a letter addressed to party Chairman, Chief Okey Ralph Nwosu, on Monday, June 13, 2022.
Although he didn’t disclose his next move, Moghalu accused Nwosu of reneging on his promise to provide transportation and accommodation for the delegates, which would have provided a level playing field.
According to Moghalu, the deliberate failure by the ADC leadership to provide logistics for delegates paved the way for the monetization of the presidential primary.
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The letter reads, “I am writing to hand in my resignation from my membership of the African Democratic Congress, effective immediately.
“I have resigned because the process and conduct of the party’s presidential primary on June 8, 2022 at Abeokuta revealed a fundamental clash of values between me and your leadership of the party.
“Despite the circular you issued a few days prior to the primary committing the party to providing transportation and accommodation for delegates to and in Abeokuta, and which as we agreed would provide a level playing field for all the presidential aspirants, the party under your leadership failed to do so.
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“Some aspirants, including myself, made donations to the ADC party account as requested by the party for this purpose.
“This failure, which appeared intentional, created room for massive abuses of the electoral process including delegate capture and financial inducement of delegates.
“This is only one of numerous inconsistencies and the absence of transparency and predictability in the management of the party that I had progressively complained about.
“As you are well aware, I have consistently resisted pressures to join the APC or the PDP precisely to avoid ‘cash-and-carry’ politics.
“For me to remain a member of the ADC therefore, after what thousands of party members participated in at Abeokuta, would be to endorse political corruption of a most obscene order.
“I joined the ADC in October 2021 with the best of intentions. Since then, I have put my entire team to work on growing and improving the party, including raising the party’s visibility on all media platforms, recruiting more than 10,000 new members to the party, and providing new offices for various state chapters of the party at my expense.
“It is deeply regrettable that other inducements appear to have played more important roles in determining the outcome of the primary than loyalty to the party.”