ADC suspends S’South Vice Chair over alleged constitutional breach

By Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA: The African Democratic Congress ADC has suspended its National Vice Chairman (South-South), Dr Usani Uguru Usani, implicit alleged violations of the party’s constitution and activities considered harmful to its unity and electoral fortunes.

His suspension followed resolutions reached astatine the gathering of the State Working Committee SWC of the Cross River State section of the enactment held connected Wednesday, October 15, 2025.

In a connection obtained by Vanguard successful Abuja, State Publicity Secretary of the ADC, Hon. James Otudor, said the determination was informed by aggregate petitions and reports accusing Dr. Usani of anti-party activities, insubordination, and behaviour susceptible of undermining the cohesion and nationalist representation of the party.

According to Otudor, the suspension volition stay successful unit pending the decision of a ceremonial probe by the party’s disciplinary organs successful enactment with the ADC constitution.

The committee besides faulted the assignment of Ms. Jackie Wayas arsenic Deputy National Publicity Secretary, saying she was imposed connected the authorities without consultation.

It alleged that Ms. Wayas had neither engaged the authorities enactment since assuming bureau nor demonstrated loyalty to the unity and maturation of the enactment successful Cross River.

The SWC truthful urged the nationalist enactment to reappraisal her assignment and regenerate her with a “competent, credible and media-savvy” typical from Cross River who has a proven grounds of committedness to ADC ideals.

Raising further concerns, the SWC accused immoderate members of the Coalition Movement, who had publically declared for ADC, of failing to formalize their rank months aft making the pledge.

The enactment warned it would not licence dual rank oregon let its level to beryllium utilized by individuals pursuing “multiple partisan interests.”

It besides noted that immoderate conjugation figures who participated successful ADC strategy meetings person since accepted caretaker oregon enactment positions successful their erstwhile governmental parties.

The connection directed each conjugation leaders and intending members to regularize their registration astatine ward level wrong 7 days, ending Saturday, October 25, 2025, oregon hazard exclusion from enactment and decision-making structures.

Reaffirming loyalty to the ADC’s nationalist leadership, the Cross River section assured members of its readiness to supply credible enactment and physique a people-oriented alternate governmental level successful the authorities and crossed the South-South.

“We impulse each members to stay calm, law-abiding, and steadfast arsenic the party’s interior mechanisms for discipline, justness and accountability instrumentality their afloat course,” the connection added.

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