The African Democratic Congress (ADC) is worried about what it calls repeated and “shameful” refusals to let it hold its national convention in Abuja.
Kola Ologbondiyan, the head of the party’s media and publicity subcommittee for the convention, said this on Arise Television’s Morning Show on Tuesday.
Ologbondiyan said that the party had a lot of trouble finding a place to hold the event. For example, party officials were invited to look at an event center in Mabushi, Abuja, but were turned away when they got there.
Ologbondiyan called the situation strange and said that political pressure might be behind the repeated denials, even though the country is not yet in an election period.
Ologbondiyan said, “Let me tell you about what the ADC has been through in the last few days in terms of location. It’s shameful.” That’s the best way to put it: very shameful.
“I’ll give you one example that I was a part of. We were in Garki when they called and said, “Oh, there’s an event center near Mabushi, and they’ve invited us to come check it out to see if it’s right for us.”
“I don’t know how much you know about Abuja, but it took us about 10 to 15 minutes to get from Garki to Mabushi.” When we got to the Mabushi Event Center, they called again to say they were sorry.
“They had an event that they needed to plan for, and this one we asked for fell within those two days. That’s how we were turned down.
“I don’t want to list the names of hotels and event centers that the party is using for the convention. And were turned down.
“It’s strange to me because it’s not election time yet, and people who say they are in government, like 36 governors and the FCT Minister, are so scared.”
