* Party begins membership revalidation exercise
The National Chairman of African Democratic Congress (ADC), Senator David Mark, has expressed optimism that the party is on the right footing to sack the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 general election.
The former Senate President tasked members to take advantage of the party’s membership and revalidation exercise to obtain their membership card and also mobilize all Nigerians to embrace the party.
Mark made the boast in his opening speech on Thursday in Abuja during the flag-off of Membership Registration and Revalidation Exercise.
According to the National Chairman, “ADC is a new bride in town. Everybody, anywhere you go to, people want to join ADC, they clamour to get the cards. People have been saying, where are your cards? The cards are out now.
“I assure you that in 2027, ADC will form the government and this is the foundation. It is the foundation that we are laying today” he said.
The national secretary of the party, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in his remarks, said that ADC will be real and open in its registration and membership process. He said that while other party’s bandy false figures and end up in falsehood even after they win elections, ADC will provide fact and will be transparent in all its dealings.
“Across our political landscape, parties have become addicted to the illusion of size. They inflate membership rolls with phantom names, duplicate entries, and invented identities—all to project a strength they do not possess. The registers are fat, but the structures are hollow.
“We must not follow that path. We must resist—with every fibre of our conviction—the temptation to bloat our figures with imaginary people. It does not help us. It does not strengthen us. At the end of such an exercise, all we will have is a token register propped up by a weak structure—impressive on paper, powerless in practice.
“A party of ghosts cannot win elections. A party of ghosts cannot govern. A party of ghosts cannot hold its leaders to account. And a party of ghosts will, inevitably, be haunted by its own dishonesty,” Aregbosola said.
