Dumebi Kachikwu, the presidential standard bearer of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has been suspended from the party after an emergency National Working Committee (NWC) meeting held on Friday, IgbereTV reports
This is according to a statement issued by Dr. Bamidele Ajadi, the Deputy National Chairman (Politics) of the party, on Saturday, accusing Kachikwu of fake and defamatory video he allegedly posted online.
Ajadi stated that it considered Kachikwu’s action as “smacking of crass irresponsibility, gross indiscipline, disingenuous scandalization, blackmail and completely unfit of someone who wants to be President of Nigeria.”
Part of the statement reads: “The NWC viewed with great concern the baseless and defamatory video made, published and circulated by Mr. Dumebi Kachikwu, which was intended to disparage and impugn the integrity and image of a peaceful and transformation-oriented African Democratic Congress and its national officers.”
The party claimed that Kachikwu’s speech in the said video contravened the principles and values upon which ADC was established and the specific provision of Article 16 of the ADC Constitution.
While citing the said constitution, Ajadi stated: “Act(s) conduct or utterances likely to bring the party into hatred, contempt or ridicule; engaging in dishonest practices, defrauding the party, its members or officials; engaging in anti-party activities; unauthorized publicity of Party dispute or fractionalization or creating parallel Party organ(s) at any level; engaging in any other activities likely to cause disaffection among Party members or likely to disrupt the peaceful, lawful and efficient conduct of party business; belonging to any such factional group or organ; collusion or conspiracy to convene unauthorized meetings, shall constitute acts of gross misconduct
