Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - A former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has officially joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Naija News reports that Oyegun, a former Edo State
Governor, received the membership card of his new party on Tuesday.
His membership card was
handed to him by the party’s state chairman, Kennedy Odion, after he
registered with the ADC in Benin city, the Edo State capital.
Speaking at the
presentation, Odion said the former APC national chairman is not new to the
formation of political coalitions.
He recalled Oyegun’s
involvement with the formation of a coalition that led to the emergence of the
APC in 2013 that eventually ousted the administration of former President
Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.
He said: “He has put together what is
called a coalition before, and he succeeded. So, in mathematics, once you
understand the formula, the answer is in view. So, he understands how he did it
before, so doing it again is not a difficult task.
“So as God may have it, he is not from any
other state but from the heartbeat of this nation, Edo State and we are moving
the coalition together.
“He was the chairman of the implementation
committee that decided that ADC would be the platform.”
On his part, the former governor said the ADC has the
interest of Nigerians at heart.
He said: “We talked to a lot of parties,
about seven of them. Up till the very last minute. We made a report and we said
ADC. And some said, ‘No, no, no, you must still talk to this, you must still
talk to that.’
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