Peter Obi resigns from ADC over rising internal crisis
Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has resigned from the African Democratic Congress (ADC), citing growing internal instability and external interference within the party.
Obi made the announcement in a statement shared on his verified X handle on Sunday, where he was careful to distance his decision from any personal conflict with the party’s leadership.
“Let me state clearly my decision to leave the ADC is not because our highly respected Chairman, Senator David Mark, treated me badly, nor because my leader and elder brother, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, or any other respected leaders did anything personally wrong to me. I will continue to respect them,” Obi stated.
Despite his respect for party leaders, Obi pointed to deeper structural issues as the driving force behind his exit. He warned that the same political forces that destabilized the Labour Party are now creeping into the ADC.
“However, the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced me to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC,” he said.
Obi further expressed concern over the party’s direction, lamenting that internal conflicts are overshadowing its national purpose.
“With endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building,” he added.
His resignation underscores growing concerns about cohesion within opposition parties, as political tensions and institutional challenges continue to shape Nigeria’s democratic landscape.
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