Obinna Don Norman, Chairmanof African Democratic Congress, Abia State
Abia ADC holds State Congress Thursday
From Boniface Okoro, Umuahia
Abia State chapter of Africa Democratic Congress (ADC) will hold its state congress in Umuahia on Thursday, May 12, 2022 to elect a new state executive committee to pilot the affairs of the party in the state.
The Congress will draw delegates from across the wards and local governments in the state and would be supervised by officials from the national headquarters of the party, and, as well, monitored by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The Oracle Today gathered that the Congress, expected to be peaceful, would be more or less an affirmation of the existing Obinna Don Norman-led State Executive Committee appointed in late November last year.
Sources in the party said that the Don Norman executive has performed creditably in the last four months of its action-packed existence.
Party faithful told The Oracle Today that the “dynamic State Chairman, Obinna Don Norman, who is a journalist, has achieved the mandate given to him on his appointment.”
National Chairman of ADC, Chief Ralphs Okey Nwosu, while approving the appointment of Mr. Norman, said that “he (Norman), will be in charge until the congress in three months, within which time we believe his administration will turn ADC Abia to a mass movement for change and transformation.”
In the last four months, Norman has actually made ADC a credible alternative in Abia. ADC now has structures across the 184 Wards and the 17 local governments of the state, local government executives as well as mass followership.
In the party’s kitty also include governorship aspirants, including a Methodist Bishop, Sunday Ndukwo Onuoha, and many other aspirants jostling for many elective positions, courtesy of the hard work by Norman and his supportive executive.
Norman, in a telephone chat, said he expects the exercise would be peaceful, adding that after inauguration, the new state executive would launch many political adventures based on the party’s rescue mission agenda in the state, which, he hopes, would see the party clinch Abia Government House in 2023.
