African Democratic Congress (ADC) rose from a meeting of its National Working Committee, yesterday, warning the nation of the actions of some state governors, which it described as threats to democracy.

Speaking on behalf of the party at a press conference, National Chairman, Ralph Okey Nwosu, accused state governors of being lawless.

“I know the challenges we have and because of that, I am calling on the National Security Adviser (NSA), the Inspector General of Police, the Director General of Department of State Services, and the Independent National Electoral Commission to look into what is happening in Kogi and Imo states and call their governors to order, because what they are doing is not governance; they are running down our democracy,” Nwosu alleged.

He claimed: “Governors in almost all the states have become emperors; they are controlling the local government. In the last 20 years, there has been nothing happening in the local government. And without local government, there is no grassroots development.’’

Development is bottom up; not up to bottom. It cannot work.
“Those acting like emperors, seizing local government accounts, must be called to order. The NSA has a job. The All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party governors are causing mayhem. They want to influence almost everything. They select who becomes local government chairman. They select people who go to the state House of Assembly, those who go to the National Assembly, and they are beginning to put their stronghold on who becomes governor, and even president.”