Following extensive consultations across all our structures, and after an emergency meeting held today in Ozoro, we, the LGA Chairmen and Executives of the Delta South Senatorial District, comprising Bomadi LGA, Burutu LGA, Isoko North LGA, Isoko South LGA, Patani LGA, Warri North LGA, Warri South LGA, and Warri South-West LGA, together with all our Ward Chairmen, hereby restate our full, total, and unshakable support for Engr. Austin Okolie as the Capacity Chairman of the Delta State ADC Chapter.
This decision is grounded not only in his performance, but also in the constitutional provisions of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), which identify the State Working Committee (SWC) as the principal administrative organ of the party at the state level.
CONSTITUTIONAL BACKING
In line with the ADC Constitution, the following provisions guide and support our position:
- Recognition of Party Organs
The Constitution recognizes State, LGA, and Ward organs as the legitimate and authoritative structures of the party.
- Powers of the State Working Committee (SWC)
The SWC is empowered to:
Supervise all ADC activities within the state.
Direct LGA and Ward structures.
Maintain discipline and party cohesion.
Resist illegal factions and unauthorized gatherings.
- Authority of LGA Chairmen
LGA Chairmen are recognized as:
The highest party officers at the local government level.
Key custodians of the grassroots mandate.
Essential voices in validating or rejecting leadership claims.
- Prohibition of Unauthorized Factions
The Constitution prohibits:
Any suspended officer from convening, presiding over, or validating meetings.
Individuals or groups acting outside due process from issuing binding directives.
Parallel gatherings not sanctioned by the SWC or National Working Committee (NWC).
- Discipline and Due Process
Only legally constituted organs can issue valid instructions or objections.
Actions carried out outside constitutional recognition have no legal, political, or administrative effect.
ON THE SUSPENDED VC SOUTH–SOUTH
It is important to clearly state that the ADC Vice Chairman, South–South, Mr. Usani Uguru, who has been attempting to do the bidding of some power-drunk individuals in Delta State, is currently on suspension.
By constitutional implication:
A suspended officer cannot convene or authorize any meeting.
Such a person cannot issue directives to State, LGA, or Ward structures.
Any gathering coordinated or influenced by a suspended officer lacks legitimacy, constitutional backing, and internal party recognition.
Therefore, the meeting purportedly held today under his influence has no standing, no authority, and no relevance whatsoever within the ADC administrative framework.
CALL TO THE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP
We call on the National Working Committee, led by the National Chairman Senator David Bonaventure Mark and the National Secretary Rafiu Arubusola, to disregard the activities and petitions of these individuals whose actions are targeted at destabilizing the party in Delta State.
Their actions do not reflect the will of authentic party structures and are directly at variance with provisions of the ADC Constitution.
OUR POSITION
As the foundational organs of the party, we reaffirm:
Full confidence in the State Working Committee.
Full support for Engr. Austin Okolie.
Total rejection of all unauthorized, unconstitutional, and destabilizing activities.
Upholding the supremacy of the ADC Constitution at all levels.
Unity, discipline, and respect for the party constitution remain the foundation upon which we shall continue to build a stronger ADC in Delta State.
DISCLAIMER
We boldly and completely dissociate ourselves from the politically meaningless charade and disorganized spectacle that took place in Asaba today—an event orchestrated outside constitutional authority and therefore irrelevant to genuine ADC members in Delta State.
Signed:
All Delta South LGAs Chairmen
African Democratic Congress (ADC).
