{"id":173374,"date":"2025-08-11T12:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/our-membership-is-now-over-800000-rivers-adc-boasts"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:53:25","slug":"our-membership-is-now-over-800000-rivers-adc-boasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/our-membership-is-now-over-800000-rivers-adc-boasts","title":{"rendered":"Our membership is now over 800,000 \u2013 Rivers ADC boasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Rivers State has said its recorded recorded over 800,000 members.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed by the party\u2019s State Publicity Secretary, Luckyman Egila, during a media briefing in Port Harcourt on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Egila described the ADC as \u201ca beautiful bride\u201d, noting that notable political figures, including two former governors and two senators, had officially joined and obtained their membership cards.<\/p>\n<p>He further listed the new members as former Governors Rotimi Amaechi and Celestine Omehia; former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus; Senator Lee Maeba; and Senator Andrew Uchendu, who currently serves as the ADC Vice Chairman, South-South.<\/p>\n<p>Egila said, \u201cThese persons have left their former parties, and they are now full members of the ADC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you can only become a member of a party when you have registered with that party and issued with a membership card. So all of them are now full members of the ADC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Egila also named former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Austin Okpara, and former Minister of Transport, Abiye Sekibo, among the party\u2019s ranks.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed confidence that more influential figures from other political platforms would join in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the party\u2019s reach, Egila stated that the ADC had existing structures across all local government areas and communities in the state even before its recent expansion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have grown from where we were, and as of today, we have over 800,000 members in Rivers State, and the number is growing by the day,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the party had a history of political participation prior to the coalition, having contested the 2023 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Egila dismissed any notion of internal disputes, saying, \u201cWe are one of the parties that Rivers people sorted for and voted for in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe African Democratic Congress is united, and I assure you there is no crisis in our party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a party that has integrity and we don\u2019t tolerate any form of disrespect or any act that will bring the party to disrepute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Rivers State has said its recorded recorded over 800,000 members. This was disclosed by the party\u2019s State Publicity Secretary, Luckyman Egila, during a media briefing in Port Harcourt on Friday. Egila described the ADC as \u201ca beautiful bride\u201d, noting that notable political figures, including two former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[118,254,421],"class_list":["post-173374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-adc","tag-nigeria","tag-rivers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Our membership is now over 800,000 \u2013 Rivers ADC boasts - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Rivers State has said its recorded recorded over 800,000 members. 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