The gulf between the National Working Committee (NWC) of the African Democratic Party (ADC) and its expelled presidential candidate, Dumebi Kachukwu, is getting wider.

The party’s leadership has asked him to keep it out of his “foolery”.

The party’s highest administrative organ also denied any peace deal with Kachukwu.

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ADC had expelled Kachikwu for alleged anti-party activities and disrespect for its leaders, among others.

But embattled presidential candidate, on a national television, recently expressed his readiness for reconciliation.

In a statement yesterday in Abuja by its National Chairman, Chief Ralfs Okey Nwosu, and National Secretary, Alhaji Said Baba Abdullahi, the party said: “The attention of the leadership of ADC has been drawn to a circus being orchestrated by Dumebi Kachukwu, the expelled presidential candidate of the ADC. Our party is unaware of this purported reconciliation of the dispute in the party as announced by Dumebi and his co-travellers on AIT and various media platforms.

“It should be clear that since Dumebi Kachikwu got the ADC presidential ticket in June 2022, instead of using the ticket to drive the party towards the Presidency, rather, he chose to undermine the party and stagnate its progress; and has been trying to hijack the party through the backdoor and to destroy all our efforts for reasons best known to him.”