A fresh wave of crisis has erupted within the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Benue State, as over 500 members who recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have made a U-turn, abandoning the ADC and returning to their former party.

The defection and counter-defection come barely days after the ADC appointed former Senate President, David Mark, as its interim national leader following his dramatic departure from the PDP.

Mark, who served multiple terms in the Senate under the PDP, had blamed unresolved internal wranglings within the party for his decision to switch allegiance.

The situaton was perceived as a political breakthrough for the ADC has quickly spiraled into turmoil.

Sources within the party revealed that the crisis first broke out in Ogbadibo and Okpokwu Local Government Areas, where longstanding Labour Party and Social Democratic Party, SDP, members accused the returning PDP bloc of attempting to hijack the ADC’s local structures and leadership.

According to an insider, tensions flared when it became evident that former PDP members were angling for control of executive positions, sidelining other blocs. “They want to corner all the juicy positions and leave us with irrelevant roles,” the source said.

Sources confirmed to Daily Post that a majority of the former PDP members who initially joined the ADC have now returned to their original party, deeply dissatisfied with what they describe as internal manipulation, lack of coordination, and failure to honor pre-defection agreements.