Nigeria, Dec. 31 -- The African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Kaduna State has poured cold water on a flurry of social media claims suggesting the party was poised to unveil a new state secretariat in the state capital.

In a statement released on Tuesday in Kaduna, the party's State Publicity Secretary, Mr Alex Tagwai, described the circulating reports as a house built on sand, insisting they were false, unauthorised and entirely disconnected from the ADC's official structure.

Tagwai said the so-called announcement did not originate from the party, but from what he termed impostors allegedly bent on undermining the ADC's interests in Kaduna State.

He said: "Neither the State Executive Committee nor the State Working Committee has consti...