** Insist they bribe some state chairmen as much as N20,000,000 to resign their positions
By Olayinka Ajayi
The 2023 Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress ,ADC, Dumebi Kachikwu,, has said former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s ambition to be elected as president under the platform of ADC clearly shows he does not believe in any southern president.
Kachikwu stated this on Thursday during a media briefing on the party.
While commenting on Atiku’s antecedence, he said, “There is a lot of deliberate misinformation going on by these agents of destabilisation masquerading as a political coalition. There is a clear difference between a political coalition and a political gang.
“The first has noble ideals while the gang seeks power for personal gains. What we have here today is a gang unable to survive outside political office seeking to hijack the ADC as a means to revive their personal economies. They are truly on a rescue mission, but it is a mission to rescue themselves from the harsh economic realities which they themselves created for our nation.
“They accuse me of being a paid spokesperson for President Tinubu, and my response is this: it would be an honour to be a spokesperson for the president of the largest Black nation on earth, but unfortunately that’s not who I am. Political jobbers who have no visible means of livelihood are always eager to tar others, but I remain unfazed.
They, with the active support of their cohorts in the media, now say they are the ADC: they are not. I can call myself the president of America till I am blue in the face, but it doesn’t make it so. They are offering some of the state chairmen as much as N20,000,000 to resign their positions, which goes to show that their intentions are not honourable.
“My question to this gang is this: if you succeed in paying off all the ADC party officials at state and local government levels to resign, what next? Our constitution still doesn’t allow you to assume those offices. This is the plain and simple truth. Your money will get you nowhere in the ADC.
If you have to build your rescue mission on fraudulent misrepresentation, it just shows who you really are.
The imposter who claims he is their spokesperson made bold to say that I am merely the former presidential candidate of the party and not a party official. His pedestrian argument is that only party officials can challenge party affairs. This is the same elitist ignorance that brought Nigeria to this point where we believe Nigeria is only for the rich and powerful. Bolaji, please be informed that every member of our party, no matter how poor you people have made them, has a say in the ADC.
“This fake coalition are staging events in different parts of the country where they pay poor Nigerians to say they are decamping from other parties to the ADC. This is the typical strategy mesh of these old politicians, and we have had enough of it. They need to sing a new song.
“Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, a man whose antecedents clearly show he doesn’t believe anyone from the southern part of Nigeria is deserving of being president of Nigeria, orchestrated this charade for his personal benefit. He almost truncated President Obasanjo’s return for a second term because he believed the seat was his. President Jonathan suffered the same fate, and then after eight years of late President Buhari as president, the same Atiku believed it was morally right for him to be the presidential flag bearer of the PDP in the last presidential elections.
This was most unjust and unfair and led to the current disintegration of that party. He is now using some charlatans to deceive former governor Peter Obi that only he, Atiku, has what it takes to win an election because he can get the majority of the North to vote for him.
This is most uncharitable of him. If the former vice president says my assertions are not true and that all he wants is a better Nigeria, I then challenge him today to publicly declare that equity demands that the presidency should stay in the South for another six years.
He can then support any southern candidate of his choice. He will never do this, but if he chooses to continue on this slippery slope, I want to reiterate that the ADC is not for sale and is not an old people’s home.
We are a party that believes Nigeria needs fresh faces, fresh ideals and fresh ideas. This current political war is the war of the old for the old; it is not our fight.
“In the ADC, Nigeria and Nigerians will always remain our objective.”
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