By Peter Adelowo
The 2023 Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dumebi Kachikwu says the Atiku led coalition is a political gang that seeks power for personal gains.
Kachikwu who stated this at a news conference in Abuja, said that Nigeria is not for a particular region.
He described the Coalition as 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” he stated.
Kachikwu stressed that former vice president Atiku does not believe that someone who is not a northern can become a president.
“Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, a man whose antecedents clearly shows 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” Kachikwu stated
He emphasized that Atiku
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 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” Kachikwu stressed.
“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”
