2027: Atiku shouldn’t be considered for President — Kachikwu

Atiku

Former Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Mr Dumebi Kachikwu, yesterday took a swipe at former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, accusing him and members of ADC coalition of dividing the party.

He also faulted the purported ambition of the former Vice President to contest on the ADC platform, saying Atiku does not believe in a southern president.Addressing journalists in Abuja, Kachikwu urged the ADC coalition not to offer the party’s platform to Atiku for the 2027 presidential election. He insisted that the former VP and members of the coalition should not be allowed to hijack the party.

The former ADC presidential candidate also alleged that some state chairmen of the party were offered N20 million each to resign their positions.

He said: “This is a man whose antecedents clearly show he doesn’t believe anyone from the southern part of Nigeria deserves being president.

“Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has shown that he doesn’t believe any other section of the country should produce the next president except himself. Atiku almost truncated Chief Obasanjo’s government. He is using charlatans to deceive Peter Obi into running as his vice-presidential candidate.

“I challenge Atiku to say that the presidency belongs to the South. I will reiterate that the ADC is not for sale. As a member of the party, I have a stake and will not allow strangers to hijack it. The so-called coalition members are not ADC members; they came to cause upheavals in the party.

“The presidency is not—and will never be—the birthright of any one section of this country, no matter how much propaganda they spread.

“There is a lot of deliberate misinformation being peddled by these agents of destabilization masquerading as a political coalition. There’s a clear difference between a political coalition and a political gang.

“The first has noble ideals, while the latter seeks power for personal gain. 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 fortunes. They are truly on a rescue mission, but it is a mission to rescue themselves from the harsh economic realities they helped create for our nation. Vanguard