2027: Atiku doesn’t believe in Southern Presidency and should be ignored – Kachikwu

…Says he will run again in 2027

…Accuses those parading themselves as ADC leaders as impostors as the party doesn’t have a chairman for now

By Soni Daniel, Editor Northern Region

Abuja: The Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the 2023 election, Mr. Dumebi Kachikwu, has declared that Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi and others currently parading themselves as ADC leaders are wasting their time.

Kachikwu, who spoke at a media briefing in Abuja on Friday, described Atiku and his co-travelers as impostors who have no moral right to claim ownership of ADC.

He accused the new claimants of using the deposed national chairman of the party Palph Nwosu to usurp the party’s platform to foist themselves on the genuine members of the party, describing the action as illegal and provocative.

Kachikwu said he remains the authentic leader and potential candidate of the ADC in the next Presidential election.

“I intend to run again on the ADC platform in 2027 and I remain the candidate to beat in the next election,” Kachikwu declared.

Specifically, Kachikwu accused Atiku Abubakar of being against the interest of Southern Nigeria by always presenting himself for the presidency in every election, and asked Nigerians to be wary of the former vice president.

Kachikwu said, “Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, a man who claims affinity and friendship with the south does not believe any southerner deserves to be president of Nigeria. Former Presidents Obasanjo and Jonathan are alive to attest to this uncomfortable truth. In their desperation to hijack the ADC they deliberately perpetrated fraud of which I now present evidence to you today.

“To use the ADC, they needed to free it of all legal encumbrances such as those challenging Ralph Nwosu’s fraudulent claim to the chairmanship of the party and so they forged signatures of some of the chairmen who were not interested in the sale of the party and presented it to the court as terms of settlement which the Court of Appeal adopted as judgement. I have here copies of said judgement and international passport copies of the chairmen whose signatures were forged, ladies and gentlemen of the press please compare the signature specimens.

“Our lawyers have dispatched petitions to the appropriate law enforcement agencies on this. As if this was not bad enough, we all watched almost two months ago the comedic performance of Ralph Nwosu as he anointed David Mark as chairman of the ADC and at the same time presented him with a membership card of our party. I again warned Nigerians that this was fraud being perpetrated in broad daylight as Nwosu had no legal mandate to anoint or appoint a chairman for our party.

“Sections of the media subsequently addressed David Mark as chairman of the ADC even though they knew it was constitutionally impossible for this to be so but again; this is Nigeria where anything is possible. The same media then less than ten days ago covered and reported a supposed NEC meeting where the same David Mark was again appointed or anointed as Chairman of the ADC. So, what are we to believe? When did former senate president David Mark become the chairman of the ADC?

“These men are following the law to correct their illegalities in full view of Nigerians, INEC and the media but nobody is asking questions because we are supposed to be a nation of anything goes.

“What is the fallout of all these? What is the place of region, religion, tribe and tongue in all of this? Nigerians, please listen to me loud and clear: Atiku Abubakar and a few northern elites who have for decades held political power but did nothing to alleviate the undereducation and attendant impoverishment in northern Nigeria for political purposes, are at it again. They have armed the weapons of region, religion, tongue, tribe and poverty as they convince millions of poor Northerners that a southern President Tinubu hates them and is the cause of their poverty.

“On a daily basis they are spreading deliberate falsehoods against not only President Tinubu but against all potential southern aspirants for the Office of President. A Peter Obi has been told in very clear terms that he will never get northern votes as an Ibo man and as such he should accept to be Atiku’s running mate.

“In order to weaken the South, they have now drafted in former President Jonathan into the race who is alleged to be offering Peter Obi the position of coordinating Minister of the Economy for him to support his ambition. In all these, Nigerians are the losers because meritocracy which can only thrive when ceteris paribus is in play has been thrown out of the door because of a truth ceteris paribus doesn’t exist in the Nigerian ecosystem.

“Sadly, I am now here before you championing the cause of a southern presidency, a notion that before now was totally against all I believed in. Nigeria has indeed happened to me.

“I urge all Nigerians to resist former vice president Atiku and his co-travelers who don’t believe in an equitable Nigeria. We must all come to equity with clean hands and sincerity of purpose.

“We don’t burn our houses because we want to kill rats and cockroaches; sometimes we just need to make our houses clean so that rats and cockroaches leave on their own,” Kachikwu pleaded with Nigerians and presented copies of documents to prove that the former National Chairman of the ADC had been signing documents on behalf of the party even after having left the party two years ago.

Kachikwu stated that a case of signature tampering had been lodged with the police and other security agencies to investigate and prosecute Nwosu and others who presented themselves as leaders of the ADC many years after leaving office.

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