Choice of presidential candidate will set coalition apart, Kachikwu predicts
The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dumebi Kachikwu has forewarned that the coalition movement of opposition position which collapsed into the ADC will suffer a great setback when the race for presidential flagbeater starts.
He predicted that the movement of strange political bed fellows will sooner than expected disintegrate because key gladiators will.place personal interest above the national interest they professed.
Kachikwu told journalists in Abuja on Thursday that leaders of the new ADC are power seekers without cogent ideology towards national development.
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He mocked the coalition for building the movement around Atiku Abubakar who he said will definitely be presented to fly the flag of ADC in the 2027 election..
He challenged them to name a presidential candidate from the southern part of the country.
He said “we had a meeting with the coalition. Everything they said is about President Bola Ahmed Tinubu having destroyed Nigeria. This is what is typical of every Nigerian.
“I had only one question for them. The question was, since we just had the first eight years of President Muhammadu Buhari and Tinubu has done one term. Do you agree that if there is a coalition, the South will produce the flag bearers of this coalition? The immediate response was that we are taking our power back.”
“The coalition is engineered to produce Atiku Abubakar as president.
“I still say this today: I am throwing a challenge to them that they should make a statement that the flagbearer of the coalition will be someone from the southern party of Nigeria so that the region will conclude their presidential. You will discover that this is the hardest thing for them to do. It is engineered to produce Atiku”
