The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said the coalition movement is not designed for the 2027 presidential ambition of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
The national publicity secretary of ADC, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, stated this as a guest on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Thursday.
Abdullahi said the narrative about the ADC being a platform to realise Atiku’s ambition is a deliberate orchestration of those who want the coalition not to succeed.
He maintained that the party does not have a favourite candidate. He said, “ADC is not built around an Atiku,” adding, “It is absolutely not an Atiku coalition.”
The spokesman, who stressed that the Atiku narrative was deliberately dispersed before the coalition was convened, added, “At 56, who said I can’t seek to be president?”
On the allegiance of former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to the ADC, Abdullahi said Obi remains committed to the coalition movement
While he insists that Obi has yet to get party membership in ADC, he reiterated that the former presidential candidate and former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, was granted leave by ADC to finalise existing elections in the party’s Labour Party and Social Democratic Party, respectively.
He further said the Obi would not return to the PDP, which he noted has been seeking any politician who can help it rebound.
Responding to why Nigerians should trust his party, the ADC spokesman said the APC promised change and has failed, adding that Nigeria needs to try something else.
