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By John Ogunsemore
Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo has claimed the African Democratic Congress (ADC) belongs to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
This, he said, made it difficult for the party to zone its presidential ticket like its rivals – All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Keyamo said this in an X post on Thursday, a day after the ADC received a major boost with the defection of former presidential candidate, Peter Obi into its fold.
The senior lawyer warned that the ADC may find itself in the same quagmire that the PDP faced in 2023.
He said, “The ADC is scared to clearly ZONE its Presidential ticket, like the other major parties (PDP and APC) have done, because the party belongs to one man called Atiku Abubakar @atiku.
“It is the EXACT corner that Atiku pushed PDP to in 2023 that ADC now finds itself – the inability to zone its Presidential ticket. In a highly sensitive country like Nigeria, any pan-Nigerian Party MUST be clear as to zoning.
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“The APC Governors did so in 2023 and triumphed. The PDP is still reeling from that disastrous decision in 2023.”
The minister said Atiku’s insistence on being president would not only destroy the party but is capable of fracturing the nation’s fragile unity.
“ATIKU wants to camouflage with Peter Obi and surreptitiously secure his votes and become President on a flawed template that will damage our fragile unity as a nation.
“And Peter Obi is supporting this contraption for selfish reasons – throwing the entire country under the bus for a mess of pottage called a VP ticket. He will soon learn in a hard way.
“Commiserations to the naive Obi supporters who are being led into a dead end by wily, old war horses in politics.
“They will all come back to thank us later after the disaster to which they are all heading,” Keyamo stressed.
