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A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Chille Igbawua, says the party is not a vehicle for former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar in next year’s general elections.
Igbawua made this statement on Monday during a live appearance in an interview on Channels Television’s ‘The Morning Brief’.
He was reacting to the defection of the former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and his New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, counterpart, Rabi’u Kwankwaso.
DAILY POST reports that Obi and Kwankwaso on Sunday officially joined the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC.
Reacting, Igbawua said, “I am sufficiently an insider enough to know if discussions were held, who was deciding who was going to emerge. And I’ve said that this certainty about who will emerge is that it will be through a transparent and open process.
“We have sufficiently over the time denied this issue that the ADC is a special-purpose vehicle for Atiku Abubakar.
“That certainly is untrue. Nobody who has come into ADC has been given preference over him.”
