Dumebi Kachikwu, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has told how he declined former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s invitation to collaborate with his counterpart in the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi.
According to him, his reaction to the previous president at the time still stands because he is not withdrawing from the presidential contest.
According to news sources, Kachikwu, who has stated that he intends to run to the end, told pressmen at a news conference on Friday in Abuja that Peter Obi is just like any other candidate in other political parties.
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This came as the ADC flagbearer denied backing Obi just days before the presidential election.
He added that the former Anambra State governor is similar to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirants, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, respectively.
Kachikwu submitted that “I’m not out of the race, I am running this race to the end and if anyone expects that they would hear me before the [2023] elections say that I, as a candidate, am endorsing, I am aligning, or I am pushing for another candidate, that persons are making a solid mistake.
“I believe there’s no difference math of my emergence as the Presidential Candidate of the party, President Olusegun Obasanjo sent for me.
“In that meeting, what he said to me was that having listened to my speech at the party primaries, he now believed that there are two candidates in the race that he should watch for.
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“And that he would like me to look at how I and the Labour candidate can work together or rub our races and at the appropriate time, we would see what happens, but my response then still remains my response now”
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