The presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the 2023 election, Dumebi Kachikwu, has stated that some coalition members now regret forming an alliance with the ADC.

Naija News reports that among the coalition leaders are former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, a former Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, former Kaduna governor, Nasir el-Rufai, and former chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Oyegun.

Others include former Governor of Jigawa, Sule Lamido, former PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus, former Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, former Governor of Ebonyi, Sam Egwu, former Governor of Sokoto, Aminu Tambuwal, former Governor of Cross River, Liyel Imoke, among others.

Speaking during an interview on The Volume Pod, Kachikwu stated that the opposition coalition is on a slippery slope and will ultimately fail.

Kachikwu challenged the coalition’s legitimacy, citing unresolved legal disputes in court over ADC leadership.

According to him, Ralph Nwosu’s term as ADC national chairman expired two years ago, and he lacked the authority to transfer leadership to select persons in a controversial coalition.

Kachikwu said that only the court can decide the fate of the ADC, emphasising that the opposition leaders allegedly bribed state chairpersons of the ADC to endorse their adoption of the party as an alliance platform.

He said, “They are walking down a very slippery slope that only ends in one place: failure. You cannot build something on nothing.

“Two courts in two different jurisdictions did not make a mistake when they ruled that this man’s [Nwosu] tenure had elapsed.

“So, there is nothing they [ADC] would do that would make sense. Nwosu’s tenure expired two years ago; there has been no national executive committee (NEC) or convention.

“They (ADC) have been trying to have a convention. In fact, they did two conventions, and INEC refused to recognise it.

“That is the problem of the party. We [ADC] are facing special circumstances that our constitution never envisaged would have a lacuna within the party.

“All these men now realise that they made a mistake in entering this party without dealing with these issues because they are reaching out to me through several people.”

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