The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has revealed the rationale former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, had been absent on the unveiling of its new secretariat in Abuja on November 17.
This was contained in a press release by the occasion’s Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, dismissing experiences suggesting that Obi snubbed the management as a result of the secretariat was previously Atiku’s marketing campaign workplace.
DAILY POST experiences that whereas the ADC Nationwide Chairman, David Mark; the occasion’s Nationwide Secretary, Rauf Aregbesola; and former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, attended the disclosing, each Obi and Atiku had been absent and didn’t situation any formal assertion.
Inaugurating the brand new secretariat, Mark described it as a mirrored image of the coalition’s ambition to reshape Nigeria’s political future.
“It’s a bodily testomony to our collective resolve to construct a better nation. This ADC coalition is a historic youngster of necessity, impressed by folks’s need for good governance, better accountability, and a stronger democracy,” he stated.
Obi’s absence had been extensively interpreted as a rejection of the secretariat due to its earlier hyperlink to Atiku.
Nonetheless, Abdullahi, who dismissed the insinuation, insisted Obi remained dedicated to the coalition, explaining that Obi was in a foreign country in the course of the occasion, whereas Atiku was unavailable as a consequence of different engagements.
He stated, “The programme was impromptu; many of the occasion leaders weren’t in attendance. Obi was in a foreign country, and Atiku wasn’t accessible. There’s nothing to recommend that Peter Obi is withdrawing from the coalition. He’s nonetheless with us.
“Let me state once more that Atiku isn’t the proprietor of the constructing, and he didn’t donate it to the ADC. He leased the constructing, and his lease had expired. The ADC rented the constructing.”
The ADC’s mouthpiece additional said that there was no rift amongst ADC leaders, insisting that the coalition remained united in its objective to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
