A former deputy nationwide publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Diran Odeyemi, has claimed that the African Democratic Congress is essentially below the management of Atiku Abubakar and his allies.
Odeyemi made the allegations throughout an look on Politics HQ, a programme on News Central TV on Tuesday, August 12, he alleged that Abubakar strategically moved his political associates into the celebration.
“ADC, if you wish to know, is Atiku Disciples Congress.
“He moved his people to that place. So if any presidential candidate or hopeful joins ADC today, that will be the end of his dealings with ADC,” he stated.
Odeyemi maintained that Abubakar would have emerged victorious within the 2023 presidential election if he had chosen Peter Obi as his working mate.
“If Atiku is so smart to pin down Obi as his vice-presidential candidate, he would have been the president today,” he stated.
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He additional famous that Abubakar’s refusal to concede to the calls for of the G5 governors, together with the elimination of Iyorchia Ayu as PDP nationwide chairman, was one other pricey political misstep.
“If he is the right person who will make a decision and say ‘this is what I stand for’, Ayu would have been removed according to the demands of the G5,” he added.
The former PDP spokesman stated he doubted whether or not Abubakar’s advisers carried out a correct political evaluation earlier than making key decisions.
“I am not sure the people who are strategising for him studied the situation before he embarked on any decision,” he stated.
Commenting on hypothesis a couple of Goodluck Jonathan political comeback, Odeyemi predicted that Abubakar would exit the ADC if the previous president had been to affix the celebration.
“The way I want to see it now is just to see if Jonathan will come to ADC. And if Jonathan comes, Atiku will leave ADC, just take that,” he stated.
