Abuja — Former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dumebi Kachikwu, has alleged that ex-President Goodluck Jonathan offered former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, the position of Coordinating Minister of the Economy if he would withdraw from the 2027 presidential race and support him.
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Kachikwu, speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Friday, claimed that northern political interests had drafted Jonathan into the race to weaken the South ahead of the polls.
“In order to weaken the South, they have now drafted in former President Jonathan into the race, who is alleged to be offering Peter Obi the position of Coordinating Minister of the Economy for him to support his ambition,” Kachikwu said.
The ADC chieftain further alleged that Obi had been told he would not secure northern votes “because he is an Ibo man,” adding that there was a push for him to accept a vice-presidential slot under former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
He accused Atiku and other northern elites of monopolising political power for decades without alleviating poverty and illiteracy in the region. According to him, such leaders have weaponised “region, religion, tongue, tribe and poverty” to maintain control, while spreading “deliberate falsehoods” against President Bola Tinubu and potential southern presidential aspirants.
Kachikwu urged Nigerians to “resist former Vice President Atiku and his co-travellers who don’t believe in an equitable Nigeria,” stressing that the country must be governed with “clean hands and sincerity of purpose.”
“We don’t burn our houses because we want to kill rats and cockroaches; sometimes we just need to make our houses clean so that rats and cockroaches leave on their own,” he said.
“My earnest prayer is that Nigeria will soon work for every one of us,” Kachikwu added.
