Kenneth Okonkwo, spokesman for the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, says the exit of Peter Obi from the party left the South-East region disadvantaged a⁶ in confusion.
Okonkwo made this statement on Thursday on Channels
Television’s ‘Morning Brief’.
He was responding to questions on why the former Minister of
Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has not publicly acknowledged his vice
presidential candidacy on his social media pages.
According to him, before the ADC presidential primary, a
person from the South-East had shown interest in the race but exited the
process before its conclusion, a development he said left the region
“disadvantaged and confused”.
The Nollywood star-turned politician stressed that Obi’s
exit created a vacancy that could not easily be filled because the Electoral
Act bars parties from picking running mates who were not party members at least
21 days before the primary, ruling out names such as Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe
and Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
“The person that represented the South-East in that
calculation left unceremoniously before the conclusion of the process, that
left the South-East disadvantaged and confused, and then immediately Peter Obi
exited, it was as if that position that would have been given to the South-East
was vacant.
“Some beautiful names were dropped off. You talked about
Abaribe, you talked about Ngozi Okonjo, you talked about some nice names, but
those names, they were no longer members of ADC,” he said.
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