2023: I Rejected Obasanjo’s Request To Support Peter Obi – Kachikwu

The presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dumebi Kachikwu, has recounted how he turned down the request of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to work with his counterpart in the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi.

According to him, his response to the former president then still remains his stand now because he is not stepping out of the presidential race.

Naija News reports that Kachikwu who said he is in the race to run to the end told pressmen at a news briefing on Friday in Abuja that Peter Obi is just like any of the other contestants in other political parties.

This was as the ADC flagbearer debunked reports of him endorsing Obi days before the presidential election.

He noted that the former Anambra State governor is not different from the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu respectively.

Kachikwu submitted that “I’m not out of the race, I am running this race to the end and if anyone expects that they would hear me before the [2023] elections say that I, as a candidate, am endorsing, I am aligning, or I am pushing for another candidate, that persons are making a solid mistake.

“I believe there’s no difference math of my emergence as the Presidential Candidate of the party, President Olusegun Obasanjo sent for me.

“In that meeting, what he said to me was that having listened to my speech at the party primaries, he now believed that there are two candidates in the race that he should watch for.

“And that he would like me to look at how I and the Labour candidate can work together or rub our races and at the appropriate time, we would see what happens, but my response then still remains my response now”