Forward of the 2027 common election, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has dismissed the endorsement of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress, APC, for re-election by former Governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sullivan Chime.
A frontrunner of ADC, Comrade Adolphus Ude stated this in an announcement issued on Wednesday in Enugu.
Describing the endorsement as inconsequential and self-seeking, Ude, who’s the Nationwide Coordinator of ADC Like-Minds, stated Chime neither has a political machine nor the grassroots presence to ship anyone in his ward in Udi city, to not converse of your entire South-East Nigeria.
He stated opposite to the declare made by Chime that APC has no different within the South-East, the struggling lots of the area have embraced ADC because the people-oriented motion to avoid wasting them from the maladministration of the ruling get together.
In line with him, ADC is rooted on the grassroots, and its membership includes the marginalised folks of Nigeria who’re neglected and being dehumanised by the maladministration of APC authorities in South-East and Nigeria typically.
Ude said that: “Sullivan Chime’s endorsement of Tinubu, in addition to being inconsequential, can be self-seeking. I used to be the Deputy Chairman of APC in Enugu State when Sullivan was admitted into the get together by the then-Nationwide Chairman, His Excellency, John Odigie Oyegun, who’s now a pacesetter in ADC. Sullivan is a dwelling testimony of former Chairman, Adam’s Oshiomhole’s fashionable citation then that ‘in case you be a part of APC, your sins are forgiven’.
“Secondly, whereas I used to be the Deputy Chairman of APC, Sullivan with all the cash he made because the Governor of Enugu State for eight years from 2007 to 2015, didn’t contribute shishi (a dime) to the get together.”
He described Chime’s purported endorsement of Tinubu as mere grandstanding and an try by an expired politician to get low cost recognition by the presidency and the APC nationwide management, which he clearly doesn’t deserve.
In line with him, whilst a sitting governor, Sullivan chickened out of his senatorial ambition, leaving Ekweremadu to return to the Senate for a fourth time period, a document but to be damaged by any Senator in your entire South-East geo-political zone.
He maintained that Chime has no grassroots affect and is incapable of constituting a risk to ADC, which is extra grassroots oriented than APC.
Ude added: “For him to say that we don’t have an alternate get together in Enugu State will not be true. ADC is the choice get together, so far as the forthcoming common election is worried in your entire South-East area.
“These endorsements by former this and that must be disregarded by the general public. The struggling lots within the South-East who’re being taxed to demise, haven’t endorsed anyone.”
Recall that Chime two days in the past threw his weight behind final weekend’s endorsement of President Tinubu for a second time period in workplace by South-East governors, in addition to leaders and stakeholders of the APC within the area, saying that the President has accomplished properly.
Chime didn’t nurse any doubt that Tinubu and the APC would sweep the polls within the South-East come 2007.
