{"id":70922,"date":"2025-07-18T05:54:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70922"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:54:33","slug":"%e2%82%a620m-offer-to-party-chairmen-kachikwu-slams-alleged-adc-takeover-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/18\/%e2%82%a620m-offer-to-party-chairmen-kachikwu-slams-alleged-adc-takeover-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20a620m Offer to Party Chairmen: Kachikwu Slams Alleged ADC Takeover Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dumebi Kachikwu, the 2023 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has accused a group within a political coalition of attempting to hijack the party by offering \u20a620 million to state chairmen to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference on Thursday in Abuja, Kachikwu described the group as a \u201cpolitical gang\u201d driven by selfish interests.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed claims that he is a paid spokesperson for President Bola Tinubu, calling the allegation baseless and a smear campaign by individuals &#8220;with no visible means of livelihood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kachikwu specifically accused former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of masterminding the alleged power grab through proxies.<\/p>\n<p>He cited Atiku\u2019s history of opposing southern leadership, referencing his past rift with President Obasanjo and opposition to former President Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kachikwu, Atiku is now manipulating former Anambra Governor Peter Obi, making him believe that only Atiku has the electoral strength in the North.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Atiku truly wants a better Nigeria, let him publicly declare that the presidency should remain in the South for another six years,\u201d Kachikwu challenged.<\/p>\n<p>He declared that the ADC is \u201cnot for sale\u201d and \u201cnot an old people\u2019s home,\u201d describing the move as a \u201cwar of the old for the old,\u201d which he insists has no place in a progressive platform like the ADC.<\/p>\n<p>Kachikwu, who hails from Onicha-Ugbo in Delta State, said his identity as an Igbo man qualifies him to vie for the nation\u2019s highest office.<\/p>\n<p>He condemned what he termed a campaign of misinformation by \u201cagents of destabilization\u201d and vowed to resist any attempt to hijack the party for personal or political gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Dumebi Kachikwu, the 2023 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has accused a group within a political coalition of attempting to hijack the party by offering \u20a620 million to state chairmen to resign. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday in Abuja, Kachikwu described the group as a \u201cpolitical gang\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":70923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-70922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70924,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70922\/revisions\/70924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}