A former deputy national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Diran Odeyemi, has said that the African Democratic Congress is controlled by Atiku Abubakar and his loyalists.
He recently revealed that Atiku simply moved his political allies into the coalition party.
Speaking on Politics HQ, a programme on News Central TV, Odeyemi shared that ADC means Atiku Disciples Congress, and any other politician aspiring to be president will be wasting their time there.
“ADC, if you want to know, is Atiku Disciples Congress.
He moved his people to that place. So if any presidential candidate or hopeful joins ADC today, that will be the end of his dealings with ADC,” he said.
Diran stated that Abubakar would have won the 2023 presidential election if he had picked Peter Obi as his running mate.
According to him, Abubakar’s refusal to accept the demands of the G5 governors, including removing Iyorchia Ayu as PDP national chairman, cost him heavily.
“If Atiku is so smart to pin down Obi as his vice-presidential candidate, he would have been the president today.
If he is the right person who will make a decision and say ‘this is what I stand for’, Ayu would have been removed according to the demands of the G5,” Odeyemi said.
He further noted that Atiku’s advisers clearly failed to assess the political situation before those costly decisions were taken.
On the possibility of a Goodluck Jonathan comeback, Odeyemi concluded by saying that Abubakar would leave the ADC if GEJ joins the party.
“I am not sure the people who are strategising for him studied the situation before he embarked on any decision.
The way I want to see it now is just to see if Jonathan will come to ADC. And if Jonathan comes, Atiku will leave ADC, just take that,” he added.
