ADC Presidential Candidate Solicit Support, Urges Nigerians to Try Someone New
Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dumebi Kachikwu, has asked Nigerians to try a new presidential candidate by voting for him in the February 25 election.
Kachikwu made the call while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday. He noted that the frontline presidential candidates have all held offices in the country and have nothing new to offer.
He urged the people to reject Peter Obi of the Labour party; Asiwaju Bola TinubuIof the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC; Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and try someone different.
Kachikwu said, “If you take the trio of Asiwaju, Atiku, and Peter Obi, what they have in common is that they have all held office in Nigeria which is seen to be a failed nation.
“Nigerians must take a chance on trying something new. What we have experienced in the last eight years, can never be this bad. If we go with these people, we are continuing on this trajectory.”
The ADC presidential candidate also refused to accept some of his rivals’ endorsements.
He questioned the criteria used to support candidates when there hasn’t been a genuine discussion of the problems the nation is facing.
Kachikwu said, “People are making endorsements based on nothing. If we have had the opportunity to robustly discuss our problems as Nigerians, Nigeria will be better for it. This is what we have seen at all times, Nigeria a country of almost 200 million people has not had the opportunity to do this.
“So, we enter this election and nobody has come to say that we have debated the housing problem in Nigeria, the infrastructural deficit. What do we do about tourism? What do we do about healthcare, education, and our economy? Nothing, nobody has had the opportunity to discuss these in detail and we are going into the election.
“So, when people on 25th February elect a president, what are they electing a president based on when they have not heard anyone speak critically to all the issues?” he said.
