{"id":173145,"date":"2025-08-09T12:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-atiku-hijacking-adc-kachikwu"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:27:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T12:27:02","slug":"2027-atiku-hijacking-adc-kachikwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-atiku-hijacking-adc-kachikwu","title":{"rendered":"2027: Atiku hijacking ADC \u2013 Kachikwu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dumebi Kachikwu, has alleged that former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar is planning a calculated takeover of the party to advance his 2027 presidential ambition.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that major opposition figures, including Abubakar; Peter Obi, 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP); Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna; and Rotimi Amaechi, former minister of transportation, announced a coalition under the umbrella of the ADC as the platform to contest elections in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Friday, Kachikwu accused Atiku and others of manipulating Obi and the leadership of ADC through fraudulent means into the coalition.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Obi is being pressured to accept to be Abubakar\u2019s running mate, stressing that his men have been strategically positioned within the party\u2019s hierarchy nationwide to secure its control.<\/p>\n<p>The former presidential candidate maintained that despite professing affinity with the south, Atiku does not believe any southerner deserves the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had warned that a group of mostly old former political officeholders were executing a carefully orchestrated agenda to take over the ADC to prosecute Atiku Abubakar\u2019s presidential ambition come 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also warned that Peter Obi and other presidential hopefuls in this coalition of geriatrics were being duped, as Atiku\u2019s men had been carefully positioned to take over the ADC party structure across the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dumebi Kachikwu, has alleged that former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar is planning a calculated takeover of the party to advance his 2027 presidential ambition. Recall that major opposition figures, including Abubakar; Peter Obi, 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP); Nasir el-Rufai, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[118,316,8607,254],"class_list":["post-173145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adc","tag-atiku","tag-kachikwu","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2027: Atiku hijacking ADC \u2013 Kachikwu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dumebi Kachikwu, has alleged that former Vice-P ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-atiku-hijacking-adc-kachikwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027: Atiku hijacking ADC \u2013 Kachikwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dumebi Kachikwu, has alleged that former Vice-P ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-atiku-hijacking-adc-kachikwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-09T11:07:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-09T12:27:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754729959.483923.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-atiku-hijacking-adc-kachikwu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-atiku-hijacking-adc-kachikwu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2027: Atiku hijacking ADC \u2013 Kachikwu\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-09T11:07:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-09T12:27:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-atiku-hijacking-adc-kachikwu\"},\"wordCount\":243,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-atiku-hijacking-adc-kachikwu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754729959.483923.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ADC\",\"Atiku\",\"Kachikwu\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-atiku-hijacking-adc-kachikwu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-atiku-hijacking-adc-kachikwu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-atiku-hijacking-adc-kachikwu\",\"name\":\"2027: Atiku hijacking ADC \u2013 Kachikwu - 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