{"id":121647,"date":"2025-08-27T06:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=121647"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:19:07","slug":"2027-why-obi-has-not-joined-adc-coordinator-obident-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2027-why-obi-has-not-joined-adc-coordinator-obident-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Why Obi has not joined ADC\u00a0 \u2013 Coordinator, Obident Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Myke Agunwa<\/div>\n
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The steam at which the African Democratic Congress (ADC) took off seems to be waning as major stakeholders have started to foot-drag on obtaining the party\u2019s membership card over concerns on the zoning of the party\u2019s Presidential ticket.<\/div>\n
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Recall that Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff and the All Progressives Congress (APC) had predicted that ADC will collapse within three months. They held that most of the political heavyweights, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former governors of Anambra, Rivers, Kaduna namely: Peter Obi, Rotimi Amaechi and Mallam Nasir El-Rufai who are interested in the coalition are nursing presidential ambition and unwilling to step down for one another.<\/div>\n
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The coalition had banked on the large followership enjoyed by Peter Obi and his Obident Movement which they planned to harvest to strengthen its youth base and enlarge its membership.<\/div>\n
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However, the coalition is not reaping the expected result as Obi has been on the side line, and yet to obtain a membership card of the party.<\/div>\n
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A source who is very close to the political intrigues in the coalition family disclosed to\u00a0pointblanknews.com<\/a>\u00a0that Obi\u2019s team is not comfortable with the strategic positions hijacked by the foot soldiers and politicians loyal to Atiku, which gives him an early lead to clinch the party\u2019s presidential ticket unless it is zoned ahead of time.<\/div>\n
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Disclosing the reason Obi is yet to formally register with the party, he said, \u201cThe problem Obi has with the ADC is this issue of zoning. He wants them to be very clear on where the Presidential candidate of the party is going to come from before he formally joins the party. If they don\u2019t zone, then we won\u2019t join. So the main question is zoning.\u201d<\/div>\n
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He went further to state that Atiku\u2019s foot soldiers have hijacked the structures of the party making it literally impossible for any other candidate but the former vice President to emerge as flag bearer.<\/div>\n
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According to him, \u201cAtiku\u2019s imprimatur is all over the ADC. His foot soldiers are everywhere. As we speak, there is a meeting going on at the residence of Emeka Ihedioha where some associates of Atiku have been charged with the responsibility of convincing Obi to register with the party. But Obi is wiser now and will not allow what happened to him in PDP in 2023 to repeat itself.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The national coordinator, Obident Movement Worldwide, Dr. Yunusa Tanko while highlighting why Obi is yet to get the membership card of the ADC, said that Obi is more interested in joining forces with a coalition of politicians determined to remove the clueless administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and not necessarily to join a new political party. He said that Obi was given till November to register with the ADC.<\/div>\n
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In an exclusive chat with Pointblanknews.com, Tanko said, \u201cHe has made it very clear from the beginning that the coalition he joined was on an individual basis and has nothing to do with any political party. You know that the coalition was not a coalition of political parties but individuals.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThey have given themselves a time frame until November, when anybody who has any campaign to make for each of their candidates would have finished doing so.<\/div>\n
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\u201cBut he is not the only one. Atiku Abubakar has not joined the ADC. Nasir El-Rufai has not joined the ADC\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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When contacted, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi said that Obi and other party leaders were given some time before they will register with the party.<\/div>\n
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When asked when the party will start its congresses to elect new leadership for the party he responded, \u201cThe party has a process and will take the right decisions at the appropriate time.\u201d<\/div>\n
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