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ADC: Atiku’s ‘Kasuwa Ndollar’ primary threat to Nigeria’s democracy not Tinubu – Okechukwu
A founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, on Sunday, said former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s “Kasuwa Ndollar” primary election is an existential threat to Nigeria’s democracy.
Okechukwu made the remark while reacting to Atiku’s warning that Nigeria’s democracy is facing an existential threat due to the deliberate weakening of opposition parties by President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
In a statement he issued, the former Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, advised the former Vice President to dig deeper.
Okechukwu said a deeper and more honest introspection would reveal how Nigeria’s democracy descended into its present sordid state following Atiku’s breach of the rotation convention in the 2023 presidential election.
According to Okechukwu, “Atiku is at it again with his insistence on Kasuwa Ndollar presidential primary election. Nothing that non-adherence to the rotation convention and Section 7 of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Constitution contributed significantly to the destabilization of PDP and the alleged One Party State.”
He submitted that “Atiku Abubakar is, regrettably, one of the foremost culprits of this unforced error, which gravely cannibalised the PDP.
“Digging deeper will inform His Excellency Atiku Abubakar that the breach of the rotation convention, an elite consensus foundation of the Fourth Republic, played a decisive role in this sordid mess.
“My fear is that he is about to repeat the same mistake in the ADC. As no other ADC’s presidential aspirant has his war chest.”
He recalled that the rotation convention was consciously a formalised elite consensus in 1999 to promote unity, equity, inclusion, and national stability, based on turn-by-turn rotation of presidential power between the North and South.
Okechukwu further recalled that without this rotation convention, Atiku himself would not have emerged as Vice President in 1999.
He noted that had patriotic northern political leaders such as Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, Umaru Shinkafi, Adamu Ciroma, Bamanga Tukur, and Dr. Sola Saraki, among others, not honoured the zoning arrangement, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo—having just emerged alive from General Abacha’s gulag, where General Shehu Musa Yar’ Adua lost his life, might well have abstained from contesting.
Okechukwu also reminded Atiku Abubakar of his dramatic walkout from the 2014 PDP National Convention, protesting that it was the North’s turn to produce the President and that then-President Goodluck Jonathan was breaching the rotation convention, an action that culminated in Atiku joining the APC.
“Whereas one admits that my great party APC, has its own fault lines, is it not a calamity that the same Atiku Abubakar, widely acknowledged as the mastermind of PDP’s rotation breach and its resultant destabilisation, is now allegedly setting the stage for a similar breach within the ADC, when knows that our presidential primary is “Kasuwa Ndollar?
“Or should President Tinubu now be blamed for this fresh violation of the same zoning principle?”
He further noted that Atiku’s assertion that “the systematic weakening of opposition platforms represents a grave danger to Nigeria’s democratic future” deserves more rigorous self-scrutiny and contextual honesty.
Okechukwu posited that Atiku cannot harvest Buhari’s 12 million Vote-Bank, because majority in the north subscribe to the rotation convention and also they know him as Mai Kasuwa and among Nigeria’s less than transparent clan, therefore not Mai Gasakiya.
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Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has declared that it has constituted a reconciliation committee ahead of the 2027 general elections.
The committee is expected to pacify all the aggrieved members of the party who are not happy with recent developments in the party across the state.
The party made the assertion via a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Wasiu Sadare.
The statement was made available to DAILY POST on Sunday in Ibadan, the state capital.
DAILY POST reports that primary elections of the party have been held in the state.
It was learnt that some stakeholders within the party are not happy with the outcomes of the elections.
The party, in the statement issued on Sunday, explained that it has set up the committee to resolve the issues.
Sadare, in the statement, noted that the committee consists of elders, chieftains, and leaders of the party.
Members of the committee, according to Sadare, are Senators Olufemi Lanlehin, Brimo Yusuf and Hosea Agboola; Chief Akin Oke; former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Professor Afolabi Oladapo; Engineer Idris Adeoye; Pa Timothy Jolaoso; Chief Olukemi Alao-Akala; Dr. Adebayo Adewusi; Hon. Gunju Ojo; and Dr. Adekemi Opatunde.
The rest are Aare Abisoye Fagade, Alhaji Kamorudeen Ajisafe, Abu Gbadamosi, Isiaka Alimi, Prince Niran Adeyoju, Alhaji Yinka Folarin, Chief Emmanuel Olaoye, Alhaji Mufutau Adisa, Alhaji Sule Ajibade, Prof. Abideen Olaiya, Engr. Dayo Lawal, Hon. Ibrahim Bolomope, Mrs. Mabel Williams, Hon. Jelili Agboola, Hon. Kehinde Oloya, Chief Goke Oyetunji, Hon. Ramota Okemakinde, Hon. Raji Rasaki, Dr. Segun Ajanaku, Hon. Shakiru Fagunwa, Barrister Abduwaheed Lawal, Hon. Esther Adedokun, and Hon. Obatunde Oladapo.
Sadare, in the statement, added that the committee members are to find ways to ensure peace and harmony within the party ahead of the 2027 general elections.
He said that the major mandate of the committee is to address grievances and complaints being raised by some of the aspirants and other key stakeholders of the party.
Sadare also disclosed that the committee, which is expected to be inaugurated next week by the state chairman of the party, Chief Moses Alake Adeyemo, will be mandated to reach out to all those who obtained expression of interest and nomination forms of the party but were unable to secure the party’s tickets.
Sadare said, “The Reconciliation Committee, upon its inauguration later this week, would be given the task to meet with all relevant stakeholders, including aspirants who feel dissatisfied by the outcome of the recent primaries which produced APC candidates for the next general elections, and it is hoped that this effort would bring about the desired peace and unity for our great party to win big at the polls next year.”
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Lawmaker representing the Nasarawa South Senatorial District, Senator Mohammed Ogoshi Onawo, has officially resigned from the African Democratic Congress, ADC.
His resignation was contained in a letter dated July 2, 2026, and addressed to the ADC Ward Chairman in Galadimawa Ward, Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.
The lawmaker attributed his decision to the party’s lingering internal crisis and protracted legal disputes at the national level.
In the letter sighted on Sunday by our correspondent, Onawo said his resignation takes effect from June 15, 2026.
The lawmaker said the persistent internal wrangling and legal battles within the party made it difficult for him to pursue the developmental mandate entrusted to him by the electorate.
“It is driven by my firm belief that the prevailing circumstances within the current party structure and the endless legal battles it is currently embroiled in no longer provide the cohesion, support, and enabling environment for me to focus squarely on effectively representing my constituents and to fully realise the developmental and progressive mandate they entrusted to me,” he said.
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Former Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Senatorial aspirant for the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Aisha Yesufu, says any vote for the All Progressives Congress, APC, is for terrorists to continue in the country.
Yesufu made this remark in a statement posted on her verified X handle on Sunday.
This is as the rate of insecurity in the country has significantly increased with killings and abductions across the country.
The human rights activist also charged every Nigerian above 18 years old to get their Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs.
According to her, the miracle people have been praying for is more accessible with their PVCs
“Any vote for APC is vote for these terrorists to continue what they are doing,” the co-convener of BringBackOurGirls Movement said.
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