The National Chairman of the African
Democratic Party, Chief Ralph Nwosu, on Friday said he was offered oil well and
billions of dollars as baits to destroy the party, following its adoption by
former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s movement, the Coalition for Nigeria
Movement.
He disclosed this at the Greeen
Legacy hall, Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta while welcoming a
former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015
governorship election in Ogun State, Gboyega Isiaka, into the party.
Nwosu, who was accompanied by the
National Secretary of the party, Abdullahi Baba, did not however mention the
names of those who offered him the inducement.
While denying the allegation that
the party was bought from him by Obasanjo’s coalition, he said he had spent
over N600m to build the party.
The ADC chairman also accused the
All Progressives Congress of copying the party’s slogan and manifesto through
one of its coalitions, Congress for Progressive Change.
He said he had approached President
Muhammadu Buhari in 2006 shortly after registering the ADC, and advised him to
join the party because of its rich manifesto and constitution but he rejected
the offer only to copy the ‘change’ slogan and the manifesto.
Isiaka, while making the
declaration, described the ADC as the third force that was morally conscripted
to offer Nigerians an escape route from the failed promises of the status quo.
He said he was prepared and ready to
contest as a governorship candidate in the 2019 election in Ogun State, as he
was qualified for the post.
“We are prepared to face anyone. I am running
for this position because I have all the qualifications to be the governor of
the state,” he said.
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