Dumebi Kachikwu has been declared the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
The founder of Roots Television Nigeria defeated Kingsley Moghalu and others at the party’s presidential primaries that held in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Wednesday, June 8.
Dumebi Kachikwu is the younger brother of former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu.
Chairman of the Electoral Committee General Ekundayo Opaleye announced the result, noting that Dumebi Kachikwu polled 978 votes to emerge victorious over a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof Kingsley Moghalu who polled 589 votes.
Chukwuka Monye scored 339 votes while Princess Chichi Ojei got 72. A further breakdown showed that Evang. Ebiti Ndok Jegede pulled five votes; and Lady Angela Johnson finished with one vote.
Two thousand one hundred persons (2100) were picked as delegates from the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Twelve aspirants, comprising five women, and seven men, contested for the exalted position. Two of them were absent from the exercise, while an aspirant Mani Ibrahim withdrew from the race.
While giving his acceptance speech, the presidential candidate promised purposeful leadership to rescue the country from the current challenges facing it.
He then thanked Moghalu and “other credible aspirants for a spirited fight even though we didn’t make it”.
Prior to the exercise, the former CBN deputy governor had vowed to defeat the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar respectively in the 2023 elections.
Moghalu had promised to protect Nigeria if elected President in 2023, saying;
I will have the political will to secure our country. This means putting our security above all else: no security, no country. Political will is the willingness and ability to take tough decisions to secure Nigeria.
He joined the ADC in October 2021. And was the presidential candidate of YPP in the 2019 elections.
