Atiku won’t quit 2027 presidential race — ADC chieftain tackles Kwankwaso

A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Chille Igbawua, has rejected erstwhile Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso’s telephone for erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar to retreat from the 2027 statesmanlike race.

Kwankwaso had urged Atiku to measurement speech for a younger absorption candidate, citing concerns implicit his property and health.

Reacting during an interrogation connected Arise Television, Igbawua, a erstwhile subordinate of the House of Representatives and advisor to the ADC National Chairman, said determination was nary grounds that Atiku’s property oregon wellness would forestall him from governing the country.

“I bash not cognize wherever helium has information connected Atiku’s health. Atiku has not changed his age, but whether astatine that property helium cannot govern is simply a wholly antithetic thing,” helium said.

Igbawua argued that property unsocial should not find a person’s quality to govern, saying immoderate younger politicians whitethorn not person the intelligence capableness and agility helium attributed to Atiku.

He besides criticised the proposition that Atiku should measurement speech truthful that the absorption coul...