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ADC Presidential Primaries Results — 24 states officially declared Atiku — 1,311,176 Amaechi — 245,845 Hayatuddeen— 120,233 1. Abia State * Hayatuddeen — 2,264 * Amaechi — 18,339 * Atiku — 25,153 2nd time. 2nd time Adamawa State * Hayatuddeen — 18,949 * Amaechi — 1,896 * Atiku — 177,141 3. Akwa Ibom State * Hayatuddeen — 2,054 * Amaechi — 20,343 * Atiku — 17,623 4. Anambra State * Hayatuddeen — 7,861 * Amaechi — 17,085 * Atiku — 58,566 5. Benue State * Hayatuddeen — 22,141 * Amaechi — 30,881 * Atiku — 55,177 6. Borno State * Hayatuddeen — 3,011 * Amaechi — 2,493 * Atiku — 86,084 7. Ebonyi State * Hayatuddeen — 4,840 * Amaechi — 6,400 * Atiku — 1,210 8. Ekiti State * Hayatuddeen — 147 * Amaechi — 9,574 * Atiku — 18,395 9. Enugu State * Hayatuddeen — 669 * Amaechi — 15,127 * Atiku — 33,879 10. FCT * Hayatuddeen — 5,576 * Amaechi — 14,721 * Atiku — 18,781 11. Gombe State * Hayatuddeen — 455 * Amaechi — 1,140 * Atiku — 136,933 12. Imo State * Hayatuddeen — 1,121 * Amaechi — 7,659 * My heart — 52,222 13. Kano State * Hayatuddeen — 15,914 * Amaechi — 9,994 * Atiku — 155,595 14. Kebbi State * Hayatuddeen — 454 * Amaechi — 5,931 * Atiku — 65,553 15. Kogi State * Hayatuddeen — 9,173 * Amaechi — 23,573 * Atiku — 48,351 16. Nasarawa State. * Hayatuddeen — 6,774 * Amaechi — 13,656 * Atiku — 41,649 17. Ondo State * Hayatuddeen — 875 * Amaechi — 6,031 * Atiku — 18,287 18. Osun State * Hayatuddeen — 4,558 * Amaechi — 72 * Atiku — 12,321 19. Oyo state * Hayatuddeen — 568 * Amaechi — 1,553 * Atiku — 23.011 20. Plateau State * Hayatuddeen — 3,330 * Amaechi — 13,444 * Atiku — 47,558 21. Sokoto State. * Hayatuddeen — 319 * Amaechi — 292 * Atiku — 63,823 22. Taraba State * Hayatuddeen — 8,369 * Amaechi — 25,150 * Atiku — 48,523 23. Yobe State * Hayatuddeen — 365 * Amaechi — 300 * Atiku — 44,841 24. Zamfara State * Hayatuddeen — 446 * Amaechi — 191 * Atiku — 60,500

Victor Umeh’s position is politically understood but he should not be economical with the truth: Obi was one of the four people that started opposition coalition talks, because he thought he would be the beneficiary by zoning. Obi was part of these meetings on two continents, yet he publicly kept prevaricating. Few days before the opposition coalition was publicly presented, Obi held a X Spaces through Aisha Yesufu’s phone and when asked about the coalition, he still prevaricated, saying he won’t join a coalition just for the sake of removing Tinubu. It was Ife Salako who point blank asked again: “1. are you joining the ADC coalition? 2. Are you running for President?” Obi answered in the affirmative and identified with ADC that week but pleaded to be given time to campaign for Labour Party in Anambra gubernatorial and bye-elections before he joins - ADC conceded. After LP lost those elections in Anambra, Obi kept prevaricating, then began making public statements to try and push ADC to adopt zoning. (A team of journalists was even commissioned from Lagos to put zoning on the front burner of public discourse.) ADC leaders insisted removing APC and bringing good governance to Nigerians was the goal. ADC had to publicly set a deadline for anyone who wants to join ADC to do so. Many SE politicians, big names, delayed joining ADC because they wanted to see what Obi as the current most influential politician from the SE was going to do. Seeing that the zoning agenda was dead, Obi began agitating that primaries must be “level playing ground” - everyone agreed. To further help himself, Obi insisted on nominating the National Organising Secretary, which office conducts all internal party primaries - then he joined ADC. Mobilisation started, Obi wasn’t interested. SE politicians joined him in ADC and began mobilising members in their states - this man did not mobilise members even in his own Anambra State, others had to step up. Publicly, Obi kept saying “I will be on the ballot/I must be on the ballot” - on the platform of a party where you did not even put down one naira, all you wanted was the party ticket. Obi supporters then first teased an Obi/Atiku flag - we pointed out the constitutional impossibility. Then they did Obi/El-Rufai - Mallam said he’s not interested in running for office in 2027. They pushed Obi/Malami - Malami said no, he wants to be Kebbi Governor. Kwankwaso who had initially been negotiating with Tinubu/APC suddenly decides to join ADC and Obi flew to Kano to see him and immediately began pushing Obi/Kwankwaso ticket under the ADC banner. They have now moved to NDC as is their right, but this revisionism and dirty proxy lies will not stand. So many patriots across Nigeria sacrificed so much to present a united opposition coalition. Obi broke that political resolve and other contestants are now emerging, using Obi’s own “tUrN oF tHe sOUth” argument. To rubbish the attempt of patriots to build a single opposition coalition this way is unforgivable and some of us will meet agenda with agenda each time. If you lie about us, we will say many truths about you. Thank goodness for the privilege of access: some of us witnessed many things but all I have said here is mostly what is already public knowledge. I look forward to the spirited response that will follow this: it will give me opportunity to divulge more of what some of us witnessed. Peter Obi behaved extremely selfishly from Day One with the coalition, made demand after demand, couched in self-serving arguments - and he was mostly indulged. And he was not only selfish with other leaders but also his own allies: how does an openly made joke from a party leader about converting one of your followers to their camp, make you stop picking the calls of this person who followed you into ADC? So petty. Again: 99% of what I have said here is publicly known - let fact meet fact, or let’s start talking what happened indoors.