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Presidency denies offering ADC leaders oil bloc
The Presidency has debunked claims that it had offered an oil bloc to leaders of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as an inducement to dissuade them from cementing their alliance with the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) and other pressure groups seeking to wrest power from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 polls.
The CNM, a political pressure group floated by a former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, recently fused into the ADC in preparation for the forthcoming general elections.
There have also been speculations that the ADC had become the “beautiful political bride” in the current dispensation as some aggrieved elements within the APC were reportedly heading for the relatively new party.
However, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, has dismissed the allegation as untrue. Shehu, who was reluctant to respond to New Telegraph inquiries on the issue, said the leaders of the ADC were in a better position to tell the world who exactly made the offer.
New Telegraph, June 4 2018
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