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Dumebi Kachikwu, the 2023 Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), who launched scathing attacks against the adoption of his party as a coalition platform by opposition politicians, was nailed in the United States of America over $2.1 million fraud.
Recall that Kachikwu described the opposition figures, led by former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and and Mr. Peter Obi as ‘enemies of Nigeria for taking over ADC.
According to the Peoples Gazette, a federal court in the United States delivered its final judgment in a tax fraud case involving Dumebi Kachikwu.
Mr Kachikwu was ordered to pay $2.1 million by Judge George Jarrod Hazel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in Greenbelt, documents reviewed by The Gazette said.
The January 2023 judgement was the final decision on the tax liability case brought by American authorities against Mr Kachikwu and his wife, Somachi, who was also ordered to pay parts of a separate $56,000 debt to the U.S. treasury.
Kachikwu’s assets was confiscated in the U.S. as the case was underway in 2022.
Details of the judgement came as Mr Dumebi returned to public infamy with a campaign to claim ownership of the newly formed political coalition.
We reported that opposition leaders on Wednesday, adopted the African Democratic Congress to challenge Mr Tinubu, whose reign has been enmeshed in endless corruption, abuse of power, and a sudden security collapse.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Nasir El-Rufai, Rotimi Amaechi, Rauf Aregbesola and David Mark are among political leaders now associated with the new coalition, which was unveiled on Wednesday in the nation’s capital.
But no sooner had the alliance been announced than Mr Kachikwu launched a disinformation campaign, using incurious media outlets to spread unfounded claims that he owned the ADC infrastructure.
But The Gazette’s findings showed Kachikwu was not even a member of the ADC’s national executive panel. His closest association to the party came in the run-up to the 2023 elections, when he used his ill-acquired resources to upstage Kingsley Moghalu as the party’s candidate.
Mr Kachikwu was accused at the time of hijacking the ADC to undermine the party from within as an agent of Mr Tinubu, who was running on the ruling All Progressives Congress’ platform at the time. Mr Kachikwu denied the allegations, but his public statements since the election have largely clarified his loyalty to Mr Tinubu.
Mr Kachikwu is a familiar guest on Lagos-based TVC, a broadcast network which Mr Tinubu runs with stolen Lagos funds. On Wednesday, he appeared on various political magazine programmes to castigate the opposition coalition as corrupt, geriatric and politically compromised.
“Dumebi Kachikwu is an agent of the president,” a senior ruling party official told The Gazette on Wednesday. “We’re happy to have him.”
Source: Peoples Gazette
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