Politics
Why I Dumped APC – Atiku
Former Nigerian vice president Atiku Abubakar has dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress, his media aide Paul Ibe said on Friday.
Atiku himself confirmed his resignation later on in a statement. Although he did not state which party he would join, the former VP is widely expected to return to the former ruling party People’s Democratic Party, on whose platform he was the VP between 1999 and 2007.
“After due consultation with my God, my family, my supporters and the Nigerian people… I, Atiku Abubakar… hereby tender my resignation from the All Progressives Congress while I take time to ponder my future,” he said in the statement.
Atiku alleged that the APC had derailed from the principles that made him join the party on February 2, 2015.
“While other parties have purged themselves of the arbitrariness and unconstitutionality that led to fractionalization, the All Progressives Congress has adopted those same practices and even gone beyond them to institute a regime of a draconian clampdown on all forms of democracy within the party and the government it produced,” Atiku said in a statement.
He also, tacitly, acknowledged the existence of a frosty relationship with the leadership of the party and President Muhammadu Buhari, using a controversial leaked memo sent to Buhari by the governor of Kaduna State Nasir El-Rufai as reference.
“Only last year, a governor produced by the party wrote a secret memorandum to the president which ended up being leaked. In that memo, he admitted that the All Progressives Congress had “not only failed to manage expectations of a populace that expected overnight ‘change’ but has failed to deliver even mundane matters of governance”.
“Of the party itself, that same governor said ‘Mr President, Sir Your relationship with the national leadership of the party, both the formal (NWC) and informal (Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso), and former Governors of ANPP, PDP (that joined us) and ACN, is perceived by most observers to be at best frosty. Many of them are aggrieved due to what they consider total absence of consultations with them on your part and those you have assigned such duties’.”
Atiku insisted that since the memo was leaked, neither President Buhari nor the leadership of the APC had made moves to attend to all the points raised by El-Rufai.
He said the party has derailed, failed to deliver on its electoral promises, and has stifled youth participation in its government.
“But more importantly, the party we put in place has failed and continues to fail our people, especially our young people. How can we have a federal cabinet without even one single youth?
“A party that does not take the youth into account is a dying party. The future belongs to young people.
“I admit that I and others who accepted the invitation to join the APC were eager to make positive changes for our country that we fell for a mirage. Can you blame us for wanting to put a speedy end to the sufferings of the masses of our people?”
Kadri Akande
November 25, 2017 at 3:11 pm
Over-ambition will surely wreck this ingrate.Despite all the free hand given by OBJ and the massive wealth acquired, he is still tempting God.
Kadri Akande
November 25, 2017 at 3:03 pm
Political gambler. I pity your blind followers.
Engr Abdulkadir Lawan
November 25, 2017 at 1:58 pm
Must you be a president
Roland Julius Eze
November 25, 2017 at 1:34 pm
He came back b4 OBJ will change his mind of coming back to PDP, i dnt trust dis ATIKU guy
Christopher Ochini
November 25, 2017 at 11:06 am
Good
Nicodemus Mba
November 25, 2017 at 8:35 am
You left Nigeria in hand of stranger”funny “
Anthony Adinnu
November 25, 2017 at 7:28 am
Atiku our problem is biafra not nigera election.
Joseph Johnson
November 25, 2017 at 6:58 am
We don’t want to know
Gbenga Olaitan
November 25, 2017 at 6:56 am
I don’t think he has any good thing to offer, or what do you think?
Kingsley O Melo
November 25, 2017 at 6:33 am
waiting u want talk again, #Rollingstone
Evans Chinedu Gideon
November 25, 2017 at 6:07 am
The reason why we south don’t progress is because we lack vision to see the plans of the North against us, Atiku is not having any problem with buhari, it is just a game plane, all of them are on the same mission on one plan and it is moving fine to for them, Atiku has been sent to PDP to continue where sheriff stopped, this time around, it is not to to disorganize PDP but for the North to take over PDP just as they own APC, no reasonable south man with his foresight or who knows even little of the real things happening is supposed to vote in this country again till further notice, that further notice is till we have a leader, a leader who can match the caliphate
Onyemaechi Tony
November 25, 2017 at 4:48 am
Jumping about, greedy fools
Chukwuemeka Samuel
November 25, 2017 at 2:59 am
We are in a free world
Attah David
November 25, 2017 at 2:13 am
Nice decision,
Chiebonam Onwurah
November 25, 2017 at 12:23 am
Please if you reject the killing of biafrans also hausa Fulani the are fooling us
Oluwa Festus
November 24, 2017 at 11:07 pm
Politics is frued
Ambrose Onwuasobi
November 24, 2017 at 9:58 pm
Atiku you have no sympathy,Obasanjo your man has diabetes for 30 years and you are here talking of apc and pdp .
Lucy O Ugwoji
November 24, 2017 at 10:46 pm
Hahahahaha,he want to steal his own share
Oluchukwu T Levitex
November 24, 2017 at 9:55 pm
Mr. Man, political harloting cannot solve your problem. Nigeria is in peppertual mess ok.
Ebikiseye Patimi
November 24, 2017 at 9:51 pm
please ,they should advice him to be in one pot and cook a good food
Stephen Ugo
November 24, 2017 at 9:38 pm
If you like dumped APC … U people are criminals
Ugochukwu Anierobi
November 24, 2017 at 9:32 pm
Who cares
Md Sambo
November 24, 2017 at 9:17 pm
Sai Baba