Politics
BREAKING: Atiku Dumps APC For PDP
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has decamped from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
He announced his departure from the ruling party in a statement he issued on Friday morning.
Here is the statement of resignation below:
Statement of resignation of His Excellency Atiku Abubakar (Waziri Adamawa) Vice President of Nigeria, 1999-2007 from the All Progressives Congress
On the 19th of December, 2013, I received members of the All Progressives Congress at my house in Abuja. They had come to appeal to me to join their party after my party, the Peoples Democratic Party, had become factionalized as a result of the special convention of August 31, 2013.
The fractionalization of the Peoples Democratic Party on August 31, 2013 had left me in a situation where I was, with several other loyal party members, in limbo, not knowing which of the parallel executives of the party was the legitimate leadership.
It was under this cloud that members of the APC made the appeal to me to join their party, with the promise that the injustices and failure to abide by its own constitution which had dogged the then PDP, would not be replicated in the APC and with the assurance that the vision other founding fathers and I had for the PDP could be actualized through the All Progressives Congress.
It was on the basis of this invitation and the assurances made to me that I, being party-less at that time, due to the fractionalization of my party, accepted on February 2, 2014, the hand of fellowship given to me by the All Progressives Congress.
On that day, I said “it is the struggle for democracy and constitutionalism and service to my country and my people that are driving my choice and my decision” to accept the invitation to join the All Progressives Congress.
Like you, I said that because I believed that we had finally seen the beginnings of the rebirth of the new Nigeria of our dreams which would work for all of us, old and young.
However, events of the intervening years have shown that like any other human and like many other Nigerians, I was fallible.
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.
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.”
Since that memorandum was written up until today, nothing has been done to reverse the treatment meted out to those of us invited to join the All Progressives Congress on the strength of a promise that has proven to be false. If anything, those behaviours have actually worsened.
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?
Be that as it may be, after due consultation with my God, my family, my supporters and the Nigerian people whom I meet in all walks of life, I, Atiku Abubakar, Waziri Adamawa, hereby tender my resignation from the All Progressives Congress while I take time to ponder my future.
May God bless you and may God bless Nigeria.
Atiku Abubakar
Waziri Adamawa
Released by:
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Jabi
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Nigeria.
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Osondu
November 25, 2017 at 10:40 am
I know that this will happen one day.
Chinwenwa Okeke
November 24, 2017 at 7:17 pm
Frm piller to post
Bonaventure Ezenwa Igbosofulu
November 24, 2017 at 6:30 pm
good one
Wabeco Simeon
November 24, 2017 at 4:32 pm
Dats dy end of him frm party to party
Iniobong Robert
November 24, 2017 at 12:26 pm
shame on him he can stay one side
Xtoben Nnwa
November 24, 2017 at 11:16 am
all these people,by now they sopposed be out from d nigerian politics,endorsing ways for d young youths.
Dan Awgu
November 24, 2017 at 10:42 am
Ok naa
Chuks Ddon
November 24, 2017 at 10:26 am
Good
Emeka Ebegbulem
November 24, 2017 at 10:15 am
Welcome development,APC is a disappointment,
Moses Echendu
November 24, 2017 at 10:08 am
That is good so he will try his luck again. Atiku thought PMB would have died in UK Hospital which would have given him a chance but God proved him wrong and he been angry
Ekene Udensi
November 24, 2017 at 9:39 am
Every other candidate will be netter Dan de idiot buhari…
Shedrack Ifeanyi
November 24, 2017 at 9:30 am
TO ME NOTHING HAS CHANGE
Kelechi Kingsley
November 24, 2017 at 9:27 am
Nigeria is yet to recover from military hangover
Ilemudah Alex
November 24, 2017 at 9:26 am
Buhari win 2019, wait and see,if he cotest.
Nnaji-Edeh Innocent
November 24, 2017 at 9:04 am
Grasshopper style
Paul Obiefuna
November 24, 2017 at 8:56 am
shame to zoo politicians prostitution jumping like monkey from one place to the other
Pauline Madu
November 24, 2017 at 8:54 am
Ndi ashawo party..mtcheeew
Okeke Ijeoma Juliet
November 24, 2017 at 8:48 am
Well come back to PDP
Christopher Ochini
November 24, 2017 at 8:42 am
Ok
Nasar Y. Lawal
November 24, 2017 at 8:41 am
Please Vote Atiku For Governor Of Adama State.
Kadri Akande
November 24, 2017 at 8:41 am
God refused to answer his prayers that Buhari should die.
Osondu
November 25, 2017 at 10:39 am
You are a liar my friend. APC ‘s failure has reached the cloud. We must use our brain this time around on you and your Buhari.
Adedapo Adebisi Adejuwon Barcelona
November 24, 2017 at 8:39 am
We electorates let use our brain.
Chika Harry
November 24, 2017 at 8:38 am
He’s free, just back home
Suleiman Muhammed
November 24, 2017 at 8:34 am
#karryGo