Amid speculations over his future in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has dismissed reports that he has left the party, describing such reports as false.
The PDP 2023 Presidential candidate made his position known in a statement issued by media office at the weekend, dismissing rumours that he has defected to another party, following reports he’s joined a coalition of other prominent politicians in the country planning to oust the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, from power in the next general election.
According to the former PDP presidential candidate, he and other key political leaders in the country are working together ahead the 2027 elections, but he still remains a bonafide member of the party.
The former vice president remark comes few days after one of his allies, Jide Jandol, the party’s 2023 Governorship candidate in Lagos state, left the party contending that the party is not ready to take power in the state.
Jandol has yet to announce his new party, but not a few political pundits insist that his departure from the PDP is a signal that Abubukar allies are departing the party in preparation for him to leave, due to what some analysts described as his ‘unhappiness’ in the party, which may encourage him to reconsider his future in the top opposition party in the country.
But alas, Abubakar denied any plan to dump the party, under which he had contested several elections and rose to the position of number two citizen in the country in 1999.
He urged those “peddling unverified information” that he has left the PDP to desist because he has no plans to abandon the party.
“We wish to clarify that the so-called news of Atiku defecting to another party is a total fallacy that holds no merit in logic,” he said.
Stressing that, “Hence, it is fallacious and unfounded to allege that the Waziri is jumping the PDP ship. Such an allegation is antithetical to the objective of the grand coalition, which the former Vice President is currently driving alongside other prominent political leaders in the country.
“We, therefore, wish to state unequivocally that Atiku remains a principal bonafide member of the PDP, the main opposition party.
“The defection claims are an attempt to confuse Nigerians about the magnitude of the grand coalition that is at work to rescue Nigeria from the grip of the APC.”
Abubakar was among the founding fathers of the PDP, the party on which crest he rose to the position of Nigeria’s vice president in 1999 under the Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration. He however faced serious setbacks in his quest to become Nigeria’s president under the PDP.
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