ATIKU BLOWS HOT<\/p>\n
\u2026\u2026 I Quit APC<\/p>\n
Zainab Tanimu -Kaduna, NIGERIA<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter 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\u201d.<\/p>\n
These were the hard cracking words of the Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar while announcing his decision to defect from the All Progressives Congress (APC).in a statement issued on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
Atiku, who was silent on his next political move, said he took the decision after consulting \u201cGod, his family members and supporters\u201d.<\/p>\n
Atiku lamenting over the situation of things in the ruling party said the assurance given that the vision other founding fathers and he had for the PDP could be actualized through the All Progressives Congress is yet to be actualized.<\/p>\n
\u201c 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 People\u2019s Democratic Party, had become factionalized as a result of the special convention of August 31, 2013.<\/p>\n
The fractionalization of the People\u2019s 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 the legitimate leadership was.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The statement future revealed his disappointment of his dream for a new rebirth of a new Nigeria.<\/p>\n
Like you, 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; on that day I said, \u201cit is the struggle for democracy and constitutionalism and service to my country and my people that are driving my choice and my decision\u201d to accept the invitation to join the All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n
However, events of the intervening years have shown that like any other human and like many other Nigerians, I was fallible.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Only last year, a governor produced by the party wrote a secret memorandum to the president which ended up being leaked. In that memo, \u00a0he admitted that the All Progressives Congress had \u201cnot only failed to manage expectations of a populace that expected overnight \u2018change\u2019 but has failed to deliver even mundane matters of governance\u201d.<\/p>\n
Of the party itself, that same governor said \u201cMr. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
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 behaviors have actually worsened.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
A party that does not take the youth into account is a dying party. The future belongs to young people.<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
As the drama unfolds, political analysts are seeing the likelihood of some APC chieftains moving along with him to the PDP and storming the convention come 9th<\/sup> December.<\/p>\n The biggest challenge however envisaged for Atiku is how he would be able to clinch the Presidential Ticket under the platform of PDP where such strong contenders the likes of Sule Lamido, Ibrahim Dankwambo, Shekarau and host of others who stood by the party through the thick and thin are making their waves.<\/p>\n More so, is the 2013 issue between him and former president Obasanjo of which \u00a0former President Goodluck Johnathan had advised him to make peace as Obasanjo had vowed that not in his life time would Atiku be President. His reason being the grudge that\u00a0 Atiku was instrumental to his not realizing his undemocratic third term bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ATIKU BLOWS HOT \u2026\u2026 I Quit APC Zainab Tanimu -Kaduna, NIGERIA \u201cAfter 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\u201d. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n