Friday, 24 November 2017

Atiku Dump APC, May Return Back to PDP.

As 2019 Presidential election draw closer, Former vice president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has dumped APC(All Progressives Congress), the party he co-found and contested the Presidential primary which brought President Buhari to power, he dropped his ambition and supported Buhari to win the 2015 election.
But he will not give up on his Presidential ambition knowing fully well that President Buhari is willing to go for a second term come 2019.


Hours after the former vice president resigned from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday.
Fani-Kayode, as well as the senator representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District, Ben Murray-Bruce, urged Atiku to come back to the PDP to help build the party.
Also, former acting chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, congratulated the former presidential candidate for leaving the APC and asked him to return to his party to help regain the trust of Nigerians.
 Atiku was the vice to former President Olusegun Obasanjo when Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999.
He left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the APC in February 2014, after joining the PDP following his defeat at the presidential election of 2007 on the platform of the then Action Congress.
While he was in the PDP, he also declared his intention to contest for the Presidency in 2011 but lost to former President Goodluck Jonathan.

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