Former Vice-President Atiku
Abubakar has given reasons for taking the decision to leave the All
Progressives Congress (APC).
He referred in particular to a
confidential memo Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, wrote to President
Muhammadu Buhari in 2016 to complain about how Atiku and other senior members
of the party were being treated.
Atiku said in his statement on
Friday: “Only last year, a governor produced by the party (el-Rufai) 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.”
Atiku is expected to return to
the PDP, a party he helped to found in 1998 and on whose platform he was twice
elected vice-president — in 1999 and 2003.
He has been seeking, albeit
unsuccessfully, to be president since 2007, and is expected to give it one
final shot in 2019.
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