One of Atiku Abubakar’s daughters
has said she has not followed the former vice president to the opposition
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Fatima Atiku-Abubakar, a medical
doctor and Adamawa State commissioner for health, said she is currently
preoccupied with the duties of the state.
“I have not resigned and I am
performing my duties as the representative of H.E the Governor on all health
matters in the state,” Ms. Atiku-Abubakar said.
Fatima Atiku-Abubakar, 45, is the
first child of Mr. Abubakar. She was appointed commissioner in August 2015.
Her rebuttal comes a day after
The Sun Newspaper reported that Ms. Atiku-Abubakar had stepped down from
Governor Jibrilla Bindow’s cabinet with seven other commissioners.
The paper further reported that
the officials resigned because of their loyalty to the former vice president.
But at least two out of the eight
commissioners mentioned said they have not resigned.
Yayaji Mijinyawa, the
commissioner for land and survey who was listed amongst those that purportedly
resigned, also said he hasn’t resigned.
“It’s not true,” the official said
in a text Tuesday afternoon.
On Sunday, Mr. Abubakar returned
to the PDP for the third time since 2007 when he left the party after serving
eight years on its platform as a vice-president.
The move came a little over a
week after he resigned from the All Progressives Congress.
He is expected to slug it out
with President Buhari in 2019, if the incumbent’s recent signals of a possible
re-election bid take hold.
The development has triggered
speculation of a looming mass defection from APC, especially amongst Mr.
Abubakar’s loyalists. The APC has, however, said no such mass defection will
occur.
Mr. Abubakar himself had stated
that many political heavyweights in the APC are already laying the groundwork
for their resignation from the party, saying most are disillusioned with the
Buhari administration.
Mr. Bindow, widely seen as Mr.
Abubakar’s political protégé, has said that he has no immediate plans to follow
the former vice president to the PDP.
But some of his commissioners may
quit and decamp to the major opposition party.
Some of them have already told
Mr. Abubakar of their intentions to resign, but the former vice-president
advised them to remain in cabinet and keep earning their salaries, according to
a source close to both the former vice president and the Adamawa cabinet.
“He pointedly told them that
there’s no need to be in a hurry to resign since campaign has not even
started,” the source said. “They currently earn more than N400,000 per month
and that’s not something they should forfeit when they don’t have something
immediate to start doing.”
Culled: Premium Times
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