Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar A former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has dumped Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Mr. Abubakar in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES narrated his reasons for leaving the party. The former vice president who challenged President Muhammadu Buhari for the APC ticket in the build up to the 2015 elections did not indicate the new party he would join. Many members of the main opposition PDP, a party Mr. Abubakar helped form, have, however been asking him to rejoin the party. Read Mr. Abubakar’s full statement below. 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 Peoples Democratic Party, had become factionalized as a result of the special convention of August 31, 2013. The fractionalization of the Peoples Democratic Party on August 31, 2013 had left me in a situation where I was, with several other...
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