Atiku Abubakar’s Group Dumps APC For PDP

– The supporters of Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president, have defected from All Progressives Congress (APC) to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

– The supporters explained that APC has failed to fulfill its promised change

– They, however, said 2019 is going to be a very wonderful year politically because Abubakar will contest in the general elections

Atiku Support Group nationwide (ASG) has decamped from the ruling All Progressives Congress , to the Peoples Democratic Party, months ahead of 2019 general elections.

New Telegraph reports that Mark Wosi, the director-general ASG, disclosed that APC does not focus.

According to him, ”APC is not focused; they promised change and an all-inclusive government but what is being obtainable is different; as a group, we felt we are not being carried along.”

Wosi also said the group has decided to go back to the PDP in order to “change the change. I am highly disappointed in the APC. I expected mature, coordinated politics from the ruling party, but I am disappointed.’’

“Buhari is telling people he is fighting corruption, while he is surrounded by the corruption he is claiming to fight. Nigerians are beginning to doubt his integrity, he should be serious at his age.

“It is very unfortunate that Nigeria’s hope has been dashed; if things continue like this, we are doomed.’’

On the former vice president, Atiku Abubakar’s position on the decamping to PDP, Wosi said “As a group, the ASG cannot speak for Atiku, but as his supporters, we are calling on him to come and contest on the platform of the PDP, a party which he was among the founding fathers.

“Politics is a game of numbers, the ASG is spread across the country with a large number of members and supporters. I believe our large number and sincerity of purpose can persuade Atiku to come back to the PDP.

He also noted that 2019 is going to be a very wonderful year politically because there is going to be a contest between two prominent Northerners; Buhari and Atiku.

DG, however, suggested that with the southern part of the country supporting Atiku adding that the vice president will lead with 65%.

Meanwhile, Abubakar lambasted some media organisations for reporting fake news about his 2019 presidential ambition.

Turaki of Adamawa said on his Twitter page, described the news as fake, which must be disregarded.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has distanced himself from a fake video purporting to be a formal declaration of his intent to contest the 2019 presidential election.

Reacting to the fake video which is now in circulation, the former Vice President speaking through his media office in Abuja, said the video is a bad job of bad people with bad intentions.

According to Atiku, some mischief makers are using a video clip extracted from his 2011 presidential declaration to create a false impression that he formally declared for the 2019 presidential election.

He said such propaganda is being deliberately promoted by political opponents in order to create acrimony.

Atiku advised those involved in such “laughable and unintelligent propaganda of lies and intentional mischief to find something useful to do with their time instead of using his name to achieve their malicious political objectives.”

Describing those behind the fake video clip “as a group of incompetent and bumbling political novices who cannot see the loopholes in their own stories”, the former Vice President advised members of the Nigerian press to be wary of uncritically lapping up fake news materials from groups that don’t care about their own credibility.

He explained that, “While fake news merchants don’t bother about ethics and their reputation”, members of the press have more to lose if they take stories from such disreputable groups without verification.

The Waziri Adamawa added that spreading false stories about any individual politician is not within the protected boundaries of free speech, and that the traditional media should take the first step by not helping fake news merchants to promote their agenda.