Atiku: 6 Reasons why ex-VP left the APC

Atiku disclosed this in his resignation letter from the APC on Friday, November 24, 2017.

Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar has left the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Atiku disclosed this in a letter personally signed by him on Friday, November 24, 2017.

The former vice president gave the following reasons for this decision.

1.Buhari isolated himself from the party

 

Atiku accused President Muhammadu Buhari of isolating himself from the national working committee and other leaders of the APC.

With particular reference to Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s leaked memo, Atiku said President Buhari had not done anything to resolve the issue.

His words: “Only last year, a governor produced by the party 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,” he added.

2. The APC is making PDP’s mistake

 

Atiku noted that the APC is going the way of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

He said the APC lacked internal democracy.

“While other parties have purged themselves of the arbitrariness and unconstitutionality that led to fractionalization, the All Progressives Congress has adopted those same practices and even gone beyond them to institute a regime of a draconian clampdown on all forms of democracy within the party and the government it produced.”

3. Atiku is disappointed

 

Recounting the events prior to his joining the APC, Atiku expressed disappointment over the performance of the APC ater taking over power.

“The fractionalization of the Peoples Democratic Party on August 31, 2013 had left me in a situation where I was, with several other loyal party members, in limbo, not knowing which of the parallel executives of the party was the legitimate leadership.

“It was under this cloud that members of the APC made the appeal to me to join their party, with the promise that the injustices and failure to abide by its own constitution which had dogged the then PDP, would not be replicated in the APC and with the assurance that the vision other founding fathers and I had for the PDP could be actualized through the All Progressives Congress.

“It was on the basis of this invitation and the assurances made to me that I, being party-less at that time, due tothe fractionalization of my party, accepted on February 2, 2014, the hand of fellowship given to me by the All Progressives Congress.

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“On that day, I said "it is the struggle for democracy and constitutionalism and service to my country and my people that are driving my choice and my decision" to accept the invitation to join the All Progressives Congress.

“Like you, I said that because I believed that we had finally seen the beginnings of the rebirth of the new Nigeria of our dreams which would work for all of us, old and young. 

“However, events of the intervening years have shown that like any other human and like many other Nigerians, I was fallible.”

4. APC failed Nigerians and the party is dying

 

Atiku said the APC has faild and would continue to fail.

He lamented the continuous neglect of young Nigerians by the Buhari-led federal government.

“The party we put in place has failed and continues to fail our people, especially our young people. How can we have a federal cabinet without even one single youth. 

“A party that does not take the youth into account is a dying party. The future belongs to young people,” he added

5. PDP made Nigerians suffer

 

Atiku also took a swipe on the PDP.

“I admit that I and others who accepted the invitation to join the APC were eager to make positive changes for our country that we fell for a mirage. Can you blame us for wanting to put a speedy end to the sufferings of the masses of our people?” Atiku asked.

6. The decision was after due consultation

 

Atiku said his decision was after due consultation with God, family and the Nigerian people.

“Be that as it may be, after due consultation with my God, my family, my supporters and the Nigerian people whom I meet in all walks of life, I, Atiku Abubakar, Waziri Adamawa, hereby tender my resignation from the All Progressives Congress while I take time to ponder my future,” he concluded.

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