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Former VP, Atiku Abubakar has resigned from the All
Progressives Congress (APC) party.
Abubakar confirmed this in a statement he personally
signed on Friday. He also gave reasons for quitting the
party.
However, he did not state which party he intends to
join, but said he is pondering on his political future.
The statement, titled: “Statement of resignation of His
Excellency Atiku Abubakar (Waziri Adamawa) Vice
President of Nigeria, 1999-2007 from the All
Progressives Congress,” reads:
“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 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 to the fractionalization of my party, accepted
on February 2, 2014, the hand of fellowship given to
me by the All Progressives Congress.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“But more importantly, 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.
“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?
“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.
“May God bless you and may God bless Nigeria”.
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