The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, has dismissed speculations that he was planning to dump the party
for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, assuring that he was not leaving
the party.
Atiku, while speaking with women members of the party’s
Board of Trustees, BoT, who visited him to help save the party from total
collapse, insisted on a coalition to push out the APC-led government in 2027.
He stated that the coalition movement was not just a
political strategy, but also a necessity to challenge the ruling party and
rebuild the country.
The former Vice-President told the women, led by the former
Minister of Women Affairs and ex-National Women Leader of the party, Hajia Inna
Ciroma, that the coalition was a workable one that would assure good results.
He added that the National Party of Nigeria, NPN, the ruling
party in the Second Republic, had formed an alliance with the Nigeria Peoples
Party, NPP, known as the NPN-NPP accord, saying when the coalition was
achieved, the name of PDP would not be affected.
He reportedly told the women about the status of the
pan-Nigerian coalition he was building in conjunction with other leaders and
stakeholders across political divides and regions.
Atiku also informed the women that the movement was being
powered by Nigerians desirous of reclaiming and rebuilding their country from
across the nooks and crannies of Nigeria.
Speaking on the nature of the visit, the leader of the PDP
women BoT, Inna Ciroma, said: “We, as PDP Board of Trustees, BoT, members—the
conscience of the party—decided to take this bold decision to come into the
crisis the party is going through.
“We, as mothers, are worried and disturbed by what the party
is going through at the moment. We are disturbed that the party has no
leadership, and any organisation without leadership cannot stand. We are
worried and disturbed. We cannot fold our arms and see things go bad in our
great party.
“We decided to visit former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to
complain about what we are not happy with, to brainstorm with him on the way
forward, on how to save the party from total collapse. We told him there must
be leadership and direction in the party. We had very fruitful discussions with
the 2023 presidential candidate of the party.
“He told us he was not leaving the party, as he discussed
much on the coalition and the need for us to key in. We also discussed party
funding, that parties should be well-funded so that no single person can
control it.’’
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