BY Taiwo George
Atiku Abubakar, former vice president, has pledged his loyalty to the All Progressives Congress (APC), dismissing reports of his plans to dump the party.
Atiku, whose political career has witnessed couple of defections, accused an unnamed APC leader of being behind his rumoured defection bid.
In 2011, he lost the presidential ticket of PDP to President Goodluck Jonathan. Back in 2007, he lost the presidential election to Umaru Musa Yar’Adua after emerging candidate of the then Action Congress (AC).
Presently, he has declared the intention to contest the 2015 presidential election under the platform of APC.
However, in a statement signed on Tuesday by Garba Shehu, his media aide, Atiku said his present party has the appropriate structure to defeat the ruling PDP in the forthcoming election.
“Our attention has been drawn to a recent publication which alleges that APC chieftain and presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, intends to dump the opposition party (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM),” the statement read.
“This information is not only egregiously false, but our investigations have traced it to a senior APC member from the northeast zone, who is working to further the presidential ambitions of another aspirant within the party.
“He is also known to be working with certain elements in the Peoples Democratic Party.
“The former vice president stated in a meeting with stakeholders in the media in Lagos last month that the APC is his “final bus stop”. That proclamation still stands. Atiku Abubakar does not intend to leave the APC for the PDM or any other party.”
Expressing confidence in APC, he urged Nigerians to support the party during the 2015 election.
“Atiku Abubakar believes in the ‘Change’ message of the APC. He believes that APC is progress. He believes that the party is the force that will enable Nigerians to vote the PDP out of power come 2015,” the statement read.
“This message of change is consistent with Atiku Abubakar’s slogan: ‘A Nigeria for All’.”
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