Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has described the ruling All Progressives Congress as Nigeria’s biggest mistake.
EyewitnessMedia gathered that Atiku made the remark on Saturday in Yola, Adamawa State, at an event where prominent APC stalwarts defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, urging Nigerians to reject the APC.
He called on APC members to leave the party because of what he described as its woeful performance, saying mass defection from the party signalled the coming interment of the APC.
Atiku said,
“We have done a big mistake before by floating a party called the APC. But from today, I am calling on you the Adamawa people to leave your parties and join the PDP because it is the future and the masses, party. APC is Nigeria’s biggest mistake.
“It was PDP that gave back life to Adamawa State after it was slayed by the APC, ushering the state into her present state of infrastructural development.
“Our schools are now better and our health institutions are in superb shape. I pray that this event will mark the beginning of the internment of the APC.”
During the event, prominent ex-members of APC, including a former secretary to Adamawa State Government, Kobis Thimnu; Chief Daniel Bwala; Sali Bodes; Umar Bello; Nedo Geofrey and Philip Gutuwa were received by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri into the PDP.
Canvassing support for Atiku’s presidential aspiration, the governor urged stakeholders in the PDP in Adamawa to work round-the-clock to sell his candidature outside the state.
He maintained that Atiku is the messiah that Nigeria is earnestly awaiting.
Yes, I agree but most of the blame ought to go to the people who helped to bring APC to power in 2015. I mean those formed new PDP in 2014 and later formed APC with ACN, ANPP, CPC and a faction of APGA headed by Okoroha. Those new PDP members left PDP because they felt that they want the presidency to come back to North. Now after achieving their objective and having spent 6 years out of two terms of eight years, the same set of decampees headed by Atiku is trying to demarket the product they sold to nation simply because they want to be president in 2023. This is despite the fact that by 2023 the presidency would have been occupied by one of them for eight uninterrupted years. It should be noted that the main reason they ditched GEJ and PDP then was according to them that he (GEJ) supposed to give way for somebody from the north to finish up Yaradua’s tenure.