Former vice president and a presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday dismissed speculations that he had dumped the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) for APGA.
Rumours had swirled around that Atiku, who recently defected back to the PDP from the All Progressives Congress (APC), was planning to move to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
There were further insinuations that the former vice president had picked Charles Soludo, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to be his running mate.
However, in a statement released by his office, Atiku reiterated that he remains a “front-line” presidential aspirant contesting under the PDP.
He said the trending reports were an attempt to distract him from clinching the PDP ticket and ultimately winning the presidential election in 2019.
The statement read, “For avoidance of any doubts, Atiku remains the front-line aspirant for the presidential ticket of the PDP.
“In the past two months, Atiku Abubakar has moved across states in the country, consulting with stakeholders of the PDP and explaining to them his agenda as encapsulated in the acronym JOBS (Jobs, Opportunity, Being united and Security) for Nigeria.
“The nationwide consultations continue this week with visits to the South West, North West and North Central zones of the country.
“Atiku’s passion and commitment to winning the PDP primaries is without any compromise and to assume that he will abandon the hard work he has done with the positive results he is getting from the stakeholders of the party is, to say the least, preposterous and unthinkable.
“The campaign calls on supporters of Atiku to remain steadfast and see the contrived news of defection as an an attempt to distract it from the set task of winning the PDP ticket and the 2019 presidential election by the grace of God.”
The statement urged Atiku’s supporters to disregard the rumour and continue to support him in his quest to build a better Nigeria.
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