Hehehe..this is political calculations..PDP too much sha.....Less
than three weeks to the presidential election, some chieftains of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have started making moves to see that
former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar dumps the All Progressives
Congress (APC) and supports the re-election bid of President Goodluck
Jonathan.
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Fidelis Chidi blog reports that,
similarly, Atiku’s supporters, who feel shortchanged in APC are urging
him to throw his weight behind the President, since he did not emerge as
the APC presidential candidate.
Many
of Atiku’s supporters believe he lost the APC ticket, owning to the
support of governors and national leader, Bola Tinubu gave to General
Muhammadu Buhari.
Those
working to get Atiku to back Jonathan believed that since he has not
been participating actively in the campaigns of the APC, he may be
nursing a grudge against leaders of the party and therefore, could
accept to return to PDP.
While details
of the offer to the former vice president were not revealed, sources
say that it may not be far from the 2019 presidential ticket of the PDP.
While
Atiku is reportedly noncommittal yet to the overtures from the
President’s camp, he has not kicked against the planned defection of his
supporters.
The supporters, it was
gathered, are mainly in the South-West. They are insisting that their
camp led by Atiku has no stake in the APC, hence the need to return to
thr PDP.
Meantime, the APC leadership is allegedly worried about Atiku’s non-involvement in the campaign of Buhari.
It
was gathered that the South-West arm of the Atiku Campaign Organisation
may, short of declaring support for Jonathan, come out in the next few
days to condemn the treatment of their principal in the APC.
Recently,
APC was said to have sent the Director-General of Buhari’s Campaign
Organisation and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, to seek a
rapprochement.
At the meeting, it was
gathered, the Atiku camp told Governor Amaechi that his failure to
attend the rallies was because the former vice president is only
notified of venues of the campaign, without getting him involved in the
planning.
Also, the APC’s effort to
get funding from the Atiku camp failed, as the party was told that the
former president spent hugely on mobilisation and advertisement towards
the party’s primary election, which he eventually lost.
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