‘Atiku remains committed APC stalwart’

By Bode Olagoke
Abuja

A socio-political group, Turaki Vanguard has asked the factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Segun Adewale, to cross check his facts on his allegation linking former
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to the lingering crisis in the erstwhile ruling party, saying Atiku remains  committed to the ruling party.
A factional chairman of PDP in Lagos state had alleged that presidential ambition of Atiku was responsible for the crisis rocking the party.
But a statement signed yesterday by the coordinator of the group, Dimeji Fabiyi, said that “for the umpteenth time, Atiku Abubakar remains a committed member of the ruling APC and has nothing to do with the crisis rocking the PDP.”

The statement reads: “We are alarmed to read the account of Mr. Segun Adewale on the crisis bedevilling the erstwhile ruling Peoples Democratic Party and our consternation is more confounding because of the witless attempt by the factional chairman of the PDP in Lagos State to string the Turakin Adamawa to the crisis in the PDP.
“For the umpteenth time, Atiku Abubakar remains a committed member of the ruling APC and he is not in any way tangible connected to the crisis in the PDP or any other political party. Mr. Adewale also made spurious allegations about the Turakin Adamawa nursing a presidential ambition for 2019.
“In our opinion as a socio-political group loyal to the political cause of Atiku Abubakar, it will be a welcome development if indeed Atiku decides to contest for the president in 2019, but it will not be asking for too much if the Adewales of this world at least, let that decision come from Atiku Abubakar rather than foist it down as cheap campaign of calumny”.