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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has downplayed the resignation of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, urging Nigerians to shift attention from political defections to more urgent issues such as hunger and economic hardship.

Atiku formally quit the PDP on Wednesday, citing irreconcilable differences and the party’s departure from its founding ideals. He also expressed disappointment with its current direction in a letter addressed to the party chairman of his Jada 1 Ward in Adamawa State.

Reacting to the development, a senior member of the PDP’s National Working Committee (NWC), who spoke exclusively to Vanguard in Abuja, described Atiku’s move as unsurprising.

“Atiku’s departure from the PDP is nothing new. Hasn’t he left the party before? Did anything fundamentally change?” the party official said.

He also took aim at the media, accusing it of focusing too much on political realignments instead of the suffering of ordinary Nigerians.

“Meanwhile, people are hungry. Are our lives solely defined by politicians switching parties?”

In his resignation letter, Atiku thanked the PDP for opportunities it provided him—including his time as Vice President and two-time presidential candidate—but said the decision to leave was “heartbreaking,” given how far the party had veered from its original vision.

His exit follows growing speculation that he is working alongside former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi and other opposition figures under the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to form a broad political coalition ahead of the 2027 general elections.

The move signals potential realignment in Nigeria’s political landscape as opposition parties seek to mount a credible challenge to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).


Efforts to get an official response from the PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, were unsuccessful, as he did not respond to multiple calls

Xscape1993:
Well advice. Focus on the drug baron and certificate forger.

AroleOduduwa2:
Wike can now contest for the presidency and make makinde his vice.

Ezehillary:
He should leave obi to contest that is the only hope

AroleOduduwa2:
Wike believes he’s outsmarting people who were already seasoned in politics while he was still in primary school. By next year, many PDP senators are likely to defect, some to the ADC, others to the APC. Wike can then go ahead and run for president, possibly choosing Makinde or Damagun as his running mate.

specialmati:
I will rather focus on agbero chairman recovering all that left his bullion vans as a good business man and a concern citizen.have the man that emptied his bullion vans to grab power recovered all that this hungry people here received from him

Softmirror:
Wike started from the cradle in his political career. Gaining experience with every step forward. Let me assure you PDP with be ADC's stumbling block but a stepping block for APC's victory.

Burob:
we know that to poor people, bullion van delivering whatever valuable they are delivering to a private citizen is a crime.

onome25:
MY LEADER & MENTOR , THE WAZIRIN OF ADAMAWA HAS LEFT PDP FOR WIKE & HIS EVEL NIGERIAN BOYS YET THEY WOUNT ALLOW HIM BE haba.
ATIKU na man U be 💪🫡
Sure this is ur time 2027!

DEROX:
The thing is for you guys to put up someone like with credibility

destinychildolu:
I want PDP to use Osinbajo. I will vote for him. He has something upstairs

specialmati:
ok so by 2027 I will see you here again.you want to collect from the rich but you don't care if they recover.poor people and entitlement mentality

casualobserver:
The disease of the African is to think because a man is a subject matter specialist, in this case law, speaks impeccable English and is a good orator that it translates into a good political leader and manager of economic resources. Without ever displaying any track record in political or economic leadership.

The colonial mentality and inferiority complex sown in us by the white man is deep!

The best political leaders for a country like ours especially at this time are sincere well intentioned “gangsters” not English speakers or intellectuals. People who can hold the fort and fight the roforofo battles while the intellectuals do the work. Intellectuals like Osinbajo are given assignments under the cover of political leaders.