Atiku begs founding fathers to save PDP from collapse

Atiku Abubakar

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has raised the alarm over the ongoing crisis currently rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The Turaki Adamawa called on the founding fathers of the acclaimed largest party in Africa to come together to save the party from crashing, noting that the bitter internal divisions within the PDP, has led to crisis in the party leadership in some states.

Atiku in a statement by his Media Office in Abuja on Monday, said he was particularly worried by the deteriorating schism of the party and internal divisions which might weaken the party structures at the state and deepen the crisis between the governors and the President.

He observed that as one of the founding fathers of the party, he had a duty to call on other founding members to rise to the occasion and caution the “forces that are bent on tearing the party apart by providing the ammunition for self destruction.”

He decried the failure of the National Executive Council to meet in line with the provisions of the party’s constitution and the inability of the “Board of Trustees to rise to the occasion by arresting this ugly development.”

According to him, “the bitter internal divisions within the PDP, has led to the present leadership crisis in some states, division in the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and the suspension of a sitting Governor over disagreements on principles that could have been avoided if the founders of the party had added their voices of caution and moderation.”

Atiku noted that the PDP could not afford the current acrimony as it was undermining democratic structures at all levels.

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