Atiku ends consultations, set to defect to APC
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is set to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, Saturday PUNCH has learnt.
With the conclusion of his nationwide
consultative meetings with that of the North-East geo-political zone in
Bauchi on Friday, it was gathered that Atiku would soon make a formal
declaration of his defection to the opposition party.
The conclusion of the meetings came on a
day that associates of the former Vice President from the North-East
were said to have overwhelmingly rejected the PDP and rooted for the
APC as a preferred political platform.
Our corespondent gathered that majority
of the speakers at the Zaranda Hotel, venue of the meeting having
appraised the political situation in the country, supported the former
Vice President’s defection to APC.
