Former vice president and Turakin Adamawa, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar said yesterday that former governor Adamu Muazu, will not make a difference in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) crisi. Mu’azu replaced Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as the National Chairman of the party, about two weeks ago.
He said I dont think Tukur is the issue in PDP. Atiku also said his former boss, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, pushed him out of the PDP.
Speaking on a radio programme, “Issues and Events” on Liberty Radio and monitored by our reporter in Kaduna yesterday, Atiku said before he took up the job, he came to me and said that he wanted the job and I said even if he gets it, you are not going to do anything about it.
“I did not leave the PDP, I was pushed out by my former boss. Ever since I returned about four years ago, PDP has not communicated with me and I have not communicated with PDP. I have not attended any of their meetings and they have not invited me. I am supposed to be a member of the Board of Trustees (BoT), National Executive Committee (NEC) but I have never attended their meetings. I am supposed to be a member of the caucus by convention because when we were in office we said that the president should always nominate the vice president and that was why Alex Ekwueme was nominated. He was in the caucus but I am not.
“I am just looking at them. So, if you don’t participate in the process, how do you contribute your experience, expertize in resolving problems in the party,” he stated.
Atiku said, however, that he has shelved his presidential ambition for now at the expense of Nigeria’s continuous existence because the environment is not conducive.
“It is not about an ambition again but about Nigeria. We have got to that stage now that it is not about ambition but the existence of Nigeria and the people.
“You have an ambition if the environment permits but the environment as it is, does not permit it. You have to restore normalcy in the environment first because if you allow your ambition to override the nation’s, you will find out that you don’t even exist,” Atiku said.
The former vice president said danger lies ahead in next year’s general elections, noting that the country is in so much crisis now than before the civil war.
“General Buhari and I were sharing our concerns about the country last Friday, both of us agreed that this country had never been in such big crisis, except before the civil war and now. That is how both of us see the situation. Buhari, Tinubu, I as well as many others from the South are doing our best to ensure the country survives.
“If General Buhari can agree on such assessment, it shows the credibility of our view,” Atiku said.
REF: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/pdp-crisis-muazu-wont-make-difference-atiku/
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