Why I Quit APC – Atiku

The chieftain of the ruling All Progressive’s Congress, APC, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has just declared his exit from the party.

Atiku, who had earlier said few months ago that the party sidelined him from the affairs in governance gave his major reasons from resignation this morning, November 24.

According to him, APC has failed and continues to fail Nigerians especially the youths, clamping down all forms of democracy within the party as against the assurance he was given before leaving Peoples Democratic Party for APC in 2013.

In parts, he said this:

While other parties have purged themselves of the arbitrariness and unconstitutionality that led to fractionalization, the All Progressives Congress has adopted those same practices and even gone beyond them to institute a regime of a draconian clampdown on all forms of democracy within the party and the government it produced.”

“But more importantly, the party we put in place has failed and continues to fail our people, especially our young people. How can we have a federal cabinet without even one single youth.

A party that does not take the youth into account is a dying party. The future belongs to young people.

I admit that I and others who accepted the invitation to join the APC were eager to make positive changes for our country that we fell for a mirage. Can you blame us for wanting to put a speedy end to the sufferings of the masses of our people?”

However, Atiku is yet to make up his mind on the new party he will be running from as a Nigerian politician.