…as son defects to APC; Northern ADC bloc insist on southern presidency
The son of Nigeria’s former Vice President, Abba Atiku Abubakar, has joined the All Progressives Congress with a vow to mobilize massive support for the reelection of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He was received by the Deputy President of the Senate, Sen Barau Jibrin and the National Vice Chairman of the APC, North East, Mustafa Salihu on Thursday evening, in Abuja.
Abba Abubakar Atiku has also renamed the political group he founded in 2022 for his father from Atiku Haske Organization to Haske Bola Tinubu Organisation.
Meanwhile, some political bigwigs in northern Nigeria of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) extraction have reportedly resolved to allow power to remain in Southern Nigeria till 2031.
Our paper gathered authoritatively that a former governor of Kaduna State, Mallam El-Rufai and other northern leaders within the ADC are said to hold this position of 2027 southern presidency, firmly.
According to insiders, fielding a northern presidential candidate would mark the beginning of the end for the ADC. Such a move, it was learnt, would alienate southern voters, cost the party its national appeal, and effectively reduce it to a regional, northern-based party.
The consensus, sources say, is clear: zoning to the South is not optional, it is strategic survival for the ADC.
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was Vice President under former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, from 1999 to 2007.
He was the presidential standard bearer of the PDP in 2023 but defected and joined the ADC some months ago. He is said to be planning to contest for the party’s presidential ticket with which to vie for Presidency of the country, come 2027.
