A former Vice-President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has joined an opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Abubakar said in a statement that he had left the ruling People’s Democratic Party for the APC.
The former vice-president said that he and his supporters have been forced out of PDP, a party, he claims to have co-founded with its foundation members.
Abuabakar’s grievances include being left out of most of the party’s major decisions, being left out of party’s Board of Trustees and National Executive Committee meetings.
He insisted that as a former vice-president of the country, he was entitled to being a member of that body.
In the statement, the former vice president said: “Following this extensive consultative process, I have, therefore, decided to cast my lot with the APC, a party of change, committed to the improvement of the lives of our people and to the continued existence and development of Nigeria as one indivisible country.
“My resignation letter as a member of the PDP will be delivered to the party tomorrow”.
The former vice president once left the PDP in 2006 to run for president as the Action Congress’s candidate, but later returned to the PDP in 2009.
