Indeed, APC is the new PDP as ATIKU leaves PDP for APC

Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar has explained his defection to the All Progressives Party, APC to have been motivated by the loss of direction in the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

Abubakar said that the PDP was no more the same party that he co-founded, as it has lost direction and all its true meaning. He regretted that all efforts to put the party back on track had proved abortive.

Speaking to Channels Television News At 10, he accused the party leadership of consistently ignoring reports submitted by different committees towards reposition the party.

He said that the PDP had lost its independence to the government, noting that it used to be in a position to question government and governors but the situation had degenerated, as he sees the party as having now failed by leaving its people and Nigerians in general.

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, and there are questions about the possibility of Nigerians taking him serious this time.

Abubakar said that his defection was a normal process because “ours is an evolving democratic process” and it was normal to move from party to party until the whole system is well developed. He enthused that there was nothing to suggest that he was inconsistent. - ChannelsTV