The political future of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar appears to be bleak, according to the presidency.
The statement was reportedly made by Bayo Onanuga, President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, in response to Ifeanyi Okowa, the PDP’s 2023 vice presidential candidate, defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a previous post via X, Tinubu’s aide Tunde Rahman implied that Atiku’s coalition plan was doomed to fail after the PDP governors disassociated themselves from it and the now-defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) declared their allegiance to President Bola Tinubu.
“For former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s coalition, things are really getting dangerous and the future looks so bleak,” he tweeted. Following the PDP Governors’ clean slate on any such coalition idea, President Tinubu has received backing from the now-defunct CPC branch, on which he also depends.
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He received his biggest bombshell to yet. Both his running mate for the 2023 election, former Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, and Okowa’s successor, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, abandoned the sinking PDP ship and boarded the APC aircraft, presumably switching to the PBAT side. The PDP governors who have switched to the APC are, in fact, already being counted.
Is the Atiku coalition doomed from the start? My people will claim that Friday will give way to the first signs of a good Saturday.
In response to the tweet, Onanuga called Atiku a bitter loser and emphasized that his alliance with Northern politicians and Nasir El-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna State, had fallen apart.
“The political future of Atiku appears to be bleak,” he remarked. El Rufai, Babachir, him, and the newcomer Baba-Ahmed had broken up the coalition they were scheming to form.
Former running mate Ifeanyi Okowa and former CPC members are among the potential allies who are ignoring his leprous group. Atiku loses once more.
