FORMER Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that in spite of what he was facing within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he would not leave the ruling party, but would remain and fight against the injustice and dishonesty perpetrated by the leadership of the party.
Atiku, in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Hausa service monitored in Kaduna, on Saturday, said the series of restrictions imposed on him by the party was because the party chieftains were afraid of him, as he would not condone the illegalities encouraged in the PDP.
“What I want you to know is that those in leadership positions have turned the party into something else,” he said.
On why the party could not resolve disagreements between him and the chairman of the party, he said “we all sat down and we are all working together now.”
He also chided the governor of Adamawa State for allegedly handling the state chapter of the PDP like a private estate in which only the people he wanted could contest and win elections.
He described the proposed amnesty for insurgents as a good initiative towards resolving the crisis, but said that “ours is just to advise the government. But there is no piece of advice that the elders have not given the government. Look at the Lemu Committee report, the government did nothing about it.”
Atiku said the Sule Lamido committee that was formed to resolve the contentious issues was not even necessary. “It was even wrong to form that committee in the first place. This is because there was nothing that was done which was not in order,” he said.
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