The flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, declined to comment on the party’s lingering internal crisis in Katsina state on Saturday, June 22.
TimesNow.com.ng reports that Atiku visited former President Muhammadu Buhari at his Daura residence on Saturday to pay Sallah homage.
The former vice president, also met with Dr Dikko Umar Radda, the governor of Katsina state, and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), at the palace of the Emir of Daura, on Saturday.
Atiku’s visit on Saturday, has, however, sparked further speculation about his political ambitions ahead of the 2027 general elections.
While fielding questions from journalists after meeting his meeting with Buhari, Atiku said the forthcoming party congresses will resolve the lingering crisis rocking PDP in Katsina state, Daily Trust reported.
Recall that PDP has been in crisis before, during and after the 2023 general elections , a situation that eventually led to the decamping to the ruling APC of the former state governor, Ibrahim Shehu Shema, who was at loggerheads with the governorship candidate of the party Yakubu Lado, and other major stakeholders.
However, after Shema left, the Lado side of the faction also broke up with the governorship candidate on one side and the former SSG and DG campaign Atiku/Lado 2023, Mustapha Inuwa, Senator Tsauri, a former national secretary of the party and an ally of Shema, Yusuf Majigiri, a serving member of the house of reps on the other side.
As reported by Vanguard, a group called âPDP major stakeholdersâ and the state caretaker committee were at loggerhead over the sales of congress forms.
While the group claimed that they were denied purchase of the forms, the state caretaker committee remained silent on the issue in spite of several efforts to hear from them on the allegation.
In a related development, Atiku, on Wednesday, June 19, visited former Heads of State, Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar, in Minna, Niger state, where he paid Sallah homage to the former leaders.
The meetings have sparked reactions from Nigerians, with some seeing it as a move by Atiku to form alliances ahead of the 2027 election.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
