Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar’s recent resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has drawn sharp criticism and mockery from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Felix Morka, the APC spokesperson, dubbed Abubakar “Nigeria’s incomparable political wanderer,” taking aim at his serial repeated party switches.
VP Abubakar announced his departure from the PDP in a letter dated July 14, addressed to his ward chairman in Jada Ward, Adamawa State. This marks his third exit from the PDP.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, Morka lambasted the former Vice-President, accusing him of a consistent pattern of abandoning his party in pursuit of his presidential aspirations. “Yet again, Atiku uses his revolving door out of the PDP for the third time…all in his desperate but ever elusive search for the presidential Golden Fleece,” Morka wrote.
The APC spokesperson went on to describe Abubakar as the “weakest link in Nigeria’s partisan democracy.” He asserted that Abubakar is “driven only by his selfish and obsessive presidential ambition…never willing to put in the work to build his party or solve its internal crises. But claims a birthright entitlement to presidential ticket of his party to the exclusion of all others.”
Morka concluded his remarks with a sarcastic jab at the former Vice-President, stating, “Congratulations, Nigeria’s incomparable political wanderer.”
