Atiku returns to PDP Buhari will defeat him – APC

Former President Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, went back to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which he dumped nearly four years ago for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Atiku said he rejoined the PDP because most of the Vice issues that compelled him to leave had been resolved.

The Waziri Adamawa, who sounded as if he was already contesting for the presidency, claimed credit for many of the achievement the PDP recorded while it held sway, including job creation through the telecoms sector and thousands of others through his companies in his home state of Adamawa.

But the ruling APC described Atiku’s defection to the PDP and his presidential aspiration as “a move in futility,” saying “Nigerians would never forget in a hurry, the troubles they were thrown into by the PDP to give them their trust so soon.”

Atiku announced his formal defection to the PDP through his Facebook account yesterday.

It was reliably gathered that Atiku, who served as Nigeria’s vice president between 1999 and 2007, would vie for the PDP’s presidential ticket and had already started working for one of the party’s chairmanship aspirants from the South West ahead of the December 9 national convention of the party.

A source said the former vice president was also in talks with some PDP governors, senators and members