Atiku rejoins PDP and set to run as presidential candidate of the party 2019

Former vice president Atiku Abubakar has officially announced his defection to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) .Atiku had in November left his party All Progressives Congress (APC) , declaring it a dying
party.

In a live Facebook broadcast, Atiku said he is returning to PDP, under whose banner he was the vice president for 8 years.

He said:
Some of you may know that I was
elected vice president under the
banner of the PDP, which is the
political party that I had helped
to found some 10 years before.
Some of you may also know I left
the PDP four years ago when I
believed it was no longer aligned to
the principles of equity, democracy
and social justice, upon which we
had found it.

I joined the APC as I hoped it
would be the new force that would
help improve life for our people. I
was excited about the party’s
manifesto to create 3 million new
jobs a year.

The result has not been the change
people had been promised or voted
for. In the last two years, almost 3
million Nigerians have lost their
jobs. And today with a record 25
percent of people aged between
18-25 years unemployed, I can see
how difficult it is for our youths to
find jobs. The key to creating jobs
is a strong economy, that is where
we are currently lacking.

So today, I want to let you know
that I am returning home to the
PDP, as the issues that led me to
leave it have now been resolved
and it is clear that the APC has let
the Nigerian people and especially,
the young people down.