I won’t leave APC – Atiku

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday in Abuja denied reports that he intended to leave the All Progressives Congress for the Peoples Democratic Movement.
This was contained in a statement released to newsmen and signed by Malam Garba Shehu, Atiku’s Head of Media.
The statement said that the report was false.
The statement said: “Our attention has been drawn to a recent publication which alleges that APC chieftain and presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, intends to dump the opposition party APC for the PDM.
“This information is not only egregiously false, but our investigations have traced it to a senior APC member from the Northeast zone, who is working to further the presidential ambition of another aspirant within the party.
“He is also known to be working with certain elements in the PDP.”
The statement stated that the Atiku Media Office had in the past few months had to issue a number of rejoinders against falsehoods of such low quality.
It advised the public to henceforth disregard any information about Abubakar published by a particular newspaper.
It recalled that at a meeting with media stakeholders in September, Abubakar had said that the APC was his final bus stop.
The statement added: “That proclamation still stands. Atiku Abubakar does not intend to leave the APC for the PDM or any other party. He believes in the change message of the APC.
“He believes that APC is progress.”
The statement said the change and progress that Nigerians hoped for should include a media, which could be relied upon to provide the public with factual, unbiased information.