Former Vice-President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday debunked a statement credited to the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party that he might soon return to the party before next month’s general elections.
The national secretary of PDP, Prof. Wale Oladipo, had said on Friday that the ruling party wooing former members of the party, including Atiku Abubakar and Gov. Rabiu Kwakwanso of Kano State, as well as other members, who defected to the APC, to return to the party before the next general elections.
Speaking in Ile-Ife, Osun State at a press conference, Oladipo said, “The PDP has begun moves to bring back some of our former chieftains who are now in the APC. The PDP reconciliation committee set up by the National Working Committee will meet with all former members for the purpose of bringing them back before the next general elections”.
But in a swift reaction, the Director General of the Atiku Media Office, Mallam Garba Shehu, said there was no plan by the former vice president to return to the PDP.
According to him, reports linking the Mr. Abubakar with a possible return to the PDP were lies being peddled by mischief makers.
Shehu said, “There is no iota of truth in such claims. It is not only false, it is malicious and a product of the futile imaginations of those peddling it”.
