Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has denied any involvement in the current leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Atiku’s Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shuaibu made the clarification in an interview on Sunday.
The party has been plagued by suspensions and counter-suspensions, prompting interventions from the PDP Governors’ Forum, Board of Trustees, and National Reconciliation Committee.
Reacting, Shuaibu said Atiku is not part of the crisis, describing any suggestions of his involvement as “bizarre” and “extremely far-fetched”
“Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar believes in due process and he has been focused on how to build the PDP into a more formidable Party and he completely has no hand in any crisis that would rather draw the party backwards.
“It is extremely farfetched and unfair to insinuate that Atiku has any involvement with any individual or group’s plans to brief lawyers and go to court towards vacating Justice Peter Lifu’s judgement,” Shuaibu stressed.
The crisis is believed to stem from long-standing differences between FCT Minister Nyesom Wike and Atiku. Notably, neither Atiku nor Wike was invited to a recent meeting of PDP stakeholders, which was described by PDP Governors Forum Chairman Bala Mohammed as a meeting of “all of PDP” stakeholders.
