Supporters group sacks Atiku’s son over APC defection

The Atiku Haske Organisation has rejected a directive by Abba Atiku Abubakar, son of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, asking members of the group to defect to the All Progressives Congress, saying he lacks the authority to find out its political path.

The help group of the African Democratic Congress presidential hopeful additionally introduced the expulsion of Abba, claiming he by no means contributed “a naira” to its operations.

Abba had on Thursday, after asserting his defection to the APC, directed coordinators and members of his political construction to hitch the ruling celebration and mobilise help for President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

He additionally known as for the renaming of the group to the Haske Bola Tinubu Organisation.

Reacting in a press release issued in Abuja on Sunday, the initiator and convener of the Atiku Haske Organisation, Mai Nagge Bakari, stated Abba was neither the founding father of the group nor vested with the authority to subject directives on its behalf.

Bakari stated Abba was merely invited to hitch the organisation and had neither contributed financially to its actions nor held its registration paperwork.

“We based the Atiku Haske Organisation and merely invited Abba to hitch the group. He has neither contributed a naira to the actions of the organisation nor possesses its certificates of registration.

“We’re due to this fact beneath no obligation to stick to any directive issued by him. Quite the opposite, he’s topic to our laws and has fallen wanting our expectations. He has accordingly been dismissed as a member,” Bakari stated.

The group pressured that it had resolved to maneuver en masse from the Peoples Democratic Party to the African Democratic Congress and had no intention of defecting to every other political celebration, describing Abba’s motion as a violation of its resolutions and core values.

Bakari due to this fact declared Abba’s directive null and void and introduced his quick expulsion from the organisation.

“The Atiku Haske Organisation is just not a celebration to, nor thinking about, defecting to any political celebration apart from the African Democratic Congress. We had been previously within the PDP and resolved collectively to maneuver to the ADC.

“What Abba has achieved is opposite to our resolutions, values and ideas, and he’s hereby expelled from the organisation. We stay resolute in our conviction that His Excellency Atiku Abubakar is one of the best candidate to advance our goals.

“The directive issued by Abba is a nullity and is useless on arrival. We problem him to kind his personal group if he has the capability to take action, and urge him to desist from figuring out himself as a member of our organisation,” the assertion concluded.

Abba introduced his defection on Thursday on the Nationwide Meeting advanced in Abuja, the place he was acquired by the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin, alongside different APC leaders from the North-East.

He pledged help for President Bola Tinubu’s second-term bid, citing the management fashion of Senator Barau and the insurance policies of the Tinubu administration.

He additionally directed members of his political construction, the Haske Atiku Organisation based in 2022, to hitch the APC in help of the Renewed Hope Agenda.

Following the defection, it was gathered that the group introduced that it had been renamed the Haske Bola Tinubu Organisation, signalling its alignment with President Tinubu’s 2027 re-election marketing campaign.