The Presidency has lambasted former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for forming a parallel Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, on Saturday, along with some party’s governors.
Addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday, the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, described Atiku as an ingrate and stressed that the ex-Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, presidential candidate should know better.
Gulak said Atiku is indebted to PDP and should have been grateful to the party for accepting him back when he returned to the PDP to contest the party’s primaries towards the 2011 presidential election in Nigeria, instead of conniving with others to form a splinter group of the PDP.
“Atiku should be grateful to the PDP. He is indebted to PDP and the best way to continue to pay the debt is to protect PDP,” Gulak told newsmen at the Presidential Villa on Monday while commenting on the matter.
The President Jonathan’s aide noted that “Atiku should know better than any other person that there is no party like PDP. He left PDP and went to ACN and he came back to PDP, because he discovered that outside the PDP, there is no party, so he came back and was even given the waiver to contest the primaries election in 2011.”
However! Gulak stressed that efforts are on to resolve the crisis within the party identifying them to be mostly on clash of interests. “It’s all about politics, which is about interests. We are dialoguing. PDP as a family will now allow any of its members just leave the party,” Gulak said.
