Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president, said he has no intention of leaving the PDP.
Atiku is reportedly completing his plans to join the Social Democratic Party (SDP), according to recent reports.
Atiku’s media office responded to the claims on Saturday, stating that the former vice president is still an official PDP member.
The media office urged Nigerians to ignore the stories, calling them a “fallacy.”
“We have observed that some news platforms are peddling unverified information that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is abandoning the Peoples Democratic Party,” the statement reads.
“We wish to clarify that the so-called news of Atiku defecting to another party is a total fallacy that holds no merit in logic.”
Before Nigeria’s general election in 2027, Abubakar has often called for a combination of opposition political parties to overthrow the incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC), according to the media office.
The coalition will include all opposition parties, including the PDP, the media office emphasised.
“Hence, it is fallacious and unfounded to allege that the Waziri is jumping the PDP ship. Such an allegation is antithetical to the objective of the grand coalition, which the former Vice President is currently driving alongside other prominent political leaders in the country,” the media office said.
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“We, therefore, wish to state unequivocally that Atiku remains a principal bonafide member of the PDP, the main opposition party.”
Atiku’s media office added that the defection claims are an attempt to “confuse Nigerians about the magnitude of the grand coalition that is at work to rescue Nigeria from the grip of the APC”.
