2027: I’m willing to step aside if younger aspirant wins ADC Primary – Atiku

By Ayobami Okerinde

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said helium is unfastened to stepping speech for a younger aspirant if helium loses the statesmanlike superior of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) up of the 2027 wide elections.

Speaking successful an interrogation with BBC Hausa connected Wednesday, Atiku, who was the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) campaigner successful the 2023 elections, besides said it is excessively aboriginal to corroborate whether helium volition contention but stressed that uniting the absorption nether the ADC is his existent priority.

“This is lone the beginning. Our precedence is to found the enactment and summation a beardown following.

“If I tally for office, and a young antheral defeats me, I volition judge that.

“The enactment we person joined present prioritises younker and women.”

He dismissed speculations that helium mightiness “double-deal” betwixt the ADC and PDP, insisting, “No, I’m not known for that. If I accidental I americium going 1 way, I volition spell that way.”

Recall Vanguard reported that the 78-year-old successful July resigned from the PDP citing irreconcilable differences and a displacement successful the party’s absorption distant from its founding principles.

In a missive dated July 14, 2025, and addressed to the Chairman of PDP Jada 1 Ward successful Adamawa State, Atiku formally terminated his rank of the enactment with contiguous effect.

“I find it indispensable to portion ways owed to the existent trajectory the Party has taken, which I judge diverges from the foundational principles we stood for,” helium added.

“It is with a dense bosom that I resign, recognising the irreconcilable differences that person emerged,” the missive reads successful part.

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