Ifeanyi Okowa, a former governor of Delta State and the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) 2023 vice presidential candidate, has asserted that former vice president Atiku Abubakar will soon leave the PDP.
“Atiku is on his way out of the PDP,” Okowa said.
Reports from Naija News In an interview with ARISE News on Tuesday, Okowa, who recently finalized his decision to desert from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC), revealed the information about Atiku’s impending defection.
Even as the country approaches the 2027 elections, he bemoaned the fact that many members are dissatisfied with what is occurring in the PDP.
“Before we switched to the APC, I spoke with Atiku, who is leaving the PDP, about the coalition,” Okowa disclosed.
Movement of Coalition
The former governor of Delta State went on to say that Atiku’s proposed alliance is unclear, unstructured, and not urgent enough.
“It doesn’t seem like a coalition could gain strength so quickly, and it doesn’t seem like a viable coalition vehicle has been confirmed,” he said.
An additional term for Tinubu
According to Okowa, Tinubu ought to be reinstated as Nigeria’s president in 2027. He maintained that doing so would benefit Nigeria and maintain the South’s turn in the presidential cycle.
“It is best for us if he serves out his eight-year term for the stability of this country. The president can then return to the North. “I think that’s the right thing to do,” he said.
The Action
During the interview, he also stated that the decision to defect from the PDP to the APC was made collaboratively after discussions with Delta State stakeholders.
He maintained that the move was in the best interest of the people of the state.
“We had various levels of meetings with several stakeholders, and even consulted some of our leaders who are not politicians before we came to this decision.
“It was not just a decision of the governor or myself; it was the consensus of a broader political family in Delta.
“Though we tried to do our best in the state, we could not lay our hands on a lot of things that would have benefited us at the federal level,” he said.
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