PDP Elders Beg Ex-VP Atiku To Return To Party

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Former vice president Atiku Abubakar. Photo: AFP

A group called the Peoples Democratic Party Concerned Elders Consultative Forum has appealed to ex-vice-president Atiku Abubakar to return to the former ruling party.

The appeal was made amid the circulation of posters bearing images of Atiku in the Katsina State secretariat of the PDP.

In a statement issued by the group, during a meeting at the Secretariat, the PDP leaders  said Atiku had made varied indelible contributions to the foundation and development of the PDP and indeed that of democratic politics in Nigeria for decades.

The statement read in part: ”This is not only worth being remembered but it is also imperative to the current struggle being made by the PDP to wriggle back to become the mainstream political party in Nigeria.

”Also, the history of defences given to the struggle to sustain democracy in Nigeria’s recent past cannot adequately be written without a serious mention of the immense contributions of this great gentleman, who was in the frontline against those who at one time or the other, chose to truncate the noble path of sustainable democracy in our national body polity.

”In light of the foregoing undeniable facts, we the members of this forum , together with our delegates and millions of supporters wish to present this S.O .S call to His Excellency, the Wazirin Adamawa, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to return to the PDP without further ado! We pray that he hearken to our call, and we seek the credible indulgence of the PDP to receive him with open arms in order to ensure a successful rebirth of the party.”

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