{"id":5563,"date":"2025-07-16T19:23:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2025-07-16T19:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:23:29","slug":"atiku-dumps-pdp-citing-irreconcilable-differences-makes-u-turn-to-adc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/atiku-dumps-pdp-citing-irreconcilable-differences-makes-u-turn-to-adc\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku dumps\u00a0 PDP, citing irreconcilable differences &#8230;.makes U-turn to ADC\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Our Correspondent<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ahead of 2027 election,former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has finally resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in preparatory to assuming full membership of\u00a0 the African Democratic Congress (ADC).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The former presidential candidate of the PDP in 2023, in a letter dated July 14, which was made public on Wednesday, said his decision to leave the PDP was prompted by the party\u2019s departure from the foundational principles of its founding fathers, although he did not elaborate on the ideals.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Atiku rather stated simply, \u201cI am writing to formally resign my membership from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with immediate effect.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;I would like to take this opportunity to express my profound gratitude for the opportunities I have been given by the Party. Serving two full terms as Vice President of Nigeria and being a Presidential candidate twice has been one of the most significant chapters of my life.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">As a founding father of this esteemed Party, it is indeed heartbreaking for me to make this decision.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cHowever, I find it necessary to part ways due to the current trajectory the Party has taken, which I believe diverges from the foundational principles we stood for. It is with a heavy heart that I resign, recognizing the irreconcilable differences that have emerged.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The co-founder of PDP, thereafter extended best wishes to the PDP and its leadership, expressing appreciation for the support he received over the years.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It was gathered that all local government and ward chairmen of Jada Local Government Area in Adamawa State, Atiku Abubakar\u2019s home state, have equally resigned from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Atiku&#8217;s exit from the PDP had been expected since the past six months but it may have been delayed by efforts from some leaders of the party to make peace through reconciliation overtures but their efforts did not appear to have yielded the desired results.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This is not the first time that the former vice president will leave the PDP. He resigned from the party in Febuary 2014 shortly before the general elections and joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) and contested against the late President Muhammadu Buhari and three others for the APC presidential ticket before returning to the PDP later and grabbed the ticket to contest the 2023 presidential election which he lost to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent Ahead of 2027 election,former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has finally resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in preparatory to assuming full membership of\u00a0 the African Democratic Congress (ADC). The former presidential candidate of the PDP in 2023, in a letter dated July 14, which was made public on Wednesday, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3367,3144,3615,3612,3365,3614,3613],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-congress","tag-contested","tag-grabbed","tag-preparatory","tag-progressives","tag-recognizing","tag-resign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/5564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}