Former Special Advisor Umar Ardo to 2023 PDP presidential contender Atiku Abubakar has hinted that the former Vice President could be kicked out of the party.
If Atiku doesn’t give up on his dream of becoming president, Ardo threatened to have him kicked out of the PDP.
He said as much, pointing out that PDP governors had already abandoned Atiku.
Recall that Atiku had denounced the Supreme Court’s decision upholding President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the February presidential contest.
Atiku had declared that “this aspect of the job is done,” but he was not going anywhere.
The PDP Governors Forum promised to collaborate with Tinubu during his remarks, in response to his involvement in the political unrest in Rivers State.
This was revealed by Bala Mohammed, the chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, following his intervention in the dispute between Rivers State Governor Sim Fubara and Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike.
The PDP governors’ declaration that they were eager to collaborate with President Bola Tinubu, according to an Ardo statement, indicates that they have moved away from Atiku.
According to Ardo:
“Reading through Atiku’s last Monday’s press conference regarding the outcome of the Supreme Court’s judgment and his position towards President Bola Tinubu’s Presidency vis-a-vis the following day’s communique of the PDP Governor’s Forum after its meeting at the Oyo State’s Governor’s Lodge, it’s obvious that the honeymoon between the party’s 2023 presidential candidate and its governors is now over.
“In a separate address to the press following the communique, the chairman of the forum, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, extolled the leadership qualities of President Tinubu and reiterated the PDP governors’ readiness to cooperate, support and work with the federal government that he leads.
“Nothing else can be more explicit in illustrating the two going on their different and separate ways more than this.
“With these opposing positions, it’s just a matter of time (and in a not distant future) for the inevitable implosion to happen, and either Atiku steps down his presidential ambition or leaves the PDP, or be expelled from the party! That’s my reading of the political crystal ball”.