Olushola Omogbehin
Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has finally resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party.
In a letter dated 14th of July, 2025 which was addressed to the PDP Chairman of his word in Jada Local Government Area of Adamawa State, he attributed his exit to the recent development within the party.
He said the PDP has diverted from its founding principles which has affected the party in many ways.
“I am writing to formally resign my membership from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with immediate effect.
“I would like to take this opportunity to express my profound gratitude for the opportunity 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.
“However, I find it necessary to part way 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.
“I wish the Party and its leadership all the best in future”
It would be recalled that Atiku with some other key politicians recently joined the opposition coalition in order to unseat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 election.
This is not the first time Atiku is dumping PDP for another party in order to pursue his presidential ambition in another political party. He left in 2006 during a rift between him and the former President Olusegun Obasanjo and pinched his tent with the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) through which he contested the 2007 presidential election against Shehu Musa Yar’Adua.
He left ACN in 2011 and returned again to the PDP where he again contested for the presidential ticket of the party and lost to Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
Again, he left the PDP on February 2, 2014 and became a founding member of All Progressive Congress (APC) with the ambition to also fight for the party’s presidential ticket but he was defeated by the late Muhammadu Buhari.
Upon his defeat, he again migrated from the party in 2017 to PDP and became its presidential candidate in 2019 and 2023 respectively until the latest move to the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
