2027 election: What Atiku's resignation from PDP means revealed

• Public commentator Mahdi Shehu reacted to the resignation of erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar from the PDP
• Atiku blamed his exit from the erstwhile ruling enactment connected the deviation from its founding principles
• In reaction, Shehu, a Kaduna-based 'activist', highlighted 'great lessons for radical to larn from'

Legit.ng writer Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has implicit 9 years of acquisition covering elections, politics, and governance successful Nigeria.

FCT, Abuja - Controversial professional Mahdi Shehu connected Wednesday, July 16, asserted that "there is simply a large acquisition for radical to learn" from the resignation of Atiku Abubakar from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Legit.ng had reported however Atiku, a erstwhile Nigerian vice-president, resigned his membership of the PDP up of the 2027 election.

Mahdi Shehu speaks arsenic Atiku Abubakar leaves PDP up of 2027 election. Photo credit: @atiku
Source: Twitter

In a missive dated Monday. July 14, 2025, and addressed to the president of the PDP, Jada 1 Ward, Jada section authorities country (LGA) of Adamawa state, Alhaji Atiku stated that his resignation is owed to irreconcilable differences that person emerged wrong the erstwhile ruling party.

The 78-year-old noted that helium recovered it indispensable to portion ways owed to the existent trajectory the enactment has taken, which, according to him, diverges from the foundational principles it stood for.

Atiku, who served arsenic Nigeria’s vice president betwixt 1999 and 2007, expressed gratitude to the PDP for the level it provided him to service and doubly contention the presidency—in 2019 and 2023.

He was besides a statesmanlike aspirant connected the level of the enactment successful 2007 earlier decamping to the Action Congress (AC), a forerunner of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

His exit marks different large turning constituent successful his agelong and eventful governmental career, which has seen him criss-cross enactment lines successful pursuit of electoral goals.

Atiku has sought Nigeria’s apical occupation six times since 1993 nether antithetic governmental banners, including the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the PDP, the AC, and the APC.

The perennial statesmanlike contender tendered his resignation successful the build-up to the 2027 wide predetermination arsenic helium teams up with a conjugation platform, the Alliance Democratic Congress (ADC).

Reacting to Atiku's exit from the PDP, Shehu said, 'by resigning to articulation the league of his respective sworn foes, detractors and enemies, means Atiku is yet to larn governmental endurance instincts.'

According to him, "I would alternatively stay wrong than conscionable fizzle distant to an uncertain destination."

Among different alleged implications, Shehu said by abandoning the PDP 'because of rats (sic) infestation', Atiku has "shown that helium is not a bully combatant consenting to combat to finish."

Mahdi Shehu's post, shared connected his verified X (formerly Twitter) handle, can beryllium work successful afloat below:

1. There is simply a large acquisition for radical to larn from:

Whoever contributed successful gathering a location implicit decades, furnished it, decorated it, repainted it severally, and periodically, felt precise overmuch astatine home, fought to support the said location from collapse, driving pridefulness from being portion of that house, etc, but abruptly abandoned, deserted and tally distant of the location due to the fact that of "RATS INFESTATIONS.

By resigning from PDP, Atiku would person fixed Olusegun Obasanjo a blessed infinitesimal to observe the triumph of his evil program and mechanisation against some PDP and Atiku successful peculiar

By abandoning PDP due to the fact that of 'RATS INFESTATION', Atiku has shown that helium is not a bully combatant consenting to combat to finish, consenting to halt midway, willingly, to deploy each means disposable to beryllium a point.

By resigning from PDP, Atiku has sent shivers and shocks to different PDP members who were hitherto seeing him arsenic a pillar to thin on.

By resigning to articulation the league of his respective sworn foes, detractors, and enemies, means Atiku is yet to larn the governmental endurance instincts that prohibit 1 from" joining the well-known enemies club" adjacent wherever 1 volition beryllium seen arsenic a leader, due to the fact that the aforesaid enemies volition regroup and inflict deeper injury.

I would alternatively stay wrong than conscionable fizzle distant to an uncertain destination.

'HE WHO FIGHTS AND RUNS AWAY. MAYBLIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY, BUT HE WHO IS IN BATTLE SLAIN, MAY NEVER RISE TO FIGHT AGAIN'."

Tinubu knocks Atiku, others

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that President Bola Tinubu told Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa authorities not to beryllium swayed by 'the sound of conjugation groups'.

According to Tinubu, opposition figures working unneurotic to unseat him are "political internally-displaced persons (IDPs).”

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Source: Legit.ng