What Atiku said about Obaseki’s defection of PDP

Former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has welcomed Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki’s defection into the party. https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-1883810847636355&output=html&h=316&slotname=8228856220&adk=3740527632&adf=3872947312&w=379&fwrn=7&lmt=1592729501&rafmt=11&psa=1&guci=2.2.0.0.2.2.0.0&format=379×316&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn-af.feednews.com%2Fnews%2Fdetail%2F8947270b8b6a5544bbd8eebc0b4cebcd%3Fclient%3Dnews%26country%3Dng%26features%3D34359738287%26lang%3Den%26language%3Den%26low_perf%3Dfalse%26mode%3Dbody%26swdp%3D411%26uid%3D59ea195a14c73245908b3459860979f93f145498&flash=0&wgl=1&adsid=NT&dt=1592729501589&bpp=15&bdt=2659&idt=-M&shv=r20200610&cbv=r20190131&ptt=9&saldr=aa&abxe=1&cookie=ID%3D5ff6075fb796208a-22325510c3a500fc%3AT%3D1592729563%3ART%3D1592729563%3AS%3DALNI_MaoyvGV57HYAwQA-gcPquDhWp6hTQ&crv=1&prev_fmts=0x0&nras=1&correlator=8163934270009&frm=20&pv=1&ga_vid=2035454856.1592729477&ga_sid=1592729501&ga_hid=2018860951&ga_fc=0&iag=0&icsg=2632447&dssz=13&mdo=0&mso=0&rplot=4&u_tz=60&u_his=1&u_java=0&u_h=892&u_w=412&u_ah=892&u_aw=412&u_cd=24&u_nplug=0&u_nmime=0&adx=16&ady=457&biw=412&bih=719&scr_x=0&scr_y=0&eid=36998750%2C42530493%2C42530495&oid=3&pvsid=3705921306334522&pem=714&rx=0&eae=0&fc=1924&brdim=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C412%2C0%2C412%2C719%2C412%2C719&vis=1&rsz=%7C%7CoEe%7C&abl=CS&pfx=0&fu=8336&bc=31&ifi=1&uci=a!1&fsb=1&xpc=bYf5qWi8im&p=https%3A//cdn-af.feednews.com&dtd=56

 Atiku, while reacting to the entrant of Obaseki and his deputy, honorable Philip Shaibu, congratulated the duo for taking the bold step in dumping the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC). 

Obaseki alongside his deputy, Philip Shaibu formally joined the PDP after days of meetings with the leadership of the PDP, following his disqualification by the APC governorship screening committee. 

But Atiku in a statement on Friday by his media adviser, Paul Ibe, called on Edo people to rally behind the PDP and Governor Obaseki for the delivery of democracy dividends.

“I am excited that Obaseki has finally exited the oppressive All Progressive Congress, APC and joined the truly democratic party in Nigeria. I am not in any doubt that your coming into the PDP would galvanize our great party to mobilize the people behind the common cause of deepening democratic ethos and values in our country and restoring prosperity to our people.

The Waziri Adamawa reminded Obaseki that the PDP is a reformed and repositioned party. 

“The PDP that you have decided to come to join today is a reformed and repositioned political party –not the party you used to know, it is one that lives by its name of being a truly democratic party.

“I have an unflinching conviction that your joining the Peoples Democratic Party would be an asset to us. As a united family, we can work to extinct every form of undemocratic and tyranical tendencies in our body politic and realign the good people of Edo state to the moving train of democracy and restoration of good governance to the country”, the statement read.”

Obaseki on Friday picked up the party’s nomination and expression of interest forms in readiness for the primary election, after the National chairman of the PDP Prince Uche Secondus issued him a waiver certificate.