…As key PDP allies defect to APC
President Bola Tinubu’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga took a swipe at former vice president Atiku Abubakar on Thursday, following the defection of some key allies of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Atiku’s 2023 election running mate, former Delta State governor Ifeanyi Okowa, the PDP Governor of Delta State, Sheriff Oborevwori and others decamped from the PDP to the ruling APC on Wednesday.
Reacting to the development, Onanuga reached for his X handle and fired a shot at Atiku, describing his political future as looking bleak.
The former vice president has recently been milling a coalition to wrest power from President Tinubu in 2027.
Onanuga’s post reads:
“Atiku’s political future looks bleak. The coalition that he, El Rufai, Babachir, and new member Baba-Ahmed are cobbling together has disintegrated. Potential allies, including former running mate Ifeanyi Okowa and defunct CPC members, are giving his leprous group a wide berth. Atiku is a loser again”.
The presidential spokesman’s post came on the heels of a similar post by Tunde Rahman, another aide of Tinubu, asking rhetorically if Atiku’s coalition was dead on arrival.
Rahman’s post on X reads:
“Things are really getting perilous and the future looks so bleak for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s coalition. After the PDP Governors washed their hands clean of any such coalition plan, the defunct CPC wing he is also counting on has proffered support for President Tinubu.
Today, he got his biggest shocker ever. His 2023 election running mate, former Delta State governor Ifeanyi Okowa, and Okowa’s successor, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, dumped the sinking PDP ship and hopped aboard the APC plane, and by inference, crossed over to the PBAT side. Indeed, the counting of PDP Governors crossing over to APC has begun.
Isn’t Atiku coalition dead on arrival? As my people will say, the glimpses of a Saturday that will be good will manifest from Friday”.
