Why I Parted Ways With Buhari - Atiku

A former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has explained why he parted
ways with President Muhammadu Buhari.
Atiku said this in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service in London,
which was monitored by Daily Trust.
The former vice president, who resigned his membership of the ruling
All Progressives Congress (APC), returned to his former party, the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), now the major opposition party in
the country.
“The APC started on a wrong footing after President Buhari assumed
office. Also, the way the government is being run; I made my
suggestions but it seems they were deemed not important to them,”
Atiku said. He also said he was aspiring to be president to be able to
right the things he could not during the eight years he served as vice
president.
“I want to be the President of Nigeria because I would be able to do
things I could not do as vice president,” he said, and added that if
elected president, he would start with the country’s economy and
that he believed Nigerians would trust him in the fight against
corruption, citing how their administration set up the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
He also vowed that there was no personality that he would not
investigate if he was elected president, just as he dismissed
insinuations that he was desperate to become president.
On the allegations that he had been barred from the United States of
America, Atiku said he had applied for a US visa but was denied and
was given no reason for the denial.
He denied allegations that his house in the US had been auctioned. “I
bought the house for my wife and she was the one who sold it,” he
added.
On the recent comment of the president concerning Nigerian youths,
Atiku said he disagreed with the president. “I don’t see Nigerian
youths as lazy,” he said.
Atiku called on the youths to get more involved in politics, promising
to give them 40 per cent of his cabinet if elected president.