200,000 Atiku followers decamp to APC ahead of 2019, give reasons

About 200,000 members of the Atiku Care Foundation, have dumped the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

The members who decamped to the All Progressives Congress, APC, also
declared their loyalty to President Muhammadu Buhari's 2019
re-election bid.

Addressing journalists in Kano, spokesman of the group and former
Director of Administration and Strategy for the North-West zone of the
Atiku Care Foundation, Comrade Sunusi Ababai, said over "200, 000
members of the Atiku Care Foundation in the North-West have declared
their loyalty to President Buhari."

He said, "For several years now, we have been working hard for the
development of Atiku Care Foundation. A lot of promises were made when
we started.

"They told us that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar needed a platform to reach
out to the masses at the grass root. We were committed because there
were a lot of programmes from healthcare delivery, education,
entrepreneurship, and youth and women empowerment.

"We started with our own money. Nobody gave us a dime because we
believed that Atiku meant well for the nation; but unfortunately, we
were abandoned at a time structure of the Foundation became solid. We
were waiting all these while for Atiku to finance the programmes, only
for us to hear how he splashed Dollars in Rivers state just to win the
PDP presidential primaries.

"We worked for him without money, but he did not even appreciate our
efforts and contributions. We believe that if such a person is given
the mandate, he will disappoint Nigerians. So, our support for
President Buhari is based on our personal conviction that he is the
Messiah Nigeria needs now.

"We call on Nigerians, particularly, the youths to rally round
President Buhari and give him the mandate to correct what the PDP-led
government has plunged this country into for over 16 years they held
on to power."