A former Special Adviser to the 2023 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Umar Ardo, has raised the possibility of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP expelling the former Vice President if he continues to pursue his presidential ambitions.
Ardo’s comments came in the wake of a statement by PDP governors expressing their willingness to cooperate with Bola Ahmed Tinubu following his intervention in the People’s Democratic Party political crisis in Rivers State.
Remember that Atiku had previously condemned the ruling of the Supreme Court which affirmed Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the February presidential election.
Atiku had vowed that he was going nowhere until “this aspect of the job is done.”
Amid his remark, the PDP Governors Forum had vowed to work with Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
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According to Ardo, “Reading through Atiku’s last Monday’s press conference regarding the outcome of the Supreme Court’s judgment and his position towards President Bola Tinubu’s Presidency vis-a-vis the following day’s communique of the PDP Governor’s Forum after its meeting at the Oyo State’s Governor’s Lodge, it’s obvious that the honeymoon between the party’s 2023 presidential candidate and its governors is now over.
“In a separate address to the press following the communique, the chairman of the forum, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, extolled the leadership qualities of President Tinubu and reiterated the PDP governors’ readiness to cooperate, support and work with the federal government that he leads.
“Nothing else can be more explicit in illustrating the two going on their different and separate ways more than this, he added
“With these opposing positions, it’s just a matter of time (and in a not distant future) for the inevitable implosion to happen, and either Atiku steps down his presidential ambition or leaves the PDP, or be expelled from the party! That’s my reading of the political crystal ball”, he revealed.