Abba Atiku Abubakar, son of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, has joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) in order to mobilise support for the re-election of President Bola Tinubu.
Abubakar was received into the ruling party on Thursday in Abuja by Barau Jibrin, deputy senate president, and Mustafa Salihu, national vice-chairman of the APC in the north-east.
He renamed his political group, originally established in 2022 as the Atiku Haske Organisation, to the Haske Bola Tinubu Organisation.
Atiku’s son directed all coordinators and members of his political structure to immediately join the APC and mobilise support for Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda.
“My name is Abubakar Atiku Abubakar, but everyone calls me Abba; I am here today to formally announce my exit from my former party, where we worked in 2023, and my decision to join the APC,” he said.
“Today, I’m here to formally announce my exit from my former party to the APC following the outstanding leadership style and quality of His Excellency, the deputy president of the senate, Senator Barau Jibrin.
“With this development, I will work with Senator Barau to actualise the second-term bid of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu come 2027.
“To this effect, I’m directing all coordinators of my association to join the APC and work for President Tinubu.”
The national vice-chairman of the APC in the north-east, described the defection as symbolic and far-reaching.
“Today is one of my happiest days; we are looking beyond old social and political cleavages,” he said.
“This young man has seen the policies and programmes of the Tinubu administration and decided to align with them.”
