Refresher: Abubakar Atiku was once a prominent and dedicated member of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He was one of the major backers of Muhammadu Buhari in his successful run to become President in 2014/15. To achieve that, Atiku abandoned the then ruling party that he co-founded and he brazenly supported the opposition in their efforts to remove Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP, the incumbent president. (Reasons?)
He, alongside others, such as the current President delivered the Presidency to Buhari & APC. Shortly afterwards, he defected back to the same PDP he unseated, and launched a quest to unseat the Buhari & APC that he had helped elect.
Following Atiku’s defeat in the 2019 presidential election by Buhari & APC, everyone set their sights on 2023, by then Buhari would become term-barred. It was also widely acknowledged that the Presidency should be rotated to Southern Nigeria in 2023, in accordance with the unwritten North-South power rotation agreement.
Despite this, Atiku remained steadfast in his position and reclaimed the leadership of the PDP to become the flag bearer, with hope that Nigerians generally would be okay with another Northerner serving another 4-year term (possibly twice) after Buhari, thereby extending the period of Northern rule in a country like Nigeria to sixteen years.
As neutral observer, How would you describe Atiku Abubakar?
