Group expelsAtiku’s son, Abba over defection to APC

A pro-Atiku Abubakar group has officially expelled, Abba, a son of the former Vice President, who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress.

Convener of the Atiku Haske Organisation, Mai Bakari, announced this in a statement on Sunday.

Last Thursday, Abba defected to the ruling APC. He later directed all coordinators and members of his political structure to immediately join the APC and mobilise support for Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

Bakari, in his statement, said the former vice president’s son lacked the locus to decide for the group which party or candidate to support.

The statement denied Abba as the founder or originator of the Atiku Haske Organisation, stressing that he lacks the authority to decide for the group.

The statement partly read, “We founded the Atiku Haske Organisation, and we merely invited Abba to join the group. Abba has neither contributed a naira to the activities of the group nor possesses the certificate of registration of the group. We are therefore under no obligation or duty to adhere to any directive by him.

“On the contrary, he is the one who is subject to our regulations, and evidently, he has fallen short of expectations by our standards and has been expressly dismissed as a member.

“The Atiku Haske Organisation is not a party to, nor is it interested in joining Abba to defect to any other political party apart from the African Democratic Congress. We were formerly in the Peoples Democratic Party, and we resolved as an organization to move en masse to the ADC.”

Earlier, Atiku, who had recently defected to the African Democratic Congress to pursue his 2027 presidential ambition, had described his son’s decision as personal.