{"id":236185,"date":"2025-10-02T07:56:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/apc-using-pdp-leaders-to-destabilise-party-atiku\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T07:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:56:20","slug":"apc-using-pdp-leaders-to-destabilise-party-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/apc-using-pdp-leaders-to-destabilise-party-atiku\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Using PDP Leaders to Destabilise Party \u2014 Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Presidential hopeful Atiku Abubakar has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of colluding with some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to weaken the opposition and frustrate efforts to build a united front.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview, Atiku said the PDP\u2019s internal crisis has persisted because certain senior members were allegedly being used by the APC-led government to destabilise the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome senior members of the party were allegedly being used by the government to further destabilise the party, and we could see that in their actions and utterances,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former Vice President noted that he could have made stronger interventions if he held a leadership role within the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was an influential person in PDP but I couldn\u2019t fix it because I was not the chairman or secretary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have called them and sat with them to have dialogue. Sadly, the people occupying those positions have different interests that are mostly personal to them,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku stressed that he should not be blamed for failing to resolve the crisis, as he lacked the authority to make binding decisions. \u201cIf I had the chance to fix it and didn\u2019t, that\u2019s when one could say I failed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He further revealed that as a member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), he and other stakeholders were already working to build strong structures and secure wider acceptance for the party nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he planned to contest the presidency on the ADC platform, Atiku responded: \u201cWhen the time comes, we shall see.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential hopeful Atiku Abubakar has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of colluding with some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to weaken the opposition and frustrate efforts to build a united front. Speaking in an interview, Atiku said the PDP\u2019s internal crisis has persisted because certain senior members were allegedly being used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":236186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Atiku-1-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}