Former APC National Chairman and Edo North Senator, Adams Oshiomhole, has launched a fresh attack on former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, declaring that a man who could not stabilise the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has no business promising to fix Nigeria.
Oshiomhole, reacting to Atiku’s latest move out of the PDP, said the former vice president has turned party defection into a full-time hobby, insisting that such a politician cannot be trusted with the destiny of over 200 million Nigerians.
He branded Atiku a “serial defector”, recalling his movements from PDP to the now-defunct Action Congress (AC), then to the All Progressives Congress (APC), back to PDP and now to yet another platform. According to him, every exit came after Atiku lost internal power struggles.
The outspoken former Edo governor argued that Atiku had multiple opportunities to help rebuild the PDP after it was pushed out of power in 2015 but chose instead to jump ship whenever things did not go his way. “If you can’t fix your own party, how do you fix a complex country like Nigeria?” he queried.
Oshiomhole also painted Atiku’s latest switch as “purely about ambition, not about Nigeria”, accusing him of chasing presidential tickets instead of entrenching ideology or structure in any of the parties he has passed through.
While defending the APC, Oshiomhole admitted that the ruling party is not perfect but insisted it is still miles better than what he described as “the wasted years under PDP governments”. He urged voters to judge politicians by their consistency, not by what they say during election season.
Atiku is yet to personally respond to Oshiomhole’s outburst, but his loyalists have dismissed the attack as “empty noise”, insisting that the former vice president remains one of the most experienced politicians in the race to lead Nigeria and that changing parties does not erase his capacity.
