Former Vice -President Atiku Abubakar said on Friday that he resigned from the All Progressives Congress because the
party had failed Nigerian youths .
Atiku announced on his website that the ruling APC was a dying party that never took youths into account. He said the future belonged to young people and that he joined the APC to facilitate a bright future for the young and old .
“The party we put in place has failed and continues to fail our people , especially our young people ; how can we have a federal cabinet without even one single youth . “A party that does not take the youth into account is a dying party . The future belongs to young people .
“I admit that I and others , who accepted the invitation to join the APC , were eager to make positive changes for our country that we fell for a mirage . “Can you blame us for wanting to put a speedy end to the sufferings of the masses of our people ?’’ Atiku also hinged his resignation on fractionalisation of the APC , resulting from “arbitrariness and unconstitutionality” over the years.
He said it was for the same reason that he defected from the Peoples Democratic Party in 2014 . “While other parties have purged themselves of the arbitrariness and unconstitutionality that led to fractionalisation, the APC has adopted the same practices.
“It has even gone beyond them to institute a regime of a draconian clampdown on all forms of democracy within the party and the government it produced,” he added.
