Okowa Confirms Atiku's Exit From PDP, backs Tinubu for second term

 Actually, I did communicate with him (Atiku) that we were going to have Stakeholders meetings and I did communicate with him that we were going to have this meeting last week. This meeting was going to be a leadership meeting and the outcome of that meeting was going to determine our next path because we

 were no longer comfortable with the PDP. And I also know he was already heading out of the PDP from our communications that he has passed on to me and that Nigerians know already.

And when we went into the meeting as I did say, we were looking at could it be the APC, could it be the

coalition? As I said, it was a near-all decision that we should move into the APC. So to that extent we have communications ahead of time concerning that.

But about the North/South, the politics today may not be about the North/South, because at the media both from the North and the South, people are competing and in all political parties, you are likely going to have people from the North and the South. But beyond all this, for the stability of this Nation, I believe yes Bola Ahmed Tinubu was elected President in 2023 and for the stability of Nigeria, it is best for us to have him complete his 8 years and then the Presidency can go back to the North. I believe that is the right thing and not calling it a North/South thing.

Ifeanyi Okowa