PDP Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Ibrahim Abdullahi, on Thursday, described Atiku’s departure as “good riddance to a bad rubbish.”
Atiku resigned from the PDP on Wednesday, amid widespread speculation that he plans to pursue the presidency under the African Democratic Congress-led coalition.
In a letter dated July 14, 2025, addressed to the Chairman of his Jada 1 Ward in Adamawa State, Atiku announced his departure from the party he co-founded in 1998. 
He had previously contested the presidency under the PDP in 2019 and 2023 but lost to late President Muhammadu Buhari and current President Bola Tinubu, both of the All Progressives Congress.
“So he knows that it will be a very Herculean task going forward to still have our party’s ticket on three consecutive terms since he is not the only person in the PDP. So it is following this realization that he is now thinking of a coalition.
A coalition that is already dead on arrival on account of the ambition of the members therein.
“So we are wishing them well, but as for leaving the PDP, good riddance to bad rubbish.
“PDP is not losing any sleep, and there is not a single member of this PDP who would think he is indispensable.
“We had a time when even a sitting president tore his membership card of the PDP, but no sooner did we see him coming back into the PDP.
” So, PDP is not built around individuals. It is an institution.
“Anyone who feels they want to leave, it is a safe journey. But we want to assure Nigerians that if you leave, you will come back. We are here. It is 27 years today and counting, and that is the longest political party in the history of Nigeria since the beginning of democracy and since the commencement of this Fourth Republic. So there is nothing to lose sleep over.”
