By Seyi Babalola
Josephine Anenih, a former Minister of Women Affairs and a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, alleges that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar quit the PDP after the 2023 presidential election, despite reports of his resignation on June 14, 2025.
Anenih, a former national women leader of the PDP, spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday.
“If you ask me, I would say he didn’t exit yesterday; he had exited after the last election, because after the last election, maybe he held a conference once or something, and that was it,” she said.
She said Atiku had not been playing an active role in the opposition party, following the outcome of the presidential election.
“He has not attended any meeting. We have even reached out to him.
“Even the women of the Board of Trustees went to him and we told him that the party is drifting because there is no leadership and we look at you as our ‘baba,’ as our leader and we expected you to take action, to be in the forefront, to give direction,” she added.
The former minister, however, said that in spite of the challenges facing the PDP, it would not go extinct on her watch, and those who took part in the founding of the party in 1998.
Asked how difficult it would be for the opposition party to move on, Anenih said, “In 1998, we didn’t have all those people, and those of us who were there —grassroots people. We managed to put the PDP together, and we won. As Chief Bode George said, anybody can go, anybody can come.
“But for those of us who believe in the PDP, we will do our best, and we know that the PDP can never die on our watch. Maybe when we are dead, the PDP can die, but it won’t die before us.”
