Abba Abubakar, a son of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has been dismissed by a pro-Atiku Abubakar group after he defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress.

This was communicated by Mai Bakari, convener of the Atiku Haske Organisation in a statement on Sunday, January 18.

Recall that Abba has on Thursday defected to the ruling APC and directed all coordinators and members of his political structure to immediately join the APC and mobilize support for Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda.

Reacting in the statement, Bakari noted that the former vice president’s son has no locus in deciding for the group which party or candidate to support.

According to the statement, Abba is not the founder or originator of the Atiku Haske Organisation and lacks the authority to decide for the group.

“We founded the Atiku Haske Organization, and we merely invited Abba to join the group. Abba has neither contributed a naira to the activities of the group nor possesses the certificate of registration of the group. We are therefore under no obligation or duty to adhere to any directive by him.

“On the contrary, he is the one who is subject to our regulations, and evidently, he has fallen short of expectations by our standards and has been expressly dismissed as a member.

“The Atiku Haske Organisation is not a party to, nor is it interested in joining Abba to defect to any other political party apart from the African Democratic Congress. We were formerly in the Peoples Democratic Party, and we resolved as an organization to move en masse to the ADC,” he stated.

Earlier, Atiku, who had recently defected to the African Democratic Congress to pursue his 2027 presidential ambition, had described his son’s decision as personal.