What Exactly Is an 80-Year-Old Political Tourist Still Looking For? Lagos APC Queries Atiku

Atiku’s decision to pick up an ADC membership card at 80 is the perfect climax to a political career defined by ceaseless desperation, chronic restlessness, and an incurable addiction to party-hopping.

Nigerians are laughing – and rightly so.
Because the question writes itself:

What exactly is Atiku still looking for at 80?

Power? Relevance? Closure? Or simply another party to scatter?

This is a man who has:
• Worn more political jerseys than a veteran footballer on a farewell tour;
• Contested presidential elections like a man chasing a debt, not a mandate;
• Abandoned allies, parties, and principles at the slightest inconvenience;
• Spent decades auditioning for a job Nigerians have repeatedly told him he cannot have.

Atiku’s latest jump into ADC is not strategy – it is survival.
It is not reinvention – it is expiration disguised as relevance.
It is not courage – it is panic.

A Man Who Couldn’t Fix PDP Wants to Fix Nigeria? Please.

Here is a man who split the PDP into pieces, fought governors, disrespected party elders, weaponised internal chaos, and plunged the party into the worst existential crisis of its life – only to now run away like a burglar leaving a ransacked house.

And now, at 80 years old, he wants to start again?

Start what, exactly?
Another round of confusion?
Another failed presidential bid?
Another national distraction?

Atiku’s Political GPS Has No ‘Home’

From PDP → AC → PDP → APC → PDP → now ADC…
Even Google Maps is confused.
Even his supporters can’t keep up.

This is not political mobility.
This is a man fleeing from his own shadow.

A Debt He Owes but Has Never Paid

And let it be said without ambiguity:
At this point in time, Atiku should be remorseful and seek the forgiveness of the very party that gave him so much, only to receive next to nothing in return.

The truth is simple and painful:

Atiku should be told that Nigeria owes him nothing.

On the contrary, he owes Nigeria everything – needless to refer to his years in public service and political office.

He built nothing.
He united no one.
He stabilized nothing.
Yet he continues to behave like a man to whom the country is indebted.

Nigeria lifted Atiku; Atiku contributed to Nigeria’s political instability.
That is the real scorecard.

Nigeria Has Moved On – Atiku Has Not

While President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is rebuilding the economy, restoring investor confidence, reshaping national security architecture, and opening new frontiers of development, Atiku is busy collecting membership cards like souvenirs.

Leadership is not a retirement hobby.
Nigeria is not a consolation prize for serial losers.
The presidency is not a raffle draw.

The Harsh Truth Atiku Refuses to Face

Atiku’s political relevance expired before some of today’s voters were even born.
2027 is not calling his name.
The Nigerian electorate has rejected him repeatedly and conclusively.

What he is doing now is not ambition –
It is political restlessness bordering on national disturbance.

Lagos APC Final Word

At 80, what Nigeria expects from Atiku is:
• A memoir,
• A rocking chair,
• And a quiet retirement.

Not another round of presidential hallucinations or party-scavenging adventures.

Nigeria is under steady, courageous leadership today.
The era of political tourists and professional defectors is over.

Let Atiku enjoy his ADC card.
It will end exactly like all the others –
in defeat, in confusion, and in another defection – perhaps this time to oblivion.

Mogaji (Hon) Seye Oladejo.
Lagos APC Spokesman
25/11/25.