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<p>Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has quit the ruling All Progressives Congress political party.</p>


Former Nigerian VP quits ruling party

<p>Nigerian former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, a leading ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, quit the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party on Friday, he said in a statement, a blow to government unity ahead of elections in early 2019.</p>
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<p data-reactid="40">Abubakar said the ruling party “has failed and continues to fail our people,” adding that the APC had instituted “a regime of a draconian clampdown on all forms of democracy within the party and the government it’s produced”.</p>
<p data-reactid="41">The former vice president’s departure is one of the first major fractures to emerge publicly in Buhari’s APC, formed from a coalition of smaller parties to contest the 2015 election against then-president Goodluck Jonathan.</p>
<p data-reactid="42">Both major parties, the APC and the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), are struggling to maintain their unity in the run-up to Nigeria’s next presidential elections in February 2019, according to party members and experts.</p>
<p data-reactid="43">The APC was brought together chiefly to elect Buhari, who campaigned on a platform of reviving Nigeria’s flagging economy, wiping out the country’s endemic corruption and defeating Islamist insurgency Boko Haram in the northeast.</p>
<p data-reactid="44">But the Buhari administration’s successes have been limited, though Nigeria did climb out of recession in the second quarter of 2017, albeit slowly.</p>
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<p class="Attribution_content_27_rw" data-reactid="46">Reporting by Felix Onuah and Camillus Eboh in Abuja; Writing by Paul Carsten; Editing by Peter Graff</p>
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Former Nigerian VP, leading ally of president, quits ruling party

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<p>The word restructuring is becoming harder to define in present day Nigeria.</p>


Restructuring Nigeria: Defining the issues

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<p>Discussions around restructuring have become more pertinent in Nigeria today. A national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress says “restructuring will bring much needed balance to the country&#8221;.</p>


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