With a week to the presidential election, the Allied Peoples Movement has collapsed its entire structures in support of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa.
The national chairman of APM, Yusuf Dantalle, who disclosed this at a press conference held on Thursday night in Abuja, said the party decided after its National Executive Committee meeting on crucial national issues, particularly the upcoming presidential election.
The adoption of Atiku means the APM will not support the aspiration of its presidential candidate, Princess Chichi Ojei, a prominent Delta State-born politician who is the only female presidential candidate contesting the February 25 poll.
Dantalle said the party took the decision after evaluating the democratic credentials of Atiku and his running mate, Okowa, and considered it appropriate in the national interest to adopt them for president and vice president in the forthcoming election.
He added, “The APM has confidence in the leadership of Atiku-Okowa and will collapse its structures nationwide to campaign for their presidential ticket.”
