Nigeria's
former vice president, Atiku Abubakar has dismissed reports alleging
that he has formed a new political party on which he will run for
president in 2019.
Atiku Abubakar
In a statement signed by Paul Ibe, the Media Adviser to former Vice
President, Atiku Abubakar, the chieftain of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), has dismissed reports alleging that he has formed a new
political platform on which he will run for president in 2019 with the
Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, as his running mate.
The influential politician said the report bore the features of a
political hatchet job planted by his opponents who were desperately
trying to invent events in order to draw a wedge between him and
President Muhammadu Buhari on the one hand and the leadership of the APC
on the other hand.
"The report was an incompetent product of fiction, so shallow
and vacuous that even its authors could not validate its credibility
with reliable and verifiable sources.
“Some people of bad faith trying tooth and nail to spread the
seeds of discord in the party, and destroy the much needed unity,
harmony and cohesion, which are the pillars of strength for every
political organisation,” Ibe stated.
Ibe said despite all the smear campaigns and reputation lynching
and sponsored falsehoods, Atiku’s loyalty to President Buhari and the
APC leadership would not be shaken an inch.
“Atiku Abubakar would ordinarily have ignored the malicious
report, but says he chose to react, lest his silence would be mistaken
as an admission of the falsehoods published against him”, he added.
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