Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has raised the
alarm over the activities of some fifth columnists trying desperately to cause
disunity within the All Progressives Congress (APC) Atiku dismissed as a load of hogwash a newspaper report
alleging that he had formed a new political platform on which he would run for
president in 2019, with Ondo State Governor Segun Mimiko as his running mate.
In statement signed by his Media Adviser, Mr. Paul Ibe, the
former vice president said the report bears all the features of a political
hatchet job planted by his opponents who have desperately tried to invent
events in order to draw a wedge between him and President Buhari on one hand
and APC leadership as a whole.
The statement alerted Nigerians and APC leadership that
there are “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 said despite all these smear campaigns and
reputation-lynching and sponsored falsehoods, the Atiku’s loyalty to President
Buhari and the APC leadership would not be shaken an inch.
According to Ibe, “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.”
He explained that Atiku would ordinarily have ignored the
malicious report, but said he chose to react, lest his silence would be
mistaken as an admission of the falsehoods published against him.
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