Former
Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar,
has dismissed as a load of hogwash a newspaper report alleging that he has
formed a new political platform under which he will run for President in 2019,
with Ondo State Governor Segun Mimiko, as his running mate.
The
statement signed by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe said the report bore the
features of a political hatchet job planted by his opponents who are
desperately trying to invent events in order to draw a wedge between him and
President Buhari on one hand and the APC leadership on the other hand.
According
to Mr. 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.”
“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,” the statement said.
Mr.
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.
He
said Atiku “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.”
-Premium Times
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