Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has advised political mischief-makers to allow him to enjoy his peace and desist from sinister propaganda designed to drive a wedge between him and President Muhammadu Buhari, in order to cause needless distrust and distractions in the President’s government.
Reacting to insinuations by “political mischief makers and enemies of unity”, who alleged that he has been hosting 2019 political meetings at Burj Al-Arab, Dubai, the former Vice President said contrary to the rumours being bandied about by political opponents, he is currently in Dubai with his family for physiotherapy on his injured knee.
A statement by his Media Office in Abuja on Sunday by his Media Adviser, Mazi Paul Ibe said the former Vice President is embarrassed by the deliberate falsehoods being spread against him by political opponents who are bent on causing distractions for President Buhari at a time all energies should be channelled into helping the President actualise his change agenda.
Describing rumour mongers as “ill-motivated busybodies that don’t wish the country well”, the Turaki Adamawa explained that his medical treatment is his private affair, which should not be politicised by anybody to achieve sinister objectives.
Atiku Abubakar said he is entitled to enjoy his private life, including the right to attend to his health without being harassed and lied against by political opponents.
Contrary to the insinuations by political opponents, the former Vice President said the success of the Buhari administration has been his preoccupation, and that any true APC member should have the same zeal.
According to him, rumour mongers that seek to cause distrust and distraction in Buhari’s government do not mean well for the APC administration.
The former Vice President added that with the challenge of providing good governance for the country and creating job opportunities for Nigerians, including reducing the impact of poverty, President Buhari needs all the goodwill and support in this endeavour.
He said: “Whether at home or abroad, the Turaki is preoccupied with his unassailable support for President Buhari and his administration, especially in this critical time, as it works assiduously to turn the fortunes of our dear country around and make Nigeria work for the greater good of Nigerians”.
According to Atiku, rumour mongers and mischief makers are toxic to the progress of the APC and the country at large, adding that the campaigns are gone, and therefore, all energies should be constructively devoted to the success of the Buhari administration.
“This is yet another plot of the enemies of our country and democracy to divide, divert attention and distract APC in its avowed commitment to secure the country, provide jobs for the mass of unemployed youths, build needed critical infrastructure, enthrone a regime of probity and accountability and pull the country out of the economic woods it has been consigned to by locust years of mismanagement.”
-PremiumTimes
