Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives
Congress (APC) Atiku Abubakar advises political mischief makers to allow him
enjoy his peace and desist from sinister propaganda designed to draw 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 what he called "political
mischief makers and enemies of unity", who alleges that he has been
hosting political meetings at Burj Al-Arab, Dubai, the former Vice President
says contrary to the rumours being bandied around by political opponents, he is
currently in Dubai with his family for physiotherapy on his injured knee.
In a statement by his media office in Abuja on Sunday, 27
December 2015 and signed by his Media Adviser, Mazi Paul Ibe says the former
Vice President is embarrassed by the deliberate falsehoods being spread against
him by political opponents who are bent on causing distraction 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 explains that his
medical treatment is his private affairs, which should not be politicised by
anybody to achieve sinister objectives.
Atiku Abubakar says 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 says 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 says with the challenges 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.
"Whether at home or abroad, the Turaki is preoccupied
with his unassailable support to 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 the 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."
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