Former Vice President of Nigeria and PDP Presidential
candidate in the February 23rd presidential election, Atiku Abubakar has
described as “total fabrication” an allegation that has been making the rounds
that he spent $30,000 to hire a US lobby group to persuade the US Congress to
stop the inauguration of President Buhari.
Reacting to what he calls “shameless lies” by the Buhari
campaign organization, Atiku’s Media Adviser, Paul Ibe in the statement
released last night, said the latest dirty propaganda against the former Vice
President “didn’t come as a surprise to us because lying has so far become
their only bragging rights of competence.”
Ibe explained that “lying has become a culture to the APC
administration and therefore, we are not surprised by their latest diversionary
allegations.”
The statement in part reads
''Since Atiku resisted pressure not to go to court, the APC
has been behaving like a cat on hot bricks because the outcome of the 2019
elections has exposed and shattered the facade of their dubious integrity. The
APC are behaving nervously like a thief living under the fear of being exposed
and shamed. They are now using fake news against Atiku instead of focusing on
defending themselves in the court.
For a party that has broken the worst record in election
rigging, the APC doesn’t have any iota of integrity to be taken seriously by
anybody. Atiku’s court case has become their biggest burden because it exposes
their integrity as a sham, and instead of defending their stolen mandate in
court, they are now using fake news to divert public attention from the historic
electoral heist they have committed against Nigerians.”
The statement adds that no amount of diversionary propaganda
and fake news campaign by APC will stop Atiku Abubakar from continuing the
court action he started to reclaim the stolen mandate.
