From history, Nigerians can tell that it is usually through rumours that political ambitions are usually made known. Even though, most of the times, the subjects of the purported rumour denies the allegations. For example, when former President Obasanjo was in power, he denied nursing an ambition for second tenure when the information was leaked. As if that was not enough, he even denied the rumour which carried his selfish third term ambition till it got to a point where it became so obvious.
Today, we hear that a previous Vice President and chieftain
of the All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar, has denied reports which
saying that he has formed another political party on which he will keep running
for president in 2019, with the Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, as
his running mate.
An announcement, marked by Abubakar's Media Adviser, Paul
Ibe, said the report bore the elements of a political ax work planted by his
adversaries who were frantically attempting to develop occasions so as to draw
a wedge amongst him and President Muhammadu Buhari from one perspective and the
authority of the APC then again.
Ibe noticed that: “ 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.”
Ibe said regardless of all the smear battles and notoriety
lynching and supported misrepresentations, Atiku's reliability to President
Buhari and the APC authority would not be shaken an inch.
“Atiku Abubakar 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”, he added.
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