Atiku denies plotting against Buhari in Dubai

Former Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has told 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 that he has been hosting political meetings at Burj Al-Arab, Dubai, United Arab Emirate, Abubakar said he is currently in Dubai with his family for physiotherapy on his injured knee.
A press statement released by his media office in Abuja on Sunday and signed by his Media Adviser, Mazi Paul Ibe, said Abubakaris 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 the rumour mongers as “ill-motivated busybodies that don’t wish the country well”, the Turaki Adamawa explained that his medical treatment is his private affairs, which should not be politicised by anybody to achieve sinister objectives.
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 in the statement that 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 said 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.
The statement by Ibe said: “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 Abubakar, 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.
The statement added: “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.”