My loyalty to Buhari, APC would not be shaken - Atiku

Former vice president Atiku Abubakar has
reacted to reports that he and Governor
Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo state where
forming a union to takeover power from the
ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in
the 2019 presidential poll.

In a statement by his media adviser, Paul
Ibe, Atiku said the report represent the
features of a political hatchet job planted by
his opponents who are desperately trying to
invent events.

Atiku claims the report is also aimed at
drawing a wedge between him and President
Buhari on one hand and the APC leadership
on the other hand.

He said: “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.”

The statement also stated that despite all
the smear campaigns and reputation
lynching and sponsored falsehoods, Atiku’s
loyalty to President Buhari and the APC
leadership would not be shaken an inch.

According to Ibe, Atiku “would ordinarily have
ignored the malicious report, but he chose to
react, lest his silence would be mistaken as
an admission of the falsehoods published
against him.”

Reports had emanated that the key figures
in the ruling APC are mulling what a source
called ‘a strong third force’.
The third force is reportedly a new political
party ahead of the 2019 presidential poll that
would witness the union of Atiku Abubakar,
ex-vice president, and Governor Mimiko, as
presidential candidate and running mate
correspondingly.

While Atiku belongs to the APC, Mimiko is of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and
indeed, a key figure in the resolution of the
crisis in the opposition party.

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