Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president and an APC chieftain has said that it is dangerous for any individual or group within the APC to constitute themselves into an opposition before the constitution of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.
On Sunday in a press statement released by his media office in Abuja, Atiku said: “Anything to the contrary may jeopardise our hard-earned democracy and constitute a clog in the wheel of the new administration. This would spur security and stability, economic and social development, job creation, infrastructure renewal and above all a better life for Nigerians.”
He urged members of the APC to emulate the unity of all the presidential contestants after the party’s Lagos primaries and support the president to form his government and get to work.
Atiku noted that the recent outcome of the National Assembly leadership elections, contrary to claims, was a product of the interplay of politics which is itself in constant motion.
According to him: “In politics, it is a mistake to expect fixed outcomes. As the President has done, let’s all come to terms with what has happened in the interest of the system and move on. Suffice it to say that the new administration should be allowed to have a smooth take off and be allowed the atmosphere to deliver. On this, I stand with President Buhari.”
The statement also notes: “Not only did Atiku Abubakar congratulate Buhari after his emergence as the presidential candidate of the APC at the party’s national convention in Lagos, he also handed over his best assets to the Buhari Presidential Campaign.
The former Vice President enthusiastically handled the diplomatic assignment of seeking endorsement for Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina as the President of the African Development Bank on behalf of President Buhari and would be available for any other assignments as the President pleases. Make no mistake about it, Atiku Abubakar holds Buhari in the highest esteem, and would always remain loyal to him, and support him in every endeavour to succeed as President. We, the members of the President’s own family need to lead in this direction for others to follow for the good of our nation and its peoples”.
The document adds that it has become crystal clear even to the blind that the motives of these hatchet men who are desperate to take every available newspaper space is to insult and vilify the former vice president.
“We cannot allow liars, denigrators and blackmailers and their sponsors to use Atiku as a platform to ingratiate themselves with President Buhari and hijack his presidency under the pretext of loving him more than anyone else.These political ventriloquists are hiding behind the cover of anonymity to achieve their sinister agenda of making Atiku the fall guy in the unfolding political developments,” it says.
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