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President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress federal government is not perturbed over claims and counter claims that the United States of America is begging former Vice President, and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, to come and collect a new visa after many years of denial, which has prevented him from entering that country.



The minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who made the position of the president at a media briefing in his office, however said that in restoring Atiku’s visa, the U.S government should not give Nigeria and the international community the impression that it was tactically supporting one candidate against the other in the forthcoming election.


Mohammed stated that while Nigerians and the world at large had not forgotten various findings and conclusions reached by the U.S Congress in relation to some financial transactions involving the former vice president, which led to the banning of Atiku from entering the country, it would be necessary for the U.S to also explain to the world and Nigeria why it is currently ‘begging Atiku’ to come and collect a visa.

The minister said: “We are not panicking over the claimed plea by the U.S to the PDP presidential candidate to come and collect a U.S visa. Although the U.S has not told us what has changed since the former vice president was investigated by Congress and made some recommendations against him, we want to wish Atiku well. We ask that these issues should not just be wished away by the U.S. But let it be said also that the Nigerian government does not want to see a situation where the U.S is seen to be endorsing one candidate over the other in the 2019 elections.

“If Atiku has a visa to the U.S; since he has been intensely lobbying for it, it would not make us to lose sleep. But countries must not take any action that would tend to give the erroneous impression that they are endorsing one candidate over the other,” Mohammed warned.

The minister also reacting to claims by some persons, led by the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, that there was a ‘fake Buhari’ in the Presidential Villa, described the idea as not only absolute idiotic but also sheer bunkum, which does not require any response from any responsible government or its agencies.

Asked to comment on the recent killing of Nigerian soldiers by Boko Haram insurgents despite the claim that Nigeria had ‘technically degraded’ the sect, the minister insisted that the sect had been degraded to a point that it could no longer hold any territory in Nigeria as it did before Buhari came into power in 2015.

Mohammed pointed out that it was to the credit of the president administration that insurgents were driven out of Abuja and more than 10 local government areas in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, where Boko Haram not only held court but also collected taxes and hoisted their flags freely.

Describing last week’s attack at Metele as a setback, the minister vowed that the Buhari administration would certainly flush out the insurgents from Nigeria and bring an end to their deadly attacks on far-flung villages and communities in the Northeast.

Mohammed pointed out that the war being waged by the soldiers in the Northeast was complicated because of the involvement of foreign mercenaries and fighters, who cross over from the fringes of Lake Chad into Nigeria and commit atrocities and move.

On the claim that the APC government was detaining opposition figure and closing the media space against its opponents, the minister described it as untrue, pointing out that the administration had no intention to do so.

He denied claim that the government-owned NTA declined to transmit a live event on the Founders’ Day of Atiku Abubakar University in Yola last week, Mohammed made it clear that NTA never entered into any agreement with Atiku or his campaign organisation to transmit the event.

In the contrary, Mohammed explained that it was the management of the AUN, which paid for the transmission and when the NTA, which had already begun the transmission ran into a technical hitch, agreed with the management to record the event and transmit thereafter, a development, which often happens to many others including the president and other Nigerians without political insinuations.

On the arrest and prosecution of a human rights campaigner, Adejanju, the minister said that being a rights campaigner or an opposition member does not confer any immunity on anyone who flouts the laws of Nigeria.

“What Nigerians must and should know is that the law is always there to guide their conducts. So, it does not matter whether you are in government or opposition if you flout the law.

On how the APC won the by-election in Kwara last week, Mohammed disclosed that it was due to the conducive security situation provided by the government for all to cast their votes without molestation by those who had always used thugs to snatch election materials and rig elections in the state.

“We simply want to say that if given a level playing field, we will retire those who had been manipulating election results in Kwara State from politics and make them to know that the peoples power is greater than a certain individual, who uses thugs to molest and cart away election materials and declare results as they like,” the minister said.

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Atiku is in Nigeria and we have EFCC, can't the case file be reopened for Atiku?
Where is APC acting crying an opposition party? Or they leaving in future tense as an opposition party by 2019?

Is this not next level confusion
The same lai Mohammed and his minions that say atiku can't go to America are the same people saying the US should not give him visa.

How not going to America will stop Nigerians from voting out lifelessness and nepotism is what I am yet to understand.

Nigerians will soon understand who's better between ATIKU and BUHARI

magoo10:
Is this not next level confusion
The same lai Mohammed and his minions that say atiku can't go to America are the same people saying the US should not give him visa.

How not going to America will stop Nigerians from voting out lifelessness and nepotism is what I am yet to understand.

Don't mind them the @Atiku local and international Momentum is scaring them. Whether they like it or not like Obama tacitly endorsed Buhari in 2015, Trump has done same for Atiku!

This is a technical knock out on Buhari and APC, prior to now, APC and their online zombies were disturbing the entire media space that Atiku cannot travel to US, as if his going or not going to US will bring down the price of garri in the market.
Now they heard that US is begging Atiku to come and collect visa, they have activated "desperado mode" because obviously they have nothing again to use against Atiku.
Instead of the ruling party to campaign with their projects and achievements for the past three years, they are still playing opposition.
Campaigns must be issue based, and must be debated by all Presidential Candidate, Period.

tuniski:


Don't mind them the @Atiku local and international Momentum is scaring them. Whether they like it or not like Obama tacitly endorsed Buhari in 2015, Trump has done same for Atiku!

gbam
Trump have always shown his disgust for lifelessness

tuniski:


Don't mind them the @Atiku local and international Momentum is scaring them. Whether they like it or not like Obama tacitly endorsed Buhari in 2015, Trump has done same for Atiku!

You dey mind them? When Obama endorsed Buhari, it was okay for America to endorse one candidate over another. When some clerics endorsed Buhari, it was also very okay. Now the table has turned all round, APC is crying wolf.

Everybody knows atiku is a thief!

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Amumaigwe:


You dey mind them? When Obama endorsed Buhari, it was okay for America to endorse one candidate over another. When some clerics endorsed Buhari, it was also very okay. Now the table has turned all round, APC is crying wolf.

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Stop peddling lies. Obama never endorsed buhari during election!

allthingsgood:
Everybody knows atiku is a thief!

Shut up
It's too early to talk nonsense

Patiently waiting for APC members to make their submissions since this seems to be a strong 'jab' and a punch at the stomach which may cause 'oxygen rush' out of the mouth and a likely fall, or may be knockout is even imminent.
Caveat : I'm not a politician but an observer.

Atiku is a big thief that would never make the mistake of entering USA.

Why would USA deny a thief they want to jail VISA?

What is atiku waiting for? Go and get d visa and travel to usa

NaijaRoyalty:


Shut up
It's too early to talk nonsense

Even you knows that atiku is a bastard thief!

What we want is a VIBRANT ECONOMY Atiku we know

All we want is our Nigeria back, politicians have pocketed this country enough

This is why You should not lie. you will have to tell more lies to cover up a lie, at the end , you will end up getting more confused. Lai said Atiku can not go to USA, now he is begging America not to grant him VISA. Lai is a confused homo sapien. I can imagine what their next level will look like. Buhari the son of Jubril will have to take that next level to either Daura or Sudan

magoo10:
Is this not next level confusion
The same lai Mohammed and his minions that say atiku can't go to America are the same people saying the US should not give him visa.

How not going to America will stop Nigerians from voting out lifelessness and nepotism is what I am yet to understand.

dont be deceived, thief atiku can not enter US.

adadike:
This is why You should not lie. you will have to tell more lies to cover up a lie, at the end , you will end up getting more confused. Lai said Atiku can not go to USA, now he is begging America not to grant him VISA. Lai is a confused homo sapien. I can imagine what their next level will look like. Buhari the son of Jubril will have to take that next level to either Daura or Sudan

clarocuzioo:
This is a technical knock out on Buhari and APC, prior to now, APC and their online zombies were disturbing the entire media space that Atiku cannot travel to US, as if his going or not going to US will bring down the price of garri in the market.
Now they heard that US is begging Atiku to come and collect visa, they have activated "desperado mode" because obviously they have nothing again to use against Atiku.
Instead of the ruling party to campaign with their projects and achievements for the past three years, they are still playing opposition.
Campaigns must be issue based, and must be debated by all Presidential Candidate, Period.

buhariguy post=73426769[s:
]dont be deceived, thief atiku can not enter US. [/s]

ogbeni go back to bed or better still argue with your phone.

Even if he is denied, no big deal...Buhari himself was denied US visa for years

magoo10:
gbam
Trump have always shown his disgust for lifelessness

you nothing,
The case that was investigated by Congress can get pig Trump impeach ,
Pig Trump can not afford to risk it

buhariguy:
[s]you nothing,
The case that was investigated by Congress can get pig Trump impeach ,
Pig Trump can not afford to risk it[/s]

So why is the apc begging the US not to grant him visa. Ogbeni your bed waits you

allthingsgood:


Even you knows that atiku is a bastard thief!

But Buhari is a terrorist

Using underhanded methods to acquire visa to prove you're not corrupt is corruption.

OgogoroFreak:
Atiku is a big thief that would never make the mistake of entering USA.

Why would USA deny a thief they want to jail VISA?

You lot won't learn. Anyway, my 1 cent - it is cheaper to be reasonable than to be stupid.

Observation : how does a government want us to believe atiku is corrupt when he is not being investigated by the EFCC, neither in court for any misgivings and not on the 'looters list'.

figment232:
But Buhari is a terrorist

Yes na. Terrorizing wailers, looters and ipobists since 2015!!

allthingsgood:


Yes na. Terrorizing wailers, looters and ipobists since 2015!!

No na sponsoring Boko haram,herdsmen.....Patron of Boko Haram