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A former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar,
has pledged his loyalty and support to
President Muhammadu Buhari.
Mr. Abubakar’s pledge is contained in a
statement on Sunday by his media office.
“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,” the statement signed by the
head of the media team, Paul Ibe, said.
Mr. Abubakar’s pledge comes amidst
rumours that he was a mastermind of the
emergence of Bukola Saraki as the senate
president. Mr. Saraki, who like Mr.
Abubakar is a member of President
Buhari’s All Progressives Congress, APC,
emerged senate president contrary to wish
of his party. He got a block support of
opposition senators of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, to emerge senate
president at an election were 51 APC
senators were absent due to a scheduled
meeting with Mr. Buhari.
Since his emergence, which was initially
rejected by the APC, Mr. Saraki has been
making efforts to reconcile with the
president.
Mr. Abubakar, who like Mr. Saraki
decamped from the PDP to APC before the
general elections, described the politics of
the emergence of Mr. Saraki as a product
“of interplay of politics which is itself in
constant motion.”
Read the former vice president’s statement
below.
A former Vice President and chieftain of
All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku
Abubakar says it is dangerous for any
individual or group in the ranks of the
ruling party to constitute themselves into
an opposition even before the constitution
and take off President Muhammadu
Buhari’s government.
The former Vice President made the call
against the backdrop of developments in
the polity, which he notes are interplay of
forces and interests that are dynamic, but
must not be promoted to the point of being
a threat to our democracy and the new
administration.
In a press statement released by his media
office in Abuja on Sunday, 21 June and
signed by Paul Ibe, the Turaki Adamawa
while acknowledging that it is legitimate
and desirable for individuals or groups to
seek to pursue their interest, it must be
done with the benefit of sustaining our
democracy and promoting equity, fair play
and justice in mind.
“Anything to the contrary may jeopardise
our hard-earned democracy and constitute
a clog in the wheel of the new
administration,” Atiku said.
He noted that because of the historic
nature of the mandate of President
Muhammadu Buhari and the arduous
challenges ahead to deliver on making
Nigeria work for all Nigerians, it is
important, especially for members of his
own party, to rally behind him in the
quest to enthrone good governance, that
will spur security and stability, economic
and social development, job creation,
infrastructure renewal and above all a
better life for Nigerians.
The former Vice President 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.
The statement exonerated Atiku Abubakar
of the purported hijack of the party and
the National Assembly towards 2019 as
figment of the imagination of those
promoting it and asked Nigerians to ignore
all such insinuation.
He notes that the recent outcomes of the
National Assembly election contrary to
insinuations are products of interplay of
politics which is itself in constant motion.
“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 a
smooth take off and be allowed the
atmosphere to deliver. On this, I stand
with President Buhari,” Atiku said.
The Turaki Adamawa while restating his
unalloyed commitment to the Buhari
administration pledged to back this
commitment with all of the assets at his
disposal.
“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. 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.”
The APC chieftain also called on Nigerians
with members of the President’s own party
taking a lead in their undiluted support of
his administration.
“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.”
Atiku Abubakar denounced the increasing
determination of some people to draw a
wedge between President Buhari and
himself.
“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, vilify and
calumniate the former Vice President.
“We cannot allow liars, denigrators and
blackmailers and their sponsors to use
Atiku as 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.”
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OK nau! Success has many friends and brothers

Loyal Indeed

Buhari son enter one chance!

That is good

powerfulsettingz:
loyal my foot

Don't mind that Atiku. he thinks Buhari is s.tupid.

I pray I believe

powerfulsettingz:
loyal my foot

See your face like your foot

Hope he'll remain loyal beyond 2019. I see him going back to pdp.

Yeah.....as 'loyal' as Brutus was to Caesar!

Atiku is a"politician". Take his words seriously at your own peri.