Presidential candidate of Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, never told anyone he has been issued an
American visa or planning a trip to the United States of America, a top
official of his campaign organisation disclosed yesterday.
The top official, who heads one
of the major campaign groups for Atiku, described as unfortunate the media hype
over Atiku’s ‘collection of U.S visa and planned trip’ to that country when the
former vice president had not spoken to anyone about the two issues.
The official, a former minister
in President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, revealed on condition of
anonymity, that Atiku was not one who would want to celebrate the issuance of
visa, something he had obtained from many countries and had been flying around
the world for many decades.
Stop this fallacy against Atiku,
group cautions Lai Muhammed “What is so important about a visa? And let me say
that Atiku Abubakar did not issue any statement informing anybody that he had
been issued a U.S visa and that he had planned to travel to that country to the
best of those working with him.
“We just do not know where the
media got that information and immediately began to spread all over the space
on Sunday until it got to our attention. It is not true that the presidential
candidate ever gave such information to anyone,” he added.
Reacting to claims by the
opposition that Atiku was afraid of going to the U.S to avoid being arrested
and tried for corruption, the official explained that there was no case against
the former vice president in the country, adding that if there was any, that
country would have raised issues against the former number two citizen of
Nigeria.
‘’Don’t forget that Atiku had
been living in Washington and if there was anything against him, the U.S law
enforcement agents would have charged him before now. So, there is no case
against him in the U.S and that is the truth,” the official stated.
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