Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has revealed how he saved President Bola Tinubu’s political career.
Atiku stated this while reacting to the widely held position
that the President Tinubu came to his rescue following his spat with former
President Olusegun Obasanjo, leading to his contesting the presidential
election on the platform of Action Congress (AC) in 2007.
The former president said without his support to President
Tinubu, his political career could have ended as the governor of Lagos State.
Atiku, in a statement through his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, said, “Vice President Kashim Shettima goofed when he claimed that former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar benefited from President Bola Tinubu’s goodwill when he was being “persecuted” in the PDP.
“Truth be told, it was Tinubu that actually benefited
immensely from Atiku’s goodwill. But for Atiku’s support, hinged on his
pro-democracy instincts and rule of law, Tinubu’s tenure as governor of Lagos
would have been rough with a wide possibility of termination of his political
career.
“For some time, and
especially leading up to the 2023 election, there has been a deliberate attempt
to distort the history of the politics of the early 4th Republic by ascribing
the AC, the political platform that Atiku ran in 2007 as Tinubu’s party.
“Nothing can be further from the truth. Vice President
Shettima, obviously carried away with the euphoria of the unveiling of his
official residence as Vice President, repeated the same lie.
“Shettima needs to be reminded that Atiku did not run under
the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), but Action Congress (AC). AC came out of
a coalition of ACD (Advance Congress of Democrats), formed by mainly PDM
members and other associates and Tinubu’s faction of AD.”
According to him, President Tinubu was not in a position to
lend the platform to Atiku “as erroneously being suggested, as he (Atiku) was
nominated by all the delegates from all the states.”
He then went further to name the delegates to the primaries
of the election that threw up the former Vice President as the party’s
presidential candidate to include Atiku Abubakar himself, Lawal Keita, Amb.
Yahaya Kwande, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, Alexis Anielo, Titi Ajanaku, former
Governor Rasheed Ladoja, Chief Tom Ikimi, and Chief Dapo Sarumi.
Others he said were Chief Sergeant Awuse, Alh. Lawan, Dr.
Chris Ngige, Prof Ango Abdulahi, Dr Farouk Abdul Azeez, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Chief
Ejiofor Onyia, and Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, among others.
He added that from Tinubu’s Alliance for Democracy were
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Segun Osoba, Chief Adebayo Adefarati, and Chief Bisi
Akande, among others.
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