The Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has mocked the Federal Government over its alleged failed bid to get the United States government to deny him visa.
He also
said that with or without a trip to the US, the PDP will dislodge the
President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress at next month’s
election.
The former Vice President also dismissed as
rooster and bull story, the allegation by the Minister of Information
and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed that he has a case to answer over the
collapse of Platinum Habib Bank, otherwise known as Bank PHB.
In a
statement issued in Abuja on Friday, Atiku’s Special Assistant on
Public Communication, Mr. Phrank Shaibu said the federal government
should bury its head in shame having failed to stop him from travelling
to the US.
He said it was shameful that the governing APC took it
upon itself to call on the authorities of another country not to grant a
private citizen entry visa, which ordinarily should not be its
business.
Mohammed had at the hint of the US granting Atiku visa
last year, cautioned the Americans not to contemplate the gesture as it
might give the impression that the foreign power is supportive of the
opposition party’s candidate.
But Atiku who arrived in the US on
Thursday said the APC was jittery knowing that its government has
failed, stressing that Buhari’s days as president of Nigeria were
numbered, which explains why members of the ruling party have been
running from pillar to post.
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