…Describes opposition group as political jobbers
By Myke Uzendu, Abuja
Following the aftermath of a press conference by some anti-Atiku Abubakar support group, asking the former Vice President to bury his 2023 Presidential ambition, a counter group known as Amalgamated Atiku Support Groups (AASG) has thrown their weight behind the aspirant.
AASG were empathic that the former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar will present himself for consideration as president in the 2023 election, in a statement signed by the Director General of the Amalgamated Atiku Support Groups (AASG), Hon Oladimeji Fabiyi.
Fabiyi said that AASG is the umbrella body for the management and coordination of all registered support groups promoting the 2023 presidential agenda of Atiku Abubakar and denied knowledge of the groups that withdrew their support for Atiku.
The AAS coordinator described them as “mischief makers being used by disgruntled individuals to advance their narrow interests.
“I would like to make it abundantly clear that the AASG which has the records of hundreds of credible and authenticated Atiku support groups nationwide and in the Diaspora does not know of such amorphous groups. Let it be known that these so-called groups are at best interlopers,” Fabiyi said.
He went further to insist that Atiku is eminently qualified under the constitution of Nigeria to contest for any office in the land and argued that he has the experience, competence and capacity to preside over the affairs of the country.
“It is therefore ridiculous and malicious to see some individuals acting in ignorance of the provisions of the law.
“It is, however, not surprising because at every political season such as we are in, we witness all sorts of political jobbers, paid agents and charlatans masquerading as groups to do the bidding of enemies of democracy. Indeed, Nigerians expect more of such shenanigans”.
The group claimed to have intelligence on plots by some enemies of Atiku to malign and discredit Atiku Abubakar in order to advance their narrow interests, printed materials at UTC in Area 10 of Abuja are awaiting deployment.
He called on Nigerians to ignore them, adding that the reasons advanced by the anti-Atiku groups are not only ridiculous, but lacking in substance.
“Everyone can see that Atiku is the issue in 2023; he is the phenomenon in 2023 that is why you see all the attacks from all angles both within the PDP and APC directed at him. We have seen how these desperate elements have gone to the extent of mass printing anti Atiku campaign items in Abuja which can never help them and their pay masters.
“For Atiku and his supporters it’s about the real issues, it’s about discourse on how to move Nigeria forward not about their shenanigans and inordinate ambition. Atiku remains the preferred choice of the majority of PDP members and Nigerians at large therefore, the attack by enemies to stall Nigeria’s progress cannot stop an idea whose time has come” Fabiyi explained.
