Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Kano state Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and other aspirants that contested the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primaries are solidly united behind the party's presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari, the campaign office of the party said.
The campaign office has dismissed as "utterly false and ridiculous" allegations by the ruling PDP that Atiku, Sam Nda-Isaiah and Kwankwaso have abandoned the APC presidential campaign.
A statement by the media and publicity director of the campaign Malam Garba Shehu said there was no iota of truth whatsoever that Atiku or other party stalwarts have distanced themselves from the campaign.
Contrary to the deliberate falsehood being peddled by PDP, the former Vice President is currently out of the country for medical examination, and that he would be actively involved in the campaign once he is back to the country from next week, the Buhari campaign said.
Garba Shehu said Atiku’s commitment to the campaign in his native state, Adamawa and the nation “is total” and that “no amount of PDP’s desperate tactics of deliberate falsehoods would break the unity of the APC leaders.”
He described the PDP allegation as baseless, adding that the “ruling party is increasingly nervous as the February 14 elections approaches.”
He urged Nigerians to ignore the “rubbish being peddled by the PDP.”
Meanwhile, former presidential aspirant Sam Nda-Isaiah is currently on holiday in the United States of America, a fact well-known to the APC.
Speaking from the US over the weekend, Nda-Isaiah said: “I am working everyday from here to ensure total victory for the APC. I am in America, and I know what the media and the public officials are saying and that they expect a change in Nigeria because things cannot continue like this. They are very worried.”
“I am in touch with Garba, Amaechi, party chairman, Kwankwaso and I am actually on my way to participate in the campaign to ensure that the change that Nigerians are earnestly desiring is enthroned in the February elections," Nda- Isaiah said.
On his part, Kwankanso has consistently spoken of General Buhari’s emergence as a candidate, saying that he felt like it is his own personal victory.
The director of media to Kwankwaso informed the APC Campaign that as at about 4:00PM (late yesterday afternoon), the governor was on the stomp in Bichi Local Government asking for votes for Buhari.
Daily Trust
