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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has dismissed the insinuation that he has allegedly decided to “step aside and retire from active politics” as “fake news.”
The Waziri Adamawa, in a release on Monday by Atiku Media Office, said an issue as fundamental and consequential as exiting active politics “cannot, and would never, be communicated through rumours, faceless sources, or third-party fabrication.”
He said such a decision, if ever taken, would be formally conveyed through the Atiku Media Office.
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2023 said this latest falsehood bore all the hallmarks of a coordinated disinformation campaign designed to create confusion, dampen momentum, and mislead the Nigerian public.
The current chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) said only the government and its agents could have sponsored this “desperate narrative” out of fear of what was coming.
He said the mischief was being driven by anti-democratic elements who were “deeply unsettled” by the growing national consensus to rescue Nigeria from the failures of the current administration.
The media office urged supporters of Atiku Abubakar, members of the ADC, and all well-meaning Nigerians to disregard the “fake news” in its entirety and remain focused on the collective effort to reclaim and rebuild our nation.
“We wish to state, for the record, that information circulating on social media about a purported meeting of His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, with stakeholders of the African Democratic Congress, in which the former Vice President allegedly decided to “step aside and retire from active politics,” is entirely
false and deliberately misleading.
“The Waziri Adamawa has not, in recent times, held any such meeting with ADC stakeholders at the national level. The only recent engagement he had was with stakeholders of the ADC in Adamawa State last Thursday,” part of the statement read.
