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Atiku Reacts To Rumours Of Being On US Watch List

Atiku Reacts To Rumours Of Being On US Watch List
Atiku Abubakar

Atiku Abubakar, the former presidential candidate of the Democratic People's Party, the PDP, has dismissed claims that he is on the US watch list.


The article is a recycled and regurgitated lie, according to him, aimed at diverting attention from the recent danger of the US visa ban.


The former Vice President maintained that the US Department of Justice has never tried him in court.

The former VP, speaking via his spokesman, Paul Ibe, said that the article that resurfaced barely 24 hours after the just-concluded Edo State governorship election was a cause for concern.

A statement signed by Ibe said the former Vice President and his family keep a clean business portfolio.

 

Ibe also recalled how the former presidential candidate had traveled to the US, prior to the last presidential election in Nigeria.

 

According to Ibe, the former presidential candidate steers clear of government resources in the course of his businesses.

 

The statement reads: “Atiku Abubakar is not under any US watch list, neither has he been charged, or will ever be charged by the United States Justice Department or any other in a foreign jurisdiction.

 

“These ‘new’ reports are a desperate gambit to recast these discredited accusations. They are meant to divert the attention of Nigerians from the recent statement by the Secretary of State of the United States, Mr Mike Pompeo, announcing visa and travel bans for certain unnamed but notorious individuals.


“Moreover, the timing of this report, less than 24 hours after the Edo state gubernatorial elections, should give some thought to thinking people.”

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