Atiku Abubakar Did Not Travel To America, As… – Bukola Saraki Shuts Up APC ‘Fools’

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has said that the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, did not travel to the United States of America, USA, as an Aide to the Senate President.


Recall, that the All Progressives Congress, APC, had said that Atiku was finally allowed to travel to the US, because he posed as an Aide to Saraki.

However, speaking on AIT’s Kakaaki programme, on Wednesday, Saraki, who is the Director-General, Atiku Abubakar 2019 Presidential Campaign Organisation, described the allegation as nonsensical.

He said: “These are desperate claims. When you are campaigning and you see that you have suffered a setback, just move on, and do not make a fool of yourself. To say the Candidate travelled on my merit, is not true.

“He applied for his visa, was given the visa, and he was invited to attend functions. How do you do that? How do you travel as an Aide? That is ridiculous! They know it. It is very difficult for them to respond, because they have sold a lot of propaganda and lies to Nigerians.

“I remember when we sat a lot of young people down when we started, and introduced him (Atiku) as our Candidate, and they said they would support him because he has a good agenda for the youths, and knows how to create jobs, but the concern was that the government said Atiku could not travel to America, and how can we have a President that cannot travel to America?

“And he (Atiku) always said it was not a problem, but it was important for us to address the problem and put it behind us, and because the other party was using it as propaganda, we decided to go to America, and instead of them to keep quiet and move on, they say he went as my Aide.”

Saraki also lambasted the Buhari-led government, for operating an opaque fuel subsidy regime.

The Senate President, who exposed subsidy fraud at the National Assembly in 2011, said that the corruption is still taking place.

He admitted that corruption thrived under former President, Goodluck Jonathan’s subsidy regime, but argued that Buhari’s own is worse, because his government is give money to Marketers, with funds that are not approved by the National Assembly.