
Former
 Vice President Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, denied engaging in acts 
capable of undermining the administration of President Muhammdau Buhari,
 saying the speculation that he used the cover of a foreign medical trip
 to Dubai to host political meetings ahead of 2019, was false.
The All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, who advised political 
mischief makers to allow him enjoy his peace, said the agenda of those 
behind the “sinister propaganda” against him was to drive a wedge 
between him and the president, in order to cause needless distrust and 
distractions in the current government.
Reacting to insinuations by what he called “political mischief makers
 and enemies of unity”, who alleged that he has been hosting political 
meetings at Burj Al-Arab, Dubai, Mr. Atiku said contrary to the rumours 
being bandied around by political opponents, he is currently in Dubai 
with his family for physiotherapy on his injured knee.
In a statement issued by his media office in Abuja on Sunday and 
signed by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, the Turakin Adamawa said he was 
embarrassed by the deliberate falsehoods being spread against him by 
political opponents who are bent on causing distraction for President 
Buhari at a time all energies should be channelled into helping the 
President actualise his change agenda.
Describing rumour mongers as “ill-motivated busybodies that don’t 
wish the country well”, Atiku explained that his medical treatment is 
his private affairs, which should not be politicized by anybody to 
achieve sinister objectives.
Former Vice President Atiku, who stressed that he is entitled to 
enjoy his private life, including the right to attend to his health, 
without being harassed and lied against by political opponents, said 
contrary to insinuations, the success of the Buhari administration has 
been his preoccupation, and that any true APC member should have the 
same zeal.
According to him, rumour mongers that seek to cause distrust and 
distraction in Buhari’s government do not mean well for the APC 
administration.
Mr. Atiku pointed out that with the challenge of providing good 
governance for the country and creating job opportunities for Nigerians,
 including reducing the impact of poverty, President Buhari needs all 
the goodwill and support in this endeavour.
“Whether at home or abroad, the Turaki is preoccupied with his 
unassailable support to President Buhari and his administration, 
especially in this critical time, as it works assiduously to turn the 
fortunes of our dear country around and make Nigeria work for the 
greater good of Nigerians”, the statement said.
According to Atiku, rumour mongers and mischief makers are toxic to 
the progress of the APC and the country at large, adding that the 
campaigns are gone, and therefore, all energies should be constructively
 devoted to the success of the Buhari administration.
“This is yet another plot of the enemies of our country and democracy
 to divide, divert attention and distract the APC in its avowed 
commitment to secure the country, provide jobs for the mass of 
unemployed youths, build needed critical infrastructure, enthrone a 
regime of probity and accountability and pull the country out of the 
economic woods it has been consigned to by locust years of 
mismanagement”.