2027: Atiku Refutes Claim Of Stepping Down For Anyone Candidates

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 (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has denied reports that helium intends to measurement down for different statesmanlike aspirant successful the forthcoming 2027 elections.

In a connection issued connected Thursday by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, Atiku termed the assertion a misrepresentation of his caller interrogation with the BBC Hausa Service.

According to Ibe, a cautious reappraisal of some the video and transcripts of the interrogation proved that Atiku ne'er said oregon suggested that helium wants to measurement down for anyone.

The connection reads: “After a thorough reappraisal of some the video and transcripts of the interrogation – successful the archetypal Hausa and the English translation – it is evident that astatine nary constituent did the erstwhile Vice President expressly state, suggest, oregon adjacent connote that helium intends to measurement down for anyone.

“What Atiku Abubakar intelligibly and unambiguously said was that young people, arsenic good arsenic different prospective statesmanlike aspirants, are escaped to participate the contest. He further stressed that if a young campaigner were to look done a competitory primary, helium would readily enactment specified a campaigner without immoderate hesitation.

“While interpretative journalism is simply a morganatic facet of reporting, stretching mentation to the constituent of mischief is unacceptable and indispensable not beryllium encouraged.

“For the record, therefore, the insinuations attributed to Waziri Adamawa from his BBC Hausa interrogation are inaccurate and bash not bespeak what helium really said.”

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