Atiku Disowns Media Consultant

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused the President Bola Tinubu-led medication of engaging successful propaganda and disinformation against him.

The erstwhile Vice President said this successful a connection distancing himself from a connection by Kola Johnson who claims to beryllium his media consultant.

Johnson, who claimed helium is Atiku’s media consultant, issued a connection connected Wednesday quoting the erstwhile Vice President arsenic promising to guarantee the Yoruba radical volition get topmost information if helium emerges president.

But the connection had already attracted absorption for the South West section of the Gbenga Hashim Solidarity Movement (GHSM) which stressed that Atiku’s caller overtures to the Yoruba radical “carry small weight,” due to the fact that the portion has already settled connected Dr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim arsenic its preferred statesmanlike campaigner for the 2027 election.

Dismissing Johnson’s assertion arsenic his advisor Atiku, successful a connection by his media aide, Paul Ibe, said it traced his alleged consultant’s enactment to the presidency which helium accused of resorting to hiring faceless mercenaries to fabricate fake stories and circulate unauthorized statements connected Atiku.

Atiku said, “We person observed with interest a definite self-styled “media consultant,” 1 Kola Johnson, issuing property releases successful the sanction of erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

“Our findings constituent straight to the Presidency, which successful its desperation to smear absorption leaders, has resorted to hiring faceless mercenaries to fabricate fake stories and circulate unauthorized statements connected Atiku.”

He added that it was peculiarly violative that Johnson falsely attributed to  Atiku a connection that his medication would beryllium dominated by a azygous taste group.

“This disinformation is portion of a calculated propaganda task designed to ridicule Atiku successful the media.”

Atiku said helium has ne'er engaged Johnson arsenic a media consultant, aide, oregon associate, adding that immoderate connection issued successful that sanction is fake and should beryllium disregarded.

Earlier, a South West section of the Gbenga Hashim Solidarity Movement (GHSM) declared that the South West  has already settled connected Dr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim arsenic its preferred statesmanlike campaigner for the 2027 wide elections, stressing that Atiku’s caller overtures to the Yoruba radical “carry small weight.”

Reacting successful Osogbo connected Thursday, the South West Coordinator of the GHSM, Alhaji Abass Olaniyi, dismissed Atiku’s remarks arsenic sentimental rhetoric that does not code the urgent needs of the Yoruba radical oregon Nigerians astatine large.

“The South West is not swayed by specified words oregon affectional claims. Our radical person ever demanded enactment rooted successful integrity, competence, and imaginativeness for a amended Nigeria. That is wherefore we basal firmly with Dr. Gbenga Hashim,” Olaniyi said.

According to him, Gbenga Hashim is much than a person seeking office. He is simply a politician with cleanable hands, a palmy entrepreneur with planetary exposure, and a span builder susceptible of uniting some the North and South.

Olaniyi emphasised that Hashim’s Yoruba roots and nationalist acceptability marque him uniquely qualified to embody the region’s progressive values of justice, equity, and innovation, portion besides responding to nationalist aspirations.

According to Olaniyi, “what more, Dr Hashim is moving connected the level of a bigger politics, and the PDP, a level bigger  than Atiku’s ADC”

He further contrasted Hashim with Atiku, describing the erstwhile vice president arsenic a practice of the “old order” successful Nigerian politics.

“Our radical bash not conscionable privation promises astir being ‘in-laws’ oregon portion of an extended family. We privation a person who understands the complexities of today’s planetary economy, who tin rebuild spot successful governance, and who has the courageousness to betterment Nigeria. Gbenga Hashim stands retired arsenic that leader,” helium declared.

The GHSM South West Coordinator besides urged Yoruba leaders, accepted rulers, civilian nine organizations, and youths to consolidate their enactment for Hashim, describing him arsenic the campaigner of conscience with the capableness to unite Nigeria, extremity insecurity, and revive the economy.

Olaniyi concluded by stating that the South West has a past of championing progressive ideals, and successful 2027, that contented volition beryllium upheld done unwavering enactment for Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim.