Atiku Abubakar has confirmed public insinuations that he’s pursuing his friend, President Bola Tinubu, not for altruistic but selfishly malicious interest.
This he attested to when fielding questions at a world press conference he addressed on Thursday in Abuja.
Atiku equally affirmed that his political relationship with Tinubu ended in 2007 because of his unconfirmed suspicion that Tinubu supported late President Umaru Yar’Adua in the 2007 presidential election. Umaru’s elder brother, late General Shehu Yar’Adua, was Atiku’s political mentor and benefactor while alive.
Atiku’s lawyers laughably insisted that they have been armed with four issues from the documents obtained from the Chicago State University to upturn the February presidential election in the Supreme Court.
When Atiku was asked if it is true that he betrayed Tinubu by exposing him, he said:
“In 2007 we came to form AC and in Lagos I got the ticket. After I got the ticket he sent about five men to meet me. They said that Bola wanted to be my running mate.
“That was the end of the political relationship, he broke away to go and support Yar’Adua.”
With this assertion, Atiku confirmed that his pursuits of Tinubu is nothing but a selfish inclination of a frustrated veteran presidential candidate of different political parties.
Also, Atiku without any evidence claimed that he was the one that helped Tinubu to survive the offensive by President Olusegun Obasanjo.
“I stood between Obasanjo and himself and said you cannot take over Lagos,” he concluded.
