The Presidency has criticised former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over reports that he engaged a United States lobbying firm to petition President Donald Trump and the US State Department over President Bola Tinubu’s decades-old civil forfeiture case.
According to the government, “if Atiku Abubakar were Chinese, he would be rotting away in jail.”
Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, made the remarks in a statement issued on Thursday, accusing Atiku of spending $1.2 million on American lobbyists to revive a matter the Presidency said had long been settled. Onanuga described the move as an attempt to externalise Nigeria’s domestic politics and undermine the country’s sovereignty.
According to him, Atiku’s lobbying group submitted petitions to President Trump and the US State Department concerning Tinubu’s 1993 civil forfeiture case, despite there being no criminal conviction against the Nigerian leader.
“It is baffling and disappointing that someone who
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