Atiku To Shettima: Tinubu Benefited From My Goodwill

Former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar told Vice President Kashim Shettima goofed when he claimed that he benefited from President Bola Tinubu’s goodwill, and said it is the other way round.

Atiku in a statement by his media adviser Paul Ibe, regretted that there has been a deliberate attempt to distort the history of the politics of the early fourth republic by ascribing the Action Congress (AC), the political platform that he ran in 2007 as Tinubu’s party.

The former vice president said it was a false narrative.

He reminded Shettima that he did not run under the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), but Action Congress (AC), which he was “a coalition of ACD (Advance Congress of Democrats), formed by mainly PDM members and other associates and Tinubu’s faction of AD.”

Atiku stated that Tinubu was not in a position to lend the platform to him as erroneously being suggested, as he (Atiku) was nominated by all the delegates from all the states.

He added that Tinubu’s tenure as governor of Lagos would have been rough with a wide possibility of termination of his political career but for his (Atiku’s) support.

Atiku said “Vice President Shettima, obviously carried away with the euphoria of the unveiling of his official residence as Vice President, repeated the same lie.

“It will be appropriate for Vice President Shettima to refrain from making statements on subject matters on which he knows little or nothing about.”