Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Timi Frank, has revealed that the presidency planned to implicate the People Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on his arrival from Dubai in the early hours of Sunday.
Mr Frank said Mr Atiku, who returned to Nigeria around 1am on Sunday morning from his vacation in Dubai was thoroughly searched by a Special Squad of security men deployed by the presidency for some hours with recording gadgets on them and in and around Atiku’s aircraft.
“Nothing was however found on him or in his aircraft.”
According to Mr Frank, plan to also drop bags of foreign currencies and other implicating things in Mr Atiku’s aircraft on his arrival was also unsuccessful.
In a statement Mr Frank signed to raise an alarm on Sunday afternoon, he said the special squad of security men who carried out the search confessed that they were directed by the presidency to embarrass the former Vice President.
The squad, according to Mr Frank, were armed with recording gadgets in and out of Atiku’s aircraft “to see if he returned to the country with foreign currencies or any other implicating materials.”
The former APC spokesman said the security men and the presidency were disappointed when nothing implicating could not be found on either Mr Atiku or his aircraft.
While condemning what he tagged President Muhammadu Buhari’s move to desperately nail the PDP presidential candidate, Mr Frank said if the former President Goodluck Jonathan was so harsh on him (Buhari) in 2015, he couldn’t have occupied the office today.
Mr Frank said since Mr Atiku left office as Vice President for eight years, “this is the first time out of desperation to nail him that he has been searched embarrassingly.”
He, however, warned president Buhari to desist from his act of desperation against the PDP presidential candidate.
“Due to information at our disposal, I have been saying it that the PDP presidential candidate is not saved under this administration because the Buhari’s administration is deploying all manners of devilish strategies to nail all the opposition leaders especially, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
“We are using this medium to inform the international community to also take note of how Buhari administration is intimidating the opposition presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who has served Nigeria as Vice President for eight years,” he said.
