Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party hire two new lobbyists, John Barnett and Bruce Fein, to make the United States recognise him as Nigeria’s “authentic president”? Atiku’s spokesman, Paul Ibe, denied the reports and described them as “total fabrication” and “fake news” by the All Progressives Congress, which it alleged to have lying as its “only bragging rights of competence.”
Atiku Abubakar GCON “Since Atiku resisted pressure not to go to court, the APC has been behaving like a cat on hot bricks because the outcome of the 2019 elections has exposed and shattered the facade of their dubious integrity,” Ibe said in the statement. “The APC are behaving nervously like a thief living under the fear of being exposed and shamed; they are now using fake news against Atiku instead of focusing on defending themselves in the court.”
“For a party that has broken the worst record in election rigging, the APC doesn’t have any iota of integrity to be taken seriously by anybody. Atiku’s court case has become their biggest burden because it exposes their integrity as a sham, and instead of defending their stolen mandate in court, they are now using fake news to divert public attention from the historic electoral heist they have committed against Nigerians.
“No amount of diversionary propaganda and fake news campaign by APC will stop Atiku Abubakar from continuing the court action he started to reclaim the stolen mandate.” However, fact checking by icirnigeria.org has confirmed the story and Atiku’s rebuttal, a lie. “Atiku Abubakar’s claim that the report about his contract with the US firm is a “total fabrication” is false.
Information on the US Justice Department’s FARA portal establish that such contract exists, where Atiku is seeking to be acknowledged abroad as “the authentic President of Nigeria” based on PDP’s grounds for challenging the declared results”, Icir.org wrote. The Centre for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit research group based in Washington DC, the originator of the story based its report on FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) filings by the lobbyists.
