{"id":176532,"date":"2025-08-28T22:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/atikus-aide-denies-rowlands-alleged-link"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:36:35","slug":"atikus-aide-denies-rowlands-alleged-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atikus-aide-denies-rowlands-alleged-link","title":{"rendered":"Atiku\u2019s Aide Denies Rowland\u2019s Alleged Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Paul Ibe, media aide to former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has clarified that Odih Rowland was never an employee of his principal, contrary to claims circulating on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Rowland, in a letter making the rounds online, dumped the African Democratic Congress, ADC, and returned to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Reports alleged that the former ADC chieftain was an aide to Atiku, suggesting that his resignation from ADC posed a setback to the former VP\u2019s presidential ambition.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ibe, in a post on X, said the pathway to a successful presidential bid by Atiku \u201ccontinues to be clearer by the day as it becomes inevitable that Nigerians are desirous of a leadership that will rescue the country from the failed Tinubu administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He declared that \u201cany attempt to suggest that Atiku\u2019s prospective bid has suffered a setback, as was the case with one online tatters, because one Odih Rowland purportedly decided to return to his mess is a joke taken too far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Atiku\u2019s aide clarified that Rowland \u201cis not an aide to Atiku in any shape or form. The Oxford dictionary defines an \u2018aide\u2019 as \u2018an assistant to an important person, especially a political leader\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe said Rowland has never acted as an assistant to the Waziri of Adamawa. Any attempt to link him to the former Vice President is propaganda aimed at achieving a nefarious outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Paul Ibe, media aide to former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has clarified that Odih Rowland was never an employee of his principal, contrary to claims circulating on social media. 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