Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has denied a report that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), an agency of the U.S. Department of Treasury, placed him and his family members under close watch over alleged financial fraud.<\/p>\n
Abubakar, Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general elections, gave the clarification in a statement issued by his Media Aide, Paul Ibe, in Abuja on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Ibe said his principal\u2019s attention had been drawn to recycled and regurgitated lies about the person of Abubakar.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the avoidance of doubt, Atiku Abubakar is not under any U.S. watch list, neither has he been charged, or will ever be charged by the US Justice Department or any other in a foreign jurisdiction.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be recalled that these recycled lies were re-unearthed just before the Feb. 23, 2019, Presidential election, and to put paid to it, Abubakar applied for and received a U.S. visa, whereupon he embarked on a visit to the US on Jan. 17, 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe stayed at a hotel just miles to the United States Department of Justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbubakar in the course of that trip was also received in audience by officials of the United States Government,\u201d Ibe said.<\/p>\n
He said that the news reports were a desperate gambit to recast these discredited accusations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are meant to divert the attention of Nigerians from the recent statement by the Secretary of State of the United States, Mr. Mike Pompeo, announcing visa and travel bans for certain unnamed but notorious individuals.<\/p>\n
Africa Press-Nigeria: Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has denied a report that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), an agency of the U.S. Department of Treasury, placed him and his family members under close watch over alleged financial fraud. Abubakar, Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general elections, gave the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":12797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[316,65],"class_list":["post-30225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-atiku","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"\n