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<\/p>\nAlhaji 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\u2019s \u201cauthentic president\u201d? Atiku\u2019s spokesman, Paul Ibe, denied the reports and described them as \u201ctotal fabrication\u201d and \u201cfake news\u201d by the All Progressives Congress, which it alleged to have lying as its \u201conly bragging rights of competence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Atiku Abubakar GCON \u201cSince 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,\u201d Ibe said in the statement. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cFor a party that has broken the worst record in election rigging, the APC doesn\u2019t have any iota of integrity to be taken seriously by anybody. Atiku\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo 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.\u201d However, fact checking by icirnigeria.org has confirmed the story and Atiku\u2019s rebuttal, a lie. \u201cAtiku Abubakar\u2019s claim that the report about his contract with the US firm is a \u201ctotal fabrication\u201d is false.<\/p>\n
Information on the US Justice Department\u2019s FARA portal establish that such contract exists, where Atiku is seeking to be acknowledged abroad as \u201cthe authentic President of Nigeria\u201d based on PDP\u2019s grounds for challenging the declared results\u201d, 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.<\/p>\n
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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\u2019s \u201cauthentic president\u201d? Atiku\u2019s spokesman, Paul Ibe, denied the reports and described them as \u201ctotal fabrication\u201d and \u201cfake news\u201d by the All Progressives Congress, which it alleged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,316,173,65],"class_list":["post-8256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-atiku","tag-parties","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"\n