Atiku Abubakar denies plan to step down for any presidential aspirant ahead of 2027
Former vp, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has strongly denied a new media report suggesting he intends to abandon his presidential ambition within the 2027 election cycle to support a one of a kind aspirant.
The denial is available in reaction to reviews on Thursday, October 2, which claimed Atiku had expressed a willingness to step down for a “more youthful, colourful and greater suited candidate” on the platform of the coalition-backed African Democratic Congress in the course of an interview with the BBC Hausa carrier on Wednesday.
In a announcement released on Thursday via his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, the previous vp brushed off the file as a misrepresentation of the interview. The assertion clarified that a radical overview of each the video and the transcript—in both the authentic Hausa and the English translation—showed that Atiku in no way “expressly state[d], recommend[ed], or maybe implie[d] that he intends to step down for every body.”
in step with Ibe, what Atiku Abubakar “actually and unambiguously said” was that young human beings and other potential presidential aspirants are free to go into the competition. He similarly said that if a young candidate have been to emerge via a aggressive number one, he would “effortlessly aid any such candidate except any hesitation.”
The announcement concluded by way of cautioning in opposition to misinterpretive journalism, stressing that the insinuations attributed to the Waziri Adamawa from his BBC Hausa interview are inaccurate and do no longer mirror his real comments.
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