BEVERLY HILLS, September 08, (THEWILL) – Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has in an apparent counter of his former boss, Atiku Abubakar, declared that Buhari “was single-handedly responsible for the 2015 victory for the All Progressives Congress (APC)”.
Atiku, a former Vice President, had on Wednesday told the VOA Hausa Service thus, “I’m still a member of the APC; I was part of all the processes, including campaigns until success was achieved… They used our money and influence to get to where they’re but three years down the lane, this is where we are.”
However in an article published on Friday, Shehu, who before joining the Buhari Presidency was Atiku’s media aide, wrote: “When Bayo Omoboriowo, the restless personal photographer of President Muhammadu Buhari barged in on the president requesting to have his picture taken as he watched the match between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Indomitable Lions of Cameroun, it certainly didn’t occur to him that he was opening a window to the world on the facts of life of a man who was single-handedly responsible for the 2015 victory for the All Progressives Congress (APC).”
The article entitled: ‘A President’s 32″ Screen’ read further, “Buhari has been known to be a disciplined retired military general who lived a simple and austere life devoid of ostentation. He is not known to have the common vices associated with politics and politicians. He neither smokes nor drinks alcohol.
“He didn’t belong to any rich or royal families. He is known to have grown up with an enthusiastic desire to serve and his choice to serve in the army was not, therefore by accident. Even at 74, Buhari is known to enjoy better health than people much younger until of course, the recent bout of illness from which he has recovered.”
THEWILL recalls a video which trended online earlier in the week had depicted the Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Jummai Alhassan leading a delegation to visit Atiku, during which she told their host that they came to felicitate with him over the health God has given the former Vice President.
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