ATIKU LIED AND DID NOT MEET WITH THE US STATE DEPARTMENT - AFEGBUA

Contrary to media reports, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, did not hold any significant meetings with the crucial players of the United States State Department, according to former Edo State Commissioner for Information Kassim Afegbua.

In a statement released on Sunday, Afegbua asserted; "this level of dubiety, desperation, boldness, wildness and audacity was unbecoming, to say the least."

He said, "Some even said that Alhaji Atiku actually travelled under the cover of Governor Aminu Tambuwal's Diplomatic entourage - what reduction and debasement! Entering into the US under this guise vitiates the headlines we see here on his trip."

According to Afegbua; "In deliberate effort to impress his supporters and followers, Atiku Abubakar and his musketeers have again travelled to the US on negotiated entry just like in 2019. This time, he was seen with his musketeers parading empty corridors in photo-ops to impress us back home."

He claimed that Atiku still needs to answer certain questions because he hasn't been cleared and released from his corruption charges that have been compared to money laundering in the US.

Afegbua clarified, " In 2019, he was granted negotiated entry, just like now; this is his leave to create the impression that all was well.

"Was he indeed barred from entry before now? What were the factors or reasons for his initial ban? Have those issues been addressed? Has he been discharged and acquitted of those allegations? Why this so-called celebration if there are no undertones?"