Atiku Cannot Win Election In His Local Government – Presidency

The special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on new media, Lauretta Onochie, has said former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar cannot win an election in his local government.

Onochie made the statement in reaction to Abubakar’s defection to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday.

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Atiku had allegedly said he will definitely beat Buhari, should he decide to contest in the presidential election in 2019.

But in a swift reaction, Onochie, speaking on Channels TV Politics Today said, “Atiku has lost touch with reality”.

Onochie said: “Atiku may have had that weight some years ago but over the years he’s been losing that weight and at the moment, I can tell you the even in his local government area in his native Adamawa, he can’t win any election.

“So where is the weight? I think Alhaji Abubakar Atiku has lost touch with reality; I think he needs to check again.

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“He is known to hobnob from one party to the other when he cannot have control in that party.

“President Buhari is not competing with him at the moment. What he’s trying to do is to pull President Buhari out of the good work he’s doing and to come to wallow in the mud with him.

“The president also knows that the ban on politics has not been lifted; so, he is not going to come out to wallow in the mud with him.”

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