2023: Atiku Lied About Holding Meeting With US Department — Former Commisioner

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has been accused of lying about having a meeting with the US State Department by Kassim Afegbua.

In a statement released on Sunday, the former Edo State Commissioner for Information said: "This level of dubiety, desperation, boldness, wildness and audacity was unbecoming, to say the least.”

“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”, Afegbua added.

According to him, Atiku travelled to the United States on negotiated entry as he did in 2019.

Kassim Afegbua

“In a 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.

" 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?”