The Presidency on Sunday said President Muhammadu Buhari will defeat former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar even in his home state, Adamawa if he emerges as the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The Personal Assistant to the President on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie stated this when she appeared on Channels Television. Onochie who was reacting to the defection of Atiku from the APC to the PDP 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 that 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. President Buhari is not competing with him at the moment, what he’s trying to do is to put President Buhari out of the good work he’s doing and to come to wallow in the mud with him.
“President Buhari is very busy trying to repair the damage that PDP did for 16 years to this nation; he is busy with the job of governance and trying to ease the pains that Nigerians have been going through over the past 16 to 17 years.
“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 of ‘he said, she said”, she added.
She assured that Atiku's defection was non-consequential as the Presidency is not worried. “The president is not perturbed at all; he is not moved in any way. Alhaji Atiku is known to hobnob from one party to the other when he cannot have the control of the party."
