PHOTO: Atiku Abubakar released statement disassociating self from 2019 Presidential campaign video that has gone viral

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(Image: Instagram/atiku__abubakar)
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has released a statement condemning a viral video showing him declaring for the 2019 Presidential ticket. The Turaki Adamawa disassociated himself from the video, calling it fake news.
Given recent events, and his open criticism of the president Buhari led administration, and the public declaration of support for his presidential ambition by Minister for women affairs, Madam Aisha Alhasan, who  publicly endorsed the former vice president, it will be very difficult for Atiku to convince Nigerians and his supporters alike that he has no interest or not nursing the ambition to contest the Presidency come 2019.

Even Peoples Democratic Party are in search of a suitable candidate that will stand for their political party in 2019 and some are already looking in the direction of the former president. I also feel for a man not known to have any political ideology, as he keeps going from one political party to the other, it will be difficult to believe he is not nursing any political ambition come 2019.



See the statement put out on his social media page, disassociating himself from the purported video:

"This #FakeNews is breaking across so many media channels, I’m wondering who sent it to them #Smile

According to the report, his special media aide said:

"The video is a bad job of bad people with bad intentions. Some mischief makers are using a video clip extracted from his 2011 presidential declaration to create a false impression that he formally declared for the 2019 presidential election. Such propaganda is being deliberately promoted by political opponents in order to create acrimony.
Atiku advised those involved in such "laughable and unintelligent propaganda of lies and intentional mischief to find something useful to do with their time instead of using his name to achieve their malicious political objectives."

Describing those behind the fake video clip "as a group of incompetent and bumbling political novices who cannot see the loopholes in their own stories", the former Vice President advised members of the Nigerian press to be wary of uncritically lapping up fake news materials from groups that don't care about their own credibility.

He explained that, "While fake news merchants don't bother about ethics and their reputation", members of the press have more to lose if they take stories from such disreputable groups without verification.
The Waziri Adamawa added that spreading false stories about any individual politician is not within the protected boundaries of free speech, and that the traditional media should take the first step by not helping fake news merchants to promote their agenda."

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