2019: APC Calls For Investigation Into Atiku’s Trip To Dubai

The Presidential candidate of the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar and some leaders of the party traveled to Dubai for a meeting last week.

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Yekini Nabena, while reacting to the report called on security agencies to investigate the recent strategy meeting.

In a statement that was released on Sunday, Nabena stated that security agencies should investigate the real motive behind the trip.

He said, “There is more to the meeting that meets the eye. Nigeria has enough meeting/conference rooms, many of which meet international standards. It is therefore clear that the Dubai meeting was for other sinister political purposes ahead of the 2019 general elections.

“Our intelligence, anti-graft and security agencies must be awake to its responsibility of investigating the Dubai meeting. Cash-and-carry politicians must be prevented from moving illicit cash around to induce voters and sponsor election violence and rigging.”

Nabena described the meeting which was attended by Atiku, his running mate, Mr. Peter Obi; Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki; and the party’s National Chairman, Uche Secondus, as both “comical and ridiculous.”

He stated that a similar meeting which involved the same people had been held in Nigeria but failed to yield the desire results thereby leading to the meeting in Dubai.

Nabena urged security agencies to monitor movements of money, especially by politically exposed persons both locally and internationally.

The statement read in part, “We are mindful of how millions of dollars were confiscated in an aircraft belonging in a Nigerian PDP sympathiser in South Africa in the lead-up to the 2015 elections.

“Another round of election is here and it is not unlikely that they are playing a repeat performance, under the guise of holding a meeting in Dubai. Our security agencies should be on the watch for a stitch in time saves nine.“