{"id":15795,"date":"2017-09-07T19:54:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=15795"},"modified":"2017-09-07T19:54:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T19:54:41","slug":"buhari-used-my-money-and-influence-to-attain-power-and-dump-me-atiku-abubakar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=15795","title":{"rendered":"BUHARI USED MY MONEY AND INFLUENCE TO ATTAIN POWER AND DUMP ME &#8211; ATIKU ABUBAKAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Nigeria\u2019s former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has lamented over the fact that he was pushed to the corner after helping bring the Muhammadu Buhari-led government to power<\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\">He revealed that he no longer has any relationship with the government and is not consulted on issues, even though he is still a member of the APC<\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The former vice president assessed the performance of the Buhari government in the areas of the fight against insurgency in the north-east and the war against corruption<\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Alhaji Atiku Abubaka, former Vice President, has alleged that after helping the All Progressives Congress (APC) attain power, he was sidelined by the Muhammadu Buhari-led government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\">According to reports, the former vice president made his comments during an interview at the Hausa Service of the Voice of America (VOA)\u00a0 he lamented over the fact that he had been pushed to the corner after using his resources to oust the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=14294&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\">He stated:\u00a0<i>\u201cHonestly speaking, I\u2019m still a member of the APC; I was part of all the processes, including campaigns until success was achieved.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>\u201cBut sadly, soon after the formation of government; I was side-lined, I have no any relationship with the government, I\u2019ve not been contacted even once to comment on anything and in turn, I maintained my distance.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>\u201cThey used our money and influence to get to where they\u2019re but three years down the lane, this is where we are.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Atiku spoke on the issue of insurgency in the north-east and lauded Buhari for the Army\u2019s successes against Boko Haram; but he stressed that it was not yet time to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\">He said:\u00a0<i>\u201cYes, there were successes but not comprehensive success because the Boko Haram miscreants are still very active, killing our people; and many local government councils in Borno and Yobe are under their firm grip.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>\u201cPeople cannot dare go back to their dwellings.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>\u201cThis thing baffles me; I never imagined that Nigeria will fight a protracted battle with Boko Haram for five years.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ATIKU.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15796\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ATIKU-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ATIKU-300x156.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ATIKU-768x399.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ATIKU-326x169.jpg 326w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ATIKU.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>\u201cAt a time, we fought the Biafra war which was more complicated because of the terrain in the south; but the Biafran soldiers were roundly subdued in 30 months.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>\u201cBut here we are, fighting an endless battle with the Boko Haram and there\u2019s no end in sight.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Atiku further assessed the Buhari administration\u2019s record in the fight against corruption, stating,\u00a0<i>\u201cHow many people were arrested, prosecuted and jailed? How much was recovered from the looters?<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>\u201cWhen we came on board in 1999, I remember we recovered between $4.5 and $4.7 billion from those that looted under Abacha.\u201d\u200e<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has lamented over the fact that he was pushed to the corner after helping bring the Muhammadu Buhari-led government to power He revealed that he no longer has any relationship with the government and is not consulted on issues, even though he is still a member of the APC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,229,34],"class_list":["post-15795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-boko-haram"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ATIKU.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-46L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15797,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions\/15797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}