Atiku Reacts To Allegation He Paid $30,000 To US Firm

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has denied procuring a US lobbyist firm to progress in his offer to assume control over power from President Muhammadu Buhari.

In an announcement on Wednesday, Atiku, a previous VP, said the reports of the supposed contract is a handicraft of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Atiku is at the presidential decision council to challenge the presentation of Buhari as victor by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

As per a report by Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), Bruce Fein, previous equity division authority and his firm Fein and DelValle PLLC enrolled as outside specialists of PDP and Atiku on March 24.

The report said the firm is relied upon to "empower Congress and the official to forgo from a last statement and acknowledgment of Nigeria's February 23, 209 presidential decision until remarkable lawful difficulties to the underlying legislature of Nigeria declaration that occupant President Muhammadu Buhari was the victor are fairly and autonomously settled by the preeminent court of Nigeria without political or military impact, terrorizing or control."

In any case, in the announcement issued for his benefit by Paul Ibe, his representative, Atiku rejected the report as "complete manufacture" by the APC, including that it "didn't come as an astonishment to us since lying has turned into their solitary boasting privileges of fitness."

The announcement included that "since Atiku opposed weight not to go to court, the APC has been acting like a feline on hot blocks in light of the fact that the result of the 2019 races has uncovered and broken the veneer of their questionable respectability."

"The APC are acting apprehensively like a criminal living under the dread of being uncovered and disgraced; they are presently utilizing phony news against Atiku as opposed to concentrating on safeguarding themselves in the court," the announcement read.

"For a gathering that has broken the most noticeably awful record in decision fixing, the APC doesn't have any particle of trustworthiness to be paid attention to by anyone.

"Atiku's court case has turned into their greatest weight since it uncovered their trustworthiness as a trick, and as opposed to shielding their stolen order in court, they are presently utilizing phony news to occupy open consideration from the memorable appointive heist they have submitted against Nigerians.

"No measure of diversionary promulgation and phony news battle by APC will prevent Atiku Abubakar from proceeding with the court activity he began to recover the stolen command."