{"id":19769,"date":"2017-12-08T01:37:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T00:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=19769"},"modified":"2017-12-08T01:37:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T00:37:15","slug":"atiku-carries-campaign-babangida-keeps-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/atiku-carries-campaign-babangida-keeps-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Carries Campaign To Babangida, keeps Mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Olabde Adaramola<\/div>\n<p>Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Thursday\u00a0 in Minna, Niger state capital , held a closed door parley with former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida at his Uphill Mansion.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku who was smiling broadly on his arrival at the Uphill mansion of the former leader in Minna was however downcast, wearing long face on his way out of the almost\u00a0 two and half\u00a0 hours\u00a0 meeting which started at about 12:45pm.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting which may not be unconnected with the Presidential ambition\u00a0 of the former number two citizen may not have gone down well with the Wakilin Adamawa<\/p>\n<p>Even the immediate governor of Niger state, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu equally wore long face. He was part of the meeting for about 45 minutes before he was excused out of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP presidential aspirant arrived Minna International airport at exactly 12 noon on board a chartered flight marked T7-AAA wearing grey coloured flowing gown ( babanriga) .<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>National Wire\u00a0 gathered that the former Vice President was\u00a0 earlier scheduled\u00a0 to visit the state Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello\u00a0 at the Government House, Minna\u00a0 and another scheduled visit to the Niger state Secretariat of the PDP with the view\u00a0 to address party faithfuls were cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Party faithfuls who had mobilized to the airport to receive the presidential hopeful were grossly disappointed when Atiku could not honour them with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>Both at the IBB&#8217;s house and at the airport, the former vice president refused to speak with journalists. A security aide to Atiku told journalists that he would not speak to the press.<\/p>\n<p>His visit however drew quite a number of political bigwigs in Niger state even from the ruling APC. His aircraft departed Minna at about 4: 35 pm.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olabde Adaramola Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Thursday\u00a0 in Minna, Niger state capital , held a closed door parley with former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida at his Uphill Mansion. 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