{"id":25886,"date":"2018-08-26T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T18:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=25886"},"modified":"2018-08-26T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T18:56:07","slug":"atiku-debunks-defection-story-making-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/atiku-debunks-defection-story-making-rounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Debunks Defection Story Making Rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yiv2530129067yMail_cursorElementTracker_1535302548680\">Folake Sokoya<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2530129067yMail_cursorElementTracker_1535302485702\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2530129067yMail_cursorElementTracker_1535302485702\">The campaign office of former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has debunked the story from a section of the media that the frontline presidential aspirant for the 2019 election has defected from the PDP.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A press statement on Sunday describes the report as a malicious attempt to confuse the public about the aspiration of Atiku ahead of the forthcoming presidential primaries election of the PDP.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For the avoidance of any doubts, Atiku remains the frontline aspirant for the presidential ticket of the PDP.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the past two months, Atiku Abubakar has moved across states in the country consulting with stakeholders of the PDP and explaining to them his agenda encapsulated in the acronym JOBS: Jobs, Opportunity, Being united and Security) for Nigeria. The nationwide consultations continues this week with visits to the South West, North West and North Central zones of the country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Atiku&#8217;s passion and commitment to winning the PDP primaries is without any compromise and to assume that he will abandon the hard work he has done with the positive results he is getting from the stakeholders of the party is to say the least preposterous and unthinkable.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2530129067yMail_cursorElementTracker_1535302461576\">The Campaign\u00a0office calls on supporters of Atiku to remain steadfast and see the contrived news of defection as an an attempt to distract it from the set task of winning the PDP ticket and the 2019 presidential election by the grace of God.<\/div>\n<\/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><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folake Sokoya The campaign office of former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has debunked the story from a section of the media that the frontline presidential aspirant for the 2019 election has defected from the PDP. 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