Atiku Abubakar
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has again addressed the biting
issue of his inability to visit the United States of America due to
alleged corrupt practices.
The presidential candidate of the main opposition party in Nigeria,
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, speaking through the spokesman of the
Atiku Campaign Organization, Segun Sowunmi during the TVC Breakfast show
today explained there is no case of corruption against him in the US.
Sowunmi described Atiku’s challenge in securing a U.S visa as a mere ‘administrative issue’.
Sowunmi went further to explain that the current Prime Minister of
India, Narendra Modi was also unable to travel to the U.S just like
Atiku but the issue was later resolved after he assumed power in his
country.
“I want to remind them (Atiku’s critics) that the present Prime
Minister of India hitherto had some of these challenges. For some
reasons, the administrative provisions didn’t give him a visa to go to
America but when he became the Prime Minister of his country, the
sovereignity of the nation was respected,” he stated.
He went further to emphasize that the U.S has no criminal record
against his principal and this accounts for the failure of the US and
Nigeria to prosecute him so far.
“I can tell you for free that the United States of America has
no criminal proceeding, or no indictment, or no corruption-related issue
around His Excellency Atiku Abubakar,” he added.
Sowunmi stated that the U.S would have demanded the extradiction of
Atiku from the Nigerian government through the Extradition Treaty it
signed with Nigeria if he has a criminal case to answer.