Former Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar has clarified that he was not summoned to the national secretariat of the party, and that his visit to the place on Monday was voluntary.
A statement by his media office in Abuja on Tuesday, quoted Atiku as saying that his visit to the party secretariat was not a response to summon by the leadership of the party as widely reported.
“My visit to the national secretariat of our great party was to rub minds with the party hierarchy, and it was of a routine kind as a chieftain of the party.
“I was neither summoned nor queried by the party on any issue as being speculated. Rather, my visit was at my own behest.
“As a party chieftain, I owe it a duty to my party to appraise challenges within the structures of the party and also proffer suggestions on how to manage those challenges. I urge you all to discountenance any malicious insinuations about my visit to the party secretariat.” [myad]
