$1.2m lobbyist: You can’t drag Nigeria into destruction – Presidency hits Atiku

President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser connected Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare, has said Nigerians request to cognize the study paper of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, statesmanlike candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

Dare made the remark portion criticizing Atiku for hiring a United States, US, lobbyist with $1.2 million, successful mentation for the 2027 elections.

In a connection helium signed, Dare said the erstwhile vice president can’t instrumentality Nigeria down the way of self-destruction.

The connection reads partly: “Worse still, for a antheral who presumes to connection enactment to Africa’s astir populous nation, his caller edifice to grievance offshoring, outsourcing governmental warfare to Washington and reportedly paying $1.2 cardinal to an American lobbying steadfast to peddle petitions against a sitting Nigerian President, stands arsenic an affront to Nigeria’s sovereignty and a ballot of nary assurance successful its antiauthoritarian institutions.

“It is besides a stinging slight, an implicit condescension directed astatine generations of Nigerian journalists, argumentation analysts, academics, and nationalist intellectuals who person spent decades analysing, critiquing, and carrying the load of the nation’s antiauthoritarian evolution.

“The Atiku Abubakar of contiguous cuts a pitiable figure, a grotesque representation of what a person becomes erstwhile ambition overwhelms judgement and ever...