*Warns Buhari, APC supporters against heart attack
* Why USA must not grant Atiku Visa at this time – FG
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has said that it will be Nigerians and Americans who will elect the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the forthcoming elections in the country.
Frank, who defected from APC to PDP along with other New PDP/R-APC coalition members when they failed to stop the APC during the recent political tussles, made the assertion on Friday in Abuja, in a statement in response to comments credited to the Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that the US should not grant the former Vice President visa to visit the country.
He, however, reminded the Minister that the American government does not believe in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari which has since been described as “lifeless” by President Donald Trump.
The DEFENDER reports that America had since debunked the report that its President, Mr. Donald Trump, ever called President Buhari or his administration ‘lifeless’. Timi Frank, an opposition member in the country, still parades the information the US authorities had denied.
According to Frank, the PDP presidential candidate has become a nightmare and a sleepless tablet for the government of APC, hence the total loss of common senses by some of it officials.
Frank warned his former boss, Lai Mohammed and other APC’s apologists against heart attack when they later see Atiku Abubakar, being received on a red carpet very soon in the United States of America.
While challenging APC government to provide just one evidence of corruption perpetrated by Atiku Abubakar, Frank said the same failed government that said the Waziri Adamawa could not visit America is already jittery now that Atiku is poised to prove them wrong.
According to Frank, it was easier for Lai Mohammed to bring APC to power with lies and propaganda against President Goodluck Jonathan but it is now impossible to sustain the lies because of their obvious failures.
“Why is Lai Mohammed speaking from both sides of the mouth? The Minister is about to lose his job that’s why he is talking like someone under the influence of codeine or tramadol. The simple advice for Mr. Mohammed’s close allies is to get him tested for probably the negative effects of banned substances.
“At this stage, it is too late to stop America from granting Atiku entry Visa because the country has confirmed that it has nothing against the Presidential candidate of the PDP. “Instead of this clueless government to seek for help from the American government in fighting the resurgent Boko Haram and fully liberate the people of the North-east from the hands of insurgents, what is more important to Lai Mohammad and the APC’s government is the issuance of U.S. Visa to Atiku.
“The American government will not fall for propaganda from a lifeless government like that of APC and President Muhammadu Buhari in granting Visa to anybody because it is a place where rule of law is strictly adhered to.
“Unlike a lawless APC government that attempts to disallow rain from dropping on the roof tops of political opponents, the America government is built on trust, fairness, justice and the fear of God,” Frank replied Mohammed.
Why USA must not grant Atiku Visa at this time – FG
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had made it known that the government is not unaware that the Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has engaged the services of some lobbyists to persuade the United States authorities to issue him American visa.
This, the Minister said as he urged the Donald Trump-led country to exercise caution in granting visa to him.
According to Mohammed, this is necessary to ensure that the US doesn’t appear to favour one candidate over another in the 2019 general election.
According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated this at an interactive session with media executives in Abuja on Thursday.
Noting that the Federal Government was aware of the visa issue regarding the former Vice-President, Mohammed urged the US to be mindful of the timing.
His words: “We understand and appreciate the fact that it is the prerogative of the US to grant a visa to anyone who applies. However, we want the US to be neutral and be wary of taking any decision that will give the impression that they are favouring or endorsing one candidate over the other.
“Impression must not be created that the US government is endorsing one particular candidate over the other. I am sure you will all recall the Jefferson’s case and the cold $90,000 in fridge.
“We are not unaware that Atiku has engaged the services of some lobbyists to persuade the US to issue visa to him. Our position is that if the former Vice President is seeking the US visa we have no problem about it. However, we want the US government not to create the impression that it is endorsing one candidate over the other.”
