…Says the book is fiction for self-glorification at the expense of truth.
ABUJA- FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Thursday picked holes
with the Accidental Public Servant by former Minister of the Federal
Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai,
stressing that the book could be described as a fiction for
self-glorification at the expense of truth.
According to Atiku Abubakar, what the former Minister requires at the
moment was prayer rather than anger. The attack is coming barely twenty
fours after the book was formally presented to the public at the
Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja.
The former Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples
Democratic party, PDP, dismissed the book, just as he said that it was a
collection of fiction, half-truths, exaggeration and reflection of
selective memory.
Atiku Abubakar
In a statement from his media office Thursday, ‘’Atiku Abubakar was
particularly piqued by the claim of El-Rufai that he had almost resigned
as the former Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises
(BPE) because of alleged persistent pressure and interference by former
Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who was then the Chairman of the National
Council on Privatization.
‘’Atiku’s Media Office expressed disbelief that the former FCT
Minister forgot soon what he said at the Senate Public Hearing on BPE
August 8-13, 2011. That Adhoc committee was headed by Senator Ahmed
Lawan.
‘’It recalled El-Rufai as saying that he had special relationship
with former President Obasanjo, which gave him direct access and the
discretion to bypass the Council on Privatization headed by Atiku in
order to get the approval of the President.
‘’The Media Office wondered how el-Rufai could reconcile his threat
of resignation with the accounts he told the Senate about the latitude
of freedom he enjoyed at BPE because of his closeness to former
President Obasanjo.
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