Atiku Has Travelled Out of Nigeria For Europe, Details Emerge

• PDP presidential candidate in the 2023 election and former vice president Atiku Abubakar has departed Nigeria for Europe
• Paul Ibe, the spokesperson to Atiku, announced the development in a statement on Wednesday, June 26, adding that it was a short business trip
• According to Ibe, Atiku was accompanied to the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja by friends and associates and would soon be back in the country

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FCT, Abuja - Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president of Nigeria and ex-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has left Nigeria for Europe for a business trip.

The spokesperson to the former PDP candidate, Paul Ibe, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, June 26, adding that Atiku left the country at about 11 am via the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.

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Why Atiku travelled to Europe

According to Ibe, Atiku's business trip was short, but the spokesperson for the former vice president did not specify when the PDP leader would return to the country.

The statement reads in part:

"The former Vice President departed from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at 11 AM on Wednesday, the 26th of June, 2024, for his first port of call.

"He was accompanied to the airport by family members, friends, and associates."

Atiku visited ex-President Buhari

This is barely five days since the former vice president visited the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari to pay Sallah homage to the former general at his country home in Daura, Katsina state.

While the leading opposition figure had said his visit to Buhari, a leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), was to pay the Nigerian leader a deserved respect, many political observers have said it was a permutation ahead of the 2027 election.

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One influential figure who commented on the development was Shehu Sani, a former senator who represented Kaduna Central in the Eighth Senate.

See the statement here:

Former presidents Atiku visited in one week

Legit.ng earlier reported that the former vice president never hid his intention to unseat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election. Unlike before, Atiku has been a major critic of President Tinubu's administration and has enhanced his visibility as he appears in public often.

In 2023, Atiku tried his seventh chance to become Nigerian president when he contested against President Tinubu in the February 25 presidential election but lost the poll to the Lagos-born politician.

Source: Legit.ng