I Was Subjected To Thorough Security Search On Arrival At Abuja Airport On Sunday – Atiku

BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 2019 general elections, Atiku Abubakar has said that he arrived Abuja from a foreign trip in the early hours of Sunday only to be subjected to intensive and thorough search by agents of the state.

Atiku in his Twitter handle said that the search made up of the Army, personnel of the Department of State Services, Nigeria Immigration, Customs Service and Police was aimed at intimidating him and his staff.

The former Vice President however said that he is committed to building a Nigeria where no citizen is intimidated by agents of state who are paid to protect them. 

He further twitted; “Together, #LetsGetNigeriaWorkingAgain.

In a statement earlier in the day, one of Atiku political faithful, Timi Frank said that the plot by the Presidency to embarrass the PDP Presidential candidate by planting foreign currencies on his aircraft failed upon arrival from Dubai

Frank, who was Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said Atiku, who returned to Nigeria around 1am on Sunday morning from his vacation in Dubai was thoroughly searched by a Special Squad of security men deployed by the presidency for some hours with recording gadgets on them and in and around Atiku’s aircraft.

According to him; “Nothing, was however found on him or in his aircraft. The plan to also drop bags of foreign currencies and other implicating things in Atiku’s aircraft on his arrival was also unsuccessful.

Frank also said the special squad of security men who carried out the search confessed that they were directed by the presidency to embarrass the former Vice President.

He said that the squad were armed with recording gadgets in and out of Atiku’s aircraft to see if he returned to the country with foreign currencies or any other implicating materials.

According to him; “The security men and the presidency were disappointed when nothing implicating could not be found on either Atiku or his aircraft.

“We condemn President Muhammadu Buhari’s move to desperately nail the PDP presidential candidate. If former President Goodluck Jonathan was so harsh on President Buhari in 2015, he couldn’t have occupied the office today.

“Due to information at our disposal, I have been saying it that the PDP presidential candidate is not save under this administration because the Buhari’s administration is deploying all manners of devilish strategies to nail all the opposition leaders especially, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

“We wish to inform the international community to take note of how Buhari administration is intimidating the opposition presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who has served Nigeria as Vice President for eight years.”