2019 Elections: Fulfill Your Promise to Nigerians - Presidential Hopeful, Atiku Tackles Buhari

The founder of the American University of Nigeria group of schools in Yola, Adamawa State, Atiku Abubakar, has opened up on the report that one of the Chibok girls wanted to commit suicide for being forced to attend the school.

Atiku Abubakar

 

In an official statement signed on his behalf by his Media Adviser, Mazi Paul Ibe, in Abuja, on Sunday, former Nigeria's Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, urged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress administration to fulfil its promise to Nigerians to make them feel safe again.

 

According to Punch newspaper, the former Vice-President was reacting to an online publication suggesting that one of the freed kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls, attempted suicide to protest being compelled to attend one of Atiku's schools.

 

Atiku who faulted the report, and said, “Not everything is about 2019,” noted that he was not aware that anyone was being forced to attend one of his schools.

 

The statement said: “The Waziri Adamawa prays that those who have suffered so much get all the treatment and support they need, and urgently calls on the Federal Government to honour its promise to make Nigerians feel safe again.

 

“Atiku, the founder of the AUN Group of Schools, is shocked that some would-be journalists think it is fair game to exploit a young girl’s trauma to score cheap political points.

 

“Atiku Abubakar is not aware that anyone is forced to attend ABTI Schools. The story is contrived hogwash. He urges the media, a critical partner in our march to progress and development, to remember that not everything is about 2019.

 

“I wish to stress that the intention of the Waziri Adamawa was to give the freed Chibok girls (just like he did to an earlier batch in 2014) the best possible education, and that was why he helped set up the foundation programme to create such an opportunity in a familiar environment.

 

“Unfortunately, the best intentions can backfire. These girls are still healing, and clearly, the recent deterioration of the security situation in the North East has opened old wounds."