A former aide to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, Michael Achimugu, has stated that he is exposing the corruption allegations against his former boss in order to prevent Nigerians from making a huge mistake by voting for him.
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls Micheal releasing several recorded phone conversations in which Atiku admitted to taking advantage of federal contracting expenditures.
The former vice president also described how he was in charge of establishing onshore shell companies that served as a conduit for siphoning large sums from public works contracts for himself and former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
In the midst of the allegation, the PDP presidential council spokesman, Dino Melaye, stated that Micheal Achimugu was never an aide to Atiku and blamed the allegation on the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer, Bola Tinubu.
In an interview with TVC on Wednesday, Achimugu explained that he was motivated to speak out about Atiku’s corruption in order to educate Nigerians and dissuade them from voting for him as president during the election.
According to him, if Atiku is allowed to become president, the entire country will be shattered, so he decided to speak out to prevent this from happening.
He said:
There are basically two reasons which I have repeated over and over on social media. First is that young persons like myself who served politicians will never again be taken for granted. Second, it is to warn Nigerians and educate them before the elections to prevent them from making the greatest mistake ever.
If Nigerians think that they have seen corruption before, let them wait until they make the mistake of voting the Atiku family into the office.
After a couple of years, I began to see so many other things within the family. There is this huge dysfunction that doesn’t speak well of the family. It lies behind the façade that people cannot really see, but I am a Nigerian; I have children and so do millions of other Nigerians and I understand that if this is allowed to fester, if this is promoted to Aso Rock, then the entire Nigeria will be shattered, so I decided to come out and try and prevent this from happening.
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