ADC presidential primary election not fraudulent – Atiku’s aide replies Babachir Lawal

The Special Assistant to the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, has insisted that the primary election that produced the former Vice president as the party’s flag bearer was not fraudulent.

Shaibu downplayed dismissed allegations by the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal that the ADC’s primary election was rigged.

In an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, Shaibu maintained that the ADC’s primary election was not  manipulated.

Shaibu maintained that the burden of proving the allegations rests on Lawal.

According to him, Atiku was the most popular among the contestants, which included former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi and Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, making his victory unsurprising.

“Anybody who claims rigging or irregularity in the last election should check the places and locations they won. Where are the states that Rotimi Amaechi won?

“If you check the figures and the margins he got there, you will know that those are his strongholds. It was not a fraudulent process,” he said.

Shaibu also likened Lawal’s reaction to that of a baby throwing tantrums after being deprived of its mother’s breast.

“Babachir reminds me of a baby who is yanked off her mother’s breast while suckling. It is like a deprived suckling; definitely the baby will throw tantrums.

“He admitted on your show that his preferred candidate was Hayatu-Deen. He worked for him,” Shaibu said.