Obj And I Are No Longer Enemies..Atiku Abubakar

 

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday, declared that  the rift between himself and former President Olusegun Obasanjo was all over, reiterating that he harboured “no hatred or enmity” against his former boss.

Alhaji Abubakar made the declaration in Abuja when he granted audience to the leaders of the Northern Youth Leaders Forum, a group that recently embarked on a mission to heal the rift between the former president and his deputy.

Led by Comrade Eliot Afiyo, the group had, weeks ago, met former President Obasanjo in Ota, Ogun State, where  he announced that he had forgiven his former vice president.

According to the former vice-president, “I don’t harbour any grudge against my former boss. Yes, we had disagreements in office. These were mere disagreements. I harbour no hatred or enmity against him or anybody. I never had anything against him and I will never have.”

While stating  that in politics, he had opponents but no enemies, he declared that “politics is not war.”

Abubakar thanked the group for successfully brokering peace between him and former President Obasanjo, adding that the single effort had marked the leaders of the youth organisation as serious-minded people who were fully prepared to take over the leadership of the country from their seniors.

 On the current security situation in the country, Atiku appealed to the Federal Government to take the challenge more seriously.

He said: “If we can go to other countries to rid them of these kinds of problems, it shows that we have the capacity to put this one down immediately so that the suffering of the people can be reduced.”

Speaking earlier, the chairman of the group, Comrade Afiyo, described Abubakar as a “honest and forthright leader, a courageous and dogged democrat.