Former Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress ( APC), Atiku Abubakar, has explained the purpose of his visit to the national chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun, at the secretariat of the party on Monday.
In a press statement by his media office in Abuja on Tuesday, Atiku denied that his visit to the party secretariat was a response to a summon by the leadership of the party as widely reported.
According to the statement, Atiku said: “My visit to the national secretariat of our great party was to rub minds with the party hierarchy, and it was of a routine kind as a chieftain of the party.
“I was neither summoned nor queried by the party on any issue as being speculated. Rather, my visit was at my own behest.
“As a party chieftain, I owe it a duty to my party to appraise challenges within the structures of the party and also proffer suggestions on how to manage those challenges. I urge you all to discountenance any malicious insinuations about my visit to the party secretariat,” he said.