abangida To Atiku: "Forget Your Presidential Ambition". Angry Atiku Shuns Press

2019 Presidency: Angry Atiku shuns press,
others after talks with IBB
Journalists and supporters of former Vice-
President Atiku Abubakar were, yesterday,
shocked after the former vice-president came
out from a meeting with former President
Ibrahim Babangida with a long face reflective of
a RED CARD shown to his 2019 presidential
aspiration.
Atiku, who arrived Minna airport to a cheerful
reception from his supporters, breezed past the
same supporters after a one and half hour
closed-door meeting with Babangida during
which the latter was said to have asked him to
forget his presidential aspiration.
Atiku meets Babangida
The former Vice President arrived the Minna
International Airport in a private aircraft,
marked T7AAA, at about 12.15 p.m.
He was met at the Airport by Niger State Deputy
Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Ketso, and a team of
PDP officials, led by the immediate past
governor of the state, Dr. Muazu Babangida
Aliyu; the state party chairman, Tanko Beji,
among others.
Atiku then proceeded to greet scores of
supporters who had been waiting to welcome
him but had not been allowed by airport
security personnel to approach the tarmac.
Following the airport ceremonies, he
immediately drove straight to the former
Military President's uphill mansion and on
arrival, was ushered into one of the sitting
rooms.
After the exchange of pleasantries, Atiku,
Babangida and former Governor Aliyu were left
alone.
Vanguard gathered that after spending about 45
minutes in the meeting, Aliyu was also excused
out of the sitting room, leaving only Atiku and
Babangida who stayed together for another one
and half hours.
Though none of the two men spoke at the end
of the meeting, Vanguard reliably gathered that
the ambition of the former president hit a brick
wall as Gen. Babangida was said to have
advised him to drop his presidential ambition
.
Atiku, who was besieged by anxious journalists
immediately after the long meeting, snubbed
them as his security aides prevented them from
even going close to him.
"Please pave way; he is not ready to speak with
you,'' the body guards chorused, as their boss
made straight for his waiting vehicle that drove
him to the airport.
At the airport, the former Vice President also
shunned party supporters and journalists who
had waited patiently to bid him bye-bye.
Wearing a long face , the former vice
president walked straight into the aircraft; a
development Vanguard gathered arose from the
negative nod from President Babangida to his
presidential aspiration.
Culled from Vanguard Newspaper