Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Monday stated he was nonetheless in lively politics, opposite to tales making the rounds that he has determined to name it a give up.
He described the story as faux information peddled by anti-democratic components.
In a signed assertion by the Atiku Media Workplace in Abuja and dated March 30, 2026, which was made obtainable to Blueprint, the Wazirin Adamawa and chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) stated it was an try and create confusion and dampen the momentum of ADC.
Atiku cleared the air that he had neither determined to step apart and retire from lively politics nor held any assembly concerning that.
The assertion reads: “We want to state, for the document, that info circulating on social media a few purported assembly of His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, with stakeholders of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), during which the previous vice chairman allegedly determined to “step apart and retire from lively politics,” is totally false and intentionally deceptive.
“The Waziri Adamawa has not in current occasions held any such assembly with ADC stakeholders on the nationwide degree. The one current engagement he had was with stakeholders of the ADC in Adamawa state final Thursday.
“A difficulty as elementary and consequential as exiting lively politics can not, and would by no means, be communicated by way of rumours, faceless sources, or third-party fabrication. Such a call, if ever taken, can be formally conveyed by way of the Atiku Media Workplace.
“This newest falsehood bears all of the hallmarks of a coordinated disinformation marketing campaign designed to create confusion, dampen momentum and mislead the Nigerian public.
“Solely the federal government and its brokers might have sponsored this determined narrative out of worry of what’s coming.”