Atiku used to send me documents to fight Obasanjo – Sowore

The African Action Congress presidential candidate (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has revealed how former Vice President Atiku Abubakar sent him documents to fight his former boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, when they were in each other’s neck.

Sowore said that Garba Shehu, who was a Special Assistant on Media to Atiku, used to send the documents to him.

He stated this during a recent interview with Arise TV while reacting to Atiku’s allegations that he usually leaves Nigeria after an election and knows nothing about power generation.

Sowore said: “He mixed up a number of things. I think he is losing memory, otherwise, he would have known, that I have never, at any point, left the issues concerning Nigeria. In fact, for him and others, I was a source of news while they were in office – that means in the government.

“In fact, when Garba Shehu used to work with him as SA, they used to send me documents from the inside. I’m revealing it from the first time so as to counter Obasanjo in those days when they were in each other’s neck.”

He further stated that : “My first time contesting in Nigeria was 2019 and I’ve not left since then. I’ve not left. I’ve been here since that time. But, he has left each time he contested. This is going to be his seventh time contesting.

“I started contesting in 1992 as a student union president. Atiku also contested during the SDP primaries against Abiola. In the 1992/93 transition period, he lost. I won as the student union president. When the system collapsed, it was us that took over and made sure that we fought for that mandate. Atiku ran away. I don’t know where he was between the years 1993 and1999.”