Ex-VP Atiku discusses hardship, insecurity with IBB, Abdulsalam behind close doors in Minna

The former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar Wednesday sneaked into Minna to pay Sallah homage to two former military leaders, General Ibrahim Babangida and General Abdulsalam Abubakar at their uphill mansions.

Atiku, who at arrived Ahmed Bola Tinubu International Airport Minna through a chartered plane landed at the airport at 4.15 pm Nigeria time and was received by some PDP staunched and drove straight to the IBB uphill mansion.

The former VP had a close door discussion with the two former military leaders for over two hours which a source close to the former leaders said, the discussion centred on the current suffering in the country and the unabated security trends.

Though, journalists were not allowed into both houses as some security operatives at the gate said, “the visit of the former VP to the former military leaders is just to pay the usual Eid-el-Kabir homage to them, sources disclosed that hardship and security Challenges in the country top the discussion.

“As you know we are still in Sallah mood. So there is nothing new in the former Vice President’s visit to the former leaders which I think is the usual routine” the security operatives at the gates told newsmen.

According to a source close to General Ibrahim Babangida who craved anonymity, Atiku decried the increasing rate of hunger, poverty and insecurity bedeviling the country under the present administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) which he described as worrisome.

However, the source further told Journalists that Babangida while receiving his guest told him that Nigerians should continue to pray for the peace and unity of the country at all times.

He said the unity of the country should not be Compromised by all, stressing the need for Nigerians at all levels to see the unity of the country as sacrosanct.

“Although Abdulsalam Abubakar as you know is not a politician, the former vice president paid homage to the former military head of state. He received him and that is just what the former Vice President’s visit to the two former leaders”.

Atiku however declined speaking with journalists, but sad, ” I just pay Sallah homage to my two former boss and that is all”, before he departed for Yola.