Paul Ibe, media aide to former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has clarified that Odih Rowland was never an employee of his principal, contrary to claims circulating on social media.
DAILY POST reports that Rowland, in a letter making the rounds online, dumped the African Democratic Congress, ADC, and returned to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Reports alleged that the former ADC chieftain was an aide to Atiku, suggesting that his resignation from ADC posed a setback to the former VP’s presidential ambition.
However, Ibe, in a post on X, said the pathway to a successful presidential bid by Atiku “continues to be clearer by the day as it becomes inevitable that Nigerians are desirous of a leadership that will rescue the country from the failed Tinubu administration.”
He declared that “any attempt to suggest that Atiku’s prospective bid has suffered a setback, as was the case with one online tatters, because one Odih Rowland purportedly decided to return to his mess is a joke taken too far.”
Atiku’s aide clarified that Rowland “is not an aide to Atiku in any shape or form. The Oxford dictionary defines an ‘aide’ as ‘an assistant to an important person, especially a political leader’.”
“The said Rowland has never acted as an assistant to the Waziri of Adamawa. Any attempt to link him to the former Vice President is propaganda aimed at achieving a nefarious outcome.”
He returned to his mess – Atiku’s aide Ibe denies Rowland’s alleged link to ex-VP
