Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, has accused Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), of raising false alarm over his encounter with security operatives on Sunday.
TheCable reported how Atiku was searched by security operatives upon his arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
The PDP presidential candidate had said the search was an attempt to intimidate him.
But reacting via a statement, Sirika said there was nothing out of the ordinary about the search conducted on Atiku.
He described it as a “routine process” which applies to all international arrivals “unless the passenger is the president of Nigeria”.
“This is a mischievous attempt to grab the headlines. Nigerians need to know that one of the resolutions of the Atiku team at their recently-concluded, opulently-held Dubai retreat was to embark on…
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