AfDB: Buhari recruits Atiku to lobby Zuma for PDP’s Adesina

President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari has dispatched former vice president Atiku Abubakar to South Africa to lobby President Jacob Zuma to support the candidacy of Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, a member of President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet as President of the African Development Bank

According to the statement by Malam Garba Shehu in Abuja on Saturday, Buhari asked Atiku to leverage on his close relationship with Zuma to lobby for the emergence of Adesina for the post.

Buhari, who backs the candidacy of Adesina, had last month conveyed his support to the President of Ghana, John Mahama, when the two leaders met in Abuja.

The statement stated that Atiku travelled with Adesina to South Africa over the weekend, where the two met with President Jacob Zuma at the Presidential Residence in Durban.

“His Excellency former Vice President Atiku Abubakar met President Zuma in the company with Dr Akinwumi Adesina during which the directive of Buhari was conveyed to Zuma.

“The issue of South Africa and the Southern African region’s support for Nigeria’s candidate was exhaustively discussed and well appreciated”, the statement read in part

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