ATIKU TAKES A SWIPE AT APC

Atiku Abubakar delivered a subliminal swipe at the All Progressives Congress Saturday, barely a day after dumping the ruling party.

The former vice president joked about his former party’s 2015 campaign tactics after a user wrongly captioned a picture of him taken some years back.

The user, U.S.-based Nigerian literary critic Ikhide Ikheloa, had fawned over the photo he thought depicted Mr. Atiku as drinking garri, saying he would vote for the former vice-president in 2019.

Mr. Abubakar is expected to contest the 2019 election, although he is yet formally declare or join a new party since leaving the APC.

“No sir, it’s cornflakes,” the former vice president said.

He then went further to explain that: “The photo was taken in 2014, when it was compulsory to post our food on Twitter and Instagram.”





Some netizens quickly deduced not just the prank in the response but its casualty: the APC.

In the build-up to the 2015 elections, top APC chieftains, including Mr. Abubakr, projected themselves on social media as commoners.