Atiku will certainly relocate to Dubai – Oshiomhole

The former Governor of Edo State stated this on Wednesday, November 02, 2022, morning while fielding questions on the Arise Tv morning show.

Oshiomhole was clarifying an earlier statement credited to the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Kashim Shettima, saying that Atiku would be retiring to Dubai after the 2023 presidential election.

What Shettima said: Speaking when he hosted the APC National Integrity Movement, a support group, in Abuja last month, Shettima said Atiku is a “political tourist” who is only in the country every election circle.

Oshiomhole buttresses Shettima's point: He said that Atiku had a history of relocating to Dubai once rejected.

“Given Atiku’s record of movement, that once he suffers a defeat – it is on record, once he loses an election – he moves to Dubai. And so, he is saying so because we are confident that nothing has changed. Nigeria has rejected him three-four times, and even the best partnership he enjoyed in 2019 with Peter Obi did not deliver him.

“We are confident that, God willing, using the same Nigerian people who had rejected him in the past, they will reject him again. And because once he is rejected, he has a history of relocating to Dubai. That is what the Vice president meant.

“Atiku will actually relocate to Dubai, he has been doing it. He is comfortable there. I hope that the ban on Nigeria does not affect him. Hopefully he will go there,” he said.

What you should know: Atiku is infamous for spending most his time in Dubai after INEC declared President Muhammadu Buhari winner of the 2019 general election.