The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, has received “signals from American Officials”, to apply for a United States of America (USA) visa, and it would be granted.
Gbenga Daniel, the Director-General of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCO) made this known.
Recall, that Atiku is widely believed to be wanted for alleged corruption in the United States of America, USA, and this is usually identified as the reason he has not stepped foot on the American soil for several years.
However, Daniel, a former Governor of Ogun State, said on Wednesday, that the corruption perception about Atiku “appears to have been flogged”, as “there have been signals from the American Officials, that he should indeed come forward; they want him to come, so that they would grant him visa.”
He dismissed the allegation that the PDP presidential candidate was banned from entering the U.S. Mr. Daniel said all the allegations, championed by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, party members are purely “perception” that has been “over-flogged.”
According to him, “I can also confirm to you that in last few days, that there have been signals from the American officials that he should indeed come forward so he can be granted visa. So between you and I, all the issues are perception,” Mr Daniel said.
“Well, my opinion is that the issue appears to have been over-flogged. I remember when we were running the campaign in the primaries and everybody kept confronting us on this perception and we brought it out in the open that indeed it is no more than perception, politically motivated perception which unfortunately appears not to have stopped.
“By and large, I think as we move toward the real issues, people would just realise that this is just politically motivated issues. I have repeatedly said that this is not a Banana Republic. Nigeria as a people, we know our weaknesses, anything that is negative about our leaders, we are ready to believe it.
“But until when (corruption) charges are pressed, as far as we are concerned, there are no issues there. If you look at the newspapers in the last few days, we have read statement issued by the (U.S.) state department that they have no issues or whatsoever with Atiku Abubakar.” 
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