She said the former Vice President’s political influence in the country has diminished over the years. President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, has dismissed the chances of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, of defeating the president in the 2019 presidential election, saying he can’t even win in his own local government area.While speaking on Channels Television on Sunday, December 3, 2017, the presidential aide said the former Vice President’s political influence in the country has diminished over the years so much that he won’t pose a threat to President Buhari. When she was asked if she thinks Atiku will be the president’s biggest nightmare in 2019, she replied, “Absolutely not. Absolutely not. He may have had that weight some years ago, but over the years, he’s been losing that weight and at the moment, I can tell you that even his local government area in his native Adamawa that he can’t even win any election in that area.
