Thread by @farooqkperogi

So Atiku was Saraki's "aide" in the US? Dumb Lie!--A THREAD
I've read distraught Buharist minions lie that Atiku traveled to the US as an "aide" to Bukola Saraki to evade FBI arrest!😂I'd thought only low-wattage, illiterate Buhari supporters propagated this transparently foolish

falsehood, but I just read an update from a supposedly educated person peddling this asinine mendacity. I've come to the conclusion that it's impossible to be a Buhari defender and not be stupid. Perhaps, PDP has also looted the brains of these Buharist simpletons. The US isn't

a dysfunctional, anything-goes country like Nigeria. Atiku is a prominent person whose dossier the US already has. He can't ride on anyone's coattails. He applied for a visa, gave his biographical information to the US embassy in Nigeria-- including his biometric data--as a

precondition for getting the visa. Because he had a more prominent national and international stature than Saraki does (he was Nigeria's number two man for 8 years) he couldn't possibly lie to the US embassy about being an "aide" to Senate President Saraki. That would have been

an easily detectable lie that would have caused him to be denied a visa instantly. So, he clearly didn't say he was Saraki's aide when he applied for the visa. (It's absurd to believe that a 70-something-year-old former Vice President of the world's most populous black nation

would lie about being aide to a 50-something-year-old senate president). At the point of admission into the US, visitors give their passports to immigration officers, who run them in the system to verify that such visitors are the people they say they are-- and to determine if

they're on any wanted list. That means US immigration officers knew that Atiku Abubakar was Nigeria's former vice president at the time he got into the US. If the FBI wanted to arrest him, he would have been arrested there and then. In any case, if the FBI really wanted to arrest

him, it would have done so through INTERPOL during the times he visited the UK. Most importantly, though, diplomatic immunity of a visiting foreign government official does NOT extend to the aides of such officials. It only extends to the foreign officials' family members.

So even if Atiku had lied that he was Saraki's aide, as preposterous as that sounds, he'd still have been arrested if he was on FBI's wanted list. Lastly, gov't shutdown doesn't mean government officials don't work; it only means they don't get paid until the shutdown is over.