The Vice-President and presidential candidate of the Action Congress in the April elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will not be returning to the country before May 29.
Speaking with Empowered Newswire during the week in the United States where he had gone for medical treatment, Atiku said he will be in the US for the next two weeks for his therapy. Abubakar also said the decision to return to Nigeria would be taken by his doctor.
On whether he was looking up to taking political appointment with the new government, Abubakar said, �I�m not looking up to it. I�m not hungry.�
The vice-president, however said he was still committed to his petition at the election tribunal.
The none arrival of Atiku has fuelled speculations that his trip to the United States might be a ploy to evade arrest after he would have been stripped of immunity on May 29.
It will be recalled that he had sustained a knee injury while undergoing physical exercises in the gymnasium in his quarters at Aso Rock and had been flown abroad in a presidential jet for medical attention. Shortly after the April poll, Abubakar travelled to the US for medical check-up.
Shortly after he travelled out, he was indicted by the Senate committee on the Petroleum Technology Development Fund. This fuelled the rumour that he might not come back to evade prosecution.
Indications were also strong that Abubakar might not come back to the country until plans were concluded with the President-elect, Alhaji Umar Musa Yar�Adua, to give him a soft landing. Abubakar however denied this in its saying that he had no deal with anybody.