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Poll: Who is the thief?

Atiku: 17% (22 votes)
Obasanjo: 15% (20 votes)
Both of them: 66% (86 votes)
Neither of them: 0% (1 vote)
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Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by Jaybaba(m): 6:22pm On Dec 27, 2006
Both men are thieves and corrupt fellows.
Both men should be impeached and detained for trial by the next government.
OBJ wanted to perpetuate himself in power but Atiku foiled the plan and this has made OBJ mad and uneasy. OBJ expects absolute command and apply principle or obey the last order paradigm of the Army but hello OBJ, this is democracy and you must give room if not even respect dissent.

To tell you the truth OBJ in 79 put in Shagari, a lame duck to cover his arse. Shagari did a good job. He covered the guy's arse, he had OBJ well covered. Now, after his tenure elongation plot failed, he wants another Shagari in office. Guess what, it won't work. OBJ as a farmer failed before May 29 1999. But his farm is doing well now he is in power, improvement or coincidence?

Nigerians now know. We know, OBJ awards contracts worth billions and nothing happens e.g. Electricity, roads etc. We now know he owns 200million shares in Transcorp. We now know he owns Nigerdock and Delta Steel Company. There are still others and counting. We now know he spends millions buying Prado jeeps for his female friends.

Atiku is no better. We know he is part of this wasteful regime. We know he sold up nearly all the oil blocks under his supervision. We know how much of PTDF money he has up his sleeve. We know he owns too many choice property all over Nigeria which he did not previously own before May 29 1999.

N.Assy. Help us get rid of these wicked people. We want our country to progress and not to watch power play of Tom & Jerry continue to play out by these two conmen.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by saintchux(m): 7:07pm On Dec 27, 2006
endykay:

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HOW U GO EVEN ASK DAT KIND ? ABI U NO NO SAY DEM 2 NA THIEF THIEF



MAKE WE TALK ANODA THING SEF DEM BE THESAME THING

This is just the truth.

Nigerian's should match to Abacha grave to apologies for all the embarashment we have given him since his death, b/c the kind of looting that is happening now is so much that the looting of Abachi is a child's play.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by ishmael(m): 7:22pm On Dec 27, 2006
saintchux:

Nigerian's should match to Abacha grave to apologies for all the embarashment we have given him since his death, b/c the kind of looting that is happening now is so much that the looting of Abachi is a child's play.

You are very correct my brother. Nigerians especially the National assembly, EFCC and ICPC should go to Abacha's grave and his family house in kano and make sincere apologies to them.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by mazaje(m): 7:58pm On Dec 27, 2006
very very true the bastard OBJ sdhould lead the march to Abacha's grave and ask for his forgiveness because Nigeria hasnot change a bit since he took over in 1999. everything is worse

never in our history have we witnessed this kind of armedrobbery, plane crashes , corupption, religious voilence,political killings and dictatorship. stupid old brainless baboon, his weak brain needs to be behind bars where he belongs bastard devil.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by anabell(f): 8:14pm On Jan 15, 2007
baba is d no1 thief
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by chidichris(m): 7:19pm On Jan 28, 2007
obj is the no 1 thief in naija seconded by our saint atiku.
they are no 1 and 2 in everything.
they are always fighting over sharing mode after their successful operations
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by alabiyemmy(m): 12:47am On Feb 04, 2007
The man is trying to portray himself as a saint to gain political followership and to score cheap political points - Nigerians will remember he is part of the same government for more than 8 years - whatever failure this government has - he himself had been part and nothing will exonorate him - or is he saying he had been quiet for 8 years? If he had been quiet for 8 years, then he doesnt have the good of Nigerians at heart - let him just wise up.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by sin(m): 9:22pm On Feb 08, 2007
they are both side of the same coin. an epitome of everything wrong with Nigeria. But the worst thieves is every nigerian sounding the gong for both of them to carry on. shame on us
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by nikynike(f): 11:25am On Feb 09, 2007
Obasanjo is the main thief. Atiku na the excapee.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by donnymikky(m): 1:07pm On Feb 09, 2007
they are both side of the same coin. an epitome of everything wrong with Nigeria. But the worst thieves is every nigerian sounding the gong for both of them to carry on. shame on us

True talk my brother.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by donnymikky(m): 1:10pm On Feb 09, 2007
Nigerian's should match to Abacha grave to apologies for all the embarashment we have given him since his death, b/c the kind of looting that is happening now is so much that the looting of Abachi is a child's play.

Please dont wake Abacha up o! because already we have hundreds of Abacha in the person of OBJ and Turaki put together.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by sin(m): 7:27pm On Feb 09, 2007
thanks donny my brother
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by alabiyemmy(m): 11:13pm On Feb 09, 2007
the thief is he who sees a thief and refuses to shout thief until he himself has been declared a thief.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by donnymikky(m): 12:03pm On Feb 10, 2007
the thief is he who sees a thief and refuses to shout thief until he himself has been declared a thief.

I hope you are not refering to TURAKI shocked
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by chistiana(f): 10:12am On Mar 01, 2007
@ alabiyemmy
a good quote there
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by ugodaniel(m): 10:30am On Mar 01, 2007
And who are you to ask such questions. On wat authority?

The ONLY thief i know is Grumpy Obj
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by chistiana(f): 10:33am On Mar 01, 2007
@ ugodaniel
u answered it all, then why the first Q
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by donnymikky(m): 11:00am On Mar 01, 2007
@ ugodaniel
u answered it all, then why the first Q

You should know nigerians for misplaced priorities
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by lolabaloo(f): 2:09pm On Mar 01, 2007
they are thieves, this is what everybody keeps saying. but for those of us that are not thieves, what have we contributed so far to help build this nation. lagos is not good, is too dirty, tinubu is not doing anything. who are the people pouring the dirt? tinubu or lagosian. donald duke has done alot, who is ready to maintain his sweat? nigeria is bad, obasanjo is corrupt,atiku is not helping matters. what have we are we all got,to contribute, so as to make nigeria a great and corrupt free nation.


abuse them till Jesus come undecided "aku" they wont change but WE need to change this great country of ours.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by chistiana(f): 2:30pm On Mar 01, 2007
lola balooooooooo

na thrue talk.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by shutmouth(m): 4:25pm On Mar 01, 2007
Don't you guys get tired of OBJ and Atiku? I have become tired of the news and the bad image it is giving Nigeria abroad here.

Europeans say "Birds of the same feather" Devils investigating devils!!!

Instead of Rubbishing these two unrepentant men without any effects, let every member here put up a large poster to say:


[size=22pt] OBJ & Atiku Must Resign Now [/size]


It may sound childish, but in politics, nothing is childish because politician behave like children. That is why they seldom do things that are ridiculous and don't give a f**k.

Trust me, they will get the message via their many cyber spies here.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by CrudeOil2(m): 4:55pm On Mar 01, 2007
Both men are useless saddists.They have been in power for the past eight years and Nigeria is still not working.
OBJ is a mammoth criminal.Atiku is corrupt.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by lolabaloo(f): 2:06pm On Mar 02, 2007
woops! shocked grin
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by McKren(m): 7:56pm On Mar 02, 2007
2007: Atiku's final battle begins

•His N60b wealth exposed • Owns 146 secret homes
•Plot to impeach, arrest him thickens

By EHIS USIAHO and KELECHI DECA

BARELY six weeks to the crucial presidential election to usher in President Olusegun Obasanjo's successor, his deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, still striving to get the electoral umpire's (Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC) nod to vie for the exalted post, may have received another credibility dent capable of throwing him out of contention. Apparently scared of not just losing the presidential ticket of his party, the Action Congress (AC), Atiku, who is afraid of possible impeachment and subsequent arrest by law enforcement agents, believed to have dossier on his deals, is already worried that his supposed ally in opposition, General Muhammadu Buhari's comment, that he (Atiku) is finished politically, has not helped matters.


He is also worried that his pressure on the international community to intervene in order to save him from INEC's disqualification and embarrassment has not yielded results, yet he is being smeared with more financial scandals. He is now fighting a crucial political battle of his life to remain relevant in the emerging political dispensation.


Already, Atiku's anti tenure elongation lawmakers and supporters in the National Assembly, under the aegies of the Senator Uche Chukwumerije's mandate 007, have commenced intensive lobby of the federal lawmakers to back down on the impending moves to impeach the Vice President.


It was learnt that some influential persons outside the National Assembly have already been enlisted for support in stemming the government desperate bid to muzzle Atiku's political ambition and get him jailed on some trumped up charges of corruption.


A seemingly undaunted Atiku had recently dared security agencies, especially the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to arrest him on corruption, insisting that he can neither be disqualified by INEC nor impeached by the National Assembly.


However, with INEC's revelation that Atiku's picture and name had been removed from the 2007 polls ballot papers, a subtle way of announcing his disqualification from the presidential race, the Vice-President, who has so far won six legal battles against the federal government's move to checkmate his ambition has decided to fight for justice and relevance in all fronts to remain in contention.


National Daily exclusively reported, in its February 18, 2007 edition, that Atiku may be impeached next month.


True to our report, moves have commenced to impeach the Vice-President since the Appeal court ruling in his favour. To this end, he is mobilizing the northern elites against Obasanjo. His allies in the National Assembly are holding meetings to try to bloc the moves. But reliable sources said that the party caucus in the National Assembly recently met with the leadership of the party and President Olusegun Obasanjo, where the decision to have Atiku impeached was made.


Recent revelations on how he allegedly amassed wealth running into billions of naira since becoming the nation's number two man may have further worsened his case. If information available to National Daily is anything to go by, then Vice-President Atiku Abubakar's perception as a softie, when it comes to corruption, will have a basis. Online news service, saharareporters, claimed to have obtained a document indicating that the vice-president's real financial status, which was modest, prior to his assumption of office, has blossomed to an unimaginable proportion. The report further alleged that the vice-president has exponentially increased in his financial wealth to the extent that he now owns about 146 homes in Yola, Adamawa State, in addition to transactions that run into huge sums. It is believed that the President and his deputy have several dealings they may not open up on, no matter the depth of their disagreement.


After his retirement from the Nigeria Customs service where he had served 20 years, Atiku entered the world of business, with interest in oil services, real estate, agriculture, education, and print media, before he finally arrived at the corridors of power. Then, the vice-president owned one house, each in Kaduna, Yola and Lagos. Eight years on as Nigeria's vice president, Atiku is said to have immeasurably transformed his material status. His high profile $25 million university (ABTI- American University) in Yola, and the $8 million he allegedly paid to the American University in Washington DC for a direct license to use the franchise of the university (known as partnership and management consultancy by AU officials), is a critical reference to the investment profile of a public officer, who reportedly did not seek bank loans to execute these gargantuan projects.


When contacted to comment on the nature of the deal with ABTI- American University, Washington DC-based AU's vice-president for International Affairs, Mr. Robert Pastor, said that the $8 million figure, claimed as the cost of doing business with ABTI-American University, was "inaccurate". He, however, refused to reveal the exact cost of the partnership and management consultancy with Atiku's high-profile institution, which, he bragged, became the best in Africa, after one and half years of operation. He said the exact cost of the partnership was confidential.


In the course of his eight years stewardship, Atiku has managed to corner controlling shares in Bank PHB and Intel, an oil services company, which operates in Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe; as well as controlling shares in AP Petroleum, which he was forced to divest recently in a hail of controversy regarding the ethics of his management of the country's privatisation programme. Added to all these is the control of huge assets in real estate in Yola, the largest printing press in Northern Nigeria, and the Faro private water business.
The vulnerability of the vice-president, who, in the last lap of his two-term tenure, has allegedly recorded N60 billion worth of bank transactions, has made it easy for critics to point at elite corruption in order to illustrate the failure of national efforts at constructing a fair, accountable and transparent polity. The vice-president was alleged to have diverted $125 million from the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) into his personal businesses.


Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, told the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on the Probe of the PTDF that "Atiku Abukakar is the Vice-President of Nigeria and was the one overseeing the activities of the PTDF. He inaugurated the Interim Management Committee of the fund in 2000. He played prominent roles in the approvals for the release of PTDF funds and their placement in two banks. The VP had an outstanding interest in the placement of the PTDF funds in these two banks. For one, even the $125 million for the implementation of some specific projects was not utilised for that purpose because of their diversion to and placement in the two banks (TIB and ETB).


As these funds were hitting the two preferred banks, "loans" were packaged by TIB, even without adequate collateral, for Atiku's long-time friend and business associate, Otunba Oluwole Johnson Haliru Fasawe, through NDTV and Mofas. In Mofas, one of the directors is Alhaji Adamu Abubakar, Atiku's son. Though the name was not stated as a director of Marine Float, evidence abounds that the account is controlled by him. First, the VP admitted he paid N30 million for the property from that account; secondly, most of the beneficiaries from the account are his friends and associates. Ribadu further stated that: "similarly, as the funds were hitting ETB, Otunba Mike Adenuga made $20 million deposit for Globacom licence, the Second National Carrier. A little scrutiny of the equity ownership structure of the company revealed that Otunba Mike Adenuga lied about the ownership of the company. When the transfer of the $50 million by PTDF from its account in UBA Plc, New York was made in ETB, Mike Adenuga gave the Vice-President the sum of N322 million (i.e. N300 million on 27/11/02 and N22 million on 06/03/03) through his Marine Float account, domiciled in Bank PHB Plc, through his aides, Akinyera and Ajibade. N21 million was paid to the VP through a draft raised in the name of Umar Pariya, his Personal Assistant.”


The Vice-President allegedly held several meetings with the US Congressman, Williams J. Jefferson, both in Nigeria and abroad, in relation to business ventures, which included NDTV and Rosecom.net, an ISP. When the business relationship between NDTV and iGate collapsed, his assistance was sought to extinguish the outstanding approximately $2 million already paid by NDTV. Even though he denied assistance on extinguishing the amount, he accepted conveying a letter from US Congressman, Jefferson, to the then Minister of Communications, Chief Cornelius Adebayo, in relation with iGate and Rosecom.net business venture.


"The vice president's business interest in NDTV was allegedly confirmed when he made an initial deposit of N30 million on January 1, 2003 from his Marine Float account in Bank PHB Plc for the purchase of the N200 million property being used as NDTV Head Office. His interest also influenced the placement of PTDF funds in TIB from where Otunba Fasawe obtained "loan" and completed the payment of N170 million for the property at Wuse. The Vice-President's interest in NDTV is further buttressed by the fact that he even acted as a referee to Fasawe for the sourcing of the licensing of NDTV in the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Investigation also revealed that the Vice-President severally met contractors of NDTV at Jada, his hometown, on his interest in the company."


The burden of proof on Atiku today, therefore, rests on how he hopes to construct a coherent argument that his two decades of public service in the customs department is enough to make him the multi-millionaire and one of the nation's richest businessmen; and how he wants to lead a nation struggling to crawl out of the quagmire created by a reputation of grand corruption when he could supervise such brazen deals at PTDF and seek to legitimise it as a normal and appropriate state policy.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by abdkabir(m): 1:18am On Mar 03, 2007
[center][size=50pt] NO TO CORRUPTION!!!OBJ AND ATIKU MUST BE IMPEACHED!! grin grin grin
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Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by donnymikky(m): 9:55am On Mar 03, 2007
I dont support the impeachment of Mr president and his vice at this crucial moment because such move will creat avenue for the LEGISLATHIEVES to make more money before the end of this administration. I will suggest that both OBJ and Atiku be bared from travelling abroad while 3 machine guns are stated at the Aso-Rock to effect their arrest on May 29 immediately after the swearing in ceremony.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by osegwu(m): 10:06am On Mar 03, 2007
They are both thieves

Still me
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by donnymikky(m): 10:17am On Mar 03, 2007
They are both thieves

No doubt they really are.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by abdkabir(m): 1:09am On Mar 04, 2007
@donnymikky

U should be named Chief Security Office (C.S.O) of the Nation in the Incoming Government.
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by Gold(m): 2:35pm On Mar 14, 2007
the way we paint our leaders in this country, Only God can forgive our mouths because of so many shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that we vomit daily which resulted into over blowing issues.

Ours is not the worst so let put in more action this time (by Voting the right candidate) not talking and calling them names, God enthrone them so please watch your Basket mouths.

Going through the Voter registration Machine I disovered that majority of you here commenting on Atiku Did not register, See KOOO Tan!
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by Gold(m): 2:36pm On Mar 14, 2007
the way we paint our leaders in this country, Only God can forgive our mouths because of so many shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that we vomit daily which resulted into over blowing issues.

Ours is not the worst so let put in more action this time (by Voting the right candidate) not talking and calling them names, God enthrone them so please watch your Basket mouths.

Going through the Voter registration Machine I discovered that majority of you here commenting on Atiku Did not register, See KOOO Tan!
Re: Between Obasanjo And Atiku, Who Is The Thief? by donnymikky(m): 1:37pm On Mar 15, 2007
@donnymikky

U should be named Chief Security Office (C.S.O) of the Nation in the Incoming Government.

Thanks my brother and I hope after my nomination and approval, I will be allowed to name the members of my cabinet of wich you will be the SECOND IN COMMAND(S.I.C) TO THE C.S.O grin

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