notoriously corrupt Attorney General Michael Aondoakaa has decided to take desperate measures to ensure his survival on Umaru Yar’adua’s inept, snoozing cabinet.

Our reliable sources said Aondoakaa, dubbed by some Nigerian lawyers as the nation’s most corrupt attorney general, has taken to threatening “to spill the beans if he loses his post.”

Our sources said that Aondoakaa had felt like a cornered quarry in recent weeks. One source said the attorney general’s coziness with corrupt former and serving public officials partly accounted for the directness with which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the Yar’adua regime’s awful record of corruption. A foreign diplomatic source in Abuja also said that Mrs. Clinton “was shocked at the open access to the Nigerian president enjoyed by a criminally indicted person like Mr. James Ibori.”

When the banking scandal broke, Aondoakaa was about to dust off his bag of tricks and work for the freedom of embattled bank chief executives-he had submitted a list of senior (prosecuting) lawyers to the EFCC, but he withdrew in silence after Yar’adua ordered him to stay out of the way.

Aondoakaa’s biggest scare came last week, after he made a curious statement asserting that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had cleared three former governors and Yar’adua’s Principal Private Secretary, David Edevbie, of allegations that they stole $38 million from the investments of three states in   Nigeria’s mobile phone company, V-Mobile. Aondoakaa’s statement followed our report that British authorities had indicted former Governors James Onanefe Ibori and Victor Attah as well as Edevbie in the $38 million fraud.

It was characteristic of Aondoakaa, as soon as Saharareporters broke the news last week regarding the filing of new charges against the trio before a UK magistrate court, to jump to the defense of the three former governors, including Bola Tinubu who was not indicted in the UK because he laundered his own share of the loot in Nigeria. He bragged that the case in the UK was without merit because the EFCC had concluded its investigations and concluded that the three governors did not steal the assets of their respective states after divesting from V-Mobile.

A shocker came Aondoakaa’s way a day after his press conference when the EFCC issued a statement contradicting his claim. The agency denied it had exonerated any of the suspects and insisted that the investigations were still ongoing, adding that only the law courts could make a pronouncement on the innocence of the suspects. The EFCC further underscored that Ibori was still facing trial at the Federal High Court in Asaba, Delta State. The EFCC’s statement was signed by EFCC spokesperson, Femi Babafemi. A source close to Aondoakaa said the attorney general was stung by the refutation. “Chief Aondoakaa had never felt this kind of public humiliation as minister,” said the source.

Saharareporters has learnt that the EFCC’s chairperson, Mrs. Farida Waziri, authorized the statement and then traveled out of Nigeria, making herself unavailable to the AGF, who furiously sought to reach her and prevail on her to distance herself from the EFCC spokesperson.

Unable to find Mrs. Waziri, Aondoakaa issued a tepid statement to the effect that he had no disagreements with the EFCC over the former governors.

Our source said Aondoakaa had also tried last weekend to reach Yar’adua or otherwise gauge the position of Aso Rock, national security staff told him that the EFCC statement received the blessing of the “president”. Turned back by Yar’adua’s staff, Aondoakaa arranged to meet with Yar’adua’s wife, Turai, who has been his biggest protector. He reportedly communicated his anger through her to the husband before Turai flew out to Austria to represent Nigeria in Vienna to the 53rd Session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Over last weekend, according to a politician close to the attorney general, a distraught Aondoakaa griped to friends and political allies that Yar’adua “was is an ungrateful person.” Our source said he also threatened that, should Yar’adua yield to pressures to remove him from the cabinet, he would use the media to expose everything he did on Yar’adua’s behalf, especially his efforts to get the justices of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court to validate the fraudulent 2007 general elections.

After failing to see Yar’adua over the weekend, Aondoakaa was finally summoned to the presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday for an audience with Yar’adua.

Saharareporters can reveal that the simmering feud between Aondoakaa and Waziri has nothing to do with principled disagreement. A source in London revealed that both the AGF and Mrs. Waziri’s EFCC had offered no significant cooperation on the UK’s investigations of the former governors particularly over the V-Mobile case involving theft of funds belonging to three states.

But why is President Go- slow is keeping AONDOAKAA in his cabinet?. The more he stays the more embrassement/shame he courts for the government and the more President Go-slow turns to Mr Stand -still and Mr Do-Nothing.

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Aondoakaa is simply acting out a script from the FG. Sadly, the script is conflicting with other scripts prepared for Waziri and Sanusi by the same FG.
Who is fooling who?

MrCrackles:

Aondoakaa is not bigger than Nigeria. . .
He should be kicked real hard where it hurts and right to the kerb!
Vagabond!

Common, a lot of guys are far bigger than Nigeria as we chat. Talk about IBB, OBJ, Kalu, Sultan of Sokoto, PDP, Shekarau, Yerima, Ibori, Egwu, George, Anenih etc. These guys can single handedly make, change, break or upturn a law to favor themselves and to the detriment of the entire Nigerian nation.
Aondoakaa, Iwu and co are just front men.

Can anything good come from Andookaa I keep asking.

nuzo:

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Aondoakaa is simply acting out a script from the FG. Sadly, the script is conflicting with other scripts prepared for Waziri and Sanusi by the same FG.
Who is fooling who?

Common, a lot of guys are far bigger than Nigeria as we chat. Talk about IBB, OBJ, Kalu, Sultan of Sokoto, PDP, Shekarau, Yerima, Ibori, Egwu, George, Anenih etc. These guys can single handedly make, change, break or upturn a law to favor themselves and to the detriment of the entire Nigerian nation.
Aondoakaa, Iwu and co are just front men.

I second this! It seems as if the puppet masters who put Yar'adua in power are the ones also controlling Aandoakaa and because of this, Yar'adua cant do anything. The IBB's, OBJ's and Ibori's and others are the REAL MEN IN CHARGE!

Abeg make I laugh small. . Nigeria is a joke, full of jokers.

It is of no use getting into a debate on an 'ALLEDGED' argument between this two.

I can only believe there is a disagreement between this two if and when Aondoakaa is sacked because the man has been due for sack ages ago.

it really beats my imagination how this guy goes about his biz, he comes out boldly to defend currution,

andoaaka was put there as a safety valve to protect those who sponsored the last election. his number one task is to keep them from being prosecuted. and he is acting out his script perfectly.

but unfortunately for them, Nigeria is a complex entity where it is VERY difficult to predict wwat anyone will do as there are no ideologies.
by the time he makes a fool of the government one or 2 times. the whole house of cards will crumble on his head

what happened to the haliburton coverup investigation?

bawomolo:

what happened to the haliburton coverup investigation?

. . . i am sure they have discovered that those involved are too powerful and they are now playing the coverup down, hoping that Nigerians will forget abourrit - AS USUAL