Date Published: 11/01/10
[size=14pt]Will The Real Abubakar Atiku, Please Stand up[/size]
Written By Felix Ayanruoh Esq.

On Election Day would Nigerians be happier that former Vice President Abubakar Atiku contested and won the 2011 presidential elections? This is an important question that needs sober reflection by well meaning Nigerians. This is a man that has not only spent years trying to fool everybody in sight with his phony-baloney, dime-store philosophies; he’s now trapped in the patently pathetic phase of fooling himself with the politics of contradictions and zoning.

Mr. Wale Akinola in his article (published by the Vanguard of Sunday July 09, 2006, How I made my money by Atiku Abubakar) wrote, “ Many know that the vice president Atiku Abubakar is a wealthy man. They also know that he had acquired considerable wealth prior to the time he became the nations number two man”. He went further to state that Atiku’s personal wealth is a result of his passion for entrepreneurship, wise investment, hard work, and luck.

[size=14pt]Surely, Atiku must be a rare gem in public service to amass such massive wealth as a result of the qualities he claimed to have possessed. It is a known fact that the former vice president was the controller of the Nigerian Customs and Exercise. It is also commonplace that it was during his tenure and remit at the Nigerian Customs and Exercise that the infamous “53 suitcase” scandal involving the emir of Gwandu occurred; and he would have been prosecuted but for the unfortunate coup of General Ibrahim Babangida.

A recent United States Senate report accused Atiku Abubakar and his wife Jennifer Douglas of laundering over $40 million in suspicious funds into the United States between 2000 and 2008. The report further stated that most of the funds were through wire transfers sent by offshore corporations to U.S. bank accounts. Of the $40 million identified in the US investigation, $25 million was reportedly wire-transferred by offshore corporations into more than 30 U.S. bank accounts opened by Atiku’s wife (Ms. Douglas).

Atiku’s corrupt practices was also stated in a 2008 civil complaint, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that the Atikus received over $2 million in bribe payments in 2001 and 2002, from Siemens AG, a major German corporation.

The report stated,  “While Ms. Douglas denies wrongdoing, Siemens has already pled guilty to U.S. criminal charges and settled civil charges related to bribery and told the Subcommittee that it sent the payments to one of her U.S. accounts.”

One and a half years after becoming vice president, Atiku violated our laws by purchasing a mansion in Potomac, Maryland United States for one million, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($1,750,000). This two storey building was purchased in the name of Jennifer E. Douglas, Atiku’s wife. Part One of the fifth schedule to the 1999 constitution prohibited, in part, public officers from having bank account and owning assets abroad. This is a clear reflection of who Alhaji Atiku is all about.[/size]

Also, he used President Obasanjo's privatization scheme to his advantage and to the detriment of the Nigerian people. With close ties to the various managing directors of the Bureau of Public Enterprise, who serves as the secretariat of the National Council on Privatization and is charged with the overall responsibility of implementing the council's policies on privatization and commercialization of the Federal government of Nigeria, Atiku purchased huge enterprises and public agencies for far less than their actual worth.

The Petroleum Technology Development Fund scandal is also fresh in our memory. The Fund is dedicated to the development, promotion, and implementation of petroleum technology and manpower development through research and training of Nigerians as graduate, professional, technician and craftsmen in the relevant fields in the petroleum and solid minerals industry.

The former Vice President, who supervised the fund, used it to finance his private enterprise. It should be recalled that both a government panel and an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission panel found Atiku guilty of diverting funds meant for the Fund's operations nationwide to various banks to promote his private interests. The Vice President used US$10 million of the US$125 million fund as collateral in support of a loan of N1.2 billion granted to Otumba Oyewole Fasawe (his associate) by the Trans International bank in Lagos. The financial gain made by the Vice President from Fasawe over the loan was paid into Atiku's Campaign Organization account with Bank PHB.

In early 2006, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation raided Atiku's home in Washington, USA, over allegation of involvement with Mr. William Jefferson, a US Congressman, in a US $500,000 bribe over a telecommunications deal in Nigeria. The FBI alleges in a US court to have found US $90,000, of the bribe money concealed in a freezer in the office of Mr. Jefferson. When accosted with these serious allegations, Vice President Atiku said that the allegations are unworthy of considerations.

How would a vice president of a democratic republic call the allegation and investigation of corruption involving a United States congressman and impropriety regarding a governmental fund as in this case, “The Petroleum Trust Development Fund” unworthy of consideration? The vice president in his letter said, “Firstly I will repeat that I have said time and time again regarding Congressman William Jefferson – I did not have any relationship with Congressman Jefferson other than the usual courtesies which someone in my position will be expected to extend to someone in Congressman Jefferson’s position”.

Maybe I am naïve as to the diplomatic nuances of official etiquette.

The New York Times of June 7, 2006 entitled (Documents Point to Bribes of a Nigerian by Congressman) states, “…The documents included an affidavit signed by FBI agent who said that the Nigerian vice president, Atiku Abubakar, now a candidate for president of that oil-rich West African nation, asked for at least half of the profit of a technology company controlled by Mr. Jefferson that was seeking to do business in Nigeria….” The article further stated that, “In the affidavit an FBI agent Edward S. Cooper, said cell phone records suggested that Mr. Jefferson visited a home owned by Mr. Abubakar and his wife in Potomac, MD an affluent suburb of Washington, around midnight last July 31 with the intention of delivering money to the Nigerian leader while he was on visit to the United States….” The former vice president begged the question instead of explaining to the National Assembly and the Nigerian people the nature of diplomacy he was conducting at the unholy hour of MIDNIGHT.

Edward Weidenfeld, the vice president’s Washington lawyer in an interview with the Washington Post of July 22, 2006 entitled (Nigerian Entangled in Jefferson Investigation), repeated the vice presidents earlier statement that the only thing the vice president ever received from Jefferson in the unholy hour were letters promoting IGate telecommunication deals. The vice president in his letter to the National Assembly omitted that fact.

Instead of running for president, Atiku should be explaining to Nigerians why his name always comes up when the issue of corruption is raised, that is, involvement in “the 53 suitcase” the corruption while at Customs, the acquisition of the Potomac Maryland Mansion (prohibited by the Nigerian constitution), the beating of a journalist, the privatization of public companies, Halliburton Scandal and the present United States Senate’s Report among others.

Felix Ayanruoh Esq.

fayanruoh@yahoo.com

http://www.pointblanknews.com/Articles/artopn3244.html

We know.
So did all other politicians.
So, what is your point?

So what happened the the files of Dammiit Patience and her laundering activities Ribadu suddenly had amnesia about?
Disappearing evidence WITHIN Nigeria.

Most wives of political execu-thieves are money-laundering mules in Nigeria and all over the world.

Teresa Nkoyo Ibori just bagged 5 years.

One of Andy Uba's many mistresses was caught in the US and a plea bargain given.

Quiet jor and go and deal with your Halliburton list of crooks. Not to mention those with defaulting bank loans like Dangote and go keeping Nigerian banks bankrupt all year round.

Did you forget this too? Right here on Nairaland. So let us keep digging.


https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-441839.0.html

Or this?

http://aderinola./2007/10/28/patience-jonathan-nigerias-most-powerful-woman/

Patience Jonathan: Nigeria’s Most Powerful Woman
Posted on October 28, 2007 by Adeola Aderounmu| 4 Comments
i 4 Votes


By Sonala Olumhense.

ON September 11, 2006, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) seized $13.5 million dollars (US) from Mrs. Patience Jonathan, the wife of then Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan.



The International Herald Tribune quoted the EFCC spokesman, Mr. Osita Nwajah, as saying that the seizure was made after Mrs. Jonathan had allegedly laundered the money through an associate.




It was the second time in one month Mrs. Jonathan was hitting the scandal headlines. In August, the EFCC had obtained a court order to temporarily freeze N104 million she had allegedly tried to launder through one Mrs. Nancy Ebere Nwosu. The EFCC said it had reason to believe the seized funds belonged to the public. In a sworn statement, Mrs. Nwosu implicated Patience Jonathan, the EFCC said.




But remember, her husband was the Bayelsa State Governor at the time. And Mr. Jonathan’s government dashed to the defence of the First Lady of Bayelsa, alleging that the reports were part of a “plot to destabilize” the state. Government spokesmen were falling over each other to speak for Mrs. Jonathan. The Governor’s spokesman, Dennis Sami, described the allegations as a “charade,” the target of which was the Governor.




“We are aware that the said Nancy Ebere Nwosu is a very remote relation of Her Excellency who has lived abroad for several years,” Mr. Sami said. “She is a successful businesswoman of no little means whose business concerns do not involve Mrs. Jonathan.”




Mrs. Jonathan’s spokesman, Kenneth Ekpelu, fired an e-mail to Vanguard newspaper in which she spoke of “her husband’s opponents who strangely perceive her as the soft spot in his political armour and won’t stop hammering away at her until their decisions to oust him from office are met.”




It is funny how these canned money-laundering defenses sound alike. Didn’t former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s United States lawyer, Mr. Kunle Fagbenle, say last November that Andy Uba – who used part of some funds laundered by means of the executive jet (allegedly without Obasanjo’s permission) to shop for Obasanjo’s farms – could not be accused of money-laundering because Mr. Uba was “already a rich man”? And did not Obasanjo say the Uba scandal was only a “calculated attempt” to ruin his name?




Anyhow, despite the massive protestations of Governor Jonathan, the EFCC pressed ahead. On August 22, 2006, Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court, Abuja authorized the freezing of the N104 million “pending the conclusion of the investigation of the activities of the said persons in connection with their involvement in the acts of money laundering and other economic and financial crimes related offences.”




And then, barely three weeks later, Mrs. Jonathan was in the news again, reportedly being separated from an astounding $13.5 million in US dollars. She must have been one angry woman. But all that was one year ago.




Since then, the Jonathans have moved up in the world. They have left the relative squalor and poverty of a mere state governorship for the Vice-President’s estate. They have left the petty limitations of Bayelsa for the limitless expanse of Abuja. Only one man now speaks before Mr. Jonathan does.




Yes, Mr. Jonathan is the Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the second most powerful man in the country. He is also the man President Yar’Adua is trusting with the challenge of the Niger Delta, where billions of dollars are expected to be spent over the next few years.




He has also been talking about democracy, corruption, the rule of law, and development. Just over a week ago, at the All-Delta Peoples Conference in the United States, Mr. Jonathan disclosed that President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua had authorised the release of all funds due the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). In addition, “Special funds will be provided for special projects in line with the master plan,” he said.




And Mrs. Jonathan has been speaking, too, telling Nigerian women how they can become more fulfilled citizens. Up in the rarefied air of federal authority, you can preach any sermon, even while you have around your neck diamonds and jewels of $13.5 million, and gold bracelets of N104 million.



This is all quite ironic. The Jonathans are living in a dream state. They moved into the governorship in Bayelsa when Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was consumed in a corruption blaze, and into the vice-presidency when the PDP sought someone to balance Umaru Yar’Adua on the PDP presidential ticket.




But they take quite a few scandals with them. Mr. Jonathan left Bayelsa State in a thick cloud of suspicion. Many Bayelsans believed his government had fleeced the treasury. While Mr. Jonathan said upon assumption of office he had inherited a state treasury N25 billion thick, he refused to say what was left there as he vacated office. Bayelsans alleged he had swept the commonwealth clean, and that most public projects were left uncompleted.




Two months after he assumed the vice-presidency, Mr. Jonathan came under severe national pressure to follow the lead of his boss and make his assets declaration public. It took several nerve-wracking weeks of trying to dodge the responsibility, but he finally released the document, which showed the former university lecturer was worth an absolutely unbelievable N295 million. He had only been the Governor for 17 months, and this means he had been growing richer at the rate of close to N17 million per month. Naturally, wink-wink, he did not include his wife in his declaration.



Meanwhile, Mrs. Jonathan…


In its report of last April’s election, the New York based Council on Foreign Relations observed that Patience Jonathan was generally regarded as the “greediest person in Bayelsa State” and a woman of great cruelty. Last June, the Niger Development Monitoring and Corporate Watch (NIDDEMCOW), a local non-governmental organization, asked the EFCC to publish its report on Mrs. Jonathan.




The EFCC has not. This is not particularly strange; the Commission is not in the habit of issuing such reports. But nothing has been heard from the Commission since the flurry of activities of August and September last year. That coincides with the period before Mr. Jonathan emerged Yar’Adua’s running mate.




Apparently, even scandals of that magnitude are no obstacle in Nigeria. Mr. Jonathan got the vice-presidency, and the only man he is answerable to is about to put into his hands, theoretically for the Niger Delta, all the diamonds and gold a man could want.




And his wife? Patience Jonathan apparently hates that kind of snail-pace to fortune. Indicted by the EFCC in only eight months as First Lady on a charge of laundering a few Naira bills, she moved to dollar bills in the millions the following month. That same month, the EFCC report to the Senate called her by name.



Again, this does not seem to matter in Nigeria: weeks later, in October, the Owu Kingdom, President Obasanjo’s people, honoured the Jonathans with chieftaincy titles. In that culture, Obasanjo is the Balogun of Owu; Mr. Jonathan became the Obateru.




If Mrs. Jonathan was thrilled on that day, she must be over the moon today. An EFCC indictment, and yet she can get on any of our presidential jets at any time and drink champagne at State functions.




And how much taller she must be, these days as she stands on the authority of the vice-presidency! From such heights, not only do you dwarf an EFCC, but you also are invincible. What a country!




What I really fail to understand is: If Mrs. Jonathan can so effectively laugh at the so-called war on corruption, does that not make her the First Lady? On what basis does she perform her functions – the recommendations of the EFCC? Why has Mrs. Jonathan assumed the status of untouchable, or is she truly the nation’s most powerful woman?



sonala.olumhense@gmail.com


Culled from the Nigerian Guardian Sunday 28th October 2007

The score is 1:1

Next accusation please.


I bet if this happened outside Nigeria, we would have known the real story by now.

^
Wow! Were you born daft, or are you just play acting?

He was born aboki
abokis are daft

Hence, He was born daft.

Beaf:

^
Wow! Were you born daft, or are you just play acting?

Maybe both.
Just give us another reason why you think your Jonathan is better than Atiku.
Please, stop starting threads with useless propaganda against Atiku.
Especially when we all know that one is just as corrupt as the other within the same PDP.


Money laundering. Will the real Jonathan Ebele Goodluck stand up please.

Aluta Continua!

Blazay:

Maybe both.
Just give us another reason why you think your Jonathan is better than Atiku.
Please, stop starting threads with useless propaganda against Atiku.
Especially when we all know that one is just as corrupt as the other within the same PDP.

GBAM!!!!! Infact, GJ is very scary. within months of ascending the throne, we started talking about civil war!

Blazay:

Maybe both.
Just give us another reason why you think your Jonathan is better than Atiku.
Please, stop starting threads with useless propaganda against Atiku.
Especially when we all know that one is just as corrupt as the other within the same PDP.

Some Nigerians are just stupid

jason12345:

GBAM!!!!! Infact, GJ is very scary. within months of ascending the throne, we started talking about civil war!

What do we expect from a local fisherman? OBJ's best choice of a VP to a terminal president Yaradua?
Why was he scared of Atiku?
The reason I want Atiku to get that ticket.
So OBJ can really have his final reward and punishment.
The reason IBB stepped down of course.'IBB cannot go against OBJ.
Only Atiku can do it.

I am loving this I say.
Fowl nyansh go soon open.

@ Blazay . . U are a ruminant that doesnt wish well for Nigeria. GOD PUNISH U AND ATIKU . . U rabbit

olas2u:

Some Nigerians are just silly

Prove it.

idupaul:

@ Blazay . . U are a ruminant that doesnt wish well for Nigeria. GOD PUNISH U AND ATIKU . . U rabbit

Amen and to you too.
What punishment can be worse than being born a Nigerian?
Let us enjoy the curses jare.

Atiku for 2011-2019[b]+2.[/b](TTA by proxy) Third term agenda.

Aluta Continua!

Blazay:

Maybe both.
Just give us another reason why you think your Jonathan is better than Atiku.
Please, stop starting threads with useless propaganda against Atiku.
Especially when we all know that one is just as corrupt as the other within the same PDP.

As to the bolded, please accept my sympathy, life must be quite difficult difficult when you wake every morning realising you are daft. There is no punishment worse than dealing with a dimwit.

In case it hasn't occurred to you, this thread is about Atiku; its easy to create your very own Jonathan thread (if thats what you prefer); but I assume you lack the ability.

Address issues like the one below (one of several) or crawl right back under your slimy rock:

A recent United States Senate report accused Atiku Abubakar and his wife Jennifer Douglas of laundering over $40 million in suspicious funds into the United States between 2000 and 2008. The report further stated that most of the funds were through wire transfers sent by offshore corporations to U.S. bank accounts. Of the $40 million identified in the US investigation, $25 million was reportedly wire-transferred by offshore corporations into more than 30 U.S. bank accounts opened by Atiku’s wife (Ms. Douglas).

Beaf:

As to the bolded, please accept my sympathy, life must be quite difficult difficult when you wake every morning realising you are daft. There is no punishment worse than dealing with a dimwit.

In case it hasn't occurred to you, this thread is about Atiku; its easy to create your very own Jonathan thread (if thats what you prefer); but I assume you lack the ability.

Address issues like the one below (one of several) or crawl right back under your slimy rock:

Shhhaaarap.
This thread is about the Nigerian s-election process and the propaganda associated with it.
What is new about money laundering?
Is it not a Nigerian tradition?

Is that a criterion(correction noted from my resident English teacher fstranger on NL ) for disqualifying Atiku?

You small, "tight", unrollable, smelly, piece of nama excrement.

Sorry, I will not waste one more drop of my precious diesel on you and your educated fools/filibusterers on this thread tonight. Tell GEJ to give us light please.

Good morning.

Blazay:

Shhhaaarap.
This thread is about the Nigerian s-election process and the propaganda associated with it.
What is new about money laundering?
Is it not a Nigerian tradition?

Is that criterion(correction noted from my resident English teacher fstranger on NL ) for disqualifying Atiku?

You small, "tight" piece of nama excrement.

Dimwit. The thread is about Atiku. But you are too much of a dunce to read titles.
You missing link between ape and dog!

Even with a million enemies of progress like you and the thief, Atiku, this country will find a way forward. We will defeat all winshes.

I think Blazay is right here
Given the choice between GEJ and Atiku, Atiku all the way.

Atiku looks more presidential, more dogged, and more detribalized.

Knowing full well that Nigerian politicians do not have  original ideas, and many can barely express themselves without the aid of a speech writer, individually, there is no difference between the two.

The question here is who is more likely to stand up to the "cabal" running the show? It is obvious that Atiku somewhat has a mind of his own, unlike GEJ.
I like GEJ, but Atiku is better for the country.

^
. . .Just when I thought Atiku was the face of the cabal. How can Atiku fight himself?
And about "looking presidential", maybe he will look that way on the day the FBI arrests him in a foreign country. I recall how Charles Taylor looked really presidential _{whilst practicing canibalism}.

Look Atiku is never going to be arrested; OBJ was not arrested.
America is a funny place; all Atiku needs is a lawyer who has connections and NOTHING will ever come out of his pending case.
He prolly has a diplomatic passport, which makes it unlawful for the US to arrest him, under any circumstance.

As for being the face of the cabal, that is absolutely true. You have to be one of them to stand up to them.
GEJ always looks lost. He does not seem to be in control. If you do not understand the system, how do you change the system?

Anyway, it is not up to you and me to decide who becomes the next president. OBJ knows who the next president is.
IMO, IBB is still going to be our next president. He is still the best option for us as a nation. And, he is the best we've ever produced.

I am not sure how it will happen, I still feel that IBB is somehow going to find a way back to Asorock. Wanna bet?

@ fstranger . . U are a shame to pregnancy. To think a woman concieved u for nine months. . SMH

idupaul:

@ fstranger . . U are a shame to pregnancy. To think a woman concieved u for nine months. . SMH

In what sense?

Blazay,

has a very good point and i have often sighted that. There is no clear distiction between the 2 candidates, except those which we choose to make in our minds to justify why we think one is better than the other. in my opinion Corruption remians the winner here. Not Atiku (Who I know to be massively corrupt), or GEJ (Who in himself is tainted with the corruption brush)

PDP remains the main problem here, and like i have always said, there is noway you can pull a white shirt out looking clean from a pile of Shite.

fstranger:

Look Atiku is never going to be arrested; OBJ was not arrested.
America is a funny place; all Atiku needs is a lawyer who has connections and NOTHING will ever come out of his pending case.
He prolly has a diplomatic passport, which makes it unlawful for the US to arrest him, under any circumstance.

As for being the face of the cabal, that is absolutely true. You have to be one of them to stand up to them.
GEJ always looks lost. He does not seem to be in control. If you do not understand the system, how do you change the system?

Anyway, it is not up to you and me to decide who becomes the next president. OBJ knows who the next president is.
IMO, IBB is still going to be our next president. He is still the best option for us as a nation. And, he is the best we've ever produced.

I am not sure how it will happen, I still feel that IBB is somehow going to find a way back to Asorock. Wanna bet?

The same bereft argument might have been made for Manuel Noriega who was picked up by the US, even though he was a sitting president. He's been cooling off in a US penitentiary ever since.
Atiku will be picked up as soon as the US can grab him. In fact, the US govt announced on news channels just last month that they are watching every move he and his wife Jennifer make with eagle eyes. When the US want you, they get you regardless of puny legalities (its a superpower); its only a matter of when, not if for Mr and Mrs Atiku:

[size=14pt]The U.S. and Panama: Legal Issues; Scholars Say Arrest of Noriega Has Little Justification in Law[/size]
By NEIL A. LEWIS, Special to The New York Times
Published: January 10, 1990

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 — The apprehension of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega on drug charges is largely unprecedented and was basically a blunt political act with only an after-the-fact legal rationale, several legal scholars say.

Some even said that to find a direct precedent one would have to go back more than two millenia: when the ancient Romans brought back in chains leaders of conquered lands. It is an image brought to mind by the pictures of General Noriega being shackled in the hold of a C-130 aircraft as he was brought to United States soil last week.

The official United States position is that he was not seized but rather surrendered voluntarily. Yet no United States official seriously argues in private that the General was not coerced into surrendering American military authorities.

No Change in Prosecution

Officials also said the General was not arrested until he was aboard the American aircraft. Bruce Zagaris, a Washington lawyer who is chairman of an American Bar Association panel on international criminal law, disputed that contention, saying the arrest occurred when General Noriega was taken into custody and deprived of his liberty.

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/10/us/us-panama-legal-issues-scholars-say-arrest-noriega-has-little-justification-law.html

As for IBB, he's sure to die a slow and horrible death, punished by the blood of many innocent souls.

@ OP, what happened to all the IBB bashing? Now it's Atiku's turn. You can't make ur GEJ good by painting others black.

I advise you concentrate your campaign on GEJ and stop this mud slinging. Just an advise

fstranger:


Atiku looks more presidential, more dogged, and more detribalized.

And more fraudulent

jabbok:

I advise you concentrate your campaign on GEJ and stop this mud slinging. Just an advise

What bunkum did you jjust type?? how you act more catholic than the pope,is Atiku himself not the chief mudslinger? or have you been hibernating in a whole all these while?

It's politics man,it's all allowed and good

^
Do you mind the clown? Some folk just can't seem to talk sensibly!
Imagine suggesting that Atiky should be a no go area for discussion, someone who has exported his theft craft all over the Globe, to the extent that he is wanted in the US.

I think Blazay is right here
Given the choice between GEJ and Atiku, Atiku all the way.

Atiku looks more presidential, more dogged, and more detribalized.

Knowing full well that Nigerian politicians do not have  original ideas, and many can barely express themselves without the aid of a speech writer, individually, there is no difference between the two.

The question here is who is more likely to stand up to the "cabal" running the show? It is obvious that Atiku somewhat has a mind of his own, unlike GEJ.
I like GEJ, but Atiku is better for the country.  

Gbam!!!

i started by supporting  GEJ but the way the man is handling Henry Okah and those Militants shows he might be swept away when the wind start blowing. I dont want Atiku, i want Ribadu or Buhari but if we cannot get those, then maybe Atiku should win

i want an  action man abeg and from what im seeing, Atiku is not a product of 'chance' and with all obstacles, he seem to be able to hold his own.

kudos to him

@Topic

make we heard word

all the Politicians in Nigeria right from state legislators to the President are gulity of what ure accusing Atiku of

Interesting comment on a news article. . .

. . .
In any case, the decision of the PDP to screen its presidential candidates is the right one and ultimately good for the country. The party, indeed any party fielding a presidential candidate, owes it to its members and ultimately to the country to present a relatively decent, credible and clean candidate. [b]Atiku’s FBI dossier handed over to Obasanjo regarding Atiku’s malfeasances as vice president in his shady dealings with disgraced Congressman Jefferson of the US should be made available to the screening committee. This stinking dossier should disqualify Atiku from the Nigerian Presidency. The committee must extract from him an explanation as to why one of his wives is a fugitive from the law in the US. President Jonathan is demonstrably a nice guy and has said time and again that he intends for the coming presidential contest to be clean and fair, but he owes Nigerians, especially those who hunger for a new era without the baggage from the past represented in people like Atiku, a duty to hand over the FBI dossier to the committee. Several years ago, the distinguished American general and statesman, Colin Powell, in the US newspaper , The Washington Post, expressed disgust at the contents of Babangida’s and Abacha’s FBI and CIA files. As the then chair of the American Joint Chiefs of Staff, he most certainly knew what he was talking about. President Jonathan as a matter of urgency must make a formal request to President Obama for the release of Babangida’s files as well, so as to make them available to the committee[/b]. In the oft repeated words of the President, Nigeria cannot continue with “more of the same” from the born to rule crowd while the rest of the world marches on to better socioeconomic development, better politics and promising futures for their future generations.

http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/18937.html

^ Old news.

tkb417:


Gbam!!!

i started by supporting  GEJ but the way the man is handling Henry Okah and those Militants shows he might be swept away when the wind start blowing.  

Underrate GEJ at your own peril.Like him or otherwise,there's an inexplicable factor that has always worked and will still work in his favour.Most have always seen him as a gutless inny,to the extent that at a time(during his acting presidency),a member of FEC sent him a memo "warning" him not to dissolve the FEC that was constituted by Yar Adua,thereafter,no sooner had he become full president after Yar Adua's death than some so-called northern elders threaten that the nation would boil if he dared change the COAS,well we all know what has happened and not happened since then.

^ Conjectures ,

rasputinn:

Underrate GEJ at your own peril.Like him or otherwise,there's an inexplicable factor that has always worked and will still work in his favour.Most have always seen him as a gutless inny,to the extent that at a time(during his acting presidency),a member of FEC sent him a memo "warning" him not to dissolve the FEC that was constituted by Yar Adua,thereafter,no sooner had he become full president after Yar Adua's death than some so-called northern elders threaten that the nation would boil if he dared change the COAS,well we all know what has happened and not happened since then.

see brother

i dont want Atiku but GEJ should show some guile and be ruthless in some of his dealings

i dont want no ninny in aso rock abeg

Atiku is a wanted man in the US for activities bothering on fraud and money laundering,will an Atiku presidency opt to do without the US,wont he need to be at the UN general assembly?

The man is a moral baggage abeg,Gusau would even have been better than him,just that peeps must play politics with politics to suit their whims and caprices