if only naija elections be like big brother, carry all dis kpomo men dem stone for house, Big Brother go evict all man sharp sharp

So OBJ & Atiku are still in the boxing Ring, ao many Rounds are they going, ao many is still remaining please!!!!!!!!!!!

@beaf. I sincerely hope you are pre-independence. All these name callings on Atiku. Do you really hate Atiku because he is criminal, or is it because he is From the North? Check out the list of wanted persons in The US and those under surveillane, for credit card fraud, NIS related offences, drugs, 419, etc. Am sure you know what m talking about.

Two of una no de shame sef !

third world war= north korea versus south korea. +us and china

Naija people, u guys make me laugh, Obj and Atiku are two men fighting for their own respective selfish interests and some of us are ignorantly putting out our hearts to these people, tommorrow they will make up and together they will crush all those people that laughed with Obj or criticized Obj
My ADVICE: Stay clear from this evil men they are unpredictable. Neither of them have a better record after all,

[size=25pt]I still dey LAUGH [/size]

OBJ Vs. Atiku World Bantam Weight Title fight!

when two people do not agree in nigerian politics, what do you think will happen?

hardywaltz:

I'm not an Atiku fan but i read he was in the US recently to give a lecture so if anybody says he wanted, they should pls provide a source.

you provide ur source stating he was in US recently to give a lecture, lie lie

nice one but what i know is dat when it comes to primary election will who know who have mouth pass(obasanjo and atiku)

can't these old men stop ranting and behave as adults for once.''kettle calling pot black''

femary,
stop spamming the thread. posting this your 3g router all over nairaland will not make you sell as fast as you think. be guided!

May the winner take it all

Beaf! Feab!

Oboy for once i see you jittery!

We tin dey happen na?? Ebi like say dis ati-ku tin dey shake una camp e!

Take am easy!! no worry majority of Nigerians including we wey be hardline critic of GEJ go vote your man instead of atifku!

Cheer up you hear? The masses is on ya side!

@beaf

make ur camp try go verify on whose side aneni dey. the guy is still a force to reckon with in pdp. if una underate am eh una don make big mistake! make baba iyabo invite d man come ota farm make dem talk! i belv u knw what i mean

Y all of una they clamour on OBJ-ATIKU stuff when both dey jst play us. U wan tell me say they no dey meet somewhere else? Abegi make we bone matter, wake up and use our heads. Silly set of politicians.

All read this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Arrest warrants were issued against Atiku and his runaway wife, Jamila Jennifer Douglas-Atiku and the duo would be promptly arrested if they step on US soil”

In an interview with the Economic Confidential, an online publication, The former vice-president of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was quoted as saying: “if the United States was looking for me or my wife, about two or three weeks ago, we were at the United States embassy, here in Abuja, to renew the passports of my children who are American citizens, if I have a case to answer they would have arrested either of us.”

Does Atiku really believe the US Government could arrest him at their Embassy in Nigeria, a Sovereign Independent country and whisk him away? That would be abduction, a la Noriega style!

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was answering a question on the $180m said to have been received between 1996 and 2002 by Nigerian government officials as bribe through a subsidiary of Halliburton, an American company, to facilitate the award of $6bn LNG contracts.

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar: (Vice President 1999-2007) is alleged to have received pay-offs in the enterprise. But in the interview, has said that he has no case to answer over the Halliburton bribery scandal.

In almost all the infamous international Bribery scandal that rocked the world between 2008 and 2010 that was prosecuted under the USA Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - Halliburton, Jefferson, Daimler, Willbros and Siemens etc, - Nigeria will be mentioned and the name of one man featured consistently and prominently: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar!

The name of Atiku Abubakar surfaced as one of the alleged beneficiaries of the $6 million bribe distributed by American oil service company, Wilbros Group to secure contracts for the eastern gas gathering system (EGGS) in Nigeria.

On February 5, 2010, Politico says A two-year Senate investigation into foreign corruption has shed new light on two key players in one of Washington’s most infamous scandals of recent years — Atiku Abubakar and his wife, Jennifer Douglas Abubakar.

In the William Jefferson scandal, the $100,000 that was discovered in a Freezer was to be the first instalment of a bribe to be paid to Atiku Abubakar, then vice president of Nigeria, for his help in gaining approval from the Nigerian telecommunications authority for the deal Mody was financing and of which Jefferson's family was getting an increasingly bigger cut.

Lori Mody, a wealthy businesswoman gave the money to Former Rep. William Jefferson in a parking lot in July 2005, a transaction secretly videotaped by the FBI. When federal agents raided Jefferson’s home in Virginia two days later, they found $90,000 in his freezer.




An undercover FBI special agent had driven Jefferson and Mody to Douglas' home in Potomac, Md., to meet with Abubakar just weeks before Mody gave Jefferson the money, according to legal documents filed by prosecutors. Abubakar was reportedly seeking as much $500,000 to help a company that Jefferson had a secret stake in win a lucrative Nigerian telecom contract.

A federal investigation of Jefferson’s activities revealed a wide-ranging corruption scheme, and following a lengthy legal fight, the Louisiana Democrat was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in prison, the harshest punishment ever handed out to an ex-lawmaker. Neither Douglas nor Abubakar was charged with any wrongdoing.

However, the Senate investigation alleges that Douglas and Abubakar brought “over $40 million in suspect funds into the United States” from 2000 to 2008 — a prime example, according to investigators, of the ease with which so-called politically exposed persons, foreign officials and their family members, friends and business associates, can move money into U.S. financial institutions without explaining where the money came from.

The investigation also “substantiated” a $2 million-plus transfer from Siemens AG, a German electronics company, into a bank account controlled by Atiku Abubakar and his wife, Jennifer Douglas Abubakar.

Siemens pleaded guilty in Dec. 2008 to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and paid $1.6 billion in civil and criminal penalties.

Jefferson’s lawyers unsuccessfully sought to depose Abubakar and Douglas, as well another Nigerian businessman, as witnesses for the Louisiana Democrat’s trial, but Atiku and his wife refused to return to the United States to be deposed or testify in the case.

With tens of millions of dollars from shadowy offshore companies at her disposal, Douglas — Abubakar’s fourth wife — lived a lavish lifestyle in the U.S., according to the report. Her personal expenses sometimes ran to as high as $90,000 per month.

Douglas also spent $14 million on the American University of Nigeria, a Western-style university Abubakar set up in northern Nigeria. The school was affiliated with American University in Washington, where Douglas, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Nigeria, received a doctorate in international relations.

The source of Abubakar’s fortune is unclear. He spent roughly 20 years as a Nigerian customs official, starting businesses on the side while still working for the government. He left the Nigerian customs office in 1989 and went into business. Abubakar told the BBC in 2007 that he had gotten wealthy “through wise investments, hard work and sheer luck of being at the right place at the right time.”

In 1999, Abubakar was elected vice president of Nigeria, a post he held for the next eight years. Abubakar created a blind trust to control his investments. Through a complicated series of moves, the blind trust was taken over by a shell company, which in 2003 started sending millions of dollars to U.S. banks for use by Douglas and an American attorney hired by the couple, Edward Weidenfield.

Atiku and his wife, Jennifer Douglas, did not accept summons and subpoenas to appear before the US court. Instead, they moved their family out to Dubai, and put their Potomac mansion up for sale.

Arrest warrants were issued against Atiku and his runaway wife, Jamila Jennifer Douglas-Atiku and the duo would be promptly arrested if they step on US soil.

In an interview the Economic Confidential, an online publication, Atiku said he had not received any invitation from authorities in the United States over his purported involvement in the said scandal.

“If anybody has a case let them bring the case. Nobody has even interviewed me (on the bribery scandal). There are no evidences against me. This is just the work of political opponents who will stop at nothing in order to destroy your political career,” the former V.P said.

He was then asked if the Halliburton scandal influenced his preference for travelling to Dubai, instead of the US where he has a home, Atiku told the Economic Confidential that “The United States is not Nigeria. They will call you wherever you may be.

”My wife is a citizen of the United States of America. I was going to the United States because my family was there; my wife took up a job in Dubai as an assistant professor at the American University in Dubai. So we moved.

”I therefore visit my family in Dubai. And if the United States was looking for me or my wife, about two or three weeks ago, we were at the United States embassy, here in Abuja, to renew the passports of my children who are American citizens, if I have a case to answer they would have arrested either of us.”

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May be this should have come first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Atiku in N6 billion scandal

By Idris Akinbajo and Elor Nkereuwem
February 5, 2010 03:17PM
 
Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s former Vice President, and his wife Jennifer Douglas, received and laundered over six billion naira in corruption money through several American banks, the United States Senate announced yesterday in Washington DC.

The revelation was contained in a 330-page report of the U.S. Senate’s permanent sub-committee on investigations, a part of the Homeland Securities and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee which investigated the use of offshore companies to bring what was called “dirty money” into the United States.

According to the report, in the eight years that Mr. Abubakar was vice president, “from 2000 to 2008, Mr. Abubakar and Ms. Douglas used a network of accounts at U.S. financial institutions to bring over $40 million in suspect funds into the United States, through multiple wire transfers supplied by offshore corporations located in Germany, Nigeria, Panama, the British Virgin Islands, and Switzerland.”

The committee had very harsh words for Mrs Abubakar who it said, used a large portion of the corruption money to furnish her lavish lifestyle in the United States, “paying credit card bills and household expenses in the range of $10,000 to $90,000 per month, including substantial legal and accounting bills,” the report stated.

Regarding the sources of the money, the committee disclosed that the payments included the over $2million Mrs. Abubakar received from Siemens AG of Germany. “In 2001 and 2002, for example, Ms. Douglas accepted wire transfers totalling nearly $2.2 million in suspect payments from Siemens AG,” the report stated.

The money is believed to be the former Vice President’s share of the $12.7million bribe payment that the German firm made to top government officials.

A Munich court in 2007 found Siemens guilty of paying bribes to top Nigerian government officials in order to obtain four telecommunications projects, and fined the company $248million.

The other government officials named at the Munich court in the famous bribery scandal include Bello Mohammed, Tajudeen Olanrewaju, Cornelius Adebayo and late Haruna Elewi, all former telecommunication ministers, and Jubril Aminu, a serving senator from Adamawa State.

Nobody has been prosecuted over the bribery scandal in Nigeria despite President Umaru Yar’Adua’s announcement that he had asked, “all relevant security agencies to thoroughly investigate the allegations and take appropriate legal actions against anybody implicated in corrupt practices.” The directive was issued over two years ago; during which period Siemens was initially banned from receiving contracts in Nigeria, only to be dramatically invited back to the country by the President.

‘A clueless money guzzling machine’

Born Jennifer Iwenjiora, Ms Douglas, who is the fourth wife of Mr. Abubakar, married him officially in July 2003, though their relationship dates back to the early 1980’s when she worked with the Nigerian Television Authority.

She is also known by different names: Jennifer Elizabeth Douglas, Jennifer Iwenjiora, Jamila Abubakar, and Jennifer Douglas-Abubakar in the dozens of bank accounts she opened in the United States to receive the “suspect” funds.

“Of the $40 million in suspect funds, $25 million was wire transferred by offshore corporations into more than 30 U.S. bank accounts opened by Ms. Douglas, primarily by Guernsey Trust Company Nigeria Ltd., LetsGo Ltd. Inc., and Sima Holding Ltd,” the report stated.

The report detailed the profile of a totally clueless Ms. Douglas, cast merely as a money guzzling machine which had no notion of the sources and the health of the money she so enthusiastically helped to launder into the United States financial system.

“When her banks asked about these corporations, Ms.

Douglas consistently told them that she was unfamiliar with the nature of the offshore corporations sending her money.”

When the banks became suspicious of her activities and decided to close her accounts, the former vice president’s wife simply closed the accounts and opened new ones in different banks, the committee found out. “Over time, as each financial institution began to ask questions about the offshore corporations sending her funds and decided to close her accounts, she opened new accounts at other financial institutions, at times with the assistance of her U.S. lawyer, Edward Weidenfeld.”

Funding the American University of Nigeria

The committee also established that the funds were used to finance the American University of Nigeria, Mr. Abubakar’s private university located in his home state of Adamawa.

“She also transferred funds to accounts she opened for the Gede Foundation, a non-profit corporation she established in 2002, and the American University of Nigeria (AUN), a university that Mr. Abubakar founded in 2003,” the report stated. Ms. Douglas is a member of the board of trustees of the University and has in a process “inconsistent with [Citibank] practice” used her personal account as the University’s account.

On April 4, 2005, Ms. Douglas opened Checking Account No. 1209739556, initially under her own name, but later, on an unspecified date, changed the account name to, “Jennifer Douglas/ABTI American University.” [ABTI American University was the previous name for American University of Nigeria (AUN).] Citibank told the subcommittee that when Ms. Douglas added the university to the account, it should have been re-categorised as a business account, and that it’s continued operation as a personal account was irregular. Seven months later however, Ms. Douglas entered a similar transaction. In her explanation, Ms. Douglas’ legal counsel told the Subcommittee that “Mr. Abubakar also tasked his wife with maintaining a U.S. bank account for convenience in paying certain expenses associated with AUN, including paying some employees of AUN who preferred to be paid in dollars,” and that her husband “arranged to have money deposited into the account, through which Mrs. Abubakar made payments out of the account to cover AUN expenses.”

The committee also said when it invited Mr. Abubakar, he refused to appear before it. However, Garba Shehu, Mr. Atiku’s media spokesman, responded late yesterday that his boss stayed away from the committee only because his lawyers said his presence was not necessary.

Mr. Shehu also commented on the senate report: “our view is that it contains allegations that have been recycled over the past few years by political opponents with the intention of damaging Abubakar’s reputation and truncating his political career.”

He however admitted that, “over the past eight years, the Abubakars have transferred some funds from their Blind Trust to pay for consulting services to the American University in Washington, DC, faculty and staff salaries of American University of Nigeria, Yola and for the upkeep of his family in the United States.” Rather than a money laundering device, Mr. Shehu characterised the Trust, set up in 1999 to manage Abubakar’s business interests, as “a bid to avoid any conflict of interest as a public officer.” He insisted that the funds transferred are, “legitimate earnings of Abubakar from his shares in INTELS, a well known oil services company co-founded by the former Vice President since the 1980s.”

Mr. Shehu also tried to distance his boss from the allegations of bribery levelled against Mr. Abubakar by Siemens officials saying they were, “confusing and out rightly untenable. The family strongly believes that they are victims of a smear campaign by managers of Siemens who may have stolen from their company under the excuse that they ran slush funds for political leaders in Nigeria” he said.

Kashiko Dam burumbaka. Barawo.

`atiku should be a man and stop this Running mouth stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is not a laughing matter, I wonder where the so-called almighty EFCC, the assumed economics and financial crime commission records to the limelight thrown by Atiku are kept. it is obvious that the said commissionain't doing anything good for the country or else the mismanagement of poblic fund as enunciated by Atiku group world have been on board ever before now. its either Atiku group are wrong or efcc ain't doing their job and should be erased from the surface of the earth with immediate effect. i rest my case

Of course GEJ might not the be the messia and i have nothing wrong against Atiku, i only have my reservation on how the northers are going about it. for crying out loud, the presidential seat is not their birth right which simply means that their should be change from time to time. i detest the desperation of the northers in this political matter. let them ZONE in Atiku with those bombs they imported from Iran. the truth must be told, they can not match with Nigerians if eventually they try anythiing stupit in time to come, this is just a clue to all nigerians as regards to the importation of Arms from different countries to nigeria

Sesbol - thanks for the two articles; they are quite informative and revealing. Not that I had any confidence in Atiku anyway.

d rebranding project is on course. Wat do u tnk? Me i wonder o o. Dose who shld've become elder statesmen 4 us, are d same people who behaviours kept us wondering wia we're heading 2.

In reaction 2 d allegation made by Atiku dt d presidency z mis-managing our resources, while falsifying d budget, Prof Pat Utomi 2day on his facebook page asked weda, itz an acceptance, confession or revelation. Well, ATIKU has played d game b4, he knw d rudiments. He shld all GEJ 2 play a little of it.

He has d money. We're no longer querying him abt his source of wealth. He shld stay cool, enjoy his money and spare us d headache he is causing us, while making d polity 2 heat up.

As 4 OBJ, na d same people. They shld nt be coming out and making a noise. They've done dia best, which was too bad a best. They shld allow us be, while giving oda people d chance 2 try out dia own talent and mandate.

i love my country
no wonder his children live affluent lifestyle in DC

^^^
Too bad OBJ's wor wor, older children could not live outside Nigeria, lest they be mistaken for pet monkeys and carted off to zoos in foreign countries. I don't think the zoo keepers serve 'gbegeri' on the monkey menus. Btw, what of that OBJ's son that looks so much like Ben Bruce. . . .Stella's (R.I.P)special body guard?

Yeah, that one that looks like an "Ethiopian" or should I say an half-Isreali with jheri 'coils' like Ramsey Nouah of Nollywood?
The one that was living with Andrew Young when OBJ(the father we all know about) was almost sent to the gallows by Abacha and co.
Yeah, that one. 
The one he refused to do a paternity test on so Stella did not get offended for shinning all her step-daughters/daughters-in-laws tongos and congos?

Was he living in abject poverty?
Yeah, the one that still lives in NYC?

Yeah, the one who claimed to be a lawyer and never worked a day of his life but gave himself the wedding of the century. . . pro bono I guess?

Hmmm.

Too many unanswered questions I tell you.

I dey laugh oooooooh.
We too dey laugh oooooooh.

Yeah. . . .what a country. You can say that again.

obj is from the west coast while atiku is from the east coast, de ja vous,

Ol boy na wah o,