[size=18pt]Fresh plot to disqualify Atiku[/size]
. . .Disqualifying me will not mean well for this country –Atiku

From JACOB EDI, Abuja

Monday, December 20, 2010



Barely one week after the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) announced the date for its presidential primaries for next year’s general election, there are fresh plots to disqualify the northern consensus candidate and former vice president, Atiku Abubakar.

According to a document, now available to Daily Sun, part of the plan is to seek to stop the party primaries in the event that Atiku is cleared to vie for the presidential primaries of the party.  In fact, the party’s leadership has been given a 10-day ultimatum to disqualify the former vice president or risk the commencement of a legal action.

A letter dated December 17, 2010, entitled ‘Disqualification of Atiku Abubakar From Participation at the January 13, 2011, PDP Presidential Primaries by Screening Panel,’ raised questions over the eligibility of Atiku as a member of the party and that the waiver granted him by the 53rd National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party was invalid and wrong procedurally.

The letter, addressed to the chairman of the Presidential Screening Committee, copies of which were sent to all the party’s stakeholders, insisted that Atiku had also violated the guidelines of the party in his bid to stage-manage his return to the party. The nine-page document was signed by Dr. Udeh Obinna, Faruk Garba, Chief Osoba Fasewe and John Timipriye on behalf of PDP Stakeholders Forum.

The letter also claimed that Atiku neither got the primary election participation waiver nor the returnee waiver, which contravened Articles 17 (2) g, 8 and 10 (b) iii of the PDP constitution, adding that his return to the party was without the recommendation of his state chapter to the National Working Committee (NWC).

“Atiku was expelled from the party during the build-up to the 2007 general election for heavy anti-party activities and corruption indictment, which led to the loss his membership of the party. The constitution of the PDP stipulates that once he signifies interest to return to the party, he must be re-admitted by his state exco and thereafter his waiver request shall be forwarded to NEC via the NWC. The waiver granted Atiku is for the purpose of being accepted back as an ordinary member of the party and not for the purpose of crossing the requirement for eligibility to contest primary election. This procedure was not followed by Atiku,” the letter noted.

While insisting that the waiver granted Atiku was consequent upon a letter he personally wrote to the party, the PDP Stakeholders Forum concluded: “So, the bottom line is that the waiver is a nullity and not tenable. Atiku is statutorily not a bona fide member of the PDP and has no valid waiver upon which to contest election under the party platform.”

The group also said that Atiku’s reliance on the report of the Ekwueme report as grounds for his waiver claim is not tenable since according to them the report “is an ad hoc report of NEC, which was not presented to the national convention for ratification and cannot override the express requirement of the PDP constitution, which makes eligibility and membership issues a purely party constitutional issue.”

Part of the reasons given to the committee for the disqualification of Atiku included allegations that he had in the last couple of months criticised the PDP-led government as well as made statements that threatened not only the unity of the party but the corporate entity of the Nigerian state.  But the Atiku Campaign Organisation has dismissed the contents of the letter, saying it was lacking in depth and fact.

Garba Shehu, Atiku’s spokeman, told Daily Sun in a telephone interview that “anybody plotting to disqualify Atiku does not wish this country well and there is even no basis for it.” He insisted that Atiku was in possession of a certificate of waiver issued to him by the party and that due process was followed.

“He applied to Adamawa PDP, which said there was no objection. NWC approved the waiver and NEC overwhelmingly approved it. What I’m sure they don’t know is that the Adamawa PDP cannot give waiver to senators, governors, vice presidents and presidents because such category of party- men were within the domain of NEC.


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/dec/20/national-20-12-2010-001.htm

if atiku is disqualified, nothing would happen. nigerians are tired of clueless leaders!!! buhari or ribadu or GJ. thats all!!

The header should read:Disqualifying Me Will Not Mean Well For My Pocket - Atiku.

i wonder why certain people shiver when this guy(atiku) sneezes. i laugh in spanish.

Goodluck Jonathan's camp is manned by some of the finest political criminals Nigeria ever produced. But this will certainly be entertaining because they have met their match - Let get ready to rumbleeeee!

@ egift u had me laughing like a ret*ard. Lol. Most gifted criminals indeed! Thank God! The implosion has begun! PDP I implore you to kill thee from within. Amen, Amin, Ase!

@ rich boi, and the police and the sss are still finding his sneezes comfortable

It wont be fun having only GEJ at the primaries o. Make unu no disqualify Atiku o. I want to laugh on that day o o.

Taaa! He can do nothing at all.

jason12345:

if atiku is disqualified, nothing would happen. nigerians are tired of clueless leaders!!! buhari or ribadu or GJ. thats all!!

Must they disqualify Atiku to win him? Jonathan is just trying to BULLDOZE his way into Aso Rock come 2011.

The script is already played out. Atiku will run against GJ. Will be heavily defeated in the primaries. He will then run to the courts with 25 SANs by his side, SANs desperate for money to pay childrens foreign school fees.

They will go as far as to the Supreme court if necessary, afterall, the Presidency is Atiku's birth right and must be extracted at all cost. Atiku, a currupt, un-educated homosexual of a man, thrust into prominence by OBJ now believes Aso Rock is his birthright.



What a F**cking bas*ta*d of a man!!

@omojoland - you've not said anything on whether he should be disqualified or not.

What I think is irrelevant in the current context. He will run. He should run. He will loose.

omojand:

The script is already played out. Atiku will run against GJ. Will be heavily defeated in the primaries. He will then run to the courts with 25 SANs by his side, SANs desperate for money to pay childrens foreign school fees.

They will go as far as to the Supreme court if necessary, afterall, the Presidency is Atiku's birth right and must be extracted at all cost. Atiku, a currupt, un-educated homosexual of a man, thrust into prominence by OBJ now believes Aso Rock is his birthright.



What a F**cking bas*ta*d of a man!!

And what do you have to backup all these claims (and insults). Or another childishness from the Jonathan/Sambo camp?

Gooooooooooooo "Tikkkkkkku"!!!

Let them disqualify you. . .

Let them roast!

When you fight corruptions. . . corruption fights back.

Do not be intimidated. . . .let them do their worst!


I dey your side. . . .


Goooooooooooooooo "Tikkkku"!!!!

Blazay:

Gooooooooooooo "Tikkkkkkku"!!!

Let them disqualify you. . .

Let them roast!

When you fight corruptions. . . corruption fights back.

Do not be intimidated. . . .let them do their worst!


I dey your side. . . .


Goooooooooooooooo "Tikkkku"!!!!

ode

blacksta:

ode

Don't let it pain you too much eh?


Goooooooooooooo "TiKkkkkkkkkkkkkkkku"!!!!

And this one too is a leader of 2morrow

And what do you have to backup all these claims (and insults). Or another childishness from the Jonathan/Sambo camp?

Not everyone who's against Atiku is pro GEJ. As a matter of fact, I don't think GEJ has the leadership qualities required to get us through the current crisis in Nigeria. Give me a Ribadu, Duke or Fashola anyday.

But as for Atiku, that's another story. He typifies the very WORST of leadership in Nigeria today. Ostentatious, greedy and manipulative. In a meritorious society, a backward nomad like Atiku would be no more than a mai guard or mai shai.

jabbok:

Must they disqualify Atiku to win him? Jonathan is just trying to BULLDOZE his way into Aso Rock come 2011.

True! GJ is going to win anyway. its rare for an incumbent president to lose an election in africa.

Atiku is definitely stoking the flames of conflict in Nigeria. Every word he utters seems to be a threat. But who is he threatening? Is this threat meant for the Igbo or Yoruba? We are not even involved in this political conflict. We are just watching on the sidelines, so Atiku should watch his words carefully.

Ochi_Agha:

Atiku is definitely stoking the flames of conflict in Nigeria. Every word he utters seems to be a threat. But who is he threatening? Is this threat meant for the Igbo or Yoruba? We are not even involved in this political conflict. We are just watching on the sidelines, so Atiku should watch his words carefully.

I think Atiku wants a taste of death.

Atiku is only making noise because he fully understands he cannot win the primaries, however he tries. So he wants to provoke the powers that be into a contentious, controversial action that he hopes to take advantage of.

GEJ and his team are too smart for that. They will simply let him rant as much he wants, come day of primaries, he will be humiliated like the stray dog that he is.

jason12345:

True! GJ is going to win anyway. its rare for an incumbent president to lose an election in africa.

Not in the last few months from Ghana to Guinea and Ivory Coast.

Gayigaskia:

Not in the last few months from Ghana to Guinea and Ivory Coast.

Brother, you better start bracing up for GJ 2011 because i know he is not going to lose. anyway, who do you support and why?

I just Imagined Athiefkku been disqualified he will go into his bed room and cry like a baby, he will say oo God I came close to stealing more why let them do this to me. Then he will clean his face come to the press and start shouting this can not happen, we need violent takeover, bla bla bla, All hail Aaathiefkku.

We've heard something like this when he left pdp for ac.

@omojand - you are anti Atiku & not pro GEJ but spend all your energies attacking Atiku while forgeting your Ribadu.

obviously nobody read the article because Atiku didn't even say what he's being accused of.

Atiku is the leader of tomorrow, emphasis on the tomorrow cos he's not ruling us anytime soon.