Vice president Atiku Abub-akar said Nigeria offers great opportunities for investment in oil production.

He listed investment opportunities in Africa in general and Nigeria in particular to include investments in oil production, natural gas development and utilization, agriculture, telecommunications and tourism.

He is been very careful not to mention POWER/Electricity as HE (Atiku)is one of the people frustrating Power sector development in Nigeria. He owns the biggest Generator Importing company in nigeria, JMG, where staff are not weel paid and daily frustrated.

Atiku has also been very careful not to talK about Education as he presently owns the most expensive SCHOOLS in NIGERIA today i. e The Abti American College and University,

I advice Nigerians to be very careful because when Atiku talks about investment opportunities in Nigeria, I am sure he is referring to ways he can corner Nigeria's vast wealth to his personal use.

Given the Nigerian factor, political punditry changes at the whims and caprices of the ruling elements. Fortunately for the masses, the people who have declared for the most important position in the country are the same bunch we know. So the race is an all-too familiar revelry.

First to step out was Ibrahim Babangida, erstwhile military leader that evokes extreme passions – loved and hated in equal measures. His famed dexterity at dribbling ‘Maradonically’ past every imaginable object is his albatross. He navigated the stream of power to the Rock; God offered him the platform on the altar of the barrels of guns, but he bungled it. Not for lack of depth, his Achilles heel was self-conceitedness and too much ‘wisdom’ and diabolical inventive genius. But the valiant soldier now threads with trepidation where ‘five issues’ are involved: Dele Giwa, June 12, zoning, oil windfall and institutionalisation of corruption. These are morbidly attached to every of his step.

Everything that would have worked for IBB now works against him. He lost it all on June 12, when he quizzically ‘stepped aside’. The eerie ghost of that epochal date made anonymous all sacrifices to assuage the spirit of democracy. Reasonably, many in his shoes will dare not take such an ill-informed gambit.

His younger brother, Atiku Abubakar, tried thrice in the past and thrice he failed. Masters of polemics will say he errs on the side of caution. This is his fourth attempt. Interestingly, he didn’t call journalists to a nocturnal meeting at midnight. Atiku did not need a soothsayer to see that he will flop. His ominously fall at the Hilton in full public glare was prophetic. It smacks of a premonition of an impending fourth electoral ploy.

The ‘fall guy’ is becoming perennially notorious. He broke his limp in the build up to the last exercise, campaigned from wheel chairs and clutches. There was no sympathy in the US where he went for treatment. His ‘grand misadventure’ with Congressman William Jefferson was a sin too many.

Assailed by the anti-corruption czar, Atiku’s game plan came tumbling. His ‘wide network’ crashed in the face of state apparatus and came a distant fourth. He perched in office till the last day, making the courtroom an extension of his vice presidency. Atiku’s other sins is that of the party had turned him to a cuckold. His attachment to PDP is undefined: "We crafted the constitution and by the time we did it, Ob wasn’t even in party. The Ek Committee gave a report. In that report, it was recommended that there should be unconditional and unfettered return of those who left the party. Lawyers say that I don’t need any waiver. However, I have asked for a waiver. My application for waiver was filed this morning…if they don’t do it, the court will then give an interpretation”, he fumed. Yes, he’s court-bound again. That is a crime in the party and they abhor his romance with the Actionless Congress.

He foot-dragging incumbent office occupier from Otuoke is waiting with a sling. It is a familiar opera. Eight years ago, his godfather was waiting on the Lord for his second term. A Mandela option was proposed, he discountenanced it. The ageless tactician wriggled out with an admixture of blackmail, fighting corruption with corruption and on 4-19, he ‘won’.

The drudgery of Machiavellianism is again at play. With the trusted and tested Mr. Fix It Anenih partnering with a duplicitous party leadership his Ijaw ‘ancestry’ has been collapsed into the Northern zoning. Trust not the promises of providing the nation with credible election and record of achievements as campaign mantra, Jonathan has suddenly become a political Minotaur – half animal, half man. Everything is being contrived for a two-term presidency that will end in 2019. How do you explain the logic of a Bayelsan from the North? That autochthony is warped.

A simple anybody-can-run pronouncement would have been fair, logical and defensible and lay to rest the immorality and undemocratic tendency called zoning. See how Nigerian politicians turn logic on its head with the politics of anything goes. That’s the defining catch phrase for Jonathan’s political ideology.



LET THE WISE REMAIN WISE!!!!