INSECURITY: We need hard work, not good luck –Atiku

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Presidential aspirant and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has said that the country does not need ‘’goodluck’’ but “hard work and prayer” to overcome the present security and political challenges facing the nation.

Speaking yesterday as the special guest of honour at the 13th Speech and Prize Giving day of EL-Amin International School Minna owned by the late former first lady, Maryam Babangida, he admitted that though the country is passing through a trying period, ‘’Nigerians must learn to stay on course’’.

The Turakin Adamawa, while speaking on the current insecurity and political situations in the country said they are challenges that would require more than “good luck” to surmount. Though luck has a role to play in human affairs, he was quick to stress that, ‘’you do not sit and wait for luck to smile on you, you have to work hard’’.

Addressing the graduating students in a paper he titled, ‘’Imperatives of staying on course’’, the former Presidential aspirant recalled that as a student he never relied on “good luck” to overcome academic challenges but attributed his successes to hard work and prayers.

Observers would be whether the former Vice president who kept harping on the word “good luck” was indirectly harping on it because of the rhyme with the president’s first name. Atiku then told the students that their graduation marks the beginning of a more challenging phase in the journey of life.

He emphasised ‘’Whether you are going on life’s journey by rail, by road, sea or by air you are likely to experience difficult challenges but you need to stay focus and stay on course’’.

The former vice president whose speech drew ovation from the audience, which included former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida and members of the National Assembly, went on memory lane, saying, ‘’I used to have a teacher in secondary school, when we are going into the examination hall and people say “good luck” he will say no! no!! No good luck but you must work hard to overcome challenges.’’

He reminded the graduating students that obstacles are inevitable in human life, maintaining that there is no journey of life without obstacles, but advised that they should not allow situations to throw them off the course.

Atiku then commended the foresight of the founder of the school, the late Mrs. Maryam Babangida for establishing the school, describing the legacy she left as an inestimable value for generations of Nigerians that would have been educated in the school in the years, saying, ‘’graduates of this great school would become key human resources for the country.”


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Menh.... See EYES! !!!!!

Atiku is on dope mocking GEJ

He lost me at " . . and Prayer"

Like we haven't done enough of that.

Which one atiku get?
Pot teling kettle u are black.
Mtcheeew

Gay kingpin is vomitin rubbish

Ha se who is tokng o.mr pen rober.oga pls tel us d source of ur 17 trilion ole

Mr. Atiku, we don hear. Next time you have opportunity to talk, can you call your Boko Boys to order ?

Rubish....

Neither do we need zoning to succeed

Just another treasury ex-looter having a field day voicing his useless yarn.
We've heard his own, who's next? And by the way, while we wait, why don't he step forward and put in the 'hardwork'? Mtschewww, all talk no action good for nothing bastard, God'll punish you all, the 'Goodluck' included!!!

See who's talking. Does Atiku even bother to gauge his popularity rating among Nigerians generally b4 plunging headlong on another futile presidential misadventure. I doubt he'll score more than 5%. Jonathan may hav performed abysmally, but Atiku is NEVER an alternative. Many people I'v interracted wit don't like him for TOO MANY reasons: DESPERATION, POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM, DISLOYALTY, MUD-SLINGING, UNTRUSTWORTHY, LACK OF PEDIGREE, FINANCIAL SCANDALS, UNMARKETABLE, QUESTIONABLE PAST &SOURCE OF INCOME; PLUS HE'S A DYE-IN-THE-WOOL NIGERIAN POLITICIAN OF THE OLD BREED WHO BLED THIS COUNTRY TO ITS PRESENT STUPOUR. Atiku, pls retire already!

Prayers and hard work

Atiku nd goodluck same,mtsssss heartless politicians.

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Billyonaire: Mr. Atiku, we don hear. Next time you have opportunity to talk, can you call your Boko Boys to order ?

It is time you folks grow a brain. If you do not have proof of this,it is best you learn do away with the puerile attempts at attacks, and focus your energy instead on finding those to really blame for the situation.

@Poster, last thing Nigeria needs, in my opinion, is more prayer. We have a populace that will rather close their eyes while the 0.01% continue to rob them blind. Nigerians need to open their eyes, not close it in prayer, and fight for a better future for themselves, and their children.

Inasmuch as I dont like the man atiku,I am in agreement with his statement.But his calling for prayers is a contradiction to the whole thing.nigerians have prayed enough.Under the laws of nature(by God/apeiron/unmoved mover) you dont pray to succeed if you work hard.

Even the way he likes to pose like a groaning or scowling statue for the cameras is a turn-off

Half Bread is always and Forever better than none!

mediainspired: See who's talking. Does Atiku even bother to gauge his popularity rating among Nigerians generally b4 plunging headlong on another futile presidential misadventure. I doubt he'll score more than 5%. Jonathan may hav performed abysmally, but Atiku is NEVER an alternative. Many people I'v interracted wit don't like him for TOO MANY reasons: DESPERATION, POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM, DISLOYALTY, MUD-SLINGING, UNTRUSTWORTHY, LACK OF PEDIGREE, FINANCIAL SCANDALS, UNMARKETABLE, QUESTIONABLE PAST &SOURCE OF INCOME; PLUS HE'S A DYE-IN-THE-WOOL NIGERIAN POLITICIAN OF THE OLD BREED WHO BLED THIS COUNTRY TO ITS PRESENT STUPOUR. Atiku, pls retire already!

In a land where every nuisance can speak, what does it matter what the guage says of his popularity rating?

cashmentor: Half Bread is always and Forever better than none!

Only in Africa and in the minds of Africans . . . Ever heard the saying "All or Nothing"?

In as much as what Atiku said are true, i personally dont think he has the moral ground to make such statement. we are all witness to how rapacious he was and he still is.

These avarice want to team up again and insult our sensibility as if we have short memories of their antecedents. washed up mai gworo.

Kobojunkie:

It is time you folks grow a brain. If you do not have proof of this,it is best you learn do away with the puerile attempts at attacks, and focus your energy instead on finding those to really blame for the situation.

@Poster, last thing Nigeria needs, in my opinion, is more prayer. We have a populace that will rather close their eyes while the 0.01% continue to rob them blind. Nigerians need to open their eyes, not close it in prayer, and fight for a better future for themselves, and their children.

For your mind now, you get sense Hahahahahahahaaha

See this Atiku talking! Mscheew. When he was a vice president what did he do? Does he think Nigerians forget easily? Silly politician who will never be respected even by his own people.

He is really working hard with his BH boys

I tink he is only tryin 2 be in news.

From their posts u can tell those who promoted GEJ on the silly superstition that his name will bring "goodluck" to Nigeria. Alas, the opposite is happening because GEJ does not hav what it takes to rule the country successfully.In 2015 may be they will sell as a "born again". I'm not Atiku fan but the message hits the nail on the head, like it or not.

Kobojunkie:

It is time you folks grow a brain. If you do not have proof of this,it is best you learn do away with the puerile attempts at attacks, and focus your energy instead on finding those to really blame for the situation.

@Poster, last thing Nigeria needs, in my opinion, is more prayer. We have a populace that will rather close their eyes while the 0.01% continue to rob them blind. Nigerians need to open their eyes, not close it in prayer, and fight for a better future for themselves, and their children.

prayer is waaaay not the solution for now, though important, buh me think we need men and women who can stand up, cause an uprising and demand for equality and justice.... Pray, yes! Buh, let's do our part by standing up and saying no to crooks selling and stealing our future! Buh nobody want's to stand up, even i....and that's where the problem realy is- suffering and pinging Nigerians, when will thou wake up from thy slumbber?

Even the worthless speak. A chọcha onye ga ekwu okwu, ọ bụrụ Atiku. Where is our money!

Oh like he 'worked' hard at looting the treasury right?