Remember this?

let me start with a reference to El-Rufai's interview with SaharaReporters (they seem to have been chummy up on till last week )

El-Rufai goes after GMB

"Mallam El-Rufai wishes to remind General Buhari that he has remained perpetually unelectable because his record as military head of state, and afterwards, is a warning that many Nigerians have wisely heeded. His insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known. In 1984, Buhari allowed 53 suitcases belonging to his ADC’s father to enter Nigeria unchecked at a time the country was exchanging old currency for new. Against all canons of legal decency, he used retroactive laws to execute three young men for drug-peddling after they were convicted by a military tribunal and not regular courts of law. Buhari was so high handed that he gave himself and his officials immunity even from truthful reporting. That obnoxious Decree 4, against which truth was no defence, was used to jail journalists and attempt to cow the media as a whole. That tyrannical legislation shows the essence of his intolerance. These are facts of recent history."

http://saharareporters.com/2010/10/04/el-rufai-buhari-should-stick-facts

Nafata Bamaguje had this to say


"The infamous 53 suitcase saga during Buhari's 20 month military misrule also raises questions about his commitment to the eradication of corruption. A northern Emir was accosted by Custom agents at Lagos international airport with 53 suitcases of currency in direct violation of the prevailing laws. Buhari redeployed the principled customs officer – our current embattled vice president – who apprehended the Emir, while allowing the sacred cow Emir to go scot free. Ironically in several circles today, that principled customs officer - vice president Atiku Abubakar - is portrayed as corrupt while Buhari is hailed as incorruptible.

Contrast Buhari's kid's glove, pat-on-the-back for the 53-suitcase Emir, with Fela's unjust imprisonment ostensibly for failing to declare his own hard earned foreign currency. The truth of the matter is that the vindictive Buhari never forgave the late Afrobeat maestro for his popular hit tune Army Arrangement, in which Fela sang about the 2.8 billion Naira that reportedly disappeared from our nation's oil accounts while Buhari was petroleum minister. In the song, Fela captured the public cynicism of government denial of the scandal…not surprising, given the poor credibility of most Nigerian governments… Dem set up enquiry, Dem say money no lose O !

To any discerning mind, Buhari's discriminatory enforcement of the law enforcement a.k.a. "selective justice" vis-à-vis Shagari / Ekwueme detention, and Fela / 54 case Emir currency violations clearly indicate that the general is no different from Nigeria's present tormentor, Obasanjo who is using EFCC to witch-hunt and persecute his political adversaries."

http://www.gamji.com/article6000/NEWS6886.htm

(Gamji if I recall predates Saharareporters as a Citizen Journalism platform)


See this Nairaland thread on the matter

https://www.nairaland.com/27368/someone-explain-53-suitcases-scandal

Nigerian politicians are so dumb and without shame

Deja vu all over again

-I remember Mr. Atiku was in charge of airport customs then. And that 2.8 billion mysteriously went missing in Midland Bank, today's HSBC.
Things are really the same.

The dude has always been fraudulent with his sanctimonious attitude.

Some of us saw through him before 2015 election but his supporters refused to listen.

TheFreeOne:
The dude has always been fraudulent with his sanctimonious attitude.

Some of us saw through him before 2015 election but his supporters refused to listen.

To a good number of those 'supporters' or 'promoters' this quote applies

"I can't make you understand what you're paid not to understand"