OBJ had known for a while that Atiku was one of the most corrupt entities known to mankind. Atiku had stolen so much money and bought so many PDP party members that OBJ would never have lasted six months had he frontally taken on Atiku before now. During their first term, Atiku controlled all the PDP governors. If you wanted anything in Nigeria, you spoke to Atiku or one of his aides. He was busy using Nigeria's money to buy Nigeria. Some call it "laundering" or "parking" government money in your personal or business accounts and skimming off the interests. Some say you just undervalue a national corporation, invite your friends from overseas to buy it and get the kickback later. Some say you just take government money and spend it on yourself. Nigerian leaders find all forms of creative ways to steal from their people.

The majority of PDP governors, all with corruption ingrained in them, danced to Atiku's tune. He, in turn, doled out money - stolen government money - to those governors and states' PDP party officials. Not since MKO Abiola had any single politician been so generous with "his" own money.

Thousands of millions of naira belonging to the people of Nigeria went toward securing Atiku's presidential bid. And therein lay the problem. OBJ's anti-corruption crusade was at its apogee. He could barely contain his disdain for the VP who personified corruption. Whenever OBJ looked up the word CORRUPTION in his dictionary, it was always illustrated with Atiku Abubakar's picture. No way in hell would he hand over government in 2007 to a person so grossly ineligible to rule Nigeria. And since Atiku had invested so much in his presidential bid, there was no way in hell he would allow OBJ to shove him out of the party he helped form. The battle was now joined.

When OBJ formed his various anti-corruption organizations, including the EFCC, Atiku was in full support, oblivious to the ambush ahead. OBJ knew all along that it was only a matter of time before greed, the Achilles' heel of all power-hungry rogues, did Atiku in. So, when US Congressman Jefferson got nabbed in the States for bribery and corruption and he implicated our own vice president, OBJ feigned surprise. He let his deputy stew in his own goose while the FBI raided Atiku's home and dragged his name through international mud. Just as Atiku began to feel some respite from the Jefferson case, OBJ unleashed the wrath of the EFCC on him. And from what we have come to know about the EFCC, if the organization is after you, you are as good as caught because it will not relent.

We now know that Atiku's hand has been caught in the cookie jars of NDTV, iGate and PTDF. Even the party that Atiku helped form (the PDP), is now asking him to refund N500 million, supposedly contributed to the party by various people, and stolen by the VP. Atiku's former business partner, Congressman Jefferson has, characteristically, snitched on his buddy, sending a letter to OBJ detailing all their nefarious activities. I will not bore you with the cascade of detailed information on the many cases against Atiku. All you have to do is Google the name Atiku Abubakar on the Internet and you will be educated.

Coming to the ‘widely presented’ reason for Baba’s quarrel with Atiku - the EFCC report on PTDF money, the report did not in anyway mentioned that Atiku embezzled the PTDF money, or use it for personal purpose, rather, it concluded that the vice president used his position to place the said money in an account, which enabled Nigerian investor(s) / business men (from the same tribe as the president), secured money to commence what is now becoming an international business; changing the nation’s investment landscape, offering more opportunity for Nigerians to work, sponsoring our football league to the tune of N600m, paying for a top rated foreign coach for the national team among others. The other conclusion was based on assumption that remains to be ´proved that, Atiku has interest in the said company.
DELE AJAYI

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Coming to the ‘widely presented’ reason for Baba’s quarrel with Atiku - the EFCC report on PTDF money, the report did not in anyway mentioned that Atiku embezzled the PTDF money, or use it for personal purpose, rather, it concluded that the vice president used his position to place the said money in an account, which enabled Nigerian investor(s) / business men (from the same tribe as the president), secured money to commence what is now becoming an international business; changing the nation’s investment landscape, offering more opportunity for Nigerians to work, sponsoring our football league to the tune of N600m, paying for a top rated foreign coach for the national team among others. The other conclusion was based on assumption that remains to be ´proved that, Atiku has interest in the said company.
DELE AJAYI