Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is scheduled to travel to the United States “any moment from now”, possibly before Saturday’s presidential debate organized by the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) and the Nigeria Elections Debate Group (NEDG), SaharaReporters has been told.

Atiku hasn’t stepped on American soil for well over decade dating back to his vice presidency, allegedly due to the belief he would be arrested for allegations of corruption, including one by US congressman Williams Jefferson that part of the $100,000 cash found in his refrigerator was intended as bribe for Atiku for his role in helping American firm iGate secure a contract to expand broadband in Nigeria.

However, in October, Atiku Abubakar, Gbenga Daniel, Director-General of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Orgsanisation (APCO) said his principal had received “signals from American officials” to apply for visa and it would be granted.

Despite the protestations of Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information, that the United States should exercise caution in granting visa to Atiku, it was reported in December that the visa had indeed been granted.
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A source very close to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who played a big role in the securing of the visa, then told SaharaReporters that the Vice President would be busy back home for a while rather than travelling to the United States.

“The ban has been lifted but it doesn’t mean he is travelling like today or anytime soon,” the source had said. “The restriction has been lifted, which means he can travel anytime he wants. But he’s not planning a US trip soon.”

That was six weeks ago. SaharaReporters understands that Atiku is now planning the much-talked-about trip to the US, with Friday being a tentative date. But a source very familiar with the development said this still doesn’t obliterate the fear of arrest in the Atiku camp.

“Atiku will travel to the US any moment from now, and it could even be on Friday,” the source said.

“He is still afraid the coast is not completely clear, and he could be harassed or arrested once he steps in. But I can authoritatively confirm that he will indeed be going to the US very, very, very soon."


http://saharareporters.com/2019/01/17/exclusive-‘atiku-travel-us-‘very-very-very-soon’

Ok na but enough of this America madness



Those of you raising hell over President Buhari's woeful NTA outing last night are either forming woke or you are simply a fake Johny Just Come (JJC)

What were you expecting?

No be Buhari again??

With his NTA show of shame last night, President Buhari simply lived up to expectations as a mentally truncated, intellectually kwashiokored, cerebrally unfortunate brainly barren senile man undeserving of being allowed to manage even his own life without guidance, not to talk of managing the destiny of almost 200million people and having the moronic audacity to want to come back.

But in fairness to him, Buhari never claimed to be what he is not. He has always been a disaster. And anyone who claims ignorance of this is simply being dishonest.

During his short but iniquitious stint in power some three decades ago, dude failed woefully even with a loaded gun and a suspended constitution the same way he failed last night even with a professor Osinbajo as his "Expo guide". I challenge anyone to point to a single economic program initiated by Buhari back then or a single achievement of that administration characterized by tears and sorrows, acute hardship, gross human right violations, jailing of journalists etc.

Question is,

You, Mr intellectual and Mrs intellectuals who voted this human tragedy in 2015, do pray tell, what exactly did you see in him

Can you tell us just one verifiable quality of Mr Buhari that convinced you that he was the right man to preside over your country in the 21st century 2015

This question is as necessary as it is strategic because even in the face of clear evidence of this man's failure, there are thousands and millions of other so called intellectuals who despite seeing the catastrophic calamity the President is, are still gearing up to curse Nigerians with this man again just so they can come here and feign false surprise when he start being his normal dumb self as he was last night in that NTA interview.

In Igboland, we have a saying that he who does not know where the rain started beating him will hardly know where he took shelter from the rain.

In the case of Nigeria, Horrible Rulers like Buhari are not the problem. Political bucanneers like Bola Tinubu, Chekwas Okorie and some yahoo yahoo Priest selling prophecies to the highest bidder are not even the problem. Those ones have since earned their place in the Hall of Shame as people driven by intestinal consideration. Nothing more.

The real problem remains the morally bankrupt intellectuals in different media houses, both Print and Electronics, using their pen and microphone to stand truth on its head just so they can happen this man on us again.

No one can claim to love Nigeria or even humanity and still support Buhari. It is just not possible. The two are mutually exclusive.

If we don't bury our cultural, religious and ethnic differences and join hands together to stop President Buhari, he will certainly stop all of us.

After watching the clueless one answer simple questions on NTA interview I can only conclude that pdp possibly looted the brain of Buhari and must be investigated.
There is no other explanation to the degree of brainlessness displayed by Buhari on national television. APC should better not allow him appear for any debate bikonu.
Enough embarrassment seen already