Dear All,
This is what happens when cerebrally lazy peoples steal a lot of money; they don't even know how to lie and eventually confess without knowing. On CNN's Inside Africa yesterday (titled Nigeria's Volatile Democracy), Atiku was asked to comment on his indictment for corruption; listen to his response or defence, quoted word for word, as a self-titled leading oppositon condidate:

"We established two anti-corruption agencies, the ICPC and the EFCC; unfortunately the EFCC has been turned to a machinery to harrass the opponents of the government. If corruption is done by the friends of the government, they cover it up; but if corruption is done by the opposition, they hurriedly jump on it."

Can you believe this! A slip of tongue or rather a confession. From the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. They showed his 5million dollar house in Abuja, 3million dollar house in Yola and another worth more than 3million dollars in high-brow area of Washington said to 'belong' to his wife Jennifer Atiku-Abubakar (a recent PhD student!) among many others, for a man who was a civil servant until mid nineties (i.e. custom officer). It is only in Nigeria that a thief proves his innocence by admitting to being corrupt, but that he is not the only one hence he is not guilty. Unfortunately, the thief who is caught is a thief; as for the others, their own time too will come; but Atiku's time is now. Barawo banza!!!

Those who missed the programme can probably go to Inside Africa's page on CNN.com and download the recent edition titiled "Nigeria: Volatile Democracy."

Atiku seems quite proud of the wealth he has amassed through graft, contract kickbacks and embezzlement, going by the Freudian slip he made on that 60 minutes program.

The main point Atiku labored to establish in that interview is that all Nigerian government officials are expected to steal in direct proportion to their access to state funds, but that the umpire of the looting orgy should at least be impartial in an "honor among thieves" kind of way.

@batu,
dont you understand engish?

He used the word 'IF'

"If" the opponents of president Obasanjo are not corrupt, then his selectivity doesn't affect them.

It's like saying, "if Seun sees a pornographic picture posted by me, he deletes it". How did you get to know this?

Seun:

It's like saying, "if Seun sees a pornographic picture posted by me, he deletes it". How did you get to know this?

Thanks jare Seun!!!!
Babasin, can you see the logical wisdom in Seun's analogy or you are still busy reading English upside down?

Atiku is corrupt thats a well known fact but OBJ, yaradua and all the others are corrupt too.

@Mazaje,

You live in Cyprus before?

How is the place? 

I am visiting for 2wks holiday in Summer. Can you give me info about Larnaca, Phafos etc?

I watched the programme too. Though i hate that shameless fool i felt sad he degraded the Vice president's office so much in the CNN. He accepted he was a thief!

is that the kind of leader we want?he is just a shameless thief, ole, o jo ole reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

all the people wey no allow 9ja develop, na all dem children bo go ever get peace in Jesus' name

@batu

thank you jare! see how the thief confesses with his own mouth? its a pity. No more investigation , he has confessed case closed Ole Barawo!

thx batu,  while we're not condoling thuggery or stealing,  those who are publicly indicted for stealing should not be allowed to hold any public post.  Atiku can not and will not rule 9ja. Most of the time we do turn blind eye to the truth. 

While the present govt. may not be the best we clamour 4, do we realize the profileration of information technology "GSM and Internet" gained the support of the govt through policies and availabilities of machineries to facilitate these trends.       

As much as we have access to govt info bits-by-bits, it'll be difficult to continue stealing.

now that he has uncounciously admitted stealing our money,what should we do to him?abi make we sweep the case under the carpet like those before it?make una no forget say under the carpet don FULL o.

olutomiwa:

now that he has uncounciously admitted stealing our money,what should we do to him?abi make we sweep the case under the carpet like those before it?make una no forget say under the carpet don FULL o.

lmao na true ooh

technically he could not have been referring to himself, because the so called 'corruption' he is accused of carrying out (PTDF drama) happened when he was part and parcel of the PDP, and still in Obj's good books. In fact since he went into the 'opposition' (after the third term imbroglio) he was systematically stripped of all duties and authority in the govt, essentially becoming a ceremonial figure - VP in name only. hence his access to funds, even official vehicles were cut off, so he could not have engaged in 'corruption' (at least not in govt circles) while he was in the opposition.

considering the above assertion, he has NOT implicated himself, the only thing he highlighted was the present govt's selective prosecution of corruption cases, in line with the perceived 'friendliness' to the current govt (read OBJ) or otherwise.

I await logical rebuttals

i disagree oh! they are not as smart and sophisticated as you think, leave me in a room with that atiku for 5min and he will sing like a bird

your abilities or skills in an enclosed space with a man are not what I'm interested in sisi

I want a logical rebuttal

well sorry to tell you what you propose as logic up there is far from it. i am simply injecting some humour to cheer myself up, a i can rememeber u gave me a chill pill right? and my comment is not suggestive in anyway too, i meant torture
i still disagree, Atiku is not as sophisticated or smart as you may think. Batu's post is clear and this seem like alot of beating around the bush all in the name of logic. the staement he made was clear no ifs no buts about it

I didn't say there were any ifs or buts about it, but the fact is that when you are a member of the ruling party, you can hardly be regarded as being in the 'opposition' which is what he stated. That cannot in anyway be construed as a self incriminating statement, since his 'corrupt' actions predate his opposition status.

you sure?
well lets agree to disagree

thank God he has fail, if not he will just amend constitution and LEGALISE CORRUPTION when we are yet to recover from Maradona's own.

lol

It is a pity that our system in this country encourages stealing, because it lacks proper accountability and in the end we will all discuss these issues and nothing will be done about them. Almost every body in government is there because of their personal gains, I do not see any difference in OBJ AND ATIKU. I can give you examples:
a.  TRANSCUP( )
b.  Arik AIR
c.  Private university
d.  NITEL's bid was already won by ORASCOM Telecoms before transcorp came in.
e. Why are we not saying anything about those allegation Atiku made agaist OBJ


I THINK THESE OFFICES SHOULD BE MADE UNATTRACTIVE JUST LIKE THE SALARIES THEY PAY OUR LECTURES,HOW  COULD SOMEONE KILL HIS OPPONENT IF HE TRUELY WANT TO SERVE THE PEOPLE.

Obj and Atiku are the same but Obj is d main man.

The Obasanjo is just like a pot telling a kettle "hey you're black" .
He and Atiku are both corrupt.

OBJ is old news now guys, * i think, i hope *

LOL

Yeah he is old news.Jst a matter of days.E go carry im big belle comot for Aso Rock.Dey need to disinfect dt place when he leaves cos of d kain disease and smell wey d place don suffer for d last eight years.@ last d farmer is going back to his farm.In some months d third term hes always wanted he will have it in Kirikiri and dt one is extendedable.He doesnt need d house for dt.Wicked man.

haba! 9ja4eva why now? leave baba alone

OBJ should be one of the most corrupt president Nigeria has ever had. His regime made the most money and left behind darkness, bad roads, insecurity, and the freeest and fairest erection in Nigeria's history, ATK is corrupt but no one can rival OBJ's corruption. What was OBJ's worth as at 1999 compare it to now and see the percentage increase.
Obj is just using the machinery of the state to label anybody corrupt including Mimiko that EFCC later absolved of all blame.

OBJ might be going but he is leaving his puppet behind to cover his smelling tracks

sisimose:

haba! 9ja4eva why now? leave baba alone

Am nt holding him oh.D havoc he commitd will haunt him.D cries of d people will always be dere for him.

its not easy o.