Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has rechristened himself a democrat yesterday, a democrat today and a democrat tomorrow — and forever.

But that self-canonization, clearly to lift the badly bruised Atikulated army, from delusional and delirious expectations, could not hide the Atikulated jeremiad, issuing from Atiku’s Dubai lair, in the face of his judicial routing at the Supreme Court.

On the aggregate, it was a 12-0 routing — all five judges at the Presidential Election Tribunal; and all seven justices on the Supreme Court appeal panel, dismissed the petition.

The tribunal’s was clearly the longest and most elaborate judgment in Nigerian presidential election history, which reading lasted no less than nine hours. The Supreme Court’s was clearly the shortest, a three-paragraph dismissal, perhaps read in less than two minutes!

That has, of course, left our Atiku hopping mad, cocking a snook at the Judiciary (for allegedly being under the stifling control of a “cabal”), seeing nothing but Armageddon anywhere he faces on the Nigerian plain, and even lionizing and canonizing the 16 years of PDP rule.

Not a few regard those years — and rightly too — as years of brazen power and wasted opportunities, which the peripatetic Atiku himself joined hands, with the then opposition APC alliance, to electorally overthrow. Four years later, after being trumped at the polls and in the courts, Atiku got a new epiphany: the PDP years were the best in everything!

Well, Festus Keyamo, SAN, minister of state for Labour and Employment, and a clear Atiku nemesis on the partisan political front, has hurled back one of the sweetest — or bitterest — ripostes: “the Dubai strategy,” he declared in his impish tweet, “has turned a tragedy”! Ouch, that hurts! But it is sweetest music to Atiku’s partisan traducers.

Talking of traducing: is any traducing more serious than self-traducing? Come to think of it, the whole Atiku campaign, from the PDP ticket win, to the vote itself and the judicial challenge, has been hinged on grand delusion.

Atiku clearly lost an election. But he declared himself the fictional — sorry, “server” –winner; and proclaimed missing a “stolen mandate” in the most comical sense of the word. In court, he put on the most shambolic proof of his comical claim. So bathetic was the tragi-comedy that opposing presidential, APC and INEC lawyers even gifted themselves the luxury of shutting out own witnesses, cocksure Atiku’s fumbling witnesses had done most of the job, by wilting under cross-examination!

With the tribunal’s long and comprehensive verdict, Atiku should have thrown in the towel, but no! His in-house traducers goaded him on to appeal. Appeal against what, exactly?

It’s true, of the classic propaganda: a lie told most often becomes the new “truth”. In this case, however, only Atiku and his delusional camp believed their own wilful lie — and sunk with it!

At the end of the day, Atiku’s nadir won’t be his presidential loss (elections are won and lost). But how he danced virtually in the naked, tarring everything in sight, kicking and lashing out, in comic anger, for failing to recover what he never lost.

Was this a new political hustler in town or a former Vice President of the Federal Republic? It’s true as the psychologists say: you never locate the true essence of a man, until he is mired in crisis!

https://www.nairapark.com/news/1572603019/supreme-court-judgment-atiku-rechristened-self

Presenting the bitter truth in a comic way so that concern persons would find courage to swallow.
In summary, Atiku is not coming.

amaechi1:
Presenting the bitter truth in a comic way so that concern persons would find courage to swallow.
In summary, Atiku is not coming.

Where is Farah Aideed, like for Atiku, share for Buhari mumus, una eyes done clear?