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nah Atiku dey sponsored Boko Haram and KANU BSS TERRORIST

Hofbrauhaus:
Atiku can never be president.

Never say NEVER friend, the rejected stone will become Nigeria's pillar to greatness. Give me an Atiku over any bigot.

Anybody who disagrees with Buhar is now an Ipob supporter?
Sad

I will support Atiku when he contests for presidency 2019

ZombiePUNISHER:
This is buhari's time
Everything is about tribe
Everybody is a tribal bigot

I don't really blame them though
This country has never been this divided

Hello! You guys started it. Remember?

Warrisdis dis atiku sayin U wee kee OBJ,Murder Buhari,Wash Ursef publicly with Omo 10hands wash and Hysop to be clean of all charges,Den u can b president of Adamawa state

Atiku has done well to sympathize. But then has not answer the question, it happen in tofa too and you are silent.

Atiku can simply reply I wasnt aware of tofa incident. His answer is not in conformity with the question talking of children death.
how is children lives better than that of Adult ? They are all the same. So no need to tell us children die dax y you re sympathizing.

Hmmmm

biacan:
This government are always looking for who to put the blame of their misfortune at

wetin concern govt? u r confused

Biafran president

Which kind of govt is this, we are talking of human life and some people are politicizing it.

Why can't this APC Twitter warriors let peace reign. Ever since bubu's wife threw a party for them, they seem to e-attack anybody and everybody on social media.

BudeYahooCom:
The Hayatu guy is just a cantankerous APC zombie.

This your grammar shaa

GoroTango:
Hello! You guys started it. Remember?

Northerners ad the rest of Nigeria should better rally around people like atiku,not just atiku but anyone that can unify the country once again.

Benekruku:



Hazard will still score tonight!

n guy abeg I play under

Benekruku:



Hazard will still score tonight!

n guy abeg I play under

AkupeMBANO:
Atiku remains the most civilised northerner of all times. I'm not campaigning for him for anything but you Must give him some credits when it comes to acting reasonable. though he made one unreasonable decision some years ago by supporting a burukutu sipping dullard ignoramus against a PhD holder. but i believe once in a life time we make errors but that dosnt mean we are no longer smart or brilliant.


Buhari's emergence is also good, because for you to build something more modern and magnificent, you must demolish. buhari has currently demolished this nation, watch out for the new Nigeria soonest. I still have faith in Nigeria.

Baba,make dem no dupe u again,na so dem Polish Buhari like a messier,dis one too don start,we can't fall again for any deception

BudeYahooCom:
The Hayatu guy is just a cantankerous APC zombie.

lol no be only cantankerous my guy...also counter attack is involved.i rest my case

Atiku is gradually getting the support of the igbos

AkupeMBANO:
Atiku remains the most civilised northerner of all times. I'm not campaigning for him for anything but you Must give him some credits when it comes to acting reasonable. though he made one unreasonable decision some years ago by supporting a burukutu sipping dullard ignoramus against a PhD holder. but i believe once in a life time we make errors but that dosnt mean we are no longer smart or brilliant.


Buhari's emergence is also good, because for you to build something more modern and magnificent, you must demolish. buhari has currently demolished this nation, watch out for the new Nigeria soonest. I still have faith in Nigeria.

u mean the ogogoro sipping phd holder who is bin controlled by a woman...

Hofbrauhaus:
Atiku can never be president.

Same thing they said about Buhari. You people have yet to understand that in democracy power belongs to the people

clevadani:
Some people are truly senseless.
Atiku seems to be making the right moves on social media. But he needs to do more to convince Nigerians. Atiku and dieziani are the face of corruption in Nigeria.

And Buhari, Baru, Tinubu etc are the real saints abi?

Continue with the HYPOCRISY AND DOUBLE STANDARD.

stephanie11:
Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, condemned a Twitter user, Adamu Hayatu, who attacked him for sympathizing with victims of a recent tanker explosion in Abia state and accused him of angling to be the supreme leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra(IPOB).

The Turakin Adamawa had taken to Twitter to mourn the victims of the horrible accident, stating; "I read about the tanker that fell in Ehere, outside Aba with a heavy heart. I pray the children and families are ok."

This message didn't augur well with Hayatu who fired the former VP saying that a similar incident happened in Northern area called Tafa which Atiku did not comment on.

He tweeted; "Tafa too last week, seems you want to deputize for Supreme Leader in Biafra alone."

Atiku fired back stating; "This is a very shameful tweet, my young friend. Children were hurt in that accident. Our only response should be sympathy."

https://politicsngr.com/2017/10/18/atiku-responds-allegation-supreme-leader-ipob/

SUPREME FUGITIVE

United States Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Investigations Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Keeping Foreign Corruption Out of the United States: Four Case Histories
Thursday, February 4, 2010
WASHINGTON – Corrupt foreign officials and their relatives have used gaps in U.S. law and the assistance of U.S. professionals to funnel millions of dollars in illicit money into the United States, an investigation by the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has found.

“For the United States, which has so much riding on global stability, corruption is a direct threat to our national interest,” said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., subcommittee chairman. “That’s why the United States is engaged in a relentless, worldwide battle to stop the flow of illegal money into and within places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Laundered money is used to train and provide support for terrorists and terrorism. If we want to credibly lead efforts to stop illegal money abroad, we’ve got to stop it here at home as well.”

A 330-page bipartisan report to be released by Levin and subcommittee ranking member Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., at today’s hearing shows that politically powerful foreign officials, and those close to them, have found ways to use the U.S. financial system to protect and enhance their ill-gotten gains. The report exposes how those powerful individuals – known internationally as “politically exposed persons” or PEPs – have used the services of U.S. lawyers, lobbyists, real estate and escrow agents, and other professionals who currently have no obligation under U.S. regulations to establish anti-money laundering (“AML”) programs, know their customers, or evaluate the source of funds transferred into the United States. Banks, in contrast, are subject to AML obligations and for the most part have honored them. But glaring gaps have undermined the overall effectiveness of U.S. AML laws.

Four Case Histories. The report presents four case histories, each with multiple stories exposing the tactics being used by PEPs to use our financial system to protect and enhance their illicit funds. They include the following:

• $110 Million. Teodoro Obiang, the 40-year old son of the President of Equatorial Guinea, is currently under investigation by the Justice Department for corruption and other misconduct. Between 2004 and 2008, Mr. Obiang used U.S. lawyers, bankers, and real estate and escrow agents to move more than $110 million in suspect funds through U.S. bank accounts, including $30 million to purchase a residence in Malibu and $38.5 million to purchase an aircraft.

• Third Party Accounts. Mr. Obiang used shell company, attorney-client, and law office accounts controlled by his attorneys to bring suspect funds into the United States and conduct transactions through U.S. banks without their knowing of his activity, including at banks that had made it clear they did not want his business.

• Lost Escrow Business. An escrow agent who refused to complete the purchase of a $38.5 million Gulfstream jet without information on the source of the funds being supplied by Mr. Obiang, lost out to a competitor willing to complete the transaction with no questions asked.

• $18 Million Through Lobbyist Account. Omar Bongo, President of Gabon for 41 years until his death last year, and his eldest son, Ali Bongo, Minister of Defense until he took his father’s place as President of the country, amassed substantial wealth while in office, amid the extreme poverty of its citizens. In 2006, $18 million in funds from Gabon were wired to the U.S. corporate bank accounts of a U.S. lobbyist who then distributed the funds within the United States and across the globe as directed by President Bongo in connection with two projects to support his regime, buying U.S.-made armored cars and C-130 military cargo planes. Among the funds the lobbyist distributed was $9.2 million which he wire transferred to an account for President Omar Bongo – not in Gabon – but in the country of Malta.

• $1 Million Shrink Wrapped. In 2007, President Omar Bongo brought $1 million in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into the United States under cover of diplomatic immunity without declaring the cash to U.S. authorities as required by law. His daughter, who told her bank that she was an unemployed student, deposited the cash in a U.S. safe deposit box and later into her bank account.

• U.S. Trust Accounts. President Ali Bongo’s wife formed a U.S. trust under her maiden name, and used the trust to open U.S. bank and securities accounts in California.

• Offshore Wire Transfers. Jennifer Douglas, a U.S. citizen and the fourth wife of Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and former presidential candidate in Nigeria, helped her husband bring more than $40 million in suspect funds into the United States from 2000 to 2008, through wire transfers from offshore corporations. The Securities and Exchange Commission has alleged in a 2008 civil complaint that Ms. Douglas received $2.8 million in bribe payments from a German conglomerate, Siemens AG, which has acknowledged making the payments.

• Arms Dealer. Pierre Falcone, a notorious Angolan arms dealer with a history of run-ins with the law and who is currently serving a 6-year prison sentence, had open access to more than 30 U.S. bank accounts in Arizona for 18 years.

• Central Banker. Aguinaldo Jaime, former head of the Central Bank of Angola, tried twice to transfer $50 million in Angolan government funds to a private account in the United States, only to have the transfers reversed by U.S. financial institutions who became suspicious. The corruption concerns raised by his actions caused Citibank to close all accounts for Angolan government agencies and to close down its office in Angola.

• Private Angolan Bank. Banco Africano Investimentos (“BAI”), a $7 billion private Angolan bank which caters to PEPs, gained access to the U.S. financial system through HSBC in New York, despite troubling information about its ownership and failure to provide a copy of its anti-money laundering policies and procedures.

Recommendations. To combat the abuses, the report makes several recommendations, including:
•World Bank PEP Controls. Implementing stronger controls on PEP accounts as laid out in a recent World Bank report, including by requiring banks to use reliable databases to screen clients for PEPs, requiring beneficial ownership forms for bank accounts so hidden PEPs are exposed, and conducting annual reviews of PEP accounts to detect suspicious activity.
•Beneficial Owners. Requiring U.S. corporations to identify their beneficial owners, in order to thwart the use of shell companies with hidden PEP owners.
•Ending Exemptions. Ending the exemptions Treasury granted in 2002 to the Patriot Act’s anti-money laundering requirements, so that real estate and escrow agents will have to know their customers, evaluate the source of their funds, and turn away suspect clients. Also requiring Treasury to instruct banks to subject attorney-client and law office accounts to greater oversight and stop their use to shield PEPs from scrutiny.
•Immigration and Visa Criteria. Toughening immigration and visa rules to make foreign corruption a legal basis for barring entry into the United States and for removing PEPs already here. Increasing law enforcement support for Presidential Proclamation 7750 to identify corrupt foreign officials who should be barred from the United States.
•Stronger FATF Recommendations. Encouraging U.S. professional organizations to issue anti-money laundering and anti-corruption guidance to their members.

“Stopping the flow of illegal money is critical, because foreign corruption damages civil society, undermines the rule of law, and threatens our security,” said Levin.
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OgologoDimkpa:
Anything is possible ! If you people can bring Buhari a monumental failure to become Nigerians president, anything is possible

You mean Nigerians can still vote for failure second time?

This whole thing reeks of a Staged attempt at making atiku a polite polithiefian and a recurring figure in the minds of the Nigerian populace.

The trick no go work, atiku doesn't stand for true restructuring(resource control) and such, he getting nothing from his targeted subjects with this gimmick.

Nigerians make una shine una eyes...

Dis hayatu when u lost all members of ur family pls don't Waite for condolence cos by den nobody will give a Bleep, u think to lost a child is easy, I pray it falls on you soon fool

IN ATIKU,I SEE THE FACE OF THE NEXT NIGERIAN PRESIDENT. 07054142412

want to use this medium to call on the Nigerian Identification Number Commission ( Not sure what their official name is) NIMC please you guys need to go to
your registration centre at GTBANK OBA AKRAN, IKEJA, LAGOS STATE and see the massive corruption your so called agent is perpetrating.
I don't know this guy from Adam neither do I have anything against him, and no he didn't woo me, all I'm saying is we complain about bad administration in Nigeria and we keep mute and Watch such evil go on under our noses.
In fact this guy would ask customers to call him, then he'll start giving you some rooster and bull stories of how he can expedite your ID card for a token .
He is rude to people who come to register and would ask them to pay 500 naira to get forms. If you don't pay, you're sidelined
This is his number he gives to people to call so he can get some kind of Benefit from them 07089222694.
I am only writing this cause I chose not to keep quiet when evil is been perpetrated around me and I do not seek to soil any body's image. I only speak the truth.
OPENED A NEW MONIKER FOR THIS
Please share this so it gets to the right quarters

where is the love? politics has removed sense and human sympathy from our hearts

No

nairavsdollars:
The way Atiku responds to every post on social media hen, he will tweet more than Trump if voted president

It doesn't follow

Nigeria is fvcked up see tribalism comment in NL

Day by day hate speech is increasing

if this country will not be in peace let any people that want to go should go

and NL should answer this question why is it that Nigeria don't want Biafra to go

Nigeria tire me I swear

N

clevadani:
Some people are truly senseless.
Atiku seems to be making the right moves on social media. But he needs to do more to convince Nigerians. Atiku and dieziani are the face of corruption in Nigeria.

What of Bola Tinubu, obj, ibb, abdulsalam abubakar, etc?