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Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by Chochovini: 11:18pm On Oct 08, 2018
Melison:
Hmmm 2019 won't be funny .
. At all. That‘s a fact.
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by Chochovini: 11:31pm On Oct 08, 2018
abduljabbar4:
may all of the thunders raised to power 100000000 strike megrin
You guys are so ignorant that you dont know which one is harmful between thunder and LIGHTENING.
.
I actually meant to say Thunder and it‘s Lightning associates. But was so earger to send you that because of the irretation I got after going through your useless comment that I never even bother to cross checked my mention. In any case, you‘re very very disgusting.
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by SaintNemesis(f): 11:32pm On Oct 08, 2018
He won't dare arrest you, we know it's because that table he will be shaking has his PTDF scam as well as his wife Aisha Buhari as well as his deputy Ibe Kachikwu's Dumebi all standing on it.
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by losky83: 11:35pm On Oct 08, 2018
Ecstasy154:
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar says President Muhammadu Buhari would have ordered his arrest if he had evidence of corruption against him.

In a statement issued on his behalf by his campaign organisation, Abubakar said his emergence has thrown the camp of Buhari into confusion.

He also dismissed the allegation of the Buhari Campaign Organisation that he clinched the ticket of the opposition party as a result of financial inducement.

Abubakar said while he came out the top in a keenly contested exercise, such could not be said of Buhari.

“We are not surprised that there is confusion in the President’s camp. We expected that they would be thrown into a catatonic state knowing that HE Atiku Abubabakr’s emergence automatically means the coming end of their ignominious reign,” he said.

“That much was admitted by the President’s former running mate, Pastor Tunde Bakare when he praised the emergence of HE Atiku as an ‘Eagle’ and ‘a cosmopolitan wazobia’ politician. Obviously, Pastor Tunde Bakare has foreseen that the era of 97% versus 5% has come to an end with the emergence of the pan Nigerian Atiku Abubakar.

“We ask how can the Buhari Campaign Organisation disparage the PDP Primary that produced His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, when even the President’s own wife, Aisha Buhari, has condemned the APC’s primary? Not only did Mrs Buhari condemn APC’s primaries, but she also described them as ‘unfair’ and lacking in integrity. Who can know President Buhari better than his wife.

“Eleven aspirants contested against His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, during the Presidential primary of the PDP. Every single one of them accepted his victory. President Buhari was the only candidate cleared by the APC to contest its primary, yet, a coalition of 5 aspirants are challenging his victory, that alone tells Nigerians his emergence is fraudulent.

“Nigerians know that Atiku Abubakar is the most investigated politician in Nigeria and any smear by the Buhari administration remains just that. With the vindictiveness of President Buhari, he would have arrested HE Abubakar if he had been found wanting.

“However, to set the record straight, we want to remind Nigerians that PDP’s primaries were genuine, free and fair. Atiku Abubakar got 1,532 votes in a contest televised live to millions of Nigerians. The All Progressives Congress’ primary, on the other hand, was a study in dictatorship and corruption. The sole candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, scored almost 15 million votes. How could that occur without rigging or manufacturing of faceless voters?”

Abubakar said various acts of corruption were being committed under the current administration, which he said caused Transparency International to classify the country as more corrupt now than it was three years ago.

He said the choice before Nigerians was between a candidate who has provided over 50,000 jobs to people in his personal capacity and the other under whom 11 million Nigerians have lost their jobs.

“No wonder Transparency International rated Nigeria as more corrupt today under Buhari than just three years ago when the PDP was in power,” he said.

“The scandals are too numerous, including the $25 billion NNPC contracts awarded without due process, the several padded budgets, the $41 million Ikoyi Apartment scandal, the recall, reinstatement and double promotion of pension thief and Buhari financier, Abdulrasheed Maina, the N200 million grass cutter scandal, and many others too numerous to mention.

“The choice before Nigerians in 2019 is a simple one. Nigerians have a choice of electing a lively candidate with a record of providing 50,000 jobs to Nigerians in his private capacity versus the lifelessness (apologies to President Donald Trump) of a candidate under whom Nigeria lost 11 million jobs and became the world headquarters for extreme poverty.

“Nigerians have a choice of a man who will provide an efficient and business-friendly solution to the herdsmen crisis and a man whose government said ‘giving land for cattle ranching is better than death.”

“It is very obvious that faced with such a choice that Nigerians would definitely vote for the man who will Get Nigeria Working Again, hence we are not surprised by this desperate statement from the Buhari administration that is so shameless that they made a man implicated in framing a man of God on spurious charges as their spokesman. If he can lie against a man of God, should Nigerians believe anything he says about the PDP and its candidate?”

https://www.thecable.ng/atiku-buhari-would-have-arrested-me-if-i-am-corrupt/amp
bros,I read only ur first paragraph b4 I confirm set u bi runaway goat wey no fit separate good very evil.c ur head like PDP shrine port handle
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by GuntersChain(m): 11:35pm On Oct 08, 2018
When will they register the first communist party.
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by milemimi93(m): 11:41pm On Oct 08, 2018
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CROWNWEALTH019:
Even if your fathers name is CORRUPTION SENIOR, MY HOUSEHOLD WILL VOTE FOR YOU.... APC oshi wo


I WAS DISCUSSING WITH SOME NIGERIANS THIS EVEN INSIDE KEKE, AND THE DRIVER RAISED THIS ATIKU ISSUE. WE ALL AGREED THAT ANYBODY WILL BEAT BUHARI. THE DRIVER WENT ON TO TELL US HOW HE WAS DISCUSSING WITH HIS PASSANGERS AND ONE SAID HE WANTS BUHARI TO CONTINUE, THE NEXT THING HE DID WAS TO STOP THE KEKE AND ASKED THE MAN TO GET OUT OF HIS KEKE. THATS THE LEVEL WE ARE NOW. FAILURE WILL DIE IN JESUS NAME
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stop postin fake stories to gain likes from ur fellow idiotic pigs..


Buhari will rule u till 2023..
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by milemimi93(m): 11:46pm On Oct 08, 2018
FarahAideed:
There is no file anywhere ..Atiku is clean
Let him steps his feet in the US
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by micflo28(m): 11:48pm On Oct 08, 2018
The issue that should be in the front burner of any serious government is restructuring. We need make a china out of South East, North an agricultural hub and south west a mining epicenter. Every region must be give the opportunity to grow at its pace. We can no longer survive only on the proceeds of oil alone. A population edging towards 500milion is no joke and more resources must be uncovered and development made more rapid to ensure all round growth. I hoped we could get a consistent developer in Buhari but it seems he has failed in this respect. Lets join hands and rescue nigeria for a lofty future with atiku.
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by FarahAideed: 11:52pm On Oct 08, 2018
milemimi93:
Let him steps his feet in the US
Buhari that has gone what did he bring for you?
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by Bukola03(f): 11:53pm On Oct 08, 2018
Goodday everyone, I usually don't do this God is my witness, But I feel so helpless and depressed. I'm in debt, I need N350,000 in less than two months. My mum is sick and I need to pay my school fee in order to get my certificate in school.... I'm not a lazy person, please even if it's a job, I can do any thing as far it responsible and it will raise me the money I want, even if you give me a loan and I will work for for as long as you want. Please may God bless you
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by AtikuIsSure(m):
Atiku 2019
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by milemimi93(m): 11:56pm On Oct 08, 2018
FarahAideed:
Buhari that has gone what did he bring for you?
The day I saw ur comments on that NAF jets crashed thread, I saw u as d most intelligent dude on this forum but since I saw u supportin these criminals I began to wonder if u are d same dude who made d comments on that NAF jets crashed thread or another person..
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by FarahAideed: 12:13am On Oct 09, 2018
milemimi93:
The day I saw ur comments on that NAF jets crashed thread, I saw u as d most intelligent dude on this forum but since I saw u supportin these criminals I began to wonder if u are d same dude who made d comments on that NAF jets crashed thread or another person..
Abeg no vex but I have never hidden my disdain for Buharis style of leadership which I personally blame for 80 percent of the rot Nigeria is today (Thanks to his needless coup that ousted Shagari) ...If anybody ever told me I campaign for Atiku I would have slapped the person but Buharis poor performance has made change all that... I have been a lifelong Buharist for most of my life till date because I grew hearing my father saying "only if they had given Buhari more time" , most of my life I have always prayed for Nigerians to elect Buhari as president not because I expected him to change Nigeria over night but I thought he had the integrity to required to give some semblance and equity and balance to the system but with 1 year of his administration I knew he was going to be a disaster because instead of a man of integrity what I saw was a dangerous cunning character filled with incompetence, divisiveness, low IQ, poor judgement, nepotism, wickedness , unspeakable evil and many more mind boggling negative characteristics which made me go back and study his past and I found he is actually responsible for 80bpercent of the rot Nigeria is today ..witg the same vane I also went back and studied Atikus past and I found out Atiku was not as bad as he had been portrayed and it was then I actually found out the source of his wealth which is Intels yes intels ...I would actually prefer a PAT Utomi but given the huge task ahead of us to remove Buhari Atiku is our best option and I am optimistic he will surprise Nigerians with better governance than we have seen in a while ... Buhari is not good for any Nigerian I tell you
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by MurphyTheory99(m): 12:35am On Oct 09, 2018
CROWNWEALTH019:
Even if your fathers name is CORRUPTION SENIOR, MY HOUSEHOLD WILL VOTE FOR YOU.... APC oshi wo


I WAS DISCUSSING WITH SOME NIGERIANS THIS EVEN INSIDE KEKE, AND THE DRIVER RAISED THIS ATIKU ISSUE. WE ALL AGREED THAT ANYBODY WILL BEAT BUHARI. THE DRIVER WENT ON TO TELL US HOW HE WAS DISCUSSING WITH HIS PASSANGERS AND ONE SAID HE WANTS BUHARI TO CONTINUE, THE NEXT THING HE DID WAS TO STOP THE KEKE AND ASKED THE MAN TO GET OUT OF HIS KEKE. THATS THE LEVEL WE ARE NOW. FAILURE WILL DIE IN JESUS NAME
Oga you just copied this stuff from social media and paste it here as if you were the one that wrote it.
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by grandstar(m): 12:35am On Oct 09, 2018
omohayek:
Is Atiku a Born-Again Christian now? Ode!
These people really don't realize that religion does not divide Yoruba's.

Both adherents of Islam and Christendom are secular and open minded.

Religion is at most a minor irritant during elections and in most cases a non-issue
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by socialmediaman: 12:47am On Oct 09, 2018
sorom4:
Even if Atiku is a direct descendant of Lucifer and a cousin to the devil himself and best friends with Judas, we will try him.Even if he is a paternal uncle to Cain, a distant cousin to Achan, Ananias and Saphira , an elder brother to Pharaoh, a nephew to Herod, Delilah's boyfriend or Portipher's wife's ex-boyfriend, we will still try him. If he ends up like "baba nepotism, recession, 5 percent and 95 percent stereotyping", we will vote him out in 2023. We will keep voting out any error till we get the real deal.Aso rock is nobody's permanent inheritance. We have tried Mr Saint and have seen what he stands for.For now, someone should just get set to focus on raising cows in Daura.


LET'S ATIKULATE
Hahahahahaha this got me laughing

Buhari is running for second term to save himself of embarrassment as a failed leader. He can’t stand being mocked and he hasn’t finished dealing with Dasuki and his former enemies who cut short his first dictatorship
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by nijanigga: 12:48am On Oct 09, 2018
Mr Atiku Buhari doesn't have to arrest you,if visit USA before the elections then 1,000 votes for you through my efforts.
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by socialmediaman: 12:51am On Oct 09, 2018
nijanigga:
Mr Atiku Buhari doesn't have to arrest you,if visit USA before the elections then 1,000 votes for you through my efforts.
Hope I remember to revisit this comment when he visits the US. The US doesn’t need to wait for him to travel there, they have extradition agreement with the UK and they could’ve arrested him all the while he was traveling to the UK. I suspect maybe he was refused a VISA to the US and he decided not to try again
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by nijanigga: 12:55am On Oct 09, 2018
socialmediaman:
Hope I remember to revisit this comment when he visits the US. The US doesn’t need to wait for him to travel there, they have extradition agreement with the UK and they could’ve arrested him all the while he was traveling to the UK. I suspect maybe he was refused a VISA and he decided not to try again
it's ok he has a house in MD yet he can't even visit despite paying thousands in property taxes for his house,let him go for a vacation in US.I don't care about any existing treaty ,let him cast any doubt and pay US a visit.
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by sorom4: 1:04am On Oct 09, 2018
AdeMavrodi:
Can u imagine a Nigerian saying this. After 4years now ur eyes will clear u'll start complaining. Be progressive in speech
So what is your take? Who progressive epp for the past 3 years? Mtchew
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by Jsaviour(f): 1:09am On Oct 09, 2018
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by Rajosh(m): 1:27am On Oct 09, 2018
Buhari didn't arrest Atiku because he was in APC and if you're in APC, your sins are forgiven. He only decamped a few months ago and Buhari knows that Arresting him now will affect his(Buhari) own popularity with the masses.
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by RevenGeMission: 1:33am On Oct 09, 2018
Mentality of a LiePod yoooot, i am sure your father if he's still alive is still being owed his pension , the pension that's been paid over and over again that corrupt moguls have been eating up , now , you are free to select / choose / vote for more pain

While you are at it , google Congressman William Jefferson and learn lesson

CROWNWEALTH019:
Even if your fathers name is CORRUPTION SENIOR, MY HOUSEHOLD WILL VOTE FOR YOU.... APC oshi wo


I WAS DISCUSSING WITH SOME NIGERIANS THIS EVEN INSIDE KEKE, AND THE DRIVER RAISED THIS ATIKU ISSUE. WE ALL AGREED THAT ANYBODY WILL BEAT BUHARI. THE DRIVER WENT ON TO TELL US HOW HE WAS DISCUSSING WITH HIS PASSANGERS AND ONE SAID HE WANTS BUHARI TO CONTINUE, THE NEXT THING HE DID WAS TO STOP THE KEKE AND ASKED THE MAN TO GET OUT OF HIS KEKE. THATS THE LEVEL WE ARE NOW. FAILURE WILL DIE IN JESUS NAME
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by udemzyudex(m): 1:43am On Oct 09, 2018
yemaldo:
U better not let efcc uproot ur files
You fit go assist them naa
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by Nobody:
femu:
It's most likely a visa ban

If he is wanted by America they would have extradited him long ago
He needs to clear his name in the u.s first. Atikulate ko Atikulate ni. Atiku will sell Nigeria. However, Atiku still better pass Buhari except that he is dangerously corrupt. He and his wife Jennifer will sell Nigeria.
2019 options
1) Smart but dangerously corrupt individual
2) Unsmart and mumu "Mr Integrity"



A luxury mansion co-owned by former Vice Presiden Atiku Abubakar, and his fourth wife, Jennifer Douglas, in the posh neighbourhood of Potomac, Maryland, United States, has been auctioned.

The property gained international notoriety in 2005 after it was searched by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in connection with a bribery scandal involving disgraced former U.S. Congressman, William Jefferson.

The seven-bedroom cream-coloured single family brick house on 9731 Sorrel Ave, Potomac, Maryland, was originally listed for $3.25 million on Zillow and other online real estate websites on January 25, 2018. It was eventually sold for a pending offer of $2.95 million on February 26, 2018 after an online auction.

A pending offer means a buyer and seller of the property have reached a deal. However, a buyer can still pull out from the deal (which is very unlikely) if they cannot resolve issues like cost of repairs or they cannot get a bank to approve a loan for the purchase of the property.

Atiku and his wife bought the 7,131 square feet house in December 1999 for $1.75 million. Built in 1988, the house was described on Zillow as one of the finest in the tony neighbourhood of Falconhurst, Potomac, where houses are valued between $2 million and $10 million.

The Atikus’ mansion is a colonial-style building that sits in the middle of a 2.3 acres premises of lush green trees. The mansion has a total of 21 rooms, multiple terraces which are said to be ideal for outdoor parties, a pool sauna, a gazebo, a gourmet kitchen and an outdoor swimming pool.

Sources with knowledge of the state of the mansion but who requested not to be named because they did not want to be publicly associated with this story, said the Atikus had not lived in the mansion since the politician left office as vice president in 2007.

One source told PREMIUM TIMES that after 2007, house service staff lived in the mansion for some years, but the place was later locked up, and had remained unoccupied.

Atiku's US mansion [Photo Credit: Zillow - www.zillow.com] Atiku's US mansion [Photo Credit: Zillow - www.zillow.com] Atiku's US mansion [Photo Credit: Zillow - www.zillow.com]
Tax records from the Montgomery County, Washington DC, show that Ms. Douglas consistently paid property taxes on the mansion from 1999 to 2016. She, however, is in default of $27,913.77 being that for 2017.

The house was not in foreclosure as it was paid for completely by the Atikus and available records showed that no bank loan was involved in its purchase.



Atiku's US mansion [Photo Credit: Zillow - www.zillow.com]
The sale of the mansion was not listed as a public auction, which is an auction done under a court order on behalf of government or its agencies.

There is also no evidence that the sale is connected to the now infamous 2005 case or any other unknown criminal investigations.

Paul Ibe, the spokesperson for the former VP told PREMIUM TIMES the sale of the mansion was voluntary and strictly an investment decision.

“Atiku Abubakar is a successful businessman who has a long history of real estate investments,” Mr. Ibe said in response to an enquiry by this newspaper.

“The U.S. home was simply one of such numerous investments. The home was no longer serving the purpose for which it was bought. Consequently, it has to be put up for sale via open auction, a growing and preferred method of selling high end properties. The proceeds thereof will be deployed to business aimed at creating jobs.”

Atiku has consistently denied any wrongdoing in the Jefferson corruption saga that led to the search of his home.

But the former vice president’s political rivals have always harped on that episode to discredit him.

What is more, the billionaire politician, believed to be nursing a fresh bid to become president of Nigeria in 2019 after several failed attempts, has not travelled to the U.S. for a long time. That has fuelled speculations that he might be avoiding a possible arrest or prosecution.

But in an interview with the BOSS newspaper last December, he explained he had made attempts to visit the U.S. but was turned down for administrative reasons.

“I applied but wasn’t issued a visa. However, they did not decline me categorically either. They’ve only said my application is going through administrative process. It is the sole prerogative of America to determine who they want in their country or not. I’m not running away from America,” he said.



Atiku, William Jefferson and the FBI Search Warrant

The sold property attracted international media attention in 2005 after the FBI videotaped Mr. Jefferson, who was the congressman representing Louisiana, receiving $100,000 worth of $100 bills in a leather briefcase as part payment of a $500,000 bribe allegedly demanded by Atiku, who was vice president at the time, to facilitate the award of contracts to some two American telecommunication firms in Nigeria.

On August 2, 2005, the FBI applied for a search warrant from William Connelly, a US judge in Maryland, to search the Potomac mansion.

A day after the affidavit was filed, the FBI raided the congressional office of Mr. Jefferson and discovered $90,000 “wrapped in aluminum foil and stuffed inside frozen-food containers” and hidden in a freezer. The serial numbers on the bill matched those the FBI had given to an informant.

Disgraced former U.S. Congressman, William Jefferson [Photo Credit: Pinterest]
The affidavit filed by FBI special agent, Edward Cooper, in support of the application for a search warrant of the Maryland home further revealed the details of the bribery scandal.

Mr. Cooper told the court that the search of the property was necessary because the FBI has probable cause to believe that the there are evidence of the violations of Title 18 United States Code, Section 201, which relates to the bribery of a public official; Title 18 United States Code, Sections 1343, 1346, and 1349, which deals with wire fraud, deprivation of honest service and scheme defraud.

Mr. Cooper also claimed that the evidence he sought in the Atikus’ mansion were believed to be in violation of Title 15, United States Code, Section 78dd-1, which deals with the bribery of a foreign official, Title 18 United States Code, Section371, which deals with the conspiracy to commit bribery and the bribery of a foreign official.

Mr. Cooper also listed the items to be seized from the mansion as:

1. Cash in $100 denominations or higher.

2. A new, reddish-brown coloured briefcase retailed or manufactured by Bosca.

3. A reddish-brown coloured cloth bag with two drawing strings on top of the bag.

4. All video recording devices, surveillance videotapes, CDs, digital media or any other electronic devices related to the surveillance of the house grounds, driveway and premises.



5. All recording of visitors to the premises recording arrival, departure or length of stay information.

6. All records, logs, schedule of employees or personnel working at the premises from Monday July 18, 2005 at 6 pm to the present.

7. Records, documents from January 2001 to the present relating to IGate incorporated, Rosecom.net, NDTV, Multimedia Broadband Services Inc, and W2 IBBS Limited.

8. All records and documents relating to communication to and from Atiku Abubakar and William Jefferson regarding the proposed business venture in Nigeria.

The bribery investigation started in March 2005 when a “cooperating witness”, who has since been identified as a Virginia-based businessman, Lori Mody, approached the FBI after he suspected that he had been a victim of a fraudulent scheme involving Mr Jefferson, Vernon Jackson, and Brett Pfeffer.

Mr. Mody told the FBI that he suspected that the trio were scheming to defraud him of $3.5 million using Mr. Jackson’s company, iGate Incorporated.

He said he paid the money to Mr Jackson, who had developed a technology that could enable the transmission of data, audio and video through copper called “Triple Play”, for its reacquisition from another company which had acquired it from iGate. However, Mr. Jackson, after collecting the money, could not produce proof that he had reacquired the technology.

He also told the FBI that Mr. Jefferson promised to assist him with his business dealings in Nigeria for a percent share of his business, which he directed to be issued in the names of his children.

At the time, Mr. Jefferson was a member of the congressional African Trade and Investment caucus as well as member of the congressional caucus for Nigeria.

The FBI revealed that Mr. Jefferson had already received a 30 per cent equity in a Nigerian company controlled by Mr. Mody in exchange for promoting communication equipment and services offered by iGate in Nigeria. Mr. Jefferson also requested that the 30 per cent stake be placed in a Nigerian company controlled by his children.

Atiku Abubakar
He was expected to use his influence to communicate with the Nigerian president and vice president to secure the business venture for iGate. The FBI said he wrote to Atiku seeking his assistance in overcoming opposition to iGate’s business venture from the defunct Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL).

“With regard to the Nigerian business venture, Jefferson has discussed the making of payments to high-ranking government officials there including the Vice President of Nigeria,” the affidavit stated.

“Congressman Jefferson met with the Vice President of Nigeria on July 18, 2005 in Potomac, Maryland. At the meeting the Vice President agreed to help secure the necessary approvals for the participants in the Nigerian business venture to commence operations in Nigeria in exchange for at least 50% of profit planned to be received by CW’s (Mr Mody, the cooperating witness) Nigerian partner,” he wrote.

The FBI also claimed that Mr. Jefferson discussed the payment of $500,000 to Atiku before the commencement of the Nigerian business operations. Video surveillance taken on July 30, 2005 at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City indicated that Mr. Jeffeson collected $100,000 in a leather briefcase (a reddis-brown Bosca briefcase) from Mr. Mody, which he allegedly claimed was to be given to Atiku to secure his support for the Nigerian business venture.

Two days later, Mr. Jefferson told Mr. Mody that he had delivered what he described as the “African art” to Atiku in the early hours of July 31, 2005.

Mr. Jefferson had originally suggested, in one of the two meetings with Mr Mody, where the possibility of bribing Atiku was discussed, that the alleged bribe should be paid into a foundation run by Ms. Douglas.

During the conversation Mr. Jefferson added that the stated aim of the foundation was to help Nigerian women. He however said the foundation was likely a front.

On the evening of July 18, 2005, the FBI stated that Mr. Jefferson visited Atiku and Ms. Douglas at their Potomac mansion and held a private meeting with the former vice president for approximately an hour.

At the end of the meeting Mr. Jefferson met with Mr. Mody at a restaurant and told him that Atiku agreed to help with securing the necessary approval for NITEL to participate in the iGate venture for a share of the profit to be earned by iGate’s Nigerian partner, Rosecom (Rosecom has a 25 per cent stake in the business) expected to earn from the business and a $500,000.00 described as “front end” payment.

Mr Jefferson also suggested that the money could be sent to Atiku through an investment in the stock market.

When eventually searched, no money was found in Atiku’s home, indicating Mr. Jefferson simply kept the bribe money to himself.

Jennifer Douglas

Ms. Douglas, also known as Jennifer Iwenjiora, Jamila Abubakar, and Jennifer Douglas-Abubakar, met Atiku in the 1980s when she was a television reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).

They dated for a while but lost contact when she emigrated to the U.S. While in the U.S, she married and took the name Douglas but was later divorced and became a naturalised American.

They were reunited in the early 1990s and resumed their relationship. Atiku spent a considerable amount of time with Ms. Douglas in Maryland during the regime of late dictator Sani Abacha between 1995 and 1998. Atiku was one of those who was persecuted by Mr. Abacha – his stake in logistics company, Intels, was stripped off him on the orders of Mr. Abacha.

Mr Douglas enrolled in a PhD in International Relations at the American University and received a doctorate in 2007. She and Atiku married officially in 2003. In that year, Ms. Douglas made a $1 million donation to the American University School of International Service Building Fund, an investigative committee of the U.S. Senate revealed in 2010.

The Senate committee, whose mandate was to investigate the flow of suspicious funds into the U.S., revealed that between 2000 and 2008 Ms. Douglas helped her husband bring in over $40 million in suspected illicit funds into the U.S through wire transfer from offshore corporations.

In 2008 a civil inquiry by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claimed Ms. Douglas received over $2 million in bribe payments in 2001 and 2002, from German technology company, Siemens AG.

Though she denies wrongdoing, Siemens pleaded guilty and settled bribery related civil charges and told the Senate committee that the money was sent to her account.

Ms. Douglas, whose last known place of employment was at the American University of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirate where she was a professor on International Relations, played an active role in the establishment of Atiku’s American University of Nigeria Yola.

According to the U.S. Senate report, she approached the authorities of the American University, where she was a student in 2002 for assistance in the setting up of the university and served as a liaison between the institution and her husband. She is an unpaid trustee of the university’s board of trustees.

Source: Premiumtimes
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/261868-exclusive-blocked-from-america-atiku-sells-controversial-2-95-million-u-s-home.html
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by cooltola(m):
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Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by enemyofprogress: 4:19am On Oct 09, 2018
yemaldo:
U better not let efcc uproot ur files
they've sin some things already, just wash out and see
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by mcnuel001(m): 4:34am On Oct 09, 2018
Algaddaf:
U forget how PDP use EFCC so wasily Hmmm na war woh for ur brain. I never blame APC EFFC for punoshing opppostion bcs PDP have done it before
All this thing wey u write make any sense to u ?

Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by Tareq1105: 5:31am On Oct 09, 2018
CROWNWEALTH019:
Even if your fathers name is CORRUPTION SENIOR, MY HOUSEHOLD WILL VOTE FOR YOU.... APC oshi wo


I WAS DISCUSSING WITH SOME NIGERIANS THIS EVEN INSIDE KEKE, AND THE DRIVER RAISED THIS ATIKU ISSUE. WE ALL AGREED THAT ANYBODY WILL BEAT BUHARI. THE DRIVER WENT ON TO TELL US HOW HE WAS DISCUSSING WITH HIS PASSANGERS AND ONE SAID HE WANTS BUHARI TO CONTINUE, THE NEXT THING HE DID WAS TO STOP THE KEKE AND ASKED THE MAN TO GET OUT OF HIS KEKE. THATS THE LEVEL WE ARE NOW. FAILURE WILL DIE IN JESUS NAME
It's like Atiku contracted you to do house to house campaign for him.

Me and my household will never vote for a corrupt Custom Officer, Chairman of Thief Intel.

A vote for Atiku is a vote for the return of his INTEL Nig Ltd.his wuruwuru company formed to milk Nigeria dry.
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by princelalaz: 5:31am On Oct 09, 2018
Oga Atiku been not arrested by Buhari government doesn't make you a saint. You're a corrupt Man and you know that so stop selling yourself as incorruptible Man. May God deliver Nigeria from old cargoes full of selfish desire.
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by nduka84(m): 5:42am On Oct 09, 2018
To rescue Nigeria, from imminent war and collapse, we need someone like atiku abubakar , who is a tested detribalised Nigerian, to lead this country as president.
Nigeria has never been divided along religious and ethnic lines, like we are now, under buhari nepotism and tribalism infested regime. If you truly love Nigeria, you have another opportunity to do things right, by voting a unifier , in the person if alhaji atiku abubakar.
God bless Nigeria.
Re: Atiku: Buhari Would Have Arrested Me If I Am Corrupt by lonelydora: 6:00am On Oct 09, 2018
Sannisege:
Atiku will never rule Nigeria. He has Obasanjo contend with
Obasanjo is not politically relevant in Nigeria now. He may still have little say. Atiku emerged because of the peace talk with OBJ
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