Alternating between consternations and bemusements, I continue to be amazed by how shameless Atiku is! The man continues to act as if nothing has transpired to change his political fortunes in the past year. Atiku continues to make threats, ominous and desperate pronouncements about his political ambitions.

Why would Atiku proclaim his disqualification as spelling anarchy for Nigeria? Must Atiku become president of Nigeria? Atiku seem to equate his personal political ambitions with the continued corporate existence of Nigeria!

Atiku and his friends have repeatedly threatened to foist anarchy upon Nigeria as Atiku is disqualified by INEC from contesting the elections scheduled for April 2007.

Atiku and his Action Party have repeatedly threatened to disrupt the forthcoming elections, as it become clear that Atiku cannot contest. But what magnitude and levels of arrogance is it, that permit, Atiku and his friends to make statements that seems to equate .

Can someone please explain to me, why Atiku apparently believes that we are all beholden to him in Nigeria. Why does he posses this exaggerated sense of himself? Why does Atiku equate his sinking ship, with Nigeria’s corporate existence and Nigeria’s statecraft? How can one citizen, any citizen, be so arrogant presumptuously absurd? How can Atiku be so ridiculous in his logic, as to think that his personal ambition is synonymous with the collective national interests of one hundred and forty million Nigerians?

A Nigerian (Samira -Shakira Edi) with concerns for peace and security for Nigeria, had the following to say, in a Nigerian discussion group: “Atiku is a long slug that has become a professional alarmist. His campaign depicts the height of political profiteering, diversionary tactics, obfuscation, digression, nebulous concepts, recalcitrance, arrogance, a tsunami of lies, and avalanche of hate, a glitch here …. all gimmicks used by a drowning man to ferment trouble and digress the national attention from his grimes and crimes. “

And he has no shame to carry out this cloak & dagger, and open warfare with his boss. Very mind-blowing why concerned Nigerians could not look past the supposed OBJ (atrocities) to see the white elephant bent on destroying the country. Atiku's appalling actions are shaping up the country for an impending dramatic consequence, which may well mean dire consequencies for the country. His latest gimmick was nothing but a fluke, a miraculous "malady" on the threadmill, which gave him a much-needed escape hatch when the heat was turned on him.

It is unfair to extrapolate one case and to draw a conclusion that he is fleeing from justice. But this is a drama that has been played out repeatedly each time the EFCC become interested to sniff around Atiku. Which makes me conclude that the notion that this is a man concerned about his legal rights to contest the elections is a sham. Frankly it is simply a diversionary tactics in escapology in a bid to let himself off the hook. Being president will give him perpetual immunity from crimes.

Let him parachute back to Nigeria and receive the slap that is impending from the EFCC. Why does he fear the scrutinizing if he was not afraid of something? A Cop-out? YES! “

In the same vein, the federal government of Nigeria has advised Atiku not to continue to mislead Nigerians, according to a Nigerian newspaper, ThisDay. Which is excerpted below. Presidency has said Vice President Atiku Abubakar should stop misleading Nigerians that the Lagos High Court cleared him of the indictments by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Administrative Panel of Inquiry (API), over the management of the Petroleum Technology Development Funds (PTDF). The EFCC has, however, appealed the ruling.

Justice Inumidun Akande of Lagos High Court, had Tuesday, set aside the EFCC report on the PTDF probe, as well as the report of the Bayo Ojo-led API, on an application brought by Otunba Oyewole Fasawe, challenging his alleged unlawful detention based on the reports.

Akande had declared that the EFCC report, which also indicted Vice President Atiku Abubakar of mismanaging the PTDF was null and void, a ruling that the EFCC has yesterday appealed.

The Presidency, in reacting to the ruling, advised the Vice President to stop misleading Nigerians because as far as it was concerned, he was not a party to that suit.

The Presidency, in reacting to the Vice President's comment to the ruling where he likened it to the "collapse of the house of deceit" as very amusing, said it is very shocking that the number two citizen could even have the nerve to link the ruling by the Lagos High Court to his being cleared of his indictment by the EFCC and the Administration Panel, and thus was free to pursue his presidential ambition.

Speaking through the Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Mallam Uba Sani, the Presidency noted that as far as it was concerned, the Vice President remained indicted by both bodies because his case before the Federal High court in Abuja was still on.

It also advised Nigerians to be wary of people who want to cause mischief, saying it remained steadfast in the fight against corruption and all its attendant ills.

Sani had emphasized that even the Lagos State High Court, which gave ruling in the case, lacked jurisdiction to handle it, adding that Fasawe's suit ought to have been filed in a Federal High Court, and not a State High Court because the EFCC, which has already appealed against the ruling, is a federal agency.

The President's Special Assistant also stated that, "we deem it necessary to react to the Lagos State High Court ruling, declaring as null and void the reports of the EFCC and Bayo Ojo-led Administrative Panel which indicted Chief Oyewole Fasawe over the PTDF account. In the national dailies of Wednesday, 29th November 2006, the vice president was also said to have, by extension, been cleared of his indictment by the EFCC and the Bayo Ojo Administrative Panel.

"We wish to state as follows:

Chief Oyewole Fasawe approached the Lagos High Court for the enforcement of his fundamental rights. The Vice President was not a party to the suit. He cannot therefore appropriate what he did not ask for.

Vice President's case is still before the Federal High Court in Abuja. Until the case is determined, the Vice President remains indicted by the EFCC and the Bayo Ojo Administrative Panel. .

The Lagos State High Court lacks jurisdiction to handle a case involving the EFCC, because the EFCC is a federal agency. Therefore, Fasawe's suit ought to have been filed in a Federal High Court, not a State High Court. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has already filed an appeal challenging the ruling of the Lagos State High Court".

The Presidency also seized the opportunity to "urge Nigerians to beware of mischief makers. We must remain vigilant. We must not sacrifice the war against corruption on the altar of political expediency".

Dissatisfied with Tuesday's decision of the Lagos High Court, which not only voided the report of its investigation on PTDF but also awarded N5 million in favour of Fasawe, who was indicted in the report, the EFCC, has approached the Court of Appeal, Lagos to set aside the ruling and dismiss in its entirety, the action instituted by Fasawe.

In the notice of appeal, dated November 29, which was made available to THISDAY yesterday, the commission argued that the trial Judge, Justice Inumidun Akande erred in law and wrongly assumed jurisdiction to entertain the suit, when the EFCC, the State Security Service (SSS) and the Inspector General of the Police (2nd, 3rd and 4th respondents respectively are protected by the Public Officers Protection Act.

Besides, the commission stated that the trial judge erred in law when he held that the report, dated August 24, 2006 is unconstitutional, illegal and constituted a violation of Fasawe's right to fair hearing and argued that the 1st respondent (Fasawe) was confronted with the allegation against him and was allowed to react to same before the report.

The EFCC also faulted the decision of the court below to the effect that it has no right to detain Fasawe and that his detention was illegal, and maintained that the power to detain within the period allowed under the Constitution is necessarily inherent in the investigative powers of the Appellant.

The commission also wants the appellate court to upturn the decision of the lower court on the ground that the judge was wrong to have granted an order of perpetual injunction restraining it from further arresting, detaining or prosecuting Fasawe, insisting that the injunction violates the Constitutional and statutory powers of the commission to investigate and prosecute offenders in court.

Pointing out that the principles governing the grant of perpetual injunction were wrongly applied by the trial court, the EFCC, faulted the award of N5 million as damages in favour of Fasawe contending that he (Fasawe) did not make out a case to warrant the award.

It therefore prays the court to allow the appeal and upturn the decision of the court below.

EFCC chairman, Nuhu Ribadu told THISDAY: What we are seeing is a case of when you fight corruption; corruption will always attempt to fight you back. We have already filed an appeal and we believe that there may be constitutional issues to be resolved both in the judgment and in the efficacy of a state high court ruling over matters that may be in the purview of a Federal High Court

Despite the above detailed reports by ThisDay newspapers and despite all that are already known about Atiku in Nigeria and elsewhere, Atiku continues to behave as if, nothing has changed!

Atiku is finished politically, Atiku is toast! Atiku is down and out! Atiku should just go AWAY!

Robot  # 1 | 14.03.2007 21:38

Atiku, Should Just Go AWAY! By Paul I. Adujie ...Read the full article.

I Love Nigeria  # 2 | 14.03.2007 22:42

INEC: April elections under threat - AC plots against INEC over Atiku Jacob Segun Olatunji and Bola Badmus, Abuja - 15.03.2007 http://www.tribune.com.ng/15032007/news/news1.html THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday raised the alarm over the various court orders being given against the commission in favour of candidates barely 30 days to the general elections, declaring that such orders “are capable of scuttling the elections”. Speaking during an interview in Abuja, the National Commissioner of INEC in charge of Information and Publicity, Mr. Philip Umeadi, expressed the commission’s worry over the development, saying it might reach a level that the judicial arm of government would have to be approached in the overall interest of the nation. According to him, “I can agree with you that court decisions that seek to affect the question of candidature of political parties may have a tendency to affect the date of the elections when a court makes an order at a very late date to the elections. “For instance, if an election is coming up on April 14, a court makes an order on April 10, saying that A, B, C, must make the polls, what is INEC supposed to do about? It means that millions of ballot papers that we have printed for the elections would have to be cancelled. It will affect the logistics and operations of the elections as far as we are concerned and who bears the cost? “Beyond the question of court, we are also looking at the interests of the generality of Nigerians against one person’s interests,” he added. He pointed out that the courts ought to know that making such orders at this ‘injury’ time would have the tendency to subvert the elections. He said it was an irony that it was the same people who have been alleging that the INEC was not ready to conduct the elections that were going to courts trying to scuttle the elections. While expressing the commission’s predicament over the development, Umeadi said, “we have said it times without number that we are ready for the elections but now, a couple of court orders are being churned out here and there, served on the INEC”. According to him, “these court orders have a tendency to affect the elections, so we are, indeed, seriously worried about this. We are putting together a think tank over this, it might even get to a situation where we will have to make a final complaint to the judicial arm of government to arrest the situation. “A situation where we closed the issue of nominations, giving the candidates ample opportunities to do one thing or the other, they will not do it, now barely 30 days to the elections, we are still getting orders and counter orders. Which one do we obey, and at the end of the day, we are being accused of disobedience to court orders, when three people going for the same position in the same political party are going to court and obtaining three different orders and served on us.” He added that “if you obeyed one, we haven’t obeyed two, there is no way we can obey the three, so these are some of the problems that we have and these problems have a tendency to scuttle elections.” Umeadi, however, assured the nation that the commission would do everything humanly possible to conduct the elections as scheduled and appealed to politicians, especially the candidates and their supporters, to play the game according to the rules in the interest of the country. On the fate of former Governor Chris Ngige, the governorship candidate of Action Congress in Anambra State, and that of ANPP candidate in the state, Chief Nicholas Ukachukwu, and that of Governor Peter Obi of APGA, Umeadi disclosed that their various political parties had been duly informed of the reasons for their disqualification. Umeadi dismissed the speculations that the commission was being used to ensure electoral victory for the PDP governorship candidate in the state, saying over 10 candidates would still contest the governorship election in the state. He advised members of the public against accepting rumours as facts, alleging that certain individuals were out to blackmail the commission because their own political misfortune. In another development, the Action Congress (AC) leadership is said to have perfected plans to serve the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) proper injunction to restrain the commission from preventing Vice President Abubakar to contest the general election. According to a source who spoke with the Nigerian Tribune on condition of anonymity, a team of lawyers were assembled on Wednesday in Abuja for the AC presidential standardbearer to brainstorm on how they will approach the law court today to obtain the said injunction.

pappilo  # 3 | 15.03.2007 02:40

why is this man allowed to post this type of one sided article. it is so obvious his articles are sponsored. why then are we subjected to his useless writings. i personally dislike all the people in govt in nigeria that is including Atiku but obasanjos desperate attempts to force the man out of the polls proves there is more than meets the eye. Atiku did a noble thing by defending the constitution and fighting against the 3rd term, be it for selfish reasons. obasanjo is a thief like we have all seen with the PTDF scandal. i am happy with one thing coming out of all this drama and that is that rigging an election successfully isnt a foregone conclusion as it used to be in the past otherwise obasanjo would allow Atiku contest if he knew the PDP could successfully rig the elections. N.B Can the administrator please add me to the list of writers so i can publish my own one sided articles about paul adujie

Caeser  # 4 | 15.03.2007 03:05

Atiku does not want to be crowned the President of Nigeria. All he wants is a chance to contest in a free and fair Presidential election. He wants the people to decide whom they want to rule them and not to have a stooge forced down their throats just because Obasanjo is running scared of leaving his behind wide open to probe and scrutiny after he has left office. LET ATIKU CONTEST AND LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE!

calist  # 5 | 15.03.2007 08:12

Can the administrator please add me to the list of writers so i can publish my own one sided articles about paul adujie You rock

calist  # 6 | 15.03.2007 08:24

Can the administrator please add me to the list of writers so i can publish my own one sided articles about paul adujie You rock

nelggio  # 7 | 15.03.2007 08:51

...how cheapishly men trade away honour and integrity in this era diferent political cleaveges...yes it has been confirmed that this felon and syncophant called Paul Adi...whatever, was paid and handsomely too to keep portraying Atiku in badlight as unfit and tainted...what a shame ! shame on you Paul...you are a disgrace to humanity.... ...this your brand has never sold and will never sell...Nigeria of this century are wiser and are very well informed so I advice you stop wasting your time is distorting facts and branding lies upon lies...forget it. ... initially I wanted to take him up paragraph by paragraph, but I quickly realised it was a cheer waste of time... ..if Obasanjo does not have skeleton in his cupboard why are they afraid of Atiku candidacy? why not allow Nigerians to make their choice ?...history will vindicate the just..our sympathy is with Atiku not bcos he's a saint but the way he has carried himself thus far going by his antecedents to rule of law, due process and constitutionalism shows that he has something to offer...at the end of the day only God's wish will prevail. NVS admins shouldn't be allowing felons like Paul who can sell their mum for a porridge soup to be insulting our national intelligense here...enough of these nonsense... ....We must respect the constitution ...only the court can disqualify a candidate...Atiku must contest..let we the Nigerians decide his fate not the monster called Oba...sonjo!

presidency  # 8 | 15.03.2007 09:26

QUOTE A Nigerian (Samira -Shakira Edi) with concerns for peace and security for Nigeria, had the following to say, in a Nigerian discussion group on the web, NaijaPolitics.com : Atiku is a long slug that has become a professional alarmist. His campaign depicts the height of political profiteering, diversionary tactics, obfuscation, digression, nebulous concepts, recalcitrance, arrogance, a tsunami of lies, and avalanche of hate, a glitch here …. all gimmicks used by a drowning man to ferment trouble and digress the national attention from his grimes and crimes. Paul Adujie: YOU ARE A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR and a LATENT DISTORTIONIST. In order to claxon your dishonest and prejudicial gobbledegook, you privileged yourself on perdifious excursion in the labyrinth of FALSIFICATION by IMPUTING THAT SAMIRA IS A NIGERIAN BUT GOD DON CATCH YOU TODAY. VILLAGERS, don't mind this eunuch o. I am a Moderator/Member of NAIJAPOLITICS FORUM where Samira also contributes(she is also a Moderator) and EVERYONE in NAIJAPOLITICS, including Paul Adujie, knows her very well that she is a CAMEROUNIAN!!! But because he is a LIAR and DISTORTIONIST, he didn't PUBLISH this BALDERDASH in NAIJAPOLITICS; instead, he thought he could try a fast one of NVS villagers by using SAMIRA to butress his incongruity but "alarm don blow for im head this time". However, on a more serious note, I urge Administrators of NVS to publish my own scuttlebutts about Paul Adujie because, considering the HOGWASH he writes about other people, he needs to be paid back in his own rotten coin. Yinka Leo Ogundiran From NaijaPolitics

presidency  # 9 | 15.03.2007 09:29

QUOTE A Nigerian (Samira -Shakira Edi) with concerns for peace and security for Nigeria, had the following to say, in a Nigerian discussion group on the web, NaijaPolitics.com : Atiku is a long slug that has become a professional alarmist. His campaign depicts the height of political profiteering, diversionary tactics, obfuscation, digression, nebulous concepts, recalcitrance, arrogance, a tsunami of lies, and avalanche of hate, a glitch here …. all gimmicks used by a drowning man to ferment trouble and digress the national attention from his grimes and crimes. Paul Adujie: YOU ARE A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR and a disgustingly dishonest DISTORTIONIST. In order to claxon your dishonest and prejudicial gobbledegook, you privileged yourself on perdifious excursion in the labyrinth of FALSIFICATION by IMPUTING THAT SAMIRA IS A NIGERIAN BUT GOD DON CATCH YOU TODAY. VILLAGERS, don't mind this eunuch o. I am a Moderator/Member of NAIJAPOLITICS FORUM where Samira also contributes(she is also a Moderator) and EVERYONE in NAIJAPOLITICS, including Paul Adujie, knows her very well that she is a CAMEROUNIAN!!! But because he is a LIAR and DISTORTIONIST, he didn't PUBLISH this BALDERDASH in NAIJAPOLITICS; instead, he thought he could try a fast one of NVS villagers by using SAMIRA to butress his incongruity but "alarm don blow for im head this time". However, on a more serious note, I urge Administrators of NVS to publish my own scuttlebutts about Paul Adujie because, considering the HOGWASH he writes about other people, he needs to be paid back in his own rotten coin. Yinka Leo Ogundiran From NaijaPolitics

busanga  # 10 | 15.03.2007 10:30

Atiku would not just go away as you wish- that is a pipe dream. It is your baba that should go away and retire with his chickens. Like you and I, Atiku still has a right to stand for elective position in his fatherland at least until the courts say so. If OBJ is so confident of his political saggacity and popularity why not allow Atiku to stand for election? Who is afraid of whom?

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