.A Bolekaja Presidency (3)

A Bolekaja Presidency (3)By Reuben Abati As...Read the full article.

[Khalil]

There is indeed nothing interesting about what is going on between OBJ and Atiku. If it means anything, it shows how difficult it is and will be always for a President to hold his deputy as hostage in the name of corrupt practices. The battle of wits will not end in anything but a pregnant future that will born hate forever between the existing political divides in the name of religion, ethnic and regional affiliations. OBJ shouldn't have started this. He should have known that all government officials everywhere in the world are corrupt just as he and his deputy are. Political philosophy since 18th century did not attempt in anyway to separate end from means. It asserts the importance of goals first before any consideration is given to the means of attaining them.

I am sorry to say please, but this is how states are run everywhere across the globe. Unless if OBJ does not want Nigeria to continue, he can go ahead this way and declare himself to be the most unpatriotic leader we ever had by his antics. It is then we can vividly recall how he was incarcerated for several months for commiting treason against the nation under the leadership of the maximum dicatator, Abacha.

But all nations belong to some few individuals be them America, Britain or Saudi Arabia. If OBJ is not willing to share the ownership of Nigeria with some few others just like Abacha, he then, should be ready to end in the debris of history as another unsung villian.

[nemesis]

It is now absolutely clear tht OBJ has not been the president for every man, woman and child in Nigeria. All of these post third term events show that he is self-righteous, corrupt, sanctimonious, vindictive, and hypocritical. Atiku only happened to be his nemesis.

[Abraxas]

Hi, folks!

On behalf of the Special Task Force for the Effective Evacuation of OBJ from Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, to Owu, I, Don Juan Carlos ABRAXS (III), in my capacity as the Director of Operations, Logistics, Tactics & Strategy, hereby direct that all operatives of the Task Force in Japan and the US of A should mobilize appropriately to enlighten both the governments and peoples of their host countries (Japan and the US of A) about the megalomaniac, kleptomaniac and nymphomaniac proclivities of their (uninvited) guest, Balogun Okikiolakan Aremu Mathew Olusegun OBASANJO, and also organize mass rallies across the states of the USA, throughout his stay in those countries in the next couple of days

Please ensure that you make it impossible for OBJ not to answer embarrassing questions at press conferences about the inferno that is ravaging his Nigeria, and also make sure that the matter is brought to the front burners of national attention in your respective countries of abode, by every means necessary (fair or foul)

Like Dr, Reuben ABATI rightly indicated, the on-going ego game taking place inside Aso Rock Villa is clearly the most important event in Nigeria right now, and has possible dire repercussions for the country's immediate future. For sure, it is affecting the Nigeria’s image badly, and reinforcing the unfair global stereotype of Nigerians as a nation of dupes, 419ers, fraudsters, and scammers, starting from their president, right down to the youngest Area Boy!

Nigerians are confronted with a very awkward predicament that is invariably a sad commentary on their uncouth soldiers, policemen, customs and other uniformed officers in public service: their soldiers (army, navy, air force), policemen (and policewomen), customs officers, prison wardens, immigration officers, Federal Road Safety Commission officials, Civil Defence Corps, and even the firemen of the Fire Service, even when they are retired, are power drunk.

Is it not telling that both General OBASANJO and Customs Officer ATIKU are completely oblivious of the sad fact that, right now, the eyes of the whole world is on them, and that nobody, (inside or outside of Nigeria), has been able, up till now, to mediate in the matter between the ego of Balogun Okikiolakan Aremu (I Dey Kampe) Olusegun Mathew OBASANJO (GCFR) and the ego of Turakin Adamawa Atiku ABUBAKAR (GCON)?

The ego is a terrible thing to massage!

Muchas gracias.


Don Juan Carlos ABRAXAS (III)

[kvin33]

This is a country ranked third most corrupt in the world and we are embarrassed by these revelations? Who's fooling who?? Did you think all the oil money went to the schools, hospitals, police, ...etc? My people, Are we still talking of Nigeria?? Ruben what is wrong with you?? We will not be shocked anything! We are thanking God that what has for so long been hidden is now coming to light. The fake veil of incorruptibility (and the tight embargo on information flow) these guys used to count on is being lifted. Nigerians have been in the dark for so long, so long Ruben you should be ecstatic, all members of the press in Nigeria should see this as their finest hour, they should capitalize on the back and forth to get these fools to disqualify each other!! Journalists in Nigeria died for the chance to write and publish the truth about corruption in high places in Nigeria, you on the other hand have had such a chance handed to you on a silver platter here and you are hesitating, vacillating and minimizing/blurring the real historical significance. How disappointing, I wonder what Dele Giwa would have done!!

Nobody is going to save Atiku, likewise Nobody has any intention of defending OBJ. They should keep the revelations coming, why should we get tired if they don't? Let them dig their own political graves, just like abacha, Nigerians will rejoice the day they are buried. The NASS has no real reason to help either one of them and neither do we. There should be honor among thieves, to quote His Excellency. Nigeria is full of thieves and they have both shown themselves to be "dishonorable", so they are both damaged goods -politically speaking. They'll both be surprised how isolated they'll be in a few weeks. Fifth columnists should and will profit from their feud -I don't see what the problem is.....

Reducing the stature of the Nigerian Presidency?? What stature?? Since when?? you mean imagined stature?? the illusionary stature we tell ourselves exist?? Please, give me a break! Nothing will happen to Nigeria.

[STTOPP]

I,m just tired of more of this lazy reporting by our so called most celebrated news men. Please STTOPP over feeding us with what we already know. We need independent information, not this spoon fed crap from both camps. More daring investigative reporting and interviews of all the people mention and close to this whole scandal.

STTOPP

[DoubleWahala]

Abati: The Atiku camp made huge capital out of the fact that the President bought a car for "a woman friend". That was a wicked cut, please. I have looked carefully at the cheque that was published and the invoice from RT Briscoe, the suppliers of the vehicles, but the dates of purchase were not so clear. One question that one fellow posed is: was the car bought when Mrs Stella Obasanjo was alive or after her death? Stella was a dutiful wife who did her best to support the President with her non-governmental activities and her commitment to her husband throughout all the travails that they both had to face together in the last 12 years. While Stella was playing the good wife, was the President busy buying fine cars for other women? Another fellow wondered how Stella Obasanjo would have felt if she had been alive to learn that Baba had been pampering other women with car gifts. The Atiku people are obviously mean-spirited. They have managed to create the impression that the same Baba that we all thought was stingy, and frugal, can be very enthusiastic and kind towards women, even if it means breaking the law to do so.

Abati, I have always regarded you as a clever fellow, but please do us all a favour by not descending into the arena.

You're talking about a "wicked cut" in an all-out war? Please!!

So, are you saying OBJ's camp is not "mean-spirited" as well?

You know, times are changing; long and forever gone are the days any so-called journalist could pontificate on the pages of the newspaper, without formidable and effective challenge. Thank goodness for the internet.

The major reason you post at NVS, is because you need to guage the pulse of your readers, which, in turn, feeds or partly determines how you make your cat-walk across the land-mines of the battle-field of Nigerian political developments.

Please, do not try to be clever by half, feeding us with a purportedly 'balanced' view-point.
It is becoming increasingly obvious where your sympathies lie, and I'm praying fervently that you've not fallen victim to the lure of filthy lucre. I sincerely hope that you'll prove some of us wrong.

DoubleWahala

[masamasa]

Doublewahala,
Please leave Abati alone ...oh i wonder where one would get this info from if not from people like Abati.Ride-on my brother i'm waiting for #5 i hope the series will reach a dozen soon.
chuks

[gwobezentashi]

Obasanjo / Atiku: Situation Report
By Sam Asowata

There is no doubt that President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar do not care to be Nigeria’s last president and vice president. I mean that they do not mind setting this country on fire. Obasanjo is as incorrigible as a rock; Atiku is as ambitious as Satan. Obasanjo’s holier-than-thou attitude, his pseudo-messianism and sense of indispensability are legendary. In fact, Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie once said of Obasanjo that “he is a man who does not listen to advice; he knows everything.” More than this, Obasanjo is unreliable and this, invidious as it may sound, is virtually true of his race. And there are antecedents, not necessarily, but mainly political, to buttress this, but the litany is for another day.

Atiku, on his part, with an eye on the presidency, which he has pursued with vigour for nearly two decades, will not easily let himself be dumped by one he partially raised to the pedestal from which he now dictates who to prop up or dump. Theirs is, therefore, a dangerous combination and, so, the nation and democracy have never been more endangered as they are now.

It may be tantamount to prejudice or, even hatred, to rehash here what many of Obasanjo’s detractors say of him; that he is not only wants to enter history as the first Nigerian to rule the country twice, the first and only Yoruba man to really do so but also as the first Nigerian and the only one to return the country to democracy from military rule (in 1979) and the only one whose absence from power will cause the death of democracy.

In fact, many Nigerians believe that Obasanjo is deliberately digging democracy’s grave and that of Nigeria’s corporate existence, thereby. Many even interpret his cession of the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon in these terms. And, then, there is the intractable Niger Delta problem. His philosopher’s stone called the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has failed disastrously to remedy the apparently irremediable. But is the problem without solution? Rather, is the NDDC, whose own publication admits that more than 70% of Niger Deltans live below the poverty line, not mired in corruption? One of its directors is so rich that his wife, not a First Lady, meaning neither the wife of the president nor of a governor, runs her own pet project like any other governor’s wife. Indeed, her very rich husband nearly overthrew the Bayelsa State governor, now impeached DSP Alamieyeseigha, in the 2003 primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Right now, President Obasanjo has cried out against the ceaseless inflow of sophisticated arms and ammunition into the Niger Delta to which he has dispatched a Joint Military Task Force just as was done by the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha. Yet, this is a democracy; democracy calls for dialogue, not strong arm or gunboat diplomacy. And, knowing Obasanjo’s strong headedness, many communities in the Niger Delta should start evacuating their ancestral homes. Thus, they can avert the ‘Obasanjo’s fate’ which befell the peaceful town of Odi in 2000.

In that year, ostensibly because a handful of policemen had been killed in the area, Obasanjo, Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria’s Armed Forces, ordered his troops into the rustic settlement and leveled it with bombs, mortals and rifles. When the then Senate President, now deceased Dr. Wilberforce Chuba Okadigbo, visited the place in the company of fellow senators, he was mute: “There is no need for a speech; there is nobody to speak to.” Yet, the epoch is a democracy, but the president has no patience with democracy’s sluggishness; the brusque and callous military approach is the midas’ touch. It should then not surprise anyone that there is a literal war in the land today; he is an occupation army commander: the PDP is his; he has run it aground. INEC is his; Nigerians expect a rigged election in 2007; the national coffers is his; why won’t he withdraw from it without parliamentary approval; Transcorp is his; why won’t he add it to Obasanjo Farms? What stops him from buying up NITEL? Indeed, did God not deliver him from prison for just this purpose?

Yesterday, September 17, 2006, a two-time member of the National Assembly called up this writer. After receiving congratulation for his new baby boy which he called to inform the writer about, he then asked about the truth or otherwise of the cover story in that Leadership Sunday, saying: “Anenih Dumps Obasanjo.” There was glee, even euphoria, all too perceptible in his voice, even though on phone, when this writer confirmed the story.

“Yes, it is true. And this is not the first time. Remember that during the third term battle, we carried a story that Anenih walked out on Obasanjo.”

“Is that so? This man called Obasanjo; I mean… has he no shame? Think what mess he has landed the country”? Many of his words were unparliamentarily and so I will not reproduce them here. However, utter disgust and a fed-up-with the president resignation were all too discernable in his voice.

Where is Obasanjo leading Nigeria? Is he leading Nigeria anywhere? What manner of an anti-corruption crusade is he waging? And what manner of general elections may Nigerians expect from such a man? Buba Galadima, former director-general of the National Maintime Authority, NMA, believes there will be none. And even though President Obasanjo has declared that he did not understand the basis for anyone to accuse him of scheming to impose an Interim National Government of the nation, his denial underlines popular distrust for him and all that he says. Few Nigerians, even close associates of his, even principal officers of the National Assembly, trust the man. And this is logical; a president who rigged himself into office does not bother about credibility; does not feel duty-bound to consider himself on a sacred mission.

The fact That Obasanjo is Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources eludes many. So, when he continually increases prices, people do not remember that he considers fuel his personal property; what can Edmund Daukoru, Minister of State whom he grudgingly appointed less than two years ago, do to stop him? Is that not why he spends money without parliamentary approval but only in anticipatory approval? How did he source money for his miscarried National Political Reform Conference, NPRC? And what happened to that report? And what is the conclusion drawable from it all? A wastrel, ego-motivated president! He devised that conference to have his two tenures extended to two more, to make four or even eight. He failed. Then the constitutional amendments came, he pushed N50 million to each senator to realise the same tenure-elongation goal. He failed, killed by the Senate, supported by Vice President Atiku Abubakar and assisted immeasurably by the press. Now, the man, a veritable wounded lion, is taking on Atiku who has provided ground for his own suspicion which his former ally but now arch-enemy, has latched on to seek his impeachment. So far, he has not succeeded and may not succeed. But, into what further dangers and embarrassment will both men, especially Obasanjo, lead Nigerians?

Obasanjo is more dangerous than Atiku; he has the typical warrior’s disdain for, and impatience, with democracy and true democrats. He demands unquestioning sub-servience, obsequiousness and sycophancy which, for him, is absolute loyalty. And so Obasanjo must be stopped today, even though both men should resign, but Obasanjo is particularly dangerous to the health of Nigeria and to the happiness of Nigerians, and this is what governance is all about.

It was in 2004 that Chief Emeka Ojukwu said it that something had to be done to “extract Obasanjo” from the scene of Nigeria. Don’t you agree? He has written to the Senate asking it to impeach Atiku who, so far, has proved invincible and who is asking him to resign even as the president’s letter to the Senate President asking for his deputy to be impeached remains just what it is: a letter.

Now, then, where is Obasanjo and Atiku leading Nigeria? In view of last year’s Intelligence Report on Nigeria released by the Untied States, predicting Nigeria’s disintegration in 15 years, are Obasanjo and Atiku not laying the foundation for that event? And considering a World Bank’s group’s report in September this year (last week) that Nigeria heads for a collapse who does not know that Obasanjo and Atiku are the bricklayers for that collapse? Should Nigerians not stop them?
http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/Oba...n%20Report.htm

[Balance]

So far so good. Azazi has told the Army to stay out. This is not about Atiku or Obasanjo, it is about money flying in the sky and a few priviledged people catching it. I want them to expose one another, so the saga continues. I must say, I credit the lesser evil Obasanjo for bringing this up as nobody did, since Murtala Mohammed had done. And Murtala was not a saint either.

As for those saying every head of State has done the same about corruption including Abacha. Sure right! What did Abacha give up or take away from his family? Can we compare Babangida war against corruption on Tam West's wrist watch as someone pointed out, because Tam dared anyone to probe him.

[Fine Naija Bobo]

Hi Villagers,

Yes, we have read an essay on this forum that aptly captures the scenario we are faced with here. The piece was captioned: NATION WHERE THIEVES ARE KINGS By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye....

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/...ves-are-k.html

Maybe, one of these days, a keen and enterprising researcher or historian would assign to himself the really profound and very challenging task of determining when and how looting and plundering became the defining character of leadership in Nigeria, and most parts of Africa. It would be interesting to know whether this unwholesome preoccupation is part of the sterling legacies of colonialism, in fact, one of the poisonous items in the briefcase the whiteman deliberately forgot here when he enacted his reluctant exit more than four decades ago. Could it be that this desperation to steal the nation blind and stash the proceeds in European nations was wholly or partly plagiarized from the marauding British colonizers whose meticulous and transparent repatriation of resources they looted from here could not have escaped the keen eyes of the smart natives they were grooming to take over from them? When eventually these issues are clearly determined and properly articulated, it may throw up a new definition of imperialism and neo-colonialism in the twenty-first century. It may equally help the nation clear the lingering clouds over the strong suspicion that the British authorities deliberately looked the other way while Gov DSP Alamieyeseigha of Bayelsa State jumped bail and scampered back to Nigeria last week. Maybe, the British may have reasoned: But this is our beloved Looter, in whom we are well pleased. Let's assist him to escape!

Pity me. My country has been made to look like a well stuffed magnificent castle whose collapse appears very imminent, and so, everyone with a seared conscience who gets the slightest access to its rich vaults would battle to cart away to the safety of Europe and America (the unrepentant receivers of stolen goods) as much as he could before the great fall occurs. My worry everyday is: can the deep-rooted selfishness and greed that fire this unrestrained looting be ever extirpated from the core of those that aspire to positions of leadership in Nigeria? When will we begin to actually build this nation and allow it to become a place anyone will be proud to call home? Today, all that somebody needs to become overwhelmingly wealthy is merely to become the special assistant to the hairdresser of a minister or governor or even council chairman's girlfriend. And before you know it, the fellow is already building mansions in his village, marrying new wives who may even be PhD holders, going abroad for medical treatment, and receiving chieftaincy titles from the ever ready and wayward traditional rulers, thereby providing justification for the deriding of better endowed and well-trained people from his community who may not be able to throw money about as he does because they are earning an honest living in this era of punitive and dubious reforms.

Many Nigerians had hoped that the Obasanjo Administration would reverse this pernicious trend, but instead of gratifying this sincere wish of the long deprived people of Nigeria, the present government took corruption to an unprecedented level. In its self-serving desperation to emasculate the National Assembly and run a civilian dictatorship, the Presidency, reportedly, massively deployed several naira-stuffed Ghana-must-Go bags to bribe Senators and House members to either "elect" leaders it dictated to them or remove the ones who resisted attempts to make the Legislature an appendage of the Executive. Thus having thoroughly passed through this unhealthy orientation, the Senators and House members began to take the malaise to the next level. That was how ministerial nominees began to pay money before they could emerge successful in the National Assembly screening exercise. And after borrowing so much to "purchase" a cabinet appointment, as it were, the minister would want to start looting immediately to quickly raise the funds to offset his debts, before he starts accumulating for himself. As the graft enterprise began to grow in size and sophistication, it became normal for government ministries and parastatals to pay bribe to Assembly members to have their allocations approved. This has thrived for a long time, but when the need arose to "prove" to the world that this government was "committed to the fight against corruption", Prof Fabian Osuji, Prof Jude Njoku and Sen. Adolf Wabara were singled out and sacrificed. No tears for them, anyway.

Indeed, it would be unfair to conclude that there may not have been a couple of insolated instances of this unholy phenomenon before 1999. Far from it! What no sane being can deny is that it was from 1999 that it received an official stamp, became deregulated, transparent and open. The matter became so bad that ministries and departments of the same Administration had to bribe one another before any ministry or department could supply the material or services needed by the other to perform its functions!

I am beginning to fear that the matter has gone beyond recovery. It does seem that the vile stigma hitherto associated with stealing has since vanished. In fact the real stigma now rests on those who have distanced themselves from the free-for-all robbery in high and low places. Indeed, Nigerians these days readily and openly call their rulers thieves and looters with fierce contempt, and this neither bothers nor deters them. Even such qualifications have sometimes been echoed from official quarters. Not too long ago, the Minister of State for Finance, Mrs. Nenadi Usman, had practically asserted that once the state governors got their monthly allocations, the next thing would be to jump into the next Europe or America-bound aircraft to stash the whole thing away. Even President Olusegun Obasanjo has consistently hauled this same allegation at the governors, but the Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has also looked the President straight in the face and told him in unmistakable terms that the governors are merely trying to learn a game he himself has since perfected. In fact, Kalu has not minced words in saying that the real and boundless stealing thrives in the Presidency, and that the president wages his corruption battle with soiled hands. The most outrageous, perhaps, is the case of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) headed by a young, bright professor, who many thought had some reputation to protect. But ever so often, official reports have indicated that the apex bank was unable to account for some monies it collected on behalf of some departments, and not one word of refutation had come from the CBN. To be fair to the CBN, it is not the only body guilty of this clearly disgusting preference. And we ask: what then has happened to our sense of shame and scruples? When did crime become flashy and fashionable?

Wives and children are no longer ashamed to read reports that the heads of their homes are common thieves. Things have degenerated so badly in this nation that thieving and plundering is gradually being taken for granted as normal, day-to-day preoccupation of public officials. In fact, those who fail to indulge in it are looked at as foolish or even insane.

We must be willing to admit then that this is exactly the very repelling situation that threw up reprehensible characters like Mr. DSP Alamieyeseigha. About two weeks ago, this fellow dragged all of us down with him to the most putrid and slimy gutter where he already had a very comfortable abode. He was standing trial for money laundering offences in London, but he, reportedly, disguised himself as a woman, and with forged travel documents, escaped to Nigeria like a common criminal. The mere fact that he is running from trial has clearly underlined his guilt in the grievous charges against him. As we hide our faces in shame, we must also be asking ourselves how come we allowed such low creatures and scum to rule us!

The Ijaw nation have responsibility to disown Alami without delay. To keep telling the world that a man steeped in such grievous moral crises is their "Governor-General" does untold damage to their image. They should be asking themselves why Alami's children and relations are swimming in indescribable opulence and luxury abroad while majority of them cannot afford a meal a day. They should seek to know why Alami is indiscriminately purchasing choice mansions in Europe and America while many of them live in shanties in Bayelsa. To help Alami escape justice is to rob themselves of their prized patrimony. If indeed, Alami truly loves them, why would he have the mind to clear off the funds meant for their welfare? What beats me, dear reader, is why Nigerian masses always appear willing to put their lives on the line to defend the very men that cruelly enslave and impoverish them. The youths that marched in support of Alami in Yenogoa there other day, how many of them stopped to ask where Alami's children were while they risked their lives to save their father?

No one doubts that the current hounding of Alami is selective. But the big question remains: is Alami guilty as charged? How did he acquire the ten million pounds worth of assets (in the UK alone) clearly identified and declared frozen by the British authorities recently? What of other numerous mansions in choice areas in the US? How much is Alami's monthly salary as Governor?

Unfortunately, Alami lacks the capacity to appreciate the amount of mud and slime he has splashed on us. We will now be all forced to carry his shame like a burden and stigma as the disdain for our green passport grows in several world capitals. That is why we must all stand up as a nation and insist that we cannot suffer any humiliations due to Alami's sins. We cannot allow him to give the world the impression that Nigeria is a very safe haven for thieves and fugitives running from justice. We as a nation can rise up and show clearly that we are sick and disgusted with him his likes, and insist that he be immediately handed back to the British court for trial.

We must then resolve as a people that we will from henceforth prevent thieves from being kings in Nigeria any more. ...

[Sincere Brillow]

Fellow Villagers,
I feel that the issue has stake does not only border on the "Agidigbo" fight between Born Again Reverend OBJ and ATK.It borders on the kind of leaders we have.
yours SINCERLY

[gwobezentashi]

Garba Shehu’s road to SSS gulag 21/09/2006

From Wahab Gbadamosi, Abuja

Operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) must be disappointed on Tuesday when they ensnared their quarry: Mallam Garba Shehu.

Laconic in size, occasionally bohemian in appearance, simple and down to heart, the goons from the nation’s intelligence community must really be disappointed that this is the man who has been given the hell to the nation’s most powerful man: President Olusegun Obasanjo in the last two months.

In a battle that uses the head more than the brawn, Shehu has done well for himself and his master, Vice President Abubakar Atiku.

Infact, the belief in the media is that he has discharged himself more creditably than the men and women in the information machinery of the President.

Even if the planning of such battle is collegiate, Shehu has done creditably. He is a delight even at impromptu interviews.

You might not agree with Shehu. But he is one spokesman who thinks on his feet. And Shehu thinks and speaks well too. What would Atiku’s campaign machinery would have looked like without the laconic man with a lion heart?

After his first degree at Ahmadu Bello University, (ABU) Zaria, Shehu did a Masters’ at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, (UNN) before he joined the Daily Triumph.

It was not long before he became the paper’s Features Editor and a few years later, its Editor.

His peer’s in the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) saw leadership qualities in him and wasted no time in making him their president.

This, he did, for a few years before he was asked to manage the Corporate Affairs of the Aluminum Smelting Company of Nigeria (ALSCON).

It was from there that Atiku Abubakar became convinced that he is the man, who could help him in managing the Vice President’s several publics: he was appointed as Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs.

So creditably did Shehu discharge his duties that President Obasanjo became uncomfortable with him.

The President sacked Shehu.

Outside Aso Villa, Shehu continued to wax stronger, playing the hub the intellectual content for the battle for Atiku’s political life.

He put to good use, the immediacy which the email and telephone offers, lending prompt, bold, daring and informed responses to the issues concerning Atiku.

Witness Atiku’s row with Obasanjo over the third term saga, the failure of the party to register Atiku as a member, the battle for the control of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over non-elective congresses and convention, Gbenga Obasanjo’s diatribe on Atiku, the third term saga and the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) fund saga.

It was a question of time therefore that Shehu will be ensnared in with one ‘crime’ or the other. His brush with the state is a question of time.

Tuesday night, Ado Muazu the Head of Public Relations said the SSS is holding Shehu "in connection with an ongoing investigation of certain acts and plans capable of threatening the internal security of Nigeria."

For how long will Shehu be in the gulag, with such wooly offence on his neck?

There can be no happiness if there is dissonance in what we believe and what we do.
http://www.thenationonlineng.com/newsdisplay.asp?id=543