OBASANJO|ATIKU FEUD:
QUESTIONS FOR OBASANJO
By Usman Garba Santuraki
A lot of people are really in limbo as
to how the feud
between the President Obasanjo and his
Vice-President
Atiku has degenerated to its present
level with open
disclosures by both the Obasanjo camp
and Atiku camp
on how each Principal of each camp
utilized the MAFOS
and MARINE FLOAT accounts.
If, what was splash on the pages of
newspapers is what
actually happened, then, it is
incumbent on Nigerians
to demand for the total resignation of
both the
President and his hand bag the
Vice-President as they
have deviate of what they ought to do
for the benefit
of Nigeria and its people.
The National Assembly without any
sentiment and bias
need to call for the two leaders to
step aside for a
comprehensive investigation of their
activities since
their inauguration in 1999. But,
before then, there
are some pertinent questions for the
President
Olusegun Obasanjo. These questions
are:
Why does it take a long period of time
before the
President let the cat out of the bag?
Why the President laid the foundation
of Atiku’s
ABTI-University?
Why did President Obasanjo accept Mike
Adenuga’s #250
million donations for his Presidential
library?
Why Obasanjo did accepted Atiku and
Otunba Fasawe to
pay off his debt of #200million?
In whose behalf Badunde Adeyanju
collected over
#3billion from TIB?
These questions need to be answered by
the President,
so that Nigerians, can believe him on
his submission
that his hand bag Atiku Abubakar has
divert public
funds entrusted to the Petroluem
Technical Development
Fund (PDTF) for his personal gains and
that of his
businessmen friends like Otunba Fasawe
and Mike
Adenuga.
It takes two to tango and the Hausas
has a saying
“Abokin barawo, shi ma barawo ne” a
friend to a thief
is also too a thief. With this
revelations, it has
quite proof that the President
happened to ride on the
back of some people who forced him on
Nigerians such
as Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Gen
Abdulsalam Abubakar who
releases him from prison on
unconditional level and
his hand bag the Vice-President Atiku
Abubakar who
provided him the political platform of
the Yar’adua
group together with the men and women
such as Chief
Yomi Edu, Dapo Sarumi, Titi
Ajanaku,Dubem Anyia, Alh.
Abdulazeez, late Chief Sunday Afolabi
and others too
numerous to mentioned in the write-up
that assiduously
work round the clock that saw him
emerging as the
President only for him to pay them in
their own coin
as each of these men and women has
taste the bitter
part of his avenge ness, that one can
say, it led to
the death of Chief Afolabi after his
release from
prison.
One, find it funny and at the same
incomprehensible
if, what was release by the camp of
the Vice-President
is true about the way and manner that
the President
Obasanjo collected or benefited from
the PDTF funds to
corrolate it to his anti-corruption
crusade. A lot of
people opined that his setting up of
the EFCC is to
deal with perceived opponents as the
agency failed to
take any drastic action on Chief Tony
Anenih who was
said to have spend close to #3oo
billion on roads
while he was a Minister and half of
the federal roads
across the land are in dilapidated
conditions and
Chief Olabode George was indicted by
the investigation
of EFCC during his stewardship as the
Chairman of
Nigerian Ports Authority but, only for
the President
to made a caricature of the report
submitted by the
Nuhu Ribadu committee that make the
investigation. To
date, nothing has been heard about the
report.
In advanced democracies, the two
leaders would have
been forced to step aside until a
proper investigation
was carried out by the legislature and
if, found
wanting, both of them has to face the
court to answer
charges of fraud.
The National Assembly, need to be
commended, for
taking a bold initiative by referring
the submission
of the President Obasanjo on the
Vice-President to the
judicial committee for proper
investigation that in
turn, the committee would report back.
The current face-up between the
President and the
Vice-President is a delicate one that
if care is not
well taken can plunge this country
into chaos as there
is the tendency for the issue to take
another
dimension with some playing the ethnic
card especially
in the National Assembly.
BY
USMAN GARBA SANTURAKI
WROTE IN FROM NO 74, TAFIDA STREET,
JIMETA-YOLA.
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