PRESS RELEASE
Calling OBJ to
Apologize
Turaki Vanguard, Oct 3, 2006
WITH THE MONUMENTAL COLLAPSE AND IGNOMINIOUS EXPOSURE OF THE
PEDESTAL MOTIVE OF THE OFFICIALLY SPONSORED COCKTAIL OF
LIES AGAINST VICE PRESIDENT ATIKU ABUBAKAR, DEMANDS THAT PRESIDENT
OLUSEGUN OBASANJO MUST FORMALLY APOLOGISE TO THE NATION NOW!
Fellow compatriots, as committed citizens, and
patriotic Nigerians dedicated to entrenchment and maturity of the
country’s democratic process, we are resolved not to rest on our
oars until President Olusegun Obasanjo retracts from unwholesome
corruptive tendencies, vindictive behaviors and incestuous
political practice. We have followed closely with total
consternation and regret how President Obasanjo is bent in
rubbishing, ridiculing and bastardizing the office of the Vice
President, in a futile effort to degenerate and demonise the
person of Vice President Atiku Abubakar in the name of power
politics.
Ordinary, Turaki Vanguard would not have been perturbed
by the travails of the Vice President in the hands of a
vindictive, egomaniac, and megalomaniac boss for such may be parts
of the sacrifices he has to pay in his bid to salvage and sustain
the country’s rudderless democracy. But for the dimension and
scope the political feud has assumed which to us and all patriotic
Nigerians is a worrisome hue. If President Obasanjo and Vice
president Aiku Abubakar had differed in democratic principles and
ideologies, it would have been a healthy development for an
emerging democracy like Nigeria but for the Presidency to
condescend to the temptation of reenacting a modern day type of
Paul Goebals propaganda in order to smear the character and
rubbish the political goodwill and integrity of the office and
person of Vice President Atiku Abubakar that is what, we find as
must absurd and repulsive in the practice of decent and
respectable politics and to us as co-stake-holders in the
democratic evolution of our country Nigeria this is abhorring and
unacceptable.
From the way things were done in the PDP starting from the
party’s kangaroo revalidation cum concocted registration exercise
from the Ward/ Local, State to the National Congresses through
courage and painful struggle expanded in the historical internment
of the infamous third term agenda of President Obasanjo, Nigerians
have come to the realization that Atiku Abubakar stands today
shoulder high as a popular embodiment of the quest for
emancipation and democratic principles of our country. We make
bold to state that President Obasanjo’s antagonistic acts against
him has endeared him more and upped his popularity and
acceptability among Nigerians than ever before. But rather than
allow Nigerians to decide the Vice President’s fate in 2007
President Obasanjo and his cohorts have taken it upon themselves
for reasons best known to them to embark upon an exercise that
would apparently end in futility to shut him out from the 2007
presidential election. Progressive Nigerians see such a
diabolical scheming as totally unacceptable as it is capable of
leading to political instability in the country that would
occasion prolonging the tenure of Mr. President beyond 29th
May 2007 being the terminal date for this administration which may
be the facts of all these scheming. But for avoidance of doubt
based on some other factors we intend to state in this write-up
let us reiterate that the tenure of President Obasanjo as the
President of Nigeria ends on 29th May 2007 and nothing
on earth will permit him to stay a day longer than that date
as approved by the Constitution the havoc he has done to the
polity is enough.
Recent emerging revelation exposing the true intent of
President Obasanjo in his antagonistic and vindictive mission
against Vice President Atiku Abubakar by a seasoned and respected
politician and Journalist Chief Segun Osoba former Executive
Governor of Ogun State once again vindicates our earlier stand
that Mr. President and his surrogates are so desperate to ridicule
and smear the good image of Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
According to Chief Segun Osoba campaign political funding are
not normally investigated with convincing instances from USA and
Britain that all that President Obasanjo is after is to ridicule
and make Vice President Atiku Abubakar the fall guy and scapegoat
in order to stop him from contesting the 2007 Presidential
election. With all the facts so far exposed it becomes very
glaring that it was Atiku Abubakar that funded the PDP
Presidential and other elections and to demonstrate how naïve and
malicious Obasanjo and PDP leadership can be they turn around to
use the good deeds done to them by Atiku Abubakar to blackmail him
before Nigerians forgotten that “when you break the hives of the
bees the stinging goes round and the bees will go after any body.
That’s what is happening in the Presidency now. (Osoba, 2006) When
the President started the war he never knew he will be consumed by
it as is the case now. It becomes imperative and gladdens to
point out to President Obasanjo and his little minded companion
that they are not capable of lighting the fire that will consume
Atiku Abubakar as God who used him to install the PDP leadership
in Nigeria is also capable of installing him President come 2007.
Apart from this, the recent revelation
and exoneration of any illegal charge against Vice President Atiku
Abubakar by the USA Government and debunking the insinuation that
they influenced the ongoing illegal trail of the Vice President
contradicts what Nigerians are fed with by President Obasanjo and
his secreted team. This revelation was done recently through the
USA Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ms Jendayi
Frazer. This great lady of virtue rightly captured the intents of
President Obasanjo and his surrogates thus “And so politicians
will do whatever they will to- sorry – to smear the reputation of
their opponents. We know this. But that really is a charge against
our Congressman, not against Vice President Atiku” Madam you are
damn right! God will continue to bless you and your government and
to save us from the hands of ingrates, wicked and short sighted
leaders currently parading themselves as our Leaders.
With the owning up of Chief Samuel
Ogbomadia Chairman PDP National Convention of the receipt of N40
million used in organizing the PDP Convention, the revelation of
bank PNB Paribaz the bank of Paris of loaning Globacom the money
it used in acquiring its operational license as well as the fact
that PTDF money was returned intact with N1billion interest, and
couple with the fact that The Vice President acted within the
ambit of law and in accordance with the approval of the
Accountant General of the Federation coupled with that the
kangaroo ad-hoc panel report and that of the EFCC did not in any
way state that Atiku both benefited directly or indirectly or even
enriched himself from the purported and much touted transactions.
Therefore, we state in the strongest term that the EFCC/Ojo’s
panel reports, not only lack merit, it is uncoordinated,
predetermined, disjointed and should be thrown to the dustbin
where it rightly belongs and should not in any way be used to stop
Vice President Atiku Abubakar from contesting the 2007 Election..
Our consolation in this altercation between
Obasanjo and Atiku is that the purported indictment of Atiku has
availed Nigerians the opportunity to know the many sins and
corruptive nature of Mr. President while playing the Saint. With
the acceptance of Obasanjo Holding Limited of investing in
TRANSCORP, thereby contradicting Mr President’s earlier denials,
coupled with the recent revelation that Obasanjo’s family,
community, friends and PDP Have benefited enormously from the much
noised MOFAS account proved how corrupt this once respected
‘Messiah’ and elder statesman has turned himself to. What a
fallacy?
As a Co-Founder of the Transparency International (TI) and
a vowed Crusader against corruption in Nigeria Mr. President
should let Nigerians know the answers to the following questions
from the Egba Youths Front Abekouta as carried by Uncle Duro
Onabule in his column in the daily Sun of September 22,
2006:-a) who owns the Delta Steel Company? b) Why was it sold
for a paltry $30 million when the winning bid was much higher? c)
Who owns the two oil blocks recently won by a Korean company? d)
Why was the highest bidder, an Indian Company turned down in
favour of the Koreans? e) Who owns Arik Air? f) Who bought Eleme
Petro-Chemicals? g) Why was BPE not allowed to cancel the sale
despite the fact that Indorama has not been able to pay fully for
nearly a year now? h)Why have the EFCC , ICPC, Code of Conduct
Tribunal yet to act on Chief Gani’s petition after one year
against the use of public funds by some government agencies to
support the launching of Obasanjo's Presidential Library project
knowing very well that it was illegal . i) Where is the EFCC
report that indicted Chief George Bode over his NPA activities? J)
When will Nigerians know the financial activities of the Ministry
of Finance and NNPC? Thanks to Obasanjo Holdings Ltd Operators at
least we now know who owns majority shares in TRANSCORP. Truly Mr.
President we are waging a serious war against corruption and we
can now know why the World Bank it its recent report did not list
our country among countries fighting against corruption.
Today President Obasanjo has turned
the FG and PDP into one lawless society that has no respect for
our constitution and rule of law. If not how does one interpret
all the illegal and unconstitutional acts a sitting Vice President
has suffered in the hands of President Obasanjo and his acolytes.
How could an uncultured Fani-Kayode the Minister of Ministry of
Culture have the audacity, temerity and effrontery to insult an
elected Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
questioning his right to seat in the Federal Executive Council and
some little minds are celebrating such a planned plot against a
constituted authority that is capable of disintegrating this
Country. The FG in its show of shame in its effort to constantly
abuse our constitution has decided to charge a sitting Vice
President to the Code of Conduct Bureau over recommendations of an
illegally set-up Committee knowing the illegality of such an act
if not to ridicule the office of the Vice President.
Nigerians should note that it has been
brought to our notice of the threat and scheming to stop Atiku
Abubakar from attending the FEC meetings contrary to the
provisions of the constitution to us such a story is meant for the
unborn Nigerians and can not be feasible in our time. The idea of
treating Atiku Abubakar as if he has no body in Nigeria must be
stopped forthwith as we all are stake-holders in the project
Nigeria and therefore not inferior to any group or section of
this country let us not therefore used our little privileges to
insult or ignite a fight we can not complete . We think that
enough is enough!
We must commend Prof Ben Nwabueze, Prof Wole Soyonka, Prof
Omo Omoruyi, Chief Clement Ebiri, Prince Benjamin Apugo, Senator
Farouk Bunza and many other patriotic Nigerians even the USA
government that have on different occasions and severally pointed
to Mr. President and his team the illegality and futility of their
vindictive acts against Vice President Atiku Abubakar
As much as true democrats we will not argue with Tsav,
Bishop Mbang, Chief Dan Etibert, Chief Paul Unogo and those who
have failed to be objective instead are trying to bring in tribal,
religious sentimental in the efforts of President Obasanjo to
ridicule an innocent man. If any of them is seeking relevance in a
fading dynasty we wish them good luck. Our only consolation is
that God is watching all our acts and that Nigerians are gradually
coming to terms to the plots to rubbish an innocent
man.
Today Mr. President has set up a laughable court of
political jesters and imposters as leaders of the Ali’s faction of
PDP whose past anti-democratic principles are well known to
Nigerians in order for them to make him Life Leader of a party he
neither knew how, where and when it was formed or funded. Through
which he intend to aspire to be the next African Political Leader
after the great Nelson Mandala which but recent happenings in
Nigeria have made it an elusive dream. President Obasanjo during
the last PDP NEC meeting( ALI’s Faction) was bragging that PDP
controls 29 States of the Federation and therefore should be
assumed to be the mega party forgetting that at the appropriate
time he will find out that it is only 3 governors that are still
within their camp
It is sad and unfortunate that Mr. President allowed
Political Jobbers and squatters to misadvise him against an
innocent man who has done him no wrong by trying to ridiculing him
publicly.
In conclusion with the exposure of the evil intents
against an innocent man; the collapsed and unacceptability of the
cocktail of lies from Mr. President and his surrogates by
Nigerians; the recent revelation by the World Bank that Nigeria is
not among the countries fighting against corruption; failure of
all the systems in Nigeria particularly poor power generation
after all the billions of naira that have gone down the drills in
this regard; dead traps that are called Federal Roads in Nigeria
after over N300 billion is expanded in this regard; illegal
withdrawal of funds from the federation account; pursing of
programmes that heightened tensions in the polity; lack of respect
for the constitution and rule of law; institution of monumental
corruption in the land; increasing the misery, woes and sufferings
of many Nigerians families through massive sack from their places
of work and many other reasons too numerous to state here - we are
hereby demanding for unreserved apology to all Nigerians for the
monumental failure of this administration from President Obasanjo.
The apology should also be sent to Atiku for falsely accusing him
of a misappropriating fund that was kept intact and interest of
N1billion returned as an interest by President Obasanjo.
We must finally commend and congratulate
Atiku Abubakar for his dignified, statesmanship displayed in the
face of such errant provocation and malicious acts against him and
for patiently wanting for the conjectures and evil lies to
vanish into thin air to pave way for the truth to prevail as he
earlier predicted.
We hereby urge all our members and progressive Nigerians
to return to the trenches and start electioneering campaign for
your next President (Atiku Abubakar) come 2007.
Alh.
Nasir A,B.Galla Chief
Eze Chukwuemeka Eze
National
Coordinator National
Director, Media Affairs
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