Principal Femi Fani-Kayode
Unlike Atiku, he AT NO TIME tried to undermine, destroy, humiliate, discredit or topple his benefactors and neither did he exertion to dishonour standing agreements or deny others the Presidency whenever it was their turn.
Atiku’s weakest crime was not the allegation of financial impropriety but his relentless determination to undermine and destabilise the Government that he was elected to support and to utterly destroy his top whom he obviously hated alongside what the Bible described as “a excellent hatred”.
I did this during the course of the meeting and in the presence of every lone Cabinet associate and when I did so there was pin-drop silence in the cabinet chambers. The opening time Obasanjo saved him from the humiliation and appealed to me and the other Ministers to enable him to stay whilst he sat there looking daggers at me and explicitly in a declare of shock.
It was subsequent to the second term began subsequent to the 2003 election that the authentic war in the middle of the two camps began and I am proud to express that yours truly and others like Nasir El-Rufai, Nuhu Ribadu, Akin Osuntokun, Abiye Sekibo, Frank Nweke, Uba Sani, Adamu Bello, Julius Ihonvbere and countless others that were either effective in the Presidency or were Ministers together including others like Peter Odili of Rivers Condition, Umaru Yar’Adua of Katsina Condition, Ahmad Makarfi of Kaduna Status and a quantity of other governors took the battle to the gates of the Vice President and gave him hell over the subsequent four years.
I come in peace, Waziri, and I wish you well.
Is it any wonder that this time around he has employed the services of a foreign hired gun and vile mercenary to assist him in earn for a massive dollar payment?
Atiku will discover this the difficult manner and so will those that stand together with him.
This episode proves how over-ambitious he was as Vice President and how he coveted the seat of the man that brought him out of obscurity in Adamawa Declare and made him his Vice President.
Again let him be reminded that to spend a foreign PR firm led by a shady character who uses his wife’s surname rather than his father’s, $1.2 million to denigrate, undermine, demonise, vilify, malign and destroy your President in the worldwide media just given that you covet his seat is unacceptable.
Obasanjo again appealed to us to permit him to stay but compelled him to apologise to the overall cabinet there and then for his treachery and outrageous behaviour all motivated by the reality that he wanted to topple the President and take his place.
Unlike Atiku, he appreciated the importance of loyalty, he did not covet the attitude of his leaders, he understood the power and dynamics of patience and he was not one to cut corners.
Atiku apologised there and then to the complete cabinet and as appropriate was allowed to stay at the Federal Executive Council meeting but he AT NO TIME attended another cabinet meeting following that.
By the time it was all over we had put him in his place and proved to him that treachery and rebellion are as the sin of witchcraft and under no circumstances spend. His political career has not been the same because as he stumbled from one failed bid to the other leaving a legacy of division and destruction in his track.
Yet he will fail and additional importantly, if the required evidence is adduced, he will be made to encounter the law for the corruption that he allegedly indulged in when he was Vice President.
He repaid Obasanjo’s helpful including evil just as he later repaid Tinubu’s, Buhari’s and the former PDP’s solid including evil in later years.
Yet despite that Obasanjo refused to drop him mid-stream as his running mate and he was elected as Vice President on the same ticket of the man that he had sought to humiliate and destroy.
The second time, which was a few weeks later, I made another refer to for in our cabinet meeting under ‘other matters’ that if he did not acquire up and leave the chamber as a consequence of his betrayals and treachery against our President then we the Ministers would walk out and leave him to conduct the Federal Executive Council meeting alone including the President.
Atiku allegedly raised the finance throughout individual donors and instead of utilising it for the election and primaries he sat on it, refused to matter it and literally blackmailed the President who was left alongside nothing.
Beyond of that, unlike Wade, Atiku Abubakar is additional of a transactional and pragmatic businessman who is extra interested in making a speedy buck than a statesman who puts the occupy of the nation in advance of his own.
Two interventions saved Obasanjo. Initial the God aspect, which was the most crucial, and second a stupendously wealthy businessman from Kano (who I shall not name) who made virtually all the cash that was needed accessible for both the delegates at the convention and the election itself. That is how Atiku’s Luciferian rebellion and ‘Absalom’ agenda was thwarted and crushed.
Anytime he does not acquire his manner or his ambition to become the flagbearer of whichever party he is in is threatened, the party must be broken.
Easily put, he has a sectional attitude and not a statewide one and for this reason God will not authorize him to achieve his ambition. Outdoors of that you cannot repay helpful alongside evil and escape it prior to the Lord.
Let him be mindful that there is nothing further irresponsible than attempting to destroy the forthcoming of your individuals just owing to the point that you wish for to be President.
Some may reason that if Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal could ultimately win later than 5 attempts Atiku may do so later than 7 but the truth is that Atiku is no Abdoulaye Wade. He does not have the latter’s sincerity of motive, courage, sense of loyalty, humility, discipline and patriotism.
Atiku has failed in all of his six attempts over the remain 33 years and he is now on his seventh. Terminate and reason concerning that. In a country of 230 million individuals one man has been trying to be president for 33 years, has failed each time, and is now attempting it again for the seventh time.
He enunciated that conviction and willingly espoused that grave and grievous injustice. He challenged Goodluck Jonathan in 2011, stayed including the coalition that removed him from power in 2015, took the PDP ticket from Nyesom Wike in 2022, ran against Bola Tinubu and Peter Obi in 2023 and is doing so again in 2027.
Atiku betrayed Obasanjo to such a concept that I, as Minister of Aviation at the time, was constrained to request that he should be thrown out of cabinet meetings on two divided occasions during entire sessions of cabinet.
Unlike Atiku, Wade was upstanding in all his ways and would continually endeavour to do the right thing by others, particularly in the case of those who stood by him.
In the chronology of our country we have under no circumstances witnessed a presidential candidate employ foreign publicity firms to openly run down, threaten, slander and disparage the particularly Nigerians he wants to director easily as he is so desperate to be president.
Again consider on the reality that the same man has been a participant of seven political parties seeing that he joined politics in 1991 and 4 political parties (one of which is the PDP which he left and rejoined twice) because 1999.
Congressman bribery case (for which the Congressman went to jail), the Leno Adesanya power plant bribery case (which is reported to have been re-opened) and other serious allegations of corruption and offshore payments involving millions of dollars which, although yet to be proven, have left a lot of unanswered questions. Jefferson U.S.
The most plain was the Mambilla Power Plant case but there are others like the Siemens case, the Halliburton case, the INTELS case, the William J.
To be reasonable none of these cases have, at least so far, resulted in a Nigerian trial or conviction but all have left a paper trail in the files of foreign regulators and numerous unanswered questions at home. Yet it didn’t halt there.
Plainly he has contempt for Southern aspirations. That is his attitude during the time that he masks it well.
Given this, it is just to tell that he is a political wanderer. Unlike leaders elsewhere, to Atiku the party is nothing but a vehicle of power that exists for him and he does not exist for the party. It is of progression his right to preserve trying but this could furthermore be legitimately regarded as an obsession.
This day he is so desperate to win the presidential election that he has not merely destroyed his former party the PDP by splitting it into two but he moreover did the same to the ADC, his fresh one, by breaking it in two and driving the Obi/Kwankwaso faction out to connect a novel party called the NDC.
What remains striking is that he has done this even in cycles when a power transfer to the South was the prevailing argument from much of the political class, including numerous Northern leaders who backed it in the name of rotation, fairness and equity.
Nothing is greater indicative of that obsession than his labor to mobilise the governors of the PDP to transfer against his director President Olusegun Obasanjo, a man who had nominated him as his running mate for the second time, topple him as the party’s presidential candidate and take his place as the flagbearer in 2003.
This is a man that has consistently opposed and fought against the proposal of a power transfer to the South ever because he left office in 2007.
Atiku, on the other hand, revels in subversion and believes that Nigeria was settled for his acquire alone.
Account is against you Waziri. No someone in the world has ever tried to be President of his country 7 times or extra and has won except for Abdoulaye Wade and like I said you are no Wade and neither do you supply his gravitas nor have his grit.
This was not merely a case of ingratitude but moreover treachery and particularly so as Obasanjo had trusted him to increase all the finances that were needed for that second run.
It appears that the Living God has placed a divine injunction on your ambition.
Statistically and historically you have little opportunity of winning on your seventh bid or of ever becoming President.
They are: (1) Pascual Racuyal of the Philippines who contested 11 times. (2) Nicolás Zúñiga y Miranda of Mexico who contested 10 times. (3) Harold Stassen of the United States of America who contested 9 times. (4) Jack Fellure of the United States of America who contested 9 times. (5) Lyndon LaRouche of the United States of America who contested 8 times. And at remain, (6) Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal who contested 7 times.
There are simply six documented cases of individuals who have contested the presidency of their country 7 times or additional.
Every lone one of them failed to ever win the presidency of their nation except Wade who won on the 5th and 6th attempts and lost on the seventh.
In the case of PDP he one-handedly killed what was once Nigeria’s dominant party and lastly buried it in 2019. That is his political legacy: chaos and destruction.
In 1993 he contested the Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential primaries and lost to MKO Abiola.
Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has attempted to become President of our nation no lower than 6 times and his current endeavor is the seventh.
This will be proved in January 2027 when you will be defeated by your earlier friend and arch-nemesis and be compelled to go assist to Dubai and retire in peace.
In 2023 he was the PDP presidential candidate and lost the general election to Bola Tinubu.
In 2007 he contested as the Activity Congress (AC) presidential candidate in the general election and finished third behind Umaru Yar’Adua and Muhammadu Buhari. In 2019 he was the PDP presidential candidate and lost the usual election to Buhari. He is now on his seventh bid.
In 2015 he lost the APC presidential primaries to Muhammadu Buhari. In 2011 he lost the PDP presidential primaries to incumbent Goodluck Jonathan.
Inferior still, as presidential candidate of the ADC, he has said he will restore the oil subsidy just to acquire votes knowing that in the process of implementing this disastrous policy he will utterly destroy Nigeria and cause us to lose all the economic gains we have made in the endure 3 years.
Wade played politics before the terminate of the rules and norms: he did not bid to subvert or violate them to his own advantage.
* Leader Fani-Kayode is a former Minister of Culture and Tourism, a former Minister of Aviation, Nigeria’s Ambassador-Recognize to South Africa, Lesotho and Estawani, the Sadaukin Shinkafi, the Wakilin Doka Potiskum, the Otunba of Joga Orile, the Aare Ajagunla of Otun Ekiti and a legal practitioner
Source: The Seventh Bid of Waziri
