A DAMNING WRITE-UP ON ATIKU
�� A County Ruled By Semi-illiterates Over The Years. As Permutations For 2023 Continues_
Still on Atiku Abubakar !!!
Prof Akin Omoz-Oarhe writes:
A fair comment.
1. He is far more educated than PMB. I do not mean possession of college certificate but having a broader outlook of life. So he would certainly have been less nepotistic and would not have inflicted this level of disunity on us.
2. But he was NOT a nice guy OBJ made us to know that. He was a crook from his mothers womb:
�Just imagine in those days when forgery was alien to us into the 1960s, he 'wangled' his way into Police College without the requisite WAEC qualifications. Certificate checks found him out. He failed Mathematics and was sacked.
�He went for training as a Sanitary Inspector. He became one but stole a litre of 'Izal' and got sacked.
�"Somehow he became a Tax Collector. It was found that with appropriate gratification, he halved the taxes due some people. He got kicked out.
�No record that he ever repeated his WAEC but he got a place in ABU to study for a Diploma in Sharia Law.
�Recruitment Agents wanted some people in the Custom. They found that he was once a Tax Collector and was a student in Police College. Good combination. He got the Custom job. He rose fast.
�One day, while on duty heading a Unit, a beautiful Yoruba girl, Atinuke, had crossed Seme Border to Republic of Benin (then Dahomey) and smuggled in some 'ankara' materials. On her return she was caught by the Customs and dragged to their boss Atiku. WAO! Atiku loved what he saw. He decided to give the law a human face. He asked his boys what the Customs charges would have been if not smuggled. They computered it and gave him the figure. He paid on her behalf and 3 months later married her as his first wife. Two of a type.
�Atiku continued to rise in the Customs. He moved to a Unit where it was their duty to open all containers that were imported into Nigeria as to ascertain what were inside and charged appropriately. It was lucrative. He made friends and money. How? He would open a container and find a car inside that could attract some millions of naira. He would declare that the container contained panadol, that attracted no duty. The owner would share the gain with Atiku. One of the beneficiary was an Italian. They became good friends via partnership in crime.
�Atiku soon recommended that the job in the Unit was beyond the staffing and that there was need for conducting firm to be engaged to carry out that duty on behalf of the government. The government accepted the recommendation. Very quickly, Atiku and his Italian friend set up Intel. Yes the famous Intel.
�Soon Atiku thievery became too much and the Government of IBB decided to sack him. Someone pleaded on his behalf. IBB gave him the option to retire. That's why Atiku got out of Custom as an Assistant Contoller of Custom.
�He got into politics. We know the rest of how he became the Vice President to OBJ.
�His problem with OBJ was because he had already engaged a marabout who tells him what political moves to make. In spite of having won the governorship of Adamawa, the marabout told him he would not rule as a governor. Something bigger was coming which he must take because that would lead him to be President of Nigeria. Soon OBJ offered him the position of Presidential running mate in the 1999 Presidential election. The marabout had already told him to accept the position. So he jettisoned the governorship position and ran with OBJ and won.
�His trouble with OBJ started because the marabout told him that he would from that position become a President. He did not care to ask when. So immediately he became the Vice President, he guessed that OBJ would do one term. So he immediately started working on replacing OBJ in 2003. OBJ got to know all about the marabout and then swore that Atiku would never get there.
�Lest we forget, once Atiku became the VP, in 2001, changed Intel contract to 20 years.
�Atiku was a devout muslim. The Muslim has a right to have up to 4 wives if the means is there. It was for Atiku. In those years as he struggled to be a state governor of Adamawa State, it became expedient to expand his connection. So he married the daughter of the Emir of Adamawa as his third wife. Then later a 4th.
�As a Vice President, Atiku met an Igbo lady in NTA who came to interview him. He liked the girl because she was sharp.
� Atiku expanded his business to the US. He was now collecting money from businessmen promising to open business opportunities for them in Nigeria. He needed someone to handle the US front. He remembered her Igbo TV friend. He pulled her out of the NTA and sent her to handle his US business.
�The two did so much together and were later both banned from entering the US.
�Atiku continued his struggle to be President. He already had one Yoruba wife and 3 Northern wives. He needed Igbo votes too so as to tell Nigerians that he is total Nigerian. He needed an Igbo wife for this. But he already had 4 wives. So he sacked the second wife to create a space for the Onitsha girl!!!
�1971, he secretly married Titilayo Albert, in Lagos, because her family was initially opposed to the union. His children from her include: Fatima, Adamu, Halima and Aminu.
�In 1979, he married Ladi Yakubu as his second wife. He has six children with Ladi: Abba, Atiku, Zainab, Ummi-Hauwa, Maryam and Rukaiyatu.
�In 1983, he married his third wife, Princess Rukaiyatu, daughter of the Lamido of Adamawa, Aliyu Mustafa.
�Abubakar later divorced Ladi, allowing him to marry a fourth wife Jennifer Iwenjiora Douglas.
However it was Ladi the second wife he divorced not Rukayatu
Atiku has 5 wives and 26 children!!!
My Take: Nigeria is being ruled by bunch of criminals! I have always said it that none of the people that have ruled Nigeria democratically, should have been the Head of State/President if education and knowledge of the job, (like the case of civilized countries) was a prerequisite. Just imagine the CV of Atiku. A con man par excellence!!! This country has gone to the dogs for too long, and she needs a surgical operation.
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Thinking Nigeria, But...
God Does Not Author Confusion.
A 14 year-old cannot be admitted into university to study, but a 13 year-old can be married.
A school certificate holder cannot become a director in the civil service, but a school certificate holder can become President and commander-in-chief of the entire country.
The country is among the major oil producing countries in the world, but it imports the fuel it consume.
The country has the highest number of foreign doctors in the UK and America, but its leaders travel abroad for their medical needs.
The country shoots armless protesters, but hold peace parleys *with bandits, kidnappers, and terrorists *.
The country rehabilitates terrorists, but their victims languish in refugee camps.
God did not create any country. He located human beings in different territories and gave them all empowerments to survive.
Whatever they turn out to be is entirely their choices and decisions.
UAE and Qatar are deserts converted to paradise.
Nigeria is paradise converted to hell.
Nigeria is epitome of confusion, and God is not the author of confusion.
Yet, we can right the wrong. It's our difficult but surmountable task. Yes, We Can...
