Vice
President Atiku Abubakar Must Resign Now!
By
Paul I. Adujie
Lawcareer@msn.com
New York, United States
Based on long established fine legal principles, anchored on the
presumption of innocence, we sought last week, to elicit explanations from
Vice President Atiku of Nigeria, regarding his unexplained wealth,
particularly, the excessive wealth he controls overseas, more so, since
becoming Nigeria’s vice president on May 29, 1999.
We at the time assumed that he could somehow extricate himself from
illegalities!
Last week, we had mainly focused on the sham, fraud and illegality that
appeared to have been committed through proxies of
Nigeria’s
current vice president, Jennifer (multiple surnames?) Abubakar, (who, as
have since been revealed, earns only $200 a week), and yet purchased and
“owns” a $2million dollar mansion; Jennifer, it is, she, who if you
recall, donated $25,000.00 to the Republican Party, the political party
that has produced the current American federal government and their
wonderful domestic and foreign policies! Jennifer is a model citizen of
America and Nigeria! Is she not?
Our impeccably reliable sources have since made further revelations, to
the effect that Jennifer (how many surnames?) made a lodgment of $600
million dollars into a Swiss Bank, the Union Bank of Switzerland, UBS. An
account which contains the signature of your vice president and mine, and
as co-signatory and therefore co-owner, of the tidy sum of six hundred
million dollars, money that is enough to provide clean drinking water for
all of Adamawa State, money that is enough to generate electricity for 100
years, for Yola and Jalingo, and Numa and more towns in our beloved
Adamanwa and environs!
Nigerians must be reminded of (inconsequential?) facts that the
Constitution of Nigeria and the Code of Conduct Act for public officials,
prohibits, in absolute terms, the possession, ownership and title to,
foreign accounts in banks, financial institutions, including ownership of
homes, even if through proxies or mistresses or absentee wife.
Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s sumptuous living quarters in the United
States, his unexplained affluence and opulent life style indicate breaches
of provisions of Nigeria’s Constitution and Code of Conduct Act, this,
coupled with the $600 million dollars that was moved from the United
States to Switzerland, (the home, sweet home, and repository of looted
monies and banker to looters or lootocrats) is proof beyond any iota of
doubt, that the VP has egregiously breached provisions of the Constitution
of Nigeria, th e Code of Conduct Act and other laws of Nigeria,
Switzerland and the United States as suspected
By natural progression therefore, our request that the vice president
explain himself, his absentee wife Jennifer, who has been on wild spending
sprees, possessing $15,000.00 cash in the Jennifer- Atiku Abubakar mansion
in Maryland, an amount that was not considered staggeringly obscene by the
VP’s numerous assistants and retinues, of see-no evil handlers! Defenders
of the VP, it appears do not find it immoral and sickening, that a
majority of Nigerians wallow in grinding abject poverty, while brethren
Jennifer donates $25,000.00 to a political party, money that is clearly
not hers, impossible to save from $200 a week, which is less than current
American minimum wage! How many Americans with income of $200 per week
donated $25,000.00 to any political party or charity?
There is high rate of unemployment in
Nigeria,
there suffering and utter hardships and hopelessness in the land, while
the vice president and his dear lady squander our public treasury and
national wealth on themselves and American political parties?
There are abandoned, neglected and decaying public infrastructures in
Nigeria, but public officials of Nigeria are greedily amassing mansions
upon mansions in America and Europe, where public infrastructures do work
and perform efficiently… these Nigerian public officials, are behaving as
they were refuges, bad refugees, who are only interested in what they can
get out of their current environment, but with intent to invest in some
other place (America and Europe) where they really plan to make their
homes!
Instead of investing in hospitals in Nigeria, th ese public officials rely
on overseas medical facilities for their care, instead of investing in
public infrastructures in Nigeria, they want to loot our public wealth and
from our treasury, the improve the housing market for America and Europe
by purchasing the most expensive homes or mansions of palatial sizes in
choice locations. Nigerians must make the looters of Nigeria accountable!
Defenders of the VP who have been harassing me for about ten days now,
apparently find nothing “ignominious, disgraceful” in the words of Tonye
David-West writing in www.Nigeriawold.com http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/david-west/090405.html
He sees the uncouth and outright illegal in the doings of the VP a nd his
wife, instead they seek to excuse them, with, there are other corrupt
officials in Nigeria! How does it amount to any defense of a thief, caught
red-handed, that there are other thieves somewhere else? A police officer
arrests an armed robber in Ikeja, the robber and his friends defend, by
saying there are some other robbers in Ikoyi and Surulere? What do we
know? About Corrupt Persons and their practices? Please provide specifics,
not wild speculations and rumors, as distractions or defense to your
crimes!
Let us deal with the armed robber against whom we have specific
information, let him sing the names of fellow robbers, his accomplices or
accessories before or after the fact. Let heads of more looters at all
levels of our government roll, let the heads of the corrupt roll, from
messengers to the president, whoever is found wanting, deserves severest
of penalties… but … the corruption by others cannot be the defense for
your corruption!
According to Newswatc h Magazine, in its edition published on September 5,
2005
Vice Presidetn Atiku Abubakar has a lot of explaining to do!
www.newswatchngr.com
http://www.newswatchngr.com/editori...10905140331.htm
“The tenure of Atiku Abubakar as vice-president of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria may end abruptly in a matter of weeks, even days. That is because
he has been given marching orders by President Olusegun Obasanjo to quit
immediately or risk being handed over to security agencies over illegal
financial dealings involving himself and Jennifer, his wife.
Their offences are said to include money laundering, tax evasion, and
terrorist financing. Newswatch learnt that one of the major reasons for
the recent r aiding of the residence of Atiku in Maryland, United States
by the Federal Bureau of Intelligence was in connection with his alleged
shady deal with William Jefferson, US congressman as well the discovery of
his multi-million dollars foreign bank account. Sources said that at
first, Atiku and 20 other Nigerians who were maintaining foreign shady
bank accounts in the United States were asked to close them. This was
because the American security agents who initially did not know the origin
of the money, later traced it to deals from Nigeria. It was against this
background that they asked all those involved to move their money out of
the US. It was at this juncture that Jennifer reportedly moved $600
million out of the US to the Union Bank of Switzerland, UBS. In that bank,
he has Jennifer, his wife as a co-signatory to the account.
When they successfully moved the money, Jennifer went to Geneva
and attempted to move it again, specifically to build the
ABTI
American University, Yola owned by the Atikus. But the Swiss banks did not
allow her to move the money. This was based on their suspicion that the
money came from Nigeria through money laundering. Although Jennifer is
married to Atiku, she is an American citizen. This was why the Swiss
bankers told her that as an American citizen if she had such money, she
ought to have declared it to the US Inland Revenue Service. They argued
that since she had not declared it in US for tax purposes, it stands to
reason that she was dodging payment of taxes to the US government and the
penalty for this offence is jail.
Swiftly, the Swiss bankers reported to the US government that such money
came from the US. The US security agents immediately swung into action and
searched Jennifer residence because she was earning $200 a week. Baffled
by what they discovered, the US government officials called Obasanjo on
August 1, alleging that his government was very corrupt. They asked him
where Atiku got the money which he stashed in a foreign bank account.
Obasanjo's response was that it had nothing to do with his government but
was strictly an individual's issue.
Newswatch gathered that during the search of Atiku's house in Maryland,
USA, by F.B.I officials, August 3, they found documents on payments to
American congressmen through Jefferson. The last cheque was $100,000. It
was further learnt that F.B.I. subpoenas are focused on a
telecommunications deal Jefferson was trying to engineer in Nigeria over
the past year.. The US government then called George Obiozor, Nigeria's
ambassador to US to alert him about the happenings. Obiozor immediately
sent two reports on the incident to the federal government. He was
instructed to follow it up through diplomatic channels to establish the
facts involved on the issue”
Jennifer is the happy political parties’ donor, with apparent unlimited
and limitless wealth, based on her hard work upon which she is paid $200
per week! Which of course is below the poverty measuring scale in
America….how does anyone with income level below the poorest American then
make180 degrees turn to donate to the party of Lincoln? The political
party in America that is synonymous with the political party of the rich?
Jennifer certainly posses a most bizarre transformative personalities,
that will make the worst multiple personality sufferer bristle with envy!
Poor $200 per week rich wife of VP, live in a mansion! Co-owner of $600
million, frequent donor to political parties! This is better than fiction!
Who could have thought up such wonderful true life fantasy of
phantasmagoria? Let defenders of the VP and Jennifer refute or challenge
our facts!
We wrote “Vice President Atiku Abubakar Must Explain!” first published at
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare1.com/Articles/paul_adujie/2005/08/vice-president-atiku-abubakar-must.html
and other Nigeria-related websites, based on the investigations and
findings that became available to us, since then, we have received hate
mails, churlish commentaries by defenders of the vice president,
unwarranted telephone calls chastising me, some threatening my personal
safety and life! Even though what we wrote was incontrovertible or if some
think it is, they ought to write rejoinders to my article, instead of
labeling, castigating and threatening my life and liberty!
I have since received countless annoying telephone calls to my home and to
my cellular phones… these pranks and cranks of calls, have strengthened my
resolved to pursue those who loot Nigeria’s resources… I refuse to be
intimidated, and no price is too high to pay
I have accordingly, informed American authorities of these threats to my
safety and life
I am not afraid. It is a worthy cause to rid Nigeria of corruption, it is
just cause! Looters deprive Nigeria
of development, advancement and greatness! Looters make
Nigeria
object of ridicule in international arena, and looters have damaged our
sense of pride in our nation! Looters have stunted our growth and
development, looters are our bane and burden. Looters drive Nigerians out
of Nigeria, Nigerians throng foreign embassies daily!
I am undeterred and unbowed! We will ruin those responsible f or the
ruination of Nigeria |