The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) said on
Saturday that emerging revelation from the PDP
Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar is a clear
indication that he would a disaster if given the
mandate to preside over the country.
The Organisation said the self-confession by the
Atiku that he took some unilateral decisions as
Vice President and alao ensured that a sitting
governor was not given a return ticket were clear
acts of impunity, stressing that if he could do that
as number two, he was bound to do worse when
given the real mandate as number one.
In a statement signed by the chairman, Niyi
Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, the
group also said the former Vice President carried
out serious acts of impunity when, as Chairman
of the National Council on Privatization, he
presided over the under pricing of national assets,
while giving his company a whopping 25 year’s
concession of Nigerian ports.
The ask Nigerian voters to take proper notice of
unilateral actions and the serial acts of impunity
by Atiku Abubakar when he was Vice President in
the Obasanjo years.
They claimed that the former Vice President even
boasted about some of those acts on National
Television during his appearance on ‘The
Candidate’, a live TV show focusing on
Presidential candidates in the run up to next
month’s elections
BMO said: “On more than two occasions during
the programme, Atiku Abubakar made it clear that
he took unilateral actions as Vice President that
border on impunity and a disregard for all known
democratic norms.
“The first was his confession that he ‘borrowed’
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) N300m at inception in 2004 from the
proceeds of the privatisation exercise. What this
means is that the funds were in his custody and
not paid into the Consolidated Revenue Account
as expected. And he did whatever he liked with it.
“This is the same man who wrote the
international community to complain about
President Muhammadu Buhari who sought and
secured approval of the National Economic
Council to release $1bn from the Excess Crude
Account for military hardware. We wonder which
of these acts bear the mark of impunity!
“The second one was the clearly undemocratic
decision to deny a sitting governor a second term
in office. By his own admission on the ‘The
Candidate’, Atiku Abubakar and his principal were
not aware that schools were shut in Anambra
state for two years and the solution, in his view,
was to tell the then President Olusegun Obasanjo
that the state governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju ‘will
never be allowed to go back’. He subsequently
boasted publicly that he made sure that the
governor never went back.
“It is shocking that this comment came from an
individual that wrote an open letter to the
international community accusing President
Buhari of constitutional breaches. What could be
more dictatorial than determining the outcome of
an election without giving the electorate the
benefit of choosing who governs them?â€
They said further that the impunity with which
Atiku carried out his duty as Vice President and
chairman of the National Council of Privatisation
was also obvious from the manner government
owned enterprises were sold or concessioned
under his watch.
“it is no longer news that his company INTELS
was granted a 25-year concession to run a
number of Ports in an exercise he supervised in
2006.This is clearly one of the acts his former
boss referred to when he said that the PDP
Presidential Candidate committed unforgivable
crimes against the Nigerian people.
“There is also the mess that characterised the
privatisation of the Aluminium Smelter Company
of Nigeria (ALSCOM) Ikot Abasi which was built
for $3.2b but sold for a pittance of $120m in
2006.That shoddy sale has since then sparked
series of law suits till dateâ€, the group said.
source: thenationonlineng.net/atiku-will-disaster-president-says-bmo/
