What is it with Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar with financial ecology? The NDC and ADC presidential candidates don’t seem to like their environments. So, they are not able to account for the money under their care. In the case of the former Adamawa chieftain, he introduced the acronym SPV to the Nigerian corruption dictionary over what was known as PTDF. In his case, he could not account for about N100 million, which in today’s money was even less than Obi’s N2.13 billion. A $500,000 payday on Mambilla Plateau scandal now dogs Atiku. He can deny his wife, but he cannot deny the money. The Sunrise money lit up the Abubakars’ account. The ADC presidential candidate should see the light now and confess. The money was given, according to the Sunrise briber, to the Abubakars.
Atiku has a power problem this time after his ecology suffered from financial bad weather. Both scandals happened when he was vice president and chairman of the National Council on Privatisation. It was as NCP chair he sold off our precious assets almost for free. Obi, like is former oga, has inherited the same scandal. Obi threw a challenge and Governor Charles Soludo answered. Obi is now crying that he is being witch-hunted.
You cannot witch-hunt without facts. As author Samuel Butler said, ‘things are what they are and the consequences are what they will be. So, why wish to be deceived!’
The former Anambra State governor should not only show us the records that the money allocated to heal the gully erosion-prone communities actually landed in the First Bank account, the date and the other details of the transaction. He should also point to what he did with that mammoth sum, when he did it and evidence that he did it. If you spent money to stop erosion or to help farmers, the farmers and residents will testify. And the pictures, even in these days of AI, can be verified. This is more serious than saying that he cleared the grass of a place as evidence that he did something for nurses in the state. It is not everything we transform to farce. The same way he said he left over N76 billion naira for successor Governor Willy Obiano. It was true before it was discovered that he had written cheques to decimate that sum to some people. If his adoring followers ingest every morsel he utters, others cannot be deceived. Where are the Catholic bishops when we want them to talk? How now, Onaiyekan?