Atiku Abubakar, former Vice
President, has admitted that he opposed moves by ex-President, Olusegun
Obasanjo to “elongate the presidential tenure beyond eight years.”
Abubakar said he was, “largely
frozen out in the second term of our tenure” by his former “boss” for opposing
his attempt to elongate the presidential tenure.
The Waziri of Adamawa made the
disclosure in an article while responding to an open letter directed to him by
stand-up Comedian, Francis Agoda aka Comedian I Go Dye.
The article reads in part, “My
legacy as Vice President, I would say is the banking consolidation process, for
which I gave political backing for. Many big people were putting a lot of political
pressure to not change the status quo, but we knew that if that consolidation
was not done, Nigeria could not grow. Because of that banking consolidation,
Nigerian banks don’t fail anymore the way they used to.
“I oversaw the telecoms
revolution, which is why young people like you, I Go Dye, now have a
flourishing career. Under our tenure, we witnessed a large repatriation of
Nigerians back to Nigeria, driven by the hope of the recovering economy. It is
sad that many of those young people are heading back abroad now — this is to
show you that leadership matters.
“I know many of these have been
forgotten because it was a long time ago, and successive administrations did
not follow up on the progress we made. But that is also not to say we were blameless.
“I was largely frozen out in the
second term of our tenure, and I regret that we had that disagreement with my
boss. Some say I was disloyal, but I looked at the events in Zimbabwe recently,
and it gives me confidence that I did the right thing fighting the attempts to
elongate the presidential tenure beyond eight years. If I did not win that
fight, do you think we would be having a discussion on young people getting
into leadership today?”
Similarly, the former Vice
President had declared that he never procured any property belonging to the
Nigerian government despite been in charge of privatization while in power.
So Atiku is now taking credit for what obasanjo did?? Wonders shall never end...LOL...ATIKU must u be President???
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