Kalu, leave Atiku alone.
By Barr. Rafindadi Muhammad
Kindly give me the opportunity to comment on the continuous attack on the Nigeria’s foremost democrat and its saviour from former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s tenure elongation plan in 2006, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
It looks like scapegoatism is the in house thing in the armoury of frustrated and failed politicians like former Abia state governor, Orji Uzor Kalu. It is no longer secret that he daily uses his newspaper, Daily Sun and other ‘friendly newspapers’ to launch his venomous, myopic, sentimental and baseless attacks on the person and politics of Atiku Abubakar, immediate Vice President of the federal republic of Nigeria. He had severally accused Atiku of being behind the crumbling of his questionable and fraudulent business empires like the Slok air, Hallmark Bank and a licence to set up a new bank whose name has till today not been made public among others. Rather than taking the courage to be bold and frank and attack the person who took the major decisions that have jeopardized his business interests, Kalu has resorted to misplacing his anger on the most harmless person in the Obasanjo regime. It is my view that Kalu should be man enough to take the bull by the horn and place his grievances at right place.
There is no doubt that Atiku did not have a hand in the strangulation of the ‘business interests’ of Kalu.
To say that Atiku’s reconciliation with Obasanjo is a contempt for the struggle of democracy’ is not only a crass ignorance on the part of Kalu but one that is full of mischief and an unforgiving spirit of a person that once held the office of a governor of a state.
It is quite surprising that Kalu is calling Atiku names including morally and spiritually bankrupt. The common saying that those in glass houses should not throw stones at others because among all the past and serving governors in the country, Kalu has even been singled out by the EFCC as one who had personalize the state resources. That is why he is still in court for diverting Abia state funds into his business empires in Slok Air/group among others.
I advise the former Governor and now leader of the PPA not to dissipate his energy and time in fighting Atiku. Atiku has never been Kalu’s mate in politics or business. Atiku has never been Kalu’s enemy or any other person’s enemy for that matter. He should look inwards or elsewhere for his predicament. Certainly, he should not look in the direction of Atiku. Doing so will be read as diversionary, fraudulent and a smear campaign on the country’s top most democrat.
One only hopes that Nigerians’ message has clearly been understood by Kalu that they have understood his misplaced aggression against Atiku. He just wants to put ‘sand in Atiku’s garri’, no more no less.
He may be doing this selfishly or he might have been recruited by some other selfish, greedy lots around the country to carry their cross.
Barr. Rafindadi Muhammad
(rafindadimohd@yahoo.com)
20, Daura Street,
Katsina
