{"id":62029,"date":"2018-05-03T15:42:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T14:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62029"},"modified":"2018-05-03T15:42:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T14:42:33","slug":"gutsy-atiku-abubakar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/gutsy-atiku-abubakar\/","title":{"rendered":"Gutsy Atiku Abubakar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39293\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39294\">By Sufuyan Ojeifo<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39296\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39297\">Just recently, former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Waziri Adamawa, said he was not desperate to be president of Nigeria.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39298\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>But, to be sure, he is an aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The race for the office of the president is always tension-soaked. The incumbent president and his supporters tend to become hysterical and abrasive in the race for re-election. Atiku\u2019s statement was, perhaps, made in the context of the usual do-or-die nature of such race.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39299\">\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39300\">\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39301\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39303\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39304\">Besides, I cannot wager that Atiku\u2019s traducers were taken in by his statement.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39305\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>He might have intended to either construct a dignifying exit strategy for himself or make his traducers to imprudently drop their guards in what should typically be a fight-to-the-finish race.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39306\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I also do not think that those who are opposed to Atiku\u2019s presidency are comfortable with his political moves in recent times.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39307\">\u00a0<\/span>They do not rest assured in their antagonistic fixation, knowing his capacity for politicking and political survival.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39309\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39310\">Any opponent who underrates the Jada-born politician does so at his or her peril.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39311\">\u00a0<\/span>Historically, he has most of the times been on top of his political game.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39312\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>In the ill-fated Third Republic, he had wanted to be president.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39313\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>He had contested for the ticket of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP) in a race against the late M.K.O. Abiola and Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39314\">\u00a0<\/span>In a bid to scale the primary hurdle within the party and clinch the presidential ticket, Abiola, who appeared to enjoy a countrywide support, had struck a political rapprochement with the late Major General Shehu Musa Yar\u2019Adua, who was Atiku\u2019s political leader.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39316\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39317\">The move had resulted in Atiku\u2019s withdrawal from the race. His action and support had ensured Abiola\u2019s victory at the expense of Kingibe in a subsequent run-off.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39318\">\u00a0<\/span>But because of the massive support that Kingibe enjoyed within the party, it became inevitable that he should be nominated as the running mate, regardless of the fact that they were both Muslims.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39319\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>That was how the historic Muslim-Muslim ticket that received nationwide approbation crystallized.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39320\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The presidential ticket had gone ahead to win the annulled June 12, 1993 election.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39322\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39323\">In 1999, Atiku led the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), the political structure of the late Shehu Yar\u2019Adua, to work in partnership with other groups to form the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39324\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Even though he contested and won election to be governor of Adamawa state, Olusegun Obasanjo, the presidential candidate of the PDP, had nominated him as his running mate. That was how Atiku became the vice president from 1999 to 2007.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39326\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39327\">Atiku\u2019s unsuccessful moves to supplant Obasanjo in 2003 upset the governance architecture at the centre and altered his political trajectory.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39328\">\u00a0<\/span>Although, he was able to lock in the position of running mate to Obasanjo in the 2003 presidential election, once the election was won, Obasanjo strategically sidelined him in their second term in office in a whiff of political vendetta.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39330\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39331\">Obasanjo had, unchallenged, pushed a corruption narrative about Atiku in the absence of concrete evidence to nail him.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39332\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>But presently, a vast majority of Nigerians are now at home with the fact that the \u201cAtiku-is-corrupt\u201d perception was the ingenious creation of Obasanjo to make his (Atiku\u2019s) candidature a difficult sell anytime he decides to contest for the position of president in Nigeria. Atiku\u2019s initial undoing was that he never cared about that.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39334\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39335\">Today, the astute politician is jostling for the presidential ticket on the PDP platform.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39336\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>He is, no doubt, formidable.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39337\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>He looks the best material that the PDP should deploy for the 2019 battle against President Buhari.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39338\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Atiku has the experience.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39339\">\u00a0<\/span>He has the grassroots and nationwide networks.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39340\">\u00a0<\/span>He has the financial war chest.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39341\">\u00a0<\/span>He has the gravitas.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39342\">\u00a0<\/span>He has the courage to fight to the finish.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39343\">\u00a0<\/span>He is well prepared for the job, armed with an organic economic blueprint with which to transform Nigeria into a balanced, stable and strong economy.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39345\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39346\">Besides, Atiku has clear political philosophies that he espouses regarding the future of the Nigeria as well as programmes of socio-economic reconstruction.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39347\">\u00a0<\/span>He is restlessly looking for an opportunity to translate them into pragmatic realities.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39348\">\u00a0<\/span>From that prism, he is desperate, even though he said he was not.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39349\">\u00a0<\/span>If truly he was not, I hereby call him out to be.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39350\">\u00a0<\/span>Nigeria is presently being incompetently managed and he happens to be in pole position ahead of other contestants for the job of redeeming Nigeria.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39351\">\u00a0<\/span>Truth is, the massive battle to upstage candidate Buhari of the APC is not for lily-livered.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39353\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39354\">After the 2019 presidential election, Atiku can no longer offer himself for the position, given his age. He is about 71 and this is his last and best chance of becoming president.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39355\">\u00a0<\/span>If I were him, I would be desperate in the circumstance of the national emergency to save Nigeria.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39356\">\u00a0<\/span>I would deploy my human and political capital as well as my massive financial resources to get on the ballot in the PDP and go ahead to fund a massive coalition around my candidature for the epic battle.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39357\">\u00a0<\/span>The time for him to act decisively is now.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39359\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39360\">A cursory look at Atiku\u2019s political trajectory will show a determined man who never says die.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39361\">\u00a0<\/span>It will reveal an embodiment of a rugged political fighting spirit.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39362\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It will show a display of raw guts.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39363\">\u00a0<\/span>Atiku is, without a doubt, gutsy!\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39364\">\u00a0<\/span>How many of those seeking to dislodge Buhari had the guts to say they would probe him if they got to power before Atiku did? He said he would probe the arms procurement contracts of the Buhari administration.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39366\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39367\">Apart from Atiku, how many of the aspirants from the north have espoused restructuring of the federation as a campaign theme? Knowing full well that restructuring is not attractive to the northern political elite, Atiku still dared the Hausa-Fulani hegemony on the matter by pushing it, thus raising general stakes about the fate of our current federal structure before and after the battle for the soul of Nigeria in 2019.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39369\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39370\">A good public relations\u2019 outing that the PDP should benefit from was Atiku\u2019s April 25, 2018 Chatham House lecture titled, \u201cNext Generation Nigeria: The Importance of Strengthening States\u2019 Economic Management.\u201d It was a clear-headed understanding of how to effectively manage the economy of a restructured Nigerian federation. Which other presidential aspirant in the PDP has the capacity to operate on equal wavelengths with Atiku in terms of strategic politics and exposure within and outside Nigeria?\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39371\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39373\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39374\">The opposition party should leverage on Atiku\u2019s audacity and the series of intellectual engagements internationally to counter whatever global image laundering that President Muhammadu Buhari may have embarked upon, such as his recent meeting with President Donald Trump, which is largely interpreted as \u201csecurity-equipment-purchase-for-public-relations\u201d rapprochement between Nigeria and the US. The fact is that only Atiku has the clout to take on Buhari. With due respect, the other northern aspirants in the PDP are provincial in their outlooks.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39375\">\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39376\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39378\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39379\">On the occasion of the workers\u2019 celebration on May Day, Atiku had called on the labour union to take on the Federal Government on minimum wage, industrialization, education, healthcare delivery and pension as the bases of 2019 engagement. I know what Atiku is calling for. He is calling for robust national conversations, which he has already got involved in and also obligatory presidential debates that presage and prepare Nigerians to make their well-considered final choice(s) of president in 2019.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<ul id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39382\">\n<li id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39383\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39384\"><b id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39385\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39386\">Ojeifo, editor-in-chief of\u00a0<i id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39387\">The Congresswatch<\/i>\u00a0magazine, contributed this piece via ojwonderngr@yahoo.com<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39389\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39390\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524475654932_39391\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sufuyan Ojeifo Just recently, former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Waziri Adamawa, said he was not desperate to be president of Nigeria.\u00a0\u00a0But, to be sure, he is an&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-opinions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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