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Obasanjo/Atiku feud: Atiku to release 20 new cheuqes

Posted by By Jacob Edi, Abuja. on 2006/10/15 | Views: 581 |

Obasanjo/Atiku feud: Atiku to release 20 new cheuqes


The Vice President Atiku Abubakar camp may this week release fresh cheques to prove that President Olusegun Obasanjo operated a joint account with the vice president.

The Vice President Atiku Abubakar camp may this week release fresh cheques to prove that President Olusegun Obasanjo operated a joint account with the vice president.

The fresh cheques, according the Turaki Vanguard, a group campaigning for the Atiku presidency, are not part of documents already submitted to the National Assembly by Atiku to establish his case in the on-going corruption scandal leveled against him.

Spokesperson of Turaki Vanguard, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, who revealed the plan to release at least 20 more cheques at a news conference in Abuja, said that contrary to media report that Atiku asked for a soft landing in the face-off with Obasanjo, it was the president's camp that sought peace with the Atiku camp.

He said that President Obasanjo called for the peace talks after the Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani, allegedly advised him to do so.
'The Senate President, after studying what Obasanjo and Atiku sent to them, advised the president that it was better for him not to allow the document to be discussed in public," Chief Eze claimed, adding: 'It is as a result of this that he (Obasanjo) made the move for reconciliation so that he could get some integrity. Nigerians should know that Atiku is ready to make peace."

In spite of the VP's suspension from the PDP and his indictment by an administrative panel of enquiry, the Turaki Vanguard spokesperson expressed optimism that the vice president would contest next year's presidential elections. According to him, there are about 20 political parties that are ready to come into an alliance to give Atiku the ticket to run for the Presidency in 2007.

While equally expressing the hope that things will be resolved within the PDP in Atiku's favour, Chief Eze enthused that 'a PDP ticket without Atiku means the PDP will not form the next government."

'What our principal opponent, Obasanjo and PDP may have achieved is more sympathy and followership for the Atiku group and his ambition. Nigerians have realised that Obasanjo's major achievement is to stop Atiku, but it is neither his duty nor right to determine his fate," Chief Eze stated

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