Tag Archives: Abubakar Atiku

  El-Rufai’s solicitation reveals the actual purpose for the opposition visit to the Clark family: To capitalise on the emotional state of the bereaved, to score political points, and to back a Northern presidency in 2027, unmindful of the zoning of the Presidency between the North and South of Nigeria every eight years. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | MARCH 3, 2025 ...

  “Faced with these realities, how would any responsible government have carried on spending $1 billion monthly on fuel subsidy and another $1.5 billion monthly defending the Naira and a further $300 million monthly subsidising electricity while servicing a total debt of almost $100 billion racked up by the previous administration with 92% of our revenue as at the end ...

  “First, tackling corruption. Fighting corruption should have commenced with the repositioning of the NNPCL, which is a huge beneficiary of the status quo. Its commitment to reform and capacity to implement and enforce reforms is suspect. The subsidy regime has provided an avenue for rent seeking, and the NNPCL and its guardians will be threatened by reforms” PEGASUS REPORTERS, ...

  “As Head of National Council on Privatization (NCP), from 1999, Atiku dug Nigeria’s economic grave for today’s extreme poverty and unemployment. There were over 600 Federal Assets when Atiku’s NCP started selling. Atiku should tell Nigerians who bought what and what was left for the country when he left power in 2007. To whom did Atiku sell the following ...

  “Was Atiku’s full backing of the protest part of an alleged broader plan to gain the presidency through the backdoor in an overthrow of the government, which many of the protesters actually called for? These questions flow from Atiku’s sequential utterances and statements throughout the protest that destroyed a large swathe of his backyard in Northern Nigeria!” PEGASUS REPORTERS, ...

  “I wish to convey a stern caution to the distinguished service chiefs and military commanders of the Nigeria’s armed forces that those who authorized the use of lethal force against peaceful civilian protesters will be held responsible for committing crimes against humanity…” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 7, 2024 The People’s Democratic Party presidential candidate in the 2023 general ...

  “We have the strong feeling that none of these opposition leaders and their core loyalists is ever ready to openly accept the Appeal Court verdicts after identifying technicalities that these Justices are using to knock their cases down one by one, right from the Supreme Court Judgement on the Presidential election based on what Constitution says.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS ...

  “They reflected ignorance. They conflated Nigerian system with that of the US. In Nigeria, we ask for Certificates. In the US, like in my own case, they ask for Transcript. In Warri, we say in pidgin English, “who no go no know.” They are Locals with a yokel mentality.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | OCTOBER 18, 2023 The United States ...

  “Certificates are not used as legal proof of graduation from any school in America and therefore can’t be forged in the legal sense of the term. Only transcripts can be used as legal documents to validate the genuineness of claims to have attended institutions, including secondary schools.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | OCTOBER 8, 2023 As I have stressed repeatedly, ...

  “CSU doesn’t usually certify documents it issued or those that were issued through third-party vendors and has never been asked to certify any document until this present case. Registrar Westberg feels IT’S PROBABLY A NIGERIAN THING TO SEEK CERTIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS as that is strange to them in the US.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | OCTOBER 6, 2023 In light ...