[edoji]

I have seen and heard all sorts of ingenious arguments but I will want to stay on the issue at hand. What is before the court of public opinion is that Atiku has abused and misused his office. That is the point!

"The point is that certain monies were constitutionally entrusted on Mr. Vice President for PTDF. The monies were denominated in dollars and playing around with them for a while within the banking system has its direct private gains. The Vice President was more attracted to those private and personal gains than the necessary benefits to Nigerians. In administrative language, the funds were misappropriated but in street language the monies were stolen. This is one of the cases against him.

The argument that Mr.President is also guilty or even a bigger culprit does not make sense in this context. Mr. President’s day at the dock will surely come and we will celebrate it but the man in the dock now is Atiku and please, let somebody tell him to defend himself.

I do not think that any serious- minded Nigerian would want to believe that Mr. President is a saint and that he is fighting his anti-corruption war altruistically. No. We all know the game. What Nigerians want to know and the onus on Atiku is to disprove those allegations. Going to court to espouse his right is good but the better thing to do is to fight for an acquittal from the court of public opinion. Atiku may very well get a redress from a court of law but without a discharge from the court of public opinion, he is politically dead. Trading sleaze with Obasanjo does not make sense. If for anything, it reinforces perception and makes the case worse for him".