Abati: The Atiku camp made huge capital out of the fact that the President bought a car for "a woman friend". That was a wicked cut, please. I have looked carefully at the cheque that was published and the invoice from RT Briscoe, the suppliers of the vehicles, but the dates of purchase were not so clear. One question that one fellow posed is: was the car bought when Mrs Stella Obasanjo was alive or after her death? Stella was a dutiful wife who did her best to support the President with her non-governmental activities and her commitment to her husband throughout all the travails that they both had to face together in the last 12 years. While Stella was playing the good wife, was the President busy buying fine cars for other women? Another fellow wondered how Stella Obasanjo would have felt if she had been alive to learn that Baba had been pampering other women with car gifts. The Atiku people are obviously mean-spirited. They have managed to create the impression that the same Baba that we all thought was stingy, and frugal, can be very enthusiastic and kind towards women, even if it means breaking the law to do so.
Abati, I have always regarded you as a clever fellow, but please do us all a favour by not descending into the arena.
You're talking about a "wicked cut" in an all-out war? Please!!
So, are you saying OBJ's camp is not "mean-spirited" as well?
You know, times are changing; long and forever gone are the days any so-called journalist could pontificate on the pages of the newspaper, without formidable and effective challenge. Thank goodness for the internet.
The major reason you post at NVS, is because you need to guage the pulse of your readers, which, in turn, feeds or partly determines how you make your cat-walk across the land-mines of the battle-field of Nigerian political developments.
Please, do not try to be clever by half, feeding us with a purportedly 'balanced' view-point.
It is becoming increasingly obvious where your sympathies lie, and I'm praying fervently that you've not fallen victim to the lure of filthy lucre. I sincerely hope that you'll prove some of us wrong.
DoubleWahala