WAKE UP: I like the INEC chairman
By Ugo Egbujo
I like the INEC chairman
Chidoka came to impugn the integrity of the elections in the north east
The INEC chairman quietly told him to submit his letter at INECs office. No one was interested in his funny take-our-letter drama. Yakubu firmly reminded everyone that Atiku’s agents signed the results in Borno and Yobe and Adamawa.
And that brings me to it.
Atiku is supposed to be a Fulani man from Jada, Adamawa , northeast Nigeria. His not from the southeast. He is not an Igbo man being victimised by a northern rigging machinery.
The results are eloquent. He was rejected by his kinsmen.
No one is fighting for Atiku in Jada or Adamawa. No one in Adamawa is complaining of card reader issues.
But my brothers from Biafra are banging their heads on the wall swearing that Atiku was cheated in his village.
Wike and Secondus all turned out eye bulging figures from their villages. They are now talking about Atiku as if he were a vulnerable child being exploited by adults.
If Atiku was cheated in a state where he employs half of the state’s workforce and no one there has raised a murmur , then something fundamental is amiss.
The truth is that Atiku is not a man of his people.
Let those crying for him respect the wishes of his people. whatever it is let those who have small businesses in Ariaria concentrate on what happened in Aba.
Atiku knows his people. And his people know him.
Akpabio couldn’t win in Akwaibom. Ajumobi couldn’t win in Oyo. So there is nothing spectacular about Atiku who has never really won anything in the northeast in the last 12 years losing woefully there.
*This is strictly personal opinion of Egbujo.