OPINION BY TUNDE OLUSUNLE: Atiku, El-Rufai, Udenta and the vindication of Èṣù Ọ̀dàrà | TheCable
lexical parallel of Satan or the devil in the English language. Èṣù, within this context, connotes evil and devilry in all its ramifications. He is the purveyor and conveyor of wickedness, mischief, anguish, grief, even negativity in totality. Èṣù, in popular perception, is mean-spirited, malevolent, devious, vile. The list goes on.
The respected public engager, scholar and professor, Udenta Udenta, indeed, advanced in a recent television interview that Atiku ticks all the boxes in terms of his several attributes, competencies and capacities for the nation’s top job. His words: “The most suitable president Nigeria needs now is someone with a sense of urgency, who is ready in terms of preparation, someone who is fully aware of national expectations.
In an old short video clip dated August 11, 2011, which is making the rounds, El-Rufai dismisses reports and allegations of Atiku’s interference or complicity in any form, with the privatisation exercise. According to him: “I swear to God, I am under oath, except for one time the vice president called me and said: “Look, I’ve got calls from A and B requesting we help this guy win this”. And I said: “Mr Vice President, you know the rules.
The serving aviation minister at the time, at the very climax of the feisty acrimony between Obasanjo and Atiku, by accounts, dropped a bomb during a meeting of the federal executive council . We are informed he averred that Atiku should be barred from attending or participating in FEC meetings! This was an unelected appointee of the Obasanjo/Atiku ticket attempting to humiliate the vice president in public. Atiku was in attendance, we are also apprised, by the way.
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