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Following See new posts Your Home Timeline Sunday Dare,CON @SundayDareSD · 1h Atiku Abubakar's Flight of Fancy and An Ambition On Crutches. For nearly three decades, the Nigerian political landscape has played host to a singular, interminable political psychodrama: the relentless presidential voyage of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Since the dawn of the Fourth Republic in 1999, the Wazirin Adamawa has maintained a stubborn, almost messianic grip on the presidential ballot, gallivanting through successive electoral cycles with the monotonous rhythm of a clock that refuses to stop. Five times he has thrown his hat into the national ring; five times he has lost. This, despite traversing political platforms from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Action Congress (AC), the All Progressives Congress (APC), and now the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for the 2027 showdown. This unbroken marathon of ambition has done little to elevate the standards of modern democratic inclusivity or national cohesion. Instead, Atiku's prolonged shadow-boxing has consistently heightened national tensions, inflamed ethnic fault lines, and weaponized religious dogmatism. In an era where modern pluralistic democracies demand programmatic vision, social engineering, and unifying leadership, his campaigns have relied on divisive rhetoric, regional posturing, and the stale grievances of an exhausted political elite. Worse still, for a man who presumes to offer leadership to Africa's most populous nation, his recent resort to grievance offshoring—outsourcing political warfare to Washington and reportedly paying $1.2 million to an American lobbying firm to peddle petitions against a sitting Nigerian President—stands as an affront to Nigeria's sovereignty and a vote of no confidence in its democratic institutions. It is also a stinging slight—an implicit condescension directed at generations of Nigerian journalists, policy analysts, academics, and public intellectuals who have spent decades analysing, critiquing, and carrying the burden of the nation's democratic evolution. The Atiku Abubakar of today cuts a pitiable figure—a grotesque portrait of what a politician becomes when ambition overwhelms judgment and every political faculty becomes programmed for self-destruction. No, Atiku cannot take Nigeria down that path with him. He must travel it alone. But first, Nigerians deserve Atiku Abubakar's report card. Charity, they say, begins at home—not in Washington. Nigerians deserve to know whether the Atiku Abubakar who has long presented himself as a democrat is, in reality, a politician of many colours. He has erected for himself a throne built simultaneously on sand and bayonets. It is time to explode the bayonets. The Sordid Ledger: Allegations That Refuse to Fade Atiku's defenders are quick to point out a fundamental technicality: despite decades of intense political crossfire, no domestic or international court has secured a formal criminal conviction or indictment against him. Yet the persistent cloud of allegations relating to financial impropriety, abuse of office, and institutional conflict that shadows his public record cannot simply be wished away by technical acquittals or political legalese. In politics, perception is often as consequential as legal outcomes. The most authoritative international documentation of Atiku's financial entanglements remains the 2010 U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations** report. The 328-page dossier detailed allegations that the former Vice President utilized offshore shell companies to route more than $40 million in suspect funds into the United States. A significant portion of these transactions reportedly flowed through accounts linked to his fourth wife, Jennifer Douglas, laying the groundwork for years of international scrutiny and diplomatic visa restrictions.1/2
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