2015: Atiku needs good luck!

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar says he is the most investigated Nigerian.  Why not?  It is either because he is the most tainted Nigerian or he is the most victimised Nigerian under the sun.  But, of course, he cannot be denied the cap of being the most dogged fighter in the political arena since 1999, having, as it were, fought his former boss, now friend, Olusegun Obasanjo, to a standstill and still lives to tell the story.  Atiku is not only a giant killer, he is also one that knows how to kill generals politically. He did it to Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida; and Minister of Defence, General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau.
One was a former Head of State and former President; another, a former military President; and the other, a security chief of immense connections.  Who says Atiku has not got financial and political clout? But he may soon add another General to the feathers in his cap when he rubbishes former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, if he makes the mistake of running in a primary with the tested politician.  And that is it!  None of these men is politically wily enough to beat this politician who is playing on a turf he knows better than them.  They are soldiers, trained in the art of violence, but Atiku is a kettle of fish they cannot contend with.
Only fellow politicians can neutralise Atiku in a political game. Ask Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and he will tell you how he neutralised the former Vice President in the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).  Atiku ran away from the ACN, politically bruised and bloodied.  Ask Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the sitting president who made political mincemeat of Atiku.  Atiku may have political brains and brawns, he lacks the humility and the cunningness of the zoologist with a truck load of good luck from on high.
Atiku says he has what it takes to bring people together and turn things around for better, adding that his decision to run for President was borne out of the need for good governance; but the question remains, what did he do with the four years he ran the country while his former boss was gallivanting round the world seeking to impress the international community rather than build a nation?  It is no longer news that it was his activities in those four years that had made him the most investigated Nigerian. And that is when he was number two; what will happen if he has four years as the country’s chief executive and commander-in-chief?
Other than his fellow political traveler, Buhari, Atiku stands out as the only one who has contested the nation’s highest political office the most since 1999.  But if he is not careful as before, he will have his nose rubbed in the mud again because he has no good luck.  Good luck, for now, resides elsewhere in Asokoro District of Abuja.

Chika Onuora,
Asokoro, Abuja