Jubril Aminu Set to Replace Atiku as VP

By Paul Adujie
Thursday, 23 November 2006
Breaking News:Jubril Aminu Set to Replace Atiku as VP

Senator Jubril Aminu (professor of medicine) educated at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria's foremost Ivy League (known as "great UI) is set to replace Atiku as VP...upon my projection that Mr. Atiku will decamp to another political party.... possibly the AC. Abuja is agog over these speculations, expectations and there is so much excitement in the air according to sources in Abuja
Our constitution provides and stipulates that office holders must vacate their office or such office will be declared vacant, and filled through bye-election and such.

When and if such an office holder decamps from the political party from whose platform the office hold sought elective office in the first place. This is precisely what Atiku proposes to do and if he does, his choices are laid bare by our constitution and laws.

There is also a looming possibility of impeachment of Mr. Atiku, with or without his decamping from the PDP, as he is expected to do on Saturday November 25, 2006

Mr. Atiku is set to make his declaration for another party on Saturday to mark his long awaited declaration as well, his intention to run for president in 2007 presidential race. Atiku has not had the courage to resign or to be decisive. He has sought instead to eat his cake and retain it. Talk about the fear of running the gauntlet! Take up the gauntlet, being man enough!

This is Mr. Atiku's 60th birthday present to himself and his supporters are holding their breath. Meanwhile, some PDP members, mainly the youth wing of the party, have scheduled a rally to promote the speedy or fast track impeachment of Mr. Atiku over corruption and anti-PDP activities. The million-man-march rally, is schedule for Monday November 27, 2006. The timing is poignant, as it will be coming at the heels of Mr. Atiku’s proposed political grandstanding expected this Saturday. The political stakes in Nigeria’s presidency is up by several antes and notches!

There is also a looming possibility of impeachment of Mr. Atiku, with or without his decamping from the PDP, as he is expected to do on Saturday November 25, 2006 Mr. Atiku is set to make his declaration for another party on Saturday to mark his long awaited declaration as well, his intention to run for president in 2007 presidential race. Atiku has not had the courage to resign or to be decisive. He has sought instead to eat his cake and retain it. Talk about the fear of running the gauntlet! Take up the gauntlet, being man enough!This is Mr. Atiku's 60th birthday present to himself and his supporters are holding their breath. Meanwhile, some PDP members, mainly the youth wing of the party, have scheduled a rally to promote the speedy or fast track impeachment of Mr. Atiku over corruption and anti-PDP activities. The million-man-march rally, is schedule for Monday November 27, 2006. The timing is poignant, as it will be coming at the heels of Mr. Atiku’s proposed political grandstanding expected this Saturday. The political stakes in Nigeria’s presidency is up by several antes and notches!

Mr. Atiku is engaging in all these, regardless of the fact that he has series of pending cases in Nigerian courts that he initiated (as plaintiff) He and the rule of law and due process brigade should explain why he is suddenly impatient with the judicial process....the courts were scheduled to deliver judgments on December 20, 2006.

Atiku is apparently frustrated with his pending or subsisting suspension from the PDP and his legal troubles with the EFCC and ICPC (Atiku as poster-boy for corruption) He is therefore a haste to be in the presidential race.... by circumventing the rules, the constitution, the rule of law, due process and pending litigations!


JIBRIL AMINU the man,


studied medicine in University of Ibadan

former Vice Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri ( I am an alumni)
former Minister for Education
former Minister for Petroleum
former Nigerian Ambassador to the United States until 2003
currently as Senator representing Adamawa state just as Mr. Atiku

State of origin is the only similarity shared by Aminu and Atiku. Aminu is the consumate intellectual's intellectual and Aminu is a public policy wonk. Aminu does not have the soiled public image of Mr. Atiku.

Professor Aminu's qualifications, experience and suitability is beyond question. He as well meets the geographical, ethnic, religious and federal character parameters. It is also public knowledge that there is no love lost between Aminu and Atiku, they are night and day compared.... in every material particular and in most significant and substantial ways

Professor Jibrin Aminu will be the second person with high academic qualifications to serve as vice president of Nigeria after Dr. Alex Ekueme who served as vice president with President Shagari from October 1979 to December 1983.
Aminu is a superb presidential material; he is an assertive, refined and very confident man.

He possesses extraordinary experience, exposure and incredible understanding of human, Nigerian and world affairs.