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Tinubu Was Scheming To Be Abacha's VP by FSBoperator: 11:06am On Jun 08, 2018
The story of June 12 won't be complete without treachery and betrayal cummulating to the murder of MKO Abiola himself.

It has bee revealed by many powerful sources within the Abacha regime of how the Yoruba Obas and politicians betrayed Abiola and his June 12 cause but little is known of how prominent figures within NADECO also betrayed Abiola, chief of which was Bola Ahmed Tinubu who was secretly negotiating with Abacha through Gilbert Chagoury to be selected as Abacha's VP nominee.

The choice of Tinubu as VP to Abacha was floated by Chagoury himself to drive a wedge into the NADECO movement. Abacha had already gotten all Yoruba Obas and elder statesmen in his pocket. With a Tinubu nomination as VP, Abacha hoped to kill NADECO once and for all a also get Yoruba support.

So it came as no surprise to see BAT align his governor's office with the crooked Lebanese business man who was convicted for laundering money for Abacha.

Chagoury will later step Tinubu's game up by introducing him to the crooked Clinton foundation. Of note to remember is how Chagoury was able to stop Bill Clinton from unleashing sanctions on the Abacha regime after a timely donation to th Clinton Foundation.

Is Tinubu not tired of using Abiola's blood to further his dead Political career?

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Re: Tinubu Was Scheming To Be Abacha's VP by Throwback: 11:08am On Jun 08, 2018
The stale Clinton-Chagoury-Tinubu-CIA conspiracy that never makes any sense and never discloses any sources.

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Re: Tinubu Was Scheming To Be Abacha's VP by FSBoperator: 11:11am On Jun 08, 2018
Throwback:
The stale Clinton-Chagoury-Tinubu-CIA conspiracy that never makes any sense and never discloses any sources.

Are you not tired of using Abiola's blood?

When will you reptiles leave this man to RIP?

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Re: Tinubu Was Scheming To Be Abacha's VP by Throwback: 11:16am On Jun 08, 2018
FSBoperator:


Are you not tired of using Abiola's blood?

When will you reptiles leave this man to RIP?


Are you not tired of conspiracy theories and tales without sources?

Are you unaware that loyalists of Abiola were meeting with the military hierarchy at his behest, to find a solution to the problem, before Abiola then returned to Nigeria and declared himself president 1 year after the election, when he it became clear to him that the military was not ready to hand over power anytime soon?

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Re: Tinubu Was Scheming To Be Abacha's VP by FSBoperator: 11:21am On Jun 08, 2018
Abdulmumuni Abiola: Yorubas Killed My Father, Shared His Meat – MKO Abiola’s Son

Abdulmumuni Abiola, a son of the acclaimed of the 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola has declared that his father was betrayed by his own kinsmen.

Abdulmumuni said Abiola’s kinsmen literally killed his and shared his meat. Abiola is a native of Ogun State, south west Nigeria.

Speaking with Punch, Abdulmumuni said the family was not interested in the clamour in some quarters that the late business mogul should be posthumously conferred with the title of the former president.

He said the title was of no use to the family and would not in any way bring back the late politician.

Abdulmumuni said, “Can you imagine? My father died in 1998 and we’re still discussing his death as if he died recently.

“I feel there was something my father was trying to do and the powers that be then didn’t want him to do that. What could that possibly be? What did MKO do to deserve that death? We want to know.”

He wondered why some people decided to kill his father who was only trying to make the country better.

“These were people from his own ethnic group; they cut him (Abiola) into pieces and shared his ‘meat’.

“The decision (to kill him) that they made back then, are they enjoying it now? We can’t go back in time but going into the future we can avoid making the same old mistake, which is the most important thing”, he said.

Asked if he was in support of the call that the late Abiola should be conferred with the title of ex-president in his grave, the son said the country had other better things to attend to than giving title to a man who was no longer alive.

His words, “That might just be a symbolic measure actually; my father has been long dead. What’s the point of giving him back his mandate when he’s no longer alive to accept it? They should keep the mandate.

“The country has more pressing issues to deal with. The country will be a better place if our leaders can apply their heads as well as hearts to lifting the majority of the people out of poverty, injustice, hopelessness, insecurity and corruption. There is so much rot in the country.”

http://dailypost.ng/2017/04/23/yoruba-people-killed-father-shared-meat-abdulmumuni-mko-abiolas-son/?utm_source=dlvr.it_dp1&utm_medium=faceboo

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Re: Tinubu Was Scheming To Be Abacha's VP by FSBoperator: 11:27am On Jun 08, 2018
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Throwback:



Are you not tired of conspiracy theories and tales without sources?

Are you unaware that loyalists of Abiola were meeting with the military hierarchy at his behest, to find a solution to the problem, before Abiola then returned to Nigeria and declared himself president 1 year after the election, when he it became clear to him that the military was not ready to hand over power anytime soon?
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Was Gilbert Chagoury not an international fixer and major money launderer to Abacha?

Under the kleptomaniac 8yrs of Tinubu as Governor of Lagos, was Chagoury not a major contractor to LASG?

Can you even write anything about the Eko project without Chagoury?

Continue deceiving yourselves

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Re: Tinubu Was Scheming To Be Abacha's VP by FSBoperator: 11:32am On Jun 08, 2018
Sen. David Vitter (R., La.) wants to know whether Hillary Clinton concealed communications with a Nigerian donor to the Clinton Foundation during an internal State Department debate over designating Boko Haram a terrorist group.

Vitter sent a letter last week to Secretary of State John Kerry requesting all of Clinton’s records relating to Boko Haram and her reluctance to label it as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).

The senator also asked for all of Secretary Clinton’s communications with Gilbert Chagoury, a Nigerian construction magnate who has donated millions to the Clinton Foundation in addition to contributing thousands to an outside group that helped re-elect President Bill Clinton in 1996.

Vitter said in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon that he wants to uncover whether Chagoury’s relationship with the former secretary of state influenced her policy toward Nigeria and its radical Islamic insurgency.

As founder of the Chagoury Group, one of Nigeria’s largest construction conglomerates, Chagoury would have a financial interest in the impact on Nigeria that would have followed a FTO designation for Boko Haram, Vitter said.

“He’s not Boko Haram, but he has a clear interest in terms of his commercial developments of not getting this designation, which would put the brakes on a lot of possible development that he wants in Nigeria,” he told the Free Beacon.

“The question I’ve raised is: Is there a similar conflict of interest there? And did that sort of issue have anything to do with Hillary Clinton’s State Department dragging its feet?”

Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Chagoury and Republican consultant who formerly worked at the Justice Department and on Capitol Hill, said in an email statement that accusations of an improper relationship between Chagoury and Clinton are “ludicrous and laughable.”

“Chagoury has had no contact with Hillary Clinton for years—predating her time as a U.S. senator,” he said. “So even if Senator Vitter somehow retrieves Hillary’s emails (and I hope he does), he’ll find no emails or correspondence of any kind from Ambassador Chagoury with Secretary Clinton or the Department of State.”

“Furthermore, while he has had a well-publicized friendship with former President Clinton and has donated to the Clinton Foundation, I would point out that he has also donated to the George W. Bush presidential library. Why? Because both President Bush and President Clinton showed a real interest in Africa and Ambassador Chagoury truly appreciated both men and their efforts.”

A spokesman for Clinton did not respond to a request for comment. A spokeswoman for the State Department also did not respond to a query about whether Kerry had received Vitter’s letter, and how long it would take to provide the communications he requested.

Both Nigerian officials and outside observers who were opposed to the FTO designation for Boko Haram argued that such a move would have a negative economic impact on the country. Chagoury employs tens of thousands of workers in West Africa and has spearheaded some of Nigeria’s most ambitious development projects.

A group of more than 20 academics wrote Clinton a letter in 2012 urging her against the FTO designation, citing its effects on humanitarian and economic aid.

“If economic development is to play a role in alleviating tensions in northern Nigeria, we should not hamper access by USAID or private NGOs in providing aid and assistance in the region,” they wrote.

The criticism of the FTO designation came as Johnnie Carson, former assistant secretary of state for African affairs under Clinton and an opponent of the measure, stressed the importance of private investment in Nigeria. The country is the second-largest destination in Africa for U.S. private investment.

The militant group was eventually declared as a FTO in November 2013 after Kerry became secretary of state.

Chagoury donated between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 to the Clinton Foundation and pledged $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative in 2009 through the Chagoury Group. His relationship with the Clintons stretches back to the 1990s, when he contributed nearly half a million dollars to a voter registration group that helped re-elect President Bill Clinton in 1996.

At the time, human rights activists pressured Clinton to sanction Nigeria’s Sani Abacha regime for detaining and executing political dissidents. Chagoury, an Abacha associate, was reportedly invited to a White House dinner for Democratic supporters in 1997 and spoke with Clinton administration officials during that period about U.S. policy toward Nigeria. Clinton opted against sanctioning Nigeria’s profitable oil industry, instead pursuing “constructive dialogue” with the Abacha regime. Abacha died in 1998.

Several members of Chagoury’s family also donated thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential bid in 2008, according to the Wall Street Journal.

According to a 2010 investigation by PBS Frontline, Chagoury was one of the associates of Abacha’s who received government payments in overseas bank accounts.

He was convicted in 2000 in Switzerland for laundering money from Nigeria, but agreed to a plea deal and repaid $66 million to the Nigerian government. The conviction was later dropped. He also returned money in Swiss bank accounts to Nigeria in 1999 to receive immunity from prosecution in a looted assets case.

Corallo said the charges against Chagoury “were vacated and expunged from the record.”

Chagoury was also linked to a scheme in which Kellogg, Brown, and Root (KBR), then a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation, paid $180 million in bribes to the Abacha regime for business contracts in the 1990s. KBR eventually agreed to pay $579 million in fines in 2009, the largest ever payment for a company accused of bribing foreign officials. 

Chagoury was not charged with any wrongdoing during a Justice Department investigation of the exchange.

“You are never going to stop corruption,” Chagoury told PBS.

Chagoury helped plan lucrative speeches for Bill Clinton and attended the former president’s 60th birthday party in 2006 in New York, as well as the wedding celebration in France of top Clinton aide Douglas Band, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Chagoury’s latest project, a land reclamation effort known as Eko Atlantic that will provide residences and amenities to 250,000 wealthy Nigerians outside of Lagos, has been criticized by some for not aiding Africa’s poor. Bill Clinton attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the project in February 2013.

Sen. Vitter has long suggested that State Department officials are downplaying the threat posed by Boko Haram.

He wrote a letter to Kerry last year about apparent discrepancies between statistics provided to the State Department and the actual language included in the department’s annual reports on global terrorism.

For example, the National Counterterrorism Center’s (NCTC) statistical annex for the 2011 State Department report said that a double-digit percentage increase in attacks in Africa was “attributable in large part to the more aggressive attack tempo of the Nigeria-based terrorist group Boko Haram, which conducted 136 attacks in 2011­—up from 31 in 2010.”

However, the actual Country Reports on Terrorism for 2011 only called Boko Haram a “Nigerian extremist group” that “claimed responsibility for some of these attacks.”

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Re: Tinubu Was Scheming To Be Abacha's VP by FSBoperator: 11:35am On Jun 08, 2018
Throwback:
The stale Clinton-Chagoury-Tinubu-CIA conspiracy that never makes any sense and never discloses any sources.
Tinubu's first contact with Chagoury began during the Abacha regime and Tinubu's pretend membership of NADECO

Chagoury was a major business confidant to Abacha and international fixer for that regime.

The Clinton administration was set to pass sweeping sanctions against Abacha until Chagoury's timely campaign fundind to Clinton's second bid and also to the Clinton foundation.

There is no need stating that Chagoury's campaign funding to Clinton came from non other than Abacha himsel!

The Clinton administration will later tone down to opting for "sincere dialogue" in returning Nigeria to democratic rule.

Tinubu who at this time was recently sent back to Nigeria to infiltrate civil advocacy groups by his CIA handlers and was now parading himself as an agent of democtacy and good governance was suggested to Chagoury as a possible vp candidate to Abacha during his transition from military to civilian govt.

Chagoury was in a position to lobby Abacha in seeing Tinubu as a go between candidate to pacify the SW over Abiola's june 12 mandate and also the Americans.

The death of Abacha ended this arrangement.

Chagoury will later support Tinubu in his quest to dominate SW political terrain.

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Re: Tinubu Was Scheming To Be Abacha's VP by FSBoperator: 11:36am On Jun 08, 2018


Chagoury made this possible for Tinubu

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Re: Tinubu Was Scheming To Be Abacha's VP by czarina(f): 12:50pm On Jun 08, 2018
Conspiracies upon conspiracies. shocked















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Re: Tinubu Was Scheming To Be Abacha's VP by GenSpecifics: 9:25am On Jun 13, 2019
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Re: Tinubu Was Scheming To Be Abacha's VP by Flyingngel(m): 10:21am On Jun 13, 2019
I think it is only full blooded Hausa people that don't betray their kind but down to southern part betrayal is like air to us.
We can't do without it.

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