I just read thorugh this, Only heavenly God can save this country now, it has come to point where our leaders thinking is crippled with corruption and great sense of looting. No one is clean again, Am proudly ashamed of this whole Mess, everywhere smelling Bull-Shit.

Lets Pray oooooo, am really afraid this time.

http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article03

Two special aides of President Olusegun Obasanjo, Mr. Akin Osuntokun and Jonathan Asake yesterday faulted the indictment of their boss by the Senate Review Committee on the scam in the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF).

To Osuntokun, the political Adviser to Obasanjo, the report of the Umar Tsauri-led panel was aimed at scuttling the April general elections while Asake, the Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, said the committee went all out to rope the President in.

The report indicted both Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar for abusing their offices and recommended thier by the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

But Oshuntokun said the committee only played out a script by the opponents to abort the coming elections.

In a statement, Osuntokun said: "It seems to be part of a script written by those who are determined to ensure that the April general elections do not hold, so that an Interim Government will take over, a position openly being canvassed by a group of eight opposition parties, one of which has even gone to court to seek a postponement of the polls.

"These groups have sensed that in any free and fair election, they could never make a substantial impact, and so have decided to scuttle the entire transitional process," he said.

The presidential aide said it was not surprising that the committee dissipated so much energy only because it was bent on dragging the name of President Obasanjo into indictment over the PTDF affair.

He continued: "It merely set out to ensure that President Obasanjo's name is dragged into the mud, just like that of Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who alone was indicted by the Ndoma-Egba Committee.

"Only the Tsauri Committee members can tell what their real motive was in writing that report, which, apart from roping in the President ended up in substantially echoing most of the views and recommendations contained in the Ndoma-Egba report," Osuntokun stated.

The statement further read: "In the few instances where it deviated from the Ndoma Egba report, the unwholesome motive for doing so was glaring. The reported reaction of Senate President Nnamani captures some of the mischief hovering over the Tsauri report. Nnamani raised eyebrows on how Vice President Atiku Abubakar was easily let go on the issue of $125 million that was approved for PTDF projects but which was kept in the bank while the projects were not executed, that such a recommendation could lead to untoward suggestions as to why the Review Committee gave the verdict on the Vice President.

"Otunba Johnson Fasawe had corroborated the Vice President's statement that the N30 million paid for the headquarters building of the NDTV was a loan and the Vice President clarified that the loan was in fact from a verifiable PDP campaign account! How tenable is it for the Vice President to loan money from a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign account to a private business concern?" Osuntokun queried.

"President Obasanjo has continued to maintain that he did no wrong in the administration of PTDF and this position has yet to be upset by the report of the Senator Tsauri. While we wait the Senate to debate the report, we are gratified, however, to note that the Code of Conduct Bureau might eventually examine the issue and take appropriate actions.

"Let us also note the magnanimity of the Senate President, Ken Nnamani, who, while addressing reporters after the Tsauri report was laid before the Senate, undertook to save the President to preserve the Office of the President, if the occasion arises. We are reasonably sure that the President will not be needing the help because he has done no wrong.

"The President is committed to the success of the transition programme, and has redoubled his determination to ensure that the April 2007 general elections will be free and fair and as peaceful as possible under the current circumstances".

In his reaction, Asake said the second committee was all out to get "its pound of flesh" from the President. He alleged that members of the committee had scores to settle with the President because, according to him "some of them have been indicted by the N55 million bribe -for-budget scandal that led to the fall of former Senate President, Adolphous Wabara and have failed to secure tickets that will bring them back to the Senate."

Asake told journalists in Abuja yesterday that "the second PTDF committee has generated more doubts and irregularities than even the first one."

He accused the Tsauri Committee of being dramatic by announcing the resignation of its members and accusing the Senate leadership of putting pressure on it "to have a peep at its report before it is tendered to the Senate."

The presidential aide asked what he described as "questions crying for answers," whether "it is true that the resignation of the Tsauri Committee was as a result of the reasons advanced or it was just a smokescreen for the real reasons? What actually were the findings? If it is true that they actually resigned to protect their integrity, why the sudden twist?

"To my mind, there was a grand design to walk out or to cook up another report which must indict Mr. President since the first one only indicted the Vice President. One is not surprised by this because by the very constitution of the Senate, we know that they have always been divided. Some are aggrieved with the PDP, some with the President. They were rudely disappointed and this was a follow-up and premeditated action to ensure that the President is indicted at all cost."

Also read this, I think that is a bitter truth, and I thinking people don't like the word "TRUTH" I know you are scared now.

http://www.champion-newspapers.com/saturday%20files/saturday%20%20articles/article_1.htm

PTDF scam: Senators on the run .Fear of OBJ, Atiku forces hurried recess

Senate might have set aside the Sen. Umaru Tsauri-led review committee report on the controversial probe of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) and commenced a recess billed to lapse May 2, under pressure.

Investigation by Saturday Champion revealed that the Senators were apprehensive of the likely backlash of the indictment of both President Olusegun Obasanjo and his Vice Atiku Abubakar by the committee.

The review committee was set up following the controversy that trailed the Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba ad hoc committee report, which indicted Abubakar and cautioned the President on the PTDF scam.

However, the new committee was not to move away from controversy. Last Tuesday members of the committee resigned en-masse citing personal reason.

The resignation was, however, rejected by the Senate President, a stand that culminated in the submission of their report to the Senate leadership.

A member of the committee, who does not want his name mentioned said there was pressure on the committee and the leadership of the upper legislative chamber from the Presidency.

According to him, the lawmakers, sensing that they might be courting trouble, had to brush aside the debate of the report and commenced their recess.

"We would have postphoned our recess to debate on the report but there was no way we could do that because there were pressures from the Presidency," he said.

But swiftly, political adviser to the president, Akin Osuntokun dismissed the claim as unfounded and baseless. He said the Presidency was not disturbed by the report because "it is a paid job."

Osuntokun who spoke in a telephone interview said the truth would soon come to the public domain that the committee was paid to take the position it took on the controversial issue.

Meanwhile, Saturday Champion gathered that the Senate may dump the report when it resumes on May 2. The reason for that, according to the source, stems from lack of time to do any meaningful work on the report.

"We will only have two weeks to end our tenure, so there will be no time to debate on the report," he said, adding "what that means is that we will throw away the report".

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