Tinubu, Atiku seek each other’s arrest, disqualification
Atiku and Tinubu THE intrigues trailing the race for the presidency assumed a dangerous twist, as the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, called for the arrest and disqualification of each other over allegations of graft. Tinubu threw the first punch when he asked security agencies in the country to invite, arrest, interrogate and prosecute Atiku Abubakar over what he described as #AtikuGate. Citing a video clip made by one Michael Achimugu, said to be a former aide of the PDP standard bearer, Tinubu said Atiku as vice president between 1999 and 2007, colluded with his then boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, to operate an illegal account tagged, “Special Purpose Vehicles” SPVs. He accused the PDP-led administration between 1999 and 2007 of running a criminal enterprise, describing the era as the “SPV Years.” Responding in kind, Atiku and the PDP des...