Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar had a recent interview with EFCC's
quarterly magazine named Quarterly magazine. In the interview, Atiku
alleged the his boss and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, had planned
to amend the constitution so that he can be president for life as
against the third term bid he was presumed to be pursuing.
Atiku in the interview said that his refusal to support Obasanjo's
request made them fall apart;
"My offence was that I disagreed with him on the amendment of the
constitution to remove tenure/term limits or what was popularly called
the ‘third term agenda. In fact, he sent the then Attorney-General and
Prof. Jerry Gana to my office to bring the draft amendments to the
constitution. After going through (them), I found out that tenure limits
had been removed. In other words, he could be President for life. I
then asked them that ‘if I send you to the President, can you deliver
this message? They said yes. I said ‘go and tell him I will not support
it and (I) will fight it’.”he said
The former Vice President said after his refusal to support Obasanjo's
bid, the EFCC was used to label him as a corrupt government official
even when there was no truth to the allegation.
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