I am the most humiliated VP in Nigeria, -- says Atiku
Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that he is ``the most vilified, humiliated, investigated and rubbished Vice President in the history of Nigeria''.
Atiku said he had remained loyal to his boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo and did not deserve to be treated the way he was being treated.
This position is contained in a reply to a counter-affidavit filed by the federal government in a suit pending before the Court of Appeal.
The suit, filed by Atiku is seeking to restrain the federal government from declaring his office vacant.
In the affidavit deposed to by his personal aide, Umar Pariya, Atiku said he had been diligently carrying out all duties delegated to him by the president without any exception until the Presidency started taken steps to humiliate him.
He said that he was humiliated by President Obasanjo on Sept. 6, 2006 when he was asked to walk out of the Federal Executive Committee meeting.
Atiku said the federal government filed some criminal charges against him at the Code of Conduct Tribunal with the sole intention to humiliate him.
He stated that the federal government was economical with the truth in the facts he put before the court.
He contended that his suspension from the PDP for three months was a calculated attempt to exclude him from contesting the presidential primaries of the party.
Atiku contended that he was arbitrarily expelled from PDP by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party on Dec. 22, 2006.
He refuted the allegation by the federal government that he had being divulging official secrets, adding that as the Vice President, he had always worked and taken decisions in the best interest of Nigeria.
Atiku maintained that his official quarters had been sealed up and his personal staff redeployed.