Shortly after excerpts from the highly anticipated book revealed that Olusegun Obasanjo allegedly once threatened, “No third term, no Nigeria,” el-Rufai has again rattled the feathers of Obasanjo’s second-in-command, Atiku Abubakar whom he claimed thought that former President Olusegun Obasanjo would not complete his tenure thereby paving the way for him (Atiku) to become the President.
The former minister said he had met Atiku and told him about his intention to resign as the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises following the demand for N54m bribe by some senators before he would be cleared as a ministerial nominee.
He said he had reported the bribe demand to Obasanjo, but that the former President asked him to sort himself out.
“No, I am not handling this senators’ thing. I have done my part and nominated you. You should go and tell the vice-president about whatever has transpired. He will handle it,” El-Rufai claimed the former President said when he met with him on the demand.
El-Rufai wrote, “When I walked into Atiku’s office, he said, ‘Where are you going? You can’t leave. We are about to have the whole thing’.
“I was taken aback as I was not sure what he meant. What do you mean sir?”
He said the former vice-president informed him about a marabout in Cameroon who, he said had been in touch with him since the first very time he contested the governorship in the old Gongola State.
Atiku, according to him, told him that the marabout asked him not to waste his money because he would not win.
The same marabout, he said told him more than two more times that he would lose governorship elections, which he said he lost.
The former vice-president was also claimed to have said the marabout told him he would win the 1999 governorship election in Adamawa State but would not become the governor.
El-Rufai wrote, “And soon, it came to pass. Atiku won the election, but before he could take the oath of office, Obasanjo chose him to be his running mate.
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