The embattled Attorney General of the Federation, Michael Aondoakaa, has fingered the Chief Economic Adviser to Umaru Yar'Adua, Tanimu Kufi, as being after him. Saharareporters has disclosed that Aondoakaa confronted Yar'Adua to say that he would be forced to reveal everything he did to help Yar'Adua retain his presidency in the Court of Appeal. Yesterday, Aondoakaa issued an unusual press statement in which he claimed that some people in the corridors of power are after him, and are creating disaffection between him and Yar'Adua.
Saharareporters can reveal that the person he was referring to is Tanimu Kurfi, who has waged a war against Aondoakaa in recent weeks. But Aondoakaa does not see himself going down without a fight. He has already told confidants that Tanimu has made more money for himself in the Yar'adua regime than anyone alive. He has told them that the economic adviser has made up $500 million from deals that he helped broker for him as the Attorney General. According to one source, Aondoakaa listed such deals as the reversal of Obasanjo era projects using his office as the AGF to give guided legal advice to Yar'adua.
Others include the General Electric turbines and the Railway projects, which were earlier cancelled by the Yar'Adua regime but eventually taken over by the economic adviser. The last straw for Aondoakaa seems to be the list of 11 ministers that Yar’Adua was said to be interested in dropping before he hurriedly left for Saudi Arabia on a fresh medical trip that his aides have disguised as a "working visit.
" Finding himself on the way out to a hostile nation that is aware of his corruption, Aondoakaa is said to have taken stock of the source of his troubles. Should they remove him from the coveted position of AGF, he vowed to take down Tanimu as well as reveal the dirty inner secrets of the Yar'Adua regime. The controversial AG said that although he has made some money himself running errands for Tanimu, on whose behalf he got Nuhu Ribadu of the EFCC removed, demoted and dismissed from the police, Tanimu had made far more money. He also blamed Tanimu for the press release by the EFCC’s Mrs. Waziri which denounced his action on Ibori. He believes the statement was drafted and authorized by Tanimu.
Yesterday's press statement would be the third one Aondoakaa would be issuing in the five days since he fled the UK with his tail between his legs following an unprecedented phone assault by Nigerian protesters who jammed the switchboard of his Marriott Hotel at Heathrow Airport with angry calls.
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