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₦86 Billion Left Behind, or $92 Million Still Owed? Both Sets of Books Are Now Public
Peter Obi said he would stop campaigning if anyone proved he left debt. Anambra published loan records; his former SSG published the 2014 handover letter. What each document says, and why both can be true.
6 min read“Let the Books Be Examined”: The Letter in Peter Obi’s Name That He Says He Never Wrote
A letter to the Obi of Onitsha carrying Peter Obi’s name and signature spread online during the Anambra debt fight. He says it is fabricated and the signature forged. Nobody has said who made it.
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The Denial That Skipped the Question
Atiku Abubakar says a Paris tribunal did not indict him, and on the reported text he is right. His statement does not say what the $500,000 sent to his then-wife in 2003 was for.
5 min readThe $500,000 Transfer: What the Paris Tribunal Said, and What It Did Not
A businessman wired $500,000 to the U.S. account of Atiku Abubakar’s then-wife in January 2003, weeks after pitching for the Mambilla power project. A Paris tribunal rejected his explanation. It did not find that Atiku took a bribe.
8 min read“No Sacred Cows”: The $40 Million File Comes Back for Atiku
A former APC vice chairman wants the EFCC and other law-enforcement agencies to open the oldest file in Nigerian politics. Atiku calls it a witch-hunt. Both men are telling you something true.
9 min readThe Report Everyone Quotes and Almost Nobody Has Read
For sixteen years, one American document has sat at the centre of Nigerian politics. It says less than Atiku’s accusers claim. It says considerably more than his defenders admit. Here is what is actually on the pages.
10 min readThe Watches
According to the SEC, Siemens bought about $172,000 worth of wristwatches for Nigerian officials and recorded them under two initials: “P.” and “V.P.” Eighteen years later, nobody in Nigeria has ever been made to say who they were.
11 min readThe $14 Million Did Not Go to Yola
Nigerian coverage of this story still puts the money in Atiku’s university. It went to a university in Washington, D.C. — which took it for five years from offshore companies it knew nothing about and, by its own account, never asked why they were the ones paying.
10 min readThe Tape, the Company That Did Not Exist Yet, and the Job at the Aviation Authority
In January 2023 a former aide released a recording he said was Atiku Abubakar explaining how to steal without touching the money. Atiku has not, in any record we could find, denied the voice. By Christmas, the aide had a directorship in President Tinubu’s government.
14 min readWhy This Month
One petition and one press conference in twelve days, four months before the vote. The man who gave the press conference was appointed by the President to chair a federal board, and a published list of the President’s campaign council, released seventeen days earlier, includes his name. He said he was speaking only for himself.
12 min readNothing Will Happen. Here Is Exactly How Nothing Happens.
Nigeria rarely acquits its powerful men and rarely convicts them. It does something else, and it has a mechanism, and the mechanism is visible in the big cases of the last twenty years. This is the last article in this series, and it is a prediction with its working shown.
11 min readTHE ATIKU MONEY FILE Six matters on the record
Six matters on the public record about Atiku Abubakar's money, from the PTDF placements to the Dubai flat. Every sum quoted from its document, every matter labelled with its status.
Briefing + PDF“Every Naira Should Have a Clear Purpose”: The Obi Offshore File
Peter Obi asks every candidate to defend their record. His includes a British Virgin Islands company set up while he was governor and an asset declaration that left it out. The record, with his answers beside it.
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The Reformer in the Dock: What the Charges Against El-Rufai Actually Say
Nasir El-Rufai has spent more than 200 days in custody facing three ICPC cases and a DSS wiretapping trial. What the charge sheets allege, what he says, and what has actually happened in court.
11 min readWhat $1.2 Million Buys in Washington
Atiku Abubakar’s $1.2 million Washington lobbying contract is on file with the U.S. Justice Department. It is legal, it is public, and it says plainly what he wants: a better name in Washington and a counterweight to the government’s own lobbyists.
10 min readVon Batten Montague York and Atiku Abubakar: What the FARA Record Shows
Searching for Von Batten Montague York Atiku links? Here's what the DOJ FARA database actually shows — and what remains unverified. Check the record yourself.
4 min read620 Pages Nobody Read: What the FARA File Actually Says
The '620 Pages Nobody Read' headline gets repeated everywhere. Here's what the filing documents, what's alleged, and where to open the record yourself.
5 min readPeter Obi 'No Recycle': What the Record Actually Shows
What does 'Peter Obi no recycle' mean? We check the slogan against INEC, CAC and news records — see what's documented and what isn't.
4 min readAtiku Abubakar Want to Be President So Bad But So Not Competent: What the Record Shows
Atiku Abubakar want to be president so bad but so not competent? See the documented record — FARA filings, court cases, run history — before you decide.
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