It certainly looks like the guy might know more than what you might think or know. Below is just an example of who the guy is:
  
 
            General Abdulsalami Abubakar is a lucky man, one of the few military leaders in the world to get a crown without a coup. When he was chosen by his military colleagues to step into the shoes of General Sani Abacha who had just died suddenly, mysteriously, he was not exactly a happy man. He thought of turning down the offer but he knew he could not forgive himself nor the nation forgive him. It was a call to national duty at a time of national distress.   Abacha's agenda of sit-tightism or of transmutation from military dictator to a civilian president had polarised the country and split it down the middle. The country needed a man of peace, a fence-mender, a wound-binder, a man whose ambition was not vaulting, one who would steer Nigeria away from the knife-edge of danger. 
  Abubakar became head of state but his family members were not beating the drums. One of his daughters cried uncontrollably for two weeks, interjecting amidst sobs, "But daddy, why you?" The answer is "Mother Fate" or looking at it another way "Lady Luck." It is fate or luck that had taken him to the pinnacle of leadership and Abubakar knew only too well that if he tempted it, he could be taken down to the valley of disgrace. So he said he would quit on May 29, 1999. Cynics may have said, "we have heard this stuff before." But Abubakar was different. He quit. 
  The world loves a man of honour. So Abubakar's lap of honour started immediately. Ghana gave him its highest honour, the Star Award; ECOWAS decorated him with its International Gold Medal. The America gave him the Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/Push Coalition Peace Prize. He also raked home the International Globalist Award for 1999. 
  At home, he has not been short of goodwill. He has represented President Olusegun Obasanjo at the inauguration of the Senegalese President, Abdoulaye Wade and received, on behalf of Nigeria, a peace award at Durban, South Africa, a few weeks ago. During the Sharia riots Abubakar went on a trouble-shooting mission to various parts of Nigeria. 
  Abubakar's profile is still rising like a meteor. He had the honour of being named Chairman of the Commonwealth Eminent Observers Mission to the Parliamentary Election in Zimbabwe. Leading a 44-person disparate group from 25 countries, Abubakar carried out the assignment with distinction, fairness and a sense of history which earned him showers of praise from the observers. If Abubakar donned all these honours and medals, his chest would look like a plate of fruit salad which would certainly illuminate his grey beard and moustache. Both have been neatly trimmed to give the picture of the circle at the centre of a football field. This must be his celebration of freedom from the tyranny of military discipline. 
  Number two in a polygamous family of 10 children, Abubakar is clearly the most distinguished. But his own family is smaller: One wife, sic children - evenly distributed between the sexes - one of them a doctor, another a lawyer, the other an architect. The remaining three - all boys - are just boys in school. The Abubakar have a romance with the name Fati. Abubakar's mother is Fati. His wife is Fati. One of his daughters is Fati - three Fatis in one man's life. 
  
  
           Male
       
  
Malamin Barrow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  Abdulsalami Abubakar as head of the UN observer mission to the Gambian elections must be some kind of a joke put on us. The buffoon looking General came to notice at the time of general Sani abacha's death. Those who saw video clip could not fail to notice how hastily he appears to have been summoned to sign the constitutional document enabling him to replace the dreaded Nigerian dictator. Without ceremony or circumstance, he took out a flimsy BIRO PEN, seeminly with the ink leaking, to sign and seal the fate of millions of Nigerians. He just doesn't seem have a grasp of the seriousness of such occasions.


------- Original Message -------
From : omar joof[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent : 10/9/2006 2:14:26 AM
To : [log in to unmask]
Cc : 
Subject : RE: Re: UN Envoy Makes Excuses for Gambian Strongman

Ginny,
No, this man does not know anything that you dont! He spent the best part of 
his life "saluting" British imperialism and agents of the cabalist Kaduna 
mafia. I totally agree with the rest of your write-up.
Omar Joof.


>

¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface
at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html

To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l
To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to:
[log in to unmask]
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤


 		
---------------------------------
Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com.  Check it out. 

¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface
at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html

To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l
To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to:
[log in to unmask]
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤