Atiku Abubakar Condemns Jonathan’s 100 Centenary Celebration Article | February 28, 2014 - 12:44pm | By Augustine Aminu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned in strong terms President Goodluck Jonathan’s jamboree celebrating the Centenary of Nigeria’s 100th anniversary. Atiku, who frowned on the event being televised live by government owned broadcast media channels, said Jonathan “ought to have been sober in view of the recent killings” of about 59 secondary school students on Tuesday, in Yobe state, and other recent attacks by the Boko Haram sect. Atiku, in a statement issued to the media, and shared with said, “I'm appalled by this obscenity showing on NTA, in the name of ‘Centenary Celebration.’ It is inappropriate! It is even obscene. I'm proud of our history over the last 100 years. I congratulate our President, and (all) Nigerians for this journey so far. “However,” Atiku ...