Presidency reacts to Reuben Abati's article 'Aso Rock of juju, demons'

hehehehe....From poltergeist activities, to seeing blood on the floor, an evil tree resisting uprooting, staff of Aso Rock have corroborated Reuben Abati's explosive article "The Spiritual Side of Aso Rock". .In his article in the Guardian newspapers of October 14, 2016, the former Special adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati painted a surreal picture of incredible things that go on beyond the glitz and glamour of the official residence and office of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, popularly called the Aso Rock.

In that article titled ‘The Spiritual Side of Aso Rock’, Dr Abati who served as President Jonathan’s spokesman for four years recounted strange and some times, tragic occurrences that befell people who work or live in the precincts of the presidential Villa.

Recounting personal experiences and those that happened to colleagues while he served in the highest office in the land, Dr Abati gave a depressingly worrisome scenario of the higher spiritual powers that tended to influence or dictate the happenings in the Villa which by extension had dire consequences for the country.

A Vanguard correspondent named Ben Agande who covered presidents Olusgeun Obasanjo , Umaru Yaradua and Goodluck Jonathan, has come out narrate some of the bizzare incidences that heralded the construction of Aso Villa. He says

"I can relate well with some of the stranger than fiction scenario painted by Dr Abati. But beyond the strange incidence, the foundation of the construction of the villa itself was laid in strange circumstances.

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According to a staff of Julius Berger, the construction company that built the Villa, from the very day that the excavation for what is now known as the presidential Villa was made; it was mired in strange incidences. The staff who has worked for the construction company for over thirty years and claimed he was there when the very first excavation began narrated the strange occurrences that marked the first few months.

“When we moved in here, it was as if we were in a war zone. There were multiple incidences of equipment failure, workers developing strange illnesses and in one particularly poignant case, a very senior officer of the company who was brought in from Germany to supervise the construction collapsed and died on site while supervising the uprooting of a particular tree that defied all attempts to remove. Strangely, his death brought an end to the many equipment failures that we had witnessed over many weeks” he said.

Whether the strange incidences that have been noticed in the Villa are products of striking coincidences or handiwork of higher, inexplicable spiritual powers is hard to decipher. But since President Ibrahim Babangida, the first occupant of the presidential Villa left office; subsequent occupants of the sprawling edifice have brought spirituality to bear on their stay in the edifice. From General Sani Abacha to Abdulasalami Abubakar to Olusegun Obasanjo to Umaru Yaradua down to the present occupant, Muhammadu Buhari, these occupants have had to carry out spiritual cleansing of the place before moving in with their families and hordes of aides.

According to a security officer who served during President Obasanjo and Yaradua’s tenure at the Villa, the spiritual cleansing carried out by the presidents differ from one to the other, depending on the faith of the occupants.

“When President Obasanjo came in, different men of God were brought in to pray and anoint every corner of the place before he moved in. At least that was what we saw in the afternoon. What happened in the night I cannot tell but what I know is that, under Yaradua, different Mallams, some of them said to have been imported from Chad and Niger were brought in to cleanse the place before he moved in with his family too. 

Three live cows and several rams were buried at strategic positions within the villa. These are fairly common practices that were repeated every now and then” he said.

It is perhaps these contending spiritual constellations amongst people of various faiths that have given the Aso Rock the foreboding personae that it has assumed in the minds of some. But it is not inexplicable only deaths and sicknesses that stand out in the Aso Rock. Strange things happen both at night and day that defy logical explanations. For instance, during the Obasanjo regime, a huge python was found right inside the Council chambers of the Presidential Villa where the federal executive council meeting takes place.

Giving an insight into what happened, a staff of Julius Berger which is in charge of maintaining the Presidential Villa told Saturday Vanguard a cleaner found the python right under the table where the president seats to preside over the federal executive council meeting while cleaning the place on a Tuesday to prepare for the Wednesday meeting.

“The python was killed but the cleaner who found it died a few weeks after in mysterious circumstances” the staff explained.

 Perhaps the greatest witnesses to the strange happenings at the presidential Villa are the security personnel who man every corner of the Aso Rock twenty four hours round the clock. According to a former body guard to President Goodluck Jonathan, very many security men dread night duties because of the strange things that happen at night in the Villa.

“Although we were all heavily armed and trained to wade off any kind of attack, our fear was more of the unknown forces that confront us daily. Sometimes, you hear strange voices of people quarrelling in strange languages but you will never see the people. Sometimes, we will wake up to see blood on the ground, at the fore court of the presidential Villa. At other times, we hear the cry of babies throughout the night.

“In one particularly poignant case, we heard banging of doors at the president’s office only to go and see that the president’s office remained securely locked. In other circumstances, even after all the electrical gadgets and lights were turned off at the president’s waiting rooms, the televisions and the lights come on, on their own with the volume at its loudest. Being on duty at night at the president’s office was the most dreaded beat among security personnel in the Villa” a body guard who worked at Aso Villa under President Jonathan said. Even people who come to the villa to see the president or other officials do so with less than noble intentions.

According to a former staff of the Villa, “we see people with different amulets on their body when we notice suspicious behaviours. And some of the people that such amulets are found on were either friends of the president of highly placed government officials. In such delicate situation, we make formal reports to our superiors and allow them deal with it. In few instances, such people are denied access to the villa”. It is not only strange things that go on in the villa. Sometimes the president’s personal security is even threatened by those who are close to him.

According to one account, at the end of a particular function in the briefing room adjacent the council chambers, the president noticed an old friend was amongst the guests that visited and moved to shake his hand. But rather than shake the president’s hand and allow him to move to the next guest, the visitor held unto the president’s hand and it took the intervention of body guards to wrest the president hand that was being held hostage.

“It was one of those anxious moments that no body guard wants to be caught in” a security detail who witnessed the incidence told Saturday Vanguard.

 There is no doubt that some people believe that strange thing happen at the Aso Villa whether they are coincidences or not. But those who don’t believe in superstition or reckon with principalities and powers would not attribute strange happenings to demons. To them, they are mere coincidences. And not all staff of the Villa would readily confirm strange ailments especially the crash of libido. However, as the seat of government, there are those who believe that there are powers and principalities that occupy high places in that sprawling edifice.

 The interface between the known and the unknown is bound to have consequences on mere mortals. How we are able to harvest the positive side of these contending powers will always depend on the occupants. But for now, the occupants and workers of the seat of power who fear that demons are in the air must find a way of navigating this treacherous route without losing their minds, limbs or even soul.

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 This article by Rueben Abati is explosive! From blood rituals, strange and mysterious sicknesses, women using dildos because their men had become impotent, to people walking upside down, this is a must read article.

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People tend to be alarmed when the Nigerian Presidency – Aso Rock – takes certain decisions. They don’t think the decision makes sense. Sometimes, they wonder if something has not gone wrong with the thinking process at that highest level of the country. I have heard people insist that there is some form of witchcraft at work in the country’s seat of government.

I am ordinarily not a superstitious person, but working in the Villa, I eventually became convinced that there must be something supernatural about power and closeness to it. I’ll start with a personal testimony. I was given an apartment to live in inside the Villa. It was furnished and equipped. But when my son, Michael arrived, one of my brothers came with a pastor who was supposed to stay in the apartment. But the man refused claiming that the Villa was full of evil spirits and that there would soon be a fire accident in the apartment.

He complained about too much human sacrifice around the Villa and advised that my family must never sleep overnight inside the Villa.

I thought the man was talking nonsense and he wanted the luxury of a hotel accommodation. But he turned out to be right. The day I hosted family friends in that apartment and they slept overnight, there was indeed a fire accident. The guests escaped and they were so thankful. Not long after, the president’s physician living two compounds away had a fire accident in his home. He and his children could have died. He escaped with bruises.

Around the Villa while I was there, someone always died or their relations died. I can confirm that every principal officer suffered one tragedy or the other; it was as if you needed to sacrifice something to remain on duty inside that environment. Even some of the women became merchants of dildo because they had suffered a special kind of death in their homes (I am sorry to reveal this) and many of the men complained about something that had died below their waists too. The ones who did not have such misfortune had one ailment or the other that they had to nurse. From cancer to brain and prostate surgery and whatever, the Villa was a hospital full of agonizing patients.

I recall the example of one particular man, an asset to the Jonathan presidency who practically ran away from the Villa. He said he needed to save his life. He was quite certain that if he continued to hang around, he would die. I can’t talk about colleagues who lost daughters and sons, brothers and uncles, mothers and fathers, and the many obituaries that we issued.

Even the President was multiply bereaved. His wife, Mama Peace was in and out of hospital at a point , undergoing many surgeries. You may have forgotten, but after her husband lost the election and he conceded victory, all her ailments vanished, all scheduled surgeries were found to be no longer necessary and since then she has been hale and hearty.

By the same token, all those our colleagues who used to come to work to complain about a certain death beneath their waists and who relied on videos and other instruments to entertain wives (take it easy boys, I don’t mean any harm, I am writing!), have all experienced a re-awakening.

Everyone who went under the blade has received miraculous healing, and we are happy to be out of that place. But others were not so lucky. They died.

There were days when convoys ran into ditches and lives were lost. In Norway, our helicopter almost crashed into a mountain. That was the first time I saw the president panicking, The weather was all so hazy and he just kept saying it would not be nice for the president of a country to die in a helicopter crash due to pilot miscalculations. The president went into a prayer mode. We survived.

In Kenya once, we had a bird strike. The plane had to be recalled and we were already airborne with the plane acting like it would crash. During the 2015 election campaigns, our aircraft refused to start on more than one occasion. The aircraft just went dead. On some other occasions, we were stoned and directly targeted for evil. I really don’t envy the people who work in Aso Rock, the seat of Nigeria’s presidency.

For about six months, I couldn’t even breathe properly. For another two months, I was on crutches. But I considered myself far luckier than the others who were either nursing a terminal disease or who could not get it up.

When presidents make mistakes, they are probably victims of a force higher than what we can imagine. Every student of Aso Rock politics would readily admit that when people get in there, they actually become something else. They act like they are under a spell.

When you issue a well-crafted statement, the public accepts it wrongly. When the president makes a speech and he truly means well, the speech is interpreted wrongly by the public. When a policy is introduced, somehow, something just goes wrong.

In our days, a lot of people used to complain that the All Progressives Congress, APC, people were fighting us spiritually and that there was a witchcraft dimension to the governance process in Nigeria. But the APC folks now in power are dealing with the same demons. Since Buhari government assumed office, it has been one mistake after another. Those mistakes don’t look normal, the same way they didn’t look normal under President Jonathan. I am therefore convinced that there is an evil spell enveloping this country. We need to rescue Nigeria from the forces of darkness. Aso Rock should be converted into a spiritual museum, and abandoned.

Should I become president of Nigeria tomorrow, I will build a new Presidential Villa: a villa that will be dedicated to the all-conquering Almighty, and where powers and principalities cannot hold sway. But it is not about buildings and space, not so? It is about the people who go to the highest levels in Nigeria.

I really don’t quite believe in superstitions, but I am tempted to suggest that this is indeed a country in need of prayers, we should pray before people pack their things into Aso Villa. We should ask God to guide us before we appoint ministers. We should, to put it in technocratic language, advise that the people should be very vigilant. We have all failed so far, that crucial test of vigilance.

We should have a Presidential Villa where a president can afford to be human and free. In the White House, in the United States, Presidents live like normal human beings. In Aso Villa, that is impossible. They’d have to surround themselves with cooks from their villages, bodyguards from their mother’s clans and friends they can trust. It should be possible to be president of Nigeria without having to look behind one’s shoulders. But we are not yet there.

So, how do we run a presidency where the man in the saddle can only drink water served by his kinsman? No. How can we possibly run a presidency where every president proclaims faith in Nigeria but they are better off in the company of relatives and kinsmen. No. We need as presidents men and women who are wiling to be Nigerians. No Nigerian president should be in spiritual bondage because he belongs to all of us and to nobody.

Now let me go back to the spiritual dimension. A colleague once told me that I was the most naïve person around the place. I thought I was a bright, smart, professional, doing my bit and enjoying the president’s confidence. I spelled it out. But what I got in response was that I was coming to the villa using Lux soap, but that most people around the place always bathed in the morning with blood. Goat blood. Ram blood. Whatever animal blood. I argued. He said there were persons in the Villa walking upside down, head to the ground. I screamed. Everybody looked normal to me. But I soon began to suspect that I was in a strange environment indeed. Every position change was an opportunity for warfare. Civil servants are very nice people; they obey orders, but they are not very nice when they fight over personal interests.

The president is most affected by the atmosphere around him. He can make wrong decisions based on the cloud of evil around him. Even when he means well and he has taken time to address all possible outcomes, he could get on the wrong side of the public. A colleague called me one day and told me a story about how a decision had been taken in the spiritual realm about the Nigerian government. He talked about the spirit of error, and how every step taken by the administration would appear to the public like an error. He didn’t resign on that basis but his words proved prophetic. I see the same story being re-enacted. Aso Rock is in urgent need of redemption. I never slept in the apartment they gave me in that Villa for an hour