Nigeria, Sept. 9 -- Alhaji Abubakar Atiku is once again asking Nigerians to entrust him with the presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. As a former Vice President and someone who had contested for president several times, his long public record is inevitably part of the case on which his candidacy will be judged.

That record, in my view, is not and should not be limited to his years in government, political experience or the programmes he offers the electorate. It also includes questions arising from financial transactions documented by institutions of the United States government, particularly the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations' examination of millions of dollars associated with Atiku and his family entering ...