"FG drops plans to ban Tokunbo vehicles" sun newspaper 2/27/14

 

Attempted ban on Tokumbo vehicles; good message wrong delivering

 The attempt to ban Tokumbo vehicles was a good national economic decision with wrong timing, wrong approach, wrong target and wrong emphasis.

 

The federal government must target local, state, and federal, government agencies, ministries institutions, schools, police, military and military personnel, legislators,  commissioners, ministers, Judges, and emphasize and even pass laws mandating all government agencies and personnel at all levels of government  to source their automobile needs for official use, from the local manufacturers.

 

If all official automobile needs in Nigeria are sourced locally, the local manufacturers would benefit tremendously and will remain in business to improve on quality and affordability.  Only in Nigeria do the president, governors, ministers, commissioners, senators, legislators, elected politicians, members of the judiciary branch, and public/government officials use foreign made automobiles on official assignment and engagements when there are the existences of locally manufactured automobiles. This is the height of hypocrisy and un- patriotism.

 

Good speech for the deaf and ignoble

"Nigeria’s amalgamation not a mistake –Jonathan" sun newspaper 2/27/14



Good speech for the deaf and ignoble



Jonathan's speech is a good one but good speech to the ‘deafed’ and to the ignoble Nigerians is like washing the hands to cook for the dogs which therefore would make no difference in the dogs’ opinion about food. Nigerians are inherently acrimonious, divisive and functionally ignorant.
Nigeria problems even though they seem humongous are very easily solvable. All it requires to solve almost all Nigeria problems is the self-renewal of heart by all Nigerians. This renewal of heart means the exhibition of patriotism, the acceptance or belief by all Nigerians, in the rights, and equality of every other Nigerian irrespective of ethnicity, religion, and place of birth. Nigerians must accept that the nation is greater than any individual, group, region and or religion. Nigerians must know that citizenship ought to be superior to intrafaith, social, regional, fraternal, and or groups’ membership bonds. Nigerians must understand that for peace and harmony in a hetero-ethno-religious nation, citizenship bond must be equal to or stronger and superior to the bond among members of psychological groups.
To solve many of Nigeria ills that are rooted in ‘rivalrism,’ethnicity, disunity, disharmony, tribalism, nepotism, and cronyism with their associative corruption and backwardness, every Nigerian must be granted, and assured complete citizenship regardless of place of birth, ethnicity, religion or residency. Nigeria must abrogate indigene-ship laws or policies promulgated in the regions and in the states and replace them with one, complete and equal citizenship for every Nigerian irrespective of genealogical and religious backgrounds.
In the regions, and in the states, in civil service and political appointments, and in admissions into the universities, Nigeria lays more emphasis on mediocrities of indigene-ship, ethnicity, religion, states of origin and catchment areas instead of on citizenship and competence. Yet our politicians cry wolf about the ethnic division and tension among the citizenry. 
Until such a time a Yoruba resident in Kano or Enugu would without fear or faint of heart, an Igbo resident in Kano or Lagos would without fear or faint of heart, a Hausa/Fulani resident in Enugu, Porthacourt or Lagos would without fear or faint of heart be able to viably and confidently stand for a statewide election in their state of residence, the call for national unity and development will continue to be a wash. Until every Nigerian sees self as being at home regardless of the city, state he or she lives in, Nigeria will continue to remain a pipe dream, an illusion. Until Nigeria sees it proper to abolish the divisive indigene-ship policies in the regions and in the states, the calls for national unity would continue to be a ruse and at best a waste of time. It is impossible to achieve cohesion among the people in a country with fluid and incoherent citizenship.
Today in Nigeria depending on current place of residence every Nigerian is either first or second class citizen. If you’re Igbo in Lagos or Kano, or Hausa in Onitsha or Lagos or Yoruba in Onitsha or Kano you’re a 2nd class citizen. But if this Nigerian goes back to a city, a state in his ‘ethno-geo-political zone’ he or she then reclaims 1st class citizen. Our politicians know that it’s impossible to achieve unity, cohesion, love, patriotism from and among the citizenry with this kind of incoherent citizenship classification. Yet they pretend to not know that the political turmoil, ethnic rivalry, ethnic mistrust, hate and tension, unhealthy competition, the cutthroat politics, cronyism, nepotism, corruption and professional mediocrity in Nigeria; stem from this incoherent citizenship classification
So, if the national conference did not achieve any other thing, for the Nigeria future, the conference must do away with indigene-ships policies in the regions and replace the same with full, complete, absolute Nigeria Citizenship Anywhere and Every-where within the Nigeria territory.

cameroun

Under international law no country including Cameroun would allow itself to be used as a staging ground to attack another country. Such permission in itself is act of declaration war on the victimized country. So Cameroun must act and show that she is friendly and responsible neighbor. If Cameroun fails to police its border and its territory becomes a safe haven and staging ground for the terrorist killing innocent Nigerians, Nigerian have moral responsibility and the backing of the international law to hot pursue the criminals into the republic of Cameroun

Under  international law no country including Cameroun would allow itself to be used as a staging ground to attack another country. Such permission in itself is act of declaration war on the victimized country. So Cameroun must act and show that she is friendly and responsible neighbor. If Cameroun fails to police its border and its territory becomes a safe haven and staging ground for the terrorist killing innocent Nigerians, Nigerian have moral responsibility and the backing of the international law to hot pursue the criminals into the republic of Cameroun

National conference, Citizenship the panacea to 80% of Nigeria ills.

National conference, Citizenship the panacea to 80% of Nigeria ills.

To solve 80% of Nigeria ills that are rooted in ‘rivalrism,’ ethnic disunity and disharmony, tribalism, nepotism, and cronyism with their associative corruption and backwardness, Nigerians, every Nigerian must be granted, assured near absolute citizenship regardless of place of birth, ethnicity, religion or residency. Nigeria must abrogate indigene-ship laws or policies promulgated in the regions and in the states and replace them with one and equal citizenship for every Nigeria irrespective of genealogical background.

In the regions, and in the states, in civil service and political appointments, and in admissions into the universities, Nigeria lays emphasis on mediocrities of indigene-ship, ethnicity, religion, states of origin and catchment areas instead of on citizenship and competence. Yet our politicians cry wolf about the ethnic division and tension among the citizenry. Fact is that it is practically impossible to have something and the same time have-it-not. It is absurd that our society in all its policies rewards and emphasis overwhelmingly on ethnic division and differences and yet expects unity among the people. It is impossible to have it both ways; our system cannot emphasis much on our differences like indigene-ship and state of origin and still expects cohesion and oneness among the ethnic nationalities. Nigeria will neither see a detribalized leadership nor politics, nor serenity devoid of ethnic tension, nor any meaningful development or progress until it does away with the divisive indigene-ship laws, policies and politics in the states and regions.

Until such a time a Yoruba resident in Kano would without fear or faint of heart, an Igbo Kano resident would without fear or faint of heart, a Hausa/Fulani resident in Enugu, Porthacourt or Ibadan would without fear or faint of heart be able to viably and confidently stand for a statewide election in their state of residence, the call for national unity and development will continue to be a wash. Until every Nigerian sees self as being at home regardless of the city, state he or she lives in, Nigeria will continue to remain a pipe dream, an illusion. Until Nigeria sees it proper to abolish the divisive indigene-ship policies in the regions and in the states, the calls for national unity would continue to be a ruse and at best a waste of time. It is impossible to achieve cohesion among the people in a country with fluid and incoherent citizenship. Today in Nigeria depending on current place of residence every Nigerian is either first or second class citizen. If you’re Igbo in Lagos or Kano, or Hausa in Onitsha or Lagos or Yoruba in Onitsha or Kano you’re a 2nd class citizen. But if this Nigerian goes back to a city, a state in his ethno-geo-political area he or she then reclaims 1st class citizen. Our politicians know that it’s impossible to achieve unity, cohesion, love, patriotism from and among the citizenry with this kind of incoherent citizenship classification. Yet they pretend to not know that the political turmoil, ethnic rivalry, ethnic mistrust, hate and tension, unhealthy competition, the cutthroat politics, cronyism, nepotism, professional mediocrity in Nigeria; stem from this incoherent citizenship classification

So, if the national conference did not achieve any other thing, for the Nigeria future, the conference must do away with indigene-ships policies in the regions and replace the same with full, complete, absolute Nigeria Citizenship Anywhere and Every-where within the Nigeria territory.

Hausa/Fulani Yoruba are the benefactors and beneficiaries of the Civil War

"Call Asari-Dokubo to order" By Ismael Taiwo, sun newspaper 2/18/14


Hausa/Fulani Yoruba are the benefactors and beneficiaries of the Civil War


@ Ismael Taiwo: “[…] if at this point they are now calling for war, they should go and ask Col. Odimegwu-Ojukwu the consequences of war.”

Why ask the resting Ojikwu and not Obasanjo that is still out there causing commotion in the society? Mr. Ismael, in as much as I distaste threat to peace whether issued by Asari, Buhari, Mohammed Lai, I want to say that your reference here to Ojikwu is insulting to Ojikwu, to all Igbos who fought against genocidal war brought on them by Lagos. Your Ojikwu reference is stupidly boastful, distasteful, ignorant, disrespectful, childish, illogical, poor and ill structured.

First, Ojikwu is a Biafra as well as a Nigeria hero, the like that neither you nor anybody in your family linage would ever attain. Second, if Biafra war was evil and I concur, all wars are evil, yet Biafra war like all wars benefitted some why it disadvantaged others, and your people were purely the beneficiaries of the Biafra war hence it would not be over statement to say that Biafra war was a blessing to your people. Since you can remember Ojukwu I believe you would remember Awolowo’s two pound sterling policy following the cessation of hostilities. I believe you know that the civil war allowed your people to arrogate South East civil service positions in judiciary, military, police, and ministerial appointments to yourselves. I believe you would also remember the abandoned property saga. So, as you can see the civil war was a blessing in disguise to your people. Wars are like the chase game, today some lose others gain, tomorrow, some gain others lose. I believe you remember that since after that civil war, your people, the Hausa/Fulani and their South West concubines have ruled and ruined this country

Asari is not the problem with Nigeria, you and your people, Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba is the problem with Nigeria. And here is how, Nigeria is like a ship and as the ship sinks who should we blame? In case you do not know the captain of the ship takes blames for a dooming ship. So Nigeria being a sinking ship, who should we blame? Obviously we should blame the Hausa/Fulani Yoruba Captains. So do not blame Asari because he is only showing frustration to your people’s leadership incompetence, corruption, and beastism. Though factually false, the cliché that Nigerians are corrupt is true only because the Hausa/Fulani Yoruba leaderships that have been in charged since independence are corrupt. A country is as good as its leadership. So the cliché that Nigerians are corrupt is wrong and a misnomer. No, Nigerians are corrupt only because the Hausa/Fulani Yoruba that have led the country solely are corrupt and incompetent.

Yes, war and war mongering are evil but humanity also recognizes that sometimes there exist time and condition for the utilization of some measure of a necessary evil. I do not care what your pacifism tells you, like the war on Nazism, Igbo’s response to Nigeria aggression initiated in Lagos was a necessary evil. Mr. Tiawo, it baffles me that you’re so worried, so paranoid about Asari’s mouthful rant while you remain stoic and dumb on the actual war being wage by your Boko Haram Compatriots.
Mr. Taiwo shame on you; it pieces me when cowards like you attempts to portray a proven, selfless war hero, Dim Ojikwu, in bad light. Truth is that unlike you who would die to obscurity, Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu even though is dead, liveth as long as Nigeria tarries and even beyond. Ojikwu accomplished the primary purpose for which the Creator put us here; and that is to conquer evil and live forever hereafter.

Jonathan’s 2015 win a must for Igbo's political correctness

Jonathan’s 2015 win a must for Igbo’s political correctness.

Preponderance of political equation shows that Igbo support and Jonathan’s 2015 win would be the most prudent, most viable political investment and reward the Igbo nation must embark on given the current, past and present political equation in Nigeria. The gang-up against Igbo presidency could be expressed mathematically as North + South West (+ or-) South South = Igbo defeat and politically, as Igbo subjugation; and psychologically as fear and mistrust of Igbos and anti-socially, as envy or hate of the Igbo. Simply put, the subsisting level of fear of the Igbo and Igbo hate in Nigeria especially by the North; and envy by the South West; and envy and hate by some in the South South make it practically impossible for an Igbo to win the presidency in 2015. For Igbo presidency, Igbos must at present accomplish at least one of two set of things.
1. Reassure the North and get them belief that there is nothing to fears about Igbo presidency. Igbos must make the North belief that Biafra war is over, all animosities buried. As for the South west Igbos must demonstrate to the Yorubas and assure them that under Igbo leadership there would not be a-run-on lands and properties by Igbo in the South west. Igbos must reassure the Yorubas that Igbo presidency will neither meddle nor challenge Yoruba ego and superiority complex over Igbo. Igbos may yield to pre-negotiated federal political appointments with the Yorubas for their support. As for the support of South South, Igbo must invest heavily in the current South South South East economic and political cooperation. But above all, Igbos must show humbleness, Will, consistency and determination to govern. These political appeasements by Igbo to other political zones cannot be accomplished between now and 2015 presidential vote.
2. And or, Igbos must through the proposed National Conference see to the restructure of Nigeria; a change in the system of government, a brand new constitution and or a-six-zone rotational presidency. Again the National Conference when held will be too close to 2015 presidential election for an Igbo to emerge president.
So, unless a miracle personally delivered by the Creator itself happens, it is virtually impossible for an Igbo to emerge president in 2015. If Jonathan did not emerge, the odd favors Sambo or any other Hausa/Fulani or the president of the Senate or the speaker of the Houses to emerge as the president in2015. And none of the above persons is Igbo. As for possible Igbo presidency the best Igbo could do between now and 2015 general election is to support that Presidential candidate that would help Igbo accomplish either one or the two set of things above, that would realistically guaranty Igbo presidency in 2028, which is 14 years from now. Now, some Igbo political hackers may mob me by my suggesting that Igbos must wait till 2028 to occupy the office of the presidency. And yes, I apologize for the hurtful truth, but my position is realistic and informed by political reality and by the bad Igbo fate in Nigeria, the fate of a hated but blessed people. And unless one or both sets of things above for the Igbo presidency happen, an Igbo would not be president on, before or even after 2028.
In 2015, Igbo’s best political bet is to support Jonathan and here are the reasons.
1. Jonathan have proven that he neither discriminate nor hate nor envy nor fears Igbos and this is self-evident in the high profile Igbo appointments in his administrations. One may rightly argue that it was Igbo who gave Jonathan solid support in his ascension to acting presidency and in 2011 presidential vote. But I would impugn that in as much as these Igbo supports were crucial, important and decisive and commendable they also carried political baggage for Jonathan’s presidency and not because of anything the Igbos did wrong but because of bad Igbo fate in Nigeria. The strong opposition to Jonathan’s presidency, from the North and by many from the West is informed by two things; the North’s strong belief that Jonathan cheated it out of the presidency and the North, South West disdain to Jonathan’s high profile  appointments of Igbos into sensitive positions like, COAS, Finance, Power, Petroleum, Aviation, and Chairmanship of National Population commission
Though Princess Oduah exhibited spending indiscretion in the armored vehicles purchase but the great lamentations and clamor for her sack from the North and especially from the South West are but all too common opportunistic Igbo witch-hunt, fear, hate, and envy that have subsisted since the days of Sadunna of Sokoto and Chief Akintola of South West. The great lamentations that sought the sack of Odimegwu, the Chairman of National Population commission are pure manifestations of fears and mistrust of the Igbo by the North. None of the Yoruba men, none of the Edo men, none of the Northerners most closely and likely to occupy the presidency today or before 2028 is interested in Igbo presidency. No wonder both North and the South West have the least taste for rotational presidency among the six geo-political zones. Nonetheless, the North and South West are interested in the Hausa/Fulani Yoruba rotations of the presidential position. But based on his Igbo appointments Jonathan without doubt would want to see an Igbo president, ASAP.
2. Jonathan’s Igbo political hobnob is not just mere political but also ‘genetical’. Is being reported that he has Igbo maternal linage. Besides, and irrespective of the civil war mistrust, it is no doubt that the cultural and geographical affinity between the ethnic minorities south of South East and the Igbo is unity, one, when compared to that between Igbo and Yoruba or Hausa/Fulani or Edo.
3. Igbos for their support for Jonathan can bargain and secure a guaranteed Igbo presidency come 2028 through temporal rotational PDP presidential arrangement. Igbos can urge Jonathan to now enter the much talked about Northerner agreement with the North, for the benefit of Igbo presidency. With his incumbency, political capital and as leaders of PDP, Jonathan can now on behalf of Igbo enter the Northern Agreement he has been accused of dishonoring. He can negotiate with the North and seek a written agreement for Igbo presidency in 2028 in exchange for his guaranteed handover to one of their own in 2019. Here, this agreement would assume the inevitable demise of the formidable opposition parties.
4. APC Igbo candidacy; some have suggested that APC field Igbo presidential candidate just to guarantee Jonathan and PDP defeat in the South East. The proponents of this Igbo APC presidential candidacy are but about one sixth, 17% right. APC presidential candidate of Igbo extraction may defeat Jonathan in South East if Igbos fail to foresee the wastefulness of such Igbo votes to APC’s Igbo presidential candidacy. But I would bet my very being that APC Igbo candidate would not only lose but will lose embarrassingly. Why, because of the bad Igbo fate in Nigerian. Jonathan would obtain 98% of the northern vote against such Igbo candidate. Also the Hausa/Fulani that decamped to APC would not only vote PDP but would mobile the masses to vote for Jonathan not because of their like for him but because of their paranoia about the Ebos.
So Igbo support for Jonathan is by all means proper and a politically correct step because there exist politically, no better alternative to their support for Jonathan’s 2015 bid. Igbo must make the necessary political sacrifices by supporting Jonathan in 2015 but in return they should urge Jonathan to ensure a written agreement among the 6 zones; agreement on rotational presidency that would guaranty Igbo presidency on or before 2028. To effect this agreement Jonathan needs Igbo help, Igbo sacrifices, so that preponderance of victory may lean on his side. Jonathan needs guaranteed and unwavering Igbo support come 2015 in exchange for Igbo presidency on or before 2028.
I see the sack of Ihejirika, Odimegwu, Nnaji and now Princess Oduah as demanded by some elements in the North and in the South West as some of the sacrifices Igbos need make for Jonathan’s 2015 victory which if harnessed will in turn secure negotiated Igbo presidency on or before 2028.

Rodnina tweet indicative that many Caspian trolls are not yet free.

"Irina Rodnina’s Racist Tweet About President Obama Still Causing Headaches In Sochi" yahoo news 2/9/14

Rodnina tweet indicative that many Caspian trolls are not yet free.

After a whole lifespan in dungeon that Russia represents, this radioactive 16-toothed Russian troll was as explosive as Chernobyl, with her 2013 Obama tweet, as she became exposed to the Light and Freedom Twitter and America Civil Right struggle offers.   I agree with this Russia psychologically and socio-political prisoner with false sense of freedom. I agree with her that “Freedom of speech is freedom of speech.”  It is no surprise that she who is deprived of a thing, values and uses profoundly that which she is deprived of and many a-times over uses or over applies that thing which she is falsely in possession of.   

Troll Rodnina’s concept and usage of Freedom of Speech is informed by her character, maturity, knowledge, education,  upbringing,  her environment, society and of course  the Freedom obtainable in her czar Russia. This woman’s understanding of freedom of speech is good indication that Russians are yet not free.  Because her tweet and defense of it shows that Russians do not know that the struggle for virtuous  Freedom of any kind  is precisely a struggle against, discrination, racism, totalitarianism, ‘xenophobism’, Nazism, fascism; all of which her tweet represent. Like her leader Putin, Troll Rodnina does not know that her freedom of speech ends where others' individual human rights and dignity starts.

But again she who have Nothing either literally, apparently or psychologically, abuses or over uses that which she is deprived of and this is case with this radioactive plutonium fed  Russian Troll with false sense of freedom.  

    
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Cold Hard Truth Posts

While I admit there are stupid people in the world as well as those who lack any class, I support their right to say what they want, lest I cause the eventual loss of my own freedom of speech by denying them theirs.
The most amazing thing about this is how the US media once again looked for, and found, something to make the Olympics about obama. With everything that makes the games a world wide event, our media has chosen to steal the spotlight from the athletes so they can continue to defend Obama and make him a victim, this time of a Russian athlete, by playing the race card. Whatever happened to 'sticks and stones'? (and I don't mean the Tracy Lawrence song)

 

Me to Cold Hard Truth

Abuse, physical or verbal is no Freedom of Speech but crime punishable by the law.

 @Cold hard Truth; "I support their right to say what they want, lest I cause the eventual loss of my own freedom of speech by denying them theirs."

Like the Russian Troll, your understanding of Freedom of speech is encapsulated in your ignorance and is an indication that you're neither mentally free nor mature.  Because the struggle for virtuous Freedom of any kind is precisely a struggle against, abuse, discrination, racism, totalitarianism, ‘xenophobism’, Nazism, fascism; all of which the Russian tweet represents.  Mr. Cold, it is shameful that you do not know that your freedom of speech ends where others' individual human rights, freedom and dignity starts.

If your neighbor, a street passerby, a Facebook friend , a co-worker fondly or abusively  tells you that your mother, father, wife, husband, daughter, son, sister, brother  looks like a prostitute, a thief he or she meets in some joint, I bet you would neither take such aspersion lightly nor excuse this abuse as freedom of speech? That you have freedom of movement does not give you right to walk into people’s house uninvited. Nor does freedom of association gives adult the right to curdle with an underage who is not a relative.

To you, the ignorant tweet by this Russian ignoramus is not an issue just because the abuse was not directed at you. Well, be honest to yourself and tell the world how you would truly feel if somebody you're not beefing with walks up to your face and call your mother a whore. Would such abuse hurt you, I bet it would hurt I don't care if you pretend otherwise. 

Be careful Abuja, MASSOB is like a prodigal son, still loved by its people.

"MASSOB dares police in Aba over alleged ban on use of Biafran camouflage" sun newspaper 2/7/14



Be careful Abuja, MASSOB is like a prodigal son, still loved by its people.

In as much as over whelming Igbo population are not MASSOB members and still do belief in the oneness of this banana republic called Nigeria. The federal government and its agent must be careful and understand that this organization though disliked is a symbol of Igbo struggle; Igbo resistance to perceived marginalization, injustice in Nigeria.

MASSOB is like that proverbial bad son whose family abandoned but always ready to vehemently defend when it is perceived that he is unjustly and unfairly bullied and bruised, especially by forces without. The federal government must isolate the criminal elements in this organization for prosecution but must not take blanket action to proscribe MASSOB, because such proscription attempt would be opposed by overwhelming Igbo population. Onitsha Market Owners though justifiable in their struggle against criminal elements in MASSOB, but how ever justifiable they may be, their ill feeling towards MASSOB do not represent the true Igbo view of MASSOB.

The federal government must tread wisely and proceed with caution when dealing with this none violently organization that is frenemy to Indigbo. Because of what MASSOB represents and do not represent, the Igbo population as any wise person would imagine, do not like the criminal activities by some elements in MASSOB. But only an unwise Abuja authority or federal authority would underestimate the dangers an outlandish maltreatment, prosecution or proscription of the organization poses; given the fact that some violent and terrorist organizations in other parts of this banana republic are pacified and showered with federal fund.

Majority of Igbos do not have any love for MASSOB but the absence of love does not mean hate. And I guaranty, many Igbos who do not like MASSOB would defend and stake their very life to defend any federal abuse that reinforces Igbo feelings of second classism, the bases of MASSOB’s political struggle.

wamaka insuinates that only northerns can make good leaders in Nigeria, the born to rule mentality, I hope the South west is listing and understand

Don't Repeat the Mistake of 2011 Polls, Wamakko Tells Northern Leaders

04 Feb 2014

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Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko

Nigerians support my defection to APC, says Atiku

By Mohammed Aminu

Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko, Monday urged northern leaders not to repeat the mistake of the 2011 elections by undue scramble for the presidency, saying they should drop their personal ambitions and work with unity of purpose in order to clinch the top position in 2015.

He also said Nigerians were in dire need of change, good governance and equitable system of administration, adding that the current system being operated by the federal government had failed in meeting the yearnings and aspirations of the people.
Wamakko made the assertion when the former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House in Sokoto.

He stressed the need for northern leaders to avoid undue scramble for elective positions and work towards making the All Progressives Congress (APC) strong, stable and acceptable across the country.

According to him, Nigeria is bigger than any individual, hence the need for northern leaders to drop their personal ambitions and work together in order to avoid repeating the mistake of 2011 election, where undue struggle cost the North the presidency.

"Sir, I commend your courage, vision and wisdom in taking the decision you have taken. Let me advise that Nigeria is bigger than any individual, and I am pleading with northern leaders not to concentrate on individual ambitions so that we will not make the mistake that we made in 2011.

"Let us put our ambitions behind us and think of Nigeria first. Let us make the party strong and stable. After that, let us think about who is the best candidate fit to lead us on the basis of wide acceptance across the country and whoever he or she may be, let it be.
"So, we should not be in a hurry. The time has gone when we will use our individual ambitions to make the mistake of 2011 and thus give this country a disaster which we experience nowadays," he advised.
The governor recalled that in 2011, he advised some northern leaders against such unhealthy competition which led to the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan.
"I am giving you this advice because you are my elder brother (Atiku) and I know you will listen. In 2011, you were seeking the presidency; Gen. Aliyu Gusau, was scrambling for the same position, including former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida."

"I recall you came to my house in Sokoto with Babangida and AVM Hamza Abdullah and I raised the same issue, it is the same thing I told you and it happened and we lost out. So, you should drop your personal ambitions because I don't want us to repeat the mistake of 2011,"Wamakko averred.

He stated that Nigerians were in dire need of change that would produce a transparent, just and equitable system of administration as well as give respect to every Nigerian.

Wamakko pointed out that the current system being operated by the federal government was discriminatory and had already failed in so many ways in treating the entire country as its constituency, saying citizens from a particular region were being treated as third class citizens.

"Just few months ago, this confused old man called Edwin Clark and his boy Asari Dokubo spoke in an immature way, even threatening the security of the country but none of them was arrested. But last week the officials of the State Security Service (SSS) were looking for Malam Nasiru El-Rufai.

"In Nigeria today some people can speak and no matter whatever they say, nothing will be done to them but if you are from a particular part of the country, when you speak, then you are in trouble and security operatives will come after you. This is injustice, this is the unfortunate situation we have found ourselves and this is not what this country deserves," Wamakko added.

Earlier, the former vice president said his consultations with stakeholders across the country indicated that Nigerians were in dire need of change in leadership.

According to him, most people he consulted with during his tour across the country were in total support of his defection to the APC.

"We consulted with stakeholders in the North west, North-east, South-west, South-south and other parts of the country. We consulted with religious leaders, non-governmental organisations, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in North-east and other stakeholders and they all said we should move to the APC.

"And in all the places that we went, people balloted and PDP came third behind PDM and APC. So, this is a clear indication that Nigerians want change," Atiku noted."

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To whom it may concern; Rita

From: Rita E#####

Date: February 4, 2014

                                               To Whom It May Concern

I Rita E##### under oath and with clarity of mind make the following declarations; that, to the best of my knowledge x ####### and Dr. Chukwuemeka ####### are duly married couple. I know the preceding statement to be true because x and I have been a longtime friend, right from our spinster years.   Not only did my friendship with x continue till today but it blossomed with her marriage to Dr. Chukwuemeka #######.   Today, x, her husband, and children are our number one family friends.

Hardly does a day pass-by that I did not communicate with x, the Husband or both. I, my husband, x and her husband are as much as family friends as anyone can get  and Dr. ####### are my children’s best and favorite aunt and uncle respectively. While x and husband lived in New Jersey, both our families, severally exchange visits and dined-out together.  As soon as we raise enough money I, my husband and children would honor persistent invite x and husband and then visit them at their near Disney World, Orland Florida residence.

So, to the best of my knowledge, x and Dr. Chukwuemeka are lawfully and religiously married couple.

Yours Sincerely

Rita E#####.    

To whom it may concern

M..... #######

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##### ######## MD, #####

Date: January 2, 2014

                                       To whom it may concern

I M... ####### a United State Citizen, do here, with this letter attest to the following; that Joy ###### ####### and Dr. Chukwuemeka ####### are married couple. That I personally attended this couple’s church wedding held in New Jersey, on April 14, 2014.  That x and her husband Dr. Chukwuemeka ####### have been and remain friends to my family.  While x and husband Dr. ####### lived in New Jersey my and her family exchanged visits.  In 2012, in more than two occasions I, my husband and our daughter visited x and husband in their New Jersey home. In that same period x and husband made equal or more number of visits to us. In September 2012 I and my daughter visited x and her husband in their then newly acquired Orland Florida residence.  Both our families have been on outings several times with a visit to the Disney World Orlando being the most memorable experience.   

X and her husband Dr. Chukwuemeka ####### are more than friends to my family. I have known x  for over fifteen years when we were neighbors in Lagos, Nigeria. For long x has remained a good and trusted friend. So I was in the- know of even the courtship between x and Dr. #######.  I therefore without any reservation or doubt and to the best of my knowledge solemnly states that x and Dr. Chukwuemeka ####### are married couple and have presented themselves as such both privately and publicly.    

Yours truly
#######

In Shuluwa frustration meets betrayal

"Power must return to the North in 2015 –Shuluwa" Sun online 1/27/14

 

Frustration meets betrayal

This Chief does not speak for the north so it will be wrong to cast aspersion on the whole north while responding to his confusion, his joblessness, and anti-party diatribe. By his innuendoes Chief Shuluwa is not a PDP member.  In reality he has neither political conviction nor affiliation. He is a politically prostituting chief. He is APC, PDP, APCPDP member., a political jobber.  

 This King without kingdom is lying to himself as he thinks of self as a northerner even when geography and Hausa/Fulani disagree with him. Shuluwa is of the northern minority stock that Ahmadu Bello described as the willing tool for Hausa/Fulani hegemony. Rather than allow ethnic nationalities a choice of self-determination Mr. Shuluwa said he will fight another civil war to enforce membership to the Nigeria union. This man is history that knows no history. Shuluwa needs show how the first civil war helped Nigeria and Nigerians before he threatens another one. He may have to show that things have gotten better in Nigeria as a result of the past civil war, the war he won. This man still lives in the past, in the 60s. Perhaps he wants partnership in his servitude to the Hausa/Fulani hegemony.

 In as much as many of us want Nigeria to remain one nation, in this day and age, it is brute, primitive, ignorance and outright stupidity to threaten violence for cohesion.   Forced cohesion among the ethnic nationalities is no cohesion and intrinsically explosive. Ethnic cohesion and harmony cannot be Coerced but reasoned, cultivated, nursed and appreciated. If Shuluwa is not anything but all mouth why has he not engaged in the war currently raging between his people and Fulani herdsmen, where his kith and kin are being slaughtered like chicken infested with H1 virus in the hands of the herdsmen?    

Femi Aribisala, indicts Buhari.

"Why Buhari will never be president of Nigeria" By Femi Aribisala"

on vanguard online, January 21, 2014 / in Femi Aribisala 12:40 am             

 

By Femi Aribisala

       " ON Friday, 23rd August, 1985, the military government of Major-General Mohammadu Buhari decided to place me under arrest. My crime was that I wrote, among others, an article entitled: “Counter-trading Nigeria’s Future” in the National Concord, exposing the government’s scam of diverting public funds into private coffers through barter-trade with Brazil. A man by the name of Benson Norman was sent from the State Security Services (SSS) to my office to get me. Not finding me, he left a note that I must present myself unfailingly at the SSS office at 15 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi Lagos the next Monday morning.
However, on Sunday, 25th August, 1985, Lateef Aminu came first thing in the morning to my house to inform me that the government of Buhari/Idiagbon had been overthrown. For this reason, I am fond of telling people that God brought about a change of government in Nigeria just because of me.
Coup-plotter
Under the Buhari/Idiagbon regime, once you ended up at 15 Awolowo Road, you may never be heard of again. Decree Number 2 of 1984 empowered Tunde Idiagbon to arrest and detain anybody indefinitely without trial and without legal reprieve. After Buhari was overthrown, Mohammadu Gambo opened the prison doors of 15 Awolowo Road on public television, revealing people in various stages of undress and malnutrition that had been kept in the dungeons without trial by Buhari’s hound-dogs.
As self-imposed Head of State, Buhari had no regard for human rights. Immediately he seized power, he announced that he would “tamper with” the press. Soon, the infamous Decree Number 4 was promulgated which made even the publication of the truth a punishable offence. Under this cover, Buhari jailed innocent journalists, including Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabo. He abolished civil liberties, promulgated retroactive decrees enabling him to kill Nigerians through jungle justice, proscribed civil society organizations and professional groups and exercised “absolute” power.
This same Buhari would now have us believe that he has gone through some metamorphosis and has become a democrat. I am sure you will forgive me if people like me don’t believe him. Buhari is not, has never been, and will never be, a democrat. Only in Nigeria would a man with his track record, who came to power through a military coup that illegally overthrew a democratic government, now be acclaimed as a democrat. It is on record that Buhari’s military regime is the only one in Nigeria’s history that failed to promulgate a programme for return to civilian rule.
Facts and fiction
So what exactly qualifies Buhari as a democrat today? Precious little! There is nothing democratic about forming and joining political parties just in order to be the presidential candidate. Little wonder then that Buhari’s parties have a short shelf-life. Buhari would like to be Nigeria’s head of state once again. He can no longer achieve this through the barrel of a gun. The only route now open to him is through the democratic process. That is the reason he now conveniently fashions himself as a democrat. It is merely a means to an end; no more, no less.
Buhari’s reputation as an anti-corruption crusader is also a myth. As head of state, he did not make any dent in Nigerian corruption. All we got was a cosmetic “war against indiscipline.” The counter-trade scam happened under his watch. Rather than deal with it, he sent his hound-dogs after nonentities like me who dared to expose it. That scam was no different, in scope and scale, from the petroleum subsidy and other corruption scandals that have since plagued Nigeria. The Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) that Buhari headed under Abacha was also a citadel of corruption. While Buhari himself might not have enriched himself, his cronies and those who worked under him did so handsomely.
On three different occasions, Buhari has run for the presidency. On three different occasions he has failed. That should really be enough. If, as seems likely, he were to run for the presidency a fourth time in 2015, there is no question that he would fail yet again. Try as he might again and again, Mohammadu Buhari can never be President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Buhari’s sectarianism
There is a fundamental reason behind this. Buhari is a bad politician. He is an unbending former military dictator and not a democratic consensus-builder. Like his new ally, Bola Tinubu, Buhari is a regional, sectional politician. Such politicians are practically impossible to package and market nationally in the ethnically-delicate Nigeria of today.
Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir El’Rufai, one of those Northerners who deserve to be serious contenders for the presidency of Nigeria, observed that Buhari remains “perpetually unelectable” as a result of his “insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus.” This is an elegant way of saying that politically, Buhari has an uncanny tendency to put his foot in his mouth. He talks before thinking of the political implications of his words. He shoots from the hip.
The strength of Obasanjo, which enabled him to capture the presidency on two different occasions, was that he was perceived as a broadminded politician, not overly partial to his people in the South-West. As a matter of fact, in his first election, his people did not want him. The strength of Goodluck Jonathan, which propelled him to win the presidency, was that he was able to string together a coalition that stretched both north and south of the Niger. The weakness of Buhari is that he is totally unacceptable to people outside his region.
Buhari is a Northern regional champion. As head of state in the 1980s, his government was unapologetically Northern. No attempt was made to balance the ticket at the top. It was the only regime in Nigeria’s history headed by two Northerners. When he seized power, Buhari put Shagari, the Northern head of state he overthrew, under house arrest. But then he jailed Alex Ekwueme, the Southern vice-president. You may well ask what makes Shagari less culpable for the misdeeds of the Second Republic than his number-two man. The simple fact was that Buhari was Fulani as was Shagari; but Ekwueme was Igbo.
Impolitic words
At the height of the Sharia debate during the Obasanjo administration, Buhari declared that Muslims should vote only for fellow Muslims. This was politically suicidal for a man seeking national office. He became an advocate for implementation of Sharia all over Nigeria. He protested to the Oyo State governor, in the context of a dispute between Fulani herdsmen and indigenous farmers in the state, that “your people are killing my people.” This turned out to be unfounded and perhaps the reverse.
His threats during the campaign for the 2011 elections incited widespread violence in the North after he lost. His supporters went on a rampage; looting and killing; in spite of the fact that, by all accounts, the elections were adjudged the most free and fair in the history of Nigeria’s current democratic experiment. By the time the mayhem had subsided, over 1000 people had been slaughtered in cold blood and some 65,000 displaced.
Forgetting that a statement made in Hausa would readily be translated into English, Buhari later declared unapologetically in a BBC interview: “If what happened in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood.” These are the tokens of an irresponsible politician, whose ambitions for power supersede the national interest. Who then are the dogs and baboons that Buhari has in mind to soak in blood if and when he loses yet again come 2015? Are they his children or are they those of others?
With the Boko Haram insurgency in the north, Buhari played to the Northern gallery yet again, calling the Jonathan government “the biggest Boko Haram.” Wole Olaniyi was a fly in the wall at a meeting in Kano Government House designed to persuade PDP rebel governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, to decamp to the APC. Assuming that only Northerners were present, Buhari declared the Boko Haram was a “strategic plan” by the government of Goodluck Jonathan to “destroy the North.” When Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states, Buhari still saw this with Northern goggles, insinuating that the President is waging war on the North.
President of the North
Without a doubt, Buhari has massive support in the North. Indeed, he is the most popular Northern politician in the North today. But that precisely remains his undoing at the centre. The more he has been identified as a Northern champion, the less attractive he has become as a national choice. Even in the North, his support base is limited to the Muslim population. He does not appeal to Northern Christians. Then there is the added factor of the opposition of his implacable opponents among the Northern elite. Men like Babangida and Atiku would rather die than allow Buhari get to Aso Rock.
One thing is certain, the South-South and the South-East will not vote for Buhari in 2015. Not only that; there are no buyers for Buhari’s sectarian politics in the South-West. No matter what Tinubu might be telling him, the people of the South-West will not vote for Buhari in 2015. We already had the template in 2011, when Buhari tried to sell himself, first by balancing his ticket with a Yoruba man; and then by making sure the Yoruba man is a Christian; a pastor no less. But it just did not wash. It will not work in 2015.
The worst thing that can happen to Northern presidential aspirations in 2015 is for Buhari to be on the APC ballot. That is a sure guarantee that the North will not be providing the next president. Buhari would be a shoo-in in an election for president of Northern Nigeria. But in an election encompassing the entire country, the best he can envisage is to be a kingmaker. He cannot be king. The nearest Buhari will get to Aso Rock in 2015 is by attending the Council of State meetings."

Progressive Nigerians support ethni-religious politics because insanity is defined as,

"Information Minister [Labaran Maku] raises the alarm: ‘Why they are after the President’ vanguard 1/19/14.




Progressive Nigerians, support ethni-religious politics because insanity is defined as,

Labaran is right and as I have said it before, Jonathan is not that messiah but he is surely the prophetic voice in the wilderness that preparing for the coming of the One. Jonathan is not that ideal leader that will finally set Nigeria and Nigerians free but without doubt he will make the way straight for that leader if he continues with his leadership style. It is an indisputable truth that in the last  three years the current administration by any measure have done better  than Murtala through Yar'dua administrations combined.
Lest I forget, folk I have to admit Labaran's defense here  of the current administration is superb, coherent, articulate. He is  an able information Minister. I hope he will deliver his state, Nasarawa for Jonathan.

Fellow Nigerians please don't be deceived by the Hausa/Fulani's rabid quest for power. For over 34 years this group led this country without single opposition but had nothing, absolutely nothing to show for it, neither for their people nor for the Nigerians at large.  If Hausa/Fulani military dictatorships offered NOTHING but, economic, social, political, infrastructure, security and moral decay for 34 years under their unchallenged military dictatorships  how could they usher in good leadership in a democratic dispensation where every policy is challenged, debated, opposed, negotiated and compromised with the opposition parties? Folk the taste of fofo is in the eating. And for 34 years we ate the Hausa/Fulani leadership fofo and we all know the taste, the effect, the consequences of the pill we were force to swallow for these 34 years. Folk, insanity is defined as doing the same again and again and expecting different outcomes.

I can sware that an average Hausa/Fulani man or woman not religiously indoctrinated to religious fanatism is a good human being. But most Hausa/Fulani  political elites are schooled on feudal Islamic theocracy hence it would be  practically impossible for a Hausa/Fulani leader to succeed in a secular multi- ethno-religious nation like Nigeria.
Folk, I do not make these up, do your research; Islamic feudal theocracies have no room for a truly multi-party, multi-religious secular system. For a true moslem the order of importance is, Allah, Islam, Mohammed, Imams, moslem serf and others. For the average Hausa/Fulani, Abacha, IBB were exceptional leaders, because in Islamic theocracy the leader no matter how evil he or she may be  is anointed by Allah.  Yet they can't explain the type of leader the devil anoints if Allah anointed even the evil ones.

In Islamic feudal theocracy the leader is sovereign, he is everything. So to ordinary Hausa/Fulani man, is not only that Abacha and IBB did no wrong but they were exceptional. The question is, how come this mindset, well average moslems are not taught otherwise but that the leader, the king is a god after Allah. It is no surprise that Ahmadu Belllo never like Igbos that have neither king nor a central sovereign leader. So the Igbo Hausa/Fulani rivalry is political, religious, and cultural and can only be resolved by either complete political separation which am against or by regional autonomy which am in favor of. To a less degree this Igbo Hausa/Fulani cultural dichotomy also applies to Hausa/Fulani to Northern Minorities, Hausa/Fulani to yoruba, Hausa/Fulani to southern minorities, relationships.

Recently Lai Lie Mohammed, APC pubsec have been warning against ethnic and religious politics yet when Hausa/Fulani state governments deny city allocations for the building of churches in their states, when these governor refused to sponsor christian pilgrimage while at the same time they finance pilgrimage to Mecca, when Hausa/Fulani military dictatorship allocate 44 local councils to Kano after the state has been split into three, when Hausa/Fulani military ruling councils and administrations are overwhelmingly dominated by Hausa/Fulani,  when governor Kwankwosa and Hausa/Fulani governors  give free education to predominantly moslem natives and to moslem none-natives while they denied the same to other Kano residents  who know no other home than Kano, when federal quota aka federal character that favors Hausa/Fulani are used in federal appointment, admission and military recruitment, then Lie Lai Mohammed did not raise alarm on the dangers of religious and ethnic politics. I read a news article just few hours ago where Governor Kwankwosa  was warning Jonathan to leave Sanusi alone. The Governor in the article  called Sanusi a good citizen of  Kano yet Sanusi is from Yobe State but moved to Kano. Surprising Kwankwosa  calls him Kano citizen while  Igbos born, raised in Kano and know no other state as home  but Kano are not described as citizens but as nyamiri and they do not benefit from Kano free education policy simply because they may not be Moslems like Sanusi.
Hausa/Fulani political elites and military juntas claim that they have the demographic numbers and asuch arrogate to themselves  more states and more local government councils which translate to more Niger Delta oil wealth to them yet when it is time to do accurate headcount they either boycott or stifle it.

I have nothing personal against any Nigerian or against any section of Nigeria, God forbid and far from it. However, until we start being upright, honest, truthful, not deceitful, not taking advantage of each other ethnically, not killing on the bases of ethnicity and religion, until every Nigerian sees self as being at home regardless of the city, state he or she lives in, Nigeria will continue to remain a pipe dream, an illusion. And I, we must continue to call spade a spade. Until Nigeria sees it proper to abolish the divisive indigene-ship policies in the regions and in the states, the calls for national unity would continue to be a ruse and at best a waste of time. It is impossible to achieve cohesion among the people in a country with fluid and incoherent citizenship. Today in Nigeria depending on current place of residence every Nigerian is either first or second class citizen. If you're Igbo in Lagos or Kano, or Hausa in Onitsha or Lagos or Yoruba in Onitsha or Kano you're a 2nd class citizen. But if this Nigerian goes back to a city, a state in his ethno-geo-political area he or she then reclaims 1st class citizen.  Our politicians know that it's impossible to  achieve unity, cohesion, love, patriotism from and among the citizenry with this kind of incoherent citizenship classification yet they pretend to not know that the political turmoil, ethnic rivalry, ethnic mistrust, hate and tension, unhealthy competition, the cutthroat politics, professional mediocrity in Nigeria; all stem from this incoherent citizenship classification. Northern Politicians would not fathom addressing this incoherency in citizenship classifications because such action would go against the politics of North's foremost leader and father and the chief advocate of the two classes of citizenship in Nigeria, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello. Ahmadu Bello's unpatriotic policy of north for the Northerners, and divisiveness and his Igbo fears is purely responsible for ethnic mistrust, and division in Nigeria today. Almost all political problems in Nigeria today even the January 1966 coupe have their root in Ahmadu Bello's geo-tribal politics.             

Yes, ironically Mohammed Lie is right, religious and ethnic politic is wrong but I should add, in a ideal society but Nigeria is far from ideal. Nigeria is not even up to un-ideal. So, presently I would support none violent religious and ethnic campaign politics if it would help wane Hausa/Fulani political elite from their born-to-rule drunkenness, if it will disprove Hausa/Fulani claims of population demographic superiority over other groups and faithfuls. Yes I will support it if it will guarantee their political defeat and win for the rest of the Nigeria groups who have for long played second fiddle.

The Ironsi lesson

"Jonathan sacks defense team"


The Ironsi lesson 

Yes, it is the Presidents prerogative to hire and fire the service chiefs and executive cabinet. Yes the president may to some degree follow the federal character in his appointments but competence and the safeguard for democracy and his government must be the ‘ first’ character to follow in his appointments.  Just to please the un-please-able Hausa/Fulani  political elites with born-to-rule mentality,  the president must not make the Thomas Ironsi mistake of appointing people he would not in his heart or heart trust.

The president must know that as longer as he remains the president, effective and not a stooge to Hausa/Fulani political elite he would never be able to please this group. Why?  Because the President has something that the group truly believes is theirs. Yes, twice they have allowed Obasanjo to have a test of their god given right to rule. But they believe that Jonathan took the presidency from them by force, without their consent and blessing. Therefore it would be impossible for Jonathan to please Hausa/Fulani political elite even if 100% of his cabinet ministers and service chiefs are the group’s ethnicity. However the group would be happy with the 100% position not because they would feel compensated but because they would have turn this administration into stooge for fulfilling their hegemonic interest and the maintenance of the   status quo of social classification of Nigerians into the two groups of Hausa/Fulani and the Other-Nigerians.

The disdain of Malam Sanusi, Speaker Tambuwal,  the other 5 minsters  fired 6 months, the 4 decamped governors, and the flood of decamping of PDP state and national legislators of Hausa/Fulani extraction to APC is not something from the blue. The question is; what is it that Jonathan did to this group that is worse than what Obasanjo did to the group and to Nigeria? Well Obasanjo served with the Hausa/Fulani consent and permission while Jonathan is serving under their disapproval and great opposition.  The Hausa/Fulani has been in power for over 34 years, which is a life-span, in Africa. One could imagine how difficult it would be to give up habit one has had and held for a life span. 

To wane Hausa/Fulani political elite from their addiction and obsession to power, Jonathan must not only contest in 2015 but must ensure his own victory and the Other-Nigerian must help in this effort because as brother’s keeper, it behooves us all to wane Hausa/Fulani from the disease of addictions, whether it is violence, religious intolerance, mass murdering of others, power, or addiction to Niger Delta oil. Jonathan would never win the predominantly Hausa/Fulani, states of kebbi, sokoto, zamfara, kano, yobe, gombe, borne, bauchi, niger,  katsina and jigawa.  However, Jonathan stands to win the remaining 7 middle northern states, 3 western states and 11 eastern states and therefore win the presidency.

So Mr.  President, be bold and treat all persons, all Nigerians, the Hausa/Fulani and the other-Nigerians as equals, without fear or favor. For it is written thou shall rule with the fears of God and not the fear of mortal men.  

Buhari a bad choice

Buhari a bad choice

I am neither PDP member nor do I have any sympathy for APC. Both parties are led by the same criminally corrupt senile minded old buffoons. If any of these two parties shows me any official of either party elected or not, in a position power or had held position of power that is not corrupt then I would show Nigerians the end of corruption in Nigeria and the beginning of prosperity for all Nigerians. There can never be change without a change; by this I mean unless decent Nigerians I mean youths, young, women, of all ethnic nationalities understand the bleakness of their future since 1985 and resolve and device a way to rightly sack these crooks raiding the country, either through popular rebellion or voting revolution, change would never come to Nigeria. Perhaps I should say the change in decay in social, economic, infrastructure, education, and security, would continue and accelerate until Nigerians find it proper to sack the senile running the country.
Because leadership in Nigeria has been synonymous to nation led by the blind, Jonathan’s administration in my opinion is like the gift of one-eyed leaders to a nation of people ever blind and ever led by the blind. By any measure since after the Gowon’s administration Jonathan have done better than all the other administrations combined. For this reason I have sympathy for his administration. Since he would mostly likely contest for 2015 presidency under PDP I intend to support Jonathan in 2015 should he chose to run. And because of current political permutation and danger pose by APC to Jonathan’s victory in 2015 a strong ‘Put Goodluck back to Aso Rock” campaign and strategy must be devised. Praying and wishing for implosion in APC is neither a political nor a winning strategy
The potential threat to Jonathan’s victory in 2015 would not be Buhari but, shekaru, Limado Tambuwal and others should they choose to contest under APC. Buhari a former military dictator that overthrew a democratically elected civilian government would be the most flawed and internationally despised, isolated and rejected leader of a democratic nation ever. How would the world’s first class democracies view, receive one time dictator in the person of Buhari? Today in America it is a crime to participate, support, be an accessary to forceful sack of a legitimate government any where in the world. By US law, one who in any way facilitates the forceful sack of a legitimate government is barred forever from entering into U.S. I do not think that Nigeria can afford to avoid co-operation and partnership with the United States of American for 8 years under unthinkable Buhari’s presidency. But Buhari’s biggest flaw is not his past despotism and nepotism or his overthrow of elected legitimate government of Shehu Musa Shagari but his severely Hausa/Fulani tribal jingoism. APC would lose SW if Buhari is the 2015 presidential flag bearer because people in that region would easily remember when Buhari led red eyed group of Huasa/Fulani men to confront a SW Governor about reported mass killing of Fulanis in an area in SW state. But as it turned out it was Fulanis that killed several Yoruba’s. When Buhari was presented with fact on the massacre by the governor of the state it was reported that Buhari and his men left in shame. When the governor narrated this incidence to media he described it as ‘How he [the Governor] prevented a second civil war in Nigeria.’ The point here is that Buhari is too flawed both domestically and international to be president of multi ethno- religious nation like Nigeria. I concur Buhari may exercise some degree of integrity on issue of official corruption but he has no respect for the law. There can never be good ruler-ship without the rule of law. Buhari’s overthrew of Shagari’s government and his incite-full and incendiary remarks after losing elections speak volume. In homogenous ethno-religious Islamic state Buhari would make a good leader.
To win against Buhari in 2015 Jonathan needs surgically targeted state by state strategy that would be hedge on winnable 11 states of SS and SE, plus Plateau, Benue, Taraba, Kogi, Kaduna (Sambo’s turf), Ondo, Lagos. Jonathan, if he does his homework very well would be able to bank these 18 states before the electioneering even starts. He would be very competitive in the states of Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti, Osun, Nassarawa, and Adamawa if he invests capital and incumbency in these states. Then he would implore ‘muddle the water’ strategy and make APC spend considerable amount of resource and manpower in the states of Katsina, Jigawa, Bauchi and Gombe.

84 crude, yet is the magic numeric panacea for current political quagmire.

84 crude, yet is the magic numeric panacea for current political quagmire.

For stability and escape from political turmoil Nigeria must adopt terminable  zonal presidency that would terminate on the 84th year with a South West presidency.
To achieve this zonal presidency the current 6 geopolitical zones in the country should be adopted and enshrined into the law of the land. Under this arrangement The office of the Vice presidency would be third in line to the presidency. Either the position of senate president or the speaker should be zoned to a reputable person from the same zone that produces the current President. The vice presidency should be zoned to the zone that would assume the presidency when the 8 year term of the current zonal presidency expires.
If the president dies or is impeached and removed the Speaker or the senate president assumes the presidency and this ensures that the presidency remains in the same zone that is its turn to produce the presidency.
If the speaker is 1st in line to the presidency, under emergency the senate president would assume a-no-more-than 4 months temporary presidency assuming the president and the speaker suddenly dies or become incapacitated simultaneously. Within the 4 month temporary presidency the National Assemble would vote to select the president from among the national legislative delegations from the zone which it is still its turn to produce the presidency. The 4 month temporary presidency is not recoverable for the zone
that lost it.
I agree this zonal or 8 year rotational presidency is not an ideal democritic arraegement or process but perfect is not an enemy of the good. Nigeria with its current situation, intractable and myriad of issues, gross mistrust and division among its constituent nationalities may have to adopt this model for an 84 year period at which time hopefully the country may have fully matured democratically. And the current breed of criminally corrupt cutthroat ethno- jingoist politicians would have died out and eternally condemned; at which time any Nigerian would call and beliefs any part of the country as home.
Yet still, the National Conference must enshrine fiscal federalism with power in the center reasonably dissolved to the zones.
Here is the breakdown of the 84 year rotational presidency envisioned to begin in 2015:
SS: 2015 to 2019
North: 8-years
SE: 8
North: 8
SW: 8
North:8
SS:8
North: 8
SE: 8
North: 8
SW: 8.

SenatorUzodinma misses the point

Uzodinma misses the point (see the interview given by Senator Uzodinma on Sun Newspaper 1/5/14)

 

Senate Uzodinma’s diatribe in this interview is but a wash, substantively. By this I mean Uzodinma neither made any point nor bold political statement. All he did here was 100% cheap partisan propaganda. And there is nothing wrong about political party propagandas except that they are un-excit-full, boring, obvious, none innovative and simply minded. One would have expected the Senator to state how PDP plans to win the election, win the presidency in 2015. Instead Senator Uzodinma spoke vainly on how APC would lose in2015. What Senator Uzodinma said in this interview is like a war-time Army General who spoke only on how his adversary would lose the battle but said nothing about his strategy to win the battle; a sign that the general have neither confidence nor strategy to win the battles.  Uzodinma and PDP need to tell their supporters and members how the Party plans to win in 2015 giving the threat posed by APC; wishing and praying for implosion in APC is neither a political nor a winning strategy.

 

I am neither PDP member nor do I have any sympathy for APC. Both parties are led by the same criminally corrupt senile minded old buffoons. If any of these two parties shows me any official of either party elected or not, in a position power or had held position of power that is not corrupt then I would show Nigerians the end of corruption in Nigeria and the beginning of prosperity for all Nigerians. There can never be change without a change; by this I mean unless decent Nigerians I mean youths, young, women, of all ethnic nationalities understand the bleakness of their future since 1985 and resolve and device a way to rightly sack these crooks raiding the country, either through popular rebellion or voting revolution, change would never come to Nigeria. Perhaps I should say the change in decay in social, economic, infrastructure, education, and security, would continue and accelerate until Nigerians find it proper to sack the senile running the country.     

 

Because leadership in Nigeria has been synonymous to nation led by the blind, Jonathan’s administration in my opinion is like the gift of one-eyed leaders to a nation of people ever blind and ever led by the blind. By any measure since after the Gowon’s administration Jonathan have done better than all the other administrations combined.  For this reason I have sympathy for his administration. Since he would mostly likely contest for 2015 presidency under PDP I intend to support Jonathan in 2015 should he chose to run. And because of current political permutation and danger pose by APC to Jonathan’s victory in 2015 a strong ‘Put Goodluck back to Aso Rock” campaign and strategy must be devised and this strategy is what I expected from Senator Uzodinma in his interview. 

 

The potential threat to Jonathan’s victory in 2015 would not be Buhari but, shekaru, Limado Tambuwal should they choose to contest under APC.  Buhari a former military dictator that overthrow a democratically elected civilian government would be the most flawed and internationally despised, isolated and rejected leader of a democratic nation ever.  How would the world’s first class democracies view, receive one time dictator in the person of Buhari? Today in America it is a crime to participate, support, be an accessary to forceful sack of a legitimate government any where in the world.  By US law, one who in any way facilitates the forceful sack of a legitimate Government is barred forever from entering into U.S. I do not think that Nigeria can afford to avoid co-operation and partnership with the United States of American for 8 years under unthinkable Buhari’s presidency. But Buhari’s biggest flaw is not his past despotism and nepotism or his overthrew of elected legitimate government of Shehu Musa Shagari but his severely Hausa/Fulani tribal jingoism. APC would lose SW if Buhari is the 2015 presidential flag bearer because people in that region would easily remember when Buhari led  red eyed group of Huasa/Fulani  men to confront a SW Governor about  reported mass killing of Fulanis in an area in SW state. But as it turned out it was Fulanis that killed several Yoruba’s. When Buhari was presented with fact on the massacre by the governor of the state it was reported that Buhari and his men left in shame. When the governor narrated this incidence to media he described it as ‘How he [the Governor] prevented a second civil war in Nigeria.’ The point is that Buhari is too flawed both domestically and international to be president of multi ethno- religious nation. I concur Buhari may exercise some degree of integrity on issue of official corruption but he has no respect for the law. There can never be good ruler-ship without the rule of law.  Buhari’s overthrew of Shagari’s government and his incite-full and incendiary remarks after losing elections speak volume. In homogenous ethno-religious Islamic state Buhari would make a good leader.

 

To win in 2015 Jonathan needs surgically targeted state by state strategy that would be hedge on winnable  11 states of SS and SE, plus Plateau, Benue, Taraba, Kogi, Kaduna (Sambo’s turf), Ondo, Lagos. Jonathan, if he does his homework very well would be able to bank these 18 states before the electioneering even starts. He would be very competitive in the states of Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti, Osun, Nassarawa, and Adamawa if he invests capital and incumbency in these states. Then he would implore ‘muddle the water’ strategy and make APC spend considerable amount of resource and manpower in the states of Katsina, Jigawa, Bauchi and Gombe.   

 

 

              

Mr. Jime, perfect is not enemy of good

"Zoning, an impediment to good governance — Rep" 1/2/14

 Mr. Jime, perfect is not enemy of good
It is impossible to have something and the same time have-it-not. It is absurd to emphasis division and expect unity. Mr. Jime's position on zoning could only be true if we remove indigene-ship and state of origin from our system and from our civil service. It is impossible to have it both ways; our system cannot emphasis much on our differences like indigene-ship and state of origin and yet expect cohesion and oneness among the ethnic nationalities.
Mr. Jime like most politicians from the north are  never sincere but very hypocritical  when they talk of national unity. Northerners or these privileged  politicians only call for national unity and stand against zoning   when it  benefits and serves their narrow interests better.
Yes, zoning is neither a perfect nor a sound democratic idea and neither is quota system in our institutions and in the civil service. I agree, let the best candidate win election and let the best qualified Nigerian get that job. Except that it serves narrow northern interest or  Jime's ethnic interest better, otherwise how could he defend and condone mediocrity in hiring in our institutions and civil service and yet champions meritocracy in our politics? Jime talked about good leadership but he knows that it's impossible to have good leadership or leader in a society where ethnic division and winner-takes-it-all is the politics and political ideology of politicians including himself.
 Perhaps all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria are guilty of the divisive educational policy announced  last week by Kano State government. Last week Governor Kwankwaso announced free education at all level for all indigenes of the state but not for all residents of the state. What this means is that if one was born, bred, pays taxes in Kano, have lived in Kano all his or her life but have parents of Tiv or Ijaw heritage he or she or children will not benefit from this free education policy. Yet more than 90% of the huge federal allocations that Kano State and its bloated 44 local governments receive is based on its population that includes Tiv, Ijaw, Igbo, Yoruba and indigenous people.


But more disturbing is that  95% of Kano's federal allocation comes from Niger Delta oil wealth. How come that by mere being a member state in the Nigeria union, Kano and 30 other states benefit from Niger Delta oil and yet one benefits not from  Kano free education even when one is the state's born and life long resident? Weird? One with opposite view may rightly ask, if all the states receive allocation why should Kano State give free education to none indigene? But this would be chicken and egg question; that is of the two, which came first. That is,  Kano's huge federal allocation and big population which came first? But the most pressing question begging for an answer is what makes a Kano State or any state resident either an indigene or  none indigene? Precisely, if one's father is a 'Kano indigene' but the mother is a tiv, Ijaw, Igbo etc or the mother a Kano indigene and the father Yoruba, edo, is this person a Kano indigene or not? What if one's grandparents were Kano indigene but either one or both of one's parent is not? God knows that if I am Kano resident that I will go to court for a legal redress if am denied Kano's free education base my parent's ethnicity or state of origin.
 So Mr. Jime  quite know that Nigeria will never have a detribalized leadership or politics until it does away with the divisive indigene laws, policies and politics in the states and regions. Until such a time a tiv Kano resident, an Igbo Kano resident, a Hausa/Fulani resident in Enugu, Porthacourt or Ibadan would be able to viably stand for a statewide election in their state of  residence, zoning remains the good but not the perfect solution to the political and leadership quagmire in the country.
Mr. Jime, should remember that perfect is Not an enemy of the good.

Political joke of the year or the mother of all hypocrisy?

Political joke of the year or the mother of all hypocrisy?

APC have consistently told Nigerians that PDP 14-year leadership of the country in this 4th republic is an abysmal failure and I kind of agree. However, how come that APC is now in desperate campaign and blissful exited to have PDP governors, former chairman, secretary, Leaders, BoT in its fold? More intriguing is that APC is actually handing over the leadership positions of the Party to these PDP governors, members and former executive but now APC converts.
 But the mother of all political joke or perhaps the mother of all hypocrisy for this years and in the foreseeable future is that Obasanjo who led PDP, Nigeria for 8 years out of the 14 years of PDP abysmal leadership failure as rightly stated by APC, is not only being wooed by APC but is now the political consultant, adviser, and godfather for APC. Last week Buhari told the nation that APC leadership would pay Obasanjo visit at Obasanjo’s convenience to explain, ‘seek support, blessing and his defection to APC.’ Yet much has been said about Buhari’s integrity, independency, and astuteness.  Friends if Obasanjo would be the brain behind the APC highly heralded good governance, folk we would be back to square one for a finish.
Folks, brothers and sisters, please wake up; all these criminal cabals called politicians in Nigeria, these old cargoes in PDP, APC, PAPAPC must be rejected once and for all time. They are after their own selfish, egoistic interests. Fellow Nigerians, please let us work with one another in truth, honesty, love, respect, honor, patriotism and under the law and take back the country from these criminally corrupt cabals before it is too too late. The future and responsibility to it is ours. But if we the  Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Ibibio, Ijaw, Efik, birom, Edo, etc youths and young  truly believe that it is impossible to work together for the greater and general good of all  then let us   as a  matter conscience tell ourselves the painful truth, shake hands and part ways.
We can no longer continue to pretend and allow ourselves as political football, and be held back by our olds whose senile conditions whether by design or by choice, continues to hold us the young back while our counterparts all the world over continue to innovate, invent, educate, write and define the future. Friends if I have my way I would want us to be one people one nation but it is impossible to enforce love and friendship between people hence we must decide in ourselves the type of future we aspire for. Folk indifference to national issue is no longer tenable. We must make the nest before this setting sun finally sleeps.  
Let’s take back this country and beautify it or let’s shake hands; until we do either of these two our individual and collective future will continue to be bleak and hopeless.

The Tukur Ruse

"PDP crisis: I’m going nowhere –Tukur" sun newspaper 12/2013

The Tukur Ruse
'Tukur is the problem' is but a ruse. The perceived debacle of born-to-rule mentality, the perceived dismantle of the Hausa/Fulanism hegemony is the problem.  The problem in PDP is the microcosm of the problem bedeviling Nigeria since inception. The problem of either they rule or there would be no ruler-ship; the problem of power slip; power slipping from the grip, from the mind-selves of the hegemonic Hausa/Fulanism whose current political ideology and means is that Amaechi a willing tool and south west a submissive and conquered zone must be used to wrestle back power at all cost and by any and all means necessary.

Governor Amaechi 32 years form today; not presidential Material

"Jonathan forced me out of PDP – Amaechi" sun newspaper 12/20/13


Governor Amaechi 32 years form today; not presidential Material

Not true Amaechi, your vice presidential, perhaps presidential ambition and political future ambition forced you out of PDP. You did a selfish math and got a selfish result. The result was your way, the highway or the Hausa/Fulani way. You selfishly and parochially want to hand back to the Hausa/Fulani the leadership of this country they ruined for 34 years at the expense of your political zone, the old Eastern zone and at the expense of the general good of decent Nigerians. You insidiously calculated that since a man from your zone have taken up PDP presidential slot for your zone another vice presidential or presidential slot for another man from your zone in your live time under PDP is untenable and only as real as a white elephant. Hence you started you insinuations, your demands for the plate-serve of the heart of the microscopic yellow ant from the presidency and from the PDP leadership.  But what you forget is that in the next 32 years, whether in APC, PDP or PDPAPC party no other person from your zone would be vice or presidential candidate because your zone has already taken its presidential slot under PDP. This is why even a dummy knows that APC will zone its presidential ticket to the North and then to the SE. Assuming APC wins it will be 32 years before either party would zone the presidential ticket to SS. And here is the real math in its simplest form; north 8 years, SE 8 years, North 8 years, SW 8 years.  After this 32 years  if you’re still alike Baba Chimp toady would be more cognitive than  you would be then, you would be demented,  unable to reason since reason is your unmaking at this your prime age. So Oga Amaechi, stop fooling yourself and wake up from your power drunken sleep. 

If the 53 year status quo of this country led by the Hausa/Fulani and Obasanjo for this years is the country of your dreams then hand back leadership to them. But I guarantee if ever you have conscience you will in due time regret your selfish and cowardly disposition.

But don’t be deceived Oga Amaechi, you’re not a saints you sure do have skeleton in you cardboard and your skeleton has shit in the butt.