A few brief thoughts on the recurring theme of Brother Buhari and the age factor

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

A few brief thoughts, quite independent of Professor Ayo Olukotun's words of wisdom on the matter ... Re- the recurring theme of Brother Buhari and the age factor - a factor by which the PDP would like to dis-qualify Brother Muhammadu Buhari@71 on the basis of a compare and contrast with a younger Brother Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who, God willing, by 14th February 2015 will still be only fifty-six years old.

A good place to begin this preamble on age and leadership would be with the Israel's greatest prophet ever, the Prophet Moses and his humility -”Now this man Moses was exceedingly humble, more so than any person on the face of the earth” and he it was who led the children of Israel out of Egypt at the age of eighty (80) after which he rambled on in the wilderness as prophet and leader of the children of Israel for another forty years and as the Torah records

“Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye had not dimmed, nor had he lost his [natural] freshness. And the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for thirty days, and the days of weeping over the mourning for Moses came to an end.”

Age of course is one of many factors – it's not as if in Nigeria, the older you are, the more corrupt you are – or the younger and more inexperienced you are you are, the less corrupt you have had time to be and therefore the more capable you may be of doing an excellent job as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. 

And when it comes to ladies, it's always a matter of “age before beauty.” Just now, talking about beauty, Ayi Kwei Armah's “The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born” saw the light of publication in 1968, by which time most of Africa's Presidential hopefuls were already alive and kicking, indeed , some of the beauty-filled ones are alive – not necessarily in politics, and doing well....

Exactly how strenuous is the most demanding job in the land, that of the Naiji presidency?        According to the African bush-fire telephone system Muhammadu Buhari has a clean bill of health, enough to enable him to do all the travelling that will be required of him if he bags the presidency this time.

In African cultures there's respect for elders. At least in Nigeria, just as in many other parts of Africa “the elders” have a special status – the good elders – and to my knowledge especially the good Yoruba elders, almost to a point of veneration. If you've ever offended a Yoruba elder and have had to apologise, then you probably know what I mean; you might have had to prostate full length belly down on the ground and to reach out to touch his toes as you would touch a Hindu Guru's paduka ...

Nigeria wants a quality president - not a mere Valentine Strasser – so we should be looking for other qualities – sterling qualities – incorruptible quality, apart from a mature age and relevant experience.

I see Muhammadu Buhari as an illustration of the quality of sabr/patience of endurance, perseverance in the face of adversity and in addition to all that equipped with the discipline of a professional soldier with a dedication to goal that's usually rewarded with success. His CV is impressive – he has been tested in the crucible of fire and not been found wanting.

Consider these his words:

   

”I am not a violent person and, other than my professional calling as a soldier, I have never associated with violence, I abhor violence and have never advocated it. I have always been a law abiding person who insists on due process and the rule of law in all my private and public affairs."

Honesty is a good policy....

We Sweden

[Segun Ogungbemi]

The political panorama in Nigeria requires a strong leadership if the country is to remain united and flourish. 

Between Jonathan and Buhari it seems the latter has an edge over the former regardless of age. 

Nigeria does not need a weak leader right now. Ronald Reagan was an old man when he defeated Jimmy Carter in the presidential race in the 80's and America was better for it. The economy got better and American foreign policy added values to the country. 

Let us leave age out of this race and consider substance. 

May the 'God' of Nigeria give us a leader that will take us out of the wood. 

Segun Ogungbemi Ph.D

Professor of Philosophy

Adekunle Ajasin University

Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State

Nigeria

Cellphone: 08033041371

                   08024670952

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[Salimonu Kadiri]

Age is nothing but number(s). Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was 95 years old in 1967 when he was demonstrating with British Youths against the American war in Vietnam. Jonathan has been said to have earned his Phd in zoology and our experience of his stewardship in the last five years has shown us that he is not fit to handle human beings but animals. Hear what he said at Christmas Service held at the Cathedral Church of the Advent Life Camp, Anglican Communion, Gwarinpa, Abuja, on 25 December 2012,"By human thinking, our administration is slow, I won't say we are slow, but we need to think through things properly if we are to make lasting impact. If we rush, we will make mistakes and sometimes it is more difficult to correct those mistakes." Two years past, Jonathan is still thinking through things properly, forgetting his statement at Onitsha, during his election campaign on 27 February 2011, when he said, "I do not make empty promises in my campaign because of whatever I promise to do, I had already carried out adequate study to make sure I can accomplish it in the next four years." Four years will end next May and Jonathan is yet to fulfil any of his election promises in 2011 and Emetulu says Nigerians should not care about his performance in office to vote for him.

The age of Buhari is even of greater advantage over Jonathan because what Buhari can visualise while sitting, Politically and Economically, Jonathan can never see it while standing, and not even if he should climb a ladder. History has offered glory to Jonathan but instead he has chosen odium.

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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:04:32 -0800
From: cornelius...@gmail.com
To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - A few brief thoughts on the recurring theme of Brother Buhari and the age factor

[ZALANGA SAMUEL]

With regard to Reagan, I am not sure whether based on pure and objective analysis his leadership of the United States can be said to have really made the country better in a categorical way. As one expert said, it was from his time that a certain culture in the United States started developing where even if leaders do nothing serious to solve problems, if the leaders can talk to Americans and make them feel good about themselves, then that is alright.  

Surely, there are certain things that Reagan did that can be emulated.  But there is danger in being a leader who looks at everything in Black and White. He contributed to the collapse of communism but I do not think he has paid good attention to the social conditions that led that kind of social movement. He just saw as evil, period. It is important that we do not just focus on an event but study the process that led to the event.  He was of course bi-partisan when he needed to pass something. But the state had to override his veto against a bill that declared sanctions against apartheid South Africa (see: Have you Heard From Johannesburg Documentary Series).

 In terms of influence, yes, we are still living in a "Regan World" since his legacy on neoliberalism, concern for the poor, and the role of government still dictate the basic parameters of public discourse in the United States.More seriously, neoliberalism has become a moral philosophy which makes it more culturally pervasive. It is not just an economic perspective to social reality.  That he had impact on the country and the world is true, but his legacy will continuously be debated. 

To tell the public that government is part of the problem and not part of the solution is too simplistic in my view. It is true that governments can fail, this is well-documented if that is what he is saying. But it is also true that markets too can fail and have failed. If the markets fail, as they have done, should we banish them? And markets cannot really function without strong and effective states / governments, even the World Bank recognize that in one of the world development reports. 

Moreover the balance between the role of government / state and the role of markets is not only a technical one but also a question of the social and cultural history of a country. Germans since the time of Bismarck have learned to be more tolerant of the role of the state / government compared to Americans who are always told to suspect their government owing to what some call "rugged individualism."

One of the failures of Nigerian leaders is that the country does not have any leaders that the people of the country in general look up to in national history. Every region seems to focus on someone. Culturally we see government as a sphere that we can enrich ourselves and not for public service as explained in  Professor Peter Ekeh's "Colonialism and the Publics."

Samuel

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - A few brief thoughts on the recurring theme of Brother Buhari and the age factor
From: segun...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:22:36 +0100
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[Anunoby, Ogugua]

Is fealty to Buhari so deep that he may now be compared with the Biblical Israelite giant Moses? What about comparing like with like? Moses if I remember correctly was chosen by the Israelite God to take His people out of slavery in Egypt. It may even be claimed that he was put on this earth to do just that. He practically did nothing else. Does anyone remember Moses’ story- birth, rescue from the Nile by a princess, Pharaoh’s love for him, and so on?  We do not know that Buhari is chosen by other himself. Moses had magical powers. We do not know that Buhari has any magical powers. All the evidence suggest that he does not. God spoke to Moses. We do not know that God speaks to Buhari. Moses lived and breathed his God and His people. Buhari lives and breathes himself and his ambition to be president after his misuse of an earlier opportunity- brutally lording it over Nigerians against their will as a military dictator.

Buhari’s problem need not be his age. Every politician’s chosen physicians will be expected to give their client a clean bill of health. A clean bill of health by the way is not a good reason for anyone to be president I might add. What is more important in my considered opinion, is an acute and sound mind, deep knowledge of public policy and statesmanship, and a will to do right by all fellow citizens all the time. There is abundant evidence that Buhari is implacable (unresolved disagreements with former political partners) and plays favorites- “Core-North” Muslims.  There is little evidence that he is reformed and can and will change his ways.

Buhari should answer to the many suspicions that he is plagued with. If he does sincerely, he will more likely have fewer critics and opponents. Nigeria today, is a lot more complex than it was in 1983 – 5 when Buhari had the country under his boots. It is not certain that he understands and respects this fact. His supporters are well advised to stop reminding Nigerians that Buhari has the discipline of a soldier. If he did he would have been loyal to the constitution he was sworn as a soldier to support. He would have been loyal to his commander-in-chief. He would not have exceptionally benefited from a coup against a constitutionally elected government. He would have known that it is the voters or the courts, not coup plotters, that are constitutionally competent to remove politicians from power. Buhari not only removed his Commander-in-chief from power, he detained him and many members of his elected government, without proven cause. He was mad at them.   

A distinction must always be made between constitutional arrangements and cultural/traditional arrangements. Nigeria is a constitutional arrangement of diversely heterogeneous ethnicities. Yoruba society is a cultural/traditional arrangement of loosely homogeneous ethnicities. The place of elders in Yoruba societies cannot therefore be appropriately transposed to Nigeria’s. Again like, must be compared with like. It is common knowledge too that many of today’s elders do not seem to have inherited the values and character of their ancestors and predecessors. Does anyone recall Bola Tinubu’s diatribe on Yoruba Obas?  The Elders’ concerns now, seems to be mostly to do with the material benefits of transactions and exchange. Fact and truth are endangered “species”.  Some talk at times about good elders. It is not clear that there are many good elders any more.

Buhari and his supporters should pay better and closer attention to Buhari’s critics. While they may not vote for him, they may cost him votes if and when he runs again for the office of president.

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[Ibukunolu A Babajide]

Buhari was not chosen!  The simple reason that he has support across the board is that he is the only one who had access to Nigeria's money and did not steal it.

 

The thieves who stole, and they are of all Nigerian ethnic backgrounds now demonise him.  Some use his ethnicity, others religion and others tell lies against him because he stands out to show them all off as thieves and common treasury looters.

 

That and that alone stands him in good stead.  He is not a Moses.  He is nothing but a humble and a honest man who despite great temptation was patriotic and unmoved.  Such conduct and character must be rewarded with high office, especially when clueless idiots who do not have any sense of direction are placed in high office simply to stem investigations into the massive looting that their predecessors have done.

 

Cheers.

 

IBK

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[Anunoby, Ogugua]

A politician’s supporters are quite free to claim, that the politician was not a treasury robber the last time they were in office. How are the supporters or anyone else sure that the politician has no regrets and would not steal-ancient and modern, the next time they are back in office?

Is it not the case that Nigeria’s political landscape is littered with public servants who either did not steal during their first “missionary journey” or did not steal enough, had regrets after they left political office, had another opportunity, and robbed the hell out of the public treasury?

The past is not always a good predictor of the future, especially in shifty sands of politics.

The case is continually made that Buhari was not corrupt in the past and will therefore will not be corrupt in the future. How anyone knows this for a fact I do not know. Is it not known who his political bedfellows are? Are they treasury robbers among them?

Why is there no serious discussion of better than Buhari’s ephemeral accomplishments like ‘war against indiscipline” (WAI) while he was in office?  Nigeria’s challenge has never been indiscipline as much as it has been her system. People work within a system and respond to its imperatives.  Take good care of the system and more things will take care of themselves.  Fair evaluation must take into account both acts of commission and omission, in my opinion.

A worthy politician’s selling point for high political office cannot only be that he is not corrupt. It must also be what they will do to create/add value to the commonwealth, and secure and improve the lives of all citizens. It is important to not steal public funds. It is equally important, perhaps more so, to gets necessary things done well.  

 

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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Wednesday, 18.20 pm...Stockholm, Sweden.

Lord Anunoby,

Much respect to you Sir! I'm impressed that you should think that I wouldn't know any better than to be comparing your leader Goodluck Jonathan to the prophet Moses - Israel's undisputed greatest prophet of all time - leading the children of Israel from slavery in Egypt, unto and through the wilderness for forty years.

Heaven forbid that I should make such a comparison! Or that I should compare Muhammadu Buhari to the prophet of Islam (s.a.w) who is rated by many, as the greatest person of all time.

As you rightly pointed out, it should be neither an exercise in comparative greatness (Goodluck Jonathan versus Muhammadu Buhari) nor comparative age either - the prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) became prophet of Islam when he was forty years of age and blessed the hereafter when he was sixty-three years old.

Paradoxically enough, Moshe Rabbeinu himself did not enter the Promised Land and here's exactly what happened - so we see how difficult it is to be even the greatest leader of God's chosen people! In this instance, that along the way in the wilderness, the infinitely patient and most humble Moses was so beset by problems and so tormented by his stiff-necked folk that it gets to the point where they are complaining of thirst and asking Moses if he had brought them all the way from slavery in Egypt only to kill them with thirst in the middle of nowhere?

The Almighty says to His prophet:

 

´”Take the staff and assemble the congregation, you and your brother Aaron, and speak to the rock in their presence so that it will give forth its water. You shall bring forth water for them from the rock and give the congregation and their livestock to drink”

And you know what happened after that, Moses the human being is a little furious and addresses his followers thus:

 

"Now listen, you rebels, can we draw water for you from this rock?" And then instead of “speaking to the rock” - he hits the rock with his staff twice ...

In Nigeria it's not any easier.

Amidst the lock-down in Abuja, your man the do-good Dr Goodluck Jonathan has now announced his candidacy. One would have thought (Stockholm syndrome) that if the rotation system had prevailed now that the North believes and believes most ardently that it is their turn, then a Northern PDP front-runner would have definitely split the Buhari APC vote; as things are now, inevitably, the wise Dr. Jonathan will be fielding a Northerner (of whatever age) as his running mate, failing which – if all is fair and not foul in the coming Nigerian presidential election, he may well perish

We have just been made to understand that he is furious!

 n the Abuja heat he may well perspire some more.

I suspect that either he will go on begging Uncle Sam for weapons with which as commander-in-chief to lead the crusade as he takes on the bone in his throat, Boko Haram & Allies as never before, or in friendship he will turn to Brother David Cameron (as in “David and Jonathan were great friends”) failing which we will see whether or not he will be talking to the rock in Jerusalem or turning to South Africa and China !

And now that it's a criminal offence to insult Nigeria's president it looks like the satirists are in for a good time! Is there a greater weapon? Heaven helps us all, in Nigeria and in all the jurisdictions in outer space...

Sincerely yours,

Cornelius

We Sweden

 

[Segun Ogungbemi]

A point of correction. Elijah was the greatest prophet in the OT and that is why Jesus was called second Elijah. 

Segun Ogungbemi Ph.D

Professor of Philosophy

Adekunle Ajasin University

Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State

Nigeria

Cellphone: 08033041371

                   08024670952

Buhari and his supporters should pay better and closer attention to Buhari’s criticders any more.

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Dear Sir,

By OT I suppose you mean The Tanakh / The Hebrew Bible - the one from which Jesus of the Galilee supposedly quoted from ?

Moses received the Torah at Mt. Sinai

According to Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot) :

”Moses received the Torah from Sinai and gave it over to Joshua. Joshua gave it over to the Elders, the Elders to the Prophets, and the Prophets gave it over to the Men of the Great Assembly. They [the Men of the Great Assembly] would always say these three things: Be cautious in judgement. Establish many pupils. And make a safety fence around the Torah.”

We are commanded to engross ourselves in the study of the Torah (i.e. the five books revealed to the Prophet Moses.) ”The study of the Torah is the paramount commandment. Without it, man cannot know God's will; with it, he can penetrate the wisdom of the Creator Himself.”

In the words of the Yigdal, as expounded by Maimonides in Ani Maamin

“He granted His flow of prophecy

to His treasured splendorous people

In Israel none like Moses arose again”

My Artscroll Siddur notes inform us that “Moses' prophecy is peerless; otherwise another “prophet” could conceivably challenge or amend it, thus challenging the authenticity of the Torah”

Here are Blessings over the study of The Torah

Here are The blessings before the reading of the haftarah

And here are the Siddur notes on “good prophets”:

“The theme of the Haftarah blessings is the integrity of the prophets and their teachings. Even when it is their mission to criticize and threaten, they are good to the Jewish people. Also, they are chosen because they are good people: learned, righteous, impressive etc. Our tradition does not accept prophets who are lacking in any of the attributes of Jewish greatness.”

By the way, under the one and only Almighty, I’m praying for President Goodluck Jonathan, for Muhammadu Buhari too, and for Nigeria. I understand that President Goodluck Jonathan probably didn't launch into some tearful oratory that would have made his listeners  weep about the latest carnage, just before declaring his intention to run for the presidency one more time,  maybe out of  a sense of fear that people would think that he was making emotional capital out of  Boko Harami carnage...

Sincerely Yours,

Cornelius

We Sweden

In African cultures there's respect for elders. At least in Nigeria, just as in many other parts of Africa “the elders” have a special status – the good elders – and to my knowledge especially the good Yoruba elders, almost to a point of veneration. If you've ever offended a Yoruba elder and have had to apologise, then you probably know what I mean; you might have had to prostate full length belly down on the ground and to reach out to touch his toes as you would touch a Hindu Guru's <a onmousedown="this.href='https://www.google.se/search?sourceid\75navclient\46aq\75hts\46oq\75\46hl\75en-GB\46ie\75UTF-8\46rlz\0751T4NDKB_enSE548SE548\46q\75

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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

PS. 

Sir,

As yours is a Christian perspective on Jesus of Nazareth about whom I know so little ( most of what I know about him I learned in Nigeria) so I guess that your view of John the Baptiser as an incarnation/ reincarnation of the Prophet Elijah must be consistent with Christian doctrine and theology. A great pity that his head was served on a platter to Salome.

The prophet Elijah is usually associated with Merkabah mysticism and ostensibly, he apparently did not “return” in the same way that he ascended to heaven in a chariot of fire, but in fact took birth in the womb of his mother Elisabeth, just as people expect that Jesus will return/ descend from the sky accompanied by great clouds, in exactly the way that he ascended...

Ezra is very highly venerated. He saved Judaism at a very critical time ... the Rev. Travers Herford 's “The Pharisees” treats him and the ancestors of today's orthodox rabbis with a more accurate and sympathetic understanding...

My purpose in writing this is merely to add that by “the Torah” is meant both the written and the Oral Law which the Almighty taught Moses during his forty days up in the mountain – and which Moses taught his disciples. Much of this is to be found in the Talmud which a Jew is supposed to master. And thus arrive at an understanding of what the Almighty taught his prophet.

After pushing the send button I'll be returning to this about the gate of reincarnations

May the Almighty protect us from the evil inclination...

Sincerely said,

...

[Salimonu Kadiri]

If the choice of Nigeria's ruler from 2015 onwards is between a politician that was in office 29 years ago without stealing public funds and another politician who ascended office five years ago when state robbery was an undergraduate but has now progressed to become a professor, I will certainly choose the former. It is abnormal to assume that the politician who did not steal 29 years ago when he was in power would probably steal if given chance to rule. If we are to accept the logic of Ogugua Anunoby about the possible change of character of Buhari that may lead to his treasury looting if he is given the chance to rule again, we can equally assume that since Jonathan has occupied himself with treasury looting in the past five years, he would have no reason to preside over a regime of kleptocrats if given four more years to rule from 2015. While it cannot be ruled out that there are rogues in the APC, a strong and non corrupt leader like Buhari will be able to prevent such rogues from operating.

Anunoby seems to belittle the importance of *War Against Indiscipline* in shaping the future of Nigeria because he is yet to understand that the underdevelopment of Nigeria, treasury looting, indecorum political instability and insecurity are all concomitant of and derivable from economic indiscipline. When Buhari was in office in 1984, a Nigerian naira exchanged at $2.2 (US dollars) and when Jonathan took over in 2010, a US dollar exchanged for N140 and now after five years in power the exchange rate is one-hundred and seventy naira for a US dollar. Averagely, Nigerian naira has been depreciating at N6 per annum since Jonathan became President. Let me for the sake of clarity take one of his many economic indisciplines perpetrated against Nigeria. Towards the end of 2011 Jonathan touted, his Harvard and World Bank financial Guru, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's, doctrine to remove fuel subsidy from January 2012. Thenceforth, Nigerians were to pay N147 instead of N65. That gave rise to national protests and subsequent enquiries of both the Legislature and the Executive. The enquiries revealed that the number of fuel importers rose from 19 in 2010 to 140 in 2011 and just in 2011 the 140 fuel importers were paid for importation of 60 million litres fuel per day whereas maximum consumption and storage facilities in the country per day was 35 million litres. The reports showed that Jonathan's government spent 2. 587 trillion naira ($16.46 billion) on fuel subsidy in 2011, which was 900% more than the 245 billion naira budgeted for 2011. The overspent on fuel subsidy, without supplementary budget approval by the National Assembly Act, was more than half of the total 2011 federal budget and therefore contravened section 80 (2) and (3) of the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria. In saner parts of the world, President Jonathan and his government would have resigned or sent out of office. As it turned out one of Jonathan's minister took part in defrauding Nigerians of a total sum of N2. 7 billion fuel subsidy. Chief Emeka Wogu, Minister of Labour and Productivity, was also the owner of a Company called Pinnacle Contractors Ltd. Pinnacle Contractors Ltd was not registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) until Friday, November 30, 2012, where the shareholders in the Company were listed as Chief Emeka Wogu - 750,000 shares, Mrs Oyibabefe Wogu - 150,000 shares, and Mr Enyinnaya Wogu - 100,000 shares. But at two different occasions in 2011 the owners of Pinnacle Contractors Limited collected the sum of N1.2 billion and N1.5 billion as fuel subsidy, even though the company did not fulfil the condition to import or supply fuel because it was not registered with the CAC. Moreover, the vessels which Pinnacle Contractors Ltd claimed had delivered fuel in Nigeria did not exist anywhere in the world and much less anchoring in any of Nigeria's sea port. In disregard of this report, Jonathan retained Emeka Wogu as Minister of Labour and Productivity until the end of October 2014 when the latter resigned to pursue his Governorship aspiration, in Abia State, for next year election. In spite of the fact that the supposed fuel subsidy was a conduit pipe through which national resources was drained by the ruling PDP under the leadership of Jonathan the President still decided to increase pump price on fuel to N97 from N65. The difference between the old and new pump price, Jonathan promised, would be invested in what he called, Subsidy Reinvestment Empowerment Program (SURE-P) that would provide work for the youths among others. But the employed SURE-P youths are internet miscreants who are paid to descend on critiques of Jonathan's administration. SURE-P has become SURE- POVERTY!! Nigeria has four oil refineries that are not refining any crude oil under Jonathan, whereas 29 years ago all the Nigerian oil refineries were in full production under Buhari, a well disciplined leader characteristically, politically and economically.

Ogugua Anunoby posited, "It is important not to steal funds. It is equally important, perhaps more so, to get necessary things done well." The essence of what Ogugua Anunoby is saying is best illustrated by the remark, in 1990, of the late trade union leader, Michael Imoudu, when he said, "Every year, government de earmark money for development projects, every year money de finish and a no eyesee development projects. Them say Nigeria be giant of Africa but Nigeria wey a de see na dwarf goat of Africa." Simplified, if funds budgeted for projects in Nigeria are not stolen, necessary developmental projects would be well done for the benefit of all.

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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:30:49 -0600
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - A few brief thoughts on the recurring theme of Brother Buhari and the age factor