The Claim of Atiku Endorsement By The Igbo Is Fraudulent--SKC Ogbonnia

[SKC Ogbonnia for President]

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The Claim of Atiku Endorsement By The Igbo Is Fraudulent

By SKC Ogbonnia

November 15, 2018

 

The Igbo nation worldwide should disregard a purported endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, by the South-East PDP elements grandstanding as Igbo leaders. Their action is a grand deceit, fraudulent, and myopic.

 

First of all, the individuals who gathered at Enugu with the theme “Ndigbo 2019 and Beyond”, including some notable leaders of Ohaneze Ndigbo, are card-carrying members of the PDP drawn solely the South-East political zone. The group neither represents the Igbo nation nor even the Ohaneze Ndigbo, which comprises the Igbo speaking people of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Delta, Enugu, Imo, and Rivers States. Therefore, any communique from the Enugu PDP summit claiming to represent the entire Igbo nation is fraudulent.

 

Even if the Igbo, as a nation, were to endorse a presidential candidate of a party, it must not be Atiku Abubakar under the platform of the PDP. The policies of then-ruling party were skewed against Igboland. Even thriving Igbo-owned businesses, for example, Ibeto Cement and Savannah Bank, were grounded without just cause. It can be said that the Igbo occupied some of the most powerful positions in the PDP regimes, but there was no credible project on the ground worthy of citation in the Igbo speaking areas to justify the prominent presence besides the illegally acquired individual properties of the political appointees themselves. Even where projects were sited and funded, they were either abandoned or the funds looted by the PDP elements in concert with contractors.

 

The gross neglect of Igboland during the 16-year reign of the PDP heightened the renewed agitation of Republic of Biafra which has taken a toll in the East. Since assuming power, President Muhammadu Buhari has resolved to make the desired change through massive infrastructural development in the region. Today, real work is ongoing in all major federal roads, including Enugu-PH, Enugu-Onitisha, Lagos-Onitsha highways; 2^nd River Niger, and PH International Airport, to mention a few.

 

Mr. Atiku  Abubakar was quoted to have decried the poor condition of Akanu Ibiam International Airport upon arriving Enugu to receive the pre-planned fake endorsement. But who is he blaming: The current administration or his PDP hosts who looted the funds earmarked for the Enugu airport in the last PDP administration? The current administration that provided additional funds to the airport in the 2018 budget or the PDP-led Senate that connived to cut the funds to make provision for their individual welfare?

 

The Igbo should not allow Atiku to deceive them with the issue of restructuring. Ultimately, restructuring, whatever the nature, is progressive. Yet, the current situation where the promise of restructuring is coming from Atiku and the PDP begs the following questions:

 

How come Mr. Abubakar and PDP could not implement the restructuring throughout the 16 years they were in power? How come Atiku could not influence either his senator or representative to introduce a bill for restructuring at the National Assembly the two and half years he was in APC? How come the debate for the restructuring will not begin now, including the specific details of Atiku’s plan, especially where PDP currently controls the entire leadership of the legislature? More interestingly, how come these same Igbo PDP leaders who gathered at Enugu were not passionate about restructuring during the Jonathan regime where two Igbo PDP legislators (Ike Ekweremadu and Emeka Ihedioha) were palm-handed N10 billion—when billion was billion—to amend the Constitution towards restructuring, including the additional states and local governments the Igbo have been demanding? 

 

The sum answer is that the Igbo are not fools and must not allow themselves to be perpetually used and abused by the Peoples’ Democratic Party of Nigeria.

 

Signed:

 

Dr. SKC Ogbonnia/

[SKC Ogbonnia for President]

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2019 Debate: Nigeria Does Not Know Its Problem

By SKC Ogbonnia

December 20, 2018

 

2019 Debate: Nigeria Does Not Know Its Problem

 

The campaign for the 2019 election has finally taken a centre stage with the occasion of the vice-presidential debate, but the outcome leaves much to be desired. Instead of addressing the real problems and the practical solutions, the debate turned out an extraordinary display of tawdry campaign tactics and innuendos. The candidates appeared woefully bereft of new ideas, easily resorting to a mundane mélange of banal excuses and cliché promises, false claims and fancy analysis, imaginary problems and, of course, pointless solutions.

 

The obvious takeaway is that Nigeria still does not know its problem. It is a common knowledge that the country’s problem is not the lack of natural or human resources. The problem is also not the lack of money or even corruption as Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo of All Progressive Congress (APC) would want Nigerians to believe during the vice-presidential debate. Contrary to the counter assertion of Peter Obi, the Vice-Presidential candidate of main opposition party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP); the problem is definitely not the lack of the enabling policies.  

 

Rather, the Nigeria’s main problem is squarely the lack of efficient implementation of policies. Of course, several contingents of eminent scholars have pondered on the Nigerian problems and converged on numerous occasions in the form of constitutional, economic, and political conferences, leading to profound policies capable of uplifting the country to greatness. Today, there is an abundance of progressive policies stacked in every ministry, agency or commission. Unfortunately, however, the policies are either totally abandoned, poorly implemented or fully funded—only to be looted by the politicians in cahoot with their cohorts in the private sector.

 

It goes without saying that most of the issues commonly echoed as Nigerian problems, such as corruption, epileptic electric supply, falling education standards, poor healthcare, bad roads, fuel subsidy, etc. are mere symptoms of the true problems. Corruption, for instance, is the most recurring decimal of Nigerian leadership woes. Successive governments have followed by formulating many aggressive policies that can obliterate corruption, but any manner of seriousness typically ends at the adoption stage. For example, it is well studied that illegal campaign money is the root cause of corruption in Nigeria; yet, none of the agencies entrusted with enforcement of the electoral laws has bothered to implement the critical anti-corruption policies embedded in both the Constitution and the Electoral Act.

 

The 2019 election is not shaping to be any different from the past in terms of fighting corruption by curtailing illegal campaign money. The signs are manifest in Nigeria’s off-year elections which typically serve as a preview of the general elections. Despite ample evidence of massive bribery and tainted money in the Anambra, Ekiti, and Osun governorship elections from 2017 to 2018, there are literally no consequences for flouting the laws. The two major presidential candidates in 2019 elections, President Muhammadu Buhari of APC and Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the PDP have only made matters worse. The duo began the electoral season by allowing sham support groups to purchase their nomination forms worth millions of naira—all in clear violation of the electoral laws. Atiku did not stop there. The PDP presidential candidate secured his party’s nomination by flooding the convention venue with a heavy rain of tainted dollars. Now, with less than 60 days to the presidential elections, there is a deafening silence on how these two major candidates have been funding their campaigns. So, how can Nigeria be taken serious on the war against corruption if the most potent anti-corruption policy is totally ignored?

 

This question prompts me to a jejune exchange between Yemi Osinbajo and Peter Obi during the vice-presidential debate where they were attempting to illustrate the pattern of the war against corruption with a tale of criminals and commodity shop. While it made a good entertainment value to exert energy debating whether it is better to allow criminals to empty a shop inventory or locking shop and chasing the criminals; commonsense dictates that it is better to annihilate the criminals at their well-known den so that they do not have the opportunity of reaching the store in the first place. An honest implementation of Nigeria’s campaign finance laws is like smashing corruption at its den.

 

Besides corruption and campaign finance, there is a slew of sound policies in other areas that would have helped to elevate Nigeria to an enviable pedestal, if such policies were properly implemented.  For instance, Nigeria has from time immemorial recognized that steel development is indispensable for national industrialization and thence devised a comprehensive steel policy, which dated back to 1971 under Yakubu Gowon’s military regime. It was popularized as Ajaokuta Steel Mill under Shagari democratic government and has remained hyped through the current Buhari democratic administration. The Operation Feed the Nation and Green Revolution, the agricultural policies of Obasanjo’s military regime (1976-1979) and Shagari’s Green Revolution (1979-1983) were master plans that could have fed the entire Africa. Similarly, the Power Roadmap of Jonathan’s regime is a dynamic policy capable of meeting our electricity needs. Further, as Vice-President Osinbajo noted in the debate, the Fuel Subsidy policy has good merits and similar to other kinds of subsidies obtainable in both developing and developed economies. Most of the Nigerian infrastructure are byproduct of good policies, designed with international standards, including ageless money spinners, such as Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Lagos-Benin Expressway, 2^nd Niger Bridge, Mambilla Power Plant, etc. It is not surprising, therefore, that despite the billions of dollars sunk into the various projects at different times, the outcome has been nothing but a mystery.

 

Nigeria’s leadership dilemma appears insoluble because the problem is being approached from the periphery. Instead of attacking the main problem, successive governments have focused on the mere symptoms. It is like attempting to cure brain tumor with a headache pill. Even if the World Bank empties its vault in Nigeria, it amounts to naught, if the well-studied policies formulated to utilize such funds to solve the country’s problems are poorly implemented or totally abandoned. Therefore, any serious debate on 2019 election ought to emphasize on the elusive “how”—how to provoke the efficient implementation of policies. Anything less is the same old song—busy doing something very close to nothing.

 

*SKC Ogbonnia, a former 2019 APC Presidential Aspirant, is the author of the Effective Leadership Formula*

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Of Buhari, Jubril al-Sudani, And The Atiku N1.032 Trillion Allegations

By SKC Ogbonnia

January 9, 2018

 

Happy New Year, Fellow Nigerians!   

 

Electoral seasons are replete with dramatic revelations, allegations, and rumours. Such news appears more novel, attracts more attention and thus spreads faster and wider. For the Nigeria’s 2019 elections, none seems to have trended more than the rumour that the current occupant of Aso Rock is one Jubril Aminu al-Sudani from Sudan, a body double of the real Nigerian president, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who allegedly died sometime in 2017 and secretly buried in Saudi Arabia. But the Jubril rumour is shaping to be a child’s play compared to the audacious allegation that the real Buhari diverted “N1.032 trillion” meant for arms and shared among his relatives. The impact of these types of charges depends on several contingencies, but politicians who ignore them do so at their own peril.

 

The Jubril al-Sudani bunkum, for example, was able to gain global currency due to the actions or inactions of Buhari’s presidency. The most contentious question that greeted my recent visit to the United States of America, after suspending my presidential campaign, centered on the Jubril tale. My take has been simple: The rumour is trumpish—foolish and fiendish. I would add that Nigeria boasts of a bold cocktail of characters who would damn the consequences and alert the world on such a matter of national significance. To think of it, President Buhari has a herd of powerful political adversaries within his cabinet, his party; and the opposition ranks, including Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogora, the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively, who meet with the president regularly, and many others capable of discerning the truth from error. Besides, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s glaring sense of humbleness must not be mistaken for cluelessness or cowardice. An unforced vacuum at Aso Rock would have been a Christmas in June for Osinbajo who, of recent, openly implied a dream for the commander-in-chief job, come 2023.

 

Unfortunately, however, despite the common logic above, many still harbour the thought that the occupant of Nigeria’s seat of power is a mere body double of Buhari. These include many elites at home and abroad. The fact that a legendary pastor like David Oyedepo could use his megaphone pulpit to echo the idle talk is profoundly instructive. Needless to mention that Buhari himself was confronted with it in faraway Poland. Even more, few hours before publishing this piece, I received a call from an influential politician from my area, who is set to join APC, probing: “My brother, this thing we are hearing; tell me the truth, is Buhari dead or alive?” But don’t blame them at all. As the saying goes, every rumour has a basis in fact—meaning, no smoke without fire. The case of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua is still fresh in the memory. The point is that the Buhari presidency gave rise to the Jubril rumour. The primitive ploy to shroud his sickness in secrecy paved way to all manners of conspiracy theories which are bound to trail his name to the election booths.  

 

The opposition is doubling with more daunting allegations. The most mind-blowing is that President Buhari plans to fund his reelection through N1.032 trillion diverted from arms money to his relatives and hoarded into Key Stone Bank, Etisalat Nigeria, and Pakistani Islamic Bank. To better situate the magnitude, this claim was made by no other than Atiku Abubakar, a former vice-president and the current presidential candidate of the major opposition party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). And the amount of money being bandied has no historical antecedent. It is an equivalent of 1/8th of the Nigeria’s 2019 budget and, of course, dwarfs the $2bn arms fraud of Dasukigate associated with 2015 polls. Even as the whole story may seem somehow, the Buhari campaign communication team is at it again, peddling pedestrian responses that make the opposition look like a genius.

 

Be that as it may, Nigerians have grown tired of watching their politicians spewing biased rhetoric, and parading fallacy as facts. Yet, unlike the Jubril a-Sudani tale, the N1.032 trillion corruption charge against Buhari is a win-win. It borders on the apparent opacity of campaign finance in Nigeria. This ought to provoke a serious debate—an opportunity for the electorate to know who is fooling who on the fight against corruption between Muhammadu Buhari of All Progressive Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP).

 

On the APC side, it must be reminded that President Buhari’s strong suit remains the myth of his legendary anticorruption pedigree. But the opposition is fighting back, now casting Buhari as nothing but a corrupt ombudsman, determined to use illegal money to fund his re-election. They amplify the claim by deploying a barrage of corruption charges against the president, including the fire and its smoke. They point to the oddity that the ruling party has become a safe haven for a corrupt club of decampees from the opposition. The most alarming, and rightly so, is the case of Godswill Akpabio, who stands indicted by Buhari’s government for looting N108 billions of public money but is today a coordinator of the same Buhari’s presidential campaign. But the billow of the smoke so far is the N1.032 trillion bomshell currently spreading like wildfire with no end in sight. Unlike the Jubril saga, President Buhari should not attempt to dismiss the N1.032 trillion corruption charge with a mere wave of a hand. The terse denial credited to both Key Stone Bank and Etisalat through one investor group is a jive talk. It is incumbent upon the president, therefore, to demonstrate to Nigerians, without further delay, that there is neither smoke nor fire. It calls for his team to employ a combination of the relevant authorities and bonafide independent body—to set the record straight. Failure to do so only goes to further rubbish his storied integrity.

 

On the PDP side of the debate, a major obstacle standing between Atiku Abubakar and the Nigerian presidency is the perception that the man is virally corrupt. But Abubakar is attempting to prove that, contrary to the storyline in the annals, he does not live in a glass house and thus can throw stones. On party level, the PDP has a level of basis in fact to charge that the “Buhari Presidential Campaign Council is a looters list and a catalogue of ‘who is who’ in corruption”, but Atiku should not forget to explain to Nigerians why he continues to harbour in his own campaign the likes of Ayo Fayose and his national party chairman, Uche Secondus, who also have cases with the anticorruption agency. On personal level, Mr. Abubakar must produce counter and compelling evidence to the following: the open confessions of his former boss and current promoter, former President Olusegun Obasanjo who swore—before God and man—that Atiku is the most corrupt Nigerian alive; the infamous Siemens bribery scandal as lodged by the government of the United States; and, more centrally, how he suddenly became stupendously wealthy upon retirement from the Nigerian Customs, supported by yearly income tax returns. Most relatively, Mr. Abubakar must not renege on his open promise to “spare no thoughts in furnishing the public with details”—I mean factual details of the Buhari’s corrupt activities, especially with respect to the N1.032 trillion charge. The daily dose of hearsays is wearing thin.  Anything less than an authentic evidence is an automatic roundabout to the lesser evil principle. But Atiku knows not to go there. Buhari will easily be seen as the lesser evil, at least, for what remains in the archives of his spartan anti-corruption profile.

 

Wild allegations and sophistic counter allegations have become the order of the day because the politicians embrace the maxim that a repeated lie, after a while, begins to wear the toga of the truth. But Nigerians deserve the hard truth. The hard truth is that corruption is once again trending as the most dominant issue in the current presidential race, and illegal campaign money is the root cause of corruption in Nigeria. It is also true that the APC government deserves credit for sanitizing the system to the extent that tainted money does not appear to be flowing like in past elections, but there is much more to be done to ensure a semblance of transparency in campaign finance. As a change president, Muhammadu Buhari should lead by example. He should abide, at base, by the section of the Electoral Act that focuses on campaign money; and then influence the relevant authorities to compel the opposition to follow suit. To paraphrase Einstein, positive change does not endure by making the same old mistakes over and over again.

 

SKC Ogbonnia+

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[SKC Ogbonnia for President]

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Corruption: How Buhari Is Becoming A Liability To APC

By SKC Ogbonnia

January 16, 2018

 

President Muhammadu Buhari’s style on the war against corruption is doing more harm than good to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The beginning of this new year has already seen the APC being dazed with an outrage, and understandably so, because its Presidential Campaign Council for the 2019 General Elections features high-profile politicians facing a myriad of serious corruption charges. Following the folly was a worldwide fury at Buhari’s blatant attempt to prosecute, without due process, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, on lesser allegations bordering on corruption. So, what does the president think he is doing with this litany of unforced errors or, rather, an unbecoming pattern of partiality?  In case Buhari does not know it, which appears to be the case; he is ‘going to the well too often’—steadily exposing his storied integrity to the dustbin of history.

 

Recall that the worldwide goodwill that greeted Buhari’s victory in 2015 was uniquely quaint. The goodwill, remember, was not because of his intellectual capacity. It was neither because of his economic vision nor democratic credentials. Instead, it was due to his no-nonsense track record against corruption. Upon assumption of office, Buhari did not relent, never ending any brief without vowing to eradicate corruption. He followed by creating awareness, blocking streams of leakages, probing individuals alleged to have looted public funds, and flashing fearsome signals that suggest a true determination to cleanse the Augean stables in the world’s largest black nation.

 

Buhari’s first major strike was to detain, without bail, a former security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, for allegedly looting over $2bn meant for arms during the previous administration. The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, would later captivate the nation by declaring that the regime has secured over 703 convictions. In fact, the agency made history in 2018 by convicting and jailing two high-profile politicians, Jolly Nyame, former governor of Taraba; and Joshua Dariye, a serving Senator and a former governor of Plateau to long prison terms. This is very significant. Besides the lone case of Olabode George, no prominent politician has served a jail sentence in the Nigerian soil from 2007 until Muhammadu Buhari returned to power.

 

The EFCC further claimed to have recovered over “N794 billion; $261 million; £1,115, 930.47; € 8,168,871.13; CFA 86,500”, hundreds of properties and other assets with specific mention of St. Solomon Health Care Centre, located at No. 24, Adeniyi Jones Street, Ikeja, Lagos. Any deep inquiry on the figures above ought to reveal a case in the EFCC website where it asserted that “N47.2 Billion and $487.5 Million in cash and properties have so far been traced to the former Minister of Petroleum Resources in the Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke”  The website noted in particular “a $37.5m (N11.75bn) (Eleven Billion, Seven Hundred and Fifty Million Naira) property on Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos” and much more allegedly belonging to the same Diezani Alison-Madueke.  

 

Not done, President Buhari appeared to demonstrate that no one is above the law by going after the leadership of the Legislature, Senate President Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, for sundry corruption allegations, particularly forgery and failure to declare their assets. The snapshot of the President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, being docked at the Code of Conduct Tribunal shortly after Buhari took office was a welcome news and made headlines around the globe.  

 

This impressive evidence on the war against corruption, which I am known to have roundly extolled, would have been enough to vault the APC to an easy victory in the 2019 elections. But Buhari’s modus operandi, which is widely believed to thrive only in injustice and stark opacity, has become a poisoned chalice. In other words, President Muhammadu Buhari is inadvertently becoming a liability to the APC on the war against corruption. The context, of course, is clear as crystal.

 

First, President Buhari has inexcusably refused to reveal the true identities of all the prominent Nigerians who returned corrupt proceeds and the specific amount of money or properties so recovered or seized besides the quotidian instance of Diezani Madueke. Second, the fight against corruption has been selective as evidenced by the repugnant opacity with the case of former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, accused of looting public projects being executed by the same administration or that of Kemi Adeosun, his former Minister of Finance busted for fake credentials ; Buhari’s glowing praise, instead of condemnation, of his close ally and Kano State governor, Umar Ganduje, who was caught on multiple video tapes receiving bribes from a contractor, among many others. Fourth, the president has remained indifferent to many cases of underhand practices during the APC primaries, including his shameless acceptance of a N45 million nomination form purchased by a sham support group which only goes to negate the section of the electoral law designed to checkmate tainted money in Nigerian elections;  and a string of graft allegations hanging around the neck of the National Chairman of the party, Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole. Fifth, the pace and content of Buhari’s second term bid is being dictated by a team featuring a bevy of notorious politicians facing serious corruption charges. The most dumbfounding is the sheer affrontery with Godswill Akpabio who was indicted for looting over N100 billions of public money while in the opposition camp but upon switching to the ruling party emerged an affectionate poster boy for Buhari’s presidential campaign.

 

The picture Muhammadu Buhari is painting is nothing but that of a man aiding, abetting, and celebrating corruption. Of course, his handlers argue otherwise, but witlessly so. For instance, their common pushback is that presumption of innocence is a legal right of the accused in the Nigerian criminal law, which is true. But that is errant nonsense in this regard. Common sense dictates that any serious charge preferred by the state against the citizen ought to have basis in fact. Moreover, Nigerians are appalled that the principle of presumption of innocence is commonly applied to the allies of the Buhari administration while similar reprieve is never considered for his political foes, for example, the developing case of Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, among many others. Very instructively, if the principle of presumption of innocence is to be generalized, some of us in the ruling party might as well apologize to the presidential nominee of the major opposition party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, who has continued to suffer emblematic stereotype as a virally corrupt figure based on mere allegations. Even worse, it is preposterous that the EFCC continues to inundate the name of Diezani Alison Madueke as a corrupt dame based on mere allegations while at the same time stoking a defiant audacity to shield the identities of other prominent politicians who are already found guilty of corruption or have returned their loot. One also wonders the rationale behind the specific reference to St. Solomon Health Care Centre without disclosing similar properties confiscated by the agency.

 

The objective fact is that Buhari’s pattern of partiality, which is said to be a handiwork of a prostrate cabal, has become grotesque and thus indefensible. This explains why, despite what his harshest critics would agree is a measurable success on the war against corruption, the latest Transparency International report within the same period rated Buhari’s antigraft record as worse than the inglorious effort during the regime of Goodluck Jonathan. Today, even with 2019 general elections on the line, it is becoming increasingly impolitic for the All Progressive Congress (APC) to flaunt Buhari’s integrity as a trump card.

 

An old saying goes that it is better late than never. Nigerians elected Muhammadu Buhari to be transparent and courageous to demonstrate serious consequences for corrupt activities without minding whose ox is gored. He can still rekindle the hope by correcting the apparent flaws in his war against corruption—no matter how close to the 2019 elections. After all, if Muhammadu Buhari can jump at any opportunity of doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, for instance, the bizarre plot to remove the Chief Justice of the Federal Republic without due process or an unabashed rash of one-sided appointments at this critical point in the history, nothing stops him therefore from making the needful amends on the war against corruption, regardless.  

 

SKC Ogbonnia, a former 2019 APC presidential aspirant, is the author of the Effective Leadership Formula*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[femi Olajide]

Mostly correct. I think APC has a death wish. Or some rogue elements are bent on embarrassing the government.

How can Osibanjo claim that the presidency only heard about the arraignment of the head of the third arm of government, the CJN, on the Saturday before the scheduled Monday hearing? The CCB being a bureau under the presidency should have cleared it with the presidency first. So, who exactly is runnning the presidency?

PMB is not looking like a capable hand and unfortunately, the alternative is worse. I pity Nigeria.

Regards,

Femi Olajide.

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Corruption: How Buhari Is Becoming A Liability To APC

By SKC Ogbonnia

January 16, 2018

 

President Muhammadu Buhari’s style on the war against corruption is doing more harm than good to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The beginning of this new year has already seen the APC being dazed with an outrage, and understandably so, because its Presidential Campaign Council for the 2019 General Elections features high-profile politicians facing a myriad of serious corruption charges. Following the folly was a worldwide fury at Buhari’s blatant attempt to prosecute, without due process, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, on lesser allegations bordering on corruption. So, what does the president think he is doing with this litany of unforced errors or, rather, an unbecoming pattern of partiality?  In case Buhari does not know it, which appears to be the case; he is ‘going to the well too often’—steadily exposing his storied integrity to the dustbin of history.

 

Recall that the worldwide goodwill that greeted Buhari’s victory in 2015 was uniquely quaint. The goodwill, remember, was not because of his intellectual capacity. It was neither because of his economic vision nor democratic credentials. Instead, it was due to his no-nonsense track record against corruption. Upon assumption of office, Buhari did not relent, never ending any brief without vowing to eradicate corruption. He followed by creating awareness, blocking streams of leakages, probing individuals alleged to have looted public funds, and flashing fearsome signals that suggest a true determination to cleanse the Augean stables in the world’s largest black nation.

 

Buhari’s first major strike was to detain, without bail, a former security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, for allegedly looting over $2bn meant for arms during the previous administration. The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, would later captivate the nation by declaring that the regime has secured over 703 convictions. In fact, the agency made history in 2018 by convicting and jailing two high-profile politicians, Jolly Nyame, former governor of Taraba; and Joshua Dariye, a serving Senator and a former governor of Plateau to long prison terms. This is very significant. Besides the lone case of Olabode George, no prominent politician has served a jail sentence in the Nigerian soil from 2007 until Muhammadu Buhari returned to power.

 

The EFCC further claimed to have recovered over “N794 billion; $261 million; £1,115, 930.47; € 8,168,871.13; CFA 86,500”, hundreds of properties and other assets with specific mention of St. Solomon Health Care Centre, located at No. 24, Adeniyi Jones Street, Ikeja, Lagos. Any deep inquiry on the figures above ought to reveal a case in the EFCC website where it asserted that “N47.2 Billion and $487.5 Million in cash and properties have so far been traced to the former Minister of Petroleum Resources in the Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke”  The website noted in particular “a $37.5m (N11.75bn) (Eleven Billion, Seven Hundred and Fifty Million Naira) property on Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos” and much more allegedly belonging to the same Diezani Alison-Madueke.  

 

Not done, President Buhari appeared to demonstrate that no one is above the law by going after the leadership of the Legislature, Senate President Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, for sundry corruption allegations, particularly forgery and failure to declare their assets. The snapshot of the President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, being docked at the Code of Conduct Tribunal shortly after Buhari took office was a welcome news and made headlines around the globe.  

 

This impressive evidence on the war against corruption, which I am known to have roundly extolled, would have been enough to vault the APC to an easy victory in the 2019 elections. But Buhari’s modus operandi, which is widely believed to thrive only in injustice and stark opacity, has become a poisoned chalice. In other words, President Muhammadu Buhari is inadvertently becoming a liability to the APC on the war against corruption.. The context, of course, is clear as crystal.

 

First, President Buhari has inexcusably refused to reveal the true identities of all the prominent Nigerians who returned corrupt proceeds and the specific amount of money or properties so recovered or seized besides the quotidian instance of Diezani Madueke. Second, the fight against corruption has been selective as evidenced by the repugnant opacity with the case of former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, accused of looting public projects being executed by the same administration or that of Kemi Adeosun, his former Minister of Finance busted for fake credentials ; Buhari’s glowing praise, instead of condemnation, of his close ally and Kano State governor, Umar Ganduje, who was caught on multiple video tapes receiving bribes from a contractor, among many others. Fourth, the president has remained indifferent to many cases of underhand practices during the APC primaries, including his shameless acceptance of a N45 million nomination form purchased by a sham support group which only goes to negate the section of the electoral law designed to checkmate tainted money in Nigerian elections;  and a string of graft allegations hanging around the neck of the National Chairman of the party, Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole. Fifth, the pace and content of Buhari’s second term bid is being dictated by a team featuring a bevy of notorious politicians facing serious corruption charges. The most dumbfounding is the sheer affrontery with Godswill Akpabio who was indicted for looting over N100 billions of public money while in the opposition camp but upon switching to the ruling party emerged an affectionate poster boy for Buhari’s presidential campaign.

 

The picture Muhammadu Buhari is painting is nothing but that of a man aiding, abetting, and celebrating corruption. Of course, his handlers argue otherwise, but witlessly so. For instance, their common pushback is that presumption of innocence is a legal right of the accused in the Nigerian criminal law, which is true. But that is errant nonsense in this regard. Common sense dictates that any serious charge preferred by the state against the citizen ought to have basis in fact. Moreover, Nigerians are appalled that the principle of presumption of innocence is commonly applied to the allies of the Buhari administration while similar reprieve is never considered for his political foes, for example, the developing case of Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, among many others. Very instructively, if the principle of presumption of innocence is to be generalized, some of us in the ruling party might as well apologize to the presidential nominee of the major opposition party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, who has continued to suffer emblematic stereotype as a virally corrupt figure based on mere allegations. Even worse, it is preposterous that the EFCC continues to inundate the name of Diezani Alison Madueke as a corrupt dame based on mere allegations while at the same time stoking a defiant audacity to shield the identities of other prominent politicians who are already found guilty of corruption or have returned their loot. One also wonders the rationale behind the specific reference to St. Solomon Health Care Centre without disclosing similar properties confiscated by the agency.

 

The objective fact is that Buhari’s pattern of partiality, which is said to be a handiwork of a prostrate cabal, has become grotesque and thus indefensible. This explains why, despite what his harshest critics would agree is a measurable success on the war against corruption, the latest Transparency International report within the same period rated Buhari’s antigraft record as worse than the inglorious effort during the regime of Goodluck Jonathan. Today, even with 2019 general elections on the line, it is becoming increasingly impolitic for the All Progressive Congress (APC) to flaunt Buhari’s integrity as a trump card.

 

An old saying goes that it is better late than never. Nigerians elected Muhammadu Buhari to be transparent and courageous to demonstrate serious consequences for corrupt activities without minding whose ox is gored. He can still rekindle the hope by correcting the apparent flaws in his war against corruption—no matter how close to the 2019 elections. After all, if Muhammadu Buhari can jump at any opportunity of doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, for instance, the bizarre plot to remove the Chief Justice of the Federal Republic without due process or an unabashed rash of one-sided appointments at this critical point in the history, nothing stops him therefore from making the needful amends on the war against corruption, regardless.  

 

SKC Ogbonnia, a former 2019 APC presidential aspirant, is the author of the Effective Leadership Formula*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Arraignment of the head of the third arm of government is not a decision that should be taken by anybody but the head of government no matter how hands off he's been on other matters. Well that decision is coming home to roost now.

You said and I quote "...Yes, Pres. Buhari needs to look for capable hands; and he needs honest hands more". I take it and assume that you're succinctly offering your services to PMB. I hope his handlers are listening.

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Mr. Olajide,

You may be right about the absurdity of the president not being, personally, aware of the arraignment of the CJ, seeing as Nigeria is run by personality and not by process.

But if you have ever worked for goverment, you would know that not all matters distill all the way to the top, since this will clog the top.

This is true especially for a hands off president, like Gen. Buhari.

Having said that, I don't trust Osinbajo any further than I can throw a full grown cow...on anything!

Yes, Pres. Buhari needs to look for capable hands; and he needs honest hands more.

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Mostly correct. I think APC has a death wish. Or some rogue elements are bent on embarrassing the government.

How can Osibanjo claim that the presidency only heard about the arraignment of the head of the third arm of government, the CJN, on the Saturday before the scheduled Monday hearing? The CCB being a bureau under the presidency should have cleared it with the presidency first. So, who exactly is runnning the presidency?

PMB is not looking like a capable hand and unfortunately, the alternative is worse. I pity Nigeria.

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Corruption: How Buhari Is Becoming A Liability To APC

By SKC Ogbonnia

January 16, 2018

 

President Muhammadu Buhari’s style on the war against corruption is doing more harm than good to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The beginning of this new year has already seen the APC being dazed with an outrage, and understandably so, because its Presidential Campaign Council for the 2019 General Elections features high-profile politicians facing a myriad of serious corruption charges. Following the folly was a worldwide fury at Buhari’s blatant attempt to prosecute, without due process, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, on lesser allegations bordering on corruption. So, what does the president think he is doing with this litany of unforced errors or, rather, an unbecoming pattern of partiality?  In case Buhari does not know it, which appears to be the case; he is ‘going to the well too often’—steadily exposing his storied integrity to the dustbin of history.

 

Recall that the worldwide goodwill that greeted Buhari’s victory in 2015 was uniquely quaint. The goodwill, remember, was not because of his intellectual capacity. It was neither because of his economic vision nor democratic credentials. Instead, it was due to his no-nonsense track record against corruption. Upon assumption of office, Buhari did not relent, never ending any brief without vowing to eradicate corruption. He followed by creating awareness, blocking streams of leakages, probing individuals alleged to have looted public funds, and flashing fearsome signals that suggest a true determination to cleanse the Augean stables in the world’s largest black nation.

 

Buhari’s first major strike was to detain, without bail, a former security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, for allegedly looting over $2bn meant for arms during the previous administration. The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, would later captivate the nation by declaring that the regime has secured over 703 convictions. In fact, the agency made history in 2018 by convicting and jailing two high-profile politicians, Jolly Nyame, former governor of Taraba; and Joshua Dariye, a serving Senator and a former governor of Plateau to long prison terms. This is very significant. Besides the lone case of Olabode George, no prominent politician has served a jail sentence in the Nigerian soil from 2007 until Muhammadu Buhari returned to power.

 

The EFCC further claimed to have recovered over “N794 billion; $261 million; £1,115, 930.47; € 8,168,871.13; CFA 86,500”, hundreds of properties and other assets with specific mention of St. Solomon Health Care Centre, located at No. 24, Adeniyi Jones Street, Ikeja, Lagos. Any deep inquiry on the figures above ought to reveal a case in the EFCC website where it asserted that “N47.2 Billion and $487.5 Million in cash and properties have so far been traced to the former Minister of Petroleum Resources in the Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke”  The website noted in particular “a $37.5m (N11.75bn) (Eleven Billion, Seven Hundred and Fifty Million Naira) property on Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos” and much more allegedly belonging to the same Diezani Alison-Madueke.  

 

Not done, President Buhari appeared to demonstrate that no one is above the law by going after the leadership of the Legislature, Senate President Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, for sundry corruption allegations, particularly forgery and failure to declare their assets. The snapshot of the President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, being docked at the Code of Conduct Tribunal shortly after Buhari took office was a welcome news and made headlines around the globe.  

 

This impressive evidence on the war against corruption, which I am known to have roundly extolled, would have been enough to vault the APC to an easy victory in the 2019 elections. But Buhari’s modus operandi, which is widely believed to thrive only in injustice and stark opacity, has become a poisoned chalice. In other words, President Muhammadu Buhari is inadvertently becoming a liability to the APC on the war against corruption.... The context, of course, is clear as crystal.

 

First, President Buhari has inexcusably refused to reveal the true identities of all the prominent Nigerians who returned corrupt proceeds and the specific amount of money or properties so recovered or seized besides the quotidian instance of Diezani Madueke. Second, the fight against corruption has been selective as evidenced by the repugnant opacity with the case of former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, accused of looting public projects being executed by the same administration or that of Kemi Adeosun, his former Minister of Finance busted for fake credentials ; Buhari’s glowing praise, instead of condemnation, of his close ally and Kano State governor, Umar Ganduje, who was caught on multiple video tapes receiving bribes from a contractor, among many others. Fourth, the president has remained indifferent to many cases of underhand practices during the APC primaries, including his shameless acceptance of a N45 million nomination form purchased by a sham support group which only goes to negate the section of the electoral law designed to checkmate tainted money in Nigerian elections;  and a string of graft allegations hanging around the neck of the National Chairman of the party, Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole. Fifth, the pace and content of Buhari’s second term bid is being dictated by a team featuring a bevy of notorious politicians facing serious corruption charges. The most dumbfounding is the sheer affrontery with Godswill Akpabio who was indicted for looting over N100 billions of public money while in the opposition camp but upon switching to the ruling party emerged an affectionate poster boy for Buhari’s presidential campaign.

 

The picture Muhammadu Buhari is painting is nothing but that of a man aiding, abetting, and celebrating corruption. Of course, his handlers argue otherwise, but witlessly so. For instance, their common pushback is that presumption of innocence is a legal right of the accused in the Nigerian criminal law, which is true. But that is errant nonsense in this regard. Common sense dictates that any serious charge preferred by the state against the citizen ought to have basis in fact. Moreover, Nigerians are appalled that the principle of presumption of innocence is commonly applied to the allies of the Buhari administration while similar reprieve is never considered for his political foes, for example, the developing case of Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, among many others. Very instructively, if the principle of presumption of innocence is to be generalized, some of us in the ruling party might as well apologize to the presidential nominee of the major opposition party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, who has continued to suffer emblematic stereotype as a virally corrupt figure based on mere allegations. Even worse, it is preposterous that the EFCC continues to inundate the name of Diezani Alison Madueke as a corrupt dame based on mere allegations while at the same time stoking a defiant audacity to shield the identities of other prominent politicians who are already found guilty of corruption or have returned their loot. One also wonders the rationale behind the specific reference to St. Solomon Health Care Centre without disclosing similar properties confiscated by the agency.

 

The objective fact is that Buhari’s pattern of partiality, which is said to be a handiwork of a prostrate cabal, has become grotesque and thus indefensible. This explains why, despite what his harshest critics would agree is a measurable success on the war against corruption, the latest Transparency International report within the same period rated Buhari’s antigraft record as worse than the inglorious effort during the regime of Goodluck Jonathan. Today, even with 2019 general elections on the line, it is becoming increasingly impolitic for the All Progressive Congress (APC) to flaunt Buhari’s integrity as a trump card.

 

An old saying goes that it is better late than never. Nigerians elected Muhammadu Buhari to be transparent and courageous to demonstrate serious consequences for corrupt activities without minding whose ox is gored. He can still rekindle the hope by correcting the apparent flaws in his war against corruption—no matter how close to the 2019 elections. After all, if Muhammadu Buhari can jump at any opportunity of doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, for instance, the bizarre plot to remove the Chief Justice of the Federal Republic without due process or an unabashed rash of one-sided appointments at this critical point in the history, nothing stops him therefore from making the needful amends on the war against corruption, regardless.  

 

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Now That Atiku Has Gone To America And Come Back*

By SKC Ogbonnia

January 21, 2018

 

The thickest cloud hanging over the candidacy of the presidential nominee of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, had been that he could not set his foot in the American soil because of pending corruption charges. In attempt to put to rest the dateless allegation, he traversed the Atlantic Ocean to finally visit the United States of America and came back to Nigeria without qualms. But there are still many rivers to cross.

 

The title of my first press statement after Mr. Atiku Abubakar (better known as Atiku) became the nominee of his party was: “PDP Nominates An Ageless Suspect For President”. Similar themes followed his nomination from a broad spectrum of the media. Such ridicule was apt. For ages, the man’s name has been synonymous with corruption home and the abroad. The most sensational cum damaging is that the former vice president is a wanted man in America. He is alleged to be a central figure in the infamous Siemens bribery scandal prosecuted by the government of the United States. The connotation is forbidding, a vote killer.

 

This explains the wild jubilation that greeted Atiku’s return from the USA. Forget the flimsy reasons being offered, the only rationale Atiku Abubakar damned the consequences and landed in America, after 12 years of intense fuss, was to prove that he is not a fugitive after all. Yet, even as this dramatic American sojourn deserves every kudos, there are many more alarming allegations that he has to clear if the euphoria is to endure.

 

The most notable, of course, is the springboard of Atiku’s corruption woes. That is, how a mere civil servant at the Nigerian Customs and Exercise became stupendously wealthy upon retirement. Nigerians deserve year by year income tax returns, backed with bank accounts, to ensure that his wealth did not spring up from the financial misfeasance that has come to define the activities at the government agency. The public will also like to know the true story behind why the government recently terminated its multi-million dollars contract with Atiku’s company, Intels, accused of collecting revenue on behalf of the Nigeria Ports Authority and pocketing the proceeds. Mr. Abubakar must also fulfil his open promise to provide detailed evidence supporting his claim that President Muhammadu Buhari enriched his relatives to the tune of N1.032 trillion. An open-ended press conference, with advance notice, addressing these ageless charges will go a long way in restoring his battered image.

 

Atiku’s army of supporters are expected to roar here. They will charge that their principal has equally leveled charges against President Buhari and his government without receiving a worthy response. Like Mr. Abubakar, they will remind us that the ‘he who comes into equity must come with clean hands’, suggesting that Buhari’s war against corruption is not only selective but also lacks in transparency. They can back up their claim with a litany of lingering corruption allegations against President Buhari himself, his relatives, associates, members of his cabinet; and the view that APC, the president’s party, has become a safe haven for corrupt kingpins. Such concerns are in order. Different attempts by the president to put up a defense on the various charges against his government have sounded more corrupt than the alleged acts themselves. And truth be told, only Buhari’s worst enemy can look at him in the face and pretend that the current war against corruption is fair and balanced.

 

However, Atiku Abubakar needs to recognize that Buhari may not suffer the commensurate consequences soon. There is a prevailing perception premised on the old maxim that half a loaf is better than none. The gist is that Buhari’s war on corruption, no matter how blurred, is far clearer than the effort during immediate past PDP government that Atiku currently represents. The PDP is yet to rid itself of the emblematic image that corruption is way of life.  Even worse, neither the PDP, as a party, nor Mr. Abubakar has uttered any word that suggests any serious plan to fight corruption, if elected.

 

Atiku Abubakar appears humble, seems to have a good understanding of Nigeria’s problems and has put forward some reasonable solutions. And he is working hard, as evidenced by the decision to better his image by setting foot in the America soil against all odds. But, as noted earlier, he needs to do much more. There is a prevailing sentiment that any thought of trusting Atiku with Nigeria is a conundrum by itself, akin to expecting a starving dog to safeguard a juicy bone.

 

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Onnoghen: Buhari Has Declared War Against Justice In Nigeria--

By Dr. SKC Ogbonnia

 

I support a war against corruption, without minding whose ox is gored. I am on record to have strongly supported President Muhammadu Buhari when, at the beginning of his regime, he authorized the prosecution of the head of the Legislature, President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, on corruption allegations, believing that we have to start somewhere. In the process, I authored and published controversial opinions, such as “Time To Impeach Saraki”, “Buhari Hitting Saraki With Kid Gloves”, “Why Buhari Must Jail Corrupt Politicians Now”, and “PDP’s Charge Against Buhari Is of Non Compos Mentis”, to name just a few. As at then, Buhari’s storied anticorruption profile appeared stainless.

 

It is true that the judiciary has become a clog in the wheel of the anticorruption vehicle and, ordinarily, I would have equally endorsed Buhari’s current move to prosecute the head of the third arm of government, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen for failing to declare his assets.  But I cannot in good conscience do so. "He who comes into equity must come with clean hands." Buhari’s war against corruption has become dangerously selective.

 

 The Executive arm of the government, for instance, appears to have become a safe haven for notorious corrupt kingpins in the country. Consider that the pace and content of Buhari’s second term bid is being dictated by a team featuring a bevy of notorious politicians facing serious corruption charges. For example, it is shameful that the first outing by President Buhari--after suspending the Chief Justice of the Federation on corruption charges--was presided by Godswill Akpabio who was indicted for looting over N100 billions of public money while in the opposition camp but, upon switching to the ruling party, has emerged an affectionate poster boy for Buhari’s presidential campaign. Conspicuous in Buhari’s campaign is the National Chairman of the party, Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, who has a strong string of graft allegations hanging on his neck. Needless to mention Buhari’s shameless praise, instead of condemnation, of his close ally and Kano State governor, Umar Ganduje, who was caught on multiple video tapes receiving bribes from a contractor, among many others.

 

In the eye of the Executive arm of the government, members of the ruling party are innocent until proven guilty, while members of the opposition or other arms of the government are guilty until proven innocent, just as headship of vital national agencies has become the sole province of people from a section of the country.

 

This pattern of partiality or injustice is indefensible. In short, President Muhammadu Buhari has wittingly declared war against Nigeria, by attempting to rubbish the concept of justice, a sole principle in which the country can stand and prosper. Accordingly, this pattern must be resisted by all Nigerians, regardless of political, religious or tribal affiliations. This calls for other patriotic leaders from the ruling APC to join to condemn the action of the president. The fundamental principles of equity and justice are universal. “Equity will not grant relief from a self-created hardship.”

 

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Dr. SKC Ogbonnia,

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Atiku and The “Idiotic” Ohaneze: Where Good Reasons Lack Logic

By SKC Ogbonnia

February 1, 2019

 

The Ohaneze Ndigbo has faced criticism over its endorsement of Atiku Abubakar, the 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). The most jarring rebuke came from the Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, who referred to the President General of the Ohaneze, John Nnia Nwodo, as “idiotic”. However, while other critics—not named Obiano—may appear reasonable, they are creating more problems than solutions.

 

What must not escape the minds of pundits is the reality that any decision by the Ohaneze Ndigbo typically mirrors the wishes of its members, not the masses. Most of these members owe affinity to the PDP, which runs deep in the political veins of the Igbo from time. Recall that, with the possible exceptions of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Hyde Onuaguluchi, and Ogbonnaya Onu, who chose the All Peoples Party (APP); most of the Igbo political heavy weights at the beginning of the Fourth Republic helped to float the PDP. Since then a majority of the Igbo has continued to entrust their votes to the presidential candidates of the PDP—regardless of performance, tribal or religious affiliations. Even in face of acute marginalization of the Igbo at the time, the people still queued behind the PDP in 2003, not minding that prominent native sons, particularly Ojukwu and Jim Nwobodo, were presidential candidates of APGA and UNPP, respectively.

 

Today, besides Anambra and Imo States, which are technically under different parties, the Igbo political panorama remains vastly PDP. This apparent political hegemony not only extends to the entire Southeast and the Igbo speaking areas of Delta and Rivers states that fall into the Ohaneze province, it has also engulfed the entire old Eastern Region. Therefore, the raison d’être for endorsing PDP has nothing to do with “restructuring” or “the nomination of our son Peter Obi as the vice-presidential candidate”; it was basically the group’s second nature.

 

The point is that decision making at the Ohaneze Ndigbo is influenced by logic rather than reason. As such, even as the apex Igbo socio-cultural group is duty bound to toe the wishes of the majority of its members by endorsing Atiku; it does not negate the fact that past PDP national governments failed woefully in Igboland. Let it be echoed, and very loudly, that the renewed agitation for Biafran republic, if its history is properly situated, owes the origin to years of neglect during the PDP regimes. This goes without saying that there has always been a huge opportunity for dramatic shift in the Ohaneze. Yet, it was not the sole responsibility of Nnia Nwodo, the messenger, to counter the argument of the PDP or sell the message of the All Progressives Congress (APC) within the Igbo assembly. This point, in of itself, exposes more problems.

 

Let us forget the zillion excuses and focus on the objective facts for the greater good of the party. To start, President Muhammadu Buhari has not always shown the desired eagerness in coveting endorsements by ethnic groups. To make matters worse, the APC does not command potent presence within the Ohaneze. To rub salt in the wound, the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, effortlessly stunted the growth of the party in Igboland by stuffing it with political turncoats who are more preoccupied with post-victory influence at the national level rather than the success of the party in their local constituencies. It is not a new story that some of them are even ashamed of promoting Buhari openly, let alone defending his vision or record at the Igbo assembly. Imagine the case of the governors of Ebonyi and Anambra States, David Umahi (PDP) and Willie Obiano (APGA), respectively, who are said to be hoarding votes for the president. Make no mistake about it, any support for the ruling APC is welcome, but the clandestine posturing of Obiano and Umahi is not only infantile, it is also politically primitive and imprudent. Such style does not exude hope for the party faithful. There is no law in the land that forbids those two governors not to have decamped to APC and join in promoting Buhari fully. The true Igbo are not political whited sepulchers; they stand firm for their beliefs. That is precisely the trait Rochas Okorocha, then a sitting APGA governor, demonstrated in 2013 when he decamped to help form APC and still won re-election.

 

There are good reasons to question the decision of the Ohaneze; but desecrating the apex Igbo socio-cultural group or disparaging its leader is sheer political eye-service. It does not bode well for the party nor the Igbo as a nation. True sympathizers of the APC should expend the energy on promoting the party’s visions and visible records in Igboland that have not always received the desired publicity. For example, often lost in the Buhari appointment saga is the critical influence in national government of the super quartet of Ohaneze sons, vis-a-vis Chibuike Amaechi (Super Minister); Geoffrey Onyeama (Minister of External Affairs); Ibe Kachikwu (Minister of State, Petroleum) and Godwin Emefiele (CBN Governor). Combine it with the reality that Buhari’s government has recorded the most practical infrastructural development in Igboland in recent times, with real work ongoing in the then-PDP money-spinners, such as 2nd River Niger Bridge, PH and Enugu Airports, Enugu-Onitsha and Enugu-PH Express Roads, to name just a few. Thereafter, ponder the undeniable completion of Nnamdi Azikiwe Presidential Library (Zik Mausoleum) after successive governments failed to do so. There and then emerges a profound vindication for queueing behind the APC, regardless.

 

The Ohaneze endorsement of Atiku Abubakar is by no means a death sentence for the All Progressives Congress in Igboland or elsewhere in the country. The notable defections into the APC is a good indication that the Igbo are finally realizing that PDP has kept them in bondage for long. With the presidential election a couple of weeks away; there is a wide opening for the APC to take its rightful place in the region, including within the Ohaneze. It calls for every party man and woman to demonstrate the passion and commitment towards the visions and the success of APC in the Igboland.

 

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That a group like Ohaneze would endorse a PDP candidate at this point shows how much Nigerians in general, embrace and nurture corruption. Indeed APC has its shortcomings but I would have had some regard for this group if it had endorsed any other party at this point in the nation’s history. 

Based on what? Something is just wrong with a people that only thinks about what goes into their accounts than what makes a society better. This no doubt confirms that this group, like many, does not serve the good of the people. What a shame! Thus the search continues for that “leader group” we never had! 

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By SKC Ogbonnia

February 6, 2018.

 

 

In a TV interview, while reacting to recent statements by the United Kingdom, United States, and the European Union, which cast doubt on the credibility of the forthcoming 2019 Nigerian elections; the Governor of Kaduna State of Nigeria, Nasir el-Rufai, did not mince words when he charged that, “we are waiting for the person that would come and intervene, they would go back in body bags.” This open death threat against foreign observers has provoked worldwide outrage and must be condemned by well-meaning Nigerians, including President Muhammadu Buhari. Such barbaric and insensitive statement coming from an elected official is preposterous. It is a threat to our nascent democracy, as well as national security, and a dark stain to Nigeria’s image in the comity of nations. El-Rufai’s death threat to foreign bodies contravenes an objective of the Nigerian Constitution which promotes “international co-operation for the consolidation of universal peace and mutual respect among all nations and elimination of discrimination in all its manifestations”.  This development must not be treated as business as usual. Governor Nasir el-Rufai has no option than to resign his office honorably. This is a critical time in national history, and we cannot condone public officials fanning the embers of violence.

 

The Kaduna governor must equally be reminded that Nigeria has intervened in many foreign elections and has also welcomed foreign interventions in the country during past elections. Very recently, both the ruling and opposition parties did not resent foreign intervention during the 2015 electoral cycle that brought this current government to power. For example, amidst rising fear of civil unrest during the 2015 polls, the United States of America intervened. It will be recalled that the then US Secretary of State, John F. Kerry, came to Nigeria to dialogue with both President Goodluck Jonathan and his then challenger Muhammadu Buhari—to not only encourage free and fair election, but also to discourage violence during and after the elections. Similarly, when the opposition camps were accusing Jonathan of planning to interfere in the electoral process by removing the INEC Chairman, Attahiru Jega, very close to the 2015 elections, British Prime Minister, David Cameroun, intervened. In a letter to Jonathan, Cameron wrote, “Your support for Professor Jega’s continuing tenure and guidance of the process remains an important part of delivering successful elections.”

 

Nigeria cannot operate in isolation. Foreign interventions for the greater good must not always be viewed as a threat to national independence, as el-Rufai would want people to believe. After all, the current US support in the war against Boko Haram is a form of foreign intervention. Elections should not be exceptions.

 

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan bequeathed a legacy in electoral campaigns when he declared “that nobody’s political ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.”  Nigeria is bigger than any individual, and we must not win at all costs.  The likes of Governor Nasir el-Rufai ought to step aside so that peace-loving Nigerians can be united in a vow that no election is worth the blood of any Nigerian or any foreigner.

 

Signed:

Dr. SKC Ogbonnia

Former 2019 APC presidential aspirant

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[SKC Ogbonnia for President]

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Atiku’s Presidential Dream: An Obituary

By SKC Ogbonnia

February 12, 2019

 

The perennial ambition of Atiku Abubakar to preside over Nigeria finally comes to a dead end this February 16, 2019. This failure is neither because of the extraordinary qualities nor the exceptional performance of President Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku’s main opponent. It has nothing to do with election rigging, as feared by the opposition camps. The imminent defeat should not be attributed to other needless underhand tactics of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), such as the heedless removal of the Chief Justice of the Federation or the artless death threats to foreign election observers by a sitting ruling party governor. The problem is simply that Atiku has dug his own grave, and the nail in the coffin came with super glue.

 

Atiku Abubakar does not need introduction. The former Vice President shares a sanctuary with a coterie of powerful Nigerian leaders, including Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, and Bola Tinubu, who are widely alleged to have acquired immense wealth through corrupt means, even though no court of law has found them guilty of such offense. This thick corruption label never deterred Atiku from a presidential dream. His most realistic opportunity came in the 2019 polls through the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), a party with a corruption baggage as heavy as Atiku’s or even more. However, the former ruling party revitalized itself after an open apology and a picture-perfect primary season that suggested true atonement. Though money had influence in the presidential primary, as usual, the PDP was energized behind its nominee.

 

The momentum was further buoyed by the fact that Abubakar was set to face a vulnerable incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari, an impenitent personality, plagued by poor health, a pattern of partiality, acute nepotism, incessant killings, selective justice, and growing youth unemployment, as well as mass poverty. Moreover, the ruling APC was coming out of a disastrous primary season characterized by arbitrary exclusion of qualified aspirants, lack of transparency, crass impunity, and stark arrogance; anchored by a shambolic national chairman whose every presence provokes crisis as honey attracts bee. 

 

But the PDP balloon of buoyancy quickly crashed before any meaningful rise.

                                                                 

The clouds began to gather when it became clear that Atiku lacks a captivating message. His manifesto does not evoke a sense of hope capable of negating Buhari’s measurable gains in the war against corruption, agriculture, and infrastructure. Abubakar’s three cardinal points of “jobs opportunity, being united and security” are desperately banal, and his plan to achieve them is inconceivably incoherent. If he is not crap-shooting an idea to restructure the country, Atiku is hawking the notion of selling off more national assets, including the NNPC, a state corporation that generates the bulk of the nation’s revenue. It did not help matters when Nigerians were reminded that the sale of the mega oil company falls into privatization exercise like the type Atiku superintended, as vice president, in which his “friends” and family were alleged as prime beneficiaries.

 

The most embarrassing is Atiku’s gamble to make his contest against Buhari a referendum on integrity without anything to show for it. He started by deploying Karl Rove's old trick of attacking the strengths of the opponent. The aim this time was to turn Buhari’s storied anticorruption profile from advantage to a liability. Atiku gained good currency by refreshing the sad reality that the current war against corruption is selective. The biggest bombshell was his allegation that Buhari diverted “N1.032 trillion” meant for arms to his relatives. Mr. Abubakar saw instant admiration when he followed the charge with an open promise to “spare no thoughts in furnishing the public with details” of the allegation. Unfortunately, however, despite pressure from Buhari’s camp and the civil society, Atiku reneged on the news-breaking promise. Nigeria has penchant for imitating America’s political pattern, quite alright, but the world is not ready for another commander-in-chief who draws his strength by parading fantasies and fallacies as facts.

 

The nail in the coffin stuck when Abubakar muted a plan to grant full amnesty to politicians who looted our common wealth. That is, ‘Fellow Nigerians, please steal, but if you are caught, return the money and go free.’ This patent appeal for corruption is a moral miasma. Critics will counter here, and understandably so, because President Buhari has not prosecuted corrupt politicians who have returned their loot since he assumed power. But not to be lost is the fact that the president has, at least, been able to sustain a level of credibility with a constant promise that none of such looters will escape prison, eventually. It is a bad policy to shutdown Nigeria’s shop to chase criminals, as Atiku’s vice-presidential candidate Peter Obi cautioned; but, as Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo reminded us, allowing criminals to loot Nigeria’s entire stock is definitively worse. Half bread is better than none…

                              

Nothing illustrates the apparent lack of political sagacity more than the fact that Abubakar named, as running mate, a right man in a wrong party and wrong region. Mr. Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, is a very wealthy man, but his austere politics and virtues are in stark contrast to the ideals of the PDP and Atiku himself. Though this choice is popular with the Nigerian masses, the deviant political move dispirited the party leaders from Obi’s home region of the East. Since then, notable South-East and South-South PDP bigwigs have remained ambivalent. Some of them in the South-East are openly or clandestinely campaigning against their top ticket—with the hope of taking a shot at the presidency themselves, sooner in 2023, especially considering that Atiku has not been committal with his one-term pledge. On top of that, Obi took his chintzy style to the extreme by not dishing out money, the main language the Eastern electorate seems to understand. Overall, Atiku will carry the South-East and South-South zones, as expected, but an imminent low margin of victory in the party’s strong hold signals a woeful outcome for his candidacy across the country.

 

Adding to the conundrum is Atiku’s seemingly disregard for geopolitics. It is true that the PDP candidate adopted restructuring, an original agenda of the progressive Yoruba South-West, it is equally impolitic to have denied the people both the positions of national chairman and the vice presidency. With a Yoruba as a sitting Vice President, Atiku will fare worse than President Jonathan’s numbers in 2015, when the people retaliated for a palpable marginalization of the zone in the upper echelon of the then PDP government. As for the North, Abubakar could not articulate a game-changing agenda for the peasant northern electorate that somehow holds Buhari as a folk hero. Moreover, Atiku’s vow to restructure the country is a vote-killer in the North where most are comfortable with the current structure which has handed them political advantage. Besides Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, Taraba, Kwara, Kogi, and Adamawa—the states Atiku has good chance of victory; the rest of the other 12 Northern states belong to the Buhari column. Generally, the president will garner majority backing in North-West and the North-East zones while Atiku takes the lion share of the votes in the North-Central zone. Do the remaining math…

 

The 2019 presidential contest is ending as a binary election, with two analog candidates who have no clear ideology or vision for the 21^st Century Nigeria. But, all things considered, Buhari comes out better and deserves to win. As for Atiku, the affable former Vice President ought to be eulogized for his ambition. But he should forever blame his presidential quietus on the failure to demonstrate any lessons learned from the 16 years of gross misrule under the Peoples Democratic Party of Nigeria, eight of which he was a very powerful second-in-command. Adieu, Wazirin!

 

By SKC Ogbonnia, Abuja, Nigeria

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2019 Election Results: When Nigeria Needs A Jonathan--

By SKC Ogbonnia

Abuja, Nigeria

February 27, 2019

 

The outright rejection of the results of the 2019 national election by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), even before the final votes were counted, is very discouraging. The action departs from the two principles that ought to have guided the 2019 polls. The first is an admonition by President Goodluck Jonathan that, “nobody’s political ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.” The other is the lesson of President Muhammadu Buhari who, though felt aggrieved while losing the presidency on three different occasions, sought redress through the courts.

 

The prayer here is for the winners to be magnanimous in victory, and for the losers to have the courage to concede in good faith. A rap that Buhari was a sore loser in the three different occasions he did not win. That is sadly true. In fact, he neither congratulated the winners in 2003, 2007, and 2011 nor recognized them while they were in office. But how far can our democracy grow by repeating the same mistakes over, and over again? How far can Nigeria go by laying the foundation of the future with the filthy mud of the past? More importantly, who are the victims, besides the unwary masses?

 

President Goodluck Jonathan answered these questions when he buried past transgressions by conceding at a timely manner in 2015. Despite obvious electoral flaws in the 2015 process, Jonathan congratulated the winner for the greater good. Today, he has become a hero in defeat. Many great men had lost in the past and ended as the hero of their people. The likes of Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Aminu Kano, and Waziri Ibrahim, never won at the national level, but their legacies endure. Former American President Jimmy Carter was voted out of office in 1980, but he forged on to win the Noble Prize 22 years later. Carter, today, is viewed as one of the greatest leaders of the 20^th century.

 

The 2019 presidential election has come and gone, but the aftermath depends on the actions or inactions of the leaders. Though there ere are glaring flaws in the elections, including needless loss of human lives, in which both the ruling and opposition parties are culpable, the elections were generally peaceful. Therefore, the blanket rejection of the results by the main opposition party is ill-advised. This action, a seemingly boycott in middle of a game, is a veiled incitement for revolt from their gullible supporters. We have already encountered deaths too many, most of who were innocent youths. Any attempt to further overheat the polity is unpatriotic. The world is watching.

 

So far, we have seen some praiseworthy developments, as well as reprehensible behaviors on part of the politicians. Commendation must go to the Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi of the ruling party, and President of the Senate and the Director-General of the Presidential Campaign Council of the main opposition party, Bukola Saraki; two powerful candidates, who lost their bids to the senate but showed the way by timely conceding and congratulating their opponents. Conversely, condemnation should go to the likes of Godswill Akpabio and Chris Ngige who have been inducing all manners of scenes because their party lost in their respective constituencies or states.

 

The outcome of the presidential election was not supposed to come as a surprise, especially considering that most objective analysts had predicted a Buhari victory. Be that as it may, now is the time for both former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and President Muhammadu Buhari to emulate former President Jonathan and demonstrate exemplary leadership. The posterity calls on Atiku to concede defeat and, if aggrieved, abide by the Constitution and seek redress in the courts. Similarly, Buhari should demonstrate, more than ever before, that he is the father of the whole nation. Unlike his posture after his party’s primaries, Buhari should switch to a full toga of peace. He ought to equally appeal to some of his party men, particularly, Lai Mohammed and Adams Oshiomhole, to tone down their pattern of inflammatory rhetorics and antics. Arrogance negates obeyance.   

 

SKC Ogbonnia+

POWER TO THE MASSES!!

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[SKC Ogbonnia for President]

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How Buhari Won The Battle But Lost The War

By SKC Ogbonnia

March 4, 2019

 

I am very happy that President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress (APC) won again in 2019, but I am equally finding it difficult to celebrate the victory. While accurately predicting the outcome two weeks before the presidential election, I remarked that many Nigerians were not in a hurry to bring the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) back to power so soon, having squandered our overflowing oil wealth during its 16-year reign. I also noted that its presidential nominee, Atiku Abubakar, was fundamentally flawed and had no game-changing message to crack the wall of Buhari’s fervent cult-like following in the vote-rich Northern Nigeria. However, unlike in the 2015 exercise when both the loser, President Goodluck Jonathan, and the winner, Buhari, emerged from the election as heroes, Buhari’s victory in 2019 is plainly pyrrhic—and with sweeping consequences.

 

Any objective history on the ills of the 2019 election ought to begin with how President Muhammadu Buhari backpedaled the wheel of Nigeria’s democratic journey by refusing to sign into law the reforms to the Nigeria’s Electoral Act. Every electoral season since the 4th Republic has seen a review of the nation’s electoral law with a view to improving the electoral process. Buhari stalled this basic trajectory of progress with audacity. The failure quickly gave rise to a perception of executive subterfuge, which tainted the 2019 electoral process from the get-go.

 

The embers of impunity grew into wildfire within the ruling party. Led by Buhari’s self-appointed national party chairman, an active gaga figure in the person of Adams Oshiomhole, the APC rubbished the concept of internal party democracy within its ranks. The party imposed exorbitant nomination fees on aspirants, thereby further entrenching Nigerian democracy as the sole province of the highest bidders. But that is not even all. Aspirants who managed to cough out the nomination fees were either excluded or arbitrarily disqualified. In the words of Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari, “It is disheartening to note that some aspirants used their hard-earned money to purchase nomination forms, got screened, cleared and campaigned vigorously yet found their names omitted on Election Day…” This fiasco on the part of the ruling party prompted the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, to lament that the primaries ahead of the 2019 elections were “some of the most acrimonious party primaries in our recent history.” He regretted that the apparent lack of internal party democracy dealt a big blow “to our electoral progress.”

 

The ichor of the growing infamy spiraled down to Buhari’s sole claim to power, his war against corruption, where the president himself appeared to be aiding and abetting corruption. Nigerians would gape as Buhari accepted a N45 million nomination form purchased for him by a shadowy group, a clear mockery of S91(9) of the Electoral Act. As if such act lacks in folly, he embraced a phantom presidential primary, through which he was allocated about 15 million votes. But his storied integrity finally hit an olid seabed at the point the president penetrated the inner circle of Nigeria’s corrupt canton to enlist the worst of its examples into his presidential campaign council. Public trust in Nigeria may never recover from the conflicting optics of Muhammadu Buhari, of all people, campaigning across the country while standing shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the most notorious corrupt kingpins in the land.

 

Nothing exposed the hypocrisy in Buhari’s re-election campaign more than his brazen assault on public institutions. For instance, alleged to have been worried that the election could end up in the courts, Buhari removed a sitting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, on accounts of corruption—few weeks to the election and without due process—while at the same time providing safe haven to some principal members of his party who had similar corruption charges or worse. This move prompted a unified rebuke by the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union.

 

Buhari finally threw caution to the wind with his tacit support for hostility against the international community. Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, a pestilent personality, and close ally of the president, had responded to the concerns of the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union by charging that foreign bodies who “intervene” in Nigeria’s election “would go back in body bags.” To the chagrin of the human society, General Buhari backed the governor. Recall that my person was impugned when I had hinted in the course of my presidential campaign that the international community views Buhari as a bellicose dictator, only for the ruling party to come to that realization later in the electoral season. Instead of any sign of penitence, Buhari’s militant body language took a turn for the worse throughout the campaigns. The immediate effect was military brutality during the election, resulting in loss of many lives, a situation that is bound to echo as Nigeria continues to seek the much-needed foreign investment into its economy and foreign ‘intervention’ in her national security challenges.   

 

Leadership is contingent upon the environment, quite alright, but prudence remains a universal virtue of good leadership. Thus, while it can be reasoned that Buhari deserves commendation for his victory, because the alternative was definitively worse, which is sadly true, Buhari’s do-or-die tactics were as unpatriotic as they were needless. Like the situations in 2003, 2007, and 2011, even if the umpires were saints, the opposition in 2019 had no path to victory. The palpable anger trailing Buhari’s victory, including the outright rejection by the opposition, has more to do with the fact that the president ran a campaign charged with naked despotism, crass impunity, and stark arrogance. Yet, political retribution is an antithesis to progress. At any rate, Nigeria has found itself at crossroads. The way forward is for Muhammadu Buhari undergo a true change.

 

SKC Ogbonnia, a former 2019 APC presidential aspirant, is the author of the Effective Leadership Formula*

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[SKC Ogbonnia]

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Senate Presidency: Is APC Really Thinking?

By SKC Ogbonnia

April 4, 2019

 

Upon being re-elected, President Muhammadu Buhari endeared himself once again to the citizenry when he promised to show significant improvement in his second term. Buhari had also attributed a great deal of his first term setbacks to a dysfunction in the Legislature where the opposition seem to dictate the content and pace of his change agenda. However, any sober analysis of the executive-legislative crisis will show that a perceived injustice towards a section of the country during Buhari’s first term had a huge impact. The injustice had incurred the wrath of a diverse mass of Nigerian socio-political elites which emboldened the leadership of the Legislature to prevail. Unfortunately, however, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) does not appear to have learnt its lessons.

 

Recall that the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, recently declared that the party has adopted Ahmad Lawan from the North-East as the next Senate President. So, is APC really thinking?

 

Either way, the glaring implication of latest zoning order is that, with the seemingly replacement Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria, the North is set to produce the heads of the three arms of government: Executive, Legislature, and the Judiciary. Combine it with the reality that the region currently controls virtually all critical government agencies, including the Police, Army, Airforce, State Security Service, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Federal Fire Service, Federal Road Safety Corps, Immigration, Custom and Exercise, National Population Commission, INEC, EFCC, NNPC, and much more.

 

These developments are utterly insensitive, shameless, and fundamentally contradict Section 14 (3) of the Constitution, which states that, “The composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria…”

 

It has become imperative, therefore, to zone the Senate Presidency to the South. The proponents of the North retaining the senate presidency have inclined their logic to a prevailing assumption which has its origin to Buhari’s gaffe in 2015 that government patronage under his regime would mirror voting preferences. But those peddling such notion are in stark conflict with democratic virtues, as well as the Nigerian history.

 

First and foremost, free choice, opposing voices, and the right to dissent are treasured virtues of democracy. In short, any government or system without dynamic opposition activity is another name for totalitarianism. Therefore, instead of ceaseless threats of vendetta, the government should learn to show tolerance towards those who oppose it. But if the party must witch-hunt for electoral shortfalls, it ought to start within itself—and from the main culprit at the top. The APC chairman, Adam Oshiomhole, is on record to have brazenly imposed unpopular candidates, particularly in the South; heightened crisis within the party; and orchestrated arguably the worst party primaries in national experience; thereby not only losing the national elections in his home state of Edo, but also losing seven governorship seats--the party had won in 2015--to the opposition, namely, Oyo, Imo, Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Zamfara, and Sokoto states. Needless to hint that Osun State hangs in balance.

 

Second, while President Buhari may not have bad intentions, it is important to point out that, besides his first tenure (2015-2019), the recent Nigerian history has not recorded any instance where a zone or region was blatantly targeted because the people freely exercised their democratic franchise. A fitting analogy are the dynamics after the presidential election of 2003. Though the North-West zone voted massively and steadily for the then-candidate Buhari over PDP candidates, such free choice did count against the region in producing the Speaker of the House after the 2003 polls nor factor in the party’s nomination of Umaru Yar’Adua in the elections of 2007. The North-West opposition posture definitely did not preclude the zone from producing the PDP vice-presidential candidate under Jonathan in 2011. It also did not deny the zone its fair share of powerful portfolios after the 2011 elections, for example, the Speaker of the Federal House, Minister of Defence, Mines & Steel Development, Education; and National Security Adviser, among many.

 

Further, at no time throughout the years power resided in the South under Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan did any region--North or Sought--controll all the three arms of government. It is also worthy of note that President Yar’Adua did not show any discriminatory tendencies towards any zone. Of course, zoning is not the sole panacea to national problems, but there is the need for equity and fairness. Lest we forget, the plausible reason President Buhari was adopted as a sole candidate of the APC in this electoral season was predicated on an unwritten zoning arrangement between the North and South.

 

Let justice prevail. The new generation of Nigerians yearn for a progressive country—diverse, equitable, just, and free. Many in the APC ranks understand it. But their stoic silence on the absurd zoning order is understandable. This is a transition period with a lame duck president. Political opportunism and sycophancy have taken over public interest. If President Buhari does not get the gist, he is doing so at his own peril.

 

Buhari must also not forget the following parting words to him from the Late Maitama Sule: “Justice will bring about peace. Peace and stability are the pre-requisites of development…Behind every crisis anywhere in the world is injustice and the solution to that crisis is justice… do justice, irrespective of their tribe, religion or even political inclination.” It goes without saying that the brewing injustice in APC—based on political inclination—is bound to provoke another set of executive-legislative crisis. With the opposition likely to produce about 42 senators out of the 108 members, it will not be out of place if 13 patriotic APC senators decide to align with the opposition to upset the apple cart towards the greater good.

 

The crux of the matter is that Nigeria’s richness lies in her diversity, voting not excluded. This diversity is reflected in Nigeria’s federal system. It is also evident in the national revenue which is accrued from the federating states endowed with remunerative resources. Therefore, any attempt by any central government to perpetrate injustice towards any state, zone or region merely because of voting preferences is to fan the embers of crisis.  

[SKC Ogbonnia]

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The Danger In Buhari’s Totalitarian Patronage Model

By SKC Ogbonnia

April 17, 2018

 

Diversity and dynamic opposition are twin catalysts for effective democratic leadership. This explains why Nigeria owes a debt of gratitude to patriots, most notably, Ogbonnaya Onu, Bola Tinubu, and Muhammadu Buhari for sustaining the opposition movement, which culminated in the birth of All Progressives Congress (APC). Similar kudos ought to go to President Goodluck Jonathan for creating the enabling environment that engendered the emergence of the APC, the elusive viable alternative to the then-ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The irony, however, is that Buhari, as president, has adopted a patronage model, which is on pace to decimate the opposition and potentially plunge the nation into a “next level” of crisis.  

 

The Buhari patronage model is a totalitarian discriminatory scheme predicated purely on political inclinations. Adapted from the stone-age imperial philosophy, and brought into the 21^st Century Nigeria since 2015, the model views opposition with perilous contempt. For example, Buhari’s second term is set to once again overly reward Northern Nigeria at the expense of the South, merely because the former accounted for 77% of his votes in the 2019 presidential election. Specifically, government patronage is likely to mirror the share of his total votes, which are as follows: North-West:40%; North-East:21%; North-Central:16%; South-West:13%; South-South:7%; and South-East:3%.

 

The totalitarian model explains why Buhari, upon assuming office, discarded an equitable order embraced since 1999, whereby positions of the President, Vice-President, Senate President, Speaker, Chairman of the ruling party, and the Secretary to Federal Government were spread across the six geographical zones—regardless of political inclinations.  The totalitarian scheme is the sole rationale behind the current plan by the ruling party to zone the Senate Presidency to the North-East, thereby producing a curious state of affair where all the three arms of government are headed by the North. Today, virtually all critical state organs are controlled by people of the Northern extraction, particularly from the North-West and the North-East zones—thanks to the Buhari model. 

 

This blind pursuit for total domination is antagonistic to the Nigerian diversity and negates the Constitution. The optics is taxation without representation, which historically leads to revolt. Moreover, injustice ingrained with impunity is a recipe for crisis which, of course, does not always differentiate between the North and South. But what must not escape the minds of Buhari apologists is the fact that Nigeria remains a diverse country of bellicose ethnic groups, with national income accrued from the states naturally endowed with remunerative resources. Thus, while it can be convenient to gloat over the reality that over 70% of Buhari’s votes came from the North, it is bluntly instructive that over 70% of the government revenue is generated from the South, the apparent victim of the president’s totalitarian regime.

 

As elaborated in my 2015 essay, “How PDP and APC Created New Biafran Agitations”; while the abject lack of development in the East during the PDP years handed the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) the convenient backdrop to curry its initial groundswell of sympathy, Buhari’s brazen threat of vendetta against the region definitely exacerbated the secessionist movement. The immediate effect, remember, was the emergence of a sister organization, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), that shutdown oil facilities in 2016, causing production to its lowest level in the Fourth Republic, which contributed in no small measure to the economic recession that followed. A repeat of Buhari’s first term blunder is bound to provoke a next level of crisis. Only a loon will ignore the message inherent in this passage. 

 

Yet Buhari’s yes-men will argue otherwise, nudging the president to stay the status quo. After all, the man just won re-election. But that is a toadying travesty. An objective history will not archive his victory in 2019 as any reflection of broad or mass support. The verdict was merely a byproduct of a binary election in which the opposing party, disgraced out of power, nominated a fundamentally flawed candidate with perplexing prospects for victory. Nevertheless, the flaws of the opposition party or its candidate do not bequeath President Buhari the rabid audacity to oppress 44% of the electorate, or the zones, that voted against him. Opposition is neither a crime nor failure. Thus, the prevailing attempt by overzealous ruling party propagandists to stoke guilty conscience on some people or zones based on their voting preferences is maddening nescience.

 

The fact is that Buhari’s discriminatory patronage model is a serious threat to the fabric of the vitally essential Nigerian diversity, as well as the opposition. This portends a troubling future. Other fears apart, the president ought to realize that the primary victims of a weak opposition state are the poor masses, the very class he claims to symbolize. Buhari must also recognize that the new generation of Nigerians—both north and south—want an equitable and progressive country. It is not surprising, therefore, that true patriots within the ruling party, particularly from the North, are rising against the unjust patronage model.

[SKC Ogbonnia]

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What Is Atiku’s Real Motive With Alternative Facts?

By SKC Ogbonnia

May 1, 2019

 

The 2019 presidential election, in which Muhammadu Buhari was declared winner, has continued to generate tension. The main opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has since filed a petition at the election tribunal. But he did not stop there. Mr. Abubakar has embarked on an aggressive global campaign that attempts to paint a grim picture of two presidents-elect. The irony, however, is that the central element of Abubakar’s argument, his purported “server results”, lacks common sense. This begs the question: What is Atiku’s real motive?

 

The realities begin to unravel when one takes an honest look at the official presidential results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and a different result presented by Atiku Abubakar — with special attention to the National Assembly figures.

 

The breakdown of the official INEC result shows that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, garnered 15,191,847 votes, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 11,262,978. More significantly, the APC secured a relaxed majority in the legislature with 65 senators and 217 members in the House of Representatives, while PDP gained about 43 senators with 115 house seats. But Atiku disagrees with INEC. He has claimed a different result, purportedly obtained from INEC server, which suggests that he scored 18,356,732 against Buhari’s 16,741,430 votes.

 

To better situate the conflicting information, it became necessary to explore a state-by-state analysis, since data for the presidential election are collated from the units, the wards, to local governments, and then totaled per state, before final figures are arrived at for the national level.

 

Consider, for example, Atiku’s stronghold, the East, particularly Enugu, the most dominant PDP state in the country, where all elected office holders, and virtually all local INEC officials, are card-carrying members of the party.

 

The official Enugu State presidential results indicate that Atiku secured 355,553 against Buhari’s 54,423 votes. These are consistent with the certified figures from the units, wards, and local governments. For instance, the National Assembly results show that the trio of PDP senate candidates: Ike Ekweremadu, Chimaroke Nnamani, and Chuka Utazi prevailed with winning votes of 86,088; 128,843; and 146,458; respectively. And these PDP stalwarts are on record to have affirmed the credibility of the exercise in their respective constituencies. Yet, Atiku would claim that some INEC server somehow allocated him a whopping 698,119 votes, while also handing 267,821 to Buhari for the 2019 presidential exercise in the same Enugu State.

 

Let us travel North-East, Atiku’s home zone and examine the numbers in Gombe State, where the incumbent governor is also member of his party. By the official INEC figures, Buhari won with 402,961 to defeat Abubakar, who scored 138,484 votes. These official results technically tally with those of the units, the wards and, of course, the National Assembly elections. This explains how the Senate results in the state show Amos Bulus (APC) polling 80,549 to defeat Hajiya Binta Bello (PDP), the current deputy minority whip in the House of Representatives, who received 63,312 votes. Senator Danjuma Goje (APC) followed with 110,116 over Nasiru Nono (PDP), the incumbent speaker of the State Assembly, who scored 39,760 votes; while Saidu Alkali (APC) won with 152,546 votes to prevail over Ibrahim Dankwambo, a sitting governor and former PDP presidential aspirant in 2019, who scored 88,016 votes. As can be gleaned from above, the losing PDP candidates are no pushovers by any standard. Still, Atiku produced a server result that gave him 684,077 votes over 115,225 for Buhari.

 

In short, similar flaws exist in all the states where Atiku’s server results claimed either vote inflation or suppression. The former governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, another 2019 PDP presidential hopeful, who is a major supporter of Atiku, provided an innocent post-election statement that shares more light on the relationship between the 2019 presidential and the National Assembly results, and Buhari’s performance.

 

In Bafarawa’s words, it is only “outsiders that think that what happened during the election was magic. It was not magic. There is no magic in politics. We actually wanted the presidential and National Assembly elections to be held differently, not at the same time or date. The National Assembly elections were successful for the APC because it took advantage of the presidential election; specifically, it rode on the back of President Muhammadu Buhari. I say this because here in the North, there is nothing you can use to convince the people against the Buhari candidature.”

 

Atiku Abubakar is aware of these realities, as well other glaring flaws in his server results. The former vice president is also cognisant of his long-standing poor electoral prospects in Nigeria. In short, he neither had a path to victory before the election nor any credible case to upturn the outcome. Thus, the central element of his argument, his server results, are mere alternative facts — deceitful and delusional. The real motive is inordinate selfishness. It is a case of a desperate serial sore loser, who sees 2019 as a last chance. The strategy is to fan the embers of crisis in the land. The apparent goal is to size both local and international support for a false hope.

 

Yet, President Buhari must tread carefully. His camp has not helped matters, always tendering witless responses that do nothing but swell the uncertainties. The main culprits are Buhari’s lawyers, most of who are Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) but are gradually reducing the acronym to ‘Senior Advocates of Nonsense’. The response that Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president, is suddenly an alien from Cameroon is lame. It speaks of naked malfeasance on the part of the Buhari team; and to have allowed the nonsense to fester is a nonfeasance on the part of the president himself.

 

But the fact remains that Mr. Abubakar is the public provocateur. Make no mistake about it, the 2019 general election had its fair share of flaws, and the constitution guarantees the right to dissent or legal redress. However, any specific redress or case must have a basis in fact — not mere guilty pleasure; and the process must not be antagonistic to national wellbeing. Atiku’s whole approach is fundamentally deceitful, divisive, and insensitive. It does not embody Nigerian patriotism. The toll on the wobbling economy is certain. The ultimate victims are the poor masses.

 

SKC Ogbonnia, a former 2019 APC presidential aspirant, is the author of the Effective Leadership Formula.

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The Kano Emirate Crisis Is Buhari’s Baby

By SKC Ogbonnia

May 16, 2019

 

The mess bedeviling the Kano Emirate Council is President Muhammadu Buhari’s baby. It stinks like a skunk, but he ought to own it. The crisis has tap roots in Buhari’s growing twin evil of selective justice and vendetta politics that have emboldened his allies to victimize perceived political opponents with impunity.

 

The crisis is a long time coming. It is a clear case of shrewd gerrymandering designed to diminish the influence of the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. A unique kind of king, Sanusi is a voluble and charismatic figure, who is globally celebrated as a maverick anti-corruption advocate. He is also well-known for speaking truth to power and has never shied away from criticizing any government, where necessary. The problem, however, is that his criticism of Buhari has been eloquently potent and goes far and wide. But Buhari sees opposing views as provocation for war and does repay in kind. Yet, the president equally goes above and beyond to protect his allies and protégés, without minding their character or image.

 

This pattern of selective justice and vendetta politics was exemplified by Buhari’s apparent shenanigans in the most dramatic bribery incident in the recent Nigerian memory. The central character was the Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, the same man babysitting the emirate mess. Lest we forget, Ganduje was caught on camera allegedly receiving bribes in multiple billions of naira. The evidence was overwhelming. The witnesses did not bulge. The whole scene provoked worldwide outrage, as well as mockery for the war against corruption under Buhari. And the situation demanded action from both the state and federal levels.

 

Very stunningly, instead of condemning the incident, President Muhammadu Buhari shocked the world by showering massive encomiums on the rogue governor. This action or inaction by a sitting president represents the shameless juncture where the evil trajectory in Kano took a dramatic rise. Even the Kano State House of Assembly, which had commenced investigation of the governor, as required by the law, read Buhari’s body language and quickly swept the bribery case under the carpet. There was no apology, no sign of compunction, not even feigned sincerity from Governor Ganduje, or any form of rebuke from the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC). The national anti-corruption agency also looked the other way. The conclusive testament is that, when there are no consequences for bad behavior, the bad behavior usually worsens.

 

It did not take long before the Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, landed in Kano to pass a vote of confidence on Ganduje, to the chagrin of the Nigerian masses. Only in Nigeria! Only in Nigeria!!...Ganduje’s re-nomination for a second term in office would become a mere formality. The optics was abject impunity and did not sit well with Nigerians, particularly the progressive elements in Kano, led by Emir Sanusi. But the character of Kano electorate has been nonconformist from ages. They vote their conscience, power of incumbency notwithstanding.

 

Come election day, even though President Buhari recorded massive victory in the state two weeks earlier on merit, Governor Ganduje lost to a political greenhorn, Abba Kabir-Yusuf, who happens to the son-in-law of a former governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso. Ironically, Kwankwaso is a close ally of Emir Sanusi, but a fierce foe of both Ganduje and Buhari. Be that as it may, Emir Sanusi was blamed for Ganduje’s electoral woes. But the governorship election would be declared inconclusive. It took a combination of uncommon electoral maneuver and police intimidation to overturn the original outcome. The general view in Kano remains that Ganduje’s “inclusive” victory is a broad daylight robbery. The case had gone to the courts. The governor may serve out his 4 year-second term, but there is worry about life after, especially considering that re-opening of the bribery case depends on who takes over from him. Yet, Ganduje’s electoral humiliation, as well as future obstacles, point to one man: The Emir of Kano, whose influence bestrides the entire state and beyond.

 

In simple terms, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is facing a political double whammy: one from his state governor and the other from the president of the country. Though Buhari’s side of the equation is understandably more intense, fronting Ganduje to tame the emir offered a nebulous compromise.

 

Therefore, the splitting of the Kano Emirate Council by Governor Ganduje has nothing to do with development or the common good. While the traditional institution remains a worthwhile societal phenomenon, it is not ennobling where balkanized and basterdized. If fragmentation of kingdoms is a panacea to development, Great Britain would have more kings than Kano. This goes without saying that the balkanization of Kano emirate council is a brazen political witch-hunt, and the goal is two-fold. First, by rubbishing the influence of Sanusi, Ganduje hopes to ride on the cocktails of the “Ganduje Emirs” to dictate the complexion of the State House of Assembly and who becomes governor—after his tenure. Second, and more significantly, it serves to cow the emir from the bigger issue of his goring criticisms of President Buhari.

 

Many have argued that the royal and religious fathers should not dabble into partisan politics. But that is another idle talk. Societal status must not always deny people the freedom of speech, especially where expressed for the greater good. Moreover, there is the need sometimes to resist the temptation of allowing sycophancy or hypocrisy to breed selective amnesia into national political discourse. It is a common knowledge that, before his ascension to the throne in 2014, the same Sanusi, as the Governor of Central Bank, was hailed within the then opposition ranks for busting the pandora box that contributed to the downfall of President Goodluck Jonathan. As Emir, Sanusi equally did not hide his sympathy for Buhari’s opposition candidacy in 2015. Ditto for the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, who openly endorsed Buhari in both 2015 and 2019 elections and is always in the news attacking the perceived political foes of Buhari. Needless to mention Catholic Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka whose fervent support for the president is legendary.

 

The Kano emirate crisis portends a troubling future. It is Kano today. But it can be any other Nigerian kingdom tomorrow. Unless President Buhari is crisis-happy, he should hasten and call Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to order. The swirling notion that the emirate crisis is a state matter is pure baloney. And stoic silence ought to be viewed as Buhari’s acquiescence to the quandary.

 

SKC Ogbonnia, a former 2019 APC presidential aspirant, is the author of Effective Leadership Formula

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 Resist The Move To Downgrade Enugu Airport, Please!!

The Fed Govt is planning to downgrade Enugu Airport. But this move should be resisted. It is the duty of the Federal Government to keep Nigerian airports safe, not state government. Instead of downgrading it to a local airport, the Fed Government should fix the airport and restore it to an international standard. Forward, not backward!!

Read the full story:

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/05/18/fg-moves-to-downgrade-enugu-airport-over-safety-concerns/

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2nd Term: A Leadership Lesson Buhari Must Learn

By SKC Ogbonnia

May 4, 2019

 

President Muhammadu Buhari would have been recorded as the worst Nigerian leader—ever, if he had lost the 2019 presidential election. Yet, his victory was not due to any popularity with the Nigerian people. And it had nothing to do with any electoral manipulation as commonly claimed within the opposition ranks. Buhari merely emerged as a better alternative in an election generally viewed as a binary contest between a devil and the deep blue sea. But the poor public perception of the president was equally neither lack of good intentions nor lack of efforts. It was squarely his failure to grasp a simple leadership lesson that is much more consequential.

The common saying, “all politics is local” came from the book, Man Of The House, and has become a commandment among politicians. But the book features other essential lessons that deserve more audience, especially in developing democracies. In that book, Thomas “Tip” O'Neill, Jr., a former US Speaker of the House, analyzed leadership in relation to the American presidents who served during the 34 years he was in the Congress.

 

On his fellow Democrat, James “Jimmy” Carter; Speaker O’Neill wrote: Once he gained the presidency on a mantra of change, after eight years of Republican rule, the Carter people—most of who came from his native Georgia—besieged Washington DC with every sense of arrogance. Jimmy Carter failed to realize that the skills used in winning the presidency is far from the “skills he needed to be effective once he got there...Many of the Carter appointees who came into the federal agencies acted as though they were hired strictly on merit, and didn’t owe anything to anybody. They refused to see themselves as team players.”  O’Neill added that the Carter people were clueless about how Washington works. Even when it was clear that they were wrong, they still refused to change. The United States became a laughingstock around the world, and Mr. Carter would eventually leave office as the worst American president in recent memory.

Tip O’Neill explained that Carter’s failure had nothing to do with lack of hard work, intelligence or integrity. “When it came to understanding the issues of the day, Jimmy Carter was the smartest public official I've ever known. The range and extent of his knowledge was astounding…Carter’s moral zeal was admirable, but morality and intelligence are not enough in politics. You need a third ingredient—political style—and this, I say, is what Carter lacked in Washington.” Political Style!

Muhammadu Buhari moved into Aso Rock with good intentions, as well as a groundswell of public good will, promising to usher in positive change, after sixteen years of misrule under the Peoples Democratic Party. Overall, President Buhari recorded measurable success in the area of infrastructure, transportation, war against corruption; and diversification of the economy through agriculture. However, even as his achievements may appear admirable, they failed to engender the desired progress—socially, politically, and economically—because of his style of governance.

The Buhari’s style is a leadership miasma, offensive enough to turn his friends into foes. In short, the president made the exact same leadership mistakes Speaker Tip O’Neill warned against. Like Jimmy Carter, despite the protean character of the Nigeria’s abundant human resources, Buhari’s think-thank was a coterie of antique yes-men he claimed to have known from the yore, most of who have no clue about what makes the country tick. Like Jimmy Carter, before assuming office, Buhari worried that the presidency had become overly imperial, but the attitude of his inner circle while in power painted a different picture. Even on occasions where the Buhari people were linked to naked corruption, the president would greet the citizenry with either deafening silence, indifference or peculiar lack of compunction.

 

Such posture is a microcosm of Buhari’s style throughout his first term. Examples abound, but the most alarming, of course, is his attitude towards the systemic injustice in first 4 years. Understandably, a segment of Nigerian socio-political elites—from both the North and South—most of who influence the country’s image home and abroad, vehemently opposed the president’s style. The result was a montage of worldwide propaganda that successfully painted Buhari as an unapologetic dictator, nepotist, ethnic jingoist, jihadist, and a bigot—all roped in one and same agbada garb. The immediate effect was sweeping investment fears locally and internationally, which contributed in no small measure to the economic crisis that followed.

 

The Buhari presidency would recognize that something was amiss. It quickly budgeted billions to shore up his image around the globe. The official messengers were the Ministers of Information and External Affairs, Lai Mohammed, and Geoffrey Onyeama, respectively. Convinced that the duo was not producing the desired results, Buhari was deceived to create a redundant but bogus entity, named Nigerians Diaspora Commission, headed by Abike Dabiri-Erewa. But their whole effort translated to mere ‘talk and go’—akin to attempting to fetch water with an Ugbo basket.

The imprudent approach to Nigeria’s global image is mind-numbing. The Buhari envoys even chose to defy the logic of the common knowledge that “all politics is local”. It never dawned on them that the days are gone when Nigerian government can preach justice abroad while promoting injustice at home. The inconvenient truth is that the country now boasts of millions of independent ambassadors, strategically entrenched in all the nooks and crannies of the world, who tell it as it is. Some of these Diaspora Nigerians have also become Biblical Josephs of sort and thus play influential role in the nation’s foreign exchange, foreign trade, foreign investment, the media, as well as other socio-economic relationships. Needless to remind that the same Josephs are the leading block contributor to the yearly amount of foreign money remitted to Nigeria, which is ironically more than the national budget. As they go, so goes the national image and much more.

Nothing exposed the degree of ignorance within the Buhari presidency than its approach with the Biafran activists on the international scene. Instead of exploring dialogue, as was the case with Boko Haram, the Buhari regime not only used brute force on the Biafran activists but also shamelessly embarked on an aggressive global campaign to brand the secessionists as terrorists. It is not mystifying, therefore, that the Nigerian group, besides Boko Haram, that came to be recognized outside the country as terrorists are the Fulani herdsmen, the very outfit the president serially refused to acknowledge as a threat to civil order.

Today, though Buhari might have recorded some improvement on the war against terrorism and corruption, Nigeria’s global ranking on both categories has worsened since he took office in 2015. Today, the threats of secession have become the loudest since the civil war. Today, the country’s global image is most gloomy since returning to democratic rule in 1999. The general toll on the national economy is staggering, and the masses are the victims.

The solution is simple: a presidential leadership style that embodies equity, justice, prudence, and tolerance for opposing views. The fear, however, is that President Buhari may care less. Since being re-elected, the polity has been inundated with symphonies of praises by pandemic sycophants, most of who are goading him to stay the status quo—just to prove a point. But Buhari should consider the posterity and demonstrate true leadership. Even as it is vitally important for leaders to be unwavering in their convictions, any worthwhile conviction ought to advance the greater good. Moreover, political rigidity is another name for dogmatism, which typically leads to destructive power.

 

SKC Ogbonnia is the author of the Effective Leadership Formula.

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Next Level: Oshiomhole As A Governing Cancer

By SKC Ogbonnia

June 19, 2019

In a pre-election piece, “APC Risks A Crushing Defeat With Oshiomhole As Chairman”, I managed to put into words that the party’s “problem begins with the man’s personality. Oshiomhole, as a party chairman, comes across as a shambolic-cum-egocentric character understandably desperate for attention after leaving office as Edo State governor. In short, the APC has found itself in a situation akin to the proverbial quagmire, where a crown was mistakenly placed on a clown, and the natives were expecting him to perform like a king. For sure, the comrade thrived as a union activist, might have been a good governor, and he can even become a president, after all Donald Trump is one. But the post of a national party chairman is uniquely different. It calls for a unifying figure — composed, likeable, temperate, genial, compassionate and prudent. Mr. Adams Oshiomhole is none of these.”

Unless one has not paid close attention, after Oshiomhole superintended over the most crisis-ridden party primary exercise in the Nigerian history, the All Progressives Congress (APC) would go on to suffer consequential losses in the last general election. Although President Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected, not to be lost in the debate is the reality that he garnered less votes in 2019 than in the 2015 election, when he was a mere opposition candidate. The crisis also saw the opposition crack the ruling party’s southern wall of the South-West Nigeria, taking away two crucial states of Oyo and Ondo. In fact, our saving grace in 2019 was that the main opposition party nominated a deeply flawed presidential candidate.

The performance of APC in the state elections were even worse. Amidst charges of bribery and nookie favours, Oshiomhole imposed unpopular candidates in many states and constituencies against the wishes of the party faithful. As a result, the APC, which assumed power in 2015 with a commanding control of 23 states, has now seen its fortune dwindled down to clinging onto 19 states. The extent of the gloom becomes clearer when combined with the growing fears that the crisis in the party is likely to cost additional states in the upcoming off-year governorship races in Kogi, Ondo, and particularly Oshiomhole’s home state of Edo, which he shamelessly failed to win for President Buhari. Needless to remind that Kano State, once the party’s electoral mainstay, has turned into a battleground.

The current crisis conundrum, however, is that Oshiomhole’s leadership style is like a belligerent cancer and has spread beyond the party. It is already attacking the veins of Buhari’s second term. Keenly aware that he has grown virally unpopular within the party, the Iyamho-born party chairman has become desperate and ready to do the bidding of anyone who can save his job, no matter the consequence. The comrade has found the cover in a couple of influential party henchmen, who are now using the national chairman as a pestilent puppet to perfect their selfish ambitions at the cruel expense of President Buhari, the party, and the Nigerian people.

Consider this: The common knock on Buhari’s first term centered on a pattern of injustice, as typified by lopsided political appointments. Upon being re-elected, the president promised to make amends, proclaiming that “In the area of allocation of political offices, our focus will be on merit and national spread such that every part of Nigeria will have a sense of belonging.” And a deserving nation greeted the news with resounding ‘amen’ and ‘amin’.

But this joy was short-lived, because Oshiomhole quickly circumvented the president with his daily dose of inflammatory rhetorics and antics that signaled a backdoor to another four-year term of political vendetta. The garrulous party chairman not only boasted that he would dictate the principal officers of the legislature, he also gloated that the APC would adopt a winner-takes-all approach among Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, as well as over the opposition. In his words, “We do not need to do business with the devil for us to survive in the Ninth Assembly.”

To forestall an unholy alliance designed to hijack the leadership of the National Assembly in the crucible of Oshiomhole’s unwary threat, the Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, then a candidate for the office, had to go out of his way to commit 60 plum committee positions to the opposition. The implication of this arrangement is that a good portion of Buhari’s change agenda will once again be dictated by a discredited opposition party, thanks to Oshiomhole’s signature bluster. This open optics of a clashing agenda within the party explains why Nigerians no longer take the words of the loquacious ruling party chairman without a grain of salt.

Even more troubling, Oshiomhole’s handpicked leadership of the legislature has inflicted irreparable damage on Buhari’s second term and beyond. Only a lunatic enemy of the president, APC, and Nigeria would wish a scenario where the upper echelon of both the party and its government continually excludes the entire Igbo nation of the South-East and South-South zones or the entire nine states that make up the old Eastern Region, a vital arm of the tripod by which the country is supposed to stand. Fast forward to 2023, unless drastic changes are made, while the PDP will confidently compete in all the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, the APC will have no business whatsoever taking its campaign across the east of Niger, thereby starting off with nine states already in the opposition column.

The trending argument that power must be shared in line with voting patterns is not only naked nescience, it is also unpatriotic and, of course, a crude onslaught on democratic opposition. A prudent party chairman ought to have recalled that the South-West zone — which had been the proud and generous bastion of national opposition till 2015 — did not vote for President Obasanjo in 1999; yet, neither the members of the then-ruling party from the zone nor the zone itself were punished for free choice. Similarly, the North-West zone, which had always provided block votes for Buhari since 2003, was never denied its rightful place. There is wisdom in the common saying that what unites the nation ought to be placed above what divides it.

The objective fact is that Adams Oshiomhole neither has any sense of history nor the vision to lead a progressive party. Instead of fortifying the cardinal principles of the APC, which promote inclusiveness, diversity of opinion, and mass empowerment, the only vision Nigerians have seen from the former union activist is a clannish agenda commonly spewed out with a cascade of vulgar vanity, temper tantrums, and sheer shenanigans.

The solution is to surgically remove Oshiomhole from every sphere of public leadership before he destroys Nigeria. And, to think of it, if his winner-takes-all-approach is to be embraced, Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole might as well not deserve any serious position in the APC leadership or its government. After all, the comrade could not carry his South-South zone or even his home state of Edo, an APC state, despite claiming to have squandered huge elections money in the area in the course of Buhari’s re-election. Additionally, a party that prides on its anti-corruption strides must not have as its chairman, a man who has a strong corruption noose dangling around his neck.

SKC Ogbonnia, a 2019 APC presidential aspirant, is the author of Effective Leadership Formula.

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RUGA: The Fulani Must Not Fight Buhari’s War

By SKC Ogbonnia

July 19, 2019

President Muhammadu Buhari is not only giving Nigeria a bad name with his handling of the herdsmen crisis, the good people of Fulani should also understand that the president might have equally damaged their brand around the world.

 

As I noted in a recent piece, “Second Term: A Leadership Lesson Buhari Must Learn”; the style of a leader is vitally essential in governance. I asserted that “Buhari's style is a leadership miasma, offensive enough to turn his friends into foes.” This explains why a president who was re-elected barely four months ago has already lost his voice with the generality of the Nigerian people. Therefore, even if his Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) policy is the sole panacea to all the Nigerian problems, the people are bound to view it with stifling suspicion. This goes without saying that, while RUGA definitely does not represent the best model to address the growing herdsmen crisis, the main problem is more about the messenger than the message itself.

 

In fact, I have wondered lately, if Muhammadu Buhari is truly Fulani. Having grown up in Kano, I have come across millions of Fulani and worked with thousands of them in key Northern states. I have also maintained close friendships with many of the people and interacted with many more in the course of my presidential campaign. When I think of the Fulani, I think of good people, overall. Remember the calibers of Emir Ado Bayero, Emir Shehu Idris, Shehu Shagari, Abubakar Rimi, Sultan Muhammadu Sa'ad Abubakar, Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II, the Yar’Aduas, Shehu Sani; and one of my childhood idols, Yusuf Bala Usman, to name just a few. They are known to be amiable, meek, bridge-builders, intelligent, trustworthy, sagacious, and shrewd.

Buhari, as civilian president, has been more or less a stone-cold zombie. Not to be quoted out of context; zombie, according to Cambridge Dictionary, refers to “someone who moves around as if unconscious and being controlled by someone else.”  Yes, unlike a true Fulani, Muhammadu Buhari does not even have control of his presidency let alone a complicated policy like RUGA. Those currently steering him around are textbook sycophants, who are merely exploiting the situation for their selfish interests. Different efforts to wake up the president have been met with silent treatment. But, as an Igbo adage goes, a stubborn tsetse fly usually follows the corpse to the grave. That is gradually becoming Buhari’s fate. And the Fulani must not follow him along.

 

The people should rather ponder begging questions like these: Given that Nigeria has coexisted with the herdsmen for ages, why—all of a sudden—the issue of Fulani herdsmen is threatening the fabric of national existence? How and why did the herdsmen terrorism escalate under Buhari to the extent that the Fulani brand is becoming a taboo around the world? How come Northern Nigeria is more divided under Buhari than at any other time in the Nigerian history? Why and how did the threat of secessions exacerbate under Buhari’s civilian regime?

 

Not done, how would the Fulani feel, if either President Olusegun Obasanjo or President Goodluck Jonathan folded their hands while bandits identified as Yoruba or Ijaw were massacring the Fulani with AK 47? How would the Fulani feel, if their people were met with political persecution after the 2011 elections, when the North-West zone expressed their democratic rights to vote overwhelmingly for their native son, Buhari, instead President Goodluck Jonathan?

The answer is simple: No section of Nigeria deserves to be subjected to hostility or oppression because of their tribal, religious, or political orientations. The current herdsmen crisis has roots in Buhari’s dictatorial, divisive, arrogant, and unrepentant style of leadership.

Let’s go back to the RUGA palaver. One did not have to assume a clairvoyant authority to discern that the policy was bound to be dead-on-arrival. Good leaders gauge the mood in the country before rolling out controversial policies. First of all, the program was poorly communicated and widely sensationalized and believed to solely benefit Buhari’s people at the expense of other regions. Moreover, the president ought to have recognized that his name only pales in comparison to that of a Satan in notable parts of the country—to even contemplate a national policy like RUGA without wide consultations.

 

Start with the Middle Belt, the epicenter of herdsmen terrorism. Despite the fact the people were being slaughtered for months by herdsmen with sophisticated weapons, Buhari maintained stoic silence. Only a nefarious enemy of Nigeria would have remained indifferent to such wanton loss of human lives. Only an obvious bozo would ween that such neglected people would welcome a policy like RUGA with open arms.

 

Combine the irony with the reality that Buhari further divided the country upon assumption of office in 2015 when he declared political vendetta against zones or regions that voted overwhelmingly for the opposition. He followed by introducing the most unpatriotic patronage model ever seen in the country, whereby political appointments are based purely on voting patterns. The target, of course, were the people of the Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria.

 

The ground zero of Buhari’s offensive were the South-East and South-South zones. The sole reason for the utter disdain is that the people voted en masse for their native son, Goodluck Jonathan—just as the people of Northwest voted for their own native son, the same Buhari, in 2011. Today, the entire nine states of the Eastern Region—a full leg of the tripod by which the country is supposed to stand—is totally excluded from the upper echelon of Buhari’s sphere of influence, including the executive branch, the legislature, the judiciary, and the ruling party itself. Today, the region has been reduced to merely good for natural resources and national taxation, but unworthy to sit at the national table of power. Their crime this time around is the freewill of majority of their people to vote for another Fulani man in Atiku Abubakar in 2019 presidential election, instead of Buhari himself. Never in the history of the post-war democratic Nigeria has an entire region been treated with such degree of disdain and political persecution.

Once re-elected, Buhari quickly explored a strategy of ‘divide and conquer’ through the Western Region. But the Yoruba intelligentsia refused to buy the strident gambit. Instead, they have remained aligned with the entire South along with the Middle Belt to form the confluence of the current opposition turbulence thickening around Buhari’s regime.

 

With the apparent rejection of the RUGA policy, there are already some dog whistles by some Northern elements to widen the anger of defeat to a war between the North and South or a war between the Core North against the Middle Belt together with the entire South. More commonly, given the nature of politics in Buhari’s second term, especially with respect to 2023 presidency, one would not be surprised, if somehow, some schemers, including some southern wannabes within the ruling party, employ a satanic strategy to narrow any hostility as a typical conflict between the Fulani versus the East, particularly the Igbo.

 

But the Fulani masses must not fight the Buhari’s war. Neither the South nor the Middle Belt has a case against the Fulani as people. After all, Nigeria had coexisted peacefully under past Fulani leaders. Similarly, the people of Southern Nigeria and the Middle Belt must equally sheathe their swords. The main problem is neither the Fulani people nor the poor and unwary herdsmen, most of who do not even own the cows nor can afford AK 47s. The common enemy is the president of the country, who emboldened the herdsmen by appearing to condone their terrorist activities. Simply put, the growing opposition to Buhari’s regime lies squarely on gross failure in leadership—his failure to secure the lives and property of the Nigerian people, his failure to be president for all Nigerians.

Be that as it may, there is an urgent need to develop a national policy for the management of the Nigerian livestock assets for the greater good, and the model is not rocket science. But it may not be tenable under the current situation where the president not only acts like sectional leader but also acts like he does not care. The way forward, therefore, is for Muhammadu Buhari to demonstrate true leadership. Instead of viewing every critic as an enemy, instead of fanning embers of discord in every front, the president should listen—atone, make amends, communicate, and begin to lead a just, accountable, equitable, and human government. Though his response to the recent murder of Funke Olakunrin—the daughter of a prominent Yoruba leader by suspected terrorists—is timely and noteworthy, President Buhari might as well understand that every Nigerian life matters.  

SKC Ogbonnia, 2019 APC presidential aspirant, is the author of the Effective Leadership Formula.

[SKC Ogbonnia]

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[SKC Ogbonnia]

For Immediate Release

ABUJA, NIGERIA

 

FROM: The Coalition of former 2019 Nigerian Presidential Aspirants and Candidates

 

TO: President Muhammadu Buhari                       

Aso Rock, Presidential Villa, Abuja, FCT

August 5, 2019

 

Cc:

Hon. Ahmed Lawan, President of the Senate                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Senate, NASS Complex, Abuja, FCT

Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker, Federal House of Representative (FHR)                                                                                                                                             FHR, NASS Complex, Abuja, FCT

 

Ref-The Illegal Arrest of Omoyele Sowore

 

We, the Coalition of former 2019 Presidential Aspirants and Candidates, under the aegis of Third Force Forum, hereby demand the unconditional release of one of our compatriots, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, who was arrested by an agency of the government on August 2, 2019, pursuant to plans for a protest march across Nigeria; which is within his full constitutional rights toward “Freedom of Expression”, pursuant to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

 

We must also remind you Mr. President, that in addition to the Nigerian Constitution, Nigeria also subscribes to other International Treaties, which prohibit violation of human rights of her citizens.  To refrain from adhering to these national and international rights, is to invite anarchy onto the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

 

As you are fully aware Mr. President, every democratic government that subscribes to the Rule of Law, has time-tested methods of containing any breach of the peace during peaceful protests; without clamping down on our fundamental rights of “Freedom of Expression” and to peaceably assemble, in-order to address grievances by the government; even when those views expressed are contrary to the views of the current government.

 

Therefore, we implore you to immediately order the applicable agencies of the State to immediately release Mr. Omoyele Sowore unconditionally, in-order to maintain peace in our country, and to deter further national and international repercussions on this matter.

 

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter Mr. President, we look forward to a mutually respectful Nigeria for all Nigerians.

 

Signed:

 

Dr. SKC Ogbonnia, 2019 Presidential Aspirant, All Progressives Congress (APC)

                                                                                                                                                                     

Hon. Tope Fasua, 2019 Presidential Candidate, Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP)                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Hon. Okey Samuel Mbonu, 2019 Presidential Aspirant, Labour Party (LP)

 

Dr. Thomas-Wilson Ikhubese, 2019 Presidential Aspirant, Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN)                                                                                                                                                           

 

Dr. Emmanuel Etim, 2019 Presidential Candidate, Change Nigeria Party (CNP)                                                                                                                                                                      

 

Dr. Ayodele O. Favour, 2019 Presidential Aspirant, Young Progressives Party (YPP)

 

Hon. Clement Jimbo, 2019 Presidential Aspirant, Social Democratic Party (SDP)

 

ON BEHALF OF the Coalition of the 2019 Former Presidential Aspirants and Candidates (Third Force Forum)                                                                                                                                                     

 

[Maxima1757 maxima1757]

"... every democratic government that subscribes to the Rule of Law, has time-tested methods of containing any breach of the peace during peaceful protests; without clamping down on our fundamental rights of “Freedom of Expression” and to peaceably assemble, ..."

Those who who refuse to learn from the lessons of history, those who run away from Truth, Justice, Righteousness, Reciprocity, Balance, Harmony and Order, will always be the dregs and rejects of history.

History is replete with those who, thinking they are intelligent, subvert Truth with semantics, until Existence returns them for point source erasure, they and their unborn generations upon generations. 

Regardless of the epoch, there was xerxes, nebuchaderrezar,  caligula, herrod, pontius pilate, yusuf the himyarite king,  enver pasha (Turkey), porfirio diaz (Mexico), fu sheng (China), tsar ivan IV. the terrible (Russia), tokugawa ieyasu (Japan), tenghiz khan (Mongolia), gezo (Dahomey); napoleon bonaparte (France), leopold II (Belgium - heart of darkness), vlad III the impaler (Romania), adolf schicklgruber (Hitler); benito mussolini; josef stalin; hosni mubarak (egypt); the romanovs (Russia), mobutu sese seko (Congo) omar al bashir (sudan); jean bedel bokassa (CAR), sanni abacha (nigeria), e.t.c.

They all behaved as if they were either the Truth, or they were greater. But they either lacked the capacity, or they forgot to realize, that Truth and Justice are the parents of Peace, who with Good Governance, breeds Prosperity and a living space that supports human life, including yours.

Maybe they have forgotten, just like the tyrants before them, that the people are the country. Counting only the so-called elite alone, all you have is no more than a hamlet. A hamlet that cannot till the soil, feed, or protect itself of itself. A hamlet destined for quick extinction.

So if you are no less than Human, you will recognize clearly the Truth that your true need is to treat those you depend on with respect and care. To be the guardian and nourisher of Truth, Justice, Righteousness, Harmony, Balance, Reciprocity and thus Oder for all, not just yourself or your ilk. For without them you cannot be.

If you abduct those who protest injustice and you leave the perpetrators, who daily threaten and commit crimes against humanity and then lie that they are the victim. If you take arms from the people and leave them in the hands of those who perpetrate death and destruction on others without arresting them and making them face justice, you contravene the rules of life, even for yourself.

Regardless of thee spin illusions you want to pretend, it will not stand.

Peace is only guaranteed with strong and resilient security, in the midst of a happy population. And security can only be as strong as the happiness of the population.

Nakedness in the midst of happy friends is exponentially stronger than a fortress in the midst of angry enemies.

Human ... if that you are ...know thyself.

Those who have ears ...

O.E.

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Sowore And Revolution: As Buhari Forgets Why And How He Became President

By SKC Ogbonnia

August 8, 2019

 

Most of us who held our noses to support President Muhammadu Buhari again in the last election had hoped for true change, if he was re-elected. Two months into the second tenure, while it may appear as if though Buhari is indeed incorrigible, it is definitively clear that he has forgotten why and how he became democratic president in the first place. If that were not the case, there is no way Buhari’s regime would be colluding with the courts to detain Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC) in the last election--without bail.    

 

 

Flash back to how we got here. The 16-year reign of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was an embarrassing failure. Yet, the then ruling party was boasting that it would rule Nigeria for 60 uninterrupted years whether we “like it or not.”  Elections had become mere charade. Though the country was in dire need of change, the change appeared impossible.

 

Many prominent politicians aspired to wrestle power from the center during that era, but none was more consistent than General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) who had always garnered massive votes from northern part of the country by tapping into a visceral anger provoked by gross misrule of the PDP under southern leaders. Yet, Buhari needed broader opposition to win the presidency. One of the patriots that answered that call was the publisher of the New York-based Sahara Reporters, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, a globally celebrated anti-corruption advocate, well-known for speaking truth to power.

 

 

Armed with an activist pedigree, Ivy League education, and a cult-like army of social media warriors, Sowore became a torn in the flesh of various PDP regimes. Together with his popular tabloid, Sowore keyed into the vanguard of the political revolution that made it possible for Buhari to make history by unseating an incumbent president in Nigeria. Even though they had ideological differences, Sowore saw Buhari’s anticorruption record as a common ground. More essentially, removing PDP from power was an ultimate compromise.

 

 

Throughout Buhari’s quest for the presidency, from 2002 to 2015, he adopted a revolutionary approach replete with inflammatory rhetorics. For instance, he is on record to have urged Nigerians to emulate the example of Arab Spring Revolution to oust the regime of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011. He followed in May 14, 2012 to charge that “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.” Even his victorious 2015 presidential campaign was prosecuted with revolutionary credo. In fact, a simple scan of the internet still shows many sites and incidents relating the president to revolution, including a Face Book page boldly christened “The Buhari Revolution”. Of course, there were some calls for Buhari’s arrest, but President Jonathan recognized that the Constitution guarantees the former military dictator freedom of speech.

 

 

The problem, however, is that upon gaining the power, Buhari did not, and still does not, seem to remember why he was elected. For example, while the history will cast Goodluck Jonathan as the president who condoned corruption, Buhari might eventually be remembered as the man who assumed power with a singular purpose to eradicate corruption but ended up as the most shameless promoter of corruption in the annals of national existence.

 

 

Today, acute corruption and crass impunity are the other of the day. Today, the ruling party has as its chairman a virally corrupt and morally bankrupt figure who goes around brandishing the party as a sanctuary for treasury looters. Today, notorious corrupt kingpins standing trials at various courts are being recycled as ministers in nation of abundant qualified manpower. Moreover, the degree of political, tribal, ethnic, social, and religious divisions in the country is unrivalled in the national history, thanks to the prevailing naked injustice under Buhari. In short, things are truly falling apart. Not only is the president leading a visionless regime, he can no longer claim to have the capacity to guarantee the safety of lives and properties of the Nigerian people, let alone being able to cater for the welfare of a deserving nation.

 

 

The truth is that the nation is deep crisis, with helpless citizens being kidnapped, maimed, and killed with reckless abandon. The situation has provoked some prominent organizations and figures, including royal fathers and former military leaders, to challenge the citizenry to defend themselves instead of depending on the failing state for protection.

 

 

Rather than toe the path of violence or emulate Buhari’s incendiary style, Omoyele Sowore called for a peaceful revolution with the goal to awaken an unresponsive government towards change. Unfortunately, similar to the pattern under military dictatorship, the president ordered the arrest of Sowore, naively claiming that the word revolution suddenly translates to only a call for an overthrow of government. But if Buhari’s new vision of revolution is not stark hypocrisy, one can then come to terms on why he toppled Shagari’s government which had Green Revolution as a cardinal policy. He might as well occasion the arrest of the Leader of APC, Bola Tinubu, and many well-documented Nigerian presidential aspirants or candidates, including Buhari himself, who pitched revolution as a rallying call for action in their quest for power. From his prison cell, Mr. Buhari can be at the liberty to dial US President, Donald Trump, to quickly arrest a current Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders, whose campaign theme is “Our Revolution”.

 

 

The Sowore saga is simply a case of hyper-hypocrisy, but the crisis conundrum is that Muhammadu Buhari does not listen. In a widely celebrated essay, “Buhari And Nnamdi Kanu Fighting The Wrong Enemies”, I had cautioned the president during his first tenure that “fighting the right causes through the wrong courses usually creates more problems than solutions.” Today, Kanu and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have only grown worldwide by leaps and bounds, and the toll on national economy continues to mount. As he begins his second term, President Buhari needs to equally understand that Nigeria’s problem is neither Omeyele Sowore. The true problem is the failure to wage a true war against corruption; failure to lead a just, transparent, and responsive government; the failure to protect the lives and property of ordinary Nigerians; and the failure to be president for all. The solution is true change. The president can begin with atonement and immediate and unconditional release of Sowore. Anything less only goes to worsen the growing crisis. 

[SKC Ogbonnia]

Governor Ugwuanyi, Please STOP it--Demolishing our caves is NOT a security solution!!

Folks: 

To combat the security challenges in Enugu state, Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwu has ordered the immediate demolition of caves in the Awgu area, believed to be hideouts for criminals. But he should have a rethink. In short, he must stop...Demolishing our caves, some of the few remaining historic landmarks/attractions in country, is not a security solution!!

Read more @ https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/08/breaking-ugwuanyi-orders-immediate-demolition-of-caves-in-agwu-forests/

[SKC Ogbonnia]

Gov. Ugwuanyi, Please STOP it--Demolishing our caves is NOT a security solution!!

[SKC Ogbonnia]

Gov. Ugwuanyi Bows to public pressure, shelves demolition of Caves in Awgu...

 

Folks:

Gov. Ugwuanyi has bowed to public pressure and will no longer demolish the historic Awgu Caves.  He now agrees to develop as tourist attraction...

You did let your voices be HEARD!!

READ MORE:

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/08/jubilation-as-awgu-people-assure-ugwuanyi-of-adequate-security-support/

[Joseph Onuorah]

Nice, nice! 

People’s voice does matter and does make a difference. A fact that Africans do not seem to appreciate. Making noise or developing and propagating false narratives is not the “voice” that makes a difference in terms of effecting positive changes. 

I applaud Gov. Ugwuanyi for re-evaluating his decision and more importantly, for committing to develop these Caves into tourist attractions. Many of us stand to support him. 

Joe. 

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Herdsmen Terrorism: Different Strokes For The Man Of God And The Daughter Of A Politician

 By SKC Ogbonnia

August 19, 2019

 

The Herdsmen terrorism in Nigeria has lasted because the victims are typically the ordinary people. Consider, for instance, two recent killings, in which the victims happened to be an ordinary man of God and a daughter of a prominent politician. 

 

Take note of this name: Funke Olakunrin. She was the daughter of the Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. Though murdered in cold blood by bandits on July 12, 2019, the unfortunate incident might turn out a sacrificial lamb in the fight against herdsmen terrorism in the country. Before Mrs. Olakunrin, many Nigerians had lost their lives at the hands of Fulani herdsmen in recent years. The number is in thousands, and across the country, particularly the minority areas of the Middle Belt. Different pressures, both local and international, to provoke the Federal Government towards meaningful action fell on deaf ears.

 

But all that changed with case of the daughter of the politician from the highly influential Southwest Nigeria, home to the country’s human rights superstars. This death shook the political class, reminding them it could be any of them any day. A cream of who is who in Nigerian politics quickly found their way to the victim’s Akure home. Former President Goodluck Jonathan was on hand, praying for an end to the killings. The dean of former presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo, wrote a damning letter, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to do something.

 

The major socio-cultural groups in the country, notably, Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum, Coalition of Northern Groups, and Northern Elders Forum were not left behind. Strong warnings also came from the sole Nigerian Nobel laureate and eminent activist, Wole Soyinka, and the preeminent king in the region, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II.

 

The Federal Government finally woke up. President Buhari, who had always shown indifference to past killings, swiftly condemned the terrorist act and promised to fish out the culprits. He followed by dispatching his deputy, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, to pay a condolence visit to Pa Fasoranti.  Akure, the home of the deceased, suddenly became a political Mecca for the ruling party henchmen, including its National Leader, Bola Tinubu, and host of others. Importantly, Buhari would meet with the traditional rulers from the Southwest Nigeria and promised to launch drones and CCTVs in Pa Fasoranti’s region.

 

Now, place the account above side by side with the case of the man of God, the Catholic Reverend Father Paul Offu, who was murdered in my area of Enugu State by suspected Fulani herdsmen August 1, 2019. This gruesome act made news, quite alright, especially among the Catholic faithful. The priests of Catholic Diocese of Enugu matched to protest for their colleague. Rome was furious, as did many Christian organizations around the world. President Buhari also joined and ordered a manhunt for the killers.

 

But that was as far as the attention could go. There was no motorcade of the rich and famous thronging to the home of the poor man of God. Besides a statement from the governor of Enugu State, and unlike the scene during the last elections where the two major parties rented tents at the Adoration Ground Enugu, seeking Father Ejike Mbaka’s endorsement, neither former leaders, current, nor future leaders could show serious concern. The two federal lawmakers from the area, namely Senator Ike Ekeremadu and Hon. Toby Okechukwu rather chose to travel to faraway Germany to celebrate fake new yam festival while their region was under siege.  

 

Vice-President Osinbajo, who doubles as man of God, could not even commiserate, let alone pay a visit to Father Offu’s village. And, of course, there was no meeting between South-East leaders and President Buhari nor concrete national action plan to combat terrorism in the Eastern flank. This seemingly double standard prompted the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohaneze Ndigbo, to demand equal justice in line with the security measures initiated in the Southwest Nigeria.

                                                                                                                     

Yet, the attention garnered thus far by the killing of Father Paul Offu would not have materialized, if the incident was not preceded by that of the daughter of Chief Reuben Fasoranti. After all, many other men of God had been victims, particularly in Northern Nigeria. Moreover, two Catholic priests had lost their lives at the hands of the terrorists in the same Enugu State in recent months without much fuss. In fact, unlike in the past, the security agencies in Enugu State, along with Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, demonstrated seriousness. Within three weeks after the killing, the Police Commissioner, Enugu Command, Mr. Suleiman Balarabe paraded Ibrahim Adamu and Idris Tobe as suspects, contrary to the subservient insinuations of Bola Tinubu that herdsmen terrorism in the South is a hoax.

 

The current fight against insecurity in Nigeria must not be selective. President Buhari should, therefore, hasten to equally launch tangible anti-terrorist measures in the East, as well as other hot areas, particularly the Middle Belt, which has been the epicenter of herdsmen killings in the country. The government must depart from the prevailing pattern where patronage is based purely on political calculations. For good governance in the entire country is vitally important to all. As an American president, John F. Kennedy once noted, “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

 

SKC Ogbonnia, a 2019 APC presidential aspirant, is the author of the Effective Leadership Formula.

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Sowore, IPOB, And The Naked Beating Of Ekweremadu

By SKC Ogbonnia

August 22, 2019

 

The naked beating of Senator Ike Ekweremadu in Germany evokes painful lessons, particularly with Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and, of course, the continued detention of the frontline anti-corruption advocate and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore.

 

First, the sympathy generated from the Ekweremadu beating has to do with the fact that the specious victim is a prominent member of the Nigerian political elite. Such type of public flogging is usually reserved for the ordinary Nigerians, especially if they dare go close to their leaders. The German incident also marked the first time a major suspect in looting of Nigerian treasury is manhandled like a petty thief. That explains why the powerful politicians—from both sides of the isle—are united in mourning, while millions of the masses are jubilating as if Nigeria has suddenly won the world cup.

 

Second, the unfortunate incident is a dog whistle that the foreign land is no longer a safe haven for Nigerian corrupt leaders and their families. Hopefully, the protest may turn out a blessing in disguise. Nigeria will be better served the day her political class shows trust in the country’s social amenities, especially the schools; hospitals; and tourism, including new yam festival.   

 

Third, and very significant, the nature of the beating on Ekweremadu shows that the Nigerian masses, particularly the Igbo youths, are gradually recognizing their true problems and true enemies. In short, the IPOB might have finally shattered Ekweremadu’s balloon of fake popularity, sustained by a cocktail of ceaseless montage of paid propaganda, cascade of mass deceit, and a vicious army of highly educated and well-paid toadies. The IPOB might as well grasp the reality that the Biafran problem is Biafran made. The objective fact is that our people who have held power in Nigeria’s 4th Republic in the Biafran area—from local government, the states, federal to President Goodluck Jonathan—were not the Hausa-Fulani. The world is also learning that Ekweremadu’s Enugu West Senatorial district has been home to the worst set of road networks in Nigeria throughout his fifth tenure in the senate. These include the most-deadly trio of Enugu/Onitsha, Enugu/PH, and Awgu/Oji-River highways, which has only served as money-spinners for the area politicians through series of funded but abandoned contracts. 

 

Fifth, the angst expressed in Germany by IPOB is nothing but a page from the anticorruption vision of the revolution that brought President Muhammadu Buhari to democratic power. Therefore, besides the lack of development in the East and Ekweremadu’s apparent duplicity in the proscription of IPOB, it is an open secret that my senator is crudely corrupt. This is a man who mas a mere charge-n-bail lawyer before entering politics in 1999 but would shamelessly admit an overnight ownership of over 31 choice properties around the world without real job. Yet, since disgraced out of his ambition to remain a lifetime Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has been globetrotting, celebrating failure with fake yam festivals while millions of fellow Igbo youths are subjected to abject poverty and despair, home and abroad. Enough!

 

As I noted in the piece, “Buhari And Nnamdi Kanu Fighting The Wrong Enemies”, the whole IPOB saga is misconstrued. What must no longer escape the minds of patriotic Nigerians is that an original aim of Radio Biafra, before its vision was sabotaged by Igbo politicians, was to uproot “all looters, embezzlers, kidnappers, sponsors of terrorism, child traffickers, corrupt judges, crooked university lecturers, murderous Nigerian security forces and all thieving individuals masquerading as public officials who steal public funds thereby preventing developmental projects from impacting positively on the lives of the ordinary people.”  That sounded more like Muhammadu Buhari speaking before he gained power in 2015. Therefore, though physical assault must be strongly discouraged, the grievances against Ekweremadu are profoundly justified. You cannot beat a child and expect him not to cry at the same time. Moreover, my readers will by next week learn hard facts on how the senator actually owes IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu, not the other way around.

 

 

Fourth, and very instructively, the Ekweremadu experience is a wake-up call that the continued detention of Omoleye Sowore is a time bomb. Of course, the senator representing me is not the only corrupt politician flaunting his wealth and influence at the expense of the masses. Consider, for instance, the latest quagmire where Godswill Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom, who is a facing trial for stealing N108 billion from state treasury, is suddenly made the boss of Festus Keyamo, a celebrated human rights lawyer, who was the prosecutor in the same case. Combine the irony with the situation where Timipre Sylva, a former governor of Bayelsa state, who was found guilty under the President Jonathan for corrupt acquisition of 48 choice properties, now holds sway at the Ministry of Petroleum, the mainstay of the nation’s life.

 

This pattern under President Buhari is unimaginable and definitively unbearable. This is precisely why Nnamdi Kanu of IPOB refers to Nigeria as a zoo. The daring degree of impunity is why a foremost patriot and First Lady, Aisha Buhari, once wondered, “where are the men of Nigeria? Where are the Nigerian men? What are you doing? Instead of them to come together and fight them, they kept visiting them one after the other, licking their shoes.”  The growing impunity accounts for why Nigerian men descended on Ekweremadu, a permanent fixture in the gross misrule of Nigeria in the 4^th Republic. Of course, the jarring injustice in Nigeria is the sole raison d'être for the peaceful nationwide protest being led by Sowore, a field marshal in the 2015 revolution that toppled Jonathan and brought General Buhari to power. That is perfectly why #RevolutionNow enjoys support from broad sections of Nigeria, home and abroad.

 

As patriot and, of course, one of the most rabid supporters of Buhari from 1984, I truly want him to be the best president. But he must do the needful. The time has come for dialogue instead of seeing every critic or protest as coup d’etat. And charity begins at home. The president might as well embrace the vision of his United Nations address in 2017, where he preached dialogue over war in the case of North Korea. In Buhari’s words, “In all these crises, the primary victims are the people, the most vulnerable being women and children.”  Thusly, his style of beckoning trouble from all fronts is a recipe for disaster. The latest attempt to label Nnamdi Kanu and Sowore as coup plotters is not only a maddening malfeasance, the continued detention of Sowore is equally a brazen nonfeasance.

 

President Buhari must rise beyond sheer dogmatism and admit that the state is truly falling apart. He ought to be able to discern that, unlike the case of IPOB where the Igbo leaders, including Ekweremadu, have been dreadfully deceitful; the crème de la crème of the Yoruba intelligentsia is boldly behind Omoyele Sowore. Only a poon ignores the potential consequences of the heavily funded but regional IPOB, with a worldwide membership, fusing with a broad-based national outfit like #RevolutionNow. It will not be surprising, however, if this appeal is ignored; after all, “the primary victims are the people, the most vulnerable being women and children.” 

[SKC Ogbonnia]

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Why Ekweremadu Belongs to Hall of Shame (I)

By SKC Ogbonnia                                               

August 27, 2019.

 

The recent protest in Germany in which Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, was harassed, chased around, subdued, and beaten naked like a palace pickpocket brought big shame to Nigeria, and the senator must own full blame. Even a novice could have discerned that the popularity of the #RevolutionNow, led by Omoyele Sowore, shows that the Nigerian masses are not fools and will not endure abject injustice forever. They are gradually recognizing their true problems and real enemies. The masses are keenly aware that Ekweremadu has been a recurring decimal in the gross misrule of the country in the 4^th Republic, particularly in the South-East zone. 

 

A fifth-term term senator, Mr. Ike Ekweremadu is a malignant narcissist masked by a boy-scout persona, yet any dig into his record readily exhumes mess and miasma to boot. He has only managed to sustain power through fake popularity, buoyed by a montage of propaganda, mass deceit, political bribery and brigandage and, of course, a vicious army of well-educated and well-paid bootlickers, made possible by an overflowing wealth accumulated without sweat. I must admit that I was once gullible to the propaganda and consequently became one of Ekweremadu’s biggest boosters.  

 

The trust dramatically waned after I penned him a letter following the election of 2011. Since he was the political leader of the South-East to the centre, I specified important projects in the zone that could mold his name into gold, namely, Enugu Airport; Enugu/Port-Harcourt, Enugu/Onitsha, and Onitsha/Owerri highways; 2^nd River Niger Bridge; and an additional Igbo state. I am yet to recover from the shock I felt when Senator Ekweremadu thundered back, suggesting that I was an ingrate. To him, instead of worrying about public projects, I should be grateful for life that he hired my brother as his adviser, supported my cousin’s election to the Federal House, and graded the pavement leading into my country home. But Ekweremadu forgot that we both must first pass through the roads plied by the masses before striding into our mansions. Lo and behold, yet very unfortunately, the senator would lose his beloved brother, Chukwuemeka, to motor accident caused by potholes on the same Enugu/PH highway on December 23, 2012. This experience contributed to my piece, “Every Nigerian Blood Is On The Line”

 

The last straw took place in 2013 at Houston, Texas. I had organized a meeting between Ekweremadu and the leaders of Igbo Peoples’ Congress while he was in the city on the invitation of Greater Awgu Leadership Forum (GALF). When confronted about why he had not shown up at the Igbo meeting, he retorted that the size of the crowd was not large enough to deserve his presence, and he never showed up. Ekweremadu’ apparent insult on the Igbo made me furious, obviously, but that is nothing compared to what follows.

 

A night before the aborted Igbo meeting, the senator was kind to have presented the Awgu people copies of a fat pamphlet, titled “Accomplishments & Constituency Projects Attracted by His Excellency Senator Ike Ekweremadu, CFR”. Interestingly, the number one on the list (S/N. 1) was a library he claimed to have attracted in the year 2009 to my town, Ugbo, under MDGs Quickwin. I quickly called the town union to inquire about the library and other projects on the list—only to find out that no such things existed and still do not exist. I made similar inquiries around the constituency and other parts of South-East where projects were supposedly attracted. I received similar result—phantom. Even in some cases with traces of such projects, they were uncompleted and totally abandoned. After his tawdry refusal to explain the contradictions, I made my findings public.

 

Since then, I have been a marked man. He not only unleashed a global campaign of calumny against my person and businesses, he is on record to have threatened my life. I will never wish my worst enemy the most immoral sight of Ike Ekweremadu laughing and jeering, while my dear mother, a septuagenarian, knelt in full glare of a national TV, appealing to the senator not to hurt her son—for daring to question his representative in government. The date was December 27, 2013. As if that lacked in folly, Ekweremadu commanded his toadies in the district, including some “autonomous” royal fathers, such as Igwe Lawrence Chime of Ugbonabor and Igwe Jerome Okeke of Ngene Ugbo to publicly denounce me for daring to oppose their Excellency.

 

This last election season, obviously rattled that my presidential bid could inspire opposition in the constituency and threaten his ageless grip on the people, Ekweremadu sponsored his aides to tear down my posters around Enugu State. They even had the audacity to invade my country home on August 10, 2018, beating up my campaign officials, as well as some family members. It took the timely intervention of Ugbo youths to avert counterattack and bloodshed. Of course, I alerted the senator and some relevant authorities in the state. Besides the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Nnia Nwodo; and Ogbuagu Anikwe, the spokesman of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, who registered strong displeasure; Ike Ekweremadu never apologized nor condemned the thuggery. But this pattern of do-or-die, remember, is how he has sustained power.

 

The bigger problem, however, is that no part of the South-East has seen any tangible development the 12 years Ekweremadu held the power. Today, the only major public attraction in his entire local government is his mansion at Mpu, being one of his 32 choice properties currently under criminal investigation. Today, the three major roads that traverse his constituency, namely, Enugu-Onitsha, Enugu-PH, and Awgu-Oji-River highways are among the ten worst highways in the country. Today, most major projects in Igboland have only been good for election propaganda and money-spinning by the area politicians through series of funded but abandoned contracts. Needless to mention that the Part II of this essay will demonstrate how Ekweremadu used and dumped the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for his personal interest.

 

Ekweremadu’s imprint at the national level does not need to be retold here. Consider, for instance, his ignorable role as a ringleader in the third-term plot to derail our democracy and elongate Obasanjo’s tenure. Combine the subversive act with the fact that Ekweremadu was one of the brains behind the jumbo salary for Senators, as well as the Constituency Project scheme, which has cost the country trillions without any meaningful project to show. Further, despite being palm handed N10 billion under President Jonathan to influence the amendment of the Constitution towards restructuring, including the additional states and local governments, the only result Nigerians have seen are tales after tales.

 

It is clear the grievances against Ekweremadu by IPOB are profoundly justified. But physical assault must be condemned as well. Petitions, picketing, booing, jeering, and heckling are proper. In fact, the nature of the German protest remains at risk of turning Ekweremadu, the villain, into a victim. Notice how he quickly resorted back to his familiar mélange of propaganda and profligacy upon arrival in Nigeria, shamelessly chartering aircrafts, renting ever-ready crowds, and portraying himself as a hero—for being disgraced on his plot to remain Deputy Senate President for life and later flogged naked at a fake New Yam Festival in faraway Germany, while his direct constituency is under siege by terror herdsmen.

 

The Nigerian masses, particularly the Igbo, have suffered massive neglect the last 12 years Ike Ekweremadu held sway as the de facto Senate President. But the senator is not alone. The Diaspora Nigerians should, therefore, unite and quickly initiate a Hall of SHAME where the likes of Ike Ekweremadu deserve a permanent place. Yes, it portends a crime against the humanity to continue to allow Nigerian corrupt leaders to enjoy freedom in foreign lands if they cannot guarantee freedom for the masses in their homeland.

 

SKC Ogbonnia, a 2019 APC presidential aspirant, is the author of the Effective Leadership Formula.

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[SKC Ogbonnia]

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Press Statement

How Ekweremadu Used And Abused IPOB

By SKC Ogbonnia

September 4, 2019

 

The current Biafran struggle has meant different things to different people. For former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, it appears more of a specious opportunity to exploit the Biafran masses—for selfish interest, motivated by blind ambition for power and primitive accumulation of wealth. The result has been blackmail, political persecution, loss of many innocent lives and, by consequence, the protest in Nuremberg, Germany, where the senator was flogged naked. But these developments should not have come as a surprise, particularly to the principal actors, namely, Ekweremadu, Nnamdi Kanu, and Muhammadu Buhari.  

 

In a 2015 piece, “How PDP And APC Created New Biafran Agitations”, I narrated how the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), having squandered the huge oil boom, “had nothing on the ground for the Igbo masses and thus needed to sustain mass following by deceit.” I added that a perilous perfidy deployed by the Igbo PDP caucus--under the leadership of Ekweremadu--to prevent the restless Igbo youths from revolt was that a support for President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 was an automatic Igbo presidency in 2019. In fact, the baloney was the sole message conveyed from Jonathan to us at the World Igbo Congress convention in Houston in 2014, through Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu and Senator Hope Uzodinma.

 

Nyesom Wike, then a governorship candidate, took the gambit to the extreme when he threatened secession, if PDP were to lose the 2015 election. Hear him: "I will lead a war against them (Nigeria) like Ojukwu. Am not joking, I know am on air, and I am warning them now… In fact, we from the South-South and South-East we remain in PDP. We leave the South-West and North to run APC. That is how they tactically shared the Country.”

 

Thus, the Buhari’s victory in the 2015 election was read as a coup d’état in the East, particularly among the jobless youths, who thence answered the call for a Biafran Republic. Yet, the call would not have gained much currency and sympathy, if President Buhari of All Progressive Congress (APC) did not declare vendetta against the Biafran area for voting against him in the said election.

 

The biggest beneficiary of the Biafran agitation thus far has been Ike Ekweremadu. Upon conniving with Senator Bukola Saraki to snatch the post of Deputy Senate President from the ruling APC, Ekweremadu knew he was in for trouble, big trouble. And President Buhari went after the Igbo senator and Saraki, the Senate President, like tornado, including outright charges for forgery and corruption. The only strong defense the duo had at their disposal was to whip up the ethnic sentiment; and the Igbo saw an opportunity for revenge against Buhari.

 

Ekweremadu suddenly became an Igbo totem. Every Igbo group began to sing Ekweremadu or nothing at all—as if some how the region witnessed any tangible development the previous 8 years the senator was the de facto Senate president while his party was in power.

 

Yet, the fiercest opposition to Buhari or, rather, the strongest support of Ekweremadu and Saraki came from Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Nnamdi Kanu. Though Kanu would be arrested and detained, President Buhari knew to backpedal on Ekweremadu or risk a serious revolt from the South-East and the South-South zones. In short, Ekweremadu and Saraki would have been jailed by 2016, if not for a stout opposition from the IPOB organization worldwide. Said differently, Nnamdi Kanu might have sacrificed his freedom and the lives of many Biafran activists, so that Ike Ekweremadu could remain as the Deputy Senate President under Buhari.

 

It is true that Ekweremadu provided support to the IPOB before and after Kanu’s detention, quite alright, including a portion of the bail money, but his support was utterly selfish and dreadfully deceitful. This approach provoked the eminent economist and former Governor of Central Bank, Chukwuma Soludo, to use the occasion of the launching of the book, “The Politics of Biafra: And the Future of Nigeria”, to admonish such politicians exploiting IPOB for selfish interest to recognize that the Biafran activists “are no fools.”

 

The duplicity of politicians in the saga compelled me to pen: “Biafra And Corruption: When A Judas Becomes A Muhammad.” I was able to highlight how the corrupt hawks from the South-East and South-South zones exploit the fact that the Muslim North, which currently holds power, typically appears willing to turn an evil bearer of ‘One Nigeria’ into a saint. I detailed how such Southern leaders, who harbored dream for national leadership, suddenly abandoned the Biafran agitators they helped to create, and started singing a different tune. I noted the unholy subterfuge in which Governor Wike not only renamed Rivers State Stadium after Gowon, but also his dramatic handshake across the Northwest through the Sokoto Caliphate. More relatively, I demonstrated how Ekweremadu, after consolidating power as the political leader of the entire Biafran area, betrayed and dumped the IPOB on the altar of political opportunism. That Judas piece was published August 16, 2017.

 

One month after the exposé, September 17, 2017, to be exact, Chief Ekweremadu and the South-East governors met at Enugu, leading to the proscription of IPOB. The sheer shenanigans have led to maiming and killing of innocent Biafran activists, gross political persecution, and mass exodus of youths from the East to anywhere but Nigeria—Nuremberg not excluded.

 

The popularity of the public protest against Ekweremadu has shown that the Nigerian masses and IPOB have gotten wiser. As Buhari’s Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, would say, “If you see a thief and you allow him to be stealing, what have you done? You have stoned nobody; that is why we are stealing.” And I say, where there are no consequences for bad behavior, the bad behavior usually worsens.

 

But it does not appear that Ike Ekweremadu has gotten the message. Since returning to Nigeria after “Nuremberg”, the senator has had the audacity to resort back to his familiar mélange of propaganda and prodigality. Mr. Ekweremadu has been celebrating failure, deploying tax-payer’s money into chartering private aircrafts, and renting gullible crowds—crowds, who have done nothing but hail the whited sepulcher, while heaping abuse on the tireless masses of the Diaspora community, particularly the IPOB. This is impunity gone too far!

 

Be that as it may, the gist of my January 2017 piece, “Buhari and Nnamdi Kanu Fighting the Wrong Enemy”, remains profoundly instructive. Both Buhari and Kanu ought to unite and focus on the common enemy, being the Biafran politicians who colluded with contractors to loot development projects in region. Instead of seeing every dissent as terrorism or treason, Buhari should embrace dialogue, switch back his anti-corruption toga, and key into the current wave of worldwide revolution targeted against the looters of our commonwealth.

[SKC Ogbonnia]

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Asiwaju Tinubu, Where Is Comrade Sowore?

By SKC Ogbonnia

September 18, 2019

 

It has been over 45 days since a presidential candidate in Nigeria’s 2019 election, Omoyele Sowore, has been detained without bail by state agents; and one would have thought that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), could learn from recent events and begin to toe the path of honour in his pursuit for more power.  

 

In the piece, “I Pity Tinubu”, where I had berated President Muhammadu Buhari during his first  tenure for alienating the former Lagos Governor, I asserted that, “if dynamic opposition is the life-wire of a democracy, it is very fitting then to name him (Tinubu) the saviour of Nigeria’s current democratic journey.” Yet, the history of that journey would be incomplete without a defining chapter on Omoyele Sowore.

 

Backed by his revolutionary newspaper, Sahara Reporters, Sowore was a key component in the vanguard of the opposition movement that not only catapulted Tinubu to the helm, but also instrumental in gaining power in 2015. Sahara Reporters became a daily testament for transparency in government. Such activities contributed in no small measure to how the corrupt leadership under the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) was exposed. That is squarely how the APC became the ruling party. It is on that platter that Bola Tinubu became its National Leader, even though he is neither the president nor the chairman of the party.

 

Today, the Asiwaju might have emerged as the shrewdest politician in the Nigerian history. Today, having dictated the content and the character of the current government, including the leadership of the ruling party, and both the executive and the legislative arms of power, Tinubu’s faculty foresees the North under his palm. Today, with such unprecedented influence, the current optics is that the man even dictates who is intimidated, investigated or arrested, as his political foes are being hounded with an interesting sense of urgency. Today, believing that he has successfully humbled those from the East with a farrago of sectional politics and primordial prejudice, the emerging spectacle is that former Lagos State governor is now zeroing in on potential opponents in the West towards the 2023 presidential race.    

 

So, Asiwaju Tinubu, where is Comrade Sowore?

 

Make no mistake, any grudge from Tinubu against Sowore is superficially understandable. Though they worked together in 2015 against the common enemy in the gross misrule under PDP, quite alright, Sowore has always seen Tinubu as the godfather of the corrupt cabal stifling progress in South-West Nigeria in recent times. Therefore, even if Tinubu—the alpha and omega of the ruling party—has no hands in the travails of the publisher of Sahara Reporters, his stoic silence suggests a clear acquiescence, and naked duplicity to boot.

 

Moreover, to who much is given, much is expected. Tinubu can learn from the popularity of recent protest in Nuremberg, Germany, where the Eastern youths unleashed their anger on Senator Ike Ekweremadu. While the former Deputy Senate president was neither the governor of the entire East nor the only politician involved in the gross exploitation of the region, the Eastern youths saw him as their leader and thus as deserving a share of the burden of failure in leadership. It is only normal, therefore, that the Western youths are craving for bold leadership from their titanic Asiwaju in the current predicament where their promising and courageous Comrade is being detained with trumped-up charges.  

 

As I elaborated in an earlier essay: “Sowore And Revolution: As Buhari Forgets Why And How He Became President”, the very rhetoric, in which Omeyele Sowore is being hounded today, is a page from the opposition movement that brought APC to power. In short, the history has shown that both Tinubu and Buhari had effused worse revolutionary themes in their path to power, yet they were never arrested by past governments for the freedom of speech.

 

This growing pattern of injustice, as well as hypocrisy, in Buhari’s democratic regime, explains the necessity of #RevolutionNow. The Nigerian masses are worried that power struggles in Nigeria are merely to replace existing leaders with their opponents, whose attitude in governance would not be different from those of their predecessors. The Asiwaju must also come to terms with the reality that the Yoruba intelligentsia is understandably irate that a party it helped to gain power on the mantra of equity, probity, and integrity has become the grand promoter of injustice.

 

Bola Tinubu better knows to toe the path of honor in his quest for more power. He should know not to ignore the sophistication of South-West politics. The Yoruba did not defend June 12^th because of the person, MKO Abiola, nor vote for APC in 2015 because of the man, Buhari. The common cause was justice. It was Abiola yesterday; it is Sowore today; and it can be any one tomorrow.

[SKC Ogbonnia]

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Onumah: Yes, All Nigerians Have Become Biafrans

By SKC Ogbonnia

October 9, 2019.

 

The recent harassment or detention of human rights activist, Dr. Chido Onumah, by state agents is not only a sign that Nigeria is drifting towards full-blown dictatorship, the incident also goes to expose the hypocrisy of Nigerian leaders. Onumah’s crime, according to the state agents, is that he was wearing a t-shirt with the inscription: "WE ARE ALL BIAFRANS", being the tittle of his best-selling book.  

 

In the book, Onumah analyzed the myriad of challenges facing Nigeria, to posit that “the different manifestation of Biafra may well be a metaphor and, to that extent, we are all Biafrans as long as we seek to confront the clear and present danger.” The book, of course, had been launched since 2016 in the open, with former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, and a number of government officials gleefully in attendance.

 

Therefore, Onumah’s ordeal is nothing but a growing sense of intolerance or, rather, what Wole Soyinka referred to as an “unprecedented level of paranoia” being witnessed in the current regime, while he was condemning the unwarranted detention of another activist, the Nigeria’s foremost anti-corruption crusader, Omoyele Sowore.

 

Biafra re-emerged as a hot topic since a group from the eastern section of Nigeria, under the aegis of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), heightened its demand for freedom from Nigeria, not long after Muhammadu Buhari assumed democratic power. Central to their grouse is a history of bad leadership in the Africa’s most naturally endowed nation. Instead of dialogue, as in the case of other recent insurgents in the country, the Buhari regime not only clamped down on the Biafran activists with brute force, it also branded them “terrorists.”

 

Interestingly, however, as Onumah had long professed, all Nigerians have become Biafrans, by consequence. This view is consistent with an ardent admonition by the venerable Balarabe Musa, which holds that the perennial tendency to ignore the social challenges in the Biafran area is tantamount to ignoring the Nigerian future. Today, most of the problems enumerated by IPOB for its agitation, including acute poverty, massive corruption, injustice, kidnapping, lawlessness and lack of free speech are now being felt by the generality of Nigerians.

 

A perspective by the Afrobeat Prince, Seun Anikulapo Kuti, is profoundly instructive. In a recent interview, Kuti inferred that, like the Biafran agitators, every Nigerian actually wants freedom from the country, due to the worsening state of affairs. To nail the point, he asserted that the entire citizenry would not hesitate to “escape” from Nigeria, if the international community dares to leave its border wide open. And Kuti was on point! Today, there is mass exodus of Nigerians to both richer and poorer countries, and they never hesitate to dump their Nigerian passports to acquire the citizenship of their host countries. Some are even willing to embrace the harsh conditions in immigration jails in the foreign land as more hopeful than the situation in our native land.

 

No person has demonstrated more fancy for freedom from Nigeria and its failing amenities than the country’s president, Muhammadu Buhari. For example, though Nigeria has its own assortment of holiday resorts, Buhari is always in hurry to vacation abroad. Though the country has a national hospital building, which can be equipped to an international standard within six months—to also serve other Nigerians, President Buhari readily opts for foreign clinics. Instead of Nigerian higher institutions, he prefers foreign schools for his children. Instead of promoting made-in-Nigeria automobiles, which can help spur employment opportunities for the teaming youths, the country’s president uses only foreign cars. Needless to mention that, to him, rule of law in the country no longer means a thing.

 

But Muhammadu Buhari is not alone.  

 

Other Nigerian leaders are equally guilty. In short, the sole reason they still associate themselves with the country is the unhindered opportunity to loot the resources needed to sustain their affluent lifestyles abroad. The worst is that these Nigerian leaders stash the looted funds in foreign banks, at the cruel expense of the masses. Only people who despise the citizenship of their country exhibit such patterns.

 

Even if the Nigerian leaders somehow happen to love the country, besides its money, the phobia with Biafra is insincere. Progressive nations witness calls for secession from time to time, especially where some groups feel oppressed. What matters is how the leaders address such demands. Moreover, the history of secession in Nigeria did not begin with Buhari or Biafra nor will end with Biafra or Buhari. Groups, particularly, Oduduwa, Arewa, and Niger Delta had at one time or another threatened secession from the country. Yet, such terms have not been deleted from the human history. The truth is that Biafra has come to represent a people. Its agitation has come to serve as a threat to the gross misrule in Nigeria.

 

At the same time, while the calls for equitable and just government deserve every commendation, outright secession is not the panacea to the problems; after all, the leaders of Biafran descent themselves, including governors and legislators, have not been able to show the desired example within their states. Yet, the current approach where anything associated with the term Biafra is disparaged with impunity only goes to grow the agitation. As Senator Ben Bruce once appealed at the floor of National Assembly, the dictatorial attempt to efface Biafra or its history is far from the solution.

 

The solution is an equitable, visionary and dynamic leader, who has the zeal, the competencies and capacity to unleash the abundant potential of Nigeria to greatness. The solution is a true democracy where government can thrive through inclusiveness, free speech, and dialogue.

 

#SKCOgbonnia 

[SKC Ogbonnia]

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Why Sowore May Never Regain Freedom Under Buhari

By SKC Ogbonnia

November 4, 2019

 

Nigeria’s foremost anti-corruption crusader and a presidential candidate in the country’s 2019 election, Omoyele Sowore, who is being detained by state authorities on trumped-up charges, may not regain freedom soon, because he happens to be a paragon of virtue who truly personifies the famous quotation: “I belong to nobody.” It is clear this uncommon patriotism has not been put into consideration by the principal actors in Sowore’s ongoing prosecution, particularly the presiding judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu.

 

Recall that Justice Ojukwu, while reducing one of Sowore’s bail conditions from N100 million to N50 million, had wondered why a Nigerian of his pedigree does not have many people queuing up to stand as his surety, the stringent terms notwithstanding. It can be easy to lampoon the learned judge for hinging her argument on such premise, quite alright, but she should be assumed innocent on four compelling grounds.

 

First, Justice Ojukwu must have based the decision on legal precedent. Such bail conditions, including a seemingly assumption that Sowore maintains a residence in Abuja, are typically reserved for famous Nigerian politicians. But it obvious Justice Ojukwu did not know that, unlike the corrupt politicians, Sowore is neither wealthy nor can afford an opulent lifestyle of multiple mansions. More importantly, Ojukwu does not know that Sowore distances himself from the wealthy politicians, most of who attained their status through corrupt means. Though he aligned with some questionable characters within the opposition ranks during the 2015 presidential campaign, his effort was not only strictly pro bono, that moment in history called for a united front against the gross misrule under the then ruling party.

 

Second, Justice Ojukwu clearly mirrored the bail conditions of Nnamdi Kanu, another citizen charged for treason in violation of his right to free speech. Yet, the judge should not fail to recognize that Nigerian money bags, who could afford the millions involved in such bail conditions, owe their allegiance to the country’s two political behemoths: Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressive Congress (APC). This goes without saying that Kanu was able to meet his bail conditions due to the fact that he enjoyed an intrinsic sympathy within the PDP. On the other side, even as Sowore played a vital role in bringing APC to power, the party now sees the anticorruption activist as its primary enemy.

 

Third, Justice Ojukwu might have been swayed by the fact that there is no meaningful pressure from Sowore’s tribe or region, as commonly obtainable when citizens are illegally detained in Nigeria. But she must be reminded that geopolitics does not favor Omoyele Sowore. His style of war against corruption has never known boundaries, and this patriotic independence is central to his undoing.

 

For instance, the East appears to have no sympathy for Sowore for his role in the fall of President Goodluck Jonathan. The North, on its own, is very furious at the anti-corruption activist for opposing President Buhari. Worse still, the political leadership in Sowore’s Western region under APC is even more irate. A Southwest cabal assumes that its support of the injustice against Sowore would endear it to Buhari towards 2023 presidency—a thought similar to a prevailing emotional myopia which presumes that the Igbo should foreclose any hope of producing the next president because of Nnamdi Kanu.

 

The nature of these sectional inuendoes is regrettably understandable. However, it only goes to show that Sowore truly belongs to nobody but has sacrificed for everybody. This paradox has roots in the ephemeral nature of memory in Nigeria, a country where the history is a taboo, which has always made it difficult to give honor to whom honor is due. If not, both the North and West would have capitalized on the moment to demonstrate appreciation for the role Sowore played in bringing both Buhari and the APC to power; while the Easterners could embrace any support as a payback for the risks the Sahara Reporters publisher took in Jonathan’s journey to the presidency, beginning from the time the health of Jonathan’s incapacitated predecessor, Umaru Yar’Adua, was shrouded in utter secrecy.  

 

Finally, even if Justice Ojukwu further varies the bail terms to the barest minimum, as widely expected, a powerful cabal within the APC would not want Sowore to regain freedom before 2023 presidential election. Such characters want to remain in power after Buhari and thus see Sowore’s tabloid, the Sahara Reporters, as the “African Wikileak”, capable of exposing their sins against the humanity.

 

This is where Nigeria’s civil society ought to come in and heighten the pressure. The posterity will not be kind to this generation if we allow evil to triumph over good. This time calls for perseverance and persistence. A noble step forward is to find a way to chip into the #freesoworenow “Go Fund Me” account, no matter how little. The wealthy good Samaritans, who are understandably scared that the Buhari regime could go after their businesses, if they stand for Sowore, can still contribute to Go Fund account, using the Anonymous option. Money is direly needed to defend this prisoner of conscience and the cause of the common man. As the eminent philosopher Edmund Burke would remind us, evil can only thrive if good people do nothing.

 

In sum, the continued detention of Omoyele Sowore may appear very appealing for the ruling APC, politically; but the apparent injustice evokes fatal consequences. The biggest loser is President Buhari for succumbing to the wishes of an overzealous cabal whose sole vision in the plot to succeed him is polar opposite to the common good. It is not surprising that the Sowore saga has further darkened Nigeria’s image in the comity of nations, thereby hindering the all-important foreign investment. Of course, the poor masses are the victims.

 

SKC Ogbonnia, Convener of Power To The Masses, writes from Ugbo, Enugu State, Nigeria.

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[SKC Ogbonnia]

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Sowore’s Early Christmas Gift And Adesina’s Call For Revolution

By SKC Ogbonnia

December 19, 2019.

 

President Muhammadu Buhari must no longer continue to betray the vision of #RevolutionNow, being the call for protest against bad governance in Nigeria by the renowned anti-corruption and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore. Similarly, the president ought to embrace another powerful call this week for a revolution from no other than his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina.

 

But this appeal remains a tall order. The truth is that President Buhari reneged on the revolution agenda we deployed to free Nigeria from the 16-year of gross misrule under the Peoples’ Democratic Party. As a result, virtually every performance measurement index in the critical areas of social, economic, and politic development have become worse than the situation before he assumed power. Even in the areas where Buhari recorded measurable progress, his style of leadership has been utterly miasmic, enough to cause a Saint to wear the look of a Satan.

 

Different efforts, however subtle, to point the president to the right direction during his first term by members of the Nigerian media, as well prominent patriots, fell on deaf ears. It was then believed that voters could capitalize on the 2019 elections to sweep him out for good. But that was not to be. Apart from the fact that the presidential election was neither free nor fair, Muhammadu Buhari would become re-elected as the better alternative in an election generally viewed as a binary contest between a devil and the deep blue sea.

 

This hollow re-election victory has done nothing but embolden Buhari to descend deeper and deeper into dictatorship. If his first term record was a dismal failure, his second term in office is trending to become even worse. But critics this time have grown tired. The Nigerian press, which is generally a vibrant and fearless force, had begun to feel surfeited, since talking to General Buhari appears like talking to a brick wall. Even the prayer warriors had also begun to lose hope.

 

Then came an early Christmas gift to Nigerians, particularly President Buhari. An unseen power beckoned Omoyele Sowore to say enough is enough, as he called for true revolution towards good governance in his homeland. Buhari and his people recognized that this voice was like no other. After all, the call was coming from Sowore, a rare patriot with a bevy of global networks, who along with his Sahara Reporters, had triggered the fall of many Nigerian corrupt leaders. The unseen power answered once again by goading Buhari to arrest and detain the human rights activist without bail.

 

But Nigeria’s God is far from spent. The glimpse was the audacity of a woman in Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, the trial judge who threatened to jail the Chief of Buhari’s secret police, the Department for State Services (DSS), if he failed to free Sowore in line with court orders. Though the DSS adhered to the judge’s ultimatum and released Sowore, little did the world know that the worst was yet to come. In less than 24 hours after the release, the same secret police stormed back to the federal high court, wielding wild guns, and forcefully re-arrested Sowore while he was standing trial, as the judge and court staff fled for their lives.

 

The darkest hour has its dawn! The naked desecration of the Judiciary by the Executive branch in the Sowore saga has provoked new attention on Nigeria and has the potential for the long-sought liberation from Buhari’s reign of terror. Accordingly, major local news agencies, most of which were instrumental in bringing him to power, have washed their hands-off the president. In short, the nature of worldwide condemnation trailing the shameless rape on Nigeria’s fledgling democracy has not been witnessed in recent history. And the Buhari people ought to know the consequence.

 

The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flower! Notable Buhari enablers are beginning to sing different tunes. Some of them are even beginning to use the “R” while damning its phobia. Notice that his press secretary—of all people—did not hesitate to use the occasion of Buhari’s 77th birthday to echo the need for revolution in the country. In Femi Adesina’s own words, “Nigeria must get a new lease of life, and history must record it that the revolution started under one man: Muhammadu Buhari.” Interestingly, the date of Adesina’s publication was December 17, 2019, barely five months after Omoyele Sowore was arrested for daring to utter the word “revolution”.

 

Every cloud has a silver lining! President Muhammadu Buhari has dug himself into a big hole in the Sowore saga, and change has become inevitable. Therefore, unless he prays for the doomsday, now is the time tap from the history and do the right thing. The wise will begin with an early Christmas gift of his own to the Nigerian people by freeing Sowore NOW!

 

SKC Ogbonnia, Convener of Power To The Masses, writes from Ugbo, Enugu State, Nigeria.

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The Nigerian Donald Trump

By SKC Ogbonnia

December 23, 2019.

 

Donald J. Trump last week became just the third president to be impeached in the history of United States of America. But every nation has its own Trump. That is, someone who found himself in position of power, not because of pristine background, experience, leadership effectiveness, moral purity, or political correctness. It could also be someone who might have indulged in gross abuse of office.

 

Of course, Nigeria harbors a good number of its own shameless characters, some of whom are identified below. Yet, the mere mention of such names in the same breadth with Donald Trump, however ignoble, is ostensibly an elevation, but the glow of a vulture never lasts beyond the dry season.

 

Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Governor of Kano State: Like Trump, Ganduje is virally corrupt, morally bankrupt, maleficent, vengeful, baleful, and ruthless. Kano has not known peace, since the governor was seen in a trove of video clips receiving bribes from a contractor and stuffing the proceeds in wads of dollars into his pocket. In short, only in Nigeria can such a highbinder remain a governor of a state. Yet, similar to the situation in America with Donald Trump, instead of punitive action, Ganduje’s political party has turned blind eye while the ancient city of Kano is under assault. Nevertheless, lack of stature, as well as charisma, is the only reason Ganduje would not readily qualify as the Trump Nigerian double.

 

Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC):  Oshiomhole has remained in power through a combination of dubious charisma and the ability to deceive a gullible society for selfish interest. He is also combative, full of bluster, and sees quid pro quo, as a way of life, however warped. Moreover, the APC Chairman is madly attention-seeking and craves exotic lifestyles. These descriptions fit perfectly well with Trump. But it won’t still suffice here. Oshiomhole’s physical attribute is the human equate of the aye-aye, and the American president is conscious of his look and will rather resign from office than be compared with the former Edo governor.  

 

Dino Maleye, ex-Kogi Senator: The history will remain in wonderstruck of how this nothingburger found himself in the Legislature, let his dream to become president. In short, the sole reason Dino is on this list is the mere fact that he is the quintessential bozo. A bozo means wazzock—a stupid person, a clown, buffoon, and nincompoop—the type of nouns commonly associated to Donald Trump. Moreover, Maleye also gloats on his physical attributes, as well as fortune, no matter how crooked, and the media are fascinated with him for entertainment value.

 

Ayodele Fayose, Former Ekiti Governor: This is another rabble-rouser that exhibits the typical Trump characteristics. He is street-talking, cavalier, incoherent, unapologetic but a goon of charismatic celebrity, who draws followers by parading fantasy as fact. The former Ekiti governor too wants to be president, but that is where the comparison ends.

 

Orji Kanu, Senate Chief Whip: The garrulous former Abia State governor has a background that not only evinces everything wrong with politics but also echoes that of the American president. Kalu is bold and charismatic and, of course, owes his climb to power to make-believe wealth base. Though he has long aspired to be president, the Senate Chief Whip is a tub-thumper with no known political or religious beliefs, who was merely wagering at the ruling APC before he was convicted for corruption. He would have emerged as a near perfect Nigerian Trump, but the former Abia governor mis-gambled big time with his current party.

 

Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s President. For sure, Buhari is a slowpoke, as well as a goldbrick. He is neither charismatic nor loquacious. More essentially, he cannot claim to know what it takes to create jobs or wealth. Thusly, he may appear to pale in comparison to Donald Trump, but the truth is that the Nigerian leader actually has more in common with the American president. To begin with, Buhari is a stone-cold bigot who has sustained power through demagoguery. In addition, he is by far the most vengeful, divisive, tribalistic, sectionalistic, nepotic, and toxic leader Nigeria has ever seen.

 

The similarity grows closer when considered that both Trump and Buhari thrive in hypocrisy. For instance, they assumed power in their respective countries preaching integrity, virtue, and righteousness, only to gain the power to embrace corruption, utter disregard for rule of law, and gross abuse of office as way of governance.

 

Not to be forgotten, the Buhari apologists never fail to brandish the bad examples of President Trump as excuse for the unending moral deficiencies of the Nigerian leader. Very significantly, despite their moral failings, their respective political parties never hesitated to coalesce behind the unrepentant leaders. That explains why Trump may never be removed from office by the American Senate dominated by his party. Such blind following is also the major reason the Nigerian Senate has not attempted to impeach Buhari, let alone removing the failing leader from office. The posterity beckons. The masses grapple.

[SKC Ogbonnia]

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IPOB, Sowore, And The Audacity Of A Primitive Dictator

By SKC Ogbonnia

December 30, 2019

 

Once a dictator, as a military Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari sought democratic power, preaching change; and we embraced him, believing that nothing could be worse than the regime of Goodluck Jonathan. But we are finding out the hard way: the obvious change the Nigerian people have seen since Buhari came back to power is a change to a “next level” of dictatorship that is wildly uncouth and acutely primitive to relate to the genius of changing times and its digital age.

 

Buhari’s freefall, or rather his renewed dictatorship, is traced squarely to the time he disavowed his oath of office by deploying the worst form of political vendetta against the Eastern Nigeria for the simple reason that the people voted en masse for their native son in 2015 elections, similar to the electoral gesture accorded to Buhari himself by his native North in 2003, 2007,  2011, 2015, and 2019 electoral cycles. This apparent warpath heightened a call for secession and the tacit support given by the East to the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) led by Nnamdi Kanu. After all, different forms of Biafran movement had existed in every administration in the current Fourth Republic, from Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, to Jonathan.  

 

Instead of dialogue, as accorded other dissident groups, including even the Boko Haram, Buhari isolated the crisis as an Igbo palaver and thence pounced on the IPOB with brute force. I quickly admonished the President that his move was “nothing but a scheme to rekindle the zeitgeist of the Biafran war—hoping to regain his waning popularity within our party and the nation at large.” There I reminded him that the Nigeria of 1967 is not the Nigeria of today.

 

Yet, General Buhari did not listen. Rather, he declared the Biafran activists as terrorists. It is worth saying, however, that while the president was busy “crushing” the Biafran activists with land army, he gleefully condoned the deadly Fulani Herdsmen, an organization recognized worldwide as a terrorist group since 2014.

 

It didn’t take long before a legion of Nigerians in the Diaspora, some of who may not necessarily subscribe to the style or visions of IPOB but are conscious of the scale of injustice in the homeland, were provoked to unleash a worldwide campaign that sufficiently painted Buhari as a dictator and bigot. And the world took note! The toll of the IPOB crisis on national economy, particularly with foreign investment, is well chronicled.

 

Upon his being sworn in for the second term, I followed with an innocent piece: “Second Term: A Leadership Lesson Buhari Must Learn”. Here is an excerpt:

 

“The days are gone when the Nigerian government can preach justice abroad, while promoting injustice at home. The inconvenient truth is that the country now boasts of millions of independent ambassadors, strategically entrenched in all the nooks and crannies of the world, who tell it as it is. Some of these Diaspora Nigerians have also become Biblical Josephs of sort and thus play influential roles in the nation’s foreign exchange, foreign trade, foreign investment, the media, as well as other socio-economic relationships. Needless to remind us that the same Josephs are the leading block contributors to the yearly amount of foreign money remitted to Nigeria, which is ironically more than the national budget. As they go, so goes the national image and much more.”

 

But an Igbo adage goes that the sickness that typically kills a dog hardly allows it to perceive the odour of faeces. Thus, the biggest news out of Nigeria since Buhari assumed second term has been the morbid audacity to frame and detain Omoyele Sowore, a renowned anti-corruption and human rights activist, journalist, and his opponent in the 2019 presidential election. Sowore’s sin remains the term #RevolutionNow”, a mere plan to protest against bad governance in his homeland. But the Buhari regime would charge him for treasonable felony.

 

I warned of the consequences, noting that “Only a poon ignores the potential of the heavily funded but regional IPOB, with a worldwide membership, fusing with a broad-based national outfit like #RevolutionNow” The president countered with a mundane temerity of deploying the trio of Ministry of Information, Ministry of External Affairs, and the Nigerian Diaspora Commission to peddle false information on Sowore to the international community. Not surprisingly, Buhari could not recognize that, besides the Nigerians in the Diaspora and social media; the ever-vibrant Nigerian press and the core of the Nigerian Civil Society now have global reach.

 

Today, Nnamdi Kanu, the “terrorist”, is celebrated in the international community as a paragon of justice. Today, Omoyele Sowore, the “coupist”, is seen worldwide as a mystical mixture of conviction, courage, and stoicism in the course of the Nigerian liberation. Today, the General and his brigade are on the run, with Buhari once again widely viewed as a maximum dictator and the most lawless leader Nigeria has ever known. The stubborn tsetse fly, we say, follows the corpse to the grave.

 

 

SKC Ogbonnia, a 2019 APC presidential aspirant, is the author of the Effective Leadership Formula.

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Buhari And Electoral Reform: The Unspoken Truth

By SKC Ogbonnia

January 22, 2020

 

President Muhammadu Buhari deserves commendation for his new year pledge to reform Nigeria’s electoral process, but he should have gone further to admit that the exercise through which he was re-elected to a second term in office was grossly flawed. He should have equally confessed that, by law, the degree of irregularity in the 2019 presidential election ought to have landed both himself (Buhari) and his main opponent, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, in prison.

 

The problem is hinged on blatant violation of electoral campaign finance laws. Section 91 (1) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) states that the “maximum election expenses to be incurred by a candidate at a Presidential election shall be one billion naira (N1,000,000,000)” while 91 (9) follows that “No individual or other entity shall donate more than one million naira (N1,000,000) to any candidate.” Section 124 is specific with bribery, yet different shades of world currencies, beguiling gifts and honorariums, and other eccentric monetary rewards defined 2019 presidential election campaigns.

 

It does not take a Rotimi Williams to prove that Buhari and Atiku were in clear breach of the aforementioned sections. These, of course, should have culminated to multiple convictions of “imprisonment for 12 months” as stipulated in the Electoral Act.

 

An apparent paradox, however, is that, even if Buhari and Atiku were to be barred and jailed in the process, lack of funding ostensibly made it impossible for any of the minor candidates to garner enough votes or the electoral spread to claim outright victory or to even  explore a second round of the election as required by the law.

 

The problem with campaign finance had remained unspoken, because it is as banal as Nigeria’s endemic corruption. This goes without saying that flouting campaign finance laws did not start in 2019 with Muhammadu Buhari and Atiku Abubakar. In short, most major party candidates since the 1999 transitional elections, from councilor to the presidency, including Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar’Adua, and Goodluck Jonathan, were as guilty, or even worse.

 

This explains why Attahiru Jega, the erstwhile chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), had to confess that, even though the Electoral Act empowers the commission to monitor sources and nature of funding, the “INEC does not even have a desk that handles campaign financing.” Jega remarked that significant improvement had been made since he came on board, but also prayed that future leadership should focus on strengthening internal party democracy and campaign money.

 

Unfortunately, however, the trajectory of electoral progress stalled under President Muhammadu Buhari. Of course, his latest promise to reform the system remains welcome, but such vow is far from novel. After all, not long after assuming democratic power, the president proclaimed in 2016 an eagerness to reform the same electoral laws. But he did just the opposite. Any objective book on 2019 elections is bound to chronicle how Buhari backpedaled the wheel of Nigeria’s democratic journey by refusing to sign into law new reforms to the Electoral Act, including campaign finance.

 

To that end, even the widely celebrated “Not Too Young To Run bill”, signed into law to reduce the age limit for standing electoral office in the country, became an exercise in futility. Apart from the children of the rich, who benefited from the bill during the 2019 electoral cycle; the very masses, including the ordinary youths, had no chance, as money determined who vied, who won, and who lost the elections.

 

The need to curb illegal money in Nigeria’s election campaign cannot be overstated, especially considering that the problem is central to elitist corruption. Therefore, as a president whose sole claim to power was to fight corruption, Buhari can still seize the moment and go forth to lay a strong foundation for clean money in Nigerian democracy, with special attention to serious consequences for violation of electoral laws.

 

A tenable way forward is to begin with sincerity of purpose. Buhari can borrow from the examples of Presidents Yar’Adua and Jonathan. Not only did Yar’Adua acknowledge that the process that brought him to power was tainted, he also did something about the problem, leading to an impartial INEC Chairman and the 2010 Electoral Act that followed. Jonathan went further to ensure the free and fair elections of 2015 that made it possible for the gladsome history in which a Nigerian opposition candidate defeated an incumbent president, even though he would become the sacrificial lamb.  Yes, good leaders make things better than how they met them.

 

So, where art thou, President Buhari?  Where art thou?

 

Here goes an opportunity to equally bequeath a memorable legacy by occasioning a revolutionary change. As I had promoted in the past, given that illegal campaign money in the country is explicitly or implicitly looted from the public treasury, Nigeria might as well adopt full public funding for inter-party elections. This proposal is well studied. It profoundly promotes the vitally essential competition component of democracy. It is consistent with the recommendations put forth by renowned organizations, such as the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). The proposal also mirrors the McCain-Feingold legislation in the United States of America—without the choice for individual contributions.

 

*SKC Ogbonnia, a 2019 APC presidential aspirant, is the author of the Effective Leadership Formula.

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Nigerian Security Crisis: When Not To Play The Tribal Card

By SKC Ogbonnia

 

The spate of insecurity bedeviling Nigeria has continued unabated because of the stark hypocrisy within the political class. Consider, for instance, the recent speech by Enyinnaya Abaribe, the minority leader of the Senate, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign for failing to secure the lives and properties of the Nigerian people. Perhaps such outburst is in order. The political responsibility of a good opposition leader is to constantly alert the public of the failures of government. However, instead of tendering a rational response, the Buhari presidency chose to muddle the matter with tribal inuendoes.

 

The most rational response, of course, could have been to explain the specific measures being undertaken by the government to address the problem of insecurity and the readiness to embrace alternative ideas. Or, Buhari could have maintained a level of political equipoise by countering with the cliché that the problem did not begin with the current ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). And nothing stopped the president from being more direct by reminding that Abaribe might have been awol all along in the 7th Senate when his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) embezzled a whopping $2.1 billion meant for the procurement of arms to fight Boko Haram at a time the insurgency was still at its infancy.

 

Buhari did none of that. The presidency chose to evoke Biafra, clinging on Buhari’s long-standing emotional myopia which assumes that any protest against injustice somehow poses more danger than Boko Haram and Fulani Herdsmen terrorism put together. Yes, Senator Abaribe helped to bail Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB). It is also true that Kanu later jumped the bail. But none of these instances makes Enyinnaya Abaribe a criminal nor has anything to do with the rising insecurity in the country. Invoking Biafra was basically a tribal dog whistle to diffuse and trivialize Abaribe’s timely attention on security as the typical Igbo palaver.

 

But such pattern is far from novel. Buhari merely took a page from the national leader of the ruling APC, Bola Tinubu.  Recall the “Where are the cows” baloney after some Fulani herdsmen were fingered in the killing of Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the leader of Afenifere. Instead of liaising with the South-West governors to proffer practical solutions, Tinubu quickly switched to his toady toga and thereafter attempted to absolve the herdsmen of culpability by insinuating that such heinous acts are a second nature to the Igbo.

 

The hypocrisy becomes more manifest when considered that Buhari himself had in 2013 demanded his predecessor, President Goodluck Jonathan, to “vacate and give way to competent hand to govern the country.” That was the period many of us in the then opposition camp had united to charge Jonathan of cluelessness in the fight against Boko Haram. But Buhari did not stop there. He went further to inject a tribal vibe in his diatribe. Hear him: “When the Niger Delta militants started their activities in the South-South, they were invited by the late President Umaru Yar’Adua. An aircraft was sent to them and their leaders met with the late president in Aso Rock and discussed issues. They were given money and a training scheme was introduced for their members. But when the Boko Haram emerged in the north, members of the sect were killed.”

 

No doubt, President Yar’Adua’s legacy on justice and national security, including insurgency, is worthy of emulation. But it is equally clear that Buhari is doing just the opposite. For example, whereas Yar’Adua adopted dialogue to contain the Niger Delta militancy and other Biafran activities of his time, Buhari has continued to use brute force on IPOB, while at the same time pacifying the Fulani herdsmen that have been terrorizing the country with AK-47. Moreover, not only has he rubbished most of the equitable policies adopted under Yar’Adua, Buhari appears to view governance, including security of human life, purely from a tribal or religious lens. 

 

The dimension of insecurity in Nigeria has become an existential threat and no longer knows tribe or religion. President Muhammadu Buhari must not always wait for a rebuke from the international community before doing the right thing in the homeland. Common sense demands an urgent rejig of Nigeria’s security apparatus to reflect competence, capacity, and diversity. Needless to mention the need for tolerance for divergent opinions, no matter how inconvenient. The temple of knowledge is not the sole province of one individual, group or tribe; just as every Nigerian life matters.

[SKC Ogbonnia]

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The Igbo Amotekun Must Not Be Convoy

By SKC Ogbonnia

March 6, 2020

 

Tongues have been waging on why the South-East Governors Forum reneged on its initial plan to launch a regional security outfit in Igboland, similar to the Amotekun of the South-West. But the people should ponder no more: the sudden u-turn has everything to do with sheer selfishness. 

 

Security crisis has become an existential threat in Nigeria. The South-West zone had been at the forefront of the campaign to restructure Nigeria to true federalism, arguing that such model would lead to a more progressive and safer nation. However, the campaign stalled on the altar of parochial political interest after the All Progressives Congress (APC), the majority party in the region, captured power at the center. But all that changed after July 12, 2019, being the day bandits murdered in cold blood Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the leader of Afenifere, the apex Yoruba socio-cultural group.

 

Recognizing that their people must first survive before they can prevail, the South-West governors put politics aside and floated a revolutionary regional security network, codenamed Operation Amotekun, an arrangement that mirrors a true federal structure. The genius is that the South-West governors could no longer fold their hands and wait forever on the long-awaited restructure of the country nor continue to rely on an inept federal police before securing the lives and property of their people.

 

Make no mistake about this: The Amotekun is not a bulletproof solution to the security crisis, but it is a common knowledge that mere emotion of fear stokes deterrence. The elaborate style in which the Amotekun was launched, coupled with its unique name, not only demonstrated unity of purpose in the region, it is also an eloquent statement that it is no longer business as usual. The optics quickly sent shivers to the spines of criminals who may entertain the thought of venturing into Yorubaland. More importantly, the Operation Amotekun would provide a new layer of security in the South-West amid waning public confidence in the Nigerian police.

 

Despite initial critics, the Amotekun has enjoyed broad support from the Nigerian people and beyond. The major socio-cultural organizations in the country representing the six political zones, namely, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Afenifere, Northern Elders’ Forum, Pan-Niger Delta Forum, and Middle Belt Forum lauded the development. It did not take long before a group in Northern Nigeria launched a regional security network dubbed Shege-Ka-Fasa.

 

In view of the worsening wave of insecurity in Igboland, the consensus, therefore, was that the South-East governors would emulate their counterparts in the West to float a regional security outfit. But the South-East chief executives looked the other way. Rather, they pandered to the federal government on the basis of a naïve political expediency and agreed to wait on a community police model that was proposed circa 2006 but is yet see the light of the day. To these governors, the status quo trumps regional security apparatus. Ironically, such view is coming from the same Igbo leaders who have been going around in recent times, heaping every blame for the lack of development in the zone to the long-awaited restructure of Nigeria, which they insist must feature regional autonomy. But there comes a time shenanigans give way to common sense.

 

The truth is that the South-East governors decided to discard a new layer of security in Igboland, because the victims of insecurity are typically the ordinary people. Unlike their counterparts in the West where the gruesome murder of the daughter of a prominent politician provoked a sense of urgency in Yorubaland, the Igbo politicians have had no cause to question their own sense of invincibility. The nonchalance, of course, is hinged on the fact that the Nigerian rich and famous enjoy maximum security by maintaining a retinue of large convoys of police personnel for the protection of their families and estates. Not surprisingly, a convoy of vehicles—with sophisticated sirens accompanied with police escorts—has not only become a status symbol in Igboland, it has also emerged as the most common security alternative in the region. To that end, instead of public safety, the Eastern police contingent now focuses on the pecuniary opportunities in the convoy security model at the cruel expense of the vulnerable masses.  

 

Every life matters. Moreover, the Igbo do not thrive on superficial politics. Therefore, instead of colluding with the police to promote convoys of individual security details, the South-East governors should harken to the yearnings of the masses and join their counterparts in the South-South zone by launching without further delay a true regional security network to stem the rising tide of crime in the entire East. “A stitch in time saves nine.”

[SKC Ogbonnia]

PRESS STATEMENT

Emir Sanusi: Buhari Is Aiding And Abetting Corruption

SKC Ogbonnia

Houston, Texas

March 12, 2020

 

The dramatic dethronement of Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, is a clear indication that President Muhammadu Buhari is aiding and abetting corruption. It is a common knowledge that the president emboldened Abdullahi Ganduje, the virally corrupt governor of Kano State, to punish a globally celebrated maverick anti-corruption king. Therefore, the denial from Buhari that he has no hand in the Kano emirate crisis is pure baloney.

 

The dethronement of Sanusi is rooted in Buhari’s twin evil of selective justice and vendetta politics. It is a calculated vengeance against Sanusi for his opposing views on Buhari’s government. The president merely found a willing accomplice in Ganduje, who was equally determined take his pound of flesh against Sanusi.

 

Lest we forget, there had been no love lost between Sanusi and Ganduje, after the governor was seen in a trove of video clips receiving bribes from a contractor and stuffing the proceeds in wads of dollars into his pocket. The bribery incident went viral and subsequently provoked worldwide outrage. Nigerians wanted action from both the state and federal levels.

 

However, instead of condemning the incident, President Buhari continued to shower stanzas of praises on the rogue governor. It was a mockery of the war against corruption under Buhari. In short, the president’s action or inaction is squarely the shameless juncture where the evil trajectory in Kano took a dramatic rise. Even the Kano State House of Assembly, which had commenced investigation of the governor, as required by the law, read Buhari’s body language and quickly swept the bribery case under the carpet, despite overwhelming evidence.

 

There was never any sign of compunction from Governor Ganduje for his corrupt behaviour. As if that was not enough, the chairman of the ruling APC, Adams Oshiomhole, landed in Kano within the same period to pass a vote of confidence on Ganduje, to the chagrin of the Nigerian masses. It did not come as a surprise that the governor was re-elected amid charges of monumental election rigging by federal government authorities. It did not come as a surprise that Emir Sanusi would be dethroned. It did not come as a surprise that the rogue governor would be allowed to deploy the federal police under President to banish and place the anticorruption king under house arrest in clear violation of his fundamental human rights and the Nigerian Constitution.

 

The dethronement of Emir Sanusi portends a troubling future. The shameful incident hinges on the growing duplicity in Buhari’s war against corruption. It is a growing pattern of war against anticorruption advocates in the country. It is a war against the common good.

 

SKC Ogbonnia writes from Houston, Texas

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Why APC Should Tame Tinubu Before Oshiomhole

By SKC Ogbonnia

March 18, 2020

 

It did not come as a surprise that Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole would survive the latest move to sack him as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). His opponents have been hitting the tail instead of the head. The gist is that Oshiomhole’s tenure of crisis cannot be divorced from the overbearing ambition of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to rule Nigeria at all costs. Therefore, instead of chasing shadows, it has become imperative to muster the courage and go all out to tame the former Lagos State governor.

 

Make no mistake: Tinubu, the National Leader of APC, has every right to seek the presidency. More essentially, his role in the Nigerian democracy can never be belittled. This informs why I had to admonish President Muhammadu Buhari earlier in his first tenure for alienating the Asiwaju. I asserted then (and still believe) that, “if dynamic opposition is the life-wire of a democracy, it is very fitting then to name him (Tinubu) the saviour of Nigeria’s current democratic journey.”  Regrettably, the manner Tinubu has been pursuing his presidential ambition is not only becoming an existential threat to APC as a party but also to the same democracy he helped to save.  

 

The problem is rooted in Tinubu’s naked godfatherism. The canker began to grow when the Asiwaju was made to believe that he solely influenced the nomination of Buhari. Further, after his failed bid to grab the vice-presidential ticket, Tinubu was allowed to handpick his longtime ally for the position, so that peace could reign. Worst still, the former Lagos State governor would retain the titular title of National Leader, thereby creating an impression of two captains in one ship. As if that was not enough, he attempted to also dictate the leadership of the Legislature but failed. This failure, remember, led to the first major crisis in the party and the mass decampment that followed before the 2019 general elections.

 

The most mystifying, however, is that, despite the fact that his primary fiefdom, Lagos, is constantly ranked as one of the worst estates on earth, it has not deterred Tinubu from the morbid desperation to rule other Nigerian states by proxy. The more troubling is his do-or-die approach. For instance, the next major crisis after the National Assembly debacle was his plot to hijack the 2016 Ondo State governorship primary election against the rightful winner, the current governor, Rotimi Akeredolu.  The outcome was a nasty fallout between the Asiwaju on one side and both the then National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun and President Buhari on the other side. In attempt to restore a sense of normalcy before 2019 elections, Buhari had to go out of his way to appease Tinubu by easing out Oyegun. 

 

Enter Adams Oshiomhole. President Buhari misread him as a simplistic khaki-wearing independent-minded party man who could contain Tinubu. But Oshiomhole was understandably desperate for attention after leaving office as Edo State governor and did not want to end the Oyegun way. The new chairman quickly accepted to function as a mere lackey. Oshiomhole’s main function, therefore, has been to perfect Tinubu’s plot to install his cronies across the country towards a presidential bid.   

 

Not surprisingly, the APC would go on to suffer the most crisis-ridden party primary exercise in the national history. Every APC structure, from the states to the federal, including the Legislature, and President Buhari and his cabinet, had a bitter taste of the crisis. Only Coronavirus could have been as toxic and widespread. The saving grace for the APC in the 2019 electoral cycle was that the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), the main opposition party, fielded a deeply flawed presidential candidate in Atiku Abubakar.

 

Tinubu’s style of godfatherism is a threat to national unity and has worsened since Buhari won a second term. Recall how the Asiwaju shamelessly cornered all the important positions zoned to the South to himself or his cronies from Western Nigeria, as if somehow the APC in the South is a one-man show. Lest we forget, the APC came into being as an amalgamation of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) led by Buhari; the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) led by Tinubu; the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) led by Ogbonnaya Onu; a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) led by Rochas Okorocha, and the new PDP led by Alhaji Kawu Baraje.  Needless to mention the powerful roles of Southern Igbo, such as Pat Utomi, Chibuike Amaechi, Osita Okechukwu, Chris Ngige, Annie Okonkwo, Joe Igbokwe, among others.

 

Yet, today, there is no meaningful office holder within the APC as a party or its government from the entire Eastern Region besides statutory ministerial appointments, thanks to Tinubu’s southern strategy of divide and conquer. In short, at no time in post war Nigeria has a region suffered this type of political blackmail. The height of the hypocrisy is that Bola Ahmed Tinubu—in terms of shrewd godfatherism and shadiness—is even far worse than his targets in the East, Rochas Okorocha not excluded.

 

Now, consider that Tinubu now believes that he has successfully humbled the East with a montage of opportunistic politics. Combine that notion with the assumption that the North is now under his palm, especially given the fact that the Asiwaju dictated the content and the character of the current government—from the leadership of the ruling party to both the executive and the legislative arms of power. Visualize such political oddity with the reality that the former Lagos governor is now zeroing in on his potential 2023 opponents in the West, as can be gleaned from the current crisis blazing through Edo and already rearing its ugly head into Ondo. There and then emerges the danger inherent in Tinubu’s role within APC and beyond. Even Vladimir Putin of Russia Republic has not shown this type of pestilent appetite for power. O to ge!

 

This is a perfect time for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to step aside. He no longer has the credibility to grandstand as the face of the APC. His exit as a National Leader will solve two fundamental problems. First, it will effortlessly sweep off Oshiomhole’s tenure of un-ending crisis. Second, it will not only reposition the party leadership with men and women of impeccable character, but also in line with true democratic ideals, particularly a level playing ground for electoral offices, including the presidency.

 

SKC Ogbonnia, an APC member, writes from Ugbo, Enugu State, Nigeria

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Coronavirus: The Nigerian Dream Cure

By SKC Ogbonnia

March 25, 2020

 

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), which has compelled people to stay within their localities, illuminates the genius of the ageless adage: charity begins at home. It has exposed the malignant ignorance within Nigerian leaders who prefer foreign medical treatment while neglecting the amenities at home. The COVID-19 has profoundly exposed the nature and scope of the Nigerian healthcare crisis. Yet, every cloud has a silver lining!

 

The recent coronavirus controversy in Enugu is a perplexing preface. A 70-year old woman was suspected to be carrying the virus. But there is no laboratory capable of administering the COVID-19 test in the entire Eastern Region. Thus, it took several days before the test result could arrive from faraway Irrua in Edo State. Though the result returned negative, the woman had already died while isolated in a squalor at a grungy ESUT Teaching Hospital complex. The irony is that this incident took place in Enugu—of all places, the Igbo flagship metropolis that has no excuse to lag in development, having served as the capital of Eastern Region, capital of Biafra, capital of East Central State, capital of the old Anambra State; and currently the capital of Enugu State. This predicament only goes to ridicule the faculty of the globally renowned Igbo intelligentsia that parades Enugu as its sanctum.

 

The most mind-boggling yet is the situation in Northern Nigeria. Though the North is the perennial epicenter of the national healthcare crisis, it never dawned on the politicians to establish standard laboratories for testing a disease like Coronavirus in the entire region, besides an outfit at the nation’s capital, Abuja. To test for the virus. those in Sokoto will have to travel over 650 km while those in Maiduguri must commit 845 kilometers before reaching Abuja. One can only wonder the wisdom of the Northern leaders, widely celebrated for strategic vision in gaining power, but who continually fail to maximize such power towards the common good of their people.

 

In a 2015 essay, “Every Nigerian Blood Is On The Line”, I drew attention to the ignorance of Nigerian leaders, who tend to forget that good leadership is vitally important to both the led and the leader. I enumerated the embarrassing cases of highly placed politicians from the immediate past administration who lost their close relatives because they failed to provide good amenities in the local communities, such as President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan, Namadi Sambo, David Mark, and Ike Ekweremadu, among others.

 

Also remember the strong man of Ibadan politics, Lamidi Adedibu, who died on his way to procure traveling documents towards a foreign medical trip. Equally relative is the case of Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and Alex Ekwueme. These two prominent men suffered stroke in the same Enugu at different times but had to allow a few weeks to stabilize before embarking on foreign treatment. Before they could reach their British destinations, their situations worsened. Neither Ojukwu nor Ekwueme made it back home alive. Needless to mention sitting Head of State Sani Abacha and President Umar Yar’Adua, who died at the Aso Villa, under questionable health conditions.

 

The crisis conundrum is that the current leaders still did not seem to get it. Nigeria’s top office holders, including President Buhari, embraced foreign medical treatment as a second nature. But that was then—definitively then!

 

The point, if it is not already apparent, is that coronavirus has emerged as a quintessential equalizer. It has provoked a national consciousness and common sense, by consequence. The pandemic has made it imperative that people, both rich and poor, must seek prevention or treatment in their immediate environment. The elites may be accorded the usual preferential treatment, quite alright, but any attempt to ignore the masses, as in the past, is a poisoned chalice.

 

The foregoing thesis becomes more compelling, when considered that the threat of the COVID-19 in Nigeria is real. Though there are only 44 confirmed cases as at the time of this essay, the low number simply signifies lack of adequate testing centers. A forewarning is that out of those 44 cases, 35 were in the Western Region, being the cluster where 4 out of the 5 testing laboratories in the country are located. It is also not a coincidence that both the East and the Far-North are yet to record any case. Their common denominator is plainly the absence of testing centers in those zones. Moreover, testing for the COVID-19, for now, remains an elitist agenda. But the truth remains that every Nigerian life is on the line.

 

A dream cure, therefore, is a revolutionary approach that can sufficiently address the Nigerian short and long-term healthcare needs. Besides any mitigation measures or cure for the COVID-19, Nigeria must, without any delay, equip and modernize eight existing university teaching hospitals to international standards. While six of such hospitals should be spread in the six political zones, the remaining two would be allocated to Abuja and Lagos. This revolutionary plan is well studied, and the goal is twofold: First, it will significantly improve the national healthcare delivery for the ordinary Nigerian people. Second, it will be able to treat the Nigerian leaders and stem the shameless pattern of medical tourism in foreign lands.

 

Establishing eight world-class hospital—within one year—is not rocket science. The sources for the financial and the human resources are equally well studied. The budget for the hospitals is $8 billion. The most cost-efficient is direct funding through crude oil, its hazy market and politics notwithstanding. A plain source is to plug out $12 billion from the now suspended 2016-2018 External Borrowing of $22.7 billion proposed by President Buhari. While $8 billion goes for the hospitals, the remaining $4 billion will be dedicated to mitigating the coronavirus pandemic. Phase II will target the state capitals and so on…

 

The dream cure is neither politics nor business as usual. It should be executed by a Healthcare Revolutionary Council (HRC) that can include these notable patriots: Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Omoyele Sowore, Akinwumi Adesina, Adeleke Mamora, Femi Falana, Bartholomew Nnaji, Ngozi Iweala, Oby Ezekwesiri, Ogbonnaya Onu, Kanayo Ubesie, Donald Duke, Pat Utomi, Ben Murray-Bruce, Festus Keyamo, Muhammadu Sanusi II, Nasir el-Rufai, Obadiah Mailafia, Nuhu Ribadu, Aisha Buhari, Shehu Sani, Mathew Kukah, Khadija Bukar Abba Ibrahim, Hameed Ali, Yakubu Dogara, Aisha Al-Hassan, Audu Ogbe, Iorwuese Hagher, Natasha Akpoti, Yakubu Mohammed, and Abubakar Sani Bello.  

 

SKC Ogbonnia writes from Ugbo, Enugu State, Nigeria

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Abba Kyari: A Loyalty At The Nation’s Peril

By SKC Ogbonnia

April 24, 2020

 

The death of Abba Kyari, the former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, has elicited a great deal of controversy, but the posterity demands that the history of our leaders bears the truth.

 

Without doubt, the history of Kyari will cite powerful voices that remember him as a very loyal servant. These voices were diverse. They came from different shades of the political spectrum. They came from different parts of the country.

 

The Minister of External Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, Kyari’s friend for over 42 years, delivered a testimonial for the ages. An excerpt reads as follows: “Abba was loyal to a fault. He decided he was going to protect his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari at all costs and would take any number of bullets for him. And he did!”

 

The most compelling yet came from no other than Femi Fani-Kayode, a frontline critic of the current government, and a former Minister of Aviation, who had equally known Abba Kyari for over 40 years. Kayode put politics aside to tweet that the Mallam was a good and loyal man.

 

Not to be forgotten is the eulogy from a prominent member of the main opposition party and a former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, who mourned that “no chief of staff anywhere has shown as much loyalty and commitment as he showed to President Muhammadu Buhari.”

 

But none has meant more than a special tribute from President Buhari himself. The president, a man not known for many words, could not hide his emotions when he described the departed Chief of Staff as his “dearest friend”. Even his harshest critic would marvel at the point Buhari wrote that Abba Kyari “strove quietly and without any interest in publicity or personal gain to implement my agenda.”

 

The accolade from the venerable Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, is not only instructive, it also provokes another vital foreground to my thesis. He wrote: Abba Kyari “executed President Buhari’s vision with his own single-mindedness…He was driven by conviction and never shied from an intellectual argument because his intellect was vast.”

 

The problem, a huge problem, is that the Buhari’s vision, as well as conviction, have been an embarrassing failure. In short, if his presidency were to end today, he would have been remembered as the nation’s worst civilian leader ever. No close second! Where does one begin and where does one end? There is palpable anger in the East, North, South, and West. Even where Buhari recorded some measurable success, such achievements usually fail to engender hope, because of his style of leadership.

 

Besides Buhari, no one is more associated with this failure than Abba Kyari, the president’s most trusted and influential ally. Said differently, Mallam Kyari was so single-minded to Buhari’s visions and convictions—visions and convictions well proven to be stridently divisive, unjust, inhumane, and unpatriotic.

 

This view must not be misconstrued as suggesting that leaders should always waver in their visions or convictions. The point is that any worthwhile vision or conviction must not be antagonistic to the greater good. Moreover, political rigidity, which Mr. Kyari roundly endorsed, is another name for dogmatism, which typically leads to destructive power. Hillary Clinton phrased it more mildly: “easy consensus can lead, over time, to poor decisions.”

 

Therefore, even as Abba Kyari was a hardworking man, a good friend to his close associates, a good father to his children, a good husband to his wife, a loyal servant to the president, and a gentleman in the society; common sense dictates that he was overly naïve. His much-touted loyalty to President Buhari was not only a naked nescience, it was also a clear case of blind following. It was a loyalty at the nation’s peril.

 

This failure explains why the true history of the late Kyari ought to include a chapter devoted to the fact that more Nigerians rejoiced over his death than the few who mourned him. The history deserves to mention that the degree of glee that trailed his demise had not been witnessed since the death of Sani Abacha, the maximum dictator who ruled the country from 1993 to 1998.

 

Kyari’s case, a death from Coronavirus, was even more ironic. Despite the excruciating effect of nationwide lockdowns intended to mitigate the pandemic, many were celebrating his misfortune, with some openly praying, wishing that the COVID-19 could become a regular phenomenon, if only it could continue to claim the likes of Abba Kyari.

 

Some members of the inner caucus of the ruling party were not left behind. The Kano State Commissioner of Works, Mu’azu Magaji, could not hide his excitement when he wrote that the passing of Abba Kyari is a welcome breeze for the Nigerian people. The First Lady, Aisha Buhari, could not imagine anything more befitting than to pray that Allah could forgive Mr. Kyari’s sins.

 

The truth is that the name, Abba Kyari, by his actions or inactions, is widely seen as a taboo among the Nigerian masses. This notion accounts for why one of his most ardent adherents, the governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, did not hesitate to disassociate himself from a story making the rounds that the governor was planning to immortalize the late presidential aide.

 

A more troubling predicament is that many politicians are falling on top of each other, begging to become the new Chief of Staff, to become as blindly loyal to the president as Abba or even worse.

 

May the soul of Mallam Abba Kyari rest in perfect peace. I also pray that no Nigerian president is ever blinded with Mr. Kyari’s type of loyalty. May the Almighty grant President Muhammadu Buhari the wisdom to recognize the genius of critical opinions. I pray that he can truly change to become the best president some of us had hoped he could become.

 

SKC Ogbonnia

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COVID-19: Soludo’s Voodoo Ideas

By SKC Ogbonnia

May 1, 2020

 

Any objective analysis of a long-winded essay, “COVID-19: Can Africa Afford Lockdowns?”, by Chukwuma Soludo, would wonder if the renowned economist is suddenly cast with a voodoo spell.

 

Mr. Soludo needs no introduction. A distinguished professor of economics, with advanced degrees—both academic and honoris causa—from the prestigious University of Nigeria, he was a former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and currently a member of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Economic Advisory Council. It is not surprising, therefore, that his voice roars in some quarters as a bullet-proof solution to the country’s myriad of problems.  

 

However, in a seemingly attempt to employ novel theories to rubbish plausible anti-COVID-19 measures that have produced good results in many developed and developing economies, including Nigeria, Soludo succeeded in doing nothing but use delusive ideas to create more problems than solutions. 

 

In short, the essay depicted the former CBN Governor as a poor imitation of Donald Trump, a nescient narcist who never hesitates to spew nonsense just to be in the news. Though Soludo raised some salient points, quite alright, he was going off on tangents, rambling, clearly ducking the truth about COVID-19 and, in the process, peddled fallacies as facts.

 

The most disingenuous is that, while discrediting lockdowns by African nations, Soludo claimed that, “China isolated Wuhan, and kept Shanghai, Beijing, and other major economic engines open, and today, China supplies the world with medical equipment, face masks, etc., and is raking-in hundreds of billions of dollars).” That is sheer fallacy.

 

The fact is that major Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, experienced lock downs until the virus plateaued. The following account from a practical observer, as reported in the Washington Post of March 16, 2020, is instructive: “Six weeks earlier, I had watched China shut itself down as the coronavirus epidemic first exploded in Wuhan, and then spilled across the country and beyond…I saw China’s whole economic machinery, from the curbside noodle shops to sprawling tech campuses, clank to a halt as the government pulled out every stop to contain the virus’s spread.”

 

The import is that, even as the lockdowns in Africa may not have been backed with adequate palliatives, the strategy is widely proven to be effective. The situation could have been worse in Nigeria, if President Buhari had not locked down Lagos and Abuja as at the time he did. After all, as Lagos and Abuja go, so goes the rest of the country.

 

In the same swoop, Soludo wrote that, “In the Western societies from where we copied the lockdown/border closure, their citizens are literally paid to stay at home… The U.S. Senate just passed a bill for $484 billion “More Small-Business Stimulus”, including a $320 billion “Paycheck Protection Program” to enable small businesses pay their staff salaries for two months.”  The example with the United States is misleading and only serves to fuel anger among the Nigerian masses.

 

Anybody but Professor Chukwuma Soludo! A simple scan of the internet readily reveals the harsh realities of lockdowns and the extent of the so-called stimulus package in the United States. Reports abound about the over 30 million Americans who have lost their jobs the last 45 days and millions more who have no money to pay for food or shelter. The life in America had always been better before Coronavirus and remains better while battling the disease, but the current situation is a far cry from the picture the professor was painting.

 

This is not the time for inflammatory innuendoes. Unlike in America which has become the COVID-19 global epicenter, lockdowns in China succeeded because the people had a coherent message and the mental discipline to execute the agenda. Therefore, Soludo must not ignore science and security to confuse Nigerians by “copying and pasting” the COVID-19 visions of Donald Trump, whose every medical idea has cost more lives than it has saved lives.

 

Instead of lampooning lockdowns, without tested alternatives, the former CBN governor should deploy the energy towards increasing the palliatives needed to alleviate the effects of the coronavirus, efficient management of the palliatives, and the life after. Instead of careless conjectures, he should defer to medical opinions and adhere to directives from relevant authorities.

 

The most blatant is Soludo’s admonition that “African countries should urgently dismantle the border closures.” This was not unexpected, though. The idea stems from a voodoo economic theory that gained currency in the eighties under US President Ronald Reagan but ended up paralyzing the American manufacturing base and turned China into a global powerhouse. It is similar to the open border policy promoted by Nigeria at the time Soludo reigned as CBN Governor that pauperized the country’s productive capacity and, consequently, produced a multitude of overnight billionaires while subjecting millions to abject penury.

 

On no account should Nigeria relapse to open border economy, as being canvassed by Soludo. This goes without saying that a level of protectionism is vitally essential for true Nigerian independence. Imagine what could have been, if the country still depended on imported rice and chicken during the COVID-19 experience!

 

The piffle presumptions did not stop at lockdowns and border closures. The economist equally poked insult on the philanthropists, who donated money to the COVID-19 campaign, labeling them “photo charity.” The statement in and of itself is uncharitable, to say the least. The program’s flaws notwithstanding, he ought to have reasoned that, besides the politicians, these donors include innocent Nigerians and even the poor Samaritans. Their efforts, no matter how small, have touched lives from the villages to the larger society.

 

Finally, to answer Soludo’s central question: “Can Africa Afford Lockdowns?”.  YES, Africa has already been able to afford the lockdowns in a significant way or even better. The continent clearly contained COVID-19 more than their counterparts, thanks to the African exceptionalism of good weather, nutrition, and timely interventions, such as the lockdowns, selfless healthcare workers, “photo charity”, family support systems, and a resilient populace. The economic forecast is gloomy, like elsewhere, but Africa will soon re-open, probably faster than many developed economies.  

 

Best of all, the Coronavirus lockdown scheme is a historic equalizer and thus has a silver lining for Africa. Our leaders ought to have learned that the African economy will skyrocket by investing at home and patronizing local products and facilities. Nigerian leaders, for instance, might have learned to lead by example, matching words with action in all facets of the national economy, particularly in the Power, Aviation, Automobile, Steel, Healthcare, and Education sectors.

 

SKC Ogbonnia

Twitter: @ SKCOgbonnia

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COVID-19: Time For Buhari To Replace His Mercedes With Innoson

By SKC Ogbonnia

June 2, 2020

 

The consensus around the world is that the lessons from the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) would provoke commonsense among Nigerian leaders to harness the full potential of their local economy, but this dream may never come close, if President Muhammadu Buhari does not lead by example.

 

A defining theme of my foray into the 2019 presidential race is that Nigeria’s problem is not as complex as commonly imagined. For the problem is neither the lack of natural resources nor human resources. It certainly has nothing to do with good visions or the enabling policies. The Nigerian endemic problem is squarely the failure to influence the efficient implementation of the policies towards the greater good.

 

It is not surprising, therefore, that amid the COVID-19 pandemic, President Buhari demonstrated visionary leadership by declaring that Nigeria will henceforth promote and patronize made-in-Nigeria products over foreign goods. Buhari’s vision is laudable and mirrors the case of Asian countries, particularly China and India, which for several decades banned a good number of foreign products to enable their local industries to thrive. Today, both Asian nations have become economic envy of the world.  

 

Interestingly, not long after the made-in-Nigeria policy went public, instead of patronizing Innoson Motors, the sole indigenous local auto manufacturing outfit, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) hurriedly approved a whopping sum of N683, 613 million for purchase of 19 Made-In-Japan Toyota vehicles for the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA).

 

According to the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, the justification for the abrupt breach of the policy is that the need for the foreign vehicles predated the COVID-19 pandemic. As if her logic lacks in folly, the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, followed that the approval became necessary, because “it’s the first time in four years that NPA was buying any vehicle.”

 

The simple takeaway from both Ahmed and Amaechi is that Nigerian leaders embrace lunacy as legacy. This goes without saying that the rationale behind the choice of the foreign vehicles over local brands has nothing to do with the common good. Instead, it has everything to do with the manic competition for financial profligacy among the different arms of the Nigerian government.

 

The decision by the Executive arm of government is merely to outdo the wastefulness synonymous with the Nigerian Legislature. The NPA squander dittoed the Senate, which not long ago rejected Innoson only to launder over N5 billion for Toyota brands. The House of Representatives would also double down to sink another N5 billion into Toyota Camry saloon cars in place of moderately priced Innoson jeeps that are specially designed and tested for the Nigerian roads.

 

This pattern of lavishness by public officials, particularly under the prevailing COVID-19 crisis, is plain cold-blooded. It is impunity going too far.

 

But President Muhammadu Buhari must own full blame. Though his call to patronize local products is commendable, he is neither able to influence his appointees to implement the policy nor able to lead by example himself. Rather than demonstrate patriotism, by proudly using the Made-in-Nigeria goods that he preaches, Buhari appears to be emulating the ostentatious style of the regime before him.

 

Mister Buhari should quickly revert to the tenets of his 2016 “Change Begins With Me” slogan. The core principle demands that he declares Innoson as the official brand for all government agencies, beginning with the Presidency. If a General Buhari, as a military head of state, could endear himself to the Nigerian people over 30 years ago, by embracing jagged foreign Peugeot—then assembled in Nigeria—as a badge of honor, it is only patriotic for him to replicate such gesture for wholly made-in-Nigeria vehicles.

 

It is worth mentioning, however, that the Innoson Motors is on record to have stated that the company has seen more patronage from the Buhari government than the one before it. That is commendable, at base. But the mediocrity of the previous regime can never be substituted as a gold standard for success.

 

President Buhari is a man widely known as ascetic and who assumed power on the mantra of revolutionary change. He should, therefore, embolden his change vision, as well as the authenticity of his policy on local goods, so that others can follow. The message, if it is not already explicit, is that the Nigerian president should, without further delay, replace his official car, a German-made Mercedes Benz, with a Nigerian-made Innoson brand.  

 

The COVID-19 pandemic has combined to plunge Nigeria into an economic miasma and true change has become inevitable. The leaders can no longer afford to carry on business as usual. In short, besides leading by example, it has become imperative for President Buhari to remind public officials that the country risks a serious mass revolt, if they continue to swim in ocean of affluence while submerging the masses deeper and deeper into abject poverty and despair.

 

SKC Ogbonnia, a 2019 APC Presidential Aspirant, writes from Ugbo, Awgu, Enugu State.

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The African Knee On The Neck Of African Americans

By SKC Ogbonnia

June 17, 2020

 

The gruesome murder of George Floyd, an African American, while handcuffed and pinned to the ground by the knee of Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, has provoked deeper implications for the systemic racial injustice in the United States of America.

 

One of the powerful voices resonating with the racial crisis is the Reverend Al Sharpton. A prominent African American civil rights activist and former presidential candidate, Sharpton used the occasion of Floyd’s funeral to declare that the blacks have not prospered to their potential, because the whites have knelt on the necks of the African Americans for far too long. The admonition is beyond rebuke, no doubt, but there exists another breakneck knee that must not be ignored: The bulky knee of Africa.  

 

Africa’s image has a lasting effect on African Americans. A symbolic nexus came during the current racial crisis when the US Congressional Democrats knelt for eight minutes and 46 seconds at the Capitol in Washington DC clad in African Kente stoles, as a solidarity for George Floyd. According to Rep. Karen Bass, Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, “The significance of the Kente cloth is our African heritage." Yet, beyond the banal image of slavery and beneath the Kente veil is the heritage that a generality of America sees—the very image President Donald Trump bluntly paints as “shithole.”

 

Trump’s incendiary race-baiting rhetorics have worsened the matter, for sure, but the shithole image had deeply permeated the U.S. systems far before him. The Americans have understandably seen Africans as people who are perpetually thirsty while in midst of water. They see a naturally endowed continent that has remained home to the world’s poorest. They see African leaders who loot their country dry only to stack the money in secret foreign vaults while their citizens at home gnash in penury and despair. These Americans see the poverty of character. They see the poverty of the mind. They assume a lack of mental fortitude. They assume an inferior race. They see little or no regard for human life. They see the African American heritage. They see George Floyd!

 

The seemingly lack of value for human life by African leaders was evident in the protests that trailed the brutal murder of Floyd. Despite the fact the protests were a global phenomenon, most African heads of government carried on business as usual. But the deafening indifference was not unexpected. The African leaders have a mirror. They recognize that the life of George Floyd is only a pint in the ocean when compared to the lives claimed daily in African cities through police brutality or state terror.

 

Though the African masses were well involved in the worldwide protests through the media, only few skeletal demonstrations were recorded on the ground. Any serious ground protests would have been crushed by various African dictatorial regimes which, like the American police, have not shown that “black lives matter.”  

 

Yet, the most excruciating part of the African knee remains poverty. This poverty is transposed and exploited to discriminate against the African Americans in the United States—a capitalistic society where every social, economic, and political status is largely influenced by individual or group wealth. Even the U.S. Immigration and Foreign policies overly favour wealthier nations, just as the degree of racism is higher against immigrants from poorer nations. This economic disparity, more than any factor, accounts for why Africa continues to bear the brunt of U.S. immigration policy while the African Americans suffer the worst cases of racial injustice in the United States.  

 

The forgoing view rhymes with a recent UN General Assembly report, which “emphasised that poverty is closely associated with racism and contributes to the persistence of racist attitudes and practices.”

 

For example, the African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to face racial injustice than their Asian counterparts. The Asian Americans, though a minority group, are commonly extolled as the “model minority”, because of their economic progress both in their native countries and in the United States.

 

The case of Nigerian Americans is an instructive spectacle. Though the people are the most educated ethnic group in the United States, they have not been accorded the desired social class, plausibly because of their “shithole” image. This nagging African image explains why some native blacks continue to shun the term African Americans. But Africans and blacks worldwide are intertwined for life like Siamese twins.

 

The solution is a unity of purpose among people of African descent worldwide to demolish the longstanding third class status commonly accorded to the black race. The missing ingredient is socio-economic empowerment. But there are abundant resources, as well as the enabling environment, to accomplish the objective. Africa, on the one hand, has vaulted as the new global economic frontier. The blacks in America and Europe, on the other hand, wield ample political power to hold African leaders accountable through lobbying, especially considering that the only voices African dictators tend to hear are the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom.

 

The people of African descent must also demonstrate that black lives truly matter in the comity of nations. Besides taming Donald Trump, now is the time to root out the abject racism at the United Nations. The African Union should, for a start, issue an ultimatum to the world governing body to end the mind-boggling exclusion of Africa in the permanent membership of the UN Security Council—an arm of the global watchdog where critical issues of life and death take center stage.

 

The barbaric murder of George Floyd has triggered the most consequential mass protests in the annals of history, quite alright, but the black race must not fail to capitalize. Though the sweeping reforms to mitigate racial injustice in the United States and Europe are encouraging, any attempt at a lasting solution without major socio-economic revolution within the African race is a castle in the air.

 

SKC Ogbonnia, a former Nigerian Presidential Aspirant, writes from Houston, Texas, USA.

Twitter: @SKCOgbonnia

                              

 

 

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Ndigbo: Before Restructure, Beyond Biafra

By SKC Ogbonnia

July 1, 2020

 

In the piece, “Coronavirus: The Nigerian Dream Cure”, I wrote that the COVID-19, which “compelled people to stay within their nations and localities, illuminates the genius of the ageless adage: charity begins at home.” The lessons from the virus also strike a chord with the famous quotation: the “fierce urgency of now”, where Martin Luther King demanded action in the face of a looming catastrophe.

 

Nowhere are these maxims more expedient than Igboland. Despite the dearth of development in Eastern Nigeria, which has continued to pose existential threats, the Eastern leaders have made no serious attempt to harness current resources for the greater good. Instead, the Igbo politics has been overly consumed with mundane excuses, heightened with utopian ideas that focus solely on the future, most of which are envisaged to satiate the thirsty sentiments of the gullible masses, forgetting that the people must first survive before they can prevail.

 

An alarming reminder is the deplorable state of healthcare delivery in Igboland. For instance, before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no hospital with a laboratory capable of testing for such deadly disease in the entire Eastern Nigeria. The plague also exposed the fact that the East, more than any other region, would have been in grave danger, if the COVI9-19 national lock-down had prolonged.

 

The common excuse for the lack of development in Igboland in the recent times is the structure of the country. Interestingly, the loudest echo chambers for the current campaign from the East are some of the very politicians who held sway during the 16-year rule under the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) but did practically nothing about restructuring. I mean, the very same cabal who are still clad in the same corrupt toga used in colluding with contractors to loot development facilities in the region, especially during the economic boom under Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, “an Igbo adopted son.”

 

Ironically, some of such looted projects, for example, the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Port Harcourt International Airport, 2nd River Niger Bridge, Zik Mausoleum, and the major Eastern highways and seaports are currently undergoing real work under President Muhammadu Buhari, the perceived grinch. The malfeasance under the PDP becomes more manifest when considered that the East is witnessing measurable infrastructural development under the current regime, despite meagre resources—and, of course, amid Buhari’s misguided vendetta against the region for not voting for him. 

 

Highlighting these missed opportunities must not be misconstrued as an opposition to restructuring. Far from that! Nigeria, as currently structured, is a time-bomb. True federalism has the potential to reposition the country and unleash her abundant resources to greatness, but the process to the change must not hinder progress. It is also true that the ageless marginalization of the Igbo by federal authorities combined to stifle development opportunities in the East. But any innocent analysis equally begs the questions:

 

To what extent can we blame others for the lack of unity of purpose in Igboland? To what extent can we blame others for the failure to articulate game-changing policies to confront the tap root of the problem, by provoking the Igbo people to invest in their native land that is not even up to 30% developed?  Worse still, who (or what structure) is to blame for running aground strategic ventures once jointly owned by the Igbo states, for example, the Presidential Hotel Enugu, Nigercem, Golden Guinea Brewery, Premier Brewery, Cooperative Bank, African Continental Bank, Orient Bank, Progressive Bank, and the Daily Star, to name just a few?

 

The simple answer is that mere change is not a sole panacea to progress. After all, it was not long ago that different groups within Nigeria, including those in Igbo land, were in wild jubilation for being granted their own states or local government areas. Despite the fact that all federal statutory allocations and constituency projects due to the states and local governments, as well as their internally generated revenues, have been under the control of the native politicians themselves, there are no tangible projects to show for the trillions.

 

Leadership is action, not excuses. The Igbo politicians should, therefore, not wait till after the restructure of Nigeria before embarking on an economic dry-run in the remote semblance of the preferred structure—at least to stem the existential threat of mass unemployment and the consequential rising tide of crimes in the region. Governors Jim Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo and Sam Onunaka Mbakwe did not hide behind quotidian excuses of the current structure before performing wonders within just 4 years in the Second Republic. Moreover, the Nnewi model has since rubbished the common excuse that the Igbo must have a functional seaport before it can thrive. This goes without saying that many thriving Igbo destinations, for example, Abuja, Kaduna, and Kano do not have seaports.

 

The apparent leadership problem within Igboland is neither lack of people with original visions nor hard work. In fact, there is an abundance of private sector-driven templates, featuring endearing ideas, the latest being the South East Regional Economic Development Company (SEREDEC), led by Barth Nnaji; and the South East Stabilization Fund, championed by the Ohaneze Ndigbo. Sadly, such visions are always derailed by an insecure Igbo political cabal. 

 

That is where and why the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) made the title of this thesis. For sure, the IPOB deserves profound praise for finally recognizing that the real enemies are within. But the group should equally recognize that the real battle belongs at the polling booths. Therefore, instead of banal threats of election boycotts, which only serve to disfranchise the ordinary people, the IPOB should key into a growing democratic revolution to uproot the status quo across Nigeria—to ensure, at base, that good people are elected to positions of power. These political positions, of course, include the 2023 presidency which, by equitable consensus, is the turn of the South-East zone.

 

Further, development has never been the sole province of elected officials. Thus, instead of fraternizing with the fanatical property acquisitions outside the Biafra land by the Igbo, paraded under the façade of quasi-republican capitalism, the IPOB might as well capitalize on its overflowing influence to mitigate the suffering of its masses, by leading an investment revolution at home—and NOW. 

 

The gist is woven in an Igbo adage which holds that a child who would grow to greatness typically shows some sense of acumen at an early stage. Therefore, before restructure, and beyond Biafra; even as it is vitally important to admit that the Nigerian leadership crisis is not devoid of ethnic schisms, where each group and generation potently share blame, a paradigm shift in perception and approach has become very imperative. The Igbo must recognize the crying need to persevere and rekindle the competitive spirit, ingenuity, and the mental fortitude needed to unleash immediate investment at home, so that the Igbo masses can even survive before the promised land.

 

*SKC Ogbonnia, A Former Presidential Aspirant, writes from Ugbo, Awgu, Enugu State, Nigeria

Twitter: @ SKCOgbonnia

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2023: South-East Presidency Or Igbo Presidency?

By SKC Ogbonnia

July 19, 2020.

 

Since zoning of political offices has become the order of the day in Nigeria, an equitable consensus would follow that Southern Nigeria—the Igbo in particular—will produce the next president of the country, come 2023. But such zoning convention has begun to beg the question: Would the candidacy be open to the entire Igbo nation or would such opportunity be limited to the South-East zone of Nigeria?

 

The answer is a no brainer: The ticket ought to be open to the entire Igbo nation of the Southern extraction. Here is why.

 

The proponents of rotational presidency argue that the concept would ensure a sense of belonging among Nigeria’s disparate ethnic groups. Of the three Nigerian major tribes, namely, the Igbo, Hausa-Fulani, and the Yoruba; only the Igbo are yet to lead the country under a democratic setting.

 

The Igbo nation—that is, people sharing similar heritage, including culture, names, language, and religion—is beyond the South-East zone. But many political pundits understandably like to paint a marginal picture, and the gullible society, the Igbo not excluded, never hesitates to buy the gambit. This distortion has perpetuated because of the fleeting nature of memory in the Nigerian state, where true history has been tabooed.

 

Besides Igbo indigenous communities in other states; the Ohaneze Ndigbo, the umbrella Igbo socio-cultural group, is a seven-state structure, denoting areas with sizeable Igbo population, namely: Abia, Anambra, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, and Rivers states. The key offices are also distributed and rotated among the member states.

 

For example, while the current President General of Ohaneze, Barrister John Nwodo, is from Enugu State of South-East zone, the General Secretary (Barrister Uche Okwukwu) and Vice- President General (Dr. Sylvanus O. Ebigwei) hail from the South-South states of Rivers and Delta, respectively. Needless to mention that Ambassador Ralph Uwechue, an indigene of Delta State, was the Ohaneze President-General between 2009 and 2013.

 

A defining muddle is that, of the seven Ohaneze states, only Delta and Rivers are in the South-South zone. The implication is that the Igbo indigenous communities have found themselves in the minority among the ethnic nationalities that make up the South-South zone. Therefore, if the presidency is to be zoned based on the existing six zone-structure of Nigeria, a South-South Igbo of this generation cannot realistically aspire to lead the country, his or her credentials notwithstanding.

 

The foregoing hypothesis was tested in 2007 when the South-South zone lobbied for the presidency. The South-South Igbo, remember, were told in unmistakable terms to explore such ambition whenever it is the turn of their kith and kin in the South-East.

 

It is on such backdrop that Pa Edwin Clark, the Leader of the South-South zone, made the infamous (or rather the rational) statement that Dr. Peter Odili, a former governor of Rivers state, had no moral right to encroach on the turn of the zone. Even though Mr. Odili was arguably the most compelling presidential aspirant of in the 2007 electoral season, he was blackballed mainly because of his Igbo heritage.

 

The South-South Igbo must not be allowed to suffer a double political whammy. Having been sidelined by their South-South neighbors in 2007, based on ethnic orientation, it behooves the South-East Igbo to accommodate their kith and kin in the race for the 2023 presidency.  

 

Make no mistake about this: The South-East is the only zone in Southern Nigeria that is yet to produce a democratically elected president. Therefore, embarking on the presidential project solely through prism of the South-East can be superficially plain. But the Igbo must be careful not to tempt a pyrrhic victory.

 

Politics is a game of number. We can take a cue from the political genius of our Hausa-Fulani counterparts. Despite their vastly disparate ethnic origins, the Fulani and the Hausa groups in the three Northern zones have molded into a seemingly homogeneous political block. It is not surprising, therefore, that they show a united front in the different political parties whenever it is the turn of the North to produce the president.

 

Though the North-West zone has dominated over the years, the people go the extra mile to ensure that the inherent zoning arrangement does not foreclose the aspirations of the Hausa or Fulani-speaking people from the North-East. That is how recent doyens of the North-East politics, such as Adamu Ciroma, Bamanga Tukur, Atiku Abubakar, and Nuhu Ribadu, were able to mount respectable presidential bids.

 

Broadening the Igbo political map is a win-win. It will offer Nigerians a larger pool of aspirants to choose from. Besides a galaxy of presidential aspirants from the South-East, it would also address the aspirations of the South-South Igbo, particularly those in their prime, for example, Patrick Utomi, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Ifeanyi Okowa, Tony Elumelu, Peter Odili, Mike Okiro, Chibuike Amaechi, and Nyesom Wike, to name a few.

 

Unity is power. A united Igbo front has a better chance of winning the zoning debate, to begin with.  Further, a Nigerian presidential project anchored through the entire Igbo nation has the potential to unite the people towards common purpose. It can halt the defeatist trajectory of postwar politics and de-Igbonization policy of successive national governments, which have combined to fracture the Igbo unity to the point where some never hesitate to deny their Igbo heritage either for post-war survival or in exchange of political porridge. It can equally instill commonsense to those who use mere political affiliations or boundaries to assume superior Igbo heritage over the others.

 

Igbo bu Igbo! The hint is that the South-East and South-South Igbo share a common destiny in the Nigerian experience. And they ought to share good fortunes, as they did past misfortunes. For instance, the South-East Igbo bore (or have continued to bear) the brunt of the first Nigeria coup, led by Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, a South-South Igbo. Similarly, the South-South Igbo were not spared by the actions of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, a South-East Igbo, who led the Biafran war. The bond between the two Igbo groups is not lost in the fact that they have sustained similar voting patterns in national elections, despite postwar feuds, orchestrated by successive national governments.

 

A Nigerian president of Igbo extraction will not only heal the wounds of the past, it is also a bold step in harnessing the country’s abundant potential towards the greater good. It is an opportunity for equity and justice. It is an opportunity to assuage the long-standing distrust against Igbo-speaking people of Nigeria. It is a profound opportunity for the Igbo to reverse the downward spiral of distrust created among themselves by artificial post-civil war boundaries.

 

Dr. SKC Ogbonnia, a former presidential aspirant, writes from Ugbo, Awgu, Enugu State.

Twitter: @ SKCOgbonnia

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Wike and Biafra: The Northern Nigerians Are No Fools

By SKC Ogbonnia

December 1, 2020

 

"I will lead a war against them (Nigeria) like Ojukwu. Am not joking, I know am on air, and I am warning them now. Any attempt to rob us the way they rob our brother (GEJ), the battle will start from Rivers State. We will remain opposition state like Lagos. In fact, we from the South-South and South-East will remain in PDP. We leave the South-West and North to run APC. That is how they tactically shared the Country. And we will not allow them use our resources to develop their States...I want all South-South and South-East to remember this, that we’ve two Judas.”

 

The incendiary proclamation above came from no other Nigerian than Nyesom Wike, the current governor of Rivers State. The period was shortly after the 2015 presidential elections.

 

The objective fact is that Ezenwo Nyesom Wike was a ringleader among the political kingpins who exploited the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 to spew the current Biafran crisis into existence. Even Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) acknowledged at the time that Jonathan’s electoral misfortune fueled the current clamour for secession.

 

Upon becoming the governor, Wike became a whited sepulcher. He would hobnob with the Biafran vision in the dark, only to present a holier-than-thou image of one Nigeria in the open. Believing that the people are gullible, he occastrated series of gestures to assuage Northern Nigeria.

 

The appetizer was to evoke the emotions of the Biafran war by renaming the Liberation Stadium Port-Harcourt after Yakubu Gowon. According to the governor, the gesture was for Gowon’s role in the creation of Rivers state over half a century ago, a wartime scheme then designed to decimate Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the very man Wike swore to emulate in his “war against them (Nigeria).”  

 

Serving as the buffet was the deployment of a pipeline of political appeasement from Port-Harcourt to Sokoto, the seat of the Caliphate, chanting one Nigeria, with oil largesse to boot. This is how Wike became the turbo engine of the presidential ambition of Sokoto State governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal who, luckily, is a crafty character, sufficiently shrewd to detect a phoney from afar. And the stage has been set.

 

Hear him (Mr. Wike) at the palace of Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa'ad Abubakar III: “We cannot run away from this country. The unity of this country is very, very paramount. The unity of this country is non-negotiable…I am from the Niger Delta, Rivers State to be specific, so I cannot see us in a divided country. No way. We stand for the unity of this country.”

 

What followed was a string of visits to Rivers State by the Sultan, performing rounds of ceremonies for laying foundation and commissioning of state projects. Worried that the chicanery was becoming clear, and to equally pacify the South-west that he had roundly castigated in 2015, Wike saw a moderating pawn in the influential Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi. The camouflage was the hasty hosting of the General Assembly of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria at Port-Harcourt. This is the occasion Wike declared that “The Sultan and Ooni are my fathers”, ostensibly to curry favor with the North and West, as the kings from his native East moped and gaped in utter amazement.

 

The oddity is apparent, but no one can fault royal fathers who honor underhand invitations perfectly packaged as entreaties for peace and unity of the country. Sultan Abubakar III was even kind to seize one of the occasions to enjoin the Muslim community in Rivers State to pledge their full support to the labile governor, his pre-election provocations notwithstanding.

 

But the apple, they say, does not fall far from its tree. It did not take long before Wike relapsed into his militant ways, including all manners of separatist innuendoes. At one point he declared other religions, besides Christianity, as non grata in his state. The governor would go on to demolish a Muslim mosque, which eventually fetched him a resounding rebuke from the Sultan. Something had to give.

 

Ezenwo Nyesom Wike is a bombastic bozo, quite alright, but the man can still remember the parable of the tortoise and hot water. He was able to recognize that his overbearing transgressions, most of which were targeted against Northern Nigeria, might have dug him deeper. The governor needed a broader escape route.

 

Enter the # EndSars protest, a nationwide movement against police brutality in Nigeria. Though the protest was timely, it unleashed serious economic havoc in the country, with massive looting and destruction of both private and public properties. And many innocent lives were lost. A coterie of highly placed politicians, who were fingered for turning the peaceful protest into a bloodbath, also needed an escape route. They quickly zeroed in on the Igbo, the whipping boy of Nigerian politics, exploiting the IPOB and the teetering bluster of its cavalier leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

 

Governor Wike finally found the scapegoat and wasted no time to attempt an escape. He believed, and understandably so, that that any nuanced opposition to Biafran activism or even mere anti-Igbo antics would firm forgiveness from the North. There and then Wike mounted a montage of propaganda, peeling himself from his Igbo roots of “South-South and South-East” that he had employed to win elections. He followed by peddling the EndSars protest in Rivers State as a potential beginning of another round of Biafran war. The result was a chilling campaign of extrajudicial killings in Obigbo, a small native Igbo settlement in River State, with the governor claiming to be rooting out the IPOB, the very group he helped to nurture.

 

But Wike will soon find out the hard way: There is no way for the wazzock. The Northern Nigerians are no fools. And neither the South-west! The day of reckoning is around the corner, come 2023! As the governor would say in time of his need, “I want all South-South and South-East to remember this, that we’ve two Judas.” And the more dangerous judas, for sure, is Ezenwo Nyesom Wike himself. Mgbọ!

 

Dr. SKC Ogbonnia writes from Ugbo, Awgu LGA, Enugu State, Nigeria

Twitter: @ SKCOgbonnia

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Coup in America: Why Trump Must Be Impeached Again

By SKC Ogbonnia

January 11, 2021

 

In the book, Effective Leadership Formula, I compared the leadership patterns in the United States of America and that of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and concluded that a major distinction is the approach to democratic freedom.  

“On the one hand, even as the USA is far from perfect, the country has sustained measurable control mechanisms to minimize chances of negative freedom. This approach has helped to stabilize leadership in the American environment over time.”

“On the other hand, Nigeria has elevated the freedom in her new democratic experience to negative proportions, where it appears that there are no consequences for bad behavior in the country. Any nation where anything goes, goes nowhere.”

 

The American democracy has seen a sea of negative freedom since the era of Trumpism. Like Nigeria, there appears to be no consequences for bad behavior in the United States of America in recent times. The problem heightened once Donald J. Trump began his presidential journey, as he continues to saddle the polity with poisonous conspiracy theories, naked lies, race-baiting, divisive politics, and other manners of immoral and criminal behaviors.

 

The most startling was when he declared in middle of the 2016 presidential campaign that he could commit murder and go scot-free. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay?”

 

Trump continued to spew many of such horrifying expressions. Though they are definitively disqualifying for a candidate running for the presidency of a country that prides itself on moral leadership, Trump saw no reason to cease. There were no consequences for his actions, as the American media looked the other way.

 

The apparent lack of accountability prompted me to publish the following piece early in 2016: “Trump: How the Weird Can Win the US Presidential Poll”, accurately predicting that the Republican was coasting to victory, because “the almighty media have gone gung-ho with the Trump mania, which is understandable because of the entertainment value.” I concluded that it was naïve to assume that his “radical style will not continue to gain currency moving forward. The American media have a way of elevating eccentric behaviors to a pop culture.”

 

It did not come as a surprise, therefore, that none of Trump’s behaviors, no matter how unpresidential, could stick, as the bozo marched on to victory. His supporters did not seem to care that Trump broke with tradition by refusing to release his income tax statement. Many Americans did not care to rebuke Trump when he began to peddle the falsehood that there was “large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day” of 2016, once he noticed the polls showing him trailing in the battleground states. It did not matter that over 25 women accused him of sexual misconduct, some of which were captured on tape.

 

Yet, Mr. Trump neither apologized nor showed any sense of compunction for his moral turpitude.

 

Before the media could realize their failure to hold him accountable, the damage was already done. Mr. Trump had already tapped into a visceral anger provoked by 9/11, decades of job flights, as well as gay marriage controversies, to hoodwink millions of gullible voters, most of who were Americans without college education, promising them heaven and earth, claiming who he is not, and eventually lying himself all the way to the White House.  

 

To make matters worse, Trump assumed office at a time his party was in control of both chambers of the American Legislature. The result was little or no checks and balances. He quickly seized the control of the entire Republican party with authoritarian gusto, dictating who won or who lost the primary elections in his party. And the party members not only feared Trump, they also enabled him. In short, any dissent was viewed as a capital crime.

 

The growing lack of consequences for bad behavior in the country explains why the Republican-controlled Senate declined to remove President Trump from office after a he was impeached by the House of Representatives for soliciting foreign interference to help him win the 2020 U.S. presidential election. It also accounts for why Trump would undermine the American democracy once again by fabricating the pretext that the 2020 presidential election was rigged to favor his opponent and rightful winner, Joseph R. Biden. The same negative freedom is why the narcissistic president would lie about COVI919 and exacerbated the spread of the virus for selfish political interest.

 

The most tragic is that every Trump behavior, no matter how insane, had become the new norm, and many of his party members are competing to become the heir apparent to immoral kingdom. Therefore, none of his actions should have come as a surprise.

 

But there comes a time nonsense paves way to commonsense. President Donald J. Trump is a pathological liar, truly “deranged, unhinged, dangerous”, and has exhibited the worst example of democratic power. Trump’s attempted coup on January 6, 2021, where he incited armed insurgents to take over U.S. Congress in order to overturn free and fair presidential election of 2020 is the most dangerous threat to the concept of democracy. The consequence must not be business as usual.

 

The posterity calls on the Unites States to protect democracy and “Make America Great Again” by impeaching Donald Trump once again. Though the clown has less than two weeks in office, his impeachment and banishment from future elective office will deter his apologists, as well as other dictators around the world from contemplating any trumpish behavior. Moreover, having reigned as the temple of modern democracy, America must save the system of government by demonstrating serious consequences for those who desecrate it.

 

Dr. SKC Ogbonnia writes from Houston, Texas

Twitter: @ SKCOgbonnia

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FAKE NEWS & Their Facist BIG TECH Censorship of FREEDOM, A Communist China Beholden. Crooked Antifa-Socialists-Democrats, puppets of Nihilistic Communists-China have sold their souls to Number One Enemies of America (Communist-China), and they will live to regret it. Period. 

Update: E-X-P-O-S-E-D: Democrats Using Capitol Protests to Distract From Impossible Official Election Numbers-OAN (One American News)

Update: New York (RR) Washington-DC—Earth shattering official 2020 election numbers scares nihilistic Communist-China backed leftist Democrats forcing them to resort into distraction as supporters of both parties-Republicans and Democrats are virtually organizing two inaugurations: President Donald J. Trump 2^nd Term Inauguration and Joseph Biden Ist Inauguration.

 

Here are emerging official impossible Election Numbers from battleground States of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada.

 

IRREGULAR VOTES

 

PENNSYLVANIA: 1.5Million

Biden Margin: 80,000

Ballot Returned before mailed: 22,686

Received same day: 32, 591

Dead Voters: 8,021

Outstanding 200,000 more votes cast than were actual voters.

 

IRREGULAR VOTES-Confirmed official irregularities.

GEORGIA: 800,000

Margin of victory: 12,000

Dead Voters: 10,315

 

Felon Voters: 2,560

“Ghost” Voters: 15,700

Out of State Voters: 20,030

Voting Machine irregularities: 136,155

 

IRREGULAR VOTES (Official State Records irregularities)

ARIZONA: 300,000

Margin of Victory: 10,000

 

WISCONSIN

IRREGULAR VOTES: 600,000

Margin of victory: 20,000

 

Following aforesaid shocking public 2020 Election official state irregularities is unprecedented. Additionally, FACEBOOK removing all election post- STOP THE STEAL-such as challenge of fraud by BIG TECH bias- and GOOGLE removing Twitter alternative Parler, YOUTUBE.

 

Meanwhile, There two preparations for inaugurations both virtually. Evi Kokalari who started online petition with 20,000 following, now has more than 300,000 Trump supporters to join virtual 2^nd Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump come January 20, 2021. When Evi Kokalari’s petition was taken down, she changed it to “The Patriot Party”.

Evi Kokalari also got this email in connection to Antifa:

“Please be careful tomorrow. Watch your back. And Don’t engage. There will be Antifa infiltrates in our crowd. They may have MAGA Hats on. Be vigilant and stay focus” --Tina Forte.

 

Also read beneath:

 

Prophetic: What They Are Not Telling Americans: 1.4Billion Communist China Population is a Juicy BLOOD-Market for Rogue U.S. Investors Such as: PGA, NBA, Fake News CNN, corrupt FACEBOOK, Corrupt Twitter, Corrupt Ytube & Other Silicon Valley BIG TECH, including Apple, Michael Jordan, Lebron-James, Curry, Amazon.com, et al

 

New York(RR) Washington-DC--Aforementioned corrupt actors are more interested in corrupt MONEY flowing in from their annihilist Communist China's investments, then aforesaid corrupt investors/investments who in turn donate these filthy funds to corrupt Washington DC- politicians and their Socialists cronies like Antifa, BLM, some Republicans Investors like corrupt Mitt Romney's Capital-Investments ties to corrupt drug addict Hunter Biden's company to oil Firm in Ukraine & Communist China respectively, with no oil experience whatsoever. Their corrupt eyes are on the millions and billions of dollars flowing into their bank-accounts from communists Chinese investments that reveals more why you hardly hear them criticize Communists China leadership even when protesters are being killed in Hong-Kong they kept quiet, they careless about American citizenry, et al. They are all about themselves not about America, not about freedom, not about free speech, not about the 25-Amendment, not about free and fair election, but it is all about their vested interest and bloody funds inflow. QED. 

President Trump exposed aforementioned crooks and declined to play their usual corrupt Washington-DC politics with the corrupt-Washginton-DC-Politicians. Trump is too strong for them crooks. Additionally, despite their campaign of calumny against this genius called Donald J. Trump sent by God at this time to America, these hypocrites cannot wrestle him down inside or outside of office. 

 

New York(RR) Washington-DC--When you stand by truth, no BIG TECH and their communists Chinese elements and their cronies can do nothing about it. Truth is POWERFUL AND A DEFENSE. Did you notice when Antifa, BLM & their Socialists Lefts were burning down private small businesses, burning down federal monuments, burning police stations, burning down police cars, in New York City, Minneapolis and other cities across United States they clapped and see nothing wrong destroying and descrating aforesaid public and private properties across U.S. cities, rogue Polesi, and crooked democrats, corrupt governors, corrupt city mayors, corrupt secretaries of states, corrupt FBI, corrupt courts, corrupt Judges, corrupt Congress, corrupt Facebook, corrupt twitter, corrupt youtube, corrupt post office employees, corrupt election officials who more interested in stuffing ballots at midnight with financers from annihilist Communist China (At least we know of $400million wired into rogue owners of Dominion machines) that rigged this election won in a landslide by President Donald J. Trump, do not see nothing wrong on aforesaid destruction, that Law & Order Sheriff, President Trump challenged and brought to and end via executive order, that made it clear if you burn down any federal or state monuments and likes you get 10years in prison. Did you see them burn federal monuments again? Of course Not. They are cowardly slashing tyres of Jeeps and automobiles of 75Million legitimate supporters (votes) who stormed the Capitol to show their respect for American Patriot, President Donald J. Trump. 

Enuff said.

 

I do not know why you are manifesting surprise. What you have is communist socialists Left backed by funds wired to them by rogue Communist China and their stooges elsewhere. Corrupt Joe Biden and his rogue drug addict son, Hunter Biden are all in bed with state enemy number One: Communist China. Poverty is a disease Sir. Socialist Left will sell their souls for MONEY. And God willing their SOCIALIST AGENDA has failed ABINITIO.

Curiously, criminal censorship of the twitter handle of President Trump & his 86Million followers will not silence this America patriot. It MAKES HIM STRONGER in his service to HUMANITY AND TO OUR GOD. 

 

Update-Prophetic: When Crooked Democrats, Antifa, MLM-Socialists-Left Were Burning Down Cities Across America, where were They? Dubious Twitter & Other Corrupt BIG-TECH like FACEBOOK, YTUBE, And FAKE NEWS Like CNN, Think We are Stupid. They Want to Censor Anybody Who Disagrees with Their Lies, but it Failed. There are other Platforms we can deploy to Communicate to Americans 

 

Curiously, rogue dubious Twitter and other corrupt TECH LIKE FACEBOOK, YTUBE, think we are stupid. They want to censor anybody that disagrees with their lies, but it failed. There are other platforms we can deploy to communicate to Americans. 

 

Meanwhile, Corrupt Obama, corrupt Clinton, pedophile, corrupt Bush, they should keep quiet when Patriots speak. Where were they when Antifas, BLM, and their Communists Chinese $400million wired to them, financing these crooks, when they were burning down small businesses across America? And they were all loving it. Patriots, Militias, defenders of our constitution made it noticeably clear that corrupt Washington DC politicians like rogue Pelosi, that they cannot get away with corruption anymore. "We the People' are here to defend America from Washington DC crooked politicians any time any day. 

 

This is America, constitutionally defended, American Patriots, Militias, "We the People'', rights to bear ARMS, in defense of the constitution which has been desecrated by corrupt Washington DC politicians, corrupt Justices, corrupt courts, corrupt governors, corrupt FBI, corrupt Secretary of States who aided in stuffing ballots at midnight, corrupt election officials who aided in distributing fraudulent ballot papers to homes who never asked for it in the first place, corrupt post office workers who were synchronizing illegal ballots across battleground states, corrupt FAKE NEWS MAINSTREAM MEDIA HOUSES LIKE CNN, AP, AND OTHERS. Corrupt TECH INDUSTRIES LIKE FACEBOOK, TWITTER, YTUBE,  and other Communists China, and their leftists group who were censoring Rights group from speaking truth about crooked Democrats backed by rogue Communists China to rig this election. Aforesaid calculated COUP AGAINST God sent son President Donald J. Trump was busted with massive evidence, many cameras, across battleground states all documented.  You the Patriots to keep quiet and allow this fraud to stand. Hell NO. 

 

Additionally, FAKE NEWS will not report that corrupt Biden is of course a pedophile. No they will not, with satanic rogue billionaire tech that is censoring anything that exposes rogue Biden and his drug addict son Hunter Biden with their Communists China finances to sell America to rogue Communists China.  

 

Prophetic: 

 

Of course, corrupt Biden is a pedophile check is record. Rogue communists-china financed rogue democrats to steal this election and, American patriots, militias, Patriot Senator Ted Cruz, Patriot Patriot Atty Lin Wood, Patriot Sydney Powell and many more are American Patriots that rose to the occasion and challenged the coup against President Trump victory, which was rigged at midnight by communists-china backed rogue democrats. Communist leftists crooked Democrats can do nothing about it. Additionally, rogue Biden will be removed in a hurry. Mark today's date. Prophetically, Defenders of America has made it clear that Communists China and her stooges is not permitted to take America down or take it over, the rogue Socialist-Communist part, never, it is not going to happen. Corrupt Washington DC politicians can be rest assured that America belongs to ‘We The People of the United States of America”, and there is nothing cowardly corrupt justice department, corrupt courts, corrupt governors, corrupt secretary of states, corrupt FBI, corrupt Communist-China’s $400million financed rogue Biden, and his drug addict son Hunter and their corrupt Dominion machine that stole this election won by God sent son President Donald J. Trump in a landslide victory can do about it. Protectors of America, Militias, and constitution defenders have spoken loud and clear that the Communists China and their stooges in the USA and outside of the United States is not permitted to take over the United States of America. It will be resisted by any means necessary. Cowardly crooked democrats slashing Trumpers’ Jeep tyers are shameless crooks that hide in the night to destroy federal monuments, but defenders of U.S. Constitution came to chase rogue corrupt politicians out of Peoples Congress. Yes, and so it was. Rogue communists China will never get hold of America, they can throw crooked millions of dollars around domestic leftists, but at the end of the day, it will not happen. Never. It cannot happen. It is Trump Country, forever, whether in office or out of Office. Trump is God anointed to the lead America at this time. He is not your usual politician that makes a whole lot of difference. They cannot and couldn’t bribe him, he is a billionaire, Communists China cannot bribe him into a satanic New World Order triggered by Communist China Wuhan generated virus for world reset, that failed flat on its face. Mark this DAY.

 

Educationally,

 

CUO Umunna

Policy Examiner

Manhattan, NYC

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Why Biden Is Bad News for Buhari But Good for Nigeria

By SKC Ogbonnia

January 20, 2021

 

President Joseph Biden’s inaugural speech says it all. The United States of America has overcome the attempted coup of January 6, 2021 incited by President Donald Trump. The country is set to re-assert itself as the citadel of democracy. “Democracy has prevailed.”  Democracy has truly prevailed!

 

The coming of Biden, therefore, is not a welcome breeze to the temple of the world’s dictators, where President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria now has a permanent chair.

 

Buhari, remember, defeated President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 with the support of the United States under President Barrack Obama, whose second-in-command happened to be Biden. It was believed that the change mantra of Buhari’s campaign could manifest positive change not only in Nigeria but Africa at large.

 

But the world quickly found out the hard way. Upon assuming office, Buhari wasted no time before brandishing signs of brazen dictatorship, stocking abject political vendetta, gross human rights abuses, glaring inequity, as well as dizzying dimensions of malfeasance, as well as nonfeasance, especially in the areas of corruption, terrorism, and electoral malpractice.

 

The Obama-Biden administration countered by initiating measurable sanctions against Nigeria commensurate with Buhari’s excesses at the time. There was also the hope that the succeeding regime in the United States would keep Buhari accountable.

 

Unfortunately for Nigeria, but fortunately for Muhammadu Buhari, Obama’s successor turned out to be Donald Trump, whose foreign policy was diametrically opposite to those of his predecessors. Not only did Trump spearhead an ‘America First’ doctrine that generally viewed the outside world as a miasmic burden, he also equated the entire African continent as a “shithole.”

 

Though the U.S. issued occasional rebukes of the Buhari regime, it was easy to read that Trump’s shitty notion of Africa was no joke. Any serious attention on Nigeria was appraised as a plain waste. 

 

Given that America—the only country he is said to fear—did not seem to care, Buhari quickly capitalized. He would carry on with gross abuse of office without fear of serious consequences for his behavior.

 

But change has become inevitable with Biden as U.S. President. His people and policy thus far bear a striking resemblance with those of Obama. In short, pundits have already labeled the new American government as the Obama’s third term. Of no less importance is that Biden’s vice-president, Kamala Harris, is an African American with interesting family ties to Nigeria.

 

As the world’s 7^th most populous nation, Nigeria matters, and more so to the United States. Unlike the Trump regime, the Biden-Harris administration is keenly aware. The new team has a good grasp of the situation in the African country. They do not need to be told that Nigeria has taken a turn for the worse since the last time Mr. Biden was in government. Africa’s most resourceful nation becoming the home of the world’s poorest people is world news.

 

Biden knows Buhari is the problem. As a leader whose inaugural address focused on uniting America regardless of political persuasions, Joseph Robinette Biden knows the problem began with Buhari’s divisive, vindictive, authoritarian, and unapologetic approach. Obama’s Vice-President vividly remembers Buhari’s state visit to Washington, DC late July 2015 where the Nigerian leader had the temerity to use the august occasion to declare that he would perpetrate political vendetta on the constituents who opposed him.

 

Biden has seen a similar movie before. Donald Trump!

 

Though Buhari is a goldbrick, slowpoke, and neither charismatic nor loquacious, the Nigerian president actually has more in common with Trump. For example, both assumed power; preaching integrity, only to gain the power to emerge as stone-cold bigots and, by far, the most authoritarian, vengeful, tribalistic, and toxic leaders their respective countries have ever known.

 

Like Trump, Buhari not only enables election rigging, he has already left democracy worse than he met it. Needless to mention that the two men condone police brutality against certain tribes and creeds in their native countries. It was not a coincidence that the two deadliest protests of this century, Black Lives Matter and #EndSARS, were witnessed under Trump and Buhari, respectively.

 

Biden has a sense of history. He remembers Buhari’s broken promises. He remembers the Chibok schoolgirls. The issues of kidnapping, terrorism, poverty, and corruption, which Buhari heightened to gain power, have only worsened. Fulani herdsmen menace, which was designated as a terrorist group under Obama-Biden administration in 2014, continues to kill and maim the Nigerian people with impunity.

 

Significantly, unlike Trump and Buhari, Biden listens and has the appetite for in-depth analysis of issues. Instead of being teleguided by the daily doses of lies from the fascistic officials of the Nigerian government, Joseph Biden is broadly versed to consider the innocent opinions of Nigerian-Americans. I mean the very Nigerian ‘Josephs’, many of whom are captains of industries in the various strata of the American society, and some of whom are serving in the Biden-Harris government.

 

The true degree of the Nigerian problem will unravel. Biden will learn that the widely publicized popularity of Trump in Nigeria is merely an opposition to Buhari’s bad governance. It is grounded in the reality that the former military dictator, who was greenlighted to democratic power by the Obama-Biden administration, turned out to be a huge disappointment. Take away many Nigerian Christians who thought the disgraced American leader was truly a man of faith, and others who bought his other daily lies, more gullible citizens had strongly believed that only a brutal dictator like Donald J. Trump could tame Buhari and restore Nigeria to a hopeful trajectory.

 

Biden’s style is profoundly different. He understands diplomacy trumps dictatorship. Yet he knows true democracy goes with consequences for bad behavior. And while Buhari may appear balmy, the Nigerian president can still tell the difference between night and day. True change is inevitable. Gbam!

 

SKC Ogbonnia writes from Houston, Texas, USA

Twitter #SKCOgbonnia

 

 

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[SKC Ogbonnia]

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Trump: Why Nigeria Should Explore A Bi-partisan INEC

By SKC Ogbonnia

February 16, 2021.

 

The desperate attempts by President Donald Trump to overturn a free and fair U.S. presidential election of 2020 ought to create every sense of urgency for Nigeria to explore a bi-partisan body for the conduct of elections.

 

Trump’s behavior was delusional and does not represent any good example of a democratic mien, but it can serve as a blessing in disguise, especially for nations prone to dictatorship and electoral controversies. That is precisely where Nigeria comes in.

 

Nigeria has seen its fair share of dictators donning a democratic toga, as well as electoral controversies. Instances abound, but the most relative is the tendency of the Nigerian leaders to pervert the laws that govern the country’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

 

As the name suggests, the INEC was envisioned as an independent organization in line with item F,14(2c) of the Third Schedule of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended). This section states that any of its members must “be nonpartisan and a person of unquestionable integrity.” The Constitution also vests the appointment of principal INEC officials with the president of the country. Unfortunately, most of the appointees have been neither nonpartisan nor independent.

 

A prevailing example is the case of Lorretta Onochie, who has been nominated as a National Commissioner for the INEC. Not only is she a rabid promoter of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and currently the Senior Special Assistant on Social Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, Onochie is also a virally controversial figure and super spreader of toxic fictions. In short, her every rhetoric is emblematic of an extremist rabble-rouser who clowns around the country spewing offensive fallacies as federal decrees.

 

The objective motive behind Onochie’s nomination, therefore, is nothing but trumpish—deliberately designed to wreak havoc and stoke controversies.

 

But the dictatorial intrigue within the INEC did not start with Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling APC. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Peoples’ Democratic Party were no different or even worse while they were in power.

 

Such partisan grip of the INEC has been the major reason Nigerian elections are hardly mentioned in the same breath with the term “free and fair.” However, instead of placing the blame squarely where it belongs, the INEC Chairman is typically the scapegoat.

 

For instance, as the country geared for the 2011 election, the debate centered on Maurice Iwu, a renowned Professor of Pharmacognosy, who served as the INEC boss in the controversial elections of 2007. To many Nigerians, Mr. Iwu was the problem, and the problem was Mr. Iwu.

 

It was generally believed that a mere change in leadership of the INEC was the sole panacea for a free and fair election in the country. Accordingly, President Goodluck Jonathan appointed a new chairman in Professor Attahiru Jega, another astute intellectual, a move widely hailed. Yet, after the 2011 general elections, despite the fact that its conduct showed significant improvement, the opposition groups claimed that the ruling party colluded with the INEC to falsify electoral results.

 

In the words of Muhammadu Buhari, the main opposition candidate in the 2011 elections, the magnitude of malpractices in the 2007 elections “eclipsed all the other elections in the depth and scope of forgery and rigging. Initially, there were high hopes that after 2003 and 2007 a semblance of electoral propriety would be witnessed. The new chairman of INEC, Professor Jega, was touted as competent and a man of integrity. He has proved neither.”

 

Upon gaining power in 2015, President Buhari quickly ousted Jega and brought in an equally distinguished professor, Mahmud Yakubu, who would go on to oversee the 2019 elections. But the situation only seemed to worsen. In short, a post-2019 election survey by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) found that, while 61% of the electorate perceived the 2015 elections headed by Jega as fair, only 37% would say so for the 2019 exercises conducted under Yakubu. 

 

In rejecting the results of the 2019 presidential elections, Atiku Abubakar, the runner-up candidate, remarked as follows: “the electoral fraud perpetrated by the Buhari administration this past Saturday cannot produce a government of the people for the simple reason that it does not reflect the will of the Nigerian people.” An influential pro-opposition pundit, Femi Aribisala, was more direct: “INEC is supposed to be an impartial umpire in elections in Nigeria. However, it is now obvious that Mahmood Yakubu’s INEC operated essentially as an arm of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).”

 

A salient factor that has not received adequate attention in the contextual analysis of INEC is that, besides its Chairman, the other principal officers who represent the electoral body from the national to the ward levels are typically the sympathizers or card-carrying members of the ruling party. To that end, even where the INEC was able to produce a semblance of a free and fair election, the opposition usually hides behind the partisan shade of the commission to occasion a flood of conspiracies to wash away the credibility of the election. This distrust only goes to undermine the sanctity of the elections and deepen the depth of the disrepute commonly associated with the country’s democracy.

 

To improve the system, Nigeria should explore a bi-partisan electoral commission. A bi-partisan structure, with members presented by the different political parties, will strengthen the needed checks and balances within the commission itself. This approach should extend to the recruitment of electoral officers from the national down to the ward levels and polling booths.

 

A bi-partisan structure can restore confidence and ensure trust throughout the width and breadth of the commission. This proposal parallels the position of the main opposition party in the 2007 election, the All Nigeria’s Peoples Party (ANPP), where Emmanuel Eneukwu, its National Publicity Secretary at the time, canvassed for a review of the electoral laws to include members of the different political parties in the leadership of National Election Commission.

 

The bi-partisan electoral model is the core of the American system, which remains a paragon of democracy, Trump’s shenanigans notwithstanding. Members to both the federal and state election commissions are drawn from the country’s two major political parties. The apparent political equipoise profoundly promotes internal checks and balances within the system. Thus, even if any trumpish character in any of the states must nominate someone with questionable integrity to an electoral commission, the opposition party would reject or counter such nomination accordingly.

 

The partisan balance within the U.S. electoral system, more than any other factor, accounts for the widely celebrated vitality of the American institutions. It also accounts for why and how Donald Trump could not succeed in his asinine scheme to compel some state electoral bodies, including those controlled by his party, to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

 

Perhaps Nigeria has explored various strategies over the years to checkmate partisan maneuvers within the INEC. The electoral body has recruited members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and university professors to assist in recent exercises. There were equally past efforts, for example, the 2008 Electoral Reform Committee (ERC), which proposed, among other things, that a neutral body, particularly the National Judicial Council, should appoint all the INEC officials, including its chairman. The ERC also called for the members of INEC to include representatives of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the News Media, etc.

 

The idea of a neutral electoral body is superficially attractive. But recruiting people from a cadre of pliant Nigerian institutions and expecting them to be impartial is no different from perceiving a stench as an aroma. Not surprisingly, the university recruits are always accused of partiality or being wholly subservient to the parties in power either at the states or the federal level.

 

Unlike other institutions, the political party has the potential to provoke steadfast allegiance from the people—far more than tribe, religion, and even more than blood relationships, especially in Nigeria, where prebendal politics dictates the content and character of socio-economic wellbeing. True independence or neutrality of INEC is more attainable in an environment where two or more independent parties can checkmate each other from acting contrary to the stated objectives.

 

A pertinent backdrop is that the American society is by no means closer to sainthood than its Nigerian counterpart. America’s saving grace is merely the presence of a system that can compel the leaders and the people to act in line with the law of the land.

 

Dr. SKC Ogbonnia writes from Houston, Texas, USA.

Twitter: #SKCOgbonnia

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Dr. SKC Ogbonnia writes from Houston, Texas, USA.

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[iguana WI]

All the political parties should have the responsibility and resources to hold INEC to account for its procedures, processes, and actions. This a a way to bring sunshine to the Agency, INEC.

If the political parties CANNOT collectively wage a war of SANITY and CLEAN elections for their survival - they deserve to be RIGGED out as is the case of the past.

SKC you SPEAK too much grammar, set up an advocate group in Nigeria and spend money defending your beliefs, which are beliefs of many Nigerians, assuming you are ABLE, having the liquid!

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[Carl Umunna]

Attention Mr. Ogbonna, 

Please be advised, you are very ignorant of what the issues are, President Donald J. Trump won the 2020 polls in a landslide, unfornately, it was stolen by rogue CCP-backed crooked Democrats-BLM-Antifa puppeteers of nihilistic communists-Socialists China. If I were you I would focus my attention at vandals at cattle imperialism triggered by Cattle-Aso-Rock Presidency. Thank GOD for ESN & IPOB paramilitary protecting Eastern territorial boundaries of the Holy Land (Biafra-Nation), otherwise Islamists Fulani-terrorists zealous would have overrun & decimated all geo-political polarity of zoological republic of Nigeria as presently constituted. For your information, President Trump is God gift to the United States of America today, and we are grateful for it. God bless President Donald J. Trump and his family. 

Educationally, 

CUO Umunna, 

Policy Examiner,

Manhattan,NYC.  

Update: Prophetic: Gov. Mohammed: ‘Nobody Owes Nigerian-Forests”, Dansudu: “Yoruba & Fulani Are like Master & Slave, (Yoruba’s Our Slave), North & South-West Are Like Master & Slave, Husband & Wife, Fulani-North Must Not Retaliate Against Southerners”—AUCF, President Ado Shuaibu Dansudu. Bala: “Fulani Must Carry AK47 In Self-Defense, Fulani Is Victim, They Rustle Our Cattles, Forests Belongs to Nobody, Fulani Has Rights To Live Wherever They Like”-Governor Bala Mohammed (Bauchi State)

New York (RR) Oyo Capitol--The Arewa United Consultative Forum (AUCF) President Alhaji Ado Shuaibu Dansudu in a statement reaching Republic Reporters, he called on Fulani-led Northerners across the country not to retaliate against southerners following conflicts that have snuffed lives and destroyed properties worth Millions of Naira, Sasha-Market, Ibadan, Oyo State, in Yoruba-Fulani communities in statement signed by its President, Alhaji Ado Shuaibu Dansudu, in the conflict Resolution effort he explained that North and South-West of the country, "we are like Husband and wife, Master and Slave",  and had together produced great leaders across ethnic lines working together to promote the unity of the country, which the present generation must imbibe", this is, regardless, if South-West citizenry are rapped, maimed, and killed inside Yoruba territorial Forests and boundaries.

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka called Cattle Imperialism and agreed with Alhaji Dansudu in his interviews few days ago. Woyinka’s words: “We are becoming or are now slaves in our land, they killer herdsmen have encroached and attacked my property, our students are either killed, kidnapped or molested in my own state of Ondo”, he lamented. “What do we do now? I have reported to Police multiple times, and they lied that nothing happened, but as you can see, I am not attacked physically, but my land and my property was attacked, what is property, perimeter and space of ground belonging to me, when you trespass into it that an attack, it is not just errand one cow, or two, it is herd in my compound, and I told my people, we arrested them, I called on the fellow to come, this is not the first time it is happening, he ran into bush. When police came, they wanted to comb the bush I said no, they will eventually come back for their cattle”, Soyinka stated. “It is business, if you want a piece of my land for cattle-grazing, we can sit-down negotiate it, how much will you pay, and so on and so forth. You don’t just encroach into private property. I remember growing up, and cattle were moved in wagons, and there were no problems. Today, while government is setting up panels to investigate past cattle grievances students are being killed, kidnapped, or molested in my own state, Ondo”, Soyinka lamented to reporters.  

Curiously, Mr. Dansudu, could not muster the courage to blame squarely Fulani-herdsmen responsible for rapes, maiming, killings, and kidnapping  inside cities and drag victims into the forests across the land, rape them, maim or kill their victims. He however, said in the statement that the crises in Nigeria should be blamed on the enemies of the country who always fan embers of disunity, as it was with the past leaders, never said that late General Mohammadu Buhari, Nasir El-Rufai and others brought Fulani Militias across the Sahel, leading to 2015 polls to remove Goodluck Jonathan from power by any means necessary. Never mentioned that Myetti Allah and AREWA-leadership according to Nuhu Ribadu former EFCC-Boss, was paid 100Billion Naira out of 150Billion Naira that Myetti Allah and Fulani-AREWA leadership requested to stop killings across the country.

Hear his disrespectful conflicting statement beneath, identifying his Fulani-North (as Masters), and Yoruba-Nation, South-West (as Slaves to Fulani North):

“We call on all northerners not to retaliate following the unfortunate crisis that broke out in Shasha, Ibadan. We know that there are some elements who are trying to cause problems between the North and the South-West, but Insha Allah, their plans will be destroyed.

“The North and the South-West are just like husband and wife or slave and his master because we share similar traditions and religious beliefs. Besides, we are both accommodating but we don’t know what brought about the hatred and misunderstanding that is playing out between the northerners and the south-westerners.”

According to him, northerners and southerners have specific businesses they are known for which promote economic growth in the country, and ethnicity should not be allowed to destroy it.

“The northerners did not take over their businesses or their places in work. Anywhere you see 100 northerners in the South-West, they are only there to sell what they labour for. They also create jobs for the southerners like the abattoir.

“There are thousands of southerners working there and there are millions of them selling fresh meat all over the South-West, and there are thousands of them dealing in perishable food items and there are thousands of market women who buy from the market. Some even buy on credit. There are many markets in the South-West where there are no northerners because they don’t sell their items there. So there is a good understanding between northerners and the southerners right from independence.

“Sir Samuel Akintola was appointed by Sir Ahmadu Bello as the Premier of the South-West. General Yakubu (Gowon) appointed (Chief Obafemi) Awolowo as minister of finance. Then, Nigeria relied on the resources of the North before the discovery of oil. General Murtala (Mohammed) picked Obasanjo as his second-in-command.

“Also, General Ibrahim Babangida picked a southerner as his second-in-command just as General Buhari picked Tunde Idiagbon. Similarly, General Sani Abacha picked Oladipo Diya as his second-in-command just as Buhari picked (Prof. Yemi) Osinbajo as his running mate in the recently concluded presidential election.

“Right from the time of Nigeria’s struggle for dependence at that time, Chief Obafemi Awolowo was the most popular and one of the dogged independence fighters. Some people who didn’t want the progress of the nation sabotaged him and instigated him to form a tribal political party.

“These same people caused misunderstanding between Chief Awolowo and Samuel Akintola who later became rivals and when Sir Akintola became the premier in the then Western Region, the same people told lies against Sir Akintola and Awolowo that he attempted a coup during Tafawa Balewa's regime.

“In the Second Republic, these same people instigated Awolowo to form a political party along tribal lines after the assassination of Sir Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa. Chief Awolowo was the strongest and the most popular politician at that time and the same people sabotaged him from becoming the President of Nigeria.

“Once again; the same people prevented Chief MKO Abiola from becoming the President of Nigeria and the same people rejected (Ernest) Shonekan as the Head of Interim Government and the same people rejected Obasanjo for the Third Republic and the same people tied the hands of the five South-West states to give the Peoples Democratic whereby only Lagos State survived with the efforts of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and now the same people are trying to sabotage Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ambition of becoming President. It will not be surprising if they turn round to blame the Northerners.

Dubiously, Dansudu rather than blame his kinsmen they brought from Sahel in its quest for conquest, hegemony and dominance looked, pointed his fingers elsewhere for current under water polarity at land grab, territorial annexation of Western-regional boundaries, and Eastern-regional boundaries at that, while conflicting AREWA-Governor Bala called on Fulani-herdsmen to carry AK47, stating “Forests belongs to nobody, forests belongs, to Nigeria”, Bala said. While, Dansudu curiously said: “Nigerians to be wary of the enemies of the country trying to use ethnic and religious differences to cause havoc.

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“It is the same set of people who are instigating the misunderstanding and problems between the Southerners and Northerners. Therefore we need to be very careful. Buhari is a northerner and Osinbajo is a southerner and they are taking coffee together and the Senate and House of Representatives' members are taking coffee together. Ministers and ambassadors are taking coffee together; we the masses, why are we fighting and killing one another? When they send enforcement agents, they send three major tribes and when there is a religious crisis, they send Muslim and Christian enforcement agents to stop the crisis.

“If the people are saying Nigeria is not a good country, then we spoilt it together. But I know that the enemies of peace, since independence have been trying to use ethnicity and religion to cause a problem. Our question is 'is it only Nigeria that has different tribes and religions?' 

“What surprises us is that there are many southwesterners facing trial for killing their fellow southerners and there are northerners facing trial for killing their fellow northerners and there are easterners facing trial for killing their fellow easterners, likewise the South-South and there are Muslims facing trial for killing their fellow Muslims and Christians facing trial for killing their fellow Christians.

“Why not take the matter to the authorities or settle it amicably? If it is inter-tribal or inter-religious, it turns to violence. What happened in Shasha is very sad because innocent people lost their lives and properties. We must warn our people. To our surprise, most of the northern and southern boys are drug addicts, and the children of the drug dealers don’t use the drug so we have to do something about it.

“So we should not be killing one another on the basis of language because there are many northerners in the South who cannot locate their towns in the North. Likewise, there are southerners who cannot locate their towns in the South. They have naturally become northerners. I want to advise Nigerians to be their brothers’ keeper and to live in peace and harmony with one another."

Easterners should be grateful to IPOB, and Eastern Security Network (ESN) and grateful to IPOB-leadership synchronizing her security apparatuses under able leadership of Nnamdi Kanu. Mazi Kanu, in his February 15, 2021 Broadcast warned that what is happening in South-West territorial frontiers will never happened in Biafra-land. His words: “I warned Yoruba, more than a decade ago, they called me war monger, that I want to destabilize the zoological Republic of Nigeria, look at what is happening now to them, ESN support Sunday Igboho, if Yoruba refuse to confront, and fight Fulani head-on they are finished. Fulani-Oligarchy plans was to conquer western territorial frontiers, then they will move their war to Eastern territorial borders in 2022, they (Fulani) think they are smart, they are coming supported by the Brutish British, but if they try it, we will all die here. They (Fulani) knows Eastern territorial boundaries will fight, Eastern regional bloc are they only ones that can fight Fulani and stop them, that is why they started in the west. Let me ask you simple question, do you hear Hausa-Fulani anymore? Answer me, it is a simple question. No, because they (Fulani) have conquered and subjugated the Hausas, they (Fulani) have decimated and annihilated Middle-Belters, change the demographics, changed names of the communities, Nupe and Borno use to be a great Empire, do you hear of them anymore? Answer me. They answer is no. If you keep saying “One Nigeria”, then you hate yourself, because that is what they will use to complete the conquest, they (Fulani) have the best lobbying apparatus in the world, they have paid off the media, domestically and abroad, that is why I am proud of Biafra media who are stepping up, but we will not wait for anybody anymore, we will take our own lives in our own hands. Days gone, when we will write United Nations, (UN), European Union (EU), write Washington, crying oh, please come they are killing us, they killed our women, rapped our girls, rapped and maimed our mothers, our fathers, our children, as I am speaking to you right now more 50 young girls, were picked up in our streets, and taken to Abuja, FCT, by Fulani-Janjaweed-Military where they been rapped daily, to service Janjaweed Military, imagine them coming back with diseases from Janjaweed-Fulani-Military and you are telling One-Nigeria, Black people are very stupid, I do not why they are wired, can you imagine, what would have happened in the East if not for the mercies of Elohim, Chukwu Okike Abiama and Eastern Security Network (ESN). Chineke Nna Meram Ebere”-Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Are shocked? Wait for Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed in his February 11, 2021 conflicting remarks that Fulani has no option than to carry AK47 for self-defense. His words:

"The west doesn’t want to accommodate other tribes but we are accommodating your tribe in Bauchi. We have Yorubas who have stayed in Bauchi for over 150 years, some of them have been made permanent secretaries in Gombe, Bauchi and Borno.

 

"But because the Fulani man is practicing the tradition of trans-humans, pastoralism, he has been exposed to cattle rustlers who carry a gun, kill him and take away his cows he has no option to carry AK 47 because the government and the society are not protecting him. It’s the fault of the government. ”Nobody owns any forests in Nigeria, it’s owned by Nigeria. Under section 23, 24 and 25 of the constitution, every Nigerian is free to stay anywhere. Anybody can speak how but we are only exercising restraint."

Governor Bala Mohammed also attacked his Benue counterpart, Samuel Orthom for poor handling of farmers-herders clashes in his state said he was very wrong to incite other tribes against the herdsmen.

IPOB, ESN leadership disclosed the existence of anti-grazing law of 1969. 1969 statutory laws of Anti-Grazing in Nigeria’s federal high court. “This law was pronounced by a judge, that the primitive, pastoral practices of the Fulani herders are illegal,” Kanu stated.

“Subsequently, the pronouncement was enacted into law that moving cattle from place to place is a punishable offense. In tandem to the court pronouncement, Section 292 of the criminal code of Northern Nigeria urges citizens to take proactive actions against ‘cattle imperialism, in their communities as act of trespassing.”

In furtherance, ESN/IPOB wondered why governments across State level failed to implement aforesaid law, adding that “killer” Fulani herdsmen has been flaunting the laws with “impunity and reckless abandon ever since the law was enacted”. 

In papers Eastern Governors confirmed they had banned open grazing, nevertheless, ESN-leadership berated Eastern administrators (aka Governors) why the laws remained unenforced alluding that it cannot be implemented because no ‘State police’ to have enforced the ‘State laws,’ and prosecute offenders.

 

He also made it clear that after eleven days of the broadcast, if the herdsmen fail to retract their cattles from farmlands and residential areas, the newly launched Eastern Security Network (ESN) would be obliged to enforce the laws – since the governors, who are only doing the bidding of the Fulani Caliphate, has failed to implement the law.

Court papers demonstrate that April 17, 1969, “JUSTICE ADEWALE THOMPSON BANNED OPEN GRAZING ON 17TH APRIL 1969 AND WARNED OF UNPROVOKED KILLINGS BY FULANI HERDSMEN

Hon. Justice Adewale Thompson Bans Open Grazing in Nigeria. It is high time states put this law into practice and end unprovoked killings by Fulani herdsmen. Hon. Justice Adewale Thompson’s 1969 Judgment on Open Cattle Grazing – Suit no AB/26/66. Hon. Justice Adewale Thompson: 17th April 1969.

Suit no AB/26/66 at Abeokuta Division of the High Court.

Justice Adewale Thompson wrote: “I do not accept the contention of Defendants that a custom exists which imposes an obligation on the owner of farm to fence his farm whilst the owner of cattle allows his cattle to wander like pests and cause damage.  Such a custom if it exists, is unreasonable and I hold that it is repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience and therefore unenforceable…in that it is highly unreasonable to impose the burden of fencing a farm on the farmer without the corresponding obligation on the cattle owner to fence in his cattle.” Sequence to that I banned open grazing for it is inimical to peace and tranquility and the cattle owners must fence or ranch their animals for peace to reign in these communities”, his ruled on aforesaid date.

Curiously, Fulani-North shockingly and fearlessly called Yoruba (South-West) as ‘Slaves” vs “Master”, “Wife” vs “Husband”, relationship today and yesterday, The Arewa United Consultative Forum (AUCF) President Alhaji Ado Shuaibu Dansudu said in a statement Sasha-Market Ibadan, Oyo Capitol.

Will Yoruba South-West territorial frontiers emerging annexation of her forests, annexation of its territorial boundaries to Fulani-Northern Oligarchy quest for manifest expansionistic territorial hegemony and dominance deep into South West territorial frontiers or will Yoruba led by freedom activist Sunday Igboho, and OPC-factional leadership led by Gani Adam and geopolitical Powerhouse, South-West political-architectural polarity fight back or will it acquiesce to this grandstanding, this outlandish disrespect and humiliation oozing out of Fulani-Islamists-Oligarchical century old blueprint Northern ambitious narratives under belligerent nihilistic implementations presently in public display of political craftmanship is yet to be seen. Be rest assured Eastern Security Network (ESN) and IPOB is here to help, while maintaining flexibility at tactical-military best practices, monitoring, guerilla approach, methodological-engages at North territorial expansionism triggered by, Fulani-cattle imperialism of pipedream ambitious push for geopolitical hegemony, dominance geo-polarity vis-à-vis mobilization at tactical ESN security paramilitary emergence in confrontation with any domestic-puppeteers or external zealous expansionistic-Islamic Fundamentalists who dares to challenge ESN-blueprint ambitions restoration projects, its freedom-proclamation, indeed aggressive quest at restoring God’s OWN Nation (Biafra), all her institutional establishments, architectural capabilities, geo-polarity presence, protection of its territorial boundaries and massive restorations of all constitutional manifest destiny unashamedly, and, unapologetically as the epic center of liberty and freedom of continental Afrikka, and international freedom of world peoples, time immemorial, Elohim who established Ebe Orie Efere-meaning—A Place (or land) where is GOD is worshipped (vowelized by geo-belligerent-occupiers in time past as Biafra) is our witness. QED. Please be advised emergence of ESN, IPOB, led Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is God’s geo-political gift at ecclesiastical realm, socio-political-economical craftmanship, regional-shipments polarity, emerging best digitized society, best professionalism, engineering, best emerging military, best at emerging at organizational leadership, best in all things, best freedom and liberty, equity, equality to all her citizenry, polarity gift to mankind, United State of Biafra (USB) will become the envy of the world, walled round, you will not look back while walking her streets, her territorial city-States and boundaries will be GOLDEN Cities, the Origin of GOD Himself, will be Nation led by GOD as a shining light that will get brighter and brighter unto a perfect day, is prophetically revealed on earth, paradisaically, and, no military earth can defeat USB, as a matter of factly, its military capabilities & digitization will be structurally and otherwise, best & unmatched universally, (globally), all eyes will see it, and testify to it, because its GOD’s OWN Nation, everything is all perfectly around and about the Living GOD, nothing less. Prophetically, it already exist in the spiritual realms, our responsibility is to call it forth into the physical existence where all eyes shall see it and bow-down, implied and enumerated saying without compulsion that Jesus is the Christ (Philippians 2:11) to GOD be the GLORY.       

Educationally,

CUO Umunna

Policy Examiner,

Manhattan, NYC

 

Update: Prophetic: ESN-Biafran-War Now In Guerilla-Tactical-Stage, Will Overwhelm, Deplete, & Rubbish Tattered Rogue-Fulani-Nigeria-Military And Her Islamic Fundamentalists Oligarchy In Orlu Province & Elsewhere

 

New York (RR) Orlu-Emerging territorial war engineered by corrupt cattle-Imperialistic Fulani-Nigeria-Military is already overstretched on all fronts-In territorial frontiers of Middle-Belt Axis, in South-West territorial boundaries Axis (Ibadan, Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti, et al), and in confrontations with Eastern Region territorial boundaries Benue-Plateau merger Axis, Orlu-Province, Aba-Province, Bende-Okigwe territorial boundaries, respectively. The Latter under organized decentralized Eastern Security Network (ESN) launched by lPOB-leadership headed by Nnamdi Kanu December 12, 2020, whose responsibilities is to aggressively defend the Holy-Land of United States of Biafra (USB), defend her forests, defend her women, defend her youths, her old men, children, posterity and sternly defend her ancestral inheritance immemorial or perish.  

 

For record, ESN establishment (paramilitary) must intelligently while maintaining tactical-precision-guided positioning carry-out her operations underground and start hitting alien-enemy Nigerian-vandal and land grabbers (forces). The corrupt Nigerian Fulani-forces are only strong when they engage protesters, unarmed civilians but evidently lack effective capacity without tacitly deploying flank-proxy-armed herdsmen and their Boko Haram sister militia & their sponsors. Rogue Nigerian military including depleted Nigerian army, air force, navy, police, boko haram, herdsmen, Hope Uzodinma, and their puppeteer-imposed Governors in former Eastern Region. Collectively, collaboratively, aforesaid elements are together in rapping our women, children, old men, our youths and vandalizing the Holy Land, USB. They are the enemies of the people.

 

To avoid international, regional, and domestic humiliation rogue Fulani-Nigerian Military must hit retreat immediately, repatriate these vandal forces from Orlu-Province or face nihilistic outcome in Biafra territorial boundaries, et al. God hate ugly, ESN hate to see blood spill but why is it only Igbo blood that is good for spilling? Those days are history when Nigerian-military and police massacre and depart with our dead-bodies and act like nothing happened. Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable. Oligarchy in cattle-imperialism based in Aso-Rock is always fond of ganging up against the Igbo-Nation; but forgot that you can only push a republic (USB) to the wall as far as ESN-elasticity permits, at some point you stand between civilization and anarchy, life and death, they are forced and left with one option, defend themselves in the face of aggression or perish while trying.

 

Prophetically speaking, we have come to point—mobilizing and repelling the aggressors overtly and covertly at regional polarity, guerilla-underground methodologies become inevitable, ESN mythology, mystery, invisibility is now documented narrative, decentralized usage at guerilla tactical positioning against bloodthirsty enemy in defense of defenseless women, children, old men, and our ancestral forests, inheritance is a task that must be accomplished. Biafrans must fearlessly stand their ground in the face of aggression at this critical time. We must stop allowing the vandals, be it their foreign financiers and/or domestic puppeteers desecrating the Holy land (Biafra), stop allowing vandals to overwhelm your youths, your women, and your children, act patriotically, because humans die only once, if needs be, die honorably. Everybody will die at some point, but how you die matters, die with your head in the sand like ostrich or die gallantly, patriotically in defense of motherland. We think, if we perish, we perish, nevertheless, it is better to die honorably for a patriotic good cause- defending your wives, children, sisters, fathers, mothers, and relatives in the land of the living. All hands must be on deck. No retreat, No Surrender.

 

Educationally,

 

CUO Umunna

Policy Examiner,

Manhattan, NYC

 

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Update: In Biafra There Will Be Equal Rights to All Her Citizenry. No Escort, No Siren, Everywhere Is Cameralized & Digitized, Everybody Will Walk On The Road Without Looking Back, Walled Round, Highest In Technology, Highest In All Things, Just As It Was When Egypt Flourished And Was On Top Of The World, But In USB, It Shall Be Led By GOD, Liberation Of The Whole World Will Come From Biafra--Prophetically Revealed.

 

New York (RR) Biafra-Nation-Update: Prophetic—In Biafra There Will Be Equal Rights to All Her Citizenry, In Biafra Leaders Will Go Without Escort, No Siren, Everywhere Is Cameralized & Digitized, Everybody Will Walk On The Road Without Looking Back, Walled Round, Best In Technology, Best In All Things, Just As It Was When Egypt Flourished And Was On Top Of The World, the difference, In the United States of Biafra (USB), It Shall Be Led By GOD. The liberation Of The Whole World Will Come From Biafra--Prophetically Revealed. Additionally, and strategically speaking, I challenge Cow-Aso Rock Presidency, Liar Mohammed, Femi Adesina and Co to travel to Borno State, enter Kabba town and spend a night, you will see me in Nigeria next week” said Patriot Simon Ekpa, a demonstration of failed State, massive breakdown of law and other, dysfunctionality at insecurity across the Zoologically Republic called Nigeria led by terrorists housed in cow Aso-Rock and fake Presidency.    

Patriot Mazi Simon. Ekpa communicated from United Kingdom, UK. “For those of you always saying come to Nigeria come to Nigeria, I am challenging your presidency, Liar Mohammed, Femi Adesina and co to travel to Borno State, enter Kabba town and spend a night, you will see me in Nigeria next week and nothing will happen.

“You people claim to be in power cannot even visit Nigeria within Nigeria and you are asking me to visit Nigeria and you are asking me to come from thousands of miles away, are you sensible? I challenge your national security advisor to visit his village in Monguno and spend a night, you will see me in Nigeria the next day”.

How about that? For the time being, we will disintegrate the country from afar and save lives”-Simon Ekpa

In Biafra-Nation, insecurity is becoming a thing of the past with emergence of Eastern Security Network (ESN) launched December 12, 2020 led by Nnamdi Kanu.  To this end, We the People of Eastern Region Salute ESN, We Salute Biafrans around the world, we salute Eastern Security Network, ESN & Nnamdi Kanu and those that work with him at this critical juncture of our struggle with the common-terrorists enemy, inside and outside of the Zoological Republic of Nga Orie (Nigeria) headed by Cow-Aso Rock Presidency. Your Emergence Is A Game Changer and a relief to our people at home and abroad in the scheme of things today. Indeed, ESN has heightened restlessness within the rank of our territorial enemies domestically and enemies abroad. For example, shameless John Campbell's Killer-Fulani Defender must be told in clear and specific terms that it is no longer as,  business as usual. Biafrans will defend themselves at every turn, self-defense is an international Human Rights, enshrined in the U.N. Human Rights Charter, and Hague Convention of 1928, Netherlands, of People's Rights to Self-Determination of World Indigenous People. 

 

Make no mistake, In Biafra There Will Be Equal Rights to All Her Citizenry. No Escort, No Siren, Everywhere Is Cameralized & Digitized, Everybody Will Walk On The Road Without Looking Back, Walled Round, Highest In Technology, Highest In All Things, Just As It Was When Egypt Flourished And Was On Top Of The World, But In USB, It Shall Be Led By GOD, Liberation Of The Whole World Will Come From Biafra--Prophetically Revealed.

In furtherance, We Salute Eastern Security Network, ESN, ESN Emergence Is A Game Changer In The Scheme Of Things Today. Massive communication indexes, intelligence gathering further demonstrates that shameless former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. John Campbell is a puppeteer-front for both the British-Crooks and their Islamic stooges entrenched in killer-Fulani cattle imperialism that is rapping our women, rapping our girls, rapping our girls, our boys, rapping, maiming and killing our old and young men, rapping and desecrating the Holy-land (Biafra-Nation), rapping our farms, rapping our forests, and much more, this challenge must be challenged immediately head-on without further delays. Thank you Heavenly Father, Elohim for giving our generation a Patriot Nnamdi Kanu, thank God for Radio Biafra, Thank you Elohim for giving our time generational volunteerism of men and women of ESN that is protecting our land protecting our forests, protecting our women, protecting our old, our youths, protecting our mothers so they can return to their farms again, without getting killed, without getting rapped, and without getting molested by murderous Fulani-Herdsmen. ESN, is a gift from God, a gift to mankind at this time. God bless and protect Eastern Security Network (ESN) as they defend and protect our territorial boundaries of the United States of Biafra (USB), against territorists cattle imperialism and their financiers and sponsors. ESN-Forever.

 

For record, in Biafra There Will Be Equal Rights to All Her Citizenry. No Escort, No Siren, Everywhere Is Cameralized & Digitized, Everybody Will Walk On The Road Without Looking Back, Walled Round, Highest In Technology, Highest In All Things, Just As It Was When Egypt Flourished And Was On Top Of The World, But In USB, It Shall Be Led By GOD, Liberation Of The Whole World Will Come From Biafra--Prophetically Revealed. In few days Eastern Security Network (ESN) will be vigorously enforcing the anti-grazing Supreme Court Law Of 1969. Biafrans, children of the Most High, the chosen ones has gone beyond British-Fulani-puppeteers like former United States Ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell doing the bidding of killer herdsmen that have rapped, maimed, killed our girls, children, women, desecrated God’s sacred land of Biafra.

 

Hired political pundit-crooks like John Campbell intentions speak volume with his latest twitter handle communication. “In the former Biafra, the establishment of Eastern Security Network seems to reflect residual support for Igbo separatism’, John Campbell the former U.S. Ambassador twittered away.

Curiously in a swift response to his chagrin IPOB Leader Nnamdi Kanu expanded on Campbell’s twitter missives. His words: “I agree with you, @JohnCampbellcfr, but it’s beyond ‘Igbo’ separatism, it’s #Biafran Restoration-Efik, Igodomigodo, Ibibio, Idoma, Ijaw, et al” #ESNForever.

 

For naysayers,  In Biafra-Nation Of God-Write this down: The United States of Biafra (USB), Will Become No.1 In The World In All Things Because God Will Lead Her, Biafra Will Technologically Light Up The World Again, As It Did In Egypt, Crude-Oil-Will Be Useless, Everybody Will Be Equal, Its Ecclesiastical Capability Will Be Led By God Himself, Biafra Shall Be Heaven On Earth, It Shall Be Better Than USA, Biafra Is Origin Of God, Prophetically Revealed By Major Prophet Possibility, David Kingelo Elijah. 

Additionally, In Biafra, Elohim, I repeat, God Himself will lead Biafra, Biafra shall be Heaven on Earth because it shall be centered on God’s ecclesiastical Order all to His Glory, Most Excellency. Its citizenry shall flock back to it from all over the world, a land of God, a Nation-State where there will be no rich no poor, everybody will be equal, crude oil will be useless, because it shall be technologically, scientifically, economically driven, a land where GOD is centralized and worshipped, in the land of the Rising Sun, the land where our fathers died, the land of pilgrims, the land of God. For record, aforesaid blueprint already exists in the spiritual realm, additionally, let it be said that Eastern Security Network, ESN, is spiritually driven, a strike force albeit presently constituted as paramilitary, a gorilla Power-House with positional precision capabilities led by God Himself to repel enemy forces, Its (USB) military shall be second to none because it shall be triggered by God Himself. 

 

In furtherance, because Biafra is the land and Origin of God (Jesus Christ Himself was born amongst them), it shall be the Light of the world. Emergence of Biafra will happen without war, epitomized by Equality, same educational level, same housing, exportation of human resources, no rich, no poor, if you are a million and get elected into electioneering office, you will come out poorer, but your legacy and achievements will be generational, cannot be finished, because it shall be selflessness at service, there will be limitations by law in place, if you are at leadership level, you are not going to be buying your own cars, it shall be given to you, crude oil will be neglected because technology will rule United States of Biafra, USB, diplomatically, it shall give aides to neighboring Africa countries, to Chad, Cameron, Niger, et al; the United States of Biafra (USB), is completed in the spiritual realm, there is not going to be war. Get ready, there should be no trace of corrupt when Biafra comes, if there is trace of corruption in your income you are disqualified, you will not be permitted to lead or be part of its leadership; even activists will be screened, USB will be best brain, best in technology, best in academic, best in everything, men, women, girls, boys, equal rights to all her citizenry. No escort, no siren, everywhere is cameralized and digitized, everybody will walk on the road without looking back, walled round, highest in technology, highest in all things, just as it was when Egypt flourished and was on top of the world, but in USB, it shall be led by God, liberation of the whole world will come from Biafra, whatever you are practically capable to offer is what will reign not about whether you went to Cambridge, Oxford, Yale, or other Ivy leagues University, but rather what you can offer her—best surgeon, best athletes, best in all things. Let the will of God be done forever and ever. This development will cause mass return of Igbo (Mediators of Yahweh) all over the world. Everywhere will be like gold, no dust, even today’s so-called best properties everything will be demolished and rebuilt with best architectural designs never seen before, God said that He will use it to show the rejected will become the corner stone, world people will ask has Christ come, they will say no, God is just showing His power. Even, the UFO, the great mysteries will be revealed, highest inventions, highest capabilities, highest minds, highest in all things, shall Igbo-Nation become, it is the word of God, Number One to emancipate God’s people.

 

You know the world has not serviced God. This shall be the manifestation of God amongst men, ability to manifest and bring things to the physical, let God be glorified forever. All the aforesaid blueprints-intrigues, God will manifest in the United State of Biafra, USB. Bringing what is in the realm of the spirit into physical for God will never do anything except He revealed it to His prophets. There must be a Nation called a Nation of God, Israel shall be Number 2, but the Number 1, is United State of Biafra USB, Biafra is the origin of God, God will show Himself and His power, and His Origin, I do not know what I am saying but that is what God has revealed to me, and He said to me speak and be not afraid. May God’s will be done, in Jesus name. Amen. USB will not be by educational level, but what you can offer USB, best of anything will come from Biafra. Whatever kind of profession you think of in the world will come from the United States of Biafra, USB. USB shall be better than USA, better than France, better than Europe, better than Dubai. People will ask-is this Jesus Era. God will say no, it is not Jesus yet, I want to use Biafra to show the world my power, I want to use the neglected to show the world my power, that I rule both in Heaven and on earth. I do not know whether this USB-Nation is Heaven or whether it is the Earth, but it shall be Heaven on Earth. The best of the best, best in everything, everything that concerns God is the manifestation of spiritual aspect of God became reality on earth, manifest it in the physical on earth. Isaiah prophesied things that will happen in 200years to come. What we need now is bring what is the spiritual and bring it into the physical. God said what I said to you, go and say it. There must be a nation called the Nation of God, United States of Biafra, USB, is the origin of God, the Nation of God, the New Nation, if it is true that it is God that revealed it, let the will of God be done.

 

Prophetically speaking, emergence of ESN is actually restoration of United States Of Biafra, USB, the war didn't end in 1970, Sir. Indeed, God Himself shall give directives, monitor, guide, her territorial compacts-super structural global hegemony and dominance, Biafra shall replace the United States of America because America has failed to serve God, but rather became a puppeteer to rogue communists-Socialists-Chinese regime headquartered in Beijing; Biafra is activating the unfinished military enterprise yes completing next phase of Biafra War against rogue enemy British-State, geographical expression, called Nigeria, that was snuffed off her, as it was heading-towardly blueprint in 1970—a gorilla phase supposedly led by Biafran Patriot, Tim Onwuatuegwu, before Obasanjo tricked Onwuatuegwu to come to Lagos and got him killed by enemy forces).

The time is come, please be advised that the formation of ESN is timely, a solid-spiritual-compact that puts fear in the heart of her enemies domestically and internationally, it shall be a source, an answer to everything that ails continental Africa, because God Himself shall lead her territorial space including her land (earth plate) her Airspace, and her international territorial waters. Corrupt world leadership has done everything humanly possible to hide this Ancient nation, Biafra, because the world knows if Biafra (Igbo-language for: Ebe Orie Efere-meaning a place or a territory where God is worshipped vowelized as Biafra by British & Portuguese occupiers) moves, it will shock the world again, as it did before, it is no gimmickry.

 

Sir, Igbo (Mediators of Yahweh, God) led the world in the beginning- technologically, scientifically, economically, ecclesiastically, and otherwise, and will lead it again headed by the High Priest-Jesus Christ (Igbo language for Ya Si Osa (for Jesus) Chi Orie Si Etti vowelized as Christ by aforesaid occupier-actors. BIAFRA is here Sir. It must interest you to know that organizational leadership of Biafra's institutional-structural compacts caught across Benue, former Bendel State, and the entire former Eastern Region-Each Provincial power-unit or power-bloc retains its formation, resources, just as it was in the 10BC till 60s, shall retain, restore, its military capabilities, its engineering, its army (ESN) of its territorial-indigenous compacts (natives) within the territory (to kill elements of suspicions and pitfalls of her quasi-territorial-hegemony and dominance) while in coordination with central Power for now under Nnamdi Kanu its servant, who has sacrificed a lot.

 

Cruelty, acts of dehumanization against God’s people shall be a thing of the past, extra-judicial killings of her citizenry come with a price, and consequences, (Bokohari) killed his father, killed his mother, and have killed many Biafrans since 10BC till date, present time (2021). Enough Is Enough.

 

An idea which time has come, no army on earth, no terrorists on earth, no Jihadists-Zealotic-fundamentialists can do nothing about it, you cannot stop it. Aforesaid are words written on the MARBLE, because God said so, prophetically supported. If you like, pull-together all Fulani-across continental Africa to the land of the Rising Sun, it shall meet its waterloo, shamelessly defeated. The Islamic-killer-Herdsmens and their puppeteers are scared now, the actions brought against us by Zoo-depleted-Military in Orlu, Aba, and elsewhere, was confronted by ESN-Military within Orlu-territorial Province. When God’s appointed time comes, no army on earth can stop it, because it is Heavenly driven, and it's heavenly defended. Enemies have been put on notice, especially exposed enemy's missteps, pitfalls and shortcomings in Orlu-Province, aforesaid outcome coupled with South-West Hero-Sunday Igboho flushing-out Islamic-fundamentalists rogue herdsmen out of its territorial space, have put fears in the hearts of our enemies, a failed crafty terrorists Bokohari-Nigeria-State. That is how it should be because we are God’s people. Prophetically, God has spoken, immediate deployment of prayers and fasting by its citizenry across the board will propel the emergence of spiritual matters into physical specificity, expectedly.

 

Additional security index demonstrate ESN is structured to be everywhere, protecting, providing security cover to all her territorial space in God’s own State, Biafra-Nation, but you cannot and must not necessarily see its capabilities with human physical optical eyes, because it's hugely spiritual. Apparently, guerilla warfare is the phase we are in at right now. Days are gone, when rogue Islamic fundamentalists led by Jihadist-fascist-Bokohari and his Myetti Allah enter Biafra land slaughter with impunity and go unshattered, game-changer, now they will leave tattered, and battered whether they like it or not, yes, it is over. ESN is armed Sir. Evidentiarily, now I know the practical calculations why Americans love their beautiful GUNS and strongly support gun Rights. GUN has POWER, Sir. Military capability versus Military capability and having the heart, makes the difference. Did you see the videos? I cried when I saw the ESN Paramilitary training ground-compacts, protecting our daughters, our mothers, our fathers, our old and our young, inside or forestoral-establishments; yes, our polarity at territorial space cannot be threatened anymore because Elohim, God will fight for His people as long as they submit totally to Him. Initially I thought it was photoshopped, but no it is factual. Curiously, ESN is real, and spiritually stronger. Made up of Efik, Karabari, Ijaws, Ogonis, each compartmentality is centered on Patriot Actors, respected Council of Elders & High Chiefs, made up of Constitutional Assembly of Council of Chief, of the former Eastern Region is evidentiarily reflected in all part of ESN-paramilitary (Military) leadership, Units, Edits, and Peoples Constitution of 1969 and Bills of Rights.

Evidentiarily, what happens is if rogue enemy-Nigerian army attempts to enter BIAFRA-LAND, via ASABA, ESN-paramilitary-extraction from former Bendel State, Igbanke, ASABA forces are on the ground waiting for enemy-forces, monitoring, observing while, maintaining flexibility at collaborations with central power, at movements to accomplishing its Nations-States goals and objectives, and, where necessary strike Jajanweed enemy forces where it hurts most as warning missives even if you are ton-deaf. Be advised, USB, is spiritual movement, Heaven on earth-paradisaically. You may not see USB-forces publicly but they, ESN are there on the ground. If enemy forces attempt encroach into Biafran-territorial space, either through Calabar, Degema, Ugwuta, Owerri-Nta, Ogoni and its international territorial waters, USB (ESN-para-military) Calabar Provincial forces are on the ground with its monitoring capabilities backed by its emergence elite-forces, waiting to strike you head on, if necessary. Sir, I will stop here, Biafra is come, glory be to the Most High Elohim (O Ogo DI vowelized as God) for His lovingkindness, glory be to God for his multitude of mercies which endureth forever and ever. Amen.

  

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Educationally,  

 

CUO Umunna

Policy Examiner,

Manhattan, NYC

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Republic Reporters-Standing Between Civilization & Anarchy

 

 

Update: Prophetic: Sasha Crisis: Northern Governors Visits Western-Governor In Search Of Peace In Ibadan, Oyo State: INVISIBLE-ESN Battles Fulani-Terrorists-Military In Orlu; Fulani Battles Yoruba In Ibadan, Oyo State (Watch Video) Getting To The Tipping Point’-Yoruba Must Defend Ibadan By Any Means Necessary, To Avoid Another Ilorin-Kwara State & Afunja’s Narratives Of A Lost Territory To Fulani-Cattle Imperialism (Watch Video: HAUSA AND YORUBA CLASH IN IBADAN / OTHER MATTER ARISING - YouTubeMazi Nnamdi Kanu's LIVE Broadcast on this day the 15th of February 2021. #ESNforever. - YouTube SASHA MARKET UPDATES: GOVERNORS GATHERED WITH SERIKI AT SASHA TO RESOLVE THE BREAKDOWN OF THE MARKET - YouTube

 

New York (RR) IBADAN-OYO State-In a piece captioned, “Getting To The Tipping Point’, Adeyemi Adefulu, MFR, prophetically, saw what was coming as Fulani clash with Yoruba hours ago in Ibadan, Oyo State. Credible sources reaching Republic Reporters demonstrate that Police shot Omotekun Security officer for arresting Fulani-Herdsman who was accused of attacking a Yoruba woman in her farmland. Watch Video: POLICE SHOOTS AMOTEKUN OFFICER FOR ARRESTING FULANI HERDSMAN - YouTube Mr. Adefulu said in September, “I saw the demonstrations by the Yorubas in London on Saturday 11th September calling for the carving of Oduduwa Republic out of Nigeria. It is a reflection of the sobering state of the nation and the melancholy which has surrounded her. Today, it is clear even to the blind that the center cannot hold and that, once again we are on the tipping point. 

 

“Put very bluntly, the Nigerian experiment has not worked. It has been an unmitigated disaster failing to live up to its promise in every respect. We have become a failed nation with a constantly failing leadership. Our leaders have not worked hard at making it work.We never behaved as if we have any realization that welding a multi-ethnic society into a nation was a serious business. The Nigerian experiment was always laced by a pre conceived ethnic goals of domination by the Fulani which long preceded the amalgamation of 1914. Conquest and territorial acquisition was always their goal. That ambition has never altered. 

 

“Right from the beginning the British were active collaborators of the Fulani in the latter’s quest for domination. They adopted the indirect rule of the Fulani in the North and actively worked for the realisation of the Fulani suzerainty over Nigeria. At independence they left many mines planted. Several ex colonial administrators have confessed to this effect. Census was rigged to always give them an advantage. The military was used to subvert the 1960 negotiated federal constitution and to consolidate the Fulani hold on power. When Gowon and his ilk took power in July 1966, they announced that “there was no basis for Nigerian unity” and were obviously going to divide the country. The British hushed them up. The military proceeded to alter the weak centre to a very strong one. The Fulani never shared a desire to work for the emergence of one nation with guaranteed rights and opportunities for all citizens. The union was always convoluted and skewed towards the domination by the Fulani ethnic group. With other strong tribes making up the union, conflict was always a matter of time. We saw that playing out during the civil war which consumed three million years lives but we learnt nothing from that tragic experience. Indeed, we have committed more terrible errors than the ones that led to the civil war. 

 

“To make matters worse, the resources of the country have been mismanaged wantonly in a rent seeking cronyism centered around economy dominated by the public sector. Economic privileges were distributed to enrich the elite and impoverish the poor even further. All calls for the reform of the constitution and governance have been ignored or sabotaged. Nigeria is a country which doesn’t learn from its errors. Rather we persist in them. While Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have profited from western education, to the rabid and demented zealot and wretched of the earth western education is “haram”.

 

“The Nigeria has been a drag to the Yoruba nation, a great liability. The Yoruba people are a liberal, progressive, peace loving, hardworking, creative, accomodating, people who believe in the virtues of hard work, education, technological advancement, which Nigeria has checkmated. They would never have imagined their country becoming the poverty capital of the world. All the quest of the Yoruba for Nigeria to embrace the egalitarian philosophy which will lead to the unlocking of the potentials of Nigeria have been resisted and frustrated. Chiefs Obafemi Awolowo, MKO Abiola and many other people died in the pursuit of a better Nigeria. Their efforts were frustrated and sabotaged. All the calls for reform were similarly frustrated. The Fulani fully dominate the public service, security services, business policies, the judiciary etc. They control the police and have an army of occupation all over Nigeria. They control the ports and the internal revenue architecture and the NNPC. They control the oil wells while the people of the delta only live with and bear the brunt of pollution of oil exploration. They take advantage of the quota system when convenient and jettison it when they like. The sharing of the national revenue has been skewed the way they want it, in favour of the North. The Fulani have maintained a stranglehold on Nigeria power structure. No one can be anything in this country, unless it is by their desire and endorsement. Only their cronies can. This was a lesson MKO Abiola learnt too late. It is a hegemonic order, a stranglehold on the entire nation for which they have no apologies . The desperate quest of the Fulani which they have pursued for nearly 200 years is permanent and unchangeable. It is a jihad, a quest for conquest. It has no middle road. To them, Nigeria is their inheritance which they must wholly dominate and use as they like. 

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Update: Prophetic: In Biafra There Will Be No Political Master-Slave Relationship, No Political Husband-Wife Relationship, In The United States Of Biafra (USB), There Will Be Equal Rights To All Her Citizenry. No Escort, No Siren, Everywhere Is Cameralized & Digitized, Everybody Will Walk The Streets (Roads) Without Looking Back, Walled Round, Highest In Technology, Highest In All Things, Just As It Was When Egypt Flourished And Was On Top Of The World, Difference, Is, In USB, It Shall Be Led By GOD, Liberation Of The Universe Will Come From Biafra--Prophetically Revealed

New York (RR) Oyo Capitol--The Arewa United Consultative Forum (AUCF) President Alhaji Ado Shuaibu Dansudu in a statement reaching Republic Reporters, called on Fulani-led Northerners across the country not to retaliate against southerners following conflicts that have snuffed lives and destroyed properties worth Millions of Naira, in Shasha-Market Ibadan, Oyo Capitol, in Yoruba-Fulani communities. In a statement signed by its President, Alhaji Ado Shuaibu Dansudu, in the conflict Resolution effort he explained that North and South-West relationship: "we are like Husband and wife, Master and Slave", and had together produced great leaders across ethnic lines working together to promote the unity of the country, which the present generation must imbibe". Dansudu’s outlandish stone-age remarks come regardless, if South-West citizenry were being rapped, maimed, and killed inside Yoruba territorial Forests and territorial boundaries or not.  

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka called it Cattle Imperialism and agreed with Alhaji Dansudu in his interviews few days ago. Woyinka’s words: “We are becoming or are now slaves in our land, they, killer herdsmen have encroached and attacked my property, our students are either killed, kidnapped or molested in my own state of Ondo”, he lamented. “What do we do now? I have reported to Police multiple times, and they lied that nothing happened, but as you can see, I am not attacked physically, but my land and my property was attacked, what is property, perimeter and space of ground belonging to me, when you trespass into it that’s an attack, it is not just errand one cow, or two, it is herd in my compound, and I told my people, we arrested them, I called on the fellow to come, this is not the first time it is happening, he ran into bush. When police came, they wanted to comb the bush I said no, they will eventually come back for their cattle”, Soyinka stated. “It is business, if you want a piece of my land for cattle-grazing, we can sit-down negotiate it, how much will you pay, and so on and so forth. You don’t just come in, encroach into private property. I remember growing up, and cattle were moved in wagons, and there were no problems. Today, while government is setting up panels to investigate past cattle grievances students are being killed, kidnapped, or molested in my own state, Ondo”, Soyinka lamented to reporters.  

Curiously, Mr. Dansudu, could not muster the courage to blame squarely Fulani-herdsmen responsible for rapes, maiming, killings, and kidnapping  inside cities and drag victims into the forests across the land, rape them, maim or kill their victims. He however, said in the statement that the crises in Nigeria should be blamed on the enemies of the country who always fan embers of disunity, as it was with the past leaders, never said that late General Mohammadu Buhari, Nasir El-Rufai and others brought Fulani Militias across the Sahel, leading to 2015 polls to remove Goodluck Jonathan from power by any means necessary. Never mentioned that Myetti Allah and AREWA-leadership according to Nuhu Ribadu former EFCC-Boss, was paid 100Billion Naira out of 150Billion Naira that Myetti Allah and Fulani-AREWA leadership requested to stop killings across the country.

Hear his disrespectful conflicting statement beneath, identifying his Fulani-North (as Masters), and Yoruba-Nation, South-West (as Slaves to Fulani North):

“We call on all northerners not to retaliate following the unfortunate crisis that broke out in Shasha, Ibadan. We know that there are some elements who are trying to cause problems between the North and the South-West, but Insha Allah, their plans will be destroyed.

“The North and the South-West are just like husband and wife or slave and his master because we share similar traditions and religious beliefs. Besides, we are both accommodating but we don’t know what brought about the hatred and misunderstanding that is playing out between the northerners and the south-westerners.”

According to him, northerners and southerners have specific businesses they are known for which promote economic growth in the country, and ethnicity should not be allowed to destroy it.

“The northerners did not take over their businesses or their places in work. Anywhere you see 100 northerners in the South-West, they are only there to sell what they labour for. They also create jobs for the southerners like the abattoir.

“There are thousands of southerners working there and there are millions of them selling fresh meat all over the South-West, and there are thousands of them dealing in perishable food items and there are thousands of market women who buy from the market. Some even buy on credit. There are many markets in the South-West where there are no northerners because they don’t sell their items there. So there is a good understanding between northerners and the southerners right from independence.

“Sir Samuel Akintola was appointed by Sir Ahmadu Bello as the Premier of the South-West. General Yakubu (Gowon) appointed (Chief Obafemi) Awolowo as minister of finance. Then, Nigeria relied on the resources of the North before the discovery of oil. General Murtala (Mohammed) picked Obasanjo as his second-in-command.

“Also, General Ibrahim Babangida picked a southerner as his second-in-command just as General Buhari picked Tunde Idiagbon. Similarly, General Sani Abacha picked Oladipo Diya as his second-in-command just as Buhari picked (Prof. Yemi) Osinbajo as his running mate in the recently concluded presidential election.

“Right from the time of Nigeria’s struggle for dependence at that time, Chief Obafemi Awolowo was the most popular and one of the dogged independence fighters. Some people who didn’t want the progress of the nation sabotaged him and instigated him to form a tribal political party.

“These same people caused misunderstanding between Chief Awolowo and Samuel Akintola who later became rivals and when Sir Akintola became the premier in the then Western Region, the same people told lies against Sir Akintola and Awolowo that he attempted a coup during Tafawa Balewa's regime.

“In the Second Republic, these same people instigated Awolowo to form a political party along tribal lines after the assassination of Sir Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa. Chief Awolowo was the strongest and the most popular politician at that time and the same people sabotaged him from becoming the President of Nigeria.

“Once again; the same people prevented Chief MKO Abiola from becoming the President of Nigeria and the same people rejected (Ernest) Shonekan as the Head of Interim Government and the same people rejected Obasanjo for the Third Republic and the same people tied the hands of the five South-West states to give the Peoples Democratic whereby only Lagos State survived with the efforts of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and now the same people are trying to sabotage Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ambition of becoming President. It will not be surprising if they turn round to blame the Northerners.

Dubiously, Dansudu rather than blame his kinsmen they brought from Sahel in its quest for conquest, hegemony and dominance looked, pointed his fingers elsewhere for current under water polarity at land grab, territorial annexation of Western-regional boundaries, and Eastern-regional boundaries at that, while conflicting AREWA-Governor Bala called on Fulani-herdsmen to carry AK47, stating “Forests belongs to nobody, forests belongs, to Nigeria”, Bala said. While, Dansudu curiously said: “Nigerians to be wary of the enemies of the country trying to use ethnic and religious differences to cause havoc.

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“It is the same set of people who are instigating the misunderstanding and problems between the Southerners and Northerners. Therefore, we need to be very careful here, Buhari is a northerner and Osinbajo is a southerner and they are taking coffee together and the Senate and House of Representatives' members are taking coffee together. Ministers and ambassadors are taking coffee together; we the masses, why are we fighting and killing one another? When they send enforcement agents, they send three major tribes and when there is a religious crisis, they send Muslim and Christian enforcement agents to stop the crisis.

“If the people are saying Nigeria is not a good country, then we spoilt it together. But I know that the enemies of peace, since independence have been trying to use ethnicity and religion to cause a problem. Our question is 'is it only Nigeria that has different tribes and religions?' 

“What surprises us is that there are many south-westerners facing trial for killing their fellow southerners and there are northerners facing trial for killing their fellow northerners and there are easterners facing trial for killing their fellow easterners, likewise the South-South and there are Muslims facing trial for killing their fellow Muslims and Christians facing trial for killing their fellow Christians.

“Why not take the matter to the authorities or settle it amicably? If it is inter-tribal or inter-religious, it turns to violence. What happened in Shasha is very sad because innocent people lost their lives and properties. We must warn our people. To our surprise, most of the northern and southern boys are drug addicts, and the children of the drug dealers don’t use the drugs, so we have to do something about it.

“So we should not be killing one another on the basis of language because there are many northerners in the South who cannot locate their towns in the North. Likewise, there are southerners who cannot locate their towns in the South. They have naturally become northerners. I want to advise Nigerians to be their brothers’ keeper and to live in peace and harmony with one another."

Easterners should be grateful to IPOB, and Eastern Security Network (ESN) and grateful to IPOB-leadership synchronizing her security apparatuses under able leadership of Nnamdi Kanu. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in his February 15, 2021 Broadcast warned that what is happening in South-West territorial frontiers will never happened in Biafra-land. His words: “I warned Yoruba and Yoruba Media, more than a decade ago, they called me war monger, that I want to destabilize the zoological Republic of Nigeria, look at what is happening now to them, ESN support Sunday Igboho, if Yoruba refuse to confront Fulani killers, and fight Fulani head-on they are finished and annexation of her territorial boundaries, forests will be completed by Fulani imperialistic expansionists. Fulani-Oligarchy plans was to conquer western territorial frontiers first, then they will move their war to Eastern territorial borders in 2022, they (Fulani) think they are smart, they are coming supported by the Brutish British, we are ready, if they try it, we will all die here. They (Fulani) know citizenry of Eastern territorial boundaries will fight, Eastern regional bloc are the only ones that can fight Fulani and stop them, that is why they started in the South-West frontiers. Let me ask you a simple question, do you hear Hausa-Fulani anymore? Answer me, it is a simple question. No, because they (Fulani) have conquered and subjugated the Hausas, they (Fulani) have decimated and annihilated Middle-Belters, change the demographics, changed names of the communities, Nupe and Borno use to be a great Empire, do you hear of them anymore? Answer me. The answer is no. If you keep saying “One Nigeria”, then you hate yourself, because that is what they will use to complete the conquest, they (Fulani) have the best lobbying apparatus in the world, they have paid off the media likes BBC, Fulani looted oil funds, paid off media domestically and abroad, that is why I am proud of Biafra media establishments who are stepping up, but we will not wait for anybody anymore, we will take our own lives in our own hands. Days are gone, when we will write United Nations, (UN), European Union (EU), write Washington, crying oh, please come they are killing us, they killed our women, killed our youths, rapped our young girls, rapped and maimed our mothers, killed our fathers, rapped our children, as I am speaking to you right now more 50 young girls, were picked up in our streets, and taken to Abuja, FCT, by Fulani-Janjaweed-Military where they are been rapped daily, to service Janjaweed Military, imagine them coming back with diseases from Janjaweed-Fulani-Military and you are telling me One-Nigeria, Black people are very stupid, I do not know why they are wired the way they are wired this way, Chukwu Okike Abiama have mercy on us, can you imagine, what would have happened in the East if not for the mercies of Elohim, Chukwu Okike Abiama and Eastern Security Network (ESN). Chineke Nna Meram Ebere”-Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Are you shocked by the emerging tendencies of Fulani vandals and their expansionist cattle imperialism? Wait for Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed in his February 11, 2021 conflicting remarks that Fulani has no option than to carry AK47 for self-defense. His words:

"The west doesn’t want to accommodate other tribes but we are accommodating your tribe in Bauchi. We have Yorubas who have stayed in Bauchi for over 150 years, some of them have been made permanent secretaries in Gombe, Bauchi and Borno. 

"But because the Fulani man is practicing the tradition of trans-humans, pastoralism, he has been exposed to cattle rustlers who carry a gun, kill him and take away his cows he has no option to carry AK 47 because the government and the society are not protecting him. It’s the fault of the government. ”Nobody owns any forests in Nigeria, it’s owned by Nigeria. Under section 23, 24 and 25 of the constitution, every Nigerian is free to stay anywhere. Anybody can speak how but we are only exercising restraint."

Governor Bala Mohammed also attacked his Benue counterpart, Samuel Orthom for poor handling of farmers-herders clashes in his state said he was very wrong to incite other tribes against the herdsmen.

IPOB, ESN leadership disclosed the existence of anti-grazing law of 1969. 1969 statutory laws of Anti-Grazing in Nigeria’s federal high court. “This law was pronounced by a judge, that the primitive, pastoral practices of the Fulani herders are illegal,” Kanu stated.

“Subsequently, the pronouncement was enacted into law that moving cattle from place to place is a punishable offense. In tandem to the court pronouncement, Section 292 of the criminal code of Northern Nigeria urges citizens to take proactive actions against ‘cattle imperialism, in their communities as act of trespassing.”

In furtherance, ESN/IPOB wondered why governments across State level failed to implement aforesaid law, adding that “killer” Fulani herdsmen has been flaunting the laws with “impunity and reckless abandon ever since the law was enacted”. 

In papers Eastern Governors confirmed they had banned open grazing, nevertheless, ESN-leadership berated Eastern administrators (aka Governors) why the laws remained unenforced alluding that it cannot be implemented because no ‘State police’ to have enforced the ‘State laws,’ and prosecute offenders. 

He also made it clear that after eleven days of the broadcast, if the herdsmen fail to retract their cattles from farmlands and residential areas, the newly launched Eastern Security Network (ESN) would be obliged to enforce the laws – since the governors, who are only doing the bidding of the Fulani Caliphate, has failed to implement the law.

Court papers demonstrate that April 17, 1969, “JUSTICE ADEWALE THOMPSON BANNED OPEN GRAZING ON 17TH APRIL 1969 AND WARNED OF UNPROVOKED KILLINGS BY FULANI HERDSMEN

Hon. Justice Adewale Thompson Bans Open Grazing in Nigeria. It is high time states put this law into practice and end unprovoked killings by Fulani herdsmen. Hon. Justice Adewale Thompson’s 1969 Judgment on Open Cattle Grazing – Suit no AB/26/66. Hon. Justice Adewale Thompson: 17th April 1969.

Suit no AB/26/66 at Abeokuta Division of the High Court.

Justice Adewale Thompson wrote: “I do not accept the contention of Defendants that a custom exists which imposes an obligation on the owner of farm to fence his farm whilst the owner of cattle allows his cattle to wander like pests and cause damage.  Such a custom if it exists, is unreasonable and I hold that it is repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience and therefore unenforceable…in that it is highly unreasonable to impose the burden of fencing a farm on the farmer without the corresponding obligation on the cattle owner to fence in his cattle.” Sequence to that I banned open grazing for it is inimical to peace and tranquility and the cattle owners must fence or ranch their animals for peace to reign in these communities”, his ruled on aforesaid date.

Curiously, Fulani-North shockingly and fearlessly called Yoruba (South-West) as ‘Slaves” vs “Master”, “Wife” vs “Husband”, relationship today and yesterday, The Arewa United Consultative Forum (AUCF) President Alhaji Ado Shuaibu Dansudu said in a statement Sasha-Market Ibadan, Oyo Capitol.

Will Yoruba citizenry in South-West territorial frontiers permit this paradigm-shift, present geo-polarity annexation of her forests, annexation of its territorial boundaries by Fulani-Northern Oligarchy’s quest at accomplishing her blueprint-manifest expansionistic territorial hegemony and dominance deep into South West territorial frontiers or will Yoruba led by freedom activist Sunday Igboho, and OPC-factional leadership led by Gani Adam and geopolitical Powerhouse, South-West political-architectural polarity fight back or will it acquiesce to this grandstanding, this outlandish disrespect and humiliation oozing out of Fulani-Islamists-Oligarchical century old blueprint, covert Northern ambitious narratives under belligerent nihilistic implementations presently in public display of political craftmanship, is yet to be seen. Be rest assured that citizenry of Eastern territorial boundaries, and her Eastern Security Network (ESN) and IPOB is here to help, while maintaining flexibility at tactical-military best practices, monitoring & implementations, deploying guerilla approaches, methodologically will engage and stop the frontal match deep into her frontiers will meet stiff resistance, at North territorial expansionism, imperialism and secrecy, triggered by, Fulani-cattle imperialism of pipedream ambitious push for geopolitical hegemony, dominance flooding armaments, and small arms-shipments using Sahel open territorial borders at geo-polarity vis-à-vis a counter-mobilization at espionage, intelligence gathering, using modern day tactical ESN security paramilitary emergence in new confrontation with any domestic-puppeteers or external zealous expansionistic-Islamic Fundamentalists who dares to challenge ESN-blueprint ambitions at restoration projects, restoring her liberty and freedom-proclamation in her territory, indeed aggressive quest at restoring God’s OWN Nation (Biafra), all her institutional establishments, architectural capabilities, geo-polarity presence and regional-dominance, protection of its territorial boundaries and massive restorations of all her constitutional manifestoes and Manifest Destiny unashamedly, and unapologetically as the epic center of liberty and freedom of continental Afrikka, and by extension international liberty and freedom of world peoples arrives. For record, time immemorial, Elohim whose origins have been establishment in the geo-Eastern polarity demographically, has established Ebe Orie Efere-meaning—A Place (or land) where GOD is worshipped (vowelized by geo-belligerent-occupiers in time past as Biafra) is our witness. QED. Please be advised emergence of ESN, IPOB, led Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is God’s geo-political gift at ecclesiastical realm, socio-political-economical craftmanship, regional-shipments polarity, emerging best digitized society, best professionalism, reset at world engineering, best emerging military-power bloc, best at emerging organizational leadership, best in all things, best freedom and liberty, equity, equality to all her citizenry at all level, state apparatus of no rich no poor dichotomy establishments equally, polarity gift to mankind, United State of Biafra (USB) will become the envy of the world, walled round, you will not look back while walking her streets, her territorial city-States and boundaries will be GOLDEN Cities, the Origin of GOD Himself is linguistically, historically, scientifically, archeologically, genetically confirmed, will be Nation led by GOD as a shining light that will get brighter and brighter unto a perfect day, is prophetically revealed on earth, paradisaically. And, it is not arrogance, but write this down, its military will be so powerful, that no military on earth can defeat USB, as a matter of factly, its military capabilities & digitization will be structurally and otherwise, best & unmatched universally, (globally), all eyes will see it, and testify to it, because it is GOD’s OWN Nation directed by GOD Himself in Heaven and on earth, her political engineering, her blueprint, everything about USB, is perfectly perfected, and structurally structured around and about the Living GOD, nothing less. Prophetically, USB already exist in the spiritual realms, our responsibility now is to call it forth into the physical existence through intensive prayers and fasting, bring it forth physically, where all eyes shall see it and bow-down, implied and enumerated declaring and saying without compulsion that Jesus is the Christ (Philippians 2:11) to GOD be the GLORY.       

Educationally,

CUO Umunna

Policy Examiner,

Manhattan, NYC

 

Update: Prophetic: ESN-Biafran-War Now In Guerilla-Tactical-Stage, Will Overwhelm, Deplete, & Rubbish Tattered Rogue-Fulani-Nigeria-Military And Her Islamic Fundamentalists Oligarchy In Orlu Province & Elsewhere 

New York (RR) Orlu-Emerging territorial war engineered by corrupt cattle-Imperialistic Fulani-Nigeria-Military is already overstretched on all fronts-In territorial frontiers of Middle-Belt Axis, overstretched in South-West territorial boundaries Axis (Ibadan, Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti, et al), and in confrontations with Eastern Region territorial boundaries Benue-Plateau merger Axis, overstretched in Orlu-Province, Aba-Province, Bende-Okigwe territorial boundaries, respectively. The Latter under organized decentralized Eastern Security Network (ESN) launched by lPOB-leadership headed by Nnamdi Kanu December 12, 2020, whose responsibilities is to aggressively defend the Holy-Land of United States of Biafra (USB) and her forests, her women, her youths, her old men, children, her posterity and sternly defend her ancestral inheritance immemorial or perish is a task that must be done.    

For record, ESN establishment (paramilitary) must intelligently while maintaining tactical-precision-guided positioning carry-out her operations underground and start hitting alien-enemy Nigerian-vandal and land grabbers (forces). The corrupt Nigerian Fulani-forces are only strong when they engage protesters, unarmed civilians but evidently lack effective capacity without tacitly deploying flank-proxy-armed herdsmen and their Boko Haram sister militia & their sponsors. Rogue Nigerian military including depleted Nigerian army, air force, navy, police, boko haram, herdsmen, Hope Uzodinma, and their puppeteer-imposed Governors in former Eastern Region. Collectively, collaboratively, aforesaid elements are together in rapping our women, children, old men, our youths and vandalizing the Holy Land, USB. They are the enemies of the people. 

To avoid international, regional, and domestic humiliation rogue Fulani-Nigerian Military must hit retreat immediately, repatriate these vandal forces from Orlu-Province or face nihilistic outcome in Biafra territorial boundaries, et al. God hate ugly, ESN hate to see blood spill but why is it only Igbo blood that is good for spilling? Those days are history when Nigerian-military and police massacre and depart with our dead-bodies and act like nothing happened. Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable. Oligarchy in cattle-imperialism based in Aso-Rock is always fond of ganging up against the Igbo-Nation; but forgot that you can only push a republic (USB) to the wall as far as ESN-elasticity permits, at some point you stand between civilization and anarchy, life and death, they are forced and left with one option, defend themselves in the face of aggression or perish while trying. 

Prophetically speaking, we have come to a tipping point—mobilizing and repelling the aggressors overtly and covertly at regional polarity, guerilla tactical underground methodologies become inevitable, ESN mythology, mysteries, invisibility is now documented narrative, decentralized usage at guerilla tactical positioning against bloodthirsty enemy in defense of defenseless women, children, old men, and our ancestral forests, inheritance is a task that must be accomplished. Biafrans must fearlessly stand their ground in the face of aggression at this critical time. We must stop allowing the vandals, be it foreign puppeteer-financiers or domestic puppeteers desecrating the Holy land (Biafra), stop allowing vandals to overwhelm your youths, your women, and your children, act patriotically, because humans die only once, if needs be, die honorably. Everybody will die at some point, but how you die matters, die with your head in the sand like ostrich or die gallantly, patriotically in defense of motherland. It is confrontation of attrition, if we perish, we perish, nevertheless, in this battle of attrition, to  die honorably for a patriotic good cause- defending your wives, your children, your sisters, your fathers, your mothers, and your relatives in the land of the living is a badge of honor we cherish and love to wear. All hands must be on deck. No retreat, No Surrender. #ESNForever.  

Educationally, 

CUO Umunna

Policy Examiner,

Manhattan, NYC

Update: In Biafra There Will Be Equal Rights to All Her Citizenry. No Escort, No Siren, Everywhere Is Cameralized & Digitized, Everybody Will Walk On The Road Without Looking Back, Walled Round, Highest In Technology, Highest In All Things, Just As It Was When Egypt Flourished And Was On Top Of The World, But In USB, It Shall Be Led By GOD, Liberation Of The Whole World Will Come From Biafra--Prophetically Revealed. 

New York (RR) Biafra-Nation-Update: Prophetic—In Biafra There Will Be Equal Rights to All Her Citizenry, In Biafra Leaders Will Go Without Escort, No Siren, Everywhere Is Cameralized & Digitized, Everybody Will Walk On The Road Without Looking Back, Walled Round, Best In Technology, Best In All Things, Just As It Was When Egypt Flourished And Was On Top Of The World, the difference, In the United States of Biafra (USB), It Shall Be Led By GOD. The liberation Of The Whole World Will Come From Biafra--Prophetically Revealed. Additionally, and strategically speaking, I challenge Cow-Aso Rock Presidency, Liar Mohammed, Femi Adesina and Co to travel to Borno State, enter Kabba town and spend a night, you will see me in Nigeria next week” said Patriot Simon Ekpa, a demonstration of failed State, massive breakdown of law and other, dysfunctionality at insecurity across the Zoologically Republic called Nigeria led by terrorists housed in cow Aso-Rock and fake Presidency.    

Patriot Mazi Simon. Ekpa communicated from United Kingdom, UK. “For those of you always saying come to Nigeria come to Nigeria, I am challenging your presidency, Liar Mohammed, Femi Adesina and co to travel to Borno State, enter Kabba town and spend a night, you will see me in Nigeria next week and nothing will happen.

“You people claim to be in power cannot even visit Nigeria within Nigeria and you are asking me to visit Nigeria and you are asking me to come from thousands of miles away, are you sensible? I challenge your national security advisor to visit his village in Monguno and spend a night, you will see me in Nigeria the next day”.

How about that? For the time being, we will disintegrate the country from afar and save lives”-Simon Ekpa

In Biafra-Nation, insecurity is becoming a thing of the past with emergence of Eastern Security Network (ESN) launched December 12, 2020 led by Nnamdi Kanu.  To this end, We the People of Eastern Region Salute ESN, We Salute Biafrans around the world, we salute Eastern Security Network, ESN & Nnamdi Kanu and those that work with him at this critical juncture of our struggle with the common-terrorists enemy, inside and outside of the Zoological Republic of Nga Orie (Nigeria) headed by Cow-Aso Rock Presidency. Your Emergence Is A Game Changer and a relief to our people at home and abroad in the scheme of things today. Indeed, ESN has heightened restlessness within the rank of our territorial enemies domestically and enemies abroad. For example, shameless John Campbell's Killer-Fulani Defender must be told in clear and specific terms that it is no longer as,  business as usual. Biafrans will defend themselves at every turn, self-defense is an international Human Rights, enshrined in the U.N. Human Rights Charter, and Hague Convention of 1928, Netherlands, of People's Rights to Self-Determination of World Indigenous People. 

 

Make no mistake, In Biafra There Will Be Equal Rights to All Her Citizenry. No Escort, No Siren, Everywhere Is Cameralized & Digitized, Everybody Will Walk On The Road Without Looking Back, Walled Round, Highest In Technology, Highest In All Things, Just As It Was When Egypt Flourished And Was On Top Of The World, But In USB, It Shall Be Led By GOD, Liberation Of The Whole World Will Come From Biafra--Prophetically Revealed.

In furtherance, We Salute Eastern Security Network, ESN, ESN Emergence Is A Game Changer In The Scheme Of Things Today. Massive communication indexes, intelligence gathering further demonstrates that shameless former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. John Campbell is a puppeteer-front for both the British-Crooks and their Islamic stooges entrenched in killer-Fulani cattle imperialism that is rapping our women, rapping our girls, rapping our girls, our boys, rapping, maiming and killing our old and young men, rapping and desecrating the Holy-land (Biafra-Nation), rapping our farms, rapping our forests, and much more, this challenge must be challenged immediately head-on without further delays. Thank you Heavenly Father, Elohim for giving our generation a Patriot Nnamdi Kanu, thank God for Radio Biafra, Thank you Elohim for giving our time generational volunteerism of men and women of ESN that is protecting our land protecting our forests, protecting our women, protecting our old, our youths, protecting our mothers so they can return to their farms again, without getting killed, without getting rapped, and without getting molested by murderous Fulani-Herdsmen. ESN, is a gift from God, a gift to mankind at this time. God bless and protect Eastern Security Network (ESN) as they defend and protect our territorial boundaries of the United States of Biafra (USB), against terrorists cattle imperialism and their financiers and sponsors. ESN-Forever. 

“The extreme and absolute position of the Fulani presents the Nigerian nation and other ethnic groups, particularly, the Yoruba, with a frustrating and desperate dilemma to either submit to slavery or fight for their independent existent. It’s a choice they would have wished they didn’t have to make. But the Yoruba never surrender. But Nigeria as presently constituted threatens all the Yoruba stand for and leaves them with no choice but to resist. It is obvious from all the flash points all over Nigeria that the time to salvage Nigeria is fast running out. Unfortunately, there’s no leadership with a vision or demonstrable will to salvage the sinking boat.  

“In all of these things, I believe President Muhammadu Buhari, who had the unique chance to make a difference, has failed the nation and that history will be very harsh on him. I was one of those who, naively, believed that, given his long run at the Presidency, he had the opportunity to correct the wrongs of Nigeria. Having failed in his bid for the presidency on 3 previous occasions, it took the gamble of Bola Ahmed Tinubu to re-engineer his chances at gaining the long held ambition by forging what many thought was a risky alliance. You would have thought that this will not only be reflected in the power sharing but also in the whole tone and bearing of the government. But this was a misplaced hope. Typically, PMB ran Nigeria with a cabal, just as he had done in the past and pursued highly pro-North policies, blatantly dominated the security command with northern officers and turning deaf ears to all complaints. Even as these officers have failed abysmally to uphold the nation’s security, nothing  has changed. PMB has left no one in doubt that the sceptics who said he will pursue the Fulani agenda were right. The support of the Yoruba for him yielded little and has not resulted in his releasing some of the draconian central hold on power. Those who understand geo politics know that the Fulani never owe anyone.  

“Even the lion of Bourdillon, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, with all the cat and mouse games he has endured these past 7 years, will appear to have been left holding on to the wrong end of the stick and no matter how hard he tries to give the impression that all was well, the discerning know all was not well. PMB is a strategy gone awry and Bola is now locked in the fight for his political life. PMB is no nation builder and will never attain to the stature of an Ataturk, a statesman, a unifier, the father of the nation. If he ever had any ambition, National heroism was not part of it. He is, obviously, content with being no more than the champion of the conclave of Daura.  

“While the barbaric hold of the Fulani is against the cause of human history and modernity, it is, arrogantly, not going to beat a retreat. The dissolution of countries is nothing new. Most of the federations which existed at the time of Nigerian independence all over the world have been dissolved. So what makes the Federation of Nigeria sacrosanct? But, let there be no illusion, the dissolution of Nigeria is not going to be a walk in the park. It’s going to be a long and bloody battle. It’s going to be a long struggle calling for severe political, diplomatic, military leadership and acumen. This will not be an opportunistic struggle or a quick win. This struggle calls for soldiers who will endure being in the trenches in very testy weather for a long time. But the intolerable state we are in is breeding discontent n extremism. These are not good signs. Already the security forces are stretched. Things are so charged now that Nigeria could easily be enveloped in widespread war. I pray and hope not. But those who pray must watch and do the needful. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. And as a sage once said, “those who make peaceful change impossible will make violent change inevitable.” Finals— 

Additionally, in other fronts in the same September 15 culled from A.R.I, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka added in a piece he called, “BETWEEN ‘DIVIDERS-IN-CHIEF’ and DIVIDERS-IN-LAW”, said: 

“I am notoriously no fan of Olusegun Obasanjo, General, twice former president and co-architect with other past leaders of the crumbling edifice that is still generously called Nigeria. I have no reasons to change my stance on his record. Nonetheless, I embrace the responsibility of calling attention to any accurate reading of this nation from whatever source, as a contraption teetering on the very edge of total collapse. We are close to extinction as a viable comity of peoples, supposedly bound together under an equitable set of protocols of co-habitation, capable of producing its own means of existence, and devoid of a culture of sectarian privilege and will to dominate. 

“On Africa Day, May 2019, organised by the Union Bank of Africa, I similarly seized an opening to direct the attention of this government to warnings by the Otta farmer over the self-destruct turn that the nation had taken, urged the wisdom of heeding the message, even while remaining chary of the messenger. That advice appears to have fallen on deaf ears. In place of reasoned response and openness to some serious dialogue, what this nation has been obliged to endure has been insolent distractions from garrulous and coarsened functionaries, apologists, and sectarian opportunists.

“The nation is divided as never before, and this ripping division has taken place under the policies and conduct of none other than President Buhari – does that claim belong in the realms of speculation? Does anyone deny that it was this president who went to sleep while communities were consistently ravaged by cattle marauders, were raped and displaced in their thousands and turned into beggars all over the landscape? Was it a different president who, on being finally persuaded to visit a scene of carnage, had nothing more authoritative to offer than to advice the traumatised victims to learn to live peacefully with their violators? And what happened to the Police Chief who had defied orders from his Commander-in-Chief to relocate fully to the trouble spot – he came, saw, and bolted, leaving the ‘natives’ to their own devices. Any disciplinary action taken against ‘countryman’? Was it a spokesman for some ghost president who chortled in those early, yet controllable stages of now systematized mayhem, gleefully dismissed the mass burial of victims in Benue State as a “staged show” for international entertainment? Did the other half of the presidential megaphone system not follow up – or was it, precede? - with the wisdom that they, the brutalized citizenry, should learn to bow under the yoke and negotiate, since “only the living” can enjoy the dividends of legal rights?

“To reel off any achievements of a government – genuine or fantasised, trivial or monumental – is thus to dodge the issue, to ignore the real core concerns. No government, however inept, fails to record some form of achievement – this was why it were elected, and it takes real genius to succeed in spending four years actually doing nothing. What it fails to do, or what it does wrongly, deceitfully or prejudicially is what concerns the citizenry. Across this nation, there is profound distrust, indeed abandonment of hope in this government as one that is genuinely committed to the survival of the nation as one, or indeed understands the minimal requirements for positioning it as a modern, functional space of productive occupancy. Donald Trump is not without a governance pass mark here or there – indeed, he has been touted for the Nobel Peace prize in some quarters, backed, predictably, by the quota Nigerian columnist - yet who dares deny, outside Republican diehard circles – that the great United States of American is brutally divided, and is even unraveling under the Trumpian phenomenon!

“Back to our own yaws however: Are pensioners still considered human, deserving the rewards of labour without further labour?  Many collapsed from that extended labour of recovering routine entitlements. Even routine access to that basic human requirement – food – is now under question, as farmers are chased off their farms in large numbers. Instead of timely action – urged stridently by beleaguered governors and of course by ‘professional agitators’ -- appeasement of the violent food saboteurs was the preferred route to food security – operating under fancy names like RUGA. So how do you persuade graduates and young school leavers to try their hands at farming instead of flooding urban centres looking for non-existent white-collar positions? To get killed and dismembered? And what is the score within those much-coveted urban precincts? Lop-sided appointments to crucial positions in Civil Service and parastatals!  Consider the prime economic cash cow – petroleum – exposed a few months ago as a reeking cesspit of nepotism. Who is the Minister of Petroleum under whose watch such an unprecedented contempt for geographical parity – uncontroverted till today --  became entrenched? That happens to be none other than the nation’s president - and he did make a show of astonishment at the gross disparities, promised to subject the anomaly to immediate enquiry. May one ask what action has been taken to rectify that presumably “nation-unifying” compilation?  It all casts a long, unedifying shadow backwards to those days of agitation by Tai Solarin and the mercuric engineer, Awojobi when the same Buhari took forceful charge of that ministry, promised to get to the root of the  flying charges – anyone still recall the saga of the missing millions?  He made a beeline for the home of a prominent political leader and carted away loads of files in his illegal possession. In vain the nation awaited enlightenment – Nothing!

“National divisiveness? Just where does culpability lie?  Does centralist usurpation divide or bind? The answer is obvious in daily effects. We have even heard the charge laid at the feet of governors. When the constitutive units of this nation take steps to rescue themselves into the ‘unifying’ quagmire into which they have been plunged by a creaking, clearly unworkable centralized system, guess who squawk, gnash their teeth and threaten to call down thunder even where such remedies are backed by constitutional provisions! Alas, the dare of ignorance!  And after being confronted by the legitimate right of states to at least salvage their existence and protect their citizens, guess who trundles out constrictive parameters, and attempts to dictate to governors how such state prerogatives should be exercised! Come under the umbrella of a failed Inspectorate Usurper - ordered the Garbled megaphone. Just on whose authority?

“We do know – let this be stated for the umpteenth time! - that the rains did not just begin to beat us yesterday in this nation. We know when the clouds began to gather, where the deluge began and turned to severe pounding. We can pinpoint the first trickle of the torrent of appeasement, of illegal extortions and concessions. Past leaders will not be permitted to forget or gloss over own self-centred interests and nation corrosive lapses that brought us to this parlous present. But we do endure in this here and now, in the immediacy of current governance, so let no uppity flunkey attempt to divert attention from current realities, realities that now clearly pronounce this nation of once promising prospects a basket case of abject penury and insecurity, where hordes of trained minds and sturdy limbs roam the streets as beggars, as haphazard vendors of the products of other peoples, other lands!

“Inequity reigns, and solutions are trivialized. Again and again voices are raised to urge the dismantling of a crude, militarized centralist contraption – repeatedly exposed in illegalities --  and substitute a more efficient governance system, decentralized, providing  broader access to opportunities. All such efforts are turned into opportunities for legislative junketing and budget padding. Legislators watch with indifference in this day of human advance, as individuals are sentenced to hang for expressing their views on the relative apprehension of religious avatars, not a squeak emerge from such lawgivers. Pedophiles and cross-border sex traffickers are honoured in the act, granted immunity on cooked-up alibis of religion. Is this nation a theocracy?  Nigeria is a suppurating slaughter slab, and it boggles the mind that supposedly wise and lettered men, sheltering under any religious mandate, would go into a solemn huddle to ‘legitimately’ augment the toll of mindless killings that now plague the land.

“Presumably, the ongoing ‘national security’ persecution of Obadiah Mailafia is a sign of national unity? I invite our marionettes to read deeply into history.  Oh, excuse me, history has been banned from learning structures, so look not for history books! However, straightforward, first-hand testimonies abound, exposing structural flaws, deceits and conspiracies against this presumptive national edifice. They are perpetrated by highly placed servants of the state, some of whom have since risen to even higher national positions. I draw attention, for instance, to detailed revelations of plots against the nation, plots that resonate in the present. Such is the two-year old interview of a former ambassador to the Sudan, Bola Dada – The Punch  Newspapers.  Archives remain ever obliging. They avail us vivid material to decide whether or not a sinister script is being acted out today with copious libations from Nigerian blood.

“I think, in public interest, The Punch should re-run that interview, most especially in view of recent claims by a columnist in The Nation – Femi Abbas Sept. 4 -- regarding how and by whom Nigeria  was corralled into the OIC. When you abolish History in institutions, you open the gates wide for rampaging  revisionism while the same gates are shut against a grasp, however tenuous, of why, for instance, a Mailafia becomes a target of serial interrogations and harassment,  rather than those boldly named in his revelations. Is it he who constitutes a danger to the nation, or the indicted fanatics of unlimited impunity and callous disregard for humanity? Why the ostentatious pretence of investigative zeal? The man has told you where to look. Well, look in that direction and report back to us! In the meantime however, ensure that he meets with no accident!

“Still on security: any tear that is shed for the arch-bandit and multiple murderer Akwaza, known as Gana, is an obscenity.  However, tears of trepidation are falling fast and furious over the conduct of an army that eliminates a captive in cold blood, side-tracking the rationality of professional investigations and legitimate pursuit of felons and other enemies of society. The issue here is not one of the appropriateness of  a policy of Amnesty – that constitutes a larger debate in its place. The issue here – and a critical one --  is that a Wanted Man, on his way to surrender, has been killed in cold blood. I read yesterday that the Army has followed this up with a demand for the bounty earlier placed by the Benue State governor on the head of the WANTED man. However, all reports so far indicate that he was on his way to surrender? And so, is this bounty demand a joke? An end then to such gallows humour! And certainly not now, not while the nation is  freshly reeling from the latest horror of the targeting of unarmed Road Safety officials, gunned down in cold blood in their commuter bus, and the mass kidnapping of survivors.  Shall we presume that the surviving casualties of routine duty rosters are also nation-dividers if they scream out for protection and deplore a breakdown in the entire security architecture of the nation?

“We must however concede one remedial initiative to this government. Perhaps it was a belated awareness that the roof of the national edifice was on fire that instigated the effort to appropriate all available water resources in the nation -- a desperate move to put out the flames with one hefty splash! Presumably, even the rains that fall on earth will belong to the Exclusive List?  We shall have to learn to gather such rain before it strikes the earth, or else queue for a licence to tap it later for domestic use. Get ready to pay stiff fines when we get rain soaked for lack of public transportation. Distractions upon distractions, but dangerous distractions! Provocative moves that deeply erode any lingering faith in the even-handed claims of governance, of respect for the rights of independent peoples that were brought together to form a nation, and the justice of equality of access to the land’s resources.  But the fault is not one-sided. Let governors also wake up to their constitutional rights and duties. There are vast areas of those rights that have been trampled upon, usurped for far too long. Forget legislative jamborees of constitution reviews – we have had our fill of them – all the files are gathering dust. It is time for Reparations! Dust up those files and head for the courts. Prepare for name-calling, just as long as such names embody - Dividers-in-law!”, he lamented.

“Only then shall we uncover who are the real Dividers-in-Chief? If individual voices rankle, then perhaps it is time to convoke a Nation Survival Conference. Let all sections and group interests place their cards on the table and starkly articulate what we all know and endure on a daily basis, and proffer solutions, debate moves towards a collective – rational and sincere—undertaking of nation formation. The ongoing governance posture of aggressive evasion spells only one end: collective suicide’, he added.

Educationally,

CUO Umunna

Policy Examiner,

Manhattan, NYC

Credit: Wole Soyinka, Adeyemi Adefulu, MFR, Nnamdi Kanu, ESN, IPOB

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 Republic Reporters—Standing Between Civilization & Anarchy

 Update: Prophetic: Biafra-GOD’s HOLY-LAND, The Center Of The Universe, Her Citizenry Shall Have Equal Rights Before The Law,  Shall Be Best In Engineering, Best Digitized, Cameralized, Walled Round, Best & Highest In Everything, God Is Restoring Biafra-Kingdom Back On Earth Paradisaically, All To His Glory--Prophetically Revealed

New York (RR) God’s Nation-Biafra-Biafra is an Ancient Kingdom Of God, The Center of the Universe (Earth), but Ebe Orie Efere (vowelized as Biafra). The British, the French, the Turks, the Portuguese, the Greeks and their ilks started the genocide, destroyed Biafra in 11 AD and then began the Economic-Slave Industrial-Complex from that point forward which was actually a distraction from the looting Egyptian Empire and its technological Engineering in 1789 expedition by French Emperor Napoleon involving 5000 Mathematicians, Engineers, Scientists, Architectural designers, and much more, looted Egyptian engineering & inventions for example, Igbo-Egypt’s blue-prints of submarines, aircrafts, electricity, computers, et al, which 50years later they decoded and called it European Renaissance or enlightenment as if everybody was in darkness before aforesaid time, taking away God’s Mediators (IGBO) Oha Ebu Uru WA (vowelized as Hebrew) God’s chosen children of the Most High God away into Europe and other parts of the world. Rogue British were looking for the garden of Eden based on the map they got from Portuguese explorers. Aforesaid invaders destroyed Biafra, carted away every Artifacts which are still in European museums today as evidence of the Kingdom of Biafra, then they took away the universal time regulation that was on the 0 latitude 0 longitude time reading that should be on Biafra Holy land, now based it on Britain manipulated to GMT Time Zone. They also took away the GREAT in Biafra that is Great Biafra and turned it to Great Britain, UK, England (Igbo language meaning-Nga Ala N’ide Isolated land close to the River) They finally removed Biafra from world map in 1970 using the Fulanis who, were actually, the slave raiders of the medieval time who helped the British in conquering West Africa, in its effort to hegemony and dominance. But Elohim Seated In His Throne (in Heaven of Heavens) said Time has come to restore Ebe Orie Efere (Biafra) A Place Where God Is Worshipped Again. A land where Christ (Igbo language-Chi Orie Si Etti-meaning-God Almighty Who Was Put In Place Be Worshipped. The world is Afraid of Biafra because Biafran-technological engineering and capabilities will be the highest in the world, best in engineering, best in professional engineering, best in consortium-concessioning, best in architectural digitalization, walled round, cameralized, best in everything, best in organizational leadership, best in everything, best in ecclesiastical manifestations, a land where our fathers died, a land of pilgrims, a LAND OF GOD, LAND where everything is centered on GOD KINGDOM ADVANCE, Et Al.

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In Biafra There Will Be Equal Rights to All Her Citizenry. No Escort, No Siren, Everywhere Is Cameralized & Digitized, Everybody Will Walk On The Road Without Looking Back, Walled Round, Highest In Technology, Highest In All Things, Just As It Was When Egypt Flourished And Was On Top Of The World, But In USB, It Shall Be Led By GOD, Liberation Of The Whole World Will Come From Biafra--Prophetically Revealed.

New York (RR) Biafra-Nation-Update: Prophetic—In Biafra There Will Be Equal Rights to All Her Citizenry, In Biafra Leaders Will Go Without Escort, No Siren, Everywhere Is Cameralized & Digitized, Everybody Will Walk On The Road Without Looking Back, Walled Round, Best In Technology, Best In All Things, Just As It Was When Egypt Flourished And Was On Top Of The World, the difference, In the United States of Biafra (USB), It Shall Be Led By GOD. The liberation Of The Whole World Will Come From Biafra--Prophetically Revealed. Additionally, and strategically speaking, I challenge Cow-Aso Rock Presidency, Liar Mohammed, Femi Adesina and Co to travel to Borno State, enter Kabba town and spend a night, you will see me in Nigeria next week” said Patriot Simon Ekpa, a demonstration of failed State, massive breakdown of law and other, dysfunctionality at insecurity across the Zoologically Republic called Nigeria led by terrorists housed in cow Aso-Rock and fake Presidency.    

Patriot Mazi Simon. Ekpa communicated from United Kingdom, UK. “For those of you always saying come to Nigeria come to Nigeria, I am challenging your presidency, Liar Mohammed, Femi Adesina and co to travel to Borno State, enter Kabba town and spend a night, you will see me in Nigeria next week and nothing will happen.

“You people claim to be in power cannot even visit Nigeria within Nigeria and you are asking me to visit Nigeria and you are asking me to come from thousands of miles away, are you sensible? I challenge your national security advisor to visit his village in Monguno and spend a night, you will see me in Nigeria the next day”.

How about that? For the time being, we will disintegrate the country from afar and save lives”-Simon Ekpa

In Biafra-Nation, insecurity is becoming a thing of the past with emergence of Eastern Security Network (ESN) launched December 12, 2020 led by Nnamdi Kanu.  To this end, We the People of Eastern Region Salute ESN, We Salute Biafrans around the world, we salute Eastern Security Network, ESN & Nnamdi Kanu and those that work with him at this critical juncture of our struggle with the common-terrorists enemy, inside and outside of the Zoological Republic of Nga Orie (Nigeria) headed by Cow-Aso Rock Presidency. Your Emergence Is A Game Changer and a relief to our people at home and abroad in the scheme of things today. Indeed, ESN has heightened restlessness within the rank of our territorial enemies domestically and enemies abroad. For example, shameless John Campbell's Killer-Fulani Defender must be told in clear and specific terms that it is no longer as,  business as usual. Biafrans will defend themselves at every turn, self-defense is an international Human Rights, enshrined in the U.N. Human Rights Charter, and Hague Convention of 1928, Netherlands, of People's Rights to Self-Determination of World Indigenous People. 

 Make no mistake, In Biafra There Will Be Equal Rights to All Her Citizenry. No Escort, No Siren, Everywhere Is Cameralized & Digitized, Everybody Will Walk On The Road Without Looking Back, Walled Round, Highest In Technology, Highest In All Things, Just As It Was When Egypt Flourished And Was On Top Of The World, But In USB, It Shall Be Led By GOD, Liberation Of The Whole World Will Come From Biafra--Prophetically Revealed.

In furtherance, We Salute Eastern Security Network, ESN, ESN Emergence Is A Game Changer In The Scheme Of Things Today. Massive communication indexes, intelligence gathering further demonstrates that shameless former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. John Campbell is a puppeteer-front for both the British-Crooks and their Islamic stooges entrenched in killer-Fulani cattle imperialism that is rapping our women, rapping our girls, rapping our girls, our boys, rapping, maiming and killing our old and young men, rapping and desecrating the Holy-land (Biafra-Nation), rapping our farms, rapping our forests, and much more, this challenge must be challenged immediately head-on without further delays. Thank you Heavenly Father, Elohim for giving our generation a Patriot Nnamdi Kanu, thank God for Radio Biafra, Thank you Elohim for giving our time generational volunteerism of men and women of ESN that is protecting our land protecting our forests, protecting our women, protecting our old, our youths, protecting our mothers so they can return to their farms again, without getting killed, without getting rapped, and without getting molested by murderous Fulani-Herdsmen. ESN, is a gift from God, a gift to mankind at this time. God bless and protect Eastern Security Network (ESN) as they defend and protect our territorial boundaries of the United States of Biafra (USB), against territorists cattle imperialism and their financiers and sponsors. ESN-Forever.

For record, in Biafra There Will Be Equal Rights to All Her Citizenry. No Escort, No Siren, Everywhere Is Cameralized & Digitized, Everybody Will Walk On The Road Without Looking Back, Walled Round, Highest In Technology, Highest In All Things, Just As It Was When Egypt Flourished And Was On Top Of The World, But In USB, It Shall Be Led By GOD, Liberation Of The Whole World Will Come From Biafra--Prophetically Revealed. In few days Eastern Security Network (ESN) will be vigorously enforcing the anti-grazing Supreme Court Law Of 1969. Biafrans, children of the Most High, the chosen ones has gone beyond British-Fulani-puppeteers like former United States Ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell doing the bidding of killer herdsmen that have rapped, maimed, killed our girls, children, women, desecrated God’s sacred land of Biafra.

Hired political pundit-crooks like John Campbell intentions speak volume with his latest twitter handle communication. “In the former Biafra, the establishment of Eastern Security Network seems to reflect residual support for Igbo separatism’, John Campbell the former U.S. Ambassador twittered away.

Curiously in a swift response to his chagrin IPOB Leader Nnamdi Kanu expanded on Campbell’s twitter missives. His words: “I agree with you, @JohnCampbellcfr, but it’s beyond ‘Igbo’ separatism, it’s #Biafran Restoration-Efik, Igodomigodo, Ibibio, Idoma, Ijaw, et al” #ESNForever.

For naysayers,  In Biafra-Nation Of God-Write this down: The United States of Biafra (USB), Will Become No.1 In The World In All Things Because God Will Lead Her, Biafra Will Technologically Light Up The World Again, As It Did In Egypt, Crude-Oil-Will Be Useless, Everybody Will Be Equal, Its Ecclesiastical Capability Will Be Led By God Himself, Biafra Shall Be Heaven On Earth, It Shall Be Better Than USA, Biafra Is Origin Of God, Prophetically Revealed By Major Prophet Possibility, David Kingelo Elijah. 

Additionally, In Biafra, Elohim, I repeat, God Himself will lead Biafra, Biafra shall be Heaven on Earth because it shall be centered on God’s ecclesiastical Order all to His Glory, Most Excellency. Its citizenry shall flock back to it from all over the world, a land of God, a Nation-State where there will be no rich no poor, everybody will be equal, crude oil will be useless, because it shall be technologically, scientifically, economically driven, a land where GOD is centralized and worshipped, in the land of the Rising Sun, the land where our fathers died, the land of pilgrims, the land of God. For record, aforesaid blueprint already exists in the spiritual realm, additionally, let it be said that Eastern Security Network, ESN, is spiritually driven, a strike force albeit presently constituted as paramilitary, a gorilla Power-House with positional precision capabilities led by God Himself to repel enemy forces, Its (USB) military shall be second to known because it shall be triggered by God Himself. 

In furtherance, because Biafra is the land and Origin of God (Jesus Christ Himself was born amongst them), it shall be the Light of the world. Emergence of Biafra will happen without war, epitomized by Equality, same educational level, same housing, exportation of human resources, no rich, no poor, if you are a million and get elected into electioneering office, you will come out poorer, but your legacy and achievements will be generational, cannot be finished, because it shall be selflessness at service, there will be limitations by law in place, if you are at leadership level, you are not going to be buying your own cars, it shall be given to you, crude oil will be neglected because technology will rule United States of Biafra, USB, diplomatically, it shall give aides to neighboring Africa countries, to Chad, Cameron, Niger, et al; the United States of Biafra (USB), is completed in the spiritual realm, there is not going to be war. Get ready, there should be no trace of corrupt when Biafra comes, if there is trace of corruption in your income you are disqualified, you will not be permitted to lead or be part of its leadership; even activists will be screened, USB will be best brain, best in technology, best in academic, best in everything, men, women, girls, boys, equal rights to all her citizenry. No escort, no siren, everywhere is cameralized and digitized, everybody will walk on the road without looking back, walled round, highest in technology, highest in all things, just as it was when Egypt flourished and was on top of the world, but in USB, it shall be led by God, liberation of the whole world will come from Biafra, whatever you are practically capable to offer is what will reign not about whether you went to Cambridge, Oxford, Yale, or other Ivy leagues University, but rather what you can offer her—best surgeon, best athletes, best in all things. Let the will of God be done forever and ever. This development will cause mass return of Igbo (Mediators of Yahweh) all over the world. Everywhere will be like gold, no dust, even today’s so-called best properties everything will be demolished and rebuilt with best architectural designs never seen before, God said that He will use it to show the rejected will become the corner stone, world people will ask has Christ come, they will say no, God is just showing His power. Even, the UFO, the great mysteries will be revealed, highest inventions, highest capabilities, highest minds, highest in all things, shall Igbo-Nation become, it is the word of God, Number One to emancipate God’s people.

You know the world has not serviced God. This shall be the manifestation of God amongst men, ability to manifest and bring things to the physical, let God be glorified forever. All the aforesaid blueprints-intrigues, God will manifest in the United State of Biafra, USB. Bringing what is in the realm of the spirit into physical for God will never do anything except He revealed it to His prophets. There must be a Nation called a Nation of God, Israel shall be Number 2, but the Number 1, is United State of Biafra USB, Biafra is the origin of God, God will show Himself and His power, and His Origin, I do not know what I am saying but that is what God has revealed to me, and He said to me speak and be not afraid. May God’s will be done, in Jesus name. Amen. USB will not be by educational level, but what you can offer USB, best of anything will come from Biafra. Whatever kind of profession you think of in the world will come from the United States of Biafra, USB. USB shall be better than USA, better than France, better than Europe, better than Dubai. People will ask-is this Jesus Era. God will say no, it is not Jesus yet, I want to use Biafra to show the world my power, I want to use the neglected to show the world my power, that I rule both in Heaven and on earth. I do not know whether this USB-Nation is Heaven or whether it is the Earth, but it shall be Heaven on Earth. The best of the best, best in everything, everything that concerns God is the manifestation of spiritual aspect of God became reality on earth, manifest it in the physical on earth. Isaiah prophesied things that will happen in 200years to come. What we need now is bring what is the spiritual and bring it into the physical. God said what I said to you, go and say it. There must be a nation called the Nation of God, United States of Biafra, USB, is the origin of God, the Nation of God, the New Nation, if it is true that it is God that revealed it, let the will of God be done.

Prophetically speaking, emergence of ESN is actually restoration of United States Of Biafra, USB, the war didn't end in 1970, Sir. Indeed, God Himself shall give directives, monitor, guide, her territorial compacts-super structural global hegemony and dominance, Biafra shall replace the United States of America because America has failed to serve God, but rather became a puppeteer to rogue communists-Socialists-Chinese regime headquartered in Beijing; Biafra is activating the unfinished military enterprise yes completing next phase of Biafra War against rogue enemy British-State, geographical expression, called Nigeria, that was snuffed off her, as it was heading-towardly blueprint in 1970—a gorilla phase supposedly led by Biafran Patriot, Tim Onwuatuegwu, before Obasanjo tricked Onwuatuegwu to come to Lagos and got him killed by enemy forces).

The time is come, please be advised that the formation of ESN is timely, a solid-spiritual-compact that puts fear in the heart of her enemies domestically and internationally, it shall be a source, an answer to everything that ails continental Africa, because God Himself shall lead her territorial space including her land (earth plate) her Airspace, and her international territorial waters. Corrupt world leadership has done everything humanly possible to hide this Ancient nation, Biafra, because the world knows if Biafra (Igbo-language for: Ebe Orie Efere-meaning a place or a territory where God is worshipped vowelized as Biafra by British & Portuguese occupiers) moves, it will shock the world again, as it did before, it is no gimmickry.

Sir, Igbo (Mediators of Yahweh, God) led the world in the beginning- technologically, scientifically, economically, ecclesiastically, and otherwise, and will lead it again headed by the High Priest-Jesus Christ (Igbo language for Ya Si Osa (for Jesus) Chi Orie Si Etti vowelized as Christ by aforesaid occupier-actors. BIAFRA is here Sir. It must interest you to know that organizational leadership of Biafra's institutional-structural compacts caught across Benue, former Bendel State, and the entire former Eastern Region-Each Provincial power-unit or power-bloc retains its formation, resources, just as it was in the 10BC till 60s, shall retain, restore, its military capabilities, its engineering, its army (ESN) of its territorial-indigenous compacts (natives) within the territory (to kill elements of suspicions and pitfalls of her quasi-territorial-hegemony and dominance) while in coordination with central Power for now under Nnamdi Kanu its servant, who has sacrificed a lot.

Cruelty, acts of dehumanization against God’s people shall be a thing of the past, extra-judicial killings of her citizenry come with a price, and consequences, (Bokohari) killed his father, killed his mother, and have killed many Biafrans since 10BC till date, present time (2021). Enough Is Enough.

An idea which time has come, no army on earth, no terrorists on earth, no Jihadists-Zealotic-fundamentialists can do nothing about it, you cannot stop it. Aforesaid are words written on the MARBLE, because God said so, prophetically supported. If you like, pull-together all Fulani-across continental Africa to the land of the Rising Sun, it shall meet its waterloo, shamelessly defeated. The Islamic-killer-Herdsmens and their puppeteers are scared now, the actions brought against us by Zoo-depleted-Military in Orlu, Aba, and elsewhere, was confronted by ESN-Military within Orlu-territorial Province. When God’s appointed time comes, no army on earth can stop it, because it is Heavenly driven, and it's heavenly defended. Enemies have been put on notice, especially exposed enemy's missteps, pitfalls and shortcomings in Orlu-Province, aforesaid outcome coupled with South-West Hero-Sunday Igboho flushing-out Islamic-fundamentalists rogue herdsmen out of its territorial space, have put fears in the hearts of our enemies, a failed crafty terrorists Bokohari-Nigeria-State. That is how it should be because we are God’s people. Prophetically, God has spoken, immediate deployment of prayers and fasting by its citizenry across the board will propel the emergence of spiritual matters into physical specificity, expectedly.

Additional security index demonstrate ESN is structured to be everywhere, protecting, providing security cover to all her territorial space in God’s own State, Biafra-Nation, but you cannot and must not necessarily see its capabilities with human physical optical eyes, because it's hugely spiritual. Apparently, guerilla warfare is the phase we are in at right now. Days are gone, when rogue Islamic fundamentalists led by Jihadist-fascist-Bokohari and his Myetti Allah enter Biafra land slaughter with impunity and go unshattered, game-changer, now they will leave tattered, and battered whether they like it or not, yes, it is over. ESN is armed Sir. Evidentiarily, now I know the practical calculations why Americans love their beautiful GUNS and strongly support gun Rights. GUN has POWER, Sir. Military capability versus Military capability and having the heart, makes the difference. Did you see the videos? I cried when I saw the ESN Paramilitary training ground-compacts, protecting our daughters, our mothers, our fathers, our old and our young, inside or forestoral-establishments; yes, our polarity at territorial space cannot be threatened anymore because Elohim, God will fight for His people as long as they submit totally to Him. Initially I thought it was photoshopped, but no it is factual. Curiously, ESN is real, and spiritually stronger. Made up of Efik, Karabari, Ijaws, Ogonis, each compartmentality is centered on Patriot Actors, respected Council of Elders & High Chiefs, made up of Constitutional Assembly of Council of Chief, of the former Eastern Region is evidentiarily reflected in all part of ESN-paramilitary (Military) leadership, Units, Edits, and Peoples Constitution of 1969 and Bills of Rights.

Evidentiarily, what happens is if rogue enemy-Nigerian army attempts to enter BIAFRA-LAND, via ASABA, ESN-paramilitary-extraction from former Bendel State, Igbanke, ASABA forces are on the ground waiting for enemy-forces, monitoring, observing while, maintaining flexibility at collaborations with central power, at movements to accomplishing its Nations-States goals and objectives, and, where necessary strike Jajanweed enemy forces where it hurts most as warning missives even if you are ton-deaf. Be advised, USB, is spiritual movement, Heaven on earth-paradisaically. You may not see USB-forces publicly but they, ESN are there on the ground. If enemy forces attempt encroach into Biafran-territorial space, either through Calabar, Degema, Ugwuta, Owerri-Nta, Ogoni and its international territorial waters, USB (ESN-para-military) Calabar Provincial forces are on the ground with its monitoring capabilities backed by its emergence elite-forces, waiting to strike you head on, if necessary. Sir, I will stop here, Biafra is come, glory be to the Most High Elohim (O Ogo DI vowelized as God) for His lovingkindness, glory be to God for his multitude of mercies which endureth forever and ever. Amen.  

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Educationally, 

CUO Umunna

Policy Examiner,

Manhattan, NYC

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[SKC Ogbonnia]

The Fierce Urgency of Removing Buhari Now

By SKC Ogbonnia

June 28, 2021

Nigerian youths should be applauded for calling off the nationwide protest previously planned on June 12, 2021 to demand the removal of President Muhammadu Buhari from office. The bloodthirsty dictator could have exploited the protest to murder more citizens. These helpless youths have suffered enough for the sins of their heartless leaders. Yet, the goal of the protest lives. But the plan must assume a new and broader dimension.  

It begins by acknowledging the fact that Muhammadu Buhari is no longer Nigeria's real problem. The year 2021 does not belong in the past where a clique could assume power and dictate as it pleases. Recent events have hinted that Buhari’s ongoing war against Nigeria would not be decided at the Dodan Barracks nor at the Aso Rock. The country now has a multitude of Biblical Josephs of sort that have become strategically entrenched in all nooks and corners of the world but who are determined to pay the ruthless leader in his own coin.

The gist is that Muhammadu Buhari is a spent force. He is already boxed in a corner and bound to be bundled to the International Criminal Court at the Hague once out of office. In short, Buhari’s case is a settled matter.

The true problem, therefore, is the Legislature which has failed to abide by the Constitution to remove the president for “gross misconduct in the performance of the functions of his office.”

Enumerating Buhari’s gross misconduct in office is akin to counting the sand at the seashore. How and where does one begin or how and where does one end? This man is a stone-cold bigot who has sustained power through demagoguery. He is by far the most vengeful, divisive, tribalistic, nepotic, toxic, and terrorist leader in recent memory. The Nigerian president commits mass murder. He commits politicide. He dreams and relishes genocide. The sadist is a curse to the human race and currently the world’s worst.

Accordingly, many ethnic groups, as well as prominent Nigerians—from the East, North, South, and West—have continued to call for Buhari’s impeachment. The gross misconduct under his regime is so glaring that even his wife, Aisha Buhari, had to damn the consequences to alert fellow citizens that her husband had since lost the control of the government. She admonished “the Nigerian men” for doing nothing.  

The delay to impeach the president prompted several youth groups and activists to embark on various protests, demanding good governance. But the protesters are always met with brute force, with many innocent youths losing their lives. Buhari’s terrorist activities, as well as the gory images, are daily news.

So, what is the National Assembly waiting for before removing the terrorist from office? Could the delay be attributed to the fact that the president is indifferent to the massive corruption at the legislative arm of the government, including jumbo salaries? Could it be because the Nigerian legislators, their families, and estates are fully guarded by detachments of officers from the Nigerian Armed Forces?

The false consensus seems to be that the legislators from Northern Nigeria will not be quick to impeach Buhari since his deputy, a southerner, would automatically assume the presidency. The proponents argue that it is more plausible to allow him to serve out his two terms so that the process of power rotation can be preserved.

But such a reason is not tenable. Anyone thinking that Muhammadu Buhari will hand over power at the end of his tenure is daydreaming. The incorrigible dictator cannot and must not be trusted. This is a man who assumed power, preaching integrity, virtue, and righteousness, only to gain the power to embrace the worst form of corruption, utter disregard for rule of law, and gross abuse of office as a way of governance. There is no way Buhari can be entertaining the thoughts of peaceful transition of power while at the same time waging war against some sections of the country.

Moreover, a vast majority of the Nigerian people no longer cares about the ethnic origin of their president insofar the goon is gone. After all, the people of Buhari’s region are the worst victims of his evil policies. Even at that, nothing stops the legislators from impeaching both the president and his deputy. But Buhari must go.

The National Assembly must act now. Nigeria is at the brink of a monumental collapse. The time of hiding behind the Buhari baggage to absolve blame is over. Forget about past experiences. Let one courageous patriot move a motion for the impeachment. Let the world know where each lawmaker stands. Let their constituencies know where they stand. Let the youths know their true enemy.  

Failure to act is to risk a mass revolution of global consequence. But such revolution should be targeted squarely to where it belongs. It does not have to be the typical youth affair. The Nigerians in the Diaspora—some of whom were forced to embrace the harsh conditions at foreign immigration jails as more hopeful than the situation in their native country—are definitely more aggrieved. The international community, of course, is tired of the never-ending mess. Needless to remind that the Arab Spring revolution, which Buhari once craved for Nigeria, was masterminded outside the Arab States.

*SKC Ogbonnia, 2019 APC Presidential Aspirant, writes from Houston, Texas                  

[The Rainmaker]

Doesn't make any sense. He was re-elected in 2019. Wait for the next election. 

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[Carl Umunna]

Prophetic: Terrorist's Fulani Be It Domestic Or Foreign From Sahel States-Chad, Niger, Somali, Libya, Mali (Gumi Said: "Give Your land or Give your Life, Stop Complaining") Came To Kill You & Take Your Land For RUGA.  Again, Be Alert, Blood Thirsty Fulani Came to your villages, your forests, Your Farms, They came into your ancestral lands to kill, rape, maim, terrorize you And Intimidate You Into Submission. Fulani Belligerent Effort Is To Take Over Your Land, Elohim Said He Will Draw Them Into Your Land, So You Can Surround Them And Kill Them. Kill Them Before They Kill You. Don't Wait For Military Or Police, Aforesaid State Characters In Uniform Belongs to Fulani And They Are There To Kill You. Arise and Defend Yourselves. Do Not Wait For UN, EU, AU, United States, Et AL. They Will Not Come & You Will Wait Forever, And You Will Be Dead Before Anybody knows it. Fight Back, Fight Them NOW. No Retreat No Surrender. Forward Ever Backward Never.  

Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death'--Patrick Henry, Virginia, United State, 1700s.

Educationally, 

Citizen CUO Umunna,

Policy Examiner, IHRM.

Manhattan, NY. NY.

United States

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Republic Reporters--Standing Between Civilization & Anarchy

Prophetic: The Great State Of Biafra Is Strong And Alive—CUO Umunna, Policy Examiner, IHRM

 

New York (RR) Homeland—By Carlisle U.O. Umunna (New York, USA) --- When I read some writers, detractors and enemies of peoples’ survival and existence write tirelessly and meaninglessly with venoms, with embellished concocted explanations of what they understand, and see as Biafra/Biafrans, I laugh. These groups and individuals regardless of their ages, their pedigrees in interdisciplinary orthodoxies introspectively found within the four walls of intellectual establishments, yet unlettered on many matters, especially when it comes to the idea, Biafra.

This notwithstanding, one is prompted to respond to groups and entities with foregoing dispositions and indeed needs do all within its powers as he/she possibly can to educate and enlighten them or remind them further for record purposes. For other considerations, I encourage these groups, to go and do their research properly. This is because when it comes to what Biafra really represents to Ndiigbo and/or Easterners, Nigeria, and the world they might discover a world of wisdom for their children and grandchildren. Let there be no contradictions or confusion, Biafra is a republic, a geopolitical space and a great nation.

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once gain--Menchem Mendel Mchneerson

On May 30, 1967 in pursuit of their self-determination armed with the Peoples Consultative Assembly and the Advisory Committee of Chiefs and Elders, the two only functioning political bodies in the Eastern region, with the massive killings of Ndiigbo and those that look like them, by the Arab-Muslim fundamentalists in the North and elsewhere, after intensive re-assessments and evaluations, ordered Lieutenant-Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu to declare separation (some say secession) of the Eastern Region from Nigeria and establishment without further delays the Republic of Biafra. The Peoples Republic of Biafra was amongst other things were meant and instituted to put to stop the bleeding of its peoples and in defense of its peoples and her territorial frontiers. The causes of the actions that ensued are traceable to the pogrom that dates, back to, 1934 through Madguri to present day, 2021. These and many other inter-generational ills, discriminatory practices, marginalization, and containment policies against the industrial enterprise—Igbo by fed cannot be overemphasized. Regardless of rescue operations like appointment of Paul Dike to the top rank of Service Chief position, 39 years later is in short too little too late maneuver.

What has sustained the idea Biafra amongst other things is continuous existence of the aforementioned pathological pandemics predicated on unattended pillages and unprecedented breakdown of law and order across the land and, premeditatedly designed to sustain and secure plunderers, liars, looters and their cronies (friends) and by so doing these illegitimate actions squandered the golden hand shake across the Niger by Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu leadership—evidently and thusly sustaining the disposition and other considerations here and elsewhere that the idea Biafra, is a better idea for Ndiigbo and their entire Eastern Region and responsible Nigerians and Nigeria-State. By application, this response of inactions and actions by fed is that live is not guaranteed when it comes to these extra-judicial-killings. Igbo has therefore, revealed or unveiled new doctrine called Igbo-Doctrine (Biafra-Doctrine). Armed with this new doctrine, Ndiigbo and law-abiding Nigerians have been warned to prepare itself and defend itself within this unchartered frontier, to fight to a standstill from and within the space they were attacked as this shall be backed-up by a speedy response across the Eastern landscape. This measure is our God given right in defense of our family, elderly, and our children. The nation has been warned.

We all know that 2007 is filled with measures of uncertainties and 1966 issues/concerns are yet to be addressed. Corruption and greed then, corruption and greed today are unprecedented. It has become clear that Obasanjo and his cronies will gamble and heat up yet again the body polity. Third term manipulations will be a child’s play considering the contextual theatrical jibes of the actors of this experiment called Nigeria.

By 1967, at the heat of these and similar precipices, one Anthony Eromosele Enahoro arguing against Biafra has this to say in London: “If secession by Ojukwu and his group is accomplished, Nigeria will most probably disintegrate… and a chain reaction will be set up all over Africa. Africa would end up in petty little principalities. Each successor ‘mini state’ would be sovereign enough to acquire foreign protectors and purchase arms. Such situation, with its inevitable dislocations and frictions over boundaries, trade and division of assets, would produce wars.” Some decades later, the same Anthony Enahoro and Olusegun Obasanjo have a different tune and speak with both sides of their months… By July 2, 2002, Enahoro remarked at a Polo Club, Lagos:

“Given our traumatic experience, I suggest that the following question is pertinent: should the constitution allow for the ultimate change of secession? In the past, this issue has been treated as a taboo topic but the absence of thought and debate on this matter is a poor substitute of judgment. Obasanjo has helpfully opened discussion on it in his book This Animal Called Man, wherein he stated that any future constitution of Nigeria must provide for a right of secession. This is but recognition of the reality that, short of brute force, the only way that different nationalities can be kept together in the long term is by their will to stay together.”

This apparently is a new trend for a man whose interviews and public proclamations indeed impeded or resisted even the creation of Midwest. It is therefore clear that, “those who do not learn from History are damned to repeat it…” George Santayana.

As we celebrate the declaration of the great republic—Biafra on May 30, 1967, a battle of attrition executed gallantly and fearlessly, we remember with pride and honor that it was the right thing to do to secure or existence. The actions and freedom of three years which, actions and freedom was differed in January 15, 1970 is up and running again through peaceful means manned by MOSSAB. The Sun has risen and lighted again east of the Niger and this time around we will not blink because Biafrans will never forget the events that led to the massacre of over 6 million of our men, women, children and old people that culminated to the birth of your statehood, a statehood predicated and born in the defense of your family, children, heritage, religion and humanity. For the unlearned, Biafra is a people, Biafra is Igbo; it is our survival and protection of our identity and industriousness; it is our humanity and our heritage. Without the bravery of our men and women who fought gallantly to protect our villages, territorial waters and lands, the likes of Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Ekwesiliezes and others would not have survived or lived to have their opportunities today. We owe it to the great men and

Women, who acted with candor, resiliency, gallantry and commitment in the defense of the motherland; these heroes braved the incessant bombardments and were necessary paid the supreme sacrifice by laying down their lives for the sake of their friends, follow Biafrans, their motherland and their dignity. We remember, revere and adore these great men and women, living and fallen heroes today and forever. All hail thee Biafra. Without your volunteerism, Ndiigbo would have been destroyed off of its earth-plate by bloodthirsty Arab-Islamic fundamentalists, enemies of righteousness, enemies of God.

Obafemi Awolowo, an opportunist and other opportunists like him including Anthony Enahoro waged war of treachery, war of criminality and a war of opportunism; they accomplished this criminality by blockading food from international community from entering Biafra territories. The deployment of starvation as a means to starve off Biafra volunteerism predicated on their determination for self-determination, in an effort to free itself from foreign dominance real and imagined within its frontiers is self-evident. We remember your crimes against humanity and you will pay one by one. As long as the spirit of Biafra lives, so does Biafra. Long live Biafra. Long live motherland.

As we review past and present situation, it is important that we call Ndiigbo and sundry to support MASSOB and its members across our land for championing a just and equitable cause for a just society. This is imperative, just as Arewa and Oduduwa and others within this classification serve the interest of their tribes and regions there is nothing wrong in having our young men and women fortifying our space. There are no pretensions that tribalism and ethnicity is first the beginning of our own statehood, without it there is no Nigeria. To postulate the craziness of the fraudulent and pretended engineering, nationalism, was displayed by even the barbaric Abacha. Abacha, wanted the nation to adopt French language as nation’s second language after English language, way ahead of three major tribal languages—Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. That’s how crazy and mundane this place is. Not until there is a true nationalism amassed with sincerity, built and based on enduring sustainable nationalistic tendencies that would produce a viable progressive enterprise for the good of our peoples there will be no turning back.

I understand some of my colleagues on the other side of the equation will be pretty much disappointed in me having served as NANS Chief Mobilization Officer [CMO] at the national level were we made significant impact vis-à-vis June 12 experiment. However, dear friends accept my sympathies. Note that we live in ever changing world and, I am communicating based on the realities on the ground, and this reality is about life and dead. Since 1999 to 2006, over 20,000 Ndiigbo, men, women, elderly and children have being Balkanized under Obasanjo’s watch and machinations. It is pertinent to ask were would my help come from? By commission or omission, evil triumph in our society because good men do nothing, in addition to lawlessness which, has a-washed our society, one is left to himself and his community, left to self-determination to be or not to be part of this arrangement. The chance to provide security and restore law and order to its region, people and our families comes first. Regionalism was the original master plan before the Lord Lugard’s British creationism of 1914; of course this criminal creation served the interest of the British Empire and its vassal states with its African late-comers at one end, and, their greedy beneficiaries that serves as its atlantics interlocutor or, links on the other end.

We shall return to the right to and control of our geopolitical space and claim anew our right to our territorial integrity in any circumstance. It is therefore, pretty clear that there exist a trajectory, contradictions, conflicts between people’s right to self-determination and a nation’s coerced territorial integrity based on black-gold [oil]; there is also additionally, conflict of freedom and unity built on treachery and fraud. UN charter allows for self-determination found in No. 48, 49 of self-determination documentation. But some of its characteristics are self-evident namely I] it shall be a government based on the will of the people; II] freedom from internal and external dominance; III] freedom to pursue economic, cultural and, social development; IV] freedom to enjoy fundamental human rights; V] the absence of discrimination based on ethnicity, religion and or political beliefs.

Recent and past Case studies:

We have witnessed several nations who have seceded or attempted to secede from oppressive govermentalities based on doctrine and rule of self-determination. East Timor as a non-self governing in the 60s, Quebec seceded from Canada on many occasions although by 1998 the Canadian top Court-Supreme ruled against that; Biafra attempted and failed to secede from Nigeria and lunched into three year bitter civil war.

East Timor

By 1999, the UN Security Council reached agreement with the Portugal and Indonesia to allow the people of East Timor to vote on a special autonomy within Indonesia frontiers. Registered voters voted overwhelmingly to move on as independent state. UN was successful in East Timor.

Quebec

This is contradictory to the success in East Timor. By 1998, the Quebec government asked the supreme court of Canada if there are possibilities for Quebec to secede on self-determination based on international law or based on Canadian constitution. The court shutdown Quebec dreams as its population voted against it self-determination quest. What an irony.

Biafra

In 1914 British administrator introduced the amalgamation of Northern and Southern protectorates and Lagos colony, this move was unpopular amongst these populations. Nothing is similar amongst these groups. Not even the language or culture or anything is similar except that they somehow look alike or imbibes the hueism or similarity of color skin. Hausa-Fulani in the North, the Yoruba in the West, and the Igbo in the East, and, by the time independent came the three regional powers were threatening secessions. Suspicion, envy, and others set the stage. Young Igbo military officers destabilized the center installed Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi as military head and within the space of six months there was a counter coup that brought in Yakubu Gowon [Jack] to power the rest is history, they say. This whole drama, including the killings and displacement of Ndiigbo threw the republic into war.

In addition, just recently Montenegro under the watchful eye of the UN Observer mission, with fewer than 5 million followed through with referendum that determined their self-determination and two weeks or so ago, they are free from treachery in, Kosovo. If UN were to move its machinery into Nigeria with its observer mission, the situation will be an astounding 90% in yes for Biafra. Yes, Ndiigbo will vote in mass to extricate itself from current experiment, called Nigeria. In the meantime, many MASSOB leaderships are unlawfully held in incarceration or jails; we call for their immediate release from these criminal and unlawful detentions, unconditionally by the government of Nigeria.

In conclusion, it is important to reiterate the significant of self-determination call by Ndiigbo/Easterners. To free Igbo from these illegalities including corruption and contradictions found inside and outside this whole enterprise, Nigeria. For those who are wondering about the Igbo race and its dream for self-determination and the actualization of Republic of Biafra, know yeah, this day that we are more determined today, organized, mobilized, stronger more than any other time in history. Those who think we are not united must think again. We might sound differently on issues, that happens because we are republicans and believe in the rule of law, freedom of expression within our political space, freedom which our engineering and democracy for three years is manifest. It is our heritage. Make no mistake, when handshake turns into shoving, it shall be revealed unto you that our body politics is our body unity. By application, it is essential that the government of the day do the right thing. We are racing against time. It must be a must do item that Ndiigbo wherever they may be, at home or in Diaspora, must support self-determination. This has become critical that, if, after 45 years of existence, our extraction will not be allowed the opportunity to produce the president of the enterprise, Nigeria. I hear someone remarked at some quarters that this administration appointed more Igbo than any administration in history.

This writer’s response to that remark is vote Igbo president so that we can also have the same opportunity to not only appoint you Ministers and other placements of positions but, we will appoint the right and qualified individuals to these positions better than any other group in the history of Nigeria, way better off more than other major tribes—Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba. We have displayed that in the past and can do it again. It is insulting to hear commentaries like the foregoing appointment piece. It is relevant to protect people’s freedom, universal rights, laws, rights charters, and people’s right to live, worship were, how and whenever they pleases. It is called freedom of religion. Both Nigerians and Biafrans can live together with equal opportunity when it comes to running the system[s], resource allocations, employment, restoration of peace and similarly, restructure a better measured security for our peoples and value placed on the essence, sanctity, and divinity of human life at all times. No nation can thrive under lawlessness, extra-judicial killings and unprecedent corruption. Let me finally state that after 39 years of our existence, the great State of Biafra is stronger, better organized and ubiquitously alive. Biafra will be, Nigeria will be.

Educationally,

Citizen Carlisle U.O. Umunna,
Is a Manhattan, NYC-Based Policy Examiner,

IHRM (Executive Director)

cumu...@gmail.com

First Published, May, 2006

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Prophetic: Breaking: Netanyahu Out, Bennett In: Israeli’s Parliament Voted 60-59 In Favor Of A New Government, Ending Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year Conservative Tenure As Prime Minister. The Newly-Elected Coalition Will Be Led By Nationalist Naftali Bennett—Reuters

New York (RR) Tel Aviv-- Benjamin Netanyahu’s record 12-year run as Israel’s prime minister ended on Sunday with parliament approving a new “government of change” led by nationalist Naftali Bennett, an improbable scenario few Israelis once could have imagined.

But the razor-thin 60-59 vote of confidence in a coalition of left-wing, centrist, right-wing and Arab parties with little in common except a desire to unseat Netanyahu, only underscored its likely fragility.

In Tel Aviv, thousands turned out to welcome the result, after four inconclusive elections in two years.

"I am here celebrating the end of an era in Israel," said Erez Biezuner in Rabin Square. "We want them to succeed and to unite us again," he added, as flag-waving supporters of the new government sang and danced around him.

But a combative Netanyahu, 71,said he would be back sooner than expected. "If we are destined to go into the opposition, we will do so with our heads held high until we can topple it," he told parliament before Bennett was sworn in.

The new government largely plans to avoid sweeping moves on hot-button international issues such as policy toward the Palestinians, and to focus instead on domestic reforms.

Palestinians were unmoved by the change of administration, predicting that Bennett, a former defence chief who advocates annexing parts of the occupied West Bank, would pursue the same right-wing agenda as Likud party leader Netanyahu.

"I am here celebrating the end of an era in Israel," said Erez Biezuner in Rabin Square. "We want them to succeed and to unite us again," he added, as flag-waving supporters of the new government sang and danced around him.

But a combative Netanyahu, 71,said he would be back sooner than expected. "If we are destined to go into the opposition, we will do so with our heads held high until we can topple it," he told parliament before Bennett was sworn in.

The new government largely plans to avoid sweeping moves on hot-button international issues such as policy toward the Palestinians, and to focus instead on domestic reforms.

Palestinians were unmoved by the change of administration, predicting that Bennett, a former defence chief who advocates annexing parts of the occupied West Bank, would pursue the same right-wing agenda as Likud party leader Netanyahu.

CONGRATULATIONS FROM BIDEN

U.S. President Joe Biden congratulated Bennett andLapid, saying he looked forward to strengthening the “close and enduring” relationship between the two countries.

Educationally,

 

Citizen CUO Umunna,

Policy Examiner, IHRM,

Manhattan, NYC

Republic Reporters—Standing Between Civilization & Anarchy

 

Update: Prophetic: Psalm 14: “The Fool Hath Said In His Heart, There Is No God. They Are Corrupt, They Have Done Abominable Works, There Is None That Doeth Good, 2. The Lord Looked Down From Heaven Upon The Children Of Men, To See If There Were Any That Did Understand, And See God”-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXmSvL8Z8z8

 

New York (RR) Biafra-Nation— Psalm 14: “The Fool Hath Said In His Heart, There Is No God. They Are Corrupt, They Have Done Abominable Works, There Is None That Doeth Good, 2. The Lord Looked Down From Heaven Upon The Children Of Men, To See If There Were Any That Did Understand, And See God”-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXmSvL8Z8z8

 

“Good day. There is an ongoing prayer for the Igbos as a whole...; it's a chain prayer of 50,000,000 people.   Say the prayer and pass it on to others.

 

"Oh Lord, our God Almighty, Mighty are Your miraculous works. We stand in awe of Your Holy Name. Lord, we bow in prayer for the southern part of this country Nigeria, asking that You please, forgive us and revive us, rekindle Your deliverance over Igbos and break the backbones of Satan and its agents storming this part of the country. Deliver Igbos from the hands of greedy, selfish leaders and from terrorists. By your mighty power of resurrection restore Igbos’ lost glory. Make Igbo land great and more habitable again for us all. Destroy the evil plans of the wicked ones in this country, in Jesus mighty name, AMEN. Please forward, do not break the chain.

Thank you”—forwarded by Citizen Vincent Modebelu

 

Educationally,

 

Citizen CUO Umunna,

Policy Examiner, International Human Rights Monitor, IHRM, (Executive Director),

Manhattan, NYC

 

Republic Reporters—Standing Between Civilization & Anarchy

 

Israel's parliament voted 60-59 in favor of a new government, ending Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year consecutive tenure as prime minister. The newly-elected coalition will be led by nationalist Naftali Bennett https://reut.rs/3cGayR3

 

Prophetic: This Year 2021, Biafra Nation Will Be Approved, Anybody Who Speaks Against Biafra Will Die-By Apostle John Steven Eagle Prophet Of Nations—Watch Video: (4) Must Watch Prophecy To Mazi Nnamdi Kanu And Dangers Around Him - YouTube

 

New York (RR) Awka—A man called Ojukwu was a Moses he did not take us to the promise land, the man called Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is called Joshua for our time, Elohim showed me in a vision, he will take us to the promise land. Governor of Ebonyi, Deaf Umahi, Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinmgwa, Governor of Rivers State, Nyenso Wike, aforesaid Eastern Governors are going to be killed, their generation wiped out on the planet earth for killing Biafrans, Elohim has warned, mark today’s Date, June 6, 2021.

 

Details later…

 

Educationally,

 

Citizen CUO Umunna,

Policy Examiner, International Human Rights Monitor, IHRM, (Executive Director),

Manhattan, NYC

 

Republic Reporters—Standing Between Civilization & Anarchy

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[Carl Umunna]

Prophetic: Killer-Fulani-Terrorists, Yes Fulani Be It Domestic Or Foreign From Sahel States-Chad, Niger, Somali, Libya, Mali, Et Al, (Gumi Said: "Give Your land or Give your Life, Stop Complaining") Came To Kill You & Take Over Your Land For RUGA"--Citizen CUO Umunna, Policy Examiner, IHRM.  

New York (RR) Biafra--Killer-Terrorists-Fulani Be It Domestic Or Foreign From Sahel States-Chad, Niger, Somali, Libya, Mali (Gumi Said: "Give Your land or Give your Life, Stop Complaining") Came To Kill You & Take Over Your Land For RUGA"--Citizen CUO Umunna, Policy Examiner, IHRM.  Again, Be Alert, Blood Thirsty Fulani Came to your villages, your forests, Your Farms, They came into your ancestral lands to kill, rape, maim, terrorize you And Intimidate You Into Submission. Fulani Belligerent Effort Is To Take Over Your Land, Elohim Said He Will Draw Them Into Your Land, So You Can Surround Them And Kill Them. Kill Them Before They Kill You. Don't Wait For Military Or Police, Aforesaid State Characters In Uniform Belongs to Fulani And They Are There To Kill You. Arise and Defend Yourselves. Do Not Wait For the UN, EU, AU, United States, Et AL. They Will Not Come & You Will Wait Forever, And You Will Be Dead Before Anybody knows it. Fight Back, Fight Them NOW. No Retreat No Surrender. Forward Ever Backward Never.  

"Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death'--Patrick Henry, Virginia, United State, 1700s.

Educationally, 

Citizen CUO Umunna,

Policy Examiner, IHRM.

Manhattan, NY. NY.

United States

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[SKC Ogbonnia]

[SKC Ogbonnia]

[SKC Ogbonnia]

[iguana WI]

Since WHEN does SKC make sense, the Dude is too fucking comfortable in his skin, thus AFRAID to rock the boat. 

He failed in his presidential bid. 

He failed in his SUPPORT and BUTTLICK of Mohammadu Buhari. This dude, SKC licked Buhari’s Butthole naw bi small, while Buhari bend over and was enjoying SKC licking 👅 Buhari’s YANSH!

Now, SKC has found god (with small “g”) calling for president NoCertificate IMPEACHMENT, Hehehehehe!

Dude, SKC you are not serious!!

SKC what are you gonna do in the next election? You should be campaigning right now to win a seat in NASS? 

Need free political advise, let me know and I develop a campaign strategy for you to win a seat in NASS!

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On Jul 4, 2021, at 6:31 AM, The Rainmaker <gke...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Wharf A. Snake]

👍👍👍

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

Agwọ nọ n’akịrịka

monamona ni ologun ngbe, ologun to ba gbe paramole o gbe iyonu.

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On Jul 5, 2021, at 2:06 PM, iguana WI <igu...@hotmail.com> wrote:

 Since WHEN does SKC make sense, the Dude is too fucking comfortable in his skin, thus AFRAID to rock the boat. 

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/africanworldforum/SA0PR06MB694080DB59CDED2A7724AFF8D41C9%40SA0PR06MB6940.namprd06.prod.outlook.com.

[SKC Ogbonnia]

Press Statement-

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Kanu and Ighoho: Buhari Beckoning Crisis To Elongate His Tenure

By SKC Ogbonnia

July 8, 2023

The abduction of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and the recent terrorist attack on the leader of the movement for Odudua Nation, Adeniyi Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho), by President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime did not come as a surprise.

In a recent piece, calling for the removal of the president from office, I had alerted the world that, “Anyone thinking that Muhammadu Buhari will hand over power at the end of his tenure is daydreaming. The incorrigible dictator cannot and must not be trusted. This is a man who assumed power, preaching integrity, virtue, and righteousness, only to gain the power to embrace the worst form of corruption, utter disregard for the rule of law, and gross abuse of office as a way of governance. There is no way Buhari can be entertaining the thoughts of a peaceful transition of power, while at the same time waging war against some sections of the country.”

Therefore, the abduction of Kanu and the terrorist attack on Ighoho constitute the plum plot to plunge the country into deeper crisis to elongate Buhari’s tenure in office. Nothing more!

The reason is not far-fetched. The despot is in a desperate need of more time to deepen his evil policies. Buhari cannot, and understandably so, imagine any of the civilians currently being touted as his successor —whether from the North or South—who will be naïve to prolong his policies or protect him once out of power without risking a full-blown war. Even Governor Nasir el-Rufai, the twin terrorist brain of Buhari, knows not to try. Besides his pestilent personality, which irritates both friends and foes, el-Rufai remains on Global Terrorist Watchlist for threatening to slaughter foreign election watchers during the 2019 Nigerian polls.

Forget the recent statement from the Southern governors demanding power shift to their region in 2023! Such a demand is sadly laughable and lame. If these self-serving governors could not stand up against Buhari’s terrorist activities in their different states, where citizens are maimed and murdered on daily basis, one wonders how they can muster the courage to question his choice of successor. If Buhari cannot deem a Southerner, including his deputy, worthy of participation in any strategic decision-making throughout his regime, one wonders how he would suddenly make a u-turn and surrender the reins of the entire government to the same South.

Therefore, having failed in his clandestine bid to influence the senate leadership to elongate his tenure, one may not rule out a palace coup, especially considering Buhari’s fast-fading health. In this scenario, the dictator would step aside while his military loyalist takes over. The scheme is similar to how Ibrahim Babangida paved the way for Sani Abacha. The army boys did not trust MKO Abiola as a potential successor. They wanted and got one of their own in Abacha who not only protected the military oligarchy but also helped to tighten their grip on the Nigerian state.

The plot to elongate Buhari’s tenure by fanning the embers of crisis did not start today. It began earlier in his regime when he attempted to rekindle the zeitgeist of the Biafran war with the hope of regaining any semblance of popularity, using the Igbo as the escape goat. Upon assumption of office, Buhari quickly disavowed his oath of office by deploying the worst form of political vendetta against the Eastern Region for the simple reason that the people voted en masse for their native son, Goodluck Jonathan, in the 2015 election--similar to the electoral gestures accorded to Buhari himself by his native Northern Region in the 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019 electoral cycles.

Buhari followed by ensuring that virtually all segments of the national security architecture—from land, sea, and air—are firmly under the control of the militant cadre of his ethnic group.

Worst still, the president made certain that his personal army, the “foreign” Fulani Herdsmen—an organisation stamped worldwide as a terrorist group since 2014—are fully armed and strategically dispersed to all nooks and crannies of the Nigerian space.

Yet, the president did not leave anyone in doubt that his target was the Igbo.

There and then, the IPOB--which had remained laylow--vaulted and said enough is enough. But they had fallen into the trap. Buhari capitalized and hastily turned the native Igbo cities in South-east and South-South regions into a semi-war zone. 

Unfortunately, the dictator is a lowbrow. Buhari did not—and is not expected to—realize that the world has turned.

The Igbo have become more sophisticated and know not to fall to the cruel antics of a tribal jingoist. The Nigerian people, too, have become wiser. They know that the problem is neither the Igbo nor those that voted for Jonathan. They know the problem has nothing to do with Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB. The world knows that the problem is brazen dictatorship in the land, and the solution is justice.

Enter Omoyele Sowore, Nigeria’s foremost anti-corruption crusader, democracy activist, and a presidential candidate in the country’s 2019 election, who is also known never to turn a blind eye to injustice. In an attempt to use his #RevolutionNow movement to protest the gross misrule in the land, Sowore was arrested and detained by General Buhari.

In the piece, “IPOB, Sowore, and the Audacity of a Primitive Dictator”, I warned that the continued detention of Sowore was a recipe for disaster: “Only a poon ignores the potential of the heavily funded but regional IPOB, with a worldwide membership, fusing with a broad-based national outfit like #RevolutionNow.”

But Buhari knew what he was doing. He craves crisis. However, with Sowore in the struggle, and constantly being harassed and tortured by the terrorist regime, a nationwide crisis was imminent.

Today, there is a crisis in the Northeast. There is a crisis in the Northwest. The people of the Middle Belt are being slaughtered daily by Buhari's personal army. Today, secession from Nigeria is no longer an Eastern or Igbo palaver. The Yoruba, under the leadership of Igboho, also want to leave the union.

“To keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done.” Yes! “The unity of Nigeria must take precedence over the 2023 elections.” After all, “Nigeria’s call obey.” But I have bad news for Muhammadu Buhari: Nigerian masses, home and abroad, are ready. We are prepared to defeat the despot!

*SKC Ogbonnia, 2019 APC Presidential Aspirant, writes from Houston, Texas.

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[SKC Ogbonnia]

*SKC Ogbonnia, 2019 APC Presidential Aspirant, writes from Houston, Texas.

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[SKC Ogbonnia]

*SKC Ogbonnia, 2019 APC Presidential Aspirant, writes from Houston, Texas.

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[Joseph Igietseme]

At least SKC Ogbonnia had the self discipline to FOCUS his criticism of Buhari on Buhari.

SKC had the self control to respect the position of other people on Buhari & he is not labeling other people as idiots, cursing, questioning their education, or bringing their families into their forum positions on Buhari that happen to differ from his own.

SKC is a compatriot that is decent enough in expression and mannerisms to attract other decent Nigerians to live in the same neighborhood with him. JUI will happily engage SKC in a meaningful debate because the vineyard of facts, principles and idea (acceptable or not) will be the setting for expression and expounding one's thought processes. JUI will reside in the same subdivision or neighborhood with SKC and happily have regular debates over fresh fish peppersoup and Isi-ewu with red wine or Heineken/Stout to wash them down😅

However, JUI will bet that 99.990% of decent NIGERIANS won't voluntarily choose to live in the same neighborhood with a Nigerian in the Diaspora who goes by the name "NEBUKADINEZE ADIELE! That's a statement if FACT!!

No matter how CLEVER by half a person thinks he is (thanks to Valentine Ojo of the Blessed memory), a Nigerian with the personality and temperament or profile of Nebu that JUI has seen in this forum for almost 20 years, should SERIOUSLY self examine himself for psychological counseling; he'll ALWAYS believe that he knows more than anybody else; predictably, no FOLKS group will ever be good enough for him; he will ALWAYS tell people how bad other people are; he is not likely to lead any professional or folks group successfully; his closeness to anybody is ALWAYS to equip himself to blackmail people, even during ordinary playyard discussions. In short, the person is almost a PARIAH in traditional, professional or social circles!

JUI will rest his case and wish everybody a Happy Sunday.

JUI

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On Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 8:16 AM 'Nebukadineze Adiele' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

• Today, there is a crisis in the Northeast. There is a crisis in the Northwest. The people of the Middle Belt are being slaughtered daily by Buhari's personal army. Today, secession from Nigeria is no longer an Eastern or Igbo palaver. The Yoruba, under the leadership of Igboho, also want to leave the union.

• “To keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done.” Yes! “The unity of Nigeria must take precedence over the 2023 elections.” After all, “Nigeria’s call obey.” But I have bad news for Muhammadu Buhari: Nigerian masses, home and abroad, are ready. We are prepared to defeat the despot! (SKC Ogbonnia, 2019 APC Presidential Aspirant).

This is another brilliant essay by SKC Ogbonnia; it is brilliant by every measurable index of brilliance. Let it be known to the cunning Joseph Igietsemes of Nigeria that SKC wasn't just an arch Buharist, he is also a card carrying member of APC till date and an unqualified One Nigerianist. In saving a country, ideals must always trump personalities, that's why brilliant minds of Nigeria, and their US counterparts, choose Nigeria and US over Buhari and Trump in light of their respective parochialisms.  

The Joseph Igietsemes of Nigeria must take seriously to the last sentence in SKC's piece, excerpted above --I independently conveyed the same message two days ago. That message: the readiness for conquering Buhari's despotism and parochialism isn't afraid of meeting Buhari and his gang by whatever means they deploy. Buharists lag behind freedom/justice lovers of Nigeria in intelligence, so they will deploy brute force or even war. They mustn't count on winning it either! 

Nebukadineze Adiele
Organized religion sired irrationality.

[iguana WI]

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“Anyone thinking that Muhammadu Buhari will hand over power at the end of his tenure is daydreaming. The incorrigible dictator cannot and must not be trusted. This is a man who assumed power, preaching integrity, virtue, and righteousness, only to gain the power to embrace the worst form of corruption, utter disregard for the rule of law, and gross abuse of office as a way of governance. There is no way Buhari can be entertaining the thoughts of a peaceful transition of power, while at the same time waging war against some sections of the country.”

Therefore, the abduction of Kanu and the terrorist attack on Ighoho constitute the plum plot to plunge the country into deeper crisis to elongate Buhari’s tenure in office. Nothing more!

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SKC

Yours above is a good summary of my messages/postings as the FOUNDER and CREATOR of the word “NIGERIANist”.

As the FOUNDER of Nigerianist, I have been teaching the mistakes of your actions in 2015 for supporting your Messiah and glad that you SKC have been listening to my Gospel and your write-up below shows that you are listening. Now, you need to learn how to run a grassroots campaign on the ground. 

Buhari has indeed blindsided the Igbo Intelligentsia and Political leaders by using Kanu to DECEIVE wannabe Igbo secessionists in believing that SE region will be broken up from Nigeria, NOT happening!

Buhari is now a CRACKED-HEAD with Yoruba people and cannot be trusted and was really never trusted or won the SW. Buhari was rigged in the SW by Tinubu and his SW goons.  Tinubu has a lot to answer to for the diminution of Nigeria’s Affairs.

As I have said and saying Buhari is trying to MURDER Democracy AGAIN in the next presidential election as he once did in 1983 or install a PUPPET leader that will continue to bow at the alter of Boko Haram.

All NigerianISTS must be on full ALERT for their love of Nigeria by being vigilant against Buhari’s evil plan for the good people of Nigeria.

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[iguana WI]

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What makes you think you can afford to live in my neighborhood -- there's a $26.3 million condo on my top floor, owned by Hollywood couple, come and get it

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Hehehehehe!

Emeka Duraigbo is a teacher at TSU (Texas Southern University), which cannot boost of an endowment of $26 millions dollars TALK less of one of its teachers living in a complex of multi million condos

Emeka Duraigbo (Nebukadineze Adiele <nebuka...@aol.com>) is a liar and a thief to be saying that he resides in a complex of multi million condos. Neither Houston or Boston can provide any condos complex with property values over $20 millions. If I am lying prove me wrong, tell us those complexes with condos over $20 millions. Emeka Duraigbo is a liar and a EVIL person, period! 

Since when does Aduba “personal” attorney got rich representing a poor accountant in Boston! Tufiakwa!!

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• However, JUI will bet that 99.990% of decent NIGERIANS won't voluntarily choose to live in the same neighborhood with a Nigerian in the Diaspora who goes by the name "NEBUKADINEZE ADIELE! That's a statement if FACT!! (JUI)

JUI,

You are the one casting aspersions as to your education with the type of uneducated outburst excerpted above. What makes you think that Nebukadineze would ever want to live in the same neighborhood with a cunning creature like you? What makes you think you can afford to live in my neighborhood -- there's a $26.3 million condo on my top floor, owned by Hollywood couple, come and get it, I would write a recommendation letter for you were you not an untrustworthy cunning creature. A properly educated person, supposedly a scientist at that, would not write what I excerpted of you and proclaim it a fact.

Your problem is your immaturity -- you dish it but whine when you filth is dished back to you. Below, you recommended psychological counseling to me, that is an insult you cunningly dished out. If I were to respond in kind, I would be direct and that's when you start whining. I must caution you that anymore such insult would be responded.  

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Nnamdi Kanu Suffering For The Sins Of Igbo Leaders

By SKC Ogbonnia

July 25, 2021

 

Ezekiel 18:20: “A son must not suffer the punishment for the father's guilt…”  Therefore, those grandstanding as Igbo leaders should be falling on top of each other protesting, demanding President Muhammadu Buhari to detain them instead of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The objective fact is that Kanu is suffering for the sins of the Igbo leaders.

 

THE FIRST SIN of these Igbo leaders is lack of development in Igboland that drew the ire of Kanu in the first place.  Mazi Kanu, remember, began to gain national prominence not long after General Buhari gained democratic power in 2015. Key to Kanu’s popularity among the masses was his boldness to say enough is enough after the leaders from the South-East and South-South zones failed to hold President Buhari accountable for the naked threat to marginalize the Biafran region simply because the people voted en masse for their native son, President Goodluck Jonathan. But their failure to confront Buhari is understandable. Most of these Eastern leaders—like their counterparts in other regions—are virally corrupt. Thus, they continue to fear that the president would readily revenge by marshalling the anticorruption agency against them.

 

Such dilemma prompted my piece: “Buhari And Nnamdi Kanu Fighting The Wrong Enemies.” There I reminded that before Buhari’s presidency, a major aim of Radio Biafra, in Kanu’s own words, was to uproot “all looters, embezzlers, kidnappers, sponsors of terrorism, child traffickers, corrupt judges, crooked university lecturers, murderous Nigerian security forces and all thieving individuals masquerading as public officials who steal public funds thereby preventing developmental projects from impacting positively on the lives of the ordinary people.”  Yes!

 

I then followed that, if Buhari was ever sincere with his election campaign promise to fight corruption, the President and Kanu ought to have common enemies in the very corrupt leaders from the South-East and South-South zones of Nigeria who plundered development opportunities in Biafra land during the last 16 years of the astronomical oil boom before Buhari assumed democratic power.

 

THE SECOND SIN of the Igbo leaders is their nonchalant attitude towards the long-standing policy of the Federal authorities to reduce the Igbo nation to a mere “dot in a circle.” In fact, what most people do not know is that Nnamdi Kanu’s biggest crime against the Nigerian state is actually his doggedness to expose the major truths why the country does not promote the teaching of history in its schools. The most stubborn of those truths is that the Igbo nation is NOT landlocked, after all. Unlike the Igbo leaders, Nnamdi Kanu is a student of the History and has stoutly rejected the “dot in a circle” label far before Buhari made the conspiracy public. The IPOB leader understands that, besides the South-East geopolitical zone, there are indigenous Igbo areas in the North-Central and the South-South zones, including the riverine areas of Nigeria. The point is that Igbo nation is far beyond Muhammadu Buhari’s “dot in a circle” map, well into the Atlantic Ocean.

 

But Buhari is not solely to blame for the “dot in a circle” propaganda. He inherited the script from the Igbo marginalization scheme that began during the Biafran war. Central to such scheme is to sustain an artificial boundary which must suggest that the Igbo people suddenly no longer have access to the Atlantic Ocean.

 

Stop here for a minute and take a critical look at the Nigeria map, featuring the six geopolitical zones. Any discerning mind would notice the devious manner Federal authorities lumped the indigenous Igbo areas that have natural access to the sea into the South-South zone.

 

Make no mistake about this: No one is wishing for a perfect homogenous state or zone.  After all, there are indigenous Igala communities in the South-East zone, as there are indigenous Igbo communities in the North-Central zone. The problem here is the double standard. On the one hand, the Fulani flock—a recent immigrant to Nigeria—is free to align with the Hausa to assume a new ethnic identity: Hausa-Fulani. Moreover, the Fulani is not only free to lay claim to Fulani settlements in the three zones of Northern Nigeria, but the group also prides itself for wielding the disparate Northern ethnic nationalities into a homogenous political identity. These moves by the Fulani are politically strategic and definitively worthy of emulation. On the other hand, however, any attempt by the Igbo—an indigenous settler in Nigeria—to identify with her indigenous components in the South-South zone or even to align with any other ethnic group is viewed as a taboo by the Federal authorities. The latent policy of Nigeria is that the Igbo must be seen as not only as “a dot in a circle” but must also be viewed as a political leper.

 

Unfortunately, unlike Nnamdi Kanu, the Igbo leaders are grossly naïve. They have been busy, aiding and abetting the Federal authorities to re-write the Igbo history for their individual interests. Today, any mention of Igbo is squarely pegged to the South-East zone. Today, there is hardly any Igbo organization or those in position of power that promote the Igbo agenda beyond the South-East zone. Unlike Nnamdi Kanu, the Igbo leaders prefer to forget that Ohaneze Ndigbo, for example, factually refers to indigenous Igbo communities in thirteen states in three geopolitical zones, namely: South-East: Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo states; South-South zone: Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross-River, Delta, Edo (Igbanke), and Rivers; and North-Central: Benue and Kogi States.

 

Unlike Nnamdi Kanu, the so-called Igbo leaders are too daft to remember that the former Secretary-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, a Biafran war commander, and the late Secretary-General of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Joe Achuzia, is not from the South-East zone. Needless to mention that Ralph Uwechue, a native of Ogwashi-Uku in Delta State, was once the President General of Ohaneze; and the eminent pan-Igbo activist, Uche Okwukwu, a native of Ikwere in Rivers State, was not long ago the Secretary-General of the Ohaneze.

 

THE THIRD AND MOST SENSATIONAL SIN of the Igbo leaders is their penchant to appease Buhari and the enemies of Ndigbo by carrying on as if Biafra was ever solely a South-East affair or rather a mere “a dot in a circle”. Unlike the Igbo leaders, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu clearly understands that Biafra is not even an Igbo word; and it was Frank Opigo, an Ijaw—not Igbo—who christened the new nation after the then Bight of Biafra, now ironically changed to Bight of Bonny. The IPOB leader does not forget that the last Head of State of Biafra, Major-General Phillip Effiong, a native of Ibiono Ibom in Akwa Ibom State, is not from the South-East zone. He knows that the ancient city of Asaba, the bloody epicenter of the Biafran war, is in the South-South zone. Nnamdi Kanu recognizes that Chukwuma Nzeogwu, a native of Okpanam in Delta State, who led the first military coup of 1966, commonly blamed for the civil war, was from the present South-South zone. The IPOB leaders is bold to expose the true history which clearly states that a major objective of the first Nigerian coup was to free Obafemi Awolowo from prison and make him the prime minister of the country.

 

The analysis into the current Biafran crisis should not only go beyond the fleeting exigencies of secession, it ought to also consider the dynamics of the message, not only the messenger. The problem must not revolve solely around how Kanu delivers his message. The problem is that the Igbo leaders who claim to know how best to deliver the message choose to do nothing at all. The bigger problem, though, is that President Buhari’s pattern of injustice continues to inflame the Biafran crisis.

 

Dr. SKC Ogbonnia, a 2019 APC Presidential Aspirant, writes from Houston, Texas.

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[ADEWALE IKUSAGBA AKARAOGUN]

What will happen to Igboho in Benin Republic?

Lessons from Prof Banjo, arrested and detained in Benin Republic for 4000AK 47 he brought to fight Abacha during June 12

Irohinoodua News Analysis of what shape the trial of Igboho might take

History is repeating itself. Prominent actor in the Yoruba self determination campaign, Mr Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho) is facing a big challenge in Benin Republic where he has been held for close to a month. His fate is tied to that of millions of Yoruba people who see him as their icon. 

https://www.irohinodua.org/what-will-happen-to-igboho-in-benin-republic/

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How To Dethrone Buhari Before 2023

By SKC Ogbonnia

September 16, 2021

 

“Fellow countrymen and women…You are all living witnesses to the great economic predicament and uncertainty, which an inept and corrupt leadership has imposed on our beloved nation for the past four years. I am referring to the harsh, intolerable conditions under which we are now living. Our economy has been hopelessly mismanaged. We have become a debtor and beggar nation.”

 

Fellow Nigerians, the above quotation is culled from the coup speech which Major-General Muhammadu Buhari and his military colleagues used to overthrow a democratically elected government in 1984.

 

TODAY, the current situation in our country is far worse than what was referred to as “intolerable condition” in 1984. We are no longer talking about the condition of the economy which has since gone comatose under President Buhari. The battle cry is no longer about corruption, where many surveys find Nigeria as the worst offender. The current situation is so intolerable that no one has time to talk about the condition where a sitting president and his family brandish ostentatious wealth looted from public treasury while the moping masses continue wallow in abject poverty and despair. Nobody is even talking about the fact that the country has become the poverty capital of the world under the same man.

 

Today, the “intolerable condition” is about something far more consequential: Insecurity. It is about human life. It is about the fact that nobody and nowhere is safe.

 

Today, “foreign” Fulani Herdsmen are maiming and killing the people of the Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria with impunity. The situation in Buhari’s region of the core North is even worse: While Boko Haram terrorism reigns in the Northeast, bandits and brigands have continued to terrorize the Northwest with reckless abandon, as citizens flee to the neighboring countries in fear of their dear lives. What is more? The President and Commander-in-Chief of Nigerian Armed Forces is known to be aiding and abetting these terrorist acts against his own people. Worse still, critics with mass appeal are commonly hounded and incarcerated.

 

Fellow Countrymen and women,

 

Enough is enough! We must not wait forever before demonstrating serious consequences for Buhari’s history of treasonable felony, including his ongoing reign of terror. Where there are no consequences for bad behavior, the bad behavior is bound to worsen. The gist is that President Muhammadu Buhari has ruined Nigeria down to its lowest ebb and any failure to dethrone him before 2023 is to set a very dangerous precedent for the country.

 

The delay to dethrone the dictator is because the Nigerian Legislature has failed to act in line with the Constitution. The reason for this failure is plain: The federal lawmakers and the president are partners in crime. They are united by a common bond of state corruption anchored with pagan impunity. These leaders also assume immunity to the incessant terrorism, as their families and estates are fully guarded by state security network. 

 

Yet, a common excuse being bandied in the land is that the lawmakers from Northern Nigeria will not be in haste to impeach Buhari since his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, a southerner, would automatically inherit the presidency. The proponents claim it is better to allow the president to serve out his two terms so that the process of power rotation can be preserved.

 

But such reasons are pure baloney. In fact, common sense is clear on this matter: Dictators who commit the level of atrocities being witnessed under General Muhammadu Buhari would never hand over power through a true democratic process. Even if such dictators would entertain any form of transition, they are bound to handpick clones of themselves who can deepen their evil policies.

 

Moreover, the Buhari leadership crisis knows no boundaries. Thus, the Nigerian masses—north and south—now care less about the tribe, religion, or the political shade of Buhari’s successor insofar the Nigeria’s worst president in history becomes history. Put it this way: the dethronement of Muhammadu Buhari is no longer a question of WHY; it is now a question of HOW.

 

The first order of business is for the suffering masses to recognize their true enemies. Instead of Muhammadu Buhari, who is shamelessly irredeemable, the resentment should be directed towards the legislators who have the constitutional obligation to remove the dreadful leader from office.

 

This is where a sincere opposition matters most. The opposition leaders are making efforts vocalizing the crisis, quite alright, but they are not leading. Effective leadership demands uniting people towards a common purpose.

 

As the Minority Leader in the Senate, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe should—without further delay—craft step-by-step action plans for the dethronement of Muhammadu Buhari, including any of the regime’s henchmen, who may constitute an impediment to the success of post-impeachment power play.

 

An objective approach is a combination of geographic and political incrementalism, where broad support at the National Assembly is attained in segments, staking both political and regional interests. Importantly, the names of the lawmakers who oppose the impeachment must be made public.

 

The lobbying should start from the caucus of South-East and South-South zones in the National Assembly. Impeaching Buhari is a ‘Christmas in June’ for the people of this region. This is the stronghold of the opposition by virtue of political affiliation. Further, the region is the ground zero of Buhari’s vendetta politics.  

 

The next is the Southwest caucus. Any motion seeking the dethronement of a dictator will always sail through in this zone. Besides being the natural bastion of opposition movement in the country, Western Nigeria boasts of the crème de la crème of pro-democracy activists, the media, and a balanced civil society.   

 

In short, the whole South is certain. The bipartisan unity among the Southern governors to oppose Buhari’s open grazing policy is a profound testimony.

 

Enter the North. Demonstrate that the region is not monolithic, after all.

 

The Middle Belt is a huge opening. This zone is the epicenter of the state-sponsored terrorism. There is no better opportunity to test the much-touted Southern Nigeria-Middle Belt alliance than through the impeachment of the terrorist leader.

 

Cracking the core North is actually not as difficult as being bandied. Stake social, as well as political interests. Highlight the fact that the people of Northwest and Northeast are the worst victims of the Buhari policies. Target the Fulani elites whose brand has been badly damaged worldwide because of the foolishness of one man. Follow with the fact that Buhari’s reign of terror has become the biggest threat to the very idea of “one Nigeria”, which the North now holds so dear.

 

The order above is futile without sustained pressure by the masses. Nigerians can take a page from the various revolutionary scripts General Buhari promoted before he gained power in 2015. Of particular attention is when he challenged fellow citizens to emulate the Arab Spring where “a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions” were used to dethrone corrupt regimes in North Africa. However, instead of “armed rebellions” as then advanced by citizen Buhari, it is imperative that the Nigerian model is peaceful.

 

Yet, a major factor in the success of the Arab Spring is that it embodied serious consequences against politicians opposed to the sweeping changes. The Nigerian legislators cannot continue to hide behind the Buhari baggage to absolve blame. Therefore, rather than gathering at public squares, where armed security can easily disperse them, the protesters should target the various country homes in the different constituencies of the specific legislators who oppose the impeachment of Buhari.

 

Again, the protests should be nonviolent, but it must be sufficiently far-reaching to alert these legislators that it is no longer business as usual. This thinking mirrors an admonition from Buhari’s Minister of Transport, Chubuike Amaechi, that Nigerian politicians have continued to misbehave because the followers do not “stone” them. The Nigerian armed forces should equally refuse “to be used to attack the forces of change” in line with Buhari’s directive as stated in one of his various calls for revolution during the Jonathan era.

 

To reclaim our country from the terrorist regime requires active participation of every patriot, no matter the religion, political party, tribe, or the location in the globe. The Nigerians in the Diaspora, most of whom are victims of the gross injustice at home, have important role to play. They have every reason to harken to Buhari’s very idea of Arab Spring by maximizing their influence at every opportunity, including the ongoing protests at the United Nations in New York, to garner the desired support from foreign governments. There is also the need to heighten the current efforts to ensure that the foreign land is no longer a safe haven for the corrupt leaders from the homeland.   

 

*Dr. SKC Ogbonnia, 2019 APC Presidential Aspirant, writes from New York, New York.

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*Dr. SKC Ogbonnia, 2019 APC Presidential Aspirant, writes from New York, New York.

[SKC Ogbonnia]

*Dr. SKC Ogbonnia, 2019 APC Presidential Aspirant, writes from New York, New York.

[Wharf A. Snake]

SKC,

You are a sour loser! Give it up, man! Buhari dusted you in the primaries and is now the president. It is a pity you are inadequate for the position you sought. Yours below shows that you would have been the wrong choice anyway.  You lack the maturity and moderation to lead a country and includes a banana republic like Nigeria. Go get a life, SKC!

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

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[afis 'Deinde]

That’s all you got from SKC’s essay?

That he’s jealous.

Is Buhari your kind of President?

Is Buhari not running down the economy by borrowing and looting.

Is Buhari not a Nepotistic fella?

Is Buhari not a Tribalist.

Is Buhari not running the Security of the country aground.

……And all you see is SKC jealousy on Evil-Buhari.

Baba Wharfy, you are better than that, bro!

I don’t see you making constructive comments on the context.

Shikena 

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[DIPO ENIOLA]

Wharf the Snake of Orlu is something else. He is one smart dude but tends to allow his rascality to get the better part of him. I found his take on SKC’s write up bizarre. But again, he is from the clannish Orlu in Imo State.

The Oha 1

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Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains

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“Fellow countrymen and women…You are all living witnesses to the great economic predicament and uncertainty, which an inept and corrupt leadership has imposed on our beloved nation for the past four years. I am referring to the harsh, intolerable conditions under which we are now living. Our economy has been hopelessly mismanaged. We have become a debtor and beggar nation.”

Unquote 

My Reptilian Buddy’s description of SKC is apropos  to his wannabe Leadership style. SKC moves like a chicken, he puts a leg up ready to run!

I am not going to beat on SKC, because I am the EXPERT or Scientist on Mohammadu Buhari. The fake ass Sai Gaskiya!

Now look at what Mohammadu Buhari said “ Fellow countrymen and women…You are all living witnesses to the great economic predicament and uncertainty, which an inept and corrupt leadership has imposed on our beloved nation for the past four years. I am referring to the harsh, intolerable conditions under which we are now living. Our economy has been hopelessly mismanaged. We have become a debtor and beggar nation“

Let’s say Mohammadu Buhari is right for once. Now, today, 2021, in the 21st century - Mohammadu Buhari has AGAIN turn Nigeria into a HARSH Economy and made Nigeria a truly “DEBTOR” nation and genuinely a BEGGAR nation.

Have I ever said that Mohammadu Buhari was a beggar candidate? Yes, I fucking have. So, Mohammadu Buhari understands fully well what it means to be a BEGGAR, because he is so, a beggar.

Have I told una how Mohammadu Buhari told the entire world about how he, Mohammadu Buhari, LOANED money (a fucking Debtor) to run for the presidency. Yep! I fucking have!

Bottom line, if we accept Mohammadu Buhari statement - we must accept that since he was ABUSED, he is now ABUSING Nigeria again given the harsh economy and the severe debt upon the treasury of Nigerians, thus, converting the country to a BEGGAR nation.

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[afis 'Deinde]

Wilson Iguade’s style of arguing against himself, asking several meaningless questions and responding to himself, is symptomatic of Drug induced hallucinations.

He beats on SKC, then next paragraph he tells us “I am not going to beat on SKC….”

This is a sign of out-of-body hallucination, where the speaker becomes his own responder, vis-a-vis the questioner of himself. 

When you see a drug-head holding a soliloquy by himself and with himself, you can confidently say “Haa that’s an Iguade Moment!”

Please Iguade, stop Drugging, it ain’t good for you bruh!
Just say NO!!

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