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Tone it done and let's focus on the superioty of our intellectual, commonsense and principled stance on this issue. I am watching out for anybody trying to take both sides of the debate, adjusting their positions or creating a digression. I will neither abuse nor curse on this issue because it underscores the image of Nigeria all over the world.

It is really inconceivable that anybody who loves Nigeria and has worked hard to save the image would search for a legal outlet for for a well educated woman, leading the Nigerian Stock Exchange, who exuberantly embarked on a senseless and careless initiative that involved misusing the name of an American Presidential candidate in an unauthorized fundraising without the knowledge of the candidate. in a poor country.

As I mentioned previously, Nigeria needs more fundraising for her sociopolitical activities than America; there are other more subtle and personal methods of showing support than a N2 million per table party/jamboree in a country where people die needlessly because of lack of clean drinking water for citizens; Okereke's did not get the mandate and consent of Obama before using Obama's name for fundraising since Obama has dissociated himself from the effort. So this exercise was at best an adventure in juvenile zest and misplaced exuberance (if we elect to ignore the stronger termilogies such as fraud and 419). Besides, even if the court provides a technicality to shield Okereke from enforceable institutionalized reprimand, the verdicts of the courts of public and personal opinion will live with her for the rest of her life unless she takes active steps in repentance, penance and atonement. Somebody reminded me of the Biblical provision that to whom much is given, much is expected. Okereke should do something to use her skills to help needy Nigeria and Nigerians in growing the Naira in every Nigerian pocket, not perfecting how to covet the meager Naira into the mighty Dollar for Americans. Joe Igietseme

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Subject: [TalkNigeria] Re: [NaijaPolitics] The Obama Fund Raiser and its Legal and Moral Implications

>>We may not like what Dr Okere-Onyiuke has done for so many reasons. However, considering that she has not broken any Nigerian or US laws, it is grossly unfair that she has been arrested and publicly humiliated by the EFCC whose officers then proceeded to seize her travel documents<< Ola Kassim

Like a mob foot soldier angling for his ration of a loot after a hit job, Ola Kassim surreptitiously stakes his loyalty to Criminal Nigeria Inc. in the above statement. Like a mindless football dribbler forlorn of adulation, Ola Kassim canonizes roguery by denying the obvious with his statement above. When some of our bests embrace criminality or play dumb in the face of criminality, a legitimate weeping for Nigeria and Nigerians must commence. The weeping, at least, should show the world that not all Nigerians are at peace with thievery.

The corrupt conclusion that Ms. Onyiuke has committed no crime is legally groundless and smacks of a calculated attempt by a band of thieves to lauder the image of one of its members who is in obvious trouble. Were Ms. Onyiuke resident in the US, based on what I have read so far, she would be charged with racketeering, mail fraud (if she used emails/snail mails to elicit/summon donors), money laundering, and obtaining money under false pretenses. If there is evidence that she used her chairmanship of NSE to influence/persuade donors, an abuse of position charge would be added to charges already preferred. Eliciting donations for a presidential candidate in an organized fashion, without expressly informing and obtaining permission to do so from that presidential candidate, is a violation of US election laws.

But Ms. Onyiuke is in Nigeria, where she conducted the shenanigan under discussion. Therefore, it is legitimate to ask if she violated any Nigerian laws by her action. Despite my deficiency in the minutia of Nigerian statutes, I am persuasively inclined to believe that Ms. Onyiuke's conduct, at a minimum, is in violation of sections: 1(a)(b)(c); 4 (for inviting an alleged Obama representative from South Africa); 7, sub section 4(a)(b[i][ii]) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act of 2006 (http://www.nigeria-law.org/Advance%20Fee%20Fraud%20and%20other%20Fraud%20Related%20Offences%20Act%202006.htm). I have no confidence in the currently constituted EFCC, but that will not stop me from pointing out that this statute is under its purview and its operatives have the mandate and authority to investigate any violation (of the statue) and to preserve evidence using legal means, notwithstanding if the means ridicules or not ridicule a suspect.

An element of Nigerians in the "Diaspora" is as corrupt as their counterparts in the ruling class of Nigeria. In this obvious 419 by Onyiuke, these "Diaspora" Nigerian crooks defending her are slated to benefit from the windfall she raked from the "Africa for Obama" scheme. Their shares of this loot would not have been sent to Bottomsville, a remote village in Arusha, or in the suburbs of Toronto. Their share would have been deposited in their bank accounts in Nigeria and these crooks would have gotten paid for helping fool Nigerians in "Diaspora" again.

Folks, I just returned from a six-week long visit to Nigeria and I can categorically tell you all that our nation is not only in the hands of rogues, but also that those rogues have agents within the "Nigeria Diaspora". We must defeat these rogues and the first place to start defeating them is intellectually--do not buy into their spin doctoring of criminal conducts or be swayed by their appellation of Dr and professors to their names. An an example of spin-doctoring criminal conduct is the obtuse claim that Ms. Onyiuke has violated no laws either in Nigeria or in the US. I have demonstrated that she violated Nigerian laws and I contend that she violated US electoral laws by not obtaining express permission from Senator Obama before raising funds in his name. Raising those funds under his name is a crime against a US citizen and is punishable under US laws. Should she set foot her today, she may be charged with a crime to that effect, just like anyone who commits 419 against a US citizen can, if captured in the US, be charged with a crime.

My fellow Nigerians, let us take our country back from crooks. If we cannot do that, let us at least raise hell. I reserve the right to comment further on this, but let me put my luggage down first. I had not done that before I got a phone call to comment on this matter.

Increase the peace.

Nebukadineze

In a message dated 8/22/2008 10:47:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, OlaKassimMD@aol.com writes:

Excerpts from the article below:

#1 "While I join the majority of the contributors who have condemned the Africa for "Obama Fund Raising Dinner", I also strongly believe that the EFCC jumped the gun in the way they have approached this investigation and that they have acted unprofessionally in the manner that they have treated Dr Okereke-Onyiuke."

#2 ' The EFCC is not an agency of either the court of public or personal opinion. It is an agency of a criminal court and not an agency of a civil court.'

#3 " Analysis:
It would appear that having convicted Madam Okereke in the court of public and personal opinions, either rightly or wrongly, Joe Igietseme and many other contributors who support his stand have erred both egregiously and unjustly by swiftly proceeding to sanction a punishment being meted out to Dr Okereke-Onyiuke by (EFCC operatives) who are agents of a different court-- the court of legal opinion Court #1.

This is a gross error of judgement. Society cannot enforce moral and ethical behaviors beyond what is stipulated in the criminal code. Nigerians are unlikely to condone a situation where religious and moral codes are enforced by the police (or as in some Islamic countries by Mullahs). --
Ola Kassim

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Fellow Nigerians:

The "Africans for Obama Fund Raising Event" that was put together by Dr Mrs Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke has generated a lot of interesting well informed and passionate debates. The diversity of the locations of the contributors has enriched the debate by providing some badly needed on the ground perspectives from our fellow compatriots who reside in Nigeria as well as from Diaspora Nigerians based in Europe, North and South America and the Caribbean..

The issues are well summarized in the two submissions pasted below from Ken Asagwara and Joe Igietseme. The fund raiser brings up both legal and ethical issues. The problem we have had in handling this issue stems mostly from our habit as Nigerians to lump (conflate) issues together however, close or disparate they might be.

If we agree that the issue cuts across both legal and ethical parameters, we must accept that Joe Igietseme's list of the different courts that govern human lives could serve as a framework on which to proceed.

Joe Igietseme stated thus:

"As you know, we have various "courts" whenever issues come up on our egroups or society:
1. The legal court that uses institutionalized/established rules for governing society;

2. The court of public opinion; and,

3. The court of personal opinion."--End of quote

and Ken Asagwara rightly countered:

"Yes, some thing can be adjudged unethical, improper or even immoral in the “court of public opinion” and the “court of personal opinion” but where no laws were broken, no crime has been committed. It will be sad for all when public and or individual opinions take over or prevail in matters that should be statutory and judicial in resolution. It is because public and individual opinions on issues can be subjective that what the law says becomes the criteria for rendering informed judgments. It is like this; the facts can be stacked against you but if the law is on your side, you go home free." --end of quote.

Analysis:

It would appear that having convicted Madam Okereke in the court of public and personal opinions, either rightly or wrongly, Joe Igietseme and many other contributors who support his stand have erred both egregiously and unjustly by swiftly proceeding to sanction a punishment being meted out to Dr Okereke-Onyiuke by (EFCC operatives) who are agents of a different court-- the court of legal opinion Court #1.

This is a gross error of judgement. Society cannot enforce moral and ethical behaviors beyond what is stipulated in the criminal code. Nigerians are unlikely to condone a situation where religious and moral codes are enforced by the police (or as in some Islamic countries by Mullahs).

We may not like what Dr Okere-Onyiuke has done for so many reasons. However, considering that she has not broken any Nigerian or US laws, it is grossly unfair that she has been arrested and publicly humiliated by the EFCC whose officers then proceeded to seize her travel documents. The EFCC officers have just subjected Dr Okereke-Onyiuke to the same punishment, if not worse, than they mete out to the corrupt Nigerian public officials including about 29 of our 36 state governors. Short of putting Dr Okereke-Onyiuke in handcuffs, I doubt if her public humiliation over this matter is that much less than how they treated Tafa Balogun, the former rogue IG. The evidence adduced so far does not place Dr Okereke-Onyiuke in the same category as Tafa Balogun, and former Govs Ibori, Alams and Odili all of whom are walking free in Nigeria today.

This action by the EFCC is not only premature it is also grossly unfair. It might be Mrs Okereke-Onyiuke today, tomorrow it might be Ola Kassim, Ken Asagwara, Joe Igiesteme or any other Nigerian who would be treated like a criminal even though he or she has not committed any criminal offence.

The appropriate punishments in the Courts of Public and Personal Opinions might include public ridicule and condemnation on one end and at its extreme end the act of shunning as is practiced in some societies or churches. Human beings are not prosecuted in criminal courts for moral and ethical offences (that are not stipulated in the criminal code) even if the majority of the society find these offences distasteful.

For instance, if instead of holding a fund raiser for Obama, Madam Okereke-Oniyuke and her rich friends had decided to spray (not stamp their feet on or deface the currency) their 100 million Naira on Sunny Ade or any other lucky musician or at worst throw the collected amount of money into a raging fire to make a statement that they are so rich they could afford to burn the money, they would indeed have offended the moral ethics of more than 99% of Nigerians outside of their tight circle. But would they have committed any criminal offence by 'spending' their money the way they want, regardless of how they earned the money? I strongly believe that the answer is NO. The business of the EFCC is to investigate and ensure that the funds being donated are not stolen funds. It is not the business of the EFCC to investigate whether the cause being supported by the fund rasing dinner is just or appropriate. They have no jurisdiction in the matter as long as no law has been breached, either Nigerian or American.

In order to have broken the US electoral laws the money collected overseas would have been shipped and received by a second party in the USA. Since no money has been transferred to the USA, the Okereke-Onyiuke led "Africans for Obama" group would have broken no US laws. Some have raised the issue that collecting money under false pretenses is illegal in Nigeria. They are right. However, the EFCC is obliged to give Dr Okereke-Onyiuke the opportunity to explain exactly how she planned to use the donated funds and to prove that the purpose is in keeping with the stated objectives of the fund raising event.

While I join the majority of the contributors who have condemned the Africa for "Obama Fund Raising Dinner", I also strongly believe that the EFCC jumped the gun in the way they have approached this investigation and that they have acted unprofessionally in the manner that they have treated Dr Okereke-Onyiuke.

In more civilized societies, a law enforcement agency like the EFCC does not need to broadcast to all Nigerians the details of every ongoing investigation no matter how controversial it has become. The job of the EFCC is to prosecute corrupt Nigerians in our criminal courts. Their job does not include bringing public officials or private citizens to ridicule.

The EFCC could have approached the investigation in the following manner:

1) Send a confidential letter to Dr Okereke-Onyiuke informing her that the agency has begun an investigation on the Obama fund raiser following the receipt of a petition from a member of the public suggesting that some laws might have been broken in the conduct of the event. The agency would seek her cooperation in investigating the mater. It might also request for a list of all invitees and donors and for copies of the minutes of all meetings that led to the fund raiser. All these could have been done without even a single visit to the EFCC office anywhere in Nigeria and without Dr Okereke-Onyiuke speaking to any EFCC official

2) The EFCC would only disclose to the public when it had found enough evidence that would ensure a reasonable chance of conviction on any possible criminal action arising from the event.

The EFCC is not an agency of either the court of public or personal opinion. It is an agency of a criminal court and not an agency of a civil court.

Conclusion:

Joe Igiesteme and his supporters are right on the moral arguments but they are totally off the mark when they support an extraaneous and overbearing action where the EFCC an agency of the criminal court of justice to police a presumed civil moraLor ethical offence.

We never forget the dictum that governs all criminal proceedings: Innocent until Proven Guilty!

Bye,

ola

In a message dated 22/08/2008 8:20:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Ken.Asagwara@gov.mb.ca writes:

Dear Joe Igietseme:

Thanks for your counsel but I am some how, taken aback that you would believe my contribution in this debate was colored by “the manipulative ethnic solidarity ploy of some of us.” I will feel miffed, if you think that I am that easy to be manipulated. When this matter was first circulated in the forums, I was among those that cried foul purely from ethical, socio-economic and moral perspective without examining the legal angle. Since then, I have followed other lines of logical arguments and reasoning propounded in the case in order to take informed position on this issue. So, my agreement with Bolaji Aluko is on the legal angle in the Okereke-Onyiuke Obama fund raising brouhaha.

Yes, some thing can be adjudged unethical, improper or even immoral in the “court of public opinion” and the “court of personal opinion” but where no laws were broken, no crime has been committed. It will be sad for all when public and or individual opinions take over or prevail in matters that should be statutory and judicial in resolution. It is because public and individual opinions on issues can be subjective that what the law says becomes the criteria for rendering informed judgments. It is like this; the facts can be stacked against you but if the law is on your side, you go home free. But if the law is against you though the facts be stacked in your favor, you go to jail. Joe, that is, the nature of the society in which, human beings function. And that is the trajectory of my argument which, if I am not mistaken, is also that of Bolaji Aluko.

That Dr. Okereke-Onyiuke “did not get the mandate and consent of Obama before using Obama's name for fundraising” falls into the moral compass of viewing this matter; that, most of us agree on. That she could use her fund raising skills and network of Nigerians in high and powerful places to raise money to assist poverty stricken Nigerians at home, some consider that a worthier cause. All in all, hers was a judgment call on where to place her priorities. In the event that she read the various opinions expressed on her Obama fund raising project, she would be better informed for her future fund raising efforts. It would be that all the criticisms and counter-criticisms did not go to waste. Let’s move on to other critical matters that assail our beloved country, Nigeria.

Cheers.

KC Prince Asagwara

From: TalkNigeria@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TalkNigeria@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Igietseme, Joseph (CDC/CCID/NCPDCID)
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:36 PM
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Subject: [TalkNigeria] RE: [NaijaElections] RE: [NaijaPolitics] Re: US PRESIDO ELECTIONS: Foreign Contributions Are ILLEGAL.

Dear KC Asagwara:

Watch Out! Don't fall for the manipulative ethnic solidarity ploy of some of us here. What I find in most of our debates is the tendency for a losing side to take refuge in ethnic sentiments. When the losing side is not of the same ethnic origin with the personality he/she is defending, the debater immediately wears the cap of a sympathizer of another ethnic group, so that he/she can rally support from the members of the ethnic group of the personality he/she is defending. It is pure deception that MUST be resisted.

As you know, we have various various "courts" whenever issues come up on our egroups or society:

1. The legal court that uses institutionalized/established rules for governing society;

2. The court of public opinion; and,

3. The court of personal opinion.

The existence of court #1 has NEVER prevented or hindered the activities and validity of the other courts. While there are obviously different degrees as to the weight and social consequences of the outcomes of these courts, it is a fact that each court has a major role in the lives of people in any society.

To bring this point home to the Okereke and "Africa for Obama issue", it appears that more than 99% of the respondents have agreed that Okereke's act in a needy society like Nigeria stinks! For example: Nigeria needs more fundraising for her sociopolitical activities than America; there are other more subtle and personal methods of showing support than a N2 million per table party/jamboree in a country where people die needlessly because of lack of clean drinking water for citizens; Okereke's did not get the mandate and consent of Obama before using Obama's name for fundraising since Obama has dissociated himself from the effort. So this exercise was at best an adventure in juvenile zest and misplaced excitement (if we disregard the stronger termilogies such as fraud and 419).

On the basis of the foregoing facts, reasonable people believe that the pronouncements of Courts 2 and 3 are sufficient indictments of the judgment and character of Okereke as a leader in a country yearning for prudent leadership to captain her into the 21st century.

Of course, we also understand that court #1 may well provide a technicality to shield her from enforceable institutionalized reprimand. But the verdicts of courst 2 and 3 will live with her for the rest of her life if she does not take active steps in repentance, penance and atonement. Somebody reminded me of the Biblical provision that to whom much is given, much is expected. Okereke should do something to use her skills to help needy Nigeria and Nigerians in growing the Naira in every Nigerian pocket, not perfecting how to covert the meager Naira into the mighty Dollar for Americans. Joe Igietseme

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Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:22 AM
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Subject: [NaijaElections] RE: [NaijaPolitics] Re: US PRESIDO ELECTIONS: Foreign Contributions Are ILLEGAL.

Bolaji Aluko:

I have followed your contributions on this Okereke-Onyiuke Obama Fund raising saga. Your views so far, have been impressive and objective, especially, your position that she has not broken any laws, that of Nigeria or the USA. From the legal angle, I totally, agree with you. But from the economic-social perspective, wouldn’t her fund raising skills serve the home front better in view of the abject poverty in which the average Nigerian lives today in the midst of waste by a few affluent highly placed Nigerians? There are many social causes in Nigeria she can use her powerful net of connections to assist. For instance, the various Motherless Babies Homes and the Physically Handicapped Organizations, etc.

By the way, your “This is Barack Obama” rendition is masterly written. Apparently, you will make a good speech writer for a politician. You are also right that he should have been more receptive to Okereke-Onyiuke’s effort than he was. Well, most of the USA political and business leaders regard Nigerians as crooks and scammers. Both Obama and Powell, African-Americans have said that much. I guess that informed or was the reason for Obama’s denunciation of Dr. Okereke-Onyiuke’s fund raising effort for his Presidential campaign. Sad for our beloved country, I say.

KC Prince Asagwara

From: NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com [mailto:NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mobolaji ALUKO
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:28 AM
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Subject: [NaijaPolitics] Re: US PRESIDO ELECTIONS: Foreign Contributions Are ILLEGAL.

Ibrahim Alabi ORIDOTA:

I read you loud and clear below.

Yes, if I were Barack Obama, on reading about Okereke-Onyiuke's effort, rather than denounce here, I would have simply put out a statement viz:

QUOTE

This is Barack Obama.

I understand that a number of Nigerians - and in fact many people around the world - are raising money for my campaign. In particular, a Nigerian effort headed by one Dr. Ndidi Okereke-Onyiuke - I understand that she is a high official of Nigeria's Stock Exchange - has been brought to my attention because it has generated cyber-buzz.

Although my campaign has not sanctioned any of this, it is evidence of the kind of international excitement that my campaign has generated, as evidenced by my recent trip to the Middle East and Europe. Nevertheless, I thank her and others for their show of support.

As for campaign contributions, US law is strict on these, especially when they originate from foreign soil where the possibility of non-American citizens making contributions either innocently or even deliberately is very high. Receiving those contributions - of non-citizens - is illegal, and my campaign would have none of it. But since we know that there are many American citizens in Nigeria - as there are around the world; remember that I won the primaries among American Democrats Abroad - their contributions to my campaign are very welcome, and we will do everything in our power to acknowledge them.

We intend to win this presidency, and ensure that the international excitement generated by my candidacy will translate into a new era of international frendliness towards the United States.

So let's go out there and change the world - legally! Yes, we can!

Barack Obama

UNQUOTE

That is all.

Bolaji Aluko

PS: I am waiting for my text message for Veep. It is Biden, but it might yet be Hillary.

Re: US PRESIDO ELECTIONS: Foreign Contributions Are ILLEGAL.

Posted by: "oridota" oridota@online.fr

Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:02 am (PDT)

Lanre ADELEKE : Bolaji Aluko is right on every point made in his rejoinder.

Docking Okereke-Onyiuke is a clear indication that the FGN is not sympathetic to Obama candidacy. That alone is meddlesomeness in a foreign country's political process and Obama is stunningly ameteurist in his all-out "denouncing" policy.

Perhaps like Bolaji Aluko, I have constantly supported Barak Obama from the time it was critical and decisive to do so and will continue to support him in spite of the many things that have gone wrong since the DNC preemptive decision to select Obama for the race.

Barak Obama has denounced virtually everything his should support and letting the VP screams take over from his gigantic fight ahead. I will still prefer an anveragely efficient Obama Presidency with none of the Clintons around. Here is a man, Bill Clinton, who became President on Black Votes, who was happy being referred to as the "First Black President" but who is so objectively anti-black president. The so-called dream-team that the masquerades are calling for, if it comes to be reality, will be a ruin-team for Barack Obama. Mark my word.

To conclude on this thread, as long as Okereke-Onyiuke has not given any money to the campaign and violating an electoral low by doing so, Barack Obama did not have to denounce her. Doing so was signing a dead warrant on a friend and somone who was, besides all the unknown facts acting, as a good sister. That makes me say Africa Ohe.

~~~
Ibrahim Alabi ORIDOTA
06 14 40 31 41 - oridota@online.fr
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
----- Message d'origine -----
De : Mobolaji ALUKO
À : NaijaPolitics e-Group ; lunarmoonh@gmail.com
Envoyé : vendredi 22 août 2008 09:06
Objet : [NaijaPolitics] Re: US PRESIDO ELECTIONS: Foreign Contributions Are ILLEGAL.

Lanre Adekeye:

It is probably five or six years that I have responded to you on ANY matter, because I consider you a lunatic, a stark lunatic (as you email address implies), and not because I get any "goosebumps" on reading your emails, which I generally trash.

But for the sake of Obama, I will respond to you, and then leave you for another five or six years......

I know that it is hard for some of you to fully understand the logic - you especially - but

1. foreign contributions are not NECESSARILY illegal.

2. it is contributions by non-American citizens, or American citizens below 18 years old, or American citizens who make contributions through other American citizens; or American corporations who make contributions that are illegal.

3. legal contributions by qualified American citizens/green card holders who live in foreign lands are LEGAL (it is bad English to consider those Americans as "foreigners", or their contributions as "foreign contributions")

4. Okereke-Onyiuke has not been given a chance to indicate

- who among her donors are or are not American citizens/green card holders (American residents);
- that she has not donated to the Obama campaign ANY illegal money
- in fact she has not donated A PENNY before she is being raked through the coals by an over-zealous EFCC and a conniving embittered Nigerian populace

This is my point.

None of the references that you quoted contradict any point that I am making. The onus is on the RECEIVER, NOT on the fund-raiser, particularly when she has not done it secretly; the donors have not complained; and in fact she has not handed over any money. I am NOT supporting illegality, just restating in this case that a person is innocent until proven guilty, and that an indignation against Onyiuke over the morality of her raising so much money in the midst of poverty and other needs in Nigeria does not rise to the level of criminality. [She may have committed other crimes, but not on this one.]

Period.

Bolaji Aluko

PS: I am sure that I have made your day by responding to you. You can now die peacefully and go to heaven, okay?

Re: US PRESIDO ELECTIONS: Foreign Contributions Are ILLEGAL.
Posted by: "Lanre Adekeye" lunarmoonh@gmail.com riverprahh
Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:46 pm (PDT)
*Correction:*

Even a NON-US CITIZEN/ NON-GREEN CARD HOLDER living in the US LEGALLY,
e.g., with a tourist visa or student visa, or business visa cannot
contribute money TO THE CAMPAIGN OF A US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, talk less A
NIGERIAN living in far away LAGOS, OSHOGBO, ABUJA OR OWERRI.

Do we need the NAIJAPOLITICS legal luminary, Chief Neb, to step in, before
it gets clearer and acceptable to Chief Bolaji Aluko, the all-knowing
Naijapolitics forum numbers cruncher?

I will soon be back.

Lanre Adekeye.

On 8/21/08, Lanre Adekeye <lunarmoonh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes it's the LAW, ONLY US CITIZENS AND GREEN CARD HOLDERS can contribute
> MONEY to the CAMPAIGN OF
> US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. PERIOD.
>
> Any money from outside sources, which slips into the coffers of the
> CANDIDATE, VIOLATES The ELECTORAL LAW AND MUST BE RETURNED TO THE FOREIGN
> DONOR.
>
> Even a NON-US CITIZEN/ NON-GREEN CARD HOLDER cannot legally
> contribute money TO THE CAMPAIGN OF A US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
>
> Professor BOLAJI ALUKO, aka Dick Morris, the NAIJAPOLITICS chemical
> Engineer turned Chief Political Analyst, and OBAMA'S Diasporan Chief Press
> Secretary, please before you strangle Prof Joe I., for daring to tell you
> the truth about the illegality of Nigerian Madame Okereke's fund raising on
> behalf of US PRESIDENTIAL Candidate Obama, I will like you to humble your
> self, the OMNIPOTENT, and to please click the item below on THE LAW ON
> FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
>
> I know that my younger brother, Bolaji, gets goosebumps whenever he reads
> my posting, but I hope you get yourself under Madame's 4inch thick cotton
> loaded COMFORTER, and WOOLEN BLANKET, as you read this posting and the
> source cited below on US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS and FOREIGN CONTRIBUTORS.
>
> Lanre Adekeye.
> The Yoruba-Fulani Man.