Tinubu loses Vice Presidential slot, pledges to support Buhari, Osinbajo
Ikhide
Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the National leader of the APC - the change agent. Reflect upon that. And after you are through laughing, start weeping. We are not serious!
Ayo Obe
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Shola Adenekan
Ayo, many thanks for this. It seems to me Oga Ikhide is using Fox News tactics here - implicitly condemning a whole ethnic just because of the sin of one man. This is a side of Oga Ikhide I didn't know exist until now! Those of us who constantly berate racist folks cannot in any way promote ethnic baiting. Bigotry is bigotry whether directed at African Americans or Yoruba people.Beside, as you rightly point out, it is the same Yoruba people who overwhelmingly voted for President Jonathan four years ago. I guess we should not let the facts stand in the way of (subtle) bigotry.On 17 December 2014 at 21:36, Shola Adenekan <sholaa...@gmail.com> wrote:Ayo, many thanks for this. It seems to me Oga Ikhide is using Fox News' tactics here - implicitly condemning a whole ethnic just because of the sin of one man. This is a side of Oga Ikhide I didn't know about until now! Those of us who constantly berates racist folks cannot in any way promote ethnic baiting. Bigotry is bigotry whether directed at African Americans or Yoruba people.Beside, as you rightly point out, it is the same Yoruba people who overwhelmingly voted for President Jonathan four years ago. I guess we should not let the facts stand in the way of (subtle) bigotry.On 17 December 2014 at 21:24, Shola Adenekan <sholaa...@gmail.com> wrote:Ayo, many thanks for this. It seems to me Oga Ikhide is using Fox News tactics here - implicitly condemning a whole ethnic just because of the sin of one man. This is a side of Oga Ikhide I didn't know exist until now! Those of us who constantly berates racist folks cannot in any way promote ethnic baiting. Bigotry is bigotry whether directed at African Americans or Yoruba people.Beside, as you rightly point out, it is the same Yoruba people who overwhelmingly voted for President Jonathan four years ago. I guess we should not let the facts stand in the way of (subtle) bigotry.
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Moses Ebe Ochonu
---Mohandas Gandhi
Bode
Anunoby, Ogugua
“He (Tinubu) and the APC have virtually all public intellectuals looking the other way. And somehow he has conned many Yoruba into false expectations about leading Nigeria. Which leads to provocative Facebook posts like this from Nwachukwu Ugochukwu:”
Ikhide
Ikhide railed against Tinubu as a politician he believes is grossly unfit for political leadership and therefore undeserving of a seat at the high table of public discourse and service. Many attentive Nigerians would agree. Tinubu in his reported statement on Buhari’s choice of a running mate, acknowledged that he has integrity and accreditation challenges and many political and other enemies.
The concern for Tinubu’s critics must be that Tinubu secured the next best deal possible. He shuffled a protégé with “significant” marriage connections into the APC vice president slot as he was expected to do. Tinubu was not let into the room by the front door, he slipped into the room by the back door. The APC must hope that the protégé’s connections by marriage, will win her a majority of votes in South-Western Nigeria.
Time will tell whether Tinubu’s imprint on the APC presidential ticket will deliver this promise and not be another case of “here comes the conman with his con-plans” as Bob Marley famously said.
oa
Ikhide
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Ibigbolade Aderibigbe
Moses Ebe Ochonu
I can understand the hypocrisy of opposition politicians--that's politics, and oppositions everywhere tend to focus on the foibles of those in power while ignoring their own. What I cannot understand and I find interesting and revealing is that "progressive" activists and intellectuals who are very quick to point to members of the PDP as corrupt and compromised even though the latter have not been convicted and the former do not outline any evidence of the latter's corruption, conveniently raise their own lax, non-legalistic standards for naming corruption when it comes to Tinubu and other dirty people in the opposition. They become legalistic in their interventions and commentaries.They remember "innocent until proven guilty." They ask for evidence of Tinubu's corruption and emotionally blackmail folks to leave Tinubu and other opposition figures alone unless they were ready to sue these politicians or present evidence indicting them. The double standard is galling, as is the shamelessly selective outrage. Ikhide is absolutely right about this. The logical and analytical acrobatics that our "progressive" intellectuals perform in order to avoid having to name vice in the opposition is an amusing, entertaining spectacle.
Salimonu Kadiri
The Yoruba always want to turn logic on its head; The Yoruba have always sought to deceive those Nigerians who will listen to their ever changing values; They (Yoruba) started the infamous cross-carpeting that introduced tribalism in Nigerian politics - the fascist duo Ugochukwu & Ikhide.
The fascists have always alluded falsely to carpet crossing in the Western Nigeria House of Assembly in 1951 as the cause of Nnamdi Azikiwe not becoming the Premier of Western Region. Historically, the first tribal union in Nigeria was founded in 1943 by Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, with the name IBO Federal Union and of which he installed himself as its President. When Azikiwe collaborated with the old aged Macaulay to form the NCNC in 1944, the IBO state union as it was then known was affiliated to the NCNC. Azikiwe was immediately imitated by Eyo Ita who also founded the Ibibio state union. When Awolowo founded Egbe Omo Oduduwa in London, 1945, Ibo State Union had been in existence there for two years under the Chaimanship of Chuba Ikpeazu. It was not until 1948, that Egbe Omo Oduduwa was founded in Lagos, Nigeria, by Adeyemo Alakija, Akinola Maja, Kofo Abayomi, Bode Thomas, Henry Oladipo Davies, Akanni Doherty among others but excluding Obafemi Awolowo who resided in Ibadan at that time. He later established a branch of Egbe Omo Odudua in Ibadan. Similar to Ibo State Union, Ibibio State Union, and Egbe Omo Odudua, Dr Dikko and others founded Jamiyyar Mutanen Arewa which means Northern People Congress in May 1948. In his Presidential address delivered at the Ibo State Assembly held at Aba on Saturday June 25, 1949, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe said among others, "It would appear that the God of Africa has specially created the Ibo nation to lead the children of Africa from the bondage of the ages... The martial prowess of the Ibo nation at all stages of human history has enabled them not only to conquer others but also to adapt themselves to the role of preservers..(see West African Pilot of July 8, 1949)" Even those whose brains are darker than unrefined crude oil will be able to deduce who introduced tribalism into the politics of Nigeria from the above narrated historical facts of Nigeria.
Concerning the election to the Western House of Assembly in 1951, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, throughout his life, had never publicly in writing or orally claimed that his party NNDP/NCNC won the 1951 election. Rather Azikiwe wrote, "In alliance with the Nigerian National Democratic Party the NCNC won all the three seats for Lagos at the 1947 elections to the Legislative Council. The same alliance won all the five seats for Lagos at the 1951 elections to the Western House of Assembly (p. 314; ZIK: Selected Speeches of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe)." Please note that Lagos was then part of Western Region and Azikiwe did not say anything about the results from the rest of Western Region. However, on page 324 of Zik's Selected Speeches Azikwe said, "...a new Constitution confirmed the carving up of the country virtually into three constituents, as originally conceived by Chief Bode Thomas. Not only that; a new political Party had arisen on the horizon of Nigerian politics, with the name of Action Group, and carrying this Thomasian banner of extreme regionalization, it won majority seats at the general election to the Western House of Assembly to form the Government of the Western Region." Quoting from the Nigeria Year Book of 1956 Azikiwe affirmed the victory of Action Group over the NCNC/NNDP in the 1951 general election to the Western House of Representatives on page 326-327 of his selected speeches published in 1961 after he had become the Governor General of the Federation. Of course, fascists with kwashiorkor intellect are more comfortable with speculations and gossips instead of deep-rooted thinking and ideological philosophy that can move Nigeria forward.
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:35:00 +0000
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Okechukwu Ukaga
Executive Director, Northeast Minnesota Sustainable Development Partnership
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Richard Buckminster Fuller
Ibukunolu A Babajide
To all ingrates,
Tinubu single handedly saved Nigeria from the tyranny of a PDP one party state. Imagine a Nigeria ruled by a PDP that foists the likes of GEJ on the polity?
Who worked as hard as he to put the APC together and nurture it until PDP stalwarts became self-proclaimed bastards? Let us give credit to Tinubu where credit is due.
In a polity corrupted by PDP impunity and unbridled corruption Tinubu is far on the lower rungs of the ladder. We shall start with OBJ the great PDP architect of corruption and go down to all those who ruined Nigeria.
Cheers.
IBK
Anunoby, Ogugua
IA,
Do you need reminding that truth is vindication for libel? No character is being assassinated here. Tinubu knows what to do to correct including end the enduring reports on his alleged rape of public treasuries- challenge his accusers in court. Why has he not?
I am not able to see why to criticize Tinubu for some people is to criticize his ethnic group. Tinubu is one member of his ethnic group. He is not the archetypically representative of the group. The man is a politician. His actions impact on people’s lives. He is fair game for public comment. He chose to dance in the public square. People watching expect quality entertainment. He had better be a good dancer. He does not seem to have been to many attentive spectators.
Nigerians are rightly concerned about the qualifications including character, and past performance of their leaders. Things do not get themselves done. People get things done. Right people do the right things well. Wrong people do not. It is not ethnic bigotry to fairly comment on a politician’s impactful dubious service to his fellow citizens.
oa
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IA,
Do you need reminding that truth is vindication for libel? No character is being assassinated here. Tinubu knows what to do to correct including end the enduring reports on his alleged rape of public treasuries- challenge his accusers in court. Why has he not?
I am not able to see why to criticize Tinubu for some people is to criticize his ethnic group. Tinubu is one member of his ethnic group. He is not the archetypically representative of the group. The man is a politician. His actions impacts on people’s lives. He is fair game for public comment. He chose to dance in the public square. People watching expect quality entertainment. He had better be a good dancer. He does not seem to have been to many attentive spectators.
Nigerians are rightly concerned about the qualifications including character, and past performance of their leaders. Things do not get themselves done. People get things done. Right people do the right things well. Wrong people do not. It is not ethnic bigotry to fairly comment on a politician’s impactful dubious service to his fellow citizens.
oa
Anunoby, Ogugua
IA,
Do you need reminding that truth is vindication for libel? No character is being assassinated here. Tinubu knows what to do to correct including end the enduring reports on his alleged rape of public treasuries- challenge his accusers in court. Why has he not?
I am not able to see why to criticize Tinubu for some people is to criticize his ethnic group. Tinubu is one member of his ethnic group. He is not the archetypically representative of the group. The man is a politician. His actions impacts on people’s lives. He is fair game for public comment. He chose to dance in the public square. People watching expect quality entertainment. He had better be a good dancer. He does not seem to have been to many attentive spectators.
oa
Salimonu Kadiri
Let us force Ochonu's feet into the same shoes he has just worn Tinubu with. Here it goes. By the way, Ochonu's shoplifting history was the subject of several explosive reports done by New York Times several years ago. ...Those stories relied mostly on judicial records of shoplifting and penalty in the US. The records are there. For these statements to be regarded as true and correct, we must be able to give the date of the publication, of Ochonu's shoplifting case, in the New York Times and also quote some parts of the publication to buttress our statements. The moment history (record or account of past events) retrogresses into story (fiction) as in the two cases of Ochonu's shoplifting and Tinubu's drug trafficking we are no longer dealing with facts but mental masturbation. And if Ochonu were dealing with facts he would not even need to ask from where Tinubu got the money with which he financed NADECO, NALICON and other pro-democracy groups during Abacha days since the judicial records of drug proceeds, forfeiture proceedings in the US would have shown the amount of money involved. The expression *DURING ABACHA DAYS* as applied by Ochonu shows that he loved Abacha, otherwise, he would have written, DURING ABACHA DICTATORSHIP. Even if Ochonu does not like the pro-democratic stance of Tinubu, he does not need to compare him to Buruji who, unlike Tinubu who travels in and out of US at will, is currently wanted for trial in US. Those who are addicted to ethnic Viagra may not be able to see this clear cut evidence of Tinubu's innocence but what can one do than to pity them. Case closed.
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:02:49 -0600
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Tinubu loses Vice Presidential slot, pledges to support Buhari, Osinbajo
Ayo Obe
Ayo
Salimonu Kadiri
I do not and I cannot lose my giant-hood for bending low to slap the face of a dwarf that has kicked me on the legs. Thus, I cannot be a fascist for chiding ethno-fascists who tend to see tribalism as the only solution to 21st century's political and economic problems of Nigeria.
Yours fraternally,
S. Kadiri
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:32:51 -0600
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Moses Ochonu, to put it straight, is intellectually dishonest. He started by pretending to be against ethno-fascism but ended up mating with fascists. Ochonu wrote, "By the way, Tinubu's drug trafficking history was the subject of several explosive reports done by Sahara reporters several years ago. ....Those stories relied mostly on judicial records of drug proceeds, forfeiture proceedings in the US. The records are there. Where did he get money to almost singlehandedly fund NADECO, NALICON and other pro-democracy groups during the Abacha days....? PDP have Buruji Kashamu, another drug baron, and APC have their Bola Tinubu."
Let us force Ochonu's feet into the same shoes he has just worn Tinubu with. Here it goes. By the way, Ochonu's shoplifting history was the subject of several explosive reports done by New York Times several years ago. ...Those stories relied mostly on judicial records of shoplifting and penalty in the US. The records are there. For these statements to be regarded as true and correct, we must be able to give the date of the publication, of Ochonu's shoplifting case, in the New York Times and also quote some parts of the publication to buttress our statements. The moment history (record or account of past events) retrogresses into story (fiction) as in the two cases of Ochonu's shoplifting and Tinubu's drug trafficking we are no longer dealing with facts but mental masturbation. And if Ochonu were dealing with facts he would not even need to ask from where Tinubu got the money with which he financed NADECO, NALICON and other pro-democracy groups during Abacha days since the judicial records of drug proceeds, forfeiture proceedings in the US would have shown the amount of money involved. The expression *DURING ABACHA DAYS* as applied by Ochonu shows that he loved Abacha, otherwise, he would have written, DURING ABACHA DICTATORSHIP. Even if Ochonu does not like the pro-democratic stance of Tinubu, he does not need to compare him to Buruji who, unlike Tinubu who travels in and out of US at will, is currently wanted for trial in US. Those who are addicted to ethnic Viagra may not be able to see this clear cut evidence of Tinubu's innocence but what can one do than to pity them. Case closed.
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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:02:49 -0600
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I, too, would like to register my surprise and indignation that Ikhide would endorse and repost such blatant ethnic baiting. The writer makes valid points about the hypocrisy of the "Lagos-Ibadan," "progressive" journalistic and intellectual axis and the way its members have given a pass to Tinubu and other tainted people in the opposition, a disposition which contradicts their vocal and justified denunciation of similar vices on the part of Jonathan and members of the PDP incumbency. However, he ruined these points by accusing a phantom "Yoruba" mindset and by ethnicizing the sins of a multiethnic opposition.
The self-proclaimed "progressive" wing of the Nigerian intellectual and journalistic classes, which includes, for lack of a better term, the human rights conglomerate or community, is hardly synonymous with Yoruba. It is a cast that includes many members from other ethnic groups. Moreover, while most of its members are Southerners and its ideological epicenters are in the South, it counts many northerners among its members. It is true that this broad constituency is largely in the camp of the national opposition, however much they deny it, and that a variety of reasons may account for this, including primordial considerations. It is also true that the Southern Nigerian press has traditionally been sympathetic to the opposition parties (AD, ACN, APC while their northern Nigerian counterparts have been sympathetic to the ANPP, CPC, and now APC). However, there are cogent explanations for this reality, ranging from patterns of media ownership to the need to maintain the illusion of distance from the government, to the accident of location. Moreover, the picture that emerges from all this is not one that indicts any single ethnic group. Rather it is one in which many people covering the ethnic and regional breadths of Nigeria are implicated in the hypocrisy and selective outrage that the writer (and Ikhide) points to.
By the way, Tinubu's drug trafficking history was the subject of several explosive reports done by Saharareporters several years ago. A quick search on that site should produce links to the stories. Those stories relied mostly on judicial records of drug proceeds forfeiture proceedings in the US. The records are there. Where did he get money to almost singlehandedly fund NADECO, NALICON, and other pro-democracy groups during the Abacha days, a contribution for which he was given the AD governorship ticket ahead of Funsho Williams who won the primary election? PDP have their Buruji Kashamu, another drug baron, and APC have their Bola Tinubu.
And, of course, all of Tinubu's known certificates, including his School Cert. are forged. Several publications published exposes on his fake secondary school, Chicago State, and NYC certificates when he was governor, and the late Gani Fawehinmi went to court to try and have him convicted of perjury only to be intimidated and frustrated by Tinubu's thugs and compromised judges. Moreover, just a few days ago, Saharareporters published a letter supplied by an FBI personnel confirming that Tinubu did not attend Chicago State.
So, Ayo, unless you have proof that Tinubu is who/what he says he is, it is disingenuous to dismiss as unsubstantiated allegations for which documentary proofs have existed in the public domain for a while.
Ayo, many thanks for this. It seems to me Oga Ikhide is using Fox News' tactics here - implicitly condemning a whole ethnic just because of the sin of one man. This is a side of Oga Ikhide I didn't know exist until now! Those of us who constantly berate racist folks cannot in any way promote ethnic baiting. Bigotry is bigotry whether directed at African Americans or Yoruba people.
Beside, as you rightly point out, it is the same Yoruba people who overwhelmingly voted for President Jonathan four years ago. I guess we should not let the facts stand in the way of (subtle) bigotry.
Apologies for the multiple posting. I'm writing and editing on my iPhone whilst getting my 14 days old daughter ready for bed!
Ayo, many thanks for this. It seems to me Oga Ikhide is using Fox News tactics here - implicitly condemning a whole ethnic just because of the sin of one man. This is a side of Oga Ikhide I didn't know exist until now! Those of us who constantly berate racist folks cannot in any way promote ethnic baiting. Bigotry is bigotry whether directed at African Americans or Yoruba people.
Beside, as you rightly point out, it is the same Yoruba people who overwhelmingly voted for President Jonathan four years ago. I guess we should not let the facts stand in the way of (subtle) bigotry.
Ayo, many thanks for this. It seems to me Oga Ikhide is using Fox News' tactics here - implicitly condemning a whole ethnic just because of the sin of one man. This is a side of Oga Ikhide I didn't know about until now! Those of us who constantly berates racist folks cannot in any way promote ethnic baiting. Bigotry is bigotry whether directed at African Americans or Yoruba people.
Beside, as you rightly point out, it is the same Yoruba people who overwhelmingly voted for President Jonathan four years ago. I guess we should not let the facts stand in the way of (subtle) bigotry.
Ayo, many thanks for this. It seems to me Oga Ikhide is using Fox News tactics here - implicitly condemning a whole ethnic just because of the sin of one man. This is a side of Oga Ikhide I didn't know exist until now! Those of us who constantly berates racist folks cannot in any way promote ethnic baiting. Bigotry is bigotry whether directed at African Americans or Yoruba people.
Beside, as you rightly point out, it is the same Yoruba people who overwhelmingly voted for President Jonathan four years ago. I guess we should not let the facts stand in the way of (subtle) bigotry.
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Cornelius Hamelberg
I think that my Yoruba mentor Ogbeni Kadiri was trying to drive a point home by giving an example of false reporting with regard to Ogbeni Tinubu, and that was all – no further harm meant. Obviously, the point being made is that just as Alagba Moses Ochonu (God forbid) has never done any shoplifting in New York or anywhere else, so the erroneously false reporting of Ogbeni Tinubu having committed this or that crime must be equally painful to Ogbeni Tinubu,his allies, his nearest and dearest and as you know such defamatory publicity is open to prosecution by Hon. Tinubu or anyone who respects, honours , appreciates and holds him in high esteem - in spite of the antics of the gutter press.
I can vouchsafe Ogbeni Kadiri’s honesty and if he has one particular fault I would say that it’s sometimes his extreme forthrightness - especially when he is feeling a little exasperated. But you can always try to hold him to the highest standards of Yoruba ethics...
Given the volume of libellous reporting and libellous accusations in the run-up to the February 14, 2015, Nigerian Presidential elections, it's no wonder that in trying to protect his president of verbal aggression Presidential adviser Doyin Okupe has made a pre-emptive swipe (more of a deterrent) threatening litigation to all and sundry by criminalizing any perceived insult or insults to Ogbeni President Goodluck Jonathan.
I myself trembled the first time I came across the threat that “the dog & the baboon will be soaked in blood.” But then again, that was a veiled threat carefully worded, does not sully anybody’s good name and of course no one can pin-point exactly which dog and which baboon is being referred too.
That’s why I pray that somebody doesn’t monkey with me in this our august forum, to save myself from having to make some very unorthodox moves...
Gato’s Argentinean a little hysteria here: Viva Emiliano Zapata
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Moses Ebe Ochonu
Cornelius Hamelberg
Professor Ochonu,
What a denouement! Who is not devastated? In short we’ve all “been had”!
How can such people get to the pinnacle of power in spite of all the evidence available to a public whose eyes are wide open?
OK, so Jesus has died for your present and future sins etc but right now some of us are reeling under the impact of “after such knowledge , what forgiveness? “
This earthquake is surely one of the Xmas eschatological events heralding the arrival of another false messiah in Christological parlance to be known as “the anti-Christ” who they say will deceive almost all but the elite. For others this is going to be the beginning of the silence which transcends the beyond as in gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha
I just phoned Ogbeni Kadiri – he too is probably now bent out of shape, most probably dented by this, still out for the count and not yet available for any comments. (I suspect that there’s really nothing further to talk about – since not even a man of magic words and a pure heart can defend the incomprehensible that’s also indefensible –not certainly not by a hardened Nigerian populace that has seen worse, has nowhere to run to, is by now immune to the murky political climate, the cloak and dagger techniques, intrigues and godfatherism in the style of the Mario Puzo – Marlon Brando - Francis Ford Coppola trinity.
This song was about Watergate, but this is a lot worse.
Can only pray that there is no major scandal about Nigeria’s Number One Citizen....
You now have a mine of very contemporary political history that must be transmitted with commentaries to the coming generations.
I wish that I could hold Mr. Unnah’s hands just now. What a good Nigerian gentleman...
I am bereft of words. As the bard said, “I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours”
Pray for us and may the rule of law come into force...
Cornelius
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Ibukunolu A Babajide
Moses,
From my recollection of this case. The State plea bargained because they lacked enough evidence to convict Tinubu. He paid his dues and he was never jailed and he is free to enter and return from the USA.
Be that as it may be, you also rush into conclusions not befitting of an academic of your stature lending justification to Kadiri's assault on you. Tinubu did not sponsor NALICON. That was Wole Soyinka and his fraternity boys' outfit. You mis-spoke when you claim that Tinubu sponsored NADECO as if he was a sole financier. That was false. All my savings after over 7 years in a high powered job went into NADECO and I can name over 25 of my friends who sponsored NADECO. You lack sufficient inside information other than surmises and rumours to know what level of sponsorship Tinubu gave to NADECO talk less of attributing that contribution to the proceeds of crime.
Be that as it may tell me who worked harder than Tinubu to save Nigeria from malevolent Obasanjo's attempt to foist a one party PDP state on Nigeria? Does that not speak volumes of the man as a political fighter?
The fact that Buhari rejected him as a VP tells you that he is no godfather to Buhari a flippant statement from your eminent pen. The VP was zoned to the SW. Unlike PDP that disrespects its own constitution and shreds the country's sacred constitution, this new party respects pacts and agreements. Like in many plural societies hoping to become modern states it is normal to balance interests and pander to religion and ethnic balance to create inclusiveness.
We want to remove a strong cabal of kleptomaniacs whose snouts are glued to the life source of the country. They have bled us all almost to death. The only person you flex your muscles against is Tinubu whose ambition to become VP crashed out in the face of the very change we all pray for in Nigeria.
Please let us be balanced and let us be circumspect and fair so we are not accused of being biased and partial. Especially as academics judgement and circumspection are the traits you sell in the end. Once you become partisan and join the fray you are tagged and labelled and it sticks with you for life and beyond.
Cheers.
IBK
Ibukunolu A Babajide
Cornelius,
You come across as a neophyte. Go and read the story of the Royal Niger Company and you will learn why ignorant people are always foisted on the polity in Africa so the chartered owners of Nigeria can continue to milk her resources.
You are as much a victim as I am.
Cheers.
IBK
Cornelius Hamelberg
Professor Ochonu,
Somebody’s crown prince somebody’s heir. O how are the mighty fallen! So I’m back to what the bard said: “Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.” And may we be saved from people like you who may live to revise history.
Lo - it’s was just a few hours ago that I erroneously thought that I did not belong to that class of gullible Nigerians who believe in the those who masquerade as the upright intelligentsia only so soon after to be redeemed from ignorance and so I thank the Almighty- for Ibukunolu Alao Babajide who has put this neophyte right.
I can now give Ogbeni Kadiri the glad tidings and wish him Shabbat Shalom!
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Moses Ebe Ochonu
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Were you tempted to stay back in the US after your studies? To be honest with you, yes.I was lucky when I got to Chicago State University. I entered the university with honours from the Richard Daley College, because I got credit in majority of the Accounting courses.
After the first term, I was one of the candidates on the Dean’s list and my professor, Joe Jesse, commended me for my hard work, class participation and brilliance. He said that I would be lucky if I could keep my activities and brilliant results up till the end of the term. He didn’t say more or in what form the luck would manifest.
At the end of the term, and still on the Dean’s list, Professor Jesse came around to inform me that he would employ me to manage the Accounting laboratory for the institution. He gave the letter of employment to the dean of the faculty. The following week, I was called upon to take up employment as a tutor because I was very good in Mathematics and Accounting. I met Tunde Badejo in the school; he was a year ahead of me. But I told him (we took a bet) that we would graduate the same year and he didn’t believe. Later, when I was given a scholarship to become a tutor, I took the letter to Tunde Badejo and said: ‘See, the school is paying my tuition.’ He was amazed. That was how I became a tutor, with my tuition being paid. Tunde Badejo majored in Mathematics, and having been challenged, his performance got better the following semester and he also became a Maths tutor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. I was challenged and severely under pressure to keep up the grade as each semester rolled by, because if my grades should drop I would lose the scholarship. It was quite challenging and in the end, I graduated top of my class and I was recruited as an Accounting major. There were big accounting firms then. Touche was number nine. I was recruited. And I still got other job offers. Then there were eight big accounting firms in the United States, including Arthur Andersen , Arthur Young, Ernst and Whinney, Peat Marwick and Mitchell, Deloitte and others. Out of the big eight, five of them offered me jobs and that was school recruitment–right on the campus.
I was on the Dean’s list; I was in line for the award for the overall best Accounting student as well as that of the university scholar’s award. With that, the big firms would continue to woo you. Despite the five job offers, I was equally offered employment by IBM and others. Professor Jesse called me and advised that I should not be arrogant. He asked that I remove my name from the career placement centre because, according to him, the more they saw my grades, the more I would be sought after. He said that might hinder other accounting graduates from being recruited and that the faculty wanted as many accounting graduates as possible to be recruited by the big companies. So I went and removed it. Usually, there was a benchmark for recruitments by the big professional accounting firms and they didn’t go beneath that. I got an offer of $20,000, with travelling allowances and all that. It was big money for me at the time.
But when Arthur Young saw the money I was offered, they offered an additional $3,000. My adviser told me to consider an offer that would make me function effectively in my country, particularly given that the country is blessed with crude oil. I wondered what I would be coming back to do. The career placement officer called me again and asked me what I wanted to do. I said they just spoke to me from my department.
Unlike what happens in our country, universities in America prepare the students for the future; how to dress, how to face job interviews. The third day after that, Deloitte, Haskins and Sells, now Deloitte and Touche Consulting Group, gave me another offer. They said they were not just going to hire me, but develop me. They asked me to take the salary I was being offered or forget about the job. I went back to Professor Jesse and said: ‘Look at what these people are offering, I would rather go to Arthur Andersen because they were offering to pay more’. But he said that I should not. He said he had always advised me that my career and professional development were more important. He said Deloitte had clients like General Motors, Procter and Gamble, National Oil and worked with Aramco Exxon, etc. He said I should consider that my country has crude oil and I might want to return someday. He said I should consider a firm with clients in manufacturing and oil sectors rather than Arthur Andersen, which only dealt with financial institutions and banks.
I took to his advice. I resumed work at Deloitte training school in June 1979. By April 1979, when I was graduating, I had gotten my future charted. And that was the greatest thing I achieved in America.
My friend, Tunde Badejo was still looking for a job. As a honours student, I was there at the high table with the Dean, President of the college and so on, while the rest of the graduands were on the lower platform. So, when they called my friend, Tunde Badejo’s name, he refused to get up because they mis-pronounced his name and called him ‘Tunde Badeho’. He refused to get up. I was laughing at him from the high table and was saying: ‘You see, I told you we would graduate at the same time.’ I later stood from where I was seated and whispered to the event handler that his name is Badejo and not Badeho. It was not until they called the name correctly that he stood up.
Facts have emerged that the erstwhile Governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu may have been involved in a white heroin trafficking network which operated in Chicago and some parts of Indiana and led by one Adegboyega Mueez Akande between 1988 and 1993. The source of the white heroine was identified as one Mr. Lee Andrew Edwards who was incarcerated for attempting to murder a federal agent while the agent was executing a search warrant on him.
According to the Verified Complaint for forfeiture in case No. 93 C 4483 Obtained by SaharaReporters, which was filed on July 26, 1993 before the Hon. Judge Nordberg of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the United States Government urged the Court to order the forfeiture of funds in accounts Nos. 263226700 held by First Heritage Bank in the name of Bola Tinubu, funds in accounts 39483134, 39483396, 4650279566, 00400220, 39936404 and 39936383 held by Citibank N.A in the name of Bola Tinubu and funds in accounts 52050-89451952,52050-89451952, 52050-89451953 held by Citibank in the name of Bola Tinubu because there was probable cause to believe that the funds in Tinubu's bank accounts represented proceeds of narcotics trafficking or were monies involved in financial transactions in violations of 18 U.S.C, sections 1956 and 1957 and therefore, was forfeitable to the U.S Government.
However, in a tacit defense of the ownership of the funds, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu averred in Court that the funds belonged to himself, his wife, K.O Tinubu and his surrogate mother, Alhaja Mogaji and warranted that they had exclusive right, title and interest to the funds.
In an affidavit sworn to by Kevin Moss, a Special Agent with the United States Internal Revenue Service, criminal investigation division in support of the verified complaint for forfeiture of Bola Tinubu's moneys held in various Bank accounts, the agent gave a vivid account of how he came to the conclusion that the funds were proceeds of narcotics transaction in violation of the U.S law.
Mr. Moss averred that prior to and during 1988; the government became involved in the investigation of a white heroin trafficking network operating in Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. The investigation disclosed that an individual known as Lee Andrew Edwards was a source of white heroin. The government sources provided information about Lee Andrew Edwards including the identity of a telephone number which activated in electronic pager. This pager according to him was to be called to place an order for white heroin. According to Mr. Moss, this pager was subscribed to by one Adegboyega Mueez Akande who at that time was a resident of Chicago.
Mr. Moss further averred that during February 1988, an individual named Abiodun Agbele arrived in the U.S from Nigeria and during investigation by the government, Agbele disclosed that Akande was his uncle who provided him an apartment in Hammond, Indiana.
According to Agbele, Mr. Akande returned to Nigeria in1990; however, before he left, he instructed Agbale to serve as a source of white heroin for Mr. Lee Andrew Edwards as a result of which Agbele sold white heroin for Lee Andrew Edwards on numerous occasions. Following a tip off, Agbele sold one ounce of white heroin to a law enforcement agent undercover on November 28, 1990 for $7,000 and was subsequently arrested. After his arrest, Agbele agreed to cooperate with the law enforcement agents regarding the white heroin distribution and network of Akande.
According to Agbele, Akande controlled the operation of white heroin from Nigeria in conjunction with other individuals in Nigeria and the U.S. One other individual who worked with Akande according to the affidavit was identified as Bola Tinubu who later became the governor of Lagos state from 1999 to 2007.
The investigation also revealed that in December 1989, Akande took Bola Tinubu to First Heritage bank where Bola Tinubu opened an individual money market. In the account opening application, Tinubu, gave his address as 7504 South Stewart, Chicago, the same address used previously by Akande and his company, Globe-Link. This is the same address used as the drop-off point for packages from Nigeria that contained the white heroin. According to bank records, Bola Tinubu also opened a joint checking account in his name and the name of his wife, Oluremi Tinubu. Mrs. Tinubu had previously opened a joint Bank account also in the same bank with Abdrey Akande, the wife of the heroin kingpin, Adegboyega Mueez Akande.
Upon opening the account, Tinubu deposited the sum of $1,000 in traveler's check. However, five days after opening the account, specifically, on January 4, 1990, Tinubu deposited the sum of $80,000 into the account.
According to the federal agent, in a credit application dated January 6, 1990, Bola Tinubu disclosed that he resided at 7504 South Stewart and that Mueez A. Akande was his cousin. Tinubu further stated that he was an employee of Mobil Oil Nigeria Limited, Fairfax, Virginia and his take home pay was $2,400 per month. Additionally, Tinubu stated on the application that he had no other sources of income and listed his wife, Oluremi Tinubu as co-applicant for the application for automobile loan. The loan was secured with the certificate of deposit in the amount of $10,000 which Tinubu had purchased with a withdrawal from the $80,000 deposit in his checking account.
According to the federal agent, Bank records from First heritage Bank disclosed that in 1990 alone, Bola Tinubu deposited $661,000 into his individual money market account and in 1993; he deposited the sum of $1,216,500 into the same money market account. The agent further avers that in 1991, Tinubu began opening accounts at Citibank in the section known as the world-wide personal banking unit where he transferred the sum of $560,000 from his money market account at the First Heritage Bank.
This development prompted the Federal agents to interview representatives from Mobil Oil regarding Tinubu's employment status and his take-home pay. The Mobil Oil representatives confirmed to the investigators that Tinubu was employed by the Mobil Oil as a treasurer. Mobil Oil further told the federal agents that this position did not involve the transfer of large amounts of money between banking institutions. Mobil oil representatives also stated that under no circumstance would Tinubu be permitted to retain money belonging to Mobil Oil in accounts bearing Tinubu's name. Finally, Mobil Oil confirmed that the corporation never had any accounts in banks in the southern suburbs of Chicago.
On January 10, 1992, the federal agents obtained a court Order freezing Tinubu's accounts at First Heritage Bank and Citibank respectively. Thereafter, Tinubu contacted the First Heritage Bank to transfer money from his accounts and was advised that the accounts had been seized by the U.S Treasury.
On January 13, 1992, Mr. Moss, the Federal agent contacted Bola Tinubu in Nigeria by phone using a number provided to the First Heritage Bank by Tinubu himself. Mr. Moss averred that during the course of the interview, Bola Tinubu confirmed that he knew Mueez Adegboyega Akande. Tinubu further admitted during the interview with the federal agent that he had wire transferred $100,000 to Akande's bank account in Houston and that the $80,000.00 of the funds used to open the account at First Heritage Bank had come from Akande. Tinubu further admitted that he had other accounts in Fairfax, Virginia and London.
Concluding his affidavit evidence, Mr. Moss stated that with all these evidence, there was probable cause to believe that the funds in the accounts held by First Heritage Bank and Citibank, N.A in the name of Bola Tinubu represented property that was involved in narcotics transaction in violation of the U.S law. He therefore, urged the Court to issue an order of forfeiture of the funds.
After a protracted litigation in which Bola Tinubu claimed that the monies legitimately belonged to him, his wife, Oluremi Tinubu and his surrogate mother, one Alhaja Mogaji, Bola Tinubu finally opted for a stipulated settlement with the U.S government. According to the settlement Order dated September 15, 1993; Hon. Judge John A Nordberg ordered that the sum of $460,000 held by Bola Tinubu in The First Heritage Bank account be forfeited to the United States Government. The Court also ordered the release of the funds held in the Citibank account and any money held in excess of $460,000 at the First Heritage account to Bola Tinubu in line with the agreement and stipulation reached by Tinubu with the federal agents.
Ironically, this case came up at the peak of the struggle against the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election by the Gen. Babagida-led military junta during which time Tinubu as a member and one of the leading financiers of the National democratic Coalition (NADECO) made several "pro-democracy" trips to the U.S ostensibly to press for U.S sanctions against the Nigerian junta. It is therefore doubtful whether most of those trips were actually connected with the June 12, struggle after all.
Bayo Amos
Facts have emerged that the erstwhile Governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu may have been involved in a white heroin trafficking network which operated in Chicago and some parts of Indiana and led by one Adegboyega Mueez Akande between 1988 and 1993. The source of the white heroine was identified as one Mr. Lee Andrew Edwards who was incarcerated for attempting to murder a federal agent while the agent was executing a search warrant on him.
According to the Verified Complaint for forfeiture in case No. 93 C 4483 Obtained by SaharaReporters, which was filed on July 26, 1993 before the Hon. Judge Nordberg of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the United States Government urged the Court to order the forfeiture of funds in accounts Nos. 263226700 held by First Heritage Bank in the name of Bola Tinubu, funds in accounts 39483134, 39483396, 4650279566, 00400220, 39936404 and 39936383 held by Citibank N.A in the name of Bola Tinubu and funds in accounts 52050-89451952,52050-89451952, 52050-89451953 held by Citibank in the name of Bola Tinubu because there was probable cause to believe that the funds in Tinubu's bank accounts represented proceeds of narcotics trafficking or were monies involved in financial transactions in violations of 18 U.S.C, sections 1956 and 1957 and therefore, was forfeitable to the U.S Government.
However, in a tacit defense of the ownership of the funds, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu averred in Court that the funds belonged to himself, his wife, K.O Tinubu and his surrogate mother, Alhaja Mogaji and warranted that they had exclusive right, title and interest to the funds.
In an affidavit sworn to by Kevin Moss, a Special Agent with the United States Internal Revenue Service, criminal investigation division in support of the verified complaint for forfeiture of Bola Tinubu's moneys held in various Bank accounts, the agent gave a vivid account of how he came to the conclusion that the funds were proceeds of narcotics transaction in violation of the U.S law.
Mr. Moss averred that prior to and during 1988; the government became involved in the investigation of a white heroin trafficking network operating in Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. The investigation disclosed that an individual known as Lee Andrew Edwards was a source of white heroin. The government sources provided information about Lee Andrew Edwards including the identity of a telephone number which activated in electronic pager. This pager according to him was to be called to place an order for white heroin. According to Mr. Moss, this pager was subscribed to by one Adegboyega Mueez Akande who at that time was a resident of Chicago.
Mr. Moss further averred that during February 1988, an individual named Abiodun Agbele arrived in the U.S from Nigeria and during investigation by the government, Agbele disclosed that Akande was his uncle who provided him an apartment in Hammond, Indiana.
According to Agbele, Mr. Akande returned to Nigeria in1990; however, before he left, he instructed Agbale to serve as a source of white heroin for Mr. Lee Andrew Edwards as a result of which Agbele sold white heroin for Lee Andrew Edwards on numerous occasions. Following a tip off, Agbele sold one ounce of white heroin to a law enforcement agent undercover on November 28, 1990 for $7,000 and was subsequently arrested. After his arrest, Agbele agreed to cooperate with the law enforcement agents regarding the white heroin distribution and network of Akande.
According to Agbele, Akande controlled the operation of white heroin from Nigeria in conjunction with other individuals in Nigeria and the U.S. One other individual who worked with Akande according to the affidavit was identified as Bola Tinubu who later became the governor of Lagos state from 1999 to 2007.
The investigation also revealed that in December 1989, Akande took Bola Tinubu to First Heritage bank where Bola Tinubu opened an individual money market. In the account opening application, Tinubu, gave his address as 7504 South Stewart, Chicago, the same address used previously by Akande and his company, Globe-Link. This is the same address used as the drop-off point for packages from Nigeria that contained the white heroin. According to bank records, Bola Tinubu also opened a joint checking account in his name and the name of his wife, Oluremi Tinubu. Mrs. Tinubu had previously opened a joint Bank account also in the same bank with Abdrey Akande, the wife of the heroin kingpin, Adegboyega Mueez Akande.
Upon opening the account, Tinubu deposited the sum of $1,000 in traveler's check. However, five days after opening the account, specifically, on January 4, 1990, Tinubu deposited the sum of $80,000 into the account.
According to the federal agent, in a credit application dated January 6, 1990, Bola Tinubu disclosed that he resided at 7504 South Stewart and that Mueez A. Akande was his cousin. Tinubu further stated that he was an employee of Mobil Oil Nigeria Limited, Fairfax, Virginia and his take home pay was $2,400 per month. Additionally, Tinubu stated on the application that he had no other sources of income and listed his wife, Oluremi Tinubu as co-applicant for the application for automobile loan. The loan was secured with the certificate of deposit in the amount of $10,000 which Tinubu had purchased with a withdrawal from the $80,000 deposit in his checking account.
According to the federal agent, Bank records from First heritage Bank disclosed that in 1990 alone, Bola Tinubu deposited $661,000 into his individual money market account and in 1993; he deposited the sum of $1,216,500 into the same money market account. The agent further avers that in 1991, Tinubu began opening accounts at Citibank in the section known as the world-wide personal banking unit where he transferred the sum of $560,000 from his money market account at the First Heritage Bank.
This development prompted the Federal agents to interview representatives from Mobil Oil regarding Tinubu's employment status and his take-home pay. The Mobil Oil representatives confirmed to the investigators that Tinubu was employed by the Mobil Oil as a treasurer. Mobil Oil further told the federal agents that this position did not involve the transfer of large amounts of money between banking institutions. Mobil oil representatives also stated that under no circumstance would Tinubu be permitted to retain money belonging to Mobil Oil in accounts bearing Tinubu's name. Finally, Mobil Oil confirmed that the corporation never had any accounts in banks in the southern suburbs of Chicago.
On January 10, 1992, the federal agents obtained a court Order freezing Tinubu's accounts at First Heritage Bank and Citibank respectively. Thereafter, Tinubu contacted the First Heritage Bank to transfer money from his accounts and was advised that the accounts had been seized by the U.S Treasury.
On January 13, 1992, Mr. Moss, the Federal agent contacted Bola Tinubu in Nigeria by phone using a number provided to the First Heritage Bank by Tinubu himself. Mr. Moss averred that during the course of the interview, Bola Tinubu confirmed that he knew Mueez Adegboyega Akande. Tinubu further admitted during the interview with the federal agent that he had wire transferred $100,000 to Akande's bank account in Houston and that the $80,000.00 of the funds used to open the account at First Heritage Bank had come from Akande. Tinubu further admitted that he had other accounts in Fairfax, Virginia and London.
Concluding his affidavit evidence, Mr. Moss stated that with all these evidence, there was probable cause to believe that the funds in the accounts held by First Heritage Bank and Citibank, N.A in the name of Bola Tinubu represented property that was involved in narcotics transaction in violation of the U.S law. He therefore, urged the Court to issue an order of forfeiture of the funds.
After a protracted litigation in which Bola Tinubu claimed that the monies legitimately belonged to him, his wife, Oluremi Tinubu and his surrogate mother, one Alhaja Mogaji, Bola Tinubu finally opted for a stipulated settlement with the U.S government. According to the settlement Order dated September 15, 1993; Hon. Judge John A Nordberg ordered that the sum of $460,000 held by Bola Tinubu in The First Heritage Bank account be forfeited to the United States Government. The Court also ordered the release of the funds held in the Citibank account and any money held in excess of $460,000 at the First Heritage account to Bola Tinubu in line with the agreement and stipulation reached by Tinubu with the federal agents.
Ironically, this case came up at the peak of the struggle against the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election by the Gen. Babagida-led military junta during which time Tinubu as a member and one of the leading financiers of the National democratic Coalition (NADECO) made several "pro-democracy" trips to the U.S ostensibly to press for U.S sanctions against the Nigerian junta. It is therefore doubtful whether most of those trips were actually connected with the June 12, struggle after all.
Bayo Amos
Q:What year was that?
That was in 1985/1986. I was determined to return to Nigeria someday. I contemplated returning to Deloitte and at the same time coming back to Nigeria. I was discriminated against. I quit GTE. I decided to go back to Deloitte. While I was still contemplating, Deloitte was relocating from New York and I looked forward to how I would be given extra allowances and bonuses. At that time also, Mobil was recruiting for its Corporate Audit Department in the United Kingdom office. I went there and I got the offer. The rest is history.
Q:Was Bade Ojora in Mobil at that time?
He was still in Mobil. I don’t want to go through what I did when I was in the Corporate Office in London. I was a corporate auditor, but I was a whiz-kid, an assertive one, highly professional. I was always in suspenders and all that. I came on assignment to audit Mobil Nigeria.
Q:Were you recruited abroad and sent here?
No. I was recruited in the UK. That was Mobil Foreign; it is completely different from Nigerian operation. They have the audit right, the corporate audit regulation to audit Nigeria. I came and they said they needed an auditor in Nigeria. I went through the process. Solomon Oladunni was the manager in charge of administration. He, Bade Ojora and Adesanya persuaded me to take the job. The title I was looking for was audit manager. They said I did not have any experience in Nigeria. I faced another level of discrimination. I was given an offer they knew I would reject, but I was determined to stay. The financial controller, a white man, called me to his office to say :”the people there didn’t want you; your own countrymen!’ He added: ‘Whatever they give you, take it, I’m here.’ I was shocked.
At the time, there was a kind of connection between the director of finance and one guy. They were both from Shagamu. And as it played out, I was only made an auditor because they said I didn’t have a Nigerian experience.
Q:But you rose to become the treasurer…
I rose to become the general auditor there. The audit manager, an Australian, was about leaving for his country and he told me that I was badly needed, particularly because I am a Nigerian. He said: “With this resume, you are so rich, you have experience. I know what Alphonso Olusanya, the financial controller, was trying to do.” He added that the other person they wanted to bring in has only local experience (I don’t want to mention his name because he is my friend).
Q:And the money was not bad, but only the title…
The money was not bad. I took the offer to work in Mobil because I was tired of the discrimination I suffered overseas and had made up my mind that I would not work for any other company but an American company. I was encouraged to join their team and I met Oladunni, Pius Akinyelure, all of them. The white man told me to just come over and prove myself and that I would “get there”. He had been the supervisor of the guy blocking me overseas. And when the white man came to Nigeria, they did not give him the title, too. He said: ‘Here, I am financial adviser; I don’t care what title they give me, I am getting my salary and I have my responsibilities to New York. Don’t worry.”
Q:Why did you opt to study Accounting?
Sincerely, it was accidental. It was the university placement. I was good in Mathematics and business courses. In fact, if I were to choose a career for myself, I would have chosen marketing. I know Tunde was placed in the Mathematics department also by the university. I came in with A grades and I had nothing less than A+ in Accounting and Statistics.Q:How did you get into Mobil?
At Deloitte and Touche, I chose to travel more than 80 per cent of my working years there. And that is because if a staff chose to travel, he would make more money because he would get travel allowances. That got me into National Oil, which became the Joint Venture Partner of Aramco Oil in Saudi Arabia, which is like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. We had gone there to set up their accounting and auditing system. It was while on that service that I got my financial break. ***When I returned to the United States, my employers gave me a huge bonus, which instantly turned me into a millionaire***.Q:How much was that?
***The bonus was $850,000, before taxes***. My salaries were also being paid into the bank and I was not touching them. At the time, my salary deposits in the bank had risen to about $1.8 million.Q:You didn’t freak out? No. This is because I had a strong grasp of financial matters. I was happy. I bought a house from the money and invested the rest in the US. I was living well. I was living in one of the most affluent neighbourhoods in the south of Chicago.
Q:Chicago had the notoriety of being a mafia city. How did you survive there?
Chicago was a very dangerous place then, if you didn’t know where to go and how to move. I wouldn’t want to mention some people I knew, whose careers were ruined and got lost in the process. I could still remember some of my colleagues, who did very well. One of them is Kunle Adedayo, whose wife, Pamela, operates the Tastee Fried Chicken. We were there together. Pamela had been a good cook since then. She used to cook for us.My school, Richard Daley College, was located in an area noted for racism. Though there were other colleges I could go, I was determined to go there and succeed. The school was academically rigorous and maintained high discipline. Of course, the story has been told severally of the area where Martin Luther King was chased out and shot at. Blacks dreaded the area. Chicago was a windy, cold place. I was able to capitalise on it for academic success and achievement. Though the minimum requirement was 12 credits, I registered for extra course work. I was not getting a dime from Nigeria any longer because my tuition fee was already paid for, and whatever money I realised was meant to cushion the effect of my house rent. Winter time was the busiest time for me and Tunde Badejo, who I was sharing an apartment with.
Since I lost the earlier job at the construction site, I didn’t like security or doorman jobs anymore. I was a very neat guy and was always well-dressed at the place where I was working as a dishwasher in a Holiday Inn. I also got a job for Bolaji Agaba there. In the hotel, I was able to keep warm. And I was later given a room service job because I was very diligent in my previous work. That was acknowledged by those who would come to check on us where we washed the dishes. Room service is very good; you get nice tips! I did all of that and didn’t take a penny from anybody in Nigeria to go to school in Chicago. Not a dime! I was a self-educated person and I achieved the best in that respect.Q:Who were the white and African-Americans you interacted with at school and after?
Danny Kay Davies, now a Congressman; Jesse Jackson, Costello Joe, one of the most successful financial consultants; Richard Daley III, a stockbroker who became the mayor of Chicago and whose father the school was named after; Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad Ali, etc. There were too many of them.Q:How did you get into Mobil?
At the National Oil, where we set up the accounting system and at Aramco, I was head of an assignment to liquidate the Chicago Savings and Loans Bank. The assignment was meant to take me to different places, so as to gain exposure to financial services. It is usually a hostile environment when a company is under receivership and is going into liquidation. But I managed the assignment very well. A member of Deloitte’s management, who was a principal partner on the assignment, was very happy.At the end of that assignment, I was recalled to the National Oil, which had a joint venture with other oil companies. The United States government had a 300-page new leasing legislation at the time. This is one moment of my life I will never forget. The leasing regulation was a subject of tax implication and analysis, and as an auditing firm, we had to interpret the new leasing legislation for compliance. And that was necessary before the client could sign the balance sheet.
It was a tough debate. The managers would sit; we had to make presentations and contributions. My colleagues and I did two aspects of the lease and I happened to be right. When the partners and all of them came and they did the computation, it gave the company an additional opportunity to wiggle and improve its bottom line. So one of National Oil’s assistant controllers left there to work at Mobil. On getting there, he began to persuade me to come over to Mobil.
The period coincided with my vacation in Nigeria and during that time, the late Bade Ojora and other people I knew were in Mobil. They saw me in Lagos and we discussed generally. At the time, I met someone who was in the finance department at my uncle’s place and the man thought I was a wizard when we discussed.
I later went to Ibadan to see an uncle of mine. But before then, my return ticket had been stolen in Lagos. I had a credit card. I was lamenting the loss, when Uncle Bade said he would help in getting me a passport. Then he asked if I would work for Mobil, but I said I was not ready to stay in Nigeria because I was very successful and earning a good salary. He asked me to leave my telephone number so he could get in touch with me afterwards.
The professional career placement centres, which we called head hunters, had placed my curriculum vitae in other companies. They would continue to pursue you, asking whether you wanted to change your job. I was invited by General Telephone and Electronics, GTE, Corporation and they offered a salary that was 32 per cent higher than what I was earning at Deloitte. I went there and was made an assistant manager, but MacGross didn’t leave me alone, asking why I elected to work for a telephone and electronics company. He said: ‘You will be discriminated against there; I know that firm.’ But I didn’t listen to him. I was chasing the title of manager. My career was blossoming. It was great to have a complimentary card carrying the title, manager. When the time came for a review, they promoted someone whom I trained to the position of manager, while I was left the way I was. I resigned that very day. That was when I decided that one day, I would return to my country.
Bayo Amos
Q:Why did you opt to study Accounting?
Sincerely, it was accidental. It was the university placement. I was good in Mathematics and business courses. In fact, if I were to choose a career for myself, I would have chosen marketing. I know Tunde was placed in the Mathematics department also by the university. I came in with A grades and I had nothing less than A+ in Accounting and Statistics.
Q:How did you get into Mobil?
At Deloitte and Touche, I chose to travel more than 80 per cent of my working years there. And that is because if a staff chose to travel, he would make more money because he would get travel allowances. That got me into National Oil, which became the Joint Venture Partner of Aramco Oil in Saudi Arabia, which is like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. We had gone there to set up their accounting and auditing system. It was while on that service that I got my financial break. ***When I returned to the United States, my employers gave me a huge bonus, which instantly turned me into a millionaire***.
Q:How much was that?
***The bonus was $850,000, before taxes***. My salaries were also being paid into the bank and I was not touching them. At the time, my salary deposits in the bank had risen to about $1.8 million.
Q:You didn’t freak out? No. This is because I had a strong grasp of financial matters. I was happy. I bought a house from the money and invested the rest in the US. I was living well. I was living in one of the most affluent neighbourhoods in the south of Chicago.
Q:Chicago had the notoriety of being a mafia city. How did you survive there?
Chicago was a very dangerous place then, if you didn’t know where to go and how to move. I wouldn’t want to mention some people I knew, whose careers were ruined and got lost in the process. I could still remember some of my colleagues, who did very well. One of them is Kunle Adedayo, whose wife, Pamela, operates the Tastee Fried Chicken. We were there together. Pamela had been a good cook since then. She used to cook for us.
My school, Richard Daley College, was located in an area noted for racism. Though there were other colleges I could go, I was determined to go there and succeed. The school was academically rigorous and maintained high discipline. Of course, the story has been told severally of the area where Martin Luther King was chased out and shot at. Blacks dreaded the area. Chicago was a windy, cold place. I was able to capitalise on it for academic success and achievement. Though the minimum requirement was 12 credits, I registered for extra course work. I was not getting a dime from Nigeria any longer because my tuition fee was already paid for, and whatever money I realised was meant to cushion the effect of my house rent. Winter time was the busiest time for me and Tunde Badejo, who I was sharing an apartment with.
Since I lost the earlier job at the construction site, I didn’t like security or doorman jobs anymore. I was a very neat guy and was always well-dressed at the place where I was working as a dishwasher in a Holiday Inn. I also got a job for Bolaji Agaba there. In the hotel, I was able to keep warm. And I was later given a room service job because I was very diligent in my previous work. That was acknowledged by those who would come to check on us where we washed the dishes. Room service is very good; you get nice tips! I did all of that and didn’t take a penny from anybody in Nigeria to go to school in Chicago. Not a dime! I was a self-educated person and I achieved the best in that respect.
Q:Who were the white and African-Americans you interacted with at school and after?
Danny Kay Davies, now a Congressman; Jesse Jackson, Costello Joe, one of the most successful financial consultants; Richard Daley III, a stockbroker who became the mayor of Chicago and whose father the school was named after; Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad Ali, etc. There were too many of them.
Q:How did you get into Mobil?
At the National Oil, where we set up the accounting system and at Aramco, I was head of an assignment to liquidate the Chicago Savings and Loans Bank. The assignment was meant to take me to different places, so as to gain exposure to financial services. It is usually a hostile environment when a company is under receivership and is going into liquidation. But I managed the assignment very well. A member of Deloitte’s management, who was a principal partner on the assignment, was very happy.
At the end of that assignment, I was recalled to the National Oil, which had a joint venture with other oil companies. The United States government had a 300-page new leasing legislation at the time. This is one moment of my life I will never forget. The leasing regulation was a subject of tax implication and analysis, and as an auditing firm, we had to interpret the new leasing legislation for compliance. And that was necessary before the client could sign the balance sheet.
It was a tough debate. The managers would sit; we had to make presentations and contributions. My colleagues and I did two aspects of the lease and I happened to be right. When the partners and all of them came and they did the computation, it gave the company an additional opportunity to wiggle and improve its bottom line. So one of National Oil’s assistant controllers left there to work at Mobil. On getting there, he began to persuade me to come over to Mobil.
The period coincided with my vacation in Nigeria and during that time, the late Bade Ojora and other people I knew were in Mobil. They saw me in Lagos and we discussed generally. At the time, I met someone who was in the finance department at my uncle’s place and the man thought I was a wizard when we discussed.
I later went to Ibadan to see an uncle of mine. But before then, my return ticket had been stolen in Lagos. I had a credit card. I was lamenting the loss, when Uncle Bade said he would help in getting me a passport. Then he asked if I would work for Mobil, but I said I was not ready to stay in Nigeria because I was very successful and earning a good salary. He asked me to leave my telephone number so he could get in touch with me afterwards.
The professional career placement centres, which we called head hunters, had placed my curriculum vitae in other companies. They would continue to pursue you, asking whether you wanted to change your job. I was invited by General Telephone and Electronics, GTE, Corporation and they offered a salary that was 32 per cent higher than what I was earning at Deloitte. I went there and was made an assistant manager, but MacGross didn’t leave me alone, asking why I elected to work for a telephone and electronics company. He said: ‘You will be discriminated against there; I know that firm.’ But I didn’t listen to him. I was chasing the title of manager. My career was blossoming. It was great to have a complimentary card carrying the title, manager. When the time came for a review, they promoted someone whom I trained to the position of manager, while I was left the way I was. I resigned that very day. That was when I decided that one day, I would return to my country.
Bayo Amos
Q:We learnt that you wrote one that caused an earthquake!
There were so many of them. I wrote one on Bob Eriksson, who was the Chairman/Managing Director. He was weak in his corporate control of the finances of Mobil and I boldly wrote the report based on that. And here was the Chairman/Managing Director, who was affected by the report. Everybody raised an eyebrow. But I emphasized that I was an independent auditor. I said: ‘This is my report, this is my resignation letter.’ I sent a copy of the report to the head office in New York. I wanted to strengthen my independence and professionalism. The third day, a signal came from New York. The managing director was to be recalled and the corporate audit manager was on his way to check the report. When he came, I had my audit file. All the findings in the report and my recommendations were accepted. They recalled the MD/Chairman and he was demoted. The company rejected my letter of resignation and promoted me general auditor.
Q:How long did it take you to become general auditor?
It was less than two years. I don’t want to brag about these things, but I ended up bossing the man who interviewed me. The man they brought in to block me was sent to Houston. Luckily, I was doing very well. We were at the Bookshop House on Broad Street then. My career was blossoming.
I wrote another audit report, Financial Management and the Treasury Activities. I think Ibrahim Babangida was in power then. Structural Adjustment Programme, SAP, was on then and things were very difficult. I wrote and explained what we should do to strenghten the financial base and treasury activities of the company. It was a 28-page report. Akinyelure is still alive to attest to what I am saying. They brought in another Managing Director, called Mr. Bob Parker. Parker arrived Nigeria to replace Erickson. Parker walked into my office one day and said: ‘Bola, Mr. Auditor, I am not here to fight you, but to work. Please let me know whatever you find about the corporation.’
The most significant part of that episode was the 28-page report of the financial situation, the weaknesses and what I believed should be done. They looked at the report and there was another earthquake. For one week, they were going back and forth. The treasury people and the treasurer and everyone else that mattered called me to the boardroom. ****They said they had looked at the audit report and the recommendations therein, and that they could not find anyone else within the establishment to implement the report except me. They said they were moving me from auditor to the post of treasurer, so that I could implement the report. They said they could not but accept the recommendations.*****
I asked for 48 hours to review the report and get back to them. I went to Bob Parker and Akinyelure, and I asked that I should be given a free hand to implement whatever I felt would be right with the corporation’s personnel and audit. They granted my request. They sent in a corporate auditor from London, who looked at the report and encouraged me to implement it in my new capacity as the treasurer. I started work on the report and sacked everybody in the Treasury department, except the stenographer. I brought in new hands, from the audit department – people who had worked with me. I brought in a brilliant guy called Adigun from Columbia University and others I felt I could work with. That was how I started running the treasury of Mobil, which then was located at the CMS Bookshop House on Broad Street.
The Bookshop House was degenerating and was no longer suitable for our operations. So, Akinyelure and I collaborated to do financial redeployment for the purpose of having a new office complex. I began work on the financial restructuring in Mobil, so as to accommodate the new challenges of SAP. There was a BCCI (Bank of Credit, Commerce and Industry) then – the bank that went under – and I was the only treasurer that didn’t lose money. I was a whiz-kid and I am proud of that.
Mobil usually depended on rent, but I was determined that Mobil must have an asset fixed in Nigeria. And that was the beginning of the revolution of real estate in Lagos. Capital Merchant Bank was there then. I retooled the Mobil balance sheet, working with Akinyelure, who was a good guy to work with – he is accommodating and he understands the financials. Mobil didn’t want to sink so much money into it and we had to put our creativity into what I was doing. Ahmed Abubakar was the permanent secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance. We were so much together to ensure that the present Mobil House was built. Gbolahan Mudashiru was the governor [of Lagos State] then. He gave us the approval. It was like using a pair of pliers to remove your own tooth to get the NNPC to go along with us.
The interesting thing about the project was that devaluation was coming and it was going to affect the budget for the building. We took the bill of quantities and gave the best financial projection that was possible, pre-purchased all the items that were needed to build. Nearly 40 per cent of that building was financed when the exchange rate was one Naira to one Dollar. We purchased additional materials, including steel and cement. Whatever I tell you was in the bill of quantities. It started at N4 to $1, if you looked at foreign exchange then. It would not have been possible. Then, at the next fortnightly bidding, the exchange rate shot up to N6 to $1 and that could have adversely affected the project. In fact, if we did not pre-purchase the building materials, it would not have been possible. The NNPC building got stagnated. We finished the building on time without as much as two per cent variation, and that was how we got so much credit for financial engineering.
Bayo Amos
Concluding his affidavit evidence, Mr. Moss stated that with all these evidence, there was probable cause to believe that the funds in the accounts held by First Heritage Bank and Citibank, N.A in the name of Bola Tinubu represented property that was involved in narcotics transaction in violation of the U.S law. He therefore, urged the Court to issue an order of forfeiture of the funds.
After a protracted litigation in which Bola Tinubu claimed that the monies legitimately belonged to him, his wife, Oluremi Tinubu and his surrogate mother, one Alhaja Mogaji, Bola Tinubu finally opted for a stipulated settlement with the U.S government. According to the settlement Order dated September 15, 1993; Hon. Judge John A Nordberg ordered that the sum of $460,000 held by Bola Tinubu in The First Heritage Bank account be forfeited to the United States Government. The Court also ordered the release of the funds held in the Citibank account and any money held in excess of $460,000 at the First Heritage account to Bola Tinubu in line with the agreement and stipulation reached by Tinubu with the federal agents. "
Ibukunolu A Babajide
People believe whatever they want to believe. Even when and if the facts hit them in the face like a truck!
Cheers.
IBK
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Ibukunolu A Babajide
Ikhide,
You vomited a lot of bile here. Your sniggering and hollow laughter will haunt you. You suffer selective amnesia. The same Yorubas you collectively punish with your vile words voted heavily for Jonathan against Buhari in the last presidential election. You were too busy sniggering to remember that.
Now that the man has disappointed them and performed so abjectly you want them to reward his incompetence? Sorry as Ojo Madueke said the Yorubas are too politically sophisticated to be led by the nose by an incompetent fool.
If your likes can be useful sensitising folks from your local government maybe we would all have collectively gained and benefitted from politics.
Cheers.
IBK
Here is Bola Ahmed Tinubu conceding the loss of the APC's vice presidential slot to someone else, whose name fails me, never heard of him before!“There came a time during the course of the events when our Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, offered me the Vice Presidential slot. Being a normal human being, I was deeply moved and honoured that he would consider me for the position. Being a patriot, I had to weigh my potential candidacy in all of its dimensions.“I have concluded that the interest of the party, our campaign and that of the nation are better served if I retain my position as the National leader of the APC, allowing me to be a bridge builder across all divides.“I sincerely commit myself to the rescue agenda of General Buhari and Professor Osinbajo.“I declare to you, I will work and dedicate myself so that our ticket succeeds and wins the 2015 election — not for his good, not for my good, not even for the party’s good but for the good of our nation.”Hahahahahahahahahaha!So our REFORMER offered TINUBU the vice presidential slot? So Buhari really, really, realy thought offering a goat custody of the yam barn was the best way to reform the barn? I hear!Do you now understand why our country is in deep trouble?
Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the National leader of the APC - the change agent. Reflect upon that. And after you are through laughing, start weeping. We are not serious!Tinubu really thought himself qualified to be vice president of, not a jail yard, but of a real country? Really? Seriously?We are not a serious people. I have to say that Tinubu is a very lucky man. He has all the newspapers in the South West in his pocket. He and the APC have virtually all public intellectuals looking the other way. And somehow he has conned many Yoruba into false expectations about leading Nigeria. Which leads to provocative Facebook posts like this from Nwachukwu Ugochukwu:
"The Yoruba always want to turn logic on its head. If Buhari was coming out from PDP and GEJ from APC, honestly, we would have been bombarded with how evil Buhari was and how he was a dictator, jailing, killing innocent people.We would have heard about how he was poor but uses bulletproof cars, poor but uses a private jet. We would have heard about how 2 billion dollars disappeared and appeared in his London account....If Tinubu, a man with a fake name, a known drug baron whose case is still in the USA, was the leader of another tribe, Nigerians would have been bombarded with how evil such a tribe is and how they worship money.If Tinubu, a man without an ordinary O level WAEC results was the political leader of another tribe in Nigeria, be it Hausa, Igbo etc and belongs to a different political party than our "saintly" tribe, we would have been bombarded with how such people are religious and ethnic bigots.If GEJ was in APC, Yoruba professors would have come out enmasse to teach Nigerians that truly stealing is not the same as corruption as you cannot use the words interchangeably. While some form of stealing can be corruption, one can comfortably say "all Nigerians are corrupt" but one cannot say "all Nigerians are thieves".The Yoruba (not all of them as I have faith in the majority like Ekiti, Ondo, etc) have always sought to deceive those Nigerians who will listen to their ever changing values.They started the infamous cross-carpeting that introduced tribalism in Nigerian politics.Deceive who you can but not me. The whole "corruption" thing was created in the media immediately the formed APC to deceive their brothers into believing GEJ is corrupt. How can a man like Tinubu talk about corruption?"He has made many compelling points. The truth hurts.Anyway, read the rest of the article:
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The APC has more than an image problem. The APC is the problem.
Bayo Amos
In a statement by the national leader of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), he maintained that his anger lingered over the non-full disclosure of the alleged bank accounts and other details relating to the charges by the government in an effort to portray and falsely classify him as a money launderer and looter of public funds. “Where and when are the transactions in these accounts operated? What are the balances in each of these accounts? What is the ageing analysis of those balances and their sources if any?, Tinubu queried. “The government prosecutors and some of their political leaders in their media campaign listed these accounts and made spurious allegations making it seem as if I looted public funds and stashed it away in these accounts. Yet they have failed to provide evidence to prove these weighty, yet unfounded allegations, which shows clearly at the tribunal that this was a political persecution from the very beginning”, he said.
‘Political vendetta’
He went on: “The government and its lawyers in their handling of this case have revealed a crass lack of knowledge of financial rules at home and abroad thus, embarrassing me as a citizen, their own government and the country”. The ACN leader stated that wasting millions of public funds to prosecute a political vendetta is unjustifiable and failing to apply both the principle and doctrine of materiality; cost and benefit analysis in investigation and prosecution of the case questionable. “I feel ashamed that the government is using a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, and a costly team of attorneys to prosecute this case, thereby demonstrating lack of policy direction to develop and train hundreds of lawyers in the Ministry of Justice and office of the public prosecutor. I dare ask, what is the aim of outsourcing a case like this to outside lawyers with huge professional bills?. “The government equally failed to employ the FOI to disclose to Nigerians how much are in these accounts and how much the government was expending to prosecute. “I am still in consultation with my attorneys on the next plan of action. The long time of media trial and political persecution have had toll on my businesses, my political reputation and constituted an infringement of my rights and that of my family as Nigerian citizens”.
It is only a wicked system that will list minors and portray them as looters for having in their accounts amounts in the hundreds meant for their upkeep and school runs”.
Tinubu believed that the battle for the salvation of Nigeria has just begun and he is willing and “ready to join hands with all like-minded people to move Nigeria forward as a land of democracy for justice and a secured democracy”."
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In Nigeria, heroism and villainy are usually localized and class based. So, Bola Tinubu’s image of a villain among the elites may not subsist on the streets of Isale Eko and in other places in Lagos state where the masses live.
The late Sani Abacha is seen as a hero in his home state;
Kano and a villain in Ogun State, late MKO Abiola’s state.
I even heard that a chap in Oghara motor park in Delta state
proudly adopted “James Ibori” as nickname. Oghara is James Ibori’s hometown.
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Chidi,
You make a valid point. That is the outcome of the divide and rule tactics of our colonial conquerors. However, as educated elite we can see the degree of avarice across ethnic lines.
A Bola Tinubu who brought governance to Lagos and innovatively built an internally generated revenue base is different from a Sani Abacha who transferred useful capital into western banks while Imams made the minds of the children and youths of Kano fertile soil to plant Islamic fundamentalism.
What about numbers. If we had 10 Governors like Bola Tinubu engaging and breaching the gulf between the masses and the elite the Nigerian political landscape would radically change. Name in the last 16 years of democracy any Governor with his track record.
He saved us all from the tyranny of a PDP one party state that Obasanjo by sleight of hand wanted to impose on Nigeria. He is building a strong coalition to save us from PDP ruinous ineptitude. He is doing so much to install a modicum of democracy.
Why this obsessive focus on Bola Tinubu who is not even in government while ignoring the lameduck clueless President who has out of sheer ignorance polarised the country on ethnic and religious lines.
Fair is fair but life is never a choice between black and white but between shades of black and shades of white.
You be the judge.
Cheers.
IBK
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The recent report on one of the online news websites on the allegations bordering on his academic qualification is not new. What is new is how desperate they have become to stir up a new controversy using an old lie. In the past these allegations were successfully rebutted. Recent attempt to present them as fresh allegations will not go unchallenged..........
The particular accusations in the story further reveal the malice of mind of those peddling it. They claim Tinubu did not attend Chicago State University. They cite as their evidence a letter from the US Consulate. But if you read the letter carefully, the surname stated is “TinubO” not “TinubU.” If the University did a computer check on that name, the check would come up empty. The culprits likely misspelled the last name so that the name search would reveal nothing. This is clever but immoral; it is a wrong knife.
Meanwhile, Tinubu has genuine documents and pictures showing him as an award-winning student at the school. Nigeria should be proud that one of its own graduated an honor student from an American university over thirty years ago when that was more of a rarity than it is today. Instead, his detractors want to pretend he never set foot on campus.
As late as August 2012, Tinubu visited the university and was given a special reception and a tour by the school’s president. This would not have been done for a stranger. It would have been done for a distinguished alumnus.
After graduation, Tinubu landed jobs with two well established international companies, one the accounting firm Deloitte and Touche and the other, ExxonMobil. Such companies investigate an applicant’s academic background. If he had not attended school, these companies would not have hired him. He would not have excelled in them but he did. http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/16/ahmed-tinubu-victim-not-villain-spokesman-says
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"Tinubu explained how he made his millions legitimately through bonuses from top firms, ExxonMobil et al."
Bayo,If you truly believe this I have a mansion in Manhattan to sell you! Wow, talk about defending the indefensible. US investigators investigated Tinubu (by the way, they have to have reasonable cause of narcotics trafficking to investigate) and their investigation led them to believe that Tinubu's money came from heroin trafficking. They even named accomplices and provided a mountain of detail on the operation. They spoke to his employers, who denied owning the account in which the money was found, contrary to Tinubu's claim. Again, it was a painstaking investigation with many damning details in the court records that I posted. Tinubu, seeing the evidence against him, admitted wrongdoing, leading to a settlement in favor of the US government in which he forfeited the proceeds/assets in question. Yet, in your book, because he was not convicted, Tinubu is innocent, a saint. Most high level drug trafficking, corruption, and other financial criminal cases routinely end up in civil forfeiture proceeding not because the defendants are innocent but because in America's judicial system, prosecutors have to determine if they have enough evidence to secure a criminal (or even civil) conviction. They clearly had enough evidence to convince most reasonable people that Tinubu was a heroin kingpin and that the BS about Mobil making him a dollar multimillionaire is hogwash. But clearly they didn't feel like they had enough to secure a criminal conviction because in criminal proceedings the standard of proof is a lot higher and by merely raising a reasonable doubt a smart defense attorney can scuttle the trial. Anyway, please continue to believe that Tinubu is a saint because he has not been convicted or that he was not a drug kingpin or because he only lost a civil narcotics case to US government prosecutors. I just hope that when some other politician is the one under the microscope, you will accord them the same diversionary, pedantic legalism that you're shamelessly invoking here.Shaking my head, to borrow Bolaji's catch phrase.
Moses Ebe Ochonu
Salimonu Kadiri
The Yoruba always want to turn logic on its head. If Tinubu, a man with a fake name, a known drug baron whose case is still in USA, was the leader of another tribe, Nigerians would have been bombarded with how evil such a tribe is and how they worship money - Ugochukwu/Ikhedia.
By the way, Tinubu's drug trafficking history was the subject of several explosive reports done by Sahara reporters several years ago..... Those stories relied mostly on judicial records of drug proceeds, forfeiture proceedings in the US. The records are there. PDP have Buruji, another drug baron, and APC have their Bola Tinubu - Moses Ochonu.
The trio, Ikhedia, Ugochukwu and Ochonu were very categorical and certain that Tinubu was a trafficking drug baron in the USA with the exception that the first duo claimed that the case is still ongoing in US while Ochonu claimed that it was several years ago. Contrary to the wicked assumption of Ikhedia, Ugochukwu and Ochonu, Tinubu has never been arrested and tried in the US for drug trafficking. What happened was that one Abiodun Agbele was arrested in US while trying to sell white heroin to a civil policeman at a price of $7,000. Abiodun Agbele told the police that his supplier was one Adegboyega Mueez Akande, whom the police kept under surveillance and finally searched his home without finding anything incriminating. However, the Police found a paper where he once deposited the sum of $ 80,000 into one of the accounts owned by Bola Tinubu at First Heritage Bank, Chicago. Further investigations on Bola Tinubu, showed that he had accounts in another Bank, named City Bank with substantial amounts. In the absence of any concrete criminal evidence, a Special Agent with the United States Internal Revenue Service, Mr Kevin Moss, swore to an affidavit in the court that he believed that all the funds in the accounts of Tinubu at First Heritage Bank and City Bank were probably proceeds of narcotic transactions. On the basis of his suspicion, Mr Kevin Moss sought and obtained a court order freezing Tinubu's accounts at First Heritage Bank and City Bank on January 10, 1992. On the 13th of January 1992, the Federal Agent, Kevin Moss contacted Tinubu by telephone in Nigeria and interrogated him about his acquaintance with Adegboyega Mueez Akande in which Tinubu did not deny knowing him but categorically stated that monies in his accounts belonged to him, his wife and his mother. When Tinubu understood that his accounts, in the aforementioned banks in US, were frozen he took a lawyer to challenge the legality of Mr Kevin Moss's action. The onus was on Mr Kevin Moss to prove that the monies in Bola Tinubu's accounts were proceeds of criminal activities but he could not and it seemed as if Tinubu was able to prove that the monies in his account were legitimately earned. No one should be stupid to assume that the US big power which could fetch out Sadaam Hussein from a small hole in Iraq and Osanna bin Ladin from a remote cave in Pakistan would find it difficult to track down the paths of illegally acquired monies by Tinubu in USA. We should not forget that Tinubu, as a black man would not have had a chance to fair hearing and justice in the US where as far back as 1857, Chief Justice Taney of the Supreme court, in a case of assault against a white man on Dred Scott, a black man, declared that "a black man has no rights which a white man need respect." In order to save the prestige of the Special Agent of the United States Internal Revenue Service, Kevin Moss, Tinubu through his lawyer agreed to a settlement. Thus, on September 15, 1993, the presiding honourable Judge, John A. Nordberg ordered that the sum of $460,000 from Bola Tinubu's First Heritage Bank account be forfeited to the United States' Government. Any amount in excess of the $460,000 at First Heritage Bank account as well as the entire funds in the City Bank accounts should be released to Bola Tinubu. With the above narration derived from Ochonu's Sahara reporter's article on Bola Tinubu, it is proved beyond every reasonable doubt that Tinubu has never been arrested, tried and convicted in the US either for drug trafficking or any other criminal offence.
When I doubted,in my previous submission on this subject, if Tinubu could have been visiting US as often as he had done, after being convicted for committing drug trafficking crime, I relied only on my common sense intuition of what US used to do in such situation. But those who are afflicted with Common Sense Deficiency Syndrome - an attitudinal frame of mind produced when common sense and reality take leave of a person - began to pour grammatical diarrhoea on me to cover up their inadequacy in logical reasoning. Pastor Moses Ochonu would preach that when he slaps people on the right cheek they should turn the left for more slapping and he enjoys it as long as he is the one doing the slapping. When he encounters a person like me that would not turn the other cheek but slap him back, he will start howling, wailing and shouting personal insults, ethnic castigation, hate action. And this pastor will employ Goebel's style of propaganda to write, "Quite frankly, some of his writings remind one of genocidal, inciting radio broadcasts from 1994 Rwanda." A person claiming high academic qualification should support his allegation with, at least, one of my genocidal writings which the intellectual dilettante has not done. Finally, Ochonu wrote, "I don't consider him worthy of engagement, so I just ignore him." What do I care if I pray with my eyes open at a prayer meeting where there is a pickpocket in attendance and the pickpocket decides to ignore me because he cannot pick my pockets because I don't close my eyes while praying?
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Bayo Amos
Moses Ebe Ochonu
Bayo Amos
Ibukunolu A Babajide
In a federal system the federal government must have the moral high ground and defend the Constitution.
During the civil rights upheavals in America the federal government deployed federal troops to states to uphold the Constitution.
In Nigeria the federal government under the PDP preside over corruption and undermine the Constitution. Now focusing on one man when all the major anti corruption agencies like NPF, ICPC and EFCC are under the control of the federal government.
This is a classic case of carrying an elephant on the head whole teasing out a cricket with the toe! How much meat will the cricket offer?
Cheers.
IBK
Ibukunolu A Babajide
Salimotu Kadiri,
Maybe you should replace the word "prison" with "prism" because we are all born into ethnic cages and even when our cages are opened we voluntarily return to sleep in them irrespective of the many diplomas and degrees we tout we own. Often times it is unconscious and sublime.
Sadly when we deny our imprisonment and we are shown facts to the contrary we become defensive instead of making amends and evolving out of being ethnic cage dwellers.
It is a matter of degrees of subliminal ethnic myopia suffered by all but acknowledged by only a few.
Cheers.
IBK
Segun Ogungbemi
Segun Ogungbemi Ph.D
Anunoby, Ogugua
It seems to me that if more forum participants took more full account of what political corruption is, there will be less rage in the disagreements on which politician or not is/was corrupt. Political corruption happens when authority/influence/power is/are used to pervert the public interest, for personal gain and economic self-aggrandizement. It takes many forms including demanding and accepting bribes in the discharge of one’s lawful duties, different forms of favoritism, unequal treatment of all, and deliberate misappropriation of public funds for personal gain.
Political corruption happens when coercion is employed, influence is peddled and power is misused to appropriate public funds. A government official or a politician is therefore not, not corrupt because charges have not been brought successfully or not, against them in court. Corruption thrives in many cases because the laws against it loosely written, and are not easy to enforce, because there is too much wiggle room for instance.
Let us suppose that a politician bids for a government contract. If their bid is successful because they leveraged their influence and power, and successfully manipulated the process, that is corruption. People will know what happened but court admissible evidence may be hard to put together. There is consequently either no prosecution at all, or no successful prosecution. When therefore a powerful politician says “charge me to court if you believe I am corrupt”, they know it is not likely to happen and that if it did, it will not be successful. The politician is not, not corrupt because no charges have been brought against them. One is not, not corrupt because the one has not been convicted for corruption in court. Everyone knows for examples that some murderers who should have been prosecuted in court and committed to prison are still free and walk the streets. That one is not prosecuted or convicted is therefore not conclusive of the absence of quilt. It is common knowledge too that the corrupt even when they are prosecuted, have not always been convicted in court, just as murderers get away in court. Does anyone remember “technicalities”?
The justice system is not a fool proof system. It is evidence, procedure, and rule based and can be manipulated for all kinds of reasons on behalf of the high and mighty by wily skilled attorneys. There is, thank goodness, the “free” court of public opinion. In many cases, it is in this court that enduring reputation, good or not, is made. It is also in this court that integrity is ultimately boundlessly and freely impugned.
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ba,
You point out “due process” for example. It is there indeed but does it work? It does not seem to work most of the time. The question may be asked why not? I believe I have one plausible answer- those who should work the system do not do as they should. This is indeed why only people who will faithfully work the system as it is designed and expected to work, should be appointed or elected into consequent positions.
This conversation is happening, for me at least, because my desire is that Nigeria only elects or appoints worthy people into positions from which “due process” for example is constructively midwifed. This can be done from now on and without further delay to strengthen the system and make things happen. Miscreants should be discouraged or deselected through a democratic process. This is unlikely to happen if important conversations on how to move Nigeria forward together, are imperiled by impassioned ethnic considerations and muddles.
It is important that attention and care are always given to who election candidates are, and who influence their selection. The selection process need not be by dire process. Leadership is a character business. It is also an attitude and knowledge business. Anyone with credible questionable antecedents should be discouraged from holding important political office. Unacceptable baggage should disqualify an aspiring politician from political office. Anyone who is the subject of serious allegations wishing not to be so disqualified, should redeem themselves directly and immediately and not rely primarily or exclusively on lackeys and proxies to speak for them. Then and only may they participate in the process. A system cannot be better than its operators.
You recall Bode George and his arraignment, prosecution, and conviction. He fell out of favor at the time. He found favor again and was pardoned. He is back. That is not what Nigeria’ needs or how Nigeria should work, if she is to become the country the majority of her citizens dream of, and deserve.
There is a certain prominent Nigerian politician alleged to be corrupt. He is widely believed to have acquired great wealth in political office. He says he is not corrupt and has challenges anyone to prove otherwise. There is no need to. Most Nigerians paying attention are aware of the magnitude of material change that has transpired in his life before and after he last served in high office. He knows that the web of corruption is so expansive that his prosecution will more than rock the apple cart. It may crash the system. He is very confident that there is no political will to go after him at this time. This may be one reason why he would not go away like some other corrupt leaders before him. Is he and others like him out of the woods? Time will tell.
It is understandable that you may not wish to characterize this politician for example as corrupt. That is not to say though that he is not. If he is true to himself, he knows what the truth is. In his solemn moments, he knows whether or not he is.
Anunoby, Ogugua
ba,
No one that I know ever suggested that all allegations of corruption are true in all cases. My point is that there are some who argue that unless there is successful legal prosecution and conviction in court, allegations of corruption could not be true. In the murky world of politics in Nigeria, the anti-corruption mechanism barely wporks, and is very selective when it does. Almost everything is also negotiable, now or later.
You point out “due process” for example. It is there indeed but does it work? It does not seem to work most of the time. The question may be asked why not? I believe I have one plausible answer- those who should work the system do not do as they should. This is indeed why only people who will faithfully work the system as it is designed and expected to work, should be appointed or elected into consequent positions.
This conversation is happening, for me at least, because my desire is that Nigeria only elects or appoints worthy people into positions from which “due process” for example is constructively midwifed. This can be done from now on and without further delay to strengthen the system and make things happen. Miscreants should be discouraged or deselected through a democratic process. This is unlikely to happen if important conversations on how to move Nigerians forward together, are imperiled by impassioned ethnic considerations and muddles.
It is important that attention and care are always given to who election candidates are, and who influence their selection. The selection process need not be by a dire process. Leadership is a character business. It is also an attitude and knowledge business. Anyone with credible, questionable antecedents should be discouraged from holding important political office. Unacceptable baggage should disqualify an aspiring politician from political office. Anyone who is the subject of serious allegations wishing not to be so disqualified, should redeem themselves directly and immediately and not rely primarily or exclusively on lackeys and proxies to speak for them. Then and only may they participate in the process. A system cannot be better than its operators.
You recall Bode George and his arraignment, prosecution, and conviction. He fell out of favor at the time. He found favor again and was pardoned. He is back. That is not what Nigeria’ needs or how Nigeria should work, if she is to become the country the majority of her citizens dream of, and deserve.
There is a certain prominent Nigerian politician alleged to be corrupt. He is widely believed to have acquired great wealth in political office. He says he is not corrupt and has challenged anyone to prove otherwise. There is no need to. Most Nigerians paying attention are aware of the magnitude of visible material change that has transpired in his life after he last served in high office. He knows that the web of corruption is so expansive that his prosecution will more than rock the pepper soup pot. It may crash the system. He is very confident that there is no political will to go after him at this time. This may be one reason why he would not go away like some other corrupt leaders before him. Is he and others like him out of the woods? Time will tell.
It is understandable that you may not wish to characterize this politician for example as corrupt. That is not to say though that he is not. If he is true to himself, he knows what the truth is. In his solemn moments, he knows whether or not he is corrupt.
Bayo Amos
Segun Ogungbemi
Segun Ogungbemi Ph.D
On Dec 19, 2014, at 11:57 PM, "'Ikhide' via USA Africa Dialogue Series" <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Let me speak one more time in the name of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Obafemi Awolowo, Tai Solarin, and Ambrose Alli, good men traumatized in "General" Buhari's Gulag. We are being dishonest and I will not shy away from what must be said. I return to the ethnicity factor. It is particularly telling that Yoruba intellectuals have praised to high heavens, the Buhari pretend-candidacy and have stayed silent about Tinubu. Those that have rightly criticized Buhari as unfit for leadership have no record either of publicly taking Tinubu to task. My theory is that to the extent that he is doing their job, they will be silent about his misdeed and criminal acts. Tinubu is a convicted felon, parades around with forged academic credentials and is probably one of the top ten most corrupt leaders Nigeria has ever been cursed to know. You will not hear any of this from a Yoruba thinker, certainly not publicly. Those that complain of ehnic baiting have been loudly silent about the crass ethnic baiting and manipulation that the Buhari pretend-candidacy is all about. Having failed to install himself as vice-president, Tinubu installed a lackey to that position. That lackey is Yoruba. Tinubu wants a Yoruba presidency next, after pretending to give it to the Hausa/Fulani. I honestly don't have a problem with that - as long as it is not Tinubu or his lackey.Why are the Yoruba tolerating and celebrating Muhammadu Buhari, an ethnic and religious bigot? I come to the conclusion that they are doing it for parochial and self-serving reasons, it is macchiavellian. Otherwise, they would shudder at the thought of installing Buhari, a man that treated Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Tai Solarin and Obafemi Awolowo, great icons of Nigeria like wretched criminals in a gulag. This is what Awolowo said of Buhari: "During the period of my house arrest ordered by Major General Buhari when he ousted Shagari's administration, I had a restriction within my room for 24 hours a day, and for somebody who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that was absolutely intolerable." I can imagine Awolowo and Solarin weeping in their graves at the perfidy of these new "leaders."This is all academic of course; my sense is that the PDP will remain in Aso Rock. I find that incredibly distressing. Goodluck Jonathan is not fit for the office of the presidency. But Tinubu er Buhari in Aso Rock would be even worse. The graft would continue unabated, with no serious attempt at making structural changes. It is tragic that we have come to this point where we have to choose between two evils, we should own a huge responsibility in the mess. What is our purpose? Are mere words enough? Obviously not. We have been complicit in the rot. For 15 years we have sat around either as part of the corruption or as silent, lazy witnesses to a looming conflagration. And the intellectual dishonesty is galling. One Jaye Gaskiya is on this list, a "comrade" who writes and says all the right things, but guess what, he was one of the many intellectuals that joined criminals lile Alaiyemeiseigha and Ibori at the recently concluded CONfab a glorified town hall meeting that gulped millions and millions of dollars. When I ask for a little bit of introspection, folks get all defensive and abusive. The truth hurts I imagine.We are being lazy and cowardly, we don't have it in us to fight our enemies. It is therefore my sincere hope that the PDP retains power. They will take us faster than the APC to that point where our backs will be against the wall and we will have to fight our traducers. Right now, Tinubu is playing the ethnic card, baiting us callously by dangling before us an ethnic and religious bigot with a history of rank hatred for those not from his side of the world - as change agent. Awolowo would have had something to say about that. I knew Awolowo, Tinubu is no Awolowo.PS. I am not Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, I am a minority within the Edo minority group. a double minority. I just want the best for Nigeria. I was born in Lagos and lived in places like Moor Plantation and Ibadan, there really is no incentive for me to engage in ethnic-baiting, whatever that means. It is just that I have no hesitation in having certain conversations. Buhari is bad for Nigeria. The good news is that we will have no opportunity to suffer his nonsense. Tinubu is bad for Nigeria. This is a man who forfeited almost $500,000 for his complicity in drug trafficking in the US, come on... You don't hear our public intellectuals talking about it. What is wrong with us?
The APC has more than an image problem. The APC is the problem.
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What if APC is another “hambuger”? Some Nigerians seem to believe that it most likely is or less. One skull for a similar skull is not a value deal. There is neither value creation nor value added. Comparison or change for its own sake is usually not advisable. Either one is more likely a losing proposition. Why create and pay the associated costs? Either one would be too much of a leap in the dark.
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The APC has more than an image problem. The APC is the problem.
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Actually the facebook post put up by Ikhide went out of its way to criticize the Yoruba (except for the ones in Ekiti and Ondo - presumably because they voted for Ayo Fayose and because Segun Mimiko joined the ruling party) for political choices they have made and political choices they are yet to make. Having opened his post with a diatribe against Tinubu, Ikhide ended his remarks by saying that the post (complaining about the Yoruba) had made some points and that "truth hurts". That is indeed ethnic bigotry, and of the highest order.As it happens, my law partner is a leading member of Afenifere which has remained in resolute opposition to the series of parties with which Tinubu has been involved, while the immediate response of my 84 year old mother to the "It's Jonathan v Buhari" headline was "I can't vote for Buhari." Both are Yoruba. In fact, as I write, of those closest to me who are also Yoruba, I am struggling to think of one who is definitely going to vote for the presidential candidate of the party of which Tinubu is a leader. At best you have several who like me, are wondering whether the past sins and outdated ideas of Buhari can or should outweigh the callous incompetence of the Jonathan administration over the insurgency in the NE.As for Tinubu, I am not interested in deflecting accusations of corruption against him. Why should I be? Since I am not seised of the facts (unlike those who are so sure that Tinubu would put out a statement of the kind under discussion without ever having been offered the running mate position!) I do not need to be "coy" about anything. He himself said that he has developed a thick skin (but not a thick brain). The ones who posture about libel actions are the same ones who will talk of judges being intimidated by Senior Advocates of Nigeria lol. Of course, I forget how obsessed some Nigerians (home and abroad) are about paper qualifications, but if somebody wants to go to town on an FBI report that one Tinubo (or some similar such misspelling) did not attend Chicago University, that is their privilege.But I wonder what relevance that has to Nigeria in its present situation. Personally, I respect and even admire Tinubu for the work he has put in to build up a credible opposition party. Since I do not belong to the school of thought that insists that everybody must vote for the winning or ruling party, I believe that Nigerian democracy will be the better for it.
Ayo
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IA,Do you need reminding that truth is vindication for libel? No character is being assassinated here. Tinubu knows what to do to correct including end the enduring reports on his alleged rape of public treasuries- challenge his accusers in court. Why has he not?I am not able to see why to criticize Tinubu for some people is to criticize his ethnic group. Tinubu is one member of his ethnic group. He is not the archetypically representative of the group. The man is a politician. His actions impacts on people’s lives. He is fair game for public comment. He chose to dance in the public square. People watching expect quality entertainment. He had better be a good dancer. He does not seem to have been to many attentive spectators.oaFrom: usaafric...@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafric...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ibigbolade Aderibigbe
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 9:28 AM
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It is quite strange that discussions have been limited primarily to assassination of characters and ethnic bigotry by Ikhide and Anunoby Ogugua. Nothing so far has been issues based!! Sensationalism and emotionally charged hatred for persons and an ethnic group offer no solutions to the "sorry State" of the Nigerian State. if this direction of of discourse is the only means of expression by those who would like to be regarded as intellectuals- then no wonder Nigeria is trapped in its present predicaments and I doubt if it will ever overcome them.. WHAT A SHAME!!!
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:14 AM, 'Ikhide' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
“There came a time during the course of the events when our Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, offered me the Vice Presidential slot. Being a normal human being, I was deeply moved and honoured that he would consider me for the position. Being a patriot, I had to weigh my potential candidacy in all of its dimensions."
I happen to know that this did not happen. Buhari did not offer Bola Ahmed Tinubu the job. I happen to know that this is a lie. I dare the APC to contradict me. For ione thing Buhari was not that attentive; the poor old man just wants to be a president, he is hostage to a number of malevolent forces, Tinubu being one. He was given Tinubu's lackey as proxy for Tinubu's filthy paws into Nigeria's future - and fortunes and he had to "approve" this message as compromise.And then this howler:
“I have concluded that the interest of the party, our campaign and that of the nation are better served if I retain my position as the National leader of the APC, allowing me to be a bridge builder across all divides."
The problem here with both statements though is that they effectively eliminate the APC's attempt at a compelling message - stamping out graft. Imagine for instance an Obama promising to stamp out graft by making a mafia don the chairman of the Democratic Party. It calls to serious question the judgment of the APC. It has put paid to the myth that the APC is a force for positive, meaningful change. If they had any credibility in the first place, it is all gone. In any case, Tinubu's disgusting ambitions have effectively turned Nigeria into a one-party state. I honestly believe like many reasonable people that Mr. Goodluck Jonathan is unfit for another four years in Aso Rock. Like them however, I believe Buhari's somnolent tenure in the company of thieves and bad people will only take us to hell. I refuse to move from the current hell to another. Tinubu helps make my case compelling.You will note how commenters here and on social media carefully avoid the question on the table, the big elephant in the room: What is someone as odious as Tinubu doing in our midst trying to convince us he is the change we need? Our public intellectuals are the problem.
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To: "usaafric...@googlegroups.com (USAAfric...@googlegroups.com)" <usaafric...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 12:25 AM
Subject: FW: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Tinubu loses Vice Presidential slot, pledges to support Buhari, Osinbajo“He (Tinubu) and the APC have virtually all public intellectuals looking the other way. And somehow he has conned many Yoruba into false expectations about leading Nigeria. Which leads to provocative Facebook posts like this from Nwachukwu Ugochukwu:”IkhideIkhide railed against Tinubu as a politician he believes is grossly unfit for political leadership and therefore undeserving of a seat at the high table of public discourse and service. Many attentive Nigerians would agree. Tinubu in his reported statement on Buhari’s choice of a running mate, acknowledged that he has integrity and accreditation challenges and many political and other enemies.The concern for Tinubu’s critics must be that Tinubu secured the next best deal possible. He shuffled a protégé with “significant” marriage connections into the APC vice president slot as he was expected to do. Tinubu was not let into the room by the front door, he slipped into the room by the back door. The APC must hope that the protégé’s connections by marriage, will win her a majority of votes in South-Western Nigeria.Time will tell whether Tinubu’s imprint on the APC presidential ticket will deliver this promise and not be another case of “here comes the conman with his con-plans” as Bob Marley famously said.oa
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Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 4:03 PM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Tinubu loses Vice Presidential slot, pledges to support Buhari, Osinbajo
I, too, would like to register my surprise and indignation that Ikhide would endorse and repost such blatant ethnic baiting. The writer makes valid points about the hypocrisy of the "Lagos-Ibadan," "progressive" journalistic and intellectual axis and the way its members have given a pass to Tinubu and other tainted people in the opposition, a disposition which contradicts their vocal and justified denunciation of similar vices on the part of Jonathan and members of the PDP incumbency. However, he ruined these points by accusing a phantom "Yoruba" mindset and by ethnicizing the sins of a multiethnic opposition.
The self-proclaimed "progressive" wing of the Nigerian intellectual and journalistic classes, which includes, for lack of a better term, the human rights conglomerate or community, is hardly synonymous with Yoruba. It is a cast that includes many members from other ethnic groups. Moreover, while most of its members are Southerners and its ideological epicenters are in the South, it counts many northerners among its members. It is true that this broad constituency is largely in the camp of the national opposition, however much they deny it, and that a variety of reasons may account for this, including primordial considerations. It is also true that the Southern Nigerian press has traditionally been sympathetic to the opposition parties (AD, ACN, APC while their northern Nigerian counterparts have been sympathetic to the ANPP, CPC, and now APC). However, there are cogent explanations for this reality, ranging from patterns of media ownership to the need to maintain the illusion of distance from the government, to the accident of location. Moreover, the picture that emerges from all this is not one that indicts any single ethnic group. Rather it is one in which many people covering the ethnic and regional breadths of Nigeria are implicated in the hypocrisy and selective outrage that the writer (and Ikhide) points to.By the way, Tinubu's drug trafficking history was the subject of several explosive reports done by Saharareporters several years ago. A quick search on that site should produce links to the stories. Those stories relied mostly on judicial records of drug proceeds forfeiture proceedings in the US. The records are there. Where did he get money to almost singlehandedly fund NADECO, NALICON, and other pro-democracy groups during the Abacha days, a contribution for which he was given the AD governorship ticket ahead of Funsho Williams who won the primary election? PDP have their Buruji Kashamu, another drug baron, and APC have their Bola Tinubu.And, of course, all of Tinubu's known certificates, including his School Cert. are forged. Several publications published exposes on his fake secondary school, Chicago State, and NYC certificates when he was governor, and the late Gani Fawehinmi went to court to try and have him convicted of perjury only to be intimidated and frustrated by Tinubu's thugs and compromised judges. Moreover, just a few days ago, Saharareporters published a letter supplied by an FBI personnel confirming that Tinubu did not attend Chicago State.
So, Ayo, unless you have proof that Tinubu is who/what he says he is, it is disingenuous to dismiss as unsubstantiated allegations for which documentary proofs have existed in the public domain for a while.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Shola Adenekan <sholaa...@gmail.com> wrote:Ayo, many thanks for this. It seems to me Oga Ikhide is using Fox News' tactics here - implicitly condemning a whole ethnic just because of the sin of one man. This is a side of Oga Ikhide I didn't know exist until now! Those of us who constantly berate racist folks cannot in any way promote ethnic baiting. Bigotry is bigotry whether directed at African Americans or Yoruba people.Beside, as you rightly point out, it is the same Yoruba people who overwhelmingly voted for President Jonathan four years ago. I guess we should not let the facts stand in the way of (subtle) bigotry.Apologies for the multiple posting. I'm writing and editing on my iPhone whilst getting my 14 days old daughter ready for bed!
On 17 December 2014 at 21:36, Shola Adenekan <sholaa...@gmail.com> wrote:Ayo, many thanks for this. It seems to me Oga Ikhide is using Fox News tactics here - implicitly condemning a whole ethnic just because of the sin of one man. This is a side of Oga Ikhide I didn't know exist until now! Those of us who constantly berate racist folks cannot in any way promote ethnic baiting. Bigotry is bigotry whether directed at African Americans or Yoruba people.Beside, as you rightly point out, it is the same Yoruba people who overwhelmingly voted for President Jonathan four years ago. I guess we should not let the facts stand in the way of (subtle) bigotry.
On 17 December 2014 at 21:36, Shola Adenekan <sholaa...@gmail.com> wrote:Ayo, many thanks for this. It seems to me Oga Ikhide is using Fox News' tactics here - implicitly condemning a whole ethnic just because of the sin of one man. This is a side of Oga Ikhide I didn't know about until now! Those of us who constantly berates racist folks cannot in any way promote ethnic baiting. Bigotry is bigotry whether directed at African Americans or Yoruba people.Beside, as you rightly point out, it is the same Yoruba people who overwhelmingly voted for President Jonathan four years ago. I guess we should not let the facts stand in the way of (subtle) bigotry.
On 17 December 2014 at 21:24, Shola Adenekan <sholaa...@gmail.com> wrote:Ayo, many thanks for this. It seems to me Oga Ikhide is using Fox News tactics here - implicitly condemning a whole ethnic just because of the sin of one man. This is a side of Oga Ikhide I didn't know exist until now! Those of us who constantly berates racist folks cannot in any way promote ethnic baiting. Bigotry is bigotry whether directed at African Americans or Yoruba people.
Beside, as you rightly point out, it is the same Yoruba people who overwhelmingly voted for President Jonathan four years ago. I guess we should not let the facts stand in the way of (subtle) bigotry.
On Wednesday, December 17, 2014, Ayo Obe <ayo.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
Ikhide, I am disappointed in your response, and that you are finding "some points" in the Facebook response to the statement by Bola Tinubu which I thought quite patriotic and statesmanlike. Now, I don't expect you to approve it or even to find it inspiring and commendable (as I do), but the relentless sneering and repetition of allegations for which there doesn't seem to be any foundation (I am hearing the 'drug baron' one for the first time though) does little or nothing to change the level of political discourse.There is no doubt that many expected the APC to break up over the choice of a presidential candidate, a running mate and so on, and now that that has not happened, they are having to reach into the bottom of the barrel of ethnic stereotypes and insults to mask their disappointment, though it's not clear whether those insults are supposed to encourage the Yoruba to vote for the Jonathan/Sambo ticket, or just to persuade them not to vote for the Buhari/Osinbajo one, if at all they are all supposed to vote only one way. Is it not ridiculous to stereotype a whole people just because of political choices that they make or do not make? The people of Ekiti who are exempted from the vituperations against the Yoruba, how many of them voted for Kayode Fayemi? Are they also exempted or does the saintlihood depend on how only the majority voted? What were the Yoruba when they voted for Jonathan in 2011?The Facebook writer goes completely and offensively overboard in his determination to express his hatred for Tinubu and the Yoruba. Yes that hurts, but not for the reason Ikhide thinks, and certainly not because it is "the truth", I mean how many newspapers are there in the South West that they are all in Tinubu's pocket? Is Vanguard one of them? The Sun? Tribune? I don't know whether the writer lives in Lagos or even Nigeria, but for his and Ikhide's information Tinubu stopped being Governor of Lagos State more than seven years ago and is not running for any office. In case you hadn't noticed, godfathers have a history of being cast aside in Nigerian politics. If they endure, it might just be because they have something else to offer. So why not get all bent out of shape about something else please.
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On Dec 17, 2014, at 5:35 PM, 'Ikhide' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Here is Bola Ahmed Tinubu conceding the loss of the APC's vice presidential slot to someone else, whose name fails me, never heard of him before!“There came a time during the course of the events when our Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, offered me the Vice Presidential slot. Being a normal human being, I was deeply moved and honoured that he would consider me for the position. Being a patriot, I had to weigh my potential candidacy in all of its dimensions.“I have concluded that the interest of the party, our campaign and that of the nation are better served if I retain my position as the National leader of the APC, allowing me to be a bridge builder across all divides.“I sincerely commit myself to the rescue agenda of General Buhari and Professor Osinbajo.“I declare to you, I will work and dedicate myself so that our ticket succeeds and wins the 2015 election — not for his good, not for my good, not even for the party’s good but for the good of our nation.”Hahahahahahahahahaha!So our REFORMER offered TINUBU the vice presidential slot? So Buhari really, really, realy thought offering a goat custody of the yam barn was the best way to reform the barn? I hear!Do you now understand why our country is in deep trouble?
Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the National leader of the APC - the change agent. Reflect upon that. And after you are through laughing, start weeping. We are not serious!Tinubu really thought himself qualified to be vice president of, not a jail yard, but of a real country? Really? Seriously?We are not a serious people. I have to say that Tinubu is a very lucky man. He has all the newspapers in the South West in his pocket. He and the APC have virtually all public intellectuals looking the other way. And somehow he has conned many Yoruba into false expectations about leading Nigeria. Which leads to provocative Facebook posts like this from Nwachukwu Ugochukwu:"The Yoruba always want to turn logic on its head. If Buhari was coming out from PDP and GEJ from APC, honestly, we would have been bombarded with how evil Buhari was and how he was a dictator, jailing, killing innocent people.We would have heard about how he was poor but uses bulletproof cars, poor but uses a private jet. We would have heard about how 2 billion dollars disappeared and appeared in his London account....If Tinubu, a man with a fake name, a known drug baron whose case is still in the USA, was the leader of another tribe, Nigerians would have been bombarded with how evil such a tribe is and how they worship money.If Tinubu, a man without an ordinary O level WAEC results was the political leader of another tribe in Nigeria, be it Hausa, Igbo etc and belongs to a different political party than our "saintly" tribe, we would have been bombarded with how such people are religious and ethnic bigots.If GEJ was in APC, Yoruba professors would have come out enmasse to teach Nigerians that truly stealing is not the same as corruption as you cannot use the words interchangeably. While some form of stealing can be corruption, one can comfortably say "all Nigerians are corrupt" but one cannot say "all Nigerians are thieves".The Yoruba (not all of them as I have faith in the majority like Ekiti, Ondo, etc) have always sought to deceive those Nigerians who will listen to their ever changing values.They started the infamous cross-carpeting that introduced tribalism in Nigerian politics.Deceive who you can but not me. The whole "corruption" thing was created in the media immediately the formed APC to deceive their brothers into believing GEJ is corrupt. How can a man like Tinubu talk about corruption?"He has made many compelling points. The truth hurts.Anyway, read the rest of the article:
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