BREAKING NEWS: Olurin hands over to Hon. Tope Ademiluyi in 10mins!!
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Mobolaji ALUKO
Apr 27, 2007, 10:45:25 AM4/27/07
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GUARDIAN NEWS UPDATE
UPDATED AT 15.40 GMT
Ekiti Speaker takes over from Olurin
President Olusegun Obasanjo has ordered the Ekiti State Sole Administrator, Brig-Gen. Adetunji Olurin (rtd), to hand over the reigns of administration in the state to the Speaker of the state House of Assembly as at October 18, 2006,
Tope Ademiluyi.
The Presidency had on Thursday shed more light on the continued stay of the Ekiti State Sole Administrator in office 72 hours after the National Assembly failed to endorse the instrument that would have legalised his stay in Ado Ekiti. Olurin, according to the Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, is still in office because President Olusegun Obasanjo had not been formally informed of the decision of the National Assembly.
Ita-Giwa said in a statement in Abuja on Thursday that contrary to newspaper reports, the Ekiti State Administrator was not defying the National Assembly in its Tuesday's decision terminating the state of emergency in that state. "This is because due legislative procedure requires that both chambers of the NASS (National Assembly) would meet the day after their separate decisions to formally ratify and confirm their votes and proceedings of the previous day in which the decisions were made. Due legislative procedure also requires that thereafter the Clerk of the National Assembly would formally serve Mr. President with the decision of the two chambers via the Office of the Special Adviser NASS. To the best of our knowledge, neither of these has yet been done. Mr. President is still awaiting the conclusion of these procedures and would act as appropriate, as soon as he is formally served."
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ALUKO COMMENTARY
Handing over to "Acting Speaker" Tope Ademiluyi instead of "Speaker" Friday Aderemi?
When Fayose and Olujinmi were impeached last year, the Speaker of the House Aderemi became Governor, and a new Speaker Ademiluyi was chosen.
When the National Assembly shot down Obasanjo's State of Emergency extension a few days ago, the NASS asked that situation reverse to status quo before Olurin was installed, and hence he should hand over to Speaker Aderemi who had assumed governorship.
But this is now how President Obasanjo exercises his aberrant powers: When the House says that Olurin should hand over to the Speaker Friday Aderemi (and lately Acting Governor), he takes it to mean that the House meant "Acting Speaker" Ademiluyi rather than Acting Governor (and substantive Speaker) Aderemi?
And I am sure that Obasanjo and Bayo Ojo - and whoever else advises them - are smiling!
Wonders will never cease!
My compatriots, come May 30, Obasanjo will become the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP.
And this is the POLITICAL PARTY that will rule Nigeria?
We likely will see far more brigandage like this in coming years, with all these illegal shenanigans going on!
Bolaji Aluko
Shaking his head
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Apr 27, 2007, 9:00:30 PM4/27/07
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Letter to Africa
Snippett, "He (Obasanjo) has selected and handed the presidency to Governor Yar’Adua in the hope that he would continue to run the government, but as a commentator recently pleaded, he hoped that Yar’Adua would betray Obasanjo. In order to continue the charade, the selected winner Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has called for reconciliation. Nobody has anything against the Governor. He might conceivably be a good man, but if he believes that he won the election freely and fairly, the best thing would be to reject the result and resubmit himself to an untainted and credible election to get a mandate that Nigerians would be proud of, not one manipulated by an megalomaniac like President Obasanjo."
No military man went on the radio in the wee hours of the morning, as is usually the case in most military take-overs of a government, to announce that he had ousted the present government, for all kinds of reasons. There were no staccati of AK-47 heard in the capital city or within the vicinity of the presidential palace, known as Aso Rock. There were no military vehicles or tanks stationed at strategic intersections of the major cities of the country.
However, despite the absence of the above signs, what just happened in Nigeria in the most disgusting and embarrassing episode of a black nation, considered the pride of the Black Race, is nothing but a military coup, carried out by an individual who is adept at carrying coup d’etats, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria. Obasanjo was a general in the Nigerian military, and still is as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian army. Throughout his life, he has lived a military life, a military life spent in governing than in fighting meaning wars against foreign enemies.
Obasanjo first ruled Nigeria as a military head of state from 1976-1979, after the murder of his co-coup plotter and then Head of State, Murtala Muhammed. After three years, he organized a election marred by accusations of rigging. However, Nigerians accepted the verdict because of the perception thaat the opposition candidate couldn’t have won. The international community acclaimed hiim for being the first military man, in a long line of military despots in Africa, to hand over power peacefully to an democratically elected government. Obasanjo basked in this revelry of acclaims, to a point that he was rumored to be considered for the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
However, Obasanjo’s fate changed in 1995 when another one of Nigeria’s military dictators, General Sani Abacha, accused of plotting to overthrow his dictatorial government, and promptly clamped him in jail, to the consternation of the international community and appeals for pardon, and not to hang him. Obasanjo stayed in jail until the death of Gen. Abacha, and was released by Abacha’s successor, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar. Abubakar decided he would not stay in office longer than a year, and looking to assuage the Yoruba ethnic group in Nigeria for having denied Chief M.K.O. Abiola his mandate for winning an election annulled by Gen. Babangida, selected Obasanjo to usher in an civilian government.
Unfortunately for Nigerians who voted for him with the anticipation that he would be the champion of the democracy that they had so craved for many years, have had nothing to show for choosing him other than his unbridled ambition of perpetuating himself in office. The Nigerian constitution limits presidents to two terms of office for a maximum of eight years. However, as soon as Obasanjo was elected to a second term in 2003, he began plotting how to perpetually stay in office. He devised a means of getting the Nigerian constitution changed, and spent a great deal of the Nigerian treasury pursuing his ambitions. It culminated in the Nigerian Senate handing him a devastating defeat by denying the constitutional amendment. After that Obasanjo vowed that he would not hand over to a candidate not of his own choosing.
With the denial of a third term, and perpetually governing Nigeria, Obasanjo chosee first to make himself life chairman of his party, which he had no hand in forming, and proceeded to deny the Vice President Atiku Abubakar any opportunity to run for the presidency.
It is in light of this ambition, that Obasanjo decided to orchestrate a charade of Nigerians going through the pretense voting, and making choices of those they feel would represent them and relieve them of the most dangerous period they have lived in the last eight years of Prresident Obasanjo’s misrule in Nigeria. But as has been affirmed by Nigerians and international observers, the “election” was nothing but a charade. While the “election” was conducted on Saturday the 21st of April, the South African companies that printed the ballot papers are now singing about how they couldn’t print the right kind of ballot papers, and how some of those ballot boxes are in South Africa, yet they were counted for the winner.
Obasanjo has achieved his aim of perpetuating himself in office, a feat he couldn’t do through the democratic process, but through selecting Governor Umaru Yar’Adua to succeed him. However, through his myopia, he has forgotten the fate of the man, Gen. Sani Abacha, who jailed and almost executed him.
He has selected and handed the presidency to Governor Yar’Adua in the hope that he would continue to run the government, but as a commentator recently pleaded, he hoped that Yar’Adua would betray Obasanjo. In order to continue the charade, the selected winner Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has called for reconciliation. Nobody has anything against the Governor. He might conceivably be a good man, but if he believes that he won the election freely and fairly, the best thing would be to reject the result and submit himself to an untainted and credible election to get a mandate that Nigerians would be proud of, not one manipulated by an megalomaniac like President Obasanjo.
OBASANJO'S COUP D'ETAT IN NIGERIA
By Chika Onyeani
African Sun Times, Vol. 17 No. 26, April 30-May 6, 2007 -
www.africansuntimes.com
By Chika Onyeani
African Sun Times, Vol. 17 No. 26, April 30-May 6, 2007 -
www.africansuntimes.com
Snippett, "He (Obasanjo) has selected and handed the presidency to Governor Yar’Adua in the hope that he would continue to run the government, but as a commentator recently pleaded, he hoped that Yar’Adua would betray Obasanjo. In order to continue the charade, the selected winner Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has called for reconciliation. Nobody has anything against the Governor. He might conceivably be a good man, but if he believes that he won the election freely and fairly, the best thing would be to reject the result and resubmit himself to an untainted and credible election to get a mandate that Nigerians would be proud of, not one manipulated by an megalomaniac like President Obasanjo."
No military man went on the radio in the wee hours of the morning, as is usually the case in most military take-overs of a government, to announce that he had ousted the present government, for all kinds of reasons. There were no staccati of AK-47 heard in the capital city or within the vicinity of the presidential palace, known as Aso Rock. There were no military vehicles or tanks stationed at strategic intersections of the major cities of the country.
However, despite the absence of the above signs, what just happened in Nigeria in the most disgusting and embarrassing episode of a black nation, considered the pride of the Black Race, is nothing but a military coup, carried out by an individual who is adept at carrying coup d’etats, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria. Obasanjo was a general in the Nigerian military, and still is as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian army. Throughout his life, he has lived a military life, a military life spent in governing than in fighting meaning wars against foreign enemies.
Obasanjo first ruled Nigeria as a military head of state from 1976-1979, after the murder of his co-coup plotter and then Head of State, Murtala Muhammed. After three years, he organized a election marred by accusations of rigging. However, Nigerians accepted the verdict because of the perception thaat the opposition candidate couldn’t have won. The international community acclaimed hiim for being the first military man, in a long line of military despots in Africa, to hand over power peacefully to an democratically elected government. Obasanjo basked in this revelry of acclaims, to a point that he was rumored to be considered for the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
However, Obasanjo’s fate changed in 1995 when another one of Nigeria’s military dictators, General Sani Abacha, accused of plotting to overthrow his dictatorial government, and promptly clamped him in jail, to the consternation of the international community and appeals for pardon, and not to hang him. Obasanjo stayed in jail until the death of Gen. Abacha, and was released by Abacha’s successor, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar. Abubakar decided he would not stay in office longer than a year, and looking to assuage the Yoruba ethnic group in Nigeria for having denied Chief M.K.O. Abiola his mandate for winning an election annulled by Gen. Babangida, selected Obasanjo to usher in an civilian government.
Unfortunately for Nigerians who voted for him with the anticipation that he would be the champion of the democracy that they had so craved for many years, have had nothing to show for choosing him other than his unbridled ambition of perpetuating himself in office. The Nigerian constitution limits presidents to two terms of office for a maximum of eight years. However, as soon as Obasanjo was elected to a second term in 2003, he began plotting how to perpetually stay in office. He devised a means of getting the Nigerian constitution changed, and spent a great deal of the Nigerian treasury pursuing his ambitions. It culminated in the Nigerian Senate handing him a devastating defeat by denying the constitutional amendment. After that Obasanjo vowed that he would not hand over to a candidate not of his own choosing.
With the denial of a third term, and perpetually governing Nigeria, Obasanjo chosee first to make himself life chairman of his party, which he had no hand in forming, and proceeded to deny the Vice President Atiku Abubakar any opportunity to run for the presidency.
It is in light of this ambition, that Obasanjo decided to orchestrate a charade of Nigerians going through the pretense voting, and making choices of those they feel would represent them and relieve them of the most dangerous period they have lived in the last eight years of Prresident Obasanjo’s misrule in Nigeria. But as has been affirmed by Nigerians and international observers, the “election” was nothing but a charade. While the “election” was conducted on Saturday the 21st of April, the South African companies that printed the ballot papers are now singing about how they couldn’t print the right kind of ballot papers, and how some of those ballot boxes are in South Africa, yet they were counted for the winner.
Obasanjo has achieved his aim of perpetuating himself in office, a feat he couldn’t do through the democratic process, but through selecting Governor Umaru Yar’Adua to succeed him. However, through his myopia, he has forgotten the fate of the man, Gen. Sani Abacha, who jailed and almost executed him.
He has selected and handed the presidency to Governor Yar’Adua in the hope that he would continue to run the government, but as a commentator recently pleaded, he hoped that Yar’Adua would betray Obasanjo. In order to continue the charade, the selected winner Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has called for reconciliation. Nobody has anything against the Governor. He might conceivably be a good man, but if he believes that he won the election freely and fairly, the best thing would be to reject the result and submit himself to an untainted and credible election to get a mandate that Nigerians would be proud of, not one manipulated by an megalomaniac like President Obasanjo.
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