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[Okey Iheduru]

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Problem viewing this email? Click here for our mobile version | Send to a friend January 2015 2015 Call for Applications APSA Africa Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya   Dear Colleague,   APSA and the United States International University-Africa (USIU) are pleased to announce a call for applications from early-career scholars who would like to participate in a workshop on “Conflict and Political Violence.” The two-week workshop will be held from July 20 – 31, 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. The organizers, with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will cover all the costs of participation (including travel, lodging, meals, and materials) for up to 26 qualified applicants. The workshop will be conducted in English.   The deadline for applications is March 15, 2015. Program information and application instructions can be found online at www.apsanet.org/africaworkshops.   The upcoming workshop is the eighth and final conference in APSA’s annual Africa Workshop program; previous workshops have been held in Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Senegal, and Tanzania. By bringing together up to 22 Africa-based scholars, as well as four advanced PhD students from US-based universities, the program aims to support political science research and teaching in Sub-Saharan Africa and strengthen research networks linking US scholars with their colleagues overseas. While the event primarily caters to political scientists, it is also open to scholars from any social science discipline with research relevant to the workshop theme. Since 2008, approximately 200 African and US-based scholars have taken part in the workshop series. APSA, with support from the Mellon Foundation, covers all costs associated with participation.   The 2015 workshop will be led by John Clark (Florida International University, USA), Pamela Mbabazi (Mbarara University of Science & Technology, Uganda), Kennedy Mkutu (United States International University, Kenya), and Beth Elise Whitaker (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA). The two-week program will examine research on the sources of armed conflict and mechanisms for resolving conflict. The course syllabus will situate research on African conflicts within the broader political science literature on peace and conflict to facilitate a dialogue between case-based and cross-national studies. The primary goal of the workshop is to support participants in publishing their research.   I encourage you to consider this opportunity and share among your colleagues and networks.   Sincerely,   Andrew Stinson Manager, International Workshops American Political Science Association www.apsanet.org/africaworkshops American Political Science Association 1527 New Hampshire Ave, NW Washington, DC 20036-1206 Ph: (202) 483-2512 Fx: (202) 483-2657 E-Mail: ap...@apsanet.org

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[Chika Onyeani]

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[Salimonu Kadiri]

Chika Onyeani, the author of 5 REASONS GEN. BUHARI WILL LOSE HIS FOURTH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN NIGERIA is an impostor cum anarchist, otherwise the title of his write-up ought to have been, '5 REASONS GEN. BUHARI SHOULD LOSE HIS FOURTH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN NIGERIA.' But as an impostor Chika has made his personal opinion to be that of all Nigerians and from that point of departure he decided that Gen. Buhari will lose his fourth presidential election in Nigeria. 
 
The five barefaced falsehood which Chika Onyeani has advanced to discredit Gen. Buhari are not new and can be likened to the character of goats who will adamantly return to eat cassava irrespective of repeated severe flogging by the cassava owner. However, the falsehood in item 2 and 3 of Chika Onyeani's essay deserves to be corrected. He wrote, "And since the return to democracy ... Buhari ... has run for presidential elections three times, each time as head of a political party that he formed." The Presidential candidate of APP (All Peoples' Party) in 1999 was Olu Falae but in 2003, members of APP appealed to Buhari to be their Presidential flag bearer, which he accepted. Before  2007 elections, APP had changed its name to ANPP and of which Buhari won the Presidential primary. The declared winner of 2007 election, Umaru Yar'Adua, admitted that the election was flawed but promised to form a national government of major political parties. Although the ANPP leaderships encouraged Buhari to challenge the result of the Presidential election in the court, the then Chairman of the ANPP, Ume Ezeoke, went behind Buhari to send a list of ANPP would be ministers to Yar'Adua. After losing the case against Yar'Adua, Buhari left ANPP to form CPC party on whose platform he contested the Presidential election in 2011. It is therefore a gross misrepresentation of facts to say that Buhari had formed three different political parties under which he had contested presidential elections. The truth is that after being betrayed on election petition issues he formed only one party, which was CPP. The present APC is an amalgamation of several political parties including CPC. The presidential primary election of APC that was held in Lagos on 10 December 2014, was contested by five candidates of which Buhari emerged a winner.

 

The third item in Chika Onyeani's diatribe against Buhari is a stinky intellectual diarrhoea when he said that Buhari is lawless and not answerable to Nigerians. Yet, part of the open letter written by Buhari to APC delegates at the Party's Presidential candidate primary election, Wednesday, 10 December 2014, read, "My Dear Delegates, .. I have placed myself before you seeking your help to nominate me as your standard bearer for our progressive party, APC. Personal ambition does not drive me in this regard. I seek to be the next president of our beloved nation because I believe I have something to offer Nigeria at this time of multiple crises. Insecurity, corruption, and economic collapse have brought the nation low. Time is past due that we work together to lift Nigeria up. I am ready to lead Nigeria to its rightful future.

I do not intend to rule Nigeria. I WANT TO DEMOCRATICALLY GOVERN IT WITH YOUR HELP. I seek a Nigeria where Christians and Muslims may practise their faiths in peace and security, a Nigeria that is just and where corruption no longer trespasses into our institutions and national behaviour and a Nigeria where our diversity could be used for our national prosperity." Chika Onyeani!! A lawless person who is not answerable to Nigerians cannot and will not write in the manner that Buhari has done. It might be asking for too much from you to expect that you should comprehend the contents of Buhari's letter if you are one of those people Jesus referred to in the Bible (Mathew) when he said, "Seeing they shall see but shall not perceive, hearing they shall hear but shall not understand, because their ears are wax grossed."

 

If Jonathan is lawful and answerable to Nigerians, let him release the International Audit report on NNPC about the missing $ 20 billion crude oil earnings that has been submitted to the Ministry of Finance since the middle of November 2014.

 

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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Dear Dr. Chika Onyeani,

Methinks that like all the good Goodluck Jonathan supporters you too have belboured the point ad nauseam, that should Muhammadu Buhari win the elections on 14^th February, even when democratically elected he will start jailing people and confiscating their properties  like a military dictator or issuing decrees and fatwas like Saddam Hussein the Caliph of Baghdad, that it’s in his genetic code, although you can give no reason/s for making such a supposition.

Instead of wasting time overemphasizing something unlikely for someone who will be governed by the Nigerian Constitution, in my humble opinion it would be more profitable for us all if we could be taking a good look at what the two presidential candidates intend to do for the good of Nigeria as per their manifestos and what they and their running mates have been saying.

If indeed your predicament is “ better the devil that you know” ( the democratically  elected  vice president who became  President Goodluck Jonathan ) than the devil you don’t know  although he also has the potential to be democratically elected  this time round, his fourth attempt to be elected by the popular ballot and his persistence surely means that he believes in the democratic route to government doesn’t it?

One would have thought that a self-satisfied Goodlook Jonathan – if indeed he is satisfied with his performance so far, would be emphasizing continuity – more of the same  from him for the people of Nigeria and not only for the types of Nigerians who celebrated “Goodluck Jonathan Appreciation Day” last year.

I’m impressed by this little news item: Nigeria now has 21 functional steel mills – Aganga

In the next two weeks of canvassing for your man you could be bring more  of such forward looking realities to light – and leave the religious bigots to their bigotry, the tribalists to their divisiveness and of course the political harlots to their harlotry.

As a successful business entrepreneur yourself, I wonder how you think of corruption as one of the greatest impediments to Nigeria’s greater success in all spheres – and how corruption should be morally and legally combated.

Best Regards

Cornelius

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