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May 30th, 2007
May 30th, 2007
Mimiko is Who the People Want
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This is indeed true. MIMIKO WAS NOT ONLY WANTED BUT VOTED IN BY ALL THE WELL MEANING SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF ONDO STATE. HE GOT 80% OF THE OVERALL VOTES IN ONDO STATE. Mimiko is still very much who the people want in Ondo state. Imposing KING SAUL AGAGU on the people after he has lost his fellowship with God and after God has rejected him and after he has resorted to consulting mediums and speaking to the dead, and after he is being daily tormented by an evil spirit that makes him behave like a lunatic and after his hands have been soiled by the blood of the innocent and more importantly AFTER THE LORD HAS COMMANDED SAMUEL TO ANOINT DAVID i.e. THE PEOPLE HAVE VOTED IN MIMIKO AS ORDAINED BY GOD, is sheer madness and will not augur well for the people in Ondo state. This is why there is no festivity, gaeity, joy or peace in Ondo state for now. Agagu must be disrobed and sent packing from Ondo state if we really want to witness the belssings of God. We cannot go against the Will of the almighty Jehovah. He cleared the way for MIMIKO to have the popularity and landslide victory in spite of the odds and God will not permit us to go against His Will in Ondo state. Anyone accepting Agagu’s temporary but accursed rule of madness and damnation in Ondo state is also damned. King Saul died an inglorious death and his son ~Absalom +thousand of his soldiers perished with him. MIMIKO will yet sing AGAGU’S dirge while we will yet come out to give testimony to God and sing IROKO’S eulogy (amen).
As a new day awakens and as a new month is ushered in, so shall God usher in good tidings for our man MIMIKO. A TRUE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, A WELL CHOSEN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR OF ONDO STATE, A DANIEL WHO WILL SURVIVE ENEMY FIRE AND RULE OVER THEM. God in his infinite mercies will also usher in and visit AGAGU and his cohorts of lying mongrels with all they deserve—SHAME AND INCARCERATION in Jesus name. I wake up today and put on my garment of prayers as I will everyday of the month of June to pray that God ministers into the hearts of all individual involved in the Electoral Tribunal and petition of the man who was robbed of his mandate in broad daylight – OLUSEGUN MIMIKO. May the spirit of the Lord take over and may they all say no to bribery and corruption and may the Lord almighty reveal in this month of June the truth that MIMIKO is Ondo State Governor, not Agagu. Please all bloggers and readers and supporters of MIMIKO and lovers of the people in Ondo state should join me in my prayers. MIMIKO YOU ARE AGAGU’S NEMESIS. Note this and dont relent or give up or worse still allow the enemy to win you over no matter what. Remember Psalm 1. God bless you our dear IROKO who will walk tall as ever and rule in glory and success at Alagbaka soon and very soon in Jesus name — Amen.
JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS A LONE VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS. HIS MESSAGE WAS SIMPLE AND CLEAR “PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATH STRAIGHT”. TO ALL SINNERS AND EVIL DOERS HE ALSO SAID “REPENT YE FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND”. This is my message first to the Electoral Tribunal and to Agagu and his followers respectively. MIMIKO IS A MAN CHOSEN BY GOD AND THE PEOPLE TO GOVERN ONDO STATE AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE. No one should deprive Ondo State of this chance to have the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. IROKO YI JO GBA SIBE, MIMIKO JAREEEEE. You will get your mandate back. When God sends one on a mission, Jehovah makes sure the mission is accomplished. The timing is not for us to decide as God works in mysterious ways and our ways are not His ways.
Nigeria, Ondo State: Agagu’s Chief Security Officer Shot Dead
THE Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the Ondo State governor, Mr. Tunde Awanebi, was on Wednesday night killed by suspected gunmen.
If this is true then very interesting for Awanebi I understand was recently sacked from the Agagu Cabinet and murdered hours after! This is the extent that some would go to silence anyone who they beleive would reveal the truth about them. Is this in any way related to the Electoral Tribunal? Was Agagu worried about the stories and revelations that this man would have made about Agagu and his 4 year activities in Ondo State to date? One lesson is clear to all of us. Dont dine with the devil. Dont sit in the courts of the wicked. Awanebi must have been used, dumped and now mudered. THOSE WHO LIVE BY THE SWORD WILL DIE BY IT!. I sincerely do feel very sorry for the Awanebi Family and I pray the blood of the slain haunts and revenges on the muderers in Ondo state. What a pity? As I always have maintained, there is more to come. Drama in plentifold about Agagu and his total debased state of mind and living.
MIMIKO WAS WHO THE PEOPLE WANTED BEFORE THE APRIL POLLS
MIMKKO IS WHO THE PEOPLE WANT AFTER THE APRIL POLLS
MIMIKO WILL BE THE PEOPLE’S WANT FOR A LONG TIME TO COME
MIMIKO FOR THIS WAS VOTED AND GIVEN ONDO STATE MANDATE
MIMIKO SHOULD NOT BE SO BLATANTLY ROBBED OF THIS MANDATE.
MIMIKO, THE TRUTH WILL BE REVEALED SOON AND VERY SOON.
So Nigerian borders are set to look out for fleeing ex-looters ex governors who are being chased by EFCC. Thats good, but what about the should be ex governors current looters who for now are still allowed to parade themselves as incumbent governors but who should also be thoroughly investigated by EFCC? Why are they not checked now? Anyway, the truth will still come to light. Its a matter of time.
Reality hits OBJ
EDITORIAL
Monday, June 11, 2007
FOR the eight years Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was president, many thought he was operating far away from reality. events seem to confirm that the former president was out of touch with the Nigeria that he often swore he loved.
Last Thursday, he complained publicly that it took him over two hours to make a journey from his farm in Otta to Victoria Island, Lagos, to attend his orientation at the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN. Chief Obasanjo is registered to read theology at the school. All his efforts, including leaving home early, failed to meet his expectations that he would have arrived Lagos before 7am.
Chief Obasanjo made his complaints to his folks at an event in Abeokuta. At the centre of his problems was the traffic jam on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, the road that has been under repairs in the past eight years Chief Obasanjo presided over Nigeria and committed more than N600 billion to the construction of roads.
Unlike some other roads that have not received attention in those eight years, the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway is perpetually under reconstruction. For the records, as the repairs are made, the repaired parts give way in weeks, such that it is difficult to know where has been repaired.
During the eight years of his presidency, we made consistent cases about repairing the road, which is part of the trans-Africa highway. We sometimes reminded the former president that the road led to his farm, home, schools, village and businesses in Otta and Abeokuta.
He would not budge. Once he ran into a traffic jam on the road, he started flying over the problem, with helicopters that those who were bent on helping him stay out of touch, joyously provided. Where are those helicopters just nine days after he left office?
The Balogun Owu was lucky to get away in less than three hours. What he went through is what most people who use that road experience daily. Now that he has joined them, may be the new president would repair the road.
Unlike Chief Obasanjo, who has alternatives – properly fitted vehicles, maybe a resort to the helicopters, and restricting his businesses to where the roads are good – those Nigerians are condemned to the suffering on the road. They have endured it for years and had always known that one day, Chief Obasanjo would be caught in that traffic, for nothing lasts forever. There are suggestions that better security arrangements should be made for the former president.
How does Chief Obasanjo feel about the reality of life after eight years of pampered existence? What does he think of his Ministers of Work, who had so much respect for him that they did not fix his road?
What the former president has gone through could be a lesson for those in office today to strive for the common good with the billions of Naira that is entrusted to their care. They could be the ones riding on those unbuilt roads when they leave power.
ITS NEMESIS FOR ALL EVIL DOERS.
IF YOU THINK MEN OF GOD CANNOT REACH OUT TO THE PEOPLE IN TRUTH THEN …READ THIS:
Rev. Fr. Emenike Ezenwammadu Thursday, June 6, 2007
THE GREAT LEGACIES OF OBASANJO THE GREAT
Obasanjo is the “luckiest” and the “greatest” Nigerian to be alive and ever to be. No Nigerian has been as lucky and as blessed by Nigeria more than Obasanjo has been. He is the only man in Nigeria to have been both a military and civilian president. He is the only Nigerian to taste power for more than eleven years. He is the only southerner who became president without labouring for it. Awo and Zik laboured assiduously in vain for it and Abiola was denied it when he got it, and later murdered in vain. He is the only death row prisoner in Nigeria to ever be begged to be president and who ever became a President. Obasanjo is the only civilian president to have finished his tenure without a coup and who dared even to harass Nigeria for a third term. Oh no! It should be forth term – first as a military, second as a tourist, third as a civilian dictator and forth as a haunted ghost in Aso Rock. He is really a lucky man.
He is the only man to have contested and won the presidential election while losing in his street, ward, state and region. He is the only man alive in Nigeria who could dare contest the presidential election in Nigeria in this era of money politics with only twenty thousand naira in his account and still win. He is the only man in Nigeria with the Midas touch, who could transform his twenty thousand naira savings in 1999 into billions of dollars and ownership of most blue chip companies in Nigeria in 2007, the biblical man with ten talents must be enormously envious of our dear great and beloved Obasanjo. No Nigerian Leader has got so much money as Obasanjo got during his eight year tenure as our president – yet, he is fighting Atiku and co for PTDF peas. The net revenue of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 is much more than the net revenue of Nigeria from independence to 1999. What a Lucky man! I guess Babangida’s twelve billion dollars looks like peanuts when compared to this.
Obasanjo is one of the few lucky great ones who saw death with their ‘korokoro’ eyes in Abacha’s gulag and survived it, Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and MKO Abiola never survived it. He also broke the record as the first Nigerian leader to borrow money and taught other leaders the act of borrowing and sorrowing. It was our great Obasanjo that gave us our great national anthem in 1978 that asks God to guide our leaders to wrongs and calls for the building of a Nigeria where peace and injustice will reign. Obasanjo is the author also of many electoral reforms in Nigeria especially the law where the sole presidential vote is arithmetically more than a hundred million votes of Nigerians. The practicality and effectiveness of this came out very beautifully in the 2007 general elections. Obasanjo is a great democrat and a man of dialogue. He worked so effectively with the national assembly and the opposition. He is very tolerant of differing opinions and views, the late senate president, Chuba Okadigbo and Ghali Na’aba can eloquently testify to this.
No Nigerian however is as great as Obasanjo in the great legacies that he left behind for Nigerians. I doubt if we would ever get a leader of such gigantic legacies and greatness again in Nigeria. Such leaders come once in a life time. The great legacies which Obasanjo the great left for Nigeria are so much that it would be an insult to him and the essence of greatness if I claim to exhaust it here in this essay. I really hope that one day the United Nations will set up an international tribunal to write it down for future generations to read. The great legacies of our dear great president can be seen adorning every nook and cranny of Nigeria. It can be seen in the beautiful faces and life of the Nigerian poor masses as they excavate and scavenge dust-bins for their daily bread. It can be seen in our beautiful roads and road network which is considered as one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient World. Obasanjo’s great legacies can be seen in his foreign bank accounts and that of our other great politicians and public servants. There are not many politicians in the world who have had it so good financially as our former president and his cronies. However, Obasanjo’s great achievements are seen more in these great legacies he left behind after his eight years as the civilian president of Nigeria.
The first of the great legacies of Obasanjo is NEPA. I really love the old acronym NEPA than PHCN, because like most confused Nigerians, I superstitiously still believe that PHCN means Poverty Holding Company of Nigeria. NEPA’s meaning of ‘Never Expect Power Again’ is much better that PHCN. NEPA is one of the greatest legacies of Obasanjo. It has made Nigerians appreciate the value of the invention called electricity, the joy and ecstasy that Nigerians go into when NEPA visits them with few minutes or even few seconds of electricity is unbelievable. It has taught Nigerians how to operate only in the day time; even armed robbers do not operate again at night. Everyone now sleeps well in the night. Obasanjo’s government inherited in 1999 around 3000 MW of electricity, they pumped a record 10 billion dollars into electric power generation. After everything, we have now less than 3000MW being generated. This is really a great achievement from our great president. I really guess it would be unpatriotic, ungrateful and idiotic of me to ask where the money disappeared to, judging from all the great benefits that have accrued to Nigerians by not having electricity. NEPA has really helped us so much; it has made Nigeria super industrially under-developed. This is because industries do not thrive where there is erratic or no power supply. This has saved us from the pollutions that come from those industries; we have only the pollutions that come from the generating sets that adorn every business and home to contend with. It has also saved us from the evil that comes from too much wealth and riches of industrialisation, is poverty no longer a blessing again? Obasanjo’s NEPA has created more jobs for Nigerians; most of our young people have found jobs as armed robbers and prostitutes. Those less fortunate to get university education are Okada riders – but not in Abuja.
The great achievement of NEPA represents symbolically also the great feat that our great president achieved in other sectors of life and infrastructures in Nigeria. It represents our education system that is one of the best in the Stone Age world. Most or almost all the times the lecturers and teachers are on strike, and when they are not on strike, the students sit on windows, stones and on each other to listen to the lectures. It represents our airlines that are the safest in the world, the safest way to go to God. NEPA is the symbol of our police force, the best police force in the world in the act of abetting crime and harassing innocent citizens. It represents the decadence and rot in our health service which has really in a beneficial way brought back our traditional medical service and native doctors that were put out of business by western medicine. This has also led to the development of great medical research institutes, clinics and pharmaceutical companies inside Onitsha main market. NEPA represents many great things in the life of Nigerians. It represents the anxiety, agony, darkness, frustration and gloom which pervaded life in Nigeria under our great Obasanjo and still pervades it after he seemed to have gone.
Another great achievement of our great Obasanjo is the Odi massacre. This is the great representation of the good and enviable human right record of Obasanjo’s government and how much value that our great Obasanjo and his government put on the value of their citizens. America government would foolishly do anything to protect her citizen, while Nigeria would readily massacre her own citizens. It is a representation of the great achievements of Obasanjo to the problem of the Niger-Delta. Odi massacre is the event where an impoverished village in the oil rich Bayelsa state was pulverised and desiccated by the invading army of their country, Nigeria. On the 9th of November 1999, seven policemen were murdered by some hoodlums near Odi. The town was given the ultimatum to produce the hoodlums or be erased out of human history. What a great way to fight crime? Few days later, the whole town was cordoned off in a so called reprisal to the murder of these policemen; operation ‘Hakuri II’, the Nigerian version of Gulf war two, immediately began. Heavy artillery, grenade launchers, military aircraft, heavy bombs and other deadly weapons were used freely by the invading army on the unarmed villagers of Odi. It was a very great and successful military operation, by the time the operation finished, only the local First bank branch building and the Anglican Church were the only buildings standing. On the situation of human life after the military invasion, Abdul Oroh, the director of CLO, who visited Odi after the massacre said, “We saw no single livestock, poultry or domestic animal except a stray cat.” The devastation was absolute and total, it was a great military success that was worthy of our great civil war hero and commander in chief. It put our great Obasanjo in great pedestal with Saddam Hussein who gassed his own people to death and the Sudanese government who commits genocide against their own people of Darfur. Odi massacre represents the blueprint of Obasanjo’s solution to the problem of Niger- Delta, an area that produces a great majority of Nigerian’s oil wealth but ironically wallows in an indecent poverty, penury and pollution. Odi massacre represents our great Obasanjo’s great blueprint of violence and militarization as the solutions to all problems. Insurgency and counter insurgency have become the hallmark of life in the oil producing communities today. Our great man, Obasanjo, share a big portion of praise and applause for that. One of the graffiti posted and left behind in Odi by one of the ravaging Nigerian soldiers present the situation graphically, “your oil or your life.” Obasanjo will be greatly remembered for transforming the situation in the Niger delta into “your oil and your life.”
Another great achievement of our great president is the epochal event of Ngigegate. This is about the great event of July 9, 2004, when the sitting governor of Anambra state then, Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige was “abdu-arrested” and forced to abdicate as the governor. In the early hours of that day, a big contingent of the dreaded MOPOL with an ungodly amount of arms stormed the government house in a commando like operation. They swiftly disarmed the governor’s security; they arrested the governor and drag him off by the scruff of his neck to an unknown destination where he was imprisoned and reportedly given several slaps and lashes of cane. They claimed that they were acting on order from above. ‘Above’ in Nigeria is not heaven but Aso Rock. The mastermind of this brave and professional operation was a young illiterate civilian called Christian Uba. He is the younger brother to Andy Uba, one of the domestic houseboys of President Obasanjo. That event was very significant for it was the first time a civilian would organise a coup. Actually, it clearly destroyed the long monopoly which the Nigerian military has on execution of coup in Nigeria. That was also the first time a coup would be organised at the state level. Eventually, that became the prelude to more civilian coups in Nigeria with Obasanjo and Adedibu being the masterminds. After Ngigegate, it became clear to state legislators that it takes only two of them in a “suya” or “roasted corn” joint to impeach a governor. Obasanjo’s involvement in this saga marks one of his greatest achievements in the history of democracy in Nigeria. Obasanjo first gave legitimacy to this coup by relegating it to the level of a family affair. He then went ahead and rewarded the coup plotters heavily while punishing heavily the Governor who was the symbol of democracy in the state. This was the first time in Nigeria that failed coup plotters were rewarded. Christian Uba, the mastermind of the coup was promoted to the Garrison commander of PDP in the East, he was given a very heavy police protection and was heavily patronised financially by the Federal Government. After this, Obasanjo defined politics as a business investment which must be protected and respected by all. Obasanjo’s great intervention made it very clear to all political office holders that their position should be seen and respected as people’s investment and not service to the people; corruption or no corruption. Politicians as men and women of honour must respect and fulfil the agreements they signed in shrines. This led to the rise of the god fathers and garrison politics. The rise and rise of Adedibu, the garrison commander of Oyo state represents excellently the great achievement of Obasanjo in this regard.
Another great legacy of Obasanjo is his corruption war. He fought the corruption war in a very intricate scientific way that not even Einstein could understand. He immediately showed Nigerians that he was ready to fight the corruption war and that it would no longer be business as usual when he got the auditor general of the country immediately dismissed for auditing the federal government account that indicted the incorruptible presidency. After this, he gave the highest honour in the country to one of the most honest Nigerian leaders, General Babangida. He established EFCC after that to show Nigerians that he meant business in the fight against corruption. EFCC was established by an act of the National assembly. Unfortunately, Nuhu Ribadu, an honest Nigerian policeman is at the head of it. He has defiantly proved that a Nigerian policeman could be honest – at least to a certain level. Obasanjo’s EFCC has really emerged as one of the greatest things to happen to Nigeria. Obasanjo’s EFCC has fought the corruption war in a scientific cum digital way that would make even Einstein go green with envy. EFCC has been able to research and prove to Nigerians that it is position and name that makes someone corrupt. You cannot be corrupt if you are in the good books and the inner circle of our all honest great man, General Matthew Obasanjo. Once you are Obasanjo’s enthusiasts, supporter, sycophant, houseboy, lackey, in-law and family, you can never be corrupt, corruption can never be an attribute of you, no matter what you do or how much you loot. His moral uprightness rubs on you and makes you pure. Let nobody ask me to explain how this works. You can only be corrupt if you belong to the opposition or you are a friend of Atiku – show me your friend and I will tell you who you are. The mere fact that one belongs to the opposition makes him intrinsically corrupt, no matter what the person do. EFCC was also able to prove that it is only the name that you bear that really makes you corrupt. If you bear any of these names, Uba, Gbenga, Iyabo, Olabode George, Anenih, Adedibu, Akala, Babagida and few others, you can never be corrupt or indicted for corruption. I trust Nigerians; soon people will start giving these names to their children especially the criminal ones that politics will make a fine profession for. Obasanjo’s EFCC scientifically also proved that corruption is totally determined by how much you steal, if you steal little like the little thief in Zamfara state, one of your hand is readily cut off but if your cart away the treasury with third term on your mouth, it becomes dividend of democracy and you are even prepared for bigger political offices. EFCC also achieved the scientific feat of proving to Nigerians that immunity is not an obstacle to fighting corruption, hence the likes of Chinwoke Mbadinuju, after collapsing a state, are still free and have still no case to answer when they are no longer under immunity. The great Mbadinuju of Anambra was even allowed to contest election under Obasanjo’s PDP and under the nose of EFCC. I guess our great ex-president would soon be awarded the Noble price for his theories of corruption. I hereby humbly beg him to make his corruption theories into a compulsory course in his university and also other Nigeria universities.
The third term episode is one of the greatest achievements of Obasanjo the great. The third term debate was all about the attempt by Obasanjo the great to cling to power and in the process transform himself into the life president of Nigeria and possibly hand over to his son Gbenga or daughter Iyabo when he dies at a very ripe old age of one hundred and fifty. However, this attempt was successfully shot down by a lot of unpatriotic Nigerians after all the massive money, energy and time that were invested on the project by Obasanjo and his houseboys. The third term remains one of the greatest legacies that Obasanjo gave to Nigeria. He was able to show Nigeria how weak our democracy is, how it is centred on one man. An individual once described democracy in Nigeria as a Babacracy and not a democracy. I hope the individual is talking about government of Baba, by Baba and for Baba and not insinuating that Baba is crazy. Obasanjo has by his failed attempt on tenure elongation informed the new President, that tenure elongation or life presidency is always possible but you just have to start early, you cannot waste your first term touring round the world. Nigeria was the only loser in the third term episode; they lost the advantage of continuity and experience which leaders like Mobuto, kamuzu Banda and Mugabe gave to their countries by their sit-tightism. Nigeria lost a lot by rejecting the third term, they said no to democracy and government as defined by Obasanjoism, they said no to pot-holes as roads, mortuary as hospital, primary schools as universities, power failure as NEPA. They said no to fuel shortage and constant increase of fuel and kerosene price. They said no to hunger and suffering. The only source of redemption in the whole situation is that the great Obasanjo have not really gone. He is no longer the president but he is still in power, his ghost still hovers around Aso rock, restless and refusing to rest. He has managed to rig into power all his family, houseboys, lackeys and stooges. He installed even the wife and children of his friends and lackeys in power. I really think that he has finally achieved the third and even the fourth term as the ghost that forgot something in Aso rock.
Another great achievement of Obasanjo is Transcorp. Transcorp represents the economic achievement of Obasanjo during this his eight year tenure. It represents all his economic dealings and their benefits to Nigeria. This is the first time in history that a company of such magnitude as Transcorp will be created in Nigeria. Transcorp represents also the economic reforms of Obasanjo that is meant to impoverish the poor and enrich the rich. Otedola, Ovie and Dangote can readily explain this to us. Transcorp is totally owned by Obasanjo and his friends or fronts, depending on the angle that you look at it. It is Obasanjo’s avenue of rewarding himself for all the sacrifices he has made for Nigeria. It is really a reward well deserved. The last few days of Obasanjo have totally revealed that Transcorp is the nation’s parting gift of herself to Obasanjo for his great stewardship as he goes back to his animals in his farm where he really belongs. In a last minute and hurried privatisations that is un-questionable, Transcorp has managed to buy up the collective patrimony of Nigeria. It has bought Nigeria economically, Nigeria is totally owned now economically by few persons – no apologies even to Atiku. Soon, there may be a change of name for Nigeria; I guess the name Nigeria may be soon changed to Dangoteria or Transcorpia. Soon we may have to pay for the air we breath. Obasanjo has sold to himself and his fronts, the best of what we have as a nation. He has sold the economic soup of Nigeria to himself. NITEL, NICON, NNPC, Cement industries, steel mill, oil wells and many other national patrimonies were dashed by a grateful nation to Transcorp or Obasanjo. Obasanjo really deserved more than these, he has given all his life to Nigeria and he even generously gave us a parting gift of fifteen percent hike in petroleum, the sixth increase he is making since his 1999. In further demonstration of his love for Nigerians, he has also increased VAT taxation to ten percent. All these would help cushion the effect of the unwholesome last minute looting spree of the treasury by him and his boys. This will take care of the over one trillion naira last minute contracts that were awarded within the last fifteen days of his glorious reign. Some of the recently approved contracts have already being commissioned just few days after they were awarded. Nigerians would ever be so grateful and happy for these last minute contracts because of the way they are going to touch the lives of every Nigerian especially the poor. Among the last minute contracts awarded that will be of great benefit to Nigerians are: 21.4 billion naira for capacity building in the foreign affair ministry, (please, who understands what this means?), 2.3 billion for gifted and specially challenged children, 480 million to buy 60 Peugeot cars for presidential inauguration and 40 million to buy new uniform for 150 police officers at the price of 266.666 naira each. Wow! Police uniforms cost more than designers now.
The greatest of all the great legacies and heritage of Obasanjo is the election 2007. It is the murder of all elections, no, I mean mother of all elections. It is the greatest of all the elections that have been conducted since democracy began in the world – all the observers, both local and international testified to that. The rigging was excellent and beyond the conventional rigging. Election 2007 is Obasanjo at his vintage; it is the symbol of everything that Obasanjo represents from his religiousness to his transparency. The election umpire, Professor Maurice Iwu, a professor of Ebola Virus, is a study in honesty, patriotism and fairness. He was hired by Obasanjo to fix the election and he over fixed it. 2007 election was the fairest and freest Nigerian election, for Nigerians exercised their freedom by hiding at their homes courtesy of the Nigeria police and an army armed to the teeth as if they were going to war. Anyway, you cannot blame them, for our great Obasanjo already declared it as “a do or die election.” The army and police were ever ready to make political martyr of anybody that dared demand his electoral rights. The foolish ones that ignored the new electoral reforms and dared come out to vote, hundreds of them lost their lives. Results and figures were awarded with no voting materials at voting stations. Votes were awarded in direct proportion to the closeness and relationship of candidates to Obasanjo, the father of our democracy. Those that are very close to Obasanjo like his former houseboy, his Excellency, Dr. Andy Uba got votes that were more than the registered voters in Anambra state. It was an election every Nigerian of all generations would be proud of; it was an election that totally defined Obasanjo’s heritage and legacies to Nigeria. It was an election that made Obasanjo great and gave him a well deserved place in history with such other African greats like Idi Amin, Mobutu, Kamuzu Banda, Abacha, Samuel Doe and Mugabe.
DO YOU BLAME MIMIKO FROM SEVERING TIES WITH EVILDOERS? AWANEBI TAKE NOTE: Read the following :
Obasanjo has set trap for Yar’Adua – David-West
By YINKA FABOWALE
Monday, June 11, 2007
Former Minister of petroleum, Professor Tam David-West, has advised President Umaru Yar’Adua to sever whatever umblical cord he may share with former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, if his administration is to succeed.
David-West said the president must make a clean break from the connection he has with Obasanjo if he hopes to be accepted, popular and solve the legitimacy problem hanging on his neck.
According to the former minister, besides the burden of his relationship with his predecessor, Obasanjo does not mean well for his successor, judging by some last-minute actions he took in the twighlight of his government, such as the hike in prices of petroleum products, signing of 41 oil contracts and sale of the Egbin power station and Kaduna refinery, among others.
“All these are mischievous landmines planted for Yar’Adua to fail,” the don said, describing the so-called Obasanjo legacies inherited by the president as ‘poisoned legacies.’
He counseled Yar’Adua to assert himself by reverting fuel price to N50 per litre, without which, he said, he would lose the support of Nigerians, even from his home base in the North.
Professor David-West also condemned the thank-you-visit on Chief Obasanjo in Ota by the Yar’Adua clan, led by the president’s mother, over his ascension, saying: “Whoever advised him (Yar’Adua) to do that does not wish him well. What he is saying by that is that it was Obasanjo who made him president.
Why can’t the family thank Nigerians for making him?”
In this interview, the ex-minister also spoke on the forthcoming Niger Delta summit called by the president and the United States’ reported plan to set up an African Command Centre and its implication on peace in the restive region, among other issues.
What’s your view on the forthcoming Niger Delta summit?
For the fact that he convened a meeting, I will, on the surface, say Yar’Adua should be commended for making it a priority. But he blew the chance of commendation because he called off the meeting, which shows that it is not of priority to him. I’ve said several times and in a lecture in Lagos in 1987 that unless Nigeria addresses the Niger Delta problem, it will be one of the greatest headaches for the country in the 21st century and beyond.
In spite of the credibility problem, one area that Yar’Adua can make an impact in is by re-writing the rule. If he makes a break-through in the Niger Delta or shows more seriousness than Obasanjo, his credentials would be improved.
It is not a question of inviting so-called Niger Delta leaders and putting them in five-star hotels in Abuja. No. The militants will not come out, but they have respect for certain people, credible people. He can engage these people and set out a programme. And the programme is simple – address the deprivation of the area, pure and simple.
He should address it or else, it will be like a festering sore and it will continue for a long, long time. It is notorious and mundane – no light, no road, no water, it’s all known. They know it now, and unless these social injustice are addressed, Nigeria will have no peace, because you cannot have peace without justice, it’s not possible. He should go beyond Obasanjo’s cosmetic approach. And it can be solved. We Ijaws are not blood thirsty people. The Ijaws are easy to get along with.
What will you advise the militants, on their approach to solving the issue, now that there’s a new government?
The new government has a fractured credibility. I know the psyche of these boys and men. They are not people you can carry away with cosmetic announcement. They know the roof is faulty and that it could soon fall away. One of the problems this government faces is lack of national and international legitimacy.
There are other problems. The major one is that Jonathan is not loved by the militants.
They don’t respect him, that is the truth and that is a fundamental problem for him. Without prejudice to what Alamieyeseigha did wrong, he commands their respect. Jonathan cannot form a bridge. He can only form a propaganda bridge. Look at what they did to him earlier. Any Ijaw that is not a bastard will know that Obasanjo cannot pick Ijaw representative into government.
He cannot stay in Aso Rock, pick Yar’Adua from Katsina and say, Nigerians this is your president, then he comes to Ijaw and do same. Look, the Yar’Adua/Jonathan ticket has a fundamental flaw. They (militants) have always seen him as a stooge and black leg. So, they are not likely to see him as a representative of the Ijaw cause in Abuja.
What is your comment on the reported plan by the US to have an African Command Centre, which may see America moving its forces into the restive Niger Delta region to assist government counter militant problems?
I laugh, I laugh. US is a super power, you understand me. But US should remember what happened to it in Vietnam, where a Third World country chased them out and gave them bloody nose. The point I am making is, you don’t fight people fighting a moral war, with machine guns and tanks. The Ijaws are fighting a moral war and you cannot defeat them with all the machine guns and arsenals in their armoury. I have a feeling it’s just shakara. If they want an African command, they should go to Dafur. They should never dare it in Nigeria because they’ll be defeated, like in Vietnam. It will even be worse. They cannot turn Nigeria into another Iraq. Nigeria’s oil is not for political thing.
Do you see President Yar’Adua breaking from former President Obasanjo?
If Yar’Adua wants people to forgive him and solve the legitimacy problem, the umbilical cord with Obasanjo will have to be severed. The legacies handed over to him by Obasanjo are all poisoned legacies … why did Obasanjo increase fuel pump price before he left? It is a design to make Yar’Adua’s government fail. Why did Obasanjo signed 41 oil contracts before he left? Why did Obasanjo sell Egbin Power station, Kaduna refinery and petrochemicals before he left? All these are mischievous landmines and trap planted for Yar’Adua to fail. So, he’ll have to sever the umbilical cord with Obasanjo. He must make oil price drop to N65 per litre, even below N65. If I were Yar’Adua, I’ll revert it to N50 per litre. If he fails to do it, even the North will revolt against him. He will have no home base. And it was an unwise thing that Yar’Adua sent his mother and the entire Yar’Adua family to thank Obasanjo in Ota.
Whoever advised him to do that does not wish him well. What he is saying is that it was Obasanjo who made him president. Why can’t the family thank Nigerians for making him president? It is a signal that he’s tied to Obasanjo’s apron string. If the apron string stays, that means there’ll be a link between Ota and Aso Rock and he would not last.
MIMIKO SIR IT IS CLEAR THAT THE LORD DIRECTS THE PATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS, THANK HIM DAILY FOR THE SPIRIT HE HAS GIVEN YOU AND DO NOT DESPAIR. GOD WILL GIVE US BACK THE MANDATE STOLEN BY AGAGU
By their fingers we shall know them. Genesis 11; 7-8 “Go to, let us go down and their confound their language that they may not understand one another’s speech. so the Lord scattered them…”
THEIR WILL BE REVELATIONS, EXPOSURES AND CONFESSIONS GALORE IN JESUS NAME FOR THE LORD WILL DESTROY ALL THE ENEMIES OF OUR DESTINY. MIMIKO JOOOOO, Please read on:
WARNING!
I have Obasanjo’s killer secrets, says ex-Senate President, Wabara At the appropriate time, I’ll reveal them’
Monday, June 11, 2007
Former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara has declared that at the appropriate time, he would reveal all that he knew about former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, even as he declared that the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu was a stooge under the Obasanjo’s administration.
Speaking in an exclusive interview recently, Wabara said: “If I may quote myself , I said knowing what I know and I said Obasanjo knows that I know that those of us who have been privileged to be in high places should watch what we say.
That is a note of warning or a note of advice to certain quarters that everybody is not a fool and all of us cannot be hoodwinked into certain things that we know.
If one makes provocative statements, he or she might be inviting the truth and what all of us know. That in a nutshell is what I said.
“I was not number three citizen for nothing. Just as Atiku was taken for a ride, when he opened his Pandora’s box, Nigerians were agog in disbelieve. And since we are all in the same government, we all have our own Pandora’s boxes waiting to be opened. But at the fullness of time, I’ll do that.
I’m not waiting for him to jump start it, or to kick start it.
I am a diplomat. Diplomats are seen and not heard. And when you hear a diplomat, then, you know he is telling you the truth backed up with facts.”
On Ribadu, the former Senate President said “We have been saying it that you don’t run a parallel government because you are making all kinds of statements. If you finish your investigations, take your investigations to court and prosecute. I’m happy since Yar’Adua stepped in; he (Ribadu) is quiet.
It doesn’t mean he is not doing his job. He is doing his job. But it is not for him to go to the pages of newspapers saying all kinds of things. What the president should say and what he shouldn’t say, he is the one saying them. It tells you that he is a robot. Otherwise if that is his style, why is he doing the right things now? He’s probably a robot or a stooge to Obasanjo.” He spoke on these and other issues.
Excerpts:
After about eight years as a lawmaker, you and some colleagues stepped aside to allow new set of lawmakers take over, what was your experience?
Well, it was a good success that we were able to transit from a military to civilian. Then we are witnessing transition from civilian to civilian that means we have progressed. Earlier on, it was a learning process so we’ve learnt a lot, and I want to thank the military for allowing democracy to stay. As for the politicians, let us make mistakes and correct ourselves rather than inviting third parties to come and correct political issues for us. But I tend to disagree with you that we stepped aside.
You can count on your finger tips how many senators stepped aside. I think I stepped aside, Senator Ken Nnamani also stepped aside but there were so many senators who wanted to come back but their parties would not allow them . We will not call that stepping aside , they were forced out of the Senate. And of course, the result is what we have now; we have only 26 ranking senators coming back. Out of this 26, only five from 1999 and 21 returning for second term. It is not healthy for our legislature. A legislature that was not there anyway. The executive have always being there. The judiciary has always being there.
We are starting back again. We are going to the age of learning process again. Just like Zwingina said during his valedictory speech, that he holds a B.SC in Political Science, M.SC in Political Science, P.hD in Political Science but it took him a while to understand the game, the politics of the legislature, and the politics of the Senate. So it doesn’t matter, whatever your background is, you must come in there, and learn again.
Are you saying that rather than churn out senators, year in year out, we should allow them spend a reasonable period of time in the National Assembly?
That would depend on the people. That will depend largely on the people, the electorates. Those electing the lawmakers.
From our experience in the recent elections, some of them were not presented to the electorates in the general elections. They were axed at the party level.
What is your take on that?
The party is becoming too powerful. And I will call for independent candidature or candidacy in our constitution. If this new legislature would amend the constitution. So when you have such an experience where the party out of selfishness would not like the face of somebody and would want frustrate the person from getting the party’s ticket. It is going to be worse particularly in the PDP in the near future.
Most people will not come back. Since they came there, read the riot act to senators, thinking they are robots. It is not what the constituents tell the elected legislators that they should do in the Senate, it is what the party wants. The party that does not have anything to do with the people. They don’t consult, there’s no caucus. But once there is a problem, the fire brigade approach will come, and they will say this is what we want. That is not fair. That is why I say it still depends on the people.
If we had a provision in our constitution for independent candidate, nobody will bother about the party. Look at what happened in America where a senator was refused, I think the Democratic Party. I’ve forgotten the senator’s name, they didn’t want him to be re-elected because of his fraternization with Bush on the Iraqi War. Then he left the party and became an independent candidate and won his election.
This is what we should be looking at because the party is growing wings. Since it is their platform, you must contest an election on the platform of a party. So they come and give you all kinds of conditions and you are not allowed to express your opinion of the people who directly elected you into the Senate or House of Representatives as the case may be. That is why I say in answer to your question, it cannot be a direct answer but it depends on many variables. If the electorate says yes we want this man, all the man needs is to contest as an independent candidate.
Don’t forget that politics as at this phase of our development, is the only sure way of ‘making it’. Whereas out there, they have created other avenues for people gainfully employed.
But here, it is only when you have any serious active political activities that you don’t have armed robbers. Armed robbery now declines because everybody is engaged. The armed robbers are now used as thugs. As soon as that period is over, you find that armed robbery takes off again. Ditto anybody who is looking for relevance will want to come into politics to try his hands. But I guess in the next ten to 20 years, you will find real politicians who want to serve their people will be the ones who will be interested in elective positions. But now, it’s an all comers affair.
Still talking politics, between 1991 and 1992 we had just two political parties SDP and NRC, and to a large extent, the parties were able to checkmate each other.
Some Nigerians have started canvassing for a return to that system, arguing that the multi party system may not be healthy for our democracy.
What do you think?
The multi party system we are operating now will not be healthy for our political development in this country. I agree with you in 1991/92 there were two very strong political parties SDP and NRC. In fact, there was a clear distinction. If you were the party in power the opposition is there to checkmate you. But here you have fragments of opposition or all kinds of haracters pretending to be presidential candidates, and things like that. But the whole thing was designed by some people in power to break the opposition into fragments so that there will not be one strong opposition. Look at what happened in 1992, NRC won certain elections and they were arrogant about that. The next elections SDP won. Something happened.
I cannot really remember what happened then. It was not easy for NRC. I think it has to do with the legislature. It was either local government. I think they won the elections and they now became very arrogant, overconfident, and they lost contact with the people within two weeks and the people changed their minds and voted SDP for the national assembly. I was a member of the House of Representatives then, we lost the majority position in the National Assembly and that gave rise to the SDP producing the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, whereas the earlier election was won by the NRC.
I would want a situation where we have two strong political parties as Babangida had it in 1992 and then make a provision for independent candidates. That will be fantastic for our polity.
While making your valedictory remarks, you raised a lot of issues but what will be of utmost importance to Nigerians at this moment is to reveal those things you know which Obasanjo too knows but are unknown to Nigerians?
Well, if I may quote myself rightly, I said knowing what I know and I said Obasanjo knows that I know that those of us who have been privileged to be in high places should watch what we say. That is a note of warning or a note of advice to certain quarters that everybody is not a fool and all of us cannot be hoodwinked into certain things that we know.
If one makes provocative statements, he or she might be inviting the truth and what all of us know. That in a nutshell is what I said.
Are you insinuating that a certain Pandora’s box is in your care, and if you open it, it may also reveal other issues that may hitherto be unknown to Nigerians about Obasanjo’s administration?
I was not number three citizens for nothing. Just as Atiku was taken for a ride, when he opened his Pandora box, Nigerians were agog in disbelieve. And since we are all in the same government, we all have our own Pandora boxes waiting to be opened. I think you are absolutely correct.
Why don’t you open yours now?
No, not now. But at the fullness of time, I’ll do that. I’m not waiting for him to jump start it, or to kick start it. I am a diplomat. Diplomats are seen and not heard. And when you hear a diplomat, then you know he is telling you the truth backed up with facts.
How will you describe your tenure as the Senate President of the fifth Senate?
My tenure as the Senate President was the most peaceful. It was very peaceful.
(Cuts in) And most controversial too
I wouldn’t say it is controversial. It couldn’t have been controversial.
(Cuts in) from election issues to bribe-for-budget scandal issues. Are those issues not controversial?
From the issues of election, that was very clear, the courts are there that’s why if you play by the rules, you don’t need to bother. The courts ruled in my favour even right from the tribunal in Abia State. It is just the politicians or your political (I don’t want to call them enemies) advisories, they would always want to cash in on things like that. I won the elections. The records are there. Imo admitted. Dan Imo said that much and he withdrew his matters from the tribunal. The tribunal ruled and ruled in my favour. He came to court here in Abuja; they also ruled in my favour, that I won the elections. Now that I’m out of the place, you could check the records. Abariabe had a role to play there in those days. He wanted to show Governor Orji Kalu that he was in charge of Abia State, or better still in charge of Abia south senatorial district. We were all one body. If you look at how the results were compiled I won the elections in five local governments. The result came in, and we were now waiting for Abariabe’s area, and that was where the problem sets in. If you talk of spending money during the elections, except now that you cannot say there is a limit to how much you can spend for elections. Then, who was that person in Abia south senatorial district who had the type of money to contest that election. And then it was a game of money. And to say Dan Imo won an election, it’s just an over statement. I don’t want to go into it. The matter is over. Thank God I served out my period. Then the bribe-for-budget scandal thing. I just leave it as it was an act of God. It was divine. That was when God wanted me to leave. So it’s just like death. If you hear that I’m dead now, why do you want to interest yourself further to ask what killed me.
So it was time for me to go and I resigned. Like somebody said during the valedictory speech, I think it was Mamora who said it was on record that I was the first Senate President that resigned. And all the while I told the powers that be including the former President himself that nobody can impeach me. That was when we had some disagreements; I said nobody can impeach me. I will save you the agony of sleeplessness, and I would resign. And that was what I did. That is on other issues before even this. And I lived up to my words. It is not my father’s position. I was elected there. Maybe I wasn’t even the best. But somehow God divinely put me there. So I would say my tenure was generally peaceful during my stay. There was nothing like impeachment. As soon as I resigned, there was a change of baton, and Nigerians started hearing about impeachment again. So you want to ask yourself how I did it. I would say it’s God that did it. And of course they were also calling me stooge.
Were you not one?
I think I reacted to that in a very diplomatic way, when I was making my valedictory speech. What is a stooge? What is a rubber stamp? What is an appendage to the executive? A stooge is someone who admits, hook line and sinker what the master said he should do. And I challenge Nigerians to check out the records. I said it when I was going round to thank the media houses.
You don’t expect me to wear Mike Tyson’s gloves and start fighting. I have something up here. A diplomat says the nicest things, the nicest ways. We don’t have to come out and start quarrelling with somebody, no. All the bills during my tenure as the Senate President check them. The Labour bill was very controversial. The original plan was to disband and dissolve NLC completely. Even Adams Oshiomole congratulated me for a job well done. That bill didn’t go to the presidency the way it was sent. The reform bill too, so many of them, then talk about Ben Obi, and Emordi, they didn’t want them sworn in but I played by the rule. I did it when Senator Ajadi of Kwara State was asked to go. Senator Ajibola came with certificate of return I swore him in and vacated Senator Ajadi. I don’t make certificate of returns. How will Nigerians see me, a lawmaker being a lawbreaker? No! They thought I should use all my power to do the abracadabra and that was why I specifically invited Guobadia. There was no need inviting Guobadia.
In the case Abana, I invited Guobadia. Again that was born out of my diplomatic experience. You see there is nothing anybody could do. Or is it the declaration of State of Emergency in Anambra State, the pressure was so much. I could have done it if I wanted to do it. I didn’t see any sense in it. And I refused to do it because I didn’t believe in it. These are not known standard behavior of stooges. So I am definitely not a stooge.
If you had been in the chair as the Senate President during the third term debate, how would you have handled it?
I of course wouldn’t have been there because one, I was not meant to be there in the first place.
Are we safe to conclude that perhaps the Presidency then withdrew its support for you because the stooge they thought they saw in you before they supported you for the position of the Senate presidency, refused to play out?
I made mention of an earlier incarnation of third term. So your guess would be as good as mine. In my valedictory speech, I made mention of it. So you can add two and two together and make your inference. And of course they did. There was another meeting of the South-east Senators on February 20, 2005 that nailed the whole thing. When they came to endorse me as Presidential candidate for the Igbo’s and things like that and I said no I wasn’t interested. If you are talking about my performance as Senate President, let us raise the communiqué on that topic alone. It was Chukwumerije who was preparing the communiqué.
When you eventually discovered it was a set up, how did you feel?
The bible says judge not so that you will not be judged. I will leave them to their conscience but I recall I reminded them there and then that it’s a pity that the wise does not know that he is foolish but the foolish know that he is wise. I got to know their mission on that particular day. It was a Muslim holiday sort of on that February 20, and don’t forget a lot of things had happened. There was that earlier incarnation, and all that. They were looking for all kinds of things to get rid of me. So they came to bring that animosity between myself and the Presidency. It was Arthur Nzeribe and Ararume. But there and then I got the message. I was so sick I just came in from Ghana just to make it for that meeting. I said no, no I’m not interested. They said no we are not endorsing you, we are urging you. I said whether you are endorsing me or you are urging me, I am not interested. So you can restrict yourselves to my performances if you are trying to write a communiqué out of that meeting.
Before then, the argument of Arthur Nzeribe and others was that the governors were not supporting any Senator. Or they were not carrying any Senator along, we should prepare our own. I said no I’m not interested. But as we were talking one of them went to my garden, my security officer saw him and heard him.
He was talking to the presidency that this was what was happening here. And I’m telling you the truth and nothing but the truth. I wasn’t interested in that thing at all. But it was a plan. It was just like someone trying to force shit into your mouth. But he is trying hard when you say you don’t want to eat. But he wants the person that sends him to see that at least an attempt was made.
You were not active politically in Abia State during last elections, what really happened?
You have asked a very important question but you should realize that this man you are interviewing still has a case pending in the court of law. I am a very humble person. I take things step by step. Until that case ends positively, or negatively as the case may be, I would want to stay out of politics. At the risk of being immodest I’m talking about myself now. I know myself to be a gentleman. And my friends and even adversaries know that this man is a gentle man. And I have a name to protect. So coming out as if nothing has happened, a lot has happened. Obasanjo went on air, national broadcast on the number three citizen of this country. It is a serious affair. It could have been ill advised. And I’m happy that Ribadu is quiet now.
And we have been saying it you don’t run a parallel government because you are making all kinds of statements. If you finish your investigations, take your investigations to court and prosecute. I’m happy since Yar’Adua has stepped in; he (Ribadu) is so quiet. It doesn’t mean he is not doing his job. He is doing his job. But it is not for him to go to the pages of newspapers saying all kinds of things. What the President should say and what he shouldn’t say, he is the one saying them. It tells you that he is a robot. Otherwise if that is his style, why is he doing the right things now? He’s probably a robot or a stooge to Obasanjo.
Will it not be too early to conclude that Ribadu was a stooge under Obasanjo?
I would have expected him with all his ‘bragados’ to have started action. He was saying all those things he was saying under Obasanjo may be to please certain persons. If he was doing the right thing and that is a right approach to the war against corruption then he should have continued now or resigned. If somebody is stopping him now from talking on the pages of newspapers, or calling names. He came to the Senate and said 36 governors are corrupt. Of course when someone is saying that it means the entire nation is corrupt. And if you believe so, then, why do you not believe so now? And if there’s sanity in the atmosphere now and you believe that sanity is wrong, you should resign. Then one would know that it is your own game plan, or your own approach to fighting corruption and you are not tele-guided. Because in my own matter, he was tele-guided, forcing people to make statements to nail me. That gave rise to two statements made by their key witness the person of Senator Adhigije. He wrote the truth, he said no, we don’t want this, you must nail Wabara. So having that behind me, I just say let me just stay in line with what I have in my letter of resignation, I said I was steeping aside to face the alleged charges against me, and until I’m cleared or I’m jailed I will not know what to do in the future.
Finally, in one of the last interviews granted by the former Vice president Atiku Abubakar, he concluded that his path will never cross with that of Obasanjo again in life.
With you what is the situation?
To err is human. And to forgive is divine. In politics there are no permanent enemy, and no permanent friends, but permanent interest. Maybe in the future my interest and Obasanjo’s interest my come together and we find ourselves there. And we look at ourselves and say what I know you know and we will come together and move the nation forward.
IS THIS A HINT OF BLACKMAIL. NAIL ME AND I’LL NAIL YOU. LET ME BE AND I’LL LET YOU BE. Anyway Rikisi to pa won po lo ma tu won ka Loruko Babaloke.
WHY IS EHINDERO NOT IN DETENTION, WHY NOT SEARCH THE HOUSES OF ALL HEADS OF THE POLICE AND THEIR STOOGES. NEXT WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ALL THESE MONIES FOUND? WILL THEY MIRACULOUSLY DISAPPEAR JUST LIKE WHAT HAPPENED TO SABO BARKINZWO – RIMI’S RUNNING MATE? AH NA WA FOR HOW WE DO OUR THING IN NIGERIA O, NO WONDER THEY DONT WANT SANE, CORRECT AND DISCIPLINED PEOPLE LIKE MIMIKO IN GOVERNMENT BUT THEY LIE FOR THE LORD WILL DO A NEW THING IN NIGERIA. Please read on:N.9m found in TV set – At police officer’s house
Jacob Segun Olatunji, Abuja
Monday, June 11, 2007
THE last may not have been heard about the scandal involving several millions of naira rocking the Nigeria Police, as detectives have recovered over N900,000 cash from a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Olu Monday, attached to the office of the former commissioner of police in charge of the Force Budget, Mr. John Obaniyi.
Findings revealed that the money was neatly packed inside a television set at his residence located at Garki Village , Abuja, when detectives searched his house.
The said DSP, along with the two aides of Mr. Obaniyi, were on Thursday caught with N21.6m cash at the entrance of the Force Headquarters while smuggling out the money.
It was gathered that on interrogation, DSP Monday could not give satisfactory explanation as to how he came about the huge amount of money.
Sources said that investigations had revealed that the money was part of the N21.6m earlier intercepted from him going by the wrappers of the money which were said to be identical.
Nigerian Tribune further learnt that detectives would this week continue with their investigations by examining some bank accounts of the suspect.
As at the press time, Mr. Obaniyi and his aides were still being quizzed at the Force Headquarters with a view to getting to the root of the scandal.
Findings revealed that Mr. Obaniyi, during interrogation, had said that the N21.6m was meant for public relations to some organisations.
However, investigations so far has revealed that the N21.6 was part of unspent money from allocation given to the police for the last general election and part of the estacodes meant for police personnel who went on foreign missions but were reportedly shortchanged by the police leadership.
OKIRO GET REAL, ALL THESE HARD TALK AND NO ACTION IS STUPIDITY. WHY HAVENT YOU ARRESTED EHINDERO? WHAT REMEDY TO THE SUFFERING POLICE ORDINARIES? WHAT TRAINING THAT POLICE SHOULD NOT GO ABOUT KILLING WILLY-NILLY? PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE. PEOPLE WONT DARE BURN DOWN OR KILL POLICE IF THEY ARE NOT AGGRIEVED. OKIRO IF THIS IS HOW YOU WILL LEAD THE POLICE, THEN WAHALA DEY O. Please read on:
Scam in police: Cops set for war
Monday, June 11, 2007
Pent up anger was building up at the weekend among hundreds of policemen who are claiming that they were short-changed by the immediate past Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Sunday Ehindero, who allegedly received their allowances but failed to pay them.
The development is coming on the heels of the arrest of a Commissioner of Police and two of his aides, who attempted to smuggle out over N21 million from the Force Headquarters in Abuja on June 7.
Some of the policemen, who spoke with Daily Sun in Lagos, said that Ehindero tried to outsmart them on May 25 when he held talks with 250 cops who had returned from peace keeping mission in Haiti and Liberia, and were expecting to be paid their allowances.
One of the policemen said: “Ehindero told us that all of us who missed our promotion course because of the foreign mission will still be promoted. He told us a lot of sweet things. We waited till he finished, then we asked him when he would pay our allowances.
“Right there, he promised to pay us the following Monday. Then he told DC Folawiyo, the Director of Peace Keeping Mission, to compile our names. We learnt that the money was brought to the Force Headquarters, but the IG (Ehindero) did not pay us.”
The aggrieved police officers appealed to the present police management team not to allow the matter to be swept under the carpet, as they pointed out that a former IG is trying to protect Ehindero because he lodged huge sums of money in his bank.
The policeman said: “We believe in Okiro. He has been a good leader and he must not allow anybody to hold him back from prosecuting whoever has stolen our money.”
Meanwhile, the acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mike Okiro, talked tough at the weekend over the killing of some of his men and the burning of a police station at Zungeru, Niger State.
He swore that his administration would ensure that those who take delight in burning police stations and killing policemen will never live to tell the story.
Okiro spoke in Abuja while parading some suspects who allegedly killed the police officers and burnt the station.
The men, numbering 35, were said to have infiltrated the police station to take vengeance over the killing of a beloved one from the village by a mobile police officer.
However, Okiro, who maintained that people must learn not to take laws into their hands, no matter the case, saw no reason the suspects had to raze a police station, which was a public property, as well as kill policemen who were innocent of the matter.
“No law abiding persons can go and burn a police station, because it is a public property. Only criminals go to burn police stations because it is a hindrance to their activities. Anybody who goes to burn a police station, I bet, will not live to tell the story,” the IGP thundered.
He recounted that on May 16, 2007, after a trigger-happy-mobile policeman shot dead a villager, following a minor misunderstanding over the ownership of a motorcycle, the villagers sacked the police station, killing an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and an Inspector and they set fire to the building.
Afterward, Okiro said, 168 persons were arrested in connection with the crisis but after serious screening, only 35 were detained in police custody for trial.
The IGP said he had ordered the arrest and trial of the trigger-happy MOPOL, vowing to make him face murder charges for killing a defenseless citizen and causing crisis.
THE POLICE ALSO SHOULD BE LAW ABIDING. NOBODY SHOULD BE ABOVE THE LAW IN NIGERIA.
On do you blame Mimiko for severing ties with evildoers, the name AWANEBI should read CHIEF DELE AKINWALE. APOLOGIES
THESE ARE ALL POSTED TO REVEAL THE DARK SECRETS OF SO CALLED PEOPLE IN POWER IN NIGERIA AND POSSIBLY TO SHOW WHY GOD DID NOT ALLOW MIMIKO TO GO INTO POWER STRAIGHT AWAY. THE LORD WILL CLEAR THE PATH SO THAT THE RIGHTEOUS WILL RULE WITHOUT FEAR. GOD DOES WORK IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS. IT IS NOT MY INTENTION TO BORE YOU WITH TOO MANY NEWS BUT WE NEED TO KEEP ABREAST OF THINGS AND SEE WHY WE CAN NEVER GIVE UP HOPE ON MIMIKO AND ONDO STATE FUTURE AS IN THE HANDS OF AGAGU, IT IS DOOM AND GLOOM. Please read this also, thanks for your patience:
The Murder of Awanebi
06.12.2007
The gruesome murder of the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to Governor Olusegun Agagu of Ondo State, Mr. Tunde Awanebi, seven hours after his replacement as CSO, is yet another sad commentary on the insecurity of lives in the country. Mr. Awanebi was assassinated by unknown gunmen in Akure on May 30. His assailants were said to have trailed him to a supermarket in the Ondo State capital on that fateful day where they shot and killed him at close range. After that, they bolted away without stealing anything from him or robbing any of the other shoppers.
Given the circumstances surrounding the crime, some analysts have suggested that his killing was politically motivated. The motovation is now a subject of investigation by the police. All the same, the sad incident signifies that even under the new government, assassins in the land are still on the prowl, decimating and killing their victims recklessly. This, indeed, is regrettable.
Under the last government, hired killers were literally on rampage. The most painful aspect of the tragedy is that none of those high profile political murders has been resolved up to this day. After waiting for long without any meaningful clue to the murder of its father and breadwinner, the family of the former Minister of Justice and Federal Attorney-General, Chief Bola Ige (SAN), has finally rested its “case with God.” The families of the murdered Chief Harry Marshall, Mr. Godwin Agbroko, Dr. Ayo Daramola, Engineer Funsho Williams and Mrs. Abubakar Rimi may also do same. Such resignation and lack of faith in the law enforcement apparatus of the country is unfortunate.
That is why the greatest challenge before the police now is to do everything possible to track down the killers of Awanebi and promptly bring them to justice. Awanebi’s murder is, essentially, a crime and must be treated as such. Therefore, the police investigation should not be caught in the web of politics.
The Ondo State Police Command has issued the now familiar statement that the police is investigating Awanebi’s assassination “to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death”. By now, the law officers should know that the public is fed up with this kind of ritualistic pronouncement that produces no sensible results.
Nigerians cannot continue to live perpetually under the fear of assassins. Therefore, we challenge the federal government to re-position the police and other security operatives in the country to enable them to secure the lives of the citizenry.
If killers are promptly arrested and brought to justice, it will serve as deterrent to others. Above all, the sustenance of this democracy rests, largely, on the protection of lives and property.
Read this about the ongoing battle to get our stolen mandate from the bandits and the thiefs . Excrepted from the Guardian
Questions over INEC’s documentation in Ondo
From Niyi Bello, Akure
MORE questions are being asked on the credibility of the April 14 elections in Ondo State. The questions essentially are being raised following the discovery of massive irregularities in the records of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the conduct of the gubernatorial elections in the state.
Last week, following a request granted by the Election Petition Tribunal, the Labour Party (LP) in the state, went to the Alagbaka, Akure office of the electoral body to inspect all the documents relating to the April elections.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mallam Mohammed Ahmadu, had earlier stated that the records of the elections will be made available to all parties that had made requests for them provided that they paid a token N10 for each copy of the document they wish to inspect.
Ahmadu at a press conference said unlike the claim in some quarters, the commission was indeed ready to open its books for everybody to see. The press briefing was essentially to douse the tension arising from rumour that a political party had planned to set the INEC Akure office on fire to destroy the documents and cover rigging tracks.
And last week again, the Labour Party legal team, led by Yinka Adeyosoye and some party chieftains including the state chairman, Dr. Olaiya Oni, arrived at the INEC premises armed with the order of the Tribunal. And after a disagreement on the manner of inspection and the volume of materials to be inspected, the actual inspection started about noon.
Armed with a list of irregularities highlighted in their petitions and their copies of the election results collated through their field agents, the LP team requested that every document relating to the polls in all the 18 local councils of the state be made available to them.
But the legal department of the electoral body restricted the inspection to the six local councils in Ondo South, which elections the party is contesting at the tribunal. The LP said that the commission could not act outside the tribunal order.
And by way of preparation, the INEC had assembled all the concerned electoral officers who stood by their neatly packed documents while the entire bureaucracy of the commission, made up of the Secretary and administrative officials were around to conduct the proceedings.
An earlier request that the full list of the INEC ad-hoc staff be made available to the Labour Party team to ascertain whether the allegation that they were mainly made up of PDP loyalists can be proved, was also rejected by the Commission. The electoral body directed the team to the bank that facilitated the payments of emoluments to the temporary staff.
However when the bank in turn stated that the only authority that can release the names is INEC, the commission pledged to make the list available while insisting that the recruitment was made in a transparent manner devoid of political interference.
The LP team, accompanied by some journalists arrived at the INEC office. The team brought three brand new photocopiers and their accessories and even electric generators to facilitate the photocopying of needed materials, had expected to see some anomalies, what confronted the visitors was described as “mind-boggling.”
The entire records were in shambles and the little that could be deciphered at the initial inspection, which was made in public, and before the media – photojournalists and television cameramen – was that the officials of the commission could not keep records.
It was evident that what was declared, as the final results of the controversial election would not be supported by documentary evidence, at least in the areas inspected. Also noticed were unsuccessful and futile efforts to correct the anomalies on every page of the documents.
One issue that kept recurring was the absence of Form EC8A in most of the contested polling units. For instance, in Ilaje and Ese Odo local councils, two of the six councils in the South where the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was declared to have scored over 85 per cent, the LP is claimed that no election took place. Incidentally, the Form EC8A that is supposed to contain the unit results and signed by all the party agents, were either not available or not signed by any agent in these areas.
And in a few places where this all- important document, which according to INEC regulations should be signed by all the agents to make the results authentic, was available, it was discovered that the same person bearing the same name and signatures, signed the documents in some of the units.
It was also discovered that the same person, in many instances, signed as the Presiding Officer and Polling Clerk, whereas, these two INEC ad-hoc officials are supposed to carry out different functions during the exercise.
Many of the Voters’ Register could also not be found during the inspection to match the number of returns with the actual number of registered voters to determine the allegations that there was a rampant ‘manufacture’ of fictitious votes.
The Commission could not find the Voters Register of 11 out of the 27 units in Aheri Ward of Ilaje local council even though results were declared for the entire area. It however remained to be determined whether the loss was recorded before or after the conduct of the polls.
And to further confirm that important documents can vanish from INEC stores, all the Form EC8A that were supposedly filled by the party agents in all the 27 wards of the same Aheri Ward could not be found.
One of the questions was about a finding, which showed that a police officer with the rank of Assistant Superintendent, signed as the agent of the PDP in one of the units at Mahin Ward 2 of Ilaje. Has this not lent support to the rumours that the police and other security agencies were partisan during the election, asked a member of the LP?
Another question was how figures of the returns in most cases were more than the figures on the list of the Voters Register. And even in areas where it was established that voting did not take place, fantastic figures were recorded. The bigger question it seems is ‘how did the commission get the figures.”
At a ward in Ese-Odo council, the total number of names on the Voters’ Register was 3,578 and 3,448 voters were said to have cast their votes at the governorship election. But when the number of voters at one of the polling units, where INEC confirmed no voting took place, was added, the votes was about 300 more than the number on the list.
The case of a particular ward is also interesting. The LP had gone around on the day after the polls to collect unused voters’ cards, totally about two thousand, from disenfranchised voters but it was a surprise to discover that all the names were marked in the register as having voted.
These fresh revelations from INEC had confirmed that figures were in most cases allocated, during the election without any thought to the pattern of voting by the electorate and that the final results cannot stand thorough scrutiny.
Long before the inspection by the Labour Party of INEC documents, the Alliance for Democracy (AD) had queried the credibility of the elections. The party’s grouse was that the names and picture of its candidate in the Ondo Central Senatorial election, Chief Makinde Oguntona, and the party logo, were not on the ballot papers, yet the party got about 500 votes. The same thing went for the party’s candidate in the Southern District.
The AD in a release had asked the question: “Where did we get the votes from, since nobody could have voted for us because we had no space in the ballot paper for our supporters to thumb-print.”
However, on the third day of the inspection, when the LP legal team overcame its shock, a group of PDP chieftains, led by the State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Yemi Alao, came to the INEC office to stop the exercise.
A member of the PDP legal team, Wale Omotoso, who accompanied them to the premises, requested the INEC to stop forthwith, the LP inspection on the ground that the tribunal did not grant the opposition party the order it was executing.
According to him, the tribunal only granted the prayers of LP to inspect the documents to be made available by INEC within the court premises. He observed that it was illegal for the party to scrutinise the commission’s records the way it was being done claiming further that the order that the LP was executing was in fact an order granted the PDP by the tribunal.
It was however a great relief for the INEC officials who were already getting uneasy by the revelations of the LP inspection, when a team of policemen stopped the inspection forthwith and seized all the photocopied materials.
The INEC spokesman Adebimpe Awoniyi said rather than being jittery about the discoveries, the commission will defend every action it took during the polls at the tribunal.
Awoniyi said that some of the politicians might just be playing to the gallery with what they are calling “great evidence of INEC culpability,” stressing “because they are public figures who desire public sympathy, they are just making a mountain out of a molehill.”
But the LP legal team, speaking through Aderemi Olatubora, one of the counsel said they are going back to the tribunal to seek clarification on the order and demand for protection when the inspection resumes this week.
Nigeria, Ondo state and even the whole world all know the truth about the massive rigging of the April elecions. PDP still believe they are an authority to themselves and its still a shame that they are not remorseful and are still allowed to continue their bullying tactics. Whatever they do, the truth will be revealed fro God has a hand in this matter and no one is above God. It is frustrating but then Patience is the virtue needed on this issue. INEC will themselves make mistakes to expose their shame soon. God is in control and in only Him we trust. Mimiko will get back his mandate. Only a matter of time.
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Why is Ehindero still walking free? The outcry by the police is a welcome signal that hush hush and cover up of corruption is no longer tenable in Nigeri. Yaradua must follow this to the end. Of course Ehindero will deny this but of course no sane person will believe him. Ehindero and all other looters of Nigerian property must be brought to the books, please read on…
Police Rank And File Threaten Showdown Over N21.6m Scandal
By Chris Agbambu, Deputy Bureau Chief, Abuja
June 14th, 2007
The rank and file in the police have threatened a showdown with the hierarchy of the force if attempt is made to cover up the N21 million scandal now rocking the force.
Informed police sources said in Abuja that the threat by the rank and file followed pressures from top police hierarchy to sweep the scandal under the carpet, as it does not portray the force in good light.
According to the sources, the policemen claimed that while they were suffering under the former Inspector General of Police, others were busy stealing money.
They claimed that a lot of policemen sufferred high handedness in the hands John Obaniyi who was in charge of police budget.
Information available to Daily Independent disclosed that some DIGs want the case to be handled with caution as it will further expose the police to ridicule and public odium.
However, following the threat of showdown by the rank and file, the police hierarchy has decided to soft pedal so as to allow a thorough investigation into the matter.
The fear, a police source revealed, is that if the case is allowed to be investigated by an external body, it might uncover more scandals likely to expose the DIGs.
Furthermore, the detectives investigating the N21.6 million scandal have discovered that an undisclosed amount of money is missing in the police pensions fund.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, NIGERIANS ARE NOT STUPID. IF EHINDERO IS NOT BROUGHT TO JUSTICE, THEN WE MAY ALL SAY FAREWELL TO HONESTY AND INTEGRITY IN NIGERIA, EHINDERO IF I MAY REMIND YOU WORKED HAND IN HAND WITH OBJ TO STEAL FROM MIMIKO THE PEOPLE’S VOTES AND GAVE IT TO THEIR STOOGE AND DEFINITELY PARTNER IN CRIME AGAGU. PLEASE READ ON:
10 houses traced to Ehindero
Thursday, June 14, 2007
No fewer than 10 houses have been traced to immediate past Inspector General of Police Mr Sunday Ehindero, all reportedly built during his two years as top cop.
Ehindero, who gave the police a new motto: “To serve and protect with integrity,” ran into trouble last week, after some of his former aides were arrested as they were attempting to smuggle over N21 million cash out of the Force Headquarters, Louis Edet House, in Abuja.
As Ehindero is being probed following the orders of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Daily Sun has been able to locate the palatial mansions he reportedly built in Abuja, Ondo and Lagos States.
The most imposing of the mansions was found opposite Sunview Hotel, Alagbaka quarters in Akure. He also reportedly built another exquisite block of flats situated along Oda Road in the town.
Investigations further revealed that the former IGP built a house similar to that on Oda Road at Oyin Akoko and made sure the road leading to the house was tarred.
Other property in Ondo include blocks of hostel in Akungba, which he let out to students of the Adekunle Ajasin University.
In Abuja, Ehindero is said to have built a mansion at Gaduwa Estate, Constitution Crescent and has one under construction at Wuye.
Ehindero’s houses in Lagos are situated at the Ekoro area of Abule Egba and Ajah, where he had built an expansive school for the wife.
Meanwhile, detectives at the ‘D’ Department, Force Headquarters, Abuja told Daily Sun that Interim Investigation has been completed and a report is being compiled.
Daily Sun also learnt that the Commissioner of Police in charge of Budget, Mr John Obaniyi who had sent his aides to fetched the over N21 million, which he claimed was for Ehindero, had kept the money in his office toilet and inside a television set.
On the heels of the scam, an independent survey has again confirmed the Nigeria Police as the most corrupt institution in the country.
Closely following the police is the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), Education Ministry (particularly higher institutions and examination bodies) and the customs service.
The survey also listed the Health Ministry, Justice Ministry, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Nigeria Railway Corporation and Agricultural Development Authorities as institutions least likely to collect bribe.
These are part of the findings of Nigeria Corruption Index (NCI) 2007 which was released in Lagos on Wednesday by Independent Advocacy Project (IAP), a leading anti-corruption group. The NCI 2007 is a follow up to the 2005 edition.
I FOR ONE AGREE WITH BUHARI. ALL THIS TALK ABOUT 5 YEAR TENURE OF INEC IS NONSENSE. INEC PERFORMED SHAMELESSLY AND FAILED WOEFULLY. THIS IS ENOUGH REASON TO DISBAND THEM… READ ON
Buhari gives Yar’Adua terms for case withdrawal
By Paul Mumeh Asst Editor, Abuja
Presidential candidate of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Muhammadu Buhari, has asked President Umaru Yar’Adua to sack Independent National Election Commission (INEC) Chairman, Maurice Iwu, as condition for him to withdraw his election petition.
He also wants all INEC Commissioners fired.
Buhari was said to have proposed that the INEC be reconstituted with members who have no allegiance to any political party.
He reportedly gave the conditions when Northern opposition party members and the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) tried to persuade him to withdraw the case against Yar’Adua to ensure the smooth running of government.
He also advocated an all embracing federal cabinet in line with Yar’Adua’s proposal for a Government of National Unity (GNU).
However, the pressure on Yar’Adua may not count because the appointments of Iwu and his Commissioners are constitutionally backed for a five-year tenure, and cannot be reversed mid way unless approved by the National Assembly.
Pressure has also been mounted on the National Assembly to sanction the INEC.
Yar’Adua is not comfortable with the idea, which he believes is a tall order, even though he admitted in his inaugural speech that there are imperfections in the electoral process and promised to set up a panel on its reform.
In any case, he is handicapped to change the system until the election petition tribunals complete their tasks.
On top of that, a senior official of the INEC, who did not want his name in print, insisted that their appointments, based on the Constitution, cannot be reversed with a stroke of the pen.
“We are appointed for a specified time”, he argued.
WHAT WILL AGAGU ATTRIBUTE HIS ‘VICTORY’ TO?THE DEVIL? THEY COME IN DIFFERENT SHAPES AND FORMS. ANY VICTORY THAT DOES NOT COME FROM OUR TRUE AND LIVING GOD WILL FALL AND FAIL;
Yar’Adua attributes victory to God
From Madu Onuorah, Abuja
PRESIDENT Umaru Musa Yar’Adua yesterday described his emergence as President of Nigeria as the will of God. He said: “I am President today not because I am better or wiser than anybody but rather because that is the will of God. That imposes on me enormous responsibility. And for that, I consider every Nigerian who has meaningful contribution on the way forward for our nation as my adviser.”
He stated at a meeting with the Council of Ulama, (a delegation of Islamic scholars). The President pledged to set up a joint committee of Islamic and Christian leaders to serve as a forum for peace building in the country.
Yar’Adua also asked the NNPC to come up with immediate plans for increased supply of gas to the local economy, instead of the current focus on export of the product.
The President who, together with Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, met with an NNPC management led by the Group Managing Director, Mr. Funsho Kupolokun for three and a half hours, directed that in line with his determination to tackle the nation’s power crisis, the NNPC’s future plans must be anchored on the policy that domestic need for gas must be satisfied before (that of ) foreign markets.
According to him, “as I keep saying, we cannot begin to address, in a fundamental manner, the problems of the economy, until we successfully tackle the power and energy issue. It is critical to all my plans. So I am more interested in how much gas we can tap for domestic use than what we can get for export. We must power this economy.”
He, therefore, directed the NNPC to come up with a workable plan to ensure that there would be adequate supply of gas to the nation’s power generation plants.
Yar’Adua also said that he would tackle the Niger Delta problem by meeting the developmental challenges in the region and enforcing law and order.
He said he: “My plan is for a massive intervention and after consulting with all the stakeholders, we will take our plan to the National Assembly so everyone can buy in. Once we can address the development issues, it will be easy to tackle the criminal element of the problem.”
Please Yaradua dont send them away but send them to Agagu in Akure for this is his trademark. Who knows he may even try pay you as well as pay them for he loves sycophants. Read on…
Yar’Adua advises well-wishers to stay away
By Ihuoma Chiedozie, Abuja
Published: Thursday, 14 Jun 2007
President Umaru Yar‘Adua on Wednesday advised well-wishers coming to Abuja to congratulate him to stay away and allow him to concentrate on his job.
The President made this appeal while receiving a Kaduna State delegation that came to congratulate him.
The Kaduna State Governor, Alhaji Namidi Sambo, led the over 300-man delegation to the Presidential Villa, which included traditional rulers, religious leaders, politicians and government officials.
Yar‘Adua, however, expressed appreciation for the visit, noting that it would have been better if they had stayed at home.
The President said he did not allow his own state delegation to pay him a solidarity visit.
He said, ”I thank you for your visit, although I had actually wanted you to stay at home. Well, you are the lucky ones. All those, including Katsina State, that wanted to come with a strong delegation to congratulate me, I told them to stay at home and do their work and allow me and my colleagues in Abuja to also do our work.”
The governor said they had all come together under a unity government to move Kaduna State forward.
Yar‘Adua commended the governor for reconciling with the opposition in his state. He explained that he intended to do the same at the national level.
”This is a worthy example the federal level is trying to copy”, he said of the reported reconciliation.
The President, however, said that the prevailing political culture in the country needed to be changed.
He said, ”We need to change our political culture. The entire political class needs to adopt and develop a political culture whereby we can compete in general elections as brothers that we are, and after the elections we should be able to have a common front and unite ourselves to contribute to issues that affect our nation and put behind us problems that affect our persons and parties.
”We must put the interest of this country above any personal or particular political interest. Like in all competitions, we must compete for power; after the competition is over, we must all work together for the best interest of the nation.”
Earlier, Sambo had said the delegation was at the Villa to congratulate the President.
He also said they wanted to pledge the state‘s loyalty to the President.
The governor said that his state ”will give all it takes to support” Yar’Adua’s government, adding that the current government in Kaduna State had adopted all the programmes in the manifesto of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Sambo added, ”We are working as one family with all the other parties, the Action Congress, the All Nigerian Peoples Party. We are already working in Kaduna as one political party because in Kaduna State we are progressive people.
“We are looking for the progress of Kaduna State and Nigeria in general. The election has passed; everybody now is looking towards how we shall enhance the development of Kaduna State and Nigeria in general.”
The governor said his predecessor, Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi, left N2.3bn for him in the state‘s coffers.
OH I CANT WAIT FOR WHEN AGAGU IS FOUND GUILTY OF GROSS ELECTORAL MISCONDUCT AND THEN ORDERED TO FACE EFCC. THE REVELATIONS TO COME WILL BE PHENOMENAL
EFCC insists on trial of ex-governors
By Musikilu Mojeed, Abuja
Published: Thursday, 14 Jun 2007
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Monday, insisted that it would prosecute former governors who looted state funds. AGAGU SHOULD BE PROBED FOR HIS FOUR YEAR RULE OF BLOODSUCKING NAIRAMANIA IN ONDO STATE
The commission said it might not accept the ex-governors’ request for plea bargaining. PLEA BARGANING SHOULD NOT BE AN OPTION
Plea bargaining is a negotiation in which an accused person agrees to plead “guilty” or “no contest” in return for the reduction of the charges or dismissal of some of the charges against him or her.
In some situations, an element of the bargain may recommend that the accused reveal some information on the location of stolen goods or give information about fellow accused person(s) in the crime or pledge to testify against the accused.
A top official of the EFCC told our correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday that the commission had realised that it “lacked the power for plea bargaining.”
The official said, “We have reconsidered our position and the former governors may not enjoy the kind of reprieve they expected. The power for plea bargaining belongs to the courts. We don’t have such a power.”
The commission had last week given some former governors the option of returning their loot, or risk being prosecuted.
In the past one week, it had quizzed Dr. Peter Odili (Rivers); Chief Lucky Igbinedion (Edo); Chief James Ibori (Delta); Mr. Jolly Nyame (Taraba); and Alhaji Ahmed Sani (Zamfara) over alleged mismanagement of public funds and money laundering.
Others are Chief Uzor Orji Kalu (Abia); Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (Lagos); Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani (Enugu); and Chief Joshua Dariye (Plateau).
Alhaji Saminu Turaki (Jigawa); Mr. Boni Haruna (Adamawa); and Chief George Akume (Benue), who were also summoned by the anti-graft agency, are yet to honour the invitation.
Our source said that apart from the fact that the EFCC lacked the power for plea bargaining, its chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, was resolute in prosecuting the erstwhile governors no matter the pressure.
He also said the anti-graft agency had to make a U-turn following admonitions by well-meaning Nigerians that the earlier decision not to prosecute indicted former governors might set a bad precedent.
The official said, “We toyed with that idea (plea bargaining), but have changed our mind. We are not going to do that any longer. So, once investigation is completed, we will charge them to court.
“But we encourage them to return their loot all the same. If they do that, they may get forgiveness from God. By doing that, they will be helping their conscience as they will be moving from a blemished conscience to a good one.
“If they like to plead guilty before the court, that is their business. No more deals with them.”
Another source in the commission said that the loot-for-freedom offer was part of the investigative technique of the EFCC.
He said the commission made the offer as a bait for those who had fled the country to return home.
”We have succeeded in getting what we wanted to achieve. The offer is what encouraged Nnamani and Dariye to return home. Now that we have them in the bag, we will prosecute them,” he said.
The official said that operatives of the EFCC would start visiting the states next week to verify projects that some of the governors claimed to have executed during their tenure.
Before travelling to London on Wednesday, Ribadu reportedly instructed the commission’s Director of Operations, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, to intensify work on the investigation of the former governors.
Ribadu, who will attend a meeting in Norway before returning to the country, was also said to have advised Lamorde to seek the assistance of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors and the Nigerian Society of Engineers in the investigation of some projects that required technical input.
The official added that former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar would be questioned again on his management of the finances of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund.
Abubakar is expected back in the country on Thursday.
The official said all the interrogated former governors were released on bail after they surrendered their passports as proof that they would not flee the country.
He said, ”All of them (former governors) who came here were released on bail. And the bail was not based on personal recognition.
“I can confirm to you that because of the gravity of the matter involved, the bail conditions were stiff.
“One of the conditions was that they had to surrender their diplomatic and Nigerian passports.
“Now that we have their travelling documents in our custody, we are sure that they won‘t run away. We believe that as law-abiding citizens, they will honour the EFCC‘s invitation whenever we ask them to report to our office.”
WHY DO WE SWEAR IN INVALIDS IN NIGERIA BEFORE ELECTION’S CONTROVERSIES ARE RESOLVED?
IT IS APPALLING TO NOTE THAT IN NIGERIA OFFICIALS ARE SWORN IN BEFORE ALL ELECTIONS MATTERS ARE RESOLVED. TO ANY RIGHT THINKING INDIVIDUAL THIS IS BACKWARD. IT IS SYNONIMOUS TO KEEPING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE. AND AGAIN THAT IS WHY THERE IS SO MUCH CONFUSION IN OUR ELECTORAL PROCESS. IF YAR ADUA IS SINCERE IN HIS PLEDGE TO REVIEW THE ELECTORAL PROCESS WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING SAME, HE NEEDS TO START BY MAKING SURE THAT ELECTION PETITIONS’S RESOLUTION PRECLUDE SWEARING IN CEREMONIES. BEFORE ANY PRESIDENT ELECT, GOVERNOR ELECT, SENATOR ELECT ETC ARE SWORN IN, WE MUST UNSURE THAT HE IS DUELY ELECTED ACCORDING TO THE PROVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE LAND. FOR INSTANCE PEOPLE LIKE AGAGU SHOULD NEVER HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO OCCUPY THE STATE HOUSE IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE IT IS OBVIOUS THAT HE DID NOT WIN THE ELECTION. ALL THE FACTS THAT ARE BEING REVEALED DURING THE INSPECTION OF VOTING RESULTS COULD HAVE BEEN REVEALED IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE ELECTIONS. SECONDLY, THE TRIBUNALS AND COURTS WILL HAVE HASTEN THEIR EFFORT IN RESOLVING ALL ELECTION MATTERS INSTEAD OF PROCRASTINATING. THIRDLY, ALREADY DUBIOUSLY SWORN IN OFFICIALS WILL NOT HAVE A CHANCE TO STEAL GOVERNMENT MONEY AND PROPERTY.
I AM SADDENED BY THE INCOMPETENCE AND NON-CHALANT ATTITUDE OF NIGERIA CONGRESS. THE CONGRESS IS NOT DOING ITS JOB OF CURBING THE EXCESSES OF THE EXECUTIVE AS THIS ARM OF GOVERNMENT’S WATCHDOG. THE CONGRESS NEEDS TO RECONVENE AND REVERSE ALL THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY OBASANJO. INSTEAD OF SELLING NIGERIA TO A SELECT FEW, GOVERNMENT BONDS SHOULD HAVE BEEN FLOATED TO THE PUBLIC BY THESE COMPANIES OR GOVT. PARASTATALS TO RAISE FUNDS.
THIS IS THE HEALTHY WAY THIS IS DONE IN DEVELOPED NATIONS. NIGERIA CONGRESS CAN TAKE A CUE FROM THIS. THE CONGRESS HAS THE POWER TO MAKE LAWS TO CHANGE ANY ACTION THAT THE EXECUTIVE ARM OF GOVT. MIGHT HAVE TAKEN OR MAY WANT TO TAKE. IF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS DID NOT PASS THE BILL TO START WAR IN IRAQ BUSH CAN NOT START THAT WAR BECAUSE HE HAS NO SUCH AUTHORITY WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE CONGRESS. ALL CONGRESS HAS TO DO IS RECONVENE AND REVERSE ALL THE DAMAGE DONE BY OBASANJO. PLEASE NIGERIA CONGRESS NOTE THIS.
When congress and top officials in Nigeria are too busy lobbying for their allowances, positions and self interests, the ordinary people suffer and the reason for having them in power is soon forgotten. O ma se o, o really se gan ni. When Armah wrote the book the beautiful ones are not born, which I read in the late 70s, I was so happy to be a Nigerian far removed from all the political and social ills mentioned about Ghana, little did I know then that Nigeria’s turn was soon to come and that things would be even worse! O ma se o. Who did we wrong in Nigeria to be plunged into this dark ages of corruption, maladministration and ills. Why does this Nigeria chicken break and eat up its own eggs? Where do we go from here? Will these powers and principalities allow the honest and people loving people to ever rule? What do they gain from plunging Nigeria into the abyss? What would they say to their maker on judgement day? what is the use of so much ill gotten wealth that would spell doom and gloom anyway? O ma se . Rvelations 22;12 says “behold i come quickly says the Lord, and my reward is with me, to give to every man according as his works shall be”. God will judge you all but it is not too late to have a change of heart. Please feel for the people for a change. Please. Mimiko is the man for Ondo State, well chosen and well voted for and well victorious. At least for Ondo state, let the truth prevail.
PRAISE PRAISE PRAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIISE THE LOOOOOORD. This is indeed good news and a warning signal that NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. My vote of confidence in Yaradua i confirmed. The truth will keep on pouring out. I promised revelations galore that will name and shame the evil doers in Nigeria. AGAGU hope you are ready. it will be your turn soon and you will have no area father to bail you out for contrary to what you thought, Babayabo cannot control Yaradua from the grave he calls chicken farm. He too like you will be exposed for what you all are. is it not this same Ehindero that worked hand in hand with ObJ to put you in Alagbaka fraudulently? Morning shows the day. The signal is good for even the Electoral Judiciary will get the signal that Yaradua means business. Please read on my people, am so happy today and imagine our joy when the truth is revealed about Mimiko and Agagu in Ondo state. Mimiko jo gba sibee o jaree, joooooo. Your good news will come soon in Jesus name (amen)….
Yar’Adua orders Ehindero’s arrest
By Chris Agbambu and Don Bassey, Abuja
President Umaru Yar’Adua has ordered the arrest of former Inspector General of Police (IG), Sunday Ehindero, to answer allegations of corruption levelled against him. A police source disclosed in Abuja on Thursday that the directive followed the submission of the interim report on the investigation of the N21.6 million scam, which lid was blown last week when the aides of Police Budget Commissioner, John Obaniyi, were arrested.
The report also showed that over N300 million was taken out of the police budget office a few days to the retirement of Ehindero.
The source said his movement has been restricted to Abuja, his passport seized, and his United Nations civil police job put on hold.
It was learnt that Yar’Adua was astonished on receiving the report that could open a can of worms on how police fund was managed.
According to police sources, Ehindero has denied knowing that the money was kept by Obaniyi, who they said is now poised to cough.
Obaniyi is on suspension until further notice and his movement restricted to Abuja.
Deprived police officers are jubilant that the fraud has been uncovered.
Meanwhile, acting Inspector General of Police (IG), Mike Okiro, has pledged to stay away from the corrupt practices that led to the disgraceful exit of former IG, Tafa Balogun, who was sentenced to prison for using his office to line his pocket.
“I don’t want us to engage in over-generalisation. The fact that it happened once or twice doesn’t mean everyone is doing it. I am the 13th Inspector General of Police, and if out of 13, one or two deviated, it doesn’t mean we draw conclusions. So, it is unfortunate it happened, but it (Ehindero’s case) is still under investigation, and we won’t know what has happened until we complete our investigation”, he told journalists.
Okiro spoke in Abuja on Thursday when he visited Federal Capital Territory Transition Committee Chairman, Mohammed Alhassan, during which he solicited the support of the FCT Administration for police accommodation and logistics.
Despite skirmishes here and there, he stresed, Nigeria is a safe country compared with South Africa and the United States.
THIS DOESNT SOUND GOOD AT ALL – SHAME ON OBASANJO FROM HIS CHICKEN FARM:
Yar’Adua, Obasanjo, Ali meet today over ministerial list
From Chuks Okocha in Abuja, 06.15.2007
Friday, June 15, 2007
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, former President and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT) designate, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and PDP Chairman, Dr Ahmadu Ali, will meet in Abuja over ministerial list.
Others expected to attend the meeting that will precede a similar one by the PDP National Executive Council (NEC) on June 25, are Chairman of PDP BOT, Chief Tony Anenih and the party’s National Secretary, Chief Ojo Maduekwe. A replacement for Ali will also top the agenda of the PDP NEC meeting slated for June 25, in Abuja.
THISDAY gathered that the PDP NEC meeting will take final look at the list of ministerial nominees and ratify outcome of a similar meeting by the party’s top hierarchy today. THISDAY gathered that summons of the NEC meeting was contained in a memorandum by National Secretary of the party, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, to some of the principal officers of the party.
According to one of the recipients of the summons, “the agenda of the meeting included far reaching issues that affect the nation, including list of ministerial nominees and replacement of National Chairman of the party and other members
of the NWC.” The PDP NEC input into the list of ministerial nominees was necessary before its final submission to the Senate for confirmation.
Also top on the agenda of the meeting, is the choice of who would replace Senator Ali as the National Chairman. THISDAY gathered that the meeting may examine option of the party’s Scribe, Maduekwe replacing Ali in an acting capacity pending when the party would hold its national convention in November this year. The decision to the effect that Ali will hand over to the most senior official of the party was, according to a source, taken at a meeting in Abuja on Tuesday.
“If the decision of NEC of the party is upheld, then Ali would handover to Maduekwe as the acting National Chairman,” the source told THISDAY.
Meanwhile, two more aspirants – former Senate President, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim and Honourable Tony Anyanwu – have indicated interest to contest election into the office of the National Chairman of the party. Anyim hails from Ebonyi State, while Anyanwu is a former member of the House of Representatives from 1999 to 2003, and also a former governorship aspirant of the party in Imo State.
Anyim told THISDAY yesterday, of his intention to become PDP National Chairman. This brings to seven the number of those contesting for the office.
PLEASE TAKE TIME TO READ THIS MISSIVE FOR THIS WILL BE THE ONDO STATE STORY IN JESUS NAME – EVERY SINGLE WORD WILL BE REPEATED WHEN MIMIKO WINS BACK HIS MANDATE AND THIS WILL BE SOON, AGAGU WILL HEED MIMIKO’S ORDER TO START PACKING HIS BAGS.
Carnival in Anambra as Uba, deputy quit
From Chuks Collins, Awka
IT was a bag of mixed reactions in Awka yesterday when news of the restoration of Mr. Peter Obi as Anambra Governor hit the state capital.
The 16-day Governor, Dr. Andy Uba and his Deputy, Mrs. Stella Odife, quietly and without a word cleared their desks and bade the Government House farewell. This was a few minutes after news of the judgment spread in town at about 3.00p.m. The duo left without the usual sirens or convoy of aides.
The state was agog, particularly the workers who in ecstasy left their offices. Also, traders at Onitsha, Nkpor, Nnewi and Agulu markets jumped about, singing songs and describing Obi as a cat with nine lives.
Agulu, Obi’s hometown erupted in a carnival as the folks jubilated and embraced one another, and any other one in sight. The joy was infectious. Obi is reported to be outside the country and is expected to return today.
The transition committee chairman of Nnewi North, Mrs. Callista Adimachukwu who spoke on the phone from the floor of the Supreme Court in Abuja described the development as “the Lord’s doing”. She added: “The judiciary has once again confirmed to all that it is still the bastion of hope”. She assured that, “when we get back to Awka, we’ll put smiles on the faces of citizens”.
Also, Obi’s Deputy, Dame Virgy Etiaba, described the judgment as a victory for democracy, noting that was why the people were so happy. She assured the Obi administration would make everyone work harder in the interest of the development of the state.
Etiaba’s son, Echezona, thanked God for restoring Obi, saying that people should always trust in God. He thanked the press “for helping in the fight and in making sure darkness did not triumph over light.” He described the judgment as “excellence and wonderful”.
The Co-ordinator of Justice Development and Peace Commission of the Onitsha Archdiocese, Rev. Fr. Martin Onukwuba, said: “We laud the judgment on two grounds mainly – that Obi courageously and tenaciously followed the rule of law to the end. It is a sure lesson for everyone to rely on judiciary as the last hope of all. Two, that Uba who just got removed, we have no sympathy for him, particular because he came in through a flawed electoral process that was widely condemned”.
Most traditional rulers in the state declined comment, especially when they just rose from a closed-door interactive session with Uba. On the development, the monarch of Agulu, Obi’s hometown, Igwe Obodoakor, had shortly before the announcement spoken eloquently in his resolve to support Uba.
Stern-looking soldiers and policemen sealed all entrances to the Government House. Uba has spent barely 16 days in office.
Dr. Dozie Ikedife, who is the current President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo said: “It has shown us that our democracy is growing and we in Ohanaeze congratulate Obi for ensuring that the due processes of law are followed”.
Also, the chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Awka, Mr. Chukwudi Nwankwo said: “A Daniel has now come to judgment. I have to thank the Supreme Court for interpreting Obi’s case courageously, I want to congratulate Obi because it’s not easy to go into such case single-handedly and come out successfully”.