Congratulation baba politic,baba iyabo.oye amori o

touch_me_hard: What are the funds going to be used for?
How will our country benefit from this?

one of the economic importance is DEBT

Fela live.

This a typical scenerio of his COLOMENTALITY TRACK.Oyinbo don release you,but you release yourself.

Even the incumbent "presislave/thief" is happy to be a slave.

[OBJ- the most finest man in 9ja. I dey ur back ooo!]

Or you meant to say you were at the front of his back!

No one ever doubt a man of proofs and real actions.

OBJ's record of consistent performance based on vision, dedication, passion and achievement at the local and international arena is speaking for him.

I rejoice with his new appointment.

Kings/Queens don't appoint a non-result oriented individuals to fill an office.

The hand of the diligent will always bear the rule over the non-performing ones!

VICALUFUO :
OBJ- the most finest man in 9ja. I dey ur back ooo!

o serious at all! wat are u driving at? are u trying to say my papa no fine? watch ur tongue...

hmmm i rest my case

Most of these guys supporting obj here could be his gay partners.From a very reliable source,i leanrt that he fcuks young men to replenish his aging manhood,they said.

I will continue to say this: ' Obasanjo(my political mentor) is the best politician Africa ever produced'. Take it or leave it.

[size=28pt]Obasanjo's Kleptomania[/size]

By

Sam Nda-Isaiah

ndaisaiah@yahoo.com



After the ignominy of the defeat of his self-perpetuation bid last week, which was designed only to massage his large ego, President Olusegun Obasanjo, not quite out of character, simply looked us all in the eye with a straight face and declared that he never told anyone he wanted "third term". Nigerians were shocked at the audacity of their president but I don't think they should. They should in fact accept the lies with thanks. We have managed to live through seven years of compulsive lying from the president anyway, so one more lie isn't going to kill us. It takes some courage and mettle to engage in the kind of lying to oneself that we see with the Nigerian president almost on a daily basis, but that is his nature; and we should stop thinking we can change a man that is well over 70.


The third term project was going to fail anyway whether the National Assembly passed it or not. It was just that it was cheaper to kill and bury it at the stage of the NASS because if it ever got beyond the portals of NASS, the struggle would have left the pages of newspapers into the trenches. And at that stage, just like it happened in 1966, people could start openly calling for a military coup. If that spectre could be avoided, the better for all of us. And if it would take the president an extra lie to help save the deaths of thousands, we should accept it and pretend that we believe the man.


But for the purpose of the records, President Obasanjo did indeed canvass a third term. He shared N50 million bribes to legislators in order to obtain their consent and imprimatur for the self-perpetuation scheme. It is just that many of the legislators he attempted to corrupt had more integrity than him. Since journalism remains the first rough draft of history, we shall record it, that, yes Obasanjo attempted to self-perpetuate himself in power and that, yes, he bribed senators to procure their consent. Beyond that, I am sure many Nigerians would be ready to forgive the president as long as he doesn't attempt to pull another rabbit out of a hat.


As it stands today, Obasanjo's public image is that of a failed president who came into power to a surfeit of goodwill, which he frittered away because he saw power as an opportunity to get even with old foes. Obasanjo is viewed today as a very incompetent leader who has no answer to Nigeria's myriad of problems. Power outage is worse than he met it in 1999, and after spending more than N1 trillion, all Nigerians got was a change of name from NEPA to PHCN and a promise from the minister of power and steel not to expect steady power supply till sometime in 2056, when those born tomorrow will be 50 years old. He is also the president who could not revive Nigeria's prostrate refineries and was so mean and cold blooded as to increase the pump price of petrol seven times - from N20.00 per litre in 1999 to more than N70 today. The president will also be remembered for his contributions towards the phenomenal growth of corruption in Nigeria. When Obasanjo became president in 1999, Nigeria was about the 27th in the Transparency International's corruption perception index. A few years into Obasanjo's regime, Nigeria became number two. Yet, another study in 2002 showed that more than 50% of the corruption in the country was perpetuated at the presidency. And there was ample evidence on ground to corroborate this.


In 2002, after Mr. Vincent Azie, the acting auditor general of the federation said Obasanjo's men stole N23 billion from the public till in 2001 alone, the president swiftly removed him. And now a few days ago, the Due Process Office reported that the cost of constructing Obasanjo's Abuja National Stadium was inflated by N7 billion as if we didn't know that already. Before then, we knew that even though Obasanjo's government said that the stadium was at the end constructed for about N100 billion, the World Bank declared that the stadium could not have been built for more than N19 billion. In between, we have billions of naira of the excess crude proceeds, which can still not be accounted for; the Presidential Library fund raising nepotism; the impunity with which the president associates with Transcorp, as a promoter even and the serial misappropriation of budgets. He will also be remembered as the president who forged an electoral law and one who conducted the most scandalous elections in the annals of the nation simply to remain in power against the peoples' will. And to all these, he added the roguery of bribing senators in order to illegally elongate his already illegal tenure. Obasanjo could go into history as the lowliest of Nigerian presidents. The legacy he leaves behind could haunt anyone unfortunate enough to have an Obasanjo surname.


But the president can still change all that. At least there are still 371 days left from today and this is a long time in the tenure of a serious president. General Murtala Mohammed didn't need this number of days to etch his name permanently in the nation's golden books. But to do that, Obasanjo will have to re-invent himself. In other words, he has to renew. He will need something of a character transplant. He must, like Gen. Murtala did in 1975 give up things he cannot account for, and for him, these are several. For starters, the president must stop lying through his teeth. All the lies about his "overwhelmingly" winning the 2003 elections only makes him look ludicrous. The president must give Nigerians some credit for basic intelligence. The president thinks he can just concoct some things in his head, believe it and then it becomes true. He also would have to stop associating with some funny characters around him. Today, Obasanjo's soul mates are Chris Uba, Tony Anenih, Ojo Maduekwe, Festus Odimegwu, Bode George, Ibrahim Mantu, Lamidi Adedibu and Co. One hardly sees any decent person around the old man these days. If the president enjoys the company of these people so much, then he must be like them. And no one would want a president in the mould of these people.


He must also repudiate "Transcorp" and forfeit all the shares (about six million shares) that have allegedly been allotted to him for which he must have made billions of naira when the shares moved from N1.00 per share to N6.00 per share during the company's private placement. The Initial Public Offer (IPO) is expected to be offered at a whopping N10.00 per share. Which means that by the time the IPO is concluded, the president would have made a killing of N9.00 x 600,000,000 shares. Since my calculator does not have the capacity to record all the zeros, I will leave the final figures to your imagination.


It is also an extraordinary act of corruption to hand over Hilton Hotel, Abuja, to a company partly owned by the president; especially since the sale transaction was not too straight. It is even more egregious to contemplate handing over NITEL and the nation's oil blocs to such an organisation. Even Abacha whom the president loves to demonise even in death was not as shameless in corruption as this. Obasanjo must also return the Presidential Library to the state after May 29, 2007. That would be in sync with the norm the world over. He must not allow fair weather friends like Mr. Carl Masters (who declared on the day of the fundraising that Obasanjo would never return the library to the government) to decide his destiny. By 6pm of May 29, 2007, he will look around and find he is alone. Carl Masters and his ilk would be looking for their next victim.


And if the president wants to change his image and outlook permanently and be seen as a statesman once again, then he must prepare to conduct a respectable election in 2007, and not the type of rubbish he supervised in 2003. He can start this by asking Ahmadu Ali to subject himself to a proper election within the party. Candidates for elections must be seen to have emerged the same fair way he (Obasanjo) emerged as a presidential candidate in Jos in 1998. If he does that, then Nigerians will start taking him seriously again.


If Obasanjo can for a change begin to see power as an opportunity to better the lives of the people and not a facility to bring down people as he currently does, he will start looking good again. But if he persists in doing things like closing down Intels Ltd, belonging to the vice president, simply because he wanted to financially emasculate an opponent, prevent elections to hold in his party according to the party constitution because he wants to disenfranchise competitors or as is being speculated, witch hunt his third term opponents and especially punish the North for going against his third term scheme, then he must know that he is heading for a flop. Actually that mindset will inexorably lead to his terminal and inexorable downfall.


But the good news for the president is that it doesn't have to be so.

http://www.gamji.com/sam/sam4.htm




https://www.nairaland.com/693700/buhari-goverments-military-tribunal-jails/10

[size=18pt]How Obasanjo and his inner circle Stole Nigeria's Billions of Dollars [/size]
Friday, 09 September 2011 17:09 [elombah.com]

Corruption pervades the entire levels of the private and public sector under the administration of Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, so said a US Diplomatic cables revealed by wikileaks. The report said that "the arrests in London of the Bayelsa and Plateau State governors have barely scratched the surface of the endemic corruption at the federal, state, and local level. The diplomatic cables noted that in a
widely-circulated August 22 letter to President Obasanjo, Abia State Governor Orji Uzor Kalu accused Obasanjo of corruption, listing a number of
dubious deals, including:

--Cancellation of the contract for the construction of the national stadium in Abuja, only to re-award the contract to a different vendor at a higher price.

--Use of public funds for capital improvements at two private schools secretly owned by Obasanjo.

Obasanjo's response was to agree to be "investigated by the EFCC, which reports to the President. When the EFCC invited Kalu to provide evidence to support his accusations, Kalu refused, pointing out that the EFCC was not an independent investigative body and had no authority to prosecute the President, and the investigation died out.

The President's chicken farm in Otta is one of the largest in Nigeria. A Presidential spokesman said in November 2004, in order to explain Obasanjo's personal wealth, that the farm generated about $250,000 per month in income, though it was nearly bankrupt in the late 1990s (ref
A). Regardless of whether the current income figure is accurate, at least some Nigerians think it is unlikely that Obasanjo's military pension and benefits were the sole source of investment for establishing this huge enterprise, valued by a construction engineer involved in the construction at
more than $250 million.

It is also widely believed that the President's inner circle also reaps hefty rewards with impunity. Some frequently cited examples are:

--Edmund Daukoro, recently named Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, was charged in 1994 for embezzling some $47 million as a managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The charges were abandoned, and Daukoro's political career soared when Obasanjo took office in 1999.

--Senator Florence Ita Giwa, indicted for misappropriation of funds by the Idris Kuta Panel in 2000, was pardoned along with other indicted senators, and she was named a special advisor to Obasanjo when she left office.

--The head of the National Airport Management Authority (NAMA), Rochas Okorocha, was caught and dismissed for embezzling about $1 million through an inflated contract; Obasanjo then appointed him as a senior aide, without requiring Okorocha to repay the stolen funds. Okorocha was
eventually fired on July 13 in a cabinet reshuffle, but went on to start a political party for his renewed presidential ambitions.

--The recent auction of oil blocks included some firms bidding,, sometimes with no prior ties to the oil industry, that were linked to Obasanjo associates, including Daukoro, Rivers State governor Peter Odili, Ogun State governor Gbenga Daniel, presidential advisor Andy Uba, presidential
chief of staff Abdullahi Mohammed, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nasir al-Rufai and PDP Board of Trustees Chairman Tony Anenih.

--Anenih was indicted by the National Assembly for the sum of 300 billion Naira (approximately $2.4 billion) missing from Ministry of Works and Housing while he was the minister. The missing money is widely believed to have paid off 2003 elections "expenses," including to Balogun, in addition to
lining his own pockets.

--Minister of Finance Ngozie Okonjo-Iweala is said to have steered contracts to her brother (JonJon) with the help of el-Rufai. The contracts, said to amount to about $50 million, have been paid for consulting work for the Ministry.

--Al-Rufai is at the center of the corruption allegations. Well-known to PolCouns eight year ago, when he was homeless and seeking a loan to import a taxi from the UK, al-Rufai is said to have recently purchased seven upscale properties in a posh Abuja neighborhood. His demolitions of commercial and residential buildings in the capital have reportedly provided an opportunity for himself and several of his friends. After demolishing residential properties in Kubwa, the land was reallocated to several of his friends and to an investment company he allegedly owns. The community of Chika, where about two square miles of development was demolished in December, has allegedly been allocated to the same group of people.

--Chief Olabode George, current PDP National Chairman (Southwest) is a close friend of President Obasanjo and a leading proponent of the Third Term Agenda. He is one of the people accused of financial recklessness in the affairs of the National Port Authority, where he was chairman when the financial scandals were allegedly committed. He was retired from the Navy in the 1990s by the Babangida Administration after serving as military governor of Ondo State from 1987 to 1990 in addition to other military postings.

--Chris Uba, recently appointed to the PDP Board of Trustees, admitted rigging during the 2003 elections and attempted to kidnap the governor of Anambra state to try to collect payments for his efforts. Linked closely to several vigilante groups in the state, he is widely believed to be
responsible for the burning of many state government buildings in Awka, crimes that have yet to be solved.

https://www.nairaland.com/693700/buhari-goverments-military-tribunal-jails/10

[size=18pt]13 September, 2000 - BBC News
Nigeria is ranked most corrupt country in the world under Obasanjo, Nigeria was 27th before Obasanjo took office[/size]
An annual survey carried out by the Berlin-based Transparency International (TI) also grouped Angola, Cameroon, Kenya and Mozambique among the top 10 most corrupt.

The damning report was released as the Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo made an official visit to Britain pressing for reduction of the country's huge debts.

The world's Cleanest
Finland
Denmark
New Zealand
Sweden
Canada
Other countries in the most corrupt list were Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Indonesia, Russia and Azerbaijan.

Corruption cases
Last year Nigeria was rated as the 27th most corrupt country in the world.
But an investigation report released in July this year revealed massive misappropriation of of public money by members of the national assembly.

https://www.nairaland.com/693700/buhari-goverments-military-tribunal-jails/11#9322087

rubbish talk. as far as am concerned. goodluck musnt try to contest in 2015

Very soon, hell would be let loose on people who ruined Nigeria, mark my word

[size=18pt]The Last Days of Obasanjo's Evil Kelptomaniac Rule[/size]

The Last Days of Obasanjo

By Muhammad Al-Ghazali
culled from THISDAY, March 7, 2006

If you happened to be an ordinary Nigerian battling with disease, crime, crippling effects of unemployment, or the virtual paralysis of governance, I will advise that you tarry a while before thumping the air in celebration. This piece may have been so titled, and the president, Mathew Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo may have expressed a death wish penultimate week, but he is very much alive as I write and certainly, no right-thinking Nigerian, including yours truly, wants him to die in office.


Our desire to see the president see out his days in office is not down to any special love for the man, or the normal deference to African culture, which abhors the celebration of death. Far from it; from the Niger Delta to Nguru, and on to Badagry and Sokoto, if the public mood could be relied upon, the greater majority of Nigerians want to see him safely back in Ota at the conclusion of his presidency, so that a thorough post-mortem of his tenure could commence in earnest, and while he is still alive to digest our prognosis of his legacy. To someone whom I gathered relished the trashing of Abacha’s legacy with a vengeance so soon after death had played a fatal trick on the dark-goggled General, Obasanjo would no doubt brace himself to digest what Nigerians, in their droves, thought of his presidency, and the early signs are that what they think would not be music to his ears or even pleasant to read.

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When Abacha expired, the naira had been stable for several years and exchanged for 80 naira to a dollar. The PTF had ensured that drugs were available at designated hospitals and at affordable prices too. Our highways and township roads were being meticulously rehabilitated. High schools and tertiary institutions were also being renovated. Armed bandits, who operate wantonly and with gusto these days, gave our homes and major highways a miss. What was more, the middle-class eventually resurfaced even as inflation remained at tolerable levels. But the greater significance of Abacha’s performance or legacy was that throughout his tenure, his government had to battle the effects of crippling cocktail of sanctions imposed by mostly Western nations.
In addition, unlike now that crude oil sold in excess of 60 dollars per barrel, under the diminutive General, it never rose above 17 dollars per barrel! So how did the nation come to this sorry pass to the extent that the nation even in a supposed democracy, is today, not better than a banana republic? How did we arrive at a situation where a single individual could seemingly hold the nation to ransom, or treat its citizens with so much callous disrespect and insensitivity? How did we come to be under the clutches of a de-facto emperor under whose watch no fewer than 5,000 Nigerians were consumed by ethno-religious crises in less than seven years in supposed peace time? What did Abacha do right that Obasanjo is now doing wrong? Without waiting for the man to expire or leave office, here is my story:


As things stand today, it must be clear to all except perhaps the blind that Obasanjo is not only the most incompetent, but surely the most over-rated president in our history. Before he was thrown into jail after his conviction for coup-plotting, the only thing he had going for him was that he handed over power willingly to the civilian administration of Alhaji Shehu Shagari. General Abusalami Abubakar had since proved that that in itself was not an unusual occurrence altogether. Besides, in 1979, what choices were actually before him? The job, which by his own accounts he accepted soon after coming out of hiding came with its special risks as the demise of General Murtala Muhammed sadly proved. Across the oceans, Margaret Thatcher had just assumed office, and in tandem with Ronald Reagan, soon chorused the yarn about a new international world order, free of dictators, including Olusegun Obsanjo. Definitely, if you happened to be Olusegun Obasanjo at the time; having secured the vast Ota farms, and all that was within it, the lure of tending to chickens more than stopping an assassin’s bullet, was not simply a matter of choice, but actually the only choice.



Not much is known about his service records either beyond the fact that he received the surrender of Biafran forces at the end of the war. Being an army engineer by training, he is unlikely to have been bloodied in the art of combat warfare beyond the construction of Bailey bridges too. But quite typical of the man, up he came to steal the glory from General Adekunle when the latter fell out with authorities and was relegated to the background. As a former head of state and statesman, he spent lengthy periods lampooning the administration of General Babangida for crimes he has since surpassed. These days, the president loves to attribute his reforms, and the tenacity he exhibits in their execution, to his civil war record and high sense of patriotism. But the results clearly suggest otherwise, and nowhere was that truism more telling than in the speech delivered by the publisher of the influential Forbes magazine, Steve Forbes, during the recent THISDAY Newspaper Annual Awards. Predictably, the speech, or rather his message, was given short-shrift by the mainstream media, no doubt on the prompting of agents of the Presidency who were well represented at the event.
Forbes said among other things that the solution to poverty in Nigeria and the rest of Africa did not rest with the World Bank or the IMF because their medicine often tended to do more harm than good. Devaluation of the currency, he equally emphasised, was harmful to developing economies. He also condemned higher taxes, which tended to push more people into the informal economy, and the unequal application of laws. The man was being kind here; otherwise, he would easily have said unbridled corruption at the highest level and the escalating rate of crime we are witnessing presently. He went further to hinge our rapid economic development on five principles, which included a simple and affordable system of taxation, stable currency, the rule of law, and of course, the predictable removal of trade barriers. Perhaps not surprisingly, Obasanjo’s economic reforms appear marooned on the high seas for those simple reasons:


First, as we have seen in Anambra and Oyo states, the rule of law is clearly not visible on these shores. Otherwise, the president would not have allowed his cronies to get away with barefaced treason and murder not to talk of arson in those two theatres. As for equality before the law; well, perhaps we should also ask why Tafa Balogun was gaoled while Makunjuola escaped jail. Why did the president sit idly by and watch the OPC perpetrate genocide especially in his first term? Why did he contemplate the Electoral Bill fraud? Why were the felons who attempted to smuggle a forged draft constitution into the last confab never apprehended or punished? Why have the police so far failed to solve the murders of Asari Dikibo, Marshal Harry or Bola Ige? How did his accused murderer, Iyiola Omisore win an election from within the confines of a high security jail?

As for the economy, well even an idiot should know that the naira drifted and depreciated by nearly sixty per cent soon after Obasanjo assumed office. Unparalleled inflation was never too far behind either. If you bought your 50 KG bag of rice for under three thousand naira in 1999, the same product now sells for twice that amount and still rising. The economic team continues to deceive itself that its blue print is home-grown, but the seeds were clearly sown in Washington, Paris and London. A greater percentage of Nigerians have descended below the poverty line as a result. The middle-class has vanished without a trace, and a new class of bandits with university degrees has emerged to replace them; the obvious result is unemployment and frustration. The only people who cannot stop rejoicing are the multinationals who have acquired much of our progeny for peanuts. They pay the locals slave wages, transport them like sardines, and repatriate their profits in full!

Not surprisingly, with a legacy such as recounted above, the president appears in fear of his won shadow. With 2007 around the corner, and as we contemplate his last days in office, he appears in morbid fear of quitting office and wishes to die in it. But that, God willing, will ultimately be an exercise in futility. He wants to be remembered as Nigeria’s version of Lee Kuan Yew or Mahathir Mohammed, but the images of him that spring readily to mind in all seriousness, include those of Ghengis Khan and Josef Stalin. Even now that the greater majority of his subject are prostrate before him in abject poverty, and with destitution in the midst of plenty, he still plots against them. The third term express has arrived Port Harcourt, home to one of his staunchest loyalists, Peter Odili. As they hatch their endless intrigues against us and revel in obscene greed and lust for power, our collective misery and hopelessness would be the last thing on their minds. All these have naturally led many to rue what would have been had Abacha signed that death warrant in 1995!

http://www.dawodu.com/alghazali1.htm

Jona congratulated Obinjo for joinin to share. More of national produce in order to hv his support to enjoi d Produce till 2019, Up 9ja!!.