Obasanjo with the assistance of IBB covertly assassinated Muritala Mohamed in 1976 and presented it to seem that it was a failed coup by Gowon and Obasanjo executed they Col. Dimka who must have been duped into claiming responsibility for leading the "failed coup".

So even as far back as 1976 IBB has been involved with Obasanjo in causing the downfall of Nigeria.

[size=18pt]Obasanjo and IBB conspired to kill Abiola[/size]

“The decision to kill Abiola was taken when IBB visited Obj in Abeokuta in 1998 to ask him to run for President. Obj was said to have asked his twin-devil how he would run for president when MK0 was still alive to which IBB allegedly said that would be taken care of”.....

“Former chief security officer to the late General Sani Abacha, Major Hamzat Al-Mustapha, was on the verge of disclosing the identities of the generals behind Chief Moshood Abiola's death when he was stopped. The News reveals why they had to stop him.

“His countenance underlined his resolve. Straight faced but unruffled, the former chief security officer to late the Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamzat Al- Mustapha looked members of the Human Rights Violation Investigation Commission, HRVIC, directly in the eye and declared his determination to spill the beans on his activities - and beyond - while Abacha ruled. His words:

"My Lord, I am most grateful that I will be given the opportunity to tell my part of the story. Since the last two years that I have been incarcerated, a lot of things have been said and written about me and my involvement in so many things. Now that I have the chance, it is my wish to explain everything even beyond the area I am expected to assist the commission. When I come to testify, a lot of things will be revealed..." That was Thursday, 15 November. A week later when Al-Mustapha appeared before the Chukwudifu Oputa commission to testify on the riddle over the death of Chief Moshood Kasimawo Abiola, it appeared he would live up to his word. Abiola, winner of the June 12 1993 presidential election which was annulled by former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) died in detention, 7 July, 1998. The ostensible cause of death was heart attack”. - Abiola's Death, Why Mustapha Was Stopped by Tayo Odunlami, 6 December 2000

“Former Chief Security Officer to the late General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, yesterday for the third time in one week, made another appearance at the Justice Chukwudifu Oputa-led Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (HRVIC) sitting in Lagos with a revelation that some top Nigerians conspired to kill the late Chief M.K.O. Abiola by all means soon after Abacha's death.

Apparently in keeping with his earlier promise to make more revelations concerning the regime of General Abacha vis-a-vis the opposition group, Major Al-Mustapha said there were some powerful forces within and outside the military who wanted Abiola dead at all cost soon after Abacha's death. He did not mention names” - Frank Alabi And Tunji Adeyemi, 24 November 2000

“Of all the people mentioned in connection with the Oputa panel, the greatest loser so far in terms of credibility is General AA - hitherto the "Gentle Giant" of Nigeria who, like Obasanjo before him, gave up power to civilians, only faster!

Abdusalami HAD better show up before the Oputa panel - and soon - because his public image has been battered and gone far SOUTH after allegations of:

a. his massive financial improprieties by one General Sabo;

b. his complicity in the coup fabrications against Obasanjo and Diya;

c. his complicity in the deaths of Abacha and Abiola, the latter two by "common major" Hamza al-Mustapha.

Man, I was a little bit stunned at these serious allegations against one man - and against a man who had presented such a gentle and friendly face before the Nigerian people and the world!” – Mobolaji Aluko, August 20, 2001

It is another election year, and many hitherto buried scandals are resurfacing, one of such is the still unexplained death of Moshood Abiola, the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 Presidential election annuled by former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida.

Presently Babangida has announced that he intends to contest the coming 2011, presidential election. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is also said to have a strong interest on who becomes the next Nigeria president.

So I am not surprised to read this post in one of the numerous Nigeria online forum:

“The decision to kill Abiola was taken when IBB visited Obj in Abeokuta in 1998 to ask him to run for President. Obj was said to have asked his twin-devil how he would run for president when MK0 was still alive to which IBB allegedly said that would be taken care of”.

Interestingly, the catalyst for the above statement is the report that Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has thrown his weight behind the trial of Chief Vincent Ogbuluafor, advocating the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman be jailed if found guilty of stealing public funds. The chairman, PDP Board of Trustees (BoT), who spoke to journalists in Washington DC said Chief Ogbuluafor will not be the first senior party official to be imprisoned if found guilty.

Obasanjo in that interview also said that the late head Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha plotted to eliminate all those he felt were threats to his ambition to rule Nigeria for life.” He planned to kill Yar’Adua, M.K.O Abiola and me. He succeeded with Abiola and Yar’Adua, only God saved me from his plans, I never planned any coup against him.” he stated. The former President called on Nigerians to rally round the current administration, adding that the emergence of Jonathan is an indication the country was getting more matured democratically.

Moreover, OBJ added that the acting president Jonathan Goodluck is free to contest the 2011 presidential election.

This interview did not go down well with Nigerias so the following utterances ensued:

“When I was young I observed from the actions of certain unsavory people that the best place to hide from the law is to get a job with the law. Buried yourself right in their midst and they will almost never find you because they are always looking away from within them for suspects. They almost never look for suspects from within them unless jarred by something.

Seemingly, OBJ has learned this lesson too. Here he is calling for Ogbulafor's head from the midst of the Nigerians irate over the thievery of Ogbulafor. Wonders will never end”.- Apubo

“That's this animal called animal Obasanjo. The next most corrupt Nigerian, after his political mentor baaabangida. I do not know that Ogbulafor is corrupt. But I can bet my bottom dollar that Obasanjo is corrupt, that he is thief. Here is a man on whose watch assorted political murder and crimes occurred, singing holy, holy holy. The EFCC woman muted death penalty for economic crimes. In my book and that of every thinking Nigerian, Obasanjo and Babangida are will be the first to be executed. And if Obasanjo is to witness against Ogbulafor in any court of law, Ogbulafor, must walk free. Reprobate Obasanjo witnessing for the plaintif. That is a no case. A welfare case, Obasanjo is, having fed off government all of his life, only to rob and criminalize the same government in the end. What a shame”.- Peter

“I find this Obasanjo rather interesting. He is a real character. Now consider that he opines to Jonathan that the Presidency was never zoned to the North and that Jonathan could run if he (Jonathan) wants to. Yet it was less than a month ago or so that the same Obasanjo shouted from the roof-top that Jonathan can never and must never run for the Presidency come 2011; I think the exact words were "... you cannot run for the Presidency in 2011". In fact my friend, Collins, was so upset he wrote privately to me complaining about this posture of Obasanjo: a mere citizen trying to define the citizenship rights of another bona fide citizen of Nigeria. Who would have thought that he (Obasanjo) would change position so very quickly? Yes, truthfully Obasanjo is rather quaint”. – Opubo

“Obasanjo's hypocrisy and duplicity are well known by now. Moreover, the former president, said late head Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha plotted to eliminate all those he felt were threats to his ambition to rule Nigeria for life. He planned to kill Yar’Adua, M.K.O Abiola and me. He succeeded with Abiola and Yar'Adua. The man says anything he likes, no matter how outrageous and expects everyone to believe him. Look at this obvious one which many of us here have over-looked;

"Moreover, the former President, said late head Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha plotted to eliminate all those he felt were threats to his ambition to rule Nigeria for life. He planned to kill Yar’Adua, M.K.O Abiola and me. He succeeded with Abiola and Yar’Adua", That was from Obasanjo, going by that news report. But Abiola died a month after Abacha, yet he accused Abacha of killing Abiola, when many are asking if Abiola was killed to make way for Obasanjo's Presidency”. – Tony

“The decision to kill Abiola was taken when IBB visited Obj in Abeokuta in 1998 to ask him to run for President.Obj was said to have asked his twin-devil how he would run for president when MK0 was still alive to which IBB allegedly said that would be taken care of. Of course they did!”- Yinka

“Edwin Madunagu has a different sequence of events from what you paint below:

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Shortly after the death of Abacha, General Olusegun Obasanjo was released from prison where he was serving a 10-year term for allegedly trying to overthrow Abacha's government. Shortly after this, Abiola died. And shortly after this Obasanjo was paid a private, but well-publicised, visit by General Ibrahim Babangida. The visit was to welcome Obasanjo back from the shadows of death and to persuade him to stand election for the office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This was long before the future ruling parties were formed. After a period of "indecision", "consultations" and "prayers", during which professional persuaders went to work, Obasanjo agreed to seek election. It was not surprising that Obasanjo later joined the People's Democratic Party (PDP) given that all those who played critical roles in the politics of releasing him and persuading and assisting him to run for the presidency were all in PDP. He ran for the presidency under the platform of PDP and won. The rest of the story is known.

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Please understand that:

- Abacha died June 8

- Obasanjo was released June 15

- Abiola died July 7

So we will need to know whether:

- IBB's well-publicized visit to OBJ was between June 15 and July 7 or AFTER July 7

- if IBB paid a SECRET visit to OBJ (outside of the well-publicized one, if AFTER July 7).

We simply need to trust but verify”.- Bolaji

“The discussion about Nigeria's furture civilian leader started immediately Abacha died. I have reported as far back as May 2004 that after Abacha's death, IBB was the first General to be allowed into the Villa. He went to meet major Mustapha at the the builiding now serving as Jonathan's official quarters.

The former YEAH leader, Daniel Kanu and one Onu, a journalist from Kogi state, followed a little distance behind. So that early after Abacha's death the issue of successon was already on. And once the new military Head of State took office, the issue of the civilian successor began. By the time OBJ left prison, the soldiers had their sights on him to be the new President. Obasanjo knew as he was leaving Prison that he would tke Abiola's prize. The only problem was what to do with Abiola. Something was done”.- Tony

“Sometimes I wonder what manner of people we are in nigeria. Pretenders,oportunists or pack of guulible people. How come we suddenly forget that the ANSWER from the establishment(military/oligarchy) represent by IBB visits to the newly released OBJ when the latter raised the issue of what will become of MKO if he were to accept to become president was the death of MKO.

So, put plainly, I will take it to be a classic example of pretence for anyone whgo was ploitically alive in 1998 not to know who killed MKO. Of course,IBB/establishment facilitated the assassination of MKO to reteun OBJ to Aso Rock. It is in this respect that one will remain surprised that anybody with some semblance of political knowledge will fail to see what Oshi omo Ale's rally in Benin truly is:political fraud”.- Adebayo

“I think the sly character called Obasanjo is relishing the game he and his ilks are playing on Nigeria. He doesn't seesm to believe it still that someone that commited the kind of impunity, corruption and fraud he did on Nigeria could be allowed to rove so annoyingly free so he finds it convenient at every point to throw a jibe on Nigerians for the kind of laxity that allows him such free rein”. - Peter

“One guy has much to say on this issue: Major Al Mustapha Sometimes I wonder why there is a near universal agreement to keep Major Mustafa in detention indefinitely? Listen to his testimony before the Oputa Panel as to the similarities between the manner of Abacha and Abiola's death”- Elsdaniel

Isnt’t it surprising that neary two decades after the death of Moshood Abiola, in spite of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and despite strong national and international interest in his death, the circumstances surrounding Abiola’s death remains a mystery.

In fact, the suspected master-minds of his death still thrust the stage and dominate Nigeria’s affairs.

Apart from Abiola, Isn’t it time for Nigerians to insist on knowing the killers of Bola Ige, Sani Abacha, Tunde Idiagbon and Dele Giwa and why?

Washington Post, July 8, 1998 - Nigeria's imprisoned political leader, Moshood Abiola, died today of an apparent heart attack as he talked with Nigerian officials and senior U.S. diplomats about how to resolve the country's five-year-old political crisis, the Nigerian government said. Abiola, 60, who appeared to have won Nigeria's annulled 1993 presidential election and had been jailed since the following year, was the focus of rising hopes for ending 15 years of military rule in Africa's most populous nation. Following the death last month of military ruler Sani Abacha, the new military government had raised expectations of Abiola's imminent release as a step toward restoring civilian rule and ending Nigeria's international isolation.
His demise shattered Nigeria's mood of political hope and plunged the nation into deep uncertainty. Within hours, as the news of his death spread, rioting was reported in Lagos, the country's largest city and the center of opposition to military rule. U.S. officials said Abiola collapsed not long after he began a discussion with U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas R. Pickering and other diplomats at a government guest house in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, where Abiola had been held in custody in recent weeks.

Pickering said in an interview with CNN that Abiola halted the meeting after a few minutes, "asking to restore his thoughts. He took tea and had trouble breathing." A physician was called, Pickering said, and Abiola was taken by car to the clinic that serves the country's military leadership. Doctors worked for an hour and a half in an unsuccessful effort to save his life, Pickering said.

Abiola's imminent release had been announced Thursday by visiting U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and confirmed to Nigerian journalists by senior government sources. The military, they said, had agreed to release Abiola on condition that he renounce his claim to the presidency, which Annan suggested he had done.

That suggestion sparked anger among many Yorubas committed to seeing his 1993 election finally implemented. The fact that Abiola died without stating his position publicly "greatly complicates the situation," Emma Ezeazu, head of a Nigerian group called Democratic Alternative, said by telephone from Abuja.

Some of Abiola's supporters immediately voiced suspicions that he may have continued to resist the military's conditions and had been poisoned. "We are all stunned," said Ezeazu, referring to the broad and often fractious political opposition movement. "Of course, under these circumstances, people ... suspect that he might have been killed."

In an effort to forestall such suspicions, the government immediately offered to conduct an autopsy, as Pickering had urged. Abiola's family asked that it be conducted "by an independent entity along with the family physician," said Randall E. Echols, Abiola's Washington-based lobbyist. Reports from Abuja indicated that the government had agreed.

to be continued



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[size=18pt]Obasanjo Is The Most Corrupt Nigerian-Gani Fawehinmi[/size]
Posted: June 1, 2007 - 01:00

Finally, Olusegun Obasanjo is on his way out after eight years as Nigeria’s president. Could you assess his tenure?

Eight years of self-centred disposition, eight years of wayo, eight years of deception, eight years of creating a few rich people, eight years of anti-masses programmes, eight years of deliberate junketing all over the world, eight years of make-believe, eight years of dictatorship, eight years of lack of coherent policies, eight years of so much wealth coming to the hands of government out of which Nigerians received aggravated poverty and economic pain.

When Obasanjo first came to power in 1999, many Nigerians had high hopes that they would get rid of dictatorial tendencies which characterised military rule, but unfortunately, we had a tyrant in democratic toga. We expected that the provisions of the constitution vis-à-vis the welfare of the people and their security would be the focus of the government because Section 14, sub-section 2b of the Constitution says that the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary focus of government. Alas! it was not to be under the government of Obasanjo. Take security for instance. He opened up the insecurity of this country in November 1999 when he gave orders to shoot on sight in Odi. And more than 2500 Nigerians were slaughtered because, unfortunately, 13 policemen were missing as a result of the protestation of the Odi people in Bayelsa State.
You saw the killing in Zaki Biam in Benue State. We saw him give an order in Lagos State to shoot the OPC on sight and we protested. And since he gave the signal that human life counted for nothing, police followed the queue, extra-judicial killings became the agenda of the government. Every respectable human rights organisation abroad rated Nigeria very low in terms of extra-judicial killing. Thousands of Nigerians were slaughtered without a recourse to the judicial process by the police and other security agencies, to the extent that it became the culture of Nigerians to ritualise human lives. Legs, hands and other parts of human bodies became a common commodity in markets and dead bodies were being picked here and there, headless. That was Obasanjo’s regime and what human dignity meant for that regime for eight years.


For welfare, Nigerians have never had it so bad in their millions. Instead of government to give employment, it became the stock in trade of this regime to send workers to the unemployment market by all sorts of epithet with ignoble description such as down-sizing, reducing the labour force and so on. Unemployment became unbelievably rampant to the extent that workers approached the doors of government offices with trepidation, thinking they would be sacked any moment. Security of employment became nil in government services. In the private sector, profit motive was taken to a most ungodly level. Sack became a culture of the private sector. Whenever the private sector wanted more profit, they resorted to showing workers out without adequate recompense and this was aggravated by the so-called economic reforms of General Obasanjo where the heritage of Nigeria was sold, not even to the highest bidders but to the favoured bidders, contrary to the Constitution of Nigeria.
The major sectors of our economy were placed on the building blocks of rapacious entrepreneurs, many of whom are in government, using proxies to purchase government properties, courtesy of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, and contrary in Section 16, sub-section 4 of the constitution which says that the major sectors of the economy shall be managed, operated and run by the Federal Government of Nigeria, solely and exclusively.

But today, the major sectors are being sold. The latest example is the refinery in Port Harcourt, one of the four refineries in Nigeria. For eight years, Obasanjo did not build a single refinery to ensure a total reduction in the costs of petroleum products. Instead, Obasanjo, contrary to the Constitution of Nigeria, sold and he is still in the process of selling even in the dying days of the regime, the major sectors of our economy at give-away prices. Look at NITEL, another government investment that is relevant to the welfare of Nigerian people, it is still in the same mess. Our constitution says that economy of the country should not be operated in such a way that wealth would be concentrated in a few hands, but we are now having the very opposite of what the constitution says should be done. A company emerged, called Transcorp. There was no Transcorp before Obasanjo but Transcorp emerged from the bowel of Aso Rock, founded with the collaboration, connivance and conceptualisation of General Obasanjo to the extent that he owns 200 million shares. According to him, it will be the pillar of the private sector emerging in Nigeria. There is little difference between Transcorp and General Olusegun Obasanjo, except that a few favoured friends were brought into Transcorp. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, the Director-General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange who is supposed to be a public officer runs the Transcorp with General Obasanjo. Both public officers contravened the code of conduct in the 5th and 3rd Schedules of the Constitution. Behold! General Obasanjo was never taken before the Code of Conduct Bureau for this. I protested to the Code of Conduct, I protested to the National Assembly, nothing came out of it. Here is a man who abused his office, set up a company to acquire the heritage of Nigerians. Today, Transcorp has acquired Nicon Hilton, and it has acquired NITEL. If this is not corruption, then I don’t know what corruption means.

To me, Obasanjo is the most corrupt Nigerian and I will never agree with anyone who says Obasanjo is not corrupt. We see it everywhere. This man was in prison for three years and his Ota farm which was in bankruptcy then was almost sold. They were thinking of how to sell most of his properties. Today, Obasanjo’s farm is rated as one of the richest in the world, all in a space of eight years that he governed Nigeria. If that is not corruption, then I don’t know what corruption means. If that is not abuse of office, then I do not know what abuse of office means. I protested to the National Assembly, I protested to various organisations, that look, under the Code of Conduct, Nigerians are entitled to go there and ask for all the declaration of assets of any public officer, on conditions that may be prescribed by the National Assembly. We asked the National Assembly to give us the conditions so that we can exercise our rights to know what had been declared by Obasanjo and others, including members of the National Assembly. But till today, they never gave us those conditions. So, Nigerians don’t even have access to the assets declared by the public officers. No public officer’s assets can be examined.


This regime will go down in history as the most corrupt regime in the history of this country in the sense that no regime ever made so much money as was made under Obasanjo’s regime. It got to a point that the price of one barrel of crude oil was fetching $70 and Nigeria at that time was producing 3,150,000 (three million, one hundred and fifty thousand) barrels per day. As we talk, the Federal Government is making more than N200,000,000 (two hundred million dollars) everyday, including Sunday. The more money the Obasanjo regime made the poorer the Nigerian people became. And the more money the Obasanjo regime made, the richer a few people became, including Mr. President himself.

Yes, there was a battle against corruption. A young man emerged like an oasis in the desert, called Nuhu Ribadu, under the auspices of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which I have often described as a positive accident in this regime. Positive accident because Obasanjo did not plan to fight against corruption because he is corrupt himself. But because he was under pressure from international organisations, like Transparency International that wanted some sort of actions against corruption, he was forced to bring about EFCC. He brought a young man named Ribadu, he never expected that Ribadu would perform that good. So, Ribadu’s performance is an oasis in the desert of corruption. What we are now hoping is that Ribadu, after May 29 will look at the records again, will look at the complaints of Nigerians, including mine, against Obasanjo. For example, his library took me to court. His library which he launched on May 14, 2005 at Abeokuta garnered N8.5 billion. [Femi] Otedola gave N250 million; [Otunba Mike] Adenuga N350 million; [Aliko] Dangote, N220 million; consortium of banks N1.9 billion; consortium of oil companies N2.4 billion and so on. These oil companies we talk about, for eight years Obasanjo was the Minister of Petroleum Resources apart from being the head of state. No oil block was ever given to anybody without the connivance and approval of General Olusegun Obasanjo. He was more active as an oil minister than Mr. President. So there must be more than meets the eye.

I will therefore want Ribadu to dust all files, to look at all records and do a thorough investigation into the administration of General Obasanjo, into the personal fortunes of Obasanjo, into the family fortunes of Obasanjo and into Obasanjo’s fortunes all over the world. And let us come with the correct analysis and truth about Olusegun Obasanjo. So that when the facts are all gathered and known, Ribadu will then take the matter to court and charge Obasanjo for corruption and abuse of office. So that the truth will be told about this man who pretended so much.

donroxy: When u wanto compare and contrast ;


bring-on their achievements as well as their failure.... Then we compare and contrast as to who hurt Nigeria most, IBB or ABJ

True talk. So, lets look at a few of their achievements:

OBJ
1. Paid down foreign debt which was originated by IBB.
2. Broke the telecom jynx by bringing GSM operators to nigeria.
3. Got the enorsement of the west. Bill Clinton, the then President of America, visited Nigeria - with his daughter.

IBB
1. Built third Mainland bridge.
2. Eeehhmm...
3. Eeehhmm...

So, the worst president Nigeria ever had is.. IBB.

True talk. So, lets look at a few of their achievements:

OBJ
1. Paid down foreign debt which was originated by IBB. -Any fool could hand his countries money over to the west if they do not make any development in infrastructure- besides whilst he was claiming to pay off the debt Obj was taking even more IMF loans

2. Broke the telecom jynx by bringing GSM operators to nigeria. - stupid statement - business brought GSM, nobody could have stopped GSM even if they tried. In Any case it was Abacha that issued the first GSM licences

3. Got the enorsement of the west. Bill Clinton, the then President of America, visited Nigeria - with his daughter. - Are you telling me you consider this an achievement? this just shows Obj achieved nothing

IBB
1. Built third Mainland bridge. - 3rd main bridge was opened by Shagari in 1980 IBB only completed an unfinished annex to it left behind after he overthrew Buhari
2. Eeehhmm...
3. Eeehhmm...

So, the worst president Nigeria ever had is.. IBB.

So you can see that IBB and Obj achieved nothing

GenBuhari: This is like asking which type of evil is worst.

They are both evil .


I honestly cannot decide who was worst.

Obasanjo stole $200bn devalued Naira 500%, IBB stole $30bn devalued naira 2000%

But IBB poisoned Abacha who was actually performing very well and imposed Obasanjo on Nation in 1999 and the rest is history

YOU ARE EVIL A NAME LIKE ABACHA YOUR FATHER WILL EVEN HATE YOU STAND DEFEND YOU ARE A BAST ARD GEN BUHARI YOU SHOULD DIE AND GO HELL AND FIND WHERE YOU WILL FIND YOU'RE FAMILY PEOPLE SUFFERED BECAUSE OF THIS MAN YOU CALL ABACHA BEFORE WELL WHAT IS IT THIS WHEN HE WAS KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE IN PLAIN COLD BLOOD BECAUSE THEY WERE PROTESTING BAST ARD IBB SAVED NIGERIA END OF STORY

[size=18pt]Babangida ,the evil genocidal kleptomaniacal looter[/size]

That corruption is the source of all our problems, from insecurity, to poverty, to our underdevelopment and everything else is not news anymore either in Nigeria or to foreigners.

However I wish more journalists would put extreme pressure on the looting and stealing political "elites" to save our dear country. There are certainly many patriotic and honest Nigerians who mean well for our dear country. There are some very good journalists who could use words to convey strong messages that could educate the public of the true enemies of Nigeria.



My sincere belief is that it is easy to govern Nigeria, if three essential ingredients of nation-building were honestly and determinedly addressed - Patriotism, Corruption and Enforcement of the Written Laws of the Land. Lack of any of these reinforces the other and addressing any of them addresses the others automatically. The bane of Nigeria’s problems is the almost complete lack of patriotism, especially among the thieving "elites", which in turn, provides the fertile grounds for corruption. When I was in Lagos in 2007, one look at the traffic situation informed me that 98% of the traffic jams in Lagos is caused by human factor. Essentially, the lack of enforcement of the laws guiding road use, again due to corruption! This is just one example.

The aim of this write-up is to notify Babangida and his cronies that there are patriotic Nigerians all over the world, who have knowledge of his secret activities against the interests of Nigeria, for his own personal selfish benefits. His cousin had described him to me, as a ruthless, vindictive, unforgiving megalomaniac and extremely corrupt. Since he literally determines what happens in Nigeria, it might be very dangerous to pose a frontal attack against him. He’s a very ruthless man and powerful. If he could order his childhood friend, Gen. Mamman Vatsa, to be killed without batting an eyelid, we’d be just small mosquitoes!

We all need to start shouting our lungs out through writings, so that these thieves would feel the pressure and get out of the way for a better Nigeria It’s just a shame. When I was growing up in Cameroun, every remote village had pipe borne water and all the major towns and cities had 24hours /daily, of electricity! Nigeria is probably the only country in Africa where citizens defecate openly, all times of the day, in major cities, without consequences! I feel sad thinking about all these.

I’m currently based in the U.S and a full blooded and patriotic Nigerian, though born and raised outside Nigeria. The first impression any first time visitor would have of Nigeria would be of a country where nobody takes the law seriously because the laws are there but never enforced due to corruption; of a chaotic, free for all country with a complete lack of patriotism from top to bottom.

How did we get to this sorry and seemingly irreversible state? Our biggest problem is the continued recycling of the architects of corruption and their cronies, the so called military and political "elites", under various guises of minister this, minister that. Ghana was able to move forward because Rawlings realized that the only way to move Ghana on was to completely eliminate all the old thieves. This option may not be feasible in Nigeria’s case, but if we all join hands together, especially our journalists, and say “enough is enough” to these thieves, instead of celebrating them, we can achieve something significant. But first, we have to identify the architects of corruption and relentlessly go after them through our write-ups or other civil actions.



The sole architect of the extreme corruption as seen today in Nigeria and the sorry state of affairs is no other than the former dictator, IBRAHIM BADAMOSI BABANGIDA. One of his relatives was my roommate in the US during my under graduate education. I was able to glimpse the true nature of the beast from him. Here is the Babangida most Nigerians know nothing about. Babangida is the most destabilizing force in Nigeria today and the more Nigerians know about it the better.

Babangida was sent here (U.S) in 1983, for a military course, during the Reagan administration. He admired Ronald Reagan’s Machiavellian dribbles with the American public and became a disciple of Reagan’s trickle-down economics, popularly derided as "voodoo" economics, where the resources and wealth of a nation are distributed to a few cronies, with the hope that their business activities would create wealth that would trickle down to the common man! This is how Babangida single-handedly wiped out the Nigerian middle class, creating a few stealing billionaires and a mass of poverty, with nothing in-between.

Anyway, while in the U.S. it became obvious that Babangida was recruited by the CIA. Mobutu’s power and relevance to the U.S interests in Africa was waning and they needed another Mobutu in a strategic country. Babangida fitted Mobutu’s personality traits; very ambitious, unpatriotic, bold, greedy and cunning.

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So Babangida fitted the profile of a strong-man, like Mobutu, the U.S was looking for. It was also this time, in 1983, that Buhari and Idiagbon overthrew Shehu Shagari, who was drifting and didn’t seem to get a handle on how to move Nigeria forward. Buhari/Idiagbon had always been true patriots, and came in to try to save Nigeria.

Buhari’s government was very serious about putting Nigeria on a straight path. There was a serious effort to combat indiscipline, drugs and corruption that bedevilled Shagari’s government. Buhari refused to borrow any more money from the IMF and World Bank; refused to devalue the Naira, as demanded by the West.

When the West tried to blackmail and sabotage the Nigerian economy at that time, he countered it with the counter-trade polices, which was actually a corruption fighting tool (it was used by Cuba to neutralize years of America’s economic blockade of that island nation).The West knew that Buhari/Idiagbon were hell bent on serving only Nigeria’s interests against any other interests and they weren’t going to have it.

It should be remember that it was also during this period that Reagan was fighting several covert or proxy wars around the world. During the Reagan’s administration, the CIA actually became the main instrument, albeit covertly, of America’s foreign policy. When Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua became the leader of that country, it did not go down well with America because of his Marxist leanings.

The CIA created and funded a rebel army, the Contras, to overthrow him, in what became known as the Contra War. The U.S Congress was kept in the dark about this covert war for a while, but when it came to their knowledge, they cut off all funding for the illegal war. The CIA was determined to bring down Ortega’s government so they had to come up with other ways of funding the war and bypass the Congress. They turned to selling drugs, but they could not do this directly from the U.S soil, so they looked for a Third World country to use to import the hard drugs and later smuggle to the U.S.

Nigeria became very attractive to them because of its corruption, large population and chaotic nature. They felt it was the only country they could pull off such with relative ease. But Buhari was the head of state and was sending drug dealers to the firing squad. They knew he would never let them use Nigeria as their base for drug operations to fund their covert war. Nigeria was still the most attractive to them for the venture. It became clear to them that Buhari/Idiagbon had to go.

So entered Babangida and the coup that overthrew Buhari, covertly planned, supported and carried out with the aid of the CIA.



As soon as Babangida overthrew Buhari, he proceeded to undo everything Buhari tried to achieve for a better Nigeria. He devalued the naira, accepted all the conditionalities of the IMF and World Bank. Nigeria became a free for all with zero accountability. If you remembered his speech after the coup, there were ramblings about democracy, free market, human rights, etc. In fact the wording of that speech could have been scripted by the American State Department. In 1986, the Time Magazine (either February or September edition) reported that at the height of America’s covert wars during the Reagan administration, the U.S had the very elite commando unit of their armed forces, the SEAL, dispatched to several different countries for covert activities. Guess what; this unit was in Nigeria in August 1985, during the week that Babangida overthrew Buhari. These Special Forces are highly trained in all kinds of warfare. No Nigerian ever asked why they were in Nigeria at that particular time. The thinking of the CIA was that a coup against a Northern Muslim Fulani by a middle belt military personnel would be resisted and therefore bloody. So the SEAL was dispatched to make sure Babangida succeeded. If the coup had been resisted, Buhari and Idiagbon would have been killed, no question about it

After the coup, the CIA cut a deal with Babangida, where Nigeria was used as a major drug transit and money laundering center for the proceeds of the CIA drug trade. This is how the CIA was funding their Contra war. The phony or rogue bank, BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) was used to launder the proceeds of the drug business and take them out of the country. Babangida’s loots left the country through this bank. Remember that branches of this bank were everywhere in Lagos and the North. Two investigative journalists in the US later broke the news that the CIA was involved in drug smuggling to fund the Contra War. They didn’t mention the country that was used, but from all indications, it was Nigeria! However, Dele Giwa somehow stumbled on this information and was seriously investigating it and was about to break the news when he was killed. This is the main reason that Babangida had Dele Giwa killed.



Remember also that the former leader of Burkina Faso, Capt. Thomas Sankara, of blessed memory, was a close friend, albeit, revolutionary friend of Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, who was hated so much by the .U.S. After Sankara was killed, obviously with help from the West, the rest of Africa condemned the cowardly act except Babangida. As a matter of fact, he gave the leader of the coup that killed Sankara, Major Compaore Blaise, a red carpet welcome to Lagos, barely a week after the murder. Again when in 1986, Reagan unjustifiably bombed Libya and killed Gadaffi`s daughter, everybody in Africa condemned the unprovoked attack, except Babangida, who was blaming Gaddafi for the attack.

Toward the end of 1986, or 1987, (can’t remember the exact year), Babangida was given a "Strategic" award, by the Heritage Foundation, a US right wing front whose philosophy is total world domination, economically, politically and militarily. The few other people, who had received this award, include Henry Kissinger and the former NATO Commander, Alexander Haig, people who had gone out of their way and the risk of their lives to advance America’s interests.



No Nigerian journalist or news organization asked or questioned the reason IBB was given that award. Nobody asked why there was an explosion of drug activities during IBB’s regime. The only investigative journalist we had, Dele Giwa, was killed, so we were and still are in the dark of what is actually going on in Nigeria. And to make things worse, most of our papers are owned by the looters or friends of the looters.

Anyway, it was during IBB’s regime that most of our wealth was looted out of the country (about 80%). It was the dream of America to make IBB, President for Life, just like Mobutu.

Enter Orji Kalu, now former Governor of Abia State. I am not very sure whether it was IBB who introduced Kalu to the CIA or the other way round, but it was the dream of the US to make Babangida the President and Kalu his Vice. Kalu is still a sleeper operative of the CIA. Three weeks before the last presidential election in 2007, Kalu was at the CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia. The only way anybody could get into that building is if you have a top secret security clearance or an active asset of the CIA with high level security clearance. Remember that Kalu had always boasted about how close he was with the Bush family. The only link between the two is the CIA and the fact that Kalu was a valuable asset for them, having proved it by betraying Nigeria, one way or the other, for his own personal gain.



How did IBB move his loots to France and Switzerland? IBB is as devilishly clever as he is ruthless. Kalu became the go-between, between him and the CIA, to avoid being linked to the CIA. With the help of the CIA, Kalu created numerous phony front companies to launder IBB’s loots and payouts from the CIA deal, and move them out of the country through the rogue bank, BCCI. This is why when Ribadu arrested Kalu for corruption, the Bush regime was up in arms against it, and the current Attorney General, Michael Aondoaaka took over the EFCC, in a mild drama. I’ll come to this later.

Kalu has the same character traits as Babangida or even worse. The CIA found him very valuable to them because this guy could do literally anything for personal gains and aggrandizement. Remember, Kalu had always stated that he is who he is today because of IBB. In fact this is the only honest statement that ever came out of Kalu’s mouth.



IBB created the very problems we are all suffering today. He never ever wanted to give up power for what he was getting out of it. He is an extremely crafty guy and dangerously cunning.

America’s dream, or rather the CIA’s dream, was to make Babangida a long time dictator like Mubarak of Egypt, and Orji Kalu his vice president, and for Kalu to continue after Babangida. The election that Babangida held in 1993 and which Abiola won was never meant to be. Babangida never wanted to give up power. America didn’t want him to give up power either. So he wasted all our resources, just to pretend that he wanted to give up power. He annulled the election on the advice of the State Department of the US, who did not trust Abiola to cut deals with them whenever they needed one.

When Abacha realized that Babangida had no intention of giving up power, he tricked Babangida and forced him to hand over to the Shonekan’s so-called Interim National Government. The US never forgave Abacha for that. Abacha’s demonization went full blast. The US had hopes that they could still find a way to bring Babangida to power.

The easiest way would be to eliminate the two major contenders, Abacha and Abiola.This would leave us no other option but Babangida. Abacha and Abiola could have been killed with the assistance of the CIA. I studied chemistry, as an undergraduate, and I know that a very minute drop of concentrated potassium chloride could easily create a massive natural heart attack and death immediately.

Potassium chloride (KCl) has a very narrow lethal dose, i.e. very narrow range of lethality. This is the weapon of choice for most intelligence covert operations, because it could never be traced by any toxicology tests. My strong suspicion leans toward the use of KCl to kill Abiola and Abacha, to make way for Babangida to return. Babangida has never told the truth about why he annulled that election. He could never tell the true reason. Nigeria was smart to let Abdulsalam to rule after Abacha’s death, instead of Babangida.



Abacha was never a saint, but most of the demonization against him was orchestrated by America, in a way, to divert attention away from Babangida. Even the so called Abacha loot in Swiss banks could have been Babangida’s, just to use the insignificant amount to blackmail Abacha, and have Nigerians believe that all the looting was done by Abacha.You see, our biggest problem is believing everything the West tells us without questions, not minding that they have always employed the Machiavellian doctrines in their dealings with the rest of the world.




The US actually succeeded in having every Nigerian talking about Abacha’s loot, while Babangida conveniently faded to the background, attending weddings, birthday parties, funerals, etc, everywhere! In 2007, all grounds were cleared for Babangida to sneak back, and with the advice of the Bush Administration, for him to appoint Kalu as his running mate, a position which Kalu declined.

Most Nigerians, and most of the rest of the world except Western Europe and Israel, are extremely naive about America. As much as being utilitarian, Americans are natural existentialists, driven in all their actions, bad or good, only by self interests. The only thing consistent about Americans as individuals is their unpredictability. For example, an American can ceremoniously and sanctimoniously give you a million dollars today, and tomorrow that same American kills you unceremoniously over five dollars! It saddens me whenever I read about our government officials trooping here to "learn" about the American system. The American government structure is very organized and extremely well structured and managed by very patriotic citizens. But honestly, America does not want the same fine structure for any part of the world outside Western Europe and Israel. America’s prosperity and power are based partly on their ability to manipulate all the developing countries to remain dependent, so that they could easily be used.



America did not accomplish their goal to return IBB to power in 1993, but they encouraged him to contest in 2007. In fact, everything was on the ground for him to run again, but Kalu refused the Vice President-ship. I, personally, was very alarmed that Nigerians folded their arms and some misguided corrupt cronies were actually rooting for this evil man who killed the finest of young Nigerian army officers, and essentially the architect of the present rot we are in.

I sent part of the information I’m giving you to Nuhu Ribadu, when he was Chairman of EFCC, and also to the Sun Newspaper (at the time, I did not know the paper was owned by Orji Kalu, Babangida’s partner in crime). I’m very sure Ribadu read it, and probably briefed Obasanjo about it. Those at the Sun Newspaper could have informed Kalu about it, and Babangida could have gotten wind of it. About a month after I sent the article, I learnt that Babangida withdrew his ambition with the phony excuse that he would not run against his "younger brother, Yar’Adua".

My honest belief then was that he realized that there were people with damaging information about him. And also, Obasanjo could also have discouraged him, having been briefed about this information by Ribadu.These are my speculations as to why Babangida suddenly withdrew from contesting. So Ribadu played a major part in Babangida not running in the 2007 election.

Babangida has a huge animosity against Ribadu, who was really responsible for derailing Babangida`s presidential ambition in 2007. He never forgave him. In one of his several wedding or funeral services talks, Babangida made it clear that even if he never ran for the Presidency again, he would be involved in determining whoever rules Nigeria. He was responsible for the selection of Yar’Adua as President, after twisting Obasanjo’s hand, who owed him for getting him out of jail and making him President in 1999.

Most of PDP’s "BIG" men are all carry-overs from the Babangida’s regime. Remember when he said he was satisfied with the selection of Yar’Adua as President, calling him his younger brother? He actually forced his old cronies and "boys" in the PDP to select Yar’Adua. He knew that Yar’Adua has a lot of humility, defers to him and lacks self confidence. He knew he could easily manipulate Yar’Adua. Essentially, Babangida is actually the one still calling the shots, behind the scenes, in Yar ‘Adua’s government.



All Ribadu’s problems were orchestrated by Babangida. Most Nigerians thought it was Ibori, but though Ibori is one of his "boys", Babangida is the only one in Nigeria powerful enough to go against Obasanjo’s friends. Babangida influenced the appointments of Okiro (IGP) and Aondoakaa (AGF) and Waziri (EFCC), all in an effort to kill the war on corruption, and stop all the noise about corruption. Have you noticed that in all his public utterances, Babangida had never said anything against corruption? He does not see corruption as corruption, because he believes in Reagan’s trickle down or voodoo economics, i.e. give the wealth of the nation to a few of his cronies in government or business, and they would create wealth for others. It is this same Reagan’s idea that is wreaking havoc in the American economy today!

Everyday, Yar ‘Adua’s government looks more and more like Babangida’s regime, because he influenced Yar’Adua to recycle his old cronies into important positions. These are men who through the years, have perfected the art and science of stealing and looting.

Babangida remains the most destabilizing and powerful force in Nigeria today. It’s almost as if he owns Nigeria. He remains untouchable because all the recycled kleptomaniacs called politicians, who are in leadership positions today, owe their wealth and power to Babangida Watch my words, all talk about Nigeria’s progress, remains just talk, until Babangida’s powers and influence are erased. Until we have bold, very patriotic, incorruptible, and independent individuals elected by the people, Nigeria would go nowhere!!!!.


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The only leader that Nigerian people ever elected was Abiola. The others were either influenced by foreign powers in collusion with corrupt politicians and the military. Nigeria needs the likes of Nuhu Ribadus, Gani Fawhinmis, Tai Solarins, and yes, Mohammed Buharis and Babatunde Idiagbons.

I was born in Cameroun, and I am a true pan-Africanist. I am an extremely patriotic Nigerian with a lot of passion for Nigeria. Any foreigner who ever comes in contact with me ends up loving Nigeria and wanting to go there. It’s my little way of rebranding Nigeria, whatever that really means. I sincerely believe that Nigeria could potentially be the greatest wholly black nation on earth if we could put our acts together and stop corruption at all cost and by all means necessary. The West is very much aware of Nigeria’s potentials and they are doing everything to stop it, especially the US.

This is why the American Press uses every opportunity to humiliate Nigeria, to make us lose our Natural self confidence and not compete with them toe-to-toe. There are more criminals in one American city, than all of Nigeria combined! The truth is that a powerful wholly black nation would shatter the methodical stereotype of the black race, as stupid, by their media over the years. A powerful black nation would also awaken their black population to aim higher, and regain their confidence after years of emasculation. This is something they’ll do everything to avoid. I honestly believe that most of our problems, especially the Niger Delta, could be traced back to LONDON AND WASHINGTON, through their multinational corporations, who corrupt and impose corrupt and inept leaders on us

.............Anyway, let see what we do to help our country.

The article should be reconstructed as poser questions for Babangida to answer to Nigerians. This brings out all the points of interests, but avoids accusing him directly
This would force him to react and be on the defensive, thereby, exposing himself for a second look by Nigerians.

Cozie Chimason

Am.Michael@nigeriama