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Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by nansng: 5:36pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
US State Department has asked Adams Oshiomhole, the governor of Edo state, to name the official that told him a minister under ex-president Goodluck Jonathan administration stole $6 billion. African Suntimes said the American officials denied telling Edo governor, who accompanied President Muhammadu Buhari during his state visit to the US, from the 19-22 of July. The official said: “The U.S. should not be drawn into such irresponsible comment as alleged by Mr. Oshiomhole. America has a transparent administration that doesn’t hide when people make a statement. If Mr. Oshiomhole claims a U.S. official told him that a Nigerian minister stole $6 billion, he should name the official instead of hiding behind an anonymous source.” Nigerians while reacting to the development alleged that Oshiomhole’s marriage to a beautiful Ethiopian model is getting to his head. “He is trying to impress the woman, as ugly and short as he is. He thinks by making all these accusations and being in the public eye, he could maintain her staying with him. Look, his accusations have already worked – Buhari took him and his wife to Washington, DC,” said a Nigerian living in Washington, DC area. It would be recalled that since President Buhari was sworn in on May 29, Oshiomhole has been on a campaign to involve some former ministers in the previous administration of stealing money. He has been on a running battle with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, ex-minister of finance, who he blamed for withdrawing $2 billion from government accounts for Jonathan’s reelection campaign. http://spynigeria.com/usa-writes-oshiomole-over-6b-stolen-funds-comment/ 2 Likes |
Re: Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by jlinkd78(m): 5:41pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
over to osho baba |
Re: Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by Myself2(m): 5:41pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
Ehen, this thread predictably will be avoided by the janjjaweed BROOMOIDS as it has exposed their criminally corrupt ex labour leader who now suffers diarrhoea of the mouth |
Re: Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by Nobody: 5:45pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
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Re: Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by Nobody: 5:54pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
how much of that money did he use to purchase that his new puna? 1 Like |
Re: Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by Nobody: 6:00pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
Someone just decided to cook up this story. Show us the letter written by US and we will believe APC is a scam. Else, some one should be silenced. I believe "spy Nigeria" is not upto 1 month old. What an insolence. |
Re: Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by Nobody: 6:33pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
fake blog |
Re: Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by Wisdomkosi(m): 6:45pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
Osho baba over to you please. No waste time because to whom much is given, much is expected too |
Re: Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by ollysaks: 6:54pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
Oshiomole, still suffering from numerical diarrhoea __ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala 2 Likes |
Re: Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by Geeweeny(m): 7:32pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
Guess this one won't make front page too.... APC e warrior how market? too much lie how z d country going to move forward |
Re: Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by bugzbunny: 7:39pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
Propaganda Govt 1 Like |
Re: Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by iamrealdeji(m): 8:31pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
Na Lara tell baba Oshiomole or na the Edo Irunmoles dey tell am for hin dream? |
Re: Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by babasanti: 8:36pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
The innovation of the Permanent Voters Cards is
designed to permanently disenfranchise the South. If this
is not redressed immediately, the North will always
determine the winner in Nigerian elections.
If you did not see my column last week, it was because I
did not want to rain on anyone’s parade. I wanted the
euphoria over the bullet we missed by avoiding the riots
that would have ensued had the APC been defeated to
subside. But I am now back to tell you that the
presidential election was a big INEC rigmarole. Long
before Jonathan lost the election to Buhari, he had been
defeated by the machinations of Jega and INEC.
As a matter of fact, General Buhari did not win this
presidential election: President Jonathan lost it. The
president lost because he allowed himself to be
defeated. Maybe he did not want to remain in power
badly enough. Or maybe there was a side of him that felt
there is honour in being the first incumbent president to
lose an election in Nigeria. Whatever the case; he failed
to heed the warning of many that, like Aminu Tambuwal
and Lamido Sanusi, Attahiru Jega was working for the
enemy.
Failure of Tinubu
With the coalition of Bola Tinubu’s ACN and Buhari’s
CPC, many concluded that the outcome of the 2015
presidential election would be determined in the South-
West. The assumption was that Tinubu would provide the
killer-punch that had been missing in Buhari’s earlier
failed attempts. However, this has proved to be
mistaken. Tinubu failed to clean up the South-West with
his broom for the APC. Indeed, in order for the APC to
prevail in Lagos with only 160,000 votes, INEC had to
ensure that many non-indigenes could not get their
PVCs.
The truth of the matter is that, quite apart from the
shenanigan of having a Redeemed Yoruba pastor as
Buhari’s vice-presidential running-mate, the people of
the South-West don’t like Buhari. In the 2011 election,
they said this emphatically by giving him a paltry
321,000 votes out of the 4.7 million cast in the
geopolitical zone. This time, in 2015, Buhari received 2.4
million South-West votes, with a plurality of 600,000 over
Jonathan. However, most of those votes were actually
not for Buhari: they were against Jonathan.
In the end, the South-West vote was neither pivotal to
Buhari’s victory nor central to Jonathan’s defeat.
Tinubu’s assistance for Buhari ended at the APC
presidential primaries where he got Buhari nominated
against the wishes of Northern delegates. All Tinubu did
at the level of the presidential election was to give a
façade of national spread to Buhari’s essentially
Northern victory. This factor will soon come to haunt
Tinubu and his South-West cohorts when it is time to
share the spoils of victory in the Buhari administration.
Should APC lose the Lagos governorship election, Tinubu
would be left in a quandary. All the Northern timber and
caliber who were missing in action throughout the
campaign when Tinubu, Fashola and other Southern
politicians were running helter-skelter with Buhari, will
soon come out of the woodwork to claim their Buhari
inheritance. Inevitably, they will overshadow the
Southern brigade. Vice-President Osinbajo will simply be
sent to fetch water when crucial decisions are to be
made by Northern “born-to-rule” elements.
Southerners without coattails
In order to defeat the PDP, APC needed to undermine
Jonathan in his areas of greatest strengths – the South-
South and the South-East. However, APC men like
Amaechi, Okorocha and Oshiomhole proved to be paper-
tigers in these areas. In Rivers, Amaechi was disgraced.
With all his bluster, he could only deliver 69,000 votes to
Buhari; while Jonathan made off with a whopping 1.45
million. No wonder, therefore, that the governor tried to
save face by saying there was no election in Rivers. He
even rented a crowd to go on a perfunctory
demonstration.
Chinem Bestman sent me a text message from Port
Harcourt with the same complaint that the election was
rigged. I answered by asking him if there has ever been
a free and fair election in Rivers since 1999. Amaechi
knew the ropes, therefore when he came for
accreditation, he asked to see the election result sheet.
He knew the traditional rigmarole in Rivers was to doctor
the report sheet. Now that he has been out-rigged, he is
singing a different tune; asking Rivers people to forgive
him.
In Imo, Okorocha was humiliated. He could only deliver
19% of the vote to Buhari. It looks like the governor is
going to need another job very soon as he is unlikely to
be re-elected. In Edo, Oshiomhole did much better. APC
lost with 208,000 votes to PDP’s 286,000. Nevertheless,
Oshiomhole tried to explain this away by complaining
that PDP used the military to manipulate the election.
However, when INEC announced the results, APC won
the senatorial election in Edo North; one of the places
where the governor claimed PDP used the military to rig.
Assault on the South-East
Godsday Orubebe grabbed the microphone during the
collation of the election results and alleged to the whole
world that INEC chairman Attahiru Jega is partial and
tribalistic. His outburst may have been embarrassing, but
it is not entirely without justification. The evidence of
INEC’s partiality is compelling. Although President
Jonathan put a call to Orubebe to stop his protest, and
he has decided to accept the verdict of INEC, that does
not mean we should sweep INEC’s shenanigans under
the carpet.
It is easy to fob off Orubebe by saying he was only being
emotional because he is a PDP man from Niger Delta, a
kinsman of Mr. President who “lost” the election. That
just won’t cut it. I am not a Niger Deltan. I don’t belong
in the PDP. I don’t know Goodluck Jonathan and I have
never ever met him or spoken to him. Cynical Nigerians
believe anyone who supports Jonathan must either be in
his pay or be looking for a job. Neither allegation is
applicable to me. Jonathan ostensibly received 12.8
million votes; surely all these people were neither in his
pay nor Aso Rock job-seekers.
My faith requires me to support the weak. Therefore, I
will always support the minority against the tyranny of
the majority. We cannot be reliant on South-South oil in
Nigeria and then treat one of their sons as if he is an
impostor for being president of the country. The fact of
the matter is that this presidential election was the result
of a vicious and malicious gang-up of the majority ethnic
groups against the minorities.
Since the civil war, the Igbos of the South-East have
been treated as if they are a minority ethnic group in
Nigeria when in fact they are one of the majorities. In
order to diminish Jonathan’s votes, a major assault was
made against them; recognising that they are some of
the staunchest Jonathan supporters. In 2011, the Igbo
gave Goodluck Jonathan a decisive 5 million votes. The
task of INEC in 2015 was to ensure that did not recur.
INEC rigmarole
Buhari prevailed as a result of a deliberate
disenfranchisement of the Igbo by INEC through the
manipulation of PVC distribution and the failure of the
card reader in the South-East and the South-South. INEC
ensured that, far more disproportionately and relative to
other geopolitical zones, millions of South-East voters
disappeared between 2011 and 2015, in order to provide
a smooth passage for a Northern presidential candidate;
which turned out to be Buhari.
The first strategy of INEC in this regard was to create
29,000 additional polling units, allocating 21,000 of these
to the North and only 8,000 to the South. In this crass
manipulation, INEC gave more additional polling units to
Abuja than it gave to the entire South-East. However,
widespread outcry over this proposal forced INEC to
jettison it despite protracted resistance by Jega.
But INEC had a plan B: the registration of voters and the
collection of PVCs. This was bogus and lopsided; skewed
most especially against the South-East where only 7.6
million were registered and 5.6 million PVCs collected.
Compare this with the war-torn North-East: 9.1 million
were registered and 7.4 million collected. But the most
outrageous were the figures of the North-West. 17.6
million registrations and 15.1 million collections were
recorded in the North-West; much more than the figures
in the entire South-East and South-South combined.
On Election Day, news of a bomb blast in Enugu served
to discourage people from coming out to vote in the
South-East. In addition, there was widespread late voter
accreditation and voting in the South-East as well as the
South-South. One reason for this was the massive failure
of the card-readers in these zones, highly suggestive
that they were programmed to fail there.
Quite incredibly, the card-reader failed to recognise even
the president. It took President Jonathan 35 minutes to
get accredited; but within five hours, we are meant to
believe that 2.5 million voters in Kano were duly
accredited. In the middle of the election, INEC changed
from card-reader to manual accreditation. This suddenly
brought into play the huge voter registrations in the
North-West. Cell-phone video recordings showed many
of the North-West’s bloated PVC holders to be under-
aged children.
Abracadabra
The total effect of these machinations is that over 2.4
million South-East voters were successfully
disenfranchised. 38 million people nationwide voted for
Buhari and Jonathan in 2011. In 2015, this figure shrank
to 28 million. The votes of the South-West remained
virtually constant. 4.6 million people of the South-West
voted in 2011: 4.2 million in 2015. But compare this with
what happened in the South-East. 5 million people voted
in 2011, only 2.6 million in 2015. That is a drastic drop of
2.4 million.
While Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Jigawa and Bauchi were
posting their traditional humongous figures; Imo,
Anambra and Abia were posting relatively disappointing
figures. Jigawa used to be a part of Kano, when Kano was
said to be bigger than Lagos. In the 2015 election, the
votes of Jigawa and Kano combined was double that of
Lagos. Lagos had 1.4 million votes. Jigawa and Kano had
3.1 million; virtually all for Buhari.
While the internally displaced Northerners in the North-
East could vote, internally displaced Igbos from the North
could not. In places like Lagos and Kano, many non-
indigenes were not even given their PVCs. In effect, the
innovation of the Permanent Voters Cards is designed to
permanently disenfranchise the South. If this is not
redressed immediately, the North will always determine
the winner in Nigerian elections. |
Re: Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by iamrealdeji(m): 8:37pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
icedbeatz:I sure say that girl never give am chop,na the reason why Osho dey try impress am by any means 1 Like |
Re: Usa Write’s Oshiomole Over $6b Stolen Fund’s Comment — Spy Nigeria by saint047(m): 8:37pm On Jul 30, 2015 |
Amaechi followed a suspect (El Rufai) to the DSS' office. Dino followed a suspect (Toyin Saraki) to the EFCC's office. Simple as APC. 1 Like |
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