@ Big looter

In this country today, when it comes down to Nigeria, Nigerians, political strategy,and leadership, IBB still remains the most competent and smartest entity among all politicians available.

We know him too well that is why some of us are also matching his evil cunningness with brutal opposition. Wait till d end of the week when GEJ declare his intention. My friends and I have registered as DOOR2DOOR volunteers. Meanwhile ours is not just to campaign for GEJ door to door but readily armed with all the names of the people IBB has killed and denied hapiness.

IBB is not a foolish man, he completely understands that the selection of his VP is the key and plays major role in winning the election.
Don't be fooled, I honestly don't think IBB will pick Odeli as his VP.

On the contrary he is not only foolish but a plague every1 is afraid to be identified with. I heard a joke that Devil advised IBB to prepare his own hell because 2 Captains cannot control a ship. He wants a SE gov as a vice and they have all snubbed him who will flirt with a confirmed serial-killer? Nobody except evil ones like Big looter and Dokpedull.

1. This entity (VP) can not be revealed this way.
2. This entity will be young, loving, lovable, educated, articulate, charismatic and newly discovered.
3. This entity will be 100 percent an Igbo man with absolutely no question.
4.This entity will be revealed when it counts the most

If he likes he should choose Bianca that doesnt remove the bloods from his hands and we have said NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to the International Basta?d Boy. Never again!

A MEMO RELEASED BY THE WORLD BANK IN JULY 2009 OF NIGERIAN LOOTERS EXCLUDING THOSE DURING THE OBASANJO ERA LISTED IBB ASSETS IN FOREIGN BANKS AT $24.91bn. HE HAS 6.25bn IN LONDON; 7.41bn IN SWISS BANK; 2.00bn IN USA AND 9.00bn IN GERMANY.
THERE 21 PEOPLE LISTED.THE INDIVIDUALS THAT HAD THE SMALLEST DEPOSITS WERE TY DANJUMA AND GEN ISHAYA BAMAYI WITH $1.2bn .
IN ALL THE TOTAL LOOT BY THESE INDIVIDUALS WAS $165.00bn.

Solomon227:

On the contrary he is not only foolish but a plague every1 is afraid to be identified with. I heard a joke that Devil advised IBB to prepare his own hell because 2 Captains cannot control a ship. He wants a SE gov as a vice and they have all snubbed him who will flirt with a confirmed serial-killer? Nobody except evil ones like Big looter and Dokpedull.

Put sentiments aside, if anything, IBB is NOT FOOLISH, well at least as a politician. Do you realize how hard it is for any politician to remain relevant past his/her own time in office? Well, IBB has somehow essentially remained in the spotlight for decades now. If the Nigerian people were even wiser, he would have had to drop below radar for a very long time but because the man has been able to play the game well, he has not only remained in our faces but remained UNTOUCHABLE for so long.
Now, I know you want to comfort yourself thinking that your volunteer work with DOOR2DOOR will somehow change things for him, and it might, but please if all you can do is cost him some votes, then I say it is likely not going to stop this man.

@ Gayigaskia

I said it the same thing was said against Mobutu and only 6 million was found in his accounts and he ruled for 32 years.

Read this:

Swiss court release loot to Mobutu Sese Seko family.


DR Congo criticises Mobutu ruling

The Democratic Republic of Congo has criticised a Swiss court's decision to release the assets of its late ex-leader Mobutu Sese Seko to his family.

Information Minister Lambert Mende told the BBC that Switzerland had not done enough to ensure the money was given back to the people of DR Congo.

He said his country could not appeal against the decision because the legal process had ended.

More than $6m (£3.7m) frozen in Swiss bank accounts is being released.

Mobutu, who died in 1997, governed what was then known as Zaire for 32 years after taking power in a coup and was accused of embezzling billions of dollars of government money.

On Tuesday, the Swiss court ruled that the assets should be returned to his family, rejecting a bid to extend a freeze on them.

Switzerland had repeatedly blocked the release of the funds, said to have been gained illegally.

The court ruled that the DR Congo had waited too long to seek the return of the money.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/h, ca/8151959.stm

Published: 2009/07/15 12:53:47 GMT

© BBC MMIX

This is not them say or speculation, this a MEMO of world bank. There was no world bank memo on Mobutu. If u are still doubting go to youtube and listen to CNN interview of IBB where they alleged he is one of d richest Africans and asked him where he got his wealth from and if he was going to buy the 2011 election.

God will never allow them win. They'll set a world record for looting

Solomon227:

@ Gayigaskia

This is not them say or speculation, this a MEMO of world bank. There was no world bank memo on Mobutu. If u are still doubting go to youtube and listen to CNN interview of IBB where they alleged he is one of d richest Africans and asked him where he got his wealth from and if he was going to buy the 2011 election.

So why the World Bank doesn't tell us exactly where the money is?  Unless the Money is stashed away in Niamey because i remember that was the last City he visited before he stand down as President

@ Kobojunkie

Put sentiments aside, if anything, IBB is NOT FOOLISH, well at least as a politician. Do you realize how hard it is for any politician to remain relevant past his/her own time in office? Well, IBB has somehow essentially remained in the spotlight for decades now. If the Nigerian people were even wiser, he would have had to drop below radar for a very long time but because the man has been able to play the game well, he has not only remained in our faces but remained UNTOUCHABLE for so long.
Now, I know you want to comfort yourself thinking that your volunteer work with DOOR2DOOR will somehow change things for him, and it might, but please if all you can do is cost him some votes, then I say it is likely not going to stop this man.

U obviously have not been following political events in Nigeria in recent times. It is hard to forget sentiments when it comes to IBB because he is going to kill again and if u didnt stop him now it might just be your person.

IBB has remained in spot light and popular for all d wrongest reasons. He is d same wavelength with Mobutu, Idi Ami, Pinochet, Hitler and co and that is not an advantage as far as 2011 election is concern.

Kobo, Buhari was powerful b/4 IBB upstaged him, IBB was powerful b/4 Abacha came with his sunshades, GEJ runs d show now and calls d shots. He has been lenient with IBB for obvious reasons else IBB shuld b in court defending Dele Giwas murder & 12.5 Billion dollars oil wind fall.

Fairly or crookedly GEJ is winning PDP primary and the Evil one will be finally demystified.

The Babangida years

By Tolu Ogunlesi
April 17, 2010 10:36PM  

In his first New Year Days speech as military president, months after deposing the Buhari-Idiagbon government in a bloodless coup enthusiastically welcomed by Nigerians, Ibrahim Babangida declared: I wish to reaffirm that this administration does not intend to stay in power a day longer than is required to lay the necessary institutional framework to bring about a better and more stable Nigeria. Babangidas bonhomie (its trademark an endearing gap-toothed smile) - in stark contrast to the stern, unsmiling façade of Muhammadu Buhari, his predecessor - made it easy for him to be believed.
The distinction between the two regimes in fact ran much deeper than personality quirks. Babangida, in action, proved to be the complete antithesis of his predecessor. He threw open prison doors, setting free hundreds of 3rd republic politicians convicted and jailed by Buhari. He repealed the obnoxious Decree No. 4 of 1984 with which the Buhari regime had shackled the media. He promised to run an open administration that is responsive to the yearnings and aspirations of all the people - a departure from the high-handedness of the Buhari/Idiagbon era.
One of his first actions as military president was to allow Nigerians to decide, through public debates, whether to accept the $2.5 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan the Buhari government had been negotiating for.
After the terror of the Buhari years, Nigerians appeared to have found a statesman in military uniform.

Tough times that lasted

By 1985, Nigerias foreign debt had ballooned to $18 billion, up from $3.4 billion in 1980 (it would rise beyond $30 billion by the end of the 80s), and external reserves had dwindled to less than $2 billion. Oil prices had been in freefall for 3 years running, and in January 1986 they finally fell to less than $20 per barrel, a record low since the start of the decade.
To his credit Babangida made all the right noises about revamping the economy. In his Independence Day 1985 speech, barely two months old in office, he declared a state of economic emergency for the next 15 months. That speech went on to lay down a comprehensive plan for economic reconstruction.
This plan included a moratorium on new foreign debt, promotion of agriculture and industrial development, restriction of importation to essential commodities, financial sector reform and privatisation.

Populist leanings

IBB was a master of the populist move - ambitious government programs targeted at tackling poverty, and empowering rural dwellers. His government churned out program after program, in a bid to actualize his promises to run an inclusive, people-facing government. In 1986, Babangida launched the Mass Mobilization for Self Reliance, Social Justice, and Economic Recovery (MAMSER).
In 1987, the Directorate of Food and Rural Infrastructure (DFFRI) was launched to promote agriculture and transform Nigerias rural landscape by providing modern infrastructure. Other Babangida creations include the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), National Economic Reconstruction Fund (NERFUND), Peoples Bank of Nigeria (PBN), National Board for Community Banks (NBCB), Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), National Planning Commission (NPC), and the Urban Development Bank.
No other Nigerian government presided over such substantial expansion of government bureaucracy as the Babangida administration. In time, the fiscal prudence that Babangida espoused vanished: billions of naira were sunk into an endless transition programme, and in the early 90s, 12 billion dollars worth of windfall crude oil revenue (courtesy of the rise in the oil prices due to the Gulf War) could not be accounted for.
Mr. Babangida also came to perfect the art of dispensing patronage through political appointments (mostly targeted at leading members of the opposition) and a far-from-transparent allocation of lucrative oil blocks.

A man whose words mean nothing

Mr. Babangidas contradictions eventually overwhelmed his reputation so that when, in May 1993, the activist and lawyer Gani Fawehinmi described him as a man whose words mean nothing to him, evidence of this littered his eight years in power.
Only months after vowing to run a government by consultation with the people, Mr. Babangida in 1986 surreptitiously - and unilaterally - took Nigeria, an avowed secular state, into full membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), a body which describes itself as the collective voice of the Muslim world.
Mr. Babangida lamented the large role played by the public sector in economic activity with hardly any concrete results to justify such a role.Ironically, over the course of the next five years, he would go ahead to supervise an unprecedented expansion of government. And despite his deference to the wish of Nigerians to reject the IMF loan, Mr. Babangida went ahead to implement some of the Funds most drastic requirements - a devaluation of the naira, and removal of subsidies, chief of which were the petroleum subsidies.
Mr. Babangida promised Nigerians that the belt-tightening was sorely needed: the painful injection that would usher in vibrant economic health; the mandatory dark lining before a cloud of prosperity. Those reforms, which he christened Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), came into effect in 1986, with a far-from-pleasant impact on Nigerians. Purchasing powers dwindled, inflation rose, and the obliteration of the middle class began. In 1989, SAP riots rocked the country, as Nigerians had finally had enough of economic reforms which silver lining they waited in vain for.

Greatest failings

Mr. Babangidas greatest failings were however in two key areas: his human rights record, and his political transition programme. In December 1985, a group of soldiers, which included his close friend, Mamman Vatsa, were arrested on allegations of plotting to topple the 4-month old Babangida government. After Vatsa was convicted and sentenced to death, Mr. Babangida assured a delegation of distinguished writers (Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and J.P. Clark), which had come pleading for mercy, that he was determined to do everything in my power to save (Vatsa).
Hours later, Vatsa and the other alleged plotters were executed.
As opposition to Mr. Babangidas rule grew, so did his intolerance for dissent, so that he routinely shut down or proscribed media houses; and harassed journalists, civil society and labour groups using the instruments of state (the State Security Service, Directorate of Military Intelligence and the Police).
In 1986, five students of the Ahmadu Bello University were murdered when mobile policemen invaded the campus to quell anti-IMF protests. He also promulgated a series of draconian decrees targeted at quelling all opposition, and on occasion did not hesitate to deport foreign critics (University lecturer Patrick Wilmot and journalist William Keeling).
In October 1986, frontline journalist Dele Giwa was murdered by a letter bomb in Lagos. Preliminary police investigations stated that senior officers of Mr. Babangidas intelligence services, who had hounded Giwa in his final days, had questions to answer regarding Giwas death. The mystery of the Giwa assassination remains unsolved till date.

An interminable journey

A maddeningly convoluted transition programme, whose terminal date soon became a mirage - first 1990, then 1992, and then 1993 - is one of the most significant things Babangida will be remembered for.
Early on in his administration, Mr. Babangida inaugurated a Political Bureau to kick off, as it were, the national debate on a viable future political ethos and structure for our dear country.
The political bureau was soon followed by a Constituent Assembly, which in 1989 fashioned a new constitution for the country.
Also, in 1989, he created, by presidential fiat, two political parties, the Social Democratic Party and the National Republican Convention. Then in 1991, he released a controversial list of prominent politicians whom he said were banned from participating in the transition programme.
In October 1992, he cancelled the results of the parties presidential primaries, causing new primaries to be held in March 1993. And then in June 1993 he annulled the results of the presidential elections, presumed to have been won by billionaire businessman MKO Abiola.

This was the final straw
.
By this time, Nigerians had finally had enough of his shenanigans, and violent protests forced him to step aside on August 27, 1993,My colleagues and I are determined to change the course of history, Mr. Babangida told Nigerians in his maiden speech as Head of State, on August 27, 1985.
By the time he reluctantly relinquished power exactly eight years later, he had achieved that goal, far more successfully than he, or anyone else, could ever have imagined.

Source: Next
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The Holy Book says "my people perish for lack of knowledge".
Will you allow 150m of us (Nigerians) perish or will you ALSO forward this article on the (mis) deeds of our self-proclaimed "evil genius" to all Nigerians that you know
Will you help confirm "maradona" IBB's claim (in Germany in the 90s during one of his radiculopathy treatment trips) that we, his fellow citizens are "docile" (MUGUs) by not sharing this mail
Find a way to get involved at all levels- local, state and federal- this election period for a better Nigeria!!!

@ Gayigaskia

http://www.elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3330:general-ibrahim-badamosi-babangida&catid=25:politics&Itemid=92

happy reading

Solomon227:

@ Kobojunkie
U obviously have not been following political events in Nigeria in recent times. It is hard to forget sentiments when it comes to IBB because he is going to kill again and if u didnt stop him now it might just be your person.

Well, that would be you not following political events in Nigeria in recent times considering your whole rant there against him is 99% laden with sentiments and not enough with facts.

Solomon227:

IBB has remained in spot light and popular for all d wrongest reasons. He is d same wavelength with Mobutu, Idi Ami, Pinochet, Hitler and co and that is not an advantage as far as 2011 election is concern.

No, sorry! We like to exaggerate issues when it comes to those we are unwilling to take time to understand and engage. IBB is not worse than your Ibori's or Obasanjos. Sure, he came in under millitary rule and did what most other millitary leaders did too, but that he is now being made into a Hitler/Idi Amin makes no sense considering that the records shows he is no where close to those.

Solomon227:

Kobo, Buhari was powerful b/4 IBB upstaged him, IBB was powerful b/4 Abacha came with his sunshades, GEJ runs d show now and calls d shots. He has been lenient with IBB for obvious reasons else IBB shuld b in court defending Dele Giwas murder & 12.5 Billion dollars oil wind fall.

That Buhari was President at one time DOES NOT in any way imply that Buhari had more power than IBB at any time. By the way, have you ever looked into the violations of the Buhari regime? Yes, Buhari regime was not on the up and up when it came to human rights as well. Not implying IBB was better but none of our military leaders had a clean record. I would vote a Buhari government in myself because I believe those were still the best years Nigeria ever had but I would not delude myself into believing Buhari was a saint among Military rulers. No, the man had to do some underG work too to get his agenda working.

That Goodluck is at the helm of affairs today DOES NOT mean he runs the show either. Last I checked, Obasanjo is still being consulted every now and then on issues( Another individual that remains relevant past his term). It is NOT UP TO THE PRESIDENT to decide to be lenient to anyone, especially when it comes to the law of the land. That you are even willing to believe it is OK for your GEJ to be lenient to IBB in anyway points to the very problem we have in Nigeria. We are not serious when it comes to actually doing things the right way.

Solomon227:

Fairly or crookedly GEJ is winning PDP primary and the Evil one will be finally demystified.

GEJ is already president now. What makes you believe his winning another term, on the same PDP ticket that has ruled for the past 12 years of this democracy and shown itself filled with corruption and incompetence at all levels, is going to demystify or change anything? Please use your head more, my friend!

every one here is a political  analyst of some sort

what they fail to understand is that politics in nigeria is not like in the UK or the US

its about hardball politics, dirty money, use of state might and most of all, violence,

leave all these permutations of how odili would split jonathan votes in the SE and SS,

Solomon227:

@ Gayigaskia

http://www.elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3330:general-ibrahim-badamosi-babangida&catid=25:politics&Itemid=92

happy reading

Allegations. Show me a proof.   And believe me i'am not saying he is clean, but 99.99% of Nigerians would steal when they come to power.
What do you think Clark, Danjuma, Alams are doing ? they are just investing thereby protecting their investments makes sense.

i saw an advertorial yesterday were former Rivers State Governor Celestine Omehia was canvassing for support for GEJ, a rally is billed at d civic centre,cant  recall d date!!

we all know dat Odili is Omehia political's godfather,so its logical to say that,Odili may not throw in the towel to become IBB's running mate!

I wonder why men like IBB and Odili are walking freely

its obvious Nigeria is a failed state.

@ Gayigaskia

If u want a proof go and buy this book:

The book, The Sink, by Jeffrey Robinson, an American writer, says it all about Babangida. “Of the $120 billion siphoned out of the Nigerian treasury into offshore accounts by dishonest politicians, $20 billion is allegedly traceable to IBB directly as president from 1985 to 1993.”  The World Bank and other international sources of information put his total loot from the Nigerian treasury at over $35 billion.

IBB knows about the book and if Jeffrey was wrong he would have sued him. I have a friend that once borrowed me the book I will scan a copy to u when I lay my hand on the book aagin.

Dont except oyinbo man to reject the Billions your leaders bring to the west,they accept them and use them to develop their own economy. In fact if u want to kill your people to develop the west they will give u poison to put in their food. It's your choice.

I am even more confused!

But Odili? Really?

Solomon227:

@ Gayigaskia

If u want a proof go and buy this book:

The book, The Sink, by Jeffrey Robinson, an American writer, says it all about Babangida. “Of the $120 billion siphoned out of the Nigerian treasury into offshore accounts by dishonest politicians, $20 billion is allegedly traceable to IBB directly as president from 1985 to 1993.”  The World Bank and other international sources of information put his total loot from the Nigerian treasury at over $35 billion.

IBB knows about the book and if Jeffrey was wrong he would have sued him. I have a friend that once borrowed me the book I will scan a copy to u when I lay my hand on the book aagin.

Dont except oyinbo man to reject the Billions your leaders bring to the west,they accept them and use them to develop their own economy. In fact if u want to kill your people to develop the west they will give u poison to put in their food. It's your choice.

$20 billion? even Bill Gates doesn't have that much in cash, go sit down my brother only god knows how much GJ will be stealing

$20 billion? even Bill Gates doesn't have that much in cash, go sit down my brother only god knows how much GJ will be stealing

Bill gates total wealth is about twice that amount. The problem is dat our leaders normally starch their money in secured accounts protected by some western laws so are not easily accessible by press. For instance u can easily see Dangotes or Otedola's Billions on Forbes but hard to see information on Ibori's or OBJ's billions.

GEJ is already president now.[b] What makes you believe his winning another term, on the same PDP ticket that has ruled for the past 12 years of this democracy and shown itself filled with corruption and incompetence at all levels, is going to demystify or change anything? Please use your head more, my friend!
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Dont be surprise if one of them comes and call you an IBB supporter

Well, since I am conversing with Nigerians, it will not come as a surprise really. I mean we are speaking of a people mostly driven by their feelings/emotions and less by their heads.

Dont be surprise if one of them comes and call you an IBB supporter

That is very funny!

But honestly it is so sad that we are being left with little political choices because of IBB larger than life presence in this contest. I have never thought of voting for GEJ and have actually been looking forward to more credible candidates until it became so glaring that the Evil genius was going to win easily.

In as much as I have never been inspired by GEJ leadership qualities but he simply remains the only one that can stop IBB second coming. The oppositions seem to be in disarray and none of them has a national spread strong enough to depose PDP in 2011.

We are being confronted with evil men posting posters everywhere and d only choice now seems to putting them on Evil scale and trying to go with d ones with minimal evil.

IBB remains the upper limit on the Evil scale and when the desirable is not available then killing IBB political dream is the priority now.

You are being dishonest in your judgement here. IBB is running on the same PDP that Jonathan is. So what makes you believe Jonathan is any better a leader than IBB?

@ kobojunkie

You are being dishonest in your judgement here. IBB is running on the same PDP that Jonathan is. So what makes you believe Jonathan is any better a leader than IBB?

B/4 u turn yourself into the Jega may I know who u are supporting and why first?

Solomon227:

@ kobojunkie
B/4 u turn yourself into the Jega may I know who u are supporting and why first?

ROFLMAO!!!

Let me guess, Jega is now a hero to you? The man has yet to show you what he is really made of, and I hope you are not already making a hero or anything close out of the man.
To the topic, I say you focus on. It does not matter much where I stand on this, what matters more is that you argue your side in this more honestly.
Jonathan and IBB are running under the PDP Flag. What makes you think that voting for Jonathan is anywhere close to voting against IBB? Are they not of the same party? I mean anyone that thinks voting Jonathan is akin to voting against corruption ought to have his/her head checked because the evidence is overwhelming that a vote for Jonathan under the PDP flag is a vote for the same old . . . . Ibori/Odili/IBB/Obasanjo/Yar adua/ Alams etc.

@ Kobojunkie

Let me guess, Jega is now a hero to you? The man has yet to show you what he is really made of, and I hope you are not already making a hero or anything close out of the man.
To the topic, I say you focus on. It does not matter much where I stand on this, what matters more is that you argue your side in this more honestly.
Jonathan and IBB are running under the PDP Flag. What makes you think that voting for Jonathan is anywhere close to voting against IBB? Are they not of the same party? I mean anyone that thinks voting Jonathan is akin to voting against corruption ought to have his/her head checked because the evidence is overwhelming that a vote for Jonathan under the PDP flag is a vote for the same old . . . . Ibori/Odili/IBB/Obasanjo/Yar adua/ Alams etc.

U are too loud yet empty. When u are ready to take a stand we can then have a decent debate.

Look whose talking . . . the very person whose thrown up nothing but sentimental crap all over the place with no substance so far claiming another is too loud and empty . . . ROFLMAO!!

Kobojunkie:

Well, since I am conversing with Nigerians, it will not come as a surprise really. I mean we are speaking of a people mostly driven by their feelings/emotions and less by their heads.

If stopping IBB is why you made this comment,then you are right on track.it's a case of once beaten twice shy.

abeg forget that man odili,he be wise man he wan to liquedate ibbs money

IF Odili gets picked then it is simply an attempt to reduce GEJ's support from the South South, knowing there are enough corrupt politicians in the other zones to give him sufficient votes to win.

@ ubana

abeg forget that man odili,he be wise man he wan to liquedate ibbs money

I though Odilli was only alleged to b a killer and a looter. When he start scam?

bunch of fools!

Yeye dey smell

God punish all d ibbs annd odilis of this world

Thank God IBB has decieded to fool himself atlast. i thot the gods will let him go free bt they didnt. disgrace awaits him at the end of the turnel.

Can Lawrence Anini also choose Shina Rambo as his running mate so I can vote for them over IBB/Odili