Once upon a time, when Baba (Obasanjo) was in office as the president, he got an invitation from the Queen to come for a visit to England. After all the banquets and carriage rides and what not, Baba finally got the quiet moment he has craved all day in order to have a one on one chat with her majesty. After the usual small talk, Baba quickly popped the question (no silly, not that question). He asked her what the secret to her success was. You know Nigerians, we think everything is a secret.the President's health status is a secret, his whereabouts is a secret, reports of the various panels of enquiry set up by govt to investigate the causes of different crises around the country are kept secret, we even have secret registries in every government agency in d country. Maybe we are a secretive people, we love secrets.`

Anyway, back to our story. So Baba asked for the SECRET to d Queens's success and she told him that she relies on her people a lot and therefore she makes certain that only the intelligent get to positions of authority.

She decided to show him exactly what she meant and so she phoned Tony Blair. "Now listen carefully, Mr. Obasanjo, I'm going to ask Mr. Blair a question to determine his intelligence."

Queen: "Hello Mr. Blair, I have a question for you: your mother has a child, and your father has a child. This child is not your brother and is not your sister. Who is he?"Tony Blair replied instantly, "It's ME your majesty!"

Queen: "Correct! Thank you and goodbye"

"You see Mr. Obasanjo?" said the Queen

"Yes", he replied "and thanks a lot, I'll definitely be using that!"

Once back in Nigeria he decided that he has doubts about Mantu's level of intelligence and he decided to test him. He arranged a meeting with him and asked him:

"Mantu I have a question for you; your mother and father have a child. The child is not your brother and is not your sister, who is he?."

Mantu thinks, and thinks, and thinks, and finally says, "Em, Mr. President, you must give me more time to think about it."

And Mr. Obasanjo gave him 2 weeks to come up with an answer. That afternoon, Mantu called a meeting of all his aides, advisers and assistants to discuss the question, but NOBODY knew the answer. So he decided to take it to the floor of the senate. After a heated debate the senate President thought it wise to clear out the gallery and go into a closed session as he believed the revelations that may result could be damaging to the family and reputation of the distinguished senator Mantu.

After about two hours of deliberations, the house decided to set up an ad hoc committee to look into the matter and report back to it in ten days. The committee was given the following terms of reference:

1. To come up with a complete family tree of the entire Mantu clan

2. To pay a courtesy call to the traditional ruler of Mantu's village and the State Governor

3. To interview all living relatives of Senator Mantu

4. To determine if Sen. Mantu's dad had any extramarital affairs

5. To determine the DNA composition of Sen. Mantu (in Germany of course or Saudi)

On completion of its assignment, the committee was to submit its report to the senate which will then pass it on to the Senate committee on special duties. This committee will then review the report of the ad hoc committee and come up with a draft "white paper" (whatever that means). This draft "white paper" will then be brought back to the senate and on approval will be passed on to the President through Senator Mantu.

The Ad-hoc committee then submitted its budget which of course was kept SECRET but included funds for;

a) The immediate purchase of Land Cruiser jeeps for each of the 12 members of the committee. The jeeps will be used to travel to Mantu's village because as you know, Nigerian roads are bad and Mantu's village is remote.

b) Air tickets (first class of course) and hotel accommodation in Jos for committee members and their numerous aides. They'll stay at the Hill-station hotel and drive to Mantu's village in the morning.

c) Air tickets (again first class) to Germany and back, and hotel accommodation (five star) for everybody.

d) Estacodes and hazard allowances

e) Logistics

f) Miscellaneous

Even though the budget was kept secret, you can easily come up with the figure by taking the actual estimate of the above list and multiply by ten. You'll only run into problems when u get to the final two items (logistics & miscellaneous) , as these are usually added to cover for all the people that need to be "settled" in order to ensure that everything goes smoothly. Therefore the figures have the tendency of varying widely and so it can't really be predicted.

Anyway, the money was released and the committee started its assignment in earnest. They finished within the time frame that was stipulated in their terms of reference and they prepared a voluminous report which was to be presented at the senate at plenary. But on the d-day when the chairman of the committee was about to make the presentation, a distinguished senator from the Southern part of the country raised a "point of order". He argued that the committee was illegal because its composition was lopsided in favor of a certain region in the country. He pointed out that of the 12 members; seven were from the North and only five from the South. Not to be outdone, another Senator this time from the North raised a "point of order" on the "point of order" that was raised by the Senator from the South. He argued that since the committee's assignment was primarily to investigate the lineage of Senator Mantu (who is from the North), they needed

senators who knew the terrain, who understood the culture of the people and their language.

More points of order followed and after a while the Senate President decided to put a stop to it by subjecting it to a voice vote.

And thus he announced, "All those in favor of the committee being considered legal and thus go ahead to present its report say "AYE"". And the house responded accordingly.

And then he asked again, "All those not in favor of the committee being considered legal and thus should not go ahead to present its report say "NAY"". And the house responded accordingly.

Unfortunately for Mantu, the "NAYs had it" and thus the report was never presented. Now Mantu has a really big problem, because the president is waiting for an answer and he has run out of time. So in one last effort, he decided to phone his very good friend Jerry Rawlings who had always sounded intelligent to Mantu and thus may have the answer to this really difficult question.

"Jerry, your mother and father have a child. The child is not your brother and is not your sister, who is he?."

Jerry answers immediately. "Hey, Mantu, It's me of course, you dumb Nigerian!"

Mantu couldn't believe his luck and so he rushed to Aso Rock villa, his motorcade of five cars moving at top speed with sirens blaring. Ordinary Nigerians going about their normal businesses scampered out of the way. When they finally arrived their destination, Mantu literarily ran all the way to the President's office.

"Mr. President, Mr. President", he called out, breathing heavily. "I know who he is"

Obasanjo: "Good, so tell me"

Mantu: " it's Jerry Rawlings Sir! In fact when he revealed the SECRET to me, I started to see the resemblance between us"

Obasanjo: "Jerry Rawlings ko, Jerry Gana ni. You are such a stupid senator. Olodo rakpata! I'll make sure you don't return to office after this term. Stupid man, the correct answer is TONY BLAIR!"

And that's how Mantu never returned to the Senate even though he supported the President's third term agenda.

NB: This piece is satirical. The characters in it are fictional. Any similarities with real characters, events or places are mere coincidences.

After reading the first 5 words and stopped onseeing Obansanjo, I knew it had to be loads of crap. Scrolled down immediately (realised it was too long and indeed a load of crap).

Seriously OP, you should be burned!!!

And for the record I am laffing at you in anger

This jokes is meant for senior citizens and the educated elites. Sorry if it annoyed you

Having said this, you show how much of a slowpoke you are in real life. (Pun intended )

At this time of the year, you call thing ESSAY writing a joke which people have long read and deleted permanently from their memory. Guess your own definition of Elite in your [i]i[/i]mbecilic world is a retard like you but in a lower retardic state of mind (cos yours has reached its peak) {Mind you, I like when I play with words so don't try to correct me else you're doomed)

Once again, I laff at you in vexation

Nice one OP, Nice one. Did you come up with this?

tollu:

Nice one OP, Nice one. Did you come up with this?

Thanks dear, yeah

sledge406:

Having said this, you show how much of a slowpoke you are in real life. (Pun intended )

At this time of the year, you call thing ESSAY writing a joke which people have long read and deleted permanently from their memory. Guess your own definition of Elite in your [i]i[/i]mbecilic world is a retard like you but in a lower retardic state of mind (cos yours has reached its peak) {Mind you, I like when I play with words so don't try to correct me else you're doomed)


Once again, I laff at you in vexation

After going through your post I now know your age and your academic status. I am sorry to say this but I don't parley with people of your class I just can't condescend to that level

Sorry OP,i don't have the patient to go through your essay. You can do better

Obinoscopy:

Thanks dear, yeah

Bloody Liar!!!
Make lightning torch ur bald head for this lie. You dis dullard come up with such long essay Not in a million years and a 1000 [i]i[/i]mbecillic u join togeda as 1 (DAMAGE )

Obinoscopy:

After going through your post I now know your age and your academic status. I am sorry to say this but I don't parley with people of your class I just can't condescend to that level

You went thru my post cos you wanted to have a shot at me but guess I'm not the type you can ride on and if you wan determine my age and my academic status, you go jam PHCN pole fall inside gutter and in terms of parley, I don't parley with liars who claim what they aint too.

Come as a different person and I just might notice you and give you a chance to be clean.

<yawns>

@Poster, Sledge is right - your joke's way to long

I too simply scrolled and scrolled and scrolled, looking for the end in vain - besides na repost joke sef

nor vex

@poster.Nice joke, but it 2 long.How long did it take 2 finish writing just one joke.

i kinda agree with Sledge in everyway, Obino is just a retard bean trying to modify a very old joke. i wonder why some nairalanders would even be so heartless so as to even stiffle a laugh!!!! Jeez!!! why not tell him the truth!!! he needs to find something else to do rather than wasting his time doing what he is doing right now which can't really be said to be anyhing because doing nothing is really better than doing whatever he is doing right now!!!!!

*[size=8pt]exhales[/size]* so there

please those complaining about the jokes abeg make una post una own na


thumbs up to poster though i didnt read ur rubbish joke

Lolajoy:

@poster.Nice joke, but it 2 long.How long did it take 2 finish writing just one joke.

Ctrl C + Ctrl V

parki:

please those complaining about the jokes abeg make una post una own na


thumbs up to poster though i didnt read your rubbish joke

on whose side are u?

mschewwwwwwww

Naija guys & girls! U're all d same!

. . .just like you fafa and moma are brother and sister (what and incest!!!)

Where is the joke?

Inside evil forest, you wan go look for am

lol

mumu jam mumu

Pele o lastma official

Kunbee:

Inside evil forest, you wan go look for am

Kunbee!!!  

but er. . .u know say na inside evil forest stud get im house

remember say e never too tey wen im pose, snap pishur for bush  

Hmmmmmmmm lemme think about it

nothing to think about

all u need to do is just to know the facts. . .

*glides in2 thread*
*stifles a yawn*
RUNS OUT SCRIMING, nt again

^^ wetin dey do dis one sef??

u min mi?
i don hear this joke b4 altho this one get plenty english pass am, well the brroda dat told d joke was really dry jare!

you're right sha

and it is a boring joke too

lol!we mite as well say it as we FEEL it n damn the response by OP huh?

well

for starters, I definitely refuse to laugh myself off to this. . .this thing of a joke

Efemena_xy:

Kunbee!!!  

but er. . .u know say na inside evil forest stud get im house

remember say e never too tey wen im pose, snap pishur for bush  

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