Let us stop fooling ourselves in this country and until we do so, our Nigerian Dream will remain elusive.

President Goodluck Jonathan cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds if he honestly wants to transform Nigeria. Therefore, until he makes honesty is his best policy he will fail woefully.


Nigeria Does Not Need Any Sovereign National Conference

I have been following the hue and cry of the growing consensus of many interest groups calling for a Sovereign National Conference to address the lingering north-south dichotomy caused by the recurrent ethno-religious crises plaguing Nigeria. But honestly what we need most for conflict resolution and true federalism is simply an incorruptible democracy. Cultural and religious differences are not the worst problems of Nigeria, but rampant corruption and maladministration and the reign of hypocrisy.

Now let me show you the cast of the motley crowd of those calling for Sovereign National Conference in Nigeria.

Many of the opinion leaders of these interest groups and their clowns calling for the so called Sovereign National Conference are strange bed fellows and partners in crime of the same corrupt and wicked public officials with their accomplices and beneficiaries in the private sector who have been cheating and exploiting the poor masses for decades by the misappropriations of public funds and underpaying their poor workers and other employees such as their poorly paid or even enslaved messengers, drivers, housemaids, stewards, security guards and other victims of their corruption and hypocrisy.
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The same Smart Alec who says “okey-dokey” to the corrupt political contractor and has acquired properties through sharp practices is now pointing his crooked finger to accuse President Goodluck Jonathan and his cabinet of corruption. But he has not eve paid the salaries of some workers and yet goes on a luxury vacation in Dubai or Miami!
The other one cheats his poor workers to save enough money to purchase a posh car. Another one owes a poor worker hundreds of thousands of naira, but he is living large to impress his equally corrupt peers in the society and grinning and laughing like a jackass on TV interviews.

Even criminals operating illegal oil bunkers are calling for Sovereign National Conference when they should be arraigned and jailed for stealing millions of barrels of our crude oil every day and escaping with impunity to enjoy their stolen wealth.
What a black comedy as even the lionized Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka sits with them! So who is fooling whom? Please, excuse me!

You can read the rest of this article on http://www.nigeriansreport.com/2012/04/nigeria-does-not-need-any-sovereign.html

Whoever wrote that crap is not a friend of Nigeria. What is wrong in calling for a meeting where we can discuss the future of Nigeria and what it holds for it's stakeholders. Though i agree that some of those who are calling for the conveyning of a national conference are opportunist and are supporting the call because thy no longer have a stake in the process of looting and thievery. But that doesn't make the call a bad one. I expect Jonathan to join the call of an SNC when he's sidelined out of power.