BREAKING NEWS!!! SEN. McCain Writes Ekiti People. http://richwaju.com/blog/2013/09/21/mccain-writes-to-ekiti-people/
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DISCLAIMER: The author wishes to announce that the following treatise is entirely a work of fiction. Any allusions to similarities with real people and places are purely coincidental.

When RichWaju.com editor, Dmitry Constantonov, offered to publish my commentary, he referred to me as "an active anti-Fayemi politician for many years." I'm sure that isn't the first time Ekiti people have heard me characterized as their antagonist.

Since my purpose here is to dispel falsehoods used by Ekiti's rulers to perpetuate their power and excuse their corruption, let me begin with that untruth. I am not anti-Ekiti. I am pro-Ekiti, more pro-Ekiti than the regime that misrules you today.

I make that claim because I respect your dignity and your right to self-determination. I believe you should live according to the dictates of your conscience, not your government. I believe you deserve the opportunity to improve your lives in an economy that is built to last and benefits the many, not just the powerful few. You should be governed by a rule of law that is clear, consistently and impartially enforced and just. I make that claim because I believe the Ekiti people, no less than Americans, are endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

An Ekiti citizen could not publish a testament like the one I just offered. Governor Fayemi and his associates do not believe in these values. They don't respect your dignity or accept your authority over them. They punish dissent and murder opponents. They rig your elections. They control your media. They harass, threaten, and banish organizations that defend your right to self-governance. To perpetuate their power they foster rampant corruption in your courts and your economy and terrorize and even assassinate decampers who try to expose their corruption.

They write laws to codify bigotry against people whose political orientation they condemn. They throw the members of a non-party coalition in jail for the crime of being proactive and coordinated and for having the audacity to have hope.


Ayo Jeje wasn't a human rights activist. He was an ordinary human being with an inalienable right to choose his political affiliation. He was an ordinary Ekiti man who did an extraordinary thing. He exposed the weakness, cracks and insecurity in the ruling party. He cared about the rule of law and believed no one should be above it. For his beliefs and his courage, he was beaten and shot dead by thugs loyal to Mr Fayemi. That wasn't only a crime against Ayo Jeje. It was a crime against the Ekiti people and your right to an honest government - a government worthy of Ayo Jeje and of you.

Governor Fayemi claims his purpose is to restore Ekiti to greatness at home and among the nations of the world. But by what measure has he restored your greatness? He has given you an economy that is based almost entirely on the civil service that will never have the freedom to dissent to his draconian policies. It is an economy that can never give liberty. And, if it does, it will be mostly to the benefit of the corrupt and powerful few.

Capital is fleeing Ekiti, which - lacking rule of law and a broad-based economy - is considered too risky for investment and entrepreneurism. He has given you a political system that is sustained by corruption and repression and isn't strong -or mature- enough to tolerate dissent.

How has he strengthened Ekiti's national stature? By allying Ekiti with some of the nation's most offensive and threatening tyrannies. By supporting an Amaechi regime that is battering it's own people to remain in power and by blocking the Governor's Forum from even condemning its atrocities.

By refusing to admit culpability for the murder of dissenters, the harassment of opposition groups, and the growing debt profile of the second poorest state. He is not enhancing Ekiti's local reputation. He is destroying it. He has made her a friend to tyrants and an enemy to the oppressed, and untrusted by states that seek to build a safer, more peaceful and prosperous world.

Governor Fayemi doesn't believe in these values because he doesn't believe in you. He doesn't believe that human nature at liberty can rise above its poverty and build just, peaceful, prosperous societies. Or, at least, he doesn't believe Ekiti can. So he rules by exploiting that poverty, by corruption, repression and violence. He rules for himself, not you.

I do believe in you. I believe in your capacity for self-government and your desire for justice and opportunity. I believe in the greatness of the Russian people, who suffered enormously and fought bravely against terrible adversity to save your nation. I believe in your right to make a civilization worthy of your dreams and sacrifices. When I criticize your government, it is not because I am anti-Russian. It is because I believe you deserve a government that believes in you and answers to you. And, I long for the day when you have it.

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/19-09-2013/125705-McCain_for_pravda_ru-0/