THE cycle of political and electoral violence is not likely to end in Nigeria, a major oil-exporting country to the United States of America (USA), even with the expected electoral reform. With the next round of general elections barely 20 months ahead, a renowned seer, Bassey Effiong Orok, has started to warn that all is not well with the country as far as 2011 is concern.

Orok, who also has the gift of prophetic diagnosis, healing and utterances, told senior editors of Journalists for Niger Delta (JODEL), a media group concerned with the affairs of the oil and gas region, at the weekend in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, that President Umaru Yar'Adua, was no longer capable of rescuing Nigeria from the brink of collapse.

According to the seer, ''the Yar'Adua administration is like an expired drug. It is incapable of doing Nigeria any good from May 29, 2011. It has executed its assignment of pushing Chief Olusegun Obasanjo out of the tenancy of Aso Rock (Nigeria's Presidential Villa). It is high time Yar'Adua began to evacuate his personal effects from the villa.''

Continuing, he said, ''God has already started a process of moving Nigeria out of the present ills facing the country. There is going to be a political tsunami in 2011.
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President Yar' Adua's assignment was to evacuate Obasanjo out of Aso Rock to his Otta farm and nothing else. Now that Yar'Adua has finish his assignment , he has no other business there other than to give way''.

''Nigeria'', he went on, ''is yet to kick start her real demogracy. What has been taking place in the country since May 29, 1999, has been pseudo democracy that has resulted in wasted investment. That is the reason why there will be a U - turn in the current political order, and all politicians who have sto;en this country's till should get ready to vomit them in severe pain and shame''.

Adding, he said, ''all those who were part of the plundering regime from 1999 should get ready to render account of their stewardship. The whistle will soon be blown and all those who have cases to answer would be sent parking because Yar'Adua's administration is an expired drug''.

The seer also had some words for Prof. Maurice Iwu, the chairman of the country's electoral body, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). According to him, ''the days of Iwu and his team at INEC are numbered. They have failed the country's democratic effort''.

In the meantime, Political ,Co-ordinator of the media group, Okon Bassey, had before the interview session with the seer claimed that JODEL was determined to be an active player in processes aimed at bringing about credible democratic order in the oil region.

''As an organisation, we believe that dialogue still remains the best way of resolving conflict like the one that has played out as insurgency in the Niger Delta'', he said.