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| Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by Beaf: 4:21am On Nov 29, 2009 |
[size=14pt]I pray we solve Nigeria’s problems without bloodshed — Senator Jibril Aminu[/size] Interview Nov 29, 2009 By Jide Ajani, Deputy Editor *Insists deregulation is the only way forward *Says Nigeria has invested heavily in education *‘Some people are still living with prejudices of the First Republic’ In this concluding part of the interview with Senator Jubril Aminu, some of his comments came across as scary. Sampler: Look at what happened in Lagos between the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, and the Hausas and not until they invited the Nigerian Army did the crisis go down. Or the crisis in Jos, Plateau State, and even the Police had to give up until they called the Nigerian Army. So it is the protection of the federal government that people are always looking for and that is why I insist and believe that Nigerians (and mind you not politicians) want a unitary government. The people are more comfortable with the federal government and I have been saying this long before all these crises started. People don’t trust their neighbours; people don’t like their neighbours. They would like a big brother to watch over them and protect them. SO we should lose the identity of a true federation to be protected? Yes, you’re right. But you have to take all these things together because if you give people what they call fiscal federalism, you must be prepared for what will follow. Again, people who talk like that don’t get it. Take, for instance, somebody from Osun State or Adamawa State: In what way will that fiscal federalism benefit them; it’s a thing caused by the long standing problems that we’ve confronted and because people are still living basically in the psychology of the First Republic, they think it is the north that is benefitting from what we have now and that other states are not benefitting, it is not true. Go to Ebonyi State and talk fiscal federalism to them, or Ekiti State, or even Oyo State, in what way would it benefit them? We have to be honest and realistic and talk about it ourselves. People talk about fiscal federalism and they want to claim oil fields which are off shore? How can a state which was not in existence but which was created by the federal government be talking about fiscal federalism? Then they quickly rush to the United States of America and bring examples; that is intellectual dishonesty. Every state in America came voluntarily or was one of the 13 states. The others were either bought over or conquered and that is why you have a big state like California which, if it had been a nation state would have been the 13th largest economy in the world, together with Connecticut, where you can run from one end of the state to the other, but because each state came on its own separate terms. There are a number of states in Nigeria today that before their creation by the federal government never existed. Prof. Jubril Aminu For instance, Jigawa. Had anybody ever heard the name Jigawa before it was created? Ebonyi, was that name in existence before the creation of what is today known as Ebonyi State? Akwa Ibom, did anybody ever hear the name Akwa Ibom before the creation of the state? There are a number of these states created by the federal government, in fact every state in this country was created by the federal government. The only region that was created even by civilians was the Mid-West Region in 1963, every other state was created by the federal government of Nigeria under military regimes. And, mind you, the military is a unitary type of government and people are happy about those creations. If tomorrow, you open the door for the creation of 20 more states in Nigeria, you will get them immediately because there are demands already. So, what this means is that people feel happier when they have their own units because they still feel uncomfortable with what is on ground. So, we should just keep breaking them up? That is what people are talking about. We keep breaking them up until even they themselves would no longer believe that they have a state. If you have a state that you can run across in less than three hours then the people are deceiving themselves when they claim that they have their own state. Now, there are some of these states today talking about true federalism, they are no regions. When the regions were in place, people can talk like that, but not today. You talked about the mentality of the First Republic but you would agree that things have gone progressively worse since the First Republic and some people are saying and asking why can’t we go back to what we had before because the level of personal comfort was there, the economy was better, life expectancy was good? Well, there are a number of reasons for what you’ve mentioned and it has absolutely nothing to do with the way the country is structured. Number one is the population of Nigeria. If you notice, our biggest problem in Nigeria is that we keep running away from the most important problems and we keep talking about other things and I can tell you that the most important problem in the country today is the population. It is not even so much a matter of population explosion but the way things are going. 50 per cent of the population of this country is under 20 years. So if we take the figure that we are 140 million people, what it means is that 70 million people are under the age of 70. What that means is that half of our population is not earning anything. And then apart from that they are not working. The other day during the Babangida era we were discussing and we found out that in a family of 10, only one person is working and that means all the others are dependants. Why can’t we be poor and why won’t we be poor? Who are we? Where is the wealth? Are we Saudi Arabia? And even Saudi Arabia people work. Americans work; Japanese work. Everybody works. But you say it as if it is that easy, where are the jobs? Absolutely, people are waiting for jobs to come. In those days you referred to, where were the jobs? In those days we had only one university. When you finished and you got out of Ibadan (University) you already had offers of a job. Why? It wasn’t particularly because education was at its highest or because there was more money. No; but because there were no universities churning out graduates. You kindly waited for me to see those medical students before this interview. Do you know that there are now 60,000 medical students in Nigeria? 60,000! They told me just now and they are members. 60,000! I asked them if they were sure and they showed me the list and when they mentioned the names of some medical schools I didn’t know or dreamt that there were this many medical schools. In our own time it was just Ibadan, one medical school. The school took about, how many of us? 50! Is that the same thing as today? We avoid the most serious problems of people not working, of people increasing in numbers and of people with the views of the First Republic: North, South, East and West and all the prejudices of our leaders of the First Republic; the ones they had to live with and we’re living with them today and we expect to do well. We will not do well. So, what should we be doing now to solve some of these problems because I’m a bit more frightened based on the way you’ve analysed it. What should be the way forward? Okay look, I’m always praying that we solve our problems without any bloodshed. Amen? It’s being unrealistic. It’s being unrealistic but let it be minimal; because these things have got to be corrected and we expect as the job of leaders and intellectual elites and thinkers in the place to work out ways of solving this problems. People behave and talk like you can get up tomorrow and break up Nigeria. They’re crazy! You can’t! Of course you can no longer break up Nigeria easily, peacefully or completely because you are not sure of what you are going to end up with. It’s no longer so. How do you start? They talk like tomorrow I can stand up and say ‘okay you Kwara people, move down south and join the west.’ You can see that the Yoruba area is the most homogeneous, they have no minorities, but even there it would not be easy how much more when you go to the East or you go to the North. In Ogun State, ordinary power shift being advocated by the governor has become a problem. People have got to begin to think along the lines of the fact that if we are to solve the problems of Nigeria, we should solve it along the lines of one country, in the context of the advances we have made, in the context of tolerance. Like Reverend Father Hassan Kukah said, ‘Nigeria is like a Catholic marriage; it might not be perfect but it would not break up’. And that is the case and when I sit down I look at it I feel very depressed that people can just sit down and talk about true federation, federalism, Okah Agenda, it’s nonsense. . . More here; http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/29/i-pray-we-solve-nigeria%E2%80%99s-problems-without-bloodshed-%E2%80%94-senator-jibril-aminu/
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| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by Beaf: 4:24am On Nov 29, 2009 |
The voice of the hegemony. . . This is the wisdom of the man under whose[b] many watches[/b] as minister of petroleum, our refineries packed up one after the other. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by naijaking1: 4:38am On Nov 29, 2009 |
History will hold the motherf--ker responsible for killing many traditional institutions in Nigeria---education, by creation of a stupid normadic system that took money away from basic schools, and other things. In many other countries, he would either be in jail or be the butt of jokes. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by Beaf: 4:44am On Nov 29, 2009 |
He is part of the dinosaur ruling class responsible for the criminal empoverishment of Nigeria and the almajiri explosion in the North. Up till today, under age girls are forced into marriage in his state, yet he was once minister of education. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by naijaking1: 4:57am On Nov 29, 2009 |
^^^ I say, the man is without shame. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by Beaf: 7:10am On Nov 29, 2009 |
When you square the fact that senators are paid in excess of 50 million per month with the bullshit the man is uttering, you can easily see why he wants the status quo to continue. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by AjanleKoko: 9:27pm On Nov 29, 2009 |
Utter nonsense, from an elitist who wants to eke out his days earning free money in the senate. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by ekubear1: 4:37am On Jan 04, 2011 |
Dude is a jackass. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by shevchenko(m): 5:12am On Jan 04, 2011 |
Foolish man,from a ministerial position to another,like his opinion matters anyway! |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by Kilode1: 5:54am On Jan 04, 2011 |
I tell ya, this guy gives !diocy a new name. I can't believe he's yet to choke on the stupid drivel that comes out of his mouth! |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by Dede1(m): 7:06am On Jan 04, 2011 |
The man has a point. There is no way to judge the future but the past. I guess he is the father-in-law of Nuhu Ribadu who loaned him (Ribadu) 45 million naira to purchase a house in Abuja. The man’s allusion that disintegration of Nigeria can not be peaceful is spot on. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by fstrangest: 7:42am On Jan 04, 2011 |
How can a state which was not in existence but which was created by the federal government be talking about fiscal federalism? Then they quickly rush The guy has brought up a very important point here! Using the case of Ondo Vs. Ekiti as an example Ondo is an oil producing state; why should Ondo keep a large share of the money accruing to them from the sale of oil , money that otherwise belong to both states ? How is that fair to Ekiti? If you discount the Federal allocation coming to Ekiti State, there is nothing else from other sources. This takes me to the central theme of this article that Ondo State may well be the richest State in Nigeria today or in the foreseeable future and why? Ondo State is now among the nine oil producing States in Nigeria that share out of the 13% allocation of the gross Federal Revenues usually reserved for such states on pro rata basis, depending on how many oil wells are drilled in their territorial waters, and the sheer volume or size of their oil and liquefied gas deposit and the quality The crude oil coming out of Nigeria is generally regarded among the best in the world. Ondo State used to be considered number 4. It then moved to number 2 on the rating scale and is most likely moving to number 1 today, because no less than 255 oil wells which used to be classified under Delta State are all now expected to be ceded to Ondo State, following a new Territorial Adjudication Panel recommendations approved by the Federal Government. That was point number one. Point number two is the discovery of Bitumen in large commercial quantities in Ondo State, not to talk of the limitless opportunities Ondo State now has to expand her Oluwa Glass Manufacturing Factory at Igbokoda area and all the revenues that those and allied industries could generate in the immediate future, if the Ondo State Government now in the PDP column, can get its priorities right. Gone are those days when the Federal Government used to look the other way, when issues concerning the interest and welfare of Ondo State come up for discussion. With a responsible Government, Ondo State stands the chance of becoming the most economic buoyant state in the Nigerian Federation. Ondo State has got everything. The manpower base is huge and well informed The soil is good for Agriculture, and Ondo State may well become the Food Basket of Nigeria if the arrangement to bring in the Government of Israel to help, can be pursued to its logical conclusion. Ondo State is a huge Cocoa producing State in Nigeria. Much of the cocoa produced in Nigeria, come from Ala Ajagbusi, and Igbatoro Familugba all belonging to Akure, the State Capital. Much of the Timber Nigeria depends on today, also comes from the same area, and more importantly from the Ofosu Forest Reserve all owned by the State Capital And in a federalist system, Ondo would be keeping more of the money to themselves, keeping poorer states like Ekiti in the lurch. And the money Ondo would be keeping to herself, directly or indirectly belongs to both Ekiti and Ondo. So how is true federalism fair to Ekiti and why Ekiti support such a proposition? |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by ekubear1: 7:45am On Jan 04, 2011 |
@fstranger: Doesn't belong to us. We agitated for separation from Ondo, so now must stand on our feet alone regardless. Cannot have your cake and eat it. We will have to find something else to generate revenue. 1 Like |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by fstranger1: 7:55am On Jan 04, 2011 |
Go to Ebonyi State and talk fiscal federalism to them, or Ekiti State, or even Oyo State, in what way would it benefit them? The guy has brought up a very important point here! Using the case of Ondo Vs. Ekiti as an example Ondo is an oil producing state; why should Ondo keep a large share of the money accruing to them from the sale of oil , money that otherwise belong to both states ? How is that fair to Ekiti? If you discount the Federal allocation coming to Ekiti State, there is nothing else from other sources. Ondo State is now among the nine oil producing States in Nigeria that share out of the 13% allocation of the gross Federal Revenues usually reserved for such states on pro rata basis, depending on how many oil wells are drilled in their territorial waters, and the sheer volume or size of their oil and liquefied gas deposit and the quality The crude oil coming out of Nigeria is generally regarded among the best in the world. Ondo State used to be considered number 4. It then moved to number 2 on the rating scale and is most likely moving to number 1 today, because no less than 255 oil wells which used to be classified under Delta State are all now expected to be ceded to Ondo State, following a new Territorial Adjudication Panel recommendations approved by the Federal Government. That was point number one. Point number two is the discovery of Bitumen in large commercial quantities in Ondo State, not to talk of the limitless opportunities Ondo State now has to expand her Oluwa Glass Manufacturing Factory at Igbokoda area and all the revenues that those and allied industries could generate in the immediate future, if the Ondo State Government now in the PDP column, can get its priorities right. Gone are those days when the Federal Government used to look the other way, when issues concerning the interest and welfare of Ondo State come up for discussion. With a responsible Government, Ondo State stands the chance of becoming the most economic buoyant state in the Nigerian Federation. Ondo State has got everything. The manpower base is huge and well informed The soil is good for Agriculture, and Ondo State may well become the Food Basket of Nigeria if the arrangement to bring in the Government of Israel to help, can be pursued to its logical conclusion. Ondo State is a huge Cocoa producing State in Nigeria. Much of the cocoa produced in Nigeria, come from Ala Ajagbusi, and Igbatoro Familugba all belonging to Akure, the State Capital. Much of the Timber Nigeria depends on today, also comes from the same area, and more importantly from the Ofosu Forest Reserve all owned by the State Capital And in a federalist system, Ondo would be keeping more of the money to themselves, keeping poorer states like Ekiti in the lurch. And the money Ondo would be keeping to herself, directly or indirectly belongs to both Ekiti and Ondo. So how is true federalism fair to Ekiti and why Ekiti support such a proposition? |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by fstranger5: 8:32am On Jan 04, 2011 |
he guy has brought up a very important point here! Using the case of Ondo Vs. Ekiti as an example Ondo is an oil producing state; why should Ondo keep a large share of the money accruing to them from the sale of oil , money that otherwise belong to both states ? How is that fair to Ekiti? If you discount the Federal allocation coming to Ekiti State, there is nothing else from other sources. Ondo State is now among the nine oil producing States in Nigeria that share out of the 13% allocation of the gross Federal Revenues usually reserved for such states on pro rata basis, depending on how many oil wells are drilled in their territorial waters, and the sheer volume or size of their oil and liquefied gas deposit and the quality The crude oil coming out of Nigeria is generally regarded among the best in the world. Ondo State used to be considered number 4. It then moved to number 2 on the rating scale and is most likely moving to number 1 today, because no less than 255 oil wells which used to be classified under Delta State are all now expected to be ceded to Ondo State, following a new Territorial Adjudication Panel recommendations approved by the Federal Government. That was point number one. Point number two is the discovery of Bitumen in large commercial quantities in Ondo State, not to talk of the limitless opportunities Ondo State now has to expand her Oluwa Glass Manufacturing Factory at Igbokoda area and all the revenues that those and allied industries could generate in the immediate future, if the Ondo State Government now in the PDP column, can get its priorities right. Gone are those days when the Federal Government used to look the other way, when issues concerning the interest and welfare of Ondo State come up for discussion. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by fstrangest: 9:19am On Jan 04, 2011 |
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| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by fstranger1: 9:20am On Jan 04, 2011 |
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| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by Eziachi: 9:29am On Jan 04, 2011 |
Elite like Jubril Aminu understands that fear is very powerful weapon, especially when it comes to holding people down. If every man or woman is thinking about the possibilities of a divorce, I am sure that no one will ever get married. They know how to tell us what the problems are, but did you see where he offered any sort of solution? All he was saying is just keep the statu quo. He seems to have problem that there are 60K medical students in a country they claimed to have 140 million people. Which when you carefully analyses it, that is not enough doctors to go round and tomorrow when he is sick, he will be the first to run abroad irrespective. It was his elitist northern brothers with guns that started turning local councils in the north into states as an instrument of siphoning oil money that never belongs to them and now he woke up to know that no one knew about these PLACES before hand. He knew it, they knew and we all knew it that the continued existence of Nigeria as an entity ruled from one source in the 21st century from a third world's environment perspective is not sustainable and very much unworkable. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by Abagworo(m): 10:09am On Jan 04, 2011 |
Only true federalism will help Nigeria develop.GEJ should try and implement it before he leaves office in may or we may never get it. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by Nobody: 12:34pm On Jan 04, 2011 |
Only a naive person will expect something different from what the man spew out. He is deeply an establishment man. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by jamace(m): 12:51pm On Jan 04, 2011 |
See how he is reeling out theory and makes one want to think if he is given the chance to rule, he will turn things around in a jiffy. But he failed us many times before. Therein lies our problems. Everybody is a champion talker and a lame doer. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by nduchucks: 12:53pm On Jan 04, 2011 |
Dede1: I wholeheartedly agree with the bolded part above. The barbarian nature of Nigerians may not be conducive to the kind of federalism which its proponents are screaming. Additionally, most of their leaders are thieves as you can see from the actions of governors, reps, senators, presidents, vice presidents and LG officials. There is a lot of truth to Aminu's pronouncements, Nigeria is not UK, US, Germany, or even a developed nation. We need to come up with a system of government that takes into consideration some of the very real issues raised by Aminu. Effeminate emotionalism will not resolve any problem. You people need iron hands that will force you to sit up. Left with your own devices, you will kill each other off, neighborhood by neighborhood, clan by clan. The truth is bitter. GOOD MORNING. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by Kilode1: 3:21pm On Jan 04, 2011 |
^^ I thought we had Iron hands in Buhari, IBB, Abacha? What?!!! We've had iron hands since 1966, I'm disgusted by Jubril Aminu's comments. Saddened by those of NL's who find some sense in his brain dead idea. Oppression don injure my people sha! |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by Kilode1: 4:32pm On Jan 04, 2011 |
Eziachi: Exactly! |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by seanet02: 6:16pm On Jan 04, 2011 |
@dede, what else do you know apart from posting garbage and junks like your s.t.u.p.i.d. Jubrik Aminu, your are simply a good fool for afternoon celebration, have not been able to know why you cant just use your brain even if its not as efficient as that of a RAT |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by seanet02: 6:17pm On Jan 04, 2011 |
@dede, what else do you know apart from posting garbage and junks like your s.t.u.p.i.d. Jubrik Aminu, your are simply a good fool for afternoon celebration, have not been able to know why you cant just use your brain even if its not as efficient as that of a RAT |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by seanet02: 6:18pm On Jan 04, 2011 |
@dede, what else do you know apart from posting garbage and junks like your s.t.u.p.i.d. Jubrik Aminu, your are simply a good fool for afternoon celebration, have not been able to know why you cant just use your brain even if its not as efficient as that of a RAT |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by seanet02: 6:19pm On Jan 04, 2011 |
@dede, what else do you know apart from posting garbage and junks like your s.t.u.p.i.d. Jubrik Aminu, your are simply a good fool for afternoon celebration, have not been able to know why you cant just use your brain even if its not as efficient as that of a RAT |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by seanet02: 6:19pm On Jan 04, 2011 |
@dede, what else do you know apart from posting garbage and junks like your s.t.u.p.i.d. Jubrik Aminu, your are simply a good fool for afternoon celebration, have not been able to know why you cant just use your brain even if its not as efficient as that of a RAT |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by Nobody: 10:44pm On Jan 04, 2011 |
@Seanet02 Dede is a bitter man!, the bitternes against the Nigerian state and the Ijaws in particular is fathomless. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by Dede1(m): 10:45pm On Jan 04, 2011 |
seanet02: It is a well understood fact your idiocy remains unfortunately inherent. I guess stupidity can not be fixed. You are a living example of this unfortunate fact. By the way, the academic record Jubril Aminu dropped on the academia from baba Awolowo’s domain is growing taproot yet you have audacious pedigree to open your putrid mouth. |
| Re: Senator Jibril Aminu - True Federation, Federalism, Okah Agenda, It’s Nonsense by Nobody: 10:50pm On Jan 04, 2011 |
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