fxtopedia:

GOD FORBID I VOTE FOR DUMMNY(GEJ)
HE DOES NOT KNOW HIS LEFT FROM RIGHT.
WHY IS HE RUNNING AWAY FOR DEBATE? YEYE MAN.

''I NEVER PLAN TO BE WHERE I AM TODAY'' LMAO IS THAT HIS PLAN FOR NIGERIA.
HE IS THERE WITHOUT PLAN AND PURPOSE.

WE WOULD VOTE HIM OUT COME MAY, THANK GOD NO ROOM FOR RIGGING,

PS:I AM SORRY FOR USING CAP

Every body has a reason for voting anybody he wants to vote for. I wanted to vote for Buhari but the way I am seeing the whole Northern people supporting Buhari, I think the whole thing has turned into a tribal stuff. I shifted my interest to Ribadu. But since I heard of IBB supporting Ribadu, I will vote for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Azikiwe. Though Jonathan said Ibb is his father, but his father(Ibb) is not supporting him. I know it was just a political statement that Goodluck made just to see if IBB will stop all these bombs he and his fellow northern consensus colleagues have been throwing all over the country all these while.

chuqudy:


Every body has a reason for voting anybody he wants to vote for. I wanted to vote for Buhari but the way I am seeing the whole Northern people supporting Buhari, I think the whole thing has turned into a tribal stuff. I shifted my interest to Ribadu. But since I heard of IBB supporting Ribadu, I will vote for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Azikiwe. Though Jonathan said Ibb is his father, but his father(Ibb) is not supporting him. I know it was just a political statement that Goodluck made just to see if IBB will stop all these bombs he and his fellow northern consensus colleagues have been throwing all over the country all these while.

I am not from north my brother. I am a Lagosian from Badagry. I am am voting ACN for Governor. But for president, NO ONE CAN HOLD CANDLE TO BUHARI-BAKARE.

IBB is NOT God, there4, even if he endorsed any man, he is just wasting his time. IBB should be in PRISON by now if not for corruption in this country

Ribadu is an agent of PDP contesting on the platform of the ACN, little wonder the evil genius endorsed him.
but come to think of it, is Asiwaju aware of the visit of Ribadu to IBB, lets be sure o, so he wont come out to tell us later that he didnt give his godson the go ahead to visit IBB (like the clueless jona who claimed that he didnt ask his campaign manager to attack GMB)

new breed:

Ribadu is an agent of PDP contesting on the platform of the ACN, little wonder the evil genius endorsed him.
but come to think of it, is Asiwaju aware of the visit of Ribadu to IBB, lets be sure o, so he wont come out to tell us later that he didnt give his godson the go ahead to visit IBB (like the clueless jona who claimed that he didnt ask his campaign manager to attack GMB)

Good post my friend, {PEOPLE DECEIVING PEOPLE) (PAPA DECEIVING PIKIN) (PIKIN DECEIVING PAPA)

i would be voting for GEJ I beleive in a Nigeria devoid of political conspiracy. We said PDP is corrupt now vast majority of corrupt politicians have migrated into CPC and ACN signing political pact to enslave Nigerians. Am voting for my conscience am voting GEJ

Please include a poll for us to vote.

Jarus:

I honestly think it is not in the best interest of the progressives to wash dirty linens in public.
I can bring out Ribadu's fault in public, so can I do for Buhari, but I will not hit Ribadu in the public because of Buhari.
Whether we like it or not, we need them to dislodge PDP.

Brother, this would have been true if the alliance worked out. The alliance collapsed and right now in the game of politics , the killer instinct has to be active. Buhari cannot win this election without votes from the SW, the main stumbling block is Ribadu and the truth about Ribadu has to be highlighted. Tinubu used the killer inisinct by calling Buhari expired leaders while in Kano, Joe Igbokwe or was it Lai Mohammed said Buhari scuttled the alliance because of his rigidity.

Right now it has to be a startegy to win at first ballot, if that fails there is no harm in the "progressives" supporting each other again. Camron and Clegg attacked themselves but are working together togday because of a run off, Same goes to Hilary and Barak. When push comes to shove in the game of politics mr nice doesnt exist again as one is not pedalling falshood or dirty politicking.

All of you thinking of a run-off are under grave illusions!

You keep underating the powers of PDP Governors in the North who will be the greatest beneficiaries of a GEJ Presidency. Each one of them from Babangida Aliyu to Nyako who will be around till 2015 have their eyes on the Presidency. A Buhari victory will not guarantee that for them. So imagine how hard they will work against a Buhari Presidency! You guys will only get a run-off in your dreams!

Now as to the person of Buhari, I have always told whoever cared to listen that he is not genuine. BUHARI CONTRIBUTED IMMENSELY TO THE PROBLEM OF THE NIGER DELTA. HOW MANY PTDF PROJECTS CAN WE POINT IN THE NIGER DELTA? The neglect of the region could have been salvaged by Buhari when he was Head of PTDF, yet he sided with Abacha to kill their sons (Ken Saro Wiwa & Cos). The same way Buhari handled the entire South with disdain when he was PTDF Chair. Buhari has always been a sectional leader and at 69, I do not expect him to repent. Not even when he has always maintained that Abacha never stole money.

Now, lets go spiritual. In 2006, God showed Bakare that Buhari is part of the decaying Nigeria and not part of the new that God purposed for this country. Unfortunately, Bakare has allowed his hate for Obasanjo and anything associated with him (Recall that he celebrated Yar'Adua when he was reversing OBJ's policies) to blind his eyes to spiritual ordinances at this time. His dislike for GEJ is because OBJ has got his back. It is not because of any conviction that Buhari will fix Nigeria. Bakare feels strongly that OBJ should be in jail and he would trust Buhari to do that.

AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSEHOLD WHO ARE STUDENTS OF HISTORY, BUHARI/BAKARE IS A NO NO!!!!!

“[b]While corruption and indiscipline have been associated with our state of under-development, these two evils in our body politic have attained unprecedented height in the past few years”, “This government will not tolerate kick-backs, inflation of contracts and over-invoicing of imports etc. Nor will it condone forgery, fraud, embezzlement, misuse and abuse of office and illegal dealings in foreign exchange and smuggling”. (General Buhari’s Speech in 1984).

"If you perform well, you get a hand shake. If you perform badly, you get a handcuff"(Gen. Buhari to PTF contractors).

“Looters must vomit their loot. Whoever dare loot public fund under CPC government will be made to vomit the loot. Public fund is a trust and CPC government will do everything possible to protect the people’s trust”. (Buhari’s Campaign Speech, March 2011).

Till date, corruption remains our greatest obstacle to development and progress. The World Bank estimates that Nigeria has lost over $300 billion dollars thru corruption. Buhari remains the only Nigerian leader alive, who fought corruption effectively during his brief tenure as a head of state. He will do it again if elected.

Buhari has promised to facilitate the removal of immunity clauses from our constitution. With the removal of immunity clauses, The President, Vice Presidents, Governors, Deputy Governors etc can be prosecuted for civil or criminal offences. Buhari also promised to initiate action(s) towards constitutional amendments, with a view to ensure true federalism. For detailed manifesto/plan of action, Please visit website www.buhari4change.com. Vote Buhari/Bakare For Presidential Election, Vote CPC Party.



Buhari is a man of his words. See testimonies below.

“Muhammadu Buhari as a member of the Supreme Military Council and as the head of the petroleum dept was by nature taciturn and introvert. But he took any work given to him very seriously and if he failed at whatever he did, it would not be because he did not put his best, in fact, his very best. He was as reliable as he was hard working and honest” (Ex President Olusegun Obasanjo in his book, Not My Will, University Press Ltd, Ibadan, 1990, Pg 59).

“I respect Buhari. He was my Boss. He was an honourable man. And I can say this anywhere” (General Ibrahim Babagida, Ex Military Head of State).

“Murtala and Buhari are great leaders” (Nuhu Ribadu, Action Congress of Nigeria Presidential Candidate, Daily Trust 27th Feb. 2007).

“Buhari is a forthright and very clearly a disciplined man. He has managed to cut the image of a person who abhors corruption genuinely. If Buhari does not want to make a promise, he is the kind of person that will say so. Buhari is likely to pay attention to the problems of the country, unlike Obasanjo who floats in the air and most of the time plays to the gallery ” (Vanguard Editorial. 23rd January 2003).

“Buhari has three qualities namely INTERGRITY, which even his worst enemies
can't fault; he is CONSISTENT, he does not say one thing in the morning and
another at night, and he is COMMITTED to implementing the restructuring of the
country. Anyone with these qualities deserves the support of Nigerians”.
(Chief Olu Falae, This Day Newspaper, 23rd March 2007).

“Of all the candidates, Buhari is most frequently associated with integrity, leadership, accountability, honesty and transparency. Nigerians are more skeptical about these qualities in Atiku and Yar'adua” (Opinion Analysis. State Department, Washington March 19th 2007).

Vote Buhari/Bakare For Presidential Election, Vote CPC Party. To Get Involved[/b]

No matter how anybody analyse this issue,  BUHARI-BAKARE would win come MAY.

Ignorant is making some people to think BB can't win in SW,  People are well informed now
most especially with current technology. Like it or not BB ALL THE WAY

Lagosboy:

“[b]While corruption and indiscipline have been associated with our state of under-development, these two evils in our body politic have attained unprecedented height in the past few years”, “This government will not tolerate kick-backs, inflation of contracts and over-invoicing of imports etc. Nor will it condone forgery, fraud, embezzlement, misuse and abuse of office and illegal dealings in foreign exchange and smuggling”. (General Buhari’s Speech in 1984).

"If you perform well, you get a hand shake. If you perform badly, you get a handcuff"(Gen. Buhari to PTF contractors).

“Looters must vomit their loot. Whoever dare loot public fund under CPC government will be made to vomit the loot. Public fund is a trust and CPC government will do everything possible to protect the people’s trust”. (Buhari’s Campaign Speech, March 2011).

Till date, corruption remains our greatest obstacle to development and progress. The World Bank estimates that Nigeria has lost over $300 billion dollars thru corruption. Buhari remains the only Nigerian leader alive, who fought corruption effectively during his brief tenure as a head of state. He will do it again if elected.

Buhari has promised to facilitate the removal of immunity clauses from our constitution. With the removal of immunity clauses, The President, Vice Presidents, Governors, Deputy Governors etc can be prosecuted for civil or criminal offences. Buhari also promised to initiate action(s) towards constitutional amendments, with a view to ensure true federalism. For detailed manifesto/plan of action, Please visit website www.buhari4change.com. Vote Buhari/Bakare For Presidential Election, Vote CPC Party.



Buhari is a man of his words. See testimonies below.

“Muhammadu Buhari as a member of the Supreme Military Council and as the head of the petroleum dept was by nature taciturn and introvert. But he took any work given to him very seriously and if he failed at whatever he did, it would not be because he did not put his best, in fact, his very best. He was as reliable as he was hard working and honest” (Ex President Olusegun Obasanjo in his book, Not My Will, University Press Ltd, Ibadan, 1990, Pg 59).

“I respect Buhari. He was my Boss. He was an honourable man. And I can say this anywhere” (General Ibrahim Babagida, Ex Military Head of State).

“Murtala and Buhari are great leaders” (Nuhu Ribadu, Action Congress of Nigeria Presidential Candidate, Daily Trust 27th Feb. 2007).

“Buhari is a forthright and very clearly a disciplined man. He has managed to cut the image of a person who abhors corruption genuinely. If Buhari does not want to make a promise, he is the kind of person that will say so. Buhari is likely to pay attention to the problems of the country, unlike Obasanjo who floats in the air and most of the time plays to the gallery ” (Vanguard Editorial. 23rd January 2003).

“Buhari has three qualities namely INTERGRITY, which even his worst enemies
can't fault; he is CONSISTENT, he does not say one thing in the morning and
another at night, and he is COMMITTED to implementing the restructuring of the
country. Anyone with these qualities deserves the support of Nigerians”.
(Chief Olu Falae, This Day Newspaper, 23rd March 2007).

“Of all the candidates, Buhari is most frequently associated with integrity, leadership, accountability, honesty and transparency. Nigerians are more skeptical about these qualities in Atiku and Yar'adua” (Opinion Analysis. State Department, Washington March 19th 2007).

Vote Buhari/Bakare For Presidential Election, Vote CPC Party. To Get Involved[/b]

God bless you jare,
Let them bring out good things people have said about thier yeye candidate.

Jarus:

I honestly think it is not in the best interest of the progressives to wash dirty linens in public.
I can bring out Ribadu's fault in public, so can I do for Buhari, but I will not hit Ribadu in the public because of Buhari.
Whether we like it or not, we need them to dislodge PDP.

Cant you see, PDP is not the problem here

Corrupt politician is corrupt whether he is in PDP, CPC or ACN.

If you kick out PDP, you will kick out Chime, Amaechi and others with it and if you kick in ACN, you are kicking in Tinubu etal with them; so also, if you kick in CPC, you will also kick in Mohammed Abacha and his goons along.


Please people, among all the candidates, GEJ is the best choice, Nigeria's problem has nothing to do with party, tribe or religion. It is with individuals!

onye_ngbu*:

Cant you see, PDP is not the problem here

Corrupt politician is corrupt whether he is in PDP, CPC or ACN.

If you kick out PDP, you will kick out Chime, Amaechi and others with it and if you kick in ACN, you are kicking in Tinubu etal with them; so also, if you kick in CPC, you will also kick in Mohammed Abacha and his goons along.


Please people, among all the candidates, GEJ is the best choice, Nigeria's problem has nothing to do with party, tribe or religion. It is with individuals!

Please bring out the crime committed by BUHARI,

Focus on issues and not vague superhero stunts. Intelligent people will vote people who CAN deliver on the key issues facing us as a Nation. People who can bring economic growth. During Buhari's era, Nigeria plunged into huge economic crises due to his austere measures. Ribadu has surrounded himself with great minds. His VP is one of the best VP's in this election. Check out his background. The records are there. You don't need to look too far to see them. These are the kind of people that can bring in the right experience for the job.

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The BB kano rally is da bomb, nothing will stop the BB train from docking at Aso Rock in April except God but God is forever on the side of truth and justice.

Buhari is too sectional and old to rule nigeria we don't want another waste of time. forward ever nigeria vote RIBADU or GOODLUCK buhari is a NO NO.

Buhari is tried and tested !!

He is the best head of state we ever had!!

buhari can never win this election no vote for him

Fellow Nigerians, dont let us loose focus here, PDP is the enemy, Winston Churchill said

Once is happenstance, twice is Coincidence, thrice is the Enemy- 1999-2003-2007, 12 wasted years.

I am for BB but if you think you have axe to grind with either Buhari or Bakare, then vote for Ribadu.

Comparing Ribadu and Buhari is like comparing Mercedes Benz SLK of today to Pegout 504 of the 80's.

Buhari has experience as the most successful head of state in Nigeria's history

Ribadu has no track record

Ribadu is linked to some undesirable Godfathers - OBJ , Tinubu, and IBB , Group of of the biggest looters in African history

BUHARI-BAKARI, BEST MEN FOR THE JOB

Others are just

^^^^

 Lets stop this kind of campaign, it's not going to help any of us, we are not competing against Ribadu nor ACN, rather we are competing against the ruling party.

Please lets face the main devil (PDP).

I agree PDP the REAL ENEMY OF THIS NATION,

Most Nigerians are tired of recycling leaders for the same position.


Ribadu/Adeola nearest(compared to others) represent that change we so much desire!


Buhari should be contended with being an elder statesman which he truly is. After-all he would forever be a member of the National Executive Council,from where I had expected him to have made his impact felt.


The manifesto of ACN on power ,(a major challenge of Nigeria)is far far more feasible and superior to that of CPC.(if any)

Stemming Corruption
by Nuhu Ribadu on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 3:29am
by Nuhu Ribadu

Introduction
After one civil war, seven military regimes, and three botched attempts at building real democracy, the one connecting factor in the failure of all attempts at making Nigeria a global contender is corruption.

The history of countries like Nigeria, Congo, and Kenya, where corruption has been institutionalized, offer an adequate illustration of the wrong road to development. In comparative terms, the provision of infrastructural facilities by countries which were on equal threshold of development with Nigeria in the early 60’s such as South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil and Singapore, are no more a challenge now because these countries have attended a higher level of development, leaving Nigeria far behind.
The grievous harm that corruption has done to Nigeria, and Africa, over the years cannot be overemphasized. Nigeria, and indeed Africa as a whole, needs to refocus and give issues of corruption the attention they rightly deserve. The challenge before us, to my mind, is to set our sights on making corruption, rather than poverty or any other socio-economic malaise, history. For, as soon as we do so, everything else, like a worrisome jigsaw puzzle, will fall in place. Making corruption history is the surest way of making all the problems of Africa history. Making corruption history is the surest way of making all the problems of Africa history.
The whole purpose of political action is to ensure effective governance. The people of Nigeria, South Africa, Rwanda, Kenya, or any other nation state, are not seeking the attention and concern of their government because of any abstract ideal. They seek things that will better their lives, and bring shelter, food, good health, education and security of lives and property to them and the families. That is the basis of governance, to make politics meaningful.

I hold the strong view that Africa’s democracy and development face severe danger today more on account of an alarming prevalence of grand corruption; and that this practiced abuse of public power and resources for private gain is the major factor that is strangling the life process of our polity and alienating our civic sector, while also draining active cells from the economic life of our region. To this extent therefore, corruption, as far as I am concerned, is the most destructive force ranged against society and the state in Africa and if we will make any significant breakthrough, we must first wage a disruptive and devastating war against corruption.

Corruption as a global phenomenon
I do not share the notion that corruption is a native of Nigeria, Africa, or indeed of any region of the world. This is not the case. Corruption is certainly a global phenomenon and anyone who has keenly followed contemporary world events could not have missed the dizzying reports of the Enron, Arthur Anderson, Citibank, and WorldCom scandals in the United States, the Parmalatt scandal in Italy, or even the central role of corruption and cronyism to the Asian financial crisis of the late nineties. Numerous other examples of large-scale malfeasance around the world show beyond doubt that corruption is not a native of one nation or region.
If corruption therefore stands as the single most damaging force against economic growth, social stability and democracy; if corruption is the very reason why, after about half a century of independence, we still cannot proudly hold our own among nations that have built an enriching community life for their citizens, then there is a problem on why Africa has been so complacent in our quest for solutions.

Why are national and community sense of outrage and revulsion so disproportionately lame in response to this ravaging cancer such that Africans would rather engage in ethno-national and religious carnages yet content themselves to whimpers, or at best cynical commentaries, against the dizzying reality of corruption? There is now, after all, a demonstrable correlation between the realities of corruption as the abusive of public power and the monumental failure in governance in Africa.

My answer to this apparently innocent question that underscores the reason why we continue to be in the woods, forgive my brusqueness, is partly because our civic institutions have abdicated their community responsibilities. They have either abstractly defined their mandate out of any relevance or they have completely missed the point; or perhaps, out of a poverty of vision, failed to see how their mandate can become a mechanism of social, spiritual and indeed community transformation.

When we speak of political transformation in the sense of accountability and transparency, we are after all talking of major shifts, of qualitative leaps, and of a paradigm scaling of reality and of methods in the delivery of the substance of governance through participation and inclusiveness.

Thus when people genuinely become indignant at failed infrastructures, failed services, failed officials, we must pungently ask the million naira question: Where are our elites? Where are our watchdog institutions? Where are the whistleblowers? Where are the civic groups? Where are those who ought to be untiringly protesting and struggling towards recovering a little more foothold of the moral waters-edge in the vast fungi of corruption that is consuming Africa?

If we pose the question well, I suspect that we would come to an embarrassing conclusion on how we all have abysmally failed in the discharge of our moral, social and political responsibilities. Another important fact of the matter, which has made matters worse for us, is that a large part of the new African elite classes, who are the traditional engines of social leadership, are failing to make sense of the connections between political promises and policy delivery.

Why is this case? Partly because these elites seek refuge in other diversionary engagements, like in the faith communities, which have not offered a needful jolt but have rather provided chloroform against those damning, and hard questions that give spiritual neural connectors their truly tangible meaning. There is, after all, nothing like the failure of a system that is not the failure of its component structures, and my proposition is that the failure of the African project at this point is a direct result of the failure of its institutions and the moral center of which is the civic community.

The role of civil society
Our civic communities must ask one cogent question: how can we make an impact by doing things differently? How can we make a difference by putting a stop to the pervasive culture of corruption so prevalent and destructive to our various national institutions? To be sure, posing this question earnestly will result in, I expect, a methodological review that in turn prompts new strategies of appreciating and resolving many of our regional social contradictions.

Above all too, the resolution will force us to review fundamental lapses in our organization of the civic space that is so decisive and critical for Africa’s challenge in evolving an accountable culture of governance. Let us all be honest, the contemporary history of the African civic culture has been characterized by two major lapses: lack of transparency; and failure of internal democracy

The major challenge of our time now is the cancer of corruption. This is the scourge of our time and of our region where the failure of governance triggered by corruption, has enacted some of the worst pogroms and fratricidal carnages of the late 20th Century.

We all remember the story of Zaire, that enormously rich country whose wealth and resources were shredded to ground zero by one of the worst and most shameless thieving leaders of this continent, Mobutu Sese Seko. At the end of the day what happened to the country? The state failed as an instrument of authority and organisation, paving the path for a horrendous bloodbath.

Today, Zaire is no more; its treasury is dry. Mobutu is probably resting in peace – depending on your think about the hereafter; but millions of his poor compatriots have been killed and murdered in a senseless war that was crafted in ethno-national colors rather than a simple case of failure of governance triggered by corruption.

The examples are countless: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Sudan. These are relics of failure of governance, countries that have now become poster boards of the effect of elite greed and corruption that have resulted in the mass misery of their people. Nigeria has not gotten there yet; but chances are that we will if we do not confront corruption, the single most important of issue of our time.

Fighting corruption in Nigeria
In this regard, we most strip bare the false notion that nothing positive has happened in Nigeria in the quest to deal with corruption. Those who had no appreciation of just how bad things were can wallow in lurid illusion. To be sure, some baby steps have been taken regarding charting a new path for Nigeria’s greatness. A lot of that actually happened between 2003 and 2008, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was part of that active value restructuring process. But we are not out of the woods yet.

The effort we made at the Commission was a marriage of two currents: pressure from outside and the force from within. The international community deployed the instruments of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to trigger necessary reforms which provided us the platform to build a strong local program of cleaning up our financial institutions, and prosecuting the bad guys in the industry.

Between 2003 when the EFCC was established and 2008 when our effort was prematurely aborted, we aggressively challenged the national image profile by taking on the powerful advance fee fraud (419) king-pins and hauling their one-time untouchable captains into jail.

After our encounter with the leadership of the 419 trade, we moved our searchlight into the banking halls and cracked down with massive and overwhelming force on the bank barons who were perpetrating the most heinous financial fraud. That battle of wills ultimately helped the consolidation process in the financial sector that is now restoring confidence into our financial and banking system. When we started the campaign we had to endure blackmail, lies and insults.

After that, we lobbed the ball into the basket of the political elite. Expectedly, these over-pampered and soiled elite cried “selective justice”, and “Gestapo tactics”. They pushed forward all sorts of diversionary propaganda. Unable to deal with the message, the Nigerian political elite reverted to that discredited tactics of hacking down the messenger.

For one, their claims were tenuous, and merely hysterical. For instance, those who advanced the argument of selective justice did not help their audience understand how selective justice amounted to an act of injustice. As one famous national commentator put it, “you have 10 robbers in a den and you arrest 4, but they fire back at you with the defence that there are other robbers in the field. Why not catch all before you pronounce us as robbers”! Such was the puerile nature of their arguments and those of their hired and professional propagandists.

Corruption fights back
The privileges that come with the ongoing elite raid on our patrimony and the material and cultural resources at the disposal of these abusive elite are so enormous that a counter offensive from the political class against the EFCC’s attempt to confront the corrupt stratum of that class was inevitable. So it was that after almost half a decade of our attempt to deal with corruption frontally, we were overwhelmed by an elite conspiracy that succeeded in turning back the hand of the clock.

I would like to pay homage to the extraordinary will and belief of young Nigerians who saw corruption as the barrier to the progress of our country and wanted to contribute their own quota. Unfortunately, many of the active operatives who led the brave investigations and prosecutions have been hounded out of the EFCC. They should be consoled, however, by the fact that things changed, at least for a while.

Regrettably, many of the cases in court have slowed down; and the most ironic of all is that many of the actors we were prosecuting, including a governor who personally offered me $15 million bribe, are today the kingmakers and until recently were seen parading presidential corridors in Abuja as advisers.

I was, of course, thrown out of the agency and not too long was made the subject of the most bizarre rumor industry of alleged impropriety that was never proven because nothing ever happened. Suddenly, I became a target of assassination plot. I say this only to illustrate the challenge in fighting corruption. When you fight corruption, corruption fights back.

Conclusion
Therefore, in a globalized world, the fight against corruption must assume a trans-border dimension. Our own modest success at the EFCC was supported by efforts of institutions of the United Nations, regional bodies and many bilateral bodies like the US Secret Service, the FBI, the US Postal Service, and the Department of Justice. In a global economy that has assumed oneness, stemming corruption must be a collective effort as the actions and inaction of one affects the other and a hiccup here can trigger severe consequences affecting all.

We better be sure we do not let societies with weak institutional safeguards like Nigeria be the point of rupture for us all. One lesson of the current global financial crisis is that only effective regulatory institutions can solve the problem we have; and in that respect it makes good sense not to allow errant members of the international community to sink the boat.

To be sure, societies with poor records on account of corruption are the potential mines lined up to sink the boat. There is need to emphasize this point a little more. In the particular case of Nigeria, with its potentially explosive population challenges, any explosion or even implosion on account of poor state management could have dire regional consequences.

We are of course talking of a Nigeria which was once the epicenter of the worst excesses of money laundering, drug trafficking, and advance fee fraud. It took an incredible effort to restore a modicum of sanity between 2003 and 2008. Sadly, today, evidence suggests a return to the pre 2003 era.

The history of failed states tell us clearly that at the heart of their tragedy is the assumptions neighbors and friends make that it might not get worse, that it won’t get that bad. Sadly, it gets worse because it is a misplaced optimism. The world must not allow Nigeria to unravel; and part of the lessons of Somalia which is today the poster boy of the world’s outlaw states is that it can happen anywhere.

*This piece is a chapter contribution to the book, Nigeria: Half a Century of Progress and Challenges http://www.halfacentury.com/

http://www.halfacentury.com

Last night, Fola Adeola won the ThisDay 2011 Awards, in the category of Change Makers in Social Entrepreneurship for his success story with founding Fate Foundation - Using Entrepreneurial skills to effectively manage and find solutions to victims of the several problems and ills in our society. http://www.thisdaylive.com/socialchangemakers




LET US FACE ISSUES:WHAT ARE THE PEDIGREE OF BB APART FROM INTEGRITYIN RIBADU/ADEOLA,WE HAVE INTEGRITY,RADICALISM,ACHIEVEMENT,ECONOMIC COMPETENCE AND GENERATIONAL CHANGE!!!!!

Doyin!:

Last night, Fola Adeola won the ThisDay 2011 Awards, in the category of Change Makers in Social Entrepreneurship for his success story with founding Fate Foundation - Using Entrepreneurial skills to effectively manage and find solutions to victims of the several problems and ills in our society. http://www.thisdaylive.com/socialchangemakers




LET US FACE ISSUES:WHAT ARE THE PEDIGREE OF BB APART FROM INTEGRITYIN RIBADU/ADEOLA,WE HAVE INTEGRITY,RADICALISM,ACHIEVEMENT,ECONOMIC COMPETENCE AND GENERATIONAL CHANGE!!!!!

Did you read the article at the begining of this post at all?

Ribadu Is DEFINATELY Winning the South West of this country called Nigeria + Edo state.

scholes0:

Ribadu Is DEFINATELY Winning the South West of this country called Nigeria + Edo state.

i laugh in edo, he fit o,

Gbawe,I have tried to stay away from replying you, but your venom on Bakare especially needs a more powerful venom in return. But while I will respond, I will keep the venom and make somethings clear. You said Bakare swallowed his vommit(I am sure it is his statement on Buhari in 1996). Well that is integrity, which is better, Swallow your vomit or deny you ever vommited? Ribadu denied his vommit on Tinubu, that is lack of integrity. Bakare simply said I changed my mind based on present circumstances! And he has a right to as evry other human being including you and I. On his statement on Ribadu hijacking SNG, I watched that live and he said TINUBU wants to hijack SNG for Ribadu, not Ribadu doing it. And this was even before Ribadu joined ACN. And Tinubu made his threat real by getting Femi Falana and other SNG pretenders to announce the suspension of Bakare from the group. Well that is history, bakare remains SNG convener, not leader. Well, keep attacking the pastor as lousy, pugnacious,rabble rouser, dat is what has kept him as a venom on bad governace in 22 years! He speak his mind just like Ribadu does, but he stands by his words, while Ribadu runs from his own words.