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eleojo23:
Really..

But are you really innocent?

LocalChamp:
BY CHIDO ONUMAH & GODWIN ONYEACHOLEM JUL 10, 2017
In reviewing the farcical coup—orchestrated by the president of the Nigerian senate, Bukola Saraki—that took place on Tuesday, July 4, 2017, we were reminded of the French coup of 1851 by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte and the analysis by Karl Marx.

Since the French constitution prohibited an incumbent president from seeking re-election, Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew), who was elected president in 1848, was due to leave office in 1852. On December 2, 1851, President Louis Bonaparte staged a self-coup as his followers broke up the French Legislative Assembly and established a dictatorship. A year later, he proclaimed himself Emperor Napoleon III.

In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, Marx, referencing the coup of 18 Brumaire, November 9, 1799, that brought General Napoleon Bonaparte, the uncle, to power, described how the class struggle (political crisis) in France “created circumstances and relationships that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity (Louis-Napoleon, the nephew) to play a hero’s part.”

The political crisis in Nigeria is creating circumstances in which swindlers in the corridors of power and scoundrels posing as lawmakers are playing the part of heroes. And so, it came to pass that Nigeria’s senate president, Bukola Saraki, whose rap sheet is long enough to sew prison uniforms for every member of our notorious National Assembly, prevented himself from being sworn in as acting president of the country on July 4, 2017, and thus saving our fledgling democracy.

In the Preface to the Third German Edition of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon in 1885, Friedrich Engels concluded that “Marx came out with a concise, epigrammatic exposition that laid bare the whole course of French history…and in so doing did not even need to treat the hero of the coup d‘état otherwise than with the contempt he so well deserved.” The “hero” of the parliamentary coup of July 4 in Nigeria deserves all the contempt we can muster!

On a day that will perpetually live in infamy, Bukola Saraki, using his sidekicks, Eyinnaya Abaribe and Kabiru Marafa, and much to the approval of other senators toadying to their emperor, otherwise known as senate president, sought to undermine the constitution and illegally overthrow the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of which he is a highly placed member—the third in the hierarchy. The details of that coup, orchestrated by anti-democratic forces, would have been laughable if not that they are tragic.

After two weeks of vacation, Saraki and his colleagues resumed in their severely desecrated chamber and the main order of business, amid the political tension and excruciating economic conditions, was a scheme to overthrow the acting president, Prof Yemi Osinbajo.

Saraki had hardly finished reading a letter from the acting president requesting the senate’s confirmation of the appointment of Lanre Gbajabiamila as the Director General, National Lottery Regulatory Commission, when the senate’s unrepentant pedophile, Ahmed Sani Yerima, raised a point of order to initiate discussion on the acting president’s position on the confirmation of nominees.

In a voyage of crass mischief and pathetic misunderstanding of the acting president’s stance on the power of the senate to confirm nominees from the executive branch, Yerima guided his colleagues to adopt the erroneous position that since the acting president believes the senate lacks the power of confirmation, there was no point entertaining letters from the executive branch asking for confirmation of nominees.

But Nigerians know that this mischief was aimed at undermining the acting president by twisting his position on the senate’s power to confirm executive nominees. His position was strictly in respect of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and others in that category. What he said after the senate’s refusal to confirm Ibrahim Magu as Chairman of EFCC following two appearances, was that the presidency ought not to have sent Magu’s name for confirmation because the nominee did not belong in the category of appointments that the constitution empowers the senate to confirm.

This position was what these malefactors pretending to be lawmakers twisted to suit the grand plot they have long nurtured to subvert democracy. With Prof Osinbajo now head of government, in acting capacity, they must have reasoned that it would be much easier to finally undo the presidency and launch a process of floating an ultra-ambitious Saraki—a man who already sees himself as the putative leader of Nigeria—as the acting president and ultimately the president. Saraki knows there is no other way to the presidency for him except through this despicable and farcical route.

In acting out the plot, our senators, whose mendacity knows no bounds, took the first step by discussing Yerima’s point of order and resolving not to take any more requests for confirmation of nominees from the presidency until Ibrahim Magu is removed from office. Enter Dino Melaye, Saraki’s lapdog, who is battling furiously to stave off an imminent recall from the senate by his constituents.

Not to be outdone on this occasion, this minion of a senator tried to impugn Magu’s qualification for the job of EFCC chair. For an unabashed liar and a man with the putrid air of certificate forgeries—including claims of degrees from Harvard University and London School of Economics that have been refuted by both institutions—still hanging thickly around him, Melaye must have balls the size of a football to question anybody about his or her qualification for public office. Saraki and his dissolute co-travelers made it clear that if Ibrahim Magu is not sacked there would be severe consequences, including impeachment, even if not expressly stated. But as far as most Nigerians can tell, impeachment is what these senators have in mind.

Bent on undermining the laws of the land, our idle senators veered from Ibrahim Magu to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Ike Ekweremadu, a lawyer, and the deputy senate president, took the floor and told the world that the issue of the recall of Dino Melaye was “dead on arrival” and that INEC had to seek the senate’s ratification before it could conclude the recall process. To impress his team of approving nitwits, the addle-headed senator emphasized with overt disdain and arrogance that the electoral body, even by doing their job as stipulated in the constitution, was “wasting their time” with respect to the matter.

When a man of the status of Ekweremadu, touted to be specialized in the workings of the constitution as a lawyer, pronounces in so scandalously expedient manner that an agency of government performing its duties as mandated by the constitution is engaging in a futile exercise, one can conveniently say there is no hope for Nigeria.

Such lawlessness and disregard for due process is the hallmark of the 8th senate, constituted by the worst group of senators since the return of democracy in 1999. When one of their own, Ali Ndume, called on Saraki and Melaye to clear themselves on the issue of non-payment of the requisite import duty for a bulletproof Range Rover SUV imported by the senate president and allegations of certificate forgery respectively, like the pack of debauched gangsters that they are, they descended on him and suspended him for six months.

So desperate has this senate become in their subversive agenda that it would make nothing of frustrating the executive—and grounding the country in the process—in virtually all matters, including the national budget which they have turned into a cash cow. They have ingloriously padded the national budget, arrogated to themselves the power to alter the budget, illegally removed planned national projects and shamelessly and criminally inserted so-called community projects, a euphemism for grand theft.

Now, to their ultimate goal. They can deny it as much as they like and their leader can feign disinterest, but the very irresponsible and disgraceful contribution of Eyinnaya Abaribe, pointing sinisterly to a non-existent vacuum in the leadership of the country and calling on Bukola Saraki, the senate president, to assume the position of acting president because in Abaribe’s warped logic, and contrary to the provisions of the constitution, the president and acting president were out of the country, has all the elements of a coup d'état.

For the record, the acting president went to Ethiopia to represent Nigeria at the 29th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union on Monday, July 3, 2017, and returned to Nigeria the same day. Not that it really mattered because, whether in or out of the country, the leader of any nation remains so, unless, in the case of Nigeria, he or she notifies the National Assembly of their inability to perform that role. The fact that our senators knew that no letter was transmitted by the acting president to the National Assembly did not stop Abaribe’s odious submission from receiving a raucous applause by our law-making cheerleaders.

It stands to reason that if the acting president was not in the country when Abaribe moved his criminally audacious and absurd motion, the Nigerian military would have been justified in taking over to “save the country”. We think Saraki and his cohorts have fired the first salvo. Despite their failed coup, they are not giving up and they will stop at nothing until they achieve their aim or drag the whole country down with them.

The masses who bear the brunt of the evil machinations of the Nigerian senate would have to find a way to get rid of these lawless lawmakers who have weighted down the country’s democratic process by their inordinate ambition, greed and corruption. Our senators have repeatedly trampled on the constitution, so looking toward the constitution for guidance is not an option. Recall is clearly not an option.

By their coup of July 4th, Saraki and his gang of pseudo-democrats are inviting a coup. Except that this time, the coup will be by the mass of our people, a popular revolutionary uprising, and the consequences are better imagined!

http://saharareporters.com/2017/07/10/saraki%E2%80%99s-farcical-july-4th-coup-chido-onumah-godwin-onyeacholem

ubongokon:
victory to sheriff our real chairman, he just produced a senator while markafi was watching from the side line victory to sheriff our real chairman, he just produced a senator while markafi was watching from the side line

itsdumebi:
the Supreme Court of Nigeria has today, officially notified the PDP of the Date to Deliver Judgment on the Suit, Peoples Democratic Party Vs. Sheriff & 4 others as follows:
Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Venue: Supreme Court of Nigeria, FCT, Abuja.
Time: 9:00am

veeceesynergy:
When Yar'dua was sick, all we heard of was Cabal this, Cabal that....after d death of Yar'dua (may his soul RIP), no single person was identified as d cabal.....now PMB has been ill, Cabal has become d order of d day....pls WHO IS/ARE THESE CABAL

Shonekan27:
when fayose is just HND holder, what is buhari?

PHILipu1:
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So,how are you sure that Fayose is saying the truth?
Fayose is only preparing for life after Ekiti government house.
When he will leave office next year and the federal government ask him to come and give account of how he used state funds,he will shout 'witch hunting' and complain that because he was against Buhari that is why they are coming after him.

I understand FFK frustration of no more free money and that is why his madness is coming up again.

Only God that has the power over life and death and even if Buhari is on life support in 2019 and he contest,i will still vote Buhari.
#Sai baba

IamaNigerianGuy:
Abi ? Do we need the doctors to give permission for the jet to come back too ?

mykl01:
200 million mumu

IamaNigerianGuy:
Abi ? Do we need the doctors to give permission for the jet to come back too ?

datribune:
It is unfortunate dat many Nigerians do not really know what Sahara Reporters & its founder Omoyele Sowore stand for. Sowore is one of d greatest nigerian patriots of all time whose life is dedicated to good governance in nigeria. He was one of d leading lights who suffered greatly in d struggle 4 democracy in nigeria & he keeps fighting 4 a better country. SOWORE & SAHARA REPORTERS DO NOT CARE 4 UR APC OR PDP. Their concern is 4 good governance in Nigeria. d reports seem skewed in favour of APC simply because PDP has been longer in power than d APC.Sowore & Sahara Reporters will never shield any looter of our common wealth. Saraki is a joke wit dis jankara judgement & our judiciary keeps embarrassing itself.

TheShopKeeper:
The Judge and Saraki better be prepared for the onslaught of historical facts about their lives in the press very soon...they have opened a can of worms....

tomakint:
God bless Omoyele Sowore for remaining undaunted against the face of empty threat from Sarathief

HottestFire:

Fela's lyrics are prophecies for the past, current and future generations.

shevy878:
The 12.5million Nigerian always know the audio message was a scam, only the 15million gullible ones are still forcing themselve to believe everythng is real even up till now with the above updates by BBC hausa.

OrestesDante:
Sahara reporter are always coming hard!

We know this government is built on Falsehood.
I doubt if this man is alive

Amoyinoluwa24:
cc; lalasticlala

Guseh:
E wokun oni noin. E ku r'odun. Se gbogbo ghin igbadun odun?

MaziOmenuko:
I insist that INEC is not going to cross-check signatures on that list to the one on their data base (if there's even any). I registered for my card almost 6yrs back, I am sure I supled just my bio data and only signed off while collecting the original PVC and that is why there's no space for signature in the PVC.

Once 50% of the signed off names on the list are authenticated as registered voters in Dino's constituency, the verification exercise is fine and dusted.

MaziOmenuko:
I have checked my PVC and there is no signature attached to it.

MaziOmenuko:
INEC is not going to check the authenticity of a signature, they are only going to confirm that the signatories are registered members of the constituencies

masterpiece86:
I foresaw this coming because the hardest part of the process of recall has been achieved.

Dino Melaye is precariously sitting on a time bomb. Him shopping for Mike O. won't help him much because the judiciary know very well that, they're on the spotlight at the moment.

If this event were to happen during past administration the outcome of his prayers will be....... Your guess is as good as mine but, I don't see any court cum judge granting his prayers because this is a constitutional matter.

Anyway, am keenly awaiting the judge that will stoop so low in granting this prayers.

amc:
IPOB and their evil agenda. God help us.

Culin:
It's a call for Christians to go back on their knees and ask for mercy. We've so lost it.

seunmsg:
Shameless Dino, he should provide a video or audio recording of Sowore demanding for bride or shut up forever. This silly attempt to get back at SaharaReporters is dead on arrival.

dealslip:
I just hope this guy didn't kill his brother. Why is he so desperate to win Abi na family title.

engineerboat:
Sahliar reporters u mean

phemmyutd:
Uneasy how? how will Sheriff be affraid of those looking like unfed fellow? Abi you never the see the picture of those that attended the programme?

MadeInTokyo:

Ali Modu Sheriff and his family can takeover PDP and make it and extension of APC



APDA ti takeover

DamiBukola:
So Buhari asked you to come and crash the site?