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Read Big b1 and see where he said dealing with Fayose and Ibori was not the right way to go. openly condoning corruption!

@backslider:
Unbelievable statement of yours.
You carefully picked Big B1's statement, the one that complements your conclusion. My man, be reasonable and understand where I'm coming from; just don't pick and choose my words as you desire to debase my point of view; it is totally unfair!

Yes, I stated that the arrest of Ibori and Fayose will absolutely not solve corruption problem in Nigeria and that is the fact.
It is clear to the world, except you that the corruption problem in Nigeria is much bigger than these 2 folks. We definitely need more than just arrest and 18 months in jail.

95% of the country is corrupt; and you think arresting just 5% and jailing them for few months will produce miracle.

Come on, my man, be for real!

WHAT I HATE THE MOST IF HOW PEOPLE CONTINUE TO BRING UP ISSUES THAT HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING INTO A THREAD

@kobojunkie:
Why don't you go and sit down somewhere?

That post wasn't for you; it's not always about you, you know?

Trust me, politics is common sense; and common sense is Super Natural talent.

You can not study common sense, this is also one of the reasons why Bush continues to struggle today and why Regan was incredible and Clinton continues to rise without being the president. This is also one of the reasons why OBAMA is still hanging around.

The most successful politicians are full of super natural power.

I will select anything that will prolong my life.

No life = No politics and no campaign!

Trust me, United States could have performed miracle indirectly (either by out-sourcing or relocating the lady). They knew her days were numbered.
You can say anything about US, but they are not dummies!

Good point!

I hate to be cocky, but I am very confident to say that there isn't any other alternative to effectively and efficiently handle corruption in Nigeria better than my recommendation.

And I predict that very soon it will be adopted

This is simple!
First, I will not get myself involved in any selective or vindictive activities under every circumstance. I will be focused, determined, dedicated and very firmed. I will touch the lives of the very poor Nigerians, I will reshape and solidify the image and pride of Nigeria. My concentration on empowering the children, the future will be incompressible.

Solution to corruption in Nigeria:

I will put together a group of 50 independent delegates from everywhere in Nigeria, with substantial clearances. Their job is to identify each and every government official that stole from 1980 through 2007.
For a successful outcome, names of these individuals will be made confidential. How much each stole will also be determined.

Each individual will be privately contacted; based on how much individual stole, money to be returned back to Nigeria Federal Government will be determined. All identified corrupt individuals have an option to return specified amount of money with absolutely no question or face uncompromised punishment.
Deadline to return this specified amount of money will also be specified.

After the expiration of the deadline, all individual that cooperated will be pardoned immediately by the Federal Government; while the names of the rest that refused to cooperate will be revealed to the public and they will also be severely punished (eg. 20 years in federal prison and all their accumulated properties will be confiscated by the Federal Government).

Finally, our Constitution will be reviewed and revised.
From Oct 30, 2008, any individual caught engaging in any corruption activities (regardless of the scale) will be executed at his or her home town.

I will also announce vigorously to the entire country that scapegoat is desperately needed.
Guys: That will be the end of corruption in Nigeria; and new Nigeria will be born in a very short period.
Then, we will all witness the real career dedicated politicians, while the business politicians/ business police men will dissolve one at a time

With love, Big B1.

First, I'm not blaming US for anything. It was crystal obvious that some folks in Pakistan did not feel this woman; though, CNN only showed the side that loved Bhutto.
What many did not know was that many in Pakistan vigorously hated this lady; in fact, she was charged twice for corruption in the 90's and many felt that she couldn't be trusted.

The only question is: Do you guys truly feel that CIA didn't see this (assassination) coming?
If United States truly wanted this lady as the next president of Pakistan, trust me, something would have been done indirectly to protect her from being wasted like this.

I still strongly feel that even though, the relationship between the current president of Pakistan and United States is not stable, but please note that the only reason why this man is being despised in Pakistan is just because of his support for United states.
I think United States prefers to stick with him rather than starting from the beginning with another party with a new agenda.
I predict that the man will remain the president of Pakistan.

Please, keep in mind that Big B1 is not pointing finger; this is nothing but a mere discussion.

Exactly!
I do not care, as long as Ribadu (selectivity) is gone, the EFCC is reformed and the prosecution of corrupt leaders is successfully completed.
That is all that matters.

A cute move, but absolutely a dumbo strategy and a quick implementation of another assassination.

The dude is too young and he needs to go ahead and enjoy his young life.

The door is always open and he can jump on the bus at the right time.

Another typical example of doing the right thing the wrong way.
If Pakistanis truly care about the dude, they will leave him alone and allow things to heal naturally.

For the sake of reality, I will not waste my vote on a 19 year old, who truly needs to be going to clubs and chasing Taliban chicks all around Mid East.

@MAMAJAMA:

Did he also donate white pounded yam?

I was very busy telling folks out here that Nigeria, at last, got an educated President - The first time in her history - I wish I knew better.  All sentiments apart, none of our so-called "uneducated" Presidents would have committed such a blunder.  It was my believe that our President was a professor in the university. Too bad.

What has he done wrong?

Having Ribadu around would have only created an unnecessary obstacle for the fight against corruption.
Ribadu was a perfect excuse for the corrupt leaders!

I truly do not know what it will take to make it clear to Nigeria that having Ribadu (OBJ) around would only further divide Nigeria and war against corruption will become a permanent rat race war.

I just do not get. The man has done is best, allow others to show us what they can do.
Ribadu is just a Nigerian just like any one of us; he's not the EFCC.

The more we prolong this discussion the more will continue to reduce the importance and value of this organization.

Let the man waka in peace!

OK, ms Bhola, you've gotten enough air time.

Please, go ahead and have yourself a great weekend!

Mrpataki:
the honorary referee; when are you finally going to buy your own car?

There is nobody screaming here!
Just because you've been screamed at through out your life doesn't me folks are screaming when they're simply discussing politics.

It's 6pm, abeg go cook!

Your inability to reason . . . i just don't understand it.

If your entire family reasons like I do, you wouldn't be in Rochester today freezing your black As s!

Don't ever talk to me like that again!

There was a reason why OBJ did not pick a Yoruba man as his successor, but his biggest mistake was not understanding that the bond between Hausa folks are extremely solid and mightyfully incompressible.

There is absolutely no way an Hausa man would ever trade his brother to make mere OBJ happy.
It just doesn't go that way.

I knew from day one that OBJ has over stayed his welcome. I'm sure he's somewhere (very afraid) busy reading holy bible.
The man has deceived all his real close friends; he has only Adedibu and Ehindero (who also happen to be standing on one leg) on his side.

BHOLA:
Please watch and learn!

Posted by Blueband:

Today Atiku is a hero in Nigeria because of what he went through under OBJ.someone like Atiku should be rotting in the hottest part of Kirikiri.This is what happens when justice is seen to be selective.It loses it's value.If EFCC had gone for OBJ too,I doubt if anyone will be criticisng Ribadu the way they are now.

Posted by Emekanaija:

Simply put, RIbadu was given a soft landing just as any politician. Now he can resign if he doesnt like the training and go full time into politics. One man cannot be greater than a nation. Now he can move down to Otta farm since i learnt his baba has a new 45 room mansion.
You people should stop noise making and pray Yaradua choses the right horse to replace the goner. Now Ribadu's problems just begun like his best friend El RUfai.

Posted by Ono:

At that point when EFCC became a tool in the hands of OBJ for persecuting all his anti-third term apostles. . . . which he practically succeeded in doing, EFCC lost her credibility.

Beside, their investigations and actions have always baffled me.

Now, you guys are starting to see the light!

OBJ has miscalculated once again; the can of JUMBO WORMS is about to be opened.

Stay cool and watch!

Why Yar’Adua wants Ribadu out - Plans to prosecute Obasanjo, Ribadu and El-Rufai



Contrary to reports that the attempt to remove the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, through the “backdoor”, is due exclusively to the pressure being brought on President Umaru Yar’Adua by the allegedly corrupt former governors, Sunday Tribune can authoritatively report that the President’s kitchen cabinet has a grouse against Ribadu and his closest political associates who were “Obasanjo’s Boys”. In the light of this, that is, with Ribadu’s removal, sources at the presidency disclosed that there are plans that in the months ahead, to arrest and prosecute some of these “OBJ Boys”, if not their principal.

Sources close to the Aso Rock Villa disclosed to the Sunday Tribune that prior to his ascension of power, President Yar’Adua and his kitchen cabinet had decided that Ribadu and other key officials of the Olusegun Obasanjo presidency, dubbed the “OBJ Boys and Girls” will be “put in their place”, so as to check-mate their principal. The OBJ “boys and girls” included, Ribadu, former Minister of FCT, Malam Nasiru El-Rufai, former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Eweala, former of Education Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, and the Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Charles Soludo.

It was gathered that the former FCT Minister, El-Rufai, who led the caucus selected by Obasanjo to search for his successor, was favoured by the “OBJ Boys and Girls” who wanted him to pair with Okonjo-Iweala for the presidential race. When the caucus alongside the former president eventually decided that all the initial front-runners, including former Rivers Governor, Dr. Peter Odili, former Cross Rivers State Governor, Mr. Donald Duke, and former Kaduna State Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi, should be dropped, the members of the caucus thought that El-Rufai would easily emerge, since he was seriously considered by Obasanjo himself.

However, while they were still maneuvering, Yar’Adua’s ‘Man Friday’, Tanimo, gave a secret memo to the caucus titled “The Dark Horse”. In the paper, he proposed that Yar’Adua should be suggested to Obasanjo and the PDP and supported by the caucus to emerge as the party’s presidential flag-bearer, since it had become clear to all that anyone Obasanjo supported would emerge the winner, by hook or crook. At this point, sources in the Villa indicated that El-Rufai “practically tore” the proposal of Tanimo in the latter’s presence. This was reported to Yar’Adua who was said to have kept his peace.

A source close to the caucus however disclosed that indeed, when the Yar’Adua candidacy was canvassed before Obasanjo, he embraced it as the most viable alternative to El-Rufai, whom he was going to settle for. But Obasanjo is said to have considered Yar’Adua a better alternative because he was not as “vocal”, “single-minded” and as “exposed” as one of his young Turks, El-Rufai, and would therefore be more “amenable” to instructions from Obasanjo after he left power. However, Obasanjo did not tell El-Rufai this, according to our highly placed sources. He was said to have told El-Rufai that he (El-Rufai) would be less able to “rein in the military” if he became president. It was eventually agreed that the caucus should support Yar’Adua while El-Rufai would head the most important ministry in the new government, the Ministry of Energy.

This decision is said to have changed the plans of “OBJ Boys and Girls” who had planned that with El-Rufai and Okonjo-Iweala as President and Vice, Ribadu would become the Inspector General of Police, with the EFCC incorporated under the police or with Ridabu having supervisory functions over the Commission as IGP. Despite this, a source close to the Obasanjo’s young Turks stated that the members of the group, particularly El-Rufai and Ribadu, threw themselves into the campaign for Yar’Adua and helped in his emergence, even though they were disappointed with Obasanjo’s decision. The two were said to have boasted to their closest associates about what they did to ensure Yar’Adua’s emergence.

Another source even claimed that after Yar’Adua became president, Ribadu met him to “clear the air” on his position, where he confessed that though he rooted for El-Rufai, once Obasanjo resolved on the new president, he did his part to support him. The “support”, a source disclosed, included “appraising” other top presidential gladiators, particularly the governors, of the “debts” they owed the EFCC if they continued to oppose Obasanjo’s favoured candidate, Yar’Adua.

Whether they supported Yar’Adua or not, it was clear that the taciturn former Governor of Katsina and his own kitchen cabinet were not impressed with the role of Ribadu and El-Rufai and saw them as potential rivals within the new government. With Yar’Adua in the saddle, the hope of El-Rufai becoming Minister of Energy died quickly. The process of the appointment of El-Rufai’s successor at the FCT Ministry was considered not only “hasty” but also “untidy” by the “Obasanjo Boys”. Rufai was the first to be quickly replaced by the new government. Also, when Soludo, another member of the caucus, announced a new monetary regime, Yar’Adua promptly cancelled the plan. It was reported in the media that while Soludo conferred with Obasanjo before making the announcement, the new President, Yar’Adua, was kept in the dark.

But the plan to remove Ribadu, Sunday Tribune learnt, was far more complicated for many reasons including the popularity of the anti-corruption war, despite what many considered as the “duplicity” of the Obasanjo government, the international connections, funding and praises that the EFCC had attracted, and the law setting-up the Commission. Given all these, despite the desperate moves by the indicted former governors to quickly see the back of Ribadu and the eagerness of the new Justice Minister and Attorney-General to curtail the actions of Ribadu and the EFCC, President Yar’Adua and his kitchen cabinet decided to proceed with caution. Our sources hinted that to convince the hawks in the inner caucus of the new presidency, a couple of attempts were made to rob the EFCC of its bite, which attracted high public denunciation.

The Yar’Adua caucus then went back to the drawing board to plan how to end the “Ribadu menace”, including stressing the “duplicity” of the Commission and the assumed decision of the Commission to avert its gaze from Obasanjo’s alleged corruption. However, some in the inner circle of the Yar’Adua presidency were becoming impatient with Ribadu given the renewed vigour, after the initial impediments placed by the new Attorney-General, with which he pursued the former governors. It was then decided that the “Ribadu menace” must not be carried into the New Year. However, it was also decided that the presidency should appear to have nothing to do with Ribadu’s removal, with an “ingenious” option devised, which was to ask the IG of Police to order Ribadu to proceed on a course at the Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru.

However, a top source hinted the Sunday Tribune that the decision to shunt aside El-Rufai and to remove Ribadu, are part of the elaborate plan of Yar’Adua and his kitchen cabinet to not only prevent Obasanjo from implementing his plan to rule from Ota, but to also embarrass him so much that he would be left without any room to maneuver and “disturb and harass” the new government, “as he did the Shagari government”, after he handed over in 1979. It is in this context that this top source revealed that once Ribadu has been successfully removed from the EFCC, investigations would begin into all the allegations leveled against former President Olusegun Obasanjo, including those leveled against Ribadu himself and the former FCT Minister, El-Rufai, particularly over the controversial Pentascope.

At the weekend, Ribadu denied that he has been asked to proceed to Kuru, reminding journalists that it is only the President that has the power to appoint and sack him as the Executive Chairman of the EFCC.

http://www.ngex.com/cgi-bin/frame/frameit2.plx?link=%22http://www.tribune.com.ng%22

United States facilitated the return of Bhutto, but they forgot to provide her with reliable security just like the one they've provided the president of Afghanistan and the president and prime minister of Iraq.

I just don't understand it.

There is one thing that remains intact: if United States wants you around, they will make sure you stay around forever.
It's that simple!
And this is the only reason why this assassination looks like a trap or setup.

It's like sending someone to war with a gun, but forget to give this person ammunition for the gun!

It will be fair and also empower the fight against corruption in Nigeria if Mr.Ribadu could man up and present us with his assets from 2003 to 2007.

It is simply the right thing to do!

FBI was sent to Atiku's house in United States and they found nothing.

FYI: FBI just didn't go to his house just to pay him a visit for his birthday. They were sent there by EFCC (OBJ), but fortunately for ATIKU, they did not find anything. And this is why FBI continues to treat EFCC as a daytime joke.

Before you get FBI involve in anything, you must be sure and have reliable evidence, not just OBJ's evidence.

Do you guys understand the damage that FBI invitation did to the credibility of our nation?

Not that I'm supporting Atiku, but EFCC turned Atiku into a new hero in Nigeria today; all because Rabidu wanted his greedy boss to go to bed smiling

Posted by  Don1DeMaco:

so now its about protecting a false image
so we should tell the world there is no corruption in Nigeria when it is obvious
i don't get u

Yes, it is obvious that you totally don't get it.
Just keep in mind that outsiders will only treat you the way you present yourself.

Yes, our leaders are crazy and corrupt just like leaders in United States, Russia, North Korea, China, South Korea, Jamaica, Trinidad, France, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Bahamas and many many more.

You can fight this war without advertising and trading the pride and image of our great nation.

Don't you have home work or take home project to do?

tai2:
Again, please be very careful.
Nairaland is a wonderful and friendly place to visit, but please do not turn things upside down for yourself. It's just too early and absolutely not smart for you to pick a fight.

Trust me!

Both of you (Ono in the N'Djamena desert and BigB1 in the Cameroon Highlands)

Correction: Big B1 is from Ajegunle

The man was on CNN, MPR, BBC, New York Times, Channel 5, Channel 10, Show time, HBO, MNBC, CBS and many many more selling us at 85% off (discount).

And you truly think this man understands protecting the pride of Nigeria and getting his job done at the same time.
I don't think so>>>>>

Gif me a break!

Posted by tai2:

it's people like you who give this country a bad name and people like Oprah the nerve to call us criminals,

[b]Correction: [/b]It was Ribadu that sold us cheap and encouraged folks like Oprah to step all over Nigerians.

Mr. Ribadu spent almost 2 months travelling all over the world announcing that all our leaders are thieves. He wanted the whole world to help Nigeria fight corruption as if the world don't have their own corruption problem.

Yes, Nigerian leaders are corrupt, but others (from other countries) are corrupt much more than Nigerian leaders. You don't see other running around like bunch of boys scout asking for help.

The guy (Ribadu) didn't care about nothing, but the satisfaction of his greedy boss, OBJ. You must use your common sense even if you're being sent to do the dirty jobs.

The image of our nation and citizens of Nigeria in general must be protected at all cost. You (Ribadu) could have done well and accomplished more without dragging us on the floor.

The fool, wanted to prosecute Ibori in London without charging Ibori with anything in Nigeria, as if Ibori was a British governor and stole British money. This man had bright intention, but also needed deep training, in-term of professionalism and respect for human right and the constitution of Nigeria.

Ibori should have been arrested and prosecuted in Nigeria; the out come of the case should have determined whether to get British involved or not. But he rushed into it as usual and further damaged the credibility of you and I (regular Nigerians).

What do you expect from someone who was promoted by Babacratic OBJ to a rank far above that of his brains!!!

Ono,
I agree!

Tai:
Follow the advise I gave you few days ago and you will be fine.

You seem to be new and young; please do not push a load that is bigger than you.
Stick around, with time you will grow!

The question is how do we detach ourselves from the past when coup plotters and dictators become default members of council of state??

Coup plotting and dictatorship were part of our constitution. The past will always be part of us; now it is up to us to take advantage of the past by making the best of it.

It is what it is!