₦airaland Forum

Classified By: CONSUL GENERAL ROBYN HINSON-JONES FOR REASONS 1.5 (B) AN

1. (C) Summary. While electoral divisions are under growing
media scrutiny, most southern political analysts privately
acknowledge that fears of imminent secessionism are unfounded
at present. Though some disgruntled groups demand the
creation of their own state within the federation, most do
not call for complete severance. Issues reinforcing
political cohesion in the South include momentum towards a
national conference, interest over upcoming elections,
potential spoils of oil revenue, and the ICJ ruling on
Bakassi

(U) The latest secessionist threat was declared on
December 20, 2002 by Lagos-based lawyer Festus Keyamo, who
announced the creation of an "Unarmed Revolutionary Council"
to govern the "Future Republic of the Niger-Delta," complete
with flag, national anthem, and coat of arms. According to
press reports, Keyamo warned that the "future republic" would
emerge if Nigeria failed to convene a national congress,
engage "true fiscal and political federalism," and enact the
on-shore/off-shore abrogation bill. Keyamo hoped the
announcement would "raise the consciousness" of the
South-South's oil-producing states. The movement's slogan is
"This is a revolution, and it must succeed." (Comment.
Readers might take note that at the beginning of 2002, Keyamo
was in the press because of his defense of the first person
detained for Bola Ige's murder. The episode became quite
sordid as the defendant recanted then readmitted the crime.
Keyamo's brother implicated him in a fraud. All the while,
Keyamo was an eager interviewee before any journalist he
could find, reveling in the attention.

. (U) Other well-known southern groups with secessionist
tendencies or platforms include the Movement for the
Sovereign State for Biafra (MASSOB), the Ijaw Youth Congress
(IYC), the Egbesu Supreme Council, and the Coalition of Oodua
Self-determine Groups (COSEG), which consists of the Oodua
Peoples Congress (OPC), Oodua Liberation Movement (OLM),
Oodua Youth Movement (OYM), Yoruba Revolutionary Movement
(YOREM), and the Federation of Yoruba Consciousness and
Culture (FYCC). These groups held a joint press conference
in September to decry the voter registration exercise, which
they charged was "tailored to favor the Hausa/Fulani North."
They publicly called for a UN plebiscite to determine
Nigeria's future, including the right to ethnic
self-determination and secession from the Federation. The
groups pledged to "fight together for each nationality to be
independent and build her own sovereign state, as an
independent member of the United Nations." (Comment.
Subsequent research will give us a fix on how serious and
potent we think these groups are and whether we think the
statement was rhetoric to rally the constituencies back home
and to frighten the GON into giving them a bit more
assistance

[quote author=wwwihy post=116654136]Are you tired .... sufferness no dey tire una

Campaign never start[/quote]Oho

me tired ?

I was busy

Yes campaign never start chill remain 2 weeks

One by one

[quote author=wwwihy post=116652763] [/quote]One by one

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/178114-tinubu-is-corruption-personified-nigerian-minister.html

[quote author=wwwihy post=116652533]....[/quote]One by one

[quote author=wwwihy post=116652376].[/quote]One by one

[quote author=wwwihy post=116652253]https://www.nairaland.com/7174877/epidemic-looms-refuse-overruns-anambra[/quote]One by one

https://www.channelstv.com/2012/05/15/a-visit-to-nigerias-mecca-of-gully-erosion/amp/

[quote author=wwwihy post=116652244].[/quote]One by one

[quote author=wwwihy post=116652160] [/quote]One by one

Racoon:
Most politicians are sponsors of terrorism especially from the Northern region. But the role APC which both Atiku and Tinubu formed played in escalating the terrorism pre-2015 is not deniable.

Thank God you saw this with an open mind

[quote author=wwwihy post=116651998]https://www.nairaland.com/6895478/sanwo-olu-commissions-elemoro-school-ibeju[/quote]Bobo you dey run from Tinubu matter ?

One by one

[quote author=wwwihy post=116651976]https://www.nairaland.com/6575344/shocking-photos-dilapidated-government-owned[/quote]One by one

https://punchng.com/parents-teachers-lament-sorry-state-of-lagos-school/

PandoraObi:
Look for your missing mother

You ask am how work ?

[quote author=wwwihy post=116651714]https://www.nairaland.com/6575344/shocking-photos-dilapidated-government-owned[/quote]One by one

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-59646321

PandoraObi:
You are telling me the reason why your family is plagued and feeble, I don't care

Your mama don come back ?

[quote author=wwwihy post=116651757]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGkhiteM0Pc[/quote]Bobo you dey shift from Asiwaju talk ?

One by one

AdamuKD:
Tinubu again? God forbid

Na so we see am o

M4A1carbine:
The Kriminal, masterminded alot of killings and assassinations...

He subjugated the Afonja Brigade of miscreants by FEAR ..intimidation and even outright bullying.

This is a person that wants to rule ...NEVER!!

JAGADEATH WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT.

And he likes shady guys too

Za advocate

[quote author=wwwihy post=116650690].[/quote]One by one

[quote author=wwwihy post=116650733] [/quote]One by one

AtikuNetwork:
Do you have evidence? This is Peter Obi Ipob tactics to spread lies and propaganda. It won't work.

It was brought out for you to do your research and have evidence Na

***PS

This is an Archive since 2005 screenshot is below .

. (S) Summary. Professor Ukandi Damachi, a long-time
Mission contact and close advisor to former head-of-state
Ibrahim Babangida, recently told us about a chance encounter
he had with pro-Obasanjo members of the People's Democratic
Party (PDP) executive. These partisans alleged an
association between Vice President Atiku, Lagos Governor
Tinubu and Al Qa'ida. According to Damachi, the PDP members
told him the Oodua People's Congress (OPC), a loose and
curious amalgam of some Yoruba politicians, street thugs, and
other ne'er-do-wells, founded in the late 1990's, had
received funding from Al Qa'ida. The PDP official claimed
both Vice President Atiku and Lagos Governor Tinubu were
involved in this transaction, which was intended to finance
the OPC destabilization of southern Nigeria. Damachi
maintained the PDP members said President Obasanjo was aware
of these events. Vice President Atiku and Governor Tinubu,
both in Obasanjo's doghouse, have been long-time allies and
are in ongoing discussions about forming a presidential
ticket for the 2007 elections. This information has not/not
been corroborated and may be intended to shape USG thinking
on Nigeria's presidential aspirants. End Summary.

2. (S) Damachi asserted that he encountered senior PDP
leaders July 22 at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport
in Lagos. The party figures were awaiting the arrival of PDP
Chairman Ahmadu Ali and President Obasanjo. Damachi told the
Consul General that the PDP officials, including the party's
vice-chairman for the Southwest, began to discuss this matter
openly with him. Then they also raised this issue with party
chairman Ali who arrived at the airport before the President.
Ali purportedly expressed both his and the President's
awareness of the alleged transaction. Ali, however,
terminated this discussion, asserting that the groups' top
project at the moment was the impending PDP political rally
in Lagos. After the rally, they would discuss this sensitive
issue.

) Damachi asserted the PDP officials told him that Atiku
and Tinubu were supporting this Al Qa'ida/OPC nexus out of
political desperation. Both men would likely have their 2007
national political ambitions dashed by President Obasanjo. In
response to this likely predicament, they would attempt to
make parts of Nigeria ungovernable, in hopes of crippling
Obasanjo or even forcing his ouster. In the midst of the
resultant turmoil, they would be able to revive their
ambitions for the Presidency and Vice Presidency.


Damachi also heard from his PDP interlocutors that
President Obasanjo planned to dump Vice President Atiku in
early 2006 on corruption charges and that this alleged Al
Qa'ida/OPC link could be one of the reasons given at that
time. Damachi continued that Obasanjo had recently conferred
with Senator Jubril Aminu, former Ambassador to the U.S., and
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, former governor of Gongola state (now
Adamawa and Taraba states), about taking over from Atiku.
Both Aminu and Tukur hail from Adamawa state, as does Atiku;
both are political enemies of the Vice President. (Comment.
In 1998, Tukur was in contention to be Obasanjo's running
mate, but Atiku successfully outflanked him at the time

) We believe Damachi is relaying to us what he heard and
that he himself also gives credence to these allegations.
IBB, Damachi's political boss, is viewing the PDP nomination
as is Atiku. IBB and Atiku are rivals, which means Damachi
would be prone to believe and spread information damaging to
the Vice President.

6. (C) Without any further corroboration, we view these
charges with a dose of skepticism. However, we relay them in
the interest of conveying information received about any
possible Al Qa'ida presence in Nigeria. There are a few
points in this tale that tend to make it suspect. Both Atiku
and Tinubu have ample political warchests; they would not
need Al Qa'ida or any other entity to give them 2 million
dollars to fund a local group. Second, they can communicate
directly with the OPC or other such militant groups
throughout the country. Bringing in an exogenous agent like
Al Qa'ida adds little value except the risk of global
opprobrium. Also, the linking of Atiku and Tinubu, two of
Obasanjo's biggest political headaches, in such a terrible
scheme is almost too neat politically.
That this story is making its rounds may ultimately
reveal more about the turbid state of Nigerian electoral
politics than about Al Qa'ida activities in Nigeria. That
such a sensational story is discussed so cavalierly and is
accepted as true is an early indication that the 2007
political campaign will be one of no-holds-barred political
charges and counter-charges. If this is any indication, this
means politicians will be spending significant time finding
new ways to destroy old enemies. For example, we have heard
that the Governor of Sokoto is accusing the Governor of
Zamfara (who is a declared presidential candidate) of
spending significant amount of state funds to send "large
number of young men" to Saudi Arabia for religious education.
2007 aspirants may try to use the specter of security to
sway our thinking and in hopes of prompting us to act in a
manner for them and against their opponents. We predict this
will not be the last time we hear charges linking a
politician to a terrorist group.
We note that when Consulate Lagos temporarily closed
in late June 2005 due to a specific Al Qa'ida related threat,
some newspapers erroneously attributed the closure to a
threat from the OPC that was supported by Governor Tinubu.
At that time, Tinubu denied the charge, claiming opponents in
the PDP were paying the dirtiest of tricks with the most
sensitive of security issues

Bizibi:
and they have no wisdom.....the ones that made money then are back to square one. It is only the top ex militants that still control the supply of diesel. Some of them are wasteful!!

Greed is a vice .

The love of money does not end in armed robbery alone

[quote author=wwwihy post=116649610].[/quote]One by one

[quote author=wwwihy post=116649557]the last picture pain you wella .Asiwaju Na thief .[/quote]I will be keeping it one by one

An Archive.


ABUJA-The Code of Conduct Bureau said, yesterday, that 15 former governors
will soon be charged to court for lying in the assets declaration forms
they filled while in office.

Chairman of the Bureau, Mr Sam Saba, who disclosed this while briefing
newsmen in Abuja also justified the decision of the Bureau to let some
governors off the hook.

He, however, insisted that former Governor of Lagos state and leader of
the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has a case
to answer before the conduct tribunal over allegations of operating
foreign accounts while in office.

Confirming that 15 former governors will soon be charged to court, Mr Saba
said: "I want to assure you that verification of the assets of some of the
ex-governors is still ongoing including that of those who are still in
power.

As it stands today, Borno and Plateau are the only states where we have
not requested their governors and public officers to report for
verification and this is due to the problem posed by the Boko Haram sect.
However, at the appropriate time, we will make public the outcome of our
investigations and if it is established that any of them defaulted, we
will accordingly charge them before the tribunal. But till then, we are
not ready to try anyone on the pages of the newspaper", Saba added.

He refuted allegations that the trial of Asiwaju Tinubu was a calculated
witch-hunt exercise aimed at stifling opposition leaders in the country.

According to him: "The Bureau wishes to reiterate its position that the
trial of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu has no political undertone. It has been
an ongoing case since year 2006. Admittedly, the case has taken such a
long time due to some factors- the need to conduct thorough investigation
and the time taken to constitute the full compliment of the tribunal after
the death of the former chairman, Justice Sanni Murtala, SAN.

"The Bureau wants to use this medium to call on the good and patriotic
citizens of Nigeria to report to it any public office holder breaching the
provisions of Code of Conduct for public officers, and wish to assure you
that the Bureau has the capacity to deal with the situation no matter how
highly placed the person is.

"Of recent, the Bureau has observed with some amusement, the campaign of
calumny being perpetuated against it by a section of the press which has
been issuing some stories based on conjectures, deliberate falsehood and
sensational amplification of issues all with a view to pulling down the
institution and its structures.

"Further to the above, the issue of arraigning public officers before the
Code of Conduct Tribunal has never been an issue of the board to discuss
and take decisions. There are structures on the ground established by the
board to carry out that responsibility; the `assets verification
committee' and the `petition screening committee'. Any officer that is
established to have breached any provisions of the code of conduct for
public officers after diligent investigation by any of the above
committees is referred to the legal unit of the bureau for prosecution
before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. So why should the case of Bola Ahmed
Tinubu be different?

"Also it should be noted that the case of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which had
started since the year 2006, had pre-dated the coming of the present board
which was inaugurated in April 2010.

However, if the chairman is said to be taking a central position in the
activities of the bureau vis-`a-vis the case of Bola Ahmed Tinubu that is
very understandable because he is the chairman of the organization and its
principal spokesman. This however should not be maliciously misconstrued
as disagreement between him and the federal commissioners."

It will be recalled that Tinubu was on September 21, docked before a 3-man
panel of justices at the Code of Conduct Tribunal sequel to allegations
that he operated 10 foreign accounts whilst in office between 1999 and
2007.

Meanwhile, the CCB boss who spoke yesterday alongside four commissioners
of the Bureau, also adduced reasons why some former governors who were
ab-initio accused of violating the Code of Conduct for Public officers
whilst they were in office, would no longer face prosecution.

Saba said the CCB decided to drop the cases against the ex-governors after
they admitted guilt and made restitution to the Federal Government, even
as he specifically named the former governor of Jigawa State, Saminu
Turaki, among those that benefitted from the said process. He declined to
reveal the identity of other indicted ex-governors who embraced the
`plea-bargain' option.

--
Brad Foster
Africa Monitor
STRATFOR

[quote author=wwwihy post=116649244]Stop Wailing.... this thread is not for Wailing Wailers[/quote]Same news outlet.

Different testimonial

Bizibi:
Niger deltans really involve for bunkering level, memories!!!

You no lie , will you blame them .

When they are the ones suffering the most from the cash biz

[quote author=wwwihy post=116649244]Stop Wailing.... this thread is not for Wailing Wailers[/quote]

With left or right hand ?

No be only youth .

Phahahahahah

Pale dem when dey find free polo ,cap and money don become youth

Bizibi:
navy,jtf,army, presidency, politicians,top business men,militants and the rest civilians.

It's a quick money .

The civilians can only get a chunk buy cars and build bungalows.

But the elite buy helicopter why? Cause they put in huge funds .

Just like drug biz