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The re-run that concluded Amaechi
is that whatever that is outstanding will not be sufficient to return former governor of the state and now transport minister, Rotimi Amaechi to political reckoning. For reasons best known to it, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is releasing the outcomes piecemeal, almost under cover, as if they were stolen items. It has announced 15 results of which the PDP won 13 and the APC two.

Almost all other elections, except the governorship, which was affirmed by the Supreme Court, were annulled by the Appeal Court in Port Harcourt. Elections into the three senatorial seats, 12 federal constituencies and 22 state constituencies in the state, all won by the PDP were voided. Naturally, elements in the APC, and they include Rotimi Amaechi and the party’s flag bearer in the governorship election, Dakuku Peterside, interpreted the large-scale judicial reversals as confirmation of their claims that the 2015 general elections in Rivers State were massively rigged in favour of the PDP.

In fact, the Supreme Court’s January 27 validation of Nyesome Wike’s election as governor only short-changed, as it seemed, a grand calculation to have fresh polls altogether in Rivers State. Amaechi and his supporters, after what happened in 2015, needed another chance to prove a point about their inevitability in Rivers politics. Specifically, the re-match was to settle who between the top gladiators, Wike and Amaechi, would pass as the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Rivers politics.

And I want to add that a man does not become a generalissimo by loud proclamations. It comes with real and measurable exploits. The title is also not an aspiration; it is a description of real state of prowess. In the end, Amaechi, who talked loudest of a plan to dispatch Wike and return Rivers State to its rightful owners, the APC, came very short of his pre-battle proclamations. He had entered Port Harcourt almost triumphantly, even when the battle had not started. On his own and ahead of contest, he had declared victors and a vanquished. When the outcomes were not adding up, he retreated to Abuja quietly.

Amaechi’s second chance at self-assertion has just failed. I am not too sure if there will be a third chance to do the same thing in a world where even a second opportunity to recover what was lost in the first attempt is not always guaranteed. It is usually advisable to cut deepest with the first cut in case there is no other chance to strike again. The first time, Amaechi had eloquently explained his failure. He was up against a federal force and he had never stopped shouting that he was impeded by the overwhelming federal forces from staying on top of the processes in Rivers State in 2015.

God heard his voice and reversed the scenario in the March 19 rematch. Wike, who was a minister in 2015, has become a governor and Amaechi, who was governor then, has become a minister with total control of the so-called overwhelming federal forces. He was in the mood to maximally deploy his arsenal and finish matters once and for all. The usurper of his God-given throne must be dislodged.

But as it was on April 11 2015, so it is on March 19, and perhaps, ever shall be in Rivers politics till Amaechi changes strategy and tactics. Amaechi failed again and he is blaming it all on local forces, which miraculously overwhelmed his federal forces and kept him as an underdog. It does not matter what the distant and self-appointed interpreters of Rivers politics will say, the truth remains that the outcomes are not going to change significantly even if the Rivers re-run election were to run a thousand times.

I am saying that the issues are deeper than what the so-called Lagos press is prepared to capture. That Amaechi is placed by providence on a tall tree as a minister does not make him an eagle. He remains a ‘political chicken’ who is less able to defy the raging storm and soar to greater heights. He can only descend to his level which is already happening.

Be that as it may, Amaechi had the opportunity to build the capacity of an eagle when the same providence made him governor in 2007. All he needed do was to weave a new consensus around the forces that sought to enthrone and the counter forces that sought to destroy him in the build-up to the 2007 governorship contest in the state to develop a new leadership base that would approximate most aspirations. He would then remain in the centre of that transparent leadership base as the new hope of the people of Rivers State.

Unfortunately, Amaechi neither had the vision nor the sincerity of purpose to move things forward. He was obsessed with just acquiring power for his own purpose. And his purpose was to obliterate the old guards in an unrestrained vengeance mission and raise a new breed that would defer totally to him. He appropriated a status he had not attained in Rivers politics. Himself an upstart, he robed himself a grandmaster and became the head of a colony of upstarts. But because he had the means to make noise about a fathom prowess, he was taken too seriously by the APC stakeholders and other observers.

Now, the chickens are coming home to roost. Simply, Amaechi, even as a minister, does not have what it takes to impact the fundamentals of Rivers politics. He is, perhaps, taking the miracle of 2007 when he became governor without standing for election and without help from high quarters, too far. He now sees himself as God’s chosen who cannot be vanquished in battles. It is always the case with persons who lay claim to some strange anointing. They don’t know when that anointing expires. It happened to King Saul. He did not know when the spirit of God departed from him and in his delusion, he had moved against the purpose of God.

If the Grace is sufficient to strike a height, the character to stay on top and even soar, remains the responsibility of the individual. To be fair, God has done His bit regarding Amaechi but he, Amaechi, has failed to combine character with grace to remain tenable. He is on a political down turn not because of limited opportunities, but his inordinate quest for personal glory, which belies the purpose of God to make everyman/woman a servant and not master of humanity.

In other words, Amaechi cannot seek God outside the people of Rivers State. He should allow the people to decide. At Easter last year, he converted himself to a cross bearer; carrying a version that was almost bigger than the one bore by the Lord Christ Himself on the way to Calvary. It was a calculated spectacle to underscore the so-called persecution of Amaechi by hostile quarters and how he hoped to survive his travails clinging to the Old Rugged Cross. He forgot, for whatever reason, to re-enact the spectacle this year.

But now that there is fear of fresh persecution by local forces as against federal forces and as evident in the Rivers re-run, the cross bearing spectacle may return soon. Amaechi must reclaim his possession from enemies at all costs. The cost so far in terms of men and material is huge. It includes the death of a Youth Corps member and many others and destruction of property worth hundreds of millions. Still, the re-run remains inconclusive and yet unclear what it will cost to make it conclusive.

Even so, the Supreme Court had done so much with its validation of the governorship election in Rivers and other states to save cost. The cost in human and material loss could only be imagined if the governorship were among the elective seats open for grabs in the inconclusive Rivers State re-run. The cost is still running pending when INEC will make the re-run conclusive.

Abraham Ogbodo
http://guardian.ng/opinion/the-re-run-that-concluded-amaechi/

Dont lyk d video ;its fake and i dont think super woman should be the name.... There was nothing super about dat woman and if he z convinced she z super, why luv her gradually?

Please where can i download complete movies with small size? Have been lukin for the Scent of a Woman by al pacino? Tks

Potatoes will always potate! Hahaha

Nna mehn!

ionsman:
The initiator of common sense revolution. ...

Haters will always hate.

Potatoes will always potate.

Ameachi will always elevate.

Who are see Chief Zebrudaya? Since Chief are do campaign advert finish for Jonathan who are fail elections, nobody are see or hear of him?

Who are see Chief Zebrudaya? Since Chief are do campaign advert finish for Jonathan who are fail elections, nobody are see or hear of him?

The guy z gud and his works a wonder!

Xposer:
dis is so sad...rip to the dead

"die is so sad.... " this person must be yoruba. These ond graduates... Common english dey no fit spark... Oya na

In jonathan's govt, ppl stole according to their size.

Chikpat:
I never believed Bruce. He z just a disgusting, moda fucking nigga dat believes "this z his chance". All talk, no work and no substance. He z highly hypocritic and dats why we don't believe a very self seeking moda foka.

We have seen and had enough of them. Somebody shud tell Bruce to go try anoda strategy!

I never believed Bruce. He z just a disgusting, moda fucking nigga dat believes "this z his chance". All talk, no work and no substance. He z highly hypocritic and dats why we don't believe a very self seeking moda foka.

D chief z rada certain of what he is saying and went foda to name the Benin Prince dat wandered to Ife. D Ife kingdom should agree or disagree with the claim that Owodo was an Ife king, and then they shud agree or odawise on Owodo's origin. I bet you, dis chief can defend dis anywhere, anytym, anyday. D man sabi

asuustrike2009:
they need to bury their heads in shame. they have to wait till 2019 to petition Wike, nonsense.

You need to go on strike till 2019 before you start unstanding....

Chai! Who will compensate the owner of the goat na?

I stand with Omojuwa. Enough of all these pretentious and pharasiac attitude of Ben. He shud get down to work and stop filling spaces in d media wen he is elected to fill spaces and add values elsewhere.

"We need to become the party of young men and women with new ideas and not a party of political dinosaurs.... "

ABUJA- FORMER Senate President and a stakeholder of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ken Nnamani Saturday dumped the party, saying he was stepping aside from partisan politics in the mean time. Ken Nnamani told the leadership of the party that his exit from the PDP became imperative because his advise and appeal to the party leadership that there was the urgent need to rebuild the party after it lost the 2015 elections and to address the problem of impunity, fell on deaf ears. In a letter to the leadership of the party and obtained by our Correspondent, the former President of the Senate said, “We need to become a party of technocrats and professionals and not a party of mercenaries and rent seekers. We need to become the party of young men and women with new ideas and not a party of political dinosaurs. It is clear now that these pleas have fallen on deaf ear.” According to him, the party was every day faced with the crisis of confidence and the contradictions in the party deepen, warning that the PDP would continue to lose members and morale if the situation was not addressed. In the letter titled, “PDP, the Burden and My Conscience,”Nnamani said,“without any iota of bitterness in my heart, I have decided to disengage from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and consequently step aside from partisan politics in the interim. I wish to express my profound gratitude to the party that gave me the platform with which I attained the height I did in the politics of our country.“ How I wish the efforts I mounted with some of my colleagues (many of whom have left the party) to keep the PDP on the path of its noble vision and values had been supported by those who were privileged to be at the helm of affairs of the party, it would have been a different day for the PDP. It would have been a day of victory and pride not of defeat and shame.“ I recall that the virus of corruption of values and mission was what those my colleagues and I set out to cure through the formation of the PDP Reform Forum in 2010/11.“We worked hard to draw up a new direction for the Party. This was to help steer the party away from illegality and impropriety so that PDP can fulfil its promise of being a vanguard of Nigeria’s political and economic development. “A direction defined by strict adherence to basic rules and morality in the management of party affairs. Chief of these values is respect for choice of party members in electing party candidates for elections. With more than half a decade of championing such a fundamental but simple idea, I regret that the PDP leadership continues to rebuff internal democracy.“ The party allowed itself to be blinded by hubris to believe that it will remain in power and influence for 60 years in spite of several gross missteps and grievous misnomer. We foresaw this ditch and prescribed how to avert falling into it. But we were dismissed as idealistic. Today the idealists have become realists.“ Recently, even after our avoidable abysmal electoral defeat, I continued to believe that we can still chart a new course and retrieve victory from the jaw of defeat. I continued to urge the leadership of the party to believe that the time of defeat could be the time of renewal, and that renewal requires strategic thinking and bold actions. I urged that this is a time to re-embrace internal democracy and principled leadership to reposition the party for new politics. We are living in different times and we need new tools, ethos and codes of conduct. We need to become a party of technocrats and professionals and not a party of mercenaries and rent seekers. “ We need to become the party of young men and women with new ideas and not a party of political dinosaurs. It is clear now that these pleas have fallen on deaf ears. Every day the crisis of confidence and the contradictions in our party deepen. We continue to lose members and morale.“ The rebuilding some of us had urged on the leadership is not happening. Those who led us to defeat are determined to continue to lead the party as undertakers.“ I do not believe I should continue to be a member of the PDP as it is defined today. This is certainly not the party I joined years ago to help change my country. I do not also believe that the PDP as it is managed today will provide an opportunity for me to continue to play the politics of principles and values which I set for myself as a young man on leaving graduate school and working for a large multinational in the United States in the 70s and 80s.“Therefore, today I resign my membership of the PDP. In stepping out of partisan politics for the meantime, I will continue to be politically engaged. I will also continue to support the government and all the elected officers in Nigeria to repositioning the nation. I will also constructively criticize them when by commission or omission they take actions that could damage the prospects of transforming Nigeria into a productive, merit-based and honestly governed country.“As I leave PDP, I wish the leaders a new awakening and ethical revival. I cherish all the friends I made while in PDP and hope the friendship will continue to flourish.”It would be recalled that in November last year, Nnamanihad led 33 leaders and elders of the party to the NationalWorking Committee (NWC) to partner with them, the Board of Trustees (BOT) and the National Executive Committee (NEC) aimed at rebuilding the party for the great task ahead.The group led by the former Senate President had also called for urgent need to fill the vacancy created by resignation of the former National Chairman of the Party, Ahmed Adamu Muazu, in line with Article 47(6) of PDP Constitution, which provide that “where a vacancy occurs in any offices of the Party, the Executive Committee at the appropriate level shall appoint anotherperson from the area or zone where the officer originated from, pending the conduct of election to fill the vacancy.”
Some of the 33 members led Nnamani, who had earlier advised the party NWC members were Sen. Esther Nenadi Usman; Prof. Rufai Ahmed Alkali, Senator Bala Mohammed; Gambo Lawan; Senator Ibrahim Mantu, Ahmed Gulak, Abubakar Gada; Onyebuchi Chukwu; Ndudi Elumelu, Jumoke Akinjide; Jimi Agbaje, Prof.ABC Nwosu, Babangida Aliyu, Achike Udenwa, among others.

By Henry Umoru

Itaarh:
Gbam! E don happen, phase 1.

D man desperately needs to be governor to cover his ass where he can and where he cant, to hide under immunity.

E-be-le-be! E-be-le-be!! Serves him E-be-le-be!!!

Hehehe. If he is guilty whether today or tmrw, he shud face the music.

A group - Peoples Coalition against Corruption has urged the federal government and its anti-corruption agencies to launch investigation on the activities of Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike for acts of corruption spanning the last five years.In a statement signed by Peter Iloagbeze, the group accused the governor of massive theft and diversion of resources from the Tetfund; the swindling of over N100billion Universal Basic Education Fund, as well as conversion and diversion over N20billion of the Ministry of Education budgets in four years, among others.It also called on the presidency, the EFCC, ICPC, Nigeria Police and DSS toinvestigate acts of stealing, diversion of public funds, corrupt practices by colluding public servants in NDDC and the Rivers State government; as well as forgery, fraud, presentation of forged documents with the intent to deceive public officials, national sabotage, money laundering and other economic crimes.“We call for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the Staff of NDDC, RVSG, CICO, RCC, as well as the Bank official that colluded to swindle Rivers State andNigeria,” the statement said.Accusing the governor of a deliberate attempt to deceive and swindle the Rivers State Government, the group alleged that as Minister of State for Education between 2012 and May 29, 2015, he caused to be awarded to himselfthrough his companies and cronies several contracts which he did not execute but for which he received full payment.“For instance, on the 28th day of June 2012, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) under the hand of Engr. E. Eshett awarded the CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF RUMUEPIRIKOM INTERNAL ROADS (PHASE 1 & 2), OBIO/AKPO to CICO INDUSTRIES LTD for the sum of#2,673,121,782.24 (Two Billion, Six Hundred and Seventy-Three Million, One Hundred and Twenty-One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Eighty-Two Naira and Twenty-Four Kobo),” it said. “Beside the fact that CICO INDUSTRIES LTD, is not a Civil Engineering company they were awarded with the contract for the construction of Rumueprikom Internal Roads and have been fully paid by NDDC, using his crony Hon. Henry Ogiri.”According to the statement, CICO did not execute that job.“Instead, in 2015, upon emergence as the Governor of Rivers State, Barr. Nyesom Wike, knowing that the same road had been awarded to him through MESSER CICO INDUSTRIES LTD for which he had been paid did without any form of compliance with the Rivers State Procurement Law and in other to cover his criminal act and intention, surreptitiously awarded the same RUMUEPRIKOM INTERNAL ROADS to RENNIER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY (RCC) for even a high amount than the pricing of the NDDC.”The group said its investigations in RCC revealed that the Governor then went further to compel the company to do the job for N2billion less than the cost shown on Government Records as the price of the job.“The investigation also revealed that the company was cajoled to do the job as a condition for them to receive payment for their Trans Amadi - Woji - Elelenwo- Akpajo Road awarded to them by the past administration in the State. As it stands on records today, NDDC has Rumueprikom Internal Road awarded to CICO (WIKE) in 2012 for over N2.6billion; RVSG has the same road awarded to RCC and another company (both for WIKE) in 2015 for over N3.4billion.”It stress that the most painful part is that as of now, not even up to 35% of the work has been achieved despite such huge amounts having been swindled from the treasures of Rivers State and Nigeria.



Posted byOlu Famous

Obj z frank and straight to the point. We continue to remember d chibok girls in our heart, our thoughts and prayers. Who knows? God can amaze us someday! Maybe

E-be-le-be! E-be-le-be!!

This story is really sad...I don't even know how to describe it. Read for yourself...Noela Rukundo sat in a car outside her home, watching as the last few mourners filed out. They were leaving a funeral —her funeral.Finally, she spotted the man she’d been waiting for. She stepped out of her car, and her husband put his hands on his head in horror.“Is it my eyes?” she recalled him saying. “Is it a ghost?”“Surprise! I’m still alive!” she replied.Far from being elated, the man looked terrified. Five days ago, he had ordered ateam of hit men to kill Noela, his partner of 10 years. And they did — well, they told him they did. They even got him to pay an extra few thousand dollars for carrying out the crime.Now here was his wife, standing before him.In an interview with the BBC, Noela recalled how he touched her shoulder to find it unnervingly solid. He jumped. Then he started screaming.“I’m sorry for everything,” he wailed.But it was far too late for apologies; Noela called the police. The husband, Balenga Kalala, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine years in prison for incitement to murder, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC).The happy ending — or, as happy as can be expected to a saga in which a man tries to have his wife killed — was made possible by three unusually principled hit men, a helpful pastor and one incredibly gutsy woman: Noela herself.Here is how she pulled it off:Noela’s ordeal began almost exactly a year ago, when she flew from her home in Melbourne with her husband, Kalala, to attend a funeral in her native Burundi. Her stepmother had died and the service left her saddened and stressed. She retreated to her hotel room in Bujumbura, the capital, early in the evening; despondent after the events of the day, she lay down in bed.Then her husband called. “He told me to go outside for fresh air,” she told the BBC.But the minute Noela stepped out of her hotel, a man charged forward, pointing a gun right at her.“Don’t scream,” she recalled him saying. “If you start screaming, I will shoot you. They’re going to catch me, but you? You will already be dead.”Noela, terrified, did as she was told. She was ushered into a car and blindfoldedso she couldn’t see where she was being taken. After 30 or 40 minutes, the car came to a stop, and Noela was pushed into a building and tied to a chair.She could hear male voices, she told the ABC. One asked her, “You woman, what did you do for this man to pay us to kill you?”“What are you talking about?” Noela demanded.“Balenga sent us to kill you.”They were lying. She told them so. And they laughed. “You’re a fool,” they told her.There was the sound of a dial tone, and a male voice coming through a speakerphone. It was her husband’s voice.“Kill her,” he said. And Noela fainted.Noela had met her husband 11 years earlier, right after she arrived in Australia from Burundi, according to the BBC. He was a recent refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and they had the same social worker at the resettlement agency that helped them get on their feet. Since Kalala already knew English, their social worker often recruited him to translate for Noela, who spoke Swahili.They fell in love, moved in together in the Melbourne suburb of Kings Park, and had three children (Noela also had five kids from a previous relationship). She learned more about her husband’s past — he had fled a rebel army that had ransacked his village, killing his wife and young son. She also learned more about his character.“I knew he was a violent man,” Rukundo told the BBC. “But I didn’t believe he can kill me.”But, it appeared, he could.Noela came to the strange building somewhere near Bujumbura. The kidnappers were still there, she told the ABC.They weren’t going to kill her, the men then explained — they didn’t believe in killing women, and they knew her brother. But they would keep her husband’s money and tell him that she was dead.After two days, they set her free on the side of a road, but not before giving her a mobile phone, recordings of their phone conversations with Kalala, and receipts for the $7,000 in Australian dollars they allegedly received in payment, according to Australia’s The Age.“We just want you to go back, to tell other women like you what happened,” Noela said she was told before the gang members drove away.Shaken, but alive and doggedly determined, Noela began plotting her next move.She sought help from the Kenyan and Belgian embassies to return to Australia, according to The Age. Then she called the pastor of her church in Melbourne, she told the BBC, and explained to him what had happened. Without alerting Kalala, the pastor helped her get back home to her neighborhood near Melbourne.Balenga Kalala paid $7000 for his partner to be kidnapped and murdered.Meanwhile, her husband had told everyone she had died in a tragic accident andthe entire community mourned her at her funeral at the family home. On the night of Feb. 22, 2015, just as the "widower" Kalala waved goodbye to neighborswho had come to comfort him, Noela approached him, the very man whose voice she’d heard over the phone five days earlier, ordering that she be killed.“I felt like somebody who had risen again,” she told the BBC.Though Kalala denied all involvement, Noela got him to confess to the crime during a phone conversation that was secretly recorded by police, according to The Age.“Sometimes Devil can come into someone, to do something, but after they do itthey start thinking, ‘Why I did that thing?’ later,” he said, as he begged her to forgive him.Kalala eventually pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to nine years in prison by a judge in Melbourne.“Had Ms Noela's kidnappers completed the job, eight children would have lost their mother,” Chief Justice Marilyn Warren said, according to the ABC. “It was premeditated and motivated by unfounded jealousy, anger and a desire to punish Ms. Noela.”Noela said that Kalala tried to kill her because he thought she was going to leave him for another man — an accusation she denies.But her trials are not yet over. Noela told the ABC she’s gotten backlash from Melbourne’s Congolese community for reporting Kalala to the police. Someoneleft threatening messages for her, and she returned home one day to find her back door broken. She now has eight children to raise alone, and has asked the Department of Human Services to help her find a new place to live.And lying in bed at night, Kalala’s voice still comes to her: “Kill her, kill her,” she told the BBC. “Every night, I see what was happening in those two days with the kidnappers.”Despite all that, “I will stand up like a strong woman,” she said. “My situation, mypast life? That is gone. I’m starting a new life now.”What is your take from this incident? Are there any lessons you have learned? Any new perspectives you have gained? We learn everyday from the experiences of others, because it plays a big part in helping us become better people.Source: Washington Post- May God deliver us from the enemy who's living with us and sleeping with us. Amen!!!

The Supreme Court decision that upheld the dubious and fraudulent elections that took place in Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Abia States has sent a dangerous signal to the political landscape and at once put a question mark on anti corruption project of President Buhari’s administration. I was stunned into disbelief that the Supreme Court of Nigeria should in one fell swoop render nugatory all the Tribunals and Appeal Court rulings with respect to Rivers, AkwaIbom, and Abia States without thinking about the bizarre consequences of such unilateral actions in the body polity. That the Supreme Court of Nigeria will totally ignore the massive fraud, massive violence, brutal murder and humiliation of innocent citizens of this country and go ahead to announce electoral fraudsters as governors portends grave danger to our renascent democracy. President Buhari who was elected by Nigerians to fight corruption to a standstill had alerted the nation last week that his biggest headache in the fight against corruption is the judiciary. Few days later the worst happened at the Supreme Court of Nigeria to confirm the President fears. A seven man bench led by chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed ignored the mass killings, hooliganism and brigandage in the three States, ignored the weighty and empirical evidences made available, ignored the reports of International Observers and independent observers and went ahead to circumvent the Peoples’ expectations by rewarding the offenders instead of rewarding the offended. The late Nwafor Orizu says that it is not that the offended cannot forgive but has the offender repented?Now this unthinkable decision at the Apex Court has thrown up a lot of questions: Who are these Supreme Court Judges? Of what meat were they fed?Where are they coming from? What are their antecedents and pedigree? What is their background? Do we know their character? Who appointed them Judges?Was it on merit or just to create jobs for the boys? Can anybody educate Nigerians about these Judges? Do they know the agenda and the focus of this government? Do they live among us? What do they know about political corruption? What informed their decision to do what they did? What was on their minds as they were delivering this judgment? Did they give a thought aboutthose ordinary Nigerians who were maimed and murdered? Do they worry about the feelings of the people of Nigeria? Do they care about the feelings of the observers who saw it all? Are they members of PDP?The fight for corruption whether political corruption or economic corruption remains the focal point of this government. A friend tells me that political corruption is more dangerous than economic corruption. If we are able to reduce corruption in Nigeria by 80% Price Waterhouse Coppers says the Gross Domestic Product GDP will hit two trillion Dollars by 2030. If we kill corruption in Nigeria Commerce and business alone can build our economy even without oil. This is the more reason why well meaning Nigerians must support President Buhari to clear the Augean Stable in Nigeria. But corruption is fighting back from all corners. We see corruption fighting back in National Assembly. We see corruption fighting back in the judiciary. We see corruption fighting back in PDP. We see corruption fighting back on the pages of our Newspapers and TV Stations .We see corruption fighting back even from the ordinary Nigerians. We see corruption fighting even from the unexpected quarters. This is the real danger. Justices of the Supreme Court are also Nigerians. We all buy from the same market. They too need money. They need to pay school fees for their Children abroad. They need to buy houses in choice areas of Nigeria. They love exotic cars also. They love good things of life. They can be corrupt too. The fact that somebody is appointed the Supreme Court judge does not make him or her a super person. Corruption is not written on anybody’s face. Therefore let nobody think that supreme courts judges are immune to corruption. If the Supreme Court justices are found to be corrupt then their decisions may not be final because they are not God. I fear the judges are using their excessive powers to play to the gallery and this must be thoroughly investigated. I suggest we investigate their earnings , their investments and Bank Statements here and abroad. This is the way to go at this stage and age. If gold begins to rust what will iron do? Eneke the bird says when men learn to shoot without missing it will fly without perching. The recent developments at the apex court calls for new thinking , new ideas, new method , and new approach. I speak for those who were killed during the elections. I speak for those were maimed and wounded . I speak for those who cannot speak for themselves . I speak for the weak, the helpless and the hapless. I speak for the ordinary citizens of Nigeria who were intimidated and robbed by electoral criminals in those three states. I implore Nigerians to help this president to succeed. Many talk about the economy, many say that president Buhari has no plans for the economy and they say that naira/ dollar relationship is 300/1. But those who know better know that corruption is the biggest problem in Nigeria. If we do not kill corruption corruption will kill Nigeria. President Buhari is breaking his back for Nigeria. President Buhari is bitting bullets to save Nigeria. President Buhari is drilling the deepest well to take back Nigeria from unconscionable looters. President Buhari is going extra miles to do the unthinkable to save Nigeria. President Buhari is taking the biggest risk in the world for the sake of Nigeria. This president is trying to pull down the Tower of Babel single handedly. Investment funds are in the pockets of few Nigerians.
The money that will build the power sector, security architecture, roads, hospitals, schools, create jobs,and efficient transportation systems etc in order to attract foreign investments are in the private pockets. Get this money , invest it and create the needed momentum and the economy will bounce back.
Now here is what I read online yesterday: ‘You want Naira to be strong against the Dollar? Very simple!
1.Replace your Kellogg with Nasco
2.Replace your Toyota/Honda fleet with Innoson
3.Buy your funiture from Benin not US or Italy
4.Get your Rug from Nobel not Dubai
5.Instead of champagne try palmwine
6.Clothes can be made in Lagos not only in Paris
7.Aba shoes are as good as those you buy in London‪’
Case rested!

Once again, Obasanjo did what he does best. Adorning a toga of the conscience of the nation, he embarked on a crusade on her behalf. In a letter dated January 13, he wanted Bukola Saraki the Senate President and his counterpart in the Lower House to look into ‘the mind-boggling expenditure going into cars, furniture, housing renovation which he said were ‘veritable sources of waste and corruption’; the ‘different disingenuous ways and devices the legislature employed to overturn the recommendation of the RMAFC in order to hike up for themselves that which they are unwilling to spell out in detail’; and challenged them to “have the courage to publish its recurrent budgets for the years 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 to enable comparisons made between their emoluments and those of their counterparts in Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and even Malaysia and Indonesia who are richer and more developed than we are. Many have wondered what qualified Obasanjo for this periodic crusade which he first embarked upon shortly after handing over power voluntarily to Shehu Shagari in 1979. Fate ceded that role to Obasanjo. For instance others fought the civil war, he took the glory. The assassination of Murtala Mohammed in 1976 threw him up. He faithfully implemented the transition programme and thereafter became a respected international statesman. He was to later exercise tremendous influence on the administrations of shehu Shagari , Ibrahim Babangida and General Abacha who sent him to Gashua prison. Our country is also unique in many respects. Nigeria is the only known federation where you could become an elected president twice without being sponsored by any of the federating building blocks. With such a feat, akin only to climbing the palm tree from the top, leaders like Obasanjo can, in defiance of all known sociological state model builders’ postulations that a man is first a product of a family before becoming a member of a group, believe he can indeed climb the palm tree from the top by being a Nigerian first and Yoruba as an afterthought. Obasanjo probably actually believes he is ‘Mr. Nigeria’. Not his wife’s book that detailed his humble beginning or his dearest daughter, Iyabo’s public chastisement about thinking he owns Nigeria could cure him of the illusion that without Obasanjo, there will be no Nigeria. And by virtue of being PDP leader in and out of office since 1999, Obasanjo can lay claim to the title of ‘ father of all the corrupt elements that have held our nation to ransom since 1999’. After all, the 22 elected PDP governors in 1999 out of which 17 were indicted for corruption by 2008, all the successive PDP chairmen, senate presidents and speakers of the lower house between 1999 and 2015 address Obasanjo as ‘Baba’. Of course Saraki and Dogara of the Senate and the House of Assembly are Obasanjo PDP grandchildren. His house was Saraki’s first port of call after trading off the victory of his party in order to usurp the senate presidency. Obasanjo, knows Saraki the target of his crusade this time around like the palm of his hands in the same manner he knows his other illustrious, some will say notorious, children such as Diepreye Alamieseigha, Odili, Ibori, Igbinedion, Okupe, Fayose, Daniel, Jolly Nyame, Joshua Dariye, Boni Haruna, Mu’ azu, Chris Uba who locked up governor Chris Ngige, like a common criminal over the sharing of confiscated Anambra government funds and ex-president Jonathan who says stealing was not corruption. But does Obasanjo expect Saraki to give what he has not got?Well, Saraki also seems to know his father and how to massage his ego. Like a son who knows how to manipulate his father, Saraki praised President Obasanjo ‘for his consistent role in always reminding those of us in government about our responsibilities to the general public and offering timely advice where necessary’. He was however silent on his father’s accusation of massive corruption, greed, impunity and lawlessness at the National Assembly as well as his claim that most members of the 469-member assembly were receiving constituency allowances without maintaining constituency offices as the law requires of them. Saraki then went on to speak vaguely about the senate’s commitment ‘to good governance, transparency, accountability, due process and responsiveness to the economic reality of our nation’. On his part, Dino Melaye’s reaction to Obasanjo’s letter seems to reflect his special endowment-capacity to play the clown and the reflective. Unfortunately most people who watch his theatrics on television trying to justify abandoning his senate duties to accompany Toyin Saraki to EFCC’s office or to justify his role in the invasion of CCT along with 84 senators during the senate president’s arraignment for false declaration of assets will most likely associate him with the former. Few remember Melaye had the presence of mind during the obscene N8.64b National Assembly wardrobe allowance controversy to tell his colleagues ‘they cannot be talking about change and this kind of money in this country now when people are hungry.’ But tragically, following Obasanjo’s warning that ‘‘it will not only be insensitive but callously so for leaders, who call for sacrifice from the citizenry to live in obscene opulence’, the same Senator Melaye, like a clown comically says: ‘Our leader has mistaken the 8th National Assembly as the same National Assembly that defrauded him in 2007; that is those who collected his money and refused to implement the third term agenda… I appeal to Baba that we are not the ones please. After nine years of that bribery saga, the first of its kind, I expect forgiveness to have taken place”. He also said: “There was the case of bribery introduced by the Obasanjo regime in the desperate attempt to remove Speaker Ghali Umar Na’Abba from office then. In fact, there was an open display of that bribery money on the floor of the House”. Concluding, Melaye asks; “I hope this is not in an attempt to cover up and distract attention from the Halliburton and Siemens corruption allegations?’’ But if one may ask the irrepressible Melaye, what has this clowning got to do with the massive corruption Obasanjo claims is going in the National Assembly?The truth however is that slippery Saraki, clowning Dino Melaye along with cunning Obasanjo, their father, are all parts of the problem and can therefore not be parts of the solution. The challenge before our nation is how to move beyond the baleful legacies of Obasanjo and those of his PDP children that breed nothing but corruption. The starting point is for APC oligarchy to take control of their party and use it as weapon for development as has been done in all developed democracies. Nigerians voted for APC because it promises change. Their job will be made easier if they allow all the senators that do not share their party’s world-view to join PDP. Now with the success recorded with the card readers, politicians now know Nigerians don’t actually suffer from collective amnesia as they had made us to believe. Those greedy clowning senators who want Nigeria taxpayers to cough out N8.64b as wardrobe allowance and the Saraki ‘like mind’ senators who think Saraki as number three citizen of the country owes Nigeria no explanation as to the source of the massive wealth he allegedly amassed between 1990 and 2009 should be given a choice to re-join PDP and await the verdict of voters in 2019.
By Jide Oluwajuyitan, The Nation.

Fayose Opens Up on The Rigging & Using Military to WinEkitiThe Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has claimed that the allegation by his former close man who was the Secretary of the PDP in Ekiti State, Mr. Tope Aluko, that the military was used to influence the outcome of the June 21, 2014 governorship election in the state, is a ploy by the APC to rubbish the mandate freely given to him by the people of the state.He said such a wild allegation could only come from Aluko, who he refused to appoint as his Chief of Staff “because he could not be entrusted with such a sensitive position.”Fayose, according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, wondered when the opposition would stop licking their wounds when the election conducted about 20 months ago had been adjudged as free and fair and applauded by the election observers.He said, “All these steps are being taken by the APC to silence me because of my criticism of obnoxious policies of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, but I cannot be silenced. If I, Ayo Fayose, remains the last man standing to put Buhari administration on its toes, I will not look back. Strong opposition is an ingredient of a virile democracy. I don’t have any skeleton in my cupboard. If the APC has any concrete evidence against me, it should give itto the EFCC.”Fayose added that, “From Aluko’s ranting, one could see that he wants to poison our waters because he did not get the position he expected in our administration. He complained that he was not made the Chief of Staff, how could somebody with great lust for money and insatiable drive to jump from one camp to the other be trusted with such a sensitive post? I was advised by well-meaning Ekiti people not to trust him with sensitive positions because of his greed.”Anyway, the military has pen down some names for sanction after investigations confirmed that they indeed did a lot to rig the election in Ekiti for Fayose. But time will tell where the issue will end.

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