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1. Troops escorting ammunitions and missiles from Abuja to Army Central Ammunition Depot in Kaduna State were attacked by some members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria. Their target was the arms and ammunition since their warehouse was randomly defeated by the Nigerian state in a raid carried out in 2015.
2. IMN carries out a well organised training military programmes, especially for the training of cadets and different categories of militias to kill civillians and security operatives that oppose their orders on citizens.
3. El-Zakzakky carries out false Islamic propaganda that give youths false hope regarding their future, that the emergence of an alternative government in Nigeria was imminent- an Iranian government under the control of Zakzaky as President. This is against the Nigerian constitution as neither El- Zakzakky nor his group is a registered political entity to stand for any election in Nigeria.
4. Iran, their sponsors are well known for exporting terrorism all over the world. Iranian government use IMN militias as minorities as tools in Muslim countries or countries with a sizable Muslim population to torment Christians and people of other faith and visit them with death. This has been the practice with IMN in Nigeria as they block major highways and beat up anyone that dares their rulership of the country where they are found.
“They exist in foreign countries to interfere into their internal affairs. They subvert governments and compromise their sovereignty
5. Residents of Gyellesu Community in Zaria, Kaduna State, have called on the Federal Government to ban the Islamic Movement of Nigeria because of the harassment and intimidation of innocent people in the area allegedly by members of the sect.
Kaduna citizens just like other Nigerians deserve their peace and their rights to religion, thought and conscience have been largely compromised by IMN militias.
6. Right from the inception, the IMN has the practice of radicalizing its members which resulted in frequent clashes with constituted authorities in Zaria, its environs and many states across the Nation. This led to disruption and threat to peace, law, and order. They don’t respect Nigerian security agencies such as the Army, Police and other agencies to maintain law and order since they see El- Zakzakky as their defacto C-in- C.
7. The IMN is a violent and radicalized movement. It has the well-established structure of command, with branches across Nigeria that can control different cells and garner international support from its external Shiites confraternities and allies. It also has more than a million members, the majority of who turn into agents of extremist atrocities, often premised on some historical grievances against the Nigerian state and as well as financial benefits. They pay protesters and fighters to attack other citizens.
8. The IMN and it’s Sponsors in Nigeria have links to al-Qaeda and ISIS in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria and if nothing is done to contain the group urgently, it will plunge the nation into a catastrophe of immense proportion above that of Boko Haram as at 2014 and 2015 in Nigeria.
9. The IMN has hundreds of paramilitary guards called hurras. These hurras act as Army and Police at the same time and bear unauthorized weapons against the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
10. It owns a Hausa language newspaper that honors IMN “martyrs,” a Hausa radio station called Shuhada (the martyrs), an al-Zakzaky Facebook page, and an IMN website with faces of Iran’s Khomeini, Khamenei and al-Zakzaky on every page and all are used to propagate unauthorized messages of hate against the Nigerian State and its leadeship.
11. On 30th October, 2018 without any provocation, members of the IMN went on rampage and burnt down a Police Rapid Response Squad (RRS) patrol vehicle deployed at Ademola Adetokumbo Crescent in Abuja. Some policemen were injured whilst one who sustained grievous injury after the attack has since died.
12. The IMN fights the army and wages war against the military in the media and cyberspace. Iran provides tactical training for fighting on the streets while unleashing propaganda in the media and online in an attempt to destabilize the country’s armed forces for a possible breakdown of law and order.

Revealed: How $500 million bribe to destabilize Nigeria, tore Dokubo And Nnamdi Kanu apart https://www.thenigerian.news/revealed-how-500-million-bribe-to-destabilize-nigeria-tore-dokubo-and-nnamdi-kanu-apart/amp/

There has been a rift recently between the runaway leader of the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) and the ex militant leader, Alhaji Asari Dokubo. The duo has been enmeshed in a war of words brandished in barrages of accusations and counter accusation.

The fight which has laid bare before the public glare, their dirty linens was started By the ex militant leader who in a video shared by Igbere TV called out Nnamdi Kanu whom he accussed of procuring assassins to murder evangelist Nwoko, the Enugu state based clearic who is an avowed critic of Kanu.

The indeginous people of Biafra however debunked the accusation accusing Mujaheed Dokubo Asari of being sponsored by the government to denigrate the personality of Nnamdi Kanu and bring him to public Odium.

The NigerianNews exclusively gathered over the weekend that the once rosy relationship between the duo who were always seen supporting each other's course, went soar after Nnamdi Kanu collected $500 million meant for the struggle to destabilize Nigeria and instead of bringing it to the table to be shared by the stakeholders, used the guise of running away for his life due to the unbearable activities of the operation python dance troops, to make away with the money. He is said to have kept on promising Dokubo that he will make the money available for the course when the atmosphere is calm but an impatient Dokubo red deception into the phantom promises and could not take being swindled by Kanu after all the youth mobilisation and support for Kanu's IPOB activities. He is said t be prepared to go any learnt in holding Kanu to ransome to ensure his own share of the bribe money is collected.

Asari Dokubo who Nnamdi Kanu claimed was given $20million for the struggle and who was also accused of collecting $10million from the petroleum minister during Jonathan's government, Allison Madueke, in a recent video dismissed it as rumors and touted Nnamdi Kanu for running away after decieving many youths into believing in his "money generating" struggle for the purported emancipation of Biafra.

This goes a long way to give hints to the many struggle that the youths have come to champion in Nigeria. It has sadly diminished the respect many IPOB members had for Nnamdi Kanu. It is sad and reprehensible that such a humongous amount of money accrued to IPOB and they never cared about the families of those who lost their lives in the struggle nor did they make provisions for those who got injured and are today living with one form of disability or the other.

Revealed: Buhari secretly constitute cabinet in london https://www.thenigerian.news/revealed-buhari-secretly-constitute-cabinet-in-london/amp/

President Mohammed Buhari departed Nigeria for London after a project commissioning visit to Lagos and Bornu states respectively. According to his senior spokesperson on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu. The President is scheduled to spend 11days in London on what the publicity scribe described as a personal visit.

Many Nigerians have however reacted to the rationale behind the President's unscheduled London visit. Many assumptions have been made chiefly pointing to the possibility of the President visiting London for medical attention.

A top politician who is very much abreast with the happenings in the camp of the President spoke with the NigerianNews laughing off the insuations about the President being on a medical visit to London. The party chieftain who does not want his name mentioned said.
"The people are ignorant. We do not blame them. The President is hale and hearty. The undertone behind the President's visit is to be free from any pressures so as to carefully select capable hands that will run the administration for the next few years. Mamman Daura is there with him. They are coming back with the names of the favoured appointees. You do not have need to panic".
All efforts made to get the names of the possible cabinet members selected in London from the influential politician met a brisk block as he urged our correspondent to await its unveiling on May 29.

Recall that there has been pressure mounting on the president to name his cabinet especially, with the ruling party recently compiling a list of what it called "loyal party men" ostensibly to be considered for appointment by Mr President. The president is also said to be considering enlarging his cabinet to 42 members to contain the many interests within and outside his party. This possibility stems from the defeat suffered at the polls by some arrowheads within the party and staunch supporters of the President at the 2019 general elections and the need to accommodate them to avoid their crepting into political wilderness. Chiefly among these is, Senator Geoge Akume who lost re-election to a three time member of the house of reps and the chairman house committee on rules and business, Rt Hon. Emmanuel Orker Jev of the PDP, the immediate past senate minority leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio who defected to the APC and lost re-election to the hallowed chambers of the senate to now Sentor-elect, Christopher Ekpeyong also of the PDP among others.

The president is said to be confused on how to accommodate the hundreds of very serious political interests in a position requiring not more than 42 men hence his private visit to London with Mamman Daura to efectively select from these men without undue influence.

Revealed: Buhari secretly constitute cabinet in london https://www.thenigerian.news/revealed-buhari-secretly-constitute-cabinet-in-london/amp/

The former Togolese Captain and international star revealed shockings setbacks that almost led fo him ending his own life. Read full news below
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NIGERIAN MEN IN USA ON RAMPAGE MURDERING THEIRNIGERIAN WIVES.

In a report written by a Nigerian based in the united states, Alexander Otti and published by African world news international, Nigerian men residing in the united States are said to be murdering their wives in cold blood. Hereunder is the detailed report

Not every man can take the disappointing and humiliation from NIgeria wives imported to America. Wives killers on rampage in the US.

An Epidemic: Nigerian Men Killing Their Nurse Wives In America "Yes, I have killed the woman that messed up my life; the woman that has destroyed me. I am at Shalom West. My name is David and I am all yours.” Those were David Ochola’s words during his 911 (U.S. Emergency Number) call to authorities after shooting dead, his 28 years old wife, Priscilla Ochola, in Hennepin, Minnesota.

The 50-years old, husband was tired of being “disrespected” by his wife, a Registered Nurse (RN) whom he had brought from Nigeria and sponsored through nursing school only to have her make much more than him in salary - a situation which led to Mrs. Ochola “coming and going as she chose without regard for her husband.”

The couple had two children – four years old boy and a three year old girl.

In Texas, Babajide Okeowo had been separated from his wife, Funke Okeowo, with whom he resided at their Dallas home. Upon the divorce, the husband lost the house to his wife, along with most of the contents therein, as is usually the tradition in the U.S. Divorces where the couple still has underage children.

Mr. Okeowo, 48, divorced his wife because not long after she became an RN and made more money than him, she “took control” of the family finances and “controlled” her husband’s expenditure and movement.
The husband could no longer make any meaningful contribution to his family back in Nigeria unless the wife “approved” it. He could not go out without her permission. Frustrated that his formerly malleable wife had suddenly become such a “terror” to him to the point of asking for in court and getting virtually everything for which he had worked since coming to the US thirty years prior, the husband got in his vehicle and drove a few hundred miles to Dallas to settle the scores.

He found her in her SUV, adorned in full Nigerian attire on her way to the birthday bash organized in her honor. She had turned 46 on that day. Mr. Okeowo fired several rounds into his wife’s torso while she sat at the steering wheel, mercilessly killing her in broad daylight.

Also in Dallas (they sure need anger management classes in Dallas), Moses Egharevba, 45, did not even bother to get a gun. The husband of Grace Egharevba, 35, bludgeoned her to death with a sledge hammer while their seven year old daughter watched and screamed for peace.

Mrs. Egharevba’s “sin” was that she became an RN and started to make more money than her husband. This led to her “financial liberation” from a supposedly tight-fisted husband who had not only brought her from Nigeria, but had also funded her nursing school education.

Like Moses Egharevba, Christopher Ndubuisi of Garland, Texas, (these Texas people!) also did not bother to get a gun. He crept into the bedroom where his wife, Christiana, was sleeping and, with several blows of the sledge hammer, crushed her head.

Two years before Christiana was killed, her mother, who had been visiting from Nigeria, was found dead in the bathtub under circumstances believed to be suspicious.

Of course, Christiana was a RN whose income dwarfed that of her husband as soon as she graduated from nursing school. The husband believed that his role as a husband and head of the household had been usurped by his wife.
Mr. Ndubuisi’s several entreaties to his wife’s family to intercede and bring Christiana back under his control had all failed.

If the circumstances surrounding the death of Christiana’s mother were suspicious, those surrounding the death of a Tennessee woman’s mother were not. Agnes Nwodo, an RN, lived in squalor before her husband, Godfrey Nwodo, rescued her and brought her to the US. He enrolled her in nursing school right away. Upon qualifying as a RN, Mrs. Nwodo assumed “full control” of the household. She brought her mother to live with them against her husband’s wishes. Mrs. Nwodo quickly familiarized herself with US Family Laws and took full advantage of them.
Each time the couple argued, the police forced the husband to leave the house whether he had a place to sleep or not. On many occasions, Mr. Nwodo spent days in police cells. Upon divorcing his wife, Mr. Nwodo lost to his wife, the house he had owned for almost 20 years before he married her.

He also lost custody of their three children to her, with the court awarding him only periodic visitation rights. Even seeing the children during visitation was always a hassle as the wife would “arrive late at the neutral meeting place and leave early with impunity.”

Mr. Nwodo endured so many embarrassing moments from his wife and her mother until he could take it no more. One day, he bought himself a shotgun and killed both his wife and her mother.

Caleb Onwudike’s wife, Chinyere Onwudike, 36, became a RN and no longer saw the need to be controlled by her husband. Mr. Onwudike, 41, worked two jobs to send his wife to her dream school upon bringing her to the US from Nigeria. After four years, she qualified as an RN. Once she started to make more money than her husband, she began to “call the shots” at home. She “overruled” her husband on the size and cost of the house they purchased in Burtonsville, Maryland. She began to build a house solely in her name in their native Umuahia town of Abia State, Nigeria, without her husband’s input whatsoever.

Mrs. Onwudike came and went “as she liked,” within the US and outside the US. In fact, she once travelled to Nigeria for three weeks “without her husband’s permission” to lavishly bury her father, despite her husband’s protestations that they had better things to do with the money.
Mrs. Onwudike let her husband know that this was mostly her money and she would spend it however she wanted. Through her hard work, she had risen to a managerial position at the medical center where she worked.

Upon her return from burying her father, her husband got one of her kitchen knives and carved her up like a Thanksgiving turkey inside their home on New Year’s Day.

Death is death, no matter how it comes. But the goriest of these maniacal killings is probably the one that happened here in Los Angeles, California.
Joseph Mbu, 50, was tired of his RN wife’s “serial disrespect” of him. The disrespect began as soon as she became a RN. Gloria Mbu, 40, had once told her husband he must be “smoking crack cocaine” if he thought he could tell her what to do with her money now that she made more money than him.

Before she became a RN, Mr. Mbu had been very strict with family finances and was borderline dictatorial in his dealings with Mrs. Mbu. However, Mrs. Mbu learned the American system and would no longer allow any man to “put her down.” When Joseph Mbu could not take it anymore, he subdued his wife one day, tied her to his vehicle and dragged her on paved roads all around Los Angeles until her head split in many pieces


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By Toby Prince
President Muhammadu Buhari embodies principle, uncompromising irrespective of the severity of situations. Although an orthodox politician, he doesn’t speak from both sides of his mouth like the new-breeds. A fine gentleman, albeit fearless in action, courageous in deeds. These virtues puffed him away from the crowd, something between a nerd and a jerk.
Buhari didn’t have too many friends. He was too busy for that. Not a sycophant, the president drew a thin line between praise-singing and hypocrisy. He rarely trusted people but goes over the wire when he does. No wonder General Babatunde Idiagbon —a no-nonsense, never smiling soldier was so powerful a deputy, folks said at the time that he ran the government for Buhari.
Engr Buba Galadima is among an elite few who beguiled their way to the heart of the president. For 15 years, the pair were close allies, scheming to topple the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) utterly boring hegemony. Thrice they failed in 2003, 2007 and 2011. A coalition that gave birth to the All Progressive Congress (APC) was the lucky charm in 2015.
However, barely two years into the administration, Mr Galadima switched camp. He suddenly became a critic of his boss. Although his crackers weren’t entirely strange, directing at a house he helped built caused a stir.
“I wasn’t just one of the founders of APC, I was one of the nine signatories, in fact, I was number four to the formation of the party,” Mr Galadima told TheNigerian News. “ I didn’t start criticizing Buhari until two-and-a-half years into his tenure. I warned that we hadn’t kept our covenants.”
Mr Galadima recounts that he was there for the President when he had no one. He even turned down several juicy ministerial appointments from the opposition. But surprisingly, his loyalty wasn’t rewarded. “Just a reminder, when we were struggling with Buhari, he had nobody except God and us for 14-15 years,” he muttered.
“ I was offered ministerial appointment by Obasanjo govt thrice. I was offered FCT Minister by Yaradua govt. I was also offered a ministerial position by Jonathan. I didn’t take those ones and left Buhari.
“ If I can be with Buhari for such long span when he was ‘Mr Nobody’ and I endured that hardship. I had to use my own funds, I drive my own car and still assembled 12.5 million votes for him in all elections and you think I don’t deserve an appointment? “ he angrily queried.
“ If you think my qualification having been director of several federal parastatals, having been director of banks in the private sector and you think am not qualified to hold an appointment and those that are there are better people who have worked harder than me, who have more experience than me, who have more knowledge than me then I pray for you to work for someone as I did for Buhari and let that person deny you position.”
Read also: Shocking: Buba Galadima begs APC for National Secretary seat
Indeed, Mr Galamina flaunts a rich resume, proud to flaunt them. “If you look at what I had done in life before as the national youth leader of the NPN; national financial secretary of the NRC; national secretary of CPC; member board of trustees and one of the most-highly respected elders of the APP, ANPP that I helped form. A member of the national caucus and BOT of the APC,” he boasted.
Away from the political arena, he headed several lucrative government parastatals but apparently couldn’t bear an oversight by the president. ” I was the director of Delta steel company for two years one of the largest functioning industrial complex of the Federal Government. I was a director of the Ajaokuta Steel Company when more monies were spent on it than even Abuja. As well as the director of two banks, I was the director of an insurance company. I was also a DG of Nigeria Maritime Authority now called NAMESA.
” I am not fighting for myself at my age. You never knew the positions I’ve held in life. As of 1975, I was in charge of 500 million dollars under my signature in the old Rivers State. I was a Maiduguri town engineer in charge of all rural engineering projects outside Maiduguri metropolis. I was the first person to ever construct a dual carriageway in Northern Nigeria.
“Only a fool will say I was induced materially or intimidated forcefully to hold certain opinions. If you go back to the past, you will discover that I took on the PDP from Obasanjo to Yaradua then Jonathan more than I have taken on Buhari.”
Galadima returned to the opposing corner during the last general elections. He was the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP), presidential campaign spokesperson. Just days before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the election result, he was arrested for the 38th time. Mr Galadima was understandably not pleased.
“Right from the word go I never gave them any pass mark. I never envisaged that they will do better. Therefore, I’m not surprised the result came out as what they are. I don’t believe in this reconstituted INEC,” he said.
“ There are men of courage and integrity that could stand the test of time and pressure from the powers that be. And of course, one should read that whoever is in charge have a dock-handler behind him who guides him what to do. I’d say they have performed fairly above my rating.”
On his countless attacks on Mr Buhari, Galadima quipped that he is even mild on the current government
“Rather the accusation I expected is that I took on Obasanjo severally that he arrested me severally and tramped up treason charges and put underground. Even Yaradua who was my school mate as well as Jonathan, both offered me ministerial appointment yet I attacked them more than PMB. I have not fought Buhari govt one-tenth as I did to the PDP combined,” he added.
“ I had worked for General Buhari for 15 years. How much money was he giving me? So if I could leave him, if I could go through all those hardships, including 38 arrests, including treason trial and he comes to government and I leave him when people are making billions.”

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Yahaya Bello, the travails of a wasted political patrionage

It is no longer news that the the youngest governor in Nigeria today, the governor of Kogi state, His excellency Gov Yahaya Bello is swimming in the most murky political waters of his career or dancing a dance that a superstitious African man will unashamedly refer to as SURUGEDE. The elections in his state is scheduled for November and Yahaya Bellow is engaged in an unforeseen political fight from right within his party, The all progressives congress (APC). Many of the influential decision makers in the party including its national leader, Asiwaju Tinubu are said to have vowed that Yahaya Bello, the 'unelected' governor of Kogi will never be handed the ticket of the ruling party for what they described as a woeful performance.

It was in Chinue Achebe's world record book (THINGS FALL APART) that an elder warned Okonkwo who was becoming too boisterous and disrespectful that 'if a benevolent spirit cracks a palm-karnel for anybody, he or she should not forget to be humble'. Bello most have been loathsome of books not to have red this most celebrated book. He would have behaved differently.

The above is the very case that is about bringing a supposedly thriving political career to a shameful and abrupt end. Bello forgot his roots. He never looked back to his humble beginning. He forgot one very important fact, that he inherited the mandate of an enigma, a leader per excellence who the people adore and dread like a god, he forgot the glaring unconstitutionality in his emergence. He forgot that his party would demand prudence and quality governance from him just like the people would do. He forgot that workers too needs salaries. How do they cope with 22 months unpaid salary? he forgot that the youths who are buoyed by the emergence of a 42 year old as governor would demand excellent performance to prove their abilities and further challenge their non inclusion in Nigeria's mainstream politics. He forgot that to whom much is given much is expected of.

My elders would have reminded him now that he whom the gods want to kill they first make mad if he were from my ancient traditional village. Bello in a clear case of a recalcitrant animal being led to the slaughter became a law onto himself. He ruled Kogi with the kind of tyrannic fists that Pinochet would be scared today to wield against the soviet union. He singlehandedly banned ASUU, a respected organization from Kogi state university, as if that was not enough, he went on to build a mansion that stands tall in the midst of very lowly houses belonging to his poverty-stricken Okene kinsmen. His spending spree and extravagance can only draw us back to the very gory and ignoble days of Jean Bodden Bokassa who spent hundreds of millions of dollars in a ceremony to install himself as the life president of Central African Republic in the 1970-80s. He even in a despotic move to control all levels and tiers of government moved against the judiciary. He forgot he is from a minority tribe and that only good governance and extraordinary performance would endear him to the people. Now that money and thuggery has become far-fetched, what next?

the tears Bello shed on national tiv during his inauguration as the governor of Kogi and his recent behaviour are in conspicuous contrast and it goes a long way to telling the stories and personalities of Nigerian politicians. It is a locus classics of their lies, deception and irresponsibility.

he built people's hopes for a let down and brought Kogi state to a pariah region. We thank APC should for not reinforcing failure. Like the story of Olawele's God's are not to blame, he brought this Waterloo upon himself by wasting the unsual political patronage he got on a platter of gold.

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The need for youths inclusion in the governance of Nigeria as APC compiles list of loyal party members

The greatest political power block in Nigeria is the youth who make up about 70% of the electorates.

The youths were very prominent in their support of president Mohammed Buhari and the APC both in 2015 and again in 2019. After APC victory in 2015, the youths were negletted and left with no positions. Sense of belonging waned and then again they resolved to hand Buhari and the APC another opportunity to get it right. This time around the all progressive congress and the President Mohammmed Buhari led presidency must be cautious not to leave the youths in the dark. They contributed alot in making the APC victory a reality, their support was unswerving even in the face of the most heinous divisive tendemcies of the enemies of our unity and collective good who often sacrifice competence, character and capacity on the alter of primordial considerations during elections. The resolve of the youths to stand by Mohammed Buhari must therefore never be taken for granted nor be misconstrued as cowardice.

President Mohammed Buhari who broke political speculations and shocked historians and political analysts by coming back to power 30years after exiting as a military leader largely due to his intergrity and alleged love for Nigeria must reciprocate and preserve the goodwill of Nigerians who are watchful and prepared to remind him of the promise he made prior to the 2019 general elections that he would appoint more youths into his cabinet.

There are sound youths who are capable of shouldering any government responsibilities to the admiration of all and thesatisfaction of the President. They possess the wherewithal to inject fresh indeas into the APC led government in furtherance of the government's NEXT LEVEL agenda.

It is high time we started preparing and grooming the youths to take over the responsibilities of this nation. The future of Nigeria must be secured

APC national working commiitee would be doing a great disservice to the party and Buhari should the youths not occupy a considerable position in the list of loyal party members they have just compiled. They must not bring APC to public Odium nor bring the governant of Buhari which has its largest support base amongst the youths in enemity with the young people of Nigeria as this will going foward erode the trust the Nigerian people reposed in the party and greatly and negatively too, affect the chances of the party in 2023 general elections.

Comrade Okpe Sylvanus
National Pub. Secretary of Patriotic Nigerian Youths against Corruption and Social Injustice

AN OPEN LETTER TO OBASANJO ON HIS REGISTRATION AS A MEMBER OF THE CONCERNED NIGERIAN GROUP. A DECEPTION IN DISGUISE
YOUR EXCELLENCY
So many Nigerians including myself received your open letter to President Mohammed Buhari(PMB) on the state of the nation and the plights of the Nigerian people with an inestimable joy. The downtrodden became strong at the hearing of that voice of hope, the cowardly sprawled like Tigers in joy, the frustrated youths and unemployed graduates who had lost hope in a productive Nigeria where their destinies are guaranteed heeved a long and deep sigh of relief. An aura of celebration and hope mixed with the air that every strata and group of the Nigeria state breathe. It was the best thing that happened to Nigeria in her long years of existence. The thought of a concerned Nigerian movement to be championed by the almighty baba in the course of our liberation solidified this joyous atmosphere. Ordinary Nigerians had thought quite erroneously that for the first time in Nigeria, they will queue behind a strong force to elect a leader who will directly enter into a social contract with them as against leaders who only come on board via a political agreement reached within a cartel. A purely oligarchic system where a few people form a gang, project and enthrone a president for their own selfish interests.
My only regret however with your widely celebrated epistle to our Shugaban kasa became that it was not up to 30 pages to atleast contain half of the many sins of this administration. The regret paled into insignificance recognizing how tight your schedule must have been.
Your Excellency, the launching of the so called Concerned Nigerian group in Abuja with Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as it's National coordinator was the highest show display of foolery to many of us who were ready to tow that path of redeeming Nigeria from the many woes that she has been plunged into by the crop of irresponsible politicians of this era until Oyinlola and some other members of that group accompanied you to register as a member of the movement in your state of Ogun. It was a great irony of situation and a gigantic deviation from our lofty expectations and what is expected of a truly Concerned Nigerian group that has come to save our dear nation from this near precipice.
It took all the hopes of many Nigerians away in a flash just as it took the reputation and heroic ovation that came with that letter away and dressed you in a robe of a serial betrayer and a political opportunist.
A truly Concerned Nigerian movement to reshape and rebuild Nigeria would not have contained badly tainted characters who participated actively in the two successive governments you have condemned in strongly worded letters not to talk of having Olagunsoye Oyinlola who benefitted greatly from the government of Jonathan which you accused of corruption in an 18 page letter and currently benefits as an appointee of PMB government which you have lambasted on the allegations of creating disunity in Nigeria, nepotism amongst others as it's leader. What would such a character who participated in the two devilish governments and parties you have described as the difference between 6 and half a dozen, offer in a Patriotic movement to liberate Nigeria and set it on the path of development and growth?
Nigerians again were frustrated owing to the recycling of politicians which your so called Concerned Nigerian group intends to endorse and which Nigerians have made up their minds to discard and confine to the waste-bin of our history by 2019. We expected that the group would be able to infuse fresh ideas and untapped vigour into the Nigerian project by mobilising technocrats and truly Patriotic youths from the length and breadth of Nigeria to quickly set a new dawn for the greatness of our nation and the betterment of our people.
Your group just like 2015 when you were the navigator of this government that you have greatly lampooned today, is a confluence of visionless political opportunists with the main intention to deceive gullible Nigerians and foist another cartel style of government on us. A government that will be worse than what we have today. It was that cartel and gangsterism political coalition which you were a chieftain of that has precluded PMB from carrying out any of the highfalutin promises he made to Nigerians as he has become busy sharing the scarce resources amongst you and the other opportunist who were involved in that devilish and anti-Nigerian alliance by taking advantage of our miserable situation to further worsen our misery and make us pay heavily today for that grievous mistake.
Nigerians are great history students and we will never be swayed again to endorse or support any cartel or gangsterism arrangement were the President if elected will do the bidding of a few rather than embarking on infrastructural and social reforms to better the lives of majority of Nigerians or act in the line of a genuine National interest. We therefore wish and crave for an arrangement where the leader truly emanates directly from the masses and not from a confluence of disgruntled, opportunistic and self-serving politicians.
At this point sir, it becomes inexplicable what you really want having benefitted from Nigeria more than any living or dead Nigerian. That you still seek for more power, wealth and relevance after leading Nigeria for nearly 12years is unfortunate and only gives credence to the saying of profound economists that a man's want is insatiable.
It has become clear that what you truly want is never the interest of Nigerians; youths, women and children or Nigeria as you have always deceived the gullible and unsuspecting readers of your Epistles to kowtow but to further stay relevant by continuously championing the elections of our successive presidents so you could tele-guide and remote-control the activities of Asorock from the comfort of your Otta farm.
I bought the three volumes of your book(my watch) with all the money in my savings as an undergraduate law student of the university of Nigeria, where you called yourself the watchman of this nation quoting from Ezekiel in the holy Bible. You sounded unfortunately more like a clown who tenaciously craves self-upliftment and glorification from within and outside the borders of our nation in almost all the pages of the book and you spared no chapter of it in promoting yourself as the all-knowing condemning any idea that comes not from you and any president including our dear Yar'Adua who fails to prostrate before you to seek and take advice on every policy he is to embark on. I deduced from that book and your failure to use the voice God in his infinite mercy has given you to prepare ground for a better Nigeria, that what you eternally crave is power and that you are forever pained that you lost out and couldn't remain as our president for life. You must have loathed that part of our Constitution that placed a limit on the tenure of our executive office holders.
This was your only chance to redeem Nigeria by giving it little out of the many it has given You and a vital opportunity to prove your self acclaimed watchman status.
Your Excellency Sir, you have failed Nigeria and all Nigerians depending on your voice to agitate for a better and more prosperous Nigeria and none of us will join you in this your unholy alliance with your group of selfish, disgruntled, expired and power-mongering politicians in your so called Concerned Nigerian movement. We refused to be deceived again as you led us to our abattoir in 2015. We refuse to be manipulated to eternally serve your crave for power. When are you leaving the stage? You were a president in 1975 and again in 2007. You ate some people's tomorrow and you are about eating the tomorrow of their children, are you going to eat and direct that of our children again? Just as you advised PMB, dismount the horse just when the ovation is loudest.
Be assured your Excellency of my deepest respect
Comrade Okpe Sylvanus
National Publicity Secretary, Patriotic Nigerian Youths Against Corruption and Social Injustice

THE POSITION OF PATRIOTIC NIGERIAN YOUTHS AGAINST CORRUPTION AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE ON THE IMPENDING KANO TURMOIL AND THE VISIT OF ITS DELEGATION TO THE NIGERIAN HUMAN RIGHTs COMMISSION

The Patriotic Nigerian Youths delegates led by its national publicity Secretary arrived the National human rights commission and were informed that the office has closed and would reopen at 8am on Monday. The group seeing that Monday might be too far given the fact that the proposed visit of the former Kano state governor, Sen Kwankwaso to Kano is on 30th which falls on Tuesday therefore decided to make a press statement before credible media organizations. The publicity Secretary of the group, Comrade Okpe Sylvanus released the following speech to pressmen.

Good afternoon gentlemen of the press.

We are just from a protest visit to the Human Rights Commission's office but unfortunately found the place under lock and key. The purpose of our visit is very simple and straightforward. We have found the silence of the commission at this point when the lives of hundreds of Nigerians are put in danger in Kano state by the amateurish skirmishes of the state Governor who in connivance with the federal government have decided to strip Sen Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of his rights to freedom of movement, association and other civil and political rights, a gross dereliction of its statutory duties and therefore must be awakened to its statutory responsibilities

The police commissioner in the state not long ago ordered the former Governor of the state and the grand commander of Kwankwasiyya movement, HE Senator (Dr) Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso who has slated a visit to his home state on the 30th of January to among others, identify and show support to his political cronies who would be contesting different positions in the forthcoming Kano state council elections to shelve his visit until "they find it convenient for him to visit". This order by the state police chief to banish Senator Kwankwaso from ever visiting Kano State however is premised on a rival rally which the state government has quickly arranged on the same 30th of January to counter that of Kwankwaso, cause commotion and brew violence of the highest degree. They are out to browbeat and cow the former governor of Kano state, deny him and his cronies who are hugely banking on him for a chunk of the votes, level playing ground and intimidate him out of the yet to be indicated interest in the presidential race so as to guarantee soft Landing for President Mohammed Buhari who knew that his victory came from Kano state in 2015 and that the presence of the former Governor of the state who is a committed grassroot politician with a wide political patronage within the rank and file in the state would spell doom for his already plummeting electoral chances come 2019 and therefore, must employ every shenanigan to stop or frustrate Sen Kwankwaso out of the race.

In furtherance of this selfish political agenda, the President has successfully recruited the governor of Kano state, HE Abdullahi Ganduje to make the political murky waters of Kwankwaso's home state of Kano rough and unsettled for him. He has at a meeting where I was present lamented how his successor who rode on his wide acceptability in the state and political structure to power has made his visit to the state impossible and he now has to go to Kaduna and have his father come up there whenever he wants to visit him. This has continued unabated until now when it became politically expedient for him to visit the state in exercise of his right to freedom of movement, association etc guaranteed by our laws and reputable international charters.

The Patriotic Nigerian Youths Against Corruption and Social Injustice found it unprofessional, prejudicial and quite unbecoming for the police to wade in and instead of acting as impartial, committed law enforcement agency, take sides with the state government and order Senator Kwankwaso who set a date for his visit to Kano long before the state government slated a shambolic rally for the same day to shelve his visit to the state so that the state governor who set its own with a malicious intent to brew violence, intimidate and cow the Senator from visiting the state. A police that is conscious to its duties to the society and citizens ought to have advised the state government to shift the date of its kangaroo rally instead of stylishly banishing the former Governor from Kano state indefinitely.

We found it to be an injustice of the highest order and calls on every well meaning Nigerian to act and speak up against the enemies of our democracy and the predators of our human rights.

We call on the Senate that has taken over the mantle of leadership of our dear nation and won the legitimacy and confidence of the people to investigate and call the executive to order before Kano state is plunged into anarchy and quagmire on 30th of this month and to avoid any violence against the Nigerian people.

We also want to advise the Federal government of Mohammed Buhari to learn from history and the mistakes of the past leaders. He must learn from the illicit alliance of the then governor of Western region, Samuel Ladoke Akintola and the then Prime minister of the federal republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa which saw the political persecution of the region's former premier, Obafemi Awolowo. The story did not end well. So many lives were lost, crimes like arson, thuggery, molestation and intimidation of voters was the order of the day in that election of Western region in 1965 and so many properties and lives were destroyed. In fact, that ugly incidence became the only true justification for the 1966 coup which came a year after that evil carnage against innocent Nigerians in that part of the world. Nigeria is yet to recover from the long term political consequences of that obnoxious act. We advise Buhari to be a statesman and a good leader to all by not allowing the ugly side of our history to befall us again but to heed the good side of it so as to avoid the evil consequences that might follow. We also expect him to pretend as a CONVERTED Democrat which he claims to be and allow opposition, alternative and dissenting voices to flourish against his and allow conscious Nigerians to decide through a free, fair and peaceful election who will become the next leader of our nation rather than deploying the states instrumentalities of power to muzzle and cow his perceived opponents out of the race so as to go unchallenged come 2019 presidential elections. He must eschew intimidation and molestation of perceived alternative interests and never forget that he could not have gotten to the Villa in the first place if his predecessor was this hostile to opposing interests.

Patriotic Nigerian Youths will as well send a delegation to Kano state on 30th of January to have an independent and impartial assessment of the situation and release its report to the world.

The civil organization is in full support of the Visit of HE Senator Rubiu Musa Kwankwaso to Kano state on the 30th of January 2018 and advises him to carryout all his political obligations to his loyalists without fear and favour hence it is within the circumference of our laws as the commissioner of Police, Kano state lacks the power to restrain him from visiting Kano just as he did that in bad faith without recourse to the professional ethos of an impartial police Chief.

Thank you and God bless you all

Comrade Ezeagu Thomas
National Secretary, Patriotic Nigerian Youths Against Corruption and social injustice

Comrade Okpe Sylvanus
National Publicity Secretary, Patriotic Nigerian Youths Against Corruption and Social Injustice

President Buhari, the grand commander of these barbaric murderers and monstrous herdsmen armed them to the teeth to totally annihilate my people. They have gagged our stakeholders who prioritize pecuniary gains over the lives of our people. The three benue senators have gone awol representing only their selfish interests. No, this is not a case of the governor. His gallantry in passing the anti open grazing bill is unparalleled and his sincere resolve in seeing it enforced is resolute and unwavering. My people must note that the federal government has by their utterances, body language and inactions supported this dastardly act without any political wills to curtail this menace and protect the lives and properties of Benue people which is the primary duty of any responsible and democratic government. We must therefore cease waiting for help from anybody especially the irresponsible illiterate from Daura.
Benue people are known for their gallantry, we played a critical role in building a virile army for the whole nation. Our great progenitors and critical players in the Benue project, The Akahans, Tarkas and others are shaking now in disappointment for our cowardice and offensive inactions when the green field of Benue and the land rich in agriculture and productivity is overflown by the blood of innocent citizens.
How long shall we wait before we take up whatever weapons within our reach to defend our land and our people. Shall we wait until everyone of us is butchered before we act? let us rather die more honorably in the battle field wielding the gallantry of our swords, showing our bravery in cleansing of our land of these carnage and scourge than being brutally butchered like chickens begging for our lives.
We owe posterity this fight. Let us rise and stop them. It is an emotional fight and even the grass is an army.
Let us give up our lands, flee Benue and let them settle in our ancestral abode if we cannot fight them. The Government Isnt Coming!
God Bless And Save us from these monsters
Comrade Okpe Sylvanus Okpe
National Publicity Secretary, Patriotic Nigerian Youths Against Corruption And social injustice

FACTS VERSUS FICTION: THE JONATHAN BLAME GAME AND JOBLESSNESS OF RENO OMOKRI
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Let me make it vividly clear that this article does not by any stretch of the imagination affect my sentiment as to the frightening credentials of former president Jonathan as an accomplished reformer per excellence, a pragmatic Democrat and therefore best amongst the candidates that contested the 2015 presidential elections
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The cruise of this discuss however tilts towards the post election matters, the flare of blames on 3rd parties by president Jonathan on his political waterloo and lastly provoked by the recent best seller book of Reno Omokri where the author furnished factually indisputable assertions with illogical and ridiculous conclusions on virtually every major event that bedevilled the Jonathan government.
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I spent time to go through the book only to be persuaded to hit the unfavorable conclusion that Jonathan is in fact not what most of us sees him as.
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Cannot pass as an average politician, is very weak and irresponsible, is a mistake of history, power monger and unfit to rule a local government in a fragile nation such as ours.
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The bitterness that exhumes from his unending name calling and blame game raises questions as to whether he, in all intent and purposes, voluntarily conceded defeat to PMB in 2015.
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The book raised questions as to the credibility of the kidnapped chibok girls and took a twist to, at the same time blame the Borno state government of negligence and northern political gladiators in the "opposition", of politically manoeuvering the situation to lampoon Jonathan and force his government to the brisks.
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This further confirms president Obasanjo's assertion in his book, "My Watch" that the major concern of Jonathan as a president was always his political ambition. Every issue must therefore be discussed in view of its benefits to his campaign and that to me led him to breaking down the PDP, to protect his own political interest without first protecting the future of the party.
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He destroyed everything to win the 2015 election. Nothing must stand in his way.
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Assuming but not conceding that the chibok girls were kidnapped due to any conspiracies which Jonathan and Reno spoke of with so much assurance and with a deducible conclusion of their knowledge of the identities of the principal conspirators, why didn't he unearth the evil conspiracy and get the perpetrators to face the full wrath of the law?
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Does this not point to his fatal flaw as a leader? Weak, irresponsible, clueless and inept?
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The attempt to substitute leadership responsibilities with blame game by the book is unbecoming and grievously hamstrung to the waxing international profile of Jonathan.
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I ordinarily would have ignored the futile attempt by Reno to present Jonathan, a sitting president as a victim of an unimaginable northern conspiracy to attract public sympathy and further ignite the already injurious tension which has precipitated magnanimous hatred and suspicion of a section of the country by another which is growingly becoming unhealthy to the unity and progress of the Nigerian state.
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Jonathan was incompetent, he has the state powers and yet cries fowl of conspiracy and with an elaborate attempt at any slight opportunity to pin his ineptitude as a leader on the opposition.
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His unashamed effort in marketing that particular book triggered this response.
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A responsible leader is the one who takes the blame and praise of his regime.
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Comrade Okpe Sylvanus
Political Commentator And Civil Right Activist
National publicity secretary of patriotic Nigerian youths against corruption and social injustice

TALES OF AN UNCOMMON SENATOR

I got an invitation on Thursday from a Comrade senator, distinguished senator Danjuma La'a representing the good people of Southern Kaduna. We slated the time to be 2pm when plenaries must have been over. After necessary procedures at the portal, I was passed to enter the senate house precisely, first floor, room 28. One sharp thing I observed from the spot at which I entered the senate house was the inscription on the doors of their offices which boldly pegs their visiting days at just Wednesdays and by 2pm.

That was typed and pasted on all the doors I was able to see because I still went to the 4th floor to the office of the deputy senate president. The inscription was on almost all the doors. I had written before now a widely publicized article termed WHO ARE THE SENATORS REPRESENTING? In a constitutional representative democracy, the representatives of the people must find ways to engage them, gauge their feelings, get abreast with their problems so as to know how to qualitatively represent their interests and aspirations. This is never to be in our Nigeria as senators and other representatives represent only their interests and sell out the people for mere political gratification.

I saw an exception on Thursday! Room 27 was very different from the many doors I saw. When I was coming in, passing through it to room 28, I saw the intellectual colossus, Distinguished senator Shehu Sani sitted in the room meant for clerks in almost all the other senate offices, that was not what stunned me, I got perplexed when I looked at his door to read his own inscription, I saw a totally different thing which reinvigorated my waned hope in the Nigerian senate. The inscription on his door reads, "Visitation day: every day and time: everytime during working hour".

I do not know what this means to you but this to me is a robust representative who connects with the yearnings of his people. Even when most senators where not in office and those who were, were deep inside their rooms, he stayed in a place where anyone can easily see him. There is no way you can disassociate quality representation from accessibility. How many times have you seen your own senator?

Apart from electioneering periods, how many times has he appeared before you to intimate you on what he has been doing so far? This is our rights as the people who sent them to represent us. I describe this AWOL of our many senators after election as absolute prodigalism.

I had no choice but to envy Kaduna people. No state can boast of a better representation. We saw the vibrance of senator Danjuma La'a representing southern Kaduna during their crises period. We saw how he empowered thousands of the youths of his constituency. How active he was in condemning the indifference of the federal and state government towards the plight of his people. It got to a position that officers invaded his house harassing everybody yet he stood his ground. He spoke to me on Thursday as though he was not a politician. He is very conversant with the problems of our country. Look at Senator Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi, his quality representation has endeared him to even citizens outside his constituency that nobody can emerge governor of the state without riding on his political goodwill. That of Shehu Sani is too obvious that the person who least paid attention to our politics can put down documentaries of his fierce and astute representation. He has been a Comrade, he has been imprisoned for daring to lead a pro democracy group under the Abacha dictatorship. It burns in him to entrench democracy anywhere he finds himself and he has taken this war to the senate.

Reflect on your own senator and see how you have gone unrepresented for years.

2019 is a correction year for the wise.

Comrade Okpe Sylvanus
National publicity secretary of patriotic Nigerian youths against corruption and social injustice
Political commentator and civil right activist

If Jean Bokassa, the greatest tyrant of Central African Republic, the great cannibal who illegally enriched himself and the cabals around him massively (whilst proclaiming to rage relentless war against corruption) at the expense of the poverty ravaged and hunger molested citizens of Central African Republic, Who transmuted from a military dictator to an even more dreadful, despotic Monarch at a celebration estimated to have consumed billions of dollars(in the 1980s) whilst the citizens of his country groaned in perpetual scarcity and unmitigated, avoidable and curable misery, Jean Bokassa who tortured and smashed the heads of 100 school children to the wall causing them gruesome death and their families irredeemable loss and an unquenchable pain on the offence that they bought school uniforms from another vendor other than from the very expensive ones available in a company owned by one of his wives, who tortured publicly and skinned many perceived political enemies, drinking their bloods in the glare of the populace and eating their flesh at the admiration of his foot soldiers who opened their red teeth in glamor of this heinous acts, who adorned himself with the despotic robes of an evil beast and raged against innocent citizens with clenched fists of a monster, who before coming to Power was dressed in borrowed robes of a patriot garnished with a Strange and over bloated girdle of integrity, and regrettably turned to wreak havoc on the citizens of his country could be overpowered, ousted and outlived, then Nigerians must be patient. 2019 is just by the corner, the day of reckoning is here.

His lasted for many, long years of melancholy. Buhari's is only 4years. Though very disastrous and took us backwards with about 50years of retrogress.

God bless Nigeria and preserve Nigerians to see that day of joy and bounty.

Comrade Okpe Sylvanus
National publicity secretary of patriotic Nigerian youths against corruption and social injustice.
Political commentator and civil right activist

A WAKE UP CALL FOR NIGERIAN YOUTHS

I write this piece with tears uncontrollably dropping down my cheeks.

I do not know how to get myself together. I have taken time to study the political situation of our dear nation and the future of the nobodies of which I am number one. I cannot help but come to the inevitable conclusion that Nigeria is drifting and that the nobodies must be born poor, raised in scarcity and called to the great beyond in abject penury. There will be no period of joy for him or her irrespective of the language he speaks, his religion or where he comes from. The only prerequisite is that he or she is not born into the ruling oligarchy. We must open our eyes before we all get drown. What has division and disunity done to our senses?

The youths are well educated but thinly knowledgeable, we hardly see beyond the lenses of tribalism, religious bigotry and ethnic jingoism.

We flaunt bogus certificates without really allowing our knowledge to affect our thinking and logic.

What are we to be remembered for when posterity refer to this phase of their history when we existed? Azikiwe, Awo, Ahmed Bello, Joseph Tarka are all in the good side of our history today because they exploited the situation and seized the opportunity created by the evils of colonialism. What about Nelson Mandela and the great war against apartheid?

Has the situation in Nigeria not created a vacuum in our history for Nobel men to fill? It is the only opportunity for the nameless us to get solid names.

As I speak now, this politicians who have held us to ransom for decades have created diversionary stories for us to keep busy with on borrowed data online whilst they continue scavenging on our national Treasury as they always do. Do not be deceived by all these evil antics. Do not believe there is any rift between Fayose and Buhari or any difference between PDP and APC elders. They are all common travellers, with a common agenda; to hold us to ransom and remote-control the future of ordinary Nigerians. They always make sure we do not pass average.

They create divergent stories anytime election is by the way. The issue of IPOB, AREWA youths will start popping up? This are all political gimmicks to keep us away from reasoning logically or questioning the rationale behind their non performance, lootocracy and perpetual sojourn in the corridors of power.

We appreciate the fact that many Nigerians are not happy with the way things are in this country. Nothing of this cannot be addressed under a sincere government. Nigeria has enough resources to go round and keep everybody satisfied, fit and healthy only if judiciously put to use. All we need is sincere persons with pragmatic approaches to the escalating situation of our dear nation. A conducive atmosphere where every Nigerian can freely hatch and harness his or her potentials if sincerely provided, will totally assuage all our grievances.

Our brains have gotten saturated with hifalutin promises which is later abandoned when they get to power only to start the bidding of a few minority.

Posterity will never forgive the youths if we continue in this way whilst our nation is made the laughing stock of the world. A country in which youths like us nurtured to become the most populous black nation feared in military and economy. A country that singlehandedly quelled the coupe in Saotome and Principe. A country once dreaded by the most fierce nations in the world. Arise o compatriots! It is worth shedding our bloods to regain that lost Glory.

Look at Kenya, when young people stood and said enough is enough, they started changing the norm. Their history immediately took a new and better dimension. In Kenya today, a young graduate of urban and regional planning who is just 23years and normally should be carrying her files scouting for work in the deepest streets of Kenya was elected into the house of reps. The most captivating part of her story is that she was very poor that she couldn't afford a party ticket. She had to run as an independent candidate yet kenyan youths stood by her and they got it right. What about the 24year old governor who also got elected?

Their elections got the government up and the judiciary immediately braced up to the realities on ground. First in the history of Africa, the court is annulling the election that produced a sitting president. The most stunning aspect of it is that an election which held by 12th of August 2017 got the decision of the Court before the ending of August. It could have been an endless legal tussle in Nigeria.

Can we not achieve this feet? Can't the strength and vigour we wield on social media be brought to the physical sphere? Or are we weaklings? Of course no!

Am sure we can do it!

Look at Ghana today and how they are successfully luring all the candidates seeking admission into Nigerian universities away because there is no heck of strike and other evil barriers. Nigerian government have abandoned the education sector to deteriorate to the lowest ebbs. Their children school in the best schools in UK, U.S, Canada etc with billions of naira siphoned from our national Treasury, they therefore do not care about our education sector nor do they give a hoot if ASUU is on strike for endless decades.

Whilst expired drugs are provided for ordinary Nigerians in the substandard hospitals in Nigeria, they journey to the last breadth of the world in search of standard medications their own responsible government has provided them.

We must refuse to be divided. Let us get them out before we can consider giving each other barrage of quit notices. Let us decapitulate them before threatening fire and brimstone against each other.

Our political parties are two in Nigeria. That of this oligarchists and the one of ordinary Nigerians irrespective of place, tribe or religion. How many youths have benefited from a president who is from their state or region? It all boils down to their relatives including the ones unborn. The ordinary Nigerians fortunately are the majority. How many of us have our voters cards?

Don't you want to be senator at 20s and 30s? This particular question kept me all the night.

Two young Hausa guys approached me somewhere around area 10 in Abuja. They were looking haggard and beggarly, I wanted to dismiss them until the argument they so vehemently advanced and the free flow of logic and sound reasoning got me. I was wearing a Kwankwasiyya tag, they argued with me for about 50minutes and made a strong case for a certain presidential candidate whom they claim is 36years. I was not concerned about the candidate but I was marvelled at the level of rich orientation they have. I couldn't sleep all through that night. I know within me that Nigerian youths are gallant soldiers wounded and frustrated by the devilish antics of this few oligarchists who have seized power from the people whom it originally belonged to for their selfish emoluments. We must fight like wounded Lions and lionesses .

The plight of the Nigerian youths is the most tragic in the world. After many, long gruellinging years of sucking Garri in school and passing through the unbearable stress and prison-like condition of the campus, face a more horrific life outside with nobody to turn to whilst they(oligarchists) have secured permanent positions for their 7th generations. How long shall this go unabated?

Look at my state of Benue, it is the most gifted state in terms of agriculture, man power and other numerous resources. It used to be the pride of Aper Aku, Joseph Tarka, Joseph Akahan. Today the state is overtaken by flood, ravaged by all evils and the plights of the citizens made worse by the evil and terrifying policies of the infamous state Governor. I had written earlier that there was an urgent need to declare the whole of Benue an IDP camp for relieve materials and funds to be donated to us by well meaning and sincere Nigerians but I was made mockery of, cajoled and called names. Today Benue has become an official IDP camp with every politician dancing surugede ahead of 2019 and trying to show off his or her illgotten wealth and large hearts when they themselves created this very problems.

When shall we learn? Why do we accept peanuts from the piles of naira notes they have stollen from us and allow them to come back again?

Why not collect the money (after all, it's ours) and still chase them out?

Why don't we struggle to get there and take this very decisions for our young selves and our kids.

It might not be about us. The unborn ordinary Nigerians need not suffer again. Let us create a veritable future for them.

Patriotic Nigerian youths against corruption and social injustice will embark on a nationwide sensitization campaign. Support us, join us so we can heal our nation and set our dear country on the path of growth and development once again. Let us return Nigeria to its original owners (the people). 08160536309.

What will history remember us for? Shall we live and die without a fight? Of what use is life in such a hell?

God Bless Nigeria!

#Revolution2019
#NotTooYoungToRun

Comrade Okpe Sylvanus
Political commentator and civil right activist
National publicity secretary of patriotic Nigerian youths against corruption and social injustice

WHY BUHARI WAS REMOVED IN 1985 AND WHY HE CANNOT WIN IN 2019
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The Buhari/Idiagbon led military jaunta was wellcomed with joy and celebration. In a situation similar to what preceded the Jan 15 coup, Nigerians who were already tired of the corruption and proliferation of governance and political parties along ethnic and regional lines took to the streets to celebrate Buhari's incursion to power especially as he was dressed in borrowed robes and his image greatly laundered to suit the personality he forced on himself.
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However, in 20 Months, the military that enthroned Buhari kicked against him and he was unceremoniously ousted in what could pass as the easiest coup in the country largely, due to its acceptability to the majority of senior Army officers who had 20 Months earlier, presented him to Nigerians as the long waited Messiah.
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The Military through Ninyel Dogoyaro justified his removal in this short, and patriotic depicting sentence thus;
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"Because this generation of Nigerians and indeed future generations have no other country but Nigeria, we could not stay passive and watch a small group of individuals misuse power to the detriment of our national aspirations and interest.
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No nation can ever achieve meaningful strides in its development where there is an absence of cohesion in the hierarchy of government; where it has become clear that positive action by the policy makers is hindered because as a body it lacks a unity of purpose".
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Juxtapose to his second coming. Has the small group not hijacked his present day government? He has so failed that like his military cohorts, his family and close associates has joined the bandwagon of wailers to condemn his government after 20 Months of rulership.
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It was first Dr Junaid Mohammed, a fiery 2nd republic Parliamentarian that first raised the alarm that Buhari's government has been hijacked by what he described as cabals fingering specifically, Mamman Daura.
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The Senate president, Dr Bukola Saraki followed suit.
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As if that was not enough, the woman that has spent 30years of her life with him and who was joined with him in matrimony many years ago travelled to far away london where she mustered the courage to raise an even more louder alarm that her husband's government has been hijacked by people without voters' card, she went on to say out of frustration and the messy state of the nation, that should it continue unabated, she would not come out to campaign for her own husband in 2019.
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The most invidious alarm came from Elrufai, the APC voicefarous Governor of Kaduna state who used his media strong base to launch a campaign of calumny and propaganda in the most uncouth and obnoxious language to oust the Jonathan govt out of Asovilla. A strategy that proved effective for the gullibility and history apathy of Nigerians and crowned the messiah...The issues he raised in his letter contains inter alia that the administratiom has failed advising the presidency to quickly sit-up to avoid their iminent removal. It was an honest advice but Elrufai of all people should be aware that the Buhari govt has no future. In a decent democracy where party and tribes are rebuffed with the interest of Nigeria as the prime consideration, the legislature could have used the jocular to save our country from imminent collapse.
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The allegation of lack of cohesion and unity of purpose is very glaring as this government has become confused, made the work of the opposition needless as there is internal or what is known as an inhouse fighting. Amechi vs Kachikwu, Dabiri vs Onyeama, Ambode vs Fashola, Oyegun vs Tinubu and the most shameful and dramatic fight is between the two sister agencies of the Federal government (DSS AND EFCC) headed by Buhari's two appointees, Daura vs Magu. Their fight is most symbolic. It is a pointer that Buhari is not incharge of his administration and it further evinces the fact that the government is confused, incompetent, lacks focus, has no agenda and is drifting. If not, why would the president write a letter to the senate clearing Magu of all the allegations raised by Daura in his first letter and on appearance, Daura, an appointee of Buhari, writes another letter countering his boss, that Magu is corrupt. Meaning that Buhari, the intergrity personified, indeed lied to the senate. I am tempted to believe the DSS report since it is an investigative agency and should know better than Buhari. What do we expect the senate to do when the executive sends somebody's name for confirmation and thesame executive discredits the person?...what a shameless govt. I said it before now that APC was never prepard for governance. The fight is purly a squabble for selfish and avaricious interests, who gets what, how and where. It is far from representing the interest of the smallest fraction of Nigeria. It is for their immediate, extended families and generations unborn. Nothing built on lie can ever stand the test of truth. The admistration was built on lies and when they ran out of lies to sustain it, it started to drift uncontrollably.
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Dogoyaro went on to say;
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"Although it is true that a lot of problems were left behind by the last civilian government, the real reason, however, for the very slow pace of action is due to lack of unanimity of purpose among the ruling body; subsequently, the business of governance has gradually been subjected to ill-motivated power play considerations. The ruling body, the Supreme Military Council, has, therefore, progressively been made redundant by the actions of a select few members charged with the day-to-day implementation of the SMC’s policies and decision.
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The concept of collective leadership has been substituted by stubborn and illadvised unilateral actions, thereby destroying the principles upon which the government came to power. Any effort made to advise the leadership, met with stubborn resistance and was viewed as a challenge to authority or disloyalty.
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Thus, the scene was being set for systematic elimination of what, was termed oppositions. All the
energies of the rulership were directed at this imaginary opposition rather than to effective leadership"
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Flash forward to what we have today, all the energies of this administration is geared towards the opposition with little or no concern for the nitty-gritty of governance, The acts and arts of governing including the basic tenets of democracy are glaringly flunged into the skye with a largely exagerated corruption fight in which despite the announcements of recovered trillions daily, the EFCC boss, Magu could not mention the same billion dollars he had mentioned freely before on the pages of newspaper before the senate chambers when it became a matter of record. Who is fooling who? Nigerians are wiser. He is out to eliminate any form of opposition and resistance against his government.
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Somebody who refers to ministers as noisemakers cannot value their advice let alone, the advice of others. The government is therefore, drifting uncontrollably due to the unilateral decision of the "few" (Cabals).
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Buhari has not changed. His sins of yesteryears has followed him to the future. His government is boiling in avoidable fracas. There is power play by his kitchen cabinet members and everybody close to his administration. Since Buhari is not incharge, they act and take decisions as it benefits their insatiable pockets and interests.
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His blame game that was injurious to his miliatary regime has come to haunt him yet again. The success Osinbajo recorded during the 50days Buhari was a "ghost worker" at the UK has nailed him and those MISCHIEVOUS elements, blaming the Jonathan era for the woes his incompetency and lack of unity of purpose at the centre, tribal and ethnic considerations has brought on a large number of Nigerians, more gruesomely, to the less privileged.
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The economoc recession then did not change long years after. This depicts that it is THE MAN who is the problem and it is more reason why no Nigerian with sincere intentions devoid of parochial sentiments, ganished with tribal bigotry and stewed with religious alignments can vote Buhari in 2019.
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Dogoyaro pointedly stated further that: "The nation’s meager resources are once again being wasted on unproductive ventures. Government has distanced itself from the people and the yearnings and aspirations of the people as constantly reflected in the media have been ignored"
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How many millions have we been made to believe has accrued to our federation account from the much talked about corruption fight, the single treasury account etc. And why have we continued to borrow money? How have we priororitized our recession resources? He spent billions touring the whole world with large and needless aids, He spent billions to showcase our military might to the world in Gambia while Nigerians continued to be ravaged and gruesomely brutalized and butchered by Bokoharam and Fulani militia unabated. What projects has the government executed so far? The only visible project is the $250million the secretary to the govt, Babachir Lawal used in clearing grass at the IDP camps and the billions of dollars used in importing grass by our Agriculture minister, Chief Audu Ogbe from Brazil. A govt where the plight of cows ranks sacrilegiously above the sanctity and sacredness of human life and welfare.
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For same reasons, Nigerians must converge in the spirit of patriotism and revolution as displayed by Dogoyaro and other gallant soldiers in 1985 to remove Buhari again in 2019
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God Bless Nigeria
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Comrade Okpe Sylvanus
Political commentator And Civil Right Activist
Chief Political Editor @ Statereporters online newscable

PARTY POLITICS IN NIGERIA. HOW OBJ AND JONATHAN DESTROYED PDP.

The most ironical thing about the destruction of PDP is that while patriotic, astute, courageous and selfless Nigerians defied the highest tyranny with its antendant intimidation, molestation and victimisation to precipitate what became the biggest political party of the continent, selfish, avaricious and disingenuous Nigerians who contributed nothing to either the formation of the party or its growth led it to albatross.

The alternative politicians forum Chaired by Ekwueme and Prof Jerry Gana as its secretary started like a pressure group with the main agenda of stopping Abacha's despotic transmutation ambition.

The forum that later precipitated into a political party after series of meetings at the late Abubakar Rimi's residence dared Abacha. They sacrificed their all to produce the first ever political party with national outlook known to our history. The contributions of Ekwueme, Gana, Sunday Awoniyi, late Chief Solomon Lar and the former Kano Governor, Late Abubakar Rimi with a host of others in the face of raging tyranny and military mobocracy can never be over emphasised.

The party was founded on sound ideology with the dreams of building a lasting democracy in Nigeria by taking the government from the barracks to the common Nigerian people.

Nigerians were happy, the international community cheered us. We became the new bride of democracy as the world's attention was focused on our born gain nation. We were once again, proud to wear democratic regalia in the comity of states....a pure season of pride and celebration in Nigeria.

As the Abubakar abdulsalami's transition programme drew closer, PDP organised a national convention in Jos with a founding member imbued with the parties ideologies and drilled in a civilian administrative structure, Alex Ekwueme as a candidate. Events changed when a military dictator with no democratic credentials, Obasanjo was hurried out of prison and presented at the national convention by some cabals with the sole aim of placating the Yoruba nation over Abiola's stollen mandate of June 12, as a candidate. I have always opined that the military never wanted to handover to a civilian for two reasons, as a matter of trust. They always see the civilian politicians as corrupt and self-serving apparently forgetting that in almost all the palace coups, they accused the dethroned military govt of corruption too. The most amusing, was when Joshua Ninyel Dogoyaro accused the Buhari regime of the same crimes the Buhari govt accused Shagari of. The second reason is that the military wanted somebody that was part of the military system so as to cover their lootocracy and evils whilst in power.

They found a suitable candidate in Obasanjo who was already growing in ranks after contesting for the post of UN secretary general and his role in the inter-council committee that was inundated to appraise the South African apartheid situation, He therefore won the primaries and went on to win the election.

The first thing Obasanjo did as the president was to effect the removal of the founding chairman of PDP, late Chief Solomon Lar and replace him with Audu Ogbeh. The impunity in PDP was therefore born. It is antithetical to party politics and unbecoming to internationally acclaimed party system norms for a product of a party to superimpose himself as the leader of the party and therefore reserve the divine right of dictating what happens, who gets what and how within the party. The decorous practice is that the product of the party including the president is subject to the party internal mechanism when it comes to party issues. This was the practice in NPN in the 3rd republic where Chief Adisa Meredith Akinloye, the national chairman of the party is always accorded respect as the leader of the party. It is on record that in NPN meetings, Shagari will always remain in the floor while Akinloye and the party leadership always preside unless he is invited to the high table. That is the accepted decorum interwoven with party politics all over the world democracy.

The crude and craft practise Obasanjo employed that sunk the party's ideologies was to get the incoming chairman, Audu Ogbe to write an undated and signed resignation letter before getting appointed to the exalted position of the party's national chairman. That was clearly to get him hoodwinked into dancing to the tone dictated by him and so he would be able to have an unfettered power to teleguide the party activities and impose any candidate that suits him especially who would be of help in the next elections. That was crude, uncivilised and a sacrilege to our new born virgin-democracy.

He went on to relegate the hotheaded party founding fathers that dared his despotic and authoritarian policies. The outspoken Abubakar Rimi was pushed out of the party including Sunday Awoniyi, Alex Ekwueme and a host of others.

Having clipped the wings of the party elders, he moved his clenched fists to the state level were Governors who dared him were chastised with their state starved allocations. Orji Uzo Kalu was his fierce enemy.

Having battered his relationship with state governors, he allowed his ABUJA BOYS to embezzle as many billions as they can with which to battle the respective governors in their states. They were seen everywhere flouting hard currencies and always at loggerheads with state governors. Their main Agenda was to hijack party structures from their respective governors to perfect his imposition policy. The biggest irony of that period was that while Obasanjo was busy battling other state governors for their state party control, his own state PDP structure was hijacked from him by the then Governor Olugbenga Daniel. It was Prince Buruji Kashamu, who was to become a thief and a drug Baron at the expiration of their honeymoon that restored Ogun state PDP party structure to Obasanjo.

He again initiated Kangaroo impeachment proceedings against state governors who proved stubborn in surrendering state party structures to the dictator and those who opposed any of his policies. Chief Joshua Dariye of Plateau, Ayo Fayose of Ekiti and Alamieseiygha of Bayelsa states were illegally removed from office as governors.

At the build up to the 2007 elections, OBJ knowing that he did nothing and would be removed without state governor's rigging mechanism in motion initiated a romance with the state governors. Assured them of return tickets in the name of consensus candidature thereby denying others level playing grounds and obstructing them from further actualising their political ambitions. Members became disgruntled and harboured disaffection for the party, an unhealthy situation that was later to destroy the PDP dubbed as the biggest political party in Africa.

Obasanjo's imposition of his apron strings at the national assembly leadership blocking other party members from vying for juicy positions at the national and even state assemblies was unhealthy for the party.

Obasanjo's sojourn at the Villa came to an end after all his effort to transmute into a life president was vigorously fought and stopped courtesy of Nigerians and particularly, Senator Ken Nnamani who was unmoved in his resolution not to defy our constitutional two tenure.

OBJ finally paved way for Yar'Adua, a fine gentleman with good intentions for the Nigerian states. A good example of good things don't last.

Goodluck came onboard. The greatest disservice he did to PDP was his support for 16 against 19. The governors forum saga. He allowed his personal squabbles with Amechi impair his objectivity and good reasoning. He was weak, cowardly, inexperienced and was only interested in his personal interests. Jonathan on no conditions should not have contested the 2015 presidential elections. It was a clear deviation from the rotational principle inserted in the PDP constitution by our founding fathers which was the unifying factor, the bond and which allays the fears of the minority allowing sense of belonging at all sides. PDP was able to be a,party of all Nigerians because of that rotational principle. It was therefore the root of the party. uprooting it became inevitably fatal to the life of the party. He was like the biblical Pharaoh, blinded so as to be destroyed.

Jonathan's ineptitude and laxity in handling party affairs having assumed the unconstitutional position of the party leader made matters worse. I could remember around June 2013 when OBJ held two days summit with PDP governors to settle the internal fracas the Governors Forum elections was breeding within the party. Jonathan was briefed of the outcome of the deliberations which could have solved the biggest problem that later led to the defection of our five governors. I remember Sullivan of Enugu suggesting that the two contestants, Jonah Jang of Plateau and Rotimi Amechi stood down for a fresh election which they must not contest, why didn't Jonathan pursue that path of lasting peace?

The clueless ness of Jonathan and his ineptitude came to bare when at the party's national convention at Eagle's square Abuja, he watched with no iota of concern, Some members of the party including Saraki, seven governors led by Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje stage a walk out from the convention only to form a parallel one at the Umaru Musa Yar'Adua centre. Jonathan was still unmoved, foolishly convinced to be on top of the matter. An early reconciliatory path could have restored the members back.

Five governors threatened to defect, he slumbered and snored without reaching out to them until they went into the APC and strengthened the party.

His wife became the party's director general. He led the party to the path of defeat when he defied every good reasoning to retain Bamanga Tukur as the national chairman of the party only to sack him when the did was already done.

Jonathan will never be forgotten as the black sheep of the party when after leading us to a very poor outing in the 2015 general elections instead of staying back to unite, rebrand and reposition the party for the opposition knowing it was strange to it and for a possible come back by 2019, he left the country and was irresponsibly touring all over the world for months while the party was locked in a leadership quagmire.

The statement of Jonathan yesterday provoked this article. There is no way the party can win elections without a virile leadership.

There can only be constitutional defections and the coming back of PDP by 2019 will continue to be a figment of his imagination.

Just as few people laboured to nurture a party acceptable to all Nigerians, A party through which the dreams of common Nigerians like Jonathan who was once without shoes were achieved, few people also made it an elitist party with no input of the poor, choked the party to death, sapping all its ingredients and leaving its chaff, relaxing in a fool's paradise with the illusion of getting the party to power in the next two years when the party currently have no office and a leadership.

I was a PDP from childhood, i obtained a membership card at about 2012. Today i regrettably renounce my membership of the party.

Am looking forward to a youth-driven party where the Nigerian youths can be given the opportunities to harness their talents.

Am waiting for a party under which new surnames shall emerge. A party where a common Nigerian can rise. A party where competency is the yardstick. A party that will not use its mechanism to divide the members of the public along regional, ethnic, tribal and religious lines but rather carry out a reorientation of the clannish and religious sentiments of Nigerians. A party that where you are from, your surname and godfather will never be the determinant factors.

God Bless Nigeria

Comrade Okpe Sylvanus
Chief Political Editor @statereporters
Political Commentator And Civil Right Activist

CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE OPERATION PYTHON DANCE IN THE FACE OF THE MANY IRREGULARITIES OF KANU AND IPOB

It was the great Abraham Lincoln of blessed memory who asked the pertinent question;
"should we save the constitution whilst our country perish"?

As a country, we must acknowledge and learn where to draw the line in our national discourse.

We tend to forget that our gallant soldiers are mandated by our extant laws to protect the territorial integrity of our nation at whatever cost. A mandate that comes before the constitution and of course, the rights of any citizen or group.

We do not want to be bothered with the reality that the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria remained inchoate during the Civil War and will readily be take same posture should this joke escalate beyond this.

It is also a trite law and a fundamental principle of equity that whoever seeks it must first make his hands free of dirt. The hands of Kanu is indescribably dirty and exhumes a malodorous smell and therefore deserves no protection of the law. He himself and his renegade group do not have faith in our constitution and therefore deserves no protection whatsoever under our grundnorm.

A group that sets up a police in clear violation of section 214 of our constitution has not only desecrated the sacred temples of mother justice but also became fatal to the the territorial integrity of Nigeria which the army had to reestablish at whatever cost.

A group that has set up modalities to cow and browbeat innocent citizens in their ploy to forestall election in Anambra state and by extension, other parts of the east do not itself have regards for the rights of other citizens and deserves no pity of a poor patriotic activist. Denying the people their mandate through violent means is an act of terrorism and such a group must be crushed not because of Kanu but in protection of the law abiding citizens residing in Anambra and other parts of the East.

A group that threatens the entire federal republic, the unity of Nigeria and the lives of millions of igbo people residing and doing business in other parts of the country has no love for the people who they pretend to speak for and must be stopped.

A group that would muster the audacity to throw stones at our gallant soldiers in a bid to stop the army from passing through a road on the excuse that it runs beside an opportunist's residence even when all the lands by constitution, belongs to the government should be made to have a taste of the poisonous venom of the python.

If violating the fundamental rights of thousands of discerning Nnamdi Kanus and IPOB members is what it will take to avert the maiming and brutal killing of vulnerable women, innocent children and destruction of billions of properties, then I see it as a holy sacrifice to cleanse the country and set it once again on the path of growth and development.

During the Civil War which consumed millions of people, especially innocent children and the aged, our constitution remained otiose, a toothless skeleton with no flesh and blood. Do we allow it to deteriorate to that extent before suspending the constitution?

Of course not ! It better remain inchoate now so thousands of IPOB members can be sacrificed to avert the greater danger.

The IPOB members are full grown men who have decided to tow this path of self destruction. Their slogan is Biafra or death. Many people do not share this sentiment. They must carry their cross alone. Innocent citizens must not come to harm for their insanity.

It is for such situations that the doctrine of necessity exists. No right is absolute. At a situation like this, the constitution bows to the territorial integrity of the country.

The youths must team up against our common enemy. A robust Nigeria will usher in an enabling environment where everybody can hatch and harness his or her potentials.

Nigeria first before Nigeria's constitution.

There will be no Nigeria's constitution without Nigeria

Comrade Okpe Sylvanus
Political commentator and civil right activist
Chief political editor with statereporters newspaper
National publicity secretary of patriotic Nigerian youths against corruption and social injustice

I did...it is the best piece anyone could digest

A WAKE UP CALL FOR NIGERIAN YOUTHS

I write this piece with tears uncontrollably dropping down my cheeks.

I do not know how to get myself together. I have taken time to study the political situation of our dear nation and the future of the nobodies of which I am number one. I cannot help but come to the inevitable conclusion that Nigeria is drifting and that the nobodies must be born poor, raised in scarcity and called to the great beyond in abject penury. There will be no period of joy for him or her irrespective of the language he speaks, his religion or where he comes from. The only prerequisite is that he or she is not born into the ruling oligarchy. We must open our eyes before we all get drown. What has division and disunity done to our senses?

The youths are well educated but thinly knowledgeable, we hardly see beyond the lenses of tribalism, religious bigotry and ethnic jingoism.

We flaunt bogus certificates without really allowing our knowledge to affect our thinking and logic.

What are we to be remembered for when posterity refer to this phase of their history when we existed? Azikiwe, Awo, Ahmed Bello, Joseph Tarka are all in the good side of our history today because they exploited the situation and seized the opportunity created by the evils of colonialism. What about Nelson Mandela and the great war against apartheid?

Has the situation in Nigeria not created a vacuum in our history for Nobel men to fill? It is the only opportunity for the nameless us to get solid names.

As I speak now, this politicians who have held us to ransom for decades have created diversionary stories for us to keep busy with on borrowed data online whilst they continue scavenging on our national Treasury as they always do. Do not be deceived by all these evil antics. Do not believe there is any rift between Fayose and Buhari or any difference between PDP and APC elders. They are all common travellers, with a common agenda; to hold us to ransom and remote-control the future of ordinary Nigerians. They always make sure we do not pass average.

They create divergent stories anytime election is by the way. The issue of IPOB, AREWA youths will start popping up? This are all political gimmicks to keep us away from reasoning logically or questioning the rationale behind their non performance, lootocracy and perpetual sojourn in the corridors of power.

We appreciate the fact that many Nigerians are not happy with the way things are in this country. Nothing of this cannot be addressed under a sincere government. Nigeria has enough resources to go round and keep everybody satisfied, fit and healthy only if judiciously put to use. All we need is sincere persons with pragmatic approaches to the escalating situation of our dear nation. A conducive atmosphere where every Nigerian can freely hatch and harness his or her potentials if sincerely provided, will totally assuage all our grievances.

Our brains have gotten saturated with hifalutin promises which is later abandoned when they get to power only to start the bidding of a few minority.

Posterity will never forgive the youths if we continue in this way whilst our nation is made the laughing stock of the world. A country in which youths like us nurtured to become the most populous black nation feared in military and economy. A country that singlehandedly quelled the coupe in Saotome and Principe. A country once dreaded by the most fierce nations in the world. Arise o compatriots! It is worth shedding our bloods to regain that lost Glory.

Look at Kenya, when young people stood and said enough is enough, they started changing the norm. Their history immediately took a new and better dimension. In Kenya today, a young graduate of urban and regional planning who is just 23years and normally should be carrying her files scouting for work in the deepest streets of Kenya was elected into the house of reps. The most captivating part of her story is that she was very poor that she couldn't afford a party ticket. She had to run as an independent candidate yet kenyan youths stood by her and they got it right. What about the 24year old governor who also got elected?

Their elections got the government up and the judiciary immediately braced up to the realities on ground. First in the history of Africa, the court is annulling the election that produced a sitting president. The most stunning aspect of it is that an election which held by 12th of August 2017 got the decision of the Court before the ending of August. It could have been an endless legal tussle in Nigeria.

Can we not achieve this feet? Can't the strength and vigour we wield on social media be brought to the physical sphere? Or are we weaklings? Of course no!

Am sure we can do it!

Look at Ghana today and how they are successfully luring all the candidates seeking admission into Nigerian universities away because there is no heck of strike and other evil barriers. Nigerian government have abandoned the education sector to deteriorate to the lowest ebbs. Their children school in the best schools in UK, U.S, Canada etc with billions of naira siphoned from our national Treasury, they therefore do not care about our education sector nor do they give a hoot if ASUU is on strike for endless decades.

Whilst expired drugs are provided for ordinary Nigerians in the substandard hospitals in Nigeria, they journey to the last breadth of the world in search of standard medications their own responsible government has provided them.

We must refuse to be divided. Let us get them out before we can consider giving each other barrage of quit notices. Let us decapitulate them before threatening fire and brimstone against each other.

Our political parties are two in Nigeria. That of this oligarchists and the one of ordinary Nigerians irrespective of place, tribe or religion. How many youths have benefited from a president who is from their state or region? It all boils down to their relatives including the ones unborn. The ordinary Nigerians fortunately are the majority. How many of us have our voters cards?

Don't you want to be senator at 20s and 30s? This particular question kept me all the night.

Two young Hausa guys approached me somewhere around area 10 in Abuja. They were looking haggard and beggarly, I wanted to dismiss them until the argument they so vehemently advanced and the free flow of logic and sound reasoning got me. I was wearing a Kwankwasiyya tag, they argued with me for about 50minutes and made a strong case for a certain presidential candidate whom they claim is 36years. I was not concerned about the candidate but I was marvelled at the level of rich orientation they have. I couldn't sleep all through that night. I know within me that Nigerian youths are gallant soldiers wounded and frustrated by the devilish antics of this few oligarchists who have seized power from the people whom it originally belonged to for their selfish emoluments. We must fight like wounded Lions and lionesses .

The plight of the Nigerian youths is the most tragic in the world. After many, long gruellinging years of sucking Garri in school and passing through the unbearable stress and prison-like condition of the campus, face a more horrific life outside with nobody to turn to whilst they(oligarchists) have secured permanent positions for their 7th generations. How long shall this go unabated?

Look at my state of Benue, it is the most gifted state in terms of agriculture, man power and other numerous resources. It used to be the pride of Aper Aku, Joseph Tarka, Joseph Akahan. Today the state is overtaken by flood, ravaged by all evils and the plights of the citizens made worse by the evil and terrifying policies of the infamous state Governor. I had written earlier that there was an urgent need to declare the whole of Benue an IDP camp for relieve materials and funds to be donated to us by well meaning and sincere Nigerians but I was made mockery of, cajoled and called names. Today Benue has become an official IDP camp with every politician dancing surugede ahead of 2019 and trying to show off his or her illgotten wealth and large hearts when they themselves created this very problems.

When shall we learn? Why do we accept peanuts from the piles of naira notes they have stollen from us and allow them to come back again?

Why not collect the money (after all, it's ours) and still chase them out?

Why don't we struggle to get there and take this very decisions for our young selves and our kids.

It might not be about us. The unborn ordinary Nigerians need not suffer again. Let us create a veritable future for them.

Patriotic Nigerian youths against corruption and social injustice will embark on a nationwide sensitization campaign. Support us, join us so we can heal our nation and set our dear country on the path of growth and development once again. Let us return Nigeria to its original owners (the people). 08160536309.

What will history remember us for? Shall we live and die without a fight? Of what use is life in such a hell?

God Bless Nigeria!

#Revolution2019
#NotTooYoungToRun

Comrade Okpe Sylvanus
Political commentator and civil right activist
National publicity secretary of patriotic Nigerian youths against corruption and social injustice

well articulated... Kwankwaso is a movement that no man born of woman can stop in Nigeria...best article ever

Bobo419:
Two quick points to make:

1) Is that a staged conjugal ceremony or a real one? If it's real, then something is not right ooooooo. Cause that's a clear sign of a poorly feed Sugar-mommy that has no sugar in her.

2) Pastor, you don try. You said there won't be war in the land for 7 years if the people choose to live in peace and harmony. Baba, this your prophecy is wonderful. You're a truly sent from God. The only concern i have is just that even a mad man can prophesy what you just said and it will surely come to pass.

Okay, make i add my own prophecy.......There won't be war in TIV land between the tiv and fulanis for the next 14 years if the people live in peace and harmony with each other.

If you believe in my prophecy, kindly like this Post..... If the Like plenty, aswear, I go go open my on church kwa

This must be a staged marriage. That guy cannot come and marry the mother na

GavelSlam:
These reasons did not exist in 2015?

It did existed but history apathy got us blind from noticing them. The writer is here to put is on the right path and avert that mistake come next election