The current NNPC debacle is probably the most embarrassing, even if mercifully, eye-opening crisis in the history of that nationally strategic institution since its creation in 1977. I seek in the following commentary to offer a number of observations that would probably throw some light on the muck and confusion running riot out there on the matter. In my view, it was an error to have paired the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru, with Dr. Ibe Kachikwu.
I say this for two reasons. When Dr. Ibe Kachikwu was appointed the GMD in charge of the NNPC and as Minister of State in 2015, it looked like a dream appointment and an extra-ordinary career point for him but not necessarily for the sector. Dr Kachikwu did not hesitate to assert himself and in his attempt to reform the NNPC, one of the victims was a certain Dr Maikanti Baru, most senior Executive Director at the NNPC, who was redeployed under the new dispensation as a Technical Adviser in the Ministry of Petroleum. This was like sending Baru to desert territory of the oil and gas sector. How the same Baru eventually got rehabilitated as GMD of the NNPC, to work with the same man who had tried to marginalize him within the system was a poor demonstration of an understanding of human psychology.
It was common knowledge that there was no love lost between the two men, and yet someone thought it was a good idea to force them to work together as a team. Leadership failed at that point, because the arrangement was not going to work. The Ministry of Petroleum and NNPC that emerged at that point was built on a fulcrum of conflict of personality and interest. The key players in the oil and gas sector can only work together as a team if they must reduce the opaqueness and conflicts in that sector, but the pairing of Kachikwu and Baru practically showed a lack of understanding. The crisis that has now erupted between both men was foreseeable, and I dare say, avoidable. Where is the wisdom in forcing two persons who have shown open dislike for each other to work together?
But let us consider the other level of the conflict: and that is the conflict of interest. One major issue in the oil and gas industry, over the years has been the uneasy relationship between the Ministry of Petroleum and the International Oil Companies (IOCs). The Ministry of Petroleum through its parastatals, the NNPC, and more particularly, NAPIMS, regulates the IOCs. Nonetheless, the relationship between the regulator and the IOCs has always been like that between the cat and the mouse. Civil servants not just in the NNPC but elsewhere within the government have a penchant to want to work with their own.
Political appointees are treated with suspicion, as wayfarers, as the civil servants seek to protect their own territory. The battle for territory in the Nigerian government is one of the most vicious fights in the corridors of power. So it has been that in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria, every attempt to appoint an IOC-associated person as head of the NNPC or other parastatals under the Ministry of Petroleum has always resulted in the equivalent of street fights.
Under President Olusegun Obasanjo, Edmund Daukoru and Funso Kupolokun could not forge a seamless relationship even if Daukoru spent only five months or so in that position. Diezani Allison-Madueke was also from the IOCs (in her case Shell) and obviously she had issues with NNPC and Ministry officials. She had an advantage though: no GMD of NNPC would dare stand up to her, or by-pass her.
The belief within the Ministry of Petroleum system is that Ministerial appointees from the IOCs have interests that are different from their own traditions. President Buhari made the matter worse by making Kachikwu, an IOC man, from Exxon Mobil, GMD and Minister of State of Petroleum. On the surface of it, the impression was created that he could generate policies as he deemed fit, enjoy direct access to the Minister of Petroleum and gain the authorization to implement the same policies as he liked.
From day one, Kachikwu was thus a marked man within the Ministry of Petroleum system. It will be naïve to assume that it is only Maikanti Baru that is fighting him. It will be safer to assume that it is the establishment that is trying to cut him down to size. If you doubt that, then check the history of the system: most of the former Ministers of Petroleum that managed to do well are not even from the system but complete outsiders. Caught in the middle of this conflict, Kachikwu does not want to take the matter lying low. He is fighting back. I’ll comment on whether that is a smart or clever move anon.
I think the other problem signposted so far in this matter, is the role of the Minister of State and the substantive Minister and how power and responsibility are delegated along the reporting lines. The related issue is access to the delegating authority. What we know is that the Minister of State in the Nigerian system has always faced difficulties. He or she occupies the same space in the power spectrum similar to that of a Deputy Governor, even if he or she does not have any Constitutional right of succession, in the event of the death or impeachment of the substantive officer. So serious is this matter that when certain Ministers of State were treated shabbily in the past they had to protest, and force the issue. The Nigerian Constitution, in line with the Federal Character Principle, says there must be a Minister from every state of the Federation. Since it would make no sense to have 36 Federal Ministries, some Ministers end up as Deputy Ministers, but in reality, they are expected to report to a substantive Minister representing another state! The result has been nothing but conflict.
Under President Umaru Yar’Adua, the then Secretary to the Federal Government had to issue a memo dividing functions and responsibilities between Ministers and Ministers of State. Under President Goodluck Jonathan, there were three Ministers in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs representing different states of the Federation: their functions had to be spelled out to avoid conflict. This was also done in the Ministry of Health between Onyebuchi Chukwu and Muhammed Ali Pate, but one of the unwritten reasons why Pate eventually left the government was that he didn’t like the assigned role of a subordinate.
At a time, not even Rilwan Lukman and Odein Ajumogobia could work together. In Kachikwu’s case, he faced a humiliating situation whereby the GMD of a parastatal under his Ministry seemd to have better access to the substantive Minister and President. For months, the Minister of State could not access his principal, but the GMD of NNPC could, and that must have made him feel really bad. The truth is that the oil and gas sector is Nigeria’s honey pot and every GMD of NNPC has always enjoyed both official and unofficial access to the President. As I said earlier, only Diezani Allison-Madueke could keep her NNPC GMDs in effective check. If they stepped out of line, they lost their job.
Nonetheless, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria does not have to be the Minister of Petroleum of Nigeria. At face value, the President seeing that the oil and gas sector is the honey pot of Nigeria may want to supervise it directly. Oil generates close to 80% of Nigeria’s foreign exchange. Even a President who does not hold on to that portfolio will be tempted to keep a close eye on that. In President Buhari’s case, he had been a Minister of Petroleum in the past and chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund. All of this when new players in the industry were in kindergarten class, and so it can be assumed that he knows much about the industry. But the President being the Minister of Petroleum creates exactly the kind of crisis that we are witnessing. The President is the final authority.
Whoever is appointed Minister of Petroleum Resources exercises in any case, delegated authority. Both the Petroleum Act and the NNPC Act further vest authority in the Minister of Petroleum Resources exercising delegated authority. When the President combines the positions of President, Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of the Executive Council, and memos by all Ministers are to be processed through the Council, the President turns himself in the case of the Petroleum Ministry into a mini-god over Nigeria’s honeypot. If the President acting as Minister presents a Memo to Council, it is most unlikely that anyone among his own appointees will oppose that memo. The memo ordinarily receives automatic approval, no matter how it may be. NNPC GMDs from Obasanjo’s time have tried to exploit this, when given that advantage, and it is why the NNPC’s response to Ibe Kachikwu now in the public domain is so troubling. Baru quotes the law. He insists that he has followed due process in all that he has done. He merely exploits the loopholes within the system that work perfectly in his favour under the present arrangement.
In his opportunistic statement released yesterday, he quotes NNPC’s alleged fidelity to the Procurement Act, and why and how the NNPC Group Executive Council does not have to report to a Minister of State, but the Minister or the Federal Executive Council. Mr Baru should be told that due process is not the only issue raised in Dr Kachikwu’s memo. He raised issues about the appointment and deployment of NNPC Executives and the appointment of COOs. Is that part of the mandate of the BPP? So, why should we have a Board that cannot perform oversight functions? The truth is that in many government departments, the chief executives often undermine the Board, especially if they are as powerful as an NNPC GMD who wields enormous influence and goodwill, as he wishes.
On his part, Dr Kachikwu himself ruins his own case when he begins to talk about his being pro-North and his father having served in the North. What is that all about? It is completely immaterial. When a serving Minister begins to justify his own Nigerianness on the grounds of being pro-north, then we get closer to the root of the problem with Nigeria. Is Kachikwu also trying to play smart, to protect himself strategically?
Kachikwu and Baru have created significant mess in the petroleum industry due to their own conflicts. With due respect, that is the truth and the situation. It is a conflict that must be resolved in the national interest and the buck for doing that stops at the President’s table. This particular conflict, and other intra-governmental conflicts before now, almost becoming recurring decimals: EFCC vs NIA, DSS vs. EFCC, Babachir Lawal and NIA probe, the Senate and the Inspector General of Police, have altogether dramatized to the international community cracks within this administration, and a growing governance crisis.
President Buhari has a responsibility to rescue his administration from the same odium that has often compromised Nigeria’s most strategic revenue sector. So far, he has not done so, and his failure will be remembered appropriately, if not now, then at the right time. It is tragic.
The National Assembly also probably has a role to play, beyond claiming it would look into the allegations that have been raised. The Senate has since separated the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill into three sections. It has passed the Administrative Section. But it would appear that the key issues in that industry would be both the Fiscal Regime and the local community frameworks.
Administrative reform is not enough, and may even cause more serious problems such as we are witnessing. However, more probing questions have to be asked for the benefit of the divided public: how many NNPC contracts have been tabled before the FEC in the last two years, and what is their status? There is more to this matter than we know.
You have found your voice which you lost as spokesman of president Jonathan when Lai Mohammed was inventing all falsehoods against Jonathan presidency.
Abati hardly disputed Lai's lies against Jonathan, even though Abati was in the right position and right one to counter Lai's lies. Abati was more interested in power returning to his Yoruba/Hausa combination through APC.
ReAccreditation of Courses could have been effected witht 1/10th of money used by Gov Okorocha in building a flyover in Owerri to boost his presidential ambition.
Students need to bear Okorocha till May 2019.
No placard can change his approach to IMSUTH.
But the dirt Okorocha piles on IMSUTH shall also be deposited on his university in his hometown, if he does not take time.
Because Okorocha wants to fully own Eastern Palm University in his Ideator lga hometown, by trading IMSUTH with Owerri, that is reason why Okorocha started since 2012 to scrape roads leading to IMSUTH, owed doctors arrears of salaries to make them leave, denied lighting up IMSUTH at night, etc.
Awoo88: Ibb, obj abdusalam are the powers in Nigeria. They know where the bodies are buried
Yes, both are surviving clan of Muritalla/Ibb/Abacha which progressively and wrongly used land mass as criterion to proliferate 20 new political units (19 states and Abuja) in ONE NORTHERN REGION; but allowed only 17 new political units in TWO SOUTHERN REGIONS. FRAUD.
Abdusallam Abubakar imposed the constitution that legalized the FRAUD.
SOUTHERN POLITICIANS ARE AMATEURISH NOT TO UNDERSTAND THAT LAND MASS IS NEVER USED AS YARDSTICK TO DETERMINE WHERE AND HOW MANY STATES CAN BE CREATED IN A COUNTRY FORMED BY DIVERSE REGIONS.
With a presidential candidate needing 25% of votes in 2/3 of the 36 states to win, how can any Southern presidential candidate win unless north is not serious that the president must come from the north? Southern politicians are yo yo politicians.
CastedDude: Former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu on Monday visited Former Military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) in his country home in Minna, Niger state. Addressing journalists after meeting IBB behind closed door, Kalu said they spoke about 2019 presidential elections.
According to him, they agreed that even if President Muhammadu Buhari will not contest in 2019, the north should produce the next President.
He, however, stated that after the north Presidency, the next President in 2023 should come from other part of the country to forge cohesion, stressing that he would not mind to be a President.
The Former Governor also defended his earlier position on the disclosure that IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu has gone to London through Malaysia.
Kalu when asked if he wants to contest the 2019 Presidency if Buhari did not run, said: “I am a Nigerian, I am entitled to it but like I will always say and I maintain my position that northerners should be allowed to complete their second term.
Day dreaming. Nigeria was political restructured by Muritalla Mohammed/Ibrahim Bababgida/Sani Abacha, to such a country that it shall be easier for a ram from northern region to win a qualified professor of law from the southern regions in presidential election, unless north says it's tired of ruling the country.
Goke7: Exactly, who zoning epp, I have voted for a northerner and am not satisfied, if I find a southerner more worthy, why must i be restricted by zoning
But your vote to the southerner can't make any southerner president of Nigeria because of the manner which northerners restructured Nigeria. Unless northerners say they are tired of running Nigeria that time.
Most southerners are very ignorant of the impact of the rigged political structure of 36 states+Abuja on Nigeria's political process, and how it makes north colonize the south of Nigeria.
BiafraIShere: I'm indigenous to Imo state and also resides in the state capital but I'm not from Owerri. If he makes the development of the state capital his priority then I don't see how that amounts to breaking the law. Governance is a "continuum" the next governor can make the rural areas & semi urban areas their own priority. The development of Owerri into a beautiful and attractive city will also have a multiplier effect on the surrounding areas. Owerri city belongs to all Imolites so stop making it a case of we against them.
Who told you that Owerri City belongs to all Imolites? Fallacy.
Who told you that a person from Orlu or Okigwe or Oguta - the three official urban towns in Imo - shall be happy watching governor Okorocha plough Imo state funds in demolishing and rebuilding in Owerri City, while Orlu, Okigwe and Oguta decay as they are doing now?
What if the next governor comes from Owerri and continues with Okorocha's policy of Owerri only?
It's the mark of illiteracy to say that one town in a state shall become a World class city, after that, future governors shall start developing infrastructure in other towns in the state.
BiafraIShere: I'm indigenous to Imo state and also resides in the state capital but I'm not from Owerri. If he makes the development of the state capital his priority then I don't see how that amounts to breaking the law. Governance is a "continuum" the next governor can make the rural areas & semi urban areas their own priority. The development of Owerri into a beautiful and attractive city will also have a multiplier effect on the surrounding areas. Owerri city belongs to all Imolites so stop making it a case of we against them.
You don't get it.
Cities develop manly through the industry and entrepreneur of people of the city.
Nnewi, for example, expands because of its people"s industry.
For its development, Owerri depends on funds that should have been used for developing other local government areas in Imo state.
That is wrong.
Very wrong of you the idea of first developing Owerri before other cities in Imo state - view of a semi-illiterate fella.
BiafraIShere: I'm not against Rochas's bold attempt in remodeling Owerri into a world class city because I'm looking at the bigger picture but he needs to have a human face. The demolitions should have been done gradually, the demolition of Eke Ukwu market, Plaza & others in one fell swoop rendered thousands of people jobless and its affecting the economy of the city adversely. Relocation of markets away from city centre is good as well as the road expansions but it has caused untold hardship on the affected families. However, you cant make an omelette without breaking eggs. Posterity will judge him well if he completes the projects before leaving office.
It is illegal and unconstitutional what Rochas has been doing using the federal allocations to the 27 lgas to remodel and develop your city Owerri.
You must give Rochas your own money to remodel your city of Owerri to a world class city of your taste.
Rochas is barely educated, that's why he doesn't understand the unconstitutional nature of abandoning rest of Imo state and using their allocations on Owerri.
Emmalez: According to reports coming from Owerrie, Imo state capital. Gov Roachas led administration has moved his demolision execise to Dan Anyiam Plaza opposite the stadium after the Eke ukwu market demolision which took the life of a young boy few weeks back.
Danny287: Mr. Donald Duke, a former Governor of Cross River State has said that he is not a supporter of zoning of the Presidency.
Mr. Duke while speaking on Hard Copy anchored by Maope Ogun on Channels TV said, “I have never subjected myself to zoning, when I ran for Governor I was not afforded zoning, everybody and everyone was able to run in Cross River.”
He maintained that, “Besides its my constitutional right to run, you can’t zone my right, I think it’s unconstitutional to zone and besides like I said to you I was born a Nigerian, I wasn’t born an Easterner or Westerner, I was born after Independence. So my outlook is Nigerian.”Concluding, Mr. Donald said Nigeria was in dire straits and should jettison zoning and go for the best.
All eastern politicians have lost their right to answer president of a country as they support continuation of one Nigeria. Arewa could have been stampeded to "appoint" one easterner as president if Eastern politicians had capitalized on the moves by IPOB.
Can't Duke see that even an illiterate leper from northern region can defeat him in presidential race, once northern political class decides north must produce the president?
Nwodo of Ohaneze is also a one Nigerian. He zones presidency to north uptill 2027. By then the extant political structure and governAnce system must have been solidified, such that it can be treason to ask for restructuring Nigeria politically.
In fact, politicians of old Eastern region have sold themselves to Fulani. They can't agree on Biafra, they can't agree on anything.
Igbo youths have taken over the politics of the east.
After Okorocha, next is you when it comes to being politically dumb.
Owerri is a tiny percentage of Imo state.
If your Okorocha likes, let him paint the streets of Owerri with gold, and abandon rest of Imo, as they are today, he shall remain the worst governor Imo state ever had.
Mbakwe provided most expensive regional water supply schemes in Owerri, Aba, Umuahia and Okigwe, provided more of these Okorocha projects in five cities -Owerri, Aba, Okigwe, Orlu, Umuahia - in just four years.
A state governor, Okorocha, scrapped this road that leads to the state's university teaching hospital, Orlu since 2012. Objective? To make the hospital become non-viable in its location, so that he can have reason to trade the institution with Owerri politicians for his on-going private university in his hometown..
FTrebirth: stop posting selective pictures of imo state. go to ihiala-orlu road and take pictures of those muddy roads rochas abandoned...they're parts of imo too, not just owerri. there's no single day a vehicle doesn't get trapped on that road. stop deceiving people.
Imo state is all about Owerri - that's a new narrative written by Gov. Rochas Okorocha since he joined APC.
But still unknown to Okorocha and his equally politically amateur hirelings online, the narrative has finished up Okorocha's politics in Imo state.
FYI, Rochas Okorocha can't imagine any meaningful project that can bring development to an enemy axis - Orlu
Rivers of blood continues because some Rivers people would rather tolerate that, than have Biafra restored for the peace of all - just because of Igbophobia.
maximunimpact: Dangote Cement Plc, Nigeria’s most capitalized quoted company and Africa’s largest cement producer, at the weekend stepped down from its much-publicised bid to acquire the share capital of PPC Limited-a South African leading cement firm.
In a regulatory filing at the weekend, Dangote Cement board of directors stated that it has notified PPC board of directors that it no longer has an interest in acquiring the South African firm’s share capital.
Dangote Cement had last month confirmed that it had initiated a bid to acquire the entire share capital of PPC Limited. It, however, noted that the acquisition talks were still at the preliminary stage and the transaction remained a potential one, contrary to reference to the talks in some quarters as ongoing.
Established in 1892 as De Eerste Cement Fabrieken Beperkt, PPC is a leading supplier of cement and related products in southern Africa. It has 11 cement factories in South Africa, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Zimbabwe.
With annual capacity of 11.5 million tonnes of cement products, PPC’s materials business comprise Safika Cement, Pronto Readymix (including Ulula Ash) and 3Q Mahuma Concrete. Its footprint in the readymix sector has grown to include 26 batching plants across South Africa and Mozambique.
Also, PPC produces aggregates; with its Mooiplaas aggregates quarry in Gauteng, having the largest aggregate production capacity in South Africa. PPC Lime, one of the largest lime producers in the southern hemisphere, produces metallurgical-grade lime, burnt dolomite and limestone.
PPC is closely linked to the growth and development of South Africa as it has produced cement for many of the country’s most famous landmarks and construction projects.
Two global rating agencies, Moody’s Investors Service and Global Credit Ratings (GCR), recently rated Dangote Cement high for its financial strength and corporate outlook. In rating reports, both global rating agencies described the outlook of the Africa’s largest cement producer as stable.
Moody’s assigned three respective high ratings to the cement company, including a first time Ba3 Local Currency Corporate Family Rating (CFR), Ba3-PD Probability of Default Rating and Aaa.ng National Scale Rating (NSR).
Global Credit Ratings assigned long-term and short-term national scale issuer ratings of AA+ (NG) and A1+ (NG) respectively to Dangote Cement.
Assistant Vice President and Lead Analyst for Dangote Cement at Moody’s, Douglas Rowlings, said the ratings reflected Dangote Cement’s “strong standalone credit profile and track record of demonstrated financial support from a larger and more diversified parent, Dangote Industries Limited”.
Chief Executive Officer, Dangote Cement Plc, Onne van der Weijde, noted that the ratings highlight the financial strength the company had achieved through unwavering focus on the profitable expansion of its business.
When will Nigerians ask Dangote-Buhari why cement price sharply rose from N1300 to N2700 early this year, and never came down again since the Naira gained huge value against the Dollar?
There is no Economic Theory that supports the steep rise in price of cement, and the price remaining same since Naira regained strength.
legitnow: Let me just add to all these Benin and Yoruba men, just becos u married Igbo women that have been used and leftover by Igbo men, does not give u the right to personalize our affairs or interfere in our affairs.
U only married our left-over, we did not induct u into our collective.
Igbos generally dont interfere in the affairs of their inlaw.
It is not our custom and we will not tolerate forwardness from foreigners that think marrying an Igbo woman is an express ticket to becoming Igbo or involvement in our affairs.
Let Linus Idahosa concern himself with Edo State issues, after-all Nnamdi Kanu never included Edo in Biafra.
Edo is ROB - Republic of Benin made up of present Edo State and the non-Igbo groups in Delta State. That's how Biafran forces who overan Edo in 1967 proclaimed Benin Republic. Never has any Igbo included Edo in any Biafra Republic, even though much of Edo share similar value systems with the Igbo.
valentineuwakwe: what are they searching his home for. .attimes i wonder how intelligent the army claim they are. .people have internved on this issue and called for peace, the presidency have even insulted south east leaders and elders as if he is the oldest in this country yet army are still searching. .all this agitation leaders and resource control groups don't know and have not learnt how to wage a war with the government. .but one thing I assured the government of nigeria if it does not change is that a new menace will arise and that they will never be able to GRASP what it is. .leave searching kanu house to find evidence of arms where there is none. .instead focus on unity and equality for all in the country. .finish!
In the bid to totally colonize crude oil and impose Islam on all in Nigeria, Fulani wants to use Nigeria armed forces to intimidate all in the south of Nigeria.
oweman: The nigerian army has the legal ; constitutional and moral right to search anywhere in Nigeria either on land ;sea or air and no one can stop or hinder that . Anyone not satisfied should go to court ..
In your own type of country. Not in the country you want to continue to share with Biafrans.
Biafrans want to improve with the rest of the world. But you sit glued to proceeds from crude oil in the Nigerdelta, and turn internationally acclaimed norms upside down, to suit your design.
{But when contacted the Desk Officer of Operation Python Dance in charge of Abia State said no household items were removed from Kanu’s home.
According to him, the operation was based on the intelligence that arms were hidden in the compound.
He said “the things removed may be technical items”}
So what does police do in a country?
Shameless army trained only to confront and kill unarmed citizens for the sake of Fulani.
Then the army tell lies as instructed in Taqqiya - the injunction in the Koran that instructs its adherents to tell lies to whoever and whenever needed,
deariekay: @cyrilamx, nice sharp intelligent guy.you typed or spoke my mind. They taught PMB was dead.Dats y Kanu refused to listen to anyone,he was dilidarling and gallivanting around with those jobless and brainless followers.only those who witnessed war can talk about war .as at 1967,Mr and Mrs Kanu were with thy Lord thinking about coming to this world. No sinner's will go unpunished,he must pay for his foolishness and stupidity. Oniranu.
Buhari he can't live forever to sustain your parasitic lifestyle through his spilling the blood of dissenters to one Nigeria..
kitaatita: “We think we need Biafra, but this Biafra should be that of the mind that represents our ingenuity and our innate quality for hard work and enterprise, especially as oil proceeds keep dwindling.
“Igbo are largest and highest investors in the country, contributing to the development of wherever they reside and operate. In Lagos alone, we have built and developed about ten different markets from which over N3b are generated on daily basis.”
Less than 0.0000005% of Igbo own those big businesses in Lagos and Abuja, and elsewhere outside Igboland.. In Lagos, the poorer Igbo traders are forced to start anew every five years as their shops are demolished every five years. We know those propagating this useless propaganda of Igbo having billion business in Lagos to negate restoration of Biafra. They shall fail. More than 90% of Igbos shall vote yes to restoration of Biafra.
ProWalker: It's your chest, chest beating is free.
Go and tell the Catalans or the Scotts that they are chest-beating. You can't continue to have a Nigeria where your wish must remain the wish of all , through the barrel of the gun.
Biafrans must continue to agitate till we are free from your undemocratic Nigeria where guns are used to kill off dissenters and silence their survivors.
Muhsinkhan: Nnamdi Cownu is trouble!! Anyone who has anything to do with him is only inviting trouble. IPOB sang, the python danced, and Kanu went Machiavelli.
Now this nigga has seen the light. He must pay for siding with traitors.
And yes! FTC!!!
If for nothing else, Nnamdi Kanu is more brilliant than you.
Python dance? Only in your obsolete mindset, in your Buhari's type of mindset can bullets and massacre be used to quell group's agitation for self-determoination.
The Biafrans want to live in a country different from yours. And there is no stopping that.
dainformant: Imo state governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha has kick-started the construction of brand new prison yard and Police Headquarters in Avu, Owerri west Local Government Area, geared towards making Imo a modern state, according to reports by his media aides.
The governor recently announced state government's plans to relocate the two Federal Government Establishments from their present locations in line with the ongoing Urban Renewal Programs.
That is the governor who doesn't understand his role.
A governor who uses the federal allocations to his state's 27 lgas to build whatever he fancies in the State Capital, Owerri, while the other lgas in the state deteriorated.
A state governor who does not understand that a state capital is merely a seat of government, not a place a governor buries nearly all the funds of a state.
That's the governor who bought 300 vehicles with the allocations to his state's 27,lgas but ordered that the vehicles be used as taxis only in his state capital.
That is the governor who bought dozens of buses with the allocations to his state's 27 lgas but ordered that the buses run only on the streets of his state capital.
That's the governor who bought scores of Police vehicles and security gadgets but ordered that they be used to police only his state capital
evanso6226: Garba Shehu, the presidential spokesperson in a video clip going viral stated that If you think those in the National Assembly are idiots, wait for 2019 and put people who are not idiots.
Dear Shehu with his native intelligence and respect for the NASS. The National Assembly is unduly overpopolulated by Fulani-controlled northern region drawing the population from the 20 new political units that northern military dictators created in the north, but created only 17 in two southeast region
Land mass is no yardstick to determine where new states can be created in a country that was formed by various regions. It's now restructure Nigeria politically it dissolve Nigeria.
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