₦airaland Forum

PentiumPro:
Pa! You keep regurgitating this falsehood that PMB would soon find out , when would he find out about your utopian power of a senate that is populated with a bunch of thieving former governors and civil servants. You would soon know when the fight get really scruffy that there are far worse senators than Saraki on the corruption meter and the security forces have all their dossiers.
Let those corrupt senators just try a confrontation with the President and you would see how powerful a Nigerian President is.

My dear lady, the dude is simply sentimental and highly deluded. If Buhari can damn the consequence to try and spirit Umaru Dikko away from one of the most powerful nation in the world, i.e the UK, to face justice in Nigeria then the same man will be afraid to deal with a few corrupt senators in Nigeria who enjoy no immunity whatsoever? Many of these guys won't even try it once they realise sh1t is now real. Has the noisemaker Dino Melaye not gone silent when they have all now realised Buhari is not joking? They all thought it is "business as usual" and "more of the same". They will quickly realise this is not the case. Buhari may have mellowed but his mentality of punishing wrongdoing is still the same. All who fall foul of this mentality will only have themselves to blame.

mogentle:
Smartest Nigerians, you mean like Diezani, Ibori, and co that destroyed our economy. We dont need them pls. They are destroyers.

Don't mind him. Does GEJ not have a PHD? Fat good that did Nigeria.

Ramnon2:
There will be few successes of course, but more failures will happen. Buhari is not a smart person, obviously. Indeed the smartest Nigerians have all left its shores.

You guys always amuse me with your uncompromising hatred that blinds you to so much. Assuming we even agree with you, for the sake of argument, that Buhari is "not a smart person" then how many smart person who have "left our shores" are as smart as the likes of Fayemi, El Rufai, Kachickwu and fashola Buhari surrounds himself with and appear to trust implicitly?

If you understand the saying "a true leader creates leaders" then you will understand what makes Buhari a great leader and why he will deliver. Keep looking for rocket science intelligence in Nigerian leaders. It just shows you don't know your own country because some of the brightest Nigerians, like Allison-Madueke, have also been the most crooked, most corrupt and most worthless leaders Nigeria has had.

bravesoul2:
I dont know why we enjoy celebrating stupidity in this nation,what does PDP has to offer by presenting tested but failed woefully candidates like David Mark Ekweremadu etc,what do they have to show for the 6years they just wasted?I beg we need to move away from this rot lets try capable hands that understand that leadership is quality service to the people.

Don't mind these jokers. They don't appreciate that we now have an uncompromising President who will not relent until he gets a Senate President, relatively free of corruption and 'business as usual' mentality, who will help him drive the reforms Nigeria needs to be great.

chukwudi44:
That's is why there are called Senators and are very very very powerful especially when they are united!! Buhari would soon find out the difference between 1983 and 2015.

What "power" and what "unity"? A bunch of self-serving politicians who enjoy no immunity from prosecution are "powerful" and "united" ? I really wonder how you became this sentimental and naive. It is as if you are not talking about the Nigeria we all know. This is even nothing. Wait until Buhari gets a 'pit bull' AGF and Minister of Justice in place to see what a very strong and dominating Presidency looks like. You think things will continue to be business as usual because the PDP set a precedence of impunity over the past 16 years they were in power? You are one very naive and very sentimental dude. When I am in the mood for comic relief I merely need to come to NL and read your posts.

darznets:
I wonder how people think here...
Just wait for Ekwerenmadu to signify his intension for senate presidency and his forgery case will reappear.

Akpabio will not even try it, he knew the government has his case file same for David Mark.

When the chips are down, many of these so called PDP senators will take cover. Is it Stella Oduah, T.A.Orji or which of them will stick out their neck now without getting EFCC invitation?

Thank you. You are one smart and realistic dude in a forum of many sentimental posters. What many do not understand is that impunity reigned because the PDP allowed it to. How many misbehaved under Abacha except 'hardcore' agitators like Soyinka, Fawehinmi and the likes of Tinubu and Dele Momodu who both had to flee abroad?

Buhari is no Abacha but he wants the best for Nigeria and will not be hesitant to wield the big stick ruthlessly against anyone who stands in the way of that. Many politicians are still 'drunk' and hung over from the 16 years of PDP-driven impunity that typified Nigerian politics. They will soon realise things are different now once the likes of Saraki start their jail sentences. People forget this is the same Buhari who fearlessly tried to forcefully bring Umaru Dikko back to Nigeria, from the mighty UK he fled to, to face justice. The same man will now shy away from dealing with a few opportunists at home?

chukwudi44:
Old man Gbawe,I am sure this was not what you were expecting!! Don't be suprised man, national politics is very much different from amala politics!!! The APC are official majority in the eighth Senate but in reality, there are now the minority.Which ever way the Saraki matter ends PDP would carry the day

From your pictures, I am at least 30 years younger than you so if I am "old" then you must be ancient. As per the other point you raise, I think it is obvious, from the many times your opinions have been discredited and disgraced, that you don't know what you are talking about. You are always sentimental and delusional. Keep watching as APC ruthlessly claim the Senate Presidency and DSP position.

Senators have no immunity. How easy would it be to take down brazen crooks like Theodore Orji, Kashamu or Akpabio under a President who will see a fight to the end unlike the cowardly and cowering GEJ? If it were Governors, immune from prosecution, then different. Once the tacit message is sent out that "mess around and be dealt with" then we will see how many of our self-serving and cowardly legislators, whether APC or PDP, will be willing to put their comfortable four year mandate on the line to fight PMB and the APC. Which of our self-serving politicians will want to lose it all 4 months after gaining office? Bros forget the IGG (initial gra gra) . Nigerian politician are the easiest, because they are very greedy and self-serving, to whip in line once sh1t gets real. You can see the power of prosecution below to note that these guys thought it was the 'business as usual' they enjoyed under GEJ. Now they see Buhari will take it all the way they are falling in line.

http://www.leadership.ng/news/463449/cct-trial-fresh-cracks-in-sarakis-camp

Our source, an APC member and Senator from one of the North Central state, who preferred anonymity, in view of the critical role he played in Saraki’s emergence, told LEADERSHIP Sunday that, “I am personally not surprised at what is happening because I knew that Saraki will have problems but I was not expecting it soon. Secondly, I did not honestly look in the direction of any cases of alleged corruption when I was supporting him.

“My fear was how he will manage his colleagues because of his seeming and perceived arrogance, because I remember that the President did say he will work with anybody, provided the person is not corrupt. So I became involved in his project because I believed he could use his experience and complement the president, particularly in the fight against corruption. But seriously, I am ashamed of myself to see these charges, yes it is an allegation but you can see that they are solid and appear true as far as a layman can see. And then his efforts to stop that process were just admittance of guilt as far as I’m concerned.”

Continuing, the Senator said, “I don’t see myself being viewed on national television defending that kind of thing. What will my constituents think about me? I cannot do that so I believe he should just step aside and clear his name, which is the most honourable thing to do

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jaybee3:
How can a first time senator (Akpabio) be considered for the senate president seat?

It ain't happening!

This is how you know this is a 'super story' formed in the mind of the mischief-making article author who is determined to sell news or promote an angle he/she is paid to do. PDP ko ANPP ni. The APC know what they are are aiming for uncompromisingly, i.e ruthless and total control of the upper house, when they decided to deal with Saraki. I would like to see the disorganised PDP try to get in the way of this now that the APC is fully ready for them and will not be falling for any Saraki-style treachery or backstabbing.

Henovy:
I am completely pissed off by the vituperations of one retired naval general as reported on one our online media. He way he talked to the president was very unbecoming. For those who did not read it, the gist is that the man is angry that his wife who is a former minister is "hounded" in the media for extreme corruption during her tenure. The explanation of PMB that he did authorize the write ups could not placate this man. You think my wife went to school for nothing? he thundered. He went on to threaten to expose certain wrongdoings etc. A retired general who is younger in age and who served under PMB in the past to do this right inside Aso rock! What do fellow nairalanders feel. Is this also democracy at work?

The so-called conversation never happened. Don't believe everything you hear - especially when such appears to make no sense. Why will Buhari, with all he is facing, grant the husband of Allison-Madueke an audience? With many world leaders wishing to meet the leader of the biggest black nation on earth we are to believe Buhari has time for Allison-Madueke's husband? This super story is the sort only Nigerians can believe. The Nigerian press is mischievous, corrupt and deceptive. In Nigerians, they have the perfect people to practise their 'brown envelope' deception on.

@OP

You need to do more constructive things with your time.

chukwudi44:
Bros Buhari has no control over the judiciary besides Saraki's lawyers are smart and would use technicalities to delay the trial!! This trial would not be concluded within the next four years

Issokay. We shall see. Don't forget, as usual, I will remind you "I told you so" as I always do.

chukwudi44:
The APC cannot "deal" with Saraki outside the ambits of the law. The court case would achieve nothing as the legal process are just too slow and APC does not have time. They just have to learn to manage him like GEJ did Tambuwal

look Chukwudi, you need to understand that processes are as slow as the government of the day want it to be. Let us see if processes will continue to be "slow" under Buhari. You are making the same mistake Saraki made which is that he believed it was 'business as usual' and 'more of the same'.

Volksfuhrer:
Saraki's desperation got him into this mess!

Indeed. Joe Igbokwe said it all. Saraki's conduct has never been seen in the history of Nigerian Party politics. When, in the 16 years PDP held power, did our former ruling Party have an opposition politician as deputy Senate President? Saraki does not understand the gravity of what he did, because of blind and selfish ambition, that has now left many seething with rage at his antics. My opinion is that Saraki is gone.

TonyeBarcanista:
Saraki must go down! APC must go down too!

PDP to produce the next Senate President

PDP Senators are mainly all crooks. If they do not behave and respect the legislative victory and majority of the APC, as they enjoyed unchallenged for 16 years to produce the leaders of the upper and lower houses in all that period, then the Code of conduct Bureau will be receiving a lot of petitions.

Senators enjoy no immunity and the line has now been drawn in the sand. The PDP and Saraki merely took advantage of a Buhari who initially expected others to behave themselves because his conciliatory message of "reform and I will work with you". The gloves are off now. Buhari has realised you cannot reason with some politicians and he is ready to take the fight to them. Unlike GEJ, Buhari will fight to the end. Let us see how the PDP will pull this off. When Saraki goes, the horse-trading will begin. You think the APC as the ruling Party, now aware of the PDP's game plan, has not prepared for the next stage?

chukwudi44:
Too bad the APC leaders were politically naive!! Saraki is already the senate president,just learn to accept some things you cannot change.

My brother, Saraki's position is untenable. Like I keep telling you, his act of treachery came early in the life of a new government and regime. This means there is plenty of time to nail him. As weak as GEJ was, he would probably have dealt with Amaechi if the former governor started fighting Jonathan one month after GEJ was sworn in as President in May 2011. Saraki's biggest mistake is to think it is still 'business as usual'.

aguiyi:
In other words he is been haunded for been smarter than his party members and not because the laws of the land need to be upheld.

Bruv, this is not "been smarter than his Party members". It is outright treachery the APC never ever expected and were therefore blindsided by. I think Nigerians are so used to impunity and criminality that we now interpret acts of treachery and deceit, that would be unanimously condemned elsewhere, as "smartness". Saraki was simply more cunning and more treacherous than his Party leaders prepared for. They did not expect the wholesale act of treachery, indiscipline and total disregard for Party harmony Saraki displayed. Joe Igbokwe gets it right 100% when he said what Saraki did is unheard of in the history of Party politics. Do you really understand what Saraki did, which is unprecedented, you are praising as "smart"? If you want to see Saraki's treachery and indiscipline as "smartness" then it may mean, like many Nigerians, you have a warped sense of what smartness is.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/09/22/no-tears-senator-saraki-joe-igbokwe

No Tears For Senator Saraki By Joe Igbokwe

BY JOE IGBOKWE SEP 22, 2015

One of the biggest problems facing Nigeria today is impunity. It has led to corruption, arrogance, brigandage, deep political crisis and outright murder. This pandemic disease has led to near collapse of our economy, collapse of values, collapse of institutions and collapse of governance. This high table mentality in Nigeria has led gullible people to take laws into their hands and damn the consequences to the detriment of 160 million Nigerians.

This is the reason why Senator Saraki ignored his Party (APC) directives and connived with a useless party (PDP) we just defeated to steal the Senate Presidency. He did not stop there, the criminal arrangement led to the emergence of Senator Ekweremmadu of PDP as the Deputy Senate President. The moment this brigandage took place we saw wild jubilation in the camp of PDP. Ekweremmadu went to Enugu State and told his people that PDP is back. A lady who is a PDP member mockingly said to me: “yes APC won the election but we have taken over the National Assembly” it was then that it became clear to me the extent of damage Senator Saraki inflicted on the leadership of APC.


What Senator Saraki did is unheard of in the history of Party politics. Saraki made the world to believe that APC leaders are unprepared for the task of governing this country. Saraki’s inordinate ambition at once put a question mark on the capacity of leaders of APC to drive leadership in Nigeria. Saraki tried to prove to the whole world that he is smarter than all the leaders of APC put together. Saraki ignored 51APC Senators who were in a meeting and went to do business with 49 PDP Senators, a party APC just defeated after sixteen years bloody struggle. Senator Saraki bribed his way to the clerk of the Senate and cajoled him to proclaim a Senate that is incomplete. Saraki and Ekweremmadu criminally changed the Senate rules in order to carry out the open robbery we saw in the hallowed Chamber of the Senate of Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Because of the inordinate ambition of one man and lust to be the Senate President by all means Saraki ignored the President, the Vice President, APC governors, Senators, House of Reps members etc to sacrifice the unity of his party. Senator Saraki compounded the problems of APC, and mounted a major road block for its smooth take off considering that it is just coming to power after sixteen years in opposition. This man put spanners in the works and initiated a serious internal crisis within the ruling party that nearly made Nigerians who massively voted for APC to begin to lose hope. Saraki and his gang of forty thieves devastated the master plan of our great party to choose the right people to serve as the Principal Officers in the National Assembly. Since July 9 2015 when this shenanigan took place in the Senate and the huge dust it raised, Senator Saraki has remained adamant to disobey the Party’s directives and step aside rather he has continued to run from pillar to post to sustain a stolen seat. The lust for power, rapacious greed, avaricious tendency, and slave to public office have pushed Bukola Saraki to continue to work with PDP in order to weaken APC.

But will Bukola Saraki succeed? Impossible. APC does not want Bukola Saraki as the Senate President and neither does APC want Ekweremmadu as the Deputy Senate President. Saraki has caused enough implosions within the party. He has brought public opprobrium to the party, he has slowed down the Party’s machinery from taking off smoothly, he has portrayed us as a weak party. Now is the time for him to go. Saraki has no choice than to go otherwise he will have himself to blame. Again if Bukola Saraki feels his hands are tightly glued to the exalted seat of the Senate Presidency and therefore cannot be removed, APC may be compelled to tear or cut his hands off, so that the National Assembly can move forward. No man is an island, and none can claim that he is the final word in APC .
I shed no tears for Senator Saraki.


Joe Igbokwe
Lagos

tomakint:
I have been reading many brilliant articles on the Saraki's debacle but this one comes out the best......the writer truly chronicled the Genesis to Revelation of how not to jostle for what is not yours in the corridors of power in Saraki. The truth is, Saraki just wanted to be Senate President for his own personal and selfish ambitions and not to render any selfless services to the Nation. He missed the theory of the Banana Peel. Adieu Bukola Saraki ......

Your stance over the Saraki issue is really refreshing. I think Saraki would have been tolerated as SP, even as he was very corrupt, under Buhari's policy of "leave the bad ways behind and I will work with you". The nail in his coffin is the treachery and total disrespect for his Party. This quickly showed Buhari and others a sign of things to come. It revealed that Saraki is not interested in reforming. In short, it became clear Saraki will be a cog in the wheel of progress. The APC was left with no choice but to take him on after Saraki declared war on his own Party.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/09/25/saraki%E2%80%99s-implosion-shameful-public-servant-emmanuel-uchenna-ugwu

Saraki’s Implosion: A Shameful Public Servant by Emmanuel Uchenna Ugwu


BY EMMANUEL UCHENNA UGWU SEP 25, 2015

It’s blindingly obvious that the Bukola Saraki who was docked at the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 is weakened, diminished and reduced to a hollow husk. His stint as Senate President has become politically untenable and morally intolerable. But rather than embracing this fact of life, he seems resolved to fight it.

And so for a while, Saraki resisted the invitation to enter the accused box. He saw the accused box as a proper coffin. He reckoned that if he stepped into that container and stayed in it, he would have actively participated in his own funeral. However, it was too late. He was already fatally wounded even before he was boxed.

Saraki had ruined himself by pursuing the fantasy of living a virtually impossible incongruence: He wanted to become the Senate President while being Bukola Saraki. Saraki highlighted this when he protested: ‘’I am a firm believer of the rule of law. I have come here to subject myself before this tribunal. I strongly believe that I am here because I am the Senate President.’’

When Dr. Saraki intuited that ’’ I am here because I am Senate President,’’ he made a correct self-diagnosis. But, he was still strangely unaware of the vein of truth that ran beneath his remonstration.

Saraki was trying to allude to political persecution. He had intended to assert that the charges of false assets declaration and anticipatory assets declaration filed against him were a mere pretext to punish him. He figured that the Presidency was bullying him for daring to become the President of the Senate.

Unbeknownst to Saraki, his ‘’I am here because I am Senate President’’ captures the real reason of his travail: Which is that he tried to be Senate President... while being Saraki!

Saraki, indeed, chose the most inopportune time to launch himself into national limelight. It should have been clear to him that he would be unable to survive.

Saraki, by the virtue of being Saraki, a living museum of baggage, should have never have attempted to vie for Senate President. He should have known that the burden of scrutiny would crumble him.

The siren of ambition drove Saraki. He wanted to be Senate President, the third most powerful man in Nigeria. But the crisis he failed to anticipate was the natural character comparison that would result from his proximity to the upright duo of Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osibanjo in the power echelon.

‘’Senate President Bukola Saraki’’ is a proper oxymoron. The merger of the position of Senate President and person of Bukola Saraki represents a conflicted tension of meanings. His pathetic demeanor since he became Senate President Saraki shows that the title and the man coexist in mutual attrition.

If Saraki were to resign today, he would be doing himself a favor.

Saraki has always labored under the illegitimacy of his ‘’emergence.” His Senate Presidency was conjured out of forged Senate rules and a flawed procedural format. Also, reinforcing the scam, is the fact that he was elected ‘’unopposed’’ in an exercise where half of his colleagues, members of his own political party, were bodily absent.

To date, half of the Senate membership considers him as an impostor. Half of the people he is supposed to be leading are in court, challenging the validity of his claim to be the ‘’Senate President.”

Saraki is not embarrassed by the contempt of half of his House. He carries on, even though the eighth Senate remains stuck in the strictures of his emergence. Apparently, the status of the Senate President, or its close approximation - pretender to the seat of the Senate President - matters more to him than the requisite credibility capital needed to do the job.

Saraki has been playing the nominal part of the Senate President – answering to the title of the Nigerian parliament, sitting on the lofty chair during the Senate session and hitting the gavel, but in reality he has been no more than an infatuated mother rocking the cradle of her stillborn:

His Senate Presidency and Senate never really begun. Much worse than that, his Senate and his Senate Presidency may never ever begin.

Saraki seems incapable of winning the respect of a sizeable number of his colleagues and of procuring the promise of their tolerance of his person. He seems to emit an aura that they find abominably repulsive.

Now, the Nigerian Senate is not the congregation of honest people. In fact, it has – almost as a default configuration – a quota of characters that represent the cream of criminality. Today’s Senate boasts a pedophile (Sani Yerima) and a fugitive drug baron (Buruji Kashamu) as ‘’distinguished’’ members. The makeup of Saraki’s Senate is not much different from the one that had prompted ex-Deputy Inspector General of Police, the late Nuhu Aliyu, to lament, in the midst of a plenary session, that he was forced to share camaraderie with the fraudsters he investigated while in service.

Saraki, from his central role in bankrupting his daddy’s bank to his two terms as Governor of Kwara State, had accumulated a streak of blemishes that makes him an anathema.

The measure of the man’s complexity is that his present distress could grow worse. He is a mine that has only been shallowly researched. He remains a promising ‘’The More You Look, The More You See’’ prospect.

Saraki is possessed of the delusion that he can wait this Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) saga out. He believes that if he stays resilient, the storm will fade eventually. And he will convalesce from the nightmare strong and ready to win the Presidency in 2019!

Saraki has always wanted to be President. He has come close to it as the Senate President, the number three man. He reasons it would be easier to snatch the ultimate seat from this vantage spot.

This is hoping against hope. The reality is that his days in national prominence have expired.

On June 9, 2015, Saraki – according to the horse’s own mouth – ingeniously smuggled himself into the National Assembly Complex at 6.00 am and hibernated at the car park, a clear four hours ahead of the scheduled commencement of the inauguration of the eighth Senate.

If Saraki has lost his understanding of the time and a sense of propriety, I am glad to do the charity of alerting him: It’s high time he resigned!

The thirteen count charges against him and his tangential conjugal culpability in his wife’s alleged fraudulent conduct as First Lady of Kwara State have effectively obliterated any vestige of Saraki’s fitness for office. He just can’t continue in his present post.

As a public servant, Saraki needs to exit the Office of the President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria without delay. In his current position, Saraki has become public nuisance, a shameful cynosure.

His continued association with the headship of the legislative arm of Nigeria pu forths his battle with the law on the screen of national cinema. And this compels the whole nation to watch the plague metastasize in the news cycle.

We need a break from Saraki’s intrusive movie. We can’t keep on watching the saturation coverage of the criminal trial of the ‘’Senate President.” He needs to separate himself from that title and sort himself out. An entire nation cannot continue to pay him the tribute of compulsory attention.

Even if he doesn’t care about the sensibilities of the public, Saraki should resign as a personal favor to himself. He increasingly humiliates himself as he struggles to retain relevance amidst serious charges.

He needs to resign urgently. While clinging to his leadership position, Saraki, the accused, drags the Senate along - like the tortoise dragging its shell - and uses the institution as his shield.

He needs to step aside and defend himself against accusations of wrongdoing.

But being the central character in his own tragedy, Saraki seems fated to persist in processing his ruin until he consummates his self-destruction.


Emmanuel Uchenna Ugwu

@emmaugwutheman

emmaugwu.com

Mogidi:
My point as against the @OP was to reiterate Buhari's debilitating handicap, his obvious disdain for women.

You are judging the President too early, too unfairly and too unobjectively. His "disdain" for women is at best unproven rumours by his detractors who similarly posited, before the election, that he wants to "Islamise" Nigeria yet we have not seen that. Is Nigeria now like Afghanistan today? Are you being forced to recite the quran and frog-marched to the mosque every Friday? Is it not time to stop accusing the man of things he has no interest in merely because of primordial hate?

At the UN, Fayemi is Buhari's right hand man and one of his most trusted aides yet he is Christian. We are to believe he hates Christians and yet trusts Fayemi so much and is working with him so closely? Is it not time, for the sake of Nigeria's progress, you guys chill with the unsubstantiated allegations against PMB? You say he hates women and some say he exalts them too much by shaking their hand publicly. Who do we believe? Is it not time we focus on the developmental element of what our leaders are doing instead of promoting rumours and conjectures?

Mogidi:
One president respects women the other hates women.

You guys should stop this habit of opposing opinions mainly because of the personalities involved. Buhari is a serious leader. GEJ threw protocol to the wind, ran the Presidency aberrantly and allowed Patience, a domineering yet near-illiterate woman, to overstep her mark and move far above her station when she does not even have the minimal capacity to be an engaging and effective first lady.

GEJ is simply a weak man who indulged a horrid wife too much. Many do it in life but it is bad when it is a President and number one citizen of a nation, duty-bound to lead by example, doing such. Below is the Ghana President arriving Abuja. Where do you see his wife leading before him and acting as if the Presidency is about her? First ladies travel with their husbands but it is not for them to jump ahead and begin defying protocol in ways that embarrasses their husband. PEJ was out of control and GEJ indulged her because he is weak and unprincipled enough to always put the need to please his wife ahead of everything else. He did precisely same nationally to ruin Nigeria.

https://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/15589482938_9a2c80b5a8_k1-620x330.jpg

Joe Igbokwe, always on point, saying it precisely as it is.


http://saharareporters.com/2015/09/22/no-tears-senator-saraki-joe-igbokwe

No Tears For Senator Saraki By Joe Igbokwe

BY JOE IGBOKWE SEP 22, 2015

One of the biggest problems facing Nigeria today is impunity. It has led to corruption, arrogance, brigandage, deep political crisis and outright murder. This pandemic disease has led to near collapse of our economy, collapse of values, collapse of institutions and collapse of governance. This high table mentality in Nigeria has led gullible people to take laws into their hands and damn the consequences to the detriment of 160 million Nigerians.

[size=14pt]This is the reason why Senator Saraki ignored his Party (APC) directives and connived with a useless party (PDP) we just defeated to steal the Senate Presidency. He did not stop there, the criminal arrangement led to the emergence of Senator Ekweremmadu of PDP as the Deputy Senate President. The moment this brigandage took place we saw wild jubilation in the camp of PDP. Ekweremmadu went to Enugu State and told his people that PDP is back. A lady who is a PDP member mockingly said to me: “yes APC won the election but we have taken over the National Assembly” it was then that it became clear to me the extent of damage Senator Saraki inflicted on the leadership of APC.
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What Senator Saraki did is unheard of in the history of Party politics. Saraki made the world to believe that APC leaders are unprepared for the task of governing this country. Saraki’s inordinate ambition at once put a question mark on the capacity of leaders of APC to drive leadership in Nigeria. Saraki tried to prove to the whole world that he is smarter than all the leaders of APC put together. Saraki ignored 51APC Senators who were in a meeting and went to do business with 49 PDP Senators, a party APC just defeated after sixteen years bloody struggle. Senator Saraki bribed his way to the clerk of the Senate and cajoled him to proclaim a Senate that is incomplete. Saraki and Ekweremmadu criminally changed the Senate rules in order to carry out the open robbery we saw in the hallowed Chamber of the Senate of Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Because of the inordinate ambition of one man and lust to be the Senate President by all means Saraki ignored the President, the Vice President, APC governors, Senators, House of Reps members etc to sacrifice the unity of his party. Senator Saraki compounded the problems of APC, and mounted a major road block for its smooth take off considering that it is just coming to power after sixteen years in opposition. This man put spanners in the works and initiated a serious internal crisis within the ruling party that nearly made Nigerians who massively voted for APC to begin to lose hope. Saraki and his gang of forty thieves devastated the master plan of our great party to choose the right people to serve as the Principal Officers in the National Assembly. Since July 9 2015 when this shenanigan took place in the Senate and the huge dust it raised, Senator Saraki has remained adamant to disobey the Party’s directives and step aside rather he has continued to run from pillar to post to sustain a stolen seat. The lust for power, rapacious greed, avaricious tendency, and slave to public office have pushed Bukola Saraki to continue to work with PDP in order to weaken APC.

[size=14pt]But will Bukola Saraki succeed? Impossible.[/size] APC does not want Bukola Saraki as the Senate President and neither does APC want Ekweremmadu as the Deputy Senate President. Saraki has caused enough implosions within the party. He has brought public opprobrium to the party, he has slowed down the Party’s machinery from taking off smoothly, he has portrayed us as a weak party. Now is the time for him to go. Saraki has no choice than to go otherwise he will have himself to blame. Again if Bukola Saraki feels his hands are tightly glued to the exalted seat of the Senate Presidency and therefore cannot be removed, APC may be compelled to tear or cut his hands off, so that the National Assembly can move forward. No man is an island, and none can claim that he is the final word in APC .
I shed no tears for Senator Saraki.


Joe Igbokwe
Lagos

Truckpusher:
Saraki is in soup.
smh.

The point is that folks like Saraki should watch their conduct. Not everyone will be like GEJ who cannot see a fight to the end and always backs down. Saraki is too 'dirty' and too easy to nail, because his career has been about corruption, fraud and financial misconduct, for him to now think he can embrace treachery against a new ruling Party and be allowed to get away with such.

Buhari of old would even have had nothing to do with Saraki. Yet the man, to became President and deliver the change he wants for Nigeria, decided to move with the times and work with everyone in so far as they are ready to leave their bad old ways behind. Saraki did not want to abide with this simple request and thought it was 'business as usual'.

Saraki is a serial backstabber yet this is one betrayal too many and it has been done against the wrong President and Party. Saraki will learn that Buhari is not GEJ and that the APC, even with many PDP defectors in its rank, is not the PDP.

for all nairalanders, below are the guideline for petitioning the CCB. Feel free to do so if you know any erring politician and have decent proof to back your petition.


http://www.codeofconductbureau.gov.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82&Itemid=76

GUIDELINES – A petition can be defined as a formal or written document signed and could be sometimes anonymous, reporting alleged dishonest or illegal activities (misconduct) to a constituted authority or Agency.
The guidelines on petition writing and submission are as follows:

The petitioner should address his petition to the Chairman, Code of Conduct Bureau.
Write the name of the public officer that has committed the offence, his/her designation and the office address.
State very clearly the alleged offence of the public officer.
Provide any evidence that can support your petition
Indicate your address, email address and phone number so that you could be contacted for additional information.
Submit by email or through any of the 36 states offices and FCT office or the CCB headquarters at the Federal Secretariat Abuja.

Truckpusher:
I'm a believer of the highlighted but Buhari's track record and his poor sense of the economy and his refusal to develop himself over years is a pitfall he can't make up for even his age too.

You can't be all muscles with no trace of intelligence - Intelligent people will always pass through your blind spot no matter how strong-willed and resolved you are.

On the contrary I actually think Buhari and the APC are showing intelligence here rather than "muscles". They have petitioned the CCB knowing that it is only complete innocence that can get Saraki out of this situation. If Saraki is innocent he walks and lives to fight another day. If not he will be stripped of his position as senate President and may face very stiff punishment. I would say the APC is tackling Saraki tactfully and intelligently.

Truckpusher:
Smh.

You're simply shameless after all - You know what I like about you?

I like you because you've shamelessly at least agreed that :
1) That it is justified to witch-hunt people that faulted the party directive using corruption as a guise.
2)That it is justified to use state apparatus and resources to nail renegade party members pretending that he is a victim of the war on corruption which was nothing but a large smoke screen.
3)That the APC is a party with no formidable structure hence would need to be at the helms of affair to be able to discipline or punish discontented party members that went all the way to have an independent ideology
4)That it is justified to throw away the rule of law as the party selfish interest should hold sway first before whatever the ordinary Nigerian citizen in the streets that voted for change wants and believed in. Al the APC had to do was petition the CCB formally to get Saraki in trouble. He should therefore face the charges put before him.
5) That there is a conspiracy within the APC to use the state resources at their disposal to undermine the legitimacy of our democracy and rubbish the constitution.
I want you to understand one thing - The APC won't remain in power forever and someone would answer for this abuse of office just somewhere in the nearest future.
Mark my words

I missed the part in bold above. As stated before, that is not what is happening here. The code of conduct is already in existence to deal with the type of offence Saraki is charged with same as the police specifically and mainly deal with crime.

see the mandate of the CCB yourself:
http://www.codeofconductbureau.gov.ng/

See the operations of the CCB below to note it can take petitions, even anonymously, it must then act on.
http://www.codeofconductbureau.gov.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82&Itemid=76

I hope you will now move away from this "they are using state aparatus" argument. Effectively anyone can petition the CCB and the bureau is duty-bound to look into the petition - whatever the motivation of the petitioner.

Truckpusher:
Smh.

You're simply shameless after all - You know what I like about you?

I like you because you've shamelessly at least agreed that :
1) That it is justified to witch-hunt people that faulted the party directive using corruption as a guise.
2)That it is justified to use state apparatus and resources to nail renegade party members pretending that he is a victim of the war on corruption which was nothing but a large smoke screen.
3)That the APC is a party with no formidable structure hence would need to be at the helms of affair to be able to discipline or punish discontented party members that went all the way to have an independent ideology
4)That it is justified to throw away the rule of law as the party selfish interest should hold sway first before whatever the ordinary Nigerian citizen in the streets that voted for change wants and believed in.
5) That there is a conspiracy within the APC to use the state resources at their disposal to undermine the legitimacy of our democracy and rubbish the constitution.
I want you to understand one thing - The APC won't remain in power forever and someone would answer for this abuse of office just somewhere in the nearest future.
Mark my words

I had to chuckle at your last paragraph. Abuse of office ke? Saraki will be gone and no one will even remember him by December. Personally I don't care what you think of me. One of the smartest guys to ever post here, katsumoto, said and I quote "Nigeria needs a benevolent Dictator". I agree with him.

The likes of Saraki destroy Nigeria from one government to the next.
Buhari must make an example of Saraki so that many like him think twice before misbehaving. The APC government is dealing with the most treacherous, most indsciplined and most lawless politicians in the world. You do not handle such with kid gloves or they will rubbish you as Saraki is attempting with Buhari and the APC.

nduchucks:
Uncle Gbawe, Saraki is already a goner. I applaud the leadership of APC and President Buhari for wielding the big stick, directly or indirectly in this case. Saraki attempted to disgrace and humiliate our newly elected President Buhari and was foolish enough to believe there would be no repercussion. mumu

Thank you!!! At last someone that gets it. I am not here to hide behind lies or niceties. I won't patronise anyone pretending to believe this is about fighting corruption. My belief is that Saraki must be punished or he will bring the APC down, sooner or later, and destroy the Presidency of Buhari . As simple as that and no two ways about it

BABAKABIRU301:
TINUBU NOW BECOME god IN apc I'M NOT SUPRISE. BUT SARAKI WILL ESCAPE THIS PROBLEM.

Buhari is not the sort of President that will allow anyone, however influential or highly placed, to hijack his government. Anyone who thinks the travails of Saraki is exclusively the work of Tinubu is misinformed.

Truckpusher:
Intra-party sanction using the state apparatus and all available resources ? progressives indeed.

Oops! I forgot that the APC was never a party with any formidable structure, hence they are simply using the state resources at their disposal to beat someone back into line and send a message to the entire park just like the mafia and other criminal organizations.

This is pure witch-hunting, which is detrimental to our young and fragile democracy and this is what I have been saying all along but it seems that your egunje won't let you see the bigger picture and how it would affect in transforming our young wavery democracy into an effective one.
I got your message and your ideology in it's entirety as it concerns politicking but hey! how about decorum and the rule of law? or is it simply tooth for tat creating a situation where people would be muzzled using the power bestowed upon them to deliver Governance ? - Little wonder some people still refer to Buhari as a military man in agbada.

Kontinu.

You say they are using state apparatus and resources. That is not correct because the CCT still has to try Saraki. If someone, for whatever reason, has influenced the bringing forward of the case of false asset declararion against Saraki then that is fine also.

It is like when I have a problem with you and I tell the police you are dealing drugs on your premises. Am I using state aparatus or is the police there to deal with your offence anyway? If you are guilty then what does it matter what my motivation is for getting you arrested and prosecuted?

Saraki should face the charges and prove his innocence or face the consequences if found guilty. Saraki played very dirty because he assumed the APC is the PDP and that Buhari is GEJ.

SeverusSnape:
Almajiris are not the majority in the Senate, unlike In Nigeria. Sorry, this time around, No underaged voters to help you boot Saraki out.

The ugly useless halitosis infected frog eyed local champion called Tinubu will be taught a bitter lesson, Politics at the National level is not same as the SW where amala ati ewedu politics is played. Mtcheeww...

Is it Tinubu who is exclusively behind Saraki 's woes?

MizMyColi:
I take it you've been boxed again.

On the contrary, your reply shows it does.
You seem pretty much emotional these days.

Whether you admit what it does for you or not is your cup of mandarin tea.
My message is clear enough

As long as Saraki goes then you can say what you like. It was the same message I gave GEJ fans before the election. GEJ is now gone and even hiding as I predicted he would. It is all about getting over the line