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OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI 

Dear Sir,

           JUNE 12 AND THE BURDEN OF GOOD GOVERNANCE


It is with great delight that I write this open letter to you, Mr. President, and wish to congratulate you and all Nigerians for the great honour done to late chief MKO Abiola and his running mate, with the conferment of GCFR and GCON on them respectively, whilst not forgetting others who stood gallantly in reclaiming the JUNE 12 MANDATE against all odds. Indeed, this great gesture has soothed the open sore of the June 12 struggle and has began the process of healing the wounds of those dark days, whilst bringing succour to the souls of the departed who fought against dictatorship and tyranny in a bid to reclaiming the lost mandate of the Nigerian people. Suffice to say, Mr. President, that it is no coincidence that this laudable gesture has been achieved 25 years after all hopes of restoring the mandate appeared to have been dashed indefinitely. 


Having recognised the need and finally put to rest this dark episode in our country’s history, I humbly urge you to take the subsequent step in declaring Chief Abiola as President (Posthumously) and further recognising all the key players who played different roles in the actualization of democracy during those trying times, and of course, those who also paid the ultimate price for freedom with their sacred lives. It is no gainsaying to say the least that Nigerians will forever remain grateful to you for standing up and putting to rest the June 12 imbroglio, irrespective of dissenting opinions. It will be wise to conclude, therefore sir, that this great feat will usher in a new Nigeria where all the main ingredients to sustaining and entrenching democracy will become the norm in our daily lives, spearheaded by those in power at all times. The lessons of June 12 and what it meant to Nigerians should be the bedrock of our democracy, as anything short of this will rubbish the very intention for which the honours were conceived ab initio.  


Furthermore, Mr President, having been a lone voice in criticizing the activities of your administration, despite being a member of the APC, many will wonder what the true intent of this Open Letter may convey, but be rest assured sir, that only those who mean well for this country will speak up when wrong is being painted as right. The CHANGE mantra upon which this administration was voted into power massively by Nigerians, irrespective of ethnic, religious and social affiliations, is fast eroding away and I’m afraid, sir, that if nothing is done to Right the Wrong, then the Hopes and Aspirations which had ushered in a brighter tomorrow will end up in Regret and Despair.  That I have decided to speak up against the current ills in the system attest to the fact that, it is only when people speak up that True Change will eventually occur. The resilience and belief in the June 12 Struggle attest to the fact that those who fought for democracy in Nigeria believed in the truest meaning of democracy in all its ramifications. A country where the RULE OF LAW, FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ASSOCIATION, UPHOLDING THE RIGHTS OF EVERY CITIZEN AND ABOVE ALL RESPECT FOR FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS was and is the very pillar upon which  Chief MKO ABIOLA and several others paid the ultimate price with their lives. Anything short of this will amount to MILITOCRACY or DICTATORSHIP as it were. The lack of adherence to these social rights, I must admit, are very prevalent in this administration and seems to be growing larger by the day. These ills are reminiscent of and a sad reminder of the Junta days, with many regretting their actions of voting the APC into power. It will be pertinent, Mr. President sir, to proceed on a personal fact finding mission to the Nigerian streets, irrespective of bias, to find out the true reflections and opinions of Nigerians toward your administration.


The flagrant disregard for the Rule of Law, Disobeying of Court Orders, Acute Nepotism, Selective Persecution, and Lack of Transparency are some of the ills very prevalent in the nation today. The various reports from Amnesty International and the U.S. Department of State have gravely indicted this administration. It is in this vein, Mr. President, that I urge you to give regard to the Rule of Law as the continuous incarceration of perceived enemies, without obedience to court orders, has become an enormous albatross confronting your government. Many a people believe that the duo of Sheikh EL Zak Zaky and the erstwhile NSA, Colonel  Sambo Dasuki (rtf), are some of the personal witch-hunt of your administration, and therefore having preached peace and reconciliation during the Holy Month of Ramadan, Nigerians would be interested to see if they will be set free, to at least allow for the Rule of Law take its course. 


The infighting within the National Assembly and the clamp down on opposition voices is clearly in sharp contrast to the democracy that was envisaged and clamoured for by Nigerians before your inception. As we draw near to another election year, it will be beneficial to your administration that these concerns are vigorously addressed, so as to usher in a ray of hope for a better Nigeria as envisioned by MKO Abiola himself. The EKITI and OSUN elections will be a litmus test for all Nigerians to attest, if indeed, what is to come in 2019 will be anything to go by. Having preached peace and perseverance to all Nigerians, your actions or inactions will be very vital as we approach these elections.


I would conclude by leaving you with this words that: "If the position is that the June 12th sensationalism is beyond the personification of Chief MKO Abiola GCFR, and more about the memorial and honour of the protagonist that advocated and sacrificed for democratic tenets, then the moral, socio-political, and emotional modus operandi of its proponents must unequivocally demonstrate the Rule of Law, which is intrinsically the Blood of Democracy. Any move, in whatever class, shade, or shape that is short of upholding the Rule of Law is simply shenanigans. No matter who and how many people approve of the gesture. God loves, because He is Love. Also, God gives Justice, because he is just.” Copied.


With best regards.



Yours  sincerely, 



Comrade Timi  Frank 

Deputy National Publicity Secretary  

All Progressives Congress  

timifrank40@gmail.com 

07033555555

Am so impressed. This is remarkable

OPEN LETTER TO THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS



Mr. Antonio Guterres 

Secretary General of the United Nations

Thru: The UN High Level Representative to Nigeria

U. N. Building, Plot 617/618, Diplomatic Drive

Central Business District

Abuja - FCT.



Dear sir, 


PERSECUTION OF SARAKI AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR DEMOCRACY


I write to update you on the increasing political intolerance, terror and persecution being unleashed against perceived opponents of the present administration in Nigeria-led by President Muhammadu Buhari and to seek your urgent intervention to prevent an imminent breakdown of law and order capable of truncating the nation's democracy. 


Recall that last week, I wrote a similar letter to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, on the need for the international community to save Nigeria from the current political terror against highly placed and innocent Nigerians as the country approaches the 2019 general elections which is about nine months away.


The political scenario is Nigeria and the highhandedness of the executive and its agents against law abiding Nigerians is becoming unbearable and unless something is done urgently to salvage the situation, our hard earned democracy will be plagued by disaster of unimaginable proportion. This call is premised on the old wise saying that a stitch in time, saves nine. 


Today, the entire country is in a dilemma. While terrorists, insurgents and other criminal elements are having a field day in many parts of the country, citizens are also being framed-up and hounded by security agencies on the direct orders of the executive in order to retain power. The police that is supposed to protect the people is being used as an instrument of intimidation and brutality against law abiding citizens. I don't think I need to recount the ongoing ordeal of Senator Dino Melaye because his humiliation and persecution by the agents of state is known even to the little children. I don't also consider it necessary to refer to the frame-up of Senator Shehu Sani as having links with murder suspects in Kaduna. The incessant arrest of opposition PDP members would take an entire page of this write-up were I to chronicle them. 


Only yesterday, the police, not tired of subterfuge came up with bizarre claims that robbery suspects arrested in connection with the Offa Bank robbery have implicated the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki. Recall that Saraki had two weeks ago raised an alarm about the directive from the Force Headquarters to transfer cultists and murder suspects arrested and being prosecuted in Ilorin, Kwara State, to Abuja, in a bid to tutor them to implicate him and the governor of the State, Abdulfatah Ahmed. Following the uproar, the police became silent for a while and have now decided to use the Offa robbery suspects to achieve their sinister goal against the President of the Senate.


I want you to note that the police on this occasion have not said anything new. What they wanted to achieve through the surreptitious transfer of arrested cultists and murder suspects from Ilorin to Abuja, they have now achieved through the Offa bank robbery suspects. Unfortunately, the President has not deemed it fit to call his stray agents to order in spite of the formal report on the issue made to him by a panel set up by the Senate following the alarm raised by Saraki on the impending fraudulent indictment about two weeks ago. 


I dare say that the President of the Senate is a man of integrity and high moral standing. Apart from his noble parentage, he has held several positions of trust in the private and public sectors of the economy. Some being his directorship of a bank, special assistant to former President Olusegun Obasanjo on budget matters, two time Governor of Kwara State, Senator and now President of the Senate. He is also a major player in the global arena as a former President of Globe Nigeria and other international engagements. Over the years, his character has remained untainted and his reputation solid. Even under the last administration where he played a pivotal opposition role, all efforts to implicate him failed as several investigations raised against him found him blameless.


Unfortunately, the present government has been out to bring him down by all means since the inception of this administration. He is currently facing trial on allegation of false asset declaration. He was accused along side his deputy of forging the Senate rules - a case that later collapsed following the inability of the government to concoct plausible evidence against them in court. The recent efforts by government to get him at all cost has led to blatant lies, harassment, intimidation and blackmail to damage his reputation and paint him black before the eyes of right thinking members of the public.  The goal of the government is to make political capital out his anticipated fall and reap bounteously from the sordid enterprise in the 2019 general elections.  


Permit me to say that Saraki remains a credible and responsible Nigerian and my call is not to say that he is above the law. If there is any genuine reason that would warrant him to account for any of his actions, I believe he will gladly do so as a law abiding citizen. However, using gestapo tactics to blackmail and try to hang a criminal charge on him would be tantamount to wickedness, repression and dictatorship. If they have anything against him, let them follow due process according to law. I believe that as a man who respects and believes in the rule of law, Saraki is at anytime ready to defend himself before a court of competent jurisdiction just like he has been faithful in doing same before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). There is a rising apprehension among the vast majority of Nigerians that if this atmosphere of  intimidation being unleashed against the opposition in the country is allowed to continue unchecked, our democracy might suffer an incalculable damage and irreparable crash. God forbid!


My joy is that you are well aware of these evil antics playing out in Nigeria and their implication for peace, unity, order, good governance and the rule of law in the most populous black nation in the world. What I am not sure of is your reaction to the incessant human rights abuses, harassment of opposition members and the covert forceful persecution of well placed Nigerians in order to get them to support the reelection bid of President Buhari, against their will. 


I therefore call on you and the leaders of the G-7 nations to intervene to prevent this looming catastrophe in Nigeria. I believe that prevention would be better than cure in this case because if highly placed Nigerians like the President of the Senate are being made to undergo these indignities, then there is no hope for democracy and rule of law which is about the preservation, welfare and protection of the common man. The country is dire political straits and we need your timely intervention to restore peace rule of law. 


Yours  sincerely, 


Comrade Timi  Frank 

Deputy National Publicity Secretary  

All Progressives Congress  

timifrank40@gmail.com 

07033555555

This are great achievement from the governor of Ado Ekiti, projecting physical developments in the state.
Quoting the national chairman, his advice to the President and his party is to behave like pdp when it lost, accept defeat, be free and fair and go home.

UcheSecondus:
.......warns against repeating second republic mistake.

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, pdp, Prince Uche Secondus has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to put himself at the forefront of preaching one man one vote if he really desires to conduct a free and fair election in Ekiti, Osun states and in 2019.

Prince Secondus said that nothing on the ground so far is showing that the APC government is preparing to conduct a free and fair election in Ekiti state.

The National Chairman who spoke in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital on friday at the commissioning of various projects of Governor Ayodele Fayose, said that pdp performance in Ekiti state has closed the gate for any other party in the state to win.

According to a statement from the media office of the National Chairman signed by his media Adviser Ike Abonyi, Prince Secondus warned that any attempt to rig the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Ekiti state would be a recipe for crisis.

"Let me remind the APC government that the political problem in the country in the second republic started with the election manipulations of the then ruling National Party of Nigeria, NPN in the the old Ondo state comprising of Ekiti state, let us not witness a repeat.

He advised the APC government to take a queue from the gubernatorial primaries of pdp in the state and conduct the Ekiti election creditably.

"What the pdp did in the gubernatorial primaries in Ekiti is what is expected from a rebranded pdp where there would be no more impunity, no more imposition of candidates.

Our advice to the President and his party is to behave like pdp when it lost, accept defeat and go home.

The statement said that former President Goodluck Jonathan and four pdp governors of Abia, Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Gombe states, Okezie Ikpeazu, Emmanuel Udom, Neysom Wike and Ibrahim Dankwambo respectively graced the occasion.

All the state governors spoke and eulogized the host governor Fayose for doing much with meager resources.

Governor Fayose in his remarks assured the people of the state that the PDP candidate in the July 14 poll Prof Olusola Eleka would not only win but would go further to do well and even better than him.


https://web.facebook.com/princeuchesecondus/posts/244557626094184

With a free and fair election and a one man one vote, PDP has the chance in displacing the APC government from power.
Recently the APC government successfully refused to hold election in peace and thus rigged the election in 2015 with under age voting e.g Kano

UcheSecondus:
.......warns against repeating second republic mistake.

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, pdp, Prince Uche Secondus has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to put himself at the forefront of preaching one man one vote if he really desires to conduct a free and fair election in Ekiti, Osun states and in 2019.

Prince Secondus said that nothing on the ground so far is showing that the APC government is preparing to conduct a free and fair election in Ekiti state.

The National Chairman who spoke in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital on friday at the commissioning of various projects of Governor Ayodele Fayose, said that pdp performance in Ekiti state has closed the gate for any other party in the state to win.

According to a statement from the media office of the National Chairman signed by his media Adviser Ike Abonyi, Prince Secondus warned that any attempt to rig the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Ekiti state would be a recipe for crisis.

"Let me remind the APC government that the political problem in the country in the second republic started with the election manipulations of the then ruling National Party of Nigeria, NPN in the the old Ondo state comprising of Ekiti state, let us not witness a repeat.

He advised the APC government to take a queue from the gubernatorial primaries of pdp in the state and conduct the Ekiti election creditably.

"What the pdp did in the gubernatorial primaries in Ekiti is what is expected from a rebranded pdp where there would be no more impunity, no more imposition of candidates.

Our advice to the President and his party is to behave like pdp when it lost, accept defeat and go home.

The statement said that former President Goodluck Jonathan and four pdp governors of Abia, Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Gombe states, Okezie Ikpeazu, Emmanuel Udom, Neysom Wike and Ibrahim Dankwambo respectively graced the occasion.

All the state governors spoke and eulogized the host governor Fayose for doing much with meager resources.

Governor Fayose in his remarks assured the people of the state that the PDP candidate in the July 14 poll Prof Olusola Eleka would not only win but would go further to do well and even better than him.


https://web.facebook.com/princeuchesecondus/posts/244557626094184

In total support
We need a change
Dankwambo 2019

The truth cannot be hidden. Its about time, looking forward to 2019 polls.

The truth is bitter. Nice one

This people wee not kee me jare.
But this is uncalled for.
I thought such things have stopped since 2000
This transformation the Governor is trying to carry out is for their own benefits, they are to shallow and blinded to see the end result and the good plan and development he is trying to give them e.g Bayelsa Diagnostic Center At Imgbi, Yenogoa
I wee say this is planted......

Abeg tell them make them hear

ufuosman:
Apc make una sit down look

And who says PDP is not taking over ?
#PDPSouthwestmegarally

PDP is stronger, better and organized. PDP is voting APC out

Applauds to the PDP Chairman, coming together to move our dear country. Victory is assured

As a matter of Fact they have something against him which is his incompetency to rule our country nigeria. Paying lip service to crucial issues affecting nigerians. Always claiming he is not aware