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Whenever they (Ethnic Jonathanians) refer to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari as a Coupist or attempt to present him as an enemy of the Yoruba people, respond with the statement below...

The first period of military rule kicked off on the 15th of January 1966 after a group of army officers (the Young Majors) mostly SOUTH-EASTERN IGBOS, overthrew the civilian government and assassinated the prime minister and the premiers of the northern and western regions. However the bloody nature of the Young Majors coup caused another coup to be carried out by General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi.

Ojoro cancel... Shikena!

@KazeemDiary

On 26 February 2015 at the Chatham House, London, rather than put blames on his agile and combatant deputy, Major General Tunde Idiagbon who is now late or the then military ranks and files, which included Gen. Sani Abacha & Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, the former Head of State took responsibility for his actions and inaction and reiterated the need for a better leadership and expressed his satisfaction of becoming a true democrat. This action is against the blame game that the incumbent administration is known for.

Nigeria needs a president with guts, if they truly they are interested in pushing the country above the horrible level, she has been for the 16 years of the PDP rule.

@KazeemDiary

Alert!!! FFKs nefarious plan against GMB

We have received this on good authority. This message filtered in this morning reliably from source.

We have received information that Femi Fani Kayode has paid some boys to mobilize Nigerians in the UK to protest against Gen. Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday (26/02/2015) at Chatham House. This is to create a wrong signal that Nigerians are happy with President Good luck Jonathan and probably embarrass Gen. Buhari before the international community. The bad light synergy was revealed by one is his agent, and we craving to ask why?

Gen. Buhari is to present a lecture on the same day at Chatham House, London titled: “Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in Africa: Nigeria's Transition”.

We here by urge Nigerians home and abroad to be red alerted of every antics of PDP and its nefarious agents.

THE PRESIDENT JONATHAN CLONED ABUBAKAR SHEKAU.

Undoubtedly, the news of the purported capture of the resurfaced leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau presently hovering around the Nigeria political space which may have been credited to feeders within the Nigeria Defense HQ or its mercenaries, is a bid to present a cloned individual as the original leader of the group, further blackmail certain people in the society, and ultimately result to further mudslinging of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. No doubt, Nigerians believe that the monster was a creation of the ruling party in their pursuit to maintain a firm grip on power, the nation’s treasury and extend their 16 years of futile rule at the center. This is at the expense of the lives and properties of the people, who are believed to be helpless in the face of the PDP’s misrule.

In accordance with the statement of a former Nigerian dictator, General Sani Abacha on the consent of the government in power, if terrorism last for more than 48hrs in a country, and with a deep understanding of the relationship between a creature and the creator, Nigerians will collectively subscribe to the submission that a relationship convincingly exist between President Goodluck Jonathan and the leader of the most dreaded Nigerian based Boko Haram terrorist group. This evident claim has aided the fast rise of the terrorist group and the military’s inability to end the activities of this terrorist group for the past six years in power, which has brought so much shame on us as a people.

The decision of the President Goodluck Jonathan led government to satisfy the conditions on which the February polls was untimely postponed, after President Goodluck Jonathan claimed to have underestimated the activities of the dreaded group from its inception, is believed to have instigated the presidency to match the battle field in an attempt to either subdue or eradicate the Boko Haram Terrorist group, so Nigerians should neither be utterly shocked nor perplexed by the swift swing of the President Goodluck Jonathan led Nigerian Military to combat the over six years terrorism that has ravaged the entire North Eastern Nigeria and its environs, for this is a clear indictment of the incumbent administration which is in accordance with claims from well meaning Nigerians that the President Goodluck Jonathan led government has deliberately allowed the insecurity in the North eastern Nigeria to degenerate in pursuance of political points best known to the Presidency and the ruling party.

Nevertheless, the position of some members of the ruling class and the Nigerian masses that the Boko Haram terrorist group is a creation of the ruling party can be best justified with the ongoing perceived determination of the presidency and the ruling party to employ all necessary mercenaries towards bringing peace and tranquility to the North East, after the government’s nonchalant attitude for over six years that has led to the displacement of more than 3 million people, death of more than a hundred score, destruction of many over homes and death of our unborn cities, this calls for a probe by both national court of law and the international criminal court of law.

Conclusively, Nigerians are glad to join the government on their sudden awakening from their six years of slumber by giving the insecurity in the North East a good fight. This will help us restore peace in our country and return sanctity in our society. Nonetheless, we also express our disappointment in the deliberate inactions of the President Goodluck Jonathan led administration to combat the dreaded terrorist group.

Whatever becomes the outcome of the ongoing fight for peace in the North East, we will always remember that the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration consumed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and displaced over 3 million people, for people will be remembered for their actions and inactions.

Kazeem Sulaiman
sulaimanadeshina@yahoo.com
@KazeemDiary

NigeriaDecides: Letter from The Corrupt Power Monger – Delivered by Olusegun Dada

#NigeriaDecides: Letter from The Corrupt Power Monger – Delivered by Olusegun Dada
Dear Citizen,

I have watched and listened to your rantings of late about how you intend to deal with me, and how you intend to change me with your votes. All I do is laugh, laugh and laugh. Beyond pouring out your frustrations on me and my friends and protégés is the real issue of what really you can do.

Now let me respond to you.

You cannot destroy me because I am not really a human; I am a system of control and accumulation. I am not like you, I am not an individual, I am not a needy creature, I am a powerful system of thought and emotional control. You cannot destroy me because deep down inside of your rotten self, you love your oppressors and you identify with your masters. You cannot touch me, because I am above you, I am a god of capital, of history, of defiance. You try to revolt and you will feel the weight of my military machine fall right on your spine and my policemen and military will chase you and maim you.

You cannot crush me because I own the Army, I own the Navy, I own the Police force, I own the intelligentsia and the media. I am virtually invincible and indestructible, because I am a disease, a virus that lingers in your mind and thoughts. I am the dream that you pathetic creatures harbor of being rich and powerful. I am the prototype of everything that is rotten and beautiful about corrupt practices.

You cannot undermine me because I live in your hearts, and deep down your heart, you want to be like me. You admire the miracle that made me powerful. You eye my Porsche, eye my rambling buildings and die to belong to my circle. You cannot understand me because it would be like a lowly human understanding God. I am the lord of your existence and I determine your living. I am the history of money, impunity and control. I am the gorgeous feelings of gold being poured into your very being. I am not just one person; I am a system for hoarding your labor and the world’s resources. I am the sick protocol, to control, to usurp, to steal, to destroy all human creativity.

You cannot defeat me, you can protest all that you want against corruption, impunity or insecurity or social economic failures. But you cannot crush me until you understand me, and you never will. I am a machine, I love money so much that I have become money. I love power so much that I have become power, incarnated, incorporated, ready for the slaughter.

Be happy with your life, slave. Be happy with the niceties that I let you have. Do not start a fight that you cannot finish. Be happy, wage slave, with the cassava bread and a blubbery life of meaningless excess. Be happy with your position, with your caste, be happy with the fact that you’re alive and well entertained by the drama of the government your emotions birthed.

I do not doubt the force of your unity though, but I know it can never crystallize. My friends and I watch you irritate yourselves with the message of tribal hate. Your lack of trust for yourselves isn’t hidden. You still view your fellows from their ethnic origins.

Your religion will not even allow you fight me. I know how to explore that sentiment. Even if your religion allows you, your cowardice will not. How about your greed? Your greed will be your own undoing. Yes, I am greedy. You call me a criminal in the cocoons of your Twitter and Facebook. I haven’t denied this. Yet I know that opportunity makes the thief. If you were in my shoes, would you do less?

I have the contacts. I have the money. I can break you, buy your louder voices and weaken your camp. But make no mistakes about it, if you get so strong as to come after me, and if I see your chances of succeeding; certainly, I will run for my life. Even if the borders are closed, I can still buy the loyalty of its keepers. I can buy the protection of your police. I can buy my way through. I won’t sit and watch you kill me. I will run.

I don’t see much danger emanating from you. But if it does, well, I’ll see how to get over it. But before then, keep grumbling. Keep dreaming. #Don’tPanic

From the man you admire,

The corrupt power monger

DesChyko:
You most probably didn't listen to GEJ's broadcast about why that money was raised when he explained it on the media chat. But you proceeded to post this book here based on misinformation. Sorry.

Another one, he said the fund generated at the Presidential campaign fund raising dinner was diverted to the WADATA II Project (PDP HQ II).

What it was later used for does not stand a check, the sole truth remains that it was accrued from tax payers money, at the expense of the people.

halimaabi:
Foolish write up.

Always use a Spellchecker, if u have problems with spellings... Get education.

huptin:
But you cant do anything to them, can you? You can only rant like an ant.

We await what himself and his warlords from his region wil do to the Yorubas, when Jonathan concede defeat at the forthcoming polls.

dokyOloye:
Op,isn't obvious to U that APC is spending more than d PDP in d present season of electioneering campaigns?

Only an individual with a wasted education will concurr with ur claim, if I may ask, do u have an idea of how much TV sponsored adverts and placements on national dailies cost...

...that some of the most advertised achievements of his administration are of the lowest quality at this time and age especially for a country as important as Nigeria…

@DeleMomodu
A REVOLUTION LONG FORETOLD.

PRESIDENT JONATHAN REELECTION CAMPAIGN: TAX PAYERS MONEY AT WORK.

Taking the large amount of money that has been spent from the commencement of the 2015 general elections by the President Goodluck Jonathan led presidency and the ruling party into cognizance, one will be whacked to compromise or doubt if truly unemployment is at an alarming rate in Nigeria, doubt the need of the country to seek a loan from a foreign bank in order to combat insecurity and also if the people wallow in abject poverty among others.

Undoubtedly, the need for a low produced government to spend several millions of Naira which most often commensurate with the financial worth of the publicized capital projects on the pages of national dailies remains a debate among the elitist population, this has garnered criticism from a large percentage of the people on the need for a government to waste the internally generated revenue from tax payers money on placing adverts on the pages of national dailies because we strongly believe that capital projects are evident achievements that the populace can see and discuss at every gathering. Perhaps, the Nigerian population remained silent for a long time, until the incumbent adminsitration successfully diverted tax payers money to the reelection campaign of President Goodluck Jonathan and other contestants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, which has made the reckless spending of the ruling party an easy task and with reflections in the multi-million mudslinging sponsored adverts on our national dailies and on different television broadcasts and the wide distribution of branded food items to the penury infested Nigerian populace.

Although, the reasons why Governors from PDP led States can conveniently harness support and raise a whooping sum of over N21B in a single presidential fund raising dinner while the working force in most of their respective States are either earning below the minimum wages or been owed by the State government and the addition of financial contributions from the incumbent government enriched business owners while the company payroll is either slim or their members of staff have been engaged without salaries and allowances for a certain period of time, does behoove the comprehension of most Nigerians who are seen to be helpless or as mere tools in the hands of our selfish ruling class but it does not behoove the understanding of the key players in our polity.

It is very pathetic that some Nigerians prefer to live as an oppressor provided their daily meals are not affected and their shady businesses are not altered, remain mute when others are oppressed, or be the oppressor if the society does not curb the animals in them, this is quite synonymous to the reasons why a lot will continue to act like they are not affected by the $20B missing NNPC funds, the decision of the former Minister of Aviation to spend a sum of N550M on bullet proof vehicles, the $30B missing funds under the watch of the Minister of Finance and the decision of the Minister for Petroleum to spend N10B on chartered jet. Nonetheless, it is neither convenient for those who have taken the position of bystanders nor is it peaceful for those who have taken the frontline of people agitating for a working country, as our heritage continue to fall apart despite their efforts but a war for justice , equity and transparency in governance can not be won when a large population of the people seems to prefer sitting on the fence when a very few among us continue to agitate for a free country as bequeathed to us by our heroes past.
It should interest Nigerians that recent unfolding has further affirm the claims of the elitist population of the Nigerian populace and press releases from international organisations and foreign journals, as we are neither compelled nor coerced to accept and believe that the incumbent administration has successfully spent tax payers money on the ongoing wasteful of resources by the PDP on the President Goodluck Jonathan reelection bid. Well this should not be a surprise to Nigerians who are aware of the 51 percentage of the total annual budget going to the government at the center while the remaining 49 percentage is shared among the States in the Federation.

Conclusively, a support for a government that has spent tax payers money on their strive to remain in power in order to continue feeding on the country’s treasury is nothing but a wicked decision that will further plunge our heritage into financial chaos.

Kazeem Sulaiman
sulaimanadeshina@yahoo.com
@KazeemDiary

Poverty is a monster created by members of the ruling class, it will be difficult for them to annihilate it because it is the surest way to reach the minds of the penury infested masses...

This is an embarrassment on the nation at large.

Continue to wallow in self denial and delusion, of what importance is the acclaimed 25,000km of road when the Jonathan led administration has failed in its fundamental responsibilities... Hurling abuses on the people because their views differs shows the idiocracy in people.

Giving attention to idiots like Mujahid Asari Dokubo, is absolutely a waste of time... He should start by answering the numerous questions that bothers on his integrity... He needs a psycho-check!

2015: ANOTHER ELECTION POSTPONEMENT; A MISCHIEVOUS MOVE.

At the birth of our democracy in 1999, some Nigerians were appealed to seek refuge under the ‘umbrella’ while some were deceived to embrace the umbrella, as against the provided alternative of a ‘corn’ which could have been better amongst others than the embraced umbrella; our democracy will be 16years of non-directional rigmarole by May 29, 2015, yet our democracy remains a malnutritioned infant and our independence seems like a charade, while we celebrate the daylight mediocrity of some of our present and past leader, who have successfully plunge our heritage into inadequacies and address our heritage as a country instead of a mere geographical landscape.
It is no gain saying that, the further postponement of the Independent National Electoral Comission (INEC) rescheduled election dates will affirm the desperation of the ruling party to stick to the deadly security situation in the North Eastern part of Nigeria and hold on to power beyond the constitutional provision, it will also be conceived as a ploy to either hold the elections in not more than 150 days after the expiration of the incumbent administration which is still within the ambit of the provisions in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999 as amended), if perhaps it is not followed by a Military coup as predicted by a lot of Nigerians, or to conduct the general elections at a time after the expiration of the present Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) boss tenure of office; this will be perceived as a mischieveous move to push for more plans to get a stooge of the ruling party as a replacement, who will damn the consequences of electioneering manipulations against the major opposition political parties.

The postponement of the forthcoming general elections slated for the 28th of March & 11th of April, 2015 will ultimately make the results not credible, unacceptable, estimated, and doctored in favor of the ruling party, it will also further heat up the polity and might unleash the dealiest dragons in the political key players; which does not only have the capacity of becoming a replica of either the 1983 general elections or the Military annuled 1993 Presidential election but also has the potential of actualizing the evil plans of some elements to tear our heritage apart in fulfillment of their personal gains; their names will be written in red inks on a white banner, as history will not leave them and their generations unpunished.

Unarguably, the forthcoming general elections as rescheduled for March, 2015 is the most tensioned, ethnic inclined, emotions filled, religious sentimental, affections engrossed, financial resources driven, as we have seen the use of derogatory and undemocratic words, numerous anti-All Progressives Congress (Anti-APC) sponsored adverts on national dailies and on Television stations, physical attacks from the ruling party on members of the opposition, mudslinging of persons and political parties characterised, assassination of characters satisfied, unimaginable ethnographic divisions, religious sentimentality filled, and in addendum it is the first time in our polity when Nigerians will be given a strong opposition party to challenge the 'a decade & a half' misrule of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which has led to the travesty and façade that has eventually envelope the electioneering campaigns.


Unarguably, the world cameras are tilted towards the unfolding of the mysteries in our country, as we make a mockery of ourselves and prepare to converge at the polls with our Voter Cards. Indeed, this is a shame on some members of our ruling class and bystanders who have resulted to sitting on the fence as regards the murky process, we have been offered by the leadership of INEC in terms of the distribution process of the Permanent Voter Card (PVC) and the sluggish process of the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) for people who did not partake in the 2011 voters registration, as evidently orchestrated by the Jonathan led administration. Nigerians must be educated that successful countries has recorded milestone achievements, as a result of their determination of their leaders to serve the people with less blemish, setbacks and attacks on opposition political parties and neither by practicing democracy in the shabby manner it is done in our entity nor is it a science discovery.

Nonetheless, we remain resolute and confident that patriotic Nigerians and our well wishers will coarsively reject the move of the presidency and the ruling party to further postpone the rescheduled 28th of March and 11th of April, 2015 general elections which has the tendency of resulting to a breakdown of law and order in our dear country, as reports reaching us reveals that the President Jonathan led presidency has kicked off plans to further shift the elections by giving bribes to unidentified corrupt members of the Sen. David Mark (Peoples Democratic Party) led National Assembly and whack the electoral commission to an inner corner, as against the Prof. Attahiru Jega led Independent National Electoral Commission continually swim against the tides and achieve its bid to ensure that eligible voters are not disenfranchised in the rescheduled forthcoming polls.


Conclusively, it will be better for the presidency and the ruling party to avoid taking the sick Nigerian populace in the wrong direction like Laurent Gbagbo of Codevoire (Ivory Coast) but rather sail the Nigerian ship towards a direction free from icebergs and whirlwind, which will aid a safer navigation and eventually a protected stop at the dockyard of progress, growth and development. Nigeria is our collective inheritance and we must do everything possible to protect her from self served poliyicians who are determined to stop at nothing to achieve their self goals and make her better.

Kazeem Sulaiman
sulaimanadeshina@yahoo.com
@KazeemDiary

THE UMBRELLA, THE BROOM

Unarguably, the country has experienced a skyrocketed level of the importation of umbrellas, which is the symbol of the Peoples Democratic Party, which is as a result of the inability of the ruling party to fund our metal and steel production company, this has ultimately increased the level of umbrella importation amongst other produce into the country; surprisingly, the production of locally made brooms has experienced a pragmatic boom as a result of the increased patronage by members of the All Progressives Congress across the length and breadth Nigeria in identification with the symbol of their political party, this increased patronage has left a direct impact on the internally generated revenue of our heritage, and also encouraged unemployed women and youths to tap into the stream of the All Progressives Congress indirectly created empowerment programme.

The symbol of the All Progressives Congress, Nigeria is believed to symbolise collectiveness and the strong will of different people from different regions of the country, in order to enhance a collective performance; this is synonymous to the collections of strands of brooms from different sources, binded together to form a bundle of strands, which becomes difficult to break and does the cleaning job better. Unarguably, the broom which is the symbol of the All Progressives Congress can be seen in every home, workshop, office, market place and other places, as it importance cannot be underscored in the cleaning of the earlier mentioned places; while the importance of the umbrella is pertinent to rainy season on the calendar of every year, Nebuchadnezzarists have in a long time argued that the umbrella is an all season protection object, but it is pathetic that we only make use of the umbrella during the rainy season because we are Nigerians.

Pathetically, Nebuchadnezzarists have been unable to focus the King Nebuchadnezzar camera focus on the need to atleast encourage our local manufacturers of umbrellas through the SMEs or subventions so as to create an atmosphere where unemployment can be reduced to its minimal. Nigerians have always been provided with google based achievements of the incumbent administration, of how new tertiary institutions have been established at the expense the existing underfunded ones, how they have done reasonably well in the agriculture sector when the prices of farm produce has not stopped to increase by the day, how the King Nebuchadnezzar led regime has successfully refurbished our abandoned old locomotive trains, when a country that got the same amount of loan from a China based financial institution was able overhaul their dilapidated rail tracks and also usher in modern trains.

In addition, they make claims of how the King Nebuchadnezzar have successfully revive our infrastructures when nearly all federal infrastructures to include Federal Prisons in the country are underfunded and insecure, how the incumbent administration has created over 20million jobs via a raffle draw on the pages of national dailies while over 70million Nigerians remain jobless, how the incumbent administration has been able to construct over 25,000km of roads to link the 36 Nigerian States, when our major roads remain in a dismay situation and are dead traps for the Nigerian people, and above all cast aspersions on the opposition for other failures that has been credited to the incumbent administration; whenever Nigerians make a request for the King Nebuchadnezzar 6years performance spreadsheet.

At a critical time like this, when decisions that will either make or mar our future is about to be made at the forthcoming polls, it is vital for us as a people to make an undiluted comparison and contrast between the importance of the umbrella and the broom as in accordance to how they have performed in their respective States and at the center, and as they apply to our everyday life, and how they have been able to affect our economy both in terms of how much the incumbent administration has exhausted on the importation of the umbrella at the peril of the Nigerian people, when we should be a big exporter of umbrella considering the availability of the resources..

Kazeem Sulaiman
sulaimanadeshina@yahoo.com
@kazeemDiary

BOKO HARAM: UNCENSORED BUT DEBATABLE.

Unarguably, if a child is not offered education or willingly refused to embrace education, while the society and the leaders allows him to enjoy his freedom of choice, then the society bears the brunt when the anger in that child builds up to become a terror in his adulthood.

I have decided to share a discussion that eschewed between myself and a colleague who spent his childhood and his teenage years in one of the troubled North Eastern States in Nigeria, the lengthy discussion will be compressed in order to contain his uncensored experiences and my debatable perspectives on the aged terrorism that has consumed nearly a million life, displaced over 3million people, destroyed thousands of homes, gradually spreading across her territorial borders, and has cost the people more than the eyes can meet.

My friend was born in the early 80’s and was privileged to get enrolled into one of the reputable private elementary schools in Kano State, his childhood experiences in the hands of uneducated children of his age group, each time the school bus come to pick him in the morning and drop him after school hours was fun to him as at that time because he was left with a switching position of who is superior between him and those angered children, but his reminisce now throws a jab at his happy hours, believing that it all started when they were children but ignorant of the fact that children grow up with childhood ideologies and tends to pose threats to the society when they become adults.

He shared his experiences of how those uneducated children stands beside the road, chanting “YOU THAT ATTEND WESTERN SCHOOLS HAVE AN INCOMPLETE EDUCATION” in their local dialect, while himself and his peers in the school bus replies with a counter response of “WE THAT ATTEND WESTERN EDUCATION TENDS TO LIVE A BETTER LIVE THAN YOU GUYS, YOUR COMPLETE EDUCATION SHOULD REFLECT IN THE QUALITY OF YOUR LIFE”, at times this counter response hits those kids below their belts, which most often triggers the monster in them, that they take to hitting the school bus at the sides or at the back. This action was seen as a mere display of anger and was not envisaged to metamorphose into a terror gang.

His experience was synchronised with other colleagues of mine, who were born in the early 80’s and had their elementary education in the North Eastern States, as they also share their childhood experiences. So this leaves me with a submission that today’s terror is indeed a build up of neglected childhood anger, they were all happy and pushing leverages of how bright their future is compared to the future of those uneducated angered kids in our society.

Today, i am convinced that the present day terrorism in Nigeria that has outbursted into a regional terror did metamorphosed from the sets of uneducated and misguided children of mostly the late 70’s and the early 80’s; those sets of children were living with the believe that Education without reciting the holy Quran and observing their Solats is nothing but an incomplete education while they who attend schools where readings from the Holy Quran and observing Solats is core, have a complete education compare to their peers. IT SHOULD INTEREST YOU THAT THOSE SETS OF KIDS ACROSS THE NORTHERN REGION, GREW UP TO BECOME UNITS OF ANGERED KIDS, LATER BECAME SMALL TERROR GROUPS; I have it on a fact that, Boko Haram started as an ideology that was synonymous to the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) in the South West, Bakassi Boys in the Eastern Nigeria and the Arewa Group of the Northern Nigeria, but with strives to discourage western education which later metamorphosed into a terror group, as a result of the interference from self served politicians who engaged them with funds and cash in order to fulfil their political aspirations.

Engaging groups with funds in order to mobilise their people towards achieving our political ambitions has become the order of the day, but it becomes ridiculous when politicians engage groups of angered youths with funds and arms in order to attack their contenders and help them attain elective offices, as those groups gets jobless after the elections while the arms remain in their custody; this groups are most often abandoned when the politicians who engaged them secure elective offices because of the change in the aura around the politician.

It is no fallacy that, the former executive governor of Borno State Alimodu Sheriff triggered the Borno State wing of the groups of angered uneducated youths in the North East, by empowering them with adequate funds and arms, when he was seeking to be elected as the executive governor of the State; those groups he engaged did their best to heat up the homes of his opponents and eventually he was declared the winner of the election. As political power will always have it way, the former governor of Borno State gave them a deaf ear and refused to continue funding the terror group, which made the group to devise other means of generating funds to meet their over blotted standard of living. This resulted to kidnapping, robbery, amongst others before they were later superimposed into an existing larger terror group which later metamorphosed into the present day Boko Haram terrorist group. Nonetheless, he is still believed to have a link with the metamorphosed terror group.

Conclusively, the Boko Haram terrorist group have eventually become a regional threat as against it claimed objectives as revealed by faceless members of the group, with the rising level of abductions, incessant bomb blasts and seizing of territories, and a declaration of their intention to build a caliphate; regardless of how we found ourselves in this horrible situation, the government must restore the confidence in the people in order to get their supports towards combating the ongoing terrorism in the country.

Kazeem Sulaiman
sulaimanadeshina@yahoo.com
@KazeemDiary

An attempt to scuttle the rescheduled election date, will be fiercely rejected by the Nigerian people; this will ultimately result to a breakdown of law and orders... so, elections should hold in accordance with the new election time table released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, in order to secure our peaceful coexistence and save our hailing democracy.

What happened Saturday was actually not a postponement due to security or logistical reasons. What happened was the byproduct of overt political interference undermining the independence of the election management body, INEC. The elections were postponed not because they could safely be held. They were postponed because one man, President Jonathan, feared that an election held on February 14 would for him become an election lost. While the mouth was Jega, the words were Jonathan. He chose to place our democracy at risk than do what democracy demands by facing and risking the verdict of the people. That he would use our security agencies to provide his excuse only adds insult to injury.

This act was one desperation of a man in fear of defeat. It was not done for the national good. It was the wrong thing done for the wrong reason by the wrong man.

The rationale stated by the heavily intimidated INEC chairman does not withstand close scrutiny nor the rigors of logical thought. It is nothing but a lie draped in a falsehood born by deceit.

Jega said he hinged his decision on a purported letter stating that due to an impending offensive the security agencies will not have the personnel to spare to adequately guard the polling areas in the northeastern states.

For the Service Chiefs to be inserted in the electoral process in this manner and at the eleventh hour reveals nothing but a cynical plot to thwart elections. President Jonathan has revealed that he only wants elections where the guaranty is that he shall win. This is not the nature of democratic elections. Jonathan's government has purposefully undermined the electoral process because he is not interested in a free and fair honest where the outcome reflects the sovereign will of the people. He wants an elaborate coronation dressed in the garb of an election. The Nigerian people are too smart for this rude trick.

This postponement is a smokescreen because what the letter says is that they are advising a postponement of six weeks in the first instance subject to the amelioration of the security situation in the North East. This is coming from a Chief of Defence staff that vowed to crush the insurgents within four months early last year. A year later, nothing has changed. He is now asking Nigerians to believe this government can do in six weeks what it could not do in six years.

I ask Nigerians to question why these Service Chiefs decided to launch a major operation a week before the elections? What is new about the security situation in the last two weeks that has not been there these past several years? The date and importance of the election was well publicized. Why did they wait till now? They waited because they were given marching orders by the president to delay the elections.

They have gone on an offensive already. However, the true offensive is not against Boko Haram. It is against the Nigerian people and our democracy.

If elections could hold in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, why not in Nigeria where only 14 out of 774 council areas are under siege?

This postponement may be the prelude to even rasher more authoritarian action by this desperate, inept government.
This postponement has deeply wounded Nigerian democracy. While my party hoped to go into the election and win it that we may offer a new and honest deal to the people. This government continues to feed the people a raw deal.

The ambition of one man should not be allowed to affect the destiny of 170 million Nigerians.Nigerians have signaled their desire for change and there is nothing this government can do to erase it.

Thus, we do not despair. I ask our supporters and Nigerians to remain calm and do everything to keep the peace. I ask you to renew your determination in the face of this insult to our democracy and common sense. It is inevitable that change shall come and we shall bring it fairly, democratically and peacefully.

They will attempt more tricks before the six weeks is over. Each time, they will be defeated by the power of our commitment to a new day in a new democratic Nigeria.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu

This government has in its extreme bastardised our hope for the sustenance of our sick democracy...

We must sack this government, in order to start afresh as a people.

The failure of the President Ebele Jonathan led administration did took a new turn, following its decision to deny the people and officials of the electoral umpire security for the February general elections as earlier scheduled; this decision is unarguably not in conflict with the provisions of the 1999 constitution as amended, but the given reasons as stated by the Jonathan stooge led Military are neither substantial enough nor are they justifiable, for obvious reasons not far fetched.

I am really perturbed by the naivety of the ruling party to plunge this troubled country into absolute ethnic and political chaos, because the replacement of Prof. Jega prior the election date as rescheduled with an individual who will manipulate the digits and undermine the credibility of the forthcoming election will go down in history.

Regardless of the delay in funds from the Jonathan led government, the internal regressive politics and the hidden cards played by the ruling party, which must have caused a delusion in the strategies and transparent process and conducts of the umpire, an electoral umpire that gets its funds from the monthly internally generated revenue and from taxes deducted from our hard earned incomes and dying companies, is expected to have been fully ready for the February elections, following the ample time giving to the commission but it is pathetic that the reverse is the case.

we must sack this government, if truly we are interested in a better and working government.

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Be convinced that, a chunk of the unclaimed PVCs in many parts of the country are cards used by the ruling party and their subsets to rig the 2011 elections, these cards will remain in the tunnel going by the checks and balances both during the collection and the proposed card readers to be employed during the elections.

In other words, PVC collection might not experience a drastic increase in level, going by my submission.

With the ongoing synergy between our supposed sacraments or places of worship and our corrupt politicians, one will agree that it has become very challenging to clearly differentiate between the duo.

I will be very laconic in my opinion about the relationship between the duo, in order to avoid religious sentimentality or being perceived as a rude chap who have no respect for those Clergymen who live a flamboyant life which is comparable with that of the politicians, while their flocks wallow in penury.

In a nutshell, Clergymen are not supposed to be seen supporting or praying for thieves, who have looted our treasury to stupor and cast so much pains and calamities on the people; this is against the way of life and teachings of Prophets before our time.

If your congregation or followers lacks the courage to tell you or they benefit from the largess from those corrupt politicians, God is watching you all and will punish u accordingly; for God is neither a hypocrite nor is HE a mediocre.

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STATEMENT BY THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC)
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2015

· Thank you for being with us this afternoon. This is yet another critical moment in our history. We have gone through difficult moments like this in the past. Nigeria survived and came out stronger. We are confident that we shall survive this too; because no one, no matter how powerful, can subvert the collective will of the people.


· In our preliminary reaction to the postponement of the 2015 General Elections, we noted that the decision taken by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has thrown up so many questions, and that these questions will be reviewed by our party organs for a comprehensive response from the APC. Whilst consultation with the party organs is on-going, this briefing is to provide us opportunity to raise some pertinent questions and put some issues in their proper perspective.


· You will recall that on the 22nd of January 2015, Col. Sambo Dasuki(rtd) , the National Security Adviser (NSA) at Chatham House declared that INEC was not ready for the elections and he has therefore advised the electoral body to postpone the election. The reason he gave for his unsolicited advice was that substantial number of registered voters had not collected their Permanent Voters Cards (PVC). He did not say anything about security concern even though Boko Haram was an issue then as it is an issue now. So, at what point did concern over elections shift from PVC to security concern?


· When the United States Secretary of State, John Kerry visited on January 25th, he wanted a categorical commitment from President Jonathan that the elections would hold as scheduled. The President assured the American envoy that the elections would hold. Was it that his Security chiefs had not briefed him on the security situation in the country and how this would affect the election time table at the time he was making this promise?


· On the 2nd of February, at the National Peace Committee meeting in Abuja with the representatives of different political parties, the service chiefs gave assurances of their readiness for the elections. At the occasion, the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshall Alex Badeh gave assurances of the Armed Forces’s preparedness for the elections. According to him “even though we are busy in the North East, we also have capabilities across the nation.” Badeh also admitted that the role of the military is merely to support the police in providing security during elections. At the same event, Chief of Army Staff, General Kenneth Minimah said, “we are aware of the need for security, before, during and after the elections. We will deploy across the States of the Federation in areas we discover that have capacity for violence. We are prepared to ensure we have peaceful elections.”


· Also speaking at the event, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Adesola Amosun said “we have commenced the air lift of the materials needed for the elections, starting from Abuja. We will continue with the elections.”


· The sum total of all these is that only 12 days before the elections and despite the state of insecurity in the North East, the entire military high command assured the nation of their readiness to provide security for the elections. However, only 3 days later on Friday February 6th, these same Service Chiefs wrote to INEC, in a letter, which by all practical purposes could be described as blackmail, saying that they would no longer be able to provide security for the elections? What happened in those 72 hours that brought about this complete volte face?


· It is also important to note that at the National Council of States meeting on Thursday February 5th, INEC reaffirmed its readiness and commitment to hold the elections as scheduled. Even though the Service Chiefs briefed the Council that they had security concerns, the consensus of opinion at this august body of eminent citizens was that elections should go ahead nationwide except the 14 LGAS identified as problematic by the security chiefs.


· After all, it was recalled that in 1999, elections were not held in Bayelsa State because of the activities of militants at the time, but it held all over the country. The activities of Boko Haram were clearly limited to 14 Local Governments in three States out of 774 Local Governments in 36 States and FCT. How would this then warrant the blanket postponement of elections in the entire country? Considering all factors building up to this postponement, it is difficult not to come to the obvious conclusion that the Military High Command is in an unholy and dangerous alliance with the ruling party, the PDP, to subvert the democratic will of the people. We have no doubts that the letter sent to the INEC, warning it not to proceed with the elections, emanated from the Service Chiefs’ hands of Esau and President Jonathan’s voice of Jacob. Isn’t it curious that only the PDP and its supporters are celebrating the postponement? We know that at the Council of State meeting, all the former Heads of State in attendance spoke against the postponement except in the 14 LGAs and all the former Chief Justices’ also concurred. And every non-PDP Governor present in the meeting spoke against postponement.


On PVC Collection

· Another issue that has been brought up is the distribution of Permanent Voter Cards. The Federal Government and the ruling party have made a song and dance of the challenges INEC has had with the distribution and sought to underplay the achievements of the electoral body in this respect. The truth is that average national collection of PVC is between 65-70%, which would increase in the remaining days. According to INEC, this level of collection actually reflect a better voter participation that in the previous election in 2011. The question we should ask is what threshold is acceptable? In any case, it is the democratic right of every citizen to pick up or refuse to pick up his or her PVC and if a citizen refuses to do so, should INEC be blamed for this?


The Role of Security Agencies

· The greatest threat to our democracy today is the way the ruling party has compromised the leadership of the Nigerian military to serve the personal agenda of President Jonathan. This is a dangerous game. A recent court judgment in Sokoto clearly ruled that the military had no role in the electoral process. What happened with this postponement is that Service Chiefs simply vetoed a democratic process on the directive of President Jonathan. We know what politicisation is doing to our once proud military institution.


· We are aware that the Presidency has forwarded a secret memo to all commanders of divisions and battalions of Nigerian Army for a 3-day strategy meeting in Kaduna from today on how to use the military to intimidate voters in APC States to rig election in favour of President Jonathan. Since recent revelations about the role of the military in Ekiti elections is demonstrable proof of how far this government will go to compromise the military as an institution, could it be that when the Service Chiefs said they would not have enough personnel to provide security for the elections, what they are actually saying is that they would not have enough soldiers to intimidate voters in favour of the ruling party if the elections had proceeded as scheduled?


Divided We Stand?

· Never in the history of our country had a Federal Government and the President of Nigeria so wantonly mobilized ethnic and religious sentiments to divide the people against themselves for selfish political reasons. By now, everyone is aware how a close confidant of President Jonathan, Chief Edwin Clark, called for the sack and arrest of the Chairman of the INEC because, according to him, the INEC Chairman is working for the interest of the North. He said this under aegis of a Southern Nigerian People’s Assembly.


· We are also aware of how the Vice President of Nigeria, Architect Namadi Sambo unfortunately invoked religious sentiment to campaign for his party in Niger State. The level of ethnic and religious baiting that we are currently witnessing is unprecedented in the political history of Nigeria. The road to Rwanda and other countries that have suffered tragic ethno-religious conflicts is not far from what PDP is currently invoking on our country.. We owe it a duty to stress the point that under our watch, Nigerians regardless of their ethnic origin or religious disposition would be free to operate without let or hindrance.



· Only few days ago, the Director of National Information Centre, Mr. Mike Omeri, claimed that government has uncovered a plan by Boko Haram to bomb polling centres without providing a single shred of evidence. The following day, President Jonathan declared in a church in Lagos that Boko Haram has planned to bomb the entire country. We see this as deliberate scare-mongering to discourage Nigerians from coming out to exercise their democratic right to vote. This is quite unfortunate. The President that should be protecting the people and assuring them of their safety is now the one scaring them.


The Making of a Constitutional Crisis

· It is important to note that the Service Chiefs’ letter to INEC demanded postponement for “at least” 6 weeks. This, we must note, is a booby trap. Embedded in that phrase “at least” is a window to push for another postponement. It is clear however, that any further postponement can only lead to a constitutional crisis. The constitution demands at least 30 days before the hand over date of May 29th . We have strong suspicions but hope this postponement is not part of an agenda to create a constitutional crisis in the country. We are just recently recovering from the crisis precipitated by the political crisis of 1993. We cannot afford another.


Intimidation

· We are all witnesses to the way INEC was intimidated into postponement of the elections despite repeated assurances of its readiness. We are aware of plans for worse intimidation in the days ahead. We are aware of plans to intimidate and orchestrate arrest of our leaders across the country on frivolous grounds. We are now aware of how PDP used intimidation and arrest to rig the last Governorship election in Ekiti State. We are aware that this is the plan of the PDP. But we have no doubt that Nigerians will stand up to this. We have no doubt that the international community is watching.



Our Position

· This postponement comes with a huge cost to all Nigerians and every one involved, directly or indirectly, in this election, including international observers and journalists. However, we should see this as the sacrifice we need to make for the survival of democracy in Nigeria. We must remain steadfast and committed to the cause of change. Like our Presidential candidate, General Buhari said, “our desire for change must surpass their desperation to hold on to power at all cost. We have no other country other than Nigeria, and we must remain focused and salvage it.”

· Gentlemen of the press, the contradictions we have pointed out in this briefing represent a clear and present danger to our democracy. It is clear that this is a surreptitious but badly disguised attempt to subvert the will of the people. But we must assure Nigerians and friends all over the world that the power of the people is greater than the people in power. These too shall pass and we shall overcome.



John E.K. Odigie-Oyegun, CON
National Chairman, All Progressives’ Congress, APC.

The metamorphosis of FeBUHARI to Mar-c-hammadu Buhari with the silent letter 'c'; the ruling party can run as fast or as slow as they can, but they can not hide from the much anticipated defeat.

The ongoing Presidential search in the South East, for a replacement of Prof. Attahiru Jega is an affirmation of our submission that the Jonathan led government is hell bent on changing the rules and the goal posts at the middle of the game, having being confronted by an insurmountable defeat.

No doubt, the termination of Prof. Attahiru Jega's appointment at this last lap and with respect to the heated polity, will definitely push the shutdown button of our democracy or send our democracy into a long hibernation; we can not afford to move on with our 16 years inglorious democratic movement, we need to start afresh and swiftly move ahead by leaving behind the inglorious rule of the ruling party.

Lest we forget, the sacrosanct of May 29, 2015 handover date, is dependent on the sanctity of the polls; so we must reject every mischievous move of the ruling party which are capable of truncating our democracy.

Now, Nigerian are more convinced that Politics is the most expensive enterprise in Nigeria; where the players stop at nothing to get elected or remain in power, & tend to heat up the polity.

A vote for Muhammadu Buhari in the forthcoming March Presidential polls, is a match for Freedom away from the 16 years inglorious rule of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to a new Nigeria. We believe in Nigeria!

It is very easy to identify a jobless chap whose education is wasted on the social media, all u need to do is ask him to provide backups for his post, then his brains hibernates or shutdown... Go get a life and stop pulling people down for a penny.

I will implore the ruling party not to damn the consequences of running after a rat when the house is on fire; because the polity is tensed and badly heated.

If the multimillion naira campaign of calumny Television broadcasts & mudslinging publications on national dailies has not been helpful to the ruling party; would a postponement of the February polls save them from the much anticipated defeat, is rhetorical.

Nonetheless, Nigerians must refused being fooled, the elections have not been postponed so as to tackle the aged insecurity which has thrived in the North East for more than half a decade; it is a ploy to design more sophisticated mercenaries to manipulate the digits of the elections or to disqualify the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, which will welcome a breakout of Anarchy in our troubled nation.
We must retract our regressive decisions, we must set our heritage on the right path to greatness, we must make our country work again.

By Adewale Adeoye

A nation becomes a dungeon, when the people’s history no longer matters. But history is not static. The South West, (SW), with 14 million voters, is a sexy bride in the coming elections. What determines which party wins vary in each region. Yorubaland is unique. Politicians have failed to bring into sharp focus, critical issues that matter most. They deploy bitter campaigns, insults and abuses. President Goodluck Jonathan fired salvos during his visit to Lagos. He did not promise any single project for Yoruba nation in all his campaigns in the SW so far. He spoke as if jittery. He was fidgety, wobbly, edgy and squirmy. In war, as it is in politics, those are signs of weakness, a pointer to camp disarray and retreat. Gen Mohammadu Buhari hinges his campaigns on three planks: Jobs, Security and anti-corruption. But there is the need to take the edge off primordial fears which, to a large extent, will determine the attitude of many voters, at least in the South West, on the day of reckoning.

Politicians often bask in the rapture of illusion, expressed mostly in the media, in rallies and walk-outs. Often, they confuse public enthusiasm with deep-rooted blood-bound alliances. It is a big farce to think that the February 14 elections will not be determined by history and ethnicity, that will be dealing with appearances, leaving behind the timeless reality of a country acutely divided, and which history is dotted by deadly clashes of civilisations. Buhari, is Fulani. Two centuries ago, architects of the thriving Yoruba Empire would not have contemplated Yoruba would be asked to vote for a Fulani candidate in an election, no matter how dignified. The Fulani and the Yoruba, in truth, have been arch rivals in the contest for land, values, power and state resources. We neglect this to our own peril. The rivalry is agelong. In the spring of 1804, Uthman Dan Fodio had led a revolution that cut across today’s Northern hemisphere. The revolt led to millions of deaths, including women and children. The Yoruba nation painfully lost some ancestral territories. The last scuffle being the 1842 combat to reclaim most of the lost grounds, until Britain came, leaving bitter memories in the sub consciousness of generations that followed. In the elections of 1950s and 1960s, the echoes of the acrimony did not abate. These reflect in all Yoruba voting patterns.

To many Yoruba given my interactions at a recent Pan-Yoruba meeting at Ibadan which I shared, the Hausa-Fulani is still seen as millstone. Many recollect that the late Premier of Northern Region taunted the region that he would dip the Holy Quaran into the sea, the euphemism for atrocious conquest. In the 60s, about 29 Yoruba leaders, including Chief Obafemi Awolowo, were hauled into detention at the instance of the Hausa-Fulani-dominated political class. In subsequent years, the rivalry of times past, defined the political momentum. In 1993, a different pattern was etched only because Afenifere, the Yoruba traditional political institution, was prevented by the military from leading the Yoruba political processes, leaving Yoruba with restricted two-party choice. However, the annulment of the 1993 election, the assassinations of Yoruba icons, deliberate plots that scuttled the economic mainstay of the Yoruba people only rekindled the primordial sentiments against the Hausa-Fulani. The 1993 incidence led to the birth of several self determination groups, which, today, and I am in a vantage position to know, remain the most potent political force in Yorubaland. These groups, like most Yoruba people are anxious to know the content and form of the negotiation with Buhari by their APC leadership. Contrary to assumptions, the fact is that majority of Yoruba people, especially those at the lower rank, are conscious of the history of rivalry with the Hausa-Fulani. The emergence of Boko Haram, irrespective of its vagaries, has further deepened the Yoruba suspicion against the Hausa-Fulani. For many Yoruba people, especially those in the rural areas, this new alliance between the Yoruba political leadership has generated a mismatch of suspicion, confusion and then expectations. It is even more dangerous for anyone to hinge on “power must return to the North,’ as the campaign groundnorm. For the average Yoruba person, true federalism and self determination are the key issues. The Hausa-Fulani stood against these pillars, until now that Buhari has brought some rays of hope. It is important that the Hausa-Fulani should see this new alliance as a rare spirit of reconciliation on the part of the Yoruba people. It is also important to dissuade the assumption that the alliance does not fuel the feeling in the South East and among ethnic minorities that it represents a realignment of the same forces that prosecuted the civil war, a gang-up of the big nationalities against ethnic minorities. An inroad into the South-South will be difficult, unless campaigns build confidence among a people that have suffered marginalization and misery for too long especially as it regards what happens to their oil resources. Certainly, President Jonathan offers no succor to the Yoruba demand. He has failed in all ramifications. He, in fact, has no solutions to the pile of problems, meaning that for many Yoruba, the choice still remains tough. But the average Yoruba is not lost to the ruinous policies of the PDP and its impact on the emasculation of the Yoruba heritage, and the fact that the APC has brought hope to a despairing population.
Yet, for reasons of grief memories gone by, it is easier for the All Progressives Congress, (APC) state governors to win the South West than to ensure the overwhelming victory for Buhari. But as it is, the victory of General Buhari has become a necessary uplift from the squelching mud. The new equation has proven the maxim that solutions to a people’s aspirations could come from unlikely quarters. It has asserted the dialectics in Yoruba philosophy that “ninu ikoko dudu l’eko funfun ti n jade-The snow-white maize porridge is, nevertheless, a product of the burnt, gritty black pot. Will Buhari save the Yoruba nation? PDP has proved that it cannot allay the fears neither can it meet the aspiration of the Yoruba. For six years, Yoruba have been so kind to a President that has paid back with vicious neglect. So, for me, hacking down the PDP remains an historical task for every Yoruba person. The party has brought disgrace and shame to the values and traditions held dear. The PDP has created a crestfallen nation in its own image. The party has ruined the potentials of the SW. The party is led by an uninspiring President, who has neither produced a book nor an epic statesmanship on his understanding of how to build a great country.

The PDP candidate lacks the capacity, the will and the knowledge to uplift Nigeria from her current state of trance, depression and hopelessness. The Yoruba believes in federalism, it is inspiring that the APC has brought this up as a critical campaign element. The content and form must be broadly defined and popularized in the South West. It is on this note that one would expect a shift in the paradigm of the APC campaign in the SW. Campaigns should have national appeal, but must also be region-specific. The major challenge facing Nigeria is how to create a new foundation; it is whether we want to stay together as one and on what terms. It is whether Lagos will take control of revenue from her sea port and if Ijaw nation will control her oil or not. It is obvious that President Jonathan will not address these issues, having used the national conference he ordered as a mere electoral gimmick. The APC seems likely to be trusted with the will to take the lid off a boiling saucepan. Before February 14, APC needs to deconstruct the mindset of the Yoruba people, assuage old fears with a new tonic that offers to put an end to affliction and mourning.
Adewale Adeoye is CNN African journalist award winner, four time winner of the Nigerian Media Merit Award, (NMMA) and an alumni of the United Nations, (UN) Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR)
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Adewale Adeoye
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DR. NGOZI OKONJO IWEALA WAS KEPT FOR THE MASSES.

Former CBN Governor during OBJ administration and an active member of the PDP from Anambra State in the South East geo-political zone of the country, Prof. Charles Soludo has accused the Minister of Finance and coordinating Minister of the Federation, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala of stealing of funds belonging to the nation under her watch.

The former apex bank czar in a 10-page response to Okonjo-Iweala’s submissions said the nation was in for a very chaotic time this year because the economy had been grossly mismanaged by the minister. The exchange rate crisis at the moment is one example of the prevailing cisis caused by her ineptitude.
He said if the prices of crude oil in the international market failed to rebound, Nigeria would face an unprecedented level of economic crisis with horrible attendant hardships for the citizenry. In the face of all these, it does not occur to this administration, the need to cut down her expenses in order to accommodate whatever challenges the falling prices may portend.
Where exactly can we say the stolen amount is? It is easier to track down where our finance guru and her cohorts allocate this token sum that sounds that big to us. Below are the few of where the funds likely went;

·Chartered of private jets by our ministers and presidential aides are common under the Jonathan government; during the previous elections in Anambra, Edo, Ekiti and Osun, many ministers who have no business in the elections were on the air monitoring and executing their party and boss rigging machines.

·Contracts and Salary payments to thugs (militants) such as the ceding of maritime surveillance to Tompolo and co.

·Money laundering e.g. the arms deal in South Africa


·Ownership of properties in choice places abroad most especially UK, Dubai, France and United States of America.

·Electioneering campaign, this started more than a year ago – TAN, FORWARD NIGERIA, NEIGHBOURHOOD etc to mention just a few.

Sometime ago in the media, the coordinating minister of the economy explained to the Nigerians that the country needed about 50 Trillion Naira to fix all the required infrastructures in the country. If the stolen amount as alleged, is therefore deducted from the above stated, it would remain just about 20 Trillion Naira to fix the infrastructures needed in this country as posited by her.
If the above postulation is real, it would have translated to having the required refineries built, good roads, better healthcare facilities, sound educational system, structured market, agricultural developments, good micro economic indices, better transportation system etc. This in return would have resulted into massive job opportunities, strong purchasing power, increase literacy, reduction in accidents, increase life expectancy, massive exportation of foods and definitely the masses at the receiving end would have had their 3 squares meals guaranteed.

Professor Charles Soludo at last joins thousands of Nigerian who are requesting for detailed explanation on how our economy is being run by this powerful woman called Ngozi Okonjo Iweala as well as the comprehensive report on the missing $20Billion NNPC fund. It is also in history today that Jonathan attested to the fact that he is the most criticized Nigerian president. This is so because of the numerous controversial characters in his government. The level of impunity, corruption, insecurity and lawlessness in the land make his government the worst ever in the history of this nation.

Now is the appropriate time for the Coordinating Minister to come out and defend the government she represents. She has to offer herself to debate as been suggested by the ex-CBN Governor.
Enough of keeping our national cake in a personal refrigerator where we would never have access to later when we hope it is time for us to share what belong to all of us.

Lastly, it is time for that great change. That change from bad governance to the best through a democratic process. The time to choose between the boys and the men. The time to know that we cannot continue to toy with the future of our children. The time to say bye bye to poverty and insecurity. The Jonathan administration cannot be trusted with money. It has failed the nation woefully, it is a pity!

GOD HELP OUR QUEST FOR CHANGE! GOD BLESS NIGERIA!!

Mr. Dare Olowolayemo

It will be very unfair for the ruling party to damn the perceived inferno outburst that will ultimately proceed the postponement of the February polls, it might spell a doom for our beloved country...

i will implore them to uphold the earlier announced election dates.