₦airaland Forum

Beaf:
I won't waste time joining in an argument driven only by passion. All the parties are the same, the only difference is closeness to power; when you vote, make sure it is for individuals.

Politics without passion is like making bread without flour. . .

I'm glad you at least saw the Passion, I'm sad you missed the REASON though, Passion is half the work. Since power is fleeting, I'm confident you will come around, I give GEJ less than 2 years.

BUT I will summarize again; We need to build structures, systems and the correct precedence. Something others can easily build on. PDP lacks the resolve to do that.

Beaf:
All the other parties are equally bad or worse. PDP only got mentioned, because they are the ruling party. There is no Nigerian party that meets the minimum criteria for a Western political party, which is the documents basis for comparison.

Which Nigerian party has an ideology? None! As a matter of fact, PDP is the closest to having one.

You are right they are all similar. BUT, the fact that PDP has failed to develop and articulate a coherent ideology since 1999 with all the power they have makes them worse, more culpable, more dangerous.

They've been ruling since we got democracy in 1999, I'll give them the lion share of the blame, Even you can see that Beaf. These people will not bring any change. Not to the Niger Delta, Not to the East, Not to the West nor North.

Beaf, PDP cannot save our people, Bros GEJ can't fight these hawks. Maybe a man like Saro Wiwa (R.I.P) Oronto, Fashola, I'll even go with a younger Buhari with reduced presidential and FG powers but GEJ? nah! and you know this Beaf.

OBJ and the rest will choke the life out of him, let us join hands and push these people out while we can. Quit supporting them. PDP cannot reform itself.  

GEJ cannot punish those we need to punish and create deterrence. He's too compromised, too mainstream to buck the trend.

They don't believe in 100% resource control, they can't repeal the land-use act that has prevented Niger Delta people and other Nigerians from benefitting from the minerals on their personal properties and ancestral lands.

Royalties will continue to go to the Government not to you, even if they strike oil in your kitchen, Shell pays them not you. Except you can carry RPGs and AK47s, how long will we continue that? huh?

See my previous comment for more;

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-628134.0.html#msg7956527

Immediate past governors’ network

This group, according to the cable was “formed and coalesced largely around a shared desire to avoid prosecution”. They are also suspected as being the major financiers of Mr. Yar’Adua’s campaign.

SMH

^^ Thank you for the post.

Daaamn! Did you read that PDP Idi.ot's response? he said “the People’s Democratic Party is governed by its constitution and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”. Can you imagine that? Is that even a response at all? Even my Grandmother's Osusu club and little Johnny's Kiddies Clubs have constitutions.

The PDP idio.t is confusing CONSTITUTION "regulations and orders" With; IDEOLOGY "ideas that constitutes goals, expectations, actions and comprehensive vision"

And these are the Politicians that we have as rulers and leaders in Nigeria? SMH.

That American girl(?) gave the PDP idiot a simple common entrance question with expo and he failed it.  These are the people with the power to direct the affairs of 150 million people! It is a shame, but it's true, PDP had no Ideology, none at all. That is why I feel sorry for my brothers and sisters who are supporting them because they believe Jonathan will give them a share of the "national cake" Ask them what PDP has promised them;

Will PDP support 100% resource control? right to land and mineral resource?   they made no such promise, they've opposed it since 1999.

Are they Conservatives, Liberals? Traditionalist? Theocrats? Nationalists, Sango worshippers? Pan-Africanists? Okija Shriners? Social conservatives, Fiscal conservatives, Anarchists? What exactly is the PDP ideology? they have none.

PDP stands for nothing and falls for everything. They are only about Power, Control and Personal profits.


Can PDP repeal The obnoxious Land-use Act that placed the right to own property in the hands of Governors and Presidents? My Niger Delta People!!  Land Use Act is the reason why Crude Oil found in your Father's compound belongs to Government and not you. It is the reason why Shell pays FG royalties and you get nothing! OBJ passed that Land-use Decree as an idio.tic soldier with no sense of history or the intellectual finesse to understand what it takes to build a nation, and we are still reaping the dubious benefits. PDP cannot repeal it. They have no such ideology.


Can PDP support State police? NO way! they don't have men with the mind and intellect to see why a community based, state recruited Police service is necesasary in a country as large and diverse as Nigeria. That is why Abuja appoints Police commissioners, DPOs and officers for Asaba, and Asaba people have no say in it. Imagine a police officer that knows nothing about your city, does not speak the local language, does not understand the local culture and he's trying to fight crime is that city? That is the legacy of zero Ideology.


Can PDP enshrine human rights and egalitarian principles? enthrone individual liberty, ensure personal freedom, women rights? what about children rights? kill ageism?  protect the poor? guarantee religious freedom? (ask Christians and Atheists in Sharia States, or children killed and maimed by witch-hunting Christian pastors in the South) what will a party that cannot articulate or reconcile it's views on religious freedom or human rights do for them?

You need a well articulated ideology to deal with such fundamental issues, not a set of orders, party rules and confusing "social club" regulations!

Even the almighty American constitution was founded on fundamental Ideologies, Ideology should come before rules and regulations.  PDP and most of the political parties we have lack that foundation. They are too intellectually lazy and dum.b to deal with the real issues.  Unfortunately, my people are too ignorant and oppressed to see them for what they are.


PS: I have links to the PDP constitution below. It is absurd to use that document as an example of a party ideology, even the PDP manifesto is a collection of shallow thoughts, copy and paste points that shows no intellectual depth.

From PDP's Manifesto;

The Indivisibility of the Nigerian Polity

i. We affirm our belief in the unity of Nigeria under the Federal System of Government. We shall, therefore, continuously promote political tolerance, accommodation and compromise, religious harmony, as well as inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic accommodation and co-operation.

ii. The Party shall also[b] promote geo-political balancing as a fundamental principle of power sharing in the country, in line with the principle of federal character.[/b]
iii.
The Party shall uphold the principle of power rotation in our polity at all levels

PDP stands for nothing and falls for everything, how do you rotate power mechanically at all levels and still guarantee political freedom or merit? Even GEJ has now seen the folly in "power rotation". . .

PDP and most of these political parties stand for nothing and fall for everything.


http://www.peoplesdemocraticparty.net/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=37

http://www.peoplesdemocraticparty.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=27

Smart Job security = A tiny skinny Molue conductor using a big coarse Voice.

PDP Job Security = Using the police to bully opponents into cancelling already approved political rallies.

^^ Warrior, still trying to figure me out?

We are all hiding something on here, safe for Jarus, Seun and DK, I don't know anyone who has revealed the truth about their identity on NL

PhysicsMHD:
Yeah, a lot of racism in here. See here for example: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1408.html#msg7880225
Let's keep the racism going, folks. I want this thread to be a 100% supremacist thread by Tuesday.

Bini man, You are late, Stormfront placed this thread on it's Prestigious "ni*gers with serious attitude" list a long time ago!

We already sent them a thank you note.

IF GEJ WINS, NIGER DELTA WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW FOR IT.

How?

I thought GEJ and his brother Alamieyeseigha the looter ruled over Bayelsa State, what about Ibori in Delta?

They are all PDP, what did they do with the massive monthly allocation in one of the least populated states in Nigeria?

What will GEJ do, will he give you the 100% resource control and True Federalism PDP has opposed since 1999?

Why remain blinded by ethnicity by voting these corrupt looters into office? Why?

If your father or close family member is not a politician with access to public funds and you still want to vote these PDP people because "na from my area dem come" then I truly feel sorry for you and your people.

PDP is a nest of killers and looters, they do not care about your area, ethnicity, region or people.

Their constituencies are limited to their families and fellow political jobbers, period! If you don't belong in any of those groups and you vote for them, then I'm really sad for you and yours.

Vote those whom at least promised to restructure Nigeria, go after looters, not funded by IBB, OBJ  corrupt PDP governors and their business friends.

Vote those who promised state police and are opposed to a strong center, those who have a record of fighting corruption and shaming looters.

You know who they are if you search your minds.

PDP will bring Nigeria nothing but continuous ruin, darkness, bad roads, shitty health service, lack of accountability, unsolved political murders, intimidation by police, hired thugs, corruption, underdevelopment and mere lip service. A leopard cannot change his skin.

You've been warned.

Bola Ige served with dignity and intellect. Unfortunately he allowed himself to be used and wasted by Obasanjo. He should not have served in that government, that made it seem like he compromised his stand on resource control and True Federalism.

Ige was a Man with the determination to repair foundational problems, but got caught up in OBJ's games.

Now, Nigeria's Oil producing states are enjoying some derivation at least. It should have been 100% derivation (still looted by their Governors anyway)

But OBJ and his "the center must be strong" gang wanted to keep Nigeria as it is and keep lording over us with their all powerful federal government and Federal Police.

OBJ refused to do the brave thing and allow us restructure this country when we had the chance after Abacha's death.

OBJ, The coward apostle of "strong center" land-use decrees and "I-dey-laugh-while-my-people-dey-suffer" politics can't even defend Bakassi

I can't understand how OBJ can fail to properly investigate the death of his Justice Minister and so-called friend. I cannot remember the last time I heard him publicly mention Bola Ige and speak about any efforts toward finding his killers.

The Village Idi.ot of Owu will rather carry Agbada to welcome prisoners, thieves and looters like Bode "elewon" George 

The same Fayose, OGD and co he imposed after presiding over the murder of decent democratic opposition in 2003 are now calling him Father of bastar.ds to his face!

Men like OBJ, bereft of any specific ideological grounding, full of military hot-air and vulgar bravado with no intellectual foundation are the problem with Nigeria.

That Visionless Ewedu-Loving Buffon called OBJ and his goons need to be publicly guillotined before my people can be free.

I only hope GEJ is learning lessons. . .

naijababe:
^ Now u have my full respeck/adoration I was about to tell him to wake pass jor!!! Weldone, I say, correct initiation right there

I Appreciate

Beaf:
Yes o! We turned to invention to solve the naming problem, since using up those from sorrounding groups. lol
How about, Thunder Priye, or President Jomo? You neva hala!

I remember watching some FOX News and other American TV News presenters wondering aloud on TV about Goodluck's name after Yar' Adua's death. 

They were amused to hear a name combo like "Goodluck Jonathan" I was just SMH thinking; dem never reach Nigeria's South South before, dem go hear unique combo-names tire

My Delta people don capture Oyinbo names remix am finish.

Names like; General Boyloaf, Oyiborhoro Allwell, Kennedy Clinton Goddey, <<-- That's another President in the making 

^^ LOL @ your Yoruba. Did they place a Yoruba padlock on the thread? 

Oya pele, no vex again, you don't have to speak Yoruba by force though, just speak English or any other language you like. We can understand or we'll use a translator. . .

BTW, Welcome to our conclave, You are now initiated, Your Non-Yoruba presence has now made us whole.

Genbuhari3:
who beat me to it on posting this!!!!!!!!!!!

This is total knock out. GEJ is finished. I hope this will be on front page of newspapers tomorrow!
Chai. Buhari has really made the best choice of his political life in Yinka Odumakin and Tunde Bakare. The propaganda are being killed with venoms from this duo.

Sai BB2011

No!!! not just newspapers.

It should be in the hands of Buhari Bakare foot-soldiers as they work the streets all over Nigeria knocking on doors.

It should be sent as text messages to every GSM phone in Nigeria, it's not going to break the bank to do that.

It should be pasted on every car and Agbero park all over Naija especially in the South.

It should be broadcasted on loudspeakers in every village on market days.

It should be on every TV station that will take it(I know NTA won't, and on every Radio station too)

It should be distributed at every Church and Friday Mosque services. . .

It should not just be on the internet, the internet is already saturated with Buhari-Bakare.

Internet people won't vote like the "unwired" grassroot Nigerians GEJ is busy appealing to.

Move to the grassroots people!!! and to the hinterlands if you want to win this election. The people who will vote on election day and defend their votes are not online. . .

Take your message to them.

I don't care who you support, just don't vote anything PDP. Time is running out, but I'm still hoping for a Joint ACN/CPC Blitz.


PDP is a nest of killers -Soyinka

^^ this one Just came back from church and he's still vexing

Beaf:
With us, its crazy! We even have Government Ekpemupolo (AKA Tompolo). LOL!!!!

OR

Senator Heineken Lokpobiri (PDP, Bayelsa) <<<--- correct bros. Delta no dey carry last!

PDP = nest of killers -Wole Soyinka

^^ Mazi EzeUche, Anioma is a Yoruba word  

Blazay:
The Mgbeke "First Lady" never fails to deliver!

Anything typed about her, I believe.

LOL

^^^I will like to see a Market Square debate between Obasanjo and Soyinka in front of Mapo Hall or at Bodija market on this issue. Let's take it home.

Both must swear by Sango and Ogun before they start. OBJ can include Jesus if he wishes.

Somebody powerful killed Uncle Bola Ige and they got away. . .

Even the clueless police confessed to the Americans that they think this is a political killing, if OBJ did not Know anything about it, he sure helped those killers by failing to give his people a decent police service as president.

fstranger3:
^^^
What about this:
http://www.dawodu.com/aluko65.htm

July 29, 2003

THE STORY ACCORDING TO PUNCH


The PUNCH
July 29, 2003

Obasanjo takes up Soyinka on Ige's last letter

o At last, PUNCH  gets Ige's last letter to the president 

Yomi Odunuga, Abuja

President Olusegun Obasanjo has, in a letter to Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, taken exception to statements linking the Peoples Democratic Party and The Presidency with the assassination of former Minister of Justice and Attorney- General of the Federation, Chief Bola Ige.

Obasanjo, in the letter dated July 11, accused Soyinka of peddling "perfidious falsehood" and fabricating stories in an interview he granted The PUNCH on July 7.

In the interview published last month, the playwright said that Ige, before his death, wrote Obasanjo and promised to ensure that the PDP did not win a single seat in the South-West.

Soyinka, had also disclosed that Ige informed him and an associate, Prof. Sola Adeyeye (now a member of the House of Representatives), that he would write Obasanjo about his desire to resign in the first quarter of 2002 to reposition the Alliance for Democracy in the South-West ahead of the April 2003 poll.

This, the slain Ige said, was to counter moves by the PDP to sweep the region by fair and foul means.

The Nobel Laureate, who, at the time, was reacting to the bail granted a prime suspect in the assassination of Ige, Senator Iyiola Omisore, linked the killing of the minister to PDP's alleged questionable victory in the South-West, which he said would not have been possible were Ige to be alive.

Quoting copiously from the said publication, Obasanjo said Soyinka did not only shock him but that he was at a loss as to why the literary icon would sensationalise the death of a great Nigerian to whip up public sentiment.

Obasanjo said, "I have taken the liberty of enclosing a copy of that letter for your perusal and for the record. It follows that what you have written about, and indeed claim to be the contents of that letter, is nothing short of perfidious falsehood.

"The truth is that I am completely at a loss to understand why you would wish to fabricate such stories or indeed sensationalise such matters. Again, I cannot understand why you would try to manipulate the situation and attempt to use the untimely and tragic death of a great son of Nigeria like Chief Bola Ige for what I can only describe as political purposes."

The president, who attached a copy of the December 19, 2001 seven-page handwritten letter by Ige for Soyinka's perusal, advised him (Soyinka) against taking undue advantage of the untimely death of the former Attorney-General of the Federation.

He also urged him to respect the dead by exercising self-restraint in his public comments.

"I want to take this opportunity to urge you, and strongly too, to perhaps show a little bit more self-restraint, sobriety, decency and honesty in your public comments as regards the death of Chief Bola Ige. I believe that both you and I, and indeed all Nigerians, owe him at least that much", Obasanjo said.

Explaining the rationale for reacting to Soyinka's comments on the seeming cover-up surrounding the trials of suspects in the murder case, Obasanjo said he was surprised that Soyinka was quoted as saying that the slain Ige pledged, in the controversial letter, to "assist in ensuring a second term for the President but that the PDP would not win any part of the South-West."

He also faulted Soyinka's claim that "the slain Minister was worried about the antics of the PDP which he said was pointing towards sinister plan to overrun the South-West politically but that he would make sure that the PDP did not win one local government in Yorubaland."

Though it was addressed to Soyinka's ESSAY Foundation in Abeokuta, Ogun State, it was not clear if the playwright had received the letter, which was dispatched on July 12.

Several attempts to reach him on phone between 6:30pm and 7:45pm on Sunday, failed.

But a copy of the letter written to the president by Ige, and obtained by our correspondent, appeared to confirm what Soyinka alluded to in his July 7 interview with The PUNCH.

Ige, in the letter written in longhand on December 19, 2001 - four days before he was assassinated - on his letterhead as Minister of Justice, had made up his mind to leave the government, after an earlier request to that effect was rejected by Obasanjo.

Almost three-and-a-half pages of the seven-page letter were devoted to the issue of Yoruba in national politics, with Ige affirming the need for him to return home to personally take charge of efforts to re-energise the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo political family, which he apparently envisaged should champion the cause of the South-West in national politics.

Ige said, "There is much work to be done in Yorubaland for the purpose of consolidating strong participation in the governance of this Federal Republic of Nigeria in an atmosphere of mutual tolerance, freedom from fear and suspicion, and assurance that Yorubaland has a pivotal role to play in the sustenance of the Federal Republic. It is a complex situation, which needs careful handling. I know and believe that I am up to the task. I will not be able to give enough attention to it if I remain in government beyond 31 March 2002.

"As you are no doubt aware, I am a disciple and apostle of Obafemi Awolowo, and I intend to harness the efforts of all of us who believe in his political philosophy towards the attainment and enhancement of the greatness of this country, taking into consideration, of course, of the facts on the ground at this point in time.

"Your Excellency is also aware that I have a pivotal role to play in my party, the Alliance for Democracy. While you are engineering your party (PDP), I need to strengthen my own, so that in 2003, there will be a credible, strong and clean national government in which the major parties will be well represented. In that regard, it is not merely because of our personal friendship that I wish it, it is because I believe it will be the best for Nigeria, for all nationalities, and for Yorubaland, which is my primary constituency."


_____________________________________________________________________


LETTER FROM OBJ TO SOYINKA

Aso Rock, Abuja

July 11, 2003

Dear Wole,

It was with sheer disbelief and the utmost surprise that I read the contents of a statement which was credited to you by The PUNCH newspaper of Monday, 7 July 2003, where you supposedly exposed the contents of a letter that my good friend and former Attorney General of the Federation, the late and distinguished Chief Bola Ige wrote to me a few days before his tragic murder.

In the said statement, you were quoted as saying, inter-alia, that Chief Bola Ige had written a letter to me a few days before he was assassinated in which he purportedly said that "he was ready to assist in ensuring a second term for the President but that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would not win in any part of the South West." You went further by saying that Chief Bola Ige" wrote in the letter that he would work for the re-election of Obasanjo for the second term but that he would ensure, with everything that he had, that the PDP does not win one single seat in the South-West." You were also quoted as saying that "the slain Minister was worried about the antics of the PDP which he said was pointing towards a sinister plan to overrun the South-West politically but that he would make sure that the PDP did not win one Local Government in Yorubaland."

Now assuming that you have been quoted correctly and that you have indeed said such things, my response is as follows:

The letter which Chief Ige sent to me and which was dated 19 December 2001 did not contain even one of these statements which you alleged were contained therein.

I have taken the liberty of enclosing a copy of that letter for your perusal and for the record. It follows that what you have written about and indeed claim to be the contents of that letter is nothing short of perfidious falsehood. The truth is that I am completely at a loss to understand why you would wish to fabricate such stories or indeed sensationalise such matters. Again I cannot understand why you would try to manipulate the situation and attempt to use the untimely and tragic death of a great son of Nigeria like Chief Bola Ige for what I can only describe as political purposes. I want to take this opportunity to urge you, and strongly too, to perhaps show a little bit more self-restraint, sobriety, decency and honesty in your public comments as regards the death of Chief Bola Ige. I believe that both you and I, and indeed all Nigerians, owe him at least that much.

I sincerely hope that you will take my advice so that we can both continue to contribute in our own separate ways to the peace, development and progress of our great nation. Indeed, it is to that end and for that purpose that I have chosen to write you this letter.

Needless to say if you had not made such statements or ,  such michievous and malicious falsehood I would not have been compelled to write this letter and say such things to you.

I pray that you will have the humility and courage to accept my counsel on this matter and that you take such counsel in the right spirit and in good faith.

My best wishes to your family.

Yours sincerely,

Olusegun Obasanjo.


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LETTER FROM  IGE TO OBJ

Abuja
December 19, 2001


My dear president,

First, I wish to thank you most sincerely for the respect and affection you have shown me and my family since you appointed me as one of your ministers on 30 June 1999. You have, of course, always shown love for my family, especially our Brother George and Tinuke for the last two and a half years, however, you have gone further to show it, whenever you could, move  correctly. The latest is yesterday's investive by your moving Tinuke an officer of the Order of the Federal Republic. This followed fast on the heels of my election to the International Law Commission of the United Nations, concerning which your excellency gave me total support.

It is not only you; your amiable wife, our First Lady, Stella, has equally, always, everywhere, treated me and Tinuke with great respect and affection. We are very grateful.

Secondly, I have enjoyed working with your Excellency in this government. Whether it was when I was the minister of Power and Steel or in my current office as Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, I have had this to complain about. I thank you.

Your Excellency will recall that ,  in June this year, I indicated my ,  to leave government in September 2002. Your Excellency would hear nothing on such suggestion and you said you would like me to stay on with you till the end of your term. I thanked your Excellency for such expression of your confidence in me, but added that I would raise the matter some time again.

Two of our mutual good friends Brigadier-General Oluwole Rotimi and Prince Bola Ajibola have told me that they have each discussed the matter with you; the latter has told me that in discussed the matter with you recently at some length, and that your Excellency now seemed satisfied with the reasons why I should leave on 31 March 2002.

I wish to reiterate some of the reasons. There is much work to be done in Yorubaland for the purpose of consolidating strong participation in the governance of this Federal Republic of Nigeria in an atmosphere of mutual tolerance, freedom from fear and suspicion, and assurance that Yorubaland has a pivotal role to play in the sustenance of this Federal Republic. It is a complex situation which needs careful handling. I know and believe that I am up to the task. I will not be able to give enough attention to it if I remain in government beyond 3 March 2002.

Although your Excellency and I may not be on the same wave length when it comes to the issue of the federal structure  of Nigeria and the inevitability of a National conference fora new constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I have found in the last ethnicity months that you are probably the most fervent Nigerian nationalist I have ever met, and your utter commitment to the unity of Nigeria even to the point that I sometimes fear that you may not care much about federalism is genuine. You eat, drink and breathe Nigeria, and you hardly have time or room to bother that there are serious differences within Nigeria. Your military background has bored this your passionate love for the country, and I greatly admire you for it.

That is why I believe that God has a purpose for making you the president of this country at this time, and you need the support of everyone of us who care for this country, whatever our "ideological positions, that is why I have never had any hesitation in giving you my full support, and urging people who think like me and hold generally the same position as I to give you support to enable a good foundation to be laid  for the future greatness of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

I have no reason to think that you will deviate from the path of righteousness, rectitude, good governance honesty, transparency and accountability or that you will allow personal or party political interest to become more important to your Excellency than the greater good of this country. That is why you can count on me to join hands with you to build this Federal Republic of Nigeria on such a good and endowing foundation which will make it the first and the biggest black superpower which I have always believed God has purposed this country to be, and in which all our nation politics will bring their talents and ,  to ,  this great country.

As you are no doubt aware, I am a disciple and apostle of Obafemi Awolowo, and I intend to harness the efforts of all of us who believe in his political philosophy towards the attainment and enhancement of the greatness of this country, taking into consideration, of course, of the facts on the ground at this point in tune.

Your Excellency is also aware that I have a pivotal role to play in my party, the Alliance for Democracy (AD), while you are engineering your party (PDP) I need to strengthen my own, so that in 2003, there will be a credible, strong, clean national government in which the major parties will be well represented. In that regard, it is not merely because of our personal friendship that I wish it is because I believe it will be the least for Nigeria, for all nationalities, and for Yorubaland  which is my primary constituency. My prayer is that nothing will happen adversely which will frustrate the fond hope.

I am glad to report to your Excellency that work has almost ended on the putting together of the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2002. By the first or second week of January 2002, we should have the "clean copy" which will enable us to go to print electronically and in paper. Before I leave on 31 March 2002, everything will be ready, God willing.

With regard to the reform of the administration of justice system, I have received such wonderful cooperation from the chief justice of Nigeria, the State judiciaries, the Attorneys-General of the states and Police and Prison officials that I can say that we are on the right track.

Between now and March 31, 2002, I assure your Excellency that I will do all in my power to see that God and the courts give us victory in the two landmark cases that it has been my good fortune to bring to the point of hearing.

Between 7 and 11 January 2002, the Supreme Court will hear the (on-shore/Off-shore alias" Resource control"  case it is going to be very interesting and all the parties will put their best and most ingenious efforts into it. I am glad to have Chief Rotimi Williams SAN and Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim SAN work with me on the case.

It is not unlikely that the case will take longer than fuse days as there will be at least 38 addresses, as every Attorney-General will have filed his brief of argument. W, on our part, will marshal a good and strong case.

The other case is the Cameroon v. Nigeria before the International Court of Justice at The Hague. I am already fine-turning my address which will open the Nigerian case. Our team will be in The Hague from 11 February to 22 March 2002, the last day of hearing. I am quite satisfied with the ability and commitment of our foreign counsel, since I made clean to them the ,  position of this government. We have pleaded before the court a good and formidable case.

I will also continue our vigorous pursuit of those who looted our country's funds. A good start has been made and my successor can complete it.

Your Excellency, I thank you once again. All my life I will be your good friend, and I pray to God not to allow anything to break our friendship. Tinuke and I will always hold you and our dear Stella in our hearts. May our  Lord and Saviour Jesus

Christ bless all of us this ,  and all the days of our lives. Amen.

Yours, very sincerely,

Bola Ige


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INTERVIEW OF SOLA ADEYEYE TO PUNCH


PUNCH
Ige's Letter: Soyinka is telling the truth
- Prof. Adeyeye

Senan John Murray, Abuja

An associate of Prof. Wole Soyinka, who is also a member of the House of Representatives, Prof. Sola Adeyeye, on Tuesday, countered claims by President Olusegun Obasanjo that the Nobel Laureate lied about the contents of a letter sent to the president by the late Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, shortly before he was assassinated.

Adeyeye, who was until recently a university lecturer in the United States and a key member of the opposition against the regime of late Gen. Sani Abacha in North America, told our correspondent that Soyinka was "absolutely factual" when the Nobel Laureate quoted Ige as saying that the Peoples Democratic Party had a grand design against the Alliance for Democracy in the South-West, which the late Minister of Justice wanted to check.

Soyinka had told The PUNCH that himself and Adeyeye met with Ige in the United States, where the slain minister disclosed that he was preparing to resign from the Obasanjo government in order to prepare AD against plans by the PDP to use questionable means to unseat the party from its South-West base. Ige was said to have told both men that he would write a letter to this effect to Obasanjo, and promise the president that AD would support his candidacy, while ensuring that the disciples of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo did not lose their South-West base.

But Obasanjo in a letter to the Nobel Laureate denounced the statement by Soyinka, describing the playwright as a "perfidious liar."

However, Adeyeye, who confirmed that he was at the meeting as explained by Soyinka declared that, "I can tell you one thing. This is the truth before Almighty God: everything Soyinka said was the truth and anybody who knew Bola Ige knew that he loved Obasanjo; he wanted people to support Obasanjo, but he wanted to make sure that the Peoples Democratic Party did not take Yorubaland.

"That was the fact. It was not something that Bola Ige said secretly. He said it openly. When, in fact you read the letter to which the president was alluding - a copy of which I have - and you read the statement that Wole Soyinka made, you frankly cannot understand on what basis the president is pretending to have an axe to grind with Wole Soyinka, because the truth is this issue of the position of Bola Ige was never hidden."

Adeyeye, a former Secretary General of then Washington-based United Democratic Front of Nigeria, one of the groups that were at the forefront of the struggle for the restoration of democracy in Nigeria, frowned at Obasanjo's reaction to Soyinka's claims.

He said, "I love the president. I consider him an uncle, but the truth of the matter is that he is not a man who enjoys being corrected. But on this matter, the issues are clear-cut: Soyinka made a statement, the statement was factual, the statement was factual. In fact, wait for my own statement. I will soon come out with a detailed and comprehensive statement on this matter."

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See also:

http://odili.net/news/source/2003/jul/25/209.html
Ige: We Now Know the Mastermind, Says Soyinka
This Day, July 25, 2003


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ALUKO COMMENTARY

The Yoruba say that there is more to it than meets the eye (and ear) when the witch's howl of the day before (atop a home) is immediately followed by the death of a child (within.)  One would be forgiven if a direct connection were made between those two strange events.

For whatever its worth, Soyinka's stark allegations have forced Obasanjo's open revelation about Ige's probable impoliticality to the "Powers-Dat-Be",  as well as Adeyeye's confirmation of Ige's private (but now murderously aborted) pro-Yoruba resolve re PDP and AD on the heels of a preceeding Ife debacle that made him (Ige) briefly and involuntarily capless in the midst of pro-Omisore hooligans. 

Let the world know - or at least hope - that the workings of the secret and wicked chambers will in time be revealed.   One thing that we know:  Uncle Bola did not commit suicide. 

'Nuff said.


Bolaji Aluko

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Do you know the meaning of the word, "faction?" Abi cows have stepped on your head?

Alhaji Uchenna no be cattle rearer now, na dye maker, abi Alhaji?



Offtopic: Walahi, Beaf needs to write a book on word imagery, witty insults and political come-backs.

Wether you dislike his politics or not, Dude is talented.

@eku some Yoruba groups sharing close boundaries with Igalas might understand the song, I was picking some familiar sounding-words from it myself because some of it sounds like my local dialect, but I will be jumping ahead of myself if I Conclude without an Igala speaker to confirm.

The sound is familiar, but definitely the language is very different. Yoruba dialects are diverse and varied even within the presently accepted Yoruba political-divisions. Even Urhobo sounds Like my local Yoruba dialect and there are word similarities.

Ultimately, Beaf is Yoruba, he's just in denial  

After crude oil dries up, our Delta brothers will seek us out, and we will accept them, we are cool like that.  

Beaf:
Oghene biko o!!!
The way you're rolling out these Urhobo name de make me fear fear!!! But, no threating, e be like say Onome do tie you down!

I thought you won't beg and apologize ni, ok I forgive you. I dey watch you though. . .

Just tell bros to dash me one correct oil block and I'll let Onome visit home for Xmas.  

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=627286.msg7949765#msg7949765 date=1300639414]Such a nice video and song! Itsekiri are definitely Yoruba, lol. Some words I didn't understand, but the other 90% was fine.

God bless 'em.

Hrm, no wonder my uncle enjoys living in Warri so much.

Very interesting, I'll have to buy this Professor Ayomike's book and read more about them.

I'm starting to wonder now about Igala. . . how much of that language I'll immediately understand. Very interesting stuff.[/quote]Keep searching and discovering Odua prince, everything from Tapaland to Delta-Urhobo is yours, take anything you want anytime you want.

A Billion Beaf cannot stop you.  

Like your Uncle, as a Bonafide Yoruba Son, you are like a Trust fund baby, Enjoy your inheritance!

Beaf:
Lol! You wan invoke spirit?!! Na we go capture all of una! Small, but mighty!
I've eyeing some Yoruba babes with big big yanshes, Dupe and Bimbo. I am ready to lead the boys to bring them back as my tropies. 

See this Urhobo boy o!! You wan carry Load? Dupe don get Magun for body, bimbo na like time bomb, she go take Obe Isapa quench you

I saw one Oviereya the other day, she dey eye this Yoruba boy, 1 2 3 quick tapping! Correct Urhobo gal.

All those Asaroyoma, Ejiroghene and Emetemedia's wey una dey hide for yonder don enter wahala, correct war "bootys"

Eff oil blocks!!!  give me correct Delta-Urhobo gals anyday and I might just call my warriors back, Else, we take them all!

Daaannm, Urhobo delta gals get sexy names sha!! Must be their Yoruboid connection 

^^^ hahahahaha

DK! Abeg leave Baba Suwe out of politics o!

Beaf:
Like that wasn't your agenda all the while.
Unfortunately, una jam rock. No outsider is going to bring Nigeria's bigotted politics into Delta state. We are not crude people.

Leave that side! Una chop winch!?  

We already have The Itshekiris (or they have us, depends on how you see it) time to Annex Isoko, Urhobo and other small small groups in "Delta"

@ the girl in that video has an Osun Osogbo accent, God bless our common progenitors.

By the time we are done with Beaf, he will be speaking with a distinct Ijebu lilt and craving Amala and Gbegiri Soup. . .

^^Well said Koruji.

It's about time we take the "Yoruba expansionist agenda"(whatever that means) to Urhoboland and annex that piece once and for all. Itsekiris will be safe and happy, and Beaf will be made whole again with his kin in Odualand

Time to form the Greater Yoruboid-Tapa-Igala Empire

^hopefully,

Ki Ile to Pa Osika Ohun Rere ti baje. . . ~hopefully the wicked will face Justice, won't bring back a great man though~

^^ I Agree. Mine too.

when Gandhi was assasinated in 1948 he had "Three days of excruciating mental agony and moodiness"

That was how I felt when I heard they murdered him. . .

@warrior

His death killed AD and the Southwest progressive movement that was fast rising after the death of Abacha, especially coming on the heels on their successful opposition as NADECO(National Democratic Coalition)

I remember him telling Nigerians that Abachas newly formed parties were "five fingers of the same leprous hands"

I think he just had to support OBJ to forge a united front at that time, I think he miscalculated

Bola Ige popularized the phrase "Siddon look"

Tinubu cannot hold a candle to Bola Ige

Bola Ige and Pa Adesanya will appear on TVs all over SW States on the Eve of an Election and the masses will troop out to vote the people they support on election day .

Who be Tibubu ?

Who be OBJ?

He would've sent Bode George back to his Agbole in Lagos,

Talkless of minions and common thugs like OGD, Akala or Oyinlola, who born dem papa? Mtcheew!  

Ai si nile Ologbo. . .