redsun:
How can there not be a chief economic adviser to the president? How does he make his strategic economic decisions without expert economic guidance? And if there is none, where did all the money go to?

Where are the Sharia-supremacist terrorists getting their funding?

WHAT IS OUR CHRISTIAN PROFESSOR OF LAW VP DOING AMONG THIS BAND OF SHARIA-SUPREMACISTS? DOES HE NOT FEAR GOD?

Corruption was high under other Presidents.

But it is more worrying under the Dictator General because now there is increasing Sharia-supremacist terrorism and even if brave Dr Mailafia hadn't told us, we are not idiots and can see the money must be from public funds, ie Niger Delta and Lagos taxes.

MB & SOUTH, WE MUST RENEGOTIATE THIS DEADLY UNION OF "ONE NIGERIA"

NON-EXISTING OFFICE OF BUHARI’S CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISER GETS N573.45M IN FIVE YEARS

By Olugbenga ADANIKIN On Aug 15, 2020
International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR)

CSOs demand probe

THE Office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President (OCEAP) got approval for the sum of N573.45 million as capital allocations in the last five years without a clear identity of presidential appointee answerable to the fund’s utilisation, findings by The ICIR have shown.

From the above N573.45 million capital budgets, the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) under the Federal Ministry of Finance, released a total sum of N114.97 million (N114,971,989) to the contentious office for its operations.

This literally excludes N12.1 million received by the OCEAP in the 2015 fiscal year.

But a document from the AGF, dated July 6, with reference number FD/OAGF/ADC/305/I/DF shows the OCEAP, in 2016, got a total release of N39.08 million from the N78.17 million capital budget approved for its operations.

In 2017, it received N35 million as its total budget releases from N60 million capital allocation for the year.

The following year, N60 million was also approved for the OCEAP while the accountant general’s office made available N24 million backed with cash.

In 2019, the unmanned office also received N16.89 million for its operations. The sum was the amount released from the N42.23 million capital budget for activities of the controversial office.

Though the office is yet to receive an allocation for the fiscal year 2020 as of July this year, yet, it got the highest approved capital allocation of N333.06 million in the past five years.

But for the global pandemic, indications have shown that the office would have received the annual release for the year 2020.

Nevertheless, despite these allocations and releases, the office is shrouded in secrecy.

The ICIR check shows that there is no clear government appointee managing the office.

Dr Adeyemi Dipeolu, the Special Adviser to the President on Economic Matters, Office of the Vice President whom the public assumes is the head of the office has vehemently denied any affinity with the OCEAP.

Dipeolu was among four aides appointed by the president in 2016 as Special Advisers. Others are Tijani Abdullahi, SA on Planning; Babafemi Ojudu, Political Adviser to the president and Mrs Maryam Uwais, Presidential Adviser on Social Investment.

However, sources in the presidency confirmed to The ICIR that the President is yet to engage a chief economic adviser but federal allocations to this office have been steady.

A check at the State House website which encompasses a list of offices under the Presidency also excludes the OCEAP as of the time of filing this report.

Still, budget line-up to the controversial Chief Economic Adviser’s office is always incorporated annually in the State House budgets. The website to the office remains inactive as of the time of filing this report.

“Database connection error (1): The MySQL adapter ‘MySQL’ is not available,” error message on the website reads.

Buhari’s Chief Economic Adviser’s Office has history of secrecy

In 2018, The ICIR reported on the OCEAP research study which attracted N33.7 million in the 2017 approved budget. From then till date, there is no trace of the study in the public domain.

“This is… to inform you that the Budget Item ‘OCEAP85893258’ is not under the Special Adviser to the President on Economic Matters in the Office of the Vice President. Thank you,” Dipeolu stated in a letter dated October 9, 2018, as a response to Freedom of Information request targeted towards probing the research work.

The OCEAP in previous administrations has been an independent office under the Presidency headed by a top aide that advises the president on economic affairs.

For instance, between 2011 to 2015, Goodluck Jonathan, the former president, appointed Dr. Nwanze Okidegbe to manage the office. Prior to his appointment, Precious Garba, a Professor of Economics, University of Ibadan occupied the OCEAP while Philip Asiodu managed the office when the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo was in power.

But, while Laolu Akande, media aide to the Vice President affirmed Dipeolu’s position as the special adviser on economic matters to the president in the office of the VP, Garba Shehu, the official spokesperson to the president had insisted Dipeolu is Buhari’s chief economic adviser and also responsible for the office spending.

“Talk to Laolu,” he responded in 2018 when The ICIR tried to seek clarity on the subject of who advises the president on economic matters.

Presidency insists on same response two years after initial findings

On July 20, the OCEAP in a reference letter OCEAP/136/FOI/Vol.1/11 responded to FOI request earlier sent on June 22 by The ICIR. The letter was directed to seek details of capital releases to the President’s chief economic adviser’s office from 2015 to 2019.

Feedback contained in the letter was similar to Dipeolu’s earlier response two years after our initial report. The office currently has no appointee.

“Please be informed that a Chief Economic Adviser to the President is yet to be appointed and therefore, this office is presently constrained in facilitating your request in respect of the above subject matter.”

The letter was signed by one Yusuf Ahmad Babatunde for the Chief Economic Adviser to the President yet to be appointed by Buhari.

Still, he advised that the request be forwarded to the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget Office and National Planning for necessary action.

That office doesn’t exist in this administration – presidential source

To unravel the mystery behind OCEAP and the individual behind the released funds, The ICIR attempted to contact seven aides of the President. The reporter reached out to Femi Adesina, Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, but he did not respond to a text message sent to his phone.

The reporter also reached out to Shehu.

“The economic adviser is still there. No change,” he briefly responded via a text message.

The president’s spokesperson failed to provide any more details even when probed further. He did not state categorically who currently occupies the office and if the office actually existed.

Tolu Ogunlesi, Special Assistant to the President on Digital and New Media was also contacted but he gave no response.

Bashir Ahmad, Personal Assistant on New Media to the President did not also respond to a direct message sent to his verified social media handle.

Ajuri Ngelale, who is a Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs could also not provide an answer as to the official who manages the OCEAP and how money allotted to the office is being spent over the years.

He simply referred the reporter to Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Chief of Staff to the President.

“I imagine you would want to write to the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President,” Ngelale asserted in a private message from his verified social media handle. He also declined to provide contact detail of Gambari whom he implied should have answers.

Ibrahim Ahmed, the Personal Assistant to Gambari was also contacted but he did not respond to his calls. Text message sent to him regarding the enquiry and why the reporter needed to contact the chief of staff was also not replied.

Notwithstanding, a highly placed source in the Presidency who pleaded anonymity due to sensitivity of the matter disclosed that the office does not exist in Buhari’s administration.

“As far as I know, that office does not exist in this administration,” the source stated.

“There is a special adviser to the president on economic matters in the office of the vice president and there is a Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC), with a Chairman.”

The ICIR reached out to Dipeolu to verify if he has now been assigned to manage the OCEAP but did not respond to repeated calls to his line.

He eventually asked the reporter to send a text message. Yet, he did not acknowledge or respond to the text until the next day – August 13 when he directed the reporter to Akande.

Akande, the VP’s media aide he referred the reporter said the OCEAP was different from Dipeolu’s office but insisted he could not speak further on the matter as the office is under the purview of the president.

“I think it is best you ask Femi or Garba. They are on the president’s side,” he told The ICIR. He was told of the efforts made to reach out to the two aides he mentioned but he insisted they are best to comment on the matter.

Experts React

Lanre Suraj, the Executive Director, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), reacting to the report expressed concern on the opacity of the office if it actually exists. He queried the official who has been defending the annual budget of the OCEAP at the National Assembly (NASS) since the President was yet to appoint an official to manage the office.

Suraj insisted the office could not have spent any money without budgetary allocation. He, however, alleged ‘it is not unlikely’ the lawmakers have been conniving with some officials to extort the government.

Aside from the approved budget, the activists said the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) is also submitted to the lawmakers, thus members of the national assembly cannot be completely exonerated in the allegation.

“For there to be budgetary allocation, you might need to look at the national assembly. Who has been defending the budget of the OCEAP before the lawmakers,” Suraj queried?

Debo Adeniran, Chairman of the Centre for Anticorruption and Open Leadership, a non-Profit Organisation on social justice and anti-corruption described the situation as reprehensible which should be looked into by the President.

The antigraft agencies, he noted should have discovered the gaps and probe the releases.

According to him, “there are several indices of unbridled corruption under the administration that it is difficult to discern. Sometimes we believe it is some form of incompetency on the part of the president and inadequate capacity to administer Nigeria as it is.”

He acknowledged that corruption is pervasive in the country, stressing that there are corrupt elements who would not want the fight against corruption to succeed.

Adeniran was, however, of the opinion that the age and health status of the president might deny him the right capacity to scrutinise all books relating to his offices such as budget drafts, vouchers and the rest.

The president, he stated, should take responsibility for the gaps and ensure the situation is investigated.

He assured the NGO would also investigate the releases alongside other relevant coalitions against corrupt practices.

SOURCE: https://www.icirnigeria.org/non-existing-office-of-buharis-chief-economic-adviser-gets-n573-45m-in-five-years/

helinues:
The crops of our politicians are not creative enough to find a way of restructuring Nigeria without tearing it apart..

Our long way to go is far more than Kuvuki land...

We need to control our borders from Arewa terrorists. That means having our own countries and Visa access for non-citizens.

If YOU know of how any people can control their borders without being a sovereign country then tell us.

BlowYourMind:
Why is Nwodo just talking now, why did he come out when Kanu was agitating and lamenting

My brother, please. Let us unite and fight off our common enemy that wants to grab our ancestral lands through genocide.

Once we have together freed ourselves and our children, we can deal with any of the "willing tools" among us. Please.

This is what Oodua People's Federation, Middle Belt Congress and Lower Niger Congress (SE and SS together) in their Alliance as Movement for New Nigeria (MNN) have been saying all along.

All the needed information is on the Lower Niger Congress Facebook and websites. Links here:

https://web.facebook.com/lowernigercongress

https://www.lnc-usa.org/blog/lnc-mnn-notice-board/


Brethren of South and Middle Belt, daily Arewa brings death and backwardness upon us. They are changing the demographics of our ancestral lands by using state power for genocide and to pour in their people into our lands, hidden in trucks.

They have brought Boko Haram, ISIS, Fulani herdsmen militia and now Al-Qaeda upon us. So why are we delaying in supporting the strategy of MNN? To whose benefit is our delay? Will our children thank us? Come on, go to the websites above and get involved! Then send Tweets and WhatsApps to raise awareness.

REFERENDUM AND REGIONAL AUTONOMY IS THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR NIGERIA - NNIA NWODO
Njenje Media
Premiered Aug 2, 2020


Chief John Nnia Nwodo, Ohanaeze Ndi-Igbo here says the Nigeria Constitution was imposed upon the people by the military. He said the Constitution is not working, and we have no real democracy. He said we all have to rise up and ensure that we re-write our Constitution. He said the Constitution is not AUTOCHTHONOUS so it does not have validity with the people. He said a “We the people” Constitution must be made acceptable to the people by Referendum. He said we don’t have a Constitution.


SOURCE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWa4OTfBTdE

We have known ISIS is here.
We have known Boko Haram is here.
We have known Fulani herdsmen militia is here.
USA recently told us Al-Qaeda is here.
We know USA and the West are at war with Al-Qaeda (the international war on terrorism) so with these people in our country we are at high risk

Video here shows a large group of fighting aged men intercepted from a truck in Shagamu, Ogun State.
Their presence is changing the DEMOGRAPHICS of our ancestral lands.
One Nigeria allows free movement through our ancestral lands.
We need to control our borders because One Nigeria is NO MORE the Nigeria of Independence and we must deport Arewa back to Arewa land. We cannot risk USA and West sending their troops to our lands in search of Al-Qaeda. ALL the terrorists in this One Nigeria are from one same part. The Sharia area. Separation from Arewa must be sooner than later.

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ARE THE REVELATIONS BY OBADIAH MAILAFIYA HAPPENING ALREADY? THESE MEN WERE INTERCEPTED IN SHAGAMU
Aug 11, 2020


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=207&v=0a2F1qizK80&feature=emb_logo

PENTECOSTAL BISHOPS CALLS FOR END TO SOUTHERN KADUNA KILLINGS
Premium Times
August 11th, 2020

Pentecostal Bishops Forum of the 19 Northern States (PBFNS) in Nigeria has called for the immediate fortification of security arrangements in the entire Southern Kaduna communities.

The Chairman of PBFNS, John Praise, who made the call at a news conference on August 11, 2020, in Abuja, said that the killings in Southern Kaduna must stop.

“The situation had assumed a dangerous dimension of ethnic cleansing, going by the methodology and clinical decimation of the population of the indigenous people with mindless ruthlessness. At the last count, communities have been attacked by armed herdsmen, alleged to be of Fulani extraction while many have been killed and rendered homeless.

“The audacity of the recent attacks and the inaction of the relevant security formations to bring the perpetrators to justice suggest a wicked collaboration, double standard, and sabotage in certain quarters. And this gives the impression that a sinister script is being acted out to overrun the people and forcefully annex their ancestral heritage in all ramifications,” he said.


FULL ARTICLE:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nwest/408274-pentecostal-bishops-demand-end-to-killings-in-southern-kaduna.html

Here is full tweet photo:

LT GEN AZUBUIKE IHEJIRIKA SAID EL RUFAI IS BOKO HARAM COMMANDER IN 2014: REMINDER BY RENO OMOKRI

On 14th August 2020 Reno Omokri sent this tweet to remind us that Prof Obadiah Mailafia is not the first person to say that an Arewa ruling elite is Commander of Boko Haram.

Reno Omokri also says DSS should have interrogated El Rufai for giving killer herdsmen money (Niger Delta oil money)

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Reno Omokri
@renoomokri
Obadiah Mailafia was not the first person to expose @Elrufai. Then @HQNigerianArmy
Chief of Staff, Azubuike Ihejirika, said the same thing in 2014.
The same DSS that invited Mailafia, must also invite El-Rufai to tell them the killer herdsmen he paid money to!

#BuhariTormentor

THE DECEIT OF AMENDING THE NULL AND VOID 1999 NIGERIA CONSTITUTION
By Ndidi Uwechue
African News Today
11th August 2020


For the sake of authenticity and thus validity, Nigeria’s Constitution must truly be made by the people, and not be imposed upon the people (unawares) as was the 1999 Constitution. In the past twenty-one years much has been written about the forgery that the 1999 Constitution is. Briefly, “We the people” did not prepare or agree any part of this Constitution as falsely claimed in its preamble. Furthermore, the current Nigeria is not a Federation as stated in the Constitution, instead it operates under a Unitary system. These are just two ways that make the 1999 Constitution a clear forgery.

Since the 1999 Constitution is a forgery, it is not binding because it is NULL AND VOID. It therefore cannot be amended but as a forged instrument must be discarded, then new, properly made “We the people” Constitutions be legitimized by Referendum.

APPEAL TO POLITICIANS – PAST AND PRESENT
Just like managers are hired to manage a company for its owners, politicians are also “hired” via elections to manage Nigeria for the people, who are the true owners of Nigeria. Nigeria as an entity lacks credibility nationally and globally because the Constitution that upholds the Union of ethnic nationalities is a forgery. All the “constitutional amendments” are a farce because no amount of amendments can legitimise a document that is null and void. In a few weeks we will be marking the 60th anniversary of Independence so this is a good time to do the right thing and declare that the 1999 Constitution has been terminated so that we can fix this territory called Nigeria.

APPEAL TO LAWYERS AND JUDGES
More than anybody else, lawyers and judges know that the 1999 Constitution is a forgery, and know how this document has aided corruption and promoted national retardation. Nelson Mandela was a lawyer who used his knowledge of law to improve his country, not his pocket. His admirable example can still be followed.

APPEAL TO CHRISTIAN LEADERS
The lie about the 1999 Constitution is now completely exposed so it is expected that priests, reverends, pastors, bishops, archbishops and cardinals be committed champions of truth. Nigerians look up to religious leaders for guidance so this class are well-placed to play an honourable role in ensuring that the sham 1999 Constitution is discarded. Just like Archbishop Desmond Tutu immersed himself in removing the unjust and ungodly Apartheid system in South Africa.

APPEAL TO CULTURAL AND TRADITIONAL LEADERS
Monarchs, chiefs and cultural leaders have much influence over the people. With the 1999 Constitution also being an impediment to progress and development, sensitizing and guiding their people to rightly get it discarded should be a first concern.

APPEAL TO NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS
Many NGOs and CSOs are either directly or indirectly fighting corruption and injustice. It is therefore important that they focus their good work onto taking down the fraudulent 1999 Constitution and make this task a priority. Such organisations are in key positions to flag up to Nigerians and the international community that the imposition of a sham Constitution is against both human and civil rights of the people.

APPEAL TO PARENTS
The world of today is different from that of the past. This is now the information age where every individual has a responsibility to get himself informed. Information is placed on the internet so that citizens of the world can access it for themselves no matter where they are. Parents have the added responsibility of having to acquire knowledge and information for and on behalf of their children. Nigerian parents can see that the lives of their children in Nigeria is so very different from the lives of children in other parts of the world, so they should act as if they loved their children above all else and get involved in discarding the 1999 Constitution which is an imposed forgery.

Nigeria has reached pariah status, and matches the definition of a “rogue state”. There is all manner of Sharia-supremacist terrorism, genocide, land grabbing, and open corruption, plus retardation in every sector. Young people including our much-needed medical professionals are fleeing abroad in their thousands.

Nigeria has defied development for a full sixty years now. We have outgrown the simplistic and constantly-given explanation that this is due to “poor leadership” and “bad governance”. The real source of the problem of Nigeria is the imposed 1999 Constitution which is a forgery! It is both anti-development and pro-corruption. It has created a Nigeria that is NOT the Nigeria negotiated at Independence for there to ever be a Union of ethnic nationalities. That Nigeria ended in 1966 with the first military coup. The various “constitutional amendments” have been nothing but a grand mockery of Nigerian people, taking advantage of their ignorance of constitutional matters, and deepening the deceit carried out upon them.

The 1999 Constitution is a huge (and merciless) fraud on the people of Nigeria. Lies, dishonesty and deceit have displaced the pre-Independence Nigeria and what we now have is a failure that approaches a rogue state. Now more than ever, an Alternative Culture of “doing the right thing” and “doing the right thing the right way” should be embarked upon. Let this deceit end. The 1999 Constitution is null and void, so unenforceable, and cannot be amended. If there are any honest people in Nigeria and in the Diaspora, you need to speak out!

#BinIt9ja #BinItNG


SOURCE:
http://www.africannewstoday.com/politics/opinion-the-deceit-of-amending-the-null-and-void-1999-nigeria-constitution/

Nigeria’s constitution is military, illegitimate – Professor Akin Oyebode
Feb 11, 2020; Channels TV, Sunrise Daily

A Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence, Akin Oyebode, has described the Nigerian constitution as military in nature and illegitimate.

“Military decree that is masquerading as a Constitution is worse than useless, then of course we have to go about REPLACING IT…”

Prof Akin Oyebode here explains that it is NOT for any National Assembly to do, but we need a Constituent Assembly either elected or selected by the people who will prepare modalities and a Draft Constitution. Two questions are asked:
1) Do we want to live together in a Union?
2) If so, how?
The Draft Constitution is then given out for the people to decide by Referendum. Then a legitimate Constitution is obtained.

Nigeria’s Constitution is military, illegitimate – Professor Oyebode
10½ minute video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6BpTwUCFss


Oyebode made the comment Tuesday on Sunrise Daily during a discussion of the Nigerian Senate’s recent decision to review the constitution.
He noted that the current constitution does not reflect the will of the Nigerian majority since it was cobbled together by a few people and imposed on the country.

The renowned academic also pointed out that it was not in the Senate’s place to give Nigerians a new constitution. “We got it wrong,” he said.
Oyebode went on to call for the composition of a constituent assembly that represents the totality of Nigerians.
The new constitution, Oyebode noted, should elaborate on true federalism.

What Oyebode actually said?

“It is not for the National Assembly to give Nigerians a constitution. It is the constitution that will give birth to the National Assembly. The job of the National Assembly is to make workaday laws for the peace, order and good government of Nigeria. So it is the constituent assembly that will deliberate and fashion out a fundamental law for Nigeria.

“If we agree that the military decree that is masquerading as a constitution is worse than useless; then of course we have to go about replacing it with a basic law of Nigeria.

“We have to elaborate on true federalism. We need devolution of powers. We should not be running to Abuja for every little thing.

“What we have been operating under the military constitution is a quasi-federal arrangement. So the constituent units don’t have the freedom to legislate on matters that affect their constituents.

“It is not the national assembly that should give us a new constitution. We the people or our representatives formed into a constituent assembly should discuss the modalities of living together.

“What we’ve been having, talking of the Decree 24 of 1979, is an illegitimate instrument. Where did we people gather to discuss and agree to live together? We never had that. It was a product of a military dictate. What you had was the Abdusalam constitution – I believe 29 Nigerians were constituted to draft the 1999 constitution.

“Nigerians now have the right to enact to themselves the fundamental law that will regulate how they are living together.

“If the infelicities of that constitution are well known, we would be wasting time recounting how unworkable a quasi-federal set up is for a country that has over 400 ethnic groups. And that’s why we’ve been in the jam that we find ourselves.

“I think we have to get it right finally by setting up a Constituent Assembly that will produce a draft constitution which will be voted on by the generality of Nigerians.”

(Source: https://www.channelstv.com/2020/02/11/nigerias-constitution-is-military-illegitimate-professor-oyebode/)

SLAP44:
The negotiations will end in a heavy fight, and heads will be broken.

Negotiations didn't work in after Aburi

Negotiations didn't work after the war

Negotiations didn't work after Oputa panel

Abacha constitutional conference failed

Jonathans Confab was rejected

But, dissolution will work perfectly.

THIS IS WHAT PROF AKINTOYE IS SAYING:

SouthNigerian:
In other words, we should negotiate the disintegration of Nigeria not clamouring for restructuring.

backnbeta:
I agree that the problem has gone past what restructuring can solve. However, negotiating our terms of peaceful cohabitation is not going to work because we are still going to remain one Nigeria and the people invading our territories will always do so because we are 'one people, one nation' and we all know that they will always enjoy immunity. Why not just demand for a total break-up of this forced, painful marriage?

THIS IS WHAT PROF AKINTOYE IS SAYING:

SouthNigerian:
In other words, we should negotiate the disintegration of Nigeria not clamouring for restructuring.

SouthNigerian:
In other words, we should negotiate the disintegration of Nigeria not clamouring for restructuring.

Gbam!

GREAT NEWS!

The honest ones of the South and Middle Belt are seeing that we need BORDERS CONTROL to keep these Fulani/Arewa Sharia-supremacists off our ancestral lands. The only way to have BORDERS CONTROL is to have your own country.

Dissolution is Nigeria's solution!

NIGERIA NEEDS NEGOTIATIONS AMONG ETHNIC GROUPS, NOT RESTRUCTURING –AKINTOYE
Olufemi Olaniyi
Punch
August 9, 2020

The President of Yoruba World Congress, Prof Banji Akintoye, has said restructuring is no longer capable of solving the problem facing the Yoruba race in Nigeria as well as other oppressed ethnic nationalities.

The professor of History said rather than agitating for restructuring, what Nigeria leaders needed to do now was a negotiation of how they wanted the country to be.

He said this in an interview with our correspondent on Saturday.

According to him, various ethnic groups need to come together and agree on their relationship with Nigeria.

Akintoye said restructuring would not stop the invasion of various ethnic groups and massive destruction of lives and properties that had been going on for some years.

He said, “I respect people who are asking for restructuring but I belong to the large number of Yoruba people who have come to the conclusion that restructuring is no longer capable of solving the problems of Nigerian people.

“I was one of the people fighting for restructuring before now and I have written more than 50 articles on restructuring but in the light of what has been happening in Nigeria, especially since 2015, it is obvious to me that restructuring is no longer capable of solving the problems.

“For instance, I ask people, “Are you saying mere restructuring will stop the invasion of our land by the Fulani? Are you saying the people who are threatening to conquer our land, exterminate us and bring their tribal men from countries in West Africa will stop by just restructuring?

“Are you saying restructuring will be the solution to the people who are bringing foreign terrorist organisations to conquer every tribe in Nigeria? Those who are asking for restructuring are free to go on.

“But restructuring is no longer the appropriate thing to be fighting for now if a particular ethnic group is bringing foreign terrorist organisations to kill you and take over your land. Why don’t you demand a negotiation – a thorough renegotiation of our relationship rather than talking of restructuring?”



SOURCE:
https://punchng.com/nigeria-needs-negotiations-among-ethnic-groups-not-restructuring-akintoye/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0Wn3VL16UvB-BdKIAZfY_JRnTyPpjqzDA4NK1jMtcWltMKphziYlqGgS8#Echobox=1596971477

MUST WATCH - INFORMATION THAT BOKO HARAM'S PHASE 2 PLAN IS TO ATTACK CITIES: DR MAILAFIA

Here Dr Mailafia says that they too have their information sources and have learned that Boko Haram is well supported from on high with weapons and money etc. After they finish genocide in rural areas will start Phase 2 which is attack prominent people in urban areas (cities and towns). Plus they want war in Nigeria.

2 ½ minute video
https://web.facebook.com/tony.nnadi.52/videos/3323900264337223/


For full 55 minute video go to Youtube here:
Title: Let's Talk Southern Kaduna Crisis


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM73x62N5Dg

In this video, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, a Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, corroborates the Southward Ethnic Cleansing Onslaught against Indigenous Nationalities of Nigeria by Murderous Fulani Invaders with the active Collusion and Facilitation of both the Buhari-led “Federal Government of Nigeria” and it’s Security Forces, as well as the Government of Kaduna State where the Governor, Nasir El-Rufai is, from all indications, personally superintending and Coordinating the Genocide sweeping over Southern Kaduna.

IMMEDIATE RESTRUCTURING IS PREFERABLE TO OHANAEZE NDIIGBO THAN IGBO PRESIDENT UNDER THE 1999 CONSTITUTION – Nwodo
Okenwa Nwosu
Lower Niger Congress
11th August 2020

John Nnia Nwodo, a two-time minister in Nigeria’s central government and the incumbent President-General of Ohanaeze Ndiigbo, was a guest on Arise News where he answered a lot of questions on pressing political, socioeconomic and security problems facing Nigeria, particularly the Igbo ethnic nationality. As usual, he handled his interrogators with the ease that only knowledge, experience and self-confidence can impart. Many individuals and groups claim to speak on behalf of Ndiigbo. But it is only through Chief Nwodo’s voice that a rational and balanced viewpoint about the Igbo’s place in contemporary Nigeria can be reliably and consistently sourced. Having been intimately engaged in politics Nigeriana in the past 40 years, Nnia Nwodo’s knowledge on matters of national discourse is encyclopedic.

He aptly handled the condescending attitude of a Northern ruling oligarch like Tanko Yakassai, who volunteered to lecture Ndiigbo on how to reach out to other Nigerian stakeholders as the only means to secure the presidency in the 2023 general elections cycle. Nwodo went on the limb to remind Yakassai and others that the Igbo are the most widely dispersed ethnic nationality in Nigeria. Ndiigbo take their economic activities to wherever they are domiciled. They’ve built a tomato factory in Sokoto, hotels in Abuja, a university in Ogun state and many commercial hubs of which the Alaba International Market, Lagos is one. The Igbo are being deliberately marginalized and excluded from the governance of Nigeria despite their immense contributions to national cohesion and socioeconomic development.

When asked whether the Ohanaeze Ndiigbo would prefer the so-called Igbo presidency or Restructuring, his response was curt and unmistakable. He did not only ask for Restructuring but also to have it done NOW. He narrated the history of how the General Abdulsalami Abubakar’s regime, which he had served as a minister, secretly wrote and decreed the 1999 Constitution into existence without involving the Federal Executive Council (FEC) that was supposed to be the highest governing body at the time. The 1999 Constitution, which was promulgated by the ruling military junta in camera, was never released to the public until after the incoming Obasanjo had been sworn into office as president. As a trained lawyer, Chief Nwodo remarked that the 1999 Constitution is not autochthonous and thus lacks legitimacy and approval of the Nigerian constituents.

He believes that the agitation for Biafra among Igbo youths is necessitated and engendered by well-orchestrated marginalization of Alaigbo developmentally as well as the deliberate exclusion of Ndiigbo from many aspects of national governance. He wonders why youth agitators in other parts of the country are glossed over or even often rewarded while undue negative attention is always focused on their Igbo counterparts.

Answering a question on why Ndiigbo have not given equal attention to the development of their ancestral home base as they do elsewhere around Nigeria, the Ohanaeze PG used the opportunity to disclose the establishment of the Alaigbo Stabilization Fund (ASF) which is designed to radically transform the economic fortune of Igboland in remarkable ways.

To watch Chief Nnia Nwodo’s interview and associated remarks, go to the LNC USA website homepage and scroll toward the bottom. Share widely with your social media contacts as usual.
Okenwa.


Link to LNC-USA website mentioned in the article:
https://www.lnc-usa.org/blog/immediate-restructuring-is-preferable-to-ohanaeze-ndiigbo-than-igbo-president-under-the-1999-constitution-nwodo/


SOURCE:
https://web.facebook.com/lowernigercongress

Now that Al-Qaeda is in Nigeria plus all the other Sharia-supremacist terrorists, we need to ask who has allowed them into our ancestral lands.

Being a land that welcomes terrorists is a "rogue state"! This impacts on the indigenous people of Nigeria as we are the real owners of this land. As a rogue state, the global community has a right to protect themselves from us. Read my posts, and Google what this means.

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MERCENARY LEADER ACCUSES NIGERIA OF SQUANDERING GAINS AGAINST BOKO HARAM MADE WITH HIS HELP
By Colin Freeman
The Telegraph UK
26 NOVEMBER 2018

A South African mercenary who helped the Nigerian army recapture huge amounts of territory from Boko Haram insurgents has accused the country's government of squandering the gains it made with his help.

Colonel Eeben Barlow, a veteran commander in the apartheid-era South African Defence Forces, led a team of mercenaries who secretly trained up an elite Nigerian strike force back in 2015.

Hired by then President Goodluck Jonathan in the wake of the Chibok schoolgirl abduction, the mercenaries were credited with driving Boko Haram out of most of their strongholds in north-east Nigeria.

But after just three months, their contract was cancelled by incoming President Muhammadu Buhari, a former general, who told The Telegraph at the time that the Nigerian army should be able to do the job alone.

Col Barlow has now broken his silence to accuse Mr Buhari of needlessly prolonging the war by dispensing with the mercenaries' expertise. In a posting on Facebook, he said: "It is sad that the President preferred defeat above victory, as soldiers can only do what they are trained, equipped, and led to do.

"Do it poorly, and they die."

He added: "Many of the men we trained... have remained in contact with us, pleading for our return to Nigeria. They have also told us that they have been used to a point of exhaustion."

While Col Barlow's comments could be seen as "sour grapes" at losing his contract, they echo wider concerns that Boko Haram is now regaining strength.

Kidnappings and killings have continued on a large scale, despite Mr Buhari's claim last New Year to have crushed the group in their "last enclave" in Nigeria's Sambisa Forest. An Isis-alled Boko Haram faction has also mounted 17 attacks on army bases this year, with up to 100 soldiers reported in one assault in the remote desert town of Metele on November 18.
Col Barlow added: "Raids on villages and the slaughter and kidnapping of the innocent and defenceless has continued—and in some instances intensified—under the reign of the President Buhari’s government."

He said that back in 2015, his firm had warned the Nigerian government that unless the strike force was allowed to decisively "annihilate" Boko Haram, the group would spread into neighbouring Chad, Niger, and Cameroon, where it has since become well-established.

"These intelligence warnings were all rejected in favour of a false belief. Neighbouring countries were advised not to listen to us as it was claimed to be a cheap attempt to ‘get a contract’," he added.

Col Barlow was a founder of Executive Outcomes, a private military company made up of many ex-members of South Africa's security forces. One of the first modern "private armies", in 1995 it successfully helped the government of Sierra Leone defend itself against the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front, notorious for chopping off the arms of their enemies.

His new company, known as Specialized Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection, is thought to have sent around 100 men to Nigeria.


SOURCE:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/26/mercenary-leader-accuses-nigeria-squandering-gains-against-boko/

GUARDIAN NIGERIA DISOWNS FAKE FACEBOOK PAGE
By Timileyin Omilana
The Guardian,
10 August 2020

The Guardian Nigeria has warned social media users to be wary of a Facebook page – The Guardian Nigerian Newspaper – passing itself as that of the newspaper.

The manipulators behind the page ride on the popularity and integrity of The Guardian Nigeria to perpetuate its agenda and as well post propaganda content against the Nigerian government.

A recent post on the fake page headlined “Arrest Nnamdi Kanu And IPOB Now To avoid destruction In Nigeria – Tony Nnadi Tells Buhari Government” has since been reported to Facebook by The Guardian and action has been taken already.

But unfortunately, the screenshots from the post are still being circulated by some people.

The Guardian Nigeria will like to emphatically state that it does not have any affiliation with the fake page and the post was never at any point published on its platform.

While the fake Facebook page is named Guardian Nigerian Newspaper, the authentic page is Guardian Nigeria with over 800,000 followers.

All the Guardian Nigeria social media pages – Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram – have been verified and have the blue verification badges.


SOURCE:
https://guardian.ng/news/guardian-nigeria-disowns-fake-facebook-page/?fbclid=IwAR1mxtn9zjEoSodB9L7TTnXqnU1zPd1d93uhWDI0XXkpBgi5beffKiJAj50

THREE LIES ABOUT NIGERIA FROM THE PIT OF HELL

Every day, everywhere, every time whether on TV, radio or any place we hear these 3 lies from Nigerians about Nigeria:

1) Nigeria is rich.
2) Nigeria is destined for greatness.
3) Despite all the "challenges", God will one day make it all go well.

ARRANT NONSENSE!

All these are lies from the pit of Hell.

When the Sharia-supremacists agenda is that our ancestral lands should become an estate of their grandfather Usman Dan Fodio and that the Fulani will dip their Koran into the sea, nothing good can ever come out of Nigeria. Just as we see: since 1960 Independence just chaos and corruption and backwardness.

This is how God will make it well for the indigenous ethnic nationalities: Dissolution is Nigeria's solution. This will end the Sharia-supremacists agenda of terrorism, genocide and land grab foisted on us.

WHO IS ASSISTING AL-QAEDA ENTER NIGERIA?

A few days ago USA alerted us (and the world) that the terrorists Al-Qaeda are now in Nigeria, mentioning that they are in the Northern zone. Nigerians we must THINK! Al-Qaeda is infiltrating Nigeria, so WHO IS ASSISTING AL-QAEDA enter Nigeria?! We need to ask this important question!

You see Nigerians, there is a list of Failed States, now called Fragile States instead of “Failed” for political correctness sake. So, in the world list of Failed/Fragile States Nigeria ranks as 14th! (Google it). Nigeria is high on the list of Failed states and is quickly turning into a ROGUE STATE because it is becoming the home of terrorists. Nigeria has:
• Fulani herdsmen militia - In 2014 named the 4th deadliest terrorist group in the world by the Global Terrorism Index.
• Boko Haram
• ISIS/ISWAP
• Al-Qaeda
ALL these terrorists have ONE ideology in common – they are all SHARIA-SUPREMACISTS.
ALL these terrorists have ONE agenda in common – they want their form of Sharia-Islam to be the only belief in all Nigeria and they are carrying out genocide and land grab to achieve it.
Middle Belt is already facing it, then if not stopped the South too already being slaughtered by Fulani herdsmen, will face it more.
There is a SOLUTION. We must be able to control the borders of our ancestral lands. Dissolution is Nigeria’s solution. We must separate from Arewa and form our own countries so that we control our borders and so control who can enter our lands. This is why countries have Visa so they can control their borders.

Note: A rogue a nation/state is regarded as breaking international law and posing a threat to the security of other nations. A rogue nation/state meets certain criteria, such as being ruled by authoritarian or totalitarian governments that severely restrict human rights, sponsoring terrorism etc. By multiplying terrorists, this is becoming Nigeria’s destiny. So let us leave Nigeria to those turning it into a rogue state!

Our children’s future in this world is at stake, and we must not hand them a worsening Hell. Dissolution is the only solution to get out of a failed state heading to become a rogue state.

Please forward to all the people of the South and Middle Belt.

ChisomGloria:
It's well but how does one unfound the liberation without been treated like Sowore

Do go to my other posts as the pathway has been found.

Simply, it is by TAKING DOWN the IMPOSED 1999 Constitution which is a FORGERY so NULL & VOID and not binding, so can't be amended. Once that happens Nigeria ceases to be. There are UN procedures that come into play and we get a Transitional Govt for 2 or 3 years while new Constitutions are prepared. Then, there is a Referendum to legitimize these new Constitutions. The most popular future is 4 countries:
- Oduduwa
- Middle Belt
- Lower Niger (SE & SS, the name will change when the people of this Bloc vote in a new name)
- Arewa

There is an Alliance between these 3 : Oduduwa, Middle Belt, and Lower Niger to bring this about plus also afterwords so our properties and businesses in any of these Blocs remain intact.

The method used is Constitutional Force Majeure.

Go to my posts as I have websites and information there. Tell all your network too.

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WARNINGS AS FREEDOM FROM ONE NIGERIA COMES CLOSER

As the unravelling of the failed Union of One Nigeria continues, "willing tools" have as expected begun to shout out in pathetic stupidity that our slavery cannot end and that One Nigeria can never end. These "willing tools" are from every part of the South and Middle Belt. They are rewarded when they put obstacles in our way to freedom, and when they sow disunity, and try to demotivate those who plan and hope for freedom. Let us mark these sons of devils.

NOTE THIS:
1) Restructuring will not work because Middle Belt and South must have BORDERS CONTROL in order to keep out Fulani/Arewa Sharia-supremacists. Never forget their agenda is for our ancestral lands to be an estate of Usman Dan Fodio and for Fulani to dip their Koran in the sea. Therefore Restructuring will not work as they will still be able to walk about into our lands if we remain one country. The only way to keep them out is if they need a Visa to enter our lands. That means we must have a separate country from Arewa. So that we control our borders! This is essential for our safety.

2) Restructuring will not work even if we are promised to have a Christian Vice-President. Even now the VP is supposedly a Christian but he is spearheading Fulani RUGA under the name of National Livestock Transformation Plan.

3) Restructuring will not work even if we are promised Presidency for the South. We already had OBJ and GEJ yet they were controlled by the Sharia-supremacista who openly say they are born to rule.

My friends, Restructuring will never do. Southerners and Middle Belters must be able to control our borders from Fulani herdsmen, Fulani militia, Fulani Sharia-supremacists, Arewa Boko Haram, Arewa ISIS and now also Arewa Al-Qaeda.

We must have:
- Borders control
- Resources control
- Self determination
- Our sovereignty regained
- Peace

Therefore Dissolution is Nigeria's solution. Nothing at all but this. The current Union of One Nigeria is not the one our forebears had negotiated before Independence. We need not deceive ourselves any more.

We owe no allegiance to an imposed Union whose aim is to carry out genocide on us and grab our ancestral lands with their Sharia-supremacist ideology.

Dissolution is Nigeria's solution.

Please broadcast to the people of South and Middle Belt here and the Diaspora.

The 1999 Constitution MUST GO!

Spread the news!

This fraudulent Apartheid imposed 1999 Constitution must be put in the dustbin!

When the Constitution is Taken Down the Union ceases! Middle Belt, Oduduwa, Lower Niger (SE & SS) DO YOU HEAR ME?

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b]WHY I’LL OPPOSE TINUBU IN 2023 PRESIDENCY – ADEBANJO[/b]
Sun News
8th August 2020

Elder statesman, Chief Ayo Adebanjo has warned that the country is hanging on the cliff and may crash if it is not restructured back to true federalism as was during the First Republic. In an interview, the Afenifere leader said he would oppose APC leader, Bola Tinubu or any southerner that wants to run for Nigeria’s presidency under the current constitution.

What is your view on the state of the nation?

Law and order has broken down. We have been telling Buhari all along that the security forces have outlived their usefulness, particularly, many of them have reached retirement age, and are no more performing. Today, they will say they had wiped out Boko Haram, tomorrow Boko Haram will wipe out a village alongside some soldiers, even to the extent of attacking a governor of a state. There is corruption here and there; insecurity here and there, and no aspect of the country is safe, even the governor of a state is not safe. The governor said it, Emirs say it, the common man says it. The future is very grim, and it is only in this country that these things are happening and the party in power is still talking. We talk of changing the constitution, you look elsewhere, have we got a country now? If we have a country let us be unanimous on the constitution that is governing us, now the greater majority of the South is saying that this is an imposed constitution by a section of the country, and the contents of the constitution are loaded against the other section of the country. What we have is a fraudulent constitution and it begins with, ‘we the people of Nigeria…”. We didn’t make the constitution and we are not federal. All the opinion leaders, former presidents, former governors, political leaders have said, let us sit and change the constitution, but the president has turned a blind eye.

How do we solve the problem of insecurity?

You don’t need a crystal ball to know that the problem is the leadership. I’m not in a position to appoint security officers, but it is the president. If you have a country and a security officer is not performing, you sack him and bring in another one. The people you put in the security are not performing and have proved to be very inefficient and you are keeping quiet. That is why people accuse him of having another agenda for the country. Look at what is happening in Southern Kaduna; daily they are killing people, and he still has an excuse, when a section of the country is being wiped out.

For me, anybody talking about 2023 election is talking nonsense, we have to sit round the table and reorganize the country. When we were brought together in 1914, we were not consulted, but we don’t want to break up having seen the advantage of coming together, but let us agree on how we are going to live together, but you say no. If you don’t know the agreement when the Colonial masters were giving us independence, that is what we are saying, let us go back to that; it was the agreement we agreed to live together. What we have today is not the constitution that was agreed by our founding fathers; you can’t refute it. We continue to say, this is a constitution that was imposed on us by the military, and by a section of the country and you insist on continuing to rule us with that constitution.

Those of us who are clamouring for restructuring are the people who want the country to stay together democratically and peacefully, but those opposed to it are the enemies of the country. So when you hear some people saying that they want to break away from the country, you can’t blame them; if you make peaceful changes impossible, you make violent changes inevitable.

As the Boko Haram insurgent group continues its attack on Northeast, last week, the federal government integrated repentant members of the sect into the society. What is your stand on this?

This is one of the things that get me annoyed, and it is part of the incompetence we are talking about on the part of the president. What nonsense is that? We have seen the evidence that these people you said you have reformed are the same people doing sabotage. They were killing our soldiers and they have not refuted that, some soldiers killed themselves and those who escaped made a video clip of what they were passing through and posted it, which went viral. What excuse do we have; what has he said about all these complaints? You say you have a country, but Southern Kaduna is persistently being attacked since December 2018, with the aim of wiping them out, and the president asked the soldiers to camp there, but the following day the communities were attacked again. The place has turned to a killing mine. You go to Agatu, and other places, it is a persistent record of murder. The insecurity is all over the country, even in your own state. Even the governor of his own state is negotiating with armed bandits. Ayo Adebanjo is gone; it is your generation I pity, I have children, I have grandchildren, but for me I’m ok. What else do I want to be now – president, governor? Obasanjo talked, Abdulsallami talked, political parties talked, who is important in this country that has not spoken, but has Buhari said a word? When the National Assembly asked him to sack the service chiefs, the president said they would not tell him what to do. When he was asked to do what is supposed to be right and he refused, what do we do? He is incompetent, that is why he is allowing incompetent officers to remain with him.

Why is Nigeria so divided; rancor, animosity, hatred everywhere?

I have been talking for the past 70 years; we have been shouting about federalism; Awolowo wrote about it since 1947 and that is how we agreed till 1954, and the independence constitutional conference, we agreed on the terms of living together, until the military came in 1966 and changed the constitution. That is our problem now, and that is where you have to back go to change the situation. The more you deny, you will have this kind of situation and the whole country will collapse. The governor of Borno State said, “if you can’t defend me, I will send my hunters to defend me”, is that not a shame from the governor of a state who felt he was not protected? I’m not from Borno, but I’m a Nigerian concerned about the situation.

Mamman Daura, President Buhari’s nephew last week said that rotation, zoning of the presidency shouldn’t be encouraged, but competence. Do you share in his sentiment?

Anybody talking about election doesn’t love the country; talk about election is a diversion. What the country wants now is to change the constitution to reflect the wishes of the people of Nigeria. Is this constitution a reflection of people of Nigeria; are the Igbo agreeable, are the Yoruba agreeable, are the Middle Belt people agreeable, are the Ijaw agreeable? Only a section of the country is ruling us and they are enjoying it, and we say no, and you continue to tell us, ‘what can you do?’ That was why Daura went to talk about rotation and zoning to divert attention.

Daura is talking about competence in the country of Wole Soyinka, in the country of Gambari, in the country of Maurice Iwu, in the country of Ango Abdullahi, and comparing them with Buhari. He doesn’t know what he is talking about. Their joy is that they control the instruments of oppression with which to frustrate anybody who opposes them. How can Daura to be so arrogant to make such a comment; what qualifies him to make that statement, what is his record politically?

Is he better educated, is he better Fulani than Ahmadu Bello, Aminu Kano, Balewa that agreed on the constitution which we are calling that we return to, which stated the term we lived together. You want us to live together on your terms, it will not work.

If the constitution is not changed to reflect the wishes of the federating units and it remains as it is now, what does it potend for the country?
We will never get peace, and will lead to separation; you don’t need a soothsayer to tell you that. There will be uprising here and there because the oppressor will continue to oppress and the oppressed will continue to resist; so there will be crisis here and crisis there. You will be talking of Southern Kaduna, you will be talking of IPOB, Oduduwa in Yoruba land. Where are we? Can you make progress in the midst of violence?

Do you think Nigeria can manage what you have just highlighted, uprising, violence here and there, Biafra, Oduduwa, etc?

That is why coming together and agree on how to live together is the solution. Not this, ‘I’m in power, if you talk I will jail you’; all sort of dictatorial law, no. All these times we have been shouting that the country is not together because of this, because of that, when has Buhari come out to disabuse our minds; when has he come out to say, no, don’t worry , all these problems, I have solutions to them. Obasanjo has advocated that we go back to federalism , Afe Babalola, a renowned lawyer has been writing articles on the same issue; all responsible organisations have been saying, let us go back to federalism because we still want to stay together, but the president has not even uttered a word to anybody.

I talk this with passion because I knew how we came together and I know the grief of the founding fathers; I took part in the fight for independence, and I took part on how we agreed on that constitution that can make us stay together. All we are saying, let us go back to that constitution to keep us together.

The reluctance of Buhari to restructure the country, has shown that he is the first enemy of Nigeria, but his idea of ruling Nigeria under his own terms and condition will not work. I have said it before, I’m not an enemy of Buhari. I and other members of Afenifere campaigned for him in 2007, Femi Adesina and Garba Sehu have never refuted this. We campaigned for him to be president because, he promised to restructure the country back to federalism; the same thing he agreed when Tunde Bakare was his running mate, and the same thing he told Tinubu, who sheepishly followed him, and he told him his first agenda was restructuring. Is there any integrity there; a man of integrity is a man of his word.

Talking about the constitution, we have the National Assembly in place to make, amend or come up with a new constitution

Don’t talk to me about that. The National Assembly can’t make the kind of constitution we are talking about. Is the NASS not the creation of the constitution we are complaining about? It is part of the problem we want to solve at the national conference or the kind of problem we wanted to solve at the 2014 Confab. The president said he wasn’t the one that set it up, or there was no law that set it up. Ok, set up your own now for us to come together around table if you love the country as I’m challenging you. You don’t believe what Jonathan’s own is saying; I agree, then set up your own or whatever you think you don’t like in the Confab report, and what you agree will be there, put it there and let us go forward. In the alternative, set up your own body, but you have not done any either and he has not told us why. This is the solution, you don’t agree, set up your own, you don’t agree, but you want to continue with the one imposed on us. It will not work.

What is your position on zoning that is becoming controversial?

I’m talking about the foundation; there must be a constitution before you talk about system of government, that is the root problem. When they say, zoning, some people will say it is not in the constitution; it is better we go back to the constitution and make all these things clear, then we know what law we are being ruled. They promised Jagaban that they will make him president; I’m not against that, but let us change the constitution first. If you want to make my son the president under this constitution, I will oppose it; I will oppose any Southerner who wants to run under this constitution. Let us change the constitution and let us agree on the terms to live. You cannot impose a constitution that is loaded against the South on us. I have said this before and let him make statement to say that Ayo Adebanjo is talking nonsense.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/presidency-why-ill-oppose-tinubu-in-2023-ayo-adebanjo/

Brethren of Middle Belt and South, WE SHALL BE FREE!

We shall regain our Sovereignty.

Don't mind the Sharia-supremacists Fulani. There must be international laws to make sure that the area that gets the loan money pays the loan money.

Also, if these Sharia-supremacists don't stop the ethnic cleansing genocide of our brothers in Middle Belt, any gas/oil pipelines from the South to Arewa will be cut off from the South. So they better start acting like human beings and end the genocide.

OPINION: WHAT DO THESE BIAFRANS REALLY WANT? BY POMONUA
African News Today
July 21st, 2020

I asked this question because the noise from their agitation is really taking a nuisance pitch and dimension. Let us set the records straight, the British continues to have an interest in the affairs of Nigeria and its governance. The country is a major source of earnings for them. When they departed upon independence, they entrusted its affairs in the hands of those they could trust; those who will allow them unfettered access to those things that fueled their economy. That is how the Fulani came to be in power. Biafra knows that Britain is the unseen hand working behind the scene to frustrate its actualization, even though the face of the Fulani is what you see. If in doubt, watch this video of the confession by Harold Smith, one of the principal participant during that episode.

Given an opportunity, we know more than 80% of Ibos will vote a ‘YES’ in a fairly conducted Biafran Referendum. That is why we have held back such opportunity. Our job is made easier by the discordant tunes within your groups. We see the internecine “wars” within your ‘factions’ – MASSOBB versus IPOB; IPOB versus LNC/MNN; OHANEZE versus IPOB. Please keep it going.

Nnamdi Kanu and Tony Nnadi are individually set in their ways. We hear that despite the best efforts of your elders, even with the intervention of “Nzuko Umunna”, they still could not get them to agree. We wish that your rancorous “mumblings” does not abate, to enable us coast-on to 2023. By then, we should have successfully put in place the structures that solidifies the position of the North within the Nigerian State. We would have totally revamped all infrastructure in the north. That has been our primary focus since inception in 2015. By 2023, we should have amassed sufficient resources, readiness for a restructured Nigeria or a Post-Nigeria Arewa Nation. As of today, we have fully entrenched our foothold in all the key agencies of government. We have super-imposed our ‘men’ in large enough numbers in core-positions. It would take, literally ‘forever’ to undo what we have put in place.

Our traditional ally, Oduduwa Nation has began to turn against us, no thanks to your propaganda machine. These were very pliant people, never used to question our authority. They accepted whatever we gave to them as their share of the cake. They were not people to foment trouble, knowing as it were, that we could really ruffle feathers. Through our controls at the centre and constitutional manoeuvre, we stymied their industrial development. We promulgated economic and fiscal policies to render comatose all manufacturing concerns within their territory. Over the years, we succeeded in stagnating their educational sector, while hoping we could bridge the gap between them and us. You have awaken their erstwhile ‘docile consciousness’. Worse still, you have emboldened them. Their visible trepidation of our ‘invincibility’ has suddenly evaporated. These people really used to look to us with awe and temerity! After their leadership witnessed the treatment we meted out to Aguiyi Ironsi, their most senior Officer in the military, Brigadier Ogundipe did not dare wait to mount the podium even when he should naturally replace Ironsi. That was how potent our message to them was.

Even when General Murtala died and we called his then deputy, General Obasanjo to take over; he refused, fearing for his life. We assured him of his safety, (if he does as he was told). It is not enough that you want Biafra, you are also planning to set Oduduwa free, even when they did not indicate they wanted out of the union. Your overzealousness has created all these bunch of agitators yearning for an Oduduwa Republic: Citizen AY, Maiyegun General, Frank Bello and Heritage Multimedia Television. We even hear they are planning an Oduduwa Radio Station. Do you realize that once they succeed in launching an Oduduwa Radio, it becomes a formidable instrument of awakening the sensibility of the entire Yoruba Race? We nurtured an opaque enough system that they did not even notice the “discordant” coloration in our political appointments. They accepted all, with equanimity. They conceded that God’s time is the best and were mollified in the fact that they were, at least better served in key positioning than the Ibos. No thanks to your propagandist broadcasting, they have realized that they were actually cheated out of key appointments.

They now reason and ask why, despite having the seaports in Lagos, the Comptroller General of Customs has always been Hausa/Fulani. They have started questioning why, in spite of the preponderance of their tribe in accounting, the Accountant General of the country is Hausa/Fulani. You have now allowed them to see that despite the high number of cerebral lawyers in their land, we appointment less qualified individuals from amongst our own as Chief Justice, plus Minister of Justice/Attorney General. They have now started to think they will do much better as a Sovereign Oduduwa Nation without the Fulani. We succeeded in keeping them down and quite all these 50+ years with threats of another civil war. Where that threat failed, we tell them we will open up Port Harcourt, Warri or Calabar ports to rival their acclaimed Lagos (Tin Can/Apapa) Ports. We did not even have to mention the risk of their losing the 2023 presidential slot! Now, you have finally made them realize that we were bluffing all the while. You have finally exposed to them that Yoruba and Middle Belt Officers actually fought the Biafran War for us, that we only took the credit for it.

We had perfected the art of managing these people. Did you not see how we managed them during the MKO Abiola episode? We only need to identify the one among them that is a rallying point. We humiliate that one person to humble him. Usually, that sends a strong enough message of our “No nonsense’ to all of his followers and that is the end of their trouble. If their noise becomes ‘too loud’ we look around, take one of them to replace the one that has been humiliated. Think back at Awolowo & Akintola, MKO Abiola & Shonekan. It is for the same reason we were able to ridicule Gen Oladipo Diya and Chief Olu Falaye. As for General Olusegun Obasanjo, we reached a firm agreement with him, that he would protect and defend our interest before he was installed, in both 1976 and 1999. Yoruba has never been our problem. You, the Biafrans have always been our headache. It was for the same reason that Ebitu Ukiwe constituted a nuisance value to Ibrahim Babangida, which made IBB get rid of him.

As for the Middle Belt, we only need to decimate a few of them and others will fall in line. What did it take for that stubborn Governor Ortom of Benue State to capitulate, after we ravaged so many of the villages within his domain? You ask yourself that question!! How about the Berom people in the Plateau?

Still on the Middle Belt, how are you even going to convince an Ilorin man who always believed he is Fulani to go against the dictates of the Sokoto Caliphate? When we appointed Professor Ibrahim Gambari as a replacement Chief of Staff, we effectively cemented Kwara State to the North, in case you still fail to understand out clandestine political intrigues.

It is no thanks to you that all the ethnic groups who, over the years, without scrutiny, assumed themselves to be northerners are now beginning to re-examine and question their “notherness”. The Nupes, Igalas, Afemai, Idoma, Tiv, Ebira, the Junkuns, Biroms, even Ilorin, whom Afonja, the Oyo War General helped us to conquer, have started to re-examine their affinity to the Yoruba race, all because of your nonsense “TWO-WRAPPER’ logic.

Since you have chosen to awaken their psyche, and with the table turning against us, we can only now hope to manage them through their religious divide. The christian/muslim split within them is the one weapon of division that we may have to rely on and insha-allau, we hope our game therein is not laid bare.

You see, the contemplation of any form of association, much less collaboration between Biafra and Oduduwa has been our worst nightmare. Such collaboration would not only be disastrous, it would actually be suicidal for Arewa Nation. It would amount to setting ourselves up for immediate catastrophic failure. It may even potentially, make us a laughing stock in the comity of West Africa Nations, if not beyond. It is for this reason that we continue to do anything and everything possible to thwart any “confluence of common interest” between Afenifere and Ohaneze or between IPOB and Yoruba World Congress (YWC). We would use every resources and machineries available to us at the Centre to frustrate such agreements. We are comforted however, because we know that there are no shortage of greedy and avaricious individuals within your ranks. It is not difficult to carefully identify and isolate such elements to use for our purpose. As you well know, for every Hope Uzodinma, there is an Ibikunle Amosun. For every Chris Ngige, there is a Bola Tinubu and for every Joe Igbokwe, there is an Aregbesola. There are no shortage of dishonorable men within each of your two Nations, those who are willing and ready to sell off their kinsmen for a “pot of porridge”. They all have their prices and remember; we have a very deep pockets.

In truth, our plan was, and is still, to create enormous poverty in the entire South. Poverty of such scale as would frustrate and silence all voices of opposition and ultimately send them on self-imposed exile. That way, our move for total domination is unobstructed. Why else did you think we were signing all those loan agreements with absolute nothing on ground to show? Do you think we really cared about developments! Did you think we were borrowing to make the life of people in the South better? Some of you accuse us of emptying the National Treasury. Yes, we are actually taking out all we can take. We are systematically hedging against the future, in readiness of what may become the faith of what you call “the British Contraption called Nigeria”.

Based on all the dramatizing going on with Biafra and Oduduwa agitators, it would be foolhardy not to anticipate that a Restructured Nigeria, infact, a totally disintegrated entity is not imminent. Consequently, we have ramped up efforts to put infrastructural facilities in Arewa Nation in good shape. It was for the same reason that, we urged the World Bank Representatives to focus all their development projects in the North. It is for the same reason that we are running the gas pipeline from the Niger Delta, through Ajaokuta, Kaduna and Kano. As you could see, we never denied giving that directive nor embarking on that project. It was for same reason we directed Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, to focus the Covid19 Palliative handout in the north. Never mind her denials; she had a clear mandate. Historically, what we would do in the face of such high tempo separatist movements would be to call “our boys” in the army to take over the rein of governance. By so doing, we ensure that power remains in the north since the army is essentially northern. With the way things are going and given the extensive and elaborate exit planning we ourselves have been making, there might not even be a reason to exercise that option.

It is not for nothing that we are selling Crude and carefully warehousing the proceeds. It is not for nothing that we are making all these recoveries of stolen monies and in addition, obtaining all these loans!!

And just so you know, we are deliberately and systematically crumbling your infrastructure that gives the South that sense of superiority over the North. We have effectively crippled your Stock Market. We have enacted and implemented policies that inhibit the performance of your industrial base and the Southern economy as a whole. We have the wherewithal to render you rudderless. Do not for once forget that we are in charge of everything, and I mean “EVERYTHING” – The Customs, Immigrations, Central Bank, Armed Forces, Ministry of Finance, The Senate, The House of Rep, All land, sea and Air border points, Sources of Money Supply (National Security Printing & Minting Corporations- NSPMC), National Security, All Para-Military… you name it; Our Men are in charge – We Hold The Four Aces. We only need a few Fiscal and Monetary Policies to crash you. Since we closed your borders in the South, what did you do about it? Probably grumble and that is all. Do you remember what happened to Diamond Bank? How about Oceanic and Intercontinental? You have a few more standing i.e. Zenith Bank, Fidelity Bank, Access Bank… we can send ‘Undertakers’ after these ones as well. Do not dare us! Moreover, do not count on Godwin Emefiele at the CBN, just because you assume he is Ibo. He is totally bought over and is on our side now. He himself knows not to derail. And your people in the Public Sector?; that would be a slam-dunk. Our men hold all the key positions and they have only one assignment: keep their eyes open to frustrate any Biafran interest. Let me see how you survive that.

We know that you are ahead of us in all ramifications. That is why your mere mention of Biafra sends jitters down our spines. We see all your exploits. We noticed your inventions during the war of 1967. We have seen how you have been able to pull yourselves up by the bootstraps even when we only availed you 20-pounds after your war defeat.

Thereafter and in barely 50 years, you created successful stories in the likes of Innoson Motors, Stella Okoli of Emzor, Ohuanbunwa’s Neimeth, Nduka Obaigbena in Thisday, Cosmas Maduka’s Coscharis etc. You have created industrial hubs in Aba, Nnewi, Abriba and Onitsha…all of which from the ashes of your defeat. In 1970, we thought you had been crushed, body, soul and spirit, leaving you in penury. Yet you emerged with all these Professors of Astro-physics, Aeronautics, Engineering, Social sciences, Mathematics and Medicine. From the ashes of defeat, you have produced world acclaimed writers like Chimamanda Adichie and renowned scientific brainpowers like Philip Emeagwali.

In comparison, what do we have? How many Fulani professors of Mathematics, Engineering, Aeronautics and Medicine do you see around? We admit – we are comparatively, intellectual lightweights and do not possess your level of cerebral faculty. That is why we stick to schools in the North; schools that will afford us some latitude and accommodate our deficiencies. How would you imagine we could cope with all those your energetic and competitive students at OAU, UNILAG, UI, UNN and UNIBEN? You keep whining that we are allowed to enter Unity Schools with scores as low as 10 while requiring a child from Anambra, Imo, Ogun and Delta to score over 100! After implementing the “Federal Character” recommendation for decades, are we anywhere close to bridging the educational gap between the North and South? Imagine if that option was not available!

Okay, maybe we have a Dangote, who we elevated through fiscal policies purposely crafted in his favor. Mind you, the constitution was written by Fulani for the benefit of Fulani and most importantly, to the detriment of Biafrans, Oduduwa and other minorities. We make no pretences nor apology for this. We have embedded within the Constitution provisions that allow us to give privileges to our people. Such loopholes have also enabled us to create a few millionaires trading in Forex. What Manufacturing or Industrial base do we have? How much Capital Market prowess do we have? Biafra and Oduduwa have their citizens all over the world, remitting huge chunks of cash inflows to their two regions. Do we have that? NO. What is a Fulani man or woman going to do in foreign lands where he would be matched-up against other skilled professionals from around the world, including China, India and Russia and then be judged based on their competence and productivity? How can a Fulani man stand up to such scrutiny of accountability and organisational value added?

The one and only other thing that we had to hold on to; political leadership, you are asking us to relinquish. As earlier stated, we foresee a possibility of a Restructured Nigeria or perhaps, even a total geographical disintegration and formation of new alignments. It is no use pretending this tenuous string will not snap anytime soon. There are lots of bad bloods and pent-up anger on all sides. “Better a declared enemy than a doubtful ally”.

In the very likely event, the breakup is inevitable, (as it is increasingly looking); it must be done on our own terms. It must be within a timeframe that affords us a smooth, non-turbulent landing. While we may not have a choice but to accept the tough reality that the impending divorce portends, it would be in the overall best interest of Biafrans and Oduduwas, in anticipation, to commence a gradual downsizing of their assets in the Arewa Land. Otherwise, our people are waiting in the wings to take possession. I do not think the United Nations Charter on the rights of a people for self-determination addresses the topic of recovery of “abandon properties”. Do not say you were not warned.

Pomonua is a public affairs analyst and commentator.

He can be reached at pomonua@yahoo.com


SOURCE:
http://www.africannewstoday.com/politics/opinion-what-do-these-biafrans-really-want-by-pomonua/?fbclid=IwAR2F4QhH7XZDIhCrUpneDoez8B8fz_3wi4YiMnEOO1CRfdaDWLASvUwKfMk

WITH THE INCREASED TERRORIST ACTIVITY IN NIGERIA, FULANI HERDSMEN BY THEIR TRESPASS, THEFT, RAPE, AND SLAUGHTER OF FARMERS SHOW THAT THEY ARE AGAINST THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THIS LAND. IT IS HIGHLY WORRYING TOO THAT FULANI HERDSMAN CAN BE A GOOD DISGUISE FOR TERRORISTS. “RUGA” UNDER ANY NAME MUST BE RESISTED AS IT IS A CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER THAT WILL BE PUT THERE FOR OUR CHILDREN TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES.

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NATIONAL LIVESTOCK PLAN IS RUGA IN DISGUISE, NIGERIANS WARN
By Femi Ibirogba, Head, Agro-Economy Desk
The Guardian Nigeria
16 September 2019

Excerpts from the article:

• As FG inaugurates first phase

Nigerians have knocked the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government for re-introducing the infamous RUGA scheme through the back door in the name of the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP).This came as the government officially inaugurated the programme in Adamawa State. It will be recalled that Professor Yemi Osinbajo, representing the president, inaugurated the NLTP at the Gongoshi Grazing Reserve in Mayo-Belwa Local Government Area of Adamawa State on Tuesday, September 11, 2019.

The vice-president said the plan was designed to run from 2019-2028 as part of the government’s efforts in collaboration with states under the National Economic Council (NEC).The plan was to be implemented in seven pilot states of Adamawa, Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarawa, Taraba and Zamfara, Professor Osinbajo explained.

Meanwhile, on August 16, stakeholders in Benue State, including the traditional institution, the church, socio-cultural organisations, the academia and civil society, rejected the NLTP during an interface with a delegation from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture.The Tor Lobi, Chief Moses Anagende and Tor Kwande, Chief Ambrose Iyortyer, speaking for traditional rulers, said the best thing for the government was to rebuild homes, schools and churches that were destroyed by herders and make efforts to heal the highly traumatised and displaced people.

The thrust of their argument was that the NLTP document only talks about cattle and no other category of livestock, saying it was a way to re-introduce RUGA using another name. A lecturer at the Benue State University, Professor Amstrong Adejo was also said to have argued that as captured, livestock was holistic but the conclusion was particular about cattle….

The livestock policy also says, “The overall responsibility for the co-ordination of the NLTP will be carried out at the Federal level by the NEC NLTP Steering Committee through the Programme Coordination Secretariat (PCS) to be domiciled in the Office of the Vice President,” accounting for the inauguration by Vice-President Osinbajo recently, where he declared that, “I wish to emphasise that this is not RUGA. Because the idea of RUGA settlements launched by the Ministry of Agriculture created a problem when it was perceived as a plan to seize lands to create settlements for herders.”

But, from the components of the policy documents, it is very difficult to convince Nigerians that the livestock policy is not exclusively for herdsmen. It appears, from the spirit and letter of the document, a reformed RUGA agenda.Commenting, Dr Chijioke Uwasomba, a senior lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, said, “The impression being created is that perhaps, given the agitated responses of Nigerians, especially the Southeast, South-south, Southwest and the North Central, this may be a backhand way of implementing RUGA”….

….Arguments against the RUGA scheme and its offshoots have been that public resources are being allocated to the development of private cattle breeding and rearing businesses as a reward for attacks on farmers and killing innocent rural dwellers by herdsmen, while the affected farmers and villages are left to wallow in sorrow (over the loss of their loved ones), hunger and poverty. The proponents of RUGA or cattle colony have always argued that the government does support other categories of farmers, but had not supported herdsmen for once.

The herdsmen, however have been destroying farmers’ crops for years with impunity. Not only that, other categories of farmers have always been either given subsidised inputs or loans. They had never been given other people’s land, free building and social facilities by the Federal Government, as espoused in the NLTP and the RUGA scheme. Farm settlements of the old regional governments were built on community’s land though; the same community people were the beneficiaries of the settlements, not other people. The name National Livestock Transformation Plan suggests a broader and a more inclusive coverage, but its policy statement and implementation components actually point to one direction: a RUGA project in another form.


SOURCE:
https://guardian.ng/features/agro-care/national-livestock-plan-is-ruga-in-disguise-nigerians-warn/



SHINE YOUR EYES! LET US NOT FORGET LADUGA CATTLE COLONY THAT HAS NOW OVERSPREAD AND BECOME A FULANI ENCLAVE (Google for more, and to see what Hon Jonathan Asake of Southern Kaduna has exposed)