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rezzy: The ogun you asked to fire me has blinded your eyes before now.church business is more profitable .Even the universities were people donated and carried blocks there children could not afford.But they can attend the church and donate, confirm maga,s |
doublewisdom: @ OP thanks for this topic. This is a case the SW Can't wish away. OBJ has to tell Nigerians what he knows about Mutala's murder. No amount of white washing nor accusing the CIA can pacify Nigerians like me.what is the meaning of southwest ? |
Jeboy: Even Gbawe cannot salvage this damage done to their new APC Chief consultant on politics OBJIt is still a strategy |
rezzy: Its happening everyday and BTW, they arent pastors. God didnt call them, they called themselves or rather, their stomach called them |
rezzy: Its happening everyday and BTW, they arent pastors. God didnt call them, they called themselves or rather, their stomach called them |
Investigations after the coup caused a public furore when it was disclosed that Dmika had visited the British High Commission while the coup was in progress. Nigerian authorities were angered that the British took their time before warning them of Dimka’s movements and intentions. This allied to suspected CIA knowledge of the coup caused anti-British and American sentiment. Matters came to a head when at the height of the national mourning for the slain Head of State, the British High Commissioner in Lagos, Sir Marin Le Quesne, insensitively reminded Nigerians that he expected them to pay for the damage caused to the windows of the British High Commission by demonstrators. Although correct in principle, Sir Martin’s statement showed poor timing and insensitivity to the mourning of his hosts. This proved to be the last straw for the Government. Sir Martin was told to leave the country. Source http://www.dawodu.com/siollun2.htm |
Murtala’s second fatal mistake was his failure to take his personal security more seriously. Perhaps due to his personal popularity, Murtala had never bothered with the massive security detail characteristic of so many modern Heads of State. Murtala mingled with the masses in the teeming streets of Lagos and drove around town without a motorcade. He would startle others by arriving unannounced at various locations without security. Concerned by his boss’s lax attitude towards security, in early 1976 Murtala’s deputy, Lt-Gen Obasanjo urged him to take his personal security more seriously. In typically stubborn manner, Murtala refused to heed the advice of his deputy, and replied that if anyone was planning to overthrow him, then “if they succeeded in killing all of us, good luck to them” in running the affairs of Nigeria and the myriad problems associated therewith. He perhaps sealed his own fate with those words. Sourcehttp://www.dawodu.com/siollun2.htm |
While riding the crest of the wave of popular opinion, Murtala made the first of two mistakes that may have cost him his life. When then Lt-Colonel Yakubu Gowon became the Head of State in 1966, he waited till the outbreak of the Nigerian civil war in 1967 before promoting himself to Major-General. After the war finished, Gowon promoted himself again and became Nigeria’s first four star General. These promotions were necessary at first, in order to stabilise Gowon’s position as Head of State despite the presence of officers having superior rank in his regime (Commodore Joseph Wey, Colonel Robert Adebayo). When Murtala came to office in 1975, he sought to remove officers of superior seniority to himself. Then a Brigadier, Murtala ordered the retirement of all armed forces officers of the rank of Major-General and above. For several months, Murtala’s Government functioned with four Brigadiers at its apex (Murtala, Olusegun Obasanjo, T.Y. Danjuma, and Iliya Bissalla). This arrangement worked. However in January 1976, Murtala’s regime embarked on a bizarre promotion exercise which served no purpose other than to create tensions within the regime. Murtala was promoted to a four star General, his deputy, Olusegun Obasanjo, and the Chief of Army Staff, Theophilus Danjuma, were promoted to Lieutenant-General. However, the most controversial promotion was that of the Defence Commissioner: Iliya Bissalla, who was promoted to Major-General only. This limited promotion for Bissalla defied all logic as it made him subordinate to the Chief of Army Staff: Lt-Gen Danjuma. Bissalla was understandably unhappy that a former subordinate of his was now his superior. Moreover, the limited promotion for Bissalla made little logistical sense as Danjuma’s post was theoretically within, and under, Bissalla’s defence ministry. Whereas Gowon’s promotions were required to cement his position as Head of State, Murtala’s promotions were unnecessary, distorted the chain of command within the defence ministry, and created bad blood between Danjuma and Bissalla. Murtala’s second fatal mistake was his failure to take his personal security more seriously. Perhaps due to his personal popularity, Murtala had never bothered with the massive security detail characteristic of so many modern Heads of State. Murtala mingled with the masses in the teeming streets of Lagos and drove around town without a motorcade. He would startle others by arriving unannounced at various locations without security. Concerned by his boss’s lax attitude towards security, in early 1976 Murtala’s deputy, Lt-Gen Obasanjo urged him to take his personal security more seriously. In typically stubborn manner, Murtala refused to heed the advice of his deputy, and replied that if anyone was planning to overthrow him, then “if they succeeded in killing all of us, good luck to them” in running the affairs of Nigeria and the myriad problems associated therewith. He perhaps sealed his own fate with those words. Sourcehttp://www.dawodu.com/siollun2.htm |
Murtala declared his government a “corrective regime” that would tackle the corruption that was increasingly becoming part and parcel of government institutions. His “corrective” methods involved a house cleaning operation to sweep away all remnants of Gowon’s regime. As soon as Murtala became the Head of State, all of the twelve governors that had served under Gowon were immediately dismissed from their posts and retired. Murtala also ordered a probe into their conduct in office. Ten of these twelve governors were found to have illegally enriched themselves while in Government. Murtala said they had “betrayed the trust and confidence reposed in them by the nation….(and) betrayed the ethics of their professions and they are a disgrace to those professions. They are, therefore, all dismissed with ignominy”. Only Brigadiers Oluwole Rotimi, and Mobolaji Johnson were found innocent of allegations of corruption. All civilian ministers except Shehu Shagari and Ali Monguno were also found guilty of corrupt enrichment and were stripped of illegally obtained assets. Among those found to have corruptly enriched himself was the veteran nationalist politician Anthony Enahoro, who several years later would become a staunch opponent of military rule. Much of the ill-gotten assets seized by Murtala were returned several years later by the regime of Ibrahim Babangida for reasons that have never been fully explained. This decision by Babangida was all the more baffling given that he was a member of the regime which stripped the assets in the first place.http://www.dawodu.com/siollun2.htm |
rezzy: If you're having grudgies with your flatmate, go settle it with her. Why only seeing the bad ones, and not the good ones. Like attracts like.So you don't read of pastors having sex with members of the church abi?It is all brain washing of the citizen ,how come almost every 500 meters you can find a church and yet the crime rate is so high,with looters seating in front of the church.For many years it has been the same.You can quote another verse from the bible. |
lorddeni: Seriosly stexsy, did you even read the full letter to get the flow. If even hopeless jonathanians like OP & co deduced that was what jona implied as evident by the title of this thread we are on, how can you then pick me over a pointed response to the thread. Like seriouslywhere you alive then? |
Obasanjo’s Frustrations print Published on December 23, 2013 by · 1 Comment By Ben Nanaghan Once again, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo has inauspiciously taken advantage of his “untouchable” status to heat the polity and cause political pandemonium in an otherwise serene and politically stable nation. This is not the first time Obasanjo is seeking political relevance and a boisterous attention. Nigeria’s former military cum civilian ruler for 11½ years, Gen. Matthew Oluseegun, Aremu Okikiola Obasanjo is at it again. The self acclaimed fearless General who touts his ‘tigritude’ as a weapon of oppression and intimidation has again stirred the hornet’s nest. The so-called Elder Statesman who had previously called for a Nigerian Arab Spring on Monday 5th of dec 2012at the June 12 Cultural Centre in Abeokuta also shocked his audience in Dakar, Senegal last year when he openly called for an en mass revolution in Nigeria, because of a 72% high rate of youth unemployment. If the audience in Dakar was shocked, the audience in Warri also last year was flabbergasted when the same Obasanjo openly called for a massive revolution to topple president Goodluck Ebele Jonathans weak leadership. Nigerians should not overlook Gen Obasanjo’s damning and treasonable letter published by most Nigerian media on Thursday, 12th Dec 2013. Gen Obasanjos letter is a very clever way of settling some political scores with President Jonathan in a self serving, unpartriotic and treasonable act to stir the masses against the President and either impeach him or overthrow him in a bloody coup Some have written off OBJ’s latest frustrations as the ranting of an amnesia ‘with a brief viral spell touching on alzheimer’s condition. This group believe that OBJ has joined the Senile Elders Forum that are always a burden on the family and the nation. Others argue that OBJ still “dey kampe” but that age has not reduced his blood thirstiness hence his incessant bonding with the Minna Generals to overthrow the GEJ regime with their fragile argument of GEJ’s weak leadership. Nigerians still remember the Odi genocide in Bayelsa and Zakibiam massacre in Benue States. Nigerians should be security conscious enough to ask OBJ to name the 1000 Nigerians on the watch list of President Jonathan’s Strike Force and show us their training depots. I weep for those Nigerians who believe these cock and bull stories The root cause and core of Obasanjo’s grievances is fueled by GEJ’s transformational Agenda which is smoking out the deep seated cabals benefiting from Nigerias woes. For instance diesel is no more imported by a single monopolist in Nigeria and all Nigerians know this Nigerian who is Obasanjo’s front to bleed this country through economic haemorrhage. Nigerians still remember the $620MN bribe scandal which Obasanjo tried to cover up. We all still remember the unrestrained atrocities of the single importer syndrome where 2000 litres of petroleum products imported become 200,000 litres in the payment vouchers. OBJ is also annoyed with GEJ’s transformational program in the power sector as a result of governments privatization program of the power sector on November 1st 2013. With functional electricity, Nigerians will not patronize the cabal’s twin industries of imported diesel and the giant generator industry. Nigerians should remember that we lost Chief Bola Ige because of his determination and resolve to fix electricity in Nigeria. Assisting criminals to evade justice, bunkering, stealing, drug baron (Buruji Kashamu) were some of the charges against GEJ. To say the least, Obasanjo’s letter was remotely primed to cause chaos, instant popular reaction to pounce on the president, and slaughter him to satisfy Obasanjo’s northern candidate to become president in 2005. After all one good turn deserves another. General Musa Yar’Adua prevailed on OBJ to become Military Head of State on 13/2/1976 after General Murtala Mohammed’s suspicious assassination which was then blamed on LT. Col. Bukar Sukar Dimka. But Nigerians know better now. Again in 1998 after Gen. Abacha was mysteriously poisoned and Gen. Obasanjo was released from his earned prison term in Yola, Gen. Babangida flew into Otta Farm with a loaded jet to convince-the ex convict to become Nigeria’s next president. This is because it had became highly scandalous as the North had ruled Nigeria for 38 years then and the North wanted OBJ to rule Nigeria on behalf of the South West but with Northern interest. OBJ who came out of jail a pauper and heavily indebted quickly grabbed this opportunity which turned him into a dollar multi trillionaire today. Obasanjo accused President Goodluck Jonathan of high “corruption which seems to stink all around you and your government”. This is not the case of pot calling the kettle black as some people have suggested but a case of Lucifer calling angel Gabriel a sinner. OBJ with his litany of corruption cases is the least qualified Nigerian to pronounce another guilty of corruption. OBJ is a moral derelict and destitute. The corruption-to-high heavens cases involving Halliburton and Siemens are today yet unresolved and unburied because the legs are still protruding out of the coffin. Obasanjo built a private library in Abeokuta worth N7BN and coerced his opulent Nigerian business partners to bank roll the shameful project which he dupliciously called Presidential Library Project. Obasanjo built a modern world class university with federal funds just like his Vice President also did. Obasanjo’s Bells University which gulped over $50BN of Nigeria’s hard earned foreign currency is still there for all to see. What about Obasanjo’s undistinguished purchase of Transcorp Hotel in Abuja. He did not hide the ownership of all these millions of dollar yielding possessions all of which he acquired as a sitting President. Obasanjo’s privatization exercise was purely motivated by personal greed, profit and a dare-me-if-you-can impunity. And this was the beginning of the rift that created a deep chasm between him and his Vice President who wanted some of the action too. Obasanjo allegedly spend $16BN to generate electricity and at the end of the day-we had more darkness. The Nigerian Senate has long recommended the revocation of Obasanjo’s corrupt and fraudulent privatization. The House of Representatives has also indicted the Obasanjo regime over the $16BN electricity fraud. In the area of corruption there is no basis of comparison between former President Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan. I am sure Obasanjo still remembers the billions of dollars with which he bribed delegates of his political Reform Conference to rubber stamp his insatiable greed to perpetuate himself in office through his 3rd term misadventure. Boko Haram On boko haram and National Security the former president believes that the genesis of boko haram can be traced to drugs, indoctrination, fundamentalism, gun trafficking, hate culture, human trafficking, money laundering, religion, poverty, unemployment, poor education, revenge and international terrorism. It is the height of stark hypocrisy for the well informed former president to pretend and try to hoodwink a credulous public that boko haram was caused by the reasons above. Is there any region of this country that is not affected by all the above factors. Is there no poverty or unemployment in the South West. If you are talking about poor education, go to the riparian coasts of the Niger Delta especially in Edo and Ebijaw ward in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State where over 250,000 Ijaws do not have a single secondary school in the whole ward. The metamorphosis of boko haram from a provincial machete-wielding, bare-footed, bow and arrow rag-tag army to a sophisticated bomb throwing modern hi-tech military force did not surprise those who observe Nigeria’s political panorama with a microscope. In 2002 boko haram founding fathers, Yussuf Mohammed and Buji Foi never imagined that their pet dream would assume such national and international status as it has today. Those who vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable did not express themselves through secret wikileak documents. It was an open declaration of war against President Goodluck Jonathan if he dared to win the PDP presidential primaries of January 13th 2011. And winning the presidential election in April 2011 would be calamitous they declared. Making Nigeria ungovernable for President Jonathan is an agenda of the northern elite which transformed boko haram to a willing tool of vendetta, oppression and national and international terrorism. I therefore feel very pained and melancholy when some boko haram supporters insinuate the pedestrian argument of infrastructural decay in the North. We all saw the indiscriminate and unabated influx of hi-tech arms and amunitions into Nigeria through our air and seaports especially from Iran and other Islamic Countries. After all about 90% of the top management of our customs, Immigration, Police etc are of Northern extraction. And how many Northerners have really come out openly to criticize boko haram apart from the Sardauna of Sokoto, Dr. David Mark and Mrs Sarah Jibril. Obasanjo should stop pretending with his stick and carrot solution. How much carrot did he give to the north in his 11½ years in Dodan Barracks and Aso Rock. Why did he not use his carrot and stick theory in Odi or in Zakibiam. Especially in Odi which was thereafter leveled. Those who killed the 19 soldiers were also terrorists and so they deserved some carrot too and not all stick. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is not a trained military officer. He is just a very humane and merciful man (to a fault) who has used these virtues to manage the bh crisis. OPEN CALL FOR A COUP Obasanjos frequent reference to bloodshed is an open invitation to the military to overthrow GEJ’S government. He openly confessed the involvement of his two evil Generals with whom he has concluded arrangement with the military. According to Obasanjo “God never sleeps. He is watching, waiting and bidding His time to dispense justice” against GEJ. But Obasanjo should remember that God is not man and He does not think as man does. As the heavens are higher that the earth, so are His ways higher than ours and His thoughts than our thoughts”. God will surely dispense justice against Obasanjo-Jeremiah 30 v 23 refers. Obasanjo also tried to placate the National Assembly and prod members and senators to impeach President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. This is the same national assembly that Obasanjo even recently described as irretrievably corrupt during the $620MN bribe case between Rep, Lawan Farouk and Obasanjo’s business partner. Obasanjo is by all means resolved to make the whole country rise against President Jonathan. OBASANJO’S ROLE AS NIGERIA’S KINGMAKER “On two occasions, I have had opportunity to work for my successors to the government of Nigeria… I worked for both presidents Shagari and Yar Adua to succeed me” The above confession by Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo finally lays to rest the speculations of political scientists who ventured to speculate in 1979 that Obasanjo finally truncated the ambition of Chief Obafemi Awolowo to rule Nigeria because of his wish to probe the military if he became President. Gen. Obasanjo who is an apostle of “do or die” politics massively rigged the 1979 presidential elections in favour of President Shehu Shagari to deny Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who was then one of the most qualified Nigerians to lead this country into political, social and economic freedom. Apart from massively rigging the elections to favour President Shehu Shagari, Obasanjo will one day also confess how he forced the judiciary to give victory to Shagari with the very obnoxious and controversial verdict of 122/3 ¬ of a state. But Obasanjo did not tell us the truth when he said he deprived Chief Awolowo of the presidency to strengthen Nigerian Unity. The best way to strengthen Nigerian Unity was to uphold and defend the constitution, to uphold justice and be fair to all. Obasanjo imposed Alhaji Shehu Shagari on Nigerians and since then he and the Minna Mafia have always decided who became President in Nigeria. And so Obasanjo installed a weak Shehu Shagari on Nigeria as President not because he loves Nigeria as he claims but because former President Olusegun Obasanjo is the head of Nigeria’s “power cabal” which ensures that the cabal never for a second lose grip on power so as to protect their wealth and possessions. This phobia for free and fair elections which could throw up an “untrusted and untrustworthy” President is Obasanjo’s driving force in this political and leadership chess game. Cabals are a universal phenomenon, a deep-rooted and well entrenched clique of Mephistophelian manipulators who use their tremendous power and wealth to control government and para-governmental agencies. They hold sway and force governments to enact policies that would favour them and their enormous wealth. Cabals are formed by the most powerful, the wealthiest and the most influential members of society. These selfish sociopaths and scoundrels who are top shots in society form these cabals with the sole aim of protecting their wealth and interest with a forceful determinism to maintain the status quo. Especially in Nigeria and a few other countries where cabals have a vicious strangle-hold on elected governments, such cabals are referred to as “parallel government”.http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/12/23/obasanjos-frustrations/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook |
Presidential assistance for a murderer to evade justice and presidential delegation to welcome him home can only be in bad taste generally but particularly to the family of his victim. Assisting criminals to evade justice cannot be part of the job of the Presidency. Or, as it is viewed in some quarters, is he being recruited to do for you what he had done for Abacha in the past? Hopefully, he should have learned his lesson. Let us continue to watch |
divex: ON POINT. I've look at redeem church and i don't really see anything religious about that church. OLORUN. Just hypocrites and cultist n self righteous ppl who encourage others to come to their church but their lifestyle is rubbishBody needs refreshments |
All The Nigerian pastors brainwashing people are all bastards. |
Alfa Seltzer: The most recent insult , indeed a big slap, to OBJ is from his own daughter. An oily soup drinker like yourself. Please stop dragging us into your affairs.Dont go tribal nothing for Biafra check southern sudan a country of just 2 years.start thinking Nigeria |
callmenow: These rumours has never gone away! However, OBJ has been lucky all his life until this 2013. Could anyone have contemplated this thread six weeks ago. It is the OBJ hubris that has brought us to this point. OBJ believed that he 'won' the Biafran war. He was to be the head of state after the Gowon coup. However the northern officers insisted on seniority in the army. Murtala Mohammed was however a course ahead of OBJ, and therefore OBJ's senior. OBJ acquiesced. However Murtala wanted to return Nigeria to civil rule after his tenure in 1978/1979 after the constitutional conference to setup the enabling constitution. This in effect means that OBJ would not be Head of State which he believes is his destiny. Dimka and his cohorts went ahead to kill Murtala, because they were OBJ boys, having worked under him. However, OBJ seeing the outcry after the coup sacrificed them. Before all these, Murtala suspected OBJ of being corrupt because of OBJ's proclivities in Lagos. He was pursuing other officers wives, impregnating women all over Lagos (unsubstantiated, however but very widely rumoured). OBJ was going to be retired. Murtala also suspected OBJ of being a security threat to him (coup). He was to retire OBJ, Danjuma and others on the anniversary of the Gowon coup on the 29th of July 1976. This may seem far fetched, but that was the prevalent rumour at the time. OBJ has always denied these chain of events and successfully drowned out all inquiries until Jonathan reminded OBJ of the past. The question is why did Jonathan bring this up right now, thirty seven years after the event?I read in Alabi Isama book ,that he claimed other people victory in that war.He was always running away to fetch weapons and was afraid of death. |
pazienza: Obj is a quintessential Yorubaman, treachery is his forte, such acts like the one he is being accused of here, is not beyond him.He might have been an agent. |
Aigbofa: Do you even know the military? If his name came up in any way he would have been executed along with other plotters. simple.Read between the lines and make judgments,That man was part of the destruction of Nigeria from does years till date. |
Aigbofa: Make up your little mind. Do I know everything or nothing? I doubt if you even know the characters being mentioned here. I will rather debate with a rock than an idi.ot like you.If you have information you educate him or her,just writing that they are all ignorant is really something else. |
Aigbofa: I didn't make you stup.id. Does it bother you I know everything?You dont know jack, g barge in g barge out ,you were writing as if you were smart but manifesting foolishness,by calling people on the forum ignorant.Olodo |
Aigbofa: You are attempting to educate people who revel in ignorance and deceit. They are simply irredeemable.Mr know everything!cant you educate him. |
oabusewa: It is either u don't know d history or u intensionally attempted to decive d youth in dis forum.Dimkal was not killed immediately after d coup,he was given an opportunity to mentione d names of dos who planned d coup with him and many generals and some rich civilians were executed along with him.Pls if u believe in GOD go and seek him 4 forgiveness over distortion of fact 'history'where was OBJ? |
740megawatts: Are you acquainted with CIA operations?what concerns me think and think and don't let us write what will get us into trouble ,just read between the lines |
740megawatts: Exactly what I'm speculating...Go back and read the event of the coup |
That guy must have killed a lot of people o !He was corrupt because he also did not want Awolowo to probe him,so he handed over to shagari |
babaearly: GEJ took the bait. He shouldnt have written a public letter back. 2015 is really the end of Nigeria.who said its 2015? |
abbakacici: please someone summary it for lazy people like me, because i just manage to read like 40% of it, but from what i read GEJ don't address most of the allegations, like the corruption charges, that is why Stellah and Sec lady still there, where his minister (wIKE) is fighting openly with a state, his amazing relationship with Peter obi (AGPA) And Mimiko (LP) because before you read that GEJ is having meeting with Shema, Yuguda, Dankumbu or even Suswan, we will see him with Peter obi like 5 times, and the words used in the PDP really during Anambra election, like the Igbos are his only back bones, Yaruba are murders, the only thing i can get is that GEJ is saying i think he is better in handling the security and economy situation of the country more then OBJObj is a rogue and that he cannot throw stones. |
That corruption is an issue in Nigeria is indisputable. It has been with us for many years. You will recall that your kinsman, the renowned afro-beat maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti famously sang about it during your first stint as Head of State. Sonny Okosun also sang about corruption. And as you may recall, a number of Army Generals were to be retired because of corruption before the Dimka coup. Also, the late General Murtala Mohammed himself wanted to retire some top people in his cabinet on corruption-related issues before he was assassinated. Even in this Fourth Republic, the Siemens and Halliburton scandals are well known. Seems obj knows about the death of Murtala Mohammed ,pls can any body explain the statement in the text and get the meanings |
So many damaged Nigerians!Religion is really a powerful tool |
You people are so religious and it blinds you sense of reasoning |
Nice one from the house |
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