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Asonaijaaso:
Humphrey Nwosu is No Hero – Let’s Be Honest

Honoring Humphrey Nwosu in the same breath as MKO Abiola is an insult to history.

After Abacha died, MKO Abiola died—a clear signal that forces beyond Nwosu were at play. But in moments where great men stand up to cement their legacy, Nwosu remained silent.

He had one duty: affirm that MKO won fair and square. He didn’t.

Why?
• Fear of IBB? Maybe.
• Pressure from the military? Likely.
• But history only remembers the bold, not the cautious.

Compare Him to True Heroes

Today, we have INEC commissioners risking their lives to declare results under threats, some even at gunpoint, yet standing firm.
• Some have lost their lives for announcing the rightful winners.
• Nwosu had none of that courage.

Senator Abaribe’s Calls for Immortalization? Nothing to See Here.

He was just a civil servant. He did his job—but nothing extra.
• He didn’t fight for justice.
• He didn’t push against the annulment.
• He didn’t defend the mandate of the people.

Greatness is defined by what you do when it matters most.

Humphrey Nwosu is no hero.
He was just a bureaucrat who stayed within the lines.

IBB and his boys were so mean..oo!
Anyhow you look at it,Prof Nwosu really try his best.This thing is not as easy as you and Oshomole think.Imagine you being surrounded by IBB military boys who only hear GO without hearing COME asking you at gunpoint not to announce the remaining states again.
If you were him, what will you do?

Even at that,the man still managed to publish the remaining states results on the board at the national collation center and called a pool of journalists to cover it which they all published the entire results of the 30 states of the federation in their different news outlets before he finally escaped for his dear life.

That's why earlier this year, when IBB published his so called book of history,the full results of that election prepared by Nwosu were flying around in every media space.
Infact,it was his courage to even publish the whole results that made Abiola himself and other Nigerians know he won the election.

Yes,he couldn't make official declaration of the results because of how brutal and terrible the then military regime was,but at least,he mustered courage to do a publication of the full results for the press and the entire country to know the winner.
So the man deserves his flower.

You said he was an ordinary civil servant doing his normal job.That he didn't do anything extraordinary to deserve recognition.
So tell me,the IBB that annulled the election,what did he do extraordinary that he now got immortalized?
Was the annulment an extraordinary thing you are talking about?

Also,the tyrant called Abacha that arrested and jailed MKO that won the election until he died in his custody which has been immortalized today,what extraordinary thing did he do during that election?
Arresting and jailing the winner and truncating democracy is now extraordinary thing deserving immortalization that result publication by Nwosu even at gunpoint?

You and Adam are displaying double standards as far as this sensitive issue of June 12 is concerned.

You people should have spoken strongly just as you are doing to Nwosu now against the naming of any critical infrastructure after Abacha and IBB because of the ignoble roles they played as far as the June 12 saga is concerned.
But no, you and Adams Oshomole kept quiet when some national assets were used to immortalized the two military despots.

It is no surprise that you worship the visionless spendthrift military guys
who enjoyed massive oil boom but could not deliver any nationwide essential
infrastructure.[/quote]Nationwide essential infrastructure like what that they couldn't deliver, Sir?
Is it road infrastructure?
Tertiary hospitals?
Refineries?
Railways?
National Air Carrier?
Universities and other specialized Institutions of higher learning?
Housing?
Bridges?
Pipe borne water?
Hydro -Electric Dams?

All these are nationwide essential infrastructures you are talking about which the military provided.
Even if I wasn't born to see when most of those critical infrastructures were built by the military,but at least, I have now opened eyes to come and see most of them still standing till today.

Now tell us,which nationwide essential infrastructure that democratic government since 1999 till date have built with the oil boom which the military didn't build?

FunnyBill.
The Bill go die a natural death wen e get to the Senate cos nah former governors and deputies full there.
Make that session of the constitution dey like that make office of de Presido no come dey too powerful than ever de constitution itself.

PigTormentor:
No one is dragged to the court if you don't want to, so what the cacophony from the religious fanatical Christians in Nigeria?
The court is for those that want to settle their issues in a Muslim way.
I'm Muslim and I don't see myself going to such courts unless it's for minor family matters.
The fanactism of Christians in Nigeria is unbecoming, they want everything their way. The regular courts that we have now are based on judeo Christian ways, not everyone wants that.

Go and deceive kindergarten children in nursery school.Dont bring that your religious deception talk here wey educated people dey.

delpee:
There are Sharia panels in Lagos. No one can be forced to go there to seek justice.

Dey play!
Make dem hold ground first,by the time dem go begin dey burnt down bear parlour for Lagos and enter night club dey arrest people, your eyes go clear.

Mamaafrik1:
Below is the list of previously reported blasphemy cases that have occurred in Nigeria,all done in the name of sharia law.

1. In 1995, A group of Muslims broke into the police station and dragged Gideon Akaluka out of his cell at Goron Dutse prison in the northern city of Kano and beheaded him for blasphemy. He was arrested after his wife allegedly used pages of the Quran as toilet paper for her baby. After the police locked him up, a group of Muslim fundamentalists broke into the police station cells, beheaded Akaluka, and paraded his bodiless head around the streets of Kano.

2. On 14 July 1999, in the village of Randali in Kebbi state, a Muslim mob beheaded Abdullahi Umaru. The mob accused Umaru of blasphemy against Mohammed. Abdullahi Ada and five others killed Abdullahi Alhaji Umaru of Randali village in Birnin Kebbi Local Government Area of Kebbi State on 14 July 1999. Their action was based on an allegation that the said victim was accused of insulting the Holy Prophet Mohammad (SAW). Abdullahi Ada and his co-accused got the man arrested and took him to a place on the outskirt of the village. There, one of the first struck him with a cutlass on the head. The man fell down and with a knife, one the accused persons slaughtered the man by cutting his throat while the others held him down and it was when they were sure that the man had died that they abandoned the corpse and dispersed. The Supreme Court in Lagos, Nigeria, confirmed the death sentence of Abdullahi Ada.

3. On 20 November 2002, Muslim and Christian mobs rampaged in the cities of Kaduna and Abuja. The rampage began after an article in a daily newspaper, Thisday, suggested that Mohammed would have approved of a Miss World pageant that was taking place in Abuja. Thisday columnist Isioma Daniel wrote that Mohammed would probably have taken a wife from among the contestants. Muslim mobs accused the newspaper of blasphemy and burned down its office building in Kaduna. Then the mobs attacked churches and properties owned by Christians. Christian mobs confronted the Muslim mobs. Soldiers and police intervened. About two hundred and fifty people died. Isioma Daniel fled Nigeria ahead of a fatwa that called upon Muslims to kill her.

4. In 2006, Florence Chuckwu, a school teacher in Bauchi was killed with other 20 Christians and two churches were destroyed in the town because she told her student to stop reading the Quran in the class while she was teaching the class English language.

5. In February 2006, Violence was ostensibly outrage at the publication in the Danish magazine Jyllands-Posten of cartoons that some Muslims consider blasphemous, Thousands of Muslim rioters went on rampages in different states. The rioters burned churches, torched Christian shops and homes, and killed Christians.

6. On 21 March 2007, a mob of Muslim students and neighborhood extremists lynched Christianah Oluwatoyin Oluwasesin, a mother of two and a teacher at Government Secondary School of Gandu in the city of Gombe. Oluwasesin, a mother of two was assigned to supervise an Islamic Religious Knowledge exam. When one of the students wanted to enter the exam hall with his books, Oluwasesin collected them and threw them outside. The students claimed that one of the books was a copy of the Qur’an, This caught the attention of the popular thugs (Yan Kalare) who stabbed her to death. They then beat up the school principal, a Muslim,who luckily escape for offering refuge to her. They then burned down three classroom blocks, the school clinic, the administrative block, and the library.

7. On 28 September 2007, a Muslim mob rioted at Tudun Wada in Kano state. The Muslims complained that Christian students had drawn a picture of Mohammed.

8. In October 2007, A sharia court convicted Sani Kabili, a Christian and a father of six, in the town of Kano for blasphemy against Mohammed. The court sentenced Kabili to three years in prison. In February 2009, an appeal court overturned the conviction

9. On 4 February 2008, a Muslim mob besieged a police station and set it on fire in the city of Yano in Bauchi state. The police station was the refuge of a Christian woman whom the mob accused of desecrating the Quran. One report said that the woman had spurned an offer of marriage from a Muslim man and that he and his companions had seized the opportunity to riot.

10. On 9 February 2008, a Muslim mob rioted in the town of Sumaila in Kano state. The mob acted upon the alleged distribution of a leaflet that allegedly slandered Mohammed. The mob killed a Christian police inspector and two civilians and wounded twenty others. The mob set fire to vehicles and destroyed the police station.

11. On 20 April 2008, Muslim rioters in the city of Kano burned the shops and vehicles of Christian merchants after one allegedly disparaged Mohammed.

12. On 9 August 2008, a Muslim mob in Kano state beat to death a fifty-year-old Muslim man who blasphemed Mohammed

13. On 19 June 2009, a Muslim mob in the town of Sara in Jigawa state burned a police outpost and injured about twelve people over alleged blasphemy against the Islamic prophet Mohammed. The mob complained that someone was distributing blasphemous pamphlets, and it demanded that the police give up a mad man who had sought safety at the police outpost.

14. In 2016, 74 years old Bridget Agbahime was beheaded in Kano for refusing to allow the Muslims to spread their praying mats in front of her rented shop.

15. In 2016, Evangelist Eunice Olawale of Redeemed Christian Church of God was lynched by a group of Muslims in Abuja because she told them to accept Jesus Christ as their savior.

16. on 10th August 2020, Nigerian singer sentenced to death for blasphemy in Kano state. An upper Sharia court in the Hausawa Filin Hockey area of the state said Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, 22, was guilty of committing blasphemy for a song he circulated via WhatsApp in March. He has been sentenced to death by hanging.

Many Unreported, Such cases of needless deaths abound on a yearly basis.

Those are human beings like you and U,I BET YOU ARE PROUD??

O boy,see as some of the story of brutal killing dey send goose pimples for my body.
But this people dey think at all?
A news paper published in far away Denmark in Europe, person sidon for Naija kill hundreds of people and burnt down churches unprovoked and una dey tell me say nah Human beings them be?
Orrr, Yoruba people,make una dey tie una wrapper strong for waist..oo,una go soon see shege for sharia law wey don land for una land kpaka.

fuckingAyaya:
all those their men wey like to drink sachets gin for morning how will dey cope now? E no go make sense make them Gambari dey flog their papa for public.

otokx:
Where is Akpabio?

On sabbatical.

givedemwotowoto:
He's negotiating. Force is when he brings DSS to plenary to intimidate lawmakers into submission.

Tell him.ooo

mohbadliveson:
why must we immortalise humphrey nwosu for an election that was annuled?

But the person that annulled the election that was adjudged to be the freest and fairest in the history of Nigeria is immortalized and you didn't ask this type of unwarranted question.

nickxtra:
Of what reason should Humphrey Nwosu be immortalized by the Federal Government?

For defending democracy in the face of military tyrant.

Manofthenight:
Why exactly are we immortalizing Mr. Humphrey Nwosu?

As far as I know, IBB threw him and Nduka Irabor under the bus in his book for announcing an annulment allegedly without his input.

Humphrey Nwosu announced the annulment?
Hahahaha,nawa..oooo

dederocs:
Abaribe only criticize, but what has he done for his people and Nigeria?

Allow his people to complain,not you.
As for what he does for Nigeria,he is sponsoring good bills and partaking actively in a national debate in the Nigeria National Parliament as regards important national issues.

Image123:
Lol. Abaribe has been in the Senate since 2007, that is for the past 18years. His only achievement in politics have been staging walkouts, defending Lamidi Kanu, fooling people about marginalization, and impeachment twice as deputy governor and almost a third time in 2003. As he was facing his third impeachment, he resigned on 7 March 2003, sending his resignation via DHL so as to have written record of it. The House of Assembly formally voted him out of office several days later, in a move Abaribe called "medicine after death". These are the kind of useless people that would come out for national positions like that lambarian and be hailed by tribally deceived minds.
Of all the important thing s in the country, his aim in life now is to immortalize a dead man Nwosu, SMH.

You are talking trash!
What do you mean by impeachment twice and the third one ,he resigned? Any public official that has been impeached once cannot hold a public office again not to talk of twice, thrice as a deputy governor as you claimed and he is a senator now.

Besides,how is moving a motion to recognize a patriotic Nigerian for his selfless service to the nation a new or a bad thing?
Even IBB that annulled the election and Abacha that imprisoned MKO till his death are immortalized by naming some national assets such institution of higher learning and a stadium after them.You were still in this country, you didn't see anything wrong in that.
Now that somebody is asking for the same thing to be done for someone who against all odds,defied military threat of that era and published the results of the election in defense of democracy, you suddenly remember he is a dead man and are talking from left to right.Is Abacha not a dead man,is MKO himself not a dead man? Why are they immortalizing them without any feud?
This is a national issue,some of you should try and leave tribalism out of it.

boxypane:
Maybe you should replace her. You're wrong about that gender in this context... Na toy him marry?

But if the man was to be a 5 minutes man,the same woman would have embarrassed him before the committee of her female friends and in the village square.
None of you here would have advised the woman that she should endure that sex is not food.

Have s e x with a woman and lasted for 5 minutes,she will complain.Then have s e x with her and last for 1 hr,she will still complain.
That's why Hon. Natasha (weda she is "she" or "he",I don't know) you are quoting is asking the question, "what do this gender really want from men?"

hush15:
How did the Senate correct her?

So you weren't aware that she wrote the first petition and signed it by herself,the action which was against the Senate Rules governing petition writing by a member?
The Senate upon noticing it, returned the petition to her and advised her to go and correct herself and re-submit it which she did.
She and her supporters didn't accuse the Senate for bias and asked for the petition to be dismissed.But INEC is doing the same thing to other petitioners, you guys are saying INEC supposed to dismiss their petition on ground of technicality.
Who does that?

doncartel:
I didn’t even know that we have agbadorian senators in Igboland. Senator Nwefool should be recalled as soon as possible.

His name should be added to Akpabio’s name at the United Nations global investigation into legislative rapists worldwide. They all should be arrested by Interpol and kept at the international criminal court before serving 25 years at Guantanamo Bay. Nonsense.

#Natasha4SenatePresident

Chai,see me see laff want kiiiee me.
U guys in Nairaland are so funny, aswear!

Mofedaddy:
Some of shld really be thinking b4 talking,
Hw Will someone right a petition without knowing how to do so? And secondly hw will all 250K persons not know how to do so too? It’s just ridiculous reading and and witnessing some shits in this country

But Natasha herself wrote a petition without knowing how to do so and she was corrected by the Senate.So those you said they should think before talking and you,who should really think before talking?

hush15:
She is right. INEC just gave them the guideline to make their recall effective. Those that want to recall should have done their assignment well before embarking on it. Stop supporting evil causes. Lets do things right. lets stand for the right values and systems
you will benefit, I will benefit.

So when Senate corrected her in her own petition,it was the right thing and not bias,but when INEC corrected her constituents in their petition, it's a bad thing and bias?
The LEDs are the major problems of this country,not the LEADERS.

idahme:
That's what she is saying, INEC isn't responsible for telling petitioners how the petition would look like, once it doesn't meet the law it rejected case closed ...

She is saying nothing!
You guys are also a problem in this matter aside from Akpabio and this woman.
So bcuz of omission of little thing like home address or phone number,the merits of other things in the petition that meet up the requirements should be thrown out just like that?

You said it's not INEC position to tell the petitioners how the petition should like, right?
So was it the Senate position to tell Natasha how a petition to the Senate Ethics committee should look like when they corrected her and asked her to go and work on it and re-submit which she did?
If the Senate was to act based on your advice and dismiss her entire petition simply because of a little error of she signing the petition herself, would you have said what you are saying now in the case of INEC?

Akalia:
Senator Natasha, is that you?? How is life in suspension treating you?

chipet67:
Abeg if na you be the real Natasha Akpothi-Uduaghan, help ma life o.

Nawa for you..oo,guy!

owoshuyi:
Senator Natasha, when did u join nairaland

I joined just yesterday,my bro.

HonNatasha:
This randy man again. He has toasted me severally but I refused him.

You,as in who?
Natasha?

So they were waiting for that girl, wetin be her name again,abi na Rita dem called the Babe to cry out before them pay them minimum wage agreed since last year?
Something wey dem for do since get praises,dem go keep am till when one courageous youth go voice out im frustration,dem go call am insult and call for capital punishment for am.
Nawa.ooo!

Hahahaha ,
so nah dey man wey bin dey spit fire and brimstone for Fubara be this?

As soon as his name was announced as one of the high profile spectator during the half time break,all the stadium went into wild jubilation.
People love this man naturally.

No nah,why not a female Physiotherapist?
Abi Naija team contingent no get female Physiotherapist in dia employ?
Their hands for do more magic than that guy strong hand.

That amount for president's salary was too much.
Look at what Senate officers were earning too, politicians from time immemorial were so wasteful.

They earned such jumbo salaries while my uncle that was employed as a secondary school teacher was paid a paltry one hundred and twenty naira (#120 ) per month as salary.

As at 1979,naira was more valuable than US dollars.
But people were going home with 50k.
Do you know what that means?

EmeeNaka:
Imagine becoming a Governor without going through elections and now, he is speaking like a politician. I believe this man will keep convincing Tinubu to extend this emergency rule ad infinitum.

Electorate:
There's a reason I started the second paragraph with the word "Meanwhile" abi you no go school?

E no still get connection with the subject matter.

Electorate:
Jerseys dont win medals.

Meanwhile, Nigeria doesn't have a National Assembly presently, We only have a gathering of clowns, Tinubu's slaves, Executive stooges, Breakers of the law they were supposed to protect, History will remember them as the worst rubber-stamp National Assembly Nigeria ever had.

Very anyhow people with no shame at all.

So nah dey new jersey make Nigeria make them no get National Assembly?
Wetin Super Eagles new jersey get to do with NASS being a rubber-stamped?
Nawa for una..ooo.
Everything must be politics , politics, politics for una!