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francizy:
It wasn't even during Abacha's regime. He looted $2.8billion dollars during Obj's military rule and still illegally transferred funds into Abacha's private accounts during Abacha's regime.

don't mind that criminal

Here2BustnScrew:
like I asked, who is going to bring the change? why do we need the change now?

I doubt that anyone can answer your question satisfactorily coz your motive is mischievous Jonathan has simply shown that he lacks the mettle to confront and tackle Nigeria's nagging problems. He's given his best, but his best is not good enough.

goofy124:
[color=#000000][b]IN THIS INTERVIEW, COL. TONY NYIAM, who was part of the failed attempt to oust the Gen. Ibrahim Babangida’s military government in 1990, tells WAHEED BAKARE and ALLWELL OKPI, how the Orkar coup originated and its relevance to Nigerian politics There is the argument that we don’t need to have another conference since we have representatives at the National Assembly. It is the most ignorant assumption. Why do I say it is ignorant? With all the political scientists we have in our midst, people forget that what we are practising is what we call indirect democracy. What do I mean? The proprietary right over people’s sovereignty is delegated to people we elect to make laws for us. When it comes to making constitutional reforms or constitution making, you go to what is called direct democracy. Direct democracy means direct voting by the people in the form of a referendum and that is why the universal practice is that a constitution making process that does not go through a constituent assembly, whose decisions are approved by a referendum, is null and void. We see the examples. Look at South Sudan; it’s creation resulted from a referendum. How is it that Nigerians do not understand that for a constitution to be legitimate, it has to be driven by the people, and the people are usually represented by a constituent assembly? And this constituent assembly is usually made up of non-partisan politicians, because partisan politicians are only concerned with the next election. They are not concerned about posterity or long-term issues in the country. So, constitution which outlives people and a generation should be driven by civil society, collection of every nationality in the country and clerics. I would cite an example. My second home is in Scotland and in Scotland those who drove for the national conference were the clerics of the Church of Scotland, they were at the forefront. We also saw it in Ireland. Britain has the oldest parliament in the world, why are they allowing a constituent assembly to go ahead, while there are parliaments? It is only in Nigeria that such argument is raised because of the ignorance of the difference between direct and indirect democracy. That’s why I have tried to do an aide-memoir to aid constitution- making. There are certain basic principles of constitution-making, which if we do not follow, would be like building a house on quicksand. Do you think we would have been able to tacklethese problems if the June 12 election had not been annulled by Babangida? The thing is, Chief MKO Abiola, who I had the opportunity to work with when he escaped from Nigeria to UK, was a man that we lost because his plan was to correct the national issues and start democracy in Nigeria. But because some western interests in Nigeria did not want this, they colluded to do away with him. You once said soldiers could be recruited for a coup without their knowledge. How is that possible? Yes, there are many instances. You might want to verify this from Gen. Buhari, he was not the initiator of that coup that brought him in as Head of State, it was Gen. Ibrahim Bako and Babangida that initiated it. But because they wanted a credible figure as a face, he was brought in. He did not know the genesis of that coup. He was not quite aware of the original idea behind the coup and that was why when he decided to make a change, he was forced to step aside. So, if this could happen to a whole Gen. Buhari, who was supposedly the leader of a coup, it shows how many soldiers can be brought in that way. Does that mean overthrowing Shagari’s government was IBB’s idea? It was the idea of late Gen. Bako and IBB. Buhari was only brought in because they needed a face with integrity. Can you give other instances? Gen. Yakubu Gowon was not part of the coup that brought him in. He was a decent man. Nigerians like to play what the Yoruba people call bojuboju; they bring a figure with integrity to cover up their real intention; the real intention of politicians in uniform who have found cheap party. Many elements of them are in our partisan politics today.[/b][/color]

your point is?

Here2BustnScrew:
like I asked, who is going to bring the change? why do we need the change now?

I understand the ruling party has been in power for about 15 years. Is that not enough time to fix the power issues, provide quality health care and provide basic security for its citizens. Your politicians will fly their families abroad for treatment for common cold because they don't trust the health care they are providing and someone is taking the money allocated for that sector.
Did you know it took less than 10 years after the 2nd world war for most of Europe to rebuild itself from the ruins of war.
If I was a Nigerian it will be anybody but this lots because they've had enough time to fix the country but it seems its getting worse.

WisdomFlakes:
I doubt that anyone can answer your question satisfactorily coz your motive is mischievous Jonathan has simply shown that he lacks the mettle to confront and tackle Nigeria's nagging problems. He's given his best, but his best is not good enough.

but you have not answered my question sir..

mickyeddi:
I understand the ruling party has been in power for about 15 years. Is that not enough time to fix the power issues, provide quality health care and provide basic security for its citizens. Your politicians will fly their families abroad for treatment for common cold because they don't trust the health care they are providing and someone is taking the money allocated for that sector.
Did you know it took less than 10 years after the 2nd world war for most of Europe to rebuild itself from the ruins of war.
If I was a Nigerian it will be anybody but this lots because they've had enough time to fix the country but it seems its getting worse.

alright. so who is going to bring the change? GEJ has only spent 5yrs and you said it took most of Europe less than 10yrs to rebuild itself. the likes of buhari and co. are the problem of NIGERIA. they didn't seek for change during the time of abacha, obasanjo. it is now they want change. they want to rule NIGERIA in order to amass much wealth, they don't have any better plan for NIGERIA.