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Before the March 28 Presidential election, you were among those that spoke out forcefully that President Goodluck Jonathan was going to lose. What made you appear that certain? It was analytics; power of deductive reasoning. Some of us went to proper schools. Education is important in the life of individuals and nations. Nigeria has become a country where mediocrity is being celebrated. In the process, some people think that education is not important. There is nothing as useful in a country as its human capital. And the human capital comprises people who are truly educated. When a man is not educated, he is by all intents and purposes, an animal; he is not a human being. To be a human being has a philosophical definition. A human being must have a body of a human being, the mind that is educated and an ethical soul. Those three components must come together to give you what you call a proper human being. It is not everybody with eyes and nose that is a human being. Most of the caricatures; creatures in Nigeria do not qualify to be human beings because they are not educated. If you have gone to a university – a premium university where your dignity has been fully restored, and you did humanities, philosophy, religion, power of deductive reasoning, logic theology as we did in our time, even when you were doing sciences, when you come out in the society, you have the power to analyse things critically. Irrespective of what anybody is saying, you can look at things yourself and come to your own conclusions as what the philosophers call the autonomous man which is the point of self-actualisation of a human being. This starts from when you are attached in your mother’s womb. You are purely dependent on your mother when that happens. On the day of the birth that you are cut and you begin to go through the socialisation processes that make a human being to the point of self-actualisation in the process of individuation, you become a god-man; a man that has the qualities of divinity; a man in which the spirit of God in you has found expression. That was why in old Greek society, when men were really great, they became god-men. They were gods! The same philosophy prevailed in African society. The Igbo theology substantiates the divinity of humanity. So, when you have gone through good schools, you come out and continue to develop yourself on that path of enlightenment, unaffected by the materialistic nonsenses happening around you, or the pretensions of evil men who are not qualified to be called humans, you can have the power to analyse something critically and come to a conclusion that people will call oracular. I went to good schools; and I can reason. I worked with President Goodluck Jonathan. He is such a big disappointment – a young educated man that was supposed to have a Ph.D, doing things that do not have any sense at all. It was a betrayal of the educated people. In what ways? It was betrayal of all the people from the South. What do you mean in asking in what ways? Are you not ashamed of this out-going administration? Every Nigerian should be ashamed of the administration. I worked with the administration and I walked away. I have said so on television. People said I was fired. But I ask, how can he fire me? How can people that are not working fire those that are working? I couldn’t identify myself with what I saw. I raised issues on whether they were in Abuja to shortchange the people. I wrote memos that Jonathan received copies but he never reacted to any of them. If I were the President and anybody working under me wrote such memos, I would call a meeting and get the issues resolved that day. Have you not heard about the issues of corruption? The middle name of this out-going administration is corruption. This is the most corrupt administration in Nigeria. And the menace is in every ministry and every department. You cannot run a country like that – where you have over 25 million graduates of various classes of degrees without jobs. We have now taken Nigeria to a level where you have children with three masters’ degrees and Ph.D without jobs but it is fools that are cannibalising the country and want us to celebrate them. When you raise issues, they say ‘if you cannot beat them, you join them’. Why must you join fools? In a country where you have rent seekers, business parasitic human beings, political jobbers roaming all over the place, if you do not have some sane people who are still saying the right things, showing the light, the country will be doomed. Luckily some of us have worked in good environments and cannot soil our hands. But the impression is that if your Permanent Secretary had stolen N450 million, you should still N1 billion. In some ministries, they even have formula of sharing the stolen money including giving the gate man his own share. Corruption has become the most singular thing that is destroying the fabrics of the society. The President-elect was correct to call it the evil that is destroying Nigeria. Unless you tackle corruption, Nigeria will not go anywhere. You have a federal government that should be having N20 trillion and, as Professor (Charles) Soludo said, N16 trillion is stolen, misapplied or misappropriated and we have just about N4 trillion that members of the National Assembly will waste their whole year talking about and at the end, 90 per cent of it is spent on recurrent expenditure. Incidentally, this is a country where you need, probably $400 billion to address the infrastructure deficit. If you don’t address these, how do you develop the nation? Who would want to belong to such a country? Were these the issues you raised in the memo? One single memo in an administration is not enough to address the issues in the country. But we can see the issues in the country every day. Is this country working? The issues are well-known and they have been articulated. While I was working with this government, I could see, from the part where I was, the mess in the country. Let me tell you the one that is particular to national population. In the election that we just had, President Jonathan knew he couldn’t have won. If he had done anything to say that he won, he would have felt sorry for himself after that. I wrote so before the election. Nigerians wanted change to a level that they wanted anything but Jonathan because he had messed up the system sorely in governance and leadership. So, it was good that Buhari came through. That is why everybody is happy. But Buhari did not come through because Attahiru Jega (INEC Chairman), did a good work. Jega is very incompetent – grossly incompetent. This is one of the worst elections in the history of Nigeria. In the Electoral Act, there are limits to the amount of money you would spend. But did you see the money people were throwing about? Was Jega not there to supervise those things? That was his role. But he was there seeing no evil, hearing no evil. Look at the results that came from the states. How was it that in Imo State where the governor, Rochas Okorocha, is of All Progressives Congress (APC), Jonathan would win 98 per cent of the votes cast? It is not possible. How possible was it that in Rivers State where Rotimi Amaechi of APC is the governor, Jonathan would win 99 per cent of votes cast? It should not be possible. But you saw that the trend was like: PDP rig where you think you can rig; APC rig where you think you can. And Jega was just sitting down announcing the baseless results. From the results we had, you could see that probably it was only in the South West, particularly Lagos, that what people voted was what was counted. The president was lucky that he did nothing to claim that he won, else he would have been sorry for himself because Nigerians would not have taken that. Akin Omoboriowo purportedly won election in Ondo in 1983, but he could not enter the state. Jonathan could have been the most unfortunate man in the world, if due to manipulation, INEC had declared him the winner. He would have been sorry for himself. So, the best thing for him was to lose the election because Nigerians don’t want him anymore. Nigerians wanted change. PDP knew that. That was why they postponed the election from February 14 to March 28. But before that March 28, they messed up even more by bringing vicious attacks on personalities in ways that were not necessary. I had never seen an election like this – never! So, the demerits of this out-going administration are so many that we do not need to waste more time discussing them. I think we should now be looking forward, listing out what APC and the President-elect should do. But if they come and do not do them, we should also be talking about them because Nigeria has passed the level of “born-to-rule” or “who owns Nigeria?”. Nigerians are well aware, the social media has brought everybody on. The media, despite its failings in investigative journalism, at least, engages people. So, the era where people could come and do whatever they liked in governance, is gone. As for Buhari I know by reputation, I do not think a man would run for an election four times for the fun of it. But the work he has to do, is huge. I don’t envy him. He will become a hero in Nigeria if he addresses the issues he has to address. There are major issues to be discussed. When Buhari comes, we will put those issues on the table. Number one is population. Nigeria must have accurate biometric census if anything would work in this country. This is because the problem of Nigeria from 1960 till date is because of false population census. Jega hasn’t got the population census with which to authenticate or otherwise the voters’ register. So, the voters’ registers in the country, for all intents and purposes, are forged. They are based on falsehood. To justify the falsehood, in some places, you saw eight, nine, 10-year-olds given Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs). The word “permanent” cannot be, because it was based on false demographic figures. It was based on forged voters’ register. So, there is nothing permanent about the voters’ cards people have now. When Nigeria conducts an accurate biometric census to really know what the census of the country is – and nobody really knows that for now – then the NPC should establish a population register and the accurate population democratic characterisation from where you can now take those who are above 18 years, and you give them a PVC, that will be verified and authenticated, by national population data. And for this to be on-going accurately, you must establish a vital registration parameter with 21 indices from the 200,000 localities in Nigeria and link it to the static accurate census figure. So, the everyday birth and death, coming in and going out, as well as internal displacements will be updating the register. With this, every day, you can know the population of Nigeria. Some days, it will increase, other days, it will decrease, depending on the rate of immigration or emigration. That is how it is in a civilised country. That was the programme we wanted to do in NPC, but Jonathan did not want to give it attention because he had thought that during election, PDP would rig from every state. That was why he was more interested in pandering to people like Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso. Where is Kwankwaso today? Those were the people who betrayed him. The other day, it was announced that Suleiman Abba had been removed as Inspector General of Police (IGP). And I asked: “what did he do?” Don’t you see that Abba’s removal showed bad intention – that he was put there to rig election? A pragmatic president should have left him since he had lost and had conceded defeat. But to have removed him when he had less than two months to go was being mean. A leader cannot be mean; a leader should have broad shoulders. By removing him, the president was saying: I put you to rig for me, but you did not. So, the election was not free and fair. You cannot see the result and say it was free and fair. There was no election in Akwa Ibom, from what I saw in the media reports. There was no election in Rivers State. Kano could not have had election and Buhari would win 1.9 million. But what was happening was ‘if Enugu brought false figure for Jonathan, Kano would bring false figure for Buhari’. That is not election. But why everybody is happy is that at the end of the day, it led to change because Nigerians wanted change. But you cannot say that Jega ran a good election. Jega did not conduct better election than Professor Maurice Iwu or the others before him. The man is incompetent. The issues surrounding the card-readers, not being switched on or not being linked to the system and other discussions could not have come in a system that is well managed. I said it before the elections that Jega should get the results from the polling booths and not just announce anything. But he just did the contrary. People who know would tell you that there was no election. In the whole of South East and South South, the figures were written for Jonathan. Also, in most of the North East and North West, the figures were written for Buhari. It was probably in some states in the North Central and South West that you could see what looked like real voting or contest. That was because of the inefficiency of Jega and his INEC and ultimately, the inefficiency and incompetence of President Jonathan, who was supposed to be supervising them. When I read about 10-year-old children given PVC, I blamed the president. His security agents are supposed to be everywhere. Where were they when Jega was giving nine-year-olds PVC? Where was he when they were using false voters’ registers? Jega came to ask me for data to update the voters’ register and I told him there was none; that Nigeria had never done census before and that I did not want what NPC was doing to be linked to politics; but we could help him in some ways to give him something reasonable by calling people to brainstorm but there was no figure. I reported this to President Jonathan but he did not do anything about it. He was rather pandering to people he thought would rig him back to office. When you are a leader, do the right thing because if you do the wrong thing, one day, it will catch up with you, like the wrong voters’ register has caught up with President Jonathan. The things I told him that he did not give attention to were the things that caught up with him. I am surprised that he was surprised that they caught up with him. For me, it was very clear. When you consider the figures on the PVC that were distributed in the six zones, it was clear that what I said was exactly what happened. Leadership is serious business; it is for trained people. And it is a burden. If you are a real leader you can take decisions that are painful to you as a person but you will still take them because of the best interest of your people. But Jonathan would not do that. He sees leadership from the beauty of the office and not doing the hard job. Look at the reported cases of stealing, petrol and kerosene subsidy scandals and the missing money in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Look at the issue of the organised stealing of crude oil. That was why the security of the coast line was taken away from the Nigeria Navy and given to militants who are part of this organised stealing. All these are going on and everybody is keeping quiet. You have a National Assembly that does not know how much the members are earning. Why should a Nigerian legislator earn more than an American president? You monetised things for civil servants yet you go with a convoy of more than 20 cars. Some of these people had no car before they went to Abuja. You have private jets everywhere for people without second addresses. At a time, even, Jonathan saw the number of private jets as an indication that the Nigerian economy was buoyant. Look at that! In some countries, mere accusations against you would make people avoid you. But here, they would honour you with national award. A country that is doing that, has no future. If you have future, you begin to clean the Augean Stable and begin to create models. It is these models that Buhari should mobilise to go and save Nigeria. If he goes ahead with compromised people, he would not achieve anything because those people can easily be reminded of their past. Nigeria has good people. We should find those good people and put them to serve the country for everybody to be happy. |
FKO81:Envy ko heavy ni Jealous ko Jeluxing ni. What is there to be jealous of? Abeg tell me o. What is wrong in what i said? Is it a lie? |
Whenever they use the word 'manufacture or fabricate'' one should always be wary. Na so dem talk say Innoson dey ''manufacture'' vehicles, when he only has an assemblage plant. Kudos to the man though, but people should learn to use the appropriate word for the right communication. |
ekenedegreat:We (Yorubas and the other over 250 tribes) are your (igbos)masters. No match for Igbos? the y1bos that were resoundingly defeated. Dare misyarn in Lagos and let us suyanise you in your millions. Just a sentence from an Oba, they were scampering for safety, running from pillar to post, from Geneva to Hague, Afikpo to the Lagoon. The best you could do, was to be making noise and whining like bush babies that you are and beating your chests like King Kong. I even thought you will have the liver to march towards the Oba's palace. Alas, all na noise making. Fashola deported you, wetin happen? N-O-T-H-I-N-G, apart from noise making and running inside the wrapper of the Mandela of Otuoke in Adaobi's voice. Msheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. |
Golden truthful words, that ought to be taught in all primary and secondary schools in the land of red mud. |
ekenedegreat:We are your own master and you are forever our defeated slaves. What about that Nigerian Slave. We agree that we have one master but you have over 250masters. Our slave get back to work. Defeated slaves do not talk where their masters are. |
bofoy:One luv. |
Whaooooo. This is the thread of the year. Well done MzJackBaueress. |
[quote author=bofoy post=33725036][/quote]We are friends. I do not have problem with that. However, we should not be dogmatic to religion. See the Hausa or Igbo of Kanuri etc as a human being first, created by God Almighty, before judging them based on religion or ethnicity. With that you will be Christ-like, and you would have made your world a better place. Remember the story of Jesus and the adulterous woman. He never condemned the woman but treated her as a human being and ask her to go and sin no more. The story of Jesus healing on Sabbath Day and was being criticised by the Pharisees and Sadducees emphasises blind devotion to religion is stupidity. |
bofoy:I do not attack people or any region, provided same is not done to my person and my region. I do not open thread to bash any body, ethnicity or region, but will take on any person or group of persons that dares insult me, my ancestral lineage, yoruba nation and SW as a whole , without any restriction or fear of ban. We are on the same page, let us allow sleeping dogs to lie and do not curse people unjustly again. |
The meeting for the attack was held at the SRC chamber of University of Ibadan. Some people knew the attack was going to happen in Ife but not the timing. I served with one of the guys that was arrested in Rivers. He was a son of a FUTA professor. He said most guys that took part in the attack were arrested by DSS. Some without powerful backings were outrightly shot, while the luckier ones were taken to court for more than 4years and they were silently released. |
bofoy:Whether I am one or not, it's immaterial. We can be friends, I do not have any problem with that. I respect people when they respect themselves and give same and also insult in equal measures when insulted. |
tonytony208:That was Mr. Mandela of Otuoke's call to unravel. He was the sitting president. If he truly cares about the dead, hour would have arrested and prosecuted the perpetrators of such dastardly act. GMB is a president that knows what he is doing and what is required of him. |
bofoy:Your Jesus sent you to be cursing people abi? You reap what you sow, in good measures, press down, shaking together and running over. You sow curses and you reaped same bountifully. |
bofoy:Lol. You can be calling Jesus now, as if He sent you to be cursing people. Your dose was given back to you in good measures, press down and running over. Never in your life start what you cannot finish. If I call myself Xtian, how is that your business? It is between me and my God and not your agnostic mind. |
bofoy:It will not augur well for you and up to your 7th generations. Ogun will use your blood to bath. Sapona will drain all the water in your body. Shango will strike you down with thunder. Yemoja will ensure every water you drink become poisonous to your body. Agemo will ensure penury and poverty remains the portion of your household. Deal with those before I unleash others on you, were omo lasan ekeji aja. You picked the wrongest person to start your cursing game with. You are a learner on NL and I will surely make you my target practise. Na jejely wahala siddon u come wake am and I will give you the full dose of it. |
bofoy:Product of gang molesta.tion of your who.re of a mother, where are Aba and Onitsha located? Even pigs will never stay there. Yorubas are dirty and y1bos keep trooping to our blessed land. Something must be wrong with you and your people then. |
ArodeTsolaye:My question remains where are the twin hell holes of Aba and Onitsha located? Where is Ezzu River located, where human beings stripped nude and enter the dirty water with their mystic believe? |
Peregrino Brimah is the antonym of Femi Aribisala. |
There is gross indiscipline in the Nigerian Army. If you are disgruntled, why can't you just resign. GEJ and his dumb head Generals, with their level of corruption is a story for another thread. |
J ArodeTsolaye:Where is Aba located? Where is Onitsha located? Lack of basic hygiene is evident in the cesspit of an eyesore you are calling towns. |
ideykwum:Beautiful. 1. Don't you think your advocacy would have been better heard and achieved under GEJ, one of your Upper Zambezi or Lower Limpopo alliance? 2. Show me one country in recent times that has achieved secession base on this your strategy. Let us subject it to empirical test, whether such strategy works or not? 3. Which world power have you gone into alliance with to back you up at UN? Do you think secession is about Radio Biafra or carrying Israeli Flag. 4. What are the deft international political moves you have made to actualise your dream? You are busy associating with Catalonia, another presumed separatist state and you expect any EU nation to support you at UN? By extension US will not. China and Russia have their own separatist battles, they will never back secession of any state. Who is left to offer the support? Maybe Equatorial Guinea, Cote 'Ivoire, Tanzania etc once again. |
i thought some novice and naive people said the genie of owu was inconsequential. ![]() |
barcanista:Chenchya, Basque, Catalonia, Western Australia and Quebec were made to stay within the confederacy by their constitutions and force. South Sudan was able to gain independence through the barrel and being a christian states, it had the sympathy of world powers. Eritrea is an invention of the Italians and they backed them throughout the war against Ethiopia. It made it easier for them to gin recognition after years of protracted war with Ethiopia. Kosovo is not a recognized state by UN. Your example here is inconsequential. It has a special status like Palestine. What exactly are you demanding? Autonomy or Secession? Autonomy is achievable through strategic alliances at a round table talk or conference and not the national jamboree your Mandela of Otuoke organised. He put the cart before the horse. Secession is a long thing, if you are not ready to carry arms. That is a fact as demonstrated by the highlighted regions of different states above. Most importantly in secessionist campaign is the buy in of the Super Powers. No matter how genuine your case is, if you do not have their buy in, they will keep quiet while the nation you are trying to secede from will annihilate with all methods possible. That is the bitter world of international politics and the reality on ground. Also, most of them will never support secession because they have enough secessionist campaign going in their backyard. Be it China, Russia, UK, Spain etc |
he should thank his star, for not being born in North Korea. |
Having spared time to read up on the self determination process, it is with heavy heart i am announcing to you that even the UN Charter does not guarantee it. A lot of the power for self determination lies in the constitution of the country you are trying to secede from. If the constitution does not recognize secession or there are laid own process for secession in the constitution of the country in question, the UN will direct you back to that constitution. If it was that easy Chenchya, Quebec, Western Australia, Basque County, Catalonia, Kurdistan and Western Sahara would have all been countries by now. People should take time to read the self determination process. The fastest way is through the barrel and blood shedding. The longer than longest way is logical engagement through dialogue. While the medium term way is to amend the constitution of the country to recognize self determination and secession. This was proposed pre-independence, but some people kicked against it vehemently. Pick your choice. |
Having read this, 2 questions came up. They are: 1. Why was there no agitation for Biafra or Upper Zambezi, whatever you like you can call it, under GEJ? 2. What stage of process are you now on the self determination process ladder? Let us highlight the processes of self determination and let us all see the level to which your advocacy has gotten to on the process ladder. It shall be clear to all whether you are really walking the talk or just mouthing. |
That is the spirit we have been preaching and really appreciate your change of heart. We should all believe the best of this government and pray for its success. If it succeed, we shall all be the beneficiaries and not only GMB or PYO. Be that as it may, while giving the new government a settling down period like a form of moratorium for learning the ropes of governance at Federal level, we should not got to sleep. We should task this government by continuously demanding for good governance, recognisable dividend of democracy that is devoid of propaganda and also offering good solutions to the myriads of challenges confronting this nation. My humble prayer is God Almighty to give the new government the wisdom, knowledge and understanding to steer the ship of this country aright and for each and every one of us to be partaker of the Lord's blessing and goodness on our nation. |
Strategically expanding our frontier of influence. Our culture is well entrenched in South America and Caribbeans. We have good presence in America already and making in-road into Europe through the Scandinavians. Odua a gbe wa o. |
ndubueze92:Lol. Aro hegemony and Osu caste Suc.ks to be this people. Walllahi. Efiks, Ijaws, Ibibios -- etc all lesser ethnicity were busy buying and selling you off into slavery. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Where was the useless hegemony when all these were happening? As usual, they are militarily lazy and bereft of solutions and ideas to fashion out an effective way of stopping minorities from selling them off into slavery. Bunch of people with no history. Tree top dwellers. |
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