Neo-colonialism has always been the hidden agenda of the superpowers because they could not sustain their industries without raw materials from Africa. France for instance is faced with a revolution through military coups in its former colonies in Central and sub-saharan Africa which have risen to Eight armed dissentions in the past two years.
Since the close of WW II in 1945. France kept firm grip on those colonies through its military bases which it claimed were stationed for defence strategies!

The United States also has hundreds of military bases across the world mostly in Third World or Developing Countries.
It no longer a secret that such military bases were deliberate exhibition of international territorial expansion program of the world powers!

All eyes have been on the colonies which they manipulate with Aids, Grants and Loans under the pretext of Economic Support whereas the hidden agenda was to keep the countries in perpetual slavery for the main purpose of harnessing their raw materials which are in abundance to keep their industries afloat.

INDIA HAS LANDED ON THE MOON!

Now that India has joined the MOON EXPLORERS and has invited the G20 Club of which it is a member to celebrate its space conquest then it is pertinent for all of them to relocate now to the moon so that the African Nations would be able to develop and breathe!
India also is a prominent member of BRICS but is it not shocking and intriguing that both China and Russia declined to attend the G20 Summit?

We have always said it that these so-called developed countries who want to dominate the world and keep the underdeveloped ones in perpetual slavery even after their independence and sovereignty would continually instigate War of Attrition that would keep lesser countries in permanent state of poverty and under-development.
In 1947 British India was partitioned, ending three hundred years of colonial rule with the creation of two independent nations: India and Pakistan (comprising West and East Pakistan, present-day Bangladesh).
Would it be out of place for India to venture into neo- colonialism?

G20 COMPETITION FOR TERRITORIAL EXPANSION !

Civilized countries of the 16th -19th Centuries embarked on worldwide expansion of their territories through colonization of primitive and underdeveloped countries of Africa, the Far East and the Carribeans.
However the 20th Century Universe gradually witnessed gale of Independent status granted to several overseas slave countries with stringent legalistic strings of treatise, conventions to keep them to the Masters' apron strings!
Come to think of it, is any country totally independent from the other whether developed, backward or developing? The world through modern science and information communication technology has assumed the status of a global village where socio-economic needs and natural resources were exchanged with the lightening speed of light or sound!
Raw materials for overseas businesses in manufacturing and industry were continually sourced from the former colonies to keep their economies on stream while the finished products were exported to the surrogate countries to keep them tied to their masters' apron string permanently!

THE SUPER POWERS AND G20 CLUB HAVE POCKETED THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE THROUGH PSEUDO ROCKET SCIENCE ESCAPADES!

Just like his predecessor in office 'Bola Tinubu preferred to travel abroad and showcase his incompetence and ignorance in governance instead of staying at home to solve socio-economic problems that affect the citizens.
He departed Nigeria on the day the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) declared a two-day warning strike and flew to India to attend the G20 World Summit of developed Nations. And as usual, he was accompanied with an entourage of about 30 Ministers/ business moguls but wasted no time to beg Indian billionaires cap in hand to come and invest in Nigeria!
His 100 days in office have witnessed no development in socio-economic activities but total reversal and backwardness in all endeavors of life. And it has been exposed that, some sections THE NIGERIAN PRESS (especially Ray Power/AIT), are complicit to the myriads of social problems that escalated through sudden removal of subsidy without palliatives in any form through their warped condemnation of the WARNING STRIKE against an INSENSITIVE GOVERNMENT! It is established that the oligarchy and Cabal are at work again in Nigeria to further suppress the citizens who are made sub-servient while those domicile in the Diaspora were also treated with contempt and as "lowlifes!"

YOU MUST STOP THEM FROM PUTTING YOU DOWN EVERY FOUR YEARS!

The game plan of all Nigerian politicians had always been to take undue advantage of the largely illiterate masses and diabolically manipulate them through empty manifesto promises year on year.
The rhetoric is that Nigerians were easy going people who don't need much money to carry on their lives.
Once they have food on their tables, some menial jobs or vocations, regular incomes to pay rents for some shanties, which would be eventually demolished by the same politicians! This is a most outrageous manner to treat FIRST CLASS CITIZENS in their own country while the Constitutions deceive them with false SOVEREIGNTY!
HEADING ON GOD'S MANDATE OF UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT NIGERIA WILL STAND! AMEN.

Immediately the news of APC's victory at the Presidential Election Tribunal venue in Abuja hit the internet towards mid-night on Wednesday 6th September 2023, the Nigerian delegation to the G20 Summit in India burst into singing, dancing and shouting at the top of their voices that “on Tinubu's mandate they would stand"!
The tribunal upheld the 26th February 2023 election of 'Bola Tinubu while the Opposition parties and their supporters outrightly rejected the judgment in its entirety and are in the process of approaching the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for a final adjudication. The devil is a liar!


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I am, yours sincerely, THE WATCHMAN Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

A legal Civilian Coup that will unseat Mr. 'Bola Tinubu and his gang of mauraders is closer than what the bunch of security personnel in Nigeria could phantom!
Who says that Tinubu is not a member of the sadistic seat-tight African Leaders who take delight in the persistent sufferings and corresponding untimely deaths of their majority poor masses?

What is the business of the 71-year-old former Senator, two-term State Governor and now President of Nigeria in a new 21st Nation which bubbles with youthful cerebrals in every discipline of human endeavor - especially in Information Communication Technology (ICT), Modern medicine, Agriculture, Education, Tourism, Entertainment, Sports, Aeronautic/Space Science, Marine, Naval Engineering/Technology, Technocrats in Human Development Management, Manufacturing/ Industry, Highly-trained Security Experts with Hi-Tech solutions to knotty challenges in crimes prevention and detection, institutional corruption, terrorism, gangsterism etc?
Tinubu left active political office since year 2007 at age 55! From inauguration on 29th May, 2023, he has lived in a MIRAGE!

In three months of "subsidy is gone", Tinubu is yet to provide any tangible Palliative Measure in any form and The Labour is spoiling for War!

A Divine message was delivered to 'Bola Tinubu following a prediction of the WATCHMAN that he would win the election but should in his inauguration speech promise the establishment of a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT for Nigeria in order to eradicate all forms of insecurity due to 63 years of institutional corruption.
But he bluntly refused and instead added to the sufferings of Nigerian TALAKAWAS. Within THREE MONTHS of ascension to the presidency not less than 2,000 citizens have been killed through various forms of hardships and SECURITY LAPSES!
They should have been alive today and he has to pay because THE JUST JUDGE of disobedient children HAS JUDGE HIM. Just like SAUL the first King of Israel, he will definitely lose his position!

EMINENT HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER 'FEMI FALANA (SAN), TELLS TINUBU TO BEWARE OF CITIZENS MUTINY!

Our warning in a recent publication - Zion B-BC Newsletter Vol. 12. No. 520 dated 30th July, 2023, and titled
TINUBU SHOULD BE AFRAID OF NIGERIAN CITIZENS - NOT SOLDIERS COUP DE TAT, was re-echoed by renowned Human Rights Lawyer and Activist, Chief. 'Femi Falana on Thursday 30th August 2023, at a Symposium organised by Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), in Abuja.

Below are excerpts of his corroborative speech which confirms that at the mouth of two or three witnesses a matter is established. At the National Symposium with the theme: “Nigeria Economy and the Crisis of Survival: Robbing the Poor to Pay the Rich", the legal luminary said : "....while the government has told the poor to tighten their belts and suffer the burden of the economic issues in the nation, public officials keep spending lavishly!

He attributed the recent trend of military juntas in Africa, particularly the most recent one that occurred in Gabon, to a number of factors, including the ruthless exploitation of African countries’ mineral resources by the West, Third-term syndrome, political manipulation of the constitution, and the establishment of foreign military bases in African nations.
He warned that as long as figures of extravagant spendings by the National Assembly continue to be churned out, Nigerians will be irritated and so will be enemies of democracy.

“They must be careful not to provoke Nigerians to mutiny. Some of the things going in the National Assembly shows that we are in trouble. 70 billion Naira for palliatives for 469 people and when we said no they claimed it was for the facelift of the National Assembly.

“Three years ago, 37 billion Naira was earmarked for the facelift of the National Assembly. That contract has not been fully executed and there is no renewal of the contract so you cannot talk about 70 billion Naira for facelift.
“Secondly, 40 billion Naira to buy exotic cars now for the leadership of the National Assembly is not going to be allowed.
“The latest provocative news from the National Assembly is that 54 billion Naira has been earmarked for constituency projects for 360 members of the House of Representatives. It has come to 150 million per person. Under this austere condition of the country.
“So when these figures are oozing out of the National Assembly Nigerians are being provoked and enemies of democracy are being provoked.
“The military has been honest to say that they are under pressure to dismantle this rickety political system but someone told them to go and deny it and they came out and denied it. But we can read between the lines. We can’t gather here to talk about democracy that is under threat.

“The immediate causes of coups in Africa today are third term syndromes, manipulation of constitution, military bases.

“Today, America has 29 military bases in Africa. France has 15. Soldiers are protesting because numbers of these foreign bases are receiving salaries as if they are in their countries. So the soldiers are protesting the preferential treatment between them and these foreign troops, so we must look at that.
“The remote causes are the ruthless exploitation of the mineral resources of our country by Western countries.
The people are getting poorer.
“The poor are asked to tighten their belts even when they are dying. We may be discussing democracy, democracy is under threat in Africa through colonial peripheral capitalist system pauperising our country and increasing poverty at a very dangerous level.”

He said that contrary to Section 16 of the Constitution, ”the Economic system was being operated in such a way as to concentrate the wealth of the country in the hands of the few or a group."

“When Dangote was said to be building a refinery, and I it publicly, the government of Nigeria gave him land free, they call it free economic zone, for themselves, all the machinery imported at the official rate which is illegal no duty was paid for the machine and the government went to the bank to take a loan of $2.7 billion to invest in a private sector and they then said, we cannot fix our refineries.

“At that stage we challenged them, you said the government has no business in business why are you funding a private enterprise? It was at that stage that they allocated $1 5 billion to fix Port Harcourt refinery, $1.4 billion to fix Kaduna and Warri refinery.

Chief Falana appealed to Nigeria Labour Congress to monitor the ongoing rehabilitation of the refineries "otherwise these guys will divert the money criminally as they have always done in the past 35 years.

“Secondly those refineries are no longer enough for us, refineries are being sold in Europe and America, The government must buy some of them and assemble them here so that we can earn revenue from our own natural resource.
“Talking about solid minerals, labour must also take cognizance of what is going on. They give licences to individuals to go and mine and pay a pittance to the government, sometimes you don’t pay anything.
“I am handling a case where the government said don’t pay for five years we want to encourage you … and the country will make $500 million in one year but the poor are asked to tighten their belt even when they are dying."

GABON - NIGERIA'S SOUTH-EAST NEIGHBOR HAS NOW BURST TINUBU'S BUBBLE!

First it was Niger Republic, North West Neighbor on 26 July 2023, now it's Gabon on 29th August, 2023, to the South East. Nigeria is not only sandwiched between Coupist in the ECOWAS Sub-region but also in the Central African Chad where SEAT-TIGHT LEADERS were being uprooted one after the other in very quick succession!

But Tinubu need not be afraid because the Lord has said He will not allow MILITARY COUP IN NIGERIA but Will Establish a Unicameral Parliamentary System of government which will be a lasting solution to the incalcitrant innumerable insecurities of decades!

Our candid opinion is for Tinubu to do the needful by calling for a popular REFERENDUM THAT THE CITIZENS MAY CHOOSE THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT BEFORE THEY - (THE PEOPLE), AND NOT SOLDIERS KICK HIM AND HIS PARTNER IN CRIME OUT OF THE TEMPORARY USURPATION OF TRANSIENT POWER!

A Word is enough for the Wise!

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I am, yours sincerely, THE WATCHMAN Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

During ones of his Presidential campaigns in January 2023, Mr. 'Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT), lamented and bluntly indicted retired General Buhari that he deliberately introduced re-designed naira notes as a grand ploy to TRUNCATE his life ambition of becoming the President of Nigeria!
He vowed on live media interview to trek all the way with his retinue of campaigners to all their targeted venues and to meet all deadlines to accomplish his dream and with such vituperations incurred the wrath of many household enemies!
1) First on the list was the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari whom he reminded via his “EMI LOKAN” (It’s my turn) jingle, that were it not for him (Tinubu), Buhari would not have become the President of Nigeria in 2015, having lost in three previous attempts!
2) Second was former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu who openly vowed that the Party would discipline BAT for his unguarded utterances and disrespect to President Buhari. But he underestimated (BAT’s) uncanny and crafty art of a desperado who maneuvered all obstacles to win the election now being challenged at the courts!
3) Third was Godwin Emefiele, the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and purveyor of the re-designed naira notes, who also believed that he could succeed Buhari as President of Nigeria but eventually withdrew due to massive opposition by Nigerians! He has been charged to court with a female accomplice for financial procurement fraud totaling N6.9 billion!



NAIRA-RE-DESIGN - COMMENTS BY INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONCERNED NIGERIANS!

(A)Naira redesign will affect the poor, SMEs according to the World Bank – as reported by Damiola Aina, on 20th December 2022.

“The World Bank has warned that the newly redesigned naira which went into circulation last week may have negative effect on economic activity especially poor Nigerians due to its timing and short transition period.
The Washington-based bank revealed this in a new report titled, “Nigeria Development Update.”
The Central Bank of Nigeria had in November 2022, unveiled new N,1000, N500 and N200 notes as part of measures to mop up excess cash in circulation, ransom payment for kidnapping, terrorism financing, counterfeiting, among others.


The World Bank, in its report however said the policy would negatively affect small businesses in respect of day-to-day cash transactions.
The report read in part, “While periodic currency redesigns are normal internationally and the naira does appear to be due for it since naira notes have been redesigned for two decades, the timing of and short transition period for this demonetization may have negative impacts on economic activity, in particular for the poorest households.
“International experience suggests that rapid demonetizations can generate significant short-term costs, with small-scale businesses, and poor and vulnerable households, potentially being particularly affected due liquidity-constrained by and heavily reliant on day-to-day cash transactions.
“At present, households and firms already face elevated financial pressures from prolonged, high inflation, recently compounded by external food and fuel price shocks, and the severe floods, and phasing out existing naira notes over a short time period may add to their challenges.”

(B)The President of the Bank Customers Association of Nigeria, Dr Uju Ogunbunka, also said the objectives of the cashless policy was understandable but noted that the execution and timing were not right.

He said, “From the cashless policy point of view, we should appreciate that, as much as possible, the government is trying to limit the use of cash for transactions, more so, now that they are redesigning the currency. “The second thing is that the government wants to drive the use of online banking, which is good for our economy. Unfortunately, there have been so many complaints about failed transactions.”
“There is hardly any week without complaints in the banking hall. You will see people shouting with regard to transfer failures. Have we put enough structure to take care of some of these things? The answer is, we are yet to, we are making progress, yes, but we should give enough room and time for some of these things to play out rather than short-circuit the system.”
(C)Also, the Lagos State Chairman of the Nigerian Association of Small and Medium Enterprise, Dr Adebayo Adams, also said the policy would hit businesses and the MSMEs.
MR. BAT IN AN ATTEMPT TO SOLVE CURRENCY INSTABILITY HAS INTRODUCED



“NAIRA FLOATING”!

Excerpts from Elvis Eromosele’s contribution to the subject matter: “Nigeria, one of Africa’s largest economies, has a longstanding history of grappling with currency stability and foreign exchange challenges. Over the year, the Nigerian government has employed various measures to manage its currency, the naira, including pegging it to a specific exchange rate. This naturally created two exchange rates, the official and the black market. The disparity between the two provided an avenue for people with access to dollars to buy at the official rate and resell at the black market. Many millionaires and a few billionaires were created through this distorted system. Floating the exchange rate is meant to solve this problem. The idea of floating the naira has however remained a subject of debate. Experts concede that it holds both potential advantages and risks. What does it mean to float a country’s exchange rate? Floating a country’s currency, also known as a floating exchange rate, refers to a monetary system where the value of a nation’s currency is determined by market forces such as supply and demand. In this system, the currency’s exchange rate fluctuates freely in response to various economic factors, including inflation, interest rates, trade balances, and capital flows.


Under a floating exchange rate regime, the government or central bank does not fix or peg the currency to a specific value against another currency or a basket of currencies. Instead, the exchange rate is determined by the interaction of buyers and sellers in the foreign exchange market. Supply and demand dynamics influence the currency’s value, and its exchange rate can appreciate or depreciate relative to other currencies. Today, reports emerged that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has directed Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) to eliminate the rate cap on the Nigerian naira at the Investors’ and Exporters’ (I&E) Window of the foreign exchange market. This move aims to facilitate a free-floating system for the national currency, enabling it to fluctuate freely against the United States dollar and other major global currencies. Analysts claim that it follows closely on the heels of President Bola Tinubu’s commitment to unify Nigeria’s various exchange rates. Experts have quickly lined up on opposite sides of the aisle. Some argue that it would allow the currency to adjust to changing economic conditions, which can help promote competitiveness, adjust trade imbalances, attract foreign investment, and respond to shifts in global markets. Others swear that the exchange rate will become more volatile and subject to fluctuations, which can have both positive and negative implications for the economy.

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER SINCERE OPINION IS THAT WHILE MR. BAT WHO HAS SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH RE-CYCLED ADVISERS/MINISTERS CRAVES FOR POUND OF FLESH FROM HIS PERCEIVED ADVERSARIES, HE HAS FURTHER SUNK INTO THE MIRY CLAY OF POLICY SOMERSAULT!

As at the time of this publication, NO NAIRA WAS FLOATING! How can a SUNK TITANIC FLOAT AGAIN? NIGERIA IS TOTALLY BROKE!
The NAIRA has been secretly devalued due excessive and addictive borrowing! The EXCHANGE RATE has gone beyond N900-1,000 naira to one US Dollar! TINUBU’S imaginary merger of OFFICIAL and BUREAU DE CHANGE was another gaffe just like “Subsidy is Gone”! QUESTION: IS SUBSIDY NOT BACK THROUGH THE BACK DOOR?


Mr. BAT says he has saved NGN 1trllion from fuel subsidy removal since 29th May 2023. He is dolling out NGN5 billion to each State as PALLIATIVE FUND to cushion the negative effects on the ABUSED MASSES!
BAT has now confirmed our earlier speculations that all of his AIDES/ CABINET MINISTERS etc, WOULD ALL BE PAID SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES WITH BORROWED MONIES!
HOW CAN MR. BAT COMPARE THE VERY STRONG FLOATING UNITED STATES DOLLAR WITH THE NAIRA WHICH HAS BEEN BASTARDIZED THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTIVE ABUSE BY SUCCESSIVE ADMINISTRATION?


BAT CANNOT GET AWAY WITH ALL THESE DISCREPANCIES! IT'S TIME FOR NIGERIA TO VOTE FOR PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THROUGH REFERENDUM!
Nigeria's Debt Stock is N46.25 Trillion as at the end of the first Quarter of the
Year 2023! TiINUBU AND HIS RICH COHORTS MUST PUBLICLY DECLARE THEIR ASSETS !

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Foreign meddlesomeness veiled as diplomatic interventions by Western World Powers, especially of the Francophone and Anglophone bloc have further deepened the dichotomy between two strange bed fellows within the West African Sub-Region and the Sahel!
Both bloc have West African countries in almost equal proportions having been colonial Masters who still believe in allegiance of subservient relationships.

In virtually all of West African francophone countries, the CFA - French currency still holds sway.
But yet there's still a common interest or bone of contention in Niger between the two bloc - URANIUM - which is in global demand and which Niger has in abundance. Uranium is used to power commercial nuclear reactors that produce electricity and to produce isotopes used for medical, industry and defence purposes around the world.

Niger has two significant mines providing 7.5% of world minning output from Africa's highest grade uranium ores. Since the contentious military coup, of 26th July 2023, Niger has gained much of negative international attention because the act of seizing legitimate governments through the barrels of the gun is TREASONABLE ACT AND TOTALLY FORBIDDEN AND UNACCEPTABLE THROUGH CONSTITUTIONAL ENACTMENTS!
We also condemn coup de tat in any form or guise!

SOVEREIGNTY BELONGS TO THE CITIZENS!

Except in a state of despotism, autocracy, oligarchy or anarchy, the citizens of every nation are constitutionally endowed with the inalienable right of sovereignty over elected representatives from Mr. President to the Councilors in the Local Government Areas (LGAs)!

Nigeriens have spoken loud and clear in support of the new military regime in Niger Republic because they were tired of President Bazoum government which the National Council of the State Guard of the Nation had decided put an end to!
There is now a Military Government in position although coup d'etat is a crime against constitutional authorities but when citizens support coups it only proves that they are tired of the fake democracy to which they are being subjected for a very long time.
Mr. 'Bola Tinubu who now wears two caps of both President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Chairman of the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS), during his days as a democrat joined ranks with several patriotic Nigerians to oppose the military interregnum that lasted for almost 30 years and when his life was threatened he ran into exile but the agitations eventually overthrew the military aberration.

For almost 23 years Nigeria democratic nation even though it is by nomenclature and not a reality has portrayed those who took over from the military in 1999
as new opportunists because they wasted no time to show their true colors of massive corruption in governance, stealing, robbery, terrorism multi-dimensional poverty, official impunity, gangsterism, institutional terrorism and large-scale robbery of the Treasury Single Account (TSA), on daily basis between the three arms of government!

Like their Nigeriens counterpart Citizens of Nigeria are also tired of this kind of democracy which enables the rich to be richer and the poor to be poorer and for the poor to be taxed until they bleed to death!
For them to suffer in the midst of plenty while the oligarchy of a few rake in all the monies including all the natural resources, all the foreign exchange earnings from the Crude Oil into their various accounts!

HAS IT EVER OCCURRED TO ECOWAS LEADERS THAT MAYBE NIGERIENS ACTUALLY INVITED THE MILITARY TO TAKE OVER THE REIGNS OF GOVERNMENT?

As the Head of the Nigerian Government and simultaneously Chairman of ECOWAS it is very clear to everyone now that Mr. 'Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT), is a total misfit in both saddles!

As Nigeria's President he has messed up the entire governance by trapping himself in all manners of errors of commission and omission and multiple gaffes at home and abroad and WE of this Platform and all Nigerian patriots are tired of the repetition of maladministration of the highest order in his over 70 days in office!

Now his complete ignorance in governance and diplomatic architecture has brought Nigeria into disrepute among Citizens of the West African nation of Niger because it is believed that Mr. BAT insisted that THE USE OF FORCE WAS AN OPEN OPTION TO CHASE OUT THE MILITARY JUNTA AND RE-INSTATE THE OUSTED CIVILIAN PRESIDENT!
Though ECOWAS Secretariat claimed Mr. BAT's statement was a collective response and decision to the situation in Niger the Citizens have warned the Body to keep off their shores because they were better off with the soldiers!

Truly power lies in the hands of Nigeriens but if and when their expectations from the present military government become sour, they will chase them out through sovereign authority like TINUBU and his fellow agitators did to past military administrations in Nigeria!
Mr. Tinubu had no foundation in any form of diplomacy at any stage of his short political career! Going down the memory lane the only opportunity in governance which he had before 29th May 2023 was in Lagos State where was governor because of the role he played in driving out the military.

He was compensated with the Governorship position and served for eight years (1999-2007), and that was all. From then - 15 years on to 2023 the man has been moribund, redundant, stale, ineffective, inactive and completely lost to realities of the 21st Century ICT applications in governance!

TINUBU SHOULD RESIGN AS ECOWAS CHAIRMAN AND FACE NIGERIA'S MORE DEMANDING INSECURITY AND SOCIO- ECONOMIC ISSUES SQUARELY!

There is no doubt that Mr BAT has bitten more than he can chew. 1. Insecurity in Nigeria has become an albatross 2. Human casualties in a bit over 70 days of his occupation as President of Nigeria has recorded over 40,000 gruesome deaths of Citizens across the country most especially in the North West, North East North Central and still counting . 3. On Friday 11th August 2023, over 21 people were killed in Plateau State by armed Fulani herdsmen. 4. Economy is at its lowest ebb as roundabout inflation is consuming the citizens who find it difficult to eat one meal a day 5. FOREX is over NGN900 naira to $1US Dollars as at 10th August 2023!

POSERS FOR BOLA TINUBU: Commander-in-Chief of Nigerian Armed Forces!

Tinubu needs a very experienced serving or retired army general as National Security Adviser (NSA) and not a failed EFCC Chairman and gubernatorial aspirant!
Is Nigeria ready for a fallout of war from the Republic of Niger if use of force was employed? Nigerians have been Niger's friendly neighbour since 1963 and they have bilateral agreement not to DAM River Niger flowing down south into Nigeria in exchange for electricity.
As the time of this publication ECOWAS Parliament has set up a Mediation Team to end the crisis in Niger.

Breaking News: Algeria has promised to supply electricity to Niger for free!

THERE COULD BE NO BETTER TIME FOR TINUBU TO CHAMPION A POPULAR REFERENDUM AND SET IN MOTION A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA AND END THESE UNPLEASANT TRAVAILS AS A NATION!

A Word is sufficient for the Wise!

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

The Nigerian State currently has no Executive Arm of Government but luckily the man whom the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), declared as winner of the 2023 February Presidential Election has added another feather to his cap to legitimately govern the country as the current and bona fide Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). At the ECOWAS Conference of Sunday,9th July 2023, President Tinubu was elected as the new Chairman of the Body.
In view of this development he has become more confused and disillusioned because he is now PURSUING TWO RATS SIMULTANEOUSLY and would definitely lose both; according to an African adage!
First, he exhausted the entire 60 days window allowed by the amended 1999 Military Constitution of Nigeria as amended to appoint 37 ministers one from each State of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and could only come up with 28 Ministers at 1.30 pm on the last day, Thursday July 27th 2023, when the Senate was about to wind up for the week contrary to the Constitution's enactment.
Second a military coup de tat suddenly occurred in Niger Republic, an ECOWAS member on Thursday 27th July 2023 and he quickly summoned a hurried summit to hold at the Aso Rock seat of government, Federal Capital Territory Abuja, to deliberate on the matter on Sunday 30th July 2023.

It was later reported that the ECOWAS caucus directed that the feuding soldiers should return to the barracks within SEVEN DAYS and restore the disposed President immediately.
Is Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT), not in a dire strait? Has he not bitten too much to chew?
Third it was reported by the US Institute of Peace that the genesis of the NIGERIEN COUP was triggered, "....when a top military officer was disgruntled at being removed from his post by the president. We saw a positive but unsuccessful effort from within the region, by Nigeria, to prevent the coup. Nigerian President Bola Tinubu sent a planeload of his own senior officers to press the Niger military to abort the takeover. That kind of leadership from within the region is what we all need to support."

NEWS PAPERS REPORTS: DAILY POST.

Nigerien soldiers finally declare coup despite Tinubu’s warning. Despite the warning issued on Wednesday by the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Bola Tinubu, the Nigerien soldiers on Thursday morning took over power from President Mohamed Bazoum.
President Bazoum had been in detention since the early hours of Wednesday when the soldiers first attempted the coup. DAILY POST gathered that the soldiers announced the coup in a televised broadcast in the early hours of Thursday.
About 10 senior officers led by Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane said during the broadcast that the National Council of the State Guard of the Nation had decided to “put an end to the regime you are familiar with”.
According to them, the development followed deteriorating security situation in Niger, as well as bad social and economic management by the government.
“We reaffirm our support to all commitment undertaken by Niger,” the soldiers said.
ECOWAS, had through a statement by its Chairman, Tinubu condemned the earlier attempt, warning that the regional body, as well as the global community, would not condone disruption of constitutional order within the sub-region.

Al Jazeera News.

Niger coup leaders warn against ‘military intervention’ by ECOWAS

Niger’s military leaders have warned against any armed intervention in the country as West African heads of state gather in Nigeria’s capital for an emergency summit to decide on further actions to pressure the army to restore constitutional order.
Heads of state of the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and the eight-member West African Economic and Monetary Union, also known by its French acronym UEMOA, could suspend Niger from their institutions, cut off the country from the regional central bank and financial market, and close borders.

General Abdourahmane Tchiani – also known as Omar Tchiani, and the chief of Niger’s presidential guard – has declared himself leader while the country’s elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, has been held by the military since the coup took place last week.
Ahead of the Sunday ECOWAS summit, the military leaders in Niger warned against any military intervention in a statement read on Niger national television on Saturday night.
“The objective of the [ECOWAS] meeting is to approve a plan of aggression against Niger through an imminent military intervention in Niamey in collaboration with other African countries that are non-members of ECOWAS, and certain Western countries,” military spokesperson Colonel Amadou Abdramane said.
Demonstrators gather in support of the coup in the capital Niamey, Niger on July 30, 2023 [Balima Boureima/Reuters]“We want to once more remind ECOWAS or any other adventurer of our firm determination to defend our homeland,” he said.
ECOWAS has the power to impose sanctions on Niger, which is one of its 15 members. Last year, its leaders agreed to create a regional security force to intervene against rebel groups and prevent military coups.

“There is so much talk here [at the summit] of sending a military force to intervene there [in Niger] that has got the military leaders in Niger worried at the moment,” Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reported from Abuja, adding that the threat of sanctions over the coup was also a cause for concern for the new rulers in Niamey.
“There has been a standby force for years, but it has never been activated in recent times. The [last] time it was activated was in 2017 in the Gambia … when former President Yahya Jammeh tried to stay in power after he lost the election to the current president,” Idris added.
Details on how that force would work and its funding are still unclear, with ECOWAS defence ministers expected to make decisions later this year.

Bola Tinubu, president of Nigeria and ECOWAS chairman, said on Friday that the West African bloc and the international community “would do everything to defend democracy and ensure democratic governance continues to take firm root in the region”. Ahead of Sunday’s gathering, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to Tinubu to convey his “deep concern” over the situation in Niger, and “underscored his support for President Tinubu’s continued efforts to restore constitutional order” there.
‘Stay out’
Meanwhile, in Niamey, thousands of protesters also gathered outside the French embassy, with some trying to enter the building, according to the AFP news agency.
Former colonial ruler France and the European Union have suspended security cooperation and financial aid to Niger following the coup.
Some demonstrators ripped off and stamped on a plaque bearing the words “Embassy of France in Niger”, replacing it with Nigerien and Russian flags, while others shouted “Long live Russia”, “Long live Putin” and “Down with France”, AFP reported.
Protesters also tried to climb the walls of the embassy, while others stomped on burning French flags. “Anyone who attacks French nationals, the military, diplomats, or French interests will spur an immediate and uncompromising response from France,” French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said in a statement.
“Emmanuel Macron was able to speak again to Presidents Bazoum and [previous Niger leader Mahamadou] Issoufou in the last few hours, both of whom clearly condemned the coup and called for calm among the population,” the statement said.

Some taking part in Sunday’s rally also warned regional bodies who have denounced the coup to stay away.
“I would like also to say to the European Union, African Union and ECOWAS, please please stay out of our business,” said Oumar Barou Moussa, who was at the demonstration, according to the Reuters news agency.
“It’s time for us to take our lives, to work for ourselves. It’s time for us to talk about our freedom and liberty. We need to stay together, we need to work together, we need to have our true independence,” Barou said.

TINUBU ALSO HAS SEVEN DAYS TO REVERSE SUBSIDY REMOVAL BY 2ND AUGUST 2023.

MR. TINUBU SHOULD INITIATE A POPULAR REFERENDUM SO THAT AGITATED NIGERIAN COULD VOTE YES OR NO TO A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THAT WILL EMBRACE GRASSROOT PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT ! RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS A NATION BUT SIN IS A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE.(PROV 14:34).

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MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Nigerians should not be debating how to distribute palliatives to augment sudden increase on petroleum pump price
when countries like Egypt, Pakistan, Algeria, Libya have advanced with the trend of technology to abandon fossil energy and have concentrated on alternative clean energy sources which include Compressed Natural Gas, (CNG), Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Thermal Energy, Solar Energy Electric Energy, Wind Energy, Hydro Electricity and have saved their poor masses from undeserved sufferings!

Nigeria would remain a backward nation as long as the fundamental rights in respect of social economic and natural endowments of the people were denied by consecutive administrations! The Presidential System in a developing country like Nigeria will not only create billionaires like Mr. BAT and his ilks but will keep them stinkingly rich permanently!


Nigeria is the second largest producer of crude oil in Africa after Angola. But consecutive military and civilian administrations have diverted funds from the petroleum industry to themselves and their cronies year after year and the poorest of all the poor people in the world are found in Nigeria!
It is a shame that in this 21st Century world when most citizens drive electric cars, electric trains, automobiles powered by compressed natural gas, solar energy etc, DANGOTE REFINERIES will begin processing into the Nigerian and World Markets daily volume of 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day in a single train at market forces prices to recoup his investment at the detriment of the already downtrodden masses from the last week of July or first week of August, 2023!

No appointee Special Adviser of Mr. BAT saw anything wrong in subsidy removal through their master's policy somersault which has turned the nation's economy upside down provided their salaries would be borrowed and paid in due time BECAUSE THE PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM IS A VICIOUS CIRCLE OF MISFITS IN THE SADDLE OF GOVERNANCE!
HOW MANY VEHICLES BELONG TO MULTI-BILLIONAIRE PRESIDENT TINUBU AND HIS FELLOW CLUB MEMBERS WHO ARE "STINKINGLY RICH"?


NIGERIANS REJECT TINUBU'S HOPELESS PALLIATIVES?

But in contention at all levels of socio- economic conversation and engagements in Nigeria especially in the public domain on the internet and social media are the unethical an unholy modalities through which Mr. Tinubu and his political jobbers plan to distribute the United Nations USD$800 million dollars World Bank loan and the NGN500 billion naira Petroleum Removal Palliative Funds already approved by the National Assembly, which the SUPER RICH POLITICIANS must control through their whims and caprices?


And whereas Mr. BAT on 29th May 2023, in his investiture speech as the new controversial President of Nigeria decreed that petroleum subsidy was already discarded in a military fashion which precipitated petrol pump price that sky-rocketed from N195 naira to N540 naira per litre even before he concluded his very UNDIPLOMATIC SPEECH!

In Seven Weeks of his shaky administration as at 23rd July 2023, the price is now actively between N615 naira for those who are lucky and up to almost N1,000 naira in remote areas of Nigeria and it would still rise! Everyone thought and believe that if Tinubu were an Economist, he would have treaded softly, avoid the outburst and would have in the One Month Window between 29th May - 30th June 2023, to provide the so-called palliatives which are now so evasive because it had turned out to be " MEDICINE AFTER DEATH" and being rejected the TALAKAWAS who are already at their wits end!

QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS!

1) WHERE ARE THE 100 ELECTRIC BUSES WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN DELIVERED TO ABUJA BY BUHARI ADMINISTRATION?
2) WHAT HAPPENED TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT/NIGERIA LABOUR CONGRESS (NLC), COMMITTEE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS (CNG), VEHICLES FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION?
3) WHY DID FG SIDELINE THE CNG PROJECT BUT EMBARKED ON TOTAL REMOVAL OF SUBSIDY ON PMS BEFORE INTRODUCTION OF ANY PALLIATIVE?
4) SOME STATES HAVE EMBARKED ON MASS TRANSIT PALLIATIVES FOR THEIR CITIZENS - WERE THEY ASSISTED BY FG?
5) WHAT STOPPED MR. BAT TO DECLARE THAT HIS CABINET OF MINISTERS AND ADVISERS, ALL GOVERNORS, LEGISLATORS AT FEDERAL AND STATE LEVELS WOULD NOT COLLECT SALARIES BUT SITTING ALLOWANCES UNTIL HIS BLUNDER ON SUBSIDY REMOVAL WAS RESOLVED?
6) WHERE IS THE AUTHENTIC NATIONAL REGISTER OF 120 MILLION POOREST OF THE POOR KEPT?

Now parents who have children in Unity Schools are set to face tough times in fees payment as the INSENSITIVE Federal Government increases college tuition!
UNILAG follows suit - jacks up fees from N19, 000 to N190,250 while Private Schools also plan further hike in their fees!
All of the above calamities/tragedies were caused by the unpreparedness of ONE POLITICAL JOBBER CALLED MR. BAT!!!

Please find below the VERDICT OF THE CITIZENS WHO CAN NO LONGER BE HOODWINKED ON THIS PROVOCATIVE NATIONAL ISSUE THROUGH THE MEDIA!

"Invest N500bn palliative funds in infrastructure, activists urge FG!
15th July 2023
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu By Emmanuel Ojo. Kindly share this story:
Civil rights activists have discredited the National Assembly’s approval of President Bola Tinubu’s request of N500bn to cushion the effects of the removal of fuel subsidy on the poor, noting that it is better invested in infrastructure as there is no dependable data system to carry out a transparent, impactful process.

The reactions came Thursday following Tinubu’s move for “approval of an additional $800m for the funding of the National Safety Programme,” under which the Federal Government will transfer the sum of N8,000 monthly to 12,000,000 poor and low-income households for six months.

The cash will be digitally transferred directly to the bank accounts and mobile wallets of beneficiaries. Meanwhile, the policy has been greeted with several reactions from opposition parties, the Nigerian Labour Congress and other stakeholders. In a telephone conversation with Saturday PUNCH, the Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, Auwal Rafsanjani, said the need of Nigerians was not N8,000 monthly, but relief through infrastructure in the transportation, electricity, food production, and health care sectors, He added that sharing of money would result to having funds that would not be accounted for. He argued that there were no frameworks on how the indigent individuals would be identified; hence, the mechanism for sharing the fund had not been put in place.

“I think what Nigerians are looking for is relief in the area of transportation facilities. Nigerians are looking for relief in the area where potential services like electricity are stable, places where they can invest in food productions, areas where they can get relief in terms of healthcare. “There are no frameworks on how to identify the vulnerable. Also, the mechanism for sharing the money is also not in place. There is some guide for community leaders, religious leaders, labour leaders, civil society groups, and even the NBA and FIDA.

“If you want to do a transparent something and to ensure that the money goes to the right set of persons, you must have this category of persons in every community, and what they should do is to ensure that any money that will be given should go to the entire local government such that the money is not in the hands of one agency,” he noted.

Also speaking, a social commentator, Jackson Omenazu, stressed that Nigeria’s poor data system would not achieve a transparent palliative process that involves sharing of funds. According to him, the N500bn palliative fund and an additional $800m, as requested by the President, could go a long way in fixing the three refineries in the country and resuscitate some companies which are moribund.,"

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN! TINUBU SHOULD DO THE NEEDFUL BY CHAMPIONING AN EXECUTIVE BILL TO PROCLAIM A REFERENDUM THAT WILL DEMAND FOR A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT FOR NIGERIA WITHIN THREE (3) MONTHS - AUGUST - OCTOBER 2023, WITHOUT FAIL!
This is a Divine Order that MUST be obeyed by Mr. BAT to avoid the LORD'S ANGER!
OUR GOD IS CONSUMING FIRE!

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Diarchy is a government jointly ruled by military and civilian components. From the first and second military coups, January/ July 1966 and up to the end of the "Biafra War" in January 1970, Nigerian soldiers dominated the entire landscape of the country by totally usurping all functions of democratic values and governance!

They also deprived citizens of their inalienable fundamental human rights!
In a warning to Mr. Tinubu (Zion B-BC Newsletter publication of 7th April 2023. Volume 12 No.508, We specifically emphasize that downtrodden Nigerians can hardly wait for Monday 29th May 2023 to bid good riddance to the last of all the military merchants who have overstayed their welcome and who for 57 years (1966 - 2023, practically turned the country into a BEGGAR NATION through mismanagement of all natural endowments and deliberate failure to develop human capital into full potential!

Abdusalam who took over following the demise of General Sani Abacha handed over to retired old general Olusegun Obasanjo who tried to perpetrate himself for a third term of four years (2007-2011) but was resisted by the Citizens!
And another military general Buhari during his Eight-year tenure decided to perpetuate his chief security officers in office contrary to the constitution and now that he has successfully installed a surrogate as civilian president, it has manifest that his clandestine plan is still in place. Buhari kept all Service Chiefs whom he appointed from 2015-2021 in spite of public outcry while citizens suffered degradation and insecurity through atrocities by Boko Haram terrorists!

And eventually when they were retired, it was with pomp, pageantry and grandeur send forth with many royalty severance packages of humongous allowances plus foreign appointments as ambassadors in oversea countries!
MR. TINUBU HAS FOLLOWED SUIT BY DISHING OUTRAGEOUS SEVERANCE BOOTIES FOR THE RECENTLY RETIRED SECURITY CHIEFS!

Please find below a very detailed analysis of another Tinubu's confused decisions since he increased the Citizens sufferings from the day of his inaugural goof of "removing subsidy before providing palliatives" – which if reversed should have portrayed him as an astute manager of the economy!

Whistler.ng like other media reports has succinctly put the infuriating mis-management of BORROWED FUNDS by Tinubu in this format:
"Nigeria to Spend N3bn on Severance Package for Ex-Service Chiefs, Retired Generals Annually."By Martins Ayotunde, Kasarahchi Aniagolu On Jul 5, 2023
"The retirement benefits of the newly replaced service chiefs and other senior military officers compulsorily retired following the appointment of their juniors as service chiefs will cost Nigerians over three billion naira annually, findings by THE WHISTLER have shown.
"An analysis of the combined costs of their emoluments and benefits, asides from pension, of the four outgoing service chiefs including the Chief of Defence, General Lucky Irabor; Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant Colonel Farouq Yahaya; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Amao revealed that the retired service chiefs will benefit about N345,080,000 annually which includes the annual salaries of personnel attached to them, vehicle purchases and healthcare cost.

"Other military generals with seniority on commission above that of NDA Regular Course 39 who were forced to retire will also get vehicles, health, and personal staff.
"The over 100 affected senior officers will cost the country over N2,824,000,000 every year asides from their monthly pension.
"Details of the juicy emoluments of the affected officers first became public on Saturday following a Punch report which cited The Harmonised Terms and Conditions of Service for Officers of the Armed Forces of Nigeria 2017 (revised) which listed the benefits of the retired Generals upon leaving the respective services.
"According to the secret document, benefits of a retiring CDS and service chiefs include one bulletproof SUV or equivalent vehicle to be maintained by the service and to be replaced every four years; two Peugeot 508 cars or equivalent backup vehicles; and five domestic aides made up of two service cooks, two stewards, and a civilian gardener.
"Each of them is also entitled to an Aide-de-Camp/security officer; special assistant of a lieutenant/captain or equivalent, or personal assistant of the rank of warrant officer or equivalent; and nine standard guards of soldiers.

"They are also entitled to three service drivers; one service orderly; escorts to be provided by the appropriate military units/formations as the need arises; and free medical cover in Nigeria and abroad to the tune of $20,000 yearly.
"Other military generals forced into retirement are individually entitled to one Peugeot 508, a cook, a steward, two residential guards, one service orderly, one service driver, and free medicals in Nigeria and abroad to the tune of $15,000 per year. These officers include Major Generals and equivalents in the Navy and Air Force.
"Ex-service chiefs are entitled to a total of 21 staff each drawn from their respective military formation (i.e. Army, Navy, or Airforce) and one civilian staff, they can also request escorts to be provided by the appropriate military units/formations as the need arises.

"The 21 personal staff comprises 1 orderly, 1 Aide-de-camp, 1 Special Assistant, 1 Personal Assistant, 3 Service Drivers, 9 standard guards of soldiers as well as 5 domestic staff (2 service cooks, 2 stewards, and 1 civilian gardener). The HTACOS document also specified the rank of some of the aides to be provided for the ex-service chiefs.

TOTAL COSTS

'A summation of all the costs shows that each retired service chief will cost the country N24,120,000 in personnel and staff, N46,750,000 in vehicles and another 15,400,000 naira in medicals. This gives a total of N86, 270,000 per service chief. The four of them will cost the country N345, 080,000 yearly.
"Retired generals will take N7,440,000 in personnel and staff costs; N9,250,000 in vehicles and N11,550,000 in medicals annually which gives a total of N28,240,000 naira. 100 retired generals will cost the country N2, 824,000,000 naira every year.
"Subsequently, all the newly retired military officials will cost the Federal Government a total of N3, 169,080,000 in combined costs yearly."

TINUBU'S SELF-INFLITED FINANCIAL TRAVAIL HAS EXPOSED THE FACT THAT HE WASN'T PREPARED FOR PRESIDENCY!

In addition to the soldiers severance remuneration, all governors, legislators and local government chairmen who were not re-elected are also in the wing to collect humongous severance allowances! It is true that the National Assembly has rubber-stamped the NGN500 billion naira which Tinubu requested for palliatives in respect of fuel subsidy removal but no action has commenced on how to disburse the said amount because he does not want the money to go into “wrong hands"! And in the meantime the mass sufferings continue unabated because there is no National Register of 100million dimensionally- poor Nigerians to be deployed for the immediate CASH TRANSFER of N8, 000 naira per month for six months for family of FIVE!

In addition to the confusion, USD $800 million dollars loan which has been granted to the previous administration is to be disbursed according to specifications by the lender unlike the NGN500 billion loan which NGN 70 billion naira was already allocated to NASS!
According to available statistics from Nigeria bureau of statistics NBS household expenditures is in the neighbourhood of NGN130.077, 621billion naira per month while inflation has soared to, 22.4%!

MR. PRESIDENT SHOULD BE AFRAID OF CITIZENS COUP DE TAT AND NOT THE MILITARY!

The citizens are at their highest point of resilience and can no longer absorb any more sufferings! Because of the Hosehold expenses measure unguarded utterances of Mr. Tinubu who decided to PUT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE through his unpreparedness for leadership in governance at the level of PRESIDENCY!
The TRUTH must be told that LAGOS STATE IS NOT NIGERIA but only one of the 36 States. All those accolades that have been adduced to him as having developed Lagos into a mega cosmopolitan and business destination on the West African Coast is balderdash!
The whole world can see the unpreparedness of this man WHO LEFT OFFICE OVER 15 YEARS AGO AND HAS REMAINED ON THE SIDELINE EVER SINCE
and how he has messed up the economy and expect that it should be business as usual!

His style of governance is unacceptable to the masses of this nation. What he should be doing right now is to create more employment for the people in the AGRICULTURAL SECTOR because it is the most viable of all the others. And whereas HE IS SHOPPING FOR MORE TAXES! We have it on good authority that import tax has astronomically increased to 80% and this policy will definitely affect importation of fertilizers and all other agricultural inputs!

A hungry man is an angry man! Tinubu on his return from Kenya Africa Union meeting must sponsor the Referendum Bill for a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT to avert the dangers that are looming ahead. A word is enough for the wise!

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Did 'Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT), say that his controversial, inhuman, insensitive, and unguarded declaration in respect of removal of subsidy cannot be reversed?

Of course not! Only his apologists have engaged in false doctrines:
1) That Nigeria's economy would come to a standstill if the unilateral declaration was reversed.
2) That government would not be able to deliver socio- economic contracts and obligations like debt-servicing, compulsory remittances to global and sub-regional bodies etc on regular basis.
3) Fresh Insecurities would emerge in preventing smuggling of petroleum products to neighbouring countries along the nation's porous borders.
4) That outstanding debts that were due to offset previous importations would accumulate.
5) That artificial fuel scarcity would ensue because private importers that were enjoying the new prices of between N540. N700 - N1,000 naira per litre of PMS, "according to international market forces", would hoard the products and create fresh artificial scarcity and that the masses would be worse for it etc!

Apologists would always create the worst scenarios to justify their appointments and salaries even at peril of consciously instigating imminent civil disobedience that could easily be avoided!

AT THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES - A MATTER IS ESTABLISHED!

We were the First Body to condemn Tinubu's undiplomatic utterance at his inauguration and advised him to rescind it with immediate effect! We devoted THREE PUBLICATIONS on this ugly national trend
In the month of June 2023, and We wait patiently for him to do the needful before it was too late! Second, political activists under the aegis of the Coalition for Revolution (CORE), according to newspapers reports also called on him to reverse the removal of petrol subsidy by his government which immediately resulted in long queues at filling stations, hike in petrol price and increase in transportation fare across the country.

“On fuel subsidy, the budget I met before I assumed office and what I heard is that there is no provision for subsidy. Fuel subsidy is gone,” he had said.
But reacting to the removal of the subsidy, CORE described the government action as an attack against the poor masses. According to the activists, the federal government’s argument that Nigeria’s indebtedness is due to petrol subsidy is not true, adding that governments in Europe and North America provide subsidies for energy, food and other essentials to placate the public.

CORE accused Tinubu’s administration of committing itself to liberalisation of the economy and social services, noting that this would lead to increment in school fees, hike in the price of quality health services, and increment in house rents for working people.

“The APC regime of Bola Ahmed Tinubu has hit the ground running with a whip of anti-poor policies, aimed at repressing working-class people for capitalists. The first in the series of attacks against the poor masses was launched at his inauguration when he declared an immediate removal of the fuel subsidy, despite the fact that allocation for the said subsidy is included in the 2023 Appropriation Act, until the end of June.
“He has followed up on this with the first steps towards a full-scale devaluation of the naira, under the guise of unifying the official and black market foreign exchange rates.

“The Tinubu administration, whose legitimacy to rule is still questionable, has committed itself to liberalisation of the economy and social services. This means increases in school fees which several tertiary institutions are introducing already, the pricing of quality health services further out of the reach of poor people, and increasing house rents for working people.
“The only way that working-class people can save themselves from the agony of this barrage of neoliberal policies and many more to come is with stiff resistance. The Coalition for Revolution (CORE) had thus seen the Nigeria Labour Congress’ call for a strike as an important point of departure for the struggle... but is LABOUR NOT CULPABLE?
Third, was the WORLD BANK'S REPORT, of Thursday 29th June 2023, which stated that 4 million more Nigerians had joined the 133 MULTI- DIMENSIONALLY POOR between January and June 2020.

In addition 7.1 million more will join if subsidy removal subsidy was not properly managed and suggested that "compensating transfers will be essential in helping to shield Nigerian households from the initial price in parts of the petrol subsidy reform".

TINUBU HAS BEEN EXPOSED AS A PUPPET TO FORMER COLONIAL MASTERS!

As far as the United States, United Kingdom, European Union and other prominent foreign countries were concerned, Tinubu was on the right track and they have supported his reckless action only to prove that Africa will remain a slave to their continents!

QUESTIONS QUESTIONS !!!!!

Are Nigerians the worst sinners on Earth?
It will be preposterous to assume or conclude in that manner!
The Nigerian project is under siege! It is being robbed and the desecrated by the FEUDALS!
Who should be blamed for the horrible state of the Nation which favours Tinubu and his gang to the detriment of the masses? Who's should suffer the hardships and tighten their belts if not those who have created the quagmire of subsidy removal?

If government failed to fulfill its constitutional duties and obligations should the citizens take the blame having been short-changed and robbed of all their fundamental rights? Who should suffer for government's delinquency, ineptitude, derelictions, mis-management, inappropriateness, policy somersaults cluelessness e t c?

It is the duty of government to ensure compliance to all socio-economic contracts with the citizens. If they failed who should be punished and held culpable?
WHY SHOULD NIGERIANS WHO REFUSED TO ,"JAPA" CONTINUE TO SUFFER FOR BEING PATRIOTIC CITIZENS WHEN CREDIBLE POLICY FORMULATION AND EXECUTION ARE THE EXCLUSIVE PRESERVES OF LEADERS IN GOVERNMENT?
If the ROADS are not motorable, Rails are impassable, Terrorism and Insecurity are consistently at their PEAKS, Who should take the blames?

TINUBU IS THE CHIEF AND UNREPENTANT SINNER IN NIGERIA!

As a chip of the old block Tinubu on his arrival from his first foreign tour to France and Britain bombarded Lagos roads with a barrage of Presidential fleet of over 100 vehicles that escorted him from the Airport to his Bourdillon Residence in Ikoyi Lagos - a distance of about 20 kilometers! They had all tanks fill to the brim with TAX PAYERS MONEY!

Breaking News!!!!
N400 billion naira has been saved through Subsidy removal in the month of June 2023! Will Tinubu expend it on recurrent expenditures of staff salaries/emoluments?

And yet, his All Progressives Congress (APC) Government promises in its manifesto to reduce cost of governance and completely eliminate flagrant lifestyles of all functionaries of the State! Who is deceiving who if not Tinubu and his gang?

HIS ONLY SAVING GRACE WILL BE TO QUICKLY CALL FOR A REFERENDUM TO INSTITUTE A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THAT WILL INCLUDE GRASSROOT PARTICIPATION IN OBEDIENCE TO DIVINE COMMAND WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS!

"Obedience is better than sacrifice!"

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Proponents of TRUE FEDERALISM from within the ranks of past administrations in Nigeria from 1999 deliberately deceived the citizens to further perpetrate military presidency!
They were insincere when they initiated National Conferences of delegates from all Geo-Political Zones to discuss and made recommendations when it was common knowledge that True Federalism
could only thrive in a democracy that was completely devoid of corruption, tribalism, nepotism, autocracy, feudalism, despotism, and bigotry in all its ramifications!

Ex- Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), foisted Kangaroo National Conferences which gulped TWO DIGIT BILLIONS OF NAIRA to corruptly suppress True Federalism agitatators but to no avail!
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), which is currently battling for 'Bola Tinubu's credibility at the Presidential Election Petition Court, did not touch the volumes of recommendations until August 2017 when it set up a 23-Man Committee on True Federalism headed by the ex Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasri El Rufai, which came up with 24 Issues which attracted public interest.

On 25th January 2018 a comprehensive report was handed over to former National Chairman of APC Chief John Oyegun who promised that by the middle of February 2018 all structures of the party would meet and consider the report so that the National Executive Council (NEC), which was the party's caucus would be able to decide on all salient issues. Up to the time of Buhari's two-term tenure, the report never saw the daylight!

AND NOW TINUBU HAS CONTINUED TO BASTARDIZE NIGERIA WITH MILITARY PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM AND EVERYBODY IS HAILING HIM!

The moral decadence in the Nigerian polity has taken the dimension of the "dog going back to its vomit!"
SHAMELESS CITIZENS FROM ALL POLITICAL DIVIDE ARE CONGRATULATING 'BOLA TINUBU FOR JUMPING FROM FRYING PAN INTO FIRE AFTER HIS INAUGURAL GAFFE IN RESPECT OF PETROL SUBSIDY REMOVAL WITHOUT NECESSARY AND POSITIVE PALLIATIVES IN PLACE TO CUSHION THE SPIRAL EFFECTS PLAGUING THE DOWN TRODDEN MASSES OF MULTI-DIMENSIONALLY POVERTY-STRICKEN TALAKAWAS!

Most of the small parties that have won some seats across board both at the National Assembly and at the State Assemblies have begun to jump ship into the ruling APC even as litigation for credibility was still ongoing at the Petition Tribunal!

SPECIAL ADVISERS BEFORE INAUGURATION TOLD TINUBU TO HIT THE GROUND RUNNING!

On assumption to the highest office having departed active service in 15 years, he obeyed without a second thought and in FOUR WEEKS OF CONTINUOUS BLUNDERS (29TH MAY - 25TH JUNE 2023), the following absurdities cascaded from Aso Rock like a molten lava and destroying everything in its path.
1) He verbally removed the obnoxious, controversial, phantom fuel subsidy during his inaugural speech without any consultation with established authorities like the National Economic Council (NEC) and insulted the citizen's collective psyche sarcastically by claiming that he mentioned during his campaign that he would remove the phantom subsidy if he became President!
2) He inaugurated NEC on Wednesday 21st June 2023 to belatedly discuss palliatives after the Citizens had suffered untold hardships which cannot go away except his UNILATERAL DECISION ON SUBSIDY REMOVAL WAS RESCINDED!
3) The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) are holding discussions with the Federal Government that Subsidy Removal should be reversed and that in the interim, workers must be paid a NATIONAL WAGE OF 200,000 NAIRA PER MONTH! Questions to be answered by President Tinubu: Can a builder embark on a construction without first digging a solid foundation? Were there palliatives in place to cushion the spiral effect of astronomical increase of 160% on cost of goods and services? What about food scarcity and inflation escalation day by day and the citizens anger that resulted into civil disobedience in some parts of the country?
4) Signing Statute-bar Bills without proper advice. (4) Appointment of Advisors when Permanent Secretaries of MDAs were in charge with authentic data for smooth administration; the same old method of compensating loyalists. (5) Ensuring that subsidy removal would provide funds to pay salaries and allowances of his administration at the detriment of the masses.
5) He suspended the Central Bank Governor (CBN), and EFCC Chairman on allegations of corruption and abuse of office.
6) Dabbled into national security - a terrain to which he was completely alien by summarily sacking of all Service Chiefs/National Security Adviser and replacing them with immediate effect in order to show his executive power as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces!
7) Since his assumption of office COST OF GOVERNANCE HAS INCREASED BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS and he is thinking of BORROWING MORE MONEY BUT HAS BEEN BLOCKED BY THE DEBT MANAGEMENT OFFICE!
On Thursday 22nd June 2023, news filtered in that 114% salary increase for Mr. President, his Vice, elected Federal and State political office holders and Judicial officers Federal and State political office holders and judicial officers had been finalized as if it were BUSINESS AS USUAL - but his aides have denied the news as untrue.

REBELLION IS AS SIN OF WITCH CRAFT!

Instead of complying with DIVINE INSTRUCTION to announce at inauguration the composition of a CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY that will formulate the necessary laws to initiate a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF HIS ASSUMPTION, Tinubu did the opposite by adding more headaches, migraine, excruciating pains, agonies and even deaths to the less privileged of the society who are the taxpayers by denying them the only DIVIDEND OF DEMOCRACY - PETROL AT AFFORDABLE PRICE!

QUESTION QUESTION QUESTION!!!!!

HAS TINUBU AND HIS TEAM OF SPECIAL AIDES AND ADVISERS DECLARED THEIR ASSETS ACCORDING TO THE CODE OF CONDUCT BUREAU (C C B) AND TRIBUNAL ACT CHAPTER 58 LAW OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA (LFN) 1990?
CCB has the legal mandate to establish and maintain a high standard of public morality in the conduct of government business and to ensure that the actions and behaviour public officers conform to the highest standards of public morality.

The Agency must also carry out its own onerous duties by assuring that all public officers whether elected or appointed recruited or contracted must collect a mandatory form from its offices across the 36 States of the Federation and the FCT and fill and return such forms duly signed to confirm that the declarant could vouchsafe that every declaration was his or her conviction and was true and correct.

And that every declarant was also required by law to declare his or her assets liabilities actually owned including overseas properties stating their values in foreign currencies at the material time and not anticipated assets/liabilities including that of a spouse is who is not a public officer and children under 18 years of age; sincerely and submitted to the Bureau within 30 days of the receipt of the forms. Declarants must personally go and swear to the declarations before a High Court Judge nearest to their work stations before submitting to the Bureau. Most importantly all of these must have been done before assumption of any government appointment!!! Nigerians need urgent answers from Tinubu and his newly recruited CRONIES immediately!

Tinubu is believed to be wealthier than the LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT - ALBEIT THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT!
Nigerians cannot easily forget how Tinubu boasted of sponsoring the ex President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC to win elections in 2015 and 2019. They cannot also forget the BULLION VAN that were sighted at his Ikoyi Residence, Lagos State on the days of elections and how he also boasted that he could spend his money as a liked!

Today Tinubu is President of Nigeria. He must give account to Nigerians before giving any further Presidential Executive Orders on the affairs of this nation!

ANOTHER QUESTION TO BE ASKED ABOUT THE "FUEL SUBSIDY IS GONE" VITUPERATION AT HIS INAUGURATION?
Did it have the backing of any INSTRUMENT OF LAW? WAS IT GAZETTED? WAS IT A PRESIDENTIAL PREROGATIVE? OR WAS IT EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 1 WITHOUT LEGAL BACKING? Nigerians need answers very quickly!

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

(A). Nigeria was alien to terrorism, insurgency high profile crimes and criminality until 1999 when a former military Head of State was released from PRISON to become a DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT to the surprise of concerned patriots but little did anyone realise that his debut was the beginning of another round of sufferings of the Citizens under a fresh set of Task Masters!

The demise of General Sani Abacha should have concluded the end of military era forever in Nigeria but it did not turn out as expected because the most senior in rank after him decided otherwise!

Retired General Olusegun Obasanjo who was imposed as civilian President desecrated the high office in soldierly manner by perpetrating all manner of atrocities through extra-judicial killings, premeditated and executed by unknown government operatives and after two terms of EIGHT YEARS, he had the effrontery to surreptitiously moot his inordinate ambition to RULE for a third term!

With one voice all patriotic Nigerians opposed his unconstitutional and clandestine move and in retaliation he openly declared that the 2007 Presidential Elections would be "A DO-OR-DIE EVENT!
(B). The duo of Umaru Musa Yar'adua and Goodluck Jonathan took over the mantle of leadership from the very corrupt administration of Obasanjo without effecting any positive change!

At the height of public outcry and the media against institutional mal-administration and decadence Jonathan said that STEALING WAS NOT CORRUPTION and so until he was ousted in 2015 the country was subjected to shame and degradation among the comity of Nations.

(C). While ex-President Muhammadu Buhari was in the trench as opposition, each time he failed to rest the presidency from the various incumbents from 2003 to 2015, he belched fire and brimstone and caused the death of so many innocent citizens most especially in the Northern States of Nigeria through unwarranted and senseless protests.
At a stage, he boasted that if he did not win his Fourth attempt in 2015, "DOGS AND BABOONS WILL BE SOAKED IN BLOOD!"

He kept his promise in eight years of two terms to destroy Nigeria totally with unprecedented figures of human casualties and massive destruction of institutional strategic infrastructures! His administration had been adjudged as the worst so far since attainment of Nigeria's Independence from the British Colonial Masters!

(D). THE STATE GOVERNORS AND LEGISLATORS WERE EQUALLY CULPABLE!

NASIR El RUFAI, two term Governor of Kaduna State, led the pack of feudalistic, clanish, tribalistic, nepotistic and religious bigots among State Administrators from 2015-2023!

He took special delight in the sufferings/anguish deliberately meted on the Southern Kaduna Indigenes who were dominantly Christians through regular attacks by armed Fulani Herdsmen who regularly invaded their territories in company of their foreign collaborators to kill, maim and destroy their properties and farms with reckless abandon! Also at the slightest disagreement on political issues with his colleagues he vented his anger by demolishing their immovable properties which according to him were situated on unapproved plots of lands!

(E). NYESOME WIKE, erstwhile Governor of Rivers State was another sadistic politician who took delight in extra-judicial killings of the opposition!
From the very bloody 2015 gubernatorial elections which brought him to power to the end of his second tenure, Rivers State was notorious for decapitation of its citizens through sponsored cultism by his administration!
Graves of headless bodies littered Port Harcourt and it's suburbs throughout his reign of terror! A Nigeria Police Assistant Superintendent, posted to the State Capital was beheaded in cold blood in the heat and desperation for a second term bid!

(F).THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS {APC) INCUMBENT KOGI STATE GOVERNOR - Yahaya Bello, turned out to be a terror to the citizens of the State in spite of the fact that he was a product of divine providence. He stepped in without any election following the demise of Abubakar Audu, the governorship candidate who had already won the ballot!

In the events leading to his second tenure from from16th November 2019, Yahaya Bello showed his true colours by unleashing mayhem upon the population by sponsoring arms-wielding thugs to terrorize all opposition! An opposition party Woman Leader was allegedly locked up in her residence and burnt alive with her properties during electioneering campaigns!

Now he calls himself the LION OF KOGI STATE! On 3rd June 2023, his convoy confronted the Social Democratic Party (SDP), governorship candidate on a Lokoja Highway and he was said to have ordered his security details to shoot and kill the entire entire opposition entourage who escaped by the whiskers!
And in an media interview, he describe the opposition candidate as an ANTELOPE which crossed the path of a LION and boasted that the antelope would not be so lucky the next time! Shortly before 25th February 2023, Presidential Elections, the power-drunk Governor instructed all APC Stakeholders and Candidates to physically harass all opposition and ensure victory at all costs!

(G). 7TH NASARAWA STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY NOW BOASTS OF TWO SPEAKERS FOLLOWING A DICHOTOMY!

The inaugural ceremony of the 7th Nasarawa State of Assembly on Tuesday 6th June 2023, produced two Speakers (1) A third-term seeking candidate and (2) A green horn representing Kokona Constituency of the State – at different venues!

(H). AIR NIGERIA IS A SCAM AND A FRAUD - NASS!

The outgoing Legislators of the 9th National Assembly (NASS), House of Representatives described the Nigeria Air national carrier launched before the exit of Muhammadu Buhari by his fanatic home-boy Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika as a complete SCAM and FRAUD!
(I). Senator 'Bola Tinubu has signed the obnoxious, detestable and outrageous Bill on Electricity Tarrifs into law just like other draconian Bills that are anti-citizens!

(J).Tinubu's eldest daughter has appointed herself as the IYALOJA GENERAL OF NIGERIA (HEAD OF ALL MARKET WOMEN), AND SIMULTANEOUSLY, THE FIRST DAUGHTER OF NIGERIA while the outgoing SENATE has addressed Mrs.'Remi Tinubu as FIRST LADY a title that does not exist in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria! The list of questionable behaviors of Nigerian politicians which point to situations of psychotic challenges or mental disorders is very long but suffice it to recommend that there could be no better time than NOW for all Nigerians to demand that current office holders should be mandated to submit themselves for HEAD CHECKS WITHOUT EXCEPTIONS and henceforth no politician would vie for elective offices without requisite and authentic PSYCHIATRIC CERTIFICATE!

NIGERIANS DESERVE A VERY SANE CLIME AS WE LOOK FORWARD TO A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT TO BE INITIATED BY PRESIDENT ‘BOLA TINUBU WITHIN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS ACCORDING TO DIVINE MANDATE!

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Buhari's twilight contracts and appointments have garnered negative public comments/outcries and continued to hit headlines of major newspapers in Nigeria and the Disapora, since he finally returned from his two-week visit to London for King Charles III Coronation and Dentist appointment, (3rd-16th, 2023), all at the Taxpayers doorstep!
From the second week in May and up to the time of this publication (28-05-23), the array of headlines include but not limited to:
1) Buhari leads governors into award of last-minute contracts.
2) Buhari clears over 40 pending memos, appoints agency.
3) Last-minute contracts appointments: Buhari and governors.
4) Buhari, governors with controversial contracts
5) Buhari's Aviation Minister Sirika under fire over last minute appointments.
6) Buhari's last-minute appointments, contracts will cause more damage to incoming government ;
7) 19 Days to go, Buhari seeks fresh $800m World Bank Loan ( Stop piling debts for incoming President, Govs, Anti- graft Organisation tells Buhari, others, etc.

The Independent Newspaper front page publication of Sunday 28th May 2023, titled: "CACOL Cautions FG, Outgoing Govs On Last Minute Contracts, Appropriations' and credited to Ejikeme Omenazu, reported that Chairman of the NGO, Centre for Anti-corruption and Open Leadership, Mr. 'Debo Adeniran, expressed reservations at the flagrant manner outgoing administrations both at the Federal and State levels have been awarding contracts. The Chairman also disclosed that outgoing administrators of various administrations across geo-political zones had made appointments into sensitive positions and presented supplementary budgets almost at the eve of the expiration of their tenures! HE also condemned the recent actions by the outgoing officials, last-minute rush to award contracts, sign new laws and make new appointments into key positions without due process.

CACOL accused the Federal government especially for announcing the award of multi-million naira contract for various ministries which amounted to a whopping sum of NGN 327.34billion naira even at its 10th May 2023, weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC), Meeting.

Beneficiary Ministries include transportation, Sports, Aviation, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Works including ongoing projects, IRS buildings in Abuja and Port-Harcourt. The report claimed that out-going State Governors have awarded suspicious similar contracts and signed new bills into law! The outgoing Taraba State Governor Darius Ishiaku was said to have commissioned an uncompleted 500 Units Housing Estate for civil servants ( contracted since 2017) and paid upfront all bills connected to the "Estate" named after him! Previously, he was reported to have approved 2 billion naira for the purchase of cars for himself his deputy and their wives.

Delta State was not left out in the publication which claimed that the outgoing Governor Ifeanyi Okowa (and PDP's Vice Presidential Candidate at the February 2023 Presidential Elections), recently presented a NGN71 billion naira supplementary budget to the State House of Assembly, 14 days to the expiration of his two terms tenure. This supplementary budget was made up of NGN5.6 billion naira in Recurrent Expenditure and NGN65.5 billion naira in Capital Expenditure!

PLEASE FIND BELOW THE DAILY POST PUBLICATION OF 24TH MAY,2023, TITLED: "BUHARI'S AVIATION MINISTER, SIRIKA UNDER FIRE OVER LAST-MINUTE APPOINTMENTS IN FAAN, NAMA." BY 'SEUN OPEJOBI.

The Centre for Social Change and Democracy (CSD), has criticised the recent appointment spree in the Federal Ministry of Aviation by its Minister Captain Hadi Sirika. The centre alleged that the appointees are cronies of the minister who have no business occupying such positions.
It also called for a thorough investigation of the appointments, employments, and awards of contract in the aviation sector insisting that the minister had to explain how funds budgeted for the Nigeria Air project were utilized.

In a statement signed by its Executive Director Edward Abakpa, the Center claimed the appointments are the last- ditch attempt by Sirika to reward his loyalists who will in turn sustain the corruption looting and high-handedness he allegedly entrenched in the aviation sector. Recall that Sirika recently approved the appointment of Kabir Yusuf Mohammed as the Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Sirika also named Engr A Tayib Odunowo as the substantive Managing Director/CEO of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA).
About 30 others were either handed fresh appointments or redeployed with just a few days to the end of Sirika's tenure as Minister.
Abakpa noted that the new FAAN and NAMA bosses are not qualified for the roles adding that they are beneficiaries of Sirika's power play.
"Sirika negates the central mystique of the Buhari Administration, especially the anti-corruption fight. While the minister's shady skills aren’t new, they reached a new level with the new appointment, Abakpa claimed.
The Centre alleged that "Sirika is building obstacles and creating organizational confusion for the incoming administration. His actions have taken the ministry backwards. The minister's direct control resulted in transactional rather than functional operation of the agencies, thereby impeding their progress.
"Sirika through his micro-management activities has led to the current state of the sector.
He has woefully failed in his duties and deserves a certificate for this. He must not cause further wreckage for 'Bola Tinubu.

"It is on this note that we are calling for a thorough investigation of those appointments, employment, awards of contracts and promotion within the aviation sector. Sirika must explain to the world how funds budgeted for the Nigeria Air project have been expended.
"He should also explain how his cronies got to the pinnacle of the aviation sector without the requisite qualifications. Failure by the Tinubu Government to probe these appointments will throw the country into monumental chaos and mark a return to the dark ages when the airwaves were unsafe for people to fly anywhere in the country."

HADI SIRIKA DISOBEYS COURT ORDER OVER "NIGERIA AIR" - EXIBITED HIGHEST FORM OF OFFICIAL IMPUNITY TO DEBUT AIR FLIGHT TO ABUJA - FRIDAY 26TH MAY 2023, WHILE BUHARI LOOKED THE OTHER WAY!

Outgoing Minister of Aviation Hadi sirika made sure his boast that Nigeria Air aircraft would be in the air before 29th May 2023, the departure date of himself and his boss in spite of the fact that there was a court injunction forbidding him to carry out such action.
He made the disclosure "sub-judice" at the National Aviation Stakeholders Forum 2023 in Abuja on Thursday 23rd March 2023 in spite of the fact that all matters relating to the project were still in court and under litigation.
The first aircraft of Nigeria Air landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Friday afternoon 26th May 20 23 and in a Tweet on that day Hadi Abu bakr Sirika said: "We are here. To Almighty God be all the glory. It has been a very long, tedious, daunting and difficult path. We thank everyone for the support. This by the will of God will be for us and generations to come. Ya Allah make it beneficial for our country and humanity."

WILL BUHARI ADMINISTRATION GET AWAY WITH THESE ASSAULTS ON THE PEOPLE AND THEIR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS?

Tinubu MUST "right all wrongs, reverse all the FIRE BRIGADE contracts, illegal contracts, spurious promotions etc, and set in motion the conducive political atmosphere for UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF HIS INAUGURATION ACCORDING TO DIVINE MANDATE!

Tinubu must not lose a life-time opportunity to redeem his image as an addicted Human Rights Activist and Crusader!
He MUST HIT THE GROUND RUNNING FROM THE EAGLE SQUARE AND PROVE ALL OF US RIGHT IN RESPECT OF HIS TRUE IDENTITY AS A COMMITED DEMOCRAT!
"A stitch in time saves nine!"

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

The outgoing Legislators of 9th RUBBER-STAMP National Assembly (NASS), on 3rd May 2023, surreptitiously approved President Muhammadu Buhari's request to restructure repayment of the NGN22.7 trillion naira loan which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) advanced to the Federal Government under its "Ways and Means" policy scheme to spread over a period of 40years!

The global fiscal scheme which statute is properly documented in the CBN Act is designed to cushion shortfalls and inadequacies in annual budget expenditures. However, there is a caveat which must ensure that a previous loan was vacated before another was granted!

"Ways and Means" is a conceived solution to prevent a flagging economy to remain afloat through the printing of unearned paper currencies to prevent administrations from running aground!

Last year the Senate rejected this request to approve the "Ways and Means" advance restructuring which was intended to pave way for another loan of NGN1trillion naira from the CBN to fund the NGN819.5 billion 2022 Supplementary Budget which the legislators approved in December. The House of Representatives according to reports, approved the NGN1 trillion naira under pressure from joint House Committees on Finance, Banking and Currency; Aids, Loans and Debts Management in spite of the fact that the CBN had violated its own rules in respect of accumulation of unpaid loans!

IT WAS ALLEGED THAT A SUM OF USD150 MILLION DOLLARS BRIBE EXCHANGED HANDS ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO EFFECT THE ILLICIT TRANSACTION! TRUE OR FALSE?

Section 38 of the CBN Act stipulates that "Ways and Means" advances must be refunded before another could be collected and that since the law was already breached the President's request should be denied!

GOING DOWN THE MEMORY LANE.

In our 490th Edition of the Zion B-BC Newsletter dated 1st January, 2023, and titled: "Nigeria's "Ways And Means" Advances Scheme Is The Volume of Water In A Basket!"; WE vehemently opposed the old General's plan to keep Nigeria and the coming generations in perpetual debt repayment bondage of 40 years because of his penchant for borrowing without generating internal revenues!

WE agreed with some Senators who faulted the unorthodox and very suspicious restructuring transaction and described it as unknown to the Nigerian law! We also urged NASS to step it down until lawmakers got more details and whether the expenditure complied with sections 80, 81, 83, 113 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended and Section 38 of the CBN Act!

BUHARI REQUESTED THAT NASS SHOULD APPROVE SECURITIZATION OF THE HUMONGOUS DEBT TO COVER A PERIOD OF 40 YEARS AND SIMULTANEOUSLY SUBMITTED THE 2022 SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET ALONGSIDE THE NGN20.51 TRILLION 2023 APPROPRIATION BILL FOR CONSIDERATION!

From his first term inauguration in 2015, he ensured that he did not plough the so-called meager resources which he met on ground into Capital-Intensive Projects but focused on Concurrent Domestic Expenditures in respect of payment of salaries and allowances to an unproductive Civil Service and a retinue of Cabinet Ministers/Appointees!

THE FAULTY 1999 MILITARY PRESIDENTIAL CONSTITUTION AFFORDED PRESIDENT BUHARI EXECUTIVE POWERS TO SPEND FROM THE TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT (TSA), WITHOUT QUERY!

In spite of the fact that he junketed all over the world under the pretex of attracting investors who cannot be identified in EIGHT YEARS, Buhari made sure that he SQUANDERED all resources that accrued from CRUDE OIL - NIGERIA'S MAJOR FOREX EXCHANGE EARNER; & REGULARLY AWARDED CONTRACTS TO HIS FAVORITE CABINET MINISTERS AT THE ILLEGAL/UNCONSTITUTIONAL WEEKLY WEDNESDAY FEDERAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING!

He purchased 12 new A - 29 TUCANO JETS at USD$500 dollars under controversial circumstances, from the United States to tackle insecurity BUT IN EIGHT YEARS could neither defeat Boko Haram terrorism bandits, gunmen, mercenary Fulani Terrorists into Nigeria nor assuage insecurities!

HE is leaving behind OVER NGN77 TRILLION NAIRA DEBT AND AN EMPTY TREASURY while the TALAKAWAS CONTINUE TO WALLOW IN PENURY, POVERTY, INSECURITIES, DAILY PAINS AND SORROWS THROUGH PAINFUL/AGONIZING AND INCESSANT MURDERS IN THE HANDS OF FELLOW NIGERIANS AND FOREIGN MERCENARIES!

QUESTION:

What did Mr. Buhari use the printed paper currencies for?

ANSWER: To pay salaries of the Three Arms, to bail out STATES that are BROKE. To pay for all foreign/ local jamborees of the old General and his large Entourage. To pay for local and foreign Estacodes for Mr.President, all Civil Servants, Political Jobbers, Appointees, Special Assistants etc.!

HE BOASTED THAT HE WOULD BORROW TO THE LAST DAY IN OFFICE AND HAS SUCCEEDED TO CONVINCE THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO APPROVE THE CONTROVERSIAL "WAYS AND MEANS" ADVANCES SCHEME!

Following are the consequences of the money printing and excessive borrowing of Mr. Buhari in the past EIGHT YEARS:

1) Hyper-inflation and cost of living which stands at two digits of 21.82% according to Consumer Price Index (CPI) since February 2023, is still climbing due to Naira Redesign Policy cash crunch!
2) Abject multi-dimensional poverty among 85% of the 220 million population!
3) Food inflation mostly among the down-trodden!
4) Hyper-inflation on goods and services - especially outrageous Electricity Bills which force Citizens to pay for Darkness on monthly basis without respite from the QUASI MILITARY/CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT OF A SENILE GENERAL!

A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT THROUGH REFERENDUM IS THE ANSWER TO THE MULTI-FACETED AND SELF-INFLICTED ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WOES IN THIS COUNTRY!

GHANAIAN PRESIDENT PLEADED FOR BUHARI AT THE EXIT DOOR BOOK LAUNCH!

On Friday 19th May 2023, TWO BOOKS [ “State of Repair: How Muhammadu Buhari Tried To Change Nigeria For Good” – by Antony Goldman, and “The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari” by Senator Abu Ibrahim], were launched in Abuja on behalf of President Buhari. At the helm of affairs was the Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Ado who was imported to advocate for POSTERITY’S FAIR JUDGMENT to Buhari and lend credence to the Hatchet Job of mal-administration inflicted on CITIZENS OF NIGERIA WHO ACCORDING TO THE 1999 FEDERAL REPUBLIC CONSTITUTION, POSSESS THE SOVEREIGNTY ON PAPER –during his two-term lack-luster presidency!
At the end of the charade, NGN500 billion naira was realized from purchases by FOUR Nigerian billionaires to distribute to WHO?
BUHARI COULD DECEIVE SOME OF THE PEOPLE FOR SOME OF THE TIME; BUT CANNOT DECEIVE ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME!

INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION AND MALADMINISTRATION IS THE HALLMARK OF THE OLD GENERAL'S EIGHT-YEAR TENURE!

"Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked, for whatever a man sows that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life." (Gal..6:7-!

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Committed democrats have scored the two-term eight-year administration of retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari as a complete failure in view of total collapse in political/socio-economic management of the Nigerian Project traced to persistent insecurities which intensified and could neither be tamed nor defeated! Colossal damage to the psyche of the entire population due to a corruption-driven economy and very volatile inflation of food, goods and
services increased, enlarged and aggravated the sufferings of the downtrodden without ceasing!

BUT BUHARI HAD A FORE-KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENTIRE POLITICAL/ECONOMIC/ INSECURITIES SCENARIO OF THE COUNTRY AND BOASTED THAT HE WAS CAPABLE AND DETERMINED TO PROFFER PERMANENT SOLUTIONS AS A MESSIAH! He wasted no time to contest from 2003-2015 before he succeeded in his FOURTH attempt to become President of Nigeria. Following his eight-year abysmal failure, Nigerians can now remember that as a COUPIST Military Head of State from 31st December 1983 - 24th August 1985 whose tenure was short-lived, his DESPERATION was an ego contest between him and Olusegun Obasanjo who enjoyed dual status of military/democratic presidency!
BUT he disappointed over 200 million population of Nigerians and still has the impunity to allot himself a Pass Mark!

PROPAGANDA BOOKS PUBLICATION; FRENZIED COMMISSIONING OF CAPITAL PROJECTS TO COVER-UP FOR A PSEUDO DEMOCRAT!

1) Two Books written by Buhari's Apologists - an Expatriate Journalist and a Nigerian Senator debuted in Abuja Friday 19th May 2023, as the first step in DAMAGE CONTROL PROCESS!
2) The out-going President conspicuously took the centre stage at the commissioning of DANGOTE REFINERY - a private enterprise on 22nd May 2023, in Lekki. When in full operation it is expected to have the capacity to process about 650,000 barrels by day of crude oil making it the largest single train refinery in the world angle the old general is taking the glory for this achievement which a fellow Nigerian embarked upon since 1978 as a young man full of vision!
3) The President on Tuesday 23rd May 2023 commissioned via Zoom, the SECOND Niger 1.6 KM BRIDGE linking Asaba, Delta State with Onitsha, Anambra State and other Southeast States. The bridge was named Muhammadu BUHARI BRIDGE although he claimed he was not privy to that decision!
4) HE CLAIMED THAT THE BRIDGE AND ANOTHER PROJECT BEING COMMISSIONED SYMBOLISED HIS ADMINISTRATION'S SHARP FOCUS ON DELIVERING PROSPERITY ACROSS THE COUNTRY! True or False?

Presidential Zoom Speech At The Bridge Commission.

"I am honoured to hand over this bridge and other projects for public use. The bridge will reduce travel time and promote economic activities in the South East, South South and other parts of the country.
"Those crossing the old Niger Bridge will no longer experience gridlock as it will help to improve the socio-economic activities of the South East.
"IN EIGHT YEARS, I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT WE HAVE DEVELOPED NIGERIA'S STOCK OF INFRASTRUCTURE OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT FROM ABOUT 20% TO OVER 40% AND THAT IS NOT A SMALL UNDERTAKING."
Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola, who also joined the event via zoom said:
"This is a clear case of how infrastructure supports the people. It will take only a few minutes to cross the bridge of approximately 1.5 km travel time is reduced by 50%.
"By this bridge various properties in the area have appreciated."
Whatever Buhari and his Kitchen Cabinet may claim as success of Eight Years of a WOEFUL ADMINISTRATION IS BUT A DROP IN THE OCEAN compared to the myriads of persistent insecurities that have pervaded the entire Nation from his STARTING TO FINISHING POINTS!

According to his statement, they were UNDERTAKERS NOT DEVELOPERS!!!

EXCERPTS OF AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY FOREIGN JOURNALIST TITLED "SERVICE CHIEFS AND HEADS," ANTONY GOLDMAN ON 17TH JULY 2015, WHEN MUHAMMADU BUHARI EVENTUALLY CLINCHED THE PRESIDENTIAL SLOT!

"When Muhammadu Buhari swept to power in March’s historic elections, it was on a platform that promised change, security and an end to corruption. In the aftermath of his victory, he met quickly with the leaders of neighboring states and reached out to leaders of the G7, seeking their support and promising new momentum to end the Islamist terror that has gripped many parts of North East Nigeria since 2010. "No part of the country voted more emphatically for Buhari than the North East, where he trounced the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan, by a margin of nine to one. Where Jonathan was seen as a weak, indecisive and remote figure, the North East saw in Buhari a former soldier pained by the scale of the violence and the distortion of the faith from which Boko Haram insurgents claimed inspiration. "Since Buhari’s inauguration on 29 May, more than a thousand civilians have been killed in a wave of suicide bombing and ambushes. In a particularly bloody Ramadan that appeared to suggest some level of co-ordination with allies in Islamic State, attacks have taken place as far south as Jos and in Zaria and Kano, to the west of the core areas of the insurgency.

"The setbacks appeared to represent a loss of momentum on the part of the Nigerian armed forces and allies from Chad, Cameroon and Niger, who in a three-month offensive launched in February this year helped recapture many of the towns and villages taken by Boko Haram across Borno and Adamawa states in its lightning campaign in late 2014. "Even supporters of Buhari expressed concern about apparent delays in filling key appointments. There were reports of a dip in morale because of the failure to replace service chiefs and heads of other security agencies. Troops remained in barracks as Boko Haram was reported to be regrouping in the Sambisa forest and other remote parts of the North East."

BUHARI HAS FAILED TO FIX NIGERIA!

After eight years Antony has written a "Nunc Dimittus" titled “STATE OF REPAIR : HOW MUHAMMADU BUHARI TRIED TO CHANGE NIGERIA FOR GOOD", to buttress the CONCENSUS that; BUHARI WAS NOT THE EXPECTED MESSIAH AFTER ALL! QED!

According to ex-General Obasanjo, Buhari had a hidden agenda to "ISLAMIZE AND FULANIZE NIGERIA"
BUHARI WOULD BE REMEMBERED FOR THE FOLLOWING DISCREPANCIES:
1) POLLUTING NIGERIAN ROADS WITH COWS, AND COW DUNGS BY CLAIMING EXISTENCE OF OLD CATTLE GRAZING ROUTES IN NIGERIA & REJECTING MODERN RANCHING!
2) FAILING TO DEFEAT BOKO HARAM, TERRORISTS WHO STILL OCCUPY SEVERAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS IN THE NORTH EAST/WEST GEO-POLITICAL ZONES CONTRARY TO HIS MANIFESTO PROMISES!
3) UNABLE TO STOP KIDNAPPING, GUNMEN/BANDITRY ATTACKS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY!
4) TURNED BLIND EYE TO INCESSANT ARMED FULANI HERDSMEN/FARMERS BLOODY CLASHES WHICH WAS COMMONPLACE AND ALWAYS CLAIMED INNOCENT LIVES!
5) UNABLE TO STOP BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS WHO UNLEASHED MAYHEM ON STRATEGIC GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS/INFRASTRUCTURES AND THREATENED TO KIDNAP HIM FROM THE STATE HOUSE ASO VILLA!
6) STUBBORNLY REFUSED TO REPLACE TIRED SERVICE CHIEFS IN SPITE OF PUBLIC OUTCRY OF ALMOST TWO YEARS!
7) ALL OF THE FOLLOWING NEGATIVE INTERNATIONAL RATINGS AND INDEXES IN RESPECT OF NIGERIA BEING: a. POVERTY CAPITAL, b. MOST-ADDICTED BORROWER & CORRUPT COUNTRY, c. MOST INSECURE COUNTRY, d. DIRTIEST COUNTRY, d. COUNTRY WITH THE HIGHEST RATE OF CHILD/MATERNAL MORTALITY, e. COUNTRY WITH THE HIGHEST RATE OF OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN, f. COUNTRY WITH THE MOST CORRUPT CIVIL SERVICE AND LEGISLATORS ETC; STUCK LIKE A CANCEROUS PLAGUE ON THE NATION THROUGHOUT GENERAL BUHARI'S TENURE!

But he was complacent and complicit for the reasons of his believe in FEUDALISM, OLIGARCHY, NEPOTISM, TRIBALISM, RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY, AND TRADITION TO THE CORE! But he now craves to be celebrated as a "REFORMED DEMOCRAT" at his Departure Lounge! "Tufiakwa!"
THIS IS THE WORST INSULT TO THE SENSIBILITIES OF NIGERIANS! IT IS ANATHEMA!

WITH PATIENCE WATER WILL COOK THE STONE!

Patriotic Nigerians and true Democrats should wait patiently for 'Bola Ahmed Tinubu who will take over the mantle of leadership of Nigeria from Monday 29th May 2023 to carry out the mandate of Nigerians for A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT AND ALSO GOD'S COMMANDMENT WHICH MUST BE ACTUALIZED WITHIN HIS SIX MONTHS IN OFFICE! At the close of the Regimental Dinner in honour of President Muhammadu Buhari coupled with the commissioning of the Armed Forces of Nigeria Officers Mess on 23rd May 2023 the old General in his closing speech said he could hardly wait for the remaining SIX DAYS TO GET OUT OF OFFICE!
With the EXIT of retired Major General Buhari, the ERA OF MILITARY PRESIDENCY is over for good in Nigeria!

IT'S TIME FOR A FRESH BREATH OF AIR!
"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to all people." ( Proverbs 14:34).

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. G-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Downtrodden Nigerians can hardly wait for Monday 29th May 2023 to bid good riddance to the last of all the military merchants who have overstayed their welcome! For 57 years (1966-2023), they practically turned the country into a beggar nation through mismanagement of all natural endowments and deliberate failure to develop Human Capital into full potential!

According to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organization(UNESCO) Statistics, OUT-OF-SCHOOL- CHILDREN IN NIGERIA has hit the 20 million mark in the first quarter; January-March!
Literacy figure in Nigeria according to the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics is 77.62% of the population as at 2021. The figure grew by 13.9% between 2010-2021 and at the rate of 0.13% year-on-year since then!
With the advantage and benefit of hindsight it could be articulately posited that the majority of Nigerian Electorate are illiterate because in 63 years of Independence, budgetary allocation for education is only SIX PER CENT in spite of UNESCO recommendation of 15-20 per cent of annual budgetary allocation of developing countries!

And that accounts for the quadrennial election of the same political marauders who delight to trample upon the illiterate Citizens' inalienable/fundamental rights having discarded Khakis for "Babanrigas"! In 1999 the brainwashed electorate voted en-masse for retired Soldier, Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo instead of Chief Olu Falae, a tested, erudite and accomplished technocrat!

And the same crowd of nincompoops voted for his surrogate, Late Umaru Yar 'Adua whom he imposed and threatened that Nigeria would be conflagrated with fire and brimstones if the 2007 General Elections which he tagged as "do or die", did not favor his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)!

Obasanjo bulldozed his way with military precision in that election which threw up Yar'adua and his deputy Goodluck Jonathan who eventually handed over in 2015 to another old military General in the person of the incumbent Muhammadu Buhari instead of a diligent civilian who would have fulfilled democratic norms in a socio-cultural environment.

AND BUHARI DECIDED TO PERPETUATE HIS CHIEF SECURITY OFFICERS IN OFFICE CONTRARY TO THE CONSTITUTION!

According to official reports, the incumbent Inspector general of police Usman Baba Ali who attained the age of 35 years in service on 1st March 2023 had been granted an extension of tenure of office for 3 years by Major General Muhammadu Buhari.
The retired General is said to be acting on Section 7 (6) of the Police Act 2020, which states that, "The person appointed to the office of the Inspector General of Police shall hold office for 4 years,"

But this Section must not be read in isolation of Section 18 ( which states that, "Every police officer shall on recruitment or appointment serve in the Nigeria Police Force for a period of 35 years or until he attains the age of 60 years whichever is earlier."Alkali clocked 35 years in service on 1st March 2023, but the President in his usual brazen executive impunity DECREED THAT HE SHOULD REMAIN IN OFFICE TILL MARCH 2026!

He vetoed the Police Act in 2021 when he extended the tenure of a retired Inspector-General of Police Ibrahim Adamu, who attained the mandatory retirement service period of 35 years on 1st February 2021 for three months!

It took almost two years of public outcry to force President Buhari to retire his service chiefs who were unable to restore peace to Nigeria when they should have retired 18 months earlier from the service in spite of the fact that the citizens suffered degradation and insecurity through atrocities by Boko Haram terrorists in all those periods of his administration from 2015-2021!
Also on the list of those whose tenures were extended included an Accountant-General of the Federation a Commandant-General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Service Corps (NSCDC), Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), and a host of others!

It is also on record that ex-President Obasanjo extended the tenure of an Inspector General of Police Sunday Ehindero for ONE YEAR to achieve a THIRD TERM ELONGATION of his presidency which was vehemently resisted by the masses and died a natural death! In THREE weeks from the date of this publication (29th May 2023), Buhari would have bowed out of office in shame because he woefully failed to function as the expected Messiah just like Obasanjo!

THE TWO OLD GENERALS HAVE COMPOUNDED THE DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATIONS THROUGH SHEER GREED!

During the military interregnum of almost 30 years the TWO GENERALS served as Heads of State at different times and yet they were still bent on ruining the Nigerian nation which they claim to love and would defend with their blood through exhibition of mindless display of IMPUNITY at their highly-exalted level of office! Nigerians have been deceived enough it is better for all the soldiers in government to resign and allow civil administration to foster through THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WHICH BUHARI TRUNCATED when he overthrew the government of Shehu Shagari in a military coup December 1984!

Enough is enough! Nigerians have been worse off because of the military from Independence - 1960 to 2023!
Not less than 85 million Nigerians collected their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs), to fulfill their franchise during the last 2023 General Elections and from all indications that had been the trend since 1999 to date! They always carried the day in the game of numbers!

BUT had they ever voted for the right reasons or for the right candidates? NO!
With that kind of attitude access to government and governance at all levels have been denied to competent Nigerians just as the old soldier has thrown up his surrogates; ‘‘Mr Emilokan’’ Ahmed Bola Tinubu!!!

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

149 MILLION BARRELS MISSING CRUDE OIL: INSTITUTIONAL IMPUNITY MUST DIE WITH THE OLD GENERAL!

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), is determined to resist any attempt by the outgoing old Soldier Muhammadu Buhari to sweep under the carpet the allegations in respect of 149 million barrels of crude oil allegedly missing or face legal action.

An audited and documented 2019 Report by the Auditor-General of the Federation and the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), is yet to receive official attention for investigation and prosecution in respect of the missing crude oil in spite of the humongous figure! Already the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice was already dismissing the allegation by claiming that no crude oil was missing. And whereas, according to that 2019 Audited Report, over 107 million barrels of crude oil were lifted as domestic crude without any document or tracing.

NEITI also reported missing 42.25 million barrels of crude oil in the same year. NEITI is urging retired General Buhari to realise that public interest in ensuring justice and accountability for this very serious allegations must be religiously followed especially before he bolts to Daura, Katsina on the 29th May 2023!

QUOTES FROM SERAP'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH BUHARI.

" SERAP notes that you have repeatedly promised to combat CORRUPTION. As you go into the final weeks of your term of office the missing crude oil allegations present yet another opportunity to demonstrate your commitment and to uphold your oath of office both as President and Minister of Petroleum Resources.
"As the President and substantive Minister of Petroleum resources, you and your government should prioritise getting to the bottom of these allegations and use the remainder of your time of reference of office to ensure justice and accountability for the serious crimes against the Nigerian people.

"Investigating the allegations and naming and shaming and prosecuting those suspected to be responsible for the missing crude oil will serve the public interest and end the IMPUNITY OF PERPETRATORS.

"We will be grateful if the recommended measures are taken within 7 days of the receipt and or publication of this letter. If we have not heard from you by then SERAP shall take all appropriate legal actions to compel you and your government to comply with our request in the public interest
"The allegations by both the Auditor-General and NEITI are different from the a whistleblower claims that 48 million barrels of Bonny Light crude oil allegedly sold in China in 2015 are missing or unaccounted for.
“The reports by the Auditor-General and NEITI suggest a grave violation of the Nigerian constitution 1999 (as amended) and the country's anti-corruption laws and international obligations as well as public trust.
"These damning revelations also suggest your government is failing to prevent and combat the plundering of Nigeria's wealth and natural resources; name and bring suspected perpetrators to account and recover any proceeds of crime."

A House of Representatives Ad-Hoc
Committee is reported to be probing the allegations.

CONCLUDING WITH BISHOP MATTHEW KUKAH'S QUOTES:

1) Anyone who wants to govern Nigeria must be prepared to cope with our anger.
2) The only freedom people confer on you is the freedom to agree with them.
3) Some Nigerians think being in office means being in power. Power is about influence.
4) Power and leadership is getting people to do what they don't want to do, but doing it happily.
5) You can be in office and not be in power. You can be in power and not be in office.
6) Every unhappy family is unhappy differently but they all have one thing in common, they are unhappy.
7) IF YOU ARE GENUINELY READY TO SERVE WHY MUST IT BE AT ALL COST? THESE PROBLEMS COME FROM OUR GREED.
Anything can go wrong where we are now. We are at tipping point.
9) For the first time every Nigerian is very angry although the reason may be very different.
10) If we fought the CIVIL WAR 40 years ago and the reasons why we fought still persist, then there is a problem.

At different fora, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Reverend Matthew Hassan Kukah always appealed to Nigerians to make up their minds to develop good attitudes to promote good governance and peaceful co-existence.
Bishop Kukah who spoke on the Topic: "THE WEAKNESS OF POWER" believed that although the country faced challenges, positive change of attitude, peace, unity and good governance would improve Nigeria.

He noted that many Nigerians were not satisfied with the situation of things in the country but cautioned that anger, hatred and violence would not tackle the challenges.
He said Nigerians have reasons to be angry but they should remember that a lot of people have sacrificed their lives for the country.
He appealed to Nigerians to love one another irrespective of their ethnic, religious and political leanings, adding "Our love for Nigeria should not die. We will redeem this country. This is our country let us pray for our nation."
Bishop Kukah is notable for SPEAKING THE TRUTH FOR WHICH WE ON THIS PLATFORM HAVE BEEN HAVE BEEN CHIEF ADVOCATES IN THE PAST 10 YEARS.

Any dividends to the Citizens? Would those who aspire for leadership positions
exhibit the right attitudes of that will inspire the citizens to work together with them in unity? We need upright leaders whose patriotism will excel inordinate ambition and will be ready to serve, not to be served and also not to explore whatever weaknesses they have discovered in our Constitution and all the various laws and regulations"

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

This article will be incomplete without the following EVERGREEN QUOTE from Emeritus Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah on “THE PARADOX OF THE NIGERIAN SOCIETY," in the month of May, 2016
as follows:
"Nigerian educational systems have surprising outcomes. The smartest students pass with First Class and get admitted to Medical and Engineering schools. The Second Class students get MBAs and LLBs to manage the First Class students. The Third Class students enter politics and rule both the First and Second Class students. The Failures enter the Underworld of crime and control the politicians and businesses. And best of all, those who did not attend school become Prophets and Imams and everyone follows them. What a paradox of life. This can only happen in Nigeria where corruption is other of the day."

Always remember that God can never be deceived, "whatsoever a man soweth that he shall reap!"

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

That Nigeria has remained an indivisible nascent democracy in eight years of deliberate and well-calculated military assault on the good and resilient people of
the geographic contraption in diversity by a very desperate but tired old soldier can only be attributed to divine providence!

The atrocities of crimes/criminalities of eight years filled with uncertainties and trepidations in respect of the horrible insecurity regime which was unleashed on the country from 2015-2023 can be best described as a combination of the WORLD WAR I and II combined except that the HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMB WAS NOT DETONATED!

Conservative estimate of human casualties without exaggeration CANNOT BE LESS THAN A MILLION PEOPLE during Major General Buhari's inglorious eight-year tenure dominated by various acts of brigandage by Fulani Herdsmen, Boko Haram Terrorists, Bandits, Gunmen, IPOB & ESN TERRORISTS etc, due to incapacitation of the Commander-in-Chief's security forces which were overstretched and overwhelmed by the sheer audacity and superior fire power of the criminals!

Nigerians expected that a desperate Muhammadu Buhari, who attempted to be a democratic President of Nigeria on three occasions from 2003-2011 until he succeeded on the 4th occasion in 2015, would be very dedicated to serve the nation with all his track record experiences in governance as far back as when he was military Commissioner of Petroleum Resources as far back as1976!

But from all indications the old soldier never loved his country as he pretended to be. He is nepotistic, tribalistic, high-handed, domineering, clannish, a religious bigot, feudalistic, impunistic etc, ensured that he surrounded himself with people from his tribal enclave - especially the FULANI CLAN!

When retired General Olusegun Obasanjo alleged that Buhari had an agenda to FULANIZE and ISLAMIZE Nigeria We disagreed with him and told the world that Buhari was a TRUE DEMOCRAT - We have been proved wrong!

TESTIMONY OF 'AHMED 'BOLA TINUBU IN RESPECT OF BUHARI'S THREE LOST ELECTIONS!

"Buhari wept bitterly on national television after the third loss and swore not to contest again but I encouraged him to try the FOURTH time."
It is important to highlight the fact that the three occasions when Buhari lost elections, colossal and collateral damages which led to heavy human casualties in their hundreds, malicious destruction of government strategic installations disrupted economic activities especially in the Northern parts of Nigeria where he is idolized as a hero because of his DELIBERATE INCITEFUL SPEECHES!

Buhari always claimed that he was RIGGED OUT and instructed his supporters to patiently wait to witness the counting, collation and announcement of results.
In his words; "Because you haven't done this in all past cases you allowed them to turn your victories into defeats!"

Buhari lost the election for the third time in 2011 and within three days, violence which erupted in the Northern part of the country recorded about 700 deaths and thousands of innocent people displaced in the Northeast, Northwest and North Central parts of the country!

Following Tinubu's encouragement to try his luck once again, Buhari who has no respect for the SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIVES THREATENED THAT IF THE 2015 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS NOT TRANSPARENT THAT "THE DOG AND THE BABOON WILL ALL BE SOAKED IN BLOOD!"

Everyone knows that government is a continuum and whoever aspires to occupy political offices must be genuine patriot spiritually, mentally, academically, and physically prepared for such positions of authority and pursue existing socio-economic policies of previous administrations with patriotism.

To serve and not to steal, to gather and not to scatter, to preserve and not to embezzle, to enrich and not to impoverish his constituency which is the entire nation of Nigeria, to lift and not to cast down the citizens ambitions and aspirations, to deliver dividends of democracy to the masses and not to enrich a few through inordinate ambitions through acts of NEPOTISM; and to remember at all times that they would be accountable and be judged by the Almighty God our Creator and posterity!

PRESIDENT BUHARI IS AN ADDICTED SOLDIER!

Soldiering had been Buhari's addiction from youth and when he successfully became military Head of State at 42 years he pretended to be possessed with the zeal of patriotism for rescuing the downtrodden during his short-lived 23- month tenure!

The aborted appointment vexed him sore and he purported in his heart to return some day to fulfill his inordinate ambition as a civilian President and on assumption of office in 2015 declared that he "would be for nobody, but for everybody"!

From that onset at 72 years, he left no one in doubt that he had hidden agendas because he carelessly allowed the opposition to perpetrate his administration due to nonchalant attitude to his constitutional responsibility in Chapter II Sections 13,14, (1-4) which emphasized that the security and welfare of the citizens are the primary objective of government.

BUHARI NOW SAYS, "I AM SORRY"! TO WHO?

There is virtually no family in the last eight years of Buhari's presidency that did not lose a family member to the cold hands of untimely and avoidable deaths!
Outside of the official condolences, has the soldierman ever bore the pains of the thousand of thousands of parents who still agonize over their children who have been mercilessly killed/kidnapped without respite from the custodians of their security and welfare?
NO NO NO! The following are the LACK - LUSTER CROCODILE TEARS OF THE lamenting 80-year-old General who knew from the onset that he was not up to the task:

"Those who that think that I have hurt them so much, please pardon me". The apology was made during his last Sallah Homage Reception at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday, 21st April, ,2023.

“So please whoever says I have done wrong to them, we are all humans. There is no doubt I hurt some people and I wish you will pardon me; and those who think that I have hurt them so much please pardon me."
But majority of Nigerians would have none of his antics especially when he claimed that the 2023 General Election was transparent, free, fair and credible and also claimed the outcome as his LEGACY!

THIS IS THE SECOND APOLOGY OF BUHARI TO NIGERIANS IN EIGHT YEARS!

During the Easter period in the year 2016 President Buhari apologized to Nigerians for dissolving University Governing Councils along with the Boards of Parastatals Agencies with the following words:
"We gave a blanket order which we had to rescind when we said all Boards were suspended or dissolved.
"We had to go back and lick our vomit.....
"So there is nothing wrong in saying sorry so we said sorry..... And allowed all these universities to continue with their councils
"So please try to bear with us as we reflect on where we found ourselves."

On the much-criticized issue of globe-trotting, President Buhari explained as follows: "Sometime you need to present your case on personal basis to your economic colleagues and neighbours because nothing is better than personal touch and I believe we are learning a lot and eventually the nation will realise the dividends of those strategic trips"

Nigerians could hardly wait for Buhari to pack bag and baggage and get out of the Villa so that the Citizens could enjoy fresh breath of air - especially if ICC OPERATIVES ARE ON GROUND TO ESCORT HIM TO THE HAGUE, TO GIVE ACCOUNT OF HIS EIGHT-YEAR STEWARDSHIP!

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

SECRET ASSENT TO 1999 CONSTITUTION AMENDMENTS BY GENERAL BUHARI IS A HOOD WINK!
[Allegory of Patched Tubes And Tubeless Tyres.]


"Majority of automobile tyres on Nigerian roads are tubeless. Gone are the days of roadside tubes patching. The world has moved on through scientific inventions that have made it possible to drive electric vehicles possibly with electrified tires in this present era of modern civilization.

"The Military-crafted Nigerian 1999 Constitution represents the Tyre Tube with several PATCHES and the Legislators, the roadside VULCANIZERS who were ever ready to patch the controversial and obnoxious document every four-year duty tour because it is full of punctures which are convenient for both the Executive and the Legislature to keep patching since the exercises provided extra billions of naira in illicit transactions to execute!"


PAST PRESIDENTS REJECTED THE PATCHED TYRE TUBES!

Consecutive Presidents from 1999-2023 refused assent; rejected all amendments and described them as self-seeking and inordinate!
But very recently, and in the heat of the furore that greeted outcome of the February-March 2023 version of Nigeria's General Elections, the old soldier Major General President Muhammadu Buhari, stealthily and quietly signed 16 out of 35 Bills forwarded by the 9th National Assembly (NASS), in January 2023, at his Departure Lounge, to hoodwink the gullible and the uneducated but ended up to further damage his battered image!

The signed bills according to newspaper reports devolved more powers to the States in view of incessant agitation for devolution of power from the federal to the federating States to address true fiscal federalism.

According to the requirements of Section 9 of the Military Constitution at least 24 State Assemblies were required to approve the Bills before they could be forwarded to Mr. President for assent.

TYRE-PATCHING IS COSMETIC, WASTEFUL AND ARCHAIC - A BRAND NEW UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION IN THE FORM OF A TUBELESS TYRE, IS THE PANACEA TO POPULAR AND STABLE GOVERNMENT!

And Whereas the major issues in contention and which had generated violent agitations since the 1966 Military coup de tat or rather since the end of the Biafra War had always been THE UNITARY form of government which cowed Federating States to become subjugated to the Central government as in the vertical, unitary military form of government!
And which was further foisted through the 1999 bogus military constitution's Exclusive Legislative List that conferred absolute power and authority to the Federal Government with 68 items to subject the 36 States to permanent and abject poverty; and Whereas the Confederating States "lay the golden eggs"!

On Thursday 25th January 2018, KADUNA STATE GOVERNOR-LED COMMITTEE ON TRUE FEDERALISM submitted its very detailed Report to President Buhari IN THE SPIRIT OF DEVOLUTION OF POWER from the Centre to the States as follows:
1) RESOURCE CONTROL by all States.
2) STATE POLICE and STATE PRISONS to be run by all states of the federation in respect of certain crimes.
3) INDEPENDENT CANDIDACY which should be enjoyed if such candidate was not a member of any political party, SIX MONTHS prior to any election.
4) CONSTITUTIONAL AUTONOMY for the 774 LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS to be free to legislate freely and create any number of councils as they so desired.
5) Foods, Drugs and Poison to be moved to the Concurrent List so that States could constitutionally legislate on those items while narcotics, psychotropic substances will remain on the Exclusive List.
6) Labor issues, trade unions, industrial relations, safety/welfare, disputes/ minimum wages/industrial arbitration should be handled by both States/Federal Government who should enjoy independent legislation.
7) Mines and minerals, oil fields and mining, geological surveys and natural gas that are ONSHORE should be vested in all states of the federation while all OFFSHORE shall remain vested in the government of the federation.
Registration of Business Names should be on the Concurrent List for companies to choose their areas of operations; State or nationwide.
9) Collection of Stamp Duties was also recommended to be moved to the Concurrent List for the States to collect duties from individual and small businesses while Federal Government collects duties from limited liability companies.
10) ISSUE OF CITIZENSHIP, LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR STATE OF ORIGIN which had hitherto been discriminatory should be replaced with STATE OF RESIDENCE through a proposed amendment to the FEDERAL CHARACTER COMMISSION ACT to allow people domicile in a place to be considered as INDIGENES of such place.


It is very obvious that Legislators of NASS took a queue from Governor El-Rufai's Committee's Report to arrive at the deductions which were eventually forwarded the States for CONCURRENCE, but unfortunately the fundamental objectives have been defeated through the CLANDESTINE approval of Bills which would FOREVER be difficult to implement!

A. For instance, how would the Fifth Alteration (No.17) Bill which sought to alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 to allow States to generate, transmit, and distribute electricity in areas covered by the national grid; and for related matters be IMPLEMENTED WHEN such States could not source funds even to pay the monthly NGN30,000 naira national minimum wage for their workers; could not establish modern health/facilities or institutions, good roads, qualitative education, decent accommodations etc, for its population?
B. How would Federating States that lack modern scientific and ICT infrastructures to handle naturally-endowed agrarian/pastoral opportunities, generate sufficient INTERNAL REVENUES to supply ELECTRICITY within their territorial boundaries?
C. Can cash-strapped States establish individual CASH-INTENSIVE RAILWAY SYSTEMS.

The Fifth Alterations Nos.1-5 assented to by President Buhari dealt with CHANGE OF NAMES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS;

No.8 sought to regulate the first session and inauguration of members-elect of the National and State Houses of Assembly; No. 9. sought to delete the reference to the provisions of the criminal code, penal code, criminal procedure act, criminal procedure code, or evidence act while No. 10 sought to exclude period of intervening events in the computation of time for determining pre-election petitions, election petitions and appeals while No.12 sought to provide for the post-call qualification of the Secretary of National Judicial Council;

No.15 sought to delete the item "prisons" in the Exclusive Legislative List and re-designate it as "Correctional Services" in the Concurrent Legislative List while No.16 sought to move the item "railways" from the Exclusive Legislative Session List to the Concurrent Legislative list and for related matters!

Bill No. 23 required the President and Governors to submit the names of persons nominated as Ministers or Commissioners within sixty days of taking the oath of office for confirmation by the Senate or State Houses of Assembly while No. 32 sought to correct the error in the definition of the boundary of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Andy Bill No. 34 required government to direct his policy towards ensuring the right to food and food security in Nigeria and for related matters etc, etc.

GOVERNOR NASRI EL RUFAI'S COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATION IS A PROTOTYPE OF NECESSARY INGREDIENTS FOR A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION!

Retired Major General Buhari did not approve the request of the masses of the CITIZENS OF NIGERIA FOR (A) RESOURCE CONTROL, (B) STATE POLICE, (3) INDEPENDENT CANDIDACY, (4) MINES AND MINERALS, OIL FIELDS AND MINING, GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS AND NATURAL GAS THAT ARE ON SHORE TO BE VESTED IN ALL STATES OF THE FEDERATION; because he has never been a REFORMED DEMOCRAT AS CLAIMED IN SEVERAL INTERVIEWS!

Nigeria needs a fresh air of freedom from feudalism, oligarchy, nepotism, tribalism and despotism!
In eight years of martial administration Buhari has no legacy to bequeath to Nigerians!
As soon as 'Bola Tinubu comes on board, it behoves on him to put into motion the establishment of a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THROUGH REFERENDUM WITHIN SIX MONTHS ACCORDING TO DIVINE APPOINTMENT!

Nigerians deserve peace, tranquility, joy, happiness, security of their lives and property in a country which is their ancestral home and nobody must deny them of their inalienable rights.

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

HON. ABDULMUMIN JIBRIN IS A CONFESSED TREASURY LOOTER; HE SHOULD BE ARRESTED AND PROSECUTED!

The kind of horse-trading for the position of principal officers among the in-coming legislators of the 10th National Assembly has taken dimension of a frenzy Stock Exchange session which turned out to be very “Bullish”!

In spite of the commotion and national confusion that resulted from the TWO INEC-badly-managed Elections across the country, over 300 successful House of Representatives Legislators are poised to slug out the in-house highly-prized positions with one another in a battle of survival of the fittest!

All manner of permutations by a genre of political analysts in respect of likely candidates for vacant positions outside of the Muslim-Muslim “Winners” at the presidency level have inundated the internet/social media networks, especially when the minority group of parties have claimed to be the greater majority and could call the shots during the up-coming elections in spite of the fact that they are a new breed of the motley crowd of mixed multitudes and strange bedfellows!

At stake are the following principal offices in contention at the National Assembly: Senate President and his deputy; House of Representative Speaker and his Deputy; Majority/Minority Leaders and deputies; Chief Whip and his deputy etc.
ONE OF THE ARROW-HEADS OF THE 10TH NASS POSITION HUSTLERS, IS HON. ABDULMUMIN JIBRIN; PHD, MBA. FORMERLY, APC (BUT NOW), NNPP-KANO, KIRU-BEBEJI!

In a very recent Channels TV interview – first week in April 2023 – Hon. Jibrin flippantly responded to a question on the outrageous annual emoluments of the NASS Legislators as follows:

“Budget allocation to National Assembly is only two per cent (2%), of total annual Budget of the nation compared to the larger picture of allocations to other arms of government!”

[PLEASE FIND BELOW THE CONFESSIONS OF THE UNPATRIOTIC LEGISLATOR ON HOW ANNUAL BUDGETS WERE PADDED YEAR-ON-YEAR WHILE THE MASSES DIED IN ABJECT POVERTY! THEY WERE PUBLISHED IN PAST EDITIONS OF THE ZION B-BC NEWSLETTERS].
VOL. 5. NO. 165. 9TH OCTOBER, 2016.

“At the restoration of the present democratic experience which has now clocked over 17 years, Legislators still felt short-changed and had to make up for all salaries, allowances, emoluments etc, which eluded them for about 30 years and the ripple effects of their greed have been reflected in annual gaguantous appropriation, now at N150 billion naira as RUNNING COST, which has wiped out all their tears as most of them have become multi-millionaires and billionaires within the very short period! The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,1999, Constitution approves 360 Geo-Political Constituency legislators for the House of Representatives, (HOR), and 109 Senators for the Upper Chamber, to jointly make laws for good governance of the nation but recent revelations of financial recklessness in the HOR by a ranking member, have confirmed several years of speculations and allegations of a secret Appropriation Office, which was not subjected to Revenue Mobilisation Allocation And Fiscal Commission's (RMAFC), scrutiny or control! The former Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr. Maikasuwa, who was jointly charged with Senators Saraki and Ekweremadu, in the celebrated forgery case of the Senate House Rules, was ordered by an Abuja High Court, in March 2015, to make available to a Non-Government Organisation, Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP), NASS SECRETIVE CONSTITUENCY ALLOWANCES earned by Nigerian Lawmakers, but because he appealed the judgement, the matter was yet to be put to rest!

However, the Editorial Board of the weekly Zion B-BC Newsletter wish to draw attention of the TALAKAWAS - the TAX PAYERS and the ELECTORATE - to the following revelations by Abdulmumin Jibrin, a ranking member and an insider in the House of Representatives whom the LORD has opened his mouth to expose the rot of financial mismanagement in the hallowed House, even at this austere period of national economic recession because his uncontrollable outbursts are the answers to our several prayers and supplications to the Almighty God over institutional impunity in government! The unedited version of his submissions to the WORLD are reproduced below unedited:
"HOW WE SHARED NIGERIA MONEY BY HON. Abdulmumin JUBRIN "I got N650 million as my running cost as the Chairman of Appropriation Committee. Speaker Yakubu Dogara got N1.5 billion, His Deputy Yusuf Lasun got N800 million. House Majority Leader Femi Gbajabiamila got N1.2 billion; Deputy Majority Leader Buba Jibrin got N1.2 billion. House Whip Alhassan Ado Doguwa got N1.2 billion, Deputy House Whip got N700 million. House Minority Leader Leo Ogor got N1.2 billion, Deputy Minority Leader Onyema got N800 million. Minority Whip got N700 million, Deputy Minority Whip got N700 million. I have documents to back up all these.
"TO ALL HONOURABLE MEMBERS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ABUJA.

My dear Colleagues, BURDEN OF PROOF OF EVIDENCE: RUNNING COST OF HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
"I wish to draw your attention to the fact that since you suspended me yesterday and the suggestion of the Ethics Committee report that my allegations were generalized and without proof, I have come under intense public scrutiny and pressure to prove that there exists systemic corruption in the House. I have taken it as a responsibility to prove to the public that the House is a den of systemic corruption. As colleagues, I have bound with many of you and built a lifelong friendship.
"I have some of you that I hold in high esteem. If you end up at the receiving end of the actions I will be taking up in the next few days, I want you to know there is nothing personal but commitment and fervent desire to ensure that corruption is wiped out of the House and reforms that will restore the battered image of the House and take back the House to the Nigerian people is implemented. Consequent upon the above and before I proceed with the aggressive steps I intend to take, I hereby DEMAND that if you have illegally taken or stolen any money meant for the RUNNING COST OF YOUR OFFICES FOR YOUR ENTIRE STAY IN THE HOUSE, YOU SHOULD RETURN THE MONEY WITHIN ONE WEEK TO THE CLERK OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLARITY, I AM REFERRING TO ABOUT 10 MILLION NAIRA YOU COLLECT FROM TAX PAYERS' MONEY MONTHLY. THE CLERK WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT DETAILS, FAILURE OF WHICH I WILL TAKE NECESSARY ACTION TO ENSURE THAT YOU RETURN ANY MONEY STOLEN AND STAND WITNESS AGAINST YOU IN CASE OF PROSECUTION.

"I have written to the Clerk of the National Assembly to stand by in anticipation. In the face of the revenue challenges and biting hardship the country is currently facing, there is no better time the country needs such money than now. In the case of the Presiding and Principal Officers, in addition to my demand in this letter which applies to them too, I have written them yesterday and gave them 72 hours ULTIMATUM to make public the total amount they have received as running cost in their entire stay in the House, failure of which I will proceed with necessary legal action to compel them to make the total amount each of them have received public. There are other issues of monumental corruption in the House that I will be raising in the following weeks which we must all deal with, but first let’s get done with this one.
"Thank you. God bless. Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin Ph.D, MBA. APC-Kano, Kiru-Bebeji Federal Constituency, Kano."
GOVERNOR NASRI EL RUFAI ALSO EXPOSED THE LEGISLATORS! [Read below excerpts from a past publication: VOL. 6. NO. 192, Edition of 16th April, 2016.]

GOVERNOR EL-RUFAI EXPOSES LEGISLATORS SQUADERMANIA ON SPURIOUS PROJECTS!

“El-Rufai had challenged NASS to make its budget public because the budget of 469 members was larger than the capital budget of 10 million inhabitants of Kaduna State and also lager than the entire budget of several Nigerian States. He also claimed that over a period of TEN YEARS, from 2008, NASS as an institution has cost the country over a TRILLION NAIRA WITHOUT ANY DETAIL ON HOW THE AMOUNT WAS ALLOCATED AND SPENT!

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATES TO ITSELF A WHOOPING SUM OF BETWEEN N120 - N150 billion annually which they always claimed was “just 2%” of the total budget.”

VOL.10. NO. 428. 24TH OCTOBER 2021.
VICE PRESIDENT ‘YEMI ALSO QUERIED 2017 BUDGET PADDING BY NASS!

In his acting capacity as President, Professor ‘Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, in 2017, faulted the NASS for tampering with the Budget proposal as presented by the Executive. He said legislators had no right to insert new projects in a budget proposal noting that “there were some grey areas especially funds lifted from key projects, to introduce new projects by NASS!”

CONCLUSION:

Hon. Jibrin and his accomplices who are still walking free MUST be arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and prosecuted!
If 469 Legislators and aides (totaling about 900 persons), collect between NGN120-150 billion naira annually, the over 200million population should be delineated to similar segment and paid equal amounts to cushion their social needs.

With a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN PLACE – all unpatriotic politicians will be kept in jail for Nigeria to become a stable democracy and the economic giant of Africa! “A stitch in time saves nine”!

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Interim National Government is anathema to civil administration and very offensive to the sensibilities of modern democracy.
It is an aberration and counterproductive to the tenets of the dogma of "government of the people, for the people and by the people"!

The obnoxious terminology popped up during the military occupation of Nigeria when some two army officers tried to outsmart each other in their quest in hierarchy for the topmost position though they both rose through the ranks by masterminding and successfully executing 11 military coup d’état between 1966-1993!

Generals Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida and Sani Abacha were two inseparable accomplices who schemed their achievements in the army with such accurate precision and neither of them could outsmart the other.

When babangida became the Head of State he strategically assumed the title of military president to boost his ego in the believe that he would command better respect and greater executive powers to subdue any opposition but he was soon to be proved wrong. At the peak of his military presidency he got so swollen-headed and power-drunk that he reneged, not less than five times on promises of hand-over date to the civil population.

Babangida forgot all about his partner in crime who watched him from a safe distance while the masses dubbed him as "Maradona" (a very popular football dribbler), due to several unfulfilled promises.

Sani abacha was very clever to solicit support from other ambitious military officers who put pressure on the "Maradona" to step aside to avoid any bloodshed and being overwhelmed, reluctantly stepped aside with a view that he could return some day to complete his tenure of office!

But Babangida wasted no time to fill his exit with a civilian captain of industry in the person of Chief Ernest Shonekan whom he decorated with the title of HEAD OF INTERIM NATIONAL GOVERNMENT (ING), just for the sinister purpose of depriving his old time accomplice from sitting on the "throne"!

The ING lasted from 26th of August 1993 to 17th November 1993 a short period of 82 days and Abacha took over in a bloodless coup and but for his untimely death in June 1998, maybe the military would have remained in Nigeria forever?

DSS SHOULD TREAD SOFTLY TO AVOID OVERHEATING THE POLITY!

The Directorate of State Security has alleged that there was a plot to install an INTERIM NATIONAL GOVERNMENT in Nigeria following controversies respect of the outcome of the presidential elections which has favoured the All Progressives Congress ruling government.

The DSS says that it has identified some politicians behind the plot and some key players planning the ING in the country. He described their plans as an aberration that could undermined civil rule and plunged the country into an avoidable crisis.

Spokesperson of the DSS described the suspects as entrenched interests who have mysterious plans to set aside the constitution and undermine civil administration. He also said that this posture of those enemies of Nigeria was unacceptable and illegality to the nation's democracy and the peace-loving citizens of Nigeria especially when the elections were virtually peaceful in the most parts of the country. Those political actors according to the DSS spokesman had held several meetings where they planned to sponsor violent protests in major cities across Nigeria for the purpose of invoking declaration of state of emergency.

He also claimed that the enemies of State had also obtained frivolous Court injunctions to forestall the inauguration of the new executive administrations and legislative houses at Federal and State levels.

THREAT TO THE NASCENT DEMOCRACY OF NIGERIA IS NOT THE SOLUTION TO POLITICAL DISAGREEMENTS!

Citizens of Nigeria have fundamental rights to protest against unpopular actions of government but it has to be done in lawful manner. Agitation for an INTERIM NATIONAL GOVERNMENT is not the solution to the current disagreements on election outcomes.
Definitely in any election there shall be winners and losers, It is good for those who are victorious to count their success at the polls as opportunity to serve their nation and not as a laurels if they have good intentions.
Likewise, losers should not become bitter to the extent of wanting to cause disaffection among all people and create an atmosphere for bloodletting.

The DSS has enjoined stakeholders to be watchful and conscious to avoid being used as instruments to subvert peace and stability of the Nation and had promised to take decisive and necessary legal steps against those misguided elements to frustrate their obnoxious intentions.

The government agency avows full support for the Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces and commitment to hitch- free hand over and assiduously support the Presidential Transition Council and other related bodies in the States to ensure that all activities towards the inauguration of a new president on the 29th May 2023 was seamless.

The DSS also called on the JUDICIARY, CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS (CSOs), and THE MEDIA to be mindful of the antics of the saboteurs.
Well said but solution do all agitations remain in the POPULAR REFERENDUM OF THE CITIZENS that will usher in a PARLIAMENTARY UNICAMERAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT and create opportunities for grassroots participation in government as PARLIAMENTARIANS who will PRODUCE A PRIME MINISTER in an election that will rancour-free and cost-effective!

Nigerians reject the type of election where presidential candidates had to pay NGN100 million naira as intention fee to climb the highest seat of government in the country.

It is time for Nigeria present administration to do the right thing to avoid any form of calamity. DEFINITELY VIOLENCE IS NOT THE SOLUTION TO NIGERIA'S CURRENT IMBROGLIO! “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is reproach to all people.” (Prov 14:34).

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Outgoing Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika will stop at nothing to possess the proposed Nigeria Air national carrier by proxy especially with the succinct support of his godfather, Major General President Muhammadu Buhari, as the icing on the cake of eight years of being a cabinet minister!
For seven consecutive years, Hadi Sirika had consistently pushed for the commissioning of a new air carrier for Nigeria with diligent professionalism considering the fact that in the past 20 years, Nigeria could not boast of a national air carrier!
Nigeria Airways was the flagship national air carrier of the Federal Republic which operated for 44 years (1959-2003 ), but became moribund due to so many factors prominent among which was maladministration.

During ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo's tenure, a renowned international aeronautic business man Richard Branson was contracted to float another national air carrier christened Virgin Nigeria. Operations started earnestly in June 2005 and lasted till September 2012 when its operation terminated for reason of breach of contract! Ordinarily Hadi Sirika could be classified as a patriot who believed in an evolving economy most importantly in the Aviation Industry which he vouched would contribute to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). According to him the new investment would facilitate hospitality, tourism, growth, development of the Nigerian agricultural sector and also create jobs around the Agro Cargo Terminals.
Other benefits of the new national air carrier would include reduced capital flight from Nigeria; gain the optimal Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement (BASA) and Single African Air Transportation Market (SAATM) and develop an aviation hub.

WILL THIS LAST DESPERATE ATTEMPT BY HADI SIRIKA TO FLOAT A NATIONAL AIR CARRIER FOR NIGERIA SUCCEED?

Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), have jointly accused Hadi Sirika of single-handedly chosen Ethiopian Airlines (ET), as the sole partner in the new venture of Nigeria Air through a pseudo Transaction Adviser for the transaction which was incorporated in March 2022. They also alleged that the Aviation Minister secured an Air Transport Licence which did not pass through normal security clearance of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA)! Following a civil litigation which challenged the propriety, necessity and desperation of the Minister, his autocratic order of December 2022 as take-off month had to be cancelled in conformity to an earlier judgment in November which ordered all parties to maintain status quo till 16th January 2023! According to AON, the new contract favored Ethiopian Airlines which would own dominant shares in the deal to the detriment of indigenous operators who have vehemently rejected the unscrupulous contract as unacceptable!

WILL AIRLINE OPERATORS SUCCEED TO BLOCK THE AVIATION MINISTER AT THE COURTS?

We have it on good authority that on 15th and 24th November 2022 respectively, a Federal High Court in Lagos
1. Granted the plaintiffs an interim injunction restraining the Federal Government and Ethiopian Airlines from proceeding with the establishment of Nigeria Air Limited and
2. Stopped the establishment of the proposed national carrier - Nigeria Air by the Federal Government.
The Judge re-ordered the Federal Government and domestic airlines which petitioned the courts to maintain status quo in their suit relating to the establishment of the new airline, until February 2023.

He made the order pending the determination of the suit filed by Registered Trustees of the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), and five others in the Aviation Industry. The Court was informed that the project lacked transparency on funding and also zero consideration for local operators and national interest because the new Nigeria Air has USD$250 million dollars startup budget of which the Federal Government would only contribute USD$12.5 million dollars in line with its 5% share in the proposed new home-based carrier. And whereas no concrete statement was made in respect of who possessed the balance bulk shares!
Would the 95% be shared between Hadi Sirika and Ethiopian Airline (ET)?

NIGERIA AIR WILL FLY BEFORE MAY 29 ACCORDING TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!

In spite of all the controversies, litigations suspicions, allegations etc, Hadi Sirika still boasted that the Nigeria Air aircraft would be in the air before 29th May 2023 departure date of himself and his boss!
He made the disclosure “sub judice” at a National Aviation Stakeholders Forum 2023 in Abuja on Thursday 23rd March 2023 in spite of the fact that all matters relating to the project were still in court under litigation!
According to him, negotiations and meetings with Ethiopian Airlines Group Consortium and the Federal Government were ongoing, and that the Federal Executive Council (FEC), approval of the full business case was being sought.
He also disclosed that operation of local and international flights would commence before 29th May 2023, in spite of the fact that the Federal Ministry of Aviation could not deploy every necessary step to vacate the order which has stopped the ongoing project towards the establishment of the national airline since November 2022.

THE ROLE OF ABUJA- BASED TRANSACTION ADVISOR HAND-PICKED BY AVIATION MINISTER!

An Abuja-based Transaction Adviser on the new national airline, one Tillman Gabriel who was allegedly linked to Hadi Sirika, had, in an advertorial made the following statements to the public in respect of the Nigeria Air transaction:
"..... Following a transparent bidding and decision process managed under the private-public partnership (PPP), Federal Government has issued a clear ownership structure including the leading African Airline with a secured startup budget which gives Nigeria Air a solid financial foundation."

IN SPITE OF HADI SIRIKA'S OBSESSION, CAN A DEBT-RIDDEN NIGERIA AFFORD THE LUXURY OF A NEW AIRLINE IN THE TWILIGHT OF BUHARI'S EXIT FROM OFFICE? HIS PREDECESSORS IN OFFICE: ‘FEMI FANI-KAYODE AND STELLA ODUAH ARE STILL IN COURT TO PROVE THEIR INNOCENCE IN CASES OF OFFICIAL CORRUPTION FILED AGAINST THEM BY THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION (EFCC)!
The answer is NO! But there's one thing you can't take away from Hadi Sirika, he is an addicted pilot who will always love to fly with the KITES in the air.
Flying is the only language he understands, his hobby and only pastime! He studied and became a professional pilot early in life! His soul is totally sold to the addiction and Politics is just by the way!
However our advice to him is to leave the poor taxpayers of this nation alone and not involve them in his antics! Nigeria is bigger ONE ADDICTED FLIER!

His predecessors in office: ‘Femi Fani Kayode and Stella Oduah are still in court to prove their innocence in cases of official corruption filed against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)!

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

In a defiant and daring confrontation against all constituted authorities in charge of conduct of elections; Nigerian citizens reneged on their franchise through VOTER APATHY which exploded and reverberated across the nation in an audible cacophony, "WE WILL NOT VOTE AGAIN WE HAVE NEVER GAINED ANY DIVIDENDS!"

Deliberate massive boycott of the postponed Governorship and States House of Assembly Elections which eventually took place on Saturday 18th March, 2023, occurred in virtually 28 States as COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES flourished as market women and youths in full glare of cameras dared law enforcement agents to arrest them! On the flip side, THUGS who did not believe in drama unleashed violence at polling units, seized, vandalized and burnt ballot boxes, papers etc. while the riggers also had a field day!

The "restricted" naira - both new and old were disbursed openly to purchase the Votes of unscrupulous electorate although EFCC claimed it arrested hundreds of defaulters who would be prosecuted in due time!

NIGERIA CAN NEVER GET ANY ELECTION RIGHT WITH THE MILITARY PRESIDENTIAL CONSTITUTION!

The Executive blunder which sandwiched introduction of re-designed naira currencies by the Central Bank with conduct of the General Elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, between 15th December 2022-18th March 2023, has further portrayed Nigeria as a country without appropriate and articulate policy direction!

The ripple effects of the unwholesome marriage of the two critical events
which lasted for about 90 Days almost set Nigeria onto a path of self-inflicted conflagration and massive civic disobedience in view of the attendant chains of socio-economic breakdown and total insecurity of lives and properties across the country!

GOING DOWN THE MEMORY LANE!

The Central Bank Governor in an announcement of Thursday 27th October 2022, claimed that benefits of the re-designed naira currencies were enormous as it would terminate counterfeiting, cancel further official money printing, check corruption, precipitate cashless economy and create liquidity to manage inflation. He also said that of the NGN3 trillion currencies in circulation NGN2.7 trillion were outside the banking sector and have stifled economic transactions through massive infiltration of counterfeit and very dirty currencies that could no longer qualify as legal tender.
The Central Bank of Nigeria Act 2007 gives the financial agency a free hand to re-design, produce and release into circulation as appropriate, provided it complied with provisions of Section 18(a), Section 19 (a)(b) of the Act and approval of the President in writing.

THE APEX BANK AND ITS GOVERNOR SHOULD BE INSULATED FROM POLITICKING IN NORMAL CLIMES!

Under the Watch of the old general Muhammadu Buhari, Godwin emefiele Governor of the Central Bank bought our interest form of the All Progressive Party for 100 million naira to contest for presidency.

When public outcry in respect of his ambition became very loud he went to court to challenge his antagonists in respect of his constitutional rights which must be respected! Eventually when the heat continued he withdrew his petition from the court and decided to surreptitiously demand his "pound of flesh" from the downtrodden through the naira currency redesign which left them high and dry in consecutive THREE MONTHS!

ACCUSATION AGAINST EMEFIELE IS NOT CONSPIRACY THEORY!

*Mr. President from the onset connived with the CBN under the pretext that money launderers where the target of naira redesign because they had billions of the old currencies to purchase Votes and rig the elections!

*It was established that the President was privy to the entire policy because a CBN spokesman claimed that the agency made a request and writing from him.

*Several people approached the court to counter this unpopular CBN action and the Supreme Court ordered exparte orders on 8th and 15th February 2023 respectively that old currencies should remain legal tender with the new ones until Wednesday 22nd February 2023, three days before the Presidential elections when a substantive order would be made.

*But Major General Muhammadu Buhari who was used to disobeying Court orders on Thursday 16th February 2023, made a national broadcast to counter , the Supreme Court's ex parte order and the decreed that NGN200 naira old naira notes should be introduced as legal tender in order to cushion the sufferings of the masses!

*Although he claimed that he was not unmindful of the Supreme Court's interim order but that his action was in good faith. The Supreme Court has put him in his rightful place in spite of the executive rascality which it he displayed!

UNANIMOUS JUDGMENT OF SUPREME COURT OF FRIDAY 3RD MARCH, 2023!

1) Supreme Court ordered that the old NGN 200, 500, 1000 naira notes should remain in circulation till 31st December 2023.
2) It nullified the Federal Government's naira redesign policy and described it as an affront to the1999 Constitution.
3) The Jurists rebuked the unconstitutional use of powers by the old retired General on naira redesign because it breached the fundamental rights of Nigerian citizens in various ways.
4) Such attitude was not permitted under democracy and in a society like Nigeria.

NOW THAT THE ELECTIONS ARE OVER WHAT NEXT?

The ruling APC government and it's President should cover their faces in shame because they have failed to fulfill their manifesto in respect of care of the masses economic needs and provision of dividends of democracy.

Ahmed Bola Tinubu who is the president-elect-in-waiting to be sworn in on 29th May 2023 should be reminded that the election that brought him on board was CONTROVERSIAL and unacceptable to ALMIGHTY GOD!

HE should not waste time to quickly obey the instructions of the Lord to begin the process of establishing a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT and ensure that in SIX MONTHS THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM SHOULD BE IN OPERATION!

A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE!

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

The most powerful and exalted position in the administration of every government is that of a President or a Prime Minister but sovereignty in true democracies is vested in the Citizens!

It is therefore incumbent on any person aspiring to occupy the hot seat to have been fully prepared to fit into all prerequisites of office as specified in the Constitution with a view to properly discharge all prescribed political and socio-economic functions creditably.


THE FOUR-HORSE RACE TO ASO ROCK!

Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso had lived amicably together in Nigeria for at least 22 years.
There was and could be no reason for quarrel or fight among the quadruple since there was no competition and everyone minded his business and family successfully.

*For instance 'Bola Tinubu who claimed to be an accountant and possibly an economist too, enjoyed lucrative businesses and patronage in South West Lagos State where he later became Executive Governor and served for 8 years. He is a multi-billionaire!

*Atiku Abubakar, a top Customs and Excise Officer cum business magnate who had his hands filled with on-shore/off-shore import/export and also engaged as Federal Government Duties Major Collecting Agents at the Lagos and Onne Ports, Port-Harcourt is also very rich and successful. He is also a multi-billionaire! Atiku served as Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for 8 years.

*Peter Obi, an economist, businessman also served as the Executive Governor of Anambra South East Nigeria for 8 years. He is also a multi-billionaire who operates off-shore foreign accounts and has large sums of money statched away in PANAMA ISLANDS!
He did not deny the facts but explained it off very lightly because he did not believe in the financial system of the country he intended to govern!

*Rabiu Kwankwaso is a businessman/ politician who had served in privileged positions at Federal and State levels. He also served for 8 years as Executive Governor of North West Kano State. Rabiu may not be a multi-billionaire but he is definitely NOT a poor man by any standard!

Under normal conditions and circumstances the FOUR HORSES were very amiable, friendly and very cooperative because they had TWO THINGS in common - they were all businessmen and re-cycled politicians!

The camaraderie was always at the highest peak until a competitive political race to the Presidential State House, Aso Rock was announced by the constitutional umpire - Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in early 2022!

THE RACE HAS BEEN RUN AND WON!

"The race is not to the Swift, nor the battle to the Strong, neither yet Bread to the Wise, nor yet riches to men of Understanding, nor yet favour to men of Skill; but Time and Chance happened to them all.
"For Man also knows not his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the Sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them." (Ecclesiastes.9:11-12)

Out of the FOUR FRIENDS, "...time and chance" divinely happened to 'Bola Tinubu who has been declared winner of the Presidential Election held Saturday, 25th February, 2023, and presented with his Certificate of Return according to the 2022 Electoral Act on Wednesday, 1st March 2023.

The grape has turned sour and the erstwhile Tinubu friends are now contemplating to petition the Courts to recover their STOLEN MANDATE not privy to the Divine intervention which chose him at a time such as this to serve as the CHANGE AGENT WHO MUST ENSURE THAT NIGERIA ENGAGED IN A TRUE DEMOCRACY OF UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.


HOUSEHOLD ENEMIES WILL ALWAYS FALL!

This anecdote will be incomplete without mentioning the disaster that befell THREE among the TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL which confederated to war against and destroy JUDAH, the "Chosen Tribe" of GOD; as it is written in the Book of II Chronicles.20:1-30.

The three tribes were Moab, Ammon and Mount Seir. Moab and Ammon were descendants of the INCEST children born to LOT (Abraham's nephew who escaped the conflagration of Sodom and Gommorah), by his TWO DAUGHTERS, while, the troops of Mount Seir were descendants of ESAU - the TWIN BROTHER OF JACOB!

Due to their unprovoked conspiracy, God took over the battle, confused Judah's adversaries and turned them to fight themselves: "For the children of Ammon and Moab stood, up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
"And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped." (verses 23-24).


BOTH JUDAH AND TINUBU ARE NOT SAINTS BUT DIVINE CHOSEN VESSELS!

Whomsoever God has blessed no man can curse. Tinubu is not a saint but a tool in the hand of the almighty God. Those who have ganged up to oppose his election at the courts should just back off in their own interest and withdraw their petitions.

Atiku who said at a press conference that he would pursue the case to the Supreme Court in answer to a question that should he lose at all levels in response answered: " I will appeal to God."

We have it on good authority that the Six Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), States which petitioned the Supreme Court on behalf of Atiku have withdrawn their case!

Citizens expectation is for all FAILED CONTESTANTS to embrace Tinubu's "Olive Branch" and form a UNITY GOVERNMENT that will produce the Divinely-Mandated Parliamentary System of Government in Nigeria within SIX MONTHS from 29th May 2023.

CONCLUSION:
God can use anyone even SINNERS to achieve his Divine purpose on Earth because all authority both in Heaven and on Earth belong to Him! (Psalm 24 1-2).
"By Faith REHAB THE HARLOT perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the SPIES with peace." (Hebrews. 11:31; Joshua.2:1-24).

THE ONUS IS NOW ON THE PRESIDENT-ELECT TO CARRY OUT THE DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS TO EFFECT A PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION AND CONDUCT FRESH ELECTIONS WITHIN HIS SIX MONTHS IN OFFICE AND BE BLESSED OR DISOBEY AND BE DAMNED!


[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

The most powerful and exalted position in the administration of every government is that of a President or a Prime Minister but sovereignty in true democracies is vested in the Citizens!

It is therefore incumbent on any person aspiring to occupy the hot seat to have been fully prepared to fit into all prerequisites of office as specified in the Constitution with a view to properly discharge all prescribed political and socio-economic functions creditably.


THE FOUR-HORSE RACE TO ASO ROCK!

Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso had lived amicably together in Nigeria for at least 22 years.
There was and could be no reason for quarrel or fight among the quadruple since there was no competition and everyone minded his business and family successfully.

*For instance 'Bola Tinubu who claimed to be an accountant and possibly an economist too, enjoyed lucrative businesses and patronage in South West Lagos State where he later became Executive Governor and served for 8 years. He is a multi-billionaire!

*Atiku Abubakar, a top Customs and Excise Officer cum business magnate who had his hands filled with on-shore/off-shore import/export and also engaged as Federal Government Duties Major Collecting Agents at the Lagos and Onne Ports, Port-Harcourt is also very rich and successful. He is also a multi-billionaire! Atiku served as Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for 8 years.

*Peter Obi, an economist, businessman also served as the Executive Governor of Anambra South East Nigeria for 8 years. He is also a multi-billionaire who operates off-shore foreign accounts and has large sums of money statched away in PANAMA ISLANDS!
He did not deny the facts but explained it off very lightly because he did not believe in the financial system of the country he intended to govern!

*Rabiu Kwankwaso is a businessman/ politician who had served in privileged positions at Federal and State levels. He also served for 8 years as Executive Governor of North West Kano State. Rabiu may not be a multi-billionaire but he is definitely NOT a poor man by any standard!

Under normal conditions and circumstances the FOUR HORSES were very amiable, friendly and very cooperative because they had TWO THINGS in common - they were all businessmen and re-cycled politicians!

The camaraderie was always at the highest peak until a competitive political race to the Presidential State House, Aso Rock was announced by the constitutional umpire - Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in early 2022!

THE RACE HAS BEEN RUN AND WON!

"The race is not to the Swift, nor the battle to the Strong, neither yet Bread to the Wise, nor yet riches to men of Understanding, nor yet favour to men of Skill; but Time and Chance happened to them all.
"For Man also knows not his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the Sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them." (Ecclesiastes.9:11-12)

Out of the FOUR FRIENDS, "...time and chance" divinely happened to 'Bola Tinubu who has been declared winner of the Presidential Election held Saturday, 25th February, 2023, and presented with his Certificate of Return according to the 2022 Electoral Act on Wednesday, 1st March 2023.

The grape has turned sour and the erstwhile Tinubu friends are now contemplating to petition the Courts to recover their STOLEN MANDATE not privy to the Divine intervention which chose him at a time such as this to serve as the CHANGE AGENT WHO MUST ENSURE THAT NIGERIA ENGAGED IN A TRUE DEMOCRACY OF UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.


HOUSEHOLD ENEMIES WILL ALWAYS FALL!

This anecdote will be incomplete without mentioning the disaster that befell THREE among the TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL which confederated to war against and destroy JUDAH, the "Chosen Tribe" of GOD; as it is written in the Book of II Chronicles.20:1-30.

The three tribes were Moab, Ammon and Mount Seir. Moab and Ammon were descendants of the INCEST children born to LOT (Abraham's nephew who escaped the conflagration of Sodom and Gommorah), by his TWO DAUGHTERS, while, the troops of Mount Seir were descendants of ESAU - the TWIN BROTHER OF JACOB!

Due to their unprovoked conspiracy, God took over the battle, confused Judah's adversaries and turned them to fight themselves: "For the children of Ammon and Moab stood, up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
"And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped." (verses 23-24).


BOTH JUDAH AND TINUBU ARE NOT SAINTS BUT DIVINE CHOSEN VESSELS!

Whomsoever God has blessed no man can curse. Tinubu is not a saint but a tool in the hand of the almighty God. Those who have ganged up to oppose his election at the courts should just back off in their own interest and withdraw their petitions.

Atiku who said at a press conference that he would pursue the case to the Supreme Court in answer to a question that should he lose at all levels in response answered: " I will appeal to God."

We have it on good authority that the Six Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), States which petitioned the Supreme Court on behalf of Atiku have withdrawn their case!

Citizens expectation is for all FAILED CONTESTANTS to embrace Tinubu's "Olive Branch" and form a UNITY GOVERNMENT that will produce the Divinely-Mandated Parliamentary System of Government in Nigeria within SIX MONTHS from 29th May 2023.

CONCLUSION:
God can use anyone even SINNERS to achieve his Divine purpose on Earth because all authority both in Heaven and on Earth belong to Him! (Psalm 24 1-2).
"By Faith REHAB THE HARLOT perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the SPIES with peace." (Hebrews. 11:31; Joshua.2:1-24).

THE ONUS IS NOW ON THE PRESIDENT-ELECT TO CARRY OUT THE DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS TO EFFECT A PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION AND CONDUCT FRESH ELECTIONS WITHIN HIS SIX MONTHS IN OFFICE AND BE BLESSED OR DISOBEY AND BE DAMNED!


[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]





I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

NIGERIA IS NOT ACCURSED TO PRESIDENCY - TINUBU WILL ACTUALIZE THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM IN SIX MONTHS!

(Parliamentary And Not Presidential Is The Will Of God For Nigeria).

In spite of all the controversies surrounding his choice as the All Progressives Congress (APC), candidate for the Saturday 25th February, 2023 Presidential Election, in respect of dubious educational qualifications, alleged involvement in drug crimes and illicit acquisition of wealth, 'Bola Tinubu, has emerged as the winner from among the 18 Contestants as the AGENT OF CHANGE!
However what transpired across the length and breadth of Nigeria at the weekend was a complete opposite of the Will of God but a re-enactment of the drama of the biblical "Tower of Babel" an allegory of the inordinate ambition of the homo sapiens which collectively rejected FREEDOM BLESSINGS AT CREATION!

With one language and one speech the whole post-dilluvian citizens of the Earth united to construct a very ambitious city and a physical gateway ladder to Heaven. (Gen.11:1-9). And whereas at creation, God decreed that Man should be fruitful, flourish, multiply, fill, subdue, SPREAD and have dominion over all of the Earth's animals, birds, fishes and sea mammals! And for their audacious disobedience GOD SCATTERED THEM ALL OVER THE EARTH TO DWELL IN FREEDOM AND NOT IN AUTOCRATIC BONDAGE AS IT IS THE PRACTICE IN NIGERIA PRESENTLY!
CONTINUITY OF PRESIDENCY IN NIGERIA IS REBELLION AGAINST GOD!

From Independence in 1960 God in His Wisdom deliberately directed the Founding Fathers to adopt a PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT with a Prime Minister as Head of State for the purposes of establishing an economically-viable nation which would give opportunity for human capacity development in all sectors. But The Military Reversed The Divine Plan And Introduced Presidential Governance!
The out-going military President of Nigeria, retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari in his two-term of eight years in government had ample opportunity to write his name in gold if only he had humbly bowed to the Citizens' popular WILL for participatory governance through the PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.

From the onset of his first tenure in 2015, he failed to hearken to suggestions from various quarters that the presidential system adopted by retired General Abubakar Abdusalam was too expensive for a developing and very corrupt country like Nigeria BUT he stubbornly stuck to his hidden feudalistic agenda that should perpetually enslave the entire populace!
The presidential system of government in Nigeria has been thrown to the dogs and its structures from the Federal to the States and Local Government Areas have collapse into smittens!
All the corrupt politicians from 1999 to date turned deaf ears to the collective agitations for an all-inclusive UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM that would provide for grassroot participation into elective offices from the various constituencies up to the highest post of PRIME MINISTER.
Instead they all connived and further delved into CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS or set up NATIONAL CONFERENCES that would provide avenues for more opportunities for institutional robbery of the National treasury.

Ex-presidents Obasanjo and Jonathan were inundated with not less than SIX legislative assembly constitutional amendments which were not signed by any of them although all the activities consumed nothing less than NGN15 billion naira which went into the pockets of the roguish politicians.
Major General President Buhari's legacy should have been meaningful handing over to a PRIME MINISTER on 29th May 2023 but he has lost the Golden opportunity through his obsession for the Fulani Herdsmen Ancient Nomadic Routes which according to him was more important than Nigeria's unity in diversity.

AND in spite of the several avalanche of appeals to a mere mortal like Mr. Buhari to shut the Senate from 2015 for starters in order to save scarce resources and nip in the bud all manner of wastage in government, he turned deaf ears and continued stubbornly to spend the money and to borrow more to satisfy his appetite for stupendous and opulent lifestyle!

ALAS! IF ONLY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI HAD LISTENED TO DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS!

Although Nigeria is so broke and has to borrowed as usual over NGN 300 billion naira from international communities to even fund the highly- expensive 2023 Presidential Elections, yet logistics and security architecture lapses were very pronounced across the nation through late arrivals at polling units by INEC officials, attacks of polling booths, snatching of ballot boxes, criminal destruction of BIVAS MACHINES, voting late into the night, postponement of voting and collation to the Sunday 26th February 2023 etc.

CONFUSION TRAILS THE INCONCLUSIVE PRESIDENTIAL/LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS OF SATURDAY 25TH FEBRUARY, 2023!

The Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission )INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu who is the constitutional returning officer for the Federation of Nigeria at about 7 p.m.on Sunday 26th February 2023, announced the only available collated final results of the Presidential Election for EKITI South West Nigeria as follows: APC - 201494; PDP - 89554! LP - 11,387; NNPP - 284. and adjourned further deliberations to 11am Monday 27th February, 2023. APC had 65 per cent of total votes cast!
Earlier, he had apologized to Nigerians for all the inconveniences that the Electorate had to be subjected to at polling units from Saturday up to the following day because many of them virtually slept at the venues.
He blamed the lapses on faulty logistics which was at variance with off season elections in magnitude and operational executions.
THE TASK BEFORE ASIWAJU 'BOLA AHMED TINUBU IS TO OBEY DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS UNLIKE HIS PREDECESSOR, MUHAMMADU BUHARI!

Thus saith the Lord to ' Bola Tinubu:

" I The LORD GOD Almighty your creator believes that if I Had made you President of Nigeria from 2015, you would have performed creditably well; therefore now be ready to hit the ground to carry out My
Orders as follows:
1) Make categorical inaugural statement on 29th May, 2023, that you will set up a CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY to look into the masses' demand for the restructuring of the Nigerian Federation with the DRAFTING OF UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION to pave way for a parliamentary system of government.
2) Within your first THREE MONTHS in office you MUST establish all necessary platforms through which the presidential system would wind down gradually for all political structures from the Federal through the States to the Local Government Areas to collapse seamlessly.
3) ON MONDAY 2ND OCTOBER 2023 A PRIME MINISTER FOR NIGERIA MUST BE SWORN IN TO ASSUME OFFICE!

All of the above must be carried out diligently and with precision according to my instructions with a team dedicated Patriots, that I HAVE already appointed for you even before the foundation of the World!
"Believe in God and ye shall be established, believe in his Prophets and ye shall prosper!"

(This Newsletter was published 11 pm, Sunday 26th February, 2023).

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

What happens when a general election is suddenly postponed as it was always the case in Nigeria? The option of such deliberate delay would afford an unpopular administration to re-strategize, re-organize and deploy fresh rigging machinery into operation to achieve the ultimate desire for pseudo victory!
Up to the first week of February 2023 when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), closed the window for collection of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs), across Nigeria, thousands of thousands of bona fide Electorate had been disenfranchised due to institutional lapses and nonchalant attitude of the larger personnel of the electoral umpire!

Citizens besieged all designated collection centres foisted by INEC through various publicity portals but it became crystal clear as the period of collection thinned out that such PVCs were either non-existent or had been vandalized and were never re-printed!

In the second week, Monday 13th February 2023, Professor Mahmood Yakubu INEC Chairman told Nigerians that elections would not be held in 240 Polling Units across Nigeria because voters failed to register in those units that were established in 20, States of the Federation including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

While addressing the 18 political Parties Chairmen, the INEC Chairman disclosed that his Staff discovered on inspection that the polling units had no registered voters and also disclosed that the total number of polling units in Nigeria were 176,606. And whereas it was in June 2022, that INEC established an additional 56 872 polling units in his expansion of Voter Access Drive to accommodate all the Electorate without disenfranchising anyone. To the ordinary layman INEC did a yeoman’s job to prove its credibility to deliver an all-inclusive and transparent elections to the populace.

BUT IS INEC NOT SUSPECT AND COMPLICIT?

News making the rounds is that 40 local government areas in the Northern parts of the country were under Boko Haram terrorists and bandits jurisdiction and that in those areas, the insurgents collect taxes and have even taken over the farms of the indigenes with a view to enslaving them permanently. WE have it on good authority that in January 2023, the Professor said that elections would not be held in those 240 PUs for SECURITY REASONS! BUT WE are not alien to the Professor's nuances and double-speaking! In the year 2019 Mahmood gave Nigerians assurances and convictions that the conduct of that year’s general elections would be flawless in spite of the existing threats to national security through vandalism and destruction of lives and properties in an unimaginable proportions between October 2018 and the election year!

BUT AT DAWN ON THE D-DAY AT EXACTLY 02.44 AM, WHEN THE GOOD PEOPLE OF NIGERIA WERE STILL FAST ASLEEP, (BARELY FIVE HOURS TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY POLLS - SLATED FOR SATURDAY 16TH FEBRUARY, 2019, FROM 08.00HRS), PROFESSOR MAHMOOD YAKUBU ANNOUNCED POSTPONEMENT BY ONE WEEK EACH OF THE TWO STRATEGIC ELECTIONS! If that was not an affront/insult to the collective sensibilities of about 200 million CITIZENS by just one man who depended on an Electoral Act to the detriment of their Fundamental Rights as entrenched in the GRUNDNORM – the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, and got away with it!

HIS REASONS? Logistics and weather challenges!!!! The Executive Umpire said it was INEVITABLE!!!! He later interacted with all stakeholders, Chairmen of political parties
in the afternoon of 16 February 2019 an explained that logistic constraints had to do with the air lifting of highly sensitive materials to far-flung Local Government Areas so that elections could commence simultaneously at 0800 a.m. across the country but that ILL WEATHER prevailed against the plan. The Professor assured Nigerians that the new date which was 23rd February 2019 was sacrosanct and that no one should exercise any further fear of another postponement because sensitive materials that were already in circulation would be recovered and re-certified. He also assured all Nigerians and the Electorate of the unflinching integrity and loyalty of his management team with an emphasis that the "COMMISSION WOULD NOT PLAY ANY ONE'S SCRIPT!"
MAHMOOD YAKUBU IS STILL IN THE SADDLE FOR THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS WHICH COME UP WITHIN SIX DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION - 25TH FEBRUARY, 2023!

ARE NIGERIANS IN FOR ANOTHER SHOCKER IN RESPECT OF THIS YEAR'S ELECTION DATES?

The new 2022 Electoral Act rests the exercise of PREROGATIVE ON INEC Chairman to exercise all legal powers in the conduct of elections including the right to postpone such elections in cases of the possibility of serious breach of peace, natural disaster or other emergencies provided that such reason was cogent and verifiable. Nigerians are not new to postponement of elections because in the preparations to the 2011 and 2015 general elections various logistic challenges cropped up.

BUT 2015 postponement was a government intervention under the PDP Administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan over the issue of INSECURITY which topped the list of his fears.
AND he wasted no time to announce a very long postponement through his National Security Advisor, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki.. Before the postponement of the 2015 elections, there were several allegations that the main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), and its allies had prepared to invite foreign mercenaries to work with Boko Haram terrorist in order to seize the government at all cost. It was also alleged that terrorists were heavily funded to unleash mayhem before, during and after the elections because billions of US dollars had exchange hands to ensure that the rigging plan by the opposition was "faith accompli."

QUESTIONS:
Is there any possibility that the 2023 General Elections could be sabotaged by the FIFTH COLUMNISTS whom all the stakeholders including the ruling party were bandying about without bringing forth solid evidences thus far?
According to newspaper reports, not less than 134 INEC facilities have been vandalized, damaged and destroyed continuously in the last two years leading to January 2023! The worst-hit had been the Eastern States of Nigeria especially IMO and Anambra. Apart from INEC facilities, Police Station Buildings, Correctional Centres, Strategic Government Facilities have been targeted and torched to aggravate tension of insecurity across the country! It is our considered opinion that citizens may have objections to the crop of bad leaders that are being taunted and paraded before the Electorate BUT THE PANACEA TO THE QUAGMIRE IS NOT THROUGH ACTS OF VANDALISM AND DESTRUCTION OF INNOCENT LIVES AND PROPERTIES.

WE OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD THE ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER may object to the Military Presidential System of the ruling APC Government which has brought woes and mysteries to the larger population of Nigerians, WE still believe in legitimate democratic methods of ensuring that the agitation for RESTRUCTURING OF NIGERIA MUST BE THROUGH A PEACEFUL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.

It is do-able because when the right candidate is chosen it will not take him time, and within weeks of his inauguration should broker a CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY and put in motion the drafting of a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION that will bring everybody on board. This had been our advocacy for 13 years - since ex-President Jonathan took over the reins of government in 2011! THIS DEMAND MUST NEVER BE CONDUCTED THROUGH VIOLENCE BUT THROUGH PEACEFUL ADVOCACY!

HAS MAHMOOD YAKUBU ANY ULTERIOR MOTIVES - ARE NIGERIANS IN FOR ANOTHER SHOCKER?

These professors from the Ivory tower can never be TRUSTED! They always believed that they were more cerebral than other citizens but were easily manipulated and outwitted by politicians in government! WE know that the BIMODAL VOTER ACCREDITATION SYSTEM (BIVAS), is in place to check all forms of rigging and other electoral malpractices by these bunch of desperate politicians that are parading themselves for positions of authority and power; but what about vote-buying which have been intensified and perfected from one election to another?

All security apparatuses should be deployed by PATRIOTS in government who are very interested in the SURVIVAL OF THIS GREAT NATION OF NIGERIA to checkmate any form of plans that the ENEMIES OF STATE may have up their sleeves to truncate what is left of this nascent democracy!
"Righteousness exalts s nation, but sin is a reproach to all people." (Prov. 14;34).

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

The Nigerian Supreme Court is in the news again for bad reasons. Conflicting judgements have resulted in respect of a suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC), at the apex court on behalf of its out-going Senate President who resorted to return to his constituency and reclaim his former seat already filled by a fresh candidate having failed in the party's Presidential Primaries!

Ahmad Lawan had been in the Legislature from, 1999-2023 as the representative for Yobe North but decided to up his game to the Presidency in the expected up-coming general elections.
The Yobe North Senatorial Seat which is in contention between Senate President Ahmad Lawan and a greenhorn Bashir Machina was litigated at the Lower and Upper Courts in favour of the latter.

Bashir physically participated in the All Progressives Congress (APC), party primaries conducted on 28th May 2022, won and his name submitted to INEC according to Section 29 of the Electoral Act 2022.

On the other hand, Mr. Lawan voluntarily withdrew from the senatorial primaries of 28th May 2022 and opted for the presidential primaries of the APC of 8th June 2022 and lost!
Having lost his bid for the top-most position, Mr Lawan manipulated fresh primaries for the Yobe North Senatorial District slot with the tacit connivance of the Electoral Umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on 9th June 2022 and was declared the winner!

SPLIT JUDGEMENTS OF THE FIVE APPEAL COURT JUDGES!

The lead Judge claimed that both court processes filed against Lawan at the Federal High Court Yobe and the Appeal Court in Abuja were "abuse of court processes," , and that they were "perverse and must be set aside".
He also said that Macchina should have commenced his suit by a writ of summons going by the allegations of fraud leveled against the APC by transmitting Mr. Lawan's name to INEC.

However the dissenting Judges maintained that the APC lacked merit and fined the Party a sum of NGN3 million in favour of Macchina!

CAN ANYTHING GOOD COME OUT OF A CORRUPT JUDICIARY?

*Who will redeem the image of the Nigerian Judiciary which table rest the hope of the common man?
* Should any Nigerian be surprised at the conflicting judgements of the Apex Court?
* If Lawan could pay a whopping unrefundable sum of NGN100 million naira to purchase APC Interest Form to become Nigeria's next President, what amount would be too much for him to purchase corrupt Judges of the THIRD ARM!

It is in the public domain that during the first term administration of Major General Muhammadu Buhari, senior judges including those of the Supreme Court were humiliated and disgraced by operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS), in a STING OPERATION which exposed them as corrupt officers of the law!
The disciplinary body of Judges, the National Judicial Council (NJC), was deliberately sidelined in order to catch the corrupt judges by surprise and so they did!
*BUT IT WAS AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY AS WE PREDICTED THEN IN 2016 THAT THE CULPRITS WOULD BE SET FREE!

Although most of them were caught red- handed with monetary evidences and unexplainable "gifts" of exotic vehicles and millions of foreign currencies in various denomination, "kagaroo courts" headed by the fraternity of judges set all of them free to go home and enjoy their loots!

INCUMBENT CHIEF JUSTICE ARIWOOLA IS STANDING ON THE "BANANA PEEL" AND IT MAY NOT BE TOO LONG BEFORE HE FALLS FLAT!

Chief Justice Olukayode Ariwoola started on the wrong footing by frolicking, socializing and reveling with politicians BUT, the Supreme Court of Nigeria Director Press and Information, in a very lengthy statement at the week end condemned all criticisms against the latest judgement in favour of Mr. Lawan who has brought Nigeria into more ridicule among the comity of nations for his unbridled. LUST for ephemeral power and transient positions!

It is not in dispute that there are eminent jurists with impeccable character, moral principles. Integrity, diligence, commitment to high standards within the current Judiciary of Nigeria but those who have thrown caution to the winds in preference of immorality and corruption MUST be purged and excised from the SYSTEM!

The following statement credited to Justice Ayo Salami, a retired judge of the Appeal Court is relevant to counter many many criticisms against the Nigerian Judiciary;
" The Nigerian judiciary harbours corrupt elements who are politicians and government apologist who attend all manner of social gatherings and frolic with litigants with pending cases before the High Courts.....How can judges decide cases against their political parties and people they wine and dine with he queried?"

AT THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES, A MATTER IS CONFIRMED!

Who will purge the JUDICIARY of this CORRUPTION STIGMA? Definitely not the propaganda of the Director of Press and Information!

OUR RECOMMENDATIONS:
Before Major General President Muhammadu Buhari departs office on 29th May 2023, he should follow up on his FIRST TERM PETITION TO THE JUDICIARY IN WHICH HE MADE THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS;
1) The Learned Benchers should be forefront in the forefront to develop right- based jurisprudence as an element of the multidisciplinary approach advocated in the fight against corruption by enforcing applicable laws to avoid delay in ensuring criminal Justice administration.
2) The Apex Court should intensify the reforms introduced through the criminal justice act of 2015 and discourage lawyers who were out to frustrate the reforms for a change of attitude collective action in building a new Nigeria.
3) In view of the dwindling Revenue, the Judiciary should support in tackling the two ILLS - WASTE AND CORRUPTION simultaneously.
4) Can the Nigerian Supreme Court provide refuge and justice to the aggrieved while it regularly dines and wines with the high and mighty of the society? This very salient question has been asked severally in the past but it seemed that the Judiciary had developed thick skin against public criticisms and outcries in respect of its dented image!
5) BUT We believe that it was high time that the present crop of the entire judiciary looked inwards and introspect in order to shore up a new/impeccable identity that should uplift this very weak arm of government to the pedestal.
6) And whereas the duty of the Judiciary as the third arm to the Executive and the Legislative is clearly spelt out in the military 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in respect of ensuring equity legislation and human rights adjudication.
7) The three arms of government should work together as a team to ensure good governance and sovereignty to the people based on the principles of democracy and social justice while the security and welfare of the people should always be the primary purpose of the three arms.
The Judiciary should also serve as the arbiter between the Executive and the Legislature and THE LAST HOPE OF THE COMMON MAN IN REALITY!
" You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free"! (John. 8:32).


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Although, it is not expressly stipulated in the 2022 Electoral Act that the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC], could play the role of an advisory body or institution that could suggest a better system of government for a country like Nigeria which had thrown its advantageous DIVERSITY PROPENSITY to the dogs unlike the United States of America which had turned its similar experience into a gold mine of economic prosperity and the undisputed “numero uno” military world power!

But in 62 years of conducting Nigerian elections – under different nomenclatures – INEC, which had always been headed by seasoned technocrats and professors from the Ivory Tower, was most qualified to speak truth to power that the choice of Presidential system for a developing nation as Nigeria could tantamount to an OLIGARCHY in which the illiterate few would apply feudal influence to always have their way, as it now obtains inside the very domain of the Giant of Africa on paper !

Counting down to the uninspiring and very unpopular February/March 2023 Presidential, Governorship and Legislative Elections being forced down the throat of the over 95 per cent downtrodden multi-dimensionally poverty-stricken citizens Nigerians, gory scenarios of political violence, destruction of lives/properties, and institutionally-sponsored vandalism of strategic infrastructure have become the order of the day across the entire LANDSCAPE!

The National Anthem lyric which states that; “.... though tribe and tongue may differ, in brotherhood we stand.....”, is balderdash, propaganda and diversionary! Since the flag-off of electioneering campaigns, the 36 States have experienced violence and bloodshed as party thugs unleashed mayhem on perceived political enemies!

That Nigeria is truly "a GEOGRAPHICAL CONTRAPTION" of many countries wickedly sandwiched together by the British colonial masters, is playing out its drama in disunity, ethnic rivalries, religious intolerance, bigotry, hatred, unhealthy rivalry etc!

TO THE OUT-GOING BUHARI ADMINISTRATION, INSECURITY IS MERE BY-WORD!

Presently, there are three major commotions in circulation like the bourbon plague across the expanse nation and it very evident that Major General Muhammadu Buhari and his cohorts who believe that Nigeria belongs to their Ethnic Fulani Clan, C-A-R-E-L-E-S-S!

1) Recalcitrant nation-wide fuel scarcity which began in Quarter 2, 2022 and is still persistent has been a snare to the entire population across the six-geo political zones.Previously, there was a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which administrative headquarters in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria was classified as "The Four Towers of Corruption", because of the untamed, co-ordinated, aggressive and daring kind of institutional robbery of the national treasury - the Federation Account by the very powerful agency which calls the shot in respect of NATIONAL FOREIGN EARNINGS from crude oil! From its establishment in 1997-2022, the NNPC which supervised OIL EXPLORATION, EXPLOITATION including activities of FOREIGN OIL COMPANIES, was virtually non-accountable to all consecutive administrations - military or civilian! It accounts were never audited for decades and its administrators never queried because consecutive civilian Presidents – except Mr. Jonathan, doubled as Ministers of Petroleum! Until the year 2020, when one Mr. Mele Kyari, emerged from nowhere to become Group Managing Director (GMD), and out of the blues, produced the very first “Audited Financial Statements And Annual Report, which portrayed unverifiable magical profits of USD$ 698 million dollars in spite of OPEC’s production cut back due to Covid-19 lock down effects! And whereas, in 2019, NNPC suffered a combined loss from three moribund Refineries in Warri, Port-Harcourt and Kaduna to the tune of NGN162.22 billion naira and in 2020 year of Covid-19 lockdown another whooping sum of NGN108.29 billion naira, according to records scooped from its official records! Following public outcry and condemnation of the Corporation, Major General President Muhammadu Buhari's government decided to transform it to a limited liability company now called Nigerian National Petroleum corporation Limited. (NNPCL)! BUT the woeful transition can best be described as a situation of jumping from frying pan to fire in view of the current situation of PETROL in an election year!

2) Systematic disenfranchisement of the electorate by the electoral umpire, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which has woefully failed to distribute the Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs), to thousands of registered citizens - still in the SECOND WEEK of February 2023, when the elections were few weeks ahead!

3) Unavailability of RE-DESIGNED NIGERIAN CURRENCIES which were believed to be diverted by commercial banks to political leaders at all levels in connivance to mop their stolen old currencies instead of releasing them to the masses as top priority in spite of Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBNs), new exchange closing deadline date of 10th February, 2023!

DUTIES OF INEC AS SPELT OUT IN THE 2022 ELECTORAL ACT!

The duty of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is to conduct free, fair, transparent and credible elections and is incumbent on the electoral body that the citizens were neither disenfranchised nor exposed to any form of electoral malpractices or threats on appointed election days.
Officials of the very strategic and sensitive agency of government must live above board and totally insulated from politics for them to faithfully discharge their onerous national duties without fear or favour.

THE WAY OUT OF THE QUAGMIRE!

The only way out for this nation to be set free from of the oligarchy, nepotistic, egoistic and tribal leaders whose main agenda is to keep every Nigerian in perpetual servitude is ADOPTION OF A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WITHOUT! FURTHER DELAY!
The 774 Local Government Ares will collapse into CONSTITUENCIES which will produce PARLIAMENTARIANS from the various political parties while the party with the highest votes will produce a PRIME MINSTER at the Central Government! This means that from the grassroots everybody will be able to participate in governance to douse all tensions/animosities and diversity deliberately created through DIVIDE AND RULE TACTICS OF THE OLIGARCHY!
All built-up anger, dissatisfaction, segregation and bad blood among the people will disappear and fritter away because there would be a collective effort to work on the economy to become the TRADING GATEWAY AND ECONOMIC DESTINATION OF AFRICA OF THE 21ST CENTURY IN NO TIME!

This is a clarion call on Nigerian YOUTHS AGAIN FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME TO RESENT AND REJECT THE POSITION OF THUGS AND CRIMINALS DURING ELECTIONS AND CLAIM THEIR RESPECTABLE POSITION OF PRESENT AND FUTURE LEADERS!

We know that you cannot stop their coming presidential elections BUT YOU CAN CHANGE THE GAME-PLAN OF THE SHAMELESS RE-CYCLED MONEYBAGS BY VOTING FOR YOUR PEER GROUPS AMONG THE “SMALLER DESPISED PARTIES” WHOSE CANDIDATES WILL DELIVER DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY AND INTRODUCE THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM IMMEDIATELY THEY ASSUME OFFICE!
YOU CAN DO IT BECAUSE GOD IS ON YOUR SIDE!

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

TINUBU AND ATIKU SHOULD BE CHARGED FOR CORRUPTION AND FINANCIAL CRIMES AT THE HAGUE!

It has been long expected that the two major political parties in Nigeria, the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will come into the open with credible information in respect of institutional corruption against their leading and contending candidates while they both held public offices.
Nigerians have been informed that while Tinubu was Lagos State Governor between 1999-2007, there were a lot of allegations of financial corruption against him and was also accused of being involved in drug activities while in the United States of America.

Atiku on the other hand had been accused also of financial mismanagement, financial crimes and outright theft of government critical infrastructures under the guise of privatization during his tenure as Vice President of Nigeria between 1999- 2007.

Their handlers have come out with facts and figures to let the whole world know that their major candidates were not fit for government appointments any longer.
EFCC , the financial crime agency of government has kept quiet in spite of the very weighty allegations that were being released in the public domain and on internet and have made Nigerians to become a laughing stock among the comity of Nations.
This is not acceptable at all and WE OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER hereby make a formal request for international intervention through The INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AT THE HAGUE which has legal rights to invite the two men to answer to charges related to financial crimes/corruption because ICC OPERATIVES have been in Nigeria and have been gathering facts and figures sufficiently PROSECUTE THE TWO MEN AND DIS-E FRANCHISE THEM FROM ANY ELECTION FOREVER!

There can be no better time for this international institution to wade in and resolve this imbroglio once and for all.

In 2014 the Kenyan sitting President Uhuru Kenyatta was invited over allegations that were levelled against him by his political opponent and as a good statesman answered to the invitation on charges of crimes against humanity.
He was thoroughly investigated, questioned, drilled and interviewed; but at the end he was given a clean bill of health and he returned to his position as the sitting President of the Republic of Kenya.
Nothing stops ICC from saving Nigeria from impending calamity that could easily evolve/explode through its timely intervention most especially because Nigeria is a signatory to the ICC universal convention and cannot stop the international organisation from taking the necessary and appropriate action now.

Nigeria is an independent and sovereign nation and has come a long way in 62 years to have true democracy and not this commotion that is trying to tear the people apart.
It is our considered opinion that the two men in question would honorably accept the invitation because politicians will come and go but Nigeria will remain forever.
Nigeria’s founding fathers did not plan that Nigeria should be at the crossroad where it had found itself now because of greedy, self-centered, self-conceited, re-cycled, corrupt and shameless politicians and their cohorts who have no good ideas to further pilot the nation!

EFCC, ICPC, NIGERIA POLICE, DSS, NIA OPERATIVES SHOULD BURY THEIR HEADS IN SHAME!

All of the above mentioned security and financial crime agencies should bury their heads in shame for collecting monthly salaries and allowances for non performances at their duty post.
Most of them do not merit the position they have found themselves but for the issue of nepotism which has taken the upper echelon in the conduct and administration of government institutions including the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).
Current occupants in high positions have all been bought over by politicians and all they do is look the other way when institutional crimes are committed!

But enough is enough THERE MUST BE LEADERSHIP REVOLUTION IN NIGERIA NOW because there could be no better time than this. The nation cannot continue to recycle criminals who have stolen so much from the system and are even richer than Nigeria to continue to govern the innocent people continuously!

There must be a change now! These people have continued with impunity to boast that they own Nigeria! Do they own Nigeria? Of course they do not and the truth must be told that these set of people must be brought to Justice without further delay!

They believe they’re so rich! Which businesses did they do in Nigeria or outside of Nigeria to have given them such stupendous and humongous amounts of riches?

It is no longer a secret that majority of the so-called leaders of this nation called Nigeria have monies stashed away in all dubious accounts of all the nations all over the world and Whereas, as leaders of the Nation they are expected to declare all their assets and liabilities, incomes etc to the CODE OF CONDUCT BUREAU (CCB), on assumption of office

It is the practice in this country that before they take up political appointments that they would claim landed properties, houses, Industrial institutions and so many properties that were not in existence with the sole aim and intention of accumulating those things through public funds when they eventually rigged themselves into office.
Many of them did this in the past and got away seamlessly!

There was a particular former Governor of Kwara State that did all of the above and was charged before the CODE OF CONDUCT BUREAU and with manipulations and all manner of interventions even from government sources he was set free and was able to keep all those properties for himself and his family.

‘BOLA TINUBU was also left of the hook while as Lagos governor committed similar offences by falsifying information in declarations of assets when he was in office.
Although he was arraigned before the tribunal, he also got away but presently, the Chairman of the Tribunal who is still alive now regrets that it was an error of judgement!
AND yet, ‘Bola Tinubu wants to become President of Nigeria haba? Nigerians must not engage in any form of criminality or violence but be determined that none of these people that are parading the nooks and crannies of Nigeria now ever got into office.
They must be put into absolute shame! Nobody should vote for them! THERE ARE DECENT CANDIDATES OUTSIDE OF THE SO-CALLED BIG POLITICAL PARTIES that have not SOILED THEIR HANDS IN ANY FORM!
Nigeria is credited to have natural endowment of natural resources in all the 36 States and the federal capital territory of Nigeria but for 62 years had concentrated on ONLY CRUDE OIL EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION to the detriment of the WELFARE of NIGER DELTA REGION who dwell in abject poverty and squalor with nothing to show for it.

All these atrocities in high places must be stopped now. Nigeria should practice true democracy where everybody has a stake in government and we have said it over and over that the only way out is PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THROUGH A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION that will produce PARLIAMENTARIANS FROM ALL CONSTITUENCIES all over Nigeria and a PRIME MINISTER from the winning party!

This is what had been suggested but the politicians believe that they will not have sufficient avenues to steal so they continued to amend an unamendable military constitution and voting billions of naira every tenure while such amendments were thrown into the dustbin by consecutive presidents!
Whither shall we go from here? This is a question that needs Divine INTERVENTION!

ICC in Hague must make sure that those two major candidates who have been identified as crooks, rogues and vagabonds BY THEIR OWN HANDLERS must be invited and investigated because Nigeria does not belong to them!
Anything short of this will not be acceptable to Nigerians!
A legal luminary once suggested that there should be AN INTERIM GOVERNMENT FROM 25TH FEBRUARY 2023, to sort the entire matter of RESTRUCTURING out once and for all!
We cannot rule out this suggestion completely but even at that it has to be done through REFERENDUM!

They still want to conduct fresh elections with a battered 1999 military constitution so that they can still RIG AS USUAL AND REMAIN IN OFFICE! God forbid!

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

CHATHAM SHOULD NOT HAVE INVITED RECYCLED NIGERIAN POLITICIANS TO CHATTER AND LIE SHAMELESSLY TO THE WORLD!

The prestigious Chatham House London is under siege!
All dishonorable, desperate, despicable, recycled and spent political jobbers from Nigeria have besieged this honorable institution (on invitation?), to destroy its century-old very outstanding, sterling, impeccable and unrivalled image!

Has Chatham suddenly forgotten Nigeria's unpalatable history from the colonial era till independence and post-independence military aberration and all negative International indexes in respect of this so-called giant of Africa?

Is Nigeria truly an independent, sovereign nation of positive international repute among the commonwealth comity of Nations of the world any longer?

Is Nigeria still not an appendage of foreign authorities and foreign powers even at 62 years of freedom from colonial slavery?

Why are Nigerian politicians so, so shameless? Since the dates for the unpopular 2023 General Elections were announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), more than a year ago, the die-hard and addicted politicians have all been put into frenzy running from pillar to post in order to have a bite of a NATIONAL CAKE that no longer existed!

Is it true that the very fanatical, inordinate ambitious, mostly disreputable politicians frantically lobbied Chatham House for INVITATIONS?

DID CHATHAM SUDDENLY FORGET THE OBNOXIOUS MONEY-INDUCED PARTIES PRIMARIES!

Beginning with the political parties primaries up to election of candidates for all positions from the presidency to governorship, legislative at national, states and local government levels, it had been commotions upon disasters, violence, bloodshed for the TRANSIENT POSITIONS!

And yet, perpetrators of all on-going manner of heinous crimes – including the stone-age decapitation of human heads in desperate clamour for political positions have the audacity and effrontery to travel with large retinue of aides to civilized nations of the United Kingdom, United States of America, United Arab Emirates, flaunting “illicit wealth”, holding nocturnal meetings in foreign lands to decide the future of DOWNTRODDEN NIGERIANS AGAIN?

And whereas NIGERIA IS LADEN WITH ABOUT ₦ 77 TRILLION NAIRA in debt burden borrowed from virtually all the countries of the world – including EU AND UK as the old General, Muhammadu Buhari bows out 29th May 2023

CHATHAM HOUSE IS NOT A PLACE FOR CHARLATANS!

Founded in 1920, Chatham House London mission statement is driven to help governments and societies to build sustainable, secure, prosperous, egalitarian and a just world devoid of human rights violations!

It is an independent policy institute and a trusted forum for debate and dialogue which research and ideas help people understand the changing world. Chatham House helps people societies and governments understand and adapt to seismic change and provide thought leadership on key issues that define the 20th/21st century.

Since the end of the Second World War in 1945 this outstanding institution had helped to craft the multilateral institutions and mechanisms of global financial stability and also supported African independence leaders a platform throughout de-colonization.

Chatham was key to Anglo-Soviet track-two diplomacy initiatives. And also its research influenced China’s establishment of low-carbon economic zones.
Chatham House has been a source of independent analysis trusted dialogue and influential ideas for 100 years and in this 21st century has continued to offer solutions to global challenges and actively seeking to empower the next generation to change the world.

Chatham's three Second Century Goals are intended to enable and build peaceful, sustainable and inclusive societies.
This Independent policy institution, a trusted forum for debate and dialogue, with benefits of a century-long experience is privileged to hold a long-standing position of trust on the world stage and seeks to use this to champion positive change for people everywhere through Events, Publishing, Expertise, Leadership etc.

QUESTION: Where do political charlatans from Nigeria fit into Chatham’s goals and aspirations as elucidated in the preceding paragraphs?
Why were Chatham doors opened to charlatan Nigerian presidential money bags candidates? Whose attention did they intend to attract at the prestigious institution?

With such an impeccable profile, this great institution should not condone deceitful leaders who had plundered the nation’s coffers and always covered their tracks when accused with glaring evidences and exhibits like the proverbial OSTRICH!
The very credible Royal Institute of International Affairs and non-profit-making outfit will never affirm bad products with bad profiles!

From all indications, the Nigerian presidential money-bags; Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Rabiu Kwankwaso etc, “are money-miss-road” co-travellers who were in London only to pollute the social order of the United Kingdom’s bastion of democracy but have woefully failed!

While they were gallivanting and dramatizing in London amidst hoards of PROTESTERS, dynamites, explosives and gunshots reverberated across-the-length and breadth of Nigeria as party THUGS killed and maimed percieved members of the opposition and innocent citizens!

Between 1st to 20th January 2023, not less than 508 people were killed across Nigeria in election-related atrocities according to the Vanguard and Guardian newspapers publications and that citizens were at the mercy of kidnappers!

The Second Peace Accord initiated and sponsored by retired Major General Abdusalam Abubakar could not come to fruition because of accusations and counter-accusations by various stake holders. In all of these commotions Major General President Muhammadu Buhari is so flabbergasted just like all the LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS – policemen, soldiers et all, who are definitely handicapped and overstretched.

The question is how will Buhari hold free, fair, credible, acceptable and honorable Elections between February and March 2023 in the midst of these chaotic situation?
CHATHAM HOUSE IS NOT A PLACE FOR CHATTERING RABBLE-ROUSERS.

Below are excerpts of the blabbers:
1) ‘Bola Tinubu: He snubbed Town Hall Meetings organised by a consortium of eminent Nigerian Journalists and junketed to hold a COMEDY AT CHATHAM HOUSE where he shared questions to a retinue of his lackeys! He denied all allegations of certificate forgery and drugs involvement in the USA but said he would build on BUHARI’S LEGACIES – which? Maybe of cluelessness and ineptitude!
2) PETER OBI: For the umpteenth time said he would divert Nigeria’s economy from CONSUMPTION to PRODUCTION! He said he was not corrupt in spite of the Panama Papers allegations that he had monies in millions of dollars stashed away from public eye on the private Island!
3) ATIKU ABUBAKAR: “I am the most qualified to be President of Nigeria! I will PRIVATIZE all critical assets – especially NNPCL and make MY FRIENDS RICH!
4) RABIU KWANKWASO: I am a Ph.D holder and not a Trader!

THE SOLUTION TO NIGERIA’S POLITICAL IMBROGLIO IS NOT HIDDEN IN HEAVEN!
If the old general could just wake up and muster the courage to call for a REFERENDUM to enact a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION that will pave way for parliamentary elections and produce PARLIAMENTARIANS AND A PRIME MINISTER to douse all insecurity challenges of the last 22 years of the nation’s nascent democracy!
It’s never too late to make amends. A stitch in time saves nine!

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Electioneering campaigns of re-cycled political jobbers who are jostling for fresh elective offices in Nigeria are in top gear as the jamboree trains moved from one geo-political zone to another with fanfares dancing, rejoicings and felicitations as if all is well!
And whereas, all is not well at all!

1) Nigeria under this present administration of the old general Muhammadu Buhari has neither socio-economic foundation nor political structure/stature!

2) Buhari with his acceptable political clout of both “the Deliverer cum Messiah” in 2015, was expected to have changed the political scenario by introducing a UNICAMERAL LEGISLATURE STRUCTURE immediately on assumption of office most especially when the duo of ‘Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara turned out to be turn-coats!

3) There was public outcry against the Senate and the House of Representatives members who turned out to be prodigal children involved in a lot of official wastages through overblotted salaries/allowances, purchases of foreign exotic vehicles etc. They also perpetrated official corruption through oversight functions, budget padding and all manner of legislative abuses: and now they are back for business as usual dancing “BUGA” to show that they were above the Nigerian laws and the bogus military Constitution!

4) President Buhari's ineptitude in office manifested right from day one at the Eagle Square Abuja when he announced loud and clear: “I am for everybody and I am for nobody.” That stance made him become odious to good administration and even when a West African neighbour like the Senegalese President shut down his Senate in order to shore up very scarce funds to succour the poor masses, Buhari turned deaf ears to the yearnings of the TALAKAWAS (poorest of the poor), whom he swore during his very desperate political campaigns from 2003-2015; and further in 2019 that he would defend with his last drop of blood! While Senegal has remained at peace, Nigeria boiled with fire and brimstones from internal insurgency, Boko Haram terrorism (now in the 14th year), brigandage, banditry, and massive bloodshed – especially when another round of elections WITH THE SAME OLD BOGUS MILITARY CONSTITUTION IS STILL IN PLACE!

5) Nigeria is DEBT-RIDDEN AND TOTALLY BROKE! The sum of ₦355billion naira allocated to the independent national Electoral Commission INEC is “GBESE” (borrowed money), and Mr. President and his cohorts shamelessly say that THE LENDERS SHOULD KEEP OFF THE FEBRUARY/MARCH 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS!

NIGERIA IS THE WORLD BORROWING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD!

Aside from the sub-saharan and West African neighbours of Ghana Senegal, Mali, Chad, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia e t c, Nigeria has borrowed money from virtually every country and financial institution of the world and its DEBT (DEATH CERTIFICATE AND PORTFOLIO), has climaxed over ₦71 trillion Naira inclusive of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN’s), WAYS AND MEANS illegal transaction which is still causing some ripples in the NATIONAL ASSEMBLY!

QUESTIONS:

1) Why would Nigerian FOREIGN LENDERS not have interest in the nations general elections?

2) Why would they not put their mouth where their money is,?

3) Why would they not be interested in who becomes the next leader from 29th May 2023?

4) What are the causes of insecurity and cross border crimes?

5) Why should monies be borrowed to PAY SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES FOR POLITICAL OFFICE HOLDERS AND BY EXTENSION TO SECURITY OPERATIVES?

6) Why should at least 40 local government areas in northeast/northwest still be under terrorist control and yet Mr. President and his kitchen cabinet are still beating their chests and boasting that elections would be held without let or hindrance in such places?

7) Why are the politicians sceptical of the conduct of a free, fair, transparent and credible conduct of the 2023 elections and are calling for postponements by giving insecurity reasons?

The politicians have the answers to all of the above questions. They know that with the introduction of a parliamentary system of government, all the fears expressed will vanish permanently!

BUT THE OLD GENERAL STILL BELIEVED HE POSSESSED THE CLOUT OF A MILITARY DICTATOR BY WARNING FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO KEEP AWAY FROM MEDDLING WITH THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS!

While receiving Letters of Credence from Ambassadors of Switzerland, Sweden, Republic of Ireland, the Kingdom of Thailand the Republic of Senegal and the Republic of South Sudan at the State House, Abuja on Thursday 12th January 2023.
Buhari also told the envoys to stay within limits and not seek to influence the country's elections. He called for cooperation and collaboration from the countries to overcome challenges in West Africa.

Earlier he said Nigeria was working closely with ECOWAS to deal with insecurity in the West African Region as well as implementing strategies to contain the spate of unconstitutional changes in government.

He however invited friendly countries to: “support efforts to address the problem of insecurity, fight against corruption, diversification of the economy and our efforts in promoting good governance.”
“I urge you to be guided by diplomatic practice to ensure that your activities remain within the limits of your profession as you monitor the build-up to the elections and the conduct of the General election itself.

“ I wish you all success in your respective roles of duty and at the same time encourage you to take time to enjoy the unique nature and culture at your disposal as you travel across our country.”

TALK is cheap but TRUTH is sacred! Does Mr.President possess such effrontery as leader of DEBT-RIDDEN NATION?
He has exposed his ineptitude to more ridicule internationally!

WHAT ABOUT INTERNATIONAL TREATIES, CONVENTIONS, OBLIGATIONS ETC.?

Nigeria has not only ECOWAS to contend with; what about the bilateral relations and agreements with other international bodies, countries and institutions?
For instance Nigeria could hardly close its borders for just one year in order to salvage whatever was left of Nigeria's internally generated revenues from agriculture and other social economic activities of mining, tourism, music, entertainment and even the SMSEs which should normally serve as the industrial backbone of the nation’s economy.

The pressures from ECOWAS was so enormous that Buhari had to yield ground even though he thought he could emulate CHINA! The result of his chickening out coupled with bad ECONOMIC TEAMS is what is being witnessed today!

We are now a nation for free-for-all marketing enterprise where even the very cunning, pretentious portfolio invaders and investors were having field day with the connivance of some unrighteous politicians at the expense of Nigeria's economy and ripping off free monies without remitting legitimate dues in all business transactions including payment of custom/excise duties to Nigerian authorities in cases of import and export or manufacturing!

SINCE 1999 GENERAL ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA HAD ALWAYS BEEN A DO-OR-DIE AFFAIR!

Every election since the beginning of Nigeria’s nascent democracy in 1999 when the military in khaki handed over to the military babanriga or agbada, all elections took the form of do-or-die according to ex-President Obasanjo’s veiled threat!
But the victims as usual were the poor masses – especially the NIGERIAN YOUTHS who always doubled as political THUGS; whose blood is CRYING TO GOD GOT VENGEANCE!
God's will for a parliamentary system of government in Nigeria will be done at the appointed time. Amen.

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.