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The three-pronged manifesto of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), of Nigeria from 2015 to date has not changed.
1) Elimination of threat to national security through the escalating Boko Haram insurgency which began in 2009, herdsmen/farmers bloody clashes over the contentious grazing routes, banditry and kidnappings;
2) War against endemic corruption which had become a social norm at all levels of government, private sector and the grassroots; and
3) Deliberate move to tackle the ailing economy through diversification and resuscitate confidence among all citizens.
Opinion polls across Nigeria and the Diaspora as at the close of the seventh year of Major General Muhammadu Buhari in the seat of power is less than 10% of achievements in all sectors – a drop of water in the ocean!
It was believed that the president took his time in 2015 for almost 6 months before choosing his cabinet because he wanted to put the best team on board. In fact among his ministers whom he believed performed creditably well were also appointed to serve in his second term in office from 2019 to date.
Sixty-nine-year-old medical doctor, Chris Nwabueze Ngige erstwhile Minister of Labour and Employment was one of the two-term minister of the Buhari Administration from 2015 and now a Presidential aspirant who believed that he could take over from President Buhari after his second term in office next year.
But he has chickened out from the race having realised that he was a loser from the starting point - a mere appendage among 30 determined and very serious patriotic contenders - judging from his antecedents and pedigree. He had never won an election without power brokers!

MEMORY LANE: ANAMBRA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION IN 2003!

In 2003, Ngige as a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), candidate for the Anambra governorship election knew that he stood no chance of winning without the support of the godfather of Anambra politics (Chief Chris UBA), who insisted that they must visit the famous OKIJA SHRINE to perfect the covenant of a monthly monetary transfer from State Government treasury to him as benefactor!
Although Chris Ngige “won” the election as planned, he however RENEGED the oath of agreement, the bubble burst and the whole world was entertained to the OKIJA Saga published by Uba with back-up pictures of both men dressed in half-naked shrine regalia within the confines of the deity!
A botched attempt was made to take him out of government house through abduction organised in connivance with police authorities! He served less than one term and was manipulated out of office and was unable to win subsequent elections to the anambra government house ever since.
Ngige served as Senator representing Anambra Central Constituency from April 2011 to June 2015, before his appointment as cabinet minister in Buhari’s APC Government from 11th November 2015 to 2022!

NGIGE'S WITHDRAWAL FROM 2023 PRESIDENTIAL RACE!

In a media interview Dr Chris Ngige was asked if the NGN100 million naira to purchase the express of interest/nomination forms was not too exorbitant for a ruling party which has declared war on corruption and he answered in the affirmative that he believed or thought that it should have been NGN 50 million naira.
However he said that the pressure groups and political associates who were sponsoring him and urging him to contest for the highest office in Nigeria would run around and make up for the increase and true to his word on Tuesday 19th April 2022 he publicly declared his interest to contest having paid the said amount!
But in a political somersault Ngige on 13th May 2022, publicly withdrew from the 2023 presidential election having claimed to have discussed with Mr President and also consulted widely with his family, constituents, supporters and well-wishers.
He further said that he would not participate any further in any of the internal party processes of the said election starting with the primary adding that he took the momentous decision firstly in the overall interest of the Nation in order to enable him concentrate on his job and assist the president and the government to weather the difficult last lap in the life of the administration and secondly for other family reasons.

VALEDICTORY SESSION FOR NGIGE AND NINE OTHER MINISTERS WHO SOUGHT FOR ELECTIVE POLITICAL OFFICES!

Dr. Ngige was one of the exiting ministers at the valedictory meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa on Friday 13th May 2022 but in a twist of events he declared that he was no longer interested in the presidential race!
Political analysts punctured the excuses and the assumptions which Ngige has claimed for withdrawing from the presidential primaries which will be coming up at the end of May 2022 for the following reasons:
On his own volition he purchased the forms, collected and filled them according to one of his numerous statements
Having filled the forms he claims not to have submitted them yet.
APC party guidelines requested for all filled forms to be submitted on Tuesday 17th May 2022.

He also claimed that he had not resigned his position as Minister of Labour and productivity and will be resuming back at his desk.
If he had filled the forms as he claimed Ngige would not be entitled to a refund of the NGN100 million naira which he paid into his party’s coffers.
From the onset of his political career according to his pedigree it had all been desperate drive to make monies from politics instead of his profession as a medical doctor
Before he opted to vie for the highest office in the land Ngige was entangled with the Association of Universities Staff Union (ASUU), strike which was not resolved for over TWELVE WEEKS but he cared less AND now he intends to return to the same job he could not cope with!
CONCLUSIONS: Ngige should be tried for ANTI-PARTY activities and be investigated by the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to ascertain hid donation claim alongside other aspirants and NEVER re-absorbed!
The same treatment should be meted to Abubakar Malami, the erstwhile Minister of Justice and Attorney General for the Federation and all others who have indicated intention to withdraw from the race.

FROM ALL INDICATIONS THE ENTIRE PROCESS OF VYING FOR POLITICAL OFFICES IN A PRESIDENCY SUCH AS PRACTICED IN NIGERIA HAS DEFINITELY CREATED MORE CONFUSION THAN SOLUTIONS BECAUSE OF HUGE MONETIZATION OF THE ENTIRE PROCESS!
Like the TOWER OF BABEL all the monetary structures which have been put up for the highest bidders to further keep Nigerians in BONDAGE WILL ALL CRASH AND BE REPLACED WITH A BRAND NEW UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION THAT WILL PRODUCE A PRIME MINISTER FOR NIGERIA IN 2023 AND NEVER A PRESIDENT AGAIN!

[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.

President Major General Muhammadu Buhari was very reluctant to sign the Electoral Act Ammendment Bill 2022 into law because of the obnoxious Section 84 (12), which states that, “ No political appointee at any level shall be a voting delegate or be voted for at the convention or congress of any political party for the purpose of the nomination of candidates for any election.”
During the ceremony held on Friday 25th February, 2022, the President insisted on a commitment by the legislators that the offending Section would be expunged from the Act and returned to him for a fresh approval but the promise is yet to be fulfilled.
However in a turn of events which jolted Federal political appointees to their feet at the Federal Executive Council (FEC), meeting on Wednesday 11th May 2022, Minister of Information disclosed that the President had directed that all ministers, legislators, special advisers willing to run for elective offices should submit their letters of resignation on or before Monday the 16th of May 2022.
The information minister stressed that the mandate excluded the vice president because he is an elected member of the cabinet. In all not less than ELEVEN, Cabinet will resign the appointments while while all heads of agencies departments parastatals and ambassadors with political ambitions including governor of the Central Bank are also expected to resign their appointments.

Prior to that order majority of of the MORALLY-BANKRUPT appointees were decided to stay put until 30 DAYS before the 25th February 2023 General Elections according to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, Sections 137(1)(g); 66(1)(f); 182(1)(g) and 107(1)(g‼
The most intriguing of all the aspirants is the Central Bank Governor who still remained in office as head of the APEX BANK having shown interest in becoming President of Nigeria without resigning from his position
THE CONTENTIOUS SECTION 84 (12) OF THE ELECTORAL ACT 2020 HAS BEEN NULLIFIED BY THE FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL BUT JUDGEMENT IS OF NO EFFECT!

The Federal Court of Appeal has voided the ruling of the High court that nullified the controversial Section 84 (12) of the electrical electoral act 2022 but the court action is of no effect on any party and therefore void because the main suit was not properly brought before it.

A Federal Court in, Abia State had earlier nullified the controversial section brought before it by one Nduka Edede, whom the appellate court said had no locus standi to have filed the case in the first instance!
The three-man panel also held that Mr. Edede did not establish any course of action that would have given the grounds to approach the court over the matter and it was consequently struck out.

ANOTHER FUNDAMENTAL ERROR DISCOVERED IN THE ELECTORAL ACT 2022, SECTION 84 (, BY THE LEGISLATORS!

Emergency plenaries by both Chambers of the National Assembly have been held to amend Section 84 (, of the Electoral Act 2022, and passed to allow Statutory Delegates participate in their political parties congresses and conventions.
Statutory delegates include the President, Governors, National Assembly members, State Assembly members, Chairmen and Councillors of Local Government Areas who should ordinarily be automatic delegates but are being disenfranchised and in the wisdom of the National assembly the Section 84 sub section 8 should be amended to accommodate more people who would have been disenfranchised!

CONFUSION OF LANGUAGE BETWEEN THE EXECUTIVE AND THE LEGISLATURE!

The Judiciary as the arbiter between Executive and the Legislative Arms in respect of interpretation of the law has intervened and declared that Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022 is an affront and illegality and therefore null and void!
However the President had employed the BIG STICK as the one who HIRES AND FIRES – so, if the litigation eventually proceeded to the APEX COURT it would ALSO BE A NULITY!
Because all those who were fired from office will remain fired and the current status quo will be maintained because the same Constitution has empowered the Executive President to hire and fire at his whims and caprices!
THE UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT OF PEOPLE WITH COMMON VISIONS, DREAMS, IDEAS AND PURPOSES IS THE PANACEA TO ALL FORMS OF INSECURITY AND VIOLENT AGITATIONS FOR RESTRUCTURING OF A DEAD PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM!

Please join this campaign for CONVOCATION OF A POPULAR REFERENDUM that will usher in a PRIME MINISTER in February 2023 and not a demagogue president!

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

GREEDY NIGERIAN POLITICIANS ARE THE ROTTEN EGGS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM AND THEY STINK!

The Nigerian government has lived up to it's International index billing as the most corrupt country in the world by shamelessly announcing to the world that 91% of Nigeria's crude oil have been stolen by unknown SOLDIERS OR PEOPLE who will be investigated and brought to Justice!

In June 2012, a foreign ship fully laden with 8.5 million barrels of stolen crude oil disappeared into thin air from the CUSTODY of the Nigerian Navy Niger Delta Region where oil bunkering is the order of the day,!

According to new media reports, first quarter January-March 2022, statistics presented at a meeting in Abuja between the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Oil Producers Trade Section and the Independent Petroleum Producers Group (IPPG), revealed that USD$3.2 billion (NGN1.36 trillion naira) worth of crude oil was stolen from Nigeria between January 2021 and February 2022!

The worst hit areas were the Bonny Terminal Network, Forcados Terminal Network, and the Brass Terminal Network which is notorious for persistent pipeline vandalisation!

Except for the stack illiterates, Nigerians are fully aware that crude oil theft in Nigeria had always been organised crimes masterminded by insiders in government who are the greatest beneficiaries of the national economic sabotage of the worst kind because crude oil is the only foreign exchange earner produce for the country!
AND WHEREAS NIGERIA HAS FOUR REFINERIES - TWO IN PORT HARCOURT AND ONE EACH IN KADUNA AND WARRI - WITH A COMBINED CAPACITY OF 445,000 BARRELS PER DAY. ALL FOUR REFINERIES ARE NON-FUNCTIONAL AFTER BEING SHUT DOWN IN 2020!

Nigerian taxpayers should take note that while workers of these four refineries were redundant Federal Government kept paying salaries to them.
AND to add insult to injury in March 2021 Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Major General Muhammadu Buhari approved another sum of USD$1.5 billion dollars for another round of refurbishing the 32 year-old Port Harcourt Refinery.

We have it on good authority that Nigeria has spent about USD$25 billion US dollars in turn- around maintenance of refineries in the past 25 years and these refineries are not refining any crude oil!

An NNPC audit report in 2020 revealed that three of the four refineries recorded NGN1.64 trillion naira cumulative losses between 2014 and 2018. It further stated that the combined losses from the Port Harcourt Refinery and Kaduna Refinery were NGN 208.6 billion naira in 2014; NGN 252.8 billion in 2015; NGN 290.6 billion naira in 2016; NGN 412 billion in 2017 and NGN 475 billion in 2018!

It is a general principle for NNPC to export Nigerian crude oil overseas for refining at great losses to the Nigerian government which in turn has been deceiving Nigerians in respect of phantom Oil SUBSIDIES which amount into trillions of naira annually BUT with no visible dividends for the Citizens other than increased hardship to procure the divinely-endowed natural resource through corruption-induced and persistent artificial scarcity!

Presently the sum of NGN 4 trillion naira is to be spent on fuel subsidy for the year 2022; an amount that was not reflected in the annual budget for the year!

NIGERIA‘S ADOPTED PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM IS CORRUPTION-LADEN AND STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN!

Were it in a sane clime, these set of politicians would all have been arrested and thrown into detention while their president or head of state forced to resigned immediately but that is not to happen in a country headed by military billionaires whose sources of income are shrouded in secrecy and cannot be investigated?

At their whims and caprices consecutive Nigerian Presidents have ENRICHED all of their friends and cronies through personal allocations of Oil Wells, Blocs and Allocations which did not pass through DUE PROCESS and therefore have NEVER be accounted for just like the unconstitutional SECURITY VOTES FOR PRESIDENTS AND GOVERNORS!

Up to the year 2020, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and its subsidiaries in the upstream, middlestream and downstream sectors of the petroleum economy could not (for 45 years), officially reveal nor publish daily lifting of barrels per day (bpd), from the Oil Wells and as such it has been a free for all comers!

But in that year a PERFORMANCE DATA which included the 2020 audited financial statements propped up since 1977 when NNPC was first established. The data constitute the following information
1) NNPC Audited Financial Statements
2) NNPC Monthly Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) Report.
3) Report on crude oil and natural gas production lifting and utilization.
4) Report on refinery, gas operations, sales and proceeds.
5) Petroleum product supply and distribution report.

WHO WERE THOSE REPORTS PUBLISHED FOR? NIGER DELTA PEOPLE OR THE ENTIRE NIGERIAN POPULATION? ARE THE REPORTS AUTHENTIC? WHO WILL BELIEVE THOSE REPORTS?
Especially when in spite of the three-year consecutive reports from year 2021-2022, the cabal in government was still able to manipulate the oil sector to the extent that 91% of Nigeria's crude oil was stolen without trace?

SO THE QUESTION REMAINS WHO ARE THOSE STEALING NIGERIA’S CRUDE OIL?
If the Niger Delta people in whose domain the oil wealth of Nigeria is domicile, who have suffered untold degradation through exploration and exploitation and after several years of protests and even militant activities resolved to construct their own local refineries to make money out of the “GOOSE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN EGGS” on their soil, should they not be ENCOURAGED THROUGH LEGAL FRAMEWORK TO BUILD LOCAL REFINERIES AND PAY TAXES TO GOVERNMENT?

IT IS AN OPEN SECRET THAT CONSERVATIVE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENTS SINCE 1999 HAVE DELIBERATELY REFUSED TO BUILD NEW REFINERIES BUT KEPT “REFURBISHING” THE OLD ONES BUILT DURING THE MILITARY ERA TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CORRUPT OFFICERS AND POLITICIANS TO MAKE ILLICIT MONIES WHICH IS THE HALLMARK OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION WHICH PROMISED TO FIGHT CORRUPTION HEAD LONG!

The pre-independence era of Nigerian politics under the watch of the British Colonial Masters did not record massive exhibition of crimes and criminalities which are now festering!

In those good old days petty stealing was not commonplace neither were burglaries nor armed robberies! Nigerians boasted that people forgot bags of monies in public places and returned to pick them up without being tampered with!

But a lot of water have since passed under the bridge and with each passing day of the inflow of CRUDE OIL REVENUE, the inhumans who took over the government shortly after freedom year, introduced brutal force through martial laws into the system and we are in the midst of calamities!

The 30-month-old “Biafra War” (July 1966-January 1970), did not help matters because the proliferation of small arms, ammunitions and weapons took heightened dimension of large scale INSECURITY in which non-state actors who are determined to have their portion of the national cake by force and bloodshed have virtually dismantled Government’s Security architecture!

NIGERIAN YOUTHS WERE PART OF INSECURITY AND MASSIVE STEALING FROM THE TREASURY AS COUPISTS AND POLITICIANS!

All the military coupists, Heads of State, Governors, Commissioners, Ministers and their Civilian collaborators from 1966-1999, who were aged between 22 and 35 years with very few exceptions, left office very rich and wealthy because there was no LEGISLATIVE BODY TO EITHER OVERSIGHT OR CHECK THEIR EXCESSES!

In 1999 when the military eventually handed over reins of government to the civilians another military head of state was adjudged to have won the elections so that the orchestrated fraud should continue to be perpetrated!

From that period onward, Nigerian youths boasted publicly that they would deliberately seek political offices to perpetrate/perpetuate massive institutional embezzlement of government funds and would neither care nor bother if they ended up in prisons provided they would return to enjoy their illicit, looted funds!

ARISE AND SHINE PATRIOTIC NIGERIAN YOUTHS AND CHANGE THE NARRATIVE!

Nigerian youths should take the lead in the campaign for REFERENDUM to draft a NEW UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION and produce for the country a PRIME MINISTER in 2023!

It is very clear to every Nigerian now that the present set of politicians are nothing but WOLVES IN SHEEP SKIN! Everyone of them was able to pay NGN100 million, 50 million, 40 million, 30 million, 20 million, 10 million naira etc, FROM THEIR BACK POCKETS FOR FORMS OF INTEREST for political offices a country where hyper-inflation had turned Nigerians into a people who now struggle to have a MEAL PER DAY!

IT'S TIME TO SHOW ALL CORRUPT POLITICIANS THE WAY OUT NOW BECAUSE THERE WILL BE NO PRESIDENT NOR BUT A PRIME MINISTER IN THE YEAR 2023!

STATES STRUCTURE OF GOVERNORS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT CHAIRMEN WILL BE DISSOLVED INTO CONSTITUENCIES WHERE PARLIAMENTARIANS WILL EMERGE TO FORM A CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AND PICK ONE OF THEM AS HEAD OF GOVERNMENT!

[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.

Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan confessed during his six-year tenure in office that there were Boko Haram elements in his cabinet but he failed to mention their names and neither facilitated any arrest nor prosecution till he left office in 2015!
In his words: “Some of them are in the executive arm of government, some of them in the parliamentary/legislative arm of government, while some of them are even in the judiciary. “Some are also in the armed forces, the police and other security agencies. The situation is even worse than the Civil War that we fought. During the civil war we knew and we could even predict where the enemy was coming from but the challenge we have today is more complicated. “Somebody said that the situation is so bad that even if one’s son is a member, one will not even know. That means that if the person will plant a bomb behind your house he won’t know!’
From October 2009 when Boko Haram terrorism debuted in Maiduguri, North East, Nigeria's democracy took a nose-dive into a kind of devastating criminalty with consistent/persistent blood-shedding and this Islamic Jihadist group in very short time became synonymous with banditry, kidnapping, murder, assassinations, arson, raping crimes which enveloped the entire geographic space of the nation like untamed wild fire!

BOKO HARAM IS THE CREATION OF NIGERIAN POLITICIANS WHO OPTED FOR THE MILITARY PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM!

The greed by politicians to amass illicit money for themselves through the Nigerian kind of presidential system increased from 1999 when the military eventually handed over power to the civilians.
Fiscal and monetary policy was defective to manipulate through all manner of dubious salaries, allowances, emoluments including pensions, gratuities – outside of the purview of the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), the constitutional body which fixes salaries of all politicians and civil servants.

The National Assembly (NASS), is the worst culprit among the three tiers of government! They claim all manner of oversight functions which are not enacted in the constitution and apportion salaries, allowances for local and overseas journeys including pensions and gratuity even for a four-year term in office!
At the state level, State Assemblies legislators apportion all kinds of monetary gains to themselves and to their governors who after one or two terms in office become beneficiaries of mansions in Abuja and in their state capitals.

They collect lump sums of at least NGN300 million naira as gratuity are also bought SUVs and luxury cars which are replaceable every four years and are also entitled to domestic servants who the State Governments pay salaries and allowances.
In addition to all these they are also entitled to annual medical tourism with members of their families due to the absence of such facilities which they deliberately failed to provide in Nigeria!
***Allocation of Security Votes to Mr.President and the Governors!
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND ALL STATE GOVERNORS COLLECT SECURITY VOTES WHICH ARE NOT STIPULATED ANYWHERE IN THE 1999 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND DO NOT GIVE ACCOUNTS OF HOW THESE FUNDS WHICH ARE BETWEEN NGN 3BILLION – NGN6 BILLION NAIRA PER TERM!

And whereas the Armed Forces, Police and other security agents are saddled through the Constitution to maintain law and order throughout the Federation while Governors were virtually figurehead chief security officers of their various States!
Is it not curious that these illegal allocations are not stipulated in the defective military constitution of 1999 to governors who could not even order Commissioners of Police or the Military Commanders in their States to carry out any security assignment without the officers first consulting with Mr President before compliance?

The question is why are such huge funds allotted to Governors in the first place if not to embezzle at will while crimes and criminality continue to fester in there various States!

BOKO HARAM WAS ON A REVENGE MISSION TO GET IT'S POUND OF FLESH FOR THE KILLING OF ITS LEADER MOHAMMED YUSUF!

Boko Haram was a motley Islamic group of illiterate children who were abandoned by Bornu State Government to beg for alms between 1999-2007, under the watch of Senator Ali Modu Sherrif!
They were first harmless but when they are leader Muhammad was extra judiciously killed the mobile police force they became violent and have resorted 2 all manners of crimes and criminality from then till date
IF A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN ADOPTED FROM 1999 TO 2022 NIGERIA WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE FIRST 20 BECOMING ECONOMICALLY VIABLE NATIONS OF THE WORLD TODAY

Together we can still make it happen if all of us join the campaign for referendum to draft a brand New Parliamentary Constitution that will produce a PRIME MINISTER in 2023.


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

From Independence no single political party was able to form a government at the centre without numerical support from others.
In 1960, the Northern People’s Congress (NPC) formed an alliance with National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), to form a National Government in which majority Northern Representatives dominated the political space to the detriment of vibrant political ideologies and intellectualism which was the hallmark of the South!

The Action Group, a South-West political party dominated by articulate membership, was sidelined in the merger because it was convenient for NPC to fly with a bird of the same feather!

And whereas what the nation desired was neither the dominance of TWO mega parties nor the proliferation of motley associations but of people of vision, ideas/ideals skills, diligence, innovation, inventions etc, that will move governance and economy in the right directions to the benefit of the masses for egalitarianism.

However, Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo Chief Ladoke Akintola, the Sadauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Chief Anthony Enahoro and several other distinguished Nigerians were all founding fathers among several articulate patriots of the post independence period who believed in a bonded Nigeria in spite of its social/cultural diversities, they all decided to accommodate the political scenario/arrangement for what it was worth!

BUT the idea that a supposed Northern demographic majority must always have political dominance over other components of the Nigerian Federation MUST be ɗefeated to call the BLUFF that no Southern President could emerge without the support of the North!

Political pundits have always blamed the imbalance in governance at the Federal level between the North and the South to the deliberate thrust of power into the hands of the North by the British colonial masters in the years leading to and following independence.

There were three cabinets. The first was established in 1957 when Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was appointed Prime Minister by the British Governor-General. The second was formed after the General Elections of December 1959 just before independence in a coalition government. And the third was formed after the disputed General Elections of December 1964 and was dissolved after the military coup of 15th January 1966!

Following 13 years of military rule in 1979, another northern politician in the person of Alhaji Shehu Shagari who was the flag bearer of the National Party of Nigeria, (NPN), who narrowly defeated Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), and held sway from 1979 to 1983 before he was overthrown by Major General Muhammadu Buhari, at the beginning of his second term in office!

The TWO mega parties were relegated to the archives while Buhari tried his hand on some Socialist ideologies before being ousted in another military coup in 1984 by General Ibrahim Babangida!

THE MILITARY PRESIDENT IBRAHIM BABANGIDA AND HIS TWO EXPERIMENTAL PARTIES!

Retired General of the Nigerian Army, Ibrahim Babangida was a Military President of Nigeria from 1985 until his resignation in 1993.
He had to form TWO “detribalized political parties” named Social Democratic Party of Nigeria (SDP), and National Republican Convention (NRC), as part of a democracy project which he foisted through manipulative agenda to further perpetuate himself in office indefinitely but which turned out during the 1993 Presidential Election to be his albatross!

Because the idea of two mega parties was rooted in governance to run national affairs, SDP and NRC were doctrined to be one slightly to the left and the other slightly to the right in ideologies when they were both founded in December 1989 after 13 prospective parties were banned by his administration in order to create room for his new experiment!

He encouraged the youths and radical intellectuals including socialist groups to join the parties which manifesto was precipitated on social justice and an improved welfare package for all citizens!

BUT THE ‘WOLE SOYINKAS, BOLAJI AKINYEMIS, JIDE OSUNTOKUNS, PAT UTOMIS OF NIGERIA NEITHER BELIEVED THE SOLDIERS NOR THE POLITICIANS!

As far as these set of academicians were concerned, Nigerian politics was a dirty game especially when institutional corruption, was always celebrated, election rigging, ballot box snatching, murders, assassinations and blood shedding became weapons of electioneering from campaigns to declaration of results!

So what was their resolve? From one administration to another they watched from a distance. Some of them picked up appointments from the military like Professor Wole Soyinka the Nobel laureate who in 1977 supported the military administration in Oyo State Nigeria to establish the Oyo State Road Safety Corps which made some local significant improvements in road safety and road discipline in the State. Professor Bolaji Akinyemi took up appointment as Minister for the Ministry of External Affairs but others just left everything to fate!

But at the exit of the military which handed over to a retired General Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999 political watchers noticed the insincerity of the khaki boys who still wanted to participate in civilian democracy And true to speculations the cabinets at the Federal and State levels including the legislative houses - the Senate and the House of Representatives - were filled with retired soldiers who claimed to have become Democrats of the TWO emerging parties – Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and All Progressives Congress (APC).

AND NOW a clarion call for a THIRD POLITICAL FORCE to take over power from THE RULING PARTY AND THE OPPOSITION is gaining momentum BUT WE ARE NOT UNMINDFUL THAT THE PROPONENTS are the political jobbers who would rather prefer the status quo to remain!
Presidency is DEAD in Nigeria and should be laid to REST!

TWENTY-TWO YEARS OF PRESIDENCY IN NIGERIA HAS TURNED THE NATION INTO A LAUGHING STOCK LABELLED AS THE POVERTY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD!

For a developing country such as Nigeria a PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT should not have been an option therefore all the intellectuals that have been mentioned in the preceding paragraphs must now wake up to support the campaign for REFERENDUM CLAUSE TO BE URGENTLY INSERTED in the existing 1999 MILITARY PRESIDENTIAL CONSTITUTION so that all restructuring agitations by well-meaning and patriotic Nigerians would be decided by the citizens without rancor or bloodshed and every insecurity will come to an end!

The current crop of Nigerian politicians are very much aware that the only solution to the persistent insecurity in the country is the ADOPTION OF A PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THROUGH A BRAND NEW UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION which is virtually cost-free but they prefer prodigality in order to squander the God-given resources of the Nation for themselves and their cronies!

A CALL TO NATIONAL DUTY TO THE INTELLECTUALS - FOR URGENT ACTUALIZATION OF THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS!

A BILL FOR THE ENACTMENT OF A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT TO BE USED IN THE CONDUCT OF THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS BY THE INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC), WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY!

THE NEW PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION (TO BE DRAFTED WITHIN THREE MONTHS), SHOULD BE TAILORED TO OUR LOCAL NEEDS TO EFFECTIVELY ERASE THE PRESENT BICAMERAL SYSTEM THROUGH THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SENATE, THE GOVERNORSHIP STRUCTURE AT STATE LEVELS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN THE GRASSROOTS.

IT SHOULD IDENTIFY DESIRED NUMBERS OF REPRESENTATIVE PARLIAMENTARIANS TO BE ELECTED FROM THE SIX GEO-POLITICAL ZONES AND FROM WHOM A PRIME MINISTER WILL EMERGE!

A parliamentary system of government is grassroot-friendly and gives opportunity for all citizens from all cadres of life to participate and contribute effectively in the governance of their country. Most parliamentary governments of the world are very successful. Britain, Austria, India, Bangladesh Bulgaria Czech Republic Ethiopia Finland Germany Greece to mention a few practise this system and have been growing and flourishing economically with virtually zero tolerance for crimes and criminality!

Unlike the presidential system, Prime Ministers may be removed from power whenever they lose the confidence of a majority of the ruling party or of the Parliament. The parliamentary system originated in Britain and was adopted in several of his former colonies. It was practiced between 1957-1966 in Nigeria before the military truncated the new democracy!
PATRIOTIC NIGERIANS EXPECT OUR INTELLECTUALS TO ACT SWIFTLY WITH WISDOM AND PRECISION TO ACTUALIZE THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM WHICH IS THE ONLY PANACEA TO COMPLETELY ERASE THE PERSISTENT INSECURITY WHICH HAS CONSUMED BOTH THE CITIZENS AND THE ECONOMY OF NIGERIA AT AN ALARMING RATE. THERE IS NO TIME TO WASTE!
“With God, all things are possible!” Amen.

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

The office of the Nigerian President has never had it so bad! Has it ever enjoyed any form of prestige? It has always been coveted and usurped by military adventurists, civilians possessed with inordinate ambitions, and now in the year 2022 being coveted by con-artists/comedians, charlatans, dubious characters with filthy pockets and some who are being investigated for financial crimes by EFCC!
Not long ago the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), announced it’s timetable for the 2022 General Elections and the 18 registered political parties threw open their doors to aspirants who intended to purchase express of interest and nomination forms for various political offices from States to the Federal Constituencies.
Shockingly, the ruling party the All Progressives Congress (APC) sent tongues wagging as it announced NGN100 million naira fee for presidential form of election primaries; Governorship NGN 50 million naira; Senate NGN20 million naira; House of Representatives NGN10 million naira and House of Assembly NGN2 million naira, and without reservations the party defended its decision for rasing the stakes high in order “to get the best candidate?,”
Other Parties, starting with major opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), pegged their presidential nomination forms at NGN40 million, NNPP NGN30 million, SDP NGN35million, while AAC told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), that forms for all elective positions for the party were free but that membership fee was compulsory while voluntary donations was welcome.
And whereas consensus opinion is that the ruling-party is selling political leadership of Nigeria to highest bidders and money bags even at the cost of disenfranchising the youths though they claim to be fighting CORRUPTION!
AND WHO ARE THE PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS?
Scanning through the list of the political parties presidential aspirants it is very glaring that the same old foxes who have sucked the Nigerian Treasury dry from 1960-2022, are still putting themselves forward to be President, Governors and Senators while the Not-Too- Young-To- Rule aspirants have been pocketed as usual and shut up with illicit money!
They are the same people who are facing court trials for money laundering, embezzlement, all manner of ilicit acquisition of money when in government, oil bunkering, foreign exchange illicit dealers, being recycled all over again to keep Nigeria (if it were possible), in perpetual bondage!
But that is not going to happen this time around because a new set of Nigerians who are patriotic and are determined to salvage what is remaining of the Nigerian project and are prepared to set it on a solid economic foundation now are already campaigning for the drafting of a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION to be put in motion for the 2023 General Elections through the convocation of a POPULAR REFERENDUM!
JANKARA POLITICIANS HAVE NO PLACE IN THE NEW NIGERIA OF OUR DREAMS WHICH WILL BE HEADED BY A PRIME MINISTER IN 2023!
“Jankara” (courtesy Lagos State), is a metaphor for an existing, all-commers/all-gender market where it is presumed that anyone, any crook from anywhere – any planet - young, old, boys, girls, youth, and the aged conglomerate (in commotion), to do businesses believed to be shady, illicit or criminal, with no-bars- hold !
The solution to insecurity, corruption and all manner of crimes and criminalities rest squarely on the quick implementation of a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT which will erase the present outdated, criminal and insensitive military presidential system in a developing nation of Nigeria NOW!
In a parliamentary system of government which is not capital intensive, emphasis is not money bags or affluence of people or wealth but on patriotic personalities who are prepared to sacrifice their time, resources, intelligence, education and opportunities to ensure the ESTABLISHMENT OF STRONG INSTITUTIONS that will lift the nation in the right direction of a bouyant economy that will stand the test of time.
The political class in a parliamentary system emerges from among the COMMON PEOPLE who were normally discarded in a presidential system. These set of people are those who creditably handle reins of power and ensure that good administration is spread from the grassroots in a bottom up approach and from among them a leader – the PRIME MINISTER – is elected.
Nigerians should distance themselves from the current charade of of money mongers who, having paid ₦100 million naira, ₦50 million naira ₦40 million naira, ₦30 million naira etc, will get into office and continue the corruption which APC government has engendered through the Love of Money instead of the Love of the People to whom sovereignty of government Constitutionally belongs!
A PRIME MINISTER DOES NOT NEED MORE THAN ₦100,000 NAIRA TO PURCHASE A FORM OF INTEREST TO SERVE HIS NATION DILIGENTLY AND RIGHTEOUSLY!


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

Buhari’s Presidency MUST be the last in Nigeria! The 56-year-old Presidential System has virtually destroyed the thin line of UNITY IN DIVERSITY for over 500 tribes and 250 languages!

Presidency is not the cup of tea for a developing country such as Nigeria. It’s introduction birthed all manner of social malaise due to inability of successive governments to fulfil their obligations in respect of citizens' fundamental rights – to quality education, employment opportunities, modern health facilities, potable water, good accommodation etc, because the system is TOO EXPENSIVE AND TOO INSTITUTIONALLY CORRUPTED due to monetary attraction!!

THE PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM GAVE BIRTH TO BOKO HARAM TERRORISM WHICH FROM 2009-2022 HAD CLAIMED OVER 500,000 LIVES WITHOUT MILITARY SOLUTION!

The choice of presidential system of government by the military which ruled Nigeria for almost 30 years was a deliberate plan to cover up all military atrocities especially in respect of TREASURY LOOTING!

The Nigerian kind of Presidency has manifested both as bane and curse for the downtrodden Citizens to whom “sovereignty constitutionally belongs” according to the bequeathed 1999.

In the pseudo democratic experiment foisted in 1999, the first President was a retired Military General Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo signalling the fact that a DIARCHY would be the trend!

Ex President Obasanjo neither queried nor castigated retired General Abdulsalam Abubakar who handed over on behalf of past military regimes an alleged foreign debt profile of USD$35billion dollars and infrastructural decay of socio-economic institutions on assumption of office in 1999!

In a well-orchestrated propaganda Obasanjo’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was credited to have succeeded in negotiating debt forgiveness from international creditors between 2005/2006 during his 8-year tenure government from 1999-2007! It was said to be debt buy-back with the Paris Club and the London Club.

Nigeria was forgiven USD$18 billion dollars after it paid USD$12.6 billion dollars in tranches.

Who amassed the debts but the military leadership of THREE DECADES?
Therefore, in 2015, after 16 years of governance and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), lost the Presidency to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigerians were informed that the past administration left behind an almost empty treasury and a total debt burden: foreign debt stock was USD 10.31 billion dollars while domestic funds that was NGN 8.39 trillion!
However by December 2020 it stood at NGN16.02 trillion and NGN19.24 trillion according to DMO statistics.

WHAT HAS MAJOR GENERAL PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI DONE IN 7 YEARS TO AMELIORATE THE PRESENT STATE OF INSECURITY AND ANARCHY IN NIGERIA?

General buhari was believed to be frugal, prudent and a passionate leader who had empathy for the downtrodden known as TALAKAWAS and would be merciless to all those bad and corrupt politicians who had brought Nigeria into disrepute among the comity of Nations.

The expectation of Nigerians was very high in that Buhari being a former military general and commander-in-chief of the armed forces will bring his great experiences to bear on the polity and deal ruthlessly with terrorists who had already gained an upper hand as at the time he won the presidential election in 2015!

The incumbent president is a member of the diarchy which were there in government from the 60s when soldiers overran the Democratic Government and installed themselves in power till date. Therefore it will be thoughtless and fruitless to expect one of the members of the junta to perform any miracle in office as it were!

In seven years Buhari's APC Government has through the rubber-stamp SENATE has turned into an addicted borrower and has been borrowing without any consideration for the future generations of Nigeria.

As mentioned earlier, Nigeria does not produce anything other than crude oil as export for the international market but always spends more than 90% of its revenue annually on debt-servicing alone and having nothing left for Capital projects, always borrowed to pay workers monthly salaries!
According to the debt management office report Nigeria's debt burden is set to peak at NGN45 trillion naira this year 2022 which signifies a dangerous trend in economic management.

LIST OF INJURIES INFLICTED ON NIGERIA AND NIGERIANS THROUGH THE PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT!

1) Nigeria as an independent, evolving and developing democracy in 1960 opted for a parliamentary system of government suited for the new nation but the military toppled the administration of Alhaji Tafawa Balewa in January 1966 in a coup d’état and truncated the nascent democracy!
2) The military wasted no time to install themselves permanently to rule for about 30 years and one of them even assumed the title of PRESIDENT while he was head of state and introduced large-scale corruption, squander mania, stealing and all manner of financial atrocities through military fiat and got away with it? Military Dictator President Ibrahim Babangida is yet to account for the OIL WINDFALL OF USD$12.4 billion made by Nigeria during the 1999 Gulf War
3) In 62 years as an independent nation Nigeria can only boast of one export produce - CRUDE OIL- the foreign exchange earner which had made diversification to agriculture and other mineral natural resources that abound in the country very impossible till date!
4) The Nigerian kind of PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT lays emphasis on building personalities instead of strong institutions, refuses to embrace the policy of HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT but thrives in massive unemployment figures of able-bodied men and women, and nursing millions of illiterate out of school street children – especially the Almajiri group of children who migrate from State to State begging for alms and food!

DO THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE HAVE ANY HUMAN RIGHTS ACCORDING TO THE 1999 CONSTITUTION?

Although the money-gulping presidential constitution listed about 14 items in Chapter IV -Fundamental Rights to the Citizens, ALL OF THE RIGHT FROM 1999-2022 HAVE BEEN MERE PAPER EXPRESSIONS AND HAVE NOT BEEN BINDING BETWEEN THE SUCCESSIVE GOVERNMENTS AND THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA

RIGHT to life, right to dignity of human person, Right to personal liberty, Right to fair hearing, Right to private and family life, Right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, Right to freedom of expression and the Press, Right to peaceful assembly and association, Right to freedom of movement, Right to freedom from discrimination, Right to acquire and own immovable property anywhere in Nigeria, compulsory acquisition of property, restriction on and derogation on fundamental rights, Special jurisdiction of High Court and legal aid ARE PSEUDO PROMISES BY UNRIGHTEOUS POLITICIANS!

Unlike the United States Constitution which Nigerian political leaders claimed to have copied, HUMAN LIVES ARE PRIORITISED, SACRED AND VALUED In a System that cherishes the establishment of very strong and reliable institutions which out-live all politicians and all presidents!

The diarchy between soldiers and civilians in Nigeria from 1966 to 2022 and the introduction of presidential system of government which is anathema to developing nations has to be TERMINATED WITH MUHAMMADU BUHARI’S REGIME!

Nigeria will produce a PRIME MINISTER IN 2023 WITH A BRAND NEW UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION!

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

Presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress eyeing the prestigious number one position in 2023 claimed they were not surprised that Vice President 'Yemi Osinbajo had joined the race because they saw it coming.

In an interview with Channel’s Television President Buhari revealed that he had an anointed candidate but would not disclose his identity so that he would NOT “be killed before his time!” However, Osinbajo is not Buhari’s SECRET CHOICE!

Vice President Osinbajo on Monday 11th April 2022 declared via internet portals that he had decided to join the race and become the next president of Nigeria if voted by the citizens but the content of his submissions is difficult to verify as truth and nothing but the truth – being an accomplished academic he was subtly PARADOXICAL!

OSINBAJO WAS ACTING PRESIDENT (7th May - 19th August, 2017.

It is historical record that in the past SEVEN YEARS, President Buhari had spent not less than 214 days for health challenges which kept him away from office at different times while his vice president acted as president and performed creditably in spite of the fact that the Cabal had no respect for his instructions even during challenging times of two economic recessions almost back to back!

The Vice President as constitutional Chairman of National Economic Council, (NEC), commissioned the Economic Recovery Growth Plan (ERGP), and wasted no time to confront and overcome the economic downturn that could have embarrassed the nation abysmally!

He also functioned effectively as Chairman Governing Body of National Emergency Agency (NEMA), Chairman National Boundary Commission/Border Communities Development Agencies, the Niger Delta Holdings Company - a limited liability company owned by the three tiers of government and his brainchild, the Special Intervention Programs (SIP), which comprises the Trader Money Scheme, and N-Power/School Feeding Programs and others with professionalism and dexterity.

BUHARI’S HIDDEN AGENDA OF DECEIT AND PENCHANT FOR NEPOTISM EXPOSED IN THE SECOND TERM

When President Buhari eventually assumed office before the 2019 General Elections, he showered encomiums and praises on his Vice and described as a faithful Son but shortly after the victory according to the prophecy of the Servant of God in Zion, President Major General Muhammadu Buhari showed his true colour as a tribalist and religious bigot who only believes in ideologies proffered by members of his old Clan and Cabal.

In August 2019 he disbanded the Economic Monitoring Team (EMT), chaired by the Vice President and commissioned a new economic team christened; Economic Advisory Council (EAC), “with a view to achieving quicker implementation and eliminate bureaucratic bottlenecks in his second and last time” but surreptitiously stripped Osinbajo of his constitutionally assigned duties.

The new body was to sideline the Vice President and report directly to the Major General on economic policy, fiscal analysis, economic growth and a range of internal and global economic issues in collaboration with relevant cabinet members and head of monetary and physical agencies.

However EMT under Osinbajo’s watch performed creditably well in spite of the self-inflicted economic recessions forced on the nation by the failed Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), corrupt and woeful maladministration of 16 years, but with Buhari’s clandestine move, the new EAC was to claim all successes of the Economic Sector to further discredit the Vice President and alienate him from any ambition of succeeding his principal in 2023!

In addition to the Vice President’s debacle and disrespect to the Number Two Citizen, all the welfare programs previously under his purview and supervision were transferred to the newly created Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Management and Social Development
and not less than 35 personnel in his office were transferred to Ministries, Departments and Agencies with a view to crippling the smooth administration which had gained attention of members of the AGGRIEVED PUBLIC who flooded his office with DIVERSE PETITIONS!

It should be recalled that ex-President Aremu Obasanjo in the year 2000 in a PRESIDENTIAL FIAT gave a window of opportunity to SEEK REDRESS for all forms of INJUSTICE perpetrated against CITIZENS throughout ALL MILITARY DISPENSATIONS and many PETITIONERS were duly redressed during his eight-year tenure.

However, successive Administrations shut the door against all forms of petitions – OLD OR NEW – in spite of the claim that GOVERNANCE IS A CONTINUUM – until Vice President Osinbajo created fresh opportunity for PETITIONERS!
BUT THE IDEA DID NOT GO DOWN WELL WITH MAJOR GENERAL BUHARI WHO COMMITTED THE WORST HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES DURING HIS SHORT ADMINISTRATION OF 22 MONTHS AND HE HAS SUCCESSFULLY STIFLED THE FRESH OPPORTUNITY!

THE PROVIDENTIAL EMERGENCE OF OSINBAJO!
The emergence of Osinbajo as Buhari’s running mate in 2014 was providential because he and Buhari met for the first time shortly before Osinbajo’s name was forwarded to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as Buhari’s running mate, a few hours to the closure of submissions! And Buhari was told that Osinbajo’s wife, ‘Dolapo, is a grand-daughter of the late sage and political heavyweight, Chief Obafemi Awolowo of blessed memories!

From all events of the past seven years it is very glaring that Buhari had never been comfortable with such a cerebral for an assistant especially when he was accused by the opposition of possessing a forged school certificate which he presented as his educational qualification to INEC!

The cabal with which Buhari surrounded himself always by-passed his Vice President at every given opportunity when he Buhari was outside of the country for medical treatment! They would rather travel to meet Buhari on his sick bed in London to append his signature on crucial documents rather than pass them to Osinbajo for signature!

AND AT NO TIME DID BUHARI SEND THE CHARLATANS BACK TO HIS VICE PRESIDENT WHO WAS ACTING ON HIS BEHALF BECAUSE HIS HANDLERS TOLD HIM THAT HE COULD RULE NIGERIA FROM ANY PART OF THE WORLD!

But in spite of all his travails OSINBAJO BLUNTLY REJECTED TO BE LABELED AS A SPARE TYRE!

OSINBAJO IS ON THE PROWL TO KEEP PREDATORS IN CHECK!

Vice President ’Yemi Osinbajo is an erudite scholar, a cerebral - at different times in his 65 years existence on planet Earth - was Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of Lagos State, he is a professor and teacher of law, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), he is a Pastor, an accomplished family man and presently the second in command to President Muhammadu Buhari for the past seven years of APC Administration.
‘Yemi Osinbajo had deliberately thrown his hat into the ring to increase the Fireworks! ‘Yemi Osinbajo is not interested in becoming the President of Nigeria - at least NOT NOW! ‘Yemi Osinbajo did not state in his declaration speech that he was PRESSURED by anyone or group of persons! He has no notable political structure across the nation!

ANALYSIS OF VICE PRESIDENT OSINBAJO’S DECLARATION SPEECH!

In his opening paragraph, he described General Muhammadu Buhari as a true Nigerian patriot, a servant of the nation in war and peace and a man of integrity. True or false? FALSE!
*He said he has garnered enough experience from the incumbent to take over the number one seat having worked together and focused to secure the country, provide infrastructure and growing the economy. True or false? FALSE!
*He has served the government in several capacities represented Nigeria in sensitive high level International engagements; Has practically been to order 774 local government areas of the Federation and had listened two divers experiences and yearnings of the downtrodden. True or false? TRUE.
*Has visited Nigeria’s gallant troops in the northeast, the various IDP Camps idp camps people devastated and victims of violent country conflict terrorist attacks flooding fire and other disasters has been to the homes of many ordinary Nigerians in various parts of the country and have spoken too small and large businesses. True or false? True.

*The Vice President also said that if given a chance he will ensure that he completed what he started with his principal by radically transforming security and Intelligence architecture in order to be able to actualize other social promises which included reform of justice system, advancing infrastructural development especially power roads, railways and broadband connectivity, agricultural revolution through mechanization and enhancing Social Investment Programme (SIP), as a full scale social welfare scheme.
Feasible or not? Not feasible under the current SEIGE OF INSECURITY!

*He also promised to complete the lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty within the decade, ensure that all Nigerians attend school, reforming the educational sector and completing the task of all universal health coverage, strengthening State and Local Governments to deliver on their respective mandates but above all to ensure provision of jobs for the young people.

GENERAL COMMENTS:

Well said Prof but how do you intend to carry out all these highfaluting promises because the entire declaration is bereft of how you want to tackle the intransigent insecurity situation that the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory are grappling with.

It seems that you and your principal have run out of ideas or that he did not listen to you as usual because he is a Major General and believes he has monopoly of warfare and solution to the kind of hit and run tactics which the terrorists and the criminals are adopting on daily basis!

You are seeking support of all Nigerians, young, old and those in the diaspora to support you and work with you so that a collective “Nigerian Dream could materialize in a few short years with much speed, intentionality and perseverance towards the vision of a prosperous stable and secure nation.”

Let me ask you one question Prof. you have been in government for SEVEN YEARS without solution to all the nagging security and other social issues most importantly CORRUPTION of the worst order; what now makes you think that Nigerians want to be governed by a former Vice President who has failed to fulfill his party's manifestos and promises? CAN YOU WALK THE TALK PROF?

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

Nigeria’s Security Roadmap Document is a strategic policy paper usually published by the Office of the National Security Adviser to the President every five years to improve administrative thrust in all areas of national development, investment growth and prosperity in spite of the persistent offensive security challenges!

When President Major General Muhammadu Buhari assumed office in 2015, he wasted no time to entrench his manifesto which was predicated on three planks: First, assurance of adequate and very tight security against all forms of insurgency terrorism vandalism kidnappings etc for citizens will dwell in safety.
Second he emphasized war against corruption in all its ramifications and Third he laid premium thrust on the economy to boost local and foreign investment portfolios by encouraging ease of doing business to eradicate poverty.

However, in spite of the fact that in his first four years in office, institutional corruption was aggravated, Buhari still won the 2019 Presidential Election to serve a second term according to prophecy of the Servant of God in Zion.

TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL (TI), SCORED NIGERIA VERY LOW IN THE YEAR 2020.

In the year 2020 transparency International corruption perception index ranking which scored Nigeria only 25% did not surprise social critics political watchers and patriotic citizens at home and abroad because it was very glaring is that all the noises made by the major general before the 2015 elections was all braggadocio!

In that year Denmark and New Zealand topped the index chart with 88 points while Syria, Somalia and South Sudan came last with 14, 12 and 12 points respectively.
Nigeria scored 26 points out of 100 in the 2019 corruption perception index reported by TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL but between 1996 and 2019 Nigeria's scores hoovered between 26 - 27 while the ratings were 144 and 146 out of 180 countries of the world – a report which underscores the fact that the country never woke up from the stupor of corruption both in the military and civilian administrations!

DAMNING WORLD BANK REPORT ON HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT, RECESSION, POVERTY AND INSECURITY IN NIGERIA!

In another damning report on the overview of Nigeria's economy the World Bank stated that Nigeria made some significant progress in socio-economic index in recent years but its human capital development remained weak due to under investment and that it ranked 152 of 157 countries in the World Bank's 2018 Human Capital Index.

This assessment was no doubt predicated on the seemingly insecurity challenges of the nation which also mentioned that if International crude oil price slided below USD $50 dollars Nigeria would go into recession and that by the year 2030 at least 30 million Nigerians would have become the poorest of the poor globally!

THE REVISED NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY OF 4TH DECEMBER, 2019 UNDER THE WATCH OF PRESIDENT BUHARI.

Undaunted by those negative reports President Buhari who vowed to further enhance social security said that the new document was a product of painstaking and rigorous contributions by relevant stakeholders which was committed to achieving a safer and more secure Nigeria from internal or external threats.

He believed that the new document would revitalise the previous document which was last reviewed in 2014 and confessed that the plethora of security challenges confronting the nation, especially the insurgency, could become the albatross to all his strategies and called for an assessment of the society and all elements of the national power to embrace and support the new initiative.

During that launch which is over two years, the President specifically addressed efforts at ending the insurgency in the North East and laying the foundation for sustainable peace and development in the region, the conflicts between the farmers and herders and also banditry!
He revealed that the document elicited contributions from security, Intelligence, law enforcement agencies, armed forces including ministries, departments and agencies MDAs and the civil society adding that overall security entailed unity of purpose because it was “a bottom to top operation” which must not suffer failure at any level.

RETIRED MAJOR GENERAL BABA GANA MONGUNO IS CURRENT NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER TO MR. PRESIDENT.

The NSA disclosed at the occasion of the presidential launch of the security document that a comprehensive approach to address poverty, healthcare delivery challenges and out-of-school children particularly the Almajiri system - were all embedded in the new strategy document. He stated that the document also captured current and future threats and has proffered appropriate strategy for government to address them holistically especially the security implications in respect of out-of-school children to safeguard the fast-growing population of the youths because the issues of poverty and illiteracy were synonymously linked.

The following are quotations from the NSA’s Statement at the launch:
“These innocent children must be afforded opportunities of free and compulsory early education - Islamic and western - simultaneously as provided for in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, Chapter II Section 18, but ,(“not as and when practicable”) to stimulate their intellectual capabilities from tender ages. “They should also the given opportunities in vocation and technical studies exposed to land cultivation and basic entrepreneurship at secondary levels. (It is their inalienable rights).
“Government should remember that illiterate Street youths who were easily manipulated by some Quranic religious turncoats formed the nucleus of the Boko Haram terrorist group, which scars have formed indelible marks on the nation's socio-economic identity.
“Aggressive pursuit of internally generated revenues (IGRs), through the combined efforts of Federal and State Governments should occupy the front burner of the economic thrusts while wastages in government through illicit acquisition of wealth at the expense of free education must cease.
“Corruption with impunity should be discouraged as righteous leaders take the lead from henceforth! It is common global knowledge that eradicating poverty in all his forms had been the greatest challenge that faced Africa which accounts for 80% of the people living in extreme poverty and that in spite of efforts by the United Nations and International donor agencies to redress the ugly situation through the platforms of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs, 2000-2015) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 2015-2030), no nation could boast of having achieved 3% success in that direction - though the social goals were quite honorable and achievable!
“Nigeria must not allow the World Bank or IMF predictions come true by quickly taking the above analysed intervention steps very seriously and religiously.”

ANALYSIS OF BUHARI AND HIS NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER’S SPEECH AT THE SECURITY DOCUMENT LAUNCH.

It's tantamount to criminal negligence for an administration to make promises without fulfilling them as it is said that talk is very cheap and that's exactly what happened when the president launched a fresh national Security road map document on Wednesday 4th December 2019 to revitalize the previous document which was last reviewed in 2014.

Up to the time of this publication the Almajiri out-of-school children are still roaming the streets in their thousands of thousands and like every other social commitment which government reneged in the past two and a half years – the Covid-19 Pandemic and Boko Haram insurgency had been blamed for failure to deliver!

Insecurity in the North East has spread to the North West, North Central, in fact there’s insecurity everywhere in the country.
State Governments depend on the feeding bottle system of collecting monthly allocations from the Federation Account which holds remittances from the crude oil sales without bothering to aggressively pursue IGR's according to the document's recommendation.

The Sustainable Development Goals, (SDGs) 2015-2030 is not being implemented by the organizers in any direction and nothing has been done to debunk the World Bank prediction that by year 2030, 30 million Nigerians will become poorest of the poor globally!
Free and compulsory education whether Islamic or western is not being practiced anywhere in the country except by private educational bodies etc, etc.
HAS BUHARI’S APC GOVERNMENT FAIRED BETTER IN THE WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION INSECURITY OR IMPROVED ECONOMY IN THE PAST SEVEN YEARS OF HIS DESPERATION TO RULE NIGERIA? NO!

The president once said that he has done his best which means the presidential system of government in Nigeria has no more solutions to the myriad of demands and agitations by the citizens for a better administration.

Therefore he should quickly support the demand for REFERENDUM to quickly resolve all contentious issues in respect of the future of this great nation by constituting a Constituent Assembly which will draft a brand new Unicameral Parliamentary Constitution within the next three months to address the 2023 General Elections and produce a PRIME MINISTER!

The only miracle for peace and stability for Nigeria is this Parliamentary Constitution which will make provision for INDEPENDENT CANDIDACY and douse all tensions being created by the two disreputable major parties the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party.

The brand new constitution will destroy the inordinate ambitions of all renegade politicians who want to become Presidents, Governors and Senators from the next dispensation of Nigeria’s true democracy!

THE ZEAL OF THE LORD WILL PERFORM THIS MIRACLE SO THAT INNOCENT NIGERIANS WILL NOT CONTINUE TO DWELL AS SLAVES IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY AMEN!

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

NIGERIAN YOUTHS HAVE BETTER OPPORTUNITY IN A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT IN 2023!

The-Not-Too-Young-To-Rule Bill introduced to bridge non-inclusion was vigorously pursued between 2017 to 2018 and was forced down the throat of President Major General Muhammadu Buhari who signed it into law for desperation to serve a second term in 2019!

Buhari never kept his promise but still romanced the old brigade as cabinet ministers and appointees.
Police brutality especially from the notorious Special Anti-robbery Squad Unit (SARS), terrorism, commercial kidnappings. brigandage, insurgency, vicious attacks on government institutions and installations increased by leaps and bounds and there was panic all over the land!
Farmers and herders clashes intensified because another Fulani man was a president?

THE YOUTHS RESPONDED WITH #ENDSARS ENDPOLICEBRUTALITY STREET PROTESTS!

For 13 consecutive days 8th-20th October 2020 well-organized Nigerian Youths held peaceful street protests across the federation – such as had never been witnessed in recent times.
With one voice they demanded for justice, equity, and fairness in the discharge of security obligations to all citizens from whom government derived its power and authority to function.
However parallel government sponsored touts and thugs countered the advocacy of the protesters and unleashed mayhem upon innocent civilians all over the land in order to portray the youths as hooligans!

Although it has now become an historical event, the 20th of October 2020 at the Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos, was a day no Nigerian youth will ever forget in a hurry because on that day the soldiers who were dispatched to quell the government-orchestrated riot turned their bullets upon the innocent youths and many of them were killed and injured but the Federal Government denied that anyone was killed especially at the Lekki Toll Gate Plaza, Lagos.

EXECUTION OF THE INSTRUMENT OF REFERENDUM IS THE PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO ALL CONTENTIOUS ISSUES OF RESTRUCTURING NIGERIA!

However to achieve this feat between now and the 2023 General Elections all youth organizations must come together and join the campaign for referendum and not violent agitations through the sponsoring of a Bill at the National Assembly for the insertion of the choice of REFERENDUM through which citizens could decide all contentious issues in respect of restructuring Nigeria as a true democracy.

During #EndSars protests the youths displayed good intentions and did not embark on violent agitations in spite of the fact that they were the aggrieved, traumatized and brutalized in all of the new political arrangements by those who should protect them!
The arrowheads of the #End SarsEndPoliceBrutality protest are should rise in unison and join OUR CAMPAIGN TO JETTISON THE VERY CORRUPT PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM AND ESTABLISH THE UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY!
They should reject the divide-and-rule tactics of Buhari administration who's security operatives have harassed them into silence and forced them to complete dumbness!

The smokescreen tribunals that's where supposedly set up across the entire Federation from Lagos to Kano from Sokoto to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have revealed the insincerity of the current generation of very senile politicians against Nigerian youths!

Now is the appointed time of DELIVERANCE FOR ALL NIGERIANS!
Please give wide publicity to this National Campaign that will provide a brand new UNICAMERAL CONSTITUTION AND PRIME MINISTER FOR NIGERIA IN 2023!

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

President Buhari’s two-term Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi has blamed the unfortunate fatal attack on the KADUNA-BOUND TRAIN on Monday 28 March 2022, to the absence of the integrated security surveillance and monitoring gadgets which acquisition was delayed through administrative bureaucracy!

What the Minister said was a mere cover up for his miscalculation. He should not be talking about official bureaucracy in the year 2022 when in actual fact the Chinese contractors of the railway tracks offered in 2018 to build a free Transportation University at a cost of USD$50 million US dollars or NGN18 billion naira in appreciation of winning the railway contracts!

If Amaechi was a true patriot he would have requested the contractors to secure all completed rail tracks with the integrated security surveillance and monitoring gadgets to prevent any form of attack by bandits or terrorist in view of the insecurity state of the country with that kind of money!

Instead of him to support the building of strong institutions and not strong personalities in the country, Amaechi opted for the building of a Transportation University in Daura, Katsina – the home town and State of his principal, Major General Muhammadu Buhari which had been under construction since 2019-2021!

ROTIMI AMAECHI MUST BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS AND COLOSSAL INFRASTRUCTURAL DAMAGES INCURRED BY THE RAILWAY CORPORATION!

The dastard attack which was carried out with military precision was definitely masterminded by trained operatives who knew their onions.
Professional surveillance on all the stretches of the railway tracks had ascertained non-telecom coverage areas for ample advantage to strike and exit without confrontation!

Terrorists were privy to the absence of integrated security surveillance and monitoring solution on the tracks and were able to lay Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), effortlessly just as they had seamlessly vandalized rail lines at random across the country without hindrance!

In October 2021 suspected bandits blew up rail tracks with explosives while other relatively and similar incidents occurred on the rail lines giving signals that it would only be a matter of time before a major attack would occur!

Luckily the fully-loaded train of October 2021, heading to Abuja did not derail but was able to maneuver and to reach destination! Amaechi promised the nation that urgent steps would be taken to avert future occurrence!


AMAECHI NOW SHEDS CROCODILE TEARS!

The devastated minister lamented at the scene of the attack that it could have been AVERTED IF PROCESSES OF ACQUISITION OF THOSE GADGETS AND DRONES WERE SHORTENED and those lost lives could have been saved!

Eight precious lives were lost, hundreds were inflicted with gunshot injuries, 46 hospitalized and unspecified numbers were abducted within a period of almost THREE HOURS as 362 validated passengers were at the mercy of the terrorists without counter external intervention!

He bemoaned that his Ministry had taken proactive steps to forestall such an attack through the purchase of drones and helicopters to monitor the tracks though the process had been tedious.

He also said if technology was deployed, drones would have detected armed people walking around the tracks while cameras would have complemented the drones by identifying illegitimate activities several kilometres ahead of the moving train adding that the railway corporation would also need helicopters to complement the drones when provided.

NIGERIANS KNOW THAT SOCIO-ECONOMIC FUNDS WERE ALWAYS DIVERTED INTO PRIVATE POCKETS!

Nigerians can no longer be deceived by the antics of politicians who would rather resort to blame game in the face of national calamity rather than own up for their shortcomings!
They aggrandize themselves in office with the succinct support of Mr.Predident who perhaps pretends to be unaware of the depth of misappropriation and large-scale corruption within his cabinet!

For SEVEN YEARS, under Rotimi Amaechi’s Watch, he had failed to give priority attention to the Railways and had been unable to secure the tracks! HE SHOULD BE SACKED AND CHARGED FOR MURDER AND OTHER ANCILLARY OFFENCES!

BELATED LAMENTATIONS ARE THE HALLMARK OF BUHARI’S ADMINISTRATION!

It has become customary for President Buhari’s Cabinet and All Progressives Congress (APC) Legislators to “lock the stable gates after the horses have bolted” and lament profusely in a cacophony of voices without meaningful or positive actions!
Whom does Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation think he could deceive through his tantrums of transferring blame to either the National Security Adviser (NSA), to the President or some officials at the Ministry of Finance and National Planning whom he claimed did not process an approved NGN3 billion Naira to purchase digital gadgets that could easily monitor the railway tracks to detect any anomaly ahead of the engines!
Amaechi is one of General Buhari’s favorites who dismissed public outcry against the sitting of a Transportation University in the Katsina State of the number one man and even boasted that his next major project would be sited in his Ikwerre Village in Rivers State!

SIMULTANEOUS DARING ATTACKS IN KADUNA AXIS WHERE AT LEAST 15 MILITARY INSTALLATIONS ARE SITUATED!

On Saturday 26th March 2022, bandits attacked the airport when they breached the perimeter fences in broad daylight at about 1 p.m. shot dead a security guard who was patrolling the area at the unfortunate time.
Military installations were also not spared in Kaduna State during the same period but security operatives from the Air Force Base heard gunshot and moved in to repel the bandits from gaining access into the major airport complex.
AND THE MOANING CYCLE CONTINUES!
THE PRESIDENT COMMISERATES WITH BEREAVED FAMILIES.
SECURITY CHIEFS ARE SUMMONED TO EXPLAIN REASONS FOR LAPSES.
CASUALTIES OF DELIBERATE OFFICIAL INEPTITUDE BURIED WITHOUT FANFARE!
OVER-STRETCHED SECURITY OPERATIVES ARE GIVEN MARCHING ORDERS!!
WEEKLY WEDNESDAY UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL (FEC), CONTINUES WITH IMPUNITY!

LEADERSHIP DEFICIT REMAINS RECURRENT DECIMAL IN NIGERIA!
GOING ROUND IN CYCLE!
***CANCELATION OF NIGERIA’S WASTEFUL PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM AND THE ADOPTION OF A UNICAMERAL LEGISLATURE THROUGH THE CONVOCATION OF REFERENDUM IS THE SUREST SOLUTION TO THE CURRENT IMBROGLIO!***

Nigerians are aware that the train attack was an inside job with collusion from disgruntled retired or sacked military personnel and security operative who are determined to have their pound of flesh from the Federal Government at the expense of Innocent citizens

Let us imagine that from 1960 to 2022 the treasury of Nigeria had not been looted by both military and civilian robbers, all the pains, sorrows and woes that citizens are going through would have been avoided.
From one administration to another these enemies of Nigerian downtrodden had always flaunted illicit stupendous riches and wealth before poverty-stricken citizens who can hardly make one meal per day and have given wrong signals to the international communities which believed that Nigeria’s insecurity situation might prevent the 2023 election from holding.

In July 2021 director Commonwealth and development office in the United Kingdom said that the 2023 general election might not hold due to mounting insurgency, rising cases of insecurity, incessant gun attacks and atrocities perpetrated by Boko Haram and other bandits across all states of Nigeria!
The diplomat however believed that if injustice and impunity, proliferation of small arms and weapons and weak Justice institutions could be eliminated from the Nigerian political system, all contentious agitations and complex conflicts in respect of restructuring of the country will be amicably resolved.

BRITAIN SHOULD SUPPORT A PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA,

The Westminster Parliamentary System of the British Government had produced stable effective and very diligent administrations for centuries in the UK and one would have expected that the former colonial Masters would suggest or recommend to Muhammadu Buhari to adopt the system in view of several agitations for the restructuring of Nigeria instead of crying Wolf where none existed!

Britain should support a popular referendum or plebiscite through the drafting of a Parliamentary Constitution in Nigeria now as we have always advocated to douse all political tensions for stakeholders of the Nigerian project to broker peace for the establishment of unicameral government that will resolve contentious issues and produce a PRIME MINISTER from the 2023 General Elections!

VOX POPULI VOX DEI! “The voice of the people is the voice of God.”

[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.

#CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS!

NIGERIA DOES NOT NEED AN ARAB SPRING BUT A POPULAR REFERENDUM TO RESOLVE RESTRUCTURING AGITATIONS!

The country of Tunisia was the first to taste the bitter pills of Arab Spring people’s uprisings galvanized to force social reforms and eradicate generational bondage of oligarchy which existed in all North Africa/Middle East Arab nations in the early 2010s! And till date (March 2022), the country is still in political crisis in respect of acceptable leadership!

The Arab Spring was a series of anti-government protests uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab World. It began in response to corruption and economic stagnation and then spread to five other countries: Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain.
In the process, Arab rulers were overthrown, exiled, deposed and in extreme cases killed!
The large-scale conflict in those Arab countries created great economic setbacks still smoldering in civil wars,insurgencies and armed crisis which have decimated their oil and mineral wealths, peace, tranquility, which they now have to grapple with for many generations to come!

NIGERIA WILL NEVER GO THE ARAB SPRING WAY!

Palpable fear and jitters gripped Black Africa in those years especially sit-tight and very corrupt PDP leaders in Nigeria who were sore afraid for their safety and lives!
However, since Nigeria is neither an Arab nor Islamic State, patriotic citizens NEVER OPT FOR A REVOLUTIONARY OR BLOODY UPRISING BUT A PEACEFUL, AGREEABLE AND CONCENSUS RESOLUTION TO CONFLICTS.
Citizens are demanding that the INSTRUMENT OF POPULAR REFERENDUM was the only avenue to redress authoritarianism, kleptocracy, political corruption, human rights violations, unemployment, hyper inflation, poverty etc.

The ruling APC Government of President Major General Muhammadu Buhari and his kitchen cabinet are also aware that the peaceful resolution to the current INSECURITY
PREDICAMENT LIES IN REFERENDUM FOR ALL CONTENTIOUS ISSUES AS FOLLOWS:

Legislative processes must COMMENCE NOW to establish ( 1) State Police in all 36 states of the federation according to one of the 13 Recomendations of the 23-Member El Rufai Restructuring Committee of January 2018 which is now 4 years old! ( 2 ) Derivation Principles (3) Fiscal Federalism and Revenue Allocation (4) Devolution of Powers (5) Resource Control (exploitation and revenue sharing of resources from oil minerals (6) Local Government Autonomy (7) Independent Candidacy which will preclude CITIZENS from being forced to join any political party!

THE CONTENTIOUS NIGERIAN SENATE MUST BE SCRAPPED NOW!

There can be no better time for patriotic introspection by Nigerians to achieve political emancipation and break the yoke of mercenaries in government of their necks through a collective decision to sack the Senators and shut the Chambers to pave way for UNICAMERAL LEGISLATURE before the 2023 General Elections.
We still maintain our advocacy that the National Assembly (NASS), is the MAJOR DRAIN PIPE of the Nigerian economy and has outlived its usefulness! In this age of technology the House of Representatives requires only 74 members ie. Two from each state of the Federation and two from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), with the compliment of digital-compliant civil servants, to handle (at the Federal level), legislative duties and adequate numbers from all CONSTITUENCIES IN A PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.
ALTHOUGH LEGISLATORS CLAIM THAT THERE IS NO PROVISION FOR REFERENDUM AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDACY IN THE 1999 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ; (AS TRUE AS THAT MAY BE), THE PROCESS FOR THE CONVOCATION OF REFERENDUM IS THE POPULAR DECISION AND PREROGATIVE OF ALL PATRIOTIC CITIZENS!

Please join the campaign for REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS FOR ALL SOLUTIONS OF RESTRUCTURING OF THE NIGERIA PROJECT!

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

In the year 2004 a high-ranking senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria castigated some of his colleagues whom he claimed to be criminals and forgers who should not be sitting in the Red Chambers!

He recalled that during his stint as a police officer he had prosecuted some of the people them who later became senators.
Retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, Nuhu Aliyu was forced to withdraw the statement following serious threats to his life and his family.
Elite rogues have been identified among the civil servants the executive branch, the legislative the judiciary and also in the private sectors of the Nigerian economy at the Federal, State and the Local Government Areas because they corruptly enrich themselves through the award of phantom contracts!

They also falsify accounts and steal monies from the treasury through annual padding of budgets to accommodate their illicit desires!

So far no Nigerian Head of State or President has been successfully accused, prosecuted and jailed for corruption during their tenures but many state governors, ministers legislators local government chairman have been cut red handed and have been successfully prosecuted and sent to jail!

NIGERIA’S MAJOR FOREX EARNER SINCE INDEPENDENCE HAS BEEN CRUDE OIL!

Nigeria can boast of thousands of thousands of billionaires who have benefited from illicit exports of unspecified barrels of crude oil, allocation of oil wells at the pleasure of the president and his cabals while the few indigene peasants who refine crude oil through locally built modular refineries in the South-South Creeks are hunted down and all their products destroyed and burnt!
And whereas, through crude oil earnings, successive Nigerian governments have refused to diversify to agriculture and solid minerals extraction full scale but have depended on sharing proceeds of oil among the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory on monthly basis!

State Governors, members of their cabinets and economic teams went to sleep without bothering about Internally Generated Revenues (IGRs), the lack of which resulted in social infrastructural deficiencies and failure to deliver on their promises of dividends of democracy.

And in spite of Nigeria's position as the most populous country in Black Africa and also the country with the largest Gross Domestic Product, (GDP), the nation had in 22 years of scandimania of proceeds from the only mono- product brought upon itself negative international indexing like: the poverty capital of the World, the most corrupt nation, the dirtiest and most dangerous and most insecure country to domicile!

THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT CANNOT CONFIRM DAILY BARRELS OF OIL LIFTED FOR EXPORTATION!

Through organized crime of oil theft from the military and through to the current democratic engagement, Nigeria has lost trillions of dollars to the cartel that has perfected the illegitimate business of great dimension with international collaborators!

Local thieves at the lower wrung of the downstream sector who do not possess the expertise, temerity and sophistication associated with their high-wired counterparts always resort to bursting PMS oil pipes and scooping as much refined products as possible to sell in the black market as their own share of the National Cake without any iota of care for their lives in case of fire outbreak!

OF WHAT USE IS TONY ELUMELU'S OIL THEFT LAMENTATIONS TO NIGERIAN TALAKAWAS?

What can be described as dividends of democracy in Nigeria is the by-product of the crude oil in the form of PMS which is known as petrol, kerosene and diesel oil
All of these refined products have become indispensable household essentials which the poor masses of Nigeria will covet anywhere it is found even under a fallen petrol tanker that cool catch fire at any given time please these downtrodden Nigerians risk their life to scoop free petrol to use for their trades for cooking and also to sell in the black market to make some money for themselves it is as bad as that in Nigeria.

Mr Tony elumelu is the PDP minority leader in the House of Representatives in a series of tweets recently lamented over the worsening electricity, hike in prices of diesel and petrol and its effects on businesses in the country.
Elumelu who is also an economist and Chief Executive Officer of Heirs Holdings said that businesses were suffering under the situation and Nigerian citizens are groaning in view of the resultant inflation on food items as well.

The legislator also posed series of questions and comments as follows:

1) “How can a country so rich in natural resources have 90% of its citizens living in hardship and poverty?”
2) “Nigeria cannot meet its OPEC production quota due to oil theft.”
3) “Businesses are suffering. How can we be losing over 95% of oil production to thieves? Look at Bonny Terminal that should be receiving over 200 thousand barrels of crude oil daily, instead it receives less than 3000 barrels leading the operator @Shell to declare force majeure.”
4) “Why are we paying taxes if our security agencies can't stop this? It is clear that the reason Nigeria is unable to meet its OPEC production quota is not because of low investment but because of theft, pure and simple!”
5) “Meanwhile oil-producing countries are smiling as their foreign reserves is rising. What is Nigeria’s problem? We need to hold our leaders more accountable!”

COMMENT: Is it truly possible to lose a whopping, 95% of Nigeria’s oil production to thieves? We expect the new NNPC to corroborate Elumelu’s claims and clear the air as the Federal Government's Agency in charge of the oil sector of the economy!

OIL WINDFALL ACCRUALS MUST NOT BE MANIPULATED!

Rumors are rife that the Buhari’s APC out-going Administration plans to muddle, mutilate and manipulate oil accounts/figures from February 2022 in spite of Our demand that a TASK FORCE be established to compute and monitor all monetary and financial transactions for as long as the conflict and oil prices escalate and subsist!

We still maintain Our Stand that the oil windfall MUST be directed to succor the plight of the 90% of very poor and downtrodden Nigerians in the areas of the Economy to reduce threats of recession through hyper inflation of goods and services! Education, Health, Employments, Motorable road networks, Industry, Manufacturing etc

OIL PRICE BENCHMARK AS APPROVED ON 22ND DECEMBER 2021 BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WAS ANCHORED ON USD$62 PER BARREL!

Although President Buhari while proposing to spend NGN16.391trilion naira as budget estimate for 2022, the international oil price benchmark was pegged at $57 per barrel but the lawmakers increased it to the current $67 dollars. However due to the Russia-Ukraine War international oil prices skyrocketed to between $100 to $120 US dollars!
The legislators retained the oil production target of 1.88 million barrel per day including condensate production of between 300000 to 400,000 barrels per day for the purpose of its revenue calculation in 2022.

Oil exports account for around 80% of Nigeria's foreign exchange Revenue. Nigeria has however battled with a sharp drop in revenue and made a drop in production according to NNPC.

If what Tony elumelu has claimed above can be asserted to be correct then what will happen to the fortunes of Nigeria if the oil theft cannot be stopped for the country to benefit from the massive WINDFALL which other nations are currently enjoying?

Will it be that the Legislator was incorrect in his assertions and that as a Nigerian leader was trying to pass the BUCK to others instead of taking part of the blame for the current position of helplessness that the nation’s leadership team have wickedly placed Nigeria?

Whereas President Buhari's apologists who were silent on oil thefts had begun to calculate and to permutate daily accruals of the multi-dollar windfall and how it would be expended to PAY OFF FOREIGN DEBTS! Barawo!

THE PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE ELITES WHICH GULPS DOLLARS AND NAIRA LIKE PREDATORS MUST END WITH PRESIDENT BUHARI!

The solution to the insecurity, inflation, banditry kidnappings and all forms of agitation for the restructuring of Nigeria will be solved with the introduction of a parliamentary system of government from 2023.

It was high time for the drafting of a brand new Unicameral parliamentary Constitution that will eliminate the Upper House (the Senate), which MUST BE SHUT without further delay to eliminate all forms of WASTAGES IN GOVERNMENT

Nigerian politics had been heavily moniterized for too long. Following the 2023 INEC's Election TimeTable announcement the money bags have thrown their hats into the ring and have begone to fight dirty with all illicit and stolen monies.
All candidates want to become President of Nigeria others want to be Governors many want to be Senators, Legislators, Local Government Chairmen etc, all with one intention to steal from the treasury in a presidential system!
That will not happen again from henceforth! Nigerians should collectively demand for the convocation of a Constituent Assembly that will draft a new constitution for the General, States and Constituencies elections in 2023 that will usher a PRIME MINISTER INSTEAD OF A PRESIDENT!
Let us rise together as We the People of Nigeria, the patriotic citizens and get a government that will take care of our needs. We must not allow this opportunity to pass us by!
“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.

#CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS TO RESTRUCTURE NIGERIA.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRESIDENT MACKY SALL OF SENEGAL AND MUHAMMADU BUHARI OF NIGERIA!

President Macky Sall of Senegal at the beginning of his first term in 2012, was confronted with myriad of social problems including regular annual flooding of Senegal's Capital, Dakar and suburbs and also a very lean treasury! He was however very quick to confront the challenge by identifying financial wastages in government - especially the Senate!
And in keeping with his campaign promises to the citizens to ensure socio-economic dividends, he wasted no time too quickly canvass the support of the Members of Parliament to shut down the Senate consisting of 100 members who were earning gargantuous salaries and allowances!
The president got overwhelming support from the MPs who voted to abolish the Senate and divert funds which should have been allocated to the Upper House to address flooding across the country. He saved about $15 million US dollars and dismissed critics who accused him of trying to weaken the opposition! The Congress also abolished the post of Vice President!

Senegal has long been considered as one of Africa's model democracies for maintaining stable government and civilian rule which has thrived for centuries in spite of the fact that its economy is based mainly on agriculture and from monies sent home by Senegalese citizens in the Diaspora. .
The President also proposed the reduction of presidential term from seven to five years to set an example within Africa where many leaders cling to power beyond their allotted term.The proposal won approval in March 2016, through the con avocation of REFERENDUM!
Senegal has been devoid of any form of insecurity be it terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, human trafficking etc. but has instead enjoyed peaceful political environment across religious, cultural, tribal and ideological beliefs.

PRESIDENT BUHARI IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF MACKY SALL!

President buhari who served as a Military Head of State between 1983 and 1985 after retirement made frantic efforts to become a democratic president by throwing his hat into the ring on three different occasions but failed.
As providence would have it, on the fourth occasion he won presidential election in 2015 to become the 15th Executive President of Nigeria.
He complained that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which handed over to him after 16 years of maladministration bequeathed an empty treasury which jeopardised his smooth take off.
President Buhari realised that the presidential system of government was too expensive to run for a country like Nigeria where corruption was the order of the day!
He had the option of shutting down the Senate and reducing the 360-member House of Representatives to 74 in order to save costs of running the government but he refused to do that!

THE RETIRED MILITARY GENERAL PREFERS OPULENCE OF PRESIDENCY,!

Instead he continued to run government on borrowed money and the Debt Portfolio of Nigeria as at 18th March 2022 was NGN39 trillion Naira.
In the past seven years of Buhari administration, debt servicing has taken a large chunk of every budget and in addition every annual budget had been criminally inflated by National Assembly legislators in billion of billion running into trillions of Naira!
But president buhari wants to leave some legacy behind! Our advice to him is that he should follow the foot steps of the Senegalese President:
1. Shut the Senate; (2) Convoke a Constituent Assembly; and (3) Draft a Brand New Unicameral Parliamentary Constitution that will reproduce a Prime Minister in the year 2023!
All of the above will produce two outstanding results (1) Every agitation for restructuring of Nigeria through violent means will come to an end and (2) The name of Muhammadu Buhari will be written in GOLD!
The very wasteful Presidential system of government in Nigeria MUST end with the Muhammadu Buhari All Progressives Congress (APC), Administration!
THE BALL IS IN YOUR COURT MR PRESIDENT.

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

In a desperate bid to end 16 years of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), maladministration in Nigeria three biggest opposition parties merged and founded the ruling party known as All Progressives Congress (APC), in February, 2013. It did not matter then whether they were strange bedfellows, the major concern was to unite and “first chase the Fox out the poultry and later return to brood the Chickens!” (Courtesy of an African Proverb).

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress, for Progressive Change (CPC ), the All Nigeria Peoples Party ( ANPP) faction of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), and the new PDP – a faction of the then ruling People’s Democratic Party received approval from the Independent National electoral Commission (INEC), on 6th February 2013 to operate as a Political Party.
Subsequently INEC withdrew the OPERATING LICENCES of the three major opposition parties that merged to form the APC but it is ironic that the three parties are still operating on divergent lines as they could not agree on how to share the SPOILS OF WAR after winning both the 2015 and subsequently the 2019 general elections!
Things have fallen apart and the centre could no longer hold because right from 2015 they were all operating like opposition parties within the ruling party and have been unable to establish the socialist inclined form of government which Muhammadu Buhari and party's leader Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu posited the people.

In fact, APC joined the Socialist International (SI) which is a worldwide organisation of political parties which seek to establish democratic socialism. SI consists majorly of political parties which seek to advance democratic socialism. It consists of democratic socialist and labour political parties and other organisations which believe in social democratic philosophy.
APC’S membership was perfected to impress and manipulate Nigerian Electorate of its good intentions for a true and radical CHANGE which was their campaign slogan!
But from all indications the Action Congress of Nigeria and Congress for Progressive Change virtually dominated the others because they had large followership from Southwest Nigeria and the core North West largely dominated and influenced by Fulani/ Hausa interests in the Kano Katsina, Niger, geographic areas and all Socialist articulations frittered into thin air!
Horse trading for political appointments became the major concern of the APC gladiators who totally forgot their allegiance to devote greater energy to completely eradicate corruption, stop the terrorist boko haram restore security and also ensure social justice equity and fair play in every decision to be made by government at all times.

DEMOCRACY AND POLITICS ARE HEAVILY MONETIZED IN NIGERIA!
From the beginning of the new democratic experiment from 1999 money politics had been the order of the day. The highest bidder takes the lion's share and smaller contestants are left in the lurch so how can there be fairness equality fairplay in Nigerian politics .
It was deliberate that Nigerian Presidential system was culturally and corruptly modelled to suit the whims and caprices of the money bags (political jobbers), so that they can permanently keep the poor peasants in poverty which is a social crime completely against international fundamental human rights of every country.
The attraction to politics in Nigeria under BUHARI’S WATCH has not reflected any departure from the PDP's regular awards of phantom contracts/institutional nod for payment of large sums of money to Party’s lackeys! In fact Buhari had made more Portfolio Billionaires than all other administrations put together – a complete departure from socialist ideologies!

BUHARI DELIBERATE ACT OF SABOTAGE ON THE POOR MASSES OF NIGERIA.
As the agitation for Restructuring of Nigeria by the masses gained momentum from 2015 during Buhari's First Term, the Government set up a Committee to make good its campaign promises prior to the 2015 elections that it would promote true federalism in the federal Republic of Nigeria according to Article 7(ii) of the 2014 APC Constitution.
The parties manifesto also promised to adopt HONEST CONTRACT with Nigeria to create a federalism with more equitable distribution of national Revenue to the States and local governments because that was where grassroots democracy and economic development must be established. Governor El-Rufai of Kaduna State was chosen to lead a 23-Member Committee to visit all states of the Federation and collect inputs from CITIZENS between 2016 and 2017 and his report had been submitted to President Buhari since 14th January 2018 with very good recommendations which if they were implemented, the kind of bloodshed, destruction of lives and property unleashed all over Nigeria could have been averted but UNFORTUNATELY those documents have been lying on Buhari’s table for over FOUR YEARS without Executive attention!

Nigeria has lost innocent souls in their thousands because the agitations took new dimensions as the citizens believed that Buhari had a Northern agenda a Fulani agenda to continue to dominate other tribes and would care less if the entire country got engulfed uncontrollable insecurity!
IT IS FOUR YEARS AND OVER TWO MONTHS SINCE EL – RUFAI’S COMMITTEE’S RECOMMENDATIONS ON TRUE FEDERALISM HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO PRESIDENT BUHARI BUT HAVE BEEN GATHERING DUST HIS TABLE!
Instead he supported the legislators to continue to amend the military constitution which is an abomination to democracy because it was deliberately planned to keep the Nigerian over 200 million masses in perpetual and permanent state of poverty for several generations to come!
No constitutional amendment has been successful since 1999, instead the exercise had been a conduit pipe through which legislators siphon illicit money from the treasury and have been living in opulence to the detriment of the Electorate!
President Buhari and the legislators know full well that the major solution to Nigeria’s insecurity problems is a UNICAMERAL LEGISLATURE that is cost-effective to block all deliberate INSTITUTIONAL WASTAGES.
A SYSTEM that will produce representatives of the people directly from among the grassroots, in their CONSTITUENTS AND ALSO PRODUCE A PRIME MINISTER AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL FROM AMONG PARLIAMENTARIANS IN 2023!
But since that system will not produce billionaires that will be sponsoring all manner of elections that continue to drain the meagre resources of the Nation, President Buhari and his cohorts refuse to adopt a parliamentary system of government

It is a shame that the APC government is still in power in spite of all the atrocities that they have deliberately committed against the people of Nigeria! Governor El – Rufai in addition to the recommendation for devolution of powers from the federal to the federating States also recommended INDEPENDENT CANDIDATURE IN ORDER TO DEFLATE THE ARBITRARY POWERS OF POLITICAL PARTIES OVER POLITICAL CONTESTANTS!

Governor El Rufai also recommended that REFERENDUM AND NOT CONSTITUTION AMENDMENTS should be engaged to arrive at all contestations for amicable resolutions!
NOW THAT PRESIDENT BUHARI HAS CUT SHORT HIS MEDICAL VACATION IN LONDON, HE SHOULD DO THE NEEDFUL AND SALVAGE THIS NATION FROM FURTHER BLOODSHED!
President Buhari should urgently communicate a BILL FOR THE CONVOCATION OF REFERENDUM TO SORT OUT THE FOLLOWING:
1. Drafting of a brand new unicameral parliamentary constitution that will meet all the needs of the suffering masses once and for all.
2. Total elimination of the Presidential system of government through the shutting down of the SENATE.
3. Establishment of a Constituent Assembly of 74 House of Representatives Members who will take care of the Transition Period that will usher TRUE DEMOCRACY of a Parliamentary system.
The President can still write his name in GOLD if he could muster the political strength to carry out this very simple assignment and return to complete his medication with greater satisfaction that he has accomplished what others failed to do! He should not allow himself to be manipulated any longer by the MIXED MULTITUDE!
PRESIDENT BUHARI WILL CLOCK 80 YEARS OF LIFE ON 17TH DECEMBER 2022! WILL HE CHANGE THE NARRATIVE AND BEQUEATH AN UNBEATABLE, EVERLASTING LEGACY FOR HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY!
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.’' (Prov 29:2)

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

The legitimacy of a country depends on the agreement among a group of people in a geographic space who believe they can dwell together in harmony and unity through ratification of international conventions of the United Nations!
And the legitimacy of a democratic government depends on the unity among the three tiers of government: executive, legislature and judiciary in a cordial relationship.
But can a President work in isolation of State Governors and the complement of federating states? Or can his powers be limited to the federal capital territory even when he heads the ruling party?
COUPIST APC PROGRESSIVE GOVERNORS HAVE SHOT THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT!
In view of their strategic offices, APC Progressive Governors of Nigeria have begun to overreach themselves by ganging up against Mr President.
For selfish reasons they confused him to double-speak where he was recuperating on hospital bed in London over the contentious Party Convention slated for Saturday 26th March, 2022.
Governor of Ondo State Rotimi Akeredolu alleged that some “yahoo yahoo” governors in the All Progressives Congress (APC), supported Mai Mala Buni, Yobe State Governor to circumvent the will of party members.
He claimed that true APC governors were determined to see the party through the “patchy parts at all cost.”

He also said that the Progressive Governors had challenged the few “Yahoo Yahoo” who were hand-in-glove with Buni to circumvent the will of majority of the party, to carry out their imaginary threats as reported in sponsored stories or leave the party!

In addition he said that the swift response and prompt action taken by Mr. President in no small way salvaged the great party from internal scavengers and that the party survived a civilian coup largely inspired by mischief and incurable lust for power through artificial barricades.
Governor Akeredolu claimed that the renegades short-lived arm-twisting of Governor Buni and probably some pocket filling elements within the corridors of power to supplant the President’s will through fake letters endorsements as well as “Black Market” injunction (procured since November 2021), were despicable.
They manipulated the President to sack the Chairman of the Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), because they alleged he planned to scuttle the Party’s Convention to his advantage BUT only for him (the President), to discover that he was misled and has quickly re-instated the Chairman to organize the National Executive Committee (NEC), meeting which will lead the National Convention slated for 26th March, 2022!
AKEREDOLU AND HIS COHORTS SHOULD COVER THEIR FACES IN SHAME!
It now turns out that Governor Akeredolu was the real coup leader and this kind of attitude can only happen in a PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM - THE NIGERIAN MODEL!
The mythical power around those governors are dispelled and destroyed forever due to, pride, arrogance, superiority mentality which were designed to agitate internal wrangling and national confusion!
NIGERIANS HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN THAT APC IS THE MEGA PARTY OF ALL OVER- SPENT, RE-CYCLED AND CORRUPT POLITICIANS WHO ARE ON THEIR WAY OUT TO ALLOW FOR FRESH AIR OF UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT TO DEBUT IN 2023!
Please join this campaign for a POPULAR REFERENDUM to decide all RESTRUCTURING AGITATIONS that will produce a PRIME MINISTER and not a PRESIDENT IN 2023! - by Dr David Olufon.

Crimes cover up had been the bane of good governance in Nigeria since the first post military Constitution was enacted in 1979. Cover ups were institutional, they were bare-faced, they were intimidating and executed with impunity!
Twenty years after the aborted 1979 “Shagari Experiment” each democratic administration from 1999, was more brazen and determined to chart the path of deliberate robbery of the common patrimony with such audacity and assurance that accomplices would cover one another’s back even when it could end up in prison incarceration!

The Judiciary which should be the constitutional arbitrator in conflicts between the Executive and the Legislature would normally prefer to support the highest bidder while the investigative and law enforcement agencies deliberately work at snail speed to create loopholes for cases to be quashed and cases thrown out for lack of solid evidences!
Financial crimes in Nigeria take as long as 10 to 15 years to prosecute and in the long run the criminals were usually discharged and acquitted - especially in high-profile cases!
It was very easy for KEEPERS OF THE TREASURY to collude with internal forces to rob the treasury and confuse the citizenry by pointing accusing fingers in the wrong directions!

When custodians of law and order whose primary duty and responsibility is the security and welfare of the people renege in their assignments and now open official doors to pen/armed robbers through deliberate connivance and collusion, then such government is already tottering towards the precipice and will surely collapse!

ON 13TH DECEMBER 2020, WE PUBLISHED IN OUR 383RD EDITION OF THE ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER THE FOLLOWING TITLE: “THIS GAME OF DECEIT WILL BE THE DOWNFALL OF BUHARI’S APC!

BELOW ARE SOME EXCERPTS:
“Nigerian citizens must perhaps be the worst sinners in the world for them to be persistently hurt, bruised, harassed and persecuted by political representatives who should normally protect them according to the law but have instead employed cohesive institutional instruments to destroy their collective psyche and deny them of inalienable fundamental rights as enacted in the 1999 constitution.
“Over the years of independence and Republican status citizens have been permanently relegated to the background - the bottom of the ladder - where they now have to look up to their so-called representatives at all tiers of government to eek a living albeit, to live LIFE, in spite of the fact that ‘sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom the government derives all its powers and authority!’
“All major or minor decisions/policies were usually conceived, incubated, mooted and executed between the executive and the legislative and forced down the throat of hapless citizens irrespective of their education, qualifications, positions, achievements, expertise, professionalism, experience etc, etc, as if at 60-year-old Nigeria is not part of the 21st century ICT compliant world but in a remote planet where feudal overlords hold sway.
“We also mentioned that the petroleum downstream sector, government’s subsidy scam of 21 consecutive years has made billionaires of all cadres of the ruling class since independence, is still very much trending because it is very difficult for very greedy politicians to take their hands off the honey pot!”

HAS ANYTHING CHANGED SINCE THAT PUBLICATION?

Things have changed for the WORST! The Buhari Administration had consistently declared that government subsidy on petroleum products would be totally abolished while the products prices will be determined by international market forces.
BUT instead, inconsistencies and confusion had been the order of the day year-on-year because the Petroleum Products Pricing Marketing Company (PPPMC), had consistently dictated and announced fuel prices of petrol which is known as PMS, diesel oil and kerosene prices till date.
Prices of petroleum products became an all-comers affair and everyone sold at prices conducive to them from N165 Naira official price per litre to between N170 naira, N200 and as of 13th March 2022 Petroleum prices have risen to between N300 and N400 Naira per litre at the black market while pump price goes for N200 or N250 as the marketers wished!
FOR 40 DAYS (2nd February, 2022-13th March, 2022) – THE NIGERIAN OIL CARTEL, under the Watch of the substantive Minister of Petroleum Resources, President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, organised and deliberately planned nationwide fuel scarcity as an INSTITUTIONAL SIEGE against the fundamental rights of citizens to socio-economic dividends!

The clandestine drama was hatched in October 2021 when the finance minister announced that deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector would commence from June 2022!
AND Whereas, the plan was mooted to give DANGOTE PETROLEUM which is coming on stream later this year 2022 the platform to sell according to its whims and caprices from NGN 400 Naira or above according to International prices – especially when the Russia-Ukraine War has orchestrated Crude to between USD$100 and $105 US dollars per barrel!
FOLLOWING PUBLIC OUTCRY BUHARI REVERSED HIMSELF BY SUSPENDING PETROLEUM SUBSIDY FOR 18 MONTHS TO OUTLIVE HIS TENURE AT A COST OF NGN3TRILLION TO NNPC – THE SOLE IMPORTER OF REFINED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS?
And whereas, Federal Government is acquiring 20% minority stakes of USD4 billion in the DANGOTE REFINERY AND PETROCHEMICAL which has capacity to produce, 650,000 barrels per day ( bpd), to terminate foreign importation and SUBSIDY? Truth will prevail over CORRUPTION!

WHO ARE GOVERNMENTS’ COLLABORATORS?

Having created weak institutions deliberately in order to perpetuate all corruptive tendencies, the door was already opened for Civil servants to collude with the Executive and the Legislative which are in direct control of formulating disbursement of funds and making laws for budgeting and execution of budgets to manipulate figures in naira and Kobo dollars/euros, pounds sterling etc, to take advantage and create a cesspool for corruption to thrive seamlessly.
Nigerians do not need to look for the reasons why government has found it very difficult to diversify to agriculture, to build health institutions of international standards, to improve education and allot at least 26% of annual budgets to that sector, to continue allocating and awarding phantom projects which were never executed in the power sector and for continuing to embrace medical tourism as a matter of fundamental rights with government funds at all levels of administration because all such monies have been diverted two private pockets!

CODE OF CONDUCT BUREAU (CCB), SHOULD CHECKMATE THE UGLY TREND,!

And whereas the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), and Tribunal Act Chapter 58 Law of the Federation of Nigeria (LFN), 1990 gave the Bureau the 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 of public officers conform to the highest standards of public morality!
CCB would carry out its onerous duties by ensuring that all Public officers whether elected, appointed, recruited, or contracted must collect a mandatory form from its offices across the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), fill and return such forms duly signed to confirm that the declarant could vouchsafe that every declaration was to his or her conviction was true and correct.
Every declarant is 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 his spouses who is not a public officer and children under 18 years and submit to the Bureau within 30 days of the receipt of the forms.
And declarants must personally go and swear to the declarations before a high court judge nearest to his work station before submitting to the Bureau.

CODE OF CONDUCT TRIBUNAL (CCT), SHOULD SYNERGIZE WITH EFCC AND ICPC TO ENSURE PROBITY, SANITY & JUSTICE!

Not much has been heard of the Code of Conduct Tribunal), Chairman and the activities of the Federal Government's Agency under his watch since he was embroiled in a social mis-conduct in a public place, in March 2021!
Honourable Justice Danladi Umar was alleged to have assaulted a security guard, brutalized him, slapped him in the face and ask him to kneel down and thereafter used his leg to hit him on the chest and inflicted body harm on him during the Senate hearing of a petition brought against the CCT Chairman by a PDP Senator representing Plateau North on behalf of the alleged victim.
The petitioner is asking the Senate to investigate the matter to ascertain the role of the Honorable Justice Danladi in the alleged unwholesome drama to ensure Justice to the security guard Mr Clement Kargwalk.
The petition being handled buy a panel set up by the Committee on Ethics Privileges and Public Petition was also handed a viral video which recorded the alleged assault and have been circulated all social media sites.
However in a twist off sequence of events it was said that the chairman rushed to a police station to report an assault on his person which prompted the petitioner to be invited for interrogation.

According to media reports, Honorable Justice Danladi Umar always claimed to be hospitalized at each occasion of the Senate hearing while the matter remained unresolved till date, 13th March, 2022 almost one year ago!
CCB should advertise collection of assets declaration forms by public officers with the caveat of 30th JUNE, 2022, deadline collection date in order to avert false declarations especially when all eyes are on the PETROLEUM WINDFALL!
ONE KOBO OR CENT MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO BE STOLEN FROM THIS GOD’D PROVIDENCE TO KICK-START THE PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT IN 2023 BY HIS SPECIAL GRACE! AMEN.

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

#CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS! -DR. DAVID OLUFON.

MERCENARY NIGERIAN POLITICIANS MUST BE CAST OUT NOW!

The introduction of an expensive presidential system of government in Nigeria from 1999 was a deliberate choice by the Military to placate their civilian accomplices who were virtually sidelined for almost 30 years from their livelihood, fundamental rights of association and politicking!
First, the military which was the security arm of democratic government had, through series of coup-de-tat between 1966-1999 gotten accustomed to unconventional disbursment of funds through annual budgets and have freely spent monies which were never accounted for!
Second, it was obvious that all military generals and other high-ranking officers were all very very rich at the time of handover and also had much money to vie for political offices as it were.
It was common knowledge that a unicameral Parliamentary system of government was more viable at that point in time to build an all inclusive representative government that would be INSTITUTIONALLY DRIVEN!
Having experienced both military and democratic forms it is now very glaring that with the exception of very few Nigerians, the primary concern of the political class in government is how to make money at the expense of ethics, morals, pains and agonies of the hapless citizens whom they ride roughshod!
They have no scruples and can be aptly described as mercenaries: professional soldiers of Fortune who's modus operandi is to be hired to partake in any conflict for personal profit and gains rather than for any political interest.
And the Nigerian terrain which allows for much money in a presidential system has birthed emergency millionaire politicians who have made so much money from the unruly system and can afford to perpetuate electoral fraud, malpractices, rigging and mayhem to ensure victory at all costs at every election!
THE TIME TO EXPUNGE PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM THROUGH INVOCATION OF REFERENDUM IS NOW!
Nigerian Women and Youths have greater advantage to serve under a cost-effective Parliamentary System where adequate qualifications, dilligence, capabilities, dexterity are recognised in voting to choose the right candidates.
Presidential system has mortgaged Nigeria’s future to unpaid FOREIGN DEBTS being claimed to execute unidentifiable INFRASTRUCTURES by consecutive Administrations!
AND yet, not less than 13.9million youths are unemployed while over 10million children of school age are still roaming the streets.
We implore all Nigerians to join this campaign and collectively demand through REFERENDUM to shut down the SENATE and request for a brand new unicameral parliamentary Constitution that will produce a PRIME MINISTER in the year 2023!

Globetrotting to Nigerian Presidents especially incumbent Major General Muhammadu Buhari who must travel all over the world before he finally bows out of political office in the year 2023, has gotten a boost through excess funds now accruing from international crude oil bench mark which sky- rocketed to between $100 - $104, due to economic fall-outs of the Russia-Ukraine War!

The president’s penchant for international fora took him to Kenya on Tuesday 1st March 2022, to participate in a special session in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Environmental Programme UNEP), which held 3rd to 4th March 2022, in Nairobi, the State, Capital and from the conference to London on 5th March, 2022, where he would receive medical attention for two weeks but out of the blues made a detour and returned to Abuja!

UNEP is officially credited to have (for half a century), coordinated worldwide effort with member states to address collective, universal and persistent environmental challenges and also proffering solutions with supporting findings must have caught the attention of the President who MUST be there in person to gain world attention at the detriment of Nigeria’s multi-faceted insecurity and socio-economic challenges!

The retired (but tourism-friendly), Major General could have designated his Vice President or one of his most senior ministers in the cabinet to represent him but that will never happen because the oil windfall must be squandered with IMPUNITY!

It has been reported by the electronic media and tabloids both in Nigeria and overseas that President Buhari has embarked on not less than 78 foreign trips since he assumed office, spending up to 285 days outside of the country which included those in the United Kingdom for medical attention!
These reports have not been denied by his All Progressives Congress (APC), Administration which has shown impunity in running the affairs of Nigeria from 2015 till date.

This particular journey which gulped several millions of dollars only to discuss a theme tagged “Strengthening UNEP For The Implementation Of The Environmental Dimension Of The 2030 Agenda For Sustainable Development”, came in the heels of his earlier planned trip for medical attention in the United Kingdom.

According to his special adviser he was to proceed to London after the conference in Kenya to London for routine medical checks that will last for a maximum of two weeks.

As usual he was accompanied on the trip by the Minister of Foreign Affairs the Minister of State for Environment, National Security Adviser, Director General National Intelligence Agency, Chief Executive Officer of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission and many others who were not disclosed!
In spite of complaints from Nigerians that the president had been reckless in depleting the foreign reserves through frivolous journeys to all the continents of the world in the last seven years, President Buhari would not listen to anyone because he strongly believes that he has every right to spend the taxpayers money as he pleased!

BUHARI RESCHEDULE LONDON MEDICAL TRIP TO SUNDAY 6TH MARCH, 2022!
In an unusual and an unprecedented U-turn the President without prior notice or information from any government source, appeared at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja from Kenya on Friday the 4th March 2022 to the surprise of Nigerians and his handlers!

And according to one of his media aides, Garba Shehu, the President had to return home for the fact that the Conference ended earlier than scheduled and also that “he had to return and pick up some things!”
But we think differently for the following reasons.
(1) According to Section 145 of the of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 the President should communicate with the National Assembly (NASS), whenever he was proceeding on any form of vacation for his Vice President to act in his stead!
(2) If the Major General who left Nigeria on Tuesday 1st of March 2022, had proceeded to London from Kenya on Friday 5th March 2022, to stay for two weeks or more in the UK for medical treatment then he might exceed the 21 days stipulated in the Section 145(1) of the1999 Constitution as ammended!
(3) By so doing he would so have contradicted the relevant section of the constitution which would be an infringement on his part and this is exactly what he is trying to avoid.
(4) In addition to the above the President is trying very hard to prove to Nigerians and world at large that he was only going for a medical check up and not for a major treatment and was still fit to go up and down with the presidential jet at the expense of the masses who are the taxpayers!
(5) We should not forget that this Head of State travelled with an entourage of not less than 20 or more people on each lourney who collected estacodes and other allowances! We were told that TWO executive presidential jets were involved in transporting the President and his entourage to and fro!
(6) The President who has now TRAVELLED TO LONDON ON SUNDAY 6th March 2022, told the media VERBALLY that Vice President, Professor ‘Yemi Osinbajo would be in charge of administration without any form of CORRESPONDENCE with the National Assembly!


NIGERIANS DEMAND FOR CRUDE OIL WINDFALL ACCOUNTABILITY!
There was a windfall of foreign exchange earnings for Nigeria in the year 1990 during the Iraq invasion of Kuwait referred to as the GULF WAR which was believed to have fetched over $12.6 billion United States dollars and which the Babangida military junta has not accounted for till date!

The SOVEREIGN PEOPLE of Nigeria have begun a conversation for RIGHTEOUS ACCOUNTABILITY now that it is less than one year for Buhari as SUBSTANTIVE Minister of Petroleum Resources to depart office; and that the EXCESS CRUDE OIL ACCOUNT is swelling by the day due to the Russia Ukraine War it was appropriate and imperative for APC government, to set up a Special Task Force under the Ministry of Finance to jointly handle records of all productions, liftings, exportations etc, carried out by the new Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Limited which should be a very TRANSPARENT Organisation!

BUT President Buhari’s apologists have begun to disabuse the mind of the Nigerian public, political watchers and economists that the WINDFALL WOULD AMOUNT TO NOTHING because the nation is highly indebted and most of the accrued monies from the crude oil will be used to upset all FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DEBTS which have accumulated to over NGN40 trillion naira as at the end of December 2021!

REFERENDUM IS THE ONLY ANTIDOTE TO ACCEPTABLE RESTRUCTURING OF THE NIGERIAN PROJECT CONVERSATION!
Through referendum it will not take more than two weeks to shut down the Senate and to reduce the House of Representative members from 360 to 74 and to constitute a Constituent Assembly which will draft a BRAND NEW unicameral parliamentary constitution that will be used by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct parliamentary elections which will produce a Prime Minister in 2023!

It has now dawned on all people that amendment of the constitution by the so-called legislators what's a fluke as they have connive to eliminate the womenfolk from politics and governance.
How can any country believe that it can survive without the contributions of the women folk who had distinguished themselves locally and internationally in all the disciplines of life at the United Nations in the United States in the United Kingdom in Ireland to name a few.
Nigerian women are holding positions of authority in the Diaspora and they have contributed so much to the economy of this nation because they are honest and righteous than their menfolk who are wolves in sheep clothing!
All gender issues that were listed among the 68 items considered during the last Constitution Amendment exercise on 1st March 2022 by the National Assembly where legislators voted against and the women who were left in the lurch in spite of all lobbyings!
Rwandan Parliament for instance is the first country in the world with a female majority in Parliament (a numerical strength that supersedes the Beijing Affirmative Action of 1995! Cuba is second to Rwanda.
Arise Nigerian Women and let’s demand for REFERENDUM to shut down the SENATE and produce a Parliamentary System of Government to be headed by a Prime Minister in 2023! United we stand, Divided, we fall!
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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

In a sequential approach to the military invasion of Ukraine on Thursday 24th February 2022, by Russian Forces, the Chinese government had shown cammaderie and solidarity to President Vladimir Putin: FIRST through a visit to Moscow by President Xi Jinping.
On the very first day of Russian invasion of Ukraine the Chinese government dispatched its Air Force with a fleet of jet bombers to fly close to Taiwan which it has been laying claim to for several years back as part of its own territory.
The planes were repelled just like the earlier 39 that threatened Taiwan airspace on January 29, 2022. SECOND: Up to the weekend 27th February, 2022, Chinese government had deliberately refused to classify the invasion of Ukraine as an aberration against a sovereign state among the United Nations of the world.
It is not in dispute that Russia and Ukraine have had a long relationship as compatriots; people who are bonded together through their culture language and social interactions for a period of about 1,000 years. Both countries like many others which eventually formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics between 1922-1991, were governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, since the 1905 Rebellion against the Aristocratic Monarchs of Czars! In fact, they were like twin brothers because they shared the same corridors as neighbours and peacefully dwelt together until the breakup of the Soviet Union on December 31st 1991.
This dissolution of the Soviet Union into 15 independent republics should have cemented the bond between Russia and Ukraine but that was not to be so because Putin will forever hold the United States of America (USA), liable and responsible for the systemic break-up during the period of the COLD WAR which began from the end of World War 11 up to 1991! Ukraine’s strategic position of being also very close for comfort to Turkey – a gateway to Europe and the Arab nations, had always infuriated Russia which is passionately/crazily Anti-West and with Putin in the saddle of The Russian Government, (in, out or on the periphery) for a period of not less than 20 years, had become very ambitious and dictatorial!

PUTIN CANNOT RESURRECT SOVIET UNION!
Russia has constantly displayed questionable force at every opportunity especially around what remains of it’s geographic entity - and especially among its BRETHREN, in Crimea, Belorussia, Kazakhstan, an independent Republic (which is a Central Asian country), which shares Eastern borders with China and Russia.
Putin's strategy had always been to annex all the existing 15 surviving former Soviet Union (now, independent and sovereign), countries if it were possible and then become a NEW GOBACHEV of the 21st Century!
EASTERN UKRAINE had suffered devastating military assaults since 2014, from Russia which foisted some rabble rousers and renegades to illegally and forcefully occupy and contested ownership of sovereign land with the legitimate government! Of course the rebels were militarized by Russia which kept denying all atrocities, crimes and criminalities of their provocative and heinous surrogates who were emboldened in July 2014 to shoot down a commercial passenger aircraft that killed 283 passengers – including children and infants!

PUTIN CLAIMS UKRAINE’S INVASION WAS TO SAVE THE ILLEGAL OCCUPIERS!
And whereas Ukraine's incumbent President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is neither a puppet nor stooge and would not give pseudo rebel Republics any breathing space unlike his predecessor who was removed for romancing with Kremlin which gained foothold in the Crimean Peninsula through organized Separatist Insurgency Agenda of President Putin in East Ukraine! The forceful creation of two rebel republics – Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics in East Ukraine cost the loss of 14,000 people AND to defend them from “abuse and genocide” in the hands of Ukraine is now costing a full scale War which had already consumed thousands of thousands of lived and needs urgent divine intervention!
Putin claims he is “defending the Republics which requested for help on February 21, in accordance with Article 51 of Part 7 of the UN Charter with approval of Federation Council of Russia and in pursuance of the treatise of friendship and mutual assistance ratified on February 22 with the Republics”!

BUT RUSSIA REMAINS THE UNDERDOG OF THE UKRAINE INVASION!
Who was the bully, who was the fault-finder, who was the accuser, who was the one that raised false alarm, who fired the first shot, who is the spoiler, who feels insecure, who the liar, who is the agent provocateur, who is the household enemy?
RUSSIA is the answer to all of the above questions Russia is a perpetrator of evil, Russia is the one that has refused to factor God into all the decisions made from 2014 till date. Russia is the present day Babylon and it’s surely going to fall and will never rise again! PUTIN like Satan said in his heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of north I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the most high! Yet thou shall be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying is this the man that made the earth to tremble that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
All the kings of the nations even all of them, lie in glory, everyone in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet. Thou shall not be joined with them in burial because thou has destroyed thy land, and slain thy people; the seed of evil doers shall never be renowned.
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. For I will rise up against them said the Lord of hosts and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant and son and nephew, said the Lord. I will also make it a possession for the bittern and pools of water and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction said the Lord of host. Isaiah, 14:12-23.

IS RUSSIA FULFILLING PROPHECY?
The Gospel according to St. Matthew 24:6-10, lends credence to Russian aggressions and BETRAYAL of its KITH AND KIN; but then at the appointed time Russia will definitely give account of its stewardship!

RUSSIA'S MILITARY STRENGTH IS NOT AN ADVANTAGE!
Russia amassed thousands of troops against Ukraine and has recklessly deployed it’s arsenal against the innocent people to forcibly SHED THEIR BLOOD whereas God the Creator did not make them JUDGE over the attacked Nation!
KUDOS TO US, FRANCE, BRITAIN, GERMANY, OTHER NATO ALLIES FOR THEIR SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE AT THIS VERY CHALLENGING PERIOD! SHAME UNTO CHINA – THE BLACK SHEEP!
As it is written: “I returned, and saw under the SUN that 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 FAVOR to Men of SKILL; but TIME and CHANCE happen to them all.”(Ecclesiastes. 9:11).
We encourage our Ukrainian BRETHREN to be strong and courageous for the battle is of the Lord. These evil Russians that have besieged you currently will all PERISH and you shall see them no more for JEHOVAH SAOBATH WILL FIGHT FOR YOU AND YOU SHALL HOLD YOUR PEACE! SHALOM.
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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

#CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS! . –DR. DAVID OLUFON.

PEOPLE OF NIGERIA MUST RESIST FURTHER CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.

National Assembly legislators have completed plans to vote on 1st March 2022, in respect of about 67 amendments to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that would conservatively gulp not less than NGN5 billion naira to execute considering the fact that past exercises ended in fraud and futility.
It is an open secret that the way to go is to draft a brand new constitution that will give Nigeria a parliamentary system of government because It is cost effective unlike the Military Presidential system which had virtually drained the entire resources of Nigeria as a nation and labelled it as horribly corrupt and poverty-stricken geographic entity.
Unicameral parliamentary system is antidote to CORRUPTION and INSECURITY in Nigeria.
To produce a new constitution in Nigeria is not a big deal. As long as competent drafters are appointed to handle all the legal frame work through the instrumentality of a REFERENDUM.
Retired Military General Abdulsalami Abubakar, who succeeded late General Sanni Abacha, drafted the 1999, Constitution within 11 months, conducted the General Elections and handed over power to retired General Obasanjo.
The Nigerian Senate which is trying to play hide and seek in this new demand by the citizens of Nigeria to whom sovereignty belongs has no place to hide any longer because a Unicameral Legislature will no longer accommodate the Red Chamber anymore.
In other words THE SENATE HAS TO BE SHUT DOWN and that is why the legislators are foot-dragging and refusing to listen to public opinion in respect of the agitation for A NEW CONSTITUTION that will usher a Prime Minister in the year 2023 instead of a president which all the money bags are clamoring for.
Former Minister of Education MRS. OBY EKWESILI insisted at a recent public hearing that referendum was the only means to produce a brand new constitution which will address all social political challenges in the country.
However the crafty senators are bent on going on with the constitutional amendments which whether they like it or not will hit the rocks as usual.
Nigerians are wiser and cannot be hoodwinked by lawmakers who are out to protect their own interests at the National Assembly instead of representing the citizens.
The only choice open to the citizens now is to demand for the invocation of the doctrine of necessity.
On Tuesday 9th February 2010 the National Assembly was forced to introduce the doctrine of necessity in order to empower the then vice president Ebele Jonathan to act as President of Nigeria to avoid a vacuum in governance.
Umaru Yar Adua failed to transmit a letter to National Assembly and hand over to his deputy according to section 145 of the 1999 Constitution while away on medical treatment abroad from 25th November 2009 to Tuesday February 2010
That exemplary decision stood out the 6th National Assembly as a very patriotic body of lawmakers who loved the people of Nigeria more than monetary gains.
The faulty 1999 military constitution did not make provision for the political solution of the doctrine of necessity.
This terminology which means the justification and application of an illegality as a legal procedure in order to justify a very much desired necessity is not far-fetched.
Doctrine of necessity was first applied in Pakistan on 24th October 1954, then in Grenada in 1985 and also Nigeria 9th February 2010.
Right now Nigerians are demanding that the doctrine of necessity must be applied to get referendum and a new constitution which will produce in 2023 a Unicameral system of government and a Prime Minister.
We now call on all well meaning Nigerians to support this campaign for referendum BUT not through violent agitation.
Nigerians should mobilize to join the movement to actualize that the coming general elections MUST be conducted with a new Unicameral Parliamentary Constitution that will produce a Prime Minister.
SENATE PRESIDENT DAVID MARK WAS THE HERO OF THE 2010 DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY.
In his speech, he said that National Assembly acted to empower vice president Ebele Jonathan as acting president on the 9th February 2010, because the doctrine of necessity must be invoked to avoid a vacuum in governance.
According to him the doctrine of necessity requires that we do what is necessary when faced with a situation that was not contemplated by the constitution.
And that is precisely what we have done today … in doing so we have as well maintained the sanctity of our constitution as the ultimate law of the land.
The constitution never envisaged a violation that will create a leadership vacuum like we found ourselves since November 23, 2009.
Senate leadership amended the critical aspect of omission in the 1999 constitution to be in tune with present the reality.
Late President Musa Yar Adua failed to transmit a handover letter to National Assembly for his deputy,Ebele Jonathan to act as president according with section 145 of the 1999 Constitution from 23rd November 2009 to 9th February,2010.
IN THE 8th NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, 77 PATRIOTIC SENATORS AND A SIZABLE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE MEMBERS CLAMORED FOR REFERENDUM AS THE ANTEDOTE TO SOLVING ALL RESTRUCTURING AGITATIONS.
WE CALL ON THEM TO ARISE AND SHINE TO ENSURE THE DEMAND IS ACTUALIZED WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY.
Where there is a will, there is a WAY.

IT seems that Nigerians have come to terms with the extravagant lifestyle attached to Presidential system of government even at very austere periods when the economy is on the downward trend!

President Buhari claimed in 2015 that he inherited an almost empty treasury yet he was able to raise large sums of money for him and large entourage to commence international journeys which have continued unabated in his two-term engagement of executive impunity!

At the last count, the retired Major General had travelled overseas for about 54 times in seven years with large entourage of ministers, special advisers, politicians, governors and business men!

And yet Nigeria is classified as the poverty capital of the World! How can a poor country afford to spend millions of millions of USD$ dollars on foreign trips on each occasion? How can a president continue to embark on foreign trips to go and beg for money in order to take care of infrastructures in his own country even though he has enough natural resources which remain un- harnessed? Yes Nigeria is a peculiar Nation! The reason for this misbehavior of Nigerian presidents is not far-fetched because they were military people who decided to usurp democratic powers having perfected Corruption of the economy through martial laws during their 30 years of military aberration!

It was ex-president Obasanjo who was tagged as an executive globetrotter of Africa during his eight years and he spent millions running to billions of US$ dollars globetrotting the world with the retinue of large delegations at the expense of the poor masses!

The Military never gave account of the 30 years junta to anyone till date when the change of baton occurred between soldier and soldier!
Presently another ex-military general who is the incumbent president of democratic Nigeria now retired major general Muhammadu Buhari has followed suit of his predecessor General Obasanjo and in spite of the fact that the Omicron virus of Covid 19, is still very much around the globe this president is still travelling across the world under one guise or the other!

On the one hand the government of President Buhari will tell the world that the country needed a lot of foreign funds to build up infrastructures yet it is an open secret that Nigeria’s total foreign debt portfolio borrowed by his administration between 2016 and 2021 have been majorly spent on frivolous and unexecuted contracts whereas large chunks of the foreign debt totaling NGN13.8 trillion naira had been spent on salaries allowances and all manner of emoluments government officials of the executive legislative and judiciary.

President Buhari just returned Saturday 19th February, 2022, from Belgium where he attended the EU-AU Summit on Continental cooperation on all sectors of the economy financing for sustainable and inclusive growth, energy transition, climate change, etc, and this trip according to observers is about the 54th international journey made by this President and tons of the members of his kitchen cabinet!
But to the downtrodden masses he gave the Greek Gift of IMPORTED ADULTERATED PETROL WHICH DAMAGED ALL AUTOMOBILES, MOTOR CYCLES, GENERATING MACHINERIES ETC, AND TOOK AWAY THEIR ENTIRE MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD!

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019 till date the World Health Organization (WHO), disclosed that at least 202 countries have been identified as being affected with the scourge yet the President of Nigeria was not discourage and has been able to travel to about one fourth portion of world countries spending borrowed money to carry out untenable economic agenda! However, in spite of the fact that he had travelled to virtually all the major countries of the world, there is exceeding INSECURITY, exceeding poverty and squalor among the TALAKAWAS domicile in the land of Nigeria!

FOREIGN COUNTRIES ARE NOT FATHER CHRISTMAS!

We still wonder why Nigeria has not been blacklisted by foreign countries from which it has borrowed so much money if they did not have hidden agenda!
There was a time when political watchers said that Nigeria was very close to recolonization by world powers especially China which had dominated Africa with so much Aids through Road/Rail infrastructures and massive exportation of all its manufactured products into the African market, especially Nigeria which has refused to harness it's natural resources.

We argued that neither China nor any other developed countries of the world had any intention of recolonization in Africa or elsewhere but then attention was drawn to the fact that all the contracts that were signed by African governments including Nigeria have clauses which indicate that once there was a default of agreement in the contract the contractor will take over such infrastructure built with borrowed money and solely run such enterprise until all borrowed money are recovered and that put paid to further argument on the matter because if all foreign countries take over all infrastructures in any Third World country in this 21st Century then it is clear that Africa will go under the direct governance of NEO-COLONIALIST POWERS!

The question is, have all past and present Nigerian leaders – especially the incumbent who have supposedly borrowed money to build the nation’s infrastructures ever thought of posterity? Have they ever cared to reflect how such heavy amounts of debts will be repaid? Have they ever thought of the Youths who will eventually take up the mantle of leadership paused to consider that excessive borrowing of the present would tantamount to future delay in institutional development of the country?

NIGERIAN LEADERS SHOULD NOT HAVE INDULGED IN BEGGING FOR FOREIGN LOANS!

Imagine if all 36 State Governments of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory could turn attention to solid mineral deposits in their various locations, harness and develop them into very useful products of international standard, their Internal Generated Revenues, (IGRs) will rise astronomically and there would be no need for every Governor to always rush cap-in-hand every month to Abuja to collect Crude Oil revenue allocation from the Treasury Single Account (TSA)!

It is common knowledge that conservative Nigerian governments do not lay emphasis on Human Capital Development but on Human Idolizing: they prefer to eulogize one President after the other and continue to sing praises of whatever he had done with the common patrimony instead of bringing him to accountability so that people will see very clearly whether he was self-serving or patriotic!

Lip service has always been paid to diversification from crude oil - the only foreign-exchange-earner product to Agriculture by conservative governments and strategic institutional decay of all States infrastructures have become visibly manifest due to glaring corruption in the system!

It is therefore incumbent that all right-thinking Nigerians should join hands to campaign for total removal of the corruption-ridden and very wasteful Presidential system of government in Nigeria and the installation of a Unicameral Parliamentary system of government which will produce a Prime Minister and diligent Legislators from all over the Constituencies to take care of the business of governance in the country from 2023 onward!

The movement for that CHANGE begins now and nobody should shy away because begging/borrowing is anathema to any country and to all people!.
What can a beggar nation do without support from other nations? Nigeria as a Third World nation chose to live large as a FIRST WORLD nation like UNITED STATES OF AMERICA without any form of institutional structures on ground and totally neglected human capital development!

CAN FAKE NIGERIAN POLITICIANS BUILD SOMETHING ON NOTHING?

But the incumbent president says he will continue to borrow until he leaves office in less than 1 year!
Beggar nations can only bark they cannot bite. Nigeria can be likened in this discourse to a beggar nation! Beggars have hands but will never work with them!
They have eyes but never see with them; ears but can never hear; nose but can never smell! A beggar is a slave and the head of a beggar nation is the chief slave who goes about shamelessly to beg for monies he could have raised from within his own domain.
Beggars cannot smell the abundance of natural mineral resources buried in their soil! Beggar prefers to export his raw materials: cocoa beans, groundnuts millets, etc, to refine them at exorbitant costs overseas in foreign countries and then import them back for sale instead carrying out all those processes by himself and making 100 per cent gains!

It is in Nigeria that refined petroleum products are subsidized with trillions of naira every year and instead of government to build new REFINERIES, keeps REFURBISHING old ones as corruption thrives on in a free-for-all environment!

JUDGMENT IS AT THE DOOR!
The Lord who searches the reins and hearts will give unto every one of you according to your works. 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.

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#CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS!- DR. DAVID OLUFON.

NIGERIAN POLITICIANS SHOULD STOP UNDER-ESTIMATING THE PEOPLES’ POWER!

In spite of the innumerable flaws contained in the 1999 Military Constitution of Nigeria, the crafters could not deny, but confirmed that SOVEREIGNTY BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA from whom the government through the Constitution derived all its powers and authority!

IT is common knowledge that military organizational charts are vertically-integrated in a unitary format, so the 1999 Constitution handed over to the Nigerian people at their disengagement from partisan politics on 29th May, 1999 was devoid of contributions from Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Civil Service Organizations (CSOs), the Labor/Trade Unions or impute through a National Conference, Plebiscite or even a Referendum to iron out controversial areas!
Greater powers are vested to the centre i.e. the Presidency, more that the Federating States through the 68 items on the Exclusive Legislative List! For instance, all lands in the country were grabbed in the military fashion through the obnoxious LAND USE ACT, 1978, which nationalized the land thereby depriving the citizens of decent/adequate accommodations and farm lands that could serve as collaterals for banking transactions.

The social contracts which include rights to potable water, food security/sufficiency, access roads, arable lands for massive agricultural diversification of the economy, employment opportunities, national living wages, pension facilities to the aged and retired workers etc, are mere window dressing!
The entire Constitution was written in the masculine gender to marginalize the women who have greater statistics in the national population of about 200 million people and the pronoun, "he" is regarded as UNISEX;

Other notable flaws can be found in State Creation process/procedure; Electoral organizers are expected to be members of political parties; the Judiciary and Ministry of Finance where professional and political offices are merged into one office to create more confusion; lack of a defined autonomous status of Local governments; ambiguous fiscal and revenue-sharing formula between Federal and State governments etc, many of these confusions have been re-defined at the apex court with very little reprieve! THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER CONFLICTS IN THE 1999 CONSTITUTION THAT ARE FAR MORE THAN THOSE LISTED ABOVE AND CANNOT FIND SPACE IN THIS PAPER!

CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION OF SOVEREIGNTY TO THE PEOPLE!
Quoting from Section 14: [The Government and the people] –
(1) The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be a State based on the principles of democracy and social justice.
(2) It is hereby, accordingly, declared that-
(a) SOVEREIGNTY (ultimate, absolute power) belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives all its powers and authority:
(b) The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of Government; and
(c) The participation by the people in their government shall be ensured in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.

SOVEREIGNTY in political theory is the ultimate overseer or authority, in the decision making process of a State and in the maintenance of order. This ultimate inalienable power belongs to the PEOPLE OF NIGERIA whom the military had reduced to PAPER TIGERS in their own country through a forged document which is completely alien to the people!

THE TIME OF IGNORANCE IS PAST! Join the campaign to demand for REFERENDUM through our lawmakers in the National Assembly (NASS), who will INVOKE THE “DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY” TO PRODUCE A UNICAMERAL CONSTITUTION AND A PRIME MINISTER IN 2023 INSTEAD OF ANOTHER MILITARY PRESIDENT!!
THE CITIZENS’ SOVEREIGNTY WILL BE ASSERTED NOW WITHOUT ANY CIVIL UNREST!

A Nigerian Writer has likened the incumbent Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege to the biblical Moses who was raised by God to liberate the children of Israel who were in bondage in the land of Egypt!

He claimed that the Urhobo-born All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator, representing Delta Central and the ruling party’s South-South leader is “a truly good fighter, a large-hearted detribalized and compassionate man”!

In further accolades, he was described as a “sharp, inquisitive, versatile person who loves humanity and shuns primordial sentiments of ethnicity, religion, and not gender biased!
Well said but We wonder whether Senator Omo-Agege was the same person who on 4th June, 2022, at a National Public Hearing on the Alteration to the Provisions of the 1999 Constitution in Abuja, said that it would be unconstitutional to embark on any process to provide an entirely new law without an alteration to Section 9 of the said Constitution when the DEMAND FOR A BRAND NEW CONSTITUTION THROUGH REFERENDUM TOOK CENTER STAGE?

1) He deliberately began an argument in respect of Section 9 of the Constitution which states that an alteration could not be passed in either House of the National Assembly unless the proposal is supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds majority of all members of that House and approved by resolution of the House of Assembly of not less than two-thirds of all the States.
2) Senator Omo-Agege’s brickwall also brought into the fore similar steps to effect alterations to Section 8 which deals with new States Creation, Boundary Adjustments and New Local Governments and Chapter IV which deals with Fundamental Rights, which “shall not be passed by either House unless the proposal is approved by the votes of not less than four-fifths majority of all the members of each House, and also approved by resolution of the Houses of Assembly of not less than two-thirds of all the States.
3) And yet one more huddle! For the purposes of Section 8 and of subsections (2)(3) of Section 9, the number of members of each House of the National Assembly shall, notwithstanding any vacancy, be deemed to be the number of members specified in sections 48 and 49 of the Constitution which stipulate the numerical strength of each House at 109 and 360 members respectively.

OBI EZEKWESILI’S REQUEST FOR BRAND NEW CONSTITUTION THROUGH REFERENDUM!

Former Minister of Education, Mrs. Obi Ezekwesili insisted at the hearing that Referendum was the only means to produce a brand new constitution which would address all socio-political challenges in the country!

But Senator Omo-Agege’s indisposition to the subject matter had dampened the popular clamor for the application of REFERENDUM to peacefully resolve all contentious arguments in respect of TRUE FEDERALISM AND RESTRUCTURING OF THE NIGERIAN PROJECT.

NASS “DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY” FOR VICE PRESIDENT JONATHAN SHOULD ALSO APPLY TO REFERENDUM FOR RESTRUCTURING NIGERIA!

In an unfolding drama on Tuesday 9th February, 2010, the National Assembly (NASS), by introducing “doctrine of necessity”, empowered Vice President Ebele Jonathan to act as President of Nigeria in order to douse a very delicate and sensitive situation that could snowballed to a national incendiary and it was so resolved!

Late President Umaru ‘Yar Adua failed to transmit a letter to NASS and hand over to his Vice (according to Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution), while away on medical treatment abroad from 25th November 23, 2009!

That exemplary decision stood out the 6th NASS as a very patriotic body of lawmakers who loved the people more than the lucre of office because the 1999 Constitution DID NOT MAKE PROVISION FOR THE POLITICAL SOLUTION OF DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY!

This terminology which means the justification and application of “an illegality as a legal procedure to justify a very-much desired necessity” had been successful applied in other countries! In the case of Vice President Jonathan, he was the bona-fide deputy to fill the temporarily vacant seat of his principal who failed to do the needful as stated in the preceding paragraph and eventually passed on in a foreign country!

CONSTITUTIONAL SOVEREIGNTY TO THE PEOPLE!
Section 14. [The Government and the people] – (1) The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be a State based on the principles of democracy and social justice.
(2) It is hereby, accordingly, declared that-
(a) SOVEREIGNTY (ultimate, absolute power) belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives all its powers and authority:
(b) The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of Government; and
(c) The participation by the people in their government shall be ensured in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.

COMMENT: According to Section 14 (2)(a) SOVEREIGNTY in political theory is the ultimate overseer or authority, in the decision making process of a State and in the maintenance of order. This ultimate power belongs to the PEOPLE OF NIGERIA whom the military had reduced to PAPER TIGERS in their country through a forged document which is completely alien to the people!

QUESTION: If some of the people felt marginalized or short-changed in any aspect of governance and request for a popular referendum to quickly put the issue to test and resolve it, should any other political consideration whether present or absent in the Constitution take precedence over SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE? And yet the same Constitution says government derives all its powers and authority from sovereignty of the people! Has contradiction not popped up in this narrative?
There is no confusion in the assertion – the truth is that most Nigerian politicians are dubious, crafty and very insincere when large sums of illicit funds could accrue to them in the process of manipulation of the letters of the Constitution!

REFERENDUM could be applied to decide any matter pending before the executive, the legislature or from among the people before it is given consent of the law in order to avoid break down of law and order!

BREXIT – Britain’s approach to exiting membership of the European Union (EU), in 2016 took TWO REFERENDA and the resignation of British Prime Minister David Cameron to decide! Was that not democracy in action?

RESTRUCTURING in Nigeria should be decided through referendum along a revisit to (1) Recommendations of APC’s Committee On Restructuring Of Nigeria Chaired by Governor Nasir El Rufai and submitted to President Major General Muhammadu Buhari since January 2018 (now FOUR years on his table); (2) 2014 National Conference Recommendations and (3) A refurbished 1963 Republican Parliamentary Constitution that would go a very long way to pacify and satisfy all tribes and tongues in a manner to sustain permanent peace, equity, fairness, justice etc!

DEPUTY SENATE PRESIDENT OVIE OMO-AGEGE [APC, DELTA CENTRAL], IS A FRIEND OF THE GENERAL!

Senator Omo-Agege, a very close ally of President Major Muhammadu Buhari, who became a house-hold name since 18th April, 2018, through the RED CHAMBER MACE ROBBERY SAGA, does not believe in the RESTRUCTURING OF NIGERIA THROUGH REFERENDUM which will fast-track all contentious issues as mentioned in earlier paragraphs!
In the 8th National Assembly (NASS), Omo-Agege, was arrow head of “Parliamentary Support Group in Senate for President Muhammadu Buhari, which backed the President for withholding assent to the Electoral Act Time Table as amended by Saraki-led Senate for the 2019 Presidential election to come last instead of first according to INEC; with a view to unseating the incumbent! It is strongly believed that Omo-Agege was suspended for 90 Legislative days by Saraki for upsetting his strategy and that in a swift re-action of power play, he (Omo-Agege organized thugs to forcefully remove the MACE – symbol of authority from the Red Chambers on 18th April, 2018) – but he vehemently denied the accusation and was never prosecuted in any court of law until the demise of NASS 8th Assembly!

WILL THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPONSOR THE BILL FOR REFERENDUM AS BEING DEMANDED BY THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA WHO POSSESS SOVEREIGNTY?

If Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege is truly the biblical Moses, there could be no better time than NOW to tell his principal President Major General Buhari that this is the right time to bend to the demands of the SOVEREIGN PEOPLE OF NIGERIA for popular referenda to iron out all the grey areas of contentions restructuring and place Nigeria once again on the pedestal as the true Economic Giant of Africa!
The only MIRACLE for peace and stability for Nigeria in conducting the 2023 General Elections is through a brand new Unicameral Parliamentary Constitution that will produce a PRIME MINISTER for the New Nigeria of our dreams! “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.

#CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS TO RESTRUCTURE NIGERIA. [NO. 6.] - DR. DAVID OLUFON. 7th February, 2022.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IS A CORRUPT BODY: EXPOSED BY HON, ABDULMUMIN JIBRIN AND ICPC!
ANNUAL BUDGET PADDING BY NIGERIA’S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (NASS), LEGISLATORS WAS EXPOSED BY HONORABLE ABDULMUMIN JIBRIN, A HIGH-RANKING MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE IN OCTOBER, 2016! THE BARE-FACED BRAZEN ROBBERY OF THE SINGLE TREASURY ACCOUNT (TSA), BY LAW MAKERS IN BOTH RED AND GREEN CHAMBERS HAS CONTINUED TILL DATE UNABATED!
Reproduced below is the unedited statement of the Legislator:
"HOW WE SHARED NIGERIA MONEY BY HON. Abdulmumin JIBRIN: 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 HONORABLE 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 exist 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 life-long 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……etc, etc.
ICPC ACCUSES LAWMAKERS OF SIPHONING MONEY BY USING MEDICAL OUTREACH, AGENCIES!
Senators and members of the House of Representatives have been accused by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences (ICPC) of using medical outreach to divert and steal public funds in a report released January 30th, 2022.
Investigations by the Commission revealed that most of the Federal lawmakers had re-christened their constituency projects as medical outreaches because it was difficult to track the amount spent on the exercise on account of its fluid nature and confidentiality of medical records!
According to the report they also padded the 2021 Budget with over NGN500billion naira and also inserted over 1,000 controversial projects in the Budget! In the 2022 Budget, the lawmakers reduced the provisions of about 10,733 projects and introduced 6,576 new ones totaling NGN36,59 billion for NASS Projects in the Service Wide Vote (SWV) – a huge sum of money which is kept aside for unseen expenditure!
Service Wide Vote which is domicile in the Federal Ministry of Finance is ANOTHER BIG FRAUD LIKE PETROLEUM SUBSIDY and under the watch of President Major General Muhammadu Buhari!
DURING THE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC 16 YEARS FAILED ADMINISTRATION [1999-2015], NASS BUDGET AND ALL OUTRAGEOUS ALLOWANCES – WERE KEPT TOP SECRET!
Join the campaign to shut down the SENATE on or before 3st March, 2022, through POPULAR REFERENDUM in order to establish a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENT that will produce an egalitarian and secure nation. Please share all over the INTERNET and watch out for No. 7 Edition.

YOUTH SUPPORT FOR PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM BY 2023 WILL NEUTRALIZE INSECURITY IN NIGERIA PERMANENTLY!

The covetous Nigerian political class whose only stock- in-trade is to perpetuate itself in office till death has surreptitiously moved to break the ranks of the Youths through the divide-and-rule tactics!

It is evident that Nigerian Youths are warming up to vie for political offices, appointments and also to acquire positions in party administrative structure as the 2023 General Elections approach, especially in the two major political parties – All Progressives Congress (APC), and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), BUT from all available information, they are being sidelined!

For instance, some APC Youths are lamenting over marginalization by the Caretaker Committee dominated by older members who deliberately debarred them from necessary/relevant information before and during party primaries held to pick delegates for the Convention slated for 26th February, 2022! So also are the Youths in the PDP!

HAS APC FORGOTTEN THAT BUHARI SIGNED NOT-TOO-YOUNG-TO-RULE BILL INTO LAW WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING?

Before the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari signed the “Not-Too-Young-To-Rule Bill” on 31st May, 2018 into law, he got a fool-proof assurance [a caveat], from Nigerian Youths that their political ambition as future leaders would not jeopardize his second term bid in view of the opposition’s desperation to derail him at all costs during the Presidential Election of 2019!

INSECURITY STEMMED FROM INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION!

It is common knowledge that the Nigerian insecure environment has reached an unacceptable crescendo but from all indications the All Progressives Congress (APC), seven-year administration has equally failed like its previous PDP predecessors in taming the monster!

Except for Nigerian political jobbers, it is crystal clear to averagely educated citizens that the choice of presidential system of government by the Military (1979-2022), that craves for enormous funding, for an emerging democracy and a developing third world African country like Nigeria was deliberately ill-conceived to provide a veritable ground for corruption to thrive!

And that Nigeria is acclaimed through international indexing as World Poverty Capital, could not be contested for obvious manifestations of massive corruption in all sectors of its economy – and among players within the three tiers of government who have become ridiculously wealthy through the very attractive Presidential Oligarchy at the expense of the over 95% of the poverty-stricken mass of citizens!

In spite of the economic deficits due to hyper inflation claimed to have reduced from 17.68% to15.63%, a badly-devalued currency at NGN415 naira to USD$1 dollar, consecutive debt-ridden budgets from 2015 to date, external debt portfolio of NGN38.00 trillion naira, and annual debt-servicing sum of NGN1.02 trillion naira from January-September 2021 and unemployment statistics of 33%; the President and his cronies have carried on business as usual! They print, borrow and spend monies “yanfun yanfun” (anyhow), like they have any credible source of income outside of CRUDE OIL
PROCEEDS AND THE ONE MILLION PROPAGANDA PADDY RICE PYRAMID OF ABUJA –now being sold to millers across Nigeria!

OTHER APC PRODIGAL EXPENSES AT AN AUSTERE TIME SUCH AS THIS!

1) The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), with an annual budget of NGN40 billion naira requested NGN305 billion to conduct the 2023 General Elections and has collected NGN100billion advance; (2) Politicians have been granted permission to spend various amounts of money ranging from NGN5billion to NGN70million naira – which is the least, for election financing to actualize their dreams as followsa) Campaign finance, for a Presidential aspirant was raised to NGN5 billion naira, - a 400% increase from the former NGN1billion!(b) Governors – NGN1billion.(c) Legislators, NGN100million & 70million respectively a grand plan to EXCLUDE, THE YOUTHS, WOMEN, AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, from governance at all levels of the political process!
2) Civil Servants have been granted 100% New Duty Tour Allowance at this austere period!
3) National Assembly (NASS), is considering 55 Amendments to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that would conservatively gulp not less than NGN5billion naira in execution considering past exercises!
4) Accusation by Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), that lawmakers are siphoning money by using medical outreach, and agencies as cover-ups!They were also accused of padding the 2022 Budget with an amount totaling NGN36.59 billion naira for National Assembly’s projects in the Service Wide Vote!
5) Mr. President has reiterated for the umpteenth that he would continue to borrow from internal/external sources to boost Presidential System NEEDS, for salaries, allowances and CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES until he bows out in 2023!

THE CRITICAL MASS OF NIGERIAN YOUTHS SHOULD COME TO THE RESCUE NOW!

Nigerian Youths made an unambiguous but very articulate statement through #EndSars protests in October 2020 that citizens could no longer be governed by charlatans and the mediocre whose permanent interest in politics is aggrandizement and not diligent service to the polity!

It is worthy of note however that sanity prevailed in spite of disputed number of casualties on both sides and that Federal Government accepted and have implemented the FIVE-FOR-FIVE demands which bother on disbandment of Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS), Enhancement of Police Salaries etc, but REJECTED TRIBUNAL RECOMMENDATIONS over the indictment of security forces in a manner that exposed APC’s inconsistent policies in respect of the security and welfare of the down-trodden talakawas!

TIME FOR YOUTHS TO ACTUALIZE THE NEW NIGERIA DREAM TO DUMP PRESIDENCY FOR PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM IS NOW!

The campaign to dump Presidential System for UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM has gained momentum and bi-partisan Nigerian Youths MUST JOIN THE MOVING TRAIN NOW! PLEASE FIND BELOW THE REASONS WHY PARLIAMENTARY IS BETTER THAT PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT!
1) It is unicameral – one House known as Cabinet form of government and also “Responsible Government.”
2) It is cost friendly, cost effective because legislative aspirants need not campaign across the entire country BUT within their locality – their constituencies!
3) All successfully elected parliamentarians would appoint from among themselves the leader the Party with the majority votes as Prime Minister [PM], who becomes Head of Government.
4) In a Unicameral Legislature, there are two Executive posts, namely: the PM (the real executive) and the ceremonial executive who serves as figurative Head of State and concurs with Cabinet activities as obtained when Nigeria became a Republic between 1963 and 1966, during the administration of Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and President Nnamdi Azikiwe.
5) Day to day Cabinet proceedings are not run on the pages of newspapers or other media networks like in a presidential system. From time to time members of the public are briefed as appropriate by the PM or any delegated minister of the Cabinet!
6) There is no specific tenure of office for the PM as it obtains in a presidential system. A PM remains in office for as long as he or she performs creditably! It could be one month or three; one year or three years as the case may be! It could even be ELEVEN YEARS like the “Iron Lady”, late Mrs.Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990)!
7) The Executive PM who is a product of the Legislative is responsible to the Legislators (his colleagues the parliamentarians), with whom he shares a collective responsibility of the whole Council because he and his Ministers are elected from among other members of Parliament (always addressed as the Lower House or in Britain as the House of Commons), because the so-called common but very efficient citizens who dwell among their peers are able to run efficient and effective governments! Towards the close of the last Quarter of 2021, the British Government encouraged its citizens to apply for loans of one digit interest (because it had a deep vault), to purchase personal houses while Nigeria’s presidential operators are even borrowing from dormant/dead citizens accounts to pay salaries of civil servants!
A Prime Minister could resign at any time instead of being kicked out through “A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE”!

CONCLUSIONS:

THE PARLIAMENT AT FEDERAL, STATES, REGIONAL OR GEO-POLITICAL ZONES MUST BE ESTABLISHED WITH THE SUCCINCT SUPPORT OF ALL NIGERIAN YOUTHS THROUGH POPULAR REFERENDUM!

Nigeria’s general elections are just one calendar year away therefore the following steps MUST be taken to achieve a sustainable Parliamentary System in Nigeria from 2023.

Step One. The SENATE must be shut down on or before 31st March, 2022.
Step Two. House of Representatives (HOS), should be pruned from 360 to 74 (ie, two representatives from each State and the Federal Capital Territory).
Step Three: Members of the HOR working with a secretariat of digital administrative team would convoke a Constituent Assembly that will craft a NEW PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION within the Second Quarter (April – June 2022).
Step Four: The Parliamentary Constitution will give detailed analysis of how the new system will work out in the 774 Local Government Areas of the country as set out in the heading of this section above.
Step Five: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), will swing into action from June 2022, to prepare for elections according to constitutional guidelines that would usher a PRIME MINISTER INSTEAD OF A PRESIDENT IN 2023!

IT TOOK ELEVEN MONTHS FOR GENERAL ABUBAKAR PRODUCE THE 1999 CONSTITUTION AND EX-GENERAL OBASANJO AS PRESIDENT!
Military maximum ruler, Sanni Abacha died 8th June 1998; General Abudulsalami Abubakar took over, produced the 1999 Constitution, registered new political parties, conducted fresh elections with military fiat that produced ex-General Aremu Obasanjo who was sworn as President on 29th May 1999 - all within a period of ELEVEN MONTHS!

IN THE ABSENCE OF MILITARY FIAT, NIGERIANS HAVE THE OPTION OF REFERENDUM TO ACHIEVE THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM IN NIGERIA IN TWELVE MONTHS (FEBRUARY 2022 TO FEBRUARY 2023! AMEN!

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

#CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS TO RESTRUCTURE NIGERIA! DR. DAVID OLUFON.

THE 9TH SENATE MUST BE SHUT TO ELECT A PRIME MINISTER IN 2023!

Shutting down the Nigeria Senate in this first quarter (January-March, 2022), and pruning the House of Representative members from 360 to 74, is the FIRST STEP to achieving the much-desired Parliamentary system of government in Nigeria and it should neither be a big deal nor an innovation!

All consecutive National Assembly (NASS ) bi-cameral legislators since 1999, had constituted the drainpipe of the Nigerian economy because of the illicit/criminal monetary largesse that accrue to them annually without consideration to the country’s financial state and the pains of the poverty-stricken masses whom they pretend to represent!

Following massive protests over Senate financial excesses veteran politician (1999-2022) and Senate President Ahmad Lawal at a public event in Abuja on Monday 13th December, 2021, disclosed that Senators/Representatives collect NGN52m and NGN32m, respectively as annual running allowances. According to him, the monthly salary of a Senator was NGN1.5m and that of a Representative was NGN1.3m! He told participants in a paper he presented at the First Distinguished Parliamentarians Lecture Series that the alleged NGN13m that dominated public domain some years back was a Senator’s quarterly office running allowance while that of the Representative was NGN8m, which according to him were the lowest in any presidential democracy in the world! At that amount, each Senator collected NGN3.25m monthly while his House of Representative counterpart collected NGN2m! In 2016, Senator Shehu Sanni, (then of the All Progressives Congress, APC) unveiled the secrecy behind Senators’ running allowance which was then NGN3.5million and whereas Senator Mrs. ‘Remi Tinubu claimed she got NGN3.8m - monies being paid from BORROWED FOREIGN LOANS! These narratives are completely opposite to Senator Lawan’s claims! Every lie has a terminal date!

The Appointed Time Is Now!
President Buhari should follow the example of his SENEGALESE counterpart, President Macky Sall, who on 19th September 2012, with the support of very patriotic Legislatives, SCRAPPED THE SENATE and saved USD$15million dollars which was ploughed to mitigate citizens’ losses following FLOOD DISASTERS and also to re-invigorate the nation’s economy instead of junketing the world for financial assistance!
FOR NIGERIA, REFERENDUM IS THE SOLUTION, NOT PREDATOR LEGISLATORS!

Please join this campaign for Peaceful Referendum that will ensure justice, fair play, equity and will permanently ERASE INSECURITY from Nigeria!

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Although members of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) and the out-going President of Nigeria were very much alert of the precarious signals that could trigger a fresh recession and civil commotion if government pressed the wrong button to rock the Petroleum Sector at such an infuriating time of a two-digit figure inflation of prices of goods and services that have robbed citizens’ of social obligations to their families but still, as a political strategy in October 2021, announced an impending total removal of fuel subsidy in June 2022, the mid pre-election year!

It can no longer be hidden that the Nigerian naira has been devalued, and that the purchasing power of citizens’ have hit rock-bottom as both local/foreign commodities were at all-high increase in most cases between 350%-700%!

It is inconceivable that in a pre-general election year, an incumbent government would want to rock the boat through an unpopular policy that could jeopardize their chances of continuity in 2023, except for very obvious campaign strategy!

And through the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, the plan was hatched when she informed the nation that the 2022 Budget would accommodate fuel subsidy for only six months (January-June)!
Her counterpart, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources corroborated the statement that the accented Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), of August 2021, clearly provided for complete deregulation of the downstream sector through total removal of the subsidy from June 2022!

A SUDDEN U-TURN BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS SUSPECT AND CONFIRMS DELIBERATE INSTITUTIONAL COMPLICITY!

A sudden u-turn by the Federal Government on Tuesday 25th January, 2022, has brought to the fore a statement credited to Senate President Ahmed Lawan on Tuesday 18th January 2022, after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari that: “The President did not authorize anyone to remove subsidy!”; and within six days of his statement government announced the suspension of removal for 18 months (June, 2023), for the in-coming administration to handle as deemed fit and proper while the implementation of the PIA has been put on hold for necessary amendments to that effect be made by the National Assembly (NASS), to pay fresh subsidy of NGN3trillion through a non-incorporated NNPC?

The decision for total removal of subsidy is contained in the PIA passed by government in August 2021!

BENEFITS OF PMS, DIESEL, KEROSINE LUBRICANTS ETC, TO THE DOWN-TRODDEN NIGERIANS!

It would amount to an understatement to extol the innumerable advantages of petrol, (PMS), kerosene, diesel, condensates which can neither be exaggerated nor over-emphasized as LIVE-WIRE to the over 90% of the poor masses whose livelihood depended on those crude oil refined products!

The over 100 million generating sets always fueled to provide energy in the face of permanent blackout through inefficiency of the public power supply, and volumes of the products also consumed daily by the multitude of official 41.5 million Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), comprising of at least 41.4million micro enterprises and 73,081 small and medium enterprises; all category of automobiles and articulated/haulage vehicles!

COULD BUHARI BE JINXED OVER SUBSIDY CORRUPTION?

President of Nigeria, Major General Muhammadu Buhari did not study Petroleum Technology in all of the military institutions he attended both at home and abroad, yet between 1976-1979, during the illegal occupation of Nigeria by his comrades, he was saddled with the portfolio of Commissioner of Petroleum and Natural Resource and first Chairman of the NNPC, which was instituted in 1977!

According to Military Wiki General Buhari as Head of State between 31st December, 1983 to 27th August, 1985 he was said to have “curtailed oil theft and used counter trade policy to barter seized illegally bunkered crude oil for needful goods like machineries, enabling it to export above its OPEC quota.” His Minister for Energy was late Professor Tam David-West.

BUHARI ALSO SERVED AS PTF CHAIRMAN UNDER GENERAL ABACHA’S JUNTA!
Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) was a body created by Abacha’s government and funded from the revenue generated by the increase in the price of Petroleum Products to pursue developmental projects around the country.

A 1998 Report in New African adjudged PTF under Buhari as “transparent” but also noted that critics believed that a 20% revenue allocation of its resources to the Military would not be accountable for!
From all of the above analysis, General Buhari should be regarded as a GURU OF NIGERIA OIL INDUSTRY with his long experience in the field from 1976 to 1998 (22 years), and should anyone wonder or be surprised that he kept the substantive ministerial petroleum portfolio to his chest in his two terms to closely monitor and prevent fraud supposedly!

WHAT IS FUEL SUBSIDY IN NIGERIA?

Fuel subsidy is the difference between fixed pump price and the market rate through landing cost of imported refined crude oil products borne by government to cushion the negative economic effects on the poor masses.

Fuel subsidy is failure and exhibition of ineptitude by the Federal Government to refine crude oil but export it overseas and eventually import the finished products in form of PMS (petrol), Diesel oil, Condensates, etc, at exorbitant landing costs beyond the pockets of an average Nigerian!

Nigeria has been subsidizing fuel since the 1970s to ensure Nigerians purchase petroleum products below the global price according to successive administrations!

During the Jonathan’s and from the inception of Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC), Administration, We opposed and criticized the Petroleum Subsidy FRAUD; castigated both governments for deliberate institutional dereliction of duties and ineptitude across board but all to no avail! BUT we know that the day of accountability, reckoning and divine judgment is closer that the pseudo Nigerian rulers might ever envisage!

Below are some excerpts from past publications:
ZBB-C Newsletter Vol. 3. No. 92. Of 17th May, 2015 We have never changed our position that the whole gamut of petroleum subsidy is nothing short of a MONUMENTAL FRAUD AGAINST THE NIGERIAN MASSES, and we still maintain our stand for the following salient reasons:
An oil producing country as Nigeria should have no business in importing finished products if a God-fearing management rules the nation.

Refineries would normally be the first consideration as soon as oil exploration and exploitation commenced.
Oil blocks should not have become Party patronage issue of who is closest to Mr. President as it has been since 1999, when the outgoing government began to rule but should be allocated to States of the Federation and responsible business groups instead of individuals as it is presently practiced.

The present scenario of the Petroleum Sector portrays a deliberate and well-calculated plan of a cabal in government to buy up Nigeria with wealth stolen from its ‘belly’ and they almost succeeded if it were not for divine intervention!

In one night the PDP raised over N22 billion for their presidential campaign and one large-hearted contributor who was said possess an oil block, donated N2billion for himself and a friend!

Starting with former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, no PDP administration has built a refinery in 16 years!
Outgoing President, Ebele Jonathan, admitted that 60% of subsidized petroleum products was smuggled out of the country by fraudulent marketers and their collaborators in government!

ZBB-C Newsletter, Vol.3. No. 102. 26th July, 2015.
While addressing Nigerians In Diaspora Organization (NIDO), members in America and Canada at a parley in New York, in July, 2015, President Buhari made the following remarks:
*He accused former Nigerian ministers of selling about one million barrels of crude oil per day and of diverting the gains to personal accounts.
He also alleged in the US that “250.000 barrels per day of Nigerian Crude are being stolen and people sell and put the money into individual pockets” adding that the US and other developed countries were assisting Nigeria to trace such accounts.

“We will ask that such accounts to be frozen and prosecute the persons. The amount involved is mind-boggling…we will trace and repatriate such money and use the documents to prosecute them.”

“As Minister of Petroleum, NNPC (i.e. Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation) had only two traceable accounts of payment to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), now everybody is doing anyhow.”
He expressed doubt if fuel subsidy was ever removed; transport, housing and food prices would go out of control and the average worker would suffer untold hardship. Who is subsidizing who? They say “remove subsidy”….they want petrol to cost N500 naira per litre.
“If you are working and subsidy is removed, you can’t control transport and market women, the cost of food, the cost of transport.”
“I will study if there’s need to remove subsidy with my experience and see what I can do.”
He lamented that “corruption in Nigeria has virtually developed into a culture where honest people are abused.”

WHAT DOES BUHARI EXPECT FROM NIGERIANS FOR ALL HIS DECEITS?

Would Nigerians rejoice that he suspended a fraudulent subsidy regime under his watch in spite of his exemplary resume of 29 YEARS of experience in the OIL INDUSTRY SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY or applaud him for planning to PERPETUATE APC IN GOVERNMENT on a platform of FALSEHOOD? President Buhari should thank his stars FOR NOT SETTING NIGERIA ON FIRE AS A DEPARTING LEGACY – because the gimmick backfired and the JOKE IS ON BUHARI AND APC!

Shame to Independent Petroleum Marketers of Nigeria (IPMAN), which was ready to reap where it did not sow; shame to APC which has faked the Doctrine of Welfarism and Utilitarianism since 2015!

“THE LORD DETESTS LYING LIPS, BUT HE DELIGHTS IN PEOPLE WHO ARE TRUSTWORTHY.” (Proverbs. 12:22).

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

The fallibility of the human race has been responsible for all inconsistencies of the social order, disagreements, arguments and oppositions when very credible/meaningful engagements should have prevailed over sentiments!

Man remains the pride of creation and his Creator. He was created with much love and gifted with the silver spoon to be fruitful, multiply, subdue and have dominion over all of other creation before him according to divine order!

“Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity”!
The regrettable 30-month Biafran or Nigerian Civil War which origin could be traced to the very first military coup in Nigeria, spear-headed by officers of the Igbo stock began on 6th July and ended on 15th January, 1970, with the declaration of “No victor, no vanquished!”

Late Lieutenant Colonel Chukuemeka Odumegu Ojukwu’s mind- set that the Igbos were being marginalized in the scheme of administration, distribution of amenities and natural national resources by the Northern junta at the helm of affairs, declared the then Eastern Region of Nigeria as another sovereign nation outside of Nigeria to precipitate a war!

Determined that geographic Nigeria must remain one entity according to the declaration at independence in 1960 and also following the failure of many peace moves/agreements foisted by the then Organization of African Unity (OAU) to ensure peace retired General Yakubu Gowon, then military Head of State resisted the secessionist move and wounds/scars of war have refused to heal to date!

THIS EDITOR WAS AMONG THE PRESS DELEGATION THAT TRAVELLED WITH GENERAL GOWON TO ETHIOPIA, ADDIS ABABA EARLY IN 1967 TO BROKER PEACE WITH COLONEL OJUKWU’S DELEGATES WHICH REMAINED ADAMANT UNTIL WAR BROKE OUT IN JULY 1967!

However it is worthy of note that arrow-head of Biafra’s attempted secession late Colonel Ojukwu, before his death pleaded with the Igbo nation to let by-gone be by-gone and for everyone to support the popular doctrine of “TO KEEP NIGERIA ONE IS A TASK THAT MUST BE DONE!

The late Igbo leader returned to Nigeria from 12-year self-exile in Ivory Coast (Cote de Voire), to a hero’s welcome, in 1982, re-instated into the Nigerian Army, collected all of his remunerations and emoluments, recovered all of his late Father’s properties, married a former Nigerian beauty queen, enjoyed a peaceful family life, supported a political party, All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), pleaded with all Igbos to vote for the party during the 2011 Anambra Governorship Election as a honor to him, and he eventually died peacefully on 26th November 2011, and buried in Nigeria with full military honors!

ONE UNITED NIGERIA IS A DIVINE ORDER THAT SHOULD NO LONGER BE CHALLENGED BY THE IGBOS!

Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Nnamdi Kanu, now on trial on 15-count charge bothering on treason/treasonable offences is a proscribed group by the Federal Government of Nigeria, for still agitating for secession [fifty years after the Biafra War], from the State of Nigeria in a MOST VIOLENT AND BARBARIC MANNER that is threatening the very existence of the lives and properties of other ETHNIC GROUPS numbering about 369 across the nation!

Nnamdi Kanu was just a toddler of about three years when the regrettable war ended in January 1970; he was born 25th September, 1967!
Whosoever narrated the unfortunate Biafra War history to him as he grew up did a very damaging evil to his psyche for him to grow up with so much unforgiving anger in his spirit – in spite of persuasion for peace to reign in the South East Geo-Political Zone by the EMINENT ELDERLY OHANEZE INDIGENOUS PERSONALITIES!

And the most unfortunate aspect of THE VERY INCITING CAMPAIGN FOR SECESSION by KANU is that his followers have become more OBSESSED than himself and have also formed mushroom splinter groups that are even more vicious than the IPOB!

These groups operate like DEMONS from the PIT OF HELL in manner they unleash TERROR, the barbaric types of heinous MURDERS, ASSASSINATIONS, KIDNAPPINGS, SLAUGHTERING & DECAPITATION OF IGBO INDIGENES BY THEIR OWN KITH AND KIN – the kinds that have never been witnessed in IGBO LAND, ALL IN THE NAME OF SECESSION?

This Editor from childhood had enjoyed very cordial peer group – schooling/professional relationships with Igbo friends with very fond memories – they are still my very good friends to date!

IGBOS ARE ASSETS TO THE NIGERIAN EQUATION – THEY ARE NOT LIABILITIES!

The Igbo tribe is ubiquitous. Their people are everywhere all over Nigeria, all over the world – in the villages, cities, counties, in the metropolitan and suburbs doing business; occupied in one every trade on planet Earth!

They are the business people in the Diaspora and contracting business deals across board in all countries. They are business-minded people who bequeath the art of commerce/industry from generation to generation! I remember that as far back as the early eighties when CHINA was not very visible in universal commerce/industry, YOUNG IGBO YOUTHS WERE ALWAYS ON THE AIRCRAFT TO THIS FAR EAST NATION AND ALSO TO HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, TAIWAN, JAPAN ETC, !
How did I know? I interacted with many of them – barely twenty-year-olds when changing aircrafts - between 1980 and 1985 at Frankfurt Airport, Germany, simply dressed in T- Shirts, jeans, sneakers and jackets and revealed that most times they could be in the air for over 35 Hours! Definitely those kids are among the over 3,000 billionaires of Anambra and others in Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, and Abia who are not bragging about their wealth! Igbo billionaires compare favorably with their Chinese counterparts in the 21st Century Rocket Science universe!

There is a popular adage which states that WISE PEOPLE should desert communities where Igbos are not domicile because such places will be unprofitable for business and commerce!

IGBOS are calling the shots in all area of the industry as of today – aviation, automobile, transportation, manufacturing, hospitality, fashion, agriculture and mass production of agricultural produce, cosmetics, science and technology/scientific inventions, pharmaceuticals, crude oil exploration, entertainment, tourism, information communication technology (ICT,) education, the teaching profession, (I fondly remember my Igbo History teacher at 0bokun High School, Ilesa, Western State. now Osun. He taught me the subject for only two years and I scored CREDIT in my WAEC in 1963! I was a Science Student until the last two years when I had the only option to cross into an Arts institution before my first external examination).

HISTORICAL FACTS AND ANTECEDENTS OF THE IGBOS!

Prior to the unfortunate Biafra War in which between one to two million people died through war and starvation while properties estimated at millions of British pounds were destroyed on both sides, Igbos Eastern Nigeria extended to Niger Delta, and all the Riverine States of Delta, Cross River, Balyesa, Akwa Ibom, and Abia, were under the military control of the aborted secession bid of Col. Ojukwu!

By implication of geographical location Eastern Region owned all the OIL FIELDS eventually discovered by the military after the war in from 1970 upwards ; BUT COULD THEY BOAST OF ANY WINDFALL FROM OIL PROCEEDS DURING THE 30 YEARS OF MILITARY ABERRATION AND EVEN NOW IN THE 21 YEARS OF A DIARCHY CUM PSEUDO DEMOCRACY?

The Igbos have every right to shout that they are being MARGINALIZED but Not that they want to secede from Nigeria.

Igbos are SENIOR CO-OWNERS OF A PROSPEROUS INDUSTRIOUS, COMMERCIAL NEW NIGERIA OF OUR DREAM WHICH WILL EMERGE IN 2023 ACCORDING TO DIVINE REVELATION!
An Igbo politician is very qualified to become the NEXT PRIME MINISTER OF A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY NIGERIA!

The investments of Igbo entrepreneurs into the Nigerian Project are so enormous that it would amount to monumental loss to opt for secession!

IGBO Elders of no mean stature in Nigerian politics have met with Major General Muhammadu Buhari to seek for a political solution to resolve Nnamdi Kanu’s travails in the courts BUT they need to move further to appeal to the numerous SPLINTER GROUPS OF IPOB (We are told that they are over 200 of them), to sheath their swords!

The Igbos that this Editor has known were peace-loving and very industrious people. In my few days of life, I have never witnessed this kind of monstrous and bestial brutality being meted by Igbos against fellow Igbo brethren.

We want all Igbos (elders and youths), to support the CAMPAIGN FOR THE SHUTTING DOWN OF THE SENATE TO PAVE WAY FOR A UNICAMERAL LEGISLATURE IN THIS FIRST QUARTER OF 2022 THROUGH THE EMPLOYMENT OF A POPULAR REFERENDUM THAT WILL USHER A PRIME MINISTER, COME 2023!

From this platform an Igbo Prime Minister will be our first choice in 2023! When we are bonded in peace and UNITY, victory will flow seamlessly!

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

The race to the number one seat, Aso Villa, Abuja in 2023, will not be determined by “Owners of Nigeria” but by the SOVEREIGN OWNER OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH for no man shall prevail by the arm of flesh!

“God changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings; He gives wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding. He reveals the deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness and the light dwells in Him.”

Pre-election year 2022 was inundated from the onset with the frenzied declarations of Nigerian Presidential aspirants of various genres who had waited impatiently to see the senile incumbent depart and make way for fresh blood with cerebral/digital ideas!

As at the last count, not less than ten politicians from both the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and opposition parties have publicly announced their desires while others who wait in the wings are being prodded by overzealous supporters to throw their hats into the ring!

Fortunately for them 2023 is an all-comers affair because the 1999 Military Constitution did not make provision for retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari to seek a third term in office and he is in a dilemma on whom to declare as successor because according to him, “such anointed candidate might lose his life before his time!”

The scramble for the topmost political positions outside of the presidency has also gained such momentum of the 2007 “do-or-die” brazen posture of ex-President Obasanjo who was determined that his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), must win at all costs no matter whose ox was gored!

However on resumption in office late President Umaru Yar’ Adua confessed that “the election that brought him to power had shortcomings and was fraught with flaws!”

HAS ANY ASPIRANT THOUGHT THAT PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY IS THE DIVINE WISH FOR NIGERIA?

Was it not high time the Will of God be done in Nigeria? In a parliamentary system of democratic governance of a state, the executive derives its democratic legitimacy/relevance from its ability to command the support/confidence of the legislature (typically, a parliament to which it is accountable.)

The head of state is distinct from the head of government in contrast to the presidential system where one person usurps both offices and wields draconian powers as being witnessed in Nigeria since 1999!

Parliamentary democracy which is cost-effective elects a ceremonial head of state whose role is always cordial with the head of government who has been chosen from among the legislators and sits daily with them in parliament to run the affairs of government through collective decisions.

The presidential system is very different ball game in that one man decides the fate of the entire population and arbitrarily dispenses scarce resources and squanders such in collusion with a corrupt legislature and the civil servants, because he does not derive his democratic legitimacy from the legislature!

INEC FIXES SIX BY-ELECTIONS FOR FEBRUARY 2022 IN THE FACE OF INCESSANT INSECURITY!

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has fixed Friday 26th February 2022, for the conduct of by-elections for six federal/state constituencies shortly after the Federal Capital Territory Area Council Elections scheduled for Saturday, 12th February, 2022, with a view to having sufficient time to prepare and focus on logistics for the Ekiti /Osun gubernatorial elections and by extension for the 2023 General Elections – all in the midst of chaotic and unceasing insecurity situations across the country.
In all of these political calculations, the “gladiators” remained absolutely focused on their very selfish inordinate ambitions and armed to the teeth to grab both elective/appointed positions at all costs!

And whereas the Ekiti/Osun Governorship elections slated for June and July 2022 respectively plus the Ekiti East 1 State Constituency election sandwiched in-between on the same day as the governorship election of 18th June 2022, are veritable landmines which the Federal Government has not paid enough security attention especially when the nation’s Chief Security Officer dismissed STATE POLICE as an option in solving insecurity - because the Electoral Act 2010 Laws (as amended), would still remain in operation as the harbinger of open doors to multiple forms of malpractices!

Although in a recent media interview, President Buhari promised to sign the new Electoral Act into law if the offending clause “mandating political parties to conduct their primaries through direct elections was removed,”

it is very uncertain that his intentions were genuine considering the slow legislative process which was yet to commence because the National Assembly (NASS), was still on annual vacation and also, the fact that he has less than one-and-a-half-years to finally quit office!

NIGERIAN POLITICIANS BELIEVE IN THE ARM OF FLESH – NOT IN GOD OF CREATION!

“In God We Trust” is the official motto of the United States of America and of the US State of Florida. It was adopted by the US Congress in 1956, replacing E Pluribus Unum (In Many, One), which had been the de facto motto since the initial 1776 design of the Great Seal of the United States. The inscription was signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President to appear on all papers, currencies, coins etc, in recognition of the Almighty God as sovereign over His creation!
The US without an iota of doubt or argument is the most etc, successful world nation - politically, economically, militarily, digital information technology, scientifically, space exploration, etc!

In the case of Nigeria, which is a SECULAR STATE, (meaning a non-religious nation), the motto is, “In arm of flesh we trust”, and the difference between the two nations is a distance between the earth and the moon! While America takes the lead in virtually every classification, indexing, comparative analysis; Nigeria takes the rear or last positions as the worst nation – poverty capital of the world, terrorist destination that should be avoided as plague by foreign investors, tourists, scientists, etc.

ALL POLITICAL ASPIRANTS HAVE BEEN CONSULTING WITH MR. PRESIDENT, PARTY CHAIRMEN, INFLUENTIAL PERSONALITIES AND “OWNERS OF NIGERIA” – BUT NOT WITH GOD, THEIR CREATOR! Question: Who is the owner of Nigeria except the Almighty God! (Psalm 24:1). [Please find below relevant verses of the divine discourse with carnal minds in Psalm 2:1-12].
1) ‘’Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2) The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
3) Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4) He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5) Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6) Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7) I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9) Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
10) Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11) Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12) Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.”

NIGERIA IS AT THE DEPARTURE LOUNGE TO PARLIAMENTARY UNICAMERAL DEMOCRACY ACCORDING TO DIVINE PLAN!

With a unicameral parliament in place and the scrapping of the SENATE concluded, a Brand New Constitution will take care of all resolved issues of National Restructuring through a popular REFERENDUM then all presidential ambitions will fizzle into illusion!

Citizens of Nigeria would neither be deceived nor browbeaten any more by the antics and desperation of President Buhari and his FAILED All Progressives Congress (APC), administration to further perpetrate the very wasteful military presidential system beyond the year 2023! Presidency will perish with Buhari’s APC!
“Where there is a will, there is a way!”


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

#CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS! -DR. DAVID OLUFON.

NIGERIA’S MILITARY PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM IS A CURSE – ANATHEMA!
Nigeria did not emerge as a democratic independent nation in 1999 but in 1960!
Through trials and errors, a 1963 Regional Constitution which had a semblance of (cost-effective), Parliamentary System emerged to place the country on strong economic footings.
Those were the days and years of Groundnut Pyramids from the North, (not the propaganda one million Rice Pyramids which General Buhari unveiled in Abuja on Tuesday, 18th January, 2022), in the midst of high inflation, poverty and unbridled reign of INSECURITY!
Also in multiple abundance, were Cocoa Beans (West), Palm Oil/Rubber (East/Mid-West), which were the economic produce trees that fetched strong currencies as foreign exchange revenues for structural developments across the country.
Visible economic buoyancy was pronounced all over the land, such that social vices of crimes/criminalities were very minimal and free movement of goods and services enjoyed commercial patronage by governments/the private sector and virtually all able-bodied adults were all gainfully employed!
Agriculture maintained its rightful place as Nigeria’s main forex earner until soldiers with pre-meditated agenda emerged with barrels of guns and changed the successful narrative of the GREEN LUSCIOUS/ARABLE LAND TO A BLOOD-DRENCHED/LOATHSOME TOPOGRAPHY TILL DATE!
Crude Oil replaced Agriculture, which was discarded as the major national economic source, and for 30 years, the military plundered the nation in the crudest martial aberration and paid lip service to the latter through institutional propaganda code-named “Operation Feed The Nation” or “Green Revolution”, according to their whims and caprices!
IT’S TIME TO DESTROY THE DIARCHY AND CARRY OUR DESTINY TOGETHER!
Diarchy or duumvirate is a form of government characterized by co-rule ie, jointly ruled by military and civilian components lawfully, surreptitiously without the latter’s consent or de facto - by force!
Nigerians need to break the shackles of diarchy which became a way of life from the first coup in 1966 and the only way out is to DISBAND THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY THROUGH POPULAR REFERENDUM; INSTITUTE A CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY TO DRAFT A BRAND NEW PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION WHICH WILL EMBODY ALL LEGITIMATE DEMANDS FOR THE NATION’S RESTRUCTURING! THE MILITARY DOES NOT OWN NIGERIA!
This ubiquitous military has overstayed its welcome! It should be jettisoned through a REFERENDUM so that Nigeria can have PEACE at last!” From the Executive to the Legislature except for the Judiciary, it holds sway! “Enough is enough! Two captains cannot navigate one boat!”
Please join this campaign by sharing on the social media and look forward to NO.4 Edition coming out shortly. We MUST together SALVAGE our country from the hands of military predators!