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Harvest of tragedies in Anambra

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• Wife murdered with pestle by Okada rider, man guns down girlfriend

• Flood claims pregnant woman, daughter, 2 ot

Multiple tragic incidents were recorded in different parts of Anambra State yesterday. First was the killing of a housewife with a pestle by her husband, while another man shot dead his girlfriend for yet-to-be-ascertained reasons. Again, four persons, including a pregnant woman, were confirmed dead following massive flooding in different parts of the state.

At 2, Umudioka Street, Nkpor, Idemili North Council, James Nworah, commercial motorcylist (okada rider) from Izzi, Ebonyi State, killed his wife in the early hours of yesterday by smashing her head with a pestle while she was asleep around 2am.

We gathered that the couple, blessed with five children, recently packed into the building. His townsman identified as Romanus told our reporter that the man has been mentally unstable and was a commercial motorcyclist affected by the recent okada ban in Onitsha.

He said Nwogha joined his wife in her pap business after the okada ban, adding that the incident happened when they had finished sieving the pap they would sell the following day.

Anambra State police public relations officer, Muhammed Haruna, confirmed the incident but said the man hit his wife, Jennifer Nwogha, 30, on the head with a pestle during altercation that ensued  between them, and she died on the spot.

Haruna said the scene of crime was visited by police detectives attached to Ogidi Division, led by the DPO, CSP Mark Ijarafu, while the suspect was being detained pending full investigation.

In another development, Uchenna, 25, of Orofia village, Abagana, was shot dead by Chika of Oranto Ukpo community, inside his friend’s room.

Haruna said detectives attached to Dunukofia Division, led by the DPO, visited the scene of crime and discovered that the room, occupied by Nwabueze, was locked and the suspects escaped. He said the victim was taken to Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, where she was confirmed dead by a doctor.

source:Sun

OurMumuDondondo Movement Inaugurates Anambra Chapter Of Women Wing

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In furtherance of OurMumuDondo Movement determination to return political power to the rightful owners-The People,the Movement has inaugurated the Women Wing to carry the message of NaWeBeGovernment to millions of Women across Anambra  State.

 

In a statement released to the newsmen ,the State Coordinator of the Movement –Comrade Ndubuisi Anaenugwu reminded the Women that they are the real Owners of the Government starting from the homes to the Government  houses.The State Coordinator told hundreds of women at the inauguration venue in Nkpor that time has come when the market women,housewives,traders,women in different public and private offices will rise up to demand for good governance ,public accountability and be part of the electoral process. He informed the women that political power are always determined by the women as they are in the majority and to that , they should mobilize to retire all the visionless, selfish and greedy Politicians from playing wicked politics.

On her own part,the newly inaugurated State woman Leader of OurMumuDondo Movement Ambassadors-Hon Ngozika Akaniru has this to say- ‘Our active participation in politics as informed mothers will help in no small measures to enthrone conscientious and God fearing Leaders in other to achieve the kingdom of God on earth where human beings will enjoy peace ,harmonious  co-existence, respect to like and property, religious tolerance, equality before the law, transparency and accountability ,zero corruption and administrative efficiency .Hon Ngozika promised to mobilize women in Anambra State to meet OurMumuDondo Movement expectations.

The Ag Regional women Leader-Mrs Swenny Onyenze charged the newly inaugurated women executive to take over their rightful position in the political struggle in line with God’s expectation from women.

The event witnessed scholarship award to five women up to University level from Dr Isaac Ankomah-a Director in Crystal Galaxy University College –Ghana.Many important personalities graced the occasion including Prof Justice Chidi,Evang Theo Ray Ejikeme and host of others.Charles Oputa(AreaFather) who spoke to the women through telephone was duly represented by the State Coordinator-Comrade Ndubuisi Anaenugwu.The event ended on a happy note with the women marching along Nkpor old road through Nkpor round about to announce the beginning of a new political era where women ‘mumu’ don expire.

 

There is one interesting fact about the Arewa Northerners by Charles Ogbu

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They always protect and defend the interest of the Arewa North regardless of their political affiliations. Whether PDP, APC, APGA, the ArewaNortherner is always after the interest of the ArewaNorth.

For them, it’s not really about personal ambition. It’s always, always, about taking power back to the ArewaNorth and making sure it remains there.
This is why in 2015, a whole chairman of the self acclaimed largest political party in Africa (PDP), Adamu Muazu, played “Brutus” to a southern President, Goodluck Jonathan and worked for Buhari, a fellow Northern but unlike the Shakespearen Brutus who betrayed Caeser because deep down, he felt it was for the good of Rome, Muazu betrayed Jonathan for selfish tribal purpose. This is why till date, Adamu Muazu’s name has not been mentioned in the #DasukiList.
Make no mistake,, all these political jumpology by the Atikus, the Kwankwasos, the Buba Galadimawas etc would not have happened in 2015 and neither would it have happened now IF the APC then and the PDP now hadn’t zoned its Presidency to the ArewaNorth.
For the ArewaNorth, personal interest-induced politics does not exist. It is always about the North. To the eternal shame of Southern politicians who wouldn’t mind seeing the entire South burn if only they could rule over ashes
If the Former Kano state Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso and President Buhari were Southerners, by now, the former Kano no1 man would be going from one media house to the other telling the whole world how he pulled the 2 million Kano vote Magic for Buhari’s 2015 election and the role of this current Police IG, Idris Abubakar in the mysterious death of the Kano INEC resident Electoral commissioner along with his wife and daughter. Musiliu Obanikolo did that with regards to Ekiti 2014 election. Check out Rotimi Amechi and President Jonathan.
But because for Kwankwaso, it is not really about Buhari neither is it about Nigeria but simply about the ArewaNorth, he has kept his mouth sealed with super glue.
Let the PDP try zone its Presidency even to a Yoruba Muslim (not even an Owelle Ananyo Rochas) and watch these Northern jumpologists stick with the dark hearted Daura ethnic Cleanser called Buhari.
But I blame them not. Why should I blame people for placing the interest of their ancestry over and above personal interest???
It is the horde of inebriated buffonic idiots masquerading as Southern politicians that I blame.
An average Southern politician is driven solely by one thing: intestinal consideration. Nothing more. While his Northern counterpart is driven mainly by ethno-religious consideration.
This is why the Fulani ethnic group with far less than 9 million population who are largely unlettered and are not even Nigerians but foreigners could be controlling over 180 people from over 250 ethnic groups and you have the very best brains from these other ethnic groups willing to use nuclear bomb on their own people just to ensure the fulanis remain in power.
Check Benue state that has conducted more Mass Burials than wedding ceremonies, it is minister Audu Ogbeh from the same Benue who has been clamouring for ranches and cattle colony to be built for the same fulani terrorist herdsmen responsible for those Mass burials.
Check the man they sent to come tell us to either surrender our ancestral land to the fulanis or die, his name is not Musa. His name is Femi Adesina.
Look up the person that has been disparaging (Christian Association Of Nigeria) the body of Christians in Nigeria. Her name is Lauretta Onochie and she is a Christian.
Now, check the names of the 13 SANs who defended a certificate-less Fulani President and you will see Femi Falana as the leader. If Buhari was a Southerner wanting to be President without his O’level result as required by law, these same Southern senior lawyers would have been the ones going from court to court quoting Sir Richard and Marpherson Constitution just to stop him.
When Buhari and his Janjaweed soldiers were drowning IPOB youths in muddy waters, it was an Igbo Governor, Dave Umahi, who accompanied Buhari to a UN meeting in New York where he (Umahi) told foreign Press that it was IPOB that attacked and wounded dozens of Nigeria soldiers who were simply on a routine patrol.
When the ArewaNorth invaded Ile-Ife, the cradle of the Yoruba civilization and resorted to using federal might to arrest, handcuff and publicly parade some Yoruba Oba like common criminals, did anybody hear Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s voice???
Two weeks ago when Buhari visited the International Criminal Court few days after over 200 people were massacred in Plateau state, it was the governor of the same Plateau State Simon Lalong who accompanied the Grand Patron of the same terrorist group (Fulani herdsmen) to the ICC. Even if Lalong didn’t utter a word all through the course of the visit, his mere Presence alone said everything.
The ScionsOfDanfodios do not have any special political prowess. They are not even master strategists in the real sense of the word. They are simply lucky to have a very large bunch of House Negros down South who have no shame, no pride, no sense of self worth nor ethnic patriotism, no nothing…… except insatiable appetite for coins and gold and self preservation above collective Preservation.
The tragedy of Southern Nigeria is simply and squarely the tragedy of having dickless, headless, spineless Men and Women preside over the affairs of her largely lion-hearted people.
By Charles Ogbu

Public Presentation Of The Book –What Ibos Want And Quest For Self Determination

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Not a few of the people from Former Eastern Nigeria desire to opt out of Nigeria and establish an Independent State Of Biafra. What many do not know is how to achieve this aged long heart desire for brand new Nation. Millions have died struggling and agitating for this inalienable rights for self determination.One Man has an answer that will give final solution to the Nigeria –Biafra questions.He is Barr Emeka Emekesri.

Emeka Chigozie Emekesri Esq (B.SC(HONS) Nig..,LLB,BL,LLM,B.Th.,MA,PHD,ANIVS,RSV,AMNIM Solicitor of England & Wales,Estate Surveyor & Valuer Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria).

 

Barr Emeka is a tripartite professional trained in both secular and sacred studies,in science and Arts,Law,Theology,Estate Management,Planning and Environmental Studies.Along with his professional practice, he is the presiding Bishop of a Charismatic Pentecostal Church known as Christ The Rock Community and operates the gospel ministry in the pattern of the Apostle Paul who laboured with his own hands to feed himself as well as preach the gospel without motive of financial gains.Bar Emeka is the Vision Bearer of the Indigenous People of Biafra as well as the Legal Adviser,Supreme Council of Elders Of Indigenous People of Biafra. He initiated the case between the Indigenous People of Biafra and Federal Republic of Nigeria & The Attorney –General of the Federation with Suit No FHC/OW/CS/192/2013  at Federal High Court ,Owerri,Imo State.

He is the founder of Bilie Human Rights Initiative and the Chairman of the Movement of Biafrans in Nigeria as well as initiator of many Biafra projects in Diaspora.He is the big masquerade behind the legal and diplomatic shuttles to set Biafrans free from Nigeria.

BVI Channel 1 Online can authoritatively confirm that this legal giant will lead other like minds to a symposium on Quest For Self Determination By Ethnic Nationalities and public presentation/Book Launch :WHAT THE IBOS WANT: BIAFRA OR NIGERIAN PRESIDENCY OR……

 

 

In the page 334 of the Book: What The Ibos Want:and i quote (c) If Nigerian Authorities do not want to create equity and fairness in the federal system through a fundamental restructuring of Nigeria,the Ibos would opt for a confederal system to become autonomous and govern themselves within Nigeria just like Scotland governs itself within the United Kingdom.This is the Confederation that the Ibos have been advocating since 1967 as expressed in their slogan ‘‘On Aburi We Stand’’. (d) If Nigerian Authorities reject the three options above,the Ibos would like to be totally independent from Nigeria as a sovereign nation by whatever name they choose.They may revive their old Republic of Biafra or Build a new Iboland or Lower Niger Republic.

This historical event will hold on Friday ,3rd August ,2018 at Royal Palace Hotel ,Agbani Road,Gariki,Enugu(see the attached invitation card).

Ndubuisi reporting for BVI Channel 1 online

COMING GENERATION SCARES ME…REAL HARD!”

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While we have been busy talking about Nigeria of today, I wonder if we have spared a thought about how this country will be in the next TWENTY-FIVE years.
On October 1, 1979, when Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari was sworn-in as president, Goodluck Jonathan was just a 22 year-old undergrad of University of Port-Harcourt. Shagari was 54 years old. Ayo Fayose was 19 years old. Bukola Saraki was 17. Yemi Osibajo was 22. The generation of the likes of Shagari, Richard Akinjide, Adisa Akinloye, Sabo Barkin Zuwo, Sam Mbakwe, Jim Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo, Ume Ezeoke,  Christian Onoh, Akin Omoboriowo, Olusola Saraki, Sunday Awoniyi, Garba Nadama, Awal Ibrahim and so on has gone for good!
 Some of us in our 40s, 50s and 60s now, were  in school then, either in the university or secondary school. We had lofty dreams, both personal and societal. We were always motivated by nationalists and inventors who had impacted positively on the cause of humanity.  We were voracious readers of novels and other books. Nelkon for our Ordinary Level Physics, Lambert for Chemistry, B.O ADELEKE and Goh Cheng Leong for our Geography, Phebean Ogundipe for Practical English, William Shakespeare Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, OLa Rotimi and Wole Soyinka for Literature and others like that.
We were always flaunting our knowledge of current affairs. Inter-school quiz, Literary and Debating competition were the in-thing. Nowadays, students can hardly string a sentence together in English without errors.
Fast forward 35 years on and you are shocked and disturbed. Have you ever spoken to or engaged a 20 year-old boy? Ask him what motivates him and he is likely to mention music, hip hop to be precise. He has hundreds of downloaded songs on his phone. He can sing all of them off hand. He knows all the singles of Nice, Neato C, Timaya, Davido, Whiz Kid off hand. The babes among them take pride in enticing men old enough to be their father on social media with buxomly physique. But he/she does not know anything about history of nationalism in the country. Ideas about good society, responsible family and good conduct do not motivate him. He just wants to make money because his friend who does yahoo is rich and rides a good car, her friend who has numerous ‘aristos’ drives an SUV!
The things that interest him/her are things that do not add value. He /she has google but never uses it for advancement of knowledge but to download porn and other inanities. Yet, in TWENTY years time, they are the ones that will be contesting to become governors, senators, Reps members and even president.
They belong to a generation that does not care about morality. They belong to a generation that is motivated only by money and its acquisition. By 2035 to 2040, they will be our senators, Reps, governors and so on.
I wonder if we have ever spared a thought for how this country will look like under them. I told a man recently and these are my words: IF A GUY WHO IS IN LAGOS COULD USE FALSE PRETENCE TO
OBTAIN $20,000 FROM SOMEONE IN UNITED STATES, WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN IF SUCH A GUY BECOMES A STATE GOVERNOR AND IS IN CHARGE OF AN ALLOCATION HE DOES NOT EVEN HAVE TO OBTAIN UNDER FALSE PRETENCE? WHICH HIS STATE IS STATUTORILY ENTITLED TO. How did we get into this mess? How can we get out of this predicament? I am worried, deeply worried. Are you?

Breaking News:Saraki Survives! 14 APC senators decamp to PDP

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The information available to Journalist101 indicates that the Senate President whom reports are showing was not at home when his house was raided by security operatives is presiding over plenary in the Senate house now.

The Senate President arrived the Senate Chamber as early as 6am while senator Dino Melaye was reported to have slept in his office in the Senate.

Unconfirmed information coming from the plenary is that about 14 Senators of the ruling APC have just denounced their membership of the party and joined the PDP .

The names of the defectors are;

Sen. Tejouso
Sen. Shaaba
Sen. Gemade
Sen. Melaye.
Sen. Shittu
Sen. Rafiu
Sen. Shitu Ubali
Sen. Isa Misau
Sen. Hunkuyi
Sen. Monsurat
Sen. Danbaba
Sen. Nafada
Sen. Nazif
Sen. Kwankwaso

 

THE GESTALT OF FORCES AGAINST THE FREEDOM OF THE OPPRESSED By Russell

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I want us,  today,  to take some time to think deeply about our social, economic, and political state as the oppressed in Nigeria. There is a Gestalt of forces working against our resolve to become free. These forces are both within and external to us: the external oppressors in the North and their western sympathizers and our attitude to the struggle. Each force tends to have devastating effect on us,  but we are naturally immune to one.  If that be case, our attention should swerve to the other. What are these forces and do they differ one from the other? How do we extinguish them and liberate ourselves from both oppression and suppression?
The external forces against our decision to severe the strings binding us oppressively are working hard to ensure that we are economically and politically deflated. It is their devious intention to vitiate our quest for freedom vide a sustained harsh economic policy that targets us for incapacitation. These forces spring from a region for which Nigeria was forged by Britain because of its servility to the latter.  Yes,  for its gullibility occasioned by the absence of lettered inhabitants, this region from which the external forces are acting became the baby in Britain’s womb. Nigeria,  thus,  became the gift the colonial master offered to the colonised.
We have suffered this long and much because of our imperviousness to British colonial project,  for we were too exposed and lettered to stoop to conquer.  Great minds indigenous to the Eastern Region, such as King Jaja of Opobo, were too smart to be colonised to the gamut that they outsmarted the imperialists in Palm oil business.  Yes,  we are the object of the collective scorn of both the British and their Fulani successors.  They hate us for being the natural occupants of a region flowing with milk and honey. The real objective is to annihilate us, yet we live.  We remain the ancient people of the region sprawling with diverse tribes all of which give exquisite ambience to our region.  The external forces are working hard to break us further, but we seem to have subdued them with the reinvigorated call for regional autonomy: restructuring and referendum.  Kudos to us all!
But the external Gestalt of forces cannot do much harm to us.  There is another prong of the forces working against that poses far more serious threat to our social, economic, and political well-being: our attitude.  We have striven to ward off the external enemies, but we seem to lack the needed congruence and harmony within to finally put our enemies out.  Yes, we must check ourselves again to ensure that nothing rattles our cage.  Until we are able to have that elusive regional dialogue,  we shall continue to sing discordant tunes.  One song, one goal,  one call,  and one agendum.  We must be ONE in all ramifications in order to emasculate the formidable external forces against us.  We cannot be broken again.  It is time to say, “Enough is enough!” The time to free ourselves from this protracted captivity is now.  Let us harmonise and emerge as victors. Let us sit down, have that talk,  reach that decision, and make progress together. One love and God bless us all.
Russell Idatoru Sunju Bluejack

Humility And Patience As Good Virtues To Imbibe.

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If there is one virtue that must stand out in our engagement of one another and in all our interactions, it is the virtue of humility.
Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his or her learning be greater or smaller; but let love of pure truth draw you to read.
Do not inquire, who said this? But pay attention to what is said.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
If God were your only desire, you would not be so upset when your opinions aren’t accepted.
As long as you live, you will be subject to change,  whether you like it or not.
God wills that we learn to bear one another’s burdens; for no one is without fault.
No one is sufficient unto himself or herself, wise enough of himself or herself.
So we ought to bear with one another, comfort one another, help and instruct  one another with loving kindness.
For Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
The Republic Of Biafra is upon us.
I thank you.
Austin Okeke writes from South Africa

Nigeria to spend $300m on national carrier

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Nigeria’s new national airline, Nigeria Air, will require an initial takeoff capital of between $150 million and $300 million as the Federal Government seeks strategic partners to operate the carrier, according to a document sighted by an international wire service on Thursday.

According to the government, the strategic partners are expected to run the airline as a private sector initiative to avoid suffering the fate of defunct Nigeria Airways.

The previous national carrier, the Nigeria Airways, founded in 1958, was wholly owned and managed by the Federal Government before it went under in 2003.

Hadi Sirika, the Minister of State for Aviation, said on Wednesday that the government would not own more than five per cent of the new carrier. He made the comments while giving details of the airline at the Farnborough air show in England.

The government plans to launch the airline in December, making good on President Muhammadu Buhari’s election campaign promise.

Decades of neglect and lack of investment have left Nigeria with low-quality infrastructure seen as a hurdle to prosperity. The government has said that upgrading it would require private investment. “The initial capital is likely to be in the range of $US 150 to $300 million, in- vested in tranches over time from start up through the first five years of operation,” a government document stated.

It said the government would provide initial capital but did not state the sum or give further details.

A private operator, sought through a Public Private Partnership (PPP) process, will manage the airline without interference, it said.

Nigeria Air would serve domestic and international markets and expect to have a fleet of 30 aircraft in five years with hubs in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria’s two main cities.

British billionaire Richard Branson set up domestic and international carrier Virgin Nigeria in 2000, but pulled out in 2010 over what he said was interference by politicians and regulators.

The airline he created, which was later rebranded Air Nigeria, closed in 2012 after collapsing under N35 billion of debt which left it unable to pay staff, a former finance director of the company said at the time.

Nigeria is overhauling its aviation infrastructure and handing over its airports to private managers in order to improve the business environment for the industry and to attract investment, the document said. It said current air traffic in Nigeria is around 15 million passengers which is expected to grow at five percent per annum through to 2036.

SOURCE : SUN

If Buhari Wins 2019 Election,Nigeria will Sink-Col Tony Nyiam

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Col Tony Nyiam (rtd) is a pro-democracy activist and acclaimed mastermind of the 1990 Gideon Orkar coup d’état against the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida.

As we approach 2019, I want you to look at the political situation in the country and tell me your fears. Amidst opposition, the incumbent president is re-contesting and this has engendered so much tension and coalitions have emerged?

Let me begin by thanking you for this opportunity. The question you are talking about is important. One of my greatest fears is that Nigeria’s greatest national security risk is ironically the present Commander-in-Chief (C-in- C) of Nigeria’s Armed Forces. Is this not daily becoming obvious? Instead of President Muhammadu Buhari as the Commander-in-Chief to be the chief protector of Nigerians, he has by his own repeated omissions and commissions become the most disturbing national security risk that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Nigerians in general will be making a mistake in giving him a second chance. President Muhammadu Buhari is undoubtedly the most incompetent, despotic, and above all, a Commander-in-Chief who undermines the rule of law. As if this is not bad enough, President Buhari’s double standard in tackling the invasion of innocent Nigerians’ farming families by Fulani herdsmen/foreign militias makes him complicit in undermining our national security.

Buhari’s obvious ignorance of the inadequacy of the organogram or structure of Nigeria’s security management, and rigidity or refusal in restructuring the already fractured foundation of the society is itself a key disrespect of our national security architecture. People are talking of sectoral restructuring, but they forget that all this sectoral restructuring will go nowhere unless what they are anchored on is restructured first. There are many examples of Buhari’s incompetence. A recent example is the security failures in the management of APC National Convention. Remember, when he was speaking, hoodlums from Imo, Delta took over. They came in, attacked people; in other words, they never learnt from the experience of Ekiti primaries which was just a few weeks before.

That was enough warning for a ruling party to have done its homework well and prevent the security breaches we saw at the convention. Secondly, that a C-in-C would do nothing after sending the Inspector-General of Police on an errand and he did nothing and went to somewhere else. These are the two classical examples of his incompetence. We have found ourselves in a scary national security situation. The president’s model of governance is that of scare tactics. This is based on exploitation of fear. Before he visited my state – Cross River; to intimidate me, the Navy demolished my fence which bordered the Navy Reference Hospital, which he commissioned. They demolished it and my agent asked them why they were demolishing it? They did it at night. They said they were afraid that someone may climb the wall to shoot him while there. I said alright, as a citizen; I would take it in my stride. After that visit, I sent my boys to rebuild it, but the Navy refused them. All this was towards intimidating me, but I will not be intimidated. I will not be intimidated from continuing two things: To defend the defenseless Nigerians, especially Middle Beltans who are being killed. Secondly, I must continue to cry out that for the first time in our history, the heads of security agencies in our country are 80 per cent from two ethnic groups – Fulani and Kanuri. The two ethnic groups are related to him by blood. His government’s scare tactics is consistent with the logo of his party which they share with the covens, witches and wizards. What do Nigerians expect from a scarecrow like figure carrying a broomstick which is the symbol of witchcraft as the symbol of his party? One does not have to be a master interpreter of symbology to know the symbology of APC.

Under the watch of Buhari, it is inevitable that we shall continue to have the bad omen which we are experiencing. Lest we forget, bad omen or phenomena are seen as a sign of future bad events. The broom stick which APC makes a duty to parade is used as a means to achieve magical fight. Hence you see the depiction of the overriding broomsticks in the unprecedented killings of innocent Nigerians and loss of lives in natural disasters during the period of President Buhari’s rule. They are clear evidence of the bad omen that will visit Nigeria if he gets back to office. A good example of the cruel irony of those who are taking advantage of his incompetence, lack of attention to details is the one by an APC aspirant to Edo Assembly and a nurse for that matter, Josephine Iyamu, who openly campaigned for women rights while secretly engaging in child sex trafficking and forcing young girls to swear to oaths and rituals. She has just been sentenced in the UK. There is a war by Fulani herdsmen militia against the Nigerian majority of Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo , South-South, and Middle Belt original land owners.

Why do you think we have this land grabbing instinct among Fulani herdsmen?

First of all, we must realize, as the president himself has said, that the issue of environmental impact, the desert expansion means that the only land that is fertile is located in these areas. Also, Nigeria is so unfortunate that even where the Fulani are in the majority, which is in Guinea, they have never been allowed to govern because all the other smaller ethnic groups ganged up against them, saying they are too clannish and refused them to govern. But they through Othman Dan Fodio got the caliphate and they see Nigeria as their land. They believe and they have been lucky. There had been no Hausa man who had been head of state of Nigeria. When it comes to sharing “camps” Fulani takes and dumps the Hausa man. And if you watch, the killings going on in Zamfara, it’s against the Hausa. In Kaduna State, the Kaduna South, which is the home of Zamani Lekwot and Martin Agwai is the theatre of killings. In Kaduna North, when you hear of killings in Birnin Gwari, it is because it is not a Fulani place.

What is the solution to this endless bloodletting?

One of the first steps that is imperative is that APC as a party must have the courage to dump Buhari as their candidate. He is a bad product to sell. It is evident in how people are leaving the party. If we go by his own evidence, after so many things instigated by him against Saraki, he has now admitted that Saraki is a man of due process. To that extent and by extension, he has placed him as a man who believes in rule of law. Unlike himself, Saraki is the candidate they should go for, or Tambuwal, or a Middle Belt person. APC has a choice to change itself. Alongside these changes, they should embrace a new level of politicking and performance. With these changes, APC will not give us the bad omen which they have been giving to us. It is imperative that all our critical stakeholders in nation building have started to forge a patriotic front and working in concert and unity to achieve the desired ends. People like Ayo Adebanjo, John Nwodo, the Sultan of Sokoto who have been working tirelessly behind the scene, the Oni of Ife, Oba of Benin, Obi of Onitsha, Obong of Calabar, Gbon Gwom of Jos, Gen. T Y Danjuma, and former heads of state are well positioned to take this initiative to arrest the drift into national disaster. Incidentally, people like Junaid Muhammed are all included in this task. APC may fare well without Buhari as candidate. The new chairman, Oshiomhole and his National Working Committee, NWC, the governors of the party and other stakeholders in APC must see it as a duty to drop Buhari as their candidate so as to make APC a force to be reckoned with in next year’s election. They should go for a respectable and healthier candidate and avoid gerontocracy as we have seen in Buhari.

In making this recommendation, does it mean you don’t have confidence in the R-APC?

No. Instead, I want a healthy election with good candidates on both sides. What I am saying is that APC should give us a good candidate that will vie against the PDP, for Nigerians to make a choice, so that we can make a good choice for the country. I still insist that Buhari is a bad choice for the party. Why am I saying that? Buhari is not in power. The real president of Nigeria is his geriatric uncle, Mamman Daura, followed by the leader of the Think-Tank that advises him – Babagana Kingibe. Then his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari steps in, who in effect is the hand of Mamman Daura in that order. There is a 4th man in that hierarchy. That, I won’t like to mention his name. There is hardly any policy you don’t see the hand of this cabal in. In all this, Buhari is number five. This cabal appears lacking in necessary courage to stop the reliance on working with an inappropriate structure and doing things in a way that is not working out. The calls for the sack of the service chiefs are in my view, a vote of no confidence on Buhari. It is in order. The service chiefs are not commanders. Our constitution makes President Buhari the chief executive officer of the Armed Forces. The Nigerian masses are like shareholders in the Nigerian project while he sits atop as the chief executive officer. The service chiefs are like the director of corporate affairs, or director of human resources. They prepare materials for the chief executive which are approved by him. To this extent, I am saying that service chiefs are not the first line of authority, otherwise, the military; if they had not wanted to be ambiguous would have said army commanders. To say that you leave the commander-in- chief, who is the executive commander and say you are sacking his aides is inappropriate. Have you not heard the adage that an army is as good as the commander? If an army of lions is commanded by a sheep, it will not move. So, why are Nigerians lacking the courage to say it as it is, rather they are dodging the issue as usual. The issue of sacking the service chiefs is not dependent on Buhari, and even if you sack the service chiefs, there will be no change. The template that is in place is such that any man that takes over will face the same problem. Even if Buhari gives his orders, which he has never given, we won’t get the desired result. The last time he gave orders to deal with the herdsmen was when President Trump gave him marching orders, when he told him that they are killing Christians. That was the first time he came back and showed a semblance of taking action and he visited Benue. He has never given the kind of orders he gave against IPOB.

Why has he not done that?

Let me answer it this way. It is very obvious. President Buhari without doubt, as I said earlier, is the most incompetent and nepotic head of state ever in Nigeria. He is pretending to be condoning the Fulani herdsmen who are fighting to use his reign as a window of opportunity to grab the high-yielding land in Nigeria. All the river basins around the River Benue and River Niger, down to Agatu, Igede, and down to Nsukka , Enugu; Delta, Edo; all that rich areas, they want to use the time of this man to grab them. If not, why would a president who means well advise the people of Benue to live in peace with their killers? Secondly, when he was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury in London to diffuse the tension and killings, he said the killings were by ex-Libyan militias/ soldiers. That is another version. Recently, he blamed the politicians for the killings. For a commander-in-chief who has daily and weekly intelligence briefings not to know who is attacking us shows that he knows more than we do and is pretending? The DG DSS, at a conference I attended sometime in February organized by the Senate, before the Senate he said most of the arms they found with the herdsmen came from military and police armouries. The whole place was quiet. The only person that spoke was the IGP who said it was only a few from the police. With all this, do you need an oracle to tell you that Buhari is not serious about the killings? Even the governor of Plateau State, who I would say is a willing tool, by rushing to the cabal to condemn the grazing land law in Benue had his own mayhem when he was recently visited by the killers. Those who still think that they can sheepishly follow Buhari will soon see how ungrateful he is. An example of who they should learn from is a man called Sule Hamman, a very brilliant Fulani man who was the brain box that stood with Buhari all through the years.

Who is afraid of restructuring?

Let me say this. The extant 1999 Constitution is an outcome of what Prof Abiola Ojo described as ‘successful legislation which begets its own illegality.’ We need the people to determine the constitution in place of imposters who framed the current constitution in use. I refer our lawyers to what is called Principles in Ethics, and in essence jurisprudence. The principle states that a law can be broken to achieve a greater good. This is a principle my Catholic Rev Father brought to my notice. St Thomas Aquinas expanded this principle. I am saying that Nigerians should have the courage of setting aside this present constitution. Those who are benefiting from the present situation will always oppose restructuring. Luckily for us, people are daily realizing that we won’t make any progress without restructuring. Only the other day, Governor Dickson of Bayelsa spoke with Ango Abdullahi on it. A critical Think-Thank led by Sule Hamman and other scholars from the North-West has come up to support restructuring the country. Let me ask this question. What is the way out for a people whose socio-economic power had been hijacked, especially when the powers of the usurpers had been legalized? A people, whose socio-economic and even political power had been forcefully colonized, will do anything to reclaim their power. As rightly captured by His Eminence, Rt Rev Gbonigi in his book, he said sensually centered insurgencies are bound to rise from time to time with our present over-centralized quasi-democratic governance. He goes on to explain that this is why well-meaning Nigerians have agitated and will continue to agitate for true political and fiscal federalism. We have a situation, according to a comedian, where the Federal Government is ruling without an agreed ruler.

We have a political system which incubates and produces crooks as leaders. This leads to the next question: Why is the biggest fighter against corruption not fighting against the corruptive system that begets corruption and the corrupted idea of federalism that we are operating. Can institutionalized corruption in Nigeria be effectively done in a way without an address of the underlying conditions which are the root causes and means of sustenance, and above all, the cover up of institutional graft? If the present situation where the Federal Government is exploiting Niger Delta resources and value added tax in Lagos, if it is not institutionalized corruption, then what is it? With the mother of all corruptions, the outcome of governance will most likely be crooked. The independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is only independent by name as I have said many times.

There is no serious constitutional basis for the electoral commission to be free from the president’s control.

How does this impede on the 2019 general elections?

The INEC chairman has to do more to correct the impression and allegation that as we speak, over one million PVCs have been printed and given to Nigeriens to cross Buhari’s town, Daura. No wonder a rail line is being built from Daura to Niger. If you doubt this allegation, recently, scores of Nigeriens were arrested by the Navy in Kogi and were found with PVCs, which were for the Ekiti governorship election.

Can we have your thoughts on state police? How best can it be achieved?

State police is imperative and obvious. Before I go further, let me make a distinction. There is what is called low intensity war as we have now with the killings. In the Nigerian case, they become high intensive due to the level of arms. We have now, both wars from external and within us. We have enemies within us. While we have very good defense architecture against external threats by conventional armed forces, what we don’t have is security architecture to deal with unconventional troops. We have beaten Boko Haram in conventional warfare. We have not beaten them in unconventional warfare. This is why they are still bombing. On top of this, we now have Fulani herdsmen who are using mercenaries from abroad as the president confirmed, to attack us. We should learn from the American experience after 9/11. We should begin the concept of homeland defense. In America, while they have federal armed forces, they have national guards in the states. The police are basically to enforce law and order. When it comes to military defense of any community, it is always a paramilitary or military force. The Americans believe that for internal; the national guards in the states come in handy. So, we need state guard. Enugu State, for example, should have Enugu State Guard made up of Enugu indigenes or residents. The arms they carry are made up of small fire arms to defend. But they will not have long range arms. We can no more depend on the centre. In India, when the Chinese threats were going through the Himalayas to attack Indian communities, the Indians started ethnic police in addition to the federal security set up. So, we need National Guard to serve as a buffer between the police and the armed forces. Part of the canons of restructuring says that states should be more autonomous, and should have control of their resources.

To what extent do you think that Buhari’s protracted illness has impacted on his alleged incompetence?

I don’t want to talk about the illness because that is the burden of every mortal. Buhari has never been competent. A commander-in-chief that cannot even be obeyed by the police? In his public positions, his deputies have always been the ones in charge. The late General Tunde Idiagbon did the whole work in his first outing as military head of state. At the 3 Div of the Army where I served under him, the brainbox, and the person who did the whole work was Col Chris Igbokwe. Chris Igbokwe was actually the man who led the tanks to stop Dimka’s coup. But because he was an Igbo man, he was put down and the glory was given to another person. It was Chris Igbokwe who stopped Dimka’s coup. Remember that there were even doubts about which side Babangida was. Babangida was the one who went to see Dimka and talked to him. But the person that mobilized troops to stop the coup was Chris Igbokwe. He eventually became a Col GS, something like Chief of General Staff to Buhari when we were in 3 Div of the Nigerian Army. Now, he has been hijacked by a cabal and the only person there who has some thinking capacity is Kingibe, but he is more interested in Kanuri and Fulani agenda than Nigeria.

Where do you think Nigeria is heading to, given the attitude of the politicians, the polarization, killings, electoral problems and other negative tendencies?

It is heartwarming that many people of goodwill are rising to the challenge. Obasanjo, Danjuma, the christian communities, muslims and many others. I know that the Sultan of Sokoto is working tirelessly to ensure that Nigeria is saved from the doomsday. Many a time, the young man is misunderstood because of what the Fulani herdsmen are doing. Many of the eminent Fulanis feel that what is being done in their name is terrible. You see the Hausa rising to draw a distinction between them and the Fulani. This goes to show that Nigerians are now waking up. For a long time, Nigerians have been asleep or have been hypnotized that they do not see danger. The danger that lies ahead is that if Buhari gets a second term, Nigerians should know that the bad omen, the killings of innocent farmers, and natural disaster in which lives are lost in hundreds under president Buhari’s watch will continue.

It is now left for them to do the needful and safeguard human lives and halt the agenda of enslavement of fellow human beings. The arrogance of Miyetti Allah is baffling. When Nigerians are asking for the service chiefs to be sacked, they are pushing that the service chiefs should be retained. This means they are now determining the direction of the government, though I don’t think the service chiefs are the problem. I think Buhari is the problem.

SOURCE :SUN

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