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A SELF DECEIVING COUNTRY CALLED NIGERIA

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Twenty-one senators currently receiving pensions from government as ex-governors and deputy governors.
The current senators who once served as governors are Bukola Saraki of Kwara, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano, Kabiru Gaya of Kano, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Theodore Orji of Abia, Abdullahi Adamu of Nasarawa, Sam Egwu of Ebonyi, Shaaba Lafiagi of Kwara, Joshua Dariye of Plateau Jonah Jang of Plateau, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto, Ahmed Sani Yarima of Zamfara, Danjuma Goje of Gombe, Bukar Abba Ibrahim of Yobe, Adamu Aliero of Kebbi, George Akume of Benue.
The former deputy governors in the Senate are Ms Biodun Olujimi of Ekiti and Enyinaya Harcourt Abaribe of Abia. Danladi Abubakar Sani served as the acting governor of Taraba state.
Many former governors are also in Buhari’s Cabinet as Ministers. This includes: Ngige, Fayemi, Amaechi and Fashola (SAN).).
In Akwa Ibom State, the law provides that ex governors and deputy governors receive pension equivalent to the salaries of the incumbent. The package also includes a new official car and a utility vehicle every four years; one personal aide; a cook, chauffeurs and security guards for the governor at a sum not exceeding N5 million per month and N2.5 million for his deputy governor.
In Rivers, the law provides 100 percent of annual basic salaries for the ex-governor and deputy, one residential house for the former governor “anywhere of his choice in Nigeria”; one residential house anywhere in Rivers for the deputy, three cars for the ex-governor every four years and two cars for the deputy every four years.
It is alledged that in Lagos, a former governor will get two houses, one in Lagos and another in Abuja, estimated at N500 million in Lagos and N700 million in Abuja. He also receives six new cars to be replaced every three years; a furniture allowance of 300 percent of annual salary to be paid every two years, and a N30 million pension annually for life.
This is the reality for all the 21 ex govenors and deputy governors who are currently serving as senators. This same is also true of ex governors who are now serving as Ministers.
NOW I ASK:
How many years did these guys serve their states as governors and deputy governors? Is it more than 8years? Is that a reason to be entitled to pensions for life? Even if they are entitled to pension for life, must it be so outrageous?
As if that is not enough: HOW on earth can any public servant with conscience collect salaries and allowances as a senator or minister, and still have the audacity to claim pensions equivalent to the salaries of a serving governor in Nigeria?
IT ISN’T ROCKET SCIENCE……
Once you are elected a senator or appointed a minister, you must forfeit any pension accruing to you from government at any level until you vacate office. This should also apply to senators collecting military pensions like former Senate President David Mark.
Yet these senators are in the Senate that is inviting the current finance minister to discuss the recession of Nigeria’s economy. A senator pockets approximately 30 million naira monthly as salary and allowances. Our “honourables” are not interested to make laws that could restructure our country into economically autonomous federating States/Regions to save the country from sectional agitations that is threatening to destroy Nigeria. The sad and hopeless situation is that the rest of Nigerians are busy arguing based on party, ethnic and affiliations while these enemies of state continue to rape us.
Do you know that it costs tax payers 290m Naira yearly to maintain each member of our National Assembly in a country where nothing works & 80% of population earn below 300 Naira a day ? A working day earning of a senator is more than a yearly income of a doctor; it’s more than the salary of 42 Army generals or 48 professors or 70 commissioners of police or more than twice the pay of the US President or 9 times the salary of US congressmen.
It’s high time the country had a referendum on those outrageous salaries of Senators, House of Representative members and other political office holders.
*If you are seriously against the looting of our commonwealth in Nigeria, in the name of democracy, you can let this piece go viral by sharing it with as many of your contacts and groups too!*
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COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE LEADERS’ CONFERENCE AND INAUGURATION OF NEW EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS OF THE MIDDLEBELT FORUM HELD ON 12TH DECEMBER, 2017 AT AJUJI HOTEL, ABUJA, FCT.

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The Leaders’ Conference and Inauguration of the New Executive Council of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) was held on Tuesday, 12th December, 2017 at Ajuji Hotel, Abuja, FCT. The Conference was attended by leaders and delegates from the following states of the Middle Belt Forum: Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Southern Borno, FCT, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau, Southern Kebbi, Kaduna, Gombe, Taraba and Southern Yobe.
There was an opening remark by the outgoing President of the MBF, Prof. Jerry Gana; a presentation by Dr. Obadiah Mailafiya, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank and development economist; as well as a lecture by Prof. Yusufu Turaki on the topic: The Political Question of the Middle Belt in Nigerian Politics. The new President of the MBF gave an acceptance speech which was a historical voyage and a projection into the future of the peoples of the Middle Belt in the Federation of Nigeria and in the entire universe.
Conference recognized the strengths of the Middle Belt which include qualitative human resource, arable land and mineral resources in all the states of the Middle Belt and was appreciative of their forebears who created cultures such as the Nok Culture and others, which were amongst the oldest and most civilized in the world of their time. Conference also proudly recognized that the peoples of the Middle Belt were never conquered by any group.
Conference sadly regretted that despite the earlier stated strengths and advantages of the Middle Belt, the region is lagging behind in both the economic and political spheres.
Conference noted the sustained attacks on the entire Middle Belt region by Fulani Herdsmen and expressed grave concern that these sustained attacks have continued for close to a decade and have worsened in the last few years making agricultural activities and travels within the region extremely dangerous with reports of kidnappings, rapes and murders being received on a daily basis.
Conference was extremely unhappy that the responses by security agencies to the cry of communities under attacks have always been largely ignored as recently voiced out by His Excellency, Arc. Darius Ishaku, Governor of Taraba State and His Majesty, the Hamman Bachama, amongst many others.
Conference strongly rejected the “Foreign Fulani Herdsmen” explanation given by leaders in order to evade blame about the nonchalance of Hausa-Fulani leaders for not bringing the mass killers to book and beggars the question: why are these herdsmen attacking only non-Hausa/Fulani communities?
Conference expressed sadness that the Middle Belt autochthonous nations were not part of the negotiations since 1953, leading to Federalism in 1954 and the ones resulting in state creations in 1967, 1976, 1987, 1991 and 1996, saddling Nigeria with 36 gerrymandered “states” and a Federal Capital Territory.
Conference was extremely proud of Professor Jerry Gana, the outgoing President of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) for his courage, dogged determination and commitment to the struggle for the liberation of all peoples of the Middle Belt and their prosperity irrespective of tongue or religion.
B. After extensive deliberations, Conference resolved as follows:-
1. To alert the world that Northern Nigeria is at war with itself and that this full-scale War was unilaterally imposed against the unsuspecting “minority” ethnic nationalities in Northern Nigeria and that the world should remember that Nigerian autochthons since 1980 have been physically targeted and openly attacked not by Southerners, not by Foreigners but by fellow Nigerians from what used to be the Northern Region. In this respect, Conference further resolved to call on relevant Northern leadership to rise to their responsibilities and stop this tradition now becoming a culture.
2. To remind the world that these attacks have since 2011 heightened gaining in notoriety, planning and execution in well-coordinated massacres of predominantly minority communities, be they Muslims or Christians; the kidnap and forceful marriage of Christian girls with the connivance of traditional Rulers and law enforcement agencies, sadly with a pretentious look of helplessness by Federal and state governments and that these incidents are stoppable if there are no ulterior political motives behind them.
3. To use all resources at the disposal of the MBF to stop the hate appellations and derogatory words in reference to non-Hausa-Fulani of the North, like “arna”, ‘ya’yan arna”, “kafirai”, etc even when referring to Christians (Ahl-ul kitab) or even to native Middle Belters who are Muslims which hate words are sparingly used, if at all, against business partners from the South that are non-Muslims. The MBF has come to the conclusion that the terms are deliberately encouraged to categorize others for easy attacks and killings without conscience or consequences.
4. That the current agitation for restructuring should not be subsumed under the historical trend of NORTH vs. SOUTH games of outwitting each other as what is needed is an organic Nation, not a market place for deal-making bargains by elite participants close to governments of the day and devoid of popular inputs. Conference therefore resolved in this regard to mandate the leadership of the MBF to continue to remind the nation that the Northern and Southern protectorates, as far back as 1914, were married into one country regardless of the feelings, let alone participation of the autochtonous peoples of the Middle Belt.
5. That the next President from the former Northern region must be of Middle Belt extraction and that the Middle Belt Forum will continue to be non-partisan but will remain passionately political with focus on the defence of the interests of the Peoples of the Region.
C. Pursuant to the resolutions above, Conference hereby demand as follows:
1. Government should immediately make changes in the nation’s security architecture that has created a feeling of alienation by the peoples of the Middle Belt as these security agencies have failed, refused or neglected to respond to distress calls of Middle Belt communities when they are under attack by Fulani herdsmen.
2. Government should immediately commence the restructuring of the nation by implementing the report of the 2014 Conference. The implementation of the 2014 National Conference will address some of the serious concerns of the peoples of the Middle Belt who feel that they have been unjustly treated in the Nigerian project.
3. Conference acknowledged and appreciated His Excellency, Governor Samuel Ortom, the Government of Benue state and His Excellency, Governor Darius Ishaku and the Government of Taraba State for the passage of the Anti-open Grazing laws in their various states. Conference encouraged all the states of the Middle Belt to expeditiously prohibit, by law, open grazing and abolish grazing reserves while replacing pastoralism with ranching.
4. Conference calls on government at all levels to maintain and defend in practice, the constitutional provisions on the secular status of Nigeria and insist on the non-establishment of state religion; as well as guaranteeing religious freedom and the right to change one’s religion.
5. Government at all levels should provide clear policies on citizens, residents and indigenes; and clearly delineate their rights and privileges. In addition, state governments should forthwith resuscitate and recognize the independence of all Middle Belt traditional institutions.
6. Adopt measures to protect citizens from gender-based discrimination and abuse, as well as the use of cultural practices to subjugate women and deny them full participation in the affairs of their communities and state. In particular, government and the security agencies must bring to book individuals accused of the kidnapping, forceful conversion and marriage of Christian girls in the Middle Belt, be there traditional rulers or other individuals.
D. INAUGURATION OF NEW LEADERSHIP
The New leadership of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) was inaugurated in a colourful ceremony by the outgoing President, Prof. Jerry Gana. The new leadership has Dr. Bala Takaya as President, Alh. (Engr) Tanko Abdullahi as Vice President, Chief Ben Dikki as General Secretary, Dr. Shem Zagbayi Nuhu as Deputy General Secretary, Mrs. Pauline Tallen as National Woman Leader, Barr. Mark Jacob as Legal Adviser, Bar. Alex S. Marama, Deputy Legal Adviser, Dr. Isuwa Dogo as Publicity Secretary and Adakole Ijogi as Youth Coordinator, Emma Zopmal as National Youth Leader amongst others.
E. APPRECIATION
Conference congratulated Professor Jerry Gana for a very successful tenure and prayed that the Almighty God will continue to protect, prosper and give him long life to continue his service to the Middle Belt and humanity. Conference congratulated the new President and his entire Executive Council and wish them a very successful tenure. Finally, Conference thanked the organisers, paper presenters and delegates who made time to be in attendance.
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DR. BALA TAKAYA   CHIEF BEN DIKKI
 President             General Secretary

Anambra Central Senatorial Election: 15 Tweets to “Shut Up” the Oppossition

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… Obiorah can’t be sworn in, INEC will conduct another election as fixed!
1. I have read a whole of lot interpretations and misinterpretations with regards to the judgment of the Federal High, Abuja Division presided over by Hon Justice Tsoho concerning the primaries conducted by PDP to elect/nominate its flagbearer for the 2015 Senatorial election for Anambra Central Senatorial District.
2.  Recall that following the submission of Hon Ekwunife’s name by PDP as her candidate for the said election, one Chief Obiora Okonkwo had approached the federal High Court for a declaration that he was the valid winner of the said primary election.
3. It was the said preelection suit by Chief Okonkwo that the Hon court purportedly delivered judgment yesterday after all the parties to the suit connived nay agreed to withdraw their opposition to the suit.
4. The crucial question at this juncture becomes; what is the effect of the judgment.
5. The subject matter of the suit filed by Chief Okonkwo was destroyed/annihilated on or about the 7th day of December, 2015 when the Court of Appeal, Enugu Division nullified the Anambra Central Senatorial election while voiding the primaries conducted by PDP for the said election.
6. The court consequently disqualified PDP from participating in the rerun election.
7. Thus, having nullified the said election and ordered INEC to conduct a rerun election for the said Senatorial district, the suit by Chief Okonkwo was rendered hypothetical and mere academic exercise.
8. The suit had been rendered empty, bare and hollow.
9. The victory, if any, recorded by Chief Okonkwo yesterday was merely pyrrhic.
10. The Anambra Central Senatorial seat for which the court purportedly delivered judgment yesterday is no longer in existence having been nullified by the Court of Appeal.
11. The court of Appeal, Abuja Division recently delivered a judgment upholding the disqualification of PDP for the rerun election.
12. Thus, there is absolutely no basis or pedestal upon which INEC can issue Chief Okonkwo a certificate of return.
13. Had the Court of Appeal not disqualified PDP, Chief Okonkwo would have been eligible to stand for the election as the candidate of PDP.
14. In essence, the connivance of the parties to the suit in attempting to pull a wool over the court’s eyes by withdrawing their defence/opposition to the action by Chief Okonkwo is a non issue.
15. The Anambra central Senatorial election stands nullified and until a rerun election is conducted and a winner declared, INEC CANNOT issue any person with a certificate of return.
Tweets of the post by:
Ezeokenwa Sly Jnr
Anambra State APGA Legal Adiser
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IPOB insists on Biafra

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  • Raps Ohanaeze on Lagos meet

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), yesterday said majority of Igbo people are firmly behind the quest for restoration of Biafra independence and not restructuring.
The pro-Biafran group also criticised the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo for today’s proposed crucial meeting of Ndigbo to discuss restructuring in Lagos, instead of Igboland. It described the event as a desperate attempt by the President of Ohanaeze, Chief Nnia Nwodo, to “relaunch his tattered image as Igbo leader.”
IPOB, in a statement signed by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, noted that Afenifere, the pan Yoruba Socio-Cultural group can never organise any serious gathering outside Yorubaland and wondered why Chief Nwodo must run to a Yoruba territory to conduct his restructuring debate.
IPOB urged all Biafrans, especially those of Igbo extraction, to boycott the Lagos meeting, describing it as “Aso Rock sponsored gathering in Lagos.
“Arewa Consultative Forum consigns all their activities in Northern Nigeria, Afenifere always conduct their activities in Yorubaland, why must Ohanaeze Ndigbo move their activities outside Igboland to Lagos? It shows they are not proud of their land or people.
“The sole purpose of the gathering in Lagos is to create the impression that Nwodo is still in charge, despite the obvious death of the restructuring debate in the absence of the momentum provided by IPOB. Lagos is not and can never be the home of Igbo people, no matter how many millennia they may have lived there.
“Having lost credibility all over Igboland for his serial betrayal, Chief Nwodo has run to Lagos, the practice pitch of the National Stadium, Surulere Lagos, today, December 14, 2017, to relaunch his tattered image as Igbo leader. If he is, indeed, the leader of Igbo, what is he doing, convening a crucial meeting about Ndigbo in Lagos? Lagos is Yorubaland, not Igboland.
“Afenifere never organised any serious gathering outside Yorubaland, so why must Chief Nwodo run to Yoruba territory to conduct his restructuring debate. Is it because Igbo people are firmly behind IPOB quest for total Biafra independence not his restructuring agenda? Or is it because he knows nobody will attend his gathering of traitors anywhere on Igbo soil.
We are urging all Biafrans, especially those of Igbo extraction, to boycott this sponsored gathering in Lagos.
“We are aware that a lot of money has been spent to mobilise dance troops from Anambra and Enugu States to charter buses with the promise of N350,000 pledge for any group that performs for Nwodo at Surulere today,” the group alleged.

SOURCE : SUN

Northern senators blow hot on restructuring

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The Northern Senators’ Forum rose from its two-day retreat in Katsina, yesterday, and declared that the political elite from other regions are intimidating the North with restructuring.
Besides, the senators described restructuring as an ambiguous term, “even to its proponents, without clear terms and directions on how to go about it.”
The retreat, however, ended yesterday without any definite position on restructuring.
The communiqué, which was signed by the forum’s Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, equally noted that restructuring “is a term used by the political elite from the other regions to intimidate the North and paint it as a weak link, parasitic and unproductive region that brings nothing to the dining table.”
The communique said the North would, at a later date, take what the senators called, “a well articulated, firm and common position,” on the issue of restructuring, in collaboration with other northern members of the National Assembly.
“The North, as a region, is not afraid of any sensible and meaningful arrangement provided it guarantees justice, equity, fairness and the unity of all Nigerians irrespective of religion, region, age and sex, as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended.”
The communiqué said the retreat also discussed, “the huge infrastructural deficit” in the northern region of the country and posited that the development has tended to weigh down on socio-economic and advancement of the area and reiterated “the need to design an all-embracing Marshal Plan for the development of the region.
“The insecurity of lives and property and the lack of capacity of the state to adequately guarantee the most fundamental of rights are the most critical challenges facing the region in particular, and the country, in general.
“The prevalent ethno-religious crises in the northern region are politically motivated in nature and have little or nothing to do with religion.
“The alarming statistics of out-of-school children and the number of learning institutions in the northern region explains why the region is educationally and economically backward, in addition to poor budgetary funding and bad governance.”
Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, declared the retreat open on Tuesday, with governors of Katsina, Kebbi, Borno, Sokoto states in attendance, alongside the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, former Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Coomasie, Prof. Ango Abdullahi and Dr. Usman Bugaje, among others.

SOURCE :SOURCE

White House aide Omarosa Newman resigns

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Omarosa Newman, a former reality television star-turned political aide to U.S. President Donald Trump, has resigned from the White House to “pursue other opportunities,” Trump’s spokeswoman, Sarah Sanders, said on Wednesday.

Newman served as an Assistant to the president and Director of Communications for the White House’s Office of Public Liaison.

A former star of Trump’s TV show “The Apprentice,” Newman worked as the Director of African-American outreach on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Sanders said Newman’s departure would take effect Jan. 20, 2018.

She had what sometimes appeared to be an ambiguous role in the White House orbit.

The New York Times reported in September that Chief of Staff, John Kelly, had put her on a “no-fly list” of aides, who he did not consider fit to attend serious meetings.

Sources with ties to the White House have said they expect a wave of departures from the administration once Trump has completed his first year in office.

SOURCE :SUN

Identity consciousness, reason for APGA’s landslide victory – Offodile  

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Chudi Offodile, a former House of Representatives member played a key role in the November 18, Anambra governorship election. In this interview he shared his views on a number of issues including the governorship poll, South East politics and chances of APC in the next election.
Anambra election has come and gone, but some are still making some insinuations as to the real reason APGA won landslide. What do you think?
The governor won the election square and clean. And of course, any objective observer or analyst would have predicted that he would win the election convincingly because of the great achievements he made in his first tenure. Once you have an incumbent seeking re-election and then you have a divided opposition, clearly the incumbent will have a clear advantage. Secondly, APGA has become entrenched in the politics of Anambra State over time and Governor Obiano consolidated on that. There was no real threat to his re-election under APGA. So, his victory at the poll was obvious and predictable.

 You said there was no real threat but we saw former governor Peter Obi coming frontally to attack him. We also saw APC weigh in with federal power. Are you saying all those factors did not count?
APC had a good candidate in Tony Nwoye. And of course, Oseloka Obaze of PDP was also a good candidate. But it was not about good or otherwise of the opposition. It was basically about who and what they were up against. No matter the hype that was introduced into it, it was clear that victory was tilting the way of the then APGA candidate. Federal power was the machinery that would have been used to manipulate the election but that was not possible. Talking about Peter Obi and the PDP, of course, Obi forfeited the leadership of a party he had built up in conjunction with some local forces when he left for PDP.  Those local forces did not leave with him and I am sure he is aware of that. There was just no way he could have destroyed the very structure that made him governor; that is my view anyway.

 Some claim that APGA’s victory was made possible by the quantum of money it shared among voters. Did money play any role?
I will not hold brief for APGA or the governor on that. But I was in Anambra during the election and it would be really unfortunate if people try to claim that the influence of money played a major role in re-electing the governor. For quite some time now, the issue of Igbo nationalism has been quite strong and what played out was, to a very large extent, a desire of the people to maintain some kind of identity within Nigeria. It had nothing to do with money, and in any case those who won their various primaries, how did they even emerge? Did they run on the platform of ideologies, did they emerge as candidates in their various parties using cowry shells? Those who complain about money would surely know more about the use of money in politics. Therefore I will not join them in that chorus.

 Talking about this identity issue some claimed that python dance exercise by the military few weeks to the election played a role in making people feel that they also had to stand against wherever the federal government was. Do you see that as a reason? 
That is a possibility but the truth of the matter remains that even President Buhari was clear in his belief in free and fair election. His body language did not indicate that he posed any real threat to that prospect in Anambra State. So, I don’t think that it was a critical issue at that point. I think that broadly, if you place APGA against PDP and APC for instance, you would see that when it comes to identity politics within the context of the recent nationalism that has enveloped our politics; APGA was a clear choice for most of the people. There just was not any real contest. Of course the campaign was boisterous, APC had a strong youthful candidate, PDP had an experienced candidate, UPP had Osita Chidoka who is also a good candidate and that was it. In terms of the perception and understanding of the people of the state, the choice was clear early enough. But of course, in politics nobody really believes he will lose an election until after the election. What is important is that when APGA won in the entire 21 local governments and almost all the wards in the state, the other candidates were surprised that they lost even in their own wards and local government. If it is possible for somebody to use money to buy your brothers, relatives to vote against you, then there is something really wrong and it cannot be just money that is my view.

 Were you surprised that UPP, a party that you wanted to fly its flag came a distant fourth? 
I was not surprised because UPP could not really define itself ideologically. And I don’t think there was any real clarity on what it represented. So they stood no chance of winning the election. It could not even convince the people. If they could not convince them not to undertake the boycott then they have no chance whatsoever.

 So the party shot itself in the leg?  
Precisely, it was just not going to do well.

 Are you saying that UPP would have won the election if it had been redefined ideologically? 
No. that is not what I am saying. I am just analysing what had happened and trying to look at how different parties positioned themselves. PDP had its own structures. They had former governor, Peter Obi and his henchmen , the daughter of late Dr. Alex Ekwueme as running mate, they had all kinds of political heavy weights around them. The APC had an incumbent member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Tony Nwoye, and a whole lot of other political heavy weights in the party backing them. For the UPP there was really no real membership apart from parading a good candidate and that was it .But, that wasn’t enough to convince people to rally behind it.

 Does it mean that the party exaggerated its relevance? 
The party could not define itself properly and once it couldn’t do that, it lost the opportunity to invade APGA’s political space.

 When you say definition; is it related to the fact that the party gave impression that it was pro-Biafra?
If the party gave the impression that it was pro-Biafra, then the pro-Biafra elements accept it as being pro-Biafra. Did they convince the pro-Biafra elements to believe that they would represent their interest? Once they could not convince those elements to abandon the ideology of boycott of the elections and embrace the ideology of participating in the election, they had no chance because the party branded itself; it wasn’t the pro-Biafra people that branded the party. It was the party that tried to brand itself as representing those interests and if they couldn’t convince those interests, that was the first failure and they cannot turn around to blame the electorate for their inability to define itself properly.

 It was a shock that you left UPP and aligned with APGA without a second thought. Can you explain why you did that? 
Let me put it this way; I said that UPP had been unable to define itself properly and they lost the opportunity to invade APGA’s political space. Truly, both parties ought to be competing for the same space but UPP simply left the entire space for APGA to occupy, and that was what played out. If the two were competing for the same political space, it simply meant that both of them were ideologically compatible. There was not much difference between them ideologically. It should not be a strange phenomenon to see that APGA was a natural alternative.

  The thought by some people was that APGA will provide you a better platform to contest for political office in 2019. Is that correct? 
No. That does not even arise, perish those calculations, and leave those calculations out.

Some people suggested that Obiano lacked the capacity to transform the state, thus requesting for fresh ideas. Are such claims right or wrong?
The question is who offered new ideas in the campaigns even in the debate? Did anybody really came up with any new ideas? No! The campaign focused more on attacking Obiano’s personality and accusing him of all manner of things rather than providing an alternative vision. It was not just enough to bring down or attack the integrity of opponent or the incumbent. The issue really is what superior alternative do you have? If people cannot see clearly the alternative to what the incumbent offered, then it is always safer for the electorate to stick with the incumbent.

 Many people have given credit to the President for the way he handled the election. Do you think he deserve the praise? 
It is expected that when somebody does exactly what he ought to do, he should be applauded. It was nothing out of the ordinary; just the same way as payment of salary is applauded. The truth is a lot of states do not pay salary to its workers. This was what ought to be a normal exercise but it had become an achievement. In a situation where elections are regularly rigged and then you have a President who has an option of rigging it and decides not to, it is expected that people should applaud that even though it should be a norm to have free and fair election. You and I know that it was not quite a normal thing to have free and fair election and that was why credit must go to the President for ensuring that it happened.

 There are those who feel that APC will have a good outing in 2019 in the South East judging by what happened in Anambra. Do you think that will happen? 
It is a little bit early because many factors are yet to crystalise. It really maybe too early to make predictions but it is in the nature of politics for people who desire votes to make amends or even woo the electorate and in this particular case the south east. The President visited Ebonyi and Anambra States recently, and his body language appeared to be changing towards the south-east. If this continues and nothing goes wrong before 2019, then the result of the election will not be as it was in 2015. But it is still too early to determine how these things will swing and of course the Presidents and his handlers should be really studying the situation carefully and try to deal with the issue appropriately.
From what Nigerians have seen and gone through in the last two years, do you share the view of some individuals that APC is still a party to lead?
I am not a member of APC. I think there are so many issues on so many grounds that you could fault APC since coming into power in 2015.

source:sun

 

IT IS TIME TO SERVE THE ORDINARY PEOPLE

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Some people are born to fight for others.In their blood ,they have burning desire to serve and to better the lots of the society.Historically ,such people are few and the majority of the people look down on them as busybody.

Our society is rotten.It is all about money ,selfishness and greed.We go to church but we hardly care for our neighbours .We do not know what to expect from Government,however,Government do not know what the people want.

Through the platform of OurMumuDondo in Anambra State ,it is our intention to intermediate between the Government and the people – the commonman on the street.

The struggle has just started with EndSars campaign

CREATE SOLUTION TO MAKE BILLIONS

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  • The major secret of billionaires is their ability to find solutions to the challenges of humanity. All of them created solutions that brought the billions. Presently, Bill Gates is spending millions of dollars in search of renewable energy. By the time he finds one and become a major player in the electricity industry, we will say he is lucky. But we forget that he didn’t pray for financial breakthrough, he only found a solution to a global problem.
    Wealthy people don’t necessarily look for money, they create solutions, and money will follow them! Larry Page and Sergey Brin went all out to help humanity find things faster on the internet, and billions of dollars followed them. Mark Zuckerberg created platforms for socialization, and over $71 billion followed him. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak went all out to reduce the size of computer. What problems are you solving for humanity?
    Some people spend weeks on the mountain praying for financial breakthrough without knowing what to do to be rich. They just want to be rich anyhow. It doesn’t work that way. Real wealth comes through solving problems. Real wealth comes when we take a critical look around us, see the challenges that surrounds us, and proffer solutions to them.
    One of the major reasons why millions of Africans live below the poverty line is our belief that magic wands will suddenly mint money for us. How many cups of mustard seeds did Mark Zuckerberg eat  that made him an ‘instant’ billionaire? How many bottles of anointing oil did Jeff Bezos drink that turned him into an overnight owner of Amazon? I’m not belittling prayer, but most of us pray amiss.
    This is how potential billionaires pray: “Dear Lord, Nigeria has electricity problem and I want to solve it. Lord, baptise me with fresh ideas on how to solve this problem, and connect me to the right partners to make it happen. Thank you Lord.” God will definitely download creative ideas into their minds.
    Unfortunately, this is how majority of us pray: “Oh Lord, I command anyone who said that I will not prosper to collapse and die by fire!” Another person will say: “Lord, I need financial favour. I need divine connections. I need financial breakthrough urgently. Lord send money to me today.” When God listen to our prayers sometimes, I believe He will look down from the balcony of heaven and wonder why we failed to understand that wealth creation opportunities surrounds us.

    Dear friend, it is time to change your thinking and prayer pattern. Stop looking for shortcut to the top, start looking for the problems you can solve for humanity. Money is actually a reward for solving problems for people.

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Wives who admit they use sex to get their own way!

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THE average wife has her secret of getting her own way with her husband. Making his favourite local delicacy, fetching the remote control or perhaps giving him the occasional massage. But there is, of course, another trick women can deploy to win over recalcitrant spouses – one as old as time, but rarely admitted to in polite company. And that is sex! In the marital arsenal, there are few more powerful weapons – especially when couples are years into a relationship, when the fires of passion are fading, eroded by child care, work and familiarity. Only, using sex as a bargaining chip to get wht you want remains one of the last taboos  in these sexually liberated times, a great unspoken truth, despite the fact that it’s a dynamic which lies at the heart of most marriages. But there are some women brave enough to lift the lid on this most controversial form of bartering. And they confess that they either use sex by offering it up like a particularly tantalising prize, or withholding it until their man accedes to their demands. They happily testify that such a practice can get you everything from exotic cars to designer spending sprees. What’s more, these women see little shame in their behaviour, instead saying their exploitation of their husband’s weakness is just another part of marital politics. Juliet is a 37-year-old mother of three and runs a successful bakery and would be the first to admit that using sex as a weapon has strengthened her marriage to Zeb, her husband of eleven years. “The truth is Zeb will do anything for sex,” she says. “That’s why I use this fact mercilessly to negotiate what I want for me, for the home and our future. During the course of our marriage, I have dangled the promise of an ‘early night’ to secure astonishing number of purchases – washing machine, impressive furniture for the house and for myself, I splurge on regular visit to the spa and expensive hair extensions. Not to talk of countless pairs of shoes and a Rolex wristwatch. “My husband has made tremendous strides in his business and I’ve helped in my own way, bagging one or two marketing courses abroad in the process.  The first time I used my feminine wiles in the bedroom as a tactic was for a bit of joke a couple of years into our marriage. I wanted a complete make-over of the living room using a professional interior decorator.  Zeb thought I was being too extravagant. In an off the cuff remark, I jokingly promised himm a night he wouldn’t forget if he agreed. I got my way – he got the sex. It was that easy! Since then, I’ve used it whenever I’ve needed to. “Our bedroom is out of bounds to our three children. They know it’s where Mum and Dad sleep together. They each have their own rooms. Zeb and I have a rule that we always go to bed together. Once we’re snuggled in, it’s then we’ll talk. We’re a very tactile couple and Zeb adores a back – rub and it helps that he’s at his most pliable then. I’l1 only pick my moment if I sense he’s sufficiently relaxed. Call it feminine intuition, but then if I whisper in his ears about going on holiday, for example, he’ll say yes. He’s never said no. “I’m not what you’ll call a sex bomb. I have a very low sex drive. Only about 30 per cent of our love-making is for pleasure. The rest of the time, I use sex for negotiating. While I do make myself get into the swing of it, there are times I lie there and, for example, think of my next shopping spree! Giving my husband what he wants means I get what I want. We’re both happy. It doesn’t mean I don’t fancy my husband, I do, and I love him to bits. But our sex drive are so different. It’s human nature to put more of an effort into lovemaking when I know there’s something for me at the end of it. “I believe my method is normal even in my social circle and I swap tactics with my girlfriends. Every wife, deep down, is keen to ensure that she gets what she wants out of her marriage. My husband is not a fool, he’s perfectly aware of what’s going on. We both have different needs. I love shopping, he loves sex. This way, both our passions can be met. Some may accuse me of behaving like a prostitute. But I disagree. I believe that what you put into a relationship, you get out. And I have no doubt our marriage would last … “ Therapist Lizzie Falcorner has serious misgivings about such sexual bartering – and believes that women who use these techniques in the bedroom are degrading themselves. “Offering sexual favour is deeply troubling,” she said. “What happens when you lose your libido while going through the menopause or long-term illness? What do you fall back on? I have huge misgivings over someone using the sex part of a relationship as a bargaining chip rather than a loving act which brings you closer together. These type of tactics aren’t part of a grown-up relationship.” Want To Get Pregnant? So What’s Stowing You? Here is a compilation of what the medics believe might work against you when trying in vain to get pregnant: Age: The younger you are, the easier it is to get pregnant. After 35, your chances get slimmer, and it increases the risk of your baby having a genetic disorder. Period: Regular periods? The best time to conceive is days between 13 to 16 than 31, see your doctor to check your hormone levels. Painful periods can be a sign of endometriosis) which affects fertility. Taking painkillers can lower your chances too. Excessive bleeding might indicate that you have fibroids which can make it hard for an egg to be implanted in the womb. Weight: If you’re obese, planning a baby is the perfect incentive to lose a few pounds. Too much body fat affects hormones and infertility. Getting regular exercise will boost your immune system and improve circulation as well. Booze and fags: Drinking over five units of alcohol a week greatly decreases your chance of getting pregnant. Cigarettes contain at least 30 chemicals that decrease fertility. Additives: Avoid artificial sweeteners in most diet drinks and sugar-free foods, and try not to use air fresheners or perfumes that contain artificial musk. They can affect your hormones. On the other hand, a daily multivitamin and mineral supplement may help boost your fertility. Him: Swap your man for a younger man! Men over 35 are less likely to get their partners pregnant in a year than they were at 25. A healthy weight and diet are important for him too. Steam rooms can decrease sperm count, as tight synthetic pants and smoking. Drinking too much can also cause impotence and sterility. Worry: Most of all, don’t get stressed about not getting pregnant! It will cripple your libido, interfere with your menstrual cycle and deprive your body of vitally needed nutrients. If you’ve done all the right things and still haven’t conceived in 18 months, visit your doctor for tests.

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