National leader of the Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, Princewill Obuka, has accused the Buhari-led government of looking the other way while the Cameroonian government “abducts” people of Bakassi.

National leader of the Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, Princewill Obuka, has accused the Buhari-led government of looking the other way while the Cameroonian government “abducts” people of Bakassi.

Obuka, who was released a few days ago from police detention after his arrest on January 16, 2018 alongside Linus Essien, youth leader of the displaced people of Bakassi, said this in a chat with newsmen on Monday in Owerri.    

He said: “The group is worried that forces from Cameroon crossed into Nigeria and abducted members of Southern Cameroon in Bakassi early this January.

“It is unfortunate that Nigerian government is supporting the action of Cameroon government against the people of the region.

“On 16 January I was arrested by the police alongside Linus Essien, Youth leader of the displaced people of Bakassi and many others on the flimsy excuses that they are supporting the southern Cameroon separatists group”.

He also lamented the neglect of hundreds of refugees from the ceded towns who are being harassed daily by Cameroon gendarmes over taxes.    

Obuka said only an independent Biafra would end the suffering of the people and called on the people of former Eastern region to support the Biafra struggle.

The Biafra group leader, however, warned, “Fulani jihadists masquerading as herdsmen in any part of the South east and South south” to leave the region.

We’ll drop the Biafra agitation if…

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared that it will instantly end all agitations for an independent state of Biafra if certain standard democratic norms are embraced by the Nigerian government.

The group’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, made the declaration while responding to the question whether the emergence of a president of Igbo extraction in 2019 can end the agitation for Biafra.

He said, “Nothing can make IPOB back down from this divine quest to restore the lost sovereignty of Biafra. Only the will of the people, clearly expressed during a referendum.

 We hear Nnia Nwodo, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Igbo governors and Abuja-based errand boys, that we ignorantly refer to as politicians or elites, tell us South East and South South people do not want Biafra, which is a lie.

“There is only one way to establish the truth and settle this matter once and for all time. That is referendum. If we lose in a referendum, we stop the agitation for Biafra same day. The will of the people is what must prevail under this and every circumstance.”

On the possibility of coming to the negotiation table with the FG, IPOB maintained that Nigeria is not yet civilised enough to understand what dialogue means.

“Neither are they known for keeping to the terms of any agreement reached. Name one agreement Nigeria entered into that run it’s course. They think we are for settlement, how mistaken they are. We will only consider meeting them through a reliable third party or mediator.”

Powerful continues, “History tells us that all conflicts end up on the conference table. Bearing this in mind, we will be willing to discuss with civilised, sensible parties on how best to speedily facilitate the peaceful dissolution of Nigeria. Many nationalities in the Middle Belt are on the brink of annihilation due to incessant Fulani terrorist attacks. It is a condition that is clearly unsustainable. The best way to go is referendum.”

On the alleged IPOB offensive and violent approach to self determination, IPOB denied and dismissed it as lies and fables peddled by the FG to justify their serial massacre and brutality against IPOB.
Emma Powerful said, “It is very sad and unfortunate that people don’t know the meaning of the phrase ‘violent approach’. Violence doesn’t need dressing up in convoluted grammar because a situation is either violent or it is not. What Fulani people are doing is violent.

What the Nigerian Army dominated by Fulani men are doing is violent. Those of you peddling the myth that IPOB preach violence are the same Abuja rented boys and slaves in the mould of Ukpabi Asika. They will do and say anything to please their Hausa Fulani masters in order to hold on to political power and privilege.

The same way Britain imposed unwanted corrupt men as Warrant Chiefs across Biafraland during the colonial era is exactly the template the North adopted in the aftermath of the Civil War to dominate, control and subjugate Igboland and the rest of Biafraland. Have you heard of any Emir, Sultan,

Governor or politician from the North condemn Fulani herdsmen who are actively killing people on a daily basis? You know the answer to that. Only in Igboland will a washed out, completely useless politician, beholden to Abuja for his dear life, rise to the position of a leader. No other society will accept such anomaly. IPOB is not violent and we don’t intend to pick up arms anytime soon, when we do, the world will know.”

On why IPOB launched an Hausa radio service, Powerful said, “Hausa Service of Radio Nigeria, mind you NOT Radio Biafra, was launched in response to the failed attempt by the Nigerian state security service (DSS) to infiltrate and destroy IPOB from within. The Nigerian Government created a parallel radio station which we have since renamed Radio Buhari International to reflect its true ownership. They proceeded to launch another radio on shortwave frequency with our sacred name.

Both stations are based in the US. They named a non existent person the leader of the great IPOB and claimed our leader and founder, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been replaced by this nonentity. It was at this point we decided late last year to launch a Hausa language service to take our unique enlightenment to the oppressed ethnic minorities in the North because no enlightened society can swallow such junk. There is quality information deficit across the North which this Hausa radio service run by IPOB, on Shortwave, will address.”

He explained why they settled for Hausa, instead of any other Nigerian language.
“We chose Hausa language because the majority of those at the receiving end of the falsehood propagated by the cabals in the North are their fellow core Arewa Northerners. Educating the impoverished, down-trodden masses of the North to understand the evil being committed in their

name is important -the most important assignment today. We are convinced that mass illiteracy and lack of access to unbiased information is the reason a majority of Hausa Fulani people live and die in abject poverty and ignorance while their ruling class loot and accumulate all the wealth accruing to

them. Hausa Service of Radio Nigeria will provide a different perspective in news coverage and analysis that will liberate the masses of the North from centuries old stranglehold of the Fulani ruling class. Put in simple terms, the Fulani hegemonic rule over Indigenous Northern tribes has come to an end with the advent of this Hausa Service radio station,” he said.

NNEWI—THE Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, said it will do everything within its power to frustrate any attempt to establish cattle colony in any part of South East and Biafran land in general, adding it a devious way of imposing Islam and ceding Biafra land to people with sharp difference in their way of living with those of Biafrans.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/massob-vows-resist-creation-cattle-colonies-igboland/

THE Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, said it will do everything within its power to frustrate any attempt to establish cattle colony in any part of South East and Biafran land in general, adding it a devious way of imposing Islam and ceding Biafra land to people with sharp difference in their way of living with those of Biafrans.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/massob-vows-resist-creation-cattle-colonies-igboland/

IPOB reiterates call for referendum on Biafra

Outlawed separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has restated its call for a referendum on the independence of Biafra, saying it was the only way peace and genuine development could come to Nigeria.

The group, during a rally to mark the first anniversary of those allegedly killed at Igweocha on January 20 last year by the Nigerian security personnel during the Trump Solidarity March in 2017, a chieftain of IPOB, Favour Michael, said what was happening in Nigeria today is a pointer that Biafra should be let go.

In the paper titled, Nigeria: A history of serial genocide and the urgent need for a referendum on Biafra, Michael said, “We’re here today (Saturday) to honour our members, gallant Biafrans who were murdered in cold blood by Nigerian security forces one year ago here at Igweocha while they

were peacefully celebrating the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States.
As we remember their sacrifices in pursuit of freedom to assemble, we also remember all Biafrans murdered in the course of their pursuit of our right to self-determination.

Garba Shehu selling a bad product in person of Buhari – CAN fires at Spokesman

Rev. Dr. Musa Asake, General Secretary, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has lambasted presidential aide, Garba Shehu, for resorting to attacks instead of addressing issues.     

Responding, the CAN scribe stated that Garba Shehu, should be pitied with his current position because he is trying to sell a bad product and as a result, he cannot do without being sycophantic
Unfortunately for him, he failed in his bid to defend President Muhammadu Buhari, whose government’s record for nepotism, favoritism and discrimination is second to none.
Through his partial, sectional and discriminatory appointments, particularly in Security and Education, President Buhari violated Section 14, Para. 3 which reads: “The composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity, and to command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few State or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in that Government or in any of its agencies.
So, how come Garba Shehu is clamming that I could not cite any valid cases of constitutional violations?      Let me make it clear to Mr. Shehu Garba and suggest that he checks the records, read the daily papers, and listens to what concern Nigerians who are saying that President Buhari has no respect for the Federal Character Commission.
I still stand firmly on my position that President Buhari has been making sectional and discriminatory appointments in the Security and Education sectors which poses threat to the country’s democracy and constitution.
I advised him to speak with any lawyer outside the Presidency on several sections of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) that are being violated by his principal.
For obvious reasons, it seems to me that Garba Shehu is ignorant of the function of the Church to the society.   As a Servant of God and a Minister of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, I have a divine mandate to be a voice to the voiceless, to condemn the evil in the land and to praise or criticize the government as the need arises.

It is a club of prominent Nigerians who before the 2015 general elections vociferously came out to support the presidential aspiration of General Muhammadu Buhari. President Obasanjo’s claims of incompetence, clannishness, and corruption have also been cited by some of the former friends of Buhari in distancing themselves from his government and his second term aspiration. Dr. Junaid Mohammed: – The first rebel Perhaps the first person among Buhari’s friends to break ranks with him was Dr. Junaid Mohammed, the fiery Second Republic lawmaker. Dr. Mohammed supported Buhari in 2015 despite his reservations about Buhari’s role in torpedoing the Second Republic where he, Mohammed came to national renown. Mohammed gravitated towards Buhari partly on account of what he claimed as the deficiencies of President Goodluck Jonathan. However, within months of President Buhari’s inauguration in May 2015, Mohammed apparently fell out with him and by 2016 was already living up to his Second Republic image as the stormy petrel. Even though now advanced in age, Mohammed was one of the few to publicly name those he claimed as members of the cabal who he alleged were ruling in place of Buhari. “What is happening right now is very unfortunate because evidence has since shown that the President’s handlers are not telling us the truth. They are playing on the intelligence of the masses, who took time to register, vote and some even died while voting. I feel Nigerians deserve better than what we are getting right now,” he told Vanguard in an interview. Atiku Abubakar – the veteran who gave Buhari the mouthpiece The point at which Atiku Abubakar fell out with the Buhari administration cannot really be said. Buhari’s associates claim he never wished the administration well despite handing over one of his most potent campaign veterans in the person of Garba Shehu to the 2015 Buhari Campaign Organisation. Atiku has also claimed that he supported the Buhari campaign in terms of logistics and other resources. Atiku like many senior chieftains of the APC lamented Buhari’s failure to recognise those who helped him to power saying he resorted to a cabal who dictated policies, positions and programmes for the administration that they laboured to birth. Atiku was also particularly mindful of the failure of the APC to hold statutory meetings, notably the Board of Trustees, BoT, a body to which party insiders believed Atiku hoped to chair and through which to influence the party and government. Perhaps to checkmate Atiku’s aspiration, it was claimed that Buhari was quick to appoint Mr. Babachir Lawal as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF. Lawal and Atiku are from the same Adamawa State, and it was reasoned in those early days of the Buhari administration that the chairman of the BoT and the SGF could not come from the same state. Speaking of his resignation and the trend in the party, Atiku said: “after Buhari won the election, he was no longer interested in the party that made him president. Every activity stopped and even the party chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, could not take any decision. I called Chief Odigie-Oyegun to tell him that our party was dying slowly, but he told me he could not do anything unless he got clearance from the president. “The party became a one-man property. Everyone grumbles behind the president, but they are too timid to raise a voice against the illegalities being perpetrated. I should be bold enough to know what I want and can do so at my age. So, I decided to leave.” Atiku formally left Buhari and the APC in October 2017. Father Mbaka – the priest who sanctified Buhari The fiery cleric from Enugu State was unarguably the leading voice in the Igbo Christian community who helped to assuage critical concerns about Buhari’s alleged Islamist proclivities. Mbaka who endorsed Buhari on New Year eve of 2015 had said in justification of his action. “Some people said the APC people and Buhari had given me money, but I have never seen Buhari before; I don’t know him. Buhari’s one kobo, as I talk to you, has never touched my hand. I don’t know him; God in heaven is my witness. I am just the voice of the voiceless, the sorrowful and the cheated and frustrated Nigerians “He (Jonathan) says it shall be well but until when? Is it until you die? If my message will stir them into action, thank God it has achieved its purpose. I am not a politician; my job is to raise my voice from the sanctuary here. The same God that helped the Israelites to cross the red sea did He not punish them in the desert?” Three years after, Mbaka seemed to have backtracked. In his 2018 New Year eve address to his congregation, the priest said: “Mr. President, you need to change, or you will be changed. You are the one who introduced change as your mantra. Nigerian economy is in shambles and Nigerians are in sorrow. Nigeria is not just passing through an economic depression but also economic repression and compression. Very soon, Nigerians will know that the country is in a terrible mess. The cabals have messed up the President and confused him. “So, Mr. President, you are to be blamed, not your cabals. You have your brooms, but the cabals have their bags. Either you sweep them away, or they sweep you into their bags. Your methodology is archaic and sluggish. Dele Momodu – the media advocate Celebrity magazine publisher, Dele Momodu was one of the earliest supporters of Buhari even before his emergence as candidate of the APC. Momodu was instrumental in canvassing support for Buhari among the critical Southwest media and intelligentsia and possibly in the international community. His support for Buhari was apparently framed on the claim that the Buhari persona had been largely misrepresented and twisted by the PDP. Mr. Momodu’s advocacy for Buhari among journalists arguably helped to shape the positive media image that helped to overlook those inherent frailties of the aspirant before he became candidate. Mr. Momodu was gifted with at least two photo-ops with Buhari after he became president. By early this year, Momodu’s angst had boiled over, and in a public letter he wrote to the president on January 6, he said: “it is indeed shameful that those like me who supported you so vociferously have become butts of jokes everywhere we go. Sir, I plead with you to ignore your acolytes who may be telling you that all is well in Nigeria. My unequivocal verdict, without any fear of contradiction, is that things are very bad. While I will not, in all honesty, totally heap the blame on you, there is no doubt that your government has been less than competent.” Ghali Na‘Abba – the man, disappointed by Buhari Ghali Na‘Abba, the second speaker of the Fourth Republic House of Representatives, left the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP just before the March 2015 presidential elections and joined the APC. His defection immediately enrolled him into the BoT of his new party. However, the impunity he claimed to have abandoned in the PDP was more or less replicated in his new party. Though he has not defected from the APC, he earlier this month vowed to oppose President Buhari’s second term aspiration on the claim that he has been less than forthcoming as president and leader of the APC. “I had the occasion to sit down with the president and tell him this is what is wrong. And all he told me was that things were wrong before but now, with his election, everything was right. And I was very, very disappointed,” he said in a television show, broadcast earlier this week. “He promised to reconstitute the boards. Before, he refused to do that because he thought politicians were responsible for all the evils in this country. He also promised to increase the number of ministers. In a nutshell, the president has not added value to democracy by an inch. It is only when there is democracy and competence that every Nigerian, regardless of who they are, will be able to make it in life. There is no way I can support him”, he said. Senator Shehu Sani – the man who discerned deodorant and insecticide corruption Senator Sani was not part of Buhari’s tactical team ahead of the 2015 elections. Sani, through his grassroots activism trounced Buhari’s anointed candidate for the 2015 Kaduna Central Senate seat, General Mohammed Saleh to emerge as the APC candidate. Sani, like several other APC stakeholders supported Buhari for the presidency. However, when it came to political patronages, Governor Nasir El-Rufai who is perhaps Buhari’s alter ego, saw to it that Saleh who Sani defeated got the patronage of appointments in Kaduna State to the chagrin of the incumbent senator. It was perhaps not surprising that as the cabal behind Buhari put pressure on Senate President Bukola Saraki that Senator Sani lined up with Saraki. Sani has been an unwavering chorister in the Saraki camp in the Senate and has been one of the lead vocalists espousing the deficiencies of the Buhari administration. One of his most notable utterances was his assertion of the hypocrisy with which the presidency fights corruption. Following Buhari’s dithering procrastination on the issue of the allegations of corruption found against the then government scribe, Mr. Babachir Lawal, Sani said: “Mr. President, Distinguished Colleagues, I rise through Order 43 of Senate Rules, and I want to submit that President Buhari’s reaction on SGF shows the use of insecticides when fighting corruption at the legislative arm, while he uses deodorant at the Executive arm,” he said. Senator Isa Misau – the lone fighter Senator Isa Misau like Senator Sani has had issues with his local governor, Governor Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi State. However, even more than that, he has become like a one-man riot squad against perceived incompetence and corruption in the Buhari administration. His first salvos were directed towards the police, actions that made the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris to take legal action to stop the Senate inquiry on alleged acts of corruption levelled against him. For his efforts, Misau has been dragged to court for supposedly embarrassing a government official. The APC chieftain has, however, not lost his bearings. As the Senate resumed this month, he blasted the Buhari administration for gross incompetence even in its appointments. He said: “So many incompetent people are holding so many positions. Fifty per cent of the ministers are not performing. Since the president assumed office, he has not taken any decision to move this country. Today we are seeing it, and everybody is avoiding it, nobody wants to say anything. “So many appointments in this government are not on merit. Some people have taken over the government as if they are even above the president. They take decisions anyhow. We say we are fighting corruption, but the the vice-president’s committee indicted Babachir. Today, they are pursuing other people, why can’t they take Babachir Lawal, (former SGF) to court and all of us are here keeping quiet. People who have not done anything are always in court. This is the man that squandered money meant for IDPs, and he is still visiting villa every day. Pastor Tunde Bakare – Scored Buhari failure in his core competences Pastor Bakare was Buhari’s running mate in the 2011 presidential election on the banner of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC. He followed on to enthusiastically back Buhari for the 2015 presidential election after another pastor, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo took the position of running mate in that year’s election. Bakare is, however, disappointed with the Buhari administration and expressed as much when he delivered his state of the nation address on January 14. He was particularly peeved that the president had failed in what was believed to be his core professed competences, to wit, security, anti-corruption, and economy. “Nothing indicts the current government greater than its failure in one key performance area that ought to be its strength: security,” Bakare said. “This administration anchored its policy outlook on three main thrusts, including security, job creation through diversification, and anti-corruption, yet all around us are signs of retrogression,” he added. “As at June 2015, the unemployment rate was 8.2% of a labour force of 74 million, meaning that about 6 million Nigerians were unemployed. “By September, 2017, despite such efforts as N-Power and a range of policies aimed at improving enterprise development and facilitating job creation, the unemployment rate had risen to 18.8% of a labour force of 85.1 million, indicating that between 2015 and 2017, the number of unemployed Nigerians rose from about 6 million to almost 16 million.” Aisha Alhassan – the brave warrior in the cabinet The minister of women affairs publicly pronounced her preference for Atiku Abubakar in an interview with the BBC last September. However, should Atiku not run as a candidate there are questions as to where the woman famously referred to as Mama Taraba would incline her political weight Aisha Buhari –the Amazon in the other room The first lady was undoubtedly one of the major attractions of the Buhari candidacy in 2015. That was the first time she came out to campaign for her husband, and the way Nigerians took to her showed in the way she was positively complimented in the media and in the way people turned out to vote for her husband. She was also known to have found a rapport with the political class who helped her husband to victory in the election. It was as such not surprising when in 2016 she came to lament that her husband’s government had been hijacked by those who did not come out to campaign or even by those who stood by the wayside. In an interview with the BBC in September 2016, she said: “He is yet to tell me (if he’ll seek re-election) but I have decided as his wife, that if things continue like this up to 2019, I will not go out and campaign again and ask any woman to vote like I did before. I will never do it again,” she said. Noting how those who did not share her husband’s vision came to take over the government, she said: “Some people were sitting down in their homes folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position,” she said. Aisha Buhari has apparently not deterred in her bid to recover her husband’s saintly image. Earlier this month she set twitter ablaze when she retweeted criticisms of her husband’s administration by Senator Misau levelled in the Senate.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/obasanjo-joins-buharis-former-friends-bffs/

It is a club of prominent Nigerians who before the 2015 general elections vociferously came out to support the presidential aspiration of General Muhammadu Buhari. President Obasanjo’s claims of incompetence, clannishness, and corruption have also been cited by some of the former friends of Buhari in distancing themselves from his government and his second term aspiration. Dr. Junaid Mohammed: – The first rebel Perhaps the first person among Buhari’s friends to break ranks with him was Dr. Junaid Mohammed, the fiery Second Republic lawmaker. Dr. Mohammed supported Buhari in 2015 despite his reservations about Buhari’s role in torpedoing the Second Republic where he, Mohammed came to national renown. Mohammed gravitated towards Buhari partly on account of what he claimed as the deficiencies of President Goodluck Jonathan. However, within months of President Buhari’s inauguration in May 2015, Mohammed apparently fell out with him and by 2016 was already living up to his Second Republic image as the stormy petrel. Even though now advanced in age, Mohammed was one of the few to publicly name those he claimed as members of the cabal who he alleged were ruling in place of Buhari. “What is happening right now is very unfortunate because evidence has since shown that the President’s handlers are not telling us the truth. They are playing on the intelligence of the masses, who took time to register, vote and some even died while voting. I feel Nigerians deserve better than what we are getting right now,” he told Vanguard in an interview. Atiku Abubakar – the veteran who gave Buhari the mouthpiece The point at which Atiku Abubakar fell out with the Buhari administration cannot really be said. Buhari’s associates claim he never wished the administration well despite handing over one of his most potent campaign veterans in the person of Garba Shehu to the 2015 Buhari Campaign Organisation. Atiku has also claimed that he supported the Buhari campaign in terms of logistics and other resources. Atiku like many senior chieftains of the APC lamented Buhari’s failure to recognise those who helped him to power saying he resorted to a cabal who dictated policies, positions and programmes for the administration that they laboured to birth. Atiku was also particularly mindful of the failure of the APC to hold statutory meetings, notably the Board of Trustees, BoT, a body to which party insiders believed Atiku hoped to chair and through which to influence the party and government. Perhaps to checkmate Atiku’s aspiration, it was claimed that Buhari was quick to appoint Mr. Babachir Lawal as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF. Lawal and Atiku are from the same Adamawa State, and it was reasoned in those early days of the Buhari administration that the chairman of the BoT and the SGF could not come from the same state. Speaking of his resignation and the trend in the party, Atiku said: “after Buhari won the election, he was no longer interested in the party that made him president. Every activity stopped and even the party chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, could not take any decision. I called Chief Odigie-Oyegun to tell him that our party was dying slowly, but he told me he could not do anything unless he got clearance from the president. “The party became a one-man property. Everyone grumbles behind the president, but they are too timid to raise a voice against the illegalities being perpetrated. I should be bold enough to know what I want and can do so at my age. So, I decided to leave.” Atiku formally left Buhari and the APC in October 2017. Father Mbaka – the priest who sanctified Buhari The fiery cleric from Enugu State was unarguably the leading voice in the Igbo Christian community who helped to assuage critical concerns about Buhari’s alleged Islamist proclivities. Mbaka who endorsed Buhari on New Year eve of 2015 had said in justification of his action. “Some people said the APC people and Buhari had given me money, but I have never seen Buhari before; I don’t know him. Buhari’s one kobo, as I talk to you, has never touched my hand. I don’t know him; God in heaven is my witness. I am just the voice of the voiceless, the sorrowful and the cheated and frustrated Nigerians “He (Jonathan) says it shall be well but until when? Is it until you die? If my message will stir them into action, thank God it has achieved its purpose. I am not a politician; my job is to raise my voice from the sanctuary here. The same God that helped the Israelites to cross the red sea did He not punish them in the desert?” Three years after, Mbaka seemed to have backtracked. In his 2018 New Year eve address to his congregation, the priest said: “Mr. President, you need to change, or you will be changed. You are the one who introduced change as your mantra. Nigerian economy is in shambles and Nigerians are in sorrow. Nigeria is not just passing through an economic depression but also economic repression and compression. Very soon, Nigerians will know that the country is in a terrible mess. The cabals have messed up the President and confused him. “So, Mr. President, you are to be blamed, not your cabals. You have your brooms, but the cabals have their bags. Either you sweep them away, or they sweep you into their bags. Your methodology is archaic and sluggish. Dele Momodu – the media advocate Celebrity magazine publisher, Dele Momodu was one of the earliest supporters of Buhari even before his emergence as candidate of the APC. Momodu was instrumental in canvassing support for Buhari among the critical Southwest media and intelligentsia and possibly in the international community. His support for Buhari was apparently framed on the claim that the Buhari persona had been largely misrepresented and twisted by the PDP. Mr. Momodu’s advocacy for Buhari among journalists arguably helped to shape the positive media image that helped to overlook those inherent frailties of the aspirant before he became candidate. Mr. Momodu was gifted with at least two photo-ops with Buhari after he became president. By early this year, Momodu’s angst had boiled over, and in a public letter he wrote to the president on January 6, he said: “it is indeed shameful that those like me who supported you so vociferously have become butts of jokes everywhere we go. Sir, I plead with you to ignore your acolytes who may be telling you that all is well in Nigeria. My unequivocal verdict, without any fear of contradiction, is that things are very bad. While I will not, in all honesty, totally heap the blame on you, there is no doubt that your government has been less than competent.” Ghali Na‘Abba – the man, disappointed by Buhari Ghali Na‘Abba, the second speaker of the Fourth Republic House of Representatives, left the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP just before the March 2015 presidential elections and joined the APC. His defection immediately enrolled him into the BoT of his new party. However, the impunity he claimed to have abandoned in the PDP was more or less replicated in his new party. Though he has not defected from the APC, he earlier this month vowed to oppose President Buhari’s second term aspiration on the claim that he has been less than forthcoming as president and leader of the APC. “I had the occasion to sit down with the president and tell him this is what is wrong. And all he told me was that things were wrong before but now, with his election, everything was right. And I was very, very disappointed,” he said in a television show, broadcast earlier this week. “He promised to reconstitute the boards. Before, he refused to do that because he thought politicians were responsible for all the evils in this country. He also promised to increase the number of ministers. In a nutshell, the president has not added value to democracy by an inch. It is only when there is democracy and competence that every Nigerian, regardless of who they are, will be able to make it in life. There is no way I can support him”, he said. Senator Shehu Sani – the man who discerned deodorant and insecticide corruption Senator Sani was not part of Buhari’s tactical team ahead of the 2015 elections. Sani, through his grassroots activism trounced Buhari’s anointed candidate for the 2015 Kaduna Central Senate seat, General Mohammed Saleh to emerge as the APC candidate. Sani, like several other APC stakeholders supported Buhari for the presidency. However, when it came to political patronages, Governor Nasir El-Rufai who is perhaps Buhari’s alter ego, saw to it that Saleh who Sani defeated got the patronage of appointments in Kaduna State to the chagrin of the incumbent senator. It was perhaps not surprising that as the cabal behind Buhari put pressure on Senate President Bukola Saraki that Senator Sani lined up with Saraki. Sani has been an unwavering chorister in the Saraki camp in the Senate and has been one of the lead vocalists espousing the deficiencies of the Buhari administration. One of his most notable utterances was his assertion of the hypocrisy with which the presidency fights corruption. Following Buhari’s dithering procrastination on the issue of the allegations of corruption found against the then government scribe, Mr. Babachir Lawal, Sani said: “Mr. President, Distinguished Colleagues, I rise through Order 43 of Senate Rules, and I want to submit that President Buhari’s reaction on SGF shows the use of insecticides when fighting corruption at the legislative arm, while he uses deodorant at the Executive arm,” he said. Senator Isa Misau – the lone fighter Senator Isa Misau like Senator Sani has had issues with his local governor, Governor Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi State. However, even more than that, he has become like a one-man riot squad against perceived incompetence and corruption in the Buhari administration. His first salvos were directed towards the police, actions that made the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris to take legal action to stop the Senate inquiry on alleged acts of corruption levelled against him. For his efforts, Misau has been dragged to court for supposedly embarrassing a government official. The APC chieftain has, however, not lost his bearings. As the Senate resumed this month, he blasted the Buhari administration for gross incompetence even in its appointments. He said: “So many incompetent people are holding so many positions. Fifty per cent of the ministers are not performing. Since the president assumed office, he has not taken any decision to move this country. Today we are seeing it, and everybody is avoiding it, nobody wants to say anything. “So many appointments in this government are not on merit. Some people have taken over the government as if they are even above the president. They take decisions anyhow. We say we are fighting corruption, but the the vice-president’s committee indicted Babachir. Today, they are pursuing other people, why can’t they take Babachir Lawal, (former SGF) to court and all of us are here keeping quiet. People who have not done anything are always in court. This is the man that squandered money meant for IDPs, and he is still visiting villa every day. Pastor Tunde Bakare – Scored Buhari failure in his core competences Pastor Bakare was Buhari’s running mate in the 2011 presidential election on the banner of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC. He followed on to enthusiastically back Buhari for the 2015 presidential election after another pastor, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo took the position of running mate in that year’s election. Bakare is, however, disappointed with the Buhari administration and expressed as much when he delivered his state of the nation address on January 14. He was particularly peeved that the president had failed in what was believed to be his core professed competences, to wit, security, anti-corruption, and economy. “Nothing indicts the current government greater than its failure in one key performance area that ought to be its strength: security,” Bakare said. “This administration anchored its policy outlook on three main thrusts, including security, job creation through diversification, and anti-corruption, yet all around us are signs of retrogression,” he added. “As at June 2015, the unemployment rate was 8.2% of a labour force of 74 million, meaning that about 6 million Nigerians were unemployed. “By September, 2017, despite such efforts as N-Power and a range of policies aimed at improving enterprise development and facilitating job creation, the unemployment rate had risen to 18.8% of a labour force of 85.1 million, indicating that between 2015 and 2017, the number of unemployed Nigerians rose from about 6 million to almost 16 million.” Aisha Alhassan – the brave warrior in the cabinet The minister of women affairs publicly pronounced her preference for Atiku Abubakar in an interview with the BBC last September. However, should Atiku not run as a candidate there are questions as to where the woman famously referred to as Mama Taraba would incline her political weight Aisha Buhari –the Amazon in the other room The first lady was undoubtedly one of the major attractions of the Buhari candidacy in 2015. That was the first time she came out to campaign for her husband, and the way Nigerians took to her showed in the way she was positively complimented in the media and in the way people turned out to vote for her husband. She was also known to have found a rapport with the political class who helped her husband to victory in the election. It was as such not surprising when in 2016 she came to lament that her husband’s government had been hijacked by those who did not come out to campaign or even by those who stood by the wayside. In an interview with the BBC in September 2016, she said: “He is yet to tell me (if he’ll seek re-election) but I have decided as his wife, that if things continue like this up to 2019, I will not go out and campaign again and ask any woman to vote like I did before. I will never do it again,” she said. Noting how those who did not share her husband’s vision came to take over the government, she said: “Some people were sitting down in their homes folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position,” she said. Aisha Buhari has apparently not deterred in her bid to recover her husband’s saintly image. Earlier this month she set twitter ablaze when she retweeted criticisms of her husband’s administration by Senator Misau levelled in the Senate.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/obasanjo-joins-buharis-former-friends-bffs/

Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday afternoon issued what he termed as a special press release, he inevitably enrolled himself in a special club – to wit, the club of Buhari’s Former Friends (BFFs), those who backed the president’s election but have now turned against him

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/obasanjo-joins-buharis-former-friends-bffs/

Nigeria President Buhari to launch Africa’s anti-graft war tomorrow

 

the Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to flag off Africa’s anti-corruption war tomorrow (Monday) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, disclosed this while addressing journalists in Addis Ababa Friday night after Buhari arrived for the 30th

Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union.
The presidential spokesman said at the unveiling ceremony, the president would set the tone for the African continent’s anti-graft war.

According to him, President Buhari was well prepared for the AU summit which has as its theme, Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation  
He explained that “The theme for this year’s summit is essentially on corruption. The AU has chosen the theme of winning the fight against corruption as a sustainable launch pad for Africa for African transformation. So, it is important for President Muhammadu Buhari that he has been chosen as the champion for this theme.
What that tells you is that the whole continent is looking at the good work that our president is doing, pushing back and fighting corruption effectively. And the rest of the continent will say, let’s look at what Nigeria is doing and wants to share the Nigerian experience.
The president has come well prepared. He has the role of flagging off the continent’s wide war against corruption. So, he is going to set the tone and as well unveil the logo. So, it is big theme for our country.
Shehu further stated that the President would use the period of the meeting to engage in bilateral talks on other issues of continental significance such as single air transportation system, free movement, free trade, climate change, security, Lake Chad and the Sahel crisis as well as all of these acts of terror flowing from Libya, Somalia, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo
Continuing he said, So, they (African leaders) have their plates full and it is going to be deeply and highly engaging for them. We are looking forward to, perhaps, one of the busiest summits ever in the African Union.

How Buhari’s second term will destroy Tinubu, break-up Nigeria – Senator Ayu

A third republic senator, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu has warned Nigerians against voting president

Muhammadu Buhari into power in 2019, Politics nigeria has gathered.

Ayu, an old-time politician, says that Buhari winning second term will consume the national leader of
the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu and break-up the country. He told sun                     

I am not a member of APC. At a point when Obasanjo was destabilizing the PDP which I was a founding member, a number of us left . We joined hands with Tinubu to form Action Congress (AC). We were developing that party with him until it became Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).”
I talked to my friend Tinubu, we are very close . I told him that we need to develop the progressive party in Nigeria. He didn’t believe me,  he preferred to go and link up with the most right wing group in the North . And that right wing group was headed by Buhari in the name of CPC . At that point I left the party and came back to the PDP. I have known Gen. Buhari when he was the military Head of State, I was a university lecturer then. I know the tyranny that was visited on this country.
I refused to be part of that team . I warned Tinubu that he will regret bringing Buhari and imposing him on the party. I believe he is regretting silently without telling Nigerians . But more is to be expected. I am sorry to say that if Buhari is re-elected in 2019, it will not only consume Tinubu , it will consume so many other people. It may even lead to the disintegration of Nigeria

Femi Fani-Kayode: Obasanjo and his love letter to Buhari

 


Few can dispute the fact that President Olusegun Obasanjo, the Ebora Owu, was one of those that brought President Muhammadu Buhari to power in 2015.
Without Obasanjo’s wholesale and comprehensive endorsement Buhari would have failed woefully at the polls three years ago. 

Yet, in my view, today the Ebora Owu has absolved himself of this grave and monumental error by standing up to speak truth to power at great risk to his safety, fortunes and welfare and by sending our President an explosive, damning and much-awaited missive telling him that he has failed woefully, admonishing him to get off his “high horse of leadership” and advising him not to attempt to run again in 2019.

I am delighted and indeed proud of what the Ebora has done and I commend and congratulate him for finding the courage to say what those of us that have been at the forefront of the struggle against President Buhari have been saying for the last three years.
My friend and brother Governor Peter ‘The Rock’ Ayodele Fayose gallantly led the charge and said it. Pastor Reno Omokri said it. Dr. Reuben Abati said it. Professor Abubakar Sulaiman said it. Col. Abubakar ‘Dangiwa’ Umar said it. Governor Nyesom Wike said it. Senator Ben Murray-Bruce said it. Mujaheed Asari Dokubo said it. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu said it.
Yours truly said it. And a number of others said it.

And each and every one of us that did, in varying degrees, have faced all manner of insults and threats and have paid a heavy price for doing so.
Yet we have no regrets because no matter what happens tomorrow posterity will judge us kindly and history will recall that, when it mattered the most, we stood for the people, for the truth, for justice and for equity and we resisted and opposed racism, ethnic hegemony, religious bigotry, naked tyranny, oppression, mass murder, genocide, ethnic cleansing and the relentless attempt to subjugate and enslave our compatriots and our nation.

We welcome President Obasanjo and others to the honorable and noble ranks of conscientious dissenters, non-conformists and men of courage. Yet as refreshing and inspiring as his letter was I respectfully disagree with just one aspect of it.

I believe that his categorisation and condemnation of the main opposition party was unecessarily harsh, misplaced and regrettable. And neither do I accept the assertion that the PDP “procured a judgement at the Supreme Court. 
The continous attempt to demystify, demonise, demean and destroy the PDP, which the APC and the Buhari government set in motion as one of its cardinal policies three years ago, is certainly not the way forward.

If anything those that got it wrong three years ago and that supported Buhari should be thanking the PDP for having the insight and fortitude to recognise the insincerity of purpose and glaring incompetence in Buhari and his APC at a very early stage when they stubbornly refused to do so.
They should also be thanking a few of us for providing a viable, strong and virile opposition to a man that can best be described as a vicious and vindictive maximum dictator who has no respect for the rule of law or the tenets of democracy and a party that was contrived and conjured up from the pit of hell.

Yet outside of that faux pax I believe that the Ebora Owu’s intervention was not only welcome but also timely.
His counsel has removed whatever little was left of the spiritual foundation of the APC and the Buhari government and it has stripped them naked before the civilised world.

Today they are nothing but a sorry bunch of castrated and weakened renegades who are living on the fading glory and diminishing power of an “all-conquering” ethnic hegemonist and religious bigot. Simply put, they are nothing but a shell of their former selves.

Baba Obasanjo’s intervention also creates the potential for a new beginning and a massive and purposeful realignment of political forces that may end up saving Nigeria.
Let us hope that thousands of others that have hitherto been hiding under their beds out of fear of Buhari will follow the Ebora’s lead and find their voice.

Yet if we really want to ensure that Buhari does not return in 2019 we need to go much further than offering wise counsel or letter-writing.
The truth of the matter is that this whole issue goes far beyond party politics: it is a struggle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. I say this because what we are faced with is pure tyranny and unadulterated evil.

As a matter of fact it is probably the greatest evil that we have ever known in our entire history.
Quite apart from the sheer duplicity, double-speak, greed, mendacities, double-standards, nepotism, ethnic and religious motivations, clanishness, cruelty, incompetence and monumental corruption of

the Buhari administration, under their watch more people have been slaughtered by the security forces and by state-supported and protected ethnic militias like the Fulani terrorists and herdsmen than at ANY other time in our history outside the civil war.

Too much blood has been shed. Too much suffering and devastation has been wrought and inflicted. Too much has gone wrong. The very root of our foundation and our source of strength and unity has been tampered with and damaged almost irreversably over the last three years.

Worse still is the fact that the neo-fascist forces that Buhari and those that are still with him represent will not let go of power without a hard and bloody fight.
Those forces are far more entrenched, determined, bloody-minded, dangerous and devastating than anything we have ever known or that we have ever been confronted with in our entire history. They are not only ruthless but they are also relentless.

If anyone doubts that they should read the words of the Minister of Defence when he attempted to defend, justify and rationalise the activities of the Fulani herdsmen.
I said this during the 2015 Presidential campaign and many refused to listen. I am saying it again today. Buhari and those behind him will not go down without a fight yet they must be stopped before they soak the whole of Nigeria in innocent blood and shatter whatever little is left of our fragile unity.
They must be stopped before they ignite a second civil war in which brother will kill brother and to which there will be no end.

We must avoid this at all costs and we must settle our many differences in a peaceful and civilised way through dialogue, fair play, justice, restraint, understanding, free and fair elections and, most important of all, the restructuring of our nation.
We must also be ready to confront the tyranny in the land and face down the evil wherever and whenever it raises its ugly head.

Those that choose to play down the dangers of our situation and that have turned a blind eye to the gravity of the unfolding crisis would do well to consider the words of Mr. Abdulazeez Adeniyi Sulaiman. He wrote,

Buhari’s legacy of bigotry and ethnic hatred is set in stone. There is no amount of makeover under the sun that can change that. Fulani herdsmen set a 150-acre palm plantation ablaze in Oyo state
Disturbing? Indeed. Yet no-one has managed to capture the mood better than Mr. Nnaemeka John who wrote the following on 21st January,

I love the Fulanis! Our political scientists take time to study Machiavelli, Gramsci, Shaka the Zulu, Hans Morganthau’s ‘Power’, Guevara et al ignoring a rare and unique political philosophy in our midst- the Fulanism-Jihadism!

See how they took Hausa land, took Ilorin, used and dumped Ken Saro Wiwa, used the Tivs, Igalas, Idoma’s et al and dumped them. Unongo is now a wailing wailer, David Mark has lost his voice, Gemade is lost, Audu is still somnambulistic, Fani-Kayode is screaming, Olu Falae is now a chronic wailer: learnt they visited him again yesterday. Na so life be?

Now, let it be known all over southern Nigeria, that the march to dip the Koran into the Atlantic ocean has began in earnest. Any obstacle will be ruthlessly crushed.

They tested the people’s will by threatening to soak dogs and baboons in blood, they got their way.
The killed and burnt the entire family of a Resident Electoral Commissioner nothing happened. They appointed only people from their side into their kitchen cabinet, southerners were made to justify it.
They closed the Chapel on the Rock at Aso, our Christian Vice president, explained it away. They released murderous Boko Haram members, without any kind of penal measures into society, we hissed and went about our normal businesses. They paraded our people accused of corruption in handcuffs like common criminals, we kept quiet.

They picked up Nnamdi Kanu, whose words pierced their conscience, exposed their plans and cried to the world; they handcuffed him, like a common criminal while Boko Haram kingpins, who have murdered hundreds, appeared in court unfettered, we only grumbled.
They sent herdsmen to cause havoc in our homelands, rather than defend ourselves, we begged them to stop killing us in own ancestral homes. They pushed further by appointing only their own into the National Defence Council, something that has never happened before, not even immediately after the civil war, all we did was murmur.

They took on unarmed IPOB, proscribed them, labeled them terrorists and militants, politically correct people hailed them and clapped for them.

For the jihadists, it was a sign that the time has come, the time to implement the time tested strategy that worked in Ilorin, Lebanon, Turkey and several other places.

Since it is now very obvious, that the people have been cowed, intimidated and politically outsmarted, it is now time to introduce the Trojan horse, under the guise of cattle colonies.
They will take the people’s lands, develop them with proceeds from oil, gotten from the people’s land and hand them over to their people. They will move in with their families, one man to four women, each woman have at least five children, in twenty years time, they’ll outnumber the Aborigines, use their numbers to get strategic political positions and declare an Islamic state.

Sounds like fiction? No! That’s exactly how Lebanon moved from a very popular trading and beautiful tourist country that it was, to the ruins and debris laden country that it is today.
The Christians in the South have a choice, they either hand over the colonies to the Jihadists, sorry government, and convert to Islam or say No! to the colony project and begin to prepare for the consequences. To be forewarned, is to be forearmed! God help us

The unfolding scenario is indeed grave and it is fraught with danger. War is on the horizon and the sheer madness, greed, bloodlust and callousness of the Fulani terrorists and herdsmen coupled with the conspiratorial collaboration and criminal collusion of the Buhari administration in their unconsciable evil is stirring a retributive, wild, dangerous and uncontrollable rage in the hearts of their victims and in the communities that they consistently terrorise, burn down and subject to ethnic cleansing and genocide.

That rage is like a massive volcano that is waiting to erupt and explode. And when it does not one of the perpertrators or the objects of its hate will escape the wrath of its burning lava. The message is simple and clear: we shall not be conquered