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Despite the obvious cry that Igbos had been marginalized in today's Nigeria, Obasanjo still insist that Igbos are no longer needed in Nigeria. According to Professor Omo Omoruyi, he wants a Northerner to succeed him. Another low blow.
SUNDAY VANGUARD : News
SUNDAY, 29th APRIL, 2001 Obasanjo seeks Northern successor — Omoruyi
The zonal conference on the 1999 constitution which begins tomorrow has been described as an avenue by President Olusegun Obasanjo to elongate his stay in office and also fulfill his part of an alleged pact with the north to ensure the emergence of a northern successor.
Former-director of the Defunct Centre for Democratic Studies (CDS), Professor Omo Omoruyi, who levelled this allegation, said the conference was an ingenious way to bring out his Obasanjo stay in office for only one term and return the north to power.
Omoruyi explained that the alleged plan was a threat to Ndigbo and Southern minority groups agitation for presidency in 2003 and asked them to be alert if the agitation was to be realised.
He spoke last week against the backdrop of a single term of five years recommended by the presidential technical committee on the 1999 constitution in its report, billed for deliberation, among other contentious issues in the polity, and adoption as a constitutional provision by the zonal conference.
The conference kicks off in Enugu tomorrow and will hold in each of the five other zones before May 29 when the exercise would be rounded off in Abuja.
Describing the conference as a fraud, Omoruyi asked Nigerians to reject it.
"President Obasanjo knows that there is no way he could get round the pact for only one term; he now wants to settle on the extension of his term of office and still stick to the one term pact:, the former CDS boss, still on self-exile in the United states, said in a statement faxed to Sunday Vanguard.
He continued: "of course, you now what Obasanjo’s foreign advisers are asking him to do. He now wants to kill democracy and work for a northern successor in 2004/5 just as he did in 1976."
"Of course, that is what he promised his sponsors in 1998 as he did in 1976", he stated.
Pointing out that "the president’s handlers" wanted to resolve the question, ‘after Obasanjo, who/what?’ in a one day conference, Omoruyi explained that Obasanjo wanted to resolve "it in the name of a one day conference scheduled for May 29, another fraudulent day, which is to work from the answer just as Abacha did in the name of the same constitutional conference in 1994/5."
He emphasised that Obasanjo failed to confess that he was unable to go to the Nigerian people for a fresh mandate, saying he (the president) knew that would mean that he would thereby be varying the pact he signed "with his sponsors".
"He now wants to push for an extension of the four term to a five/six year term. Ofcourse, he will still be within the one term of the original pact," the erstwhile CDS boss stated.
Omoruyi stressed: "this is a fraud. Of course, most of the holders who are too afraid to go back to the voters to test their popularity based on their records in office and actually compete with others would readily agree to the extension of the term of office to five or six years.
"This is a fraud and Nigerians from all walks of life should reject the plan," he added.
He wondered if Igbo and the southern minority groups would sit idly and watch the alleged plan being implemented, saying: "I am waiting to read of the reaction of Ndigbo and the Southern minority groups who are talking of their turn come 2003."
Omoruyi said "now that Obasanjo has failed to lead Nigeria to cope with lingering political problems since 1993 or since 1960, as the case may be, he should stay for his term and leave for Ota and allow Nigerians after his term to assemble and resolve these problems."
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It is sad and bewildering how OBJ wants to change the rules of engagement halfway though the game.
What is OBJ's rationale for a one or two year extention? Does he think that he is still a military dictator?
I have not heard any outcry from the southerners in the National Assembly on this issue. Does he have them all locked to a ball and chain?
Why is OBJ so brazen in his zeal to extend his sorry stay at the Rock? Some original hocus-pocus is going on behind the scenes and it is very disturbing.
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If what Professor Omoruyi is saying is true and the South hitherto is not uttering a word to Obasanjo's intimidation, then they are ultimately finished.
Nothing Obasanjo does surprises me any more. The only choice for the southern Minorities especially those from the old eastern region is to get on board right now for actualization of Biafra. There is no way a southerner in Nigeria can have a future or the opportunity to reach their God given potential if they remained in Nigeria. The writer asked why the southern legislatures have not reacted to this plot. They have not because most of them are all money bags Igbo moderate, Anyim, Ojo Maduekwe, Jim Nwobodo and Company.
Obasanjo made a deal with the devil now is time to pay, and he is asking for extension. As you all know of course your utility company can give you an extension sometimes when your bill is past due. Obasanjo took IBB's money to run for election and won. Now Obasanjo have done what IBB want him to do is time for him to get out, because mission is accomplished. Look at the Boldness of former IBB and Abacha Cliques in forming political party. I think is time some of you socalled hardcore one Nigeriaist start recognizing that IBB is probably one of the smartest Military politician in Nigeria. The mark of a smart politician is the one that understand the people of his society and make it to work for his advantage. IBB Knew that Military dictatorship is no longer attractive in today's world order since the fall of communism. Now IBB have metamorphorsed into a civilian powerful forces by creating so many think tanks to recast his political image and it has worked.
I think IBB would be better for Nigeria than Obasanjo. For some obvious reasons IBB is smarter than Obasanjo clearly. Obasanjo is a loud and vulgar mouth IBB is cool, calm and calculating. Since IBB left office how many time have you heard him speak. He rather let people plant rumors in the press about him, That is what continue to add to IBB intrique and mistique. On the other hand Obasanjo have not met any topic he does not like to respond to. In comparison Obasanjo is more like an Isala eko Lagos street agboro while IBB is an ivory tower smart and frugal politician.
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Hello Biafra, thanks for the welcome. You know why they muzzle a dogs face? Because of the propensity of the dog to bite.
Someone in OBJ's team should politically apply a muzzle on OBJ because what he spews from his mouth embarasses the living daylights out of me and other sane Nigerians. His utterences and his actions - especially his storm troopers mentality in dealing with the the East and Niger Delta is in stark contradiction to the cuddling he extends to the Sharia issue.
OBJ shows his true color with the south, but is embarassingly impotent with the North. Lis fellow must have a serious hammer suspended over his head beacause of his ambivalent behavior. Following OBJ is like watching a ping-pong game played by learners. You get disgusted, restless and want to be out of there...
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Fellows The goings on in Nigeria hurts so much that one feels fraustrated every day that passes by,The situation with mr Obasanjo and his Nigeria can be fixed if we work collectively with a focused plan. This is not 1966 but 2001. We have been dragged around for too long purposelessly without any end in sight. We must take our destiny in our hands. We as a people should stop appealling to OBJ and his northern backers for fairness and justice, but demand as our right to be left alone. We must start charting other ways to free ourselves from this hold by Nigeria. This is a free world and no group should ever be held in a union against their will. Human history has proved this over and over again. OBJ was quoted as saying that God put us together in Nigeria, if he OBJ beleives in the true and living God he would know that GOD did not put us together but the greedy British. God created different fruits and put them on different trees. This is what we are in nigeria. We have tried to make Nigeria look like a bowl of salad to give it a good taste for years, but it is not working. All this talks about national confference is nothing but a big fraud the way he now wants to conduct it. Nigeria is a big fraud for Ndi-Igbo. please read reports being presented to the Oputa panel.
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I think this article may lend some credence to Omo omoruyi's theory. Obasanjo may deny it all him want, Now we know that the visit IBB made to Ota farm before OBJ declared his presidential campaign was when the deal was made.
IBB Set for Presidential Duel with Atiku From Agaju Madugba in Kaduna
After several months of speculation over his alleged presidential ambition, former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, may have finally confirmed his resolve to run for the presidency in 2003.
Babangida who had audience with President Olusegun Obasanjo at the Aso Rock Villa, last week THISDAY gathered, conferred with the president on the issue and told that he was set to run for the presidency.
Although the former military ruler had restated his proviso that his participation in the presidential contest would depend on Obasanjo not seeking re-election, he told the president that information reaching him in Minna indicated that he (Obasanjo) would not seek re-election.
During the meeting between the two retired Generals, which presidency source said was brief, Babangida reportedly asked Obasanjo if he would run in 2003. The president who had said he was yet to make up his mind whether he would run or not, also wanted to know why Babangida was asking the question.
The former head of state then told Obasanjo: "I know that if you do not go for a second term, Atiku (Vice President Atiku Abubakar) will run. I want to contest against Atiku".
Babangida's position has thus confirmed reports that he had been moving to stop Atiku from succeeding Obasanjo in office after the existing zoning formula of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) eventually returns the presidency to the North.
The former military strong man is reported to be engaged in a fierce battle for the control of the Northern political machinery with Atiku who had allegedly frustrated his move to get a foothold on the ruling PDP.
Atiku, it was said, had interpreted IBB's forays into the PDP as a potential threat to his own plan to succeed Obasanjo in 2007.
The failure of Babangida to break into the mainstream of the PDP is said to have compelled him and some of his associates to regroup into two political associations, the National Solidarity Association (NSA) and the National Frontiers.
Although the two groups have striven to present independent postures, recent reports of possible co-operation and probable merger talks seem to indicate that both association may be working towards one goal: the actualisation of a Babangida presidency come 2003.
But Babangida has assured Obasanjo time and time again that his intention was not to run against him but that he would obviously run against Atiku.
However, these developments are coming at a time when the Deputy National Chairman (North) of the PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Iro Dan-Musa, described the former head of state as an enemy of the North.
Dan Musa told pressmen in Kaduna yesterday that Babangida should be held responsible for denying the North the opportunity to continue to rule the country.
The PDP Deputy chairman said that Babangida did not only annull the 1992 presidential primaries of the then Social Democratic Party (SDP) which the late Gen. Shehu Musa Yar'Adua (rtd) had won, but also checkmated the presidential ambitions of both Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi and Mallam Adamu Ciroma on the platform of the then National Republican Convention (NRC).
Noting that IBB's renewed ambition to rule the country was an attempt to "dribble God", Dan Musa however expressed fears that the former military leader could make an impact because "this is Nigeria where anything goes".
He said: "If Babangida could do what he did in this country and he comes out to say that he wants to rule this country again, then I say good lock to Nigerians".
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Nwaevule ako si na ihe g'eme ya once before y'amara ihe. So, the true Ndigbo and other Biafrans has learnt their lessons and are feverishly pursuing Biafra Actualization. Meanwhile, there we have our prodigal sons and daughters whose eyes has to succumb to Nigerian inflicted blindness before they learn that they are venomously hated and not wanted by One Nigerianer populace and govt.
My take is that once they finally realize that no amount of pimping and harloting will impress or soften Aremu/Ige/Yoruba leaders and their Hausa/Fulani cohorts, they'll crawl back to Biafra begging to be recruited. You know how a scorned individual can behave. Meanwhile, ayi no ya!
Waypoint 1Biafra has started a thread challenging the One Nigerianer status quo group on this board to give us Biafrans the reasons why they still want Biafrans in Nigeria. Thus far, none of them (Bababoyz, O/Tunde, Bature, Muda Kaduna, Olu, Sam,etc) has ever come forth with any. Amazing!
Alright, here it is... Nwaevule ako si na ihe g'eme ya once before y'amara ihe. Translation: The smartest offspring of the Billy goat is called Nwaevule ako. He opined that something terrible would befall upon him only once, before he learns from it.
"Meanwhile, ayi no ya" means...meanwhile, we are here (we dey).
Current Biafra Republic is made up of all the former territories of Biafra.
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