quote:It is not a secret that Mr. Joseph Sanusi a yoruba man is the head of the central bank, Mr. Kayode Naiyeju a yoruba man is the Accountant-General of Nigeria, Mr. Joseph Ajiboye is the Auditor-General of Nigeria, Rasheed Gbadamosi a Yoruba heads PPPRA, Mr. Kpolokun heads NNPC, Mr. Tarfa Balogun is IG of police, Mr. Obasanjo is the minister for petroleum. Dr. Peter Okebukola is the head of N.U.C, the Dir-general of SSS is a Yoruba. The list goes on. While the other people from the other zones are being removed, the yorubas are being employed. The yorubas constitute 70% of financial and oil sector employees. Is this not Oduduwa economic imperialism and yorubanization of Nigerian civil service?
quote: When again he was reminded that the question was an airport. He finally said that he has discussed the issue with the Enugu state governor and told him that if he can get any international airline that can land people there, he will provide customs and immigration service, apparently the structures that give an airport international status. This in effect means that a woman has to bear a child before she becomes pregnant. Enugu airport has to find international airline that will first land people in it before it can be internationalized.
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It all happened at Four Season's Hotel in down town Houston, Texas on November 4, 2003.President Obasanjo was at his best at what he does very well, displaying comic comedy, with some air of arrogance. Sensing that he had come to meet psychotic crowd made up of Yoruba origins, he was more of a standing comedian and less of a president of a country addressing his country men and women. I came there as many other Nigerians to listen to what he had to say on the Nigerians insuperable problems and how he intends to divulge the solutions. Problems such as lack of healthcare, dilapidated education system, unemployment, social, political, economic, security and transportation. Rather than dwell on these issues, Mr. president began to entertain his audience on how he has succeeded to monetize corruption.
He told the audience that when he was the military head of state, Nigeria had about 19 ships in her fleet, 32 aircrafts in the Nigerian Airways inventory. But when he became president in 1999, (thanks to Mr. Babangida and Mr. Abdul Salami Abubakar) he met only one ship and was sold by a Nigerian official for $500,000. One year later, the Nigerian official bought the same ship for $1,500,000 and used $1,000,000 to refurbish it. Six months after, the official came to him thatIt is not a secret that Mr. Joseph Sanusi a yoruba man is the head of the central bank, Mr. Kayode Naiyeju a yoruba man is the Accountant-General of Nigeria, Mr. Joseph Ajiboye is the Auditor-General of Nigeria, Rasheed Gbadamosi a Yoruba heads PPPRA, Mr. Kpolokun heads NNPC, Mr. Tarfa Balogun is IG of police, Mr. Obasanjo is the minister for petroleum. Dr. Peter Okebukola is the head of N.U.C, the Dir-general of SSS is a Yoruba. The list goes on. While the other people from the other zones are being removed, the yorubas are being employed. The yorubas constitute 70% of financial and oil sector employees. Is this not Oduduwa economic imperialism and yorubanization of Nigerian civil service? the ship was arrested and detained for sea worthiness and that he needed $500,000 to retrieve the ship. Just few months ago the Nigeria transport minister requested his permission to sell the ship for $700,000. On the 32 aircrafts in the Nigerian Airways inventory, he only met one aircraft. He also said that the Nigerian Railway Corporation
spends N250,000,000 for it's monthly salary and pensions, but the railway’s monthly income is only N30,000,000. As he was exposing the level of corruption in his government, trust me, he was getting rousing ovation. Even from those who could barely understand his fraudulent expressions. At a point, it became aware to me that I was not hearing from a Nigerian president, but a yoruba president. My understanding of his presidential expressions is that he was concurring to the Transparency International rating of Nigeria as the 2nd most corrupt nation in the world. But is the president doing something about corruption in Nigeria? Only if your name is Sani Abacha. I don't see Obasanjo confronting corruption in Nigeria when his whole presidency and administration are shrouded in corruption, nepotism and vindictiveness. He came through corruption and administers the country through corruption and vindictiveness. Now comes the question time. He was asked about the lingering insecurity in Nigeria which he blunted the question and was given an ovation. He was asked about the police brutality in Nigeria of which his answer was what happened to him and police when he was a young Lt. in Nigerian army. The answer was the most uncouth. Then came a question about internationalization of Enugu Airport.
After answering about seaport which no body mentioned of, he injected a story of one land locked African country’s head of state who told a Russian official who visited his country that his country has a minister of navy. When again he was reminded that the question was an airport. He finally said that he has discussed the issue with the Enugu state governor and told him that if he can get any international airline that can land people there, he will provide customs and immigration service, apparently the structures that give an airport international status. This in effect means that a woman has to bear a child before she becomes pregnant. Enugu airport has to find international airline that will first land people in it before it can be internationalized. Finally Mr. Obasanjo displayed what average Igbo man knows of him about Ndigbo in general and that is, that Enugu airport as a geopolitical zone will not and cannot become an international airport as long as Port har Court, Jos, Yola, Lagos, Kaduna, Kano, Ilorin and Maiduguri and Sokoto are all international airports. These airports are not within the six geopolitical zones. Sometimes Mr. president forgets that he was speaking to an informed audience as he was dillydallying on simple questions. As soon as he made it clear that Enugu airport will not be an international airport, he was given the loudest ovation by the yorubas.
It is now becoming clear to many Nigerians as to what Mr. Obasanjo and his administration represent to Nigerians. The barrage of criticisms even from his diehard clowns and unexpected individuals and unexpected quarters are very glaring. Mr. Obasanjo has monetized corruption. Mr. Obasanjo has institutionalized tribalism in the Nigerian civil service. Mr. Obasanjo has destroyed federal character principle through the corruption of the national assembly and the Federal Character Commission who look the other way while Obasanjo yorubanizes Nigeria and her institutions. Little wonder why his errand man in the senate Mr. Adolphus Wabara dissolved the standing committee of the senate because Mr. Obasanjo could not get his way through the committee that oversees the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC chaired by Sen. Osunbor. For so long the national economic and financial industries have been controlled by the yorubas who have run them aground. Now the president has brought few Igbo hands to clean the mess as is usual with Nigerian leaders. The only time these tribal and sectional leaders remember that Ndigbo are Nigerians is when they ruin the country and her economy and want people to clean them up. Yet we have the national assembly, we have the judiciary. Obasanjo has corrupted and destroyed all the national institutions, the army, the police, the national assembly, the judiciary, the state governors and even the states’ structures, the INEC. He has assumed the power of a ruthless Monarch guided and condoned by the army and the police. No one in Nigeria can criticize Obasanjo without being killed or imprisoned. Obasanjo does not tolerate opposition. Obasanjo sets up an idle commission called ICPC to witch hunt oppositions and political opponents and some state governors who tend to challenge his ruthless policies .He has conquered the nation, now he has turned his destructive machine to Anambra state. He withdrew police orderlies for top government officials and other V.I.Ps to know how many of his oppositions could be eliminated, but still provide Chris Uba with retinue of mobile police to enable him carry out his nefarious functions in Anambra state .Doesn't it sound idiotic that federal roads in Anambra state were lying uncared for , but as soon as governor Chris Ngige began to rehabilitate them then his errand boys began to make noise that the governor has to obtain permission from Obasanjo before he can rescue the people of Anambra and all Ndigbo users of the roads. This man Obasanjo behaves as if his presidency is permanent. Obasanjo has bastardized the Nigeria military. The army that can boast of more intellectuals now more than ever are nothing but personal instrument to institute and protect corruption and despotism in Nigeria. (See the selection of, otherwise known as 4/19 of 20030) The army is loyal to a despotic leader than the constitution of Nigeria. This is a shame. There is no justification for the millions of naira being wasted on their training in USA, Britain, Germany, India and many other advanced countries, only to come back to protect corruption, despotism and nepotism. The army, like the police, is a ready tool to settle the president's personal score, be it with individuals or community. Chris Uba has enough money to destabilize Anambra state, but he could not deploy such money to revitalize Oji powerhouse and build industries to employ Igbo children. Mr. Emeka Offor has enough money to destabilize Anambra state but Oji powerhouse lay waste and out of service. These men and their relatives are good example of anti-Igbo and Igbo interests. Mr. Obasanjo is very good in discovering Igbo traitors. As soon as he discovers them, he empowers them to work, which it's main destination is to sabotage and make Ndigbo ungovernable. Chris Uba and Emeka Offor through Mr. Obasanjo are destroying Igbo land, while their counter parts in the other geopolitical zones are very busy establishing private universities and industries creating academic legacies and opportunities for their children. What ever goes up must come down. For Chris Uba and Emeka Offor, it is high time Obasanjo dropped these zeros and discovers the heros, General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Mr. Chekwas Okorie, and many others. One more thing, Atiku Abubakar wants to be president of Nigeria in the year 2007. Funny. The same Atiku who said that he single handedly stopped Dr. Alex Ekwueme from becoming president in 1999. According to him, when it became apparent that Dr. Ekwueme was to win the nomination of the PDP, He rallied round the northern governors to scuttle Dr. Ekwueme’s nomination bid. The same Atiku who boasted that the north determines the future of Nigeria, by extension, when the north sneezes, the rest of the country catches cold. The north has sneezed for 34 years and the rest of the country not only caught cold, but have inherited very bleak future. Atiku’s presidency will continue to remind Nigerians of Mr. Obasanjo’s endless nightmare. I think the prayer of every average Nigerian is to see Obasanjo’s administration dump into dust bin of history after 2007.How can Nigerians continue to think of Obasanjo through Atiku after 2007. He is part of Obasanjo, thinks Obasanjo, walks Obasanjo, talks Obasanjo, and if he is different, should have resigned from despotic leadership, anti-people leadership and above all, leadership that killed and maim oppositions and political opponents. Leadership that has corrupted all Nigeria’s institutions, leadership that believes in divide and rule, leadership that believes in destruction and desecration of Igbo land and democracy. A leadership bereft of ideas and solutions, instead, institutionalize ethnic imperialistic economic empire. As for Babangida, it will be an unprecedented height of criminal indifference to think of him becoming a Nigerian president again, a man who democratized corruption in Nigeria, a man who invented 419 that has uprooted the Nigerian sovereignty, a man who imprisoned Ndigbo by building a gate that denied them access to Abakpa Nike through the only road via army barracks Enugu. What an insult and a way of reminding Ndigbo that they lost the war. That single act was a humiliation 2nd to annulment of late chief MKO Abiola presidential victory in June 12, 1993. So, Obasanjo, Atiku Abubakar and Babangida are the only Nigerians entitled to be president in Nigeria. Babangida that denied Ndigbo their right and turn to clean Nigeria of the endless mess they heaped on Nigeria and Nigerians by denying Dr. Alex Ekwueme the presidency in 1999.He did it knowing that Ekwueme would have rescued Nigeria and Obasanjo was surely going to continue the mess which would clear the coast for him. I don’t think that the Nigeria’s power structure, the military would want any intelligent and intellectual to govern the country because the status quo would provide them the ample opportunity to continue the corruption and continue to debase and bastardize Nigeria so they can always have avenue to come to power to create another crop of military millionaires by way of coup de tat. There is no doubt that if the Nigerian power structure wants to rescue the country from total collapse, it would bring Ndigbo to the presidency of which I am 100% sure that an Igbo man would run a country where Nigerians will be proud to say they are proud Nigerians, civil war or no civil. United States had civil war as well, but today a great percentage of her presidents are from the south which shrugged it out with the north in her civil war and lost It will be better for the power structure to go back to the drawing board in the interest of Nigerians and unborn Nigerians and draft an Igbo man for the president of Nigeria in 2007 rather than recycling tested , failed, old and cold blooded killers of brothers and sisters who have developed amnesia like T.Y. Danjuma who recently acted a typical Nigeria propagandist who when expelled from the lot goes public to proclaim a pretense of innocence. Is that the same Danjuma who instituted corruption and indiscipline in Nigerian army through his conduct in July 29, 1966? The same Dajuma who out of cowardice refused to be the head of state in February of 1976 at the assassination of Gen. Muritala Mohammed. The same Dajuma known to be the head of Obasanjo’s cultists who have prior to Obasanjo’s ascendancy to the presidential throne opined that he would go on exile if Obasanjo failed to be the president. If he actually believed in him self and his so-called principle he tries to portray, why didn’t he resign? By the way how did he become a billionaire? Perhaps he was paid for killing General Agui-Ironsi and showed Nigerian army how to be a millionaire—institute a coup, kill the head of state, bam! You move up the ladder and take over the national treasury, the loot begins, but while the looting lasts, create some cult in the military so by the time another coup comes in, you are already a millionaire. Finally, to Mr. Terfa Ula-Lisa, Ojukwu has never tainted himself with a secession bid. He only created a defense perimeter to protect the people of eastern Nigeria from the extension of coup against them which was initiated by your people, carried out by your people against innocent men, children and pregnant women, and in effect desecrated the Nigerian army and by extension the Nigerian unity. He created Biafra to defend eastern Nigerian people from the murderous tendencies of your people that was very prevalent in Makurdi your ethnic capital. As for what Ojukwu has done to purge him self of Biafra, I tell you what he has not done, he has not done exactly what Gowon has done to your people by subjugating your people to nothing more than extension of feudal and oligarchic population who is more noted for preparing ground for northern oligarchy leadership than striving to free them selves from yoke of ignorance , heavy womanizing and excessive abuse of hard liquor. Terfa, Biafra is a living organism in every conscience of Igbo man and woman. It can never be purged out of us and needs not to.
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