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Stay away from those welfare women on AFDC and Houston housing project. We are paying to much tax as it is taking care of kids you have all over the place. May they need to fix you up so that you stop procreating.

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Biafra,

Abi u dey jealous? I hear say una wey dey marri all those village naija gurls no dey even get enouf. I hear sey dem village gurls no no wetin dem dey do unda di sheet.

Anyway sha if u guys can comprende what I wrote and re-wrote, you no go dey comment on who go go for Awka government house. That na private Anambra matta ibei and as a former Anambra State citizen, I can comment and Ngige STAYS for he is doing a great job.

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Anambra was still part of old East central State, I have as much claim to it as you. So that gives me the right to comment on it. As your fetish for loose women and women on welfare, all we ask, is that you stop Procreating, so our tax money is put to better use. Instead of taking care of your children.

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Again, I did and that was when I got the real shock of my life when Chris Uba looked Ngige straight in the face and said, "You know you did not win the election" and Ngige answered "Yes, I know I did not win."Chris Uba went further to say to Ngige, "You don't know in detail how it was done." I was horrified and told both of them to leave my residence.
Obasanjo to Ogbeh: Do You Wish a Coup?
By Yusuph Olaniyonu in Lagos and Chuks Okocha in Abuja, This day 12.13.2004

President Olusegun Obas-anjo yesterday accused the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of insinuating that he would prefer that the present administration ends the way the Second Republic was terminated, which is by a coup d'etat.
Obasanjo in an 14-page reply to an earlier letter Ogbeh wrote to him on December 6 stated that the PDP National Chairman allusion that present government is heading toward a similar end like the Second Republic indicated his "wish" and an "agenda."
"I have taken judicial note of the ominous comparisons you made you made between a government in which you participated that was overthrown in a coup d'etat and this present administration. I wonder if that is your wish since you may not now go out penniless," Obasanjo stated in the reply dated December 9.
He added that "whatever agenda you may be working at God is always in charge and in control."
Ogbeh had in his letter to Obasanjo warned that the president inaction on the Anambra crisis could spell doom for the present democracy in the country. He added that Nigerians perceive the present administration in "the worst light." (see full detail of Ogbeh's letter on Page 8).
But the president who gave details of his role in the Anambra crisis noted that he believed Dr. Chris Ngige's stay as governor of Anambra State continues to create a moral crisis for the nation after he witnessed the governor and his enstranged political godfather, Chris Uba, confess that the PDP did not win the governorship seat in Anambra State during the April 19, 2003 general elections.
Full text of the president's letter delivered in Ogbeh’s house yesterday is as follows:
I am amused and not surprised by your letter of December 6, 2004 because after playing hide and seek games over a period of time, you have finally, at least in writing, decided to unmask and show your true colour.
Having made this introductory point, let us go over systematically and, in some detail, through the whole episode of the Anambra saga. I must add that I have expressed sadness and condemned the wanton destruction of properties that took place in Anambra recently.
When it turned out that, Governor Mbadinuju was an unmitigated failure in Anambra, as PDP governor in our first term, I made it clear to you that I would not go to Anambra to campaign if Governor Mbadinuju was being sponsored as PDP gubernatorial candidate in spite of his calamitous failure. You did not tell me that you were sending a discrete investigation team to Anambra to find out the situation on the ground.
You never said yes or no but I determined that, in good conscience, I could not go to Anambra to campaign for support and seek endorsement for Governor Mbadinuju.
About six weeks later, you came to report to me that you have sent two people discretely to ascertain on the ground whether people wanted Mbadinuju or not and you had received report that 66 2/3 of the people of Anambra did not want Mbadinuju.
For me, what we knew about Mbadinuju in terms of failure to pay salaries in some cases for over 7 months which led to school children not being able to take the WASCE did not need any discrete investigation.
However, your discrete investigation convinced you that I was right and you brought Mbadinuju to me, for you and I to tell him that he could not be a gubernatorial candidate of the PDP in Anambra.
You rightly, I believe, requested that I should work with you to give him a soft landing and we agreed to make him an ambassador after the election and we even agreed on which mission abroad, subject to our success in the elections.
Mbadinuju asked for a letter from me and I refused because I said that my word was my bond but that you were free to write him one. A few weeks after that meeting, Mbadinuju decamped from our party to the AD and sought election as governor of Anambra on the platform of the AD.
When the members of our party started jostling for nomination, as normal with me, I refused to endorse a candidate; it is only after the primaries that the party's candidate becomes my own candidate.
And in the case of Anambra, if I had wanted to support anybody at all, it would have been Jerry Ugokwe because he was one man I knew but, of course, I was consistent on my policy. And when Ngige emerged as the candidate of the PDP from the primaries, he was brought to be introduced to me and, of course, he became not only the party's candidate but also mine.
After enquiries about the situation in Anambra and about Ngige himself, I made a point to him that he should go and reconcile himself with his father with whom he was not on talking terms as I believed it was an abomination for an African son to be in a state of enmity with his father to the point of absolute non-communication. I advised Ngige to reconcile with his father and the rest of his family and he reported to me that he did.
The election took place and Ngige was declared the winner. I congratulated him along with other victorious candidates. Realizing that Ngige would need some assistance to help him through the teething problem of his administration, I invited him to consider having a non-partisan honorary committee of elders of the state and he agreed.
I talked to Igwe Nwokedi, Chief Mbasulike Amechi and the Anglican Bishop of Awka to get two more people with them to act as such honourary non-partisan advisory committee of elders for the governor.
For them to maintain their independence, I said that any transportation or administrative funds that they might require would be provided from the presidency rather than the state.
After two months, Igwe Nwokedi, who was supposed to be the chairman, reported that the governor was impossible to advise or to work with and that was the end of that effort. Mr. Chairman, I reported that effort to you.
When on one occasion, Chris Uba came to report that things appeared to be going wrong between him and the governor in the presence of Chief Amechi, I asked the latter to go and sort it out for them in his capacity as an elder of the state and veteran politician. I requested Chief Amechi to report back to me. The truth is that as far as Anambra was concerned, I considered it my duty to work with all stakeholders in the area of avoiding conflict and on that ground I promised to act on any report or advice from Chief Mbasulike Amechi.
I never had warning that things were going sour in the state any more until I was in Maputo, Mozambique on July 9, 2003 when I received report that the governor had resigned. I did what normally I do not do except in an emergency by using government facility for strictly non-governmental purpose. I instructed that an airplane from the presidential fleet be made available to a team to rush to Anambra to investigate what was happening. That team went on Friday morning while I was still in Mozam-bique and returned on Friday evening. You will recall that the team reported to you and I that what was happening in Ananm-bra required urgent party action to resolve it as a family affair.
A Senate Panel that followed in the same vein re-opened something similar. Mr. Chairman, the following Sunday, you received and opened a brown envelope in my residence in Abuja that contained three different letters of resignation and a video of announcement of resignation of Governor Ngige. You were as shocked as I was and you promised to do something about it that night. You left with copies of the documents and the next thing you did after that was to insinuate that Ngige's problems were caused by me.
Unfortunately, as in many other instances, you failed to do what you should have done as the chief executive of the party and rather prefer to insult me not only as the President of the nation but also as the leader of the party which you seem never to recognize or acknowledge. From that point on, I only did my job as a President by investigating.
What the police did or did not do and dishing out punishment to be confirmed by the Police Service Commission which in its own report asked for a complete investigation of the matter. That investigation was carried out by the Attorney General and his report was acted upon. After that, I deliberately remained aloof about political events in Anambra except whatever may affect security and loss of life and property.
I, in fact, asked both Ngige and Chris Uba never to come to my office or to my residence and you know this. As far as I could remember, a childhood friend of yours came with you to discuss the issue of Anambra between you and I on one occasion.
Soon after, I briefed the party caucus in detail on my role, on what I saw and did and the party caucus endorsed every action that had been taken by the executive arm of government in respect with Anambra. A few months later, two members of your Working Committee -Olisa Metu (an Ex-Officio member) and Farouk (the youth leader) -came to appeal to me to specially intervene in reconciling Ngige and Chris Uba, I refused initially because I believed it was really the responsibility of the party. But since you had shirked your responsibility as party chairman, I conceded and asked the two members of the NWC to bring Ngige and Chris Uba to me. That was the only time, after several months, that I allowed them to enter my residence.
I was shocked that a man in the position of aspirant or one elected as governor could actually resign on three different occasions in writing and on one occasion, the resignation was on videotape. I, also, was of the opinion that for Ngige to have allowed that to happen, there must have been some extra-legal motivation. There has been accusation and counter-accusation as reasons for such ungainly behaviour. When the two of them came to see me, the two young men who had brokered the opportunity for Ngige and Chris Uba to see me wanted to leave. I refused and insisted that they had to be at the meeting because I wanted them as witnesses.
After almost two hours of talk, we dismissed hoping that fences would be mended and reconciliation wou1d be fully established. They left and waited on the corridors for a while. Olisa Metu came back and requested that I should meet with Ngige and Chris Uba alone without witnesses for them to feel free to unwind.
Again, I did and that was when I got the real shock of my life when Chris Uba looked Ngige straight in the face and said, "You know you did not win the election" and Ngige answered "Yes, I know I did not win."Chris Uba went further to say to Ngige, "You don't know in detail how it was done." I was horrified and told both of them to leave my residence.
This incident was reported to you because although constitutionally, Ngige had been declared winner, for me and, I believe, for you there remains a moral burden and dilemma both as leaders in Nigeria and leaders of our party. You did not consider it important enough to do anything or talk about it. I told Ngige that the only way I could live with this moral dilemma since he had been constitutionally declared as governor is that I will continue to deal with him in his capacity as the governor of a State in Nigeria purely and strictly on formal basis either until he runs out his term, he decides to follow the path of honour or until any competent authority declares otherwise. That remains my position to date.
That notwithstanding, immediately after the Court of Appeal overturned Justice Nnaji's order, the Police promptly obeyed. That is what rule of law is all about.
Furthermore, based on all that I had heard, I told Chris Uba and Ngige that their case was like the case of two armed robbers that conspired to loot a house and after bringing out the loot, one decided to do the other in and the issue of fair play even among robbers became a factor. The two robbers must be condemned for robbery in the first instance and the greedy one must be specially pointed out for condemnation to do justice among the robbers. To me, the determination of the greedy one is also a problem, maybe they are both equally greedy. Justice, fairness and equity are always the basis of peace and harmony in any human organisation or relationship. Anambra issue is essentially a human organizational and human relationship issue.
I was on a tour of five countries in five days going from the UK through Finland and Sweden with a stop-over in Libya to Tanzania last November when the recent issue of violence broke out. The Inspector General of Police who claimed that the crowd was overwhelming for the police strength was instructed to double the number of mobile police unit by bringing additional men and women from the adjoining states. He did so and he reported that 19 looters and destroyers were arrested and charged to court with some vehicles seized. NTA coverage of that unfortunate incidents is not the issue, wars are watched like theatrical plays in the contemporary world. The issue is whether or not the police performed or did not perform their duties.
Mr. Chairman, obviously you do not expect me to do less than I have done. I even went out to do more because since you failed to either resolve the political issues that are intra-party matters and they have been spread to engulf the entire state or decisively punish any offender, I decided in consultation with Governor Ngige, to set up a fact-finding and reconciliation committee under the Governor of Ebonyi State to put an end to the violence, create a conducive atmosphere for the Governor to return to his station and to ensure permanent peace, security through reconciliation of the known warring party members - Chris Ngige and Chris Uba - and their supporters. And this was after I had a meeting with both the PDP state chairman and the governor. Since the Governor of Ebonyi, whom I have asked to keep you fully posted on his findings and progress of his committee has not yet reported to me, and since I have taken every necessary step to ensure a resolution of the political problem in Anambra which you have failed to confront, I consider your letter opportunistic, and only a smokescreen and I believe I should answer it in some reasonable detail as I have done. I also took every reasonable step to beef up security to deal with the situation.
On Tuesday, December 7, 2004, after the party meeting on the crisis in Kogi State, you told me that you had written me a letter on threat to Ngige's life and you indicated to me, which you did not do in the letter, that one Honourable Chuma Nzeribe was the culprit. As I will not dilly-dally on an issue of security, even before I received your letter, I directed the Director-General of the State Security Service to look into the matter. It may interest you that almost on daily basis letters are received in my office of people alleging that other people want to assassinate them. All such allegations are forwarded to security people for investigation. None has been substantiated yet. But we will not take any issue of security lightly no matter who claims to be in danger.
And contrary to your belief and insinuation, just today, December 9, the governor of Anambra came to me to seek my opinion and advice on whether or not to constitute a commission of enquiry into what happened in the state. I did not hesitate to advise and encourage him to do so in order that all the facts would be exposed and verifiable truth established rather than trading in rumours.
Let me end on this note: whatever may be your reason for the ambivalent disposition and handling of the party problem in Anambra like you have done in other places and the ulterior motive for your letter, if and when in my capacity as President of Nigeria duty calls on me to act, I will not shirk my responsibility and we will at the end of the day be at the bar of the public both at the party level and national level. Let me also say that it is, indeed, unfortunate that you make so many unnecessary and unwarranted insinuations in your letter about our great country. I have taken judicial note of the ominous comparisons you made between a government in which you participated that was overthrown in a coup d'etat and this present administration.
I wonder if that is your wish since you may not now go out penniless. But whatever agenda you may be working at God is always in charge and in control. Warped perception must be differentiated from reality.
Perception created and manipulated for a sinister purpose cannot be reality. The greatest danger to any country is putting truth out of favour; extolling evils of lies, deceit, treachery, disloyalty, unpatriotism, corruption and unconstitutionally. That is my greatest fear for Nigeria and it should be yours and that of any right-thinking Nigerian. Not too long ago, I challenged you to think beyond the ordinary, the expected and the self, I still put that challenge on the table.
Let it be on record that I do believe that I have invested the totality of my life in what I may call "Enterprise Nigeria" and if it means that in the process of repositioning our dear country for sustainable greatness, what is dearest to me would have to be sacrificed, I will in good conscience, not hesitate to do so.
And if that will enhance Nigeria's development, it is a sacrifice that I will be glad to make. I have reached a stage in life that I have passed the state of being intimidated or being flattered.
I can stand before God and man and in clear conscience to defend every measure that I have taken everywhere in Nigeria since I became the President and will continue to act without fear or favour or inducement.
And it does not matter to me what is sponsored in the Nigerian media, in particular, the print media. I believe that our vindication will come through the truth, which is the only thing that can uplift a nation and make an honest man and a sincere believer in God free.
May I crave your indulgence to copy this letter to all those to whom your letter to me was copied. In addition, I am copying the President of the Senate, the number three man in the present hierarchy of this government and a party leader in his own right, whom you deliberately left out of the distribution list of your letter for reason best known to you. One thing I will never stop doing is praying for Nigeria in general and Anambra in particular.
May God continue to bless and prosper Nigeria. In spite of the malevolence of some Nigerians, Nigeria is moving to the cruising level and cruising speed. That is the work of God and what all Nigerians and friends of Nigeria should do is to join hands in hastening the work of God in Nigeria at this juncture.
May God help us to help ourselves. I wish you well.
Signed President Olusegun Obasanjo
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Another classic from Fani Kayode!

Good stuff, Obasonjo himself has come out to publicly confirm the robbery of Anambra elections.

Now, Ogbe must respond by telling us that the rest of the thugs including Obasanjo did not win the elections. Remember Ojukwu called Obasanjo and told him to return the stolen South Eeast votes if he(Obasanjo) in interested in peace and fair-play.

Ogbeh must now be encouraged to open his own mouth and talk!

Meanwhile, those Igbo chaps Obasanjo mentioned must now be banished to the hall of infamy for conniving with criminal foreigners to arrange shady deals that disenfranchises the Anambrarians.

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From a interview granted to SUNONLINE by Jubril Aminu.


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Question I want you to comment on the return of Governor Dariye in Plateau State and the fiasco in Anambra State

Answer Let me start with the problem in Anambra State. Here, I only believe that the federal government could have done more. I also believe that there is an incongruent situation there which should not be allowed to continue. I have met Chief Chris Uba. I know him and I know some of his kinsmen and brothers. He may have entered politics with some kind of frame of mind which is legitimate, but which is difficult to actualize. It does happen like that; that if you invest in politics, you expect returns which may not happen. So, he is a nice guy. But the position of somebody who is not in government, who claims to have brought the government in power, and instead of allowing them to sort out themselves in a court of law while the governor continues with his work, it appears the system recognizes some kind of legitimacy in what Uba is doing. And I don’t think that is right. I only think that the Federal Government should have stepped in. One thing that worries me with the South-East is that the Igbo, particularly their elite, have a very mischievous game of war or marginalisation, and victimisation , and defeat and so on. So if you do anything like what is going on in Anambra now, they will say if it was in Oyo they will not allow it to happen. If it was in Kaduna, they will not allow it to happen, why should it happen in our own state? In other words, it is because we were defeated in a war. You know that kind of thing? It will take a very long time for the average Igboman to bury that kind of psyche out of them. But it will take even longer before you can convince the Igbo politician not to use it. They use it to achieve popularity with their people. But we should ignore their responsibility. Let’s give them the excuse to use it anytime. I have heard it many times from them. Because we are conquered people, that is why what is going on in Anambra State is allowed to happen. Even though it is their fault, you know all these things have to do with their lives like Okija, Uba, like Bakassi. All these they will find a way to linkup with the war. It is their responsibility to realise this and not to give mischievous people the chance to talk about it. I feel for Anambra State and I believe that the Federal Government can step in anytime and strengthen the governor, strengthen the process and allow the Anambra people the chance to decide their future from 2006, whether or not they have been treated fairly or not.

You see, a governor may not be elected the way you like, but if you give him the chance, he may still do a good job. And I believe Ngige is my colleague. He is a medical doctor colleague of mine.
He has a lot of conscience and will do a good job. I hear he is doing a good job.

This PDP folks are slowly going to expose themselves at the days go by.

[ December 13, 2004, 06:17 PM: Message edited by: Ednut ]

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quote:
Originally posted by Ohafia Udumeze:

........" I was horrified and told both of them to leave my residence.

Uttered by Olusegun Obasanjo

I can Imagine how dainty and helpless the baboon now suddenly wants the world to believe he really is.

"I told both of them to leave my residence" [Frown]

Fanny Kayode forgot to explain how after this brutal banishment from "my residence" (that officially designated institute for crime abatement) Ubah's security detail was beefed up while the equally guilty Ngige and all government facilities were left to be looted and burned by Ubah's hoodlums.

Ogbeh now needs to concentrate on this left out little detail (among many others) in his next response. Maybe public outcry in the face of world attention to their obnoxious depravity and the awareness of the vile stench of the crude criminality of this bufoon called Obasanjo has finally begun to make even his supporters and crimepartners like Ogbeh uncomfortable.

Babz, Ngwanu!,
What was that you were saying again? [Roll Eyes]

Look for the parapo press to zero in on Ogbeh and perform a media public execution, and then to come out as Aremu's term nears its end to inform us that:
"THIS INJUSTICE AGAINST IGBOS MUST STOP!",
while also informing us of their newlyfound resolve to take up the baton to champion the idea of "Igbo president". [Wink]


As for Jubril Aminu,

He must have been one of the disgusting Mallams and Alhajis who physically partook in demonstrating their masculine bravado by gutting pregnant Igbo women and unborn fetuses after having lured the creme of Igbo officer corps to the parade ground without weapons and executing them in cowardly cold blood for the crimes of those already being tried at the time.

These are the savages the brits chose to support with arms and logistics against Biafra.
Now those same brits are trying to save face by making deals with Asari Dokubo after having tired of using successive military regimes to massacre masses of Deltans over the years for their increasing attempts to speak out on the ecology and economy of their basic anscestral possession.

I once asked on this board; "Who was the bright chap working for Shell or the british secret service who after 'Independence' reached the assinine conclusion that the best way to have access to Biafranigerias oil was to put the Hausa-Fulani man in Power"?

I still ask that question, and am sure this was the basic crux behind the nagging questions Frederick Forsythe was asking his govt in that day, and it still resonates today.

The predictable utterances of gworro decayed toothless bastards like jubril aminu remain nothing but the usual reflexive belches of a disoriented halfwit intoxicated with a misplaced sense of self appraised wisdom.

Only in "Nigeria"!!!

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Since the bufoon in Aso rock has finally confessed his knowledge of that monumental rigging of his party in the 2003 general selections.It now behoves that any honourable man in PDP enjoying a stolen mandate delivered by the PDP begining from Olusegun Obasanjo to Chris Ngige should resign immediately and hand over to the rightful owners of those mandates. If not,the gods of the land shall continue to curse them [Efulefu Smash]

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This is why Anambra will never resolve this poor situatution that they are in. Too corrupt. Every body wants to count and will sell out for a chance at it.

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Anambra: Group Accuses Ogbeh of Backing Ngige
By Oke Epia, 12.12.2004

The national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Audu Ogbeh has been accused of having taken sides with Governor Chris Ngige in the political crisis in Anambra State, a situation that will ìembolden the governor against peace overtures being made by current mediation efforts.”
This is the view of a group, Igbo Leadership Forum (ILF), in a swift response to a letter reportedly written by Ogbeh to President Olusegun Obasanjo on the Anambra crisis. In a press statement signed by its leader, Dr. Eustace Ejikeme, the group said the position adopted by the PDP chairman ìhas been the greatest impediment to chances of resolving the political differences between Ngige and Chief Chris Uba as the governor is made to believe that with powerful forces like Ogbeh and others in Aso Rock behind him, there was nothing even a presidential reconciliatory panel can do.”
Part of the statement read: ìReports credited to Ogbeh saying that ëI am convinced that then rumours and speculations making the rounds that they are determined to kill Dr. Ngige may not unfounded,” go a long way in exposing the bias and support of the PDP boss for Ngige since the crisis broke out.
ìWhile he failed to advance evidences to buttress his conviction on the plot to kill Ngige, Ogbeh has also discountenanced glaring possibilities that the governor may infact be the brains behind both the rumours to assassinate him and the actual violence that the state has witnessed. We cannot understand how a national chairman of a party will get so involved in a matter as to allow his sense of objective judgement to be beclouded.î
Noting that it was unfortunate that persons expected to play a fatherly role in searching for return of peace to Anambra have taken sides, ILF stated that the Igbos would have no choice than to ìtake our destinies into our own hands and prevent our heritage from being made the guinea pig of extraneous forces who mean no good for us.î
The group also chided Governor Ngige for ìmortgaging the resources and destinies of Anambra for the wanton usage of elements who cannot help his cause when the chips are down,î adding that he should come out openly and ìtell Nigerians the truth instead of crying wolf unnecessarily.î





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The Chicken has come to roost

Our people has a saying that okuku nyuo aru, ani ga naachuya *** . PDP's cup is full. they will keep confessing one by one. the ILF, is like Ohaneze, they represent no one but the bellies of their politician members

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I read the letter from Obasanjo to Ogbeh, I can't help but to scratch my head in amazement. If Anambra is massively rigged doesn't that bring the questions, the authenticity of Obasanjo' own election. These like two thief saying that I am lesser thief than you, because I did not get caught. Just because Obasanjo is not facing the same unslaught that Ngige is facing does not mean that Obasanjo won the election.

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Biafra;
I agree with u. Obasanjo is looking at the mirror. Anambra is his mirror

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THE FALLOUT CONTINUES

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Ogbeh under pressure to quit • PDP caucus meets today
Yusuf Alli and Yinka Oladoyinbo
The Punch
Tuesday, December 14, 2004



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****Audu Ogbeh****

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Audu Ogbeh, may have come under pressure from members of the party’s National Working Committee to resign following his ‘warning’ letter to President Olusegun Obasanjo.

A top NWC member who disclosed this to our correspondents on Monday also said that the party’s caucus and its National Executive Council would meet to decide Ogbeh’s fate on Tuesday.

The source said, "We have been consulting among ourselves. We are disappointed by the Chairman's letter and we feel the only option is for him to resign.

"If you visit our secretariat today (Monday), you will feel the tension that has gripped all officers and workers. The omen is bad.

"We have reached a consensus that Ogbeh has no moral basis to continue to lead the party. Some of us have made our feelings known to him that he erred.

"We are no doubt divided. A few others are quietly supporting Ogbeh and we know them. But majority of the members are in favour of the Chairman stepping aside.

"Some of our party leaders, however, prefer Ogbeh going on suspension because his tenure is expected to lapse in November. They are thinking of a caretaker chairman ahead of our national convention.

"But most of the NWC members favour his resignation and we are going to push for that.

"We have three meetings in the week where Ogbeh's fate may be determined but two out of the sessions are crucial.

"We are going to hold the caucus meeting on Tuesday, the NWC meeting on Wednesday and the National Executive Council meeting on Thursday. I can tell you that the caucus and NEC meetings hold the aces.

"If the caucus meeting is not cancelled, both Obasanjo and Ogbeh will meet at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday night for the caucus meeting."

Asked of the agenda of the meetings, he said, "What agenda can be better than the state of the nation that has taken the centre stage now?"

In a reaction last night, a top aide of Ogbeh said, "I am not aware that he is under pressure to resign. There is nothing like that.

"No NWC meeting was held today (Monday) much less any talk of resignation. If there was any consultation, it may have been at inter-personal level.

“I do not know where you got your information. The chairman has been indoors since morning. He did not speak with any NWC members.

“It is not true in any way that he is under pressure to resign. There is no iota of truth in it.”

Ogbeh had in a letter dated December 6, alleged that the nation was drifting and that most PDP members were no longer at ease with the President.

Recounting what happened during the Second Republic, Ogbeh added, “In life, perception is reality and today, we are perceived in the worst light by an angry, scornful Nigerian public.”

But Obasanjo took exception to the letter, describing the PDP chairman as being mischievous.

“I am amused and not surprised by your letter of December 6, 2004 because after playing hide and seek games over a period of time, you have finally, at least in writing, decided to unmask and show your true colour,” the President said.

Despite Obasanjo's reply to Ogbeh's letter, there were indications, on Monday, that the Directorate of Military Intelligence and the State Security Service had started probing the insinuation of a coup in Ogbeh's letter.

Investigations by our correspondents showed that upon the receipt of Ogbeh's letter, The Presidency alerted the security agencies to vet and analyse it.

It was gathered that while a preliminary report was being awaited, the probe became heightened following the exclusive publication of Ogbeh’s letter in the last edition of Saturday PUNCH.

A security source in Abuja said, "We have orders to look at the import of Ogbeh's remarks and we have started to investigate the statement.

"You will recall that the President said that he had taken judicial notice of Ogbeh's letter, especially the reference to the overthrow of President Shehu Shagari in 1983.

"The services are already looking at the activities, pronouncements and sources of finance of Ogbeh in the last two years.

"Some PDP members are already prepared to volunteer information to the services and we are collating them."

Support, however, came Ogbeh’s way on Monday from the Campaign for Democracy, which said it endorsed his cautionary letter.

In a statement in Lagos, by its President, Mr. Moshood Erubami, CD described Ogbeh's letter as courageous.

It said, "Mr. Chairman, we must acknowledge the timeliness of your caution and the wisdom inherent in its contents.

"Your view on the state of the nation, I must say, stand you out as a hope in the multitude of other shameless members who know the truth but would deliberately conceal it and still argue against your esteemed position.

"We would readily consent to your non-violent direction on the Anambra issue and honest assessment of actions, which the Presidency must have played in concert with anti-Anambra development elements and given your earlier position on the so-called ancient economic experts running the affairs of the nation aground, we want to note in you the honour of a conspicuous minority who knows the truth and is set free by the truth."

But Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, said Ogbeh’s letter and the reply by Obasanjo evidenced bad leadership in the country.

According to Falana, revelations by Ogbeh and Obasanjo showed that the PDP was ruling the country and many of the states of the federation on stolen mandate.

Ogbeh’s letter and Obasanjo’s reply, he said, confirm the saying, “dog eat dog.”

He, however, argued that it was not Anambra State Governor, Dr. Chris Ngige, alone that benefited from the robbery.

He said, “Unfortunately for the President, he did not fully disclose that (Chris) Uba used the mobile police force and other apparatus of the state to snatch victory from the All Progressive Grand Alliance.

“I also agree with Mr. President that what happened in Anambra State was a clear case of daylight robbery, but Dr Ngige is not the only beneficiary, all the PDP legislators at the state and federal levels are beneficiaries. President Obasanjo himself is a beneficiary because he was defeated by the presidential candidates of APGA in Anambra State.”

Femi Falana needs to repeat that comment a couple more times, and LOUDER!!!

WAKU SAGA ALL OVER AGAIN?

Anybody remember what the press did with the overblown saga of Senator Waku and his coup comments?

We are soon about to be convinced that by his letter to the President, Ogbeh had literarilly called for a coup.
He is now under investigation like senator Waku had been, and even his finances are hinted to be under investigation.
Does it appear like these press boys on behalf of Aremu are up to something? such as using hints of a supposed financial investigation to begin to nudge Ogbeh toward voluntary resignation?.

Stranger things have happened.

One does not forget how Fanny Kayode had already started working on convincing us that Chinua Achebe was sheer unpatriotic evil. [Big Grin]

Just for rejecting an award. [Roll Eyes]

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I fear for Chief Audu Ogbeh`s life.Sooner than later,unknown gun men shall attack his convoy,house etc(just like Bola Ige,Dikibo,Marshal,Pa Rewane etc) And as usual, Oga would be the first to dismiss the assasination case as mere "armed robbery" attack to check mate the police investigations & conclusions to tally with Oga`s desired conclusions too.Does anyone remember the methods of the monster Field Marshal Alhaji Idi Amin Dada,-The conquerer of the British empire?

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Njiko

I have shared you concern since this whole feud between Obasanjo and Ogbe broke out. I am afraid that Ogbe's life is in Danger.

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They have turned me into a believe of conspiracy theory!

Anyway, All in PDP should either revoke their membership, confess to how they have helped dig us deeper into the mess we have today or better still whistle blow.

Audu Ogbeh, has not confessed his part in the orchetsrated rigging that took place. He is crying over spilled milk, is he anting to pitch his tent close to another? is this part of purging himself of OBJ and the decadence of his maladministration? Is he acting a script, and if so who is the writer? Is IBB behind this script?

Ogbeh can not say he has no hand in the evil called PDP.

In Edo, Anenih has been suspended; is this the begining of the end for PDP?

Chineke! Agbacha oso aguo mile!

This is the time Audu to say all he knows, remember that police chief that kidnaped Ngige, he did not live to tell all his story!

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Said Obasanjo was running a clique government this are further proof that Obasanjo is the head of the mafia organization parading as a country. Audu Ogbe is doing what, mafias don't that is double cross the big boss and squirk. Obasanjo is gonna make sure he is dealt with before 2007.

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Unless Ogbe comes clean and tells what he knows now, I will not shed tears for his family is the tug Obasanjo gets him killed.

Folks, this fight might not be to bad for Igbo when those two bafoons clash.

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