Edwin Kiagbodo Clark: Poised to re-install Ijaw hegemony in Rivers State by all means necessary
The installation of Chibuike Amaechi as governor of the Rivers State has raised more questions than answers.
1. How can a man be declared winner and installed as governor in an election he did not contest?
2. Where is the EFCC in all this? The electoral proces in the Rivers State was proceeding smoothly before the EFCC declared Amaechi corrupt and unfit to contest election. Would the EFCC now be disbanded?
3. Is the so-called supreme court saying that PDP should have gone ahead and fielded a crrupt candidate? How could the PDP have fielded a candidate deemed to be corrupt and unfit to hold public office?
4. Now that Amaechi has been installed as governor, what becomes of the alleged corruption which originally caused his disqualification? Is the EFCC going to arrest and prosecute Amaechi, disband itself or what?
Over all, the whole Amaechi-Omehia tragi-cmedy indicates two things: (a) the Nigerian so-called judiciary like everything else has been hijacked and basterdized. Add that to the weak, ad-hoc instutions like EFCC under the control of quota system graduates of remedial studies of Northern Nigeria. (b) that the treaherous Hausa-Fulani are out to consolidate Northern hegemony at all costs by kicking the ladder once they are on top.
Make no mistakes, the so-called Amaechi victory is nothing but a cheap poitical shot at Peter Odili. By shooting down Omehia, the road is being cleared for the eventual hounding of Peter Odili. Never mind the crap about independent judiciary, the whole thing is politically determined. In essence, Mr Yaradua, a Fulani, is now ready and willing to bite the fingers that fed him.
So what next? Mr Amaechi has shown a remarkable level of stupidity in his dispute with Celestine Omehia over the Rivers State governorship elections. By pursuing the matter so far, Amaechi may be laughing now, but his joy will be short-lived nd may indeed lea d to the re-installment of Ijaw hegemony in the Rivers State. Why? Precisely because having failed to have a state of emergency in Rivers State, most Ijaw die-hards who have lined up behind Mr Amaechi in order to kick out Omehia will now move to part 2 of their script-kick out Amaechi himself and install Ijaw governor.
Just as predicted, Ijaws have aready proclaimed that Amaechi was never elected governor and therefore call for fresh elections in the Rivers State. Tonye Princewell and his AC, the arrow-head of Ijaw resurgence in the Rivers State have indicated their desire to challenge Mr Amaechi at the tribunal. The outcome of such a chalenge is a foregone conclusion. At lat, a fresh election is inevitable. Would Amaechi win a fresh election? NO. Why? Because the Ijaws would now stuff ballot boxes in the creeks like in the days of Okilo, Ada George etc. and proclaim themselves winners of any such election. Then they would wheel out Dokubo, MEND, Edwin Clark, Goodluck Jonathan, Owoye Azazi, Kimse Okoko, Oronto Douglas etc. and claim that there would be no peace in the Niger-Delta if their "victory" was not upheld. Needless to say that Yaradua and other Nigerians sick of Ijaw-sponsored instability in the Niger-delta are most likely to buy that logic. Neither Amaechi and his clique nor the Ikwerre as a whole have any answer to such an outcome except wring their hands and moan about marginalization.
Chibuike Amaechi was identified by Peter Odili and groomed to take power in Rivers State. Prior to Odili, he was a nobody, a clerk at most. Had things gone as Odili planned, Amaechi would have been governor without question. Unfortunately, things went wrong with EFCC intervention hence his substitution with Celestine Omehia, another Ikwerreman as Plan B. As things stand now, without the political infrastructure created by Peter Odili, Ijaws are set to snatch power like a little candy from Amaechi and his group. Chibuike Amaechi is about to blow the whole formidable political machinery designed to win and sustain power in the hands of Ikwere and other Igbo groups in the upland areas of Rivers State.
Scratch the surface of his supposed victory, you will find that Amaechi's reckless gamble is a study in political miscaculation, probably idiocy. Only a complete and immediate reconciliation with Omehia, Odili and other key-players in the saga will save him.
Chibuike Amaechi: Total politics, playing into Clark's hands
[ October 29, 2007, 04:02 AM: Message edited by: Amadi O. ]
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Finally, I agree with Nigerian citisen Amadi on this one. My position is that the Supreme court was wrong to award the office to this new governor. It presumes that the people voted for PDP not the individual and that is wrong. What the Court should have done, the democratic way of hadling this would have been a decision calling for new elections and the fielding of the present governor as PDP candidate.
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"...Since the removal of Amaechi's name is null and void, it means that Amaechi's name was never removed..." - Goddy Uwazurike. ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -----
What I dont still understand about this pointless saga is the role of the EFCC, the government body that proclaimed Amaechi corrupt and unfit to hold public office. Amaechi's name was removed becaused he was arrested for fraud. The PDP is a band of thieves alright, but were they expected to field a candidate known to be corrupt? Was the party expected to simply ignore the EFCC and present Amaechi anyway?
Quite clearly, the so-called supreme court is just a rubber stamp for Fulani minority rule in Nigeria. By installing a non-contestant as winner, the way is paved for Amaechi's removal by a kangaroo election tribunal and the installation of Tonye Princewell, an Ijaw, as governor of Rivers State. This is part of the Ijaw appeasement package scripted by Edwin Clark, which includes the award of VP position to Mr Jonathan.
Amazingly, some Igbo will find justification for anything and everything, including a post-hoc legal verbiage for the so-called supreme court judgement. What supreme court? There is no flipping supreme court in Nigeria. All you have is a bunch of islamist towel-heads sitting on the floor in Northern Nigeria and dictating who becoms IG of police, who governs what state etc. all in the interest of sustaining Fulani minority rule over kaffirs in Nigeria.
Azi gba!
Ani
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I don't mean to be rud to honourable chief Eddy Clark, but looking at his picture above, he looked like and remainded me of the ex Haitian president Papa Doc. I just hope he is not like papa doc who bullied his opponents with his vodoo. But I know chief Clark is more intelligent than that, but his method looks the same. For he is bambozing anyone who is not an Itshakiri, which is bad. That is pure unadulterated tribalism. As for the judicial system it is an apology. The Fulanis who aren't even Nigerians have been ruling that country and whether the rest of the nation likes it or not, till we stop bikering, they would continue to rule and led the country into economic and political destruction. The British knew that when they backed them because they are ignorants and would obey anything from England, and now their own home world "the Arab nation".
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By the way, DR. FRANK OPARA DID YOU RECEIVE THE PICS I SENT TO YOU? [Babaginda]
Amadi, I do not see any chance of Amaechi paving way for the installation of a River's man as Governor. The Highest court of the land has spoken and it is not appealable in any shape or form. Nigerians must respect the decision, at least it was not done through the barell of the gun or finger pointing. This is not about an Igbo being the Governor, it is about the legal process. Most decisions by the Highest court are not meant to please; it is meant to provoke throughts and restricts individual or group rogues from tampering with the law of the land,depending on how you see it.
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quote:There is no flipping supreme court in Nigeria. All you have is a bunch of islamist towel-heads sitting on the floor in Northern Nigeria and dictating who becoms IG of police, who governs what state etc. all in the interest of sustaining Fulani minority rule over kaffirs in Nigeria.
.......Ani
Hail Biafra, Land of the Rising Sun!
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Bros Waypoint1 "B"! thanks a million for your email. Yes I got it and is still gobsmack at what I saw. With something like that belonging to an ex-head of state couple with the mignificent one he has in london, what will the common people do. And people are talking about Orji-Uzo Kalu's million dollar house. No matter what Kalu's house looks like, it is a boys quater compare to this edifice.
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Amadi I am going to disagree with you a little here, I think I have more facts on this issue than this board will accomodate. First of all Amaechi and Omehia are first cousin's so it doesn't make much difference which one of them takes the Government House. 2nd EFCC was used by Obasanjo to stick it to those who took money from him and failed to deliver third term, ALA Ararume and Anene. Those two pocketed N3 billion from Obasanjo, knowing fully well that Third is a horse that wasn't going to run. Obasanjo is a vindicative man, if you doubt me see what happened to Ararume, and Anene, Obasanjo made sure that Araume will never smell Imo state Government house. Please stay tuned more casualties are coming. As for EFCC if think those guys are cable of shooting straight or not corrupt, then I have an ocean property at Ekeonunwa Owerri that I will like to sell to you.
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I will agree with Biafra here, OBJ is a very vendicative man and doesn't forgive easily. But what has that got to do with anything. So Amaechi is being asked to vaccate for his first cousin. Are they the only political animals in that state. From the word go, I know the EFCC is an instrument of suppression created by OBJ to intimidate his enemies and opponnents. And by the gods I know they are as corrupt as the one who created them, which was why I said in the Oriji-Uzo Kalu's case that let him or her who is without a guilt cast the first stone. But going through the original posting of this topic, I wonder why someone whose name was not on the ballot be ask to be a governor. But if the problem of Amaechi is tribal, then .......
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The trouble already started for Mz Amaechi as predicted by Mz Ani. Read on....
Breaking News: Fresh Trouble For Gov Amaechi
Trouble seems not to be over yet for who becomes the governor of Rivers State as the former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, may have advised the AC governorship candidate in the state, Prince Tonye Princewill, to continue to pursue his case at the election tribunal. Princewill had visited the former vice president in his house at Ganye, Adamawa State, on Monday, 5 November to consult with him on the latest development in Rivers State that saw the swearing in of Governor Chibuzor Amaechi.
According to a statement issued by the Princewill Campaign Organisation: “Atiku Abubakar urged young politicians like Princewill to remain consistent and be prepared to face challenges as no success was possible without hard work and perseverance.”
Princewill told reporters in Adamawa that he came to seek cooperation and partnership “as we’re set to reclaim our stolen mandate in Adamawa and Rivers State through the rule of law.”
Atiku was also said to have assured Princewill that the AC would emerge victorious in reclaiming its stolen mandate through the judicial process and tribunals throughout the country.
Although Amaechi has extended a hand of fellowship to the AC candidate by appointing him a member of the state economic advisory council, Princewill was conspicuously absent at the inauguration of the council.
The meeting with Atiku has thrown the political equilibrium into confusion as the AC has kept everybody guessing as to what would become of Amaechi in case the AC continues its case at the tribunal.
However, a source at the Rivers State Government House revealed that there is a high level consultations and negotiations to seek political solution to the AC and PDP cases at the tribunals as Amaechi has promised an administration embracing other political parties in the new dispensation.
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This goes to show that the governor is either scared of the outcome of the tribunal, though from the orignal posting we were ment to understand that it was the suprem court that instulled him to the post, or he is truly trying to bury the hatch of the election and the bad blood that went with it. Though I'm not an Amaechi man, but by offering Tonye Princewill a place in his government looks to me like he wants to form a government of unity and for the interest of peace in the state, Tonye should accept it and don't let "the has been" Atiku Abubakar mislead him, for what he does now will tell the Rivers state people if he is matured enough to govern them next time around. There is always a next time, so all the losers should accept it and let the sleeping dog lay in the interest of the state. HAIL BIAFRA THE LAND OF THE RAISING SUN!!!
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Amadi O, You often call it right on all matters Igbo. So, I would appreciate your take on Amaechi so far. I entirely agree that he is tainted by the PDP wuruwuru but he is not quite as anti-Igbo as his predecessors. I also read somewhere that he refused to commit himself to protecting Obasanjo's land grab in Rivers state.
quote: Rivers May Review Abandoned Property Law
Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:01:00
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Rivers State government might re-open the controversial abandoned property issue, which rocked the state in the 70s after the Nigerian Civil War.
The recent visit of leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, to the governor, Chibuike Amaechi, appears to give impetus to the alleged plan to revisit the issue.
Several Igbo indigenes from the South East, who resided then in Port Harcourt, claim their property were declared abandoned and confiscated by the state when they fled during the civil war.
There are, however, feelers that the federal government may be uncomfortable with the alleged move, as it could create ethnic tension in an already over-heated Port Harcourt environment, where the non-Igbo speaking communities are already wary of a succession of Igbo-speaking governors in former governors, Peter Odili and Celestine Omehia.
An Aso Rock source informed that there are indications from the Port Harcourt Government House that Ojukwu’s visit was to impress on Amaechi the need for a retroactive abrogation of the Abandoned Property Edict, which ensured that thousands of Igbo and Ikwerre forfeited their property.
The victims of that edict were landowners, who fled Port Harcourt when the city was captured by the Third Marine Commando Division in May 1968. Amaechi is an Ikwerre.
Ojukwu seldom visits a serving state governor. Although the former secessionist leader was reported to have prayed for God’s guidance for the new governor, there is suspicion that his visit was to impress it on Amaechi that the same forces who had tried to truncate his ambition were responsible for the Abandoned Property Edict.
The insinuation was allegedly to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who as the General Officer Commanding Third Commando Division in 1969, with headquarters in Port Harcourt, and is seen as one of the hands guiding the then Rivers State governor, Lt-Commander Alfred Diete-Spiff.
But APGA claims Ojukwu, who goes by the title Eze-Igbo Gburugburu, went to show support for the October 25 Supreme Court judgment in favour of Amaechi and to congratulate a man he believed was being suppressed by his party and by people who were against him at the primaries.
Its National Vice Chairman (South West), Tayo Sowunmi, said he is not aware of anything else discussed by Ojukwu and Amaechi.
"I will say that I cannot read Ojukwu’s mind. But the issue of abandoned property is something that was jointly fought by the Igbo generally. Ojukwu is not the only Ibo man. Amaechi himself is an Ibo man. If he has the love of the Igbo, he doesn’t require anybody to visit him in order to make him to revisit that issue," Sowunmi said.
The APGA chieftain said it became necessary to address the visit to Amaechi because a lot of people think that APGA is an outgrowth of Ojukwu’s ambition for the Biafran nation, which is far from it.
"APGA is just a political party like anyone of the remaining 49 political parties in the country that draws it membership from across the country. So, the visit of Ojukwu should not be seen from that context at all. The man has not said so. People are putting words in his mouth," he said.
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From the above posting I gathered there has been succession of Igbo origin governors in Rivers State before Amaechi. But why didn't any one of them raised the question of abadon properties in the state before now. This supports my disappointment when I read somewhere that commander Alfred Diete-Spiff is now a king somewhere in the same state he plundered with his friends first Benji Adekunle and later OBJ who is now pleading with Amaechi to help him protect his stolen properties from the state. If Ikemba 1 should visit Amaechi, that means he saw something Substantial in the governor because "the frog does not run in the middle of the day for nothing". Like the General, I think this Amaechi guy seems cool because if he could offer some of his opponents posts in his administration, he wants a government of unity. With Rivers State fulled with different languages, any governor who extends his or her hand to his opponents aware they could turn round and stab them is cool in my definition of the word "cool". I just hope they are not trying to use this as an excuse to attack the General. By the way can someone tell me what has become of Ikemba's nemesis Yakubu Gowon. I've never heard anything about him since PDP told him where to go and gave him some chairmanship of something.Is he now a back seat driver like OBJ or what. HAIL BIAFRA THE LAND OF THE RAISING SUN NOW AND FOREVER MORE.
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These analysis by very articulate Biafrans pretty much sum up my own views on the matter of "Abandoned Property" in Igwe Ocha. My worry is that Mz Amaechi may not move fast enough to repeal the land grab in Etche by olusegun obasanjo. This is why we should all encourage him to move quickly and decisively to recover all the Igbo lands seized illegually by olusegun obasanjo in Etche.
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"... abandoned property was to prevent Igbo people from participating in the buying of indigenized companies in the 1970s. Remember that part of the abandoned property "law" was that Igbo landed assets in Port Harcourt could not be used as colleterals for bank loans. That was a master stroke after confiscating Igbo bank accounts and giving everyone N20...."
"...The fiction of abandoned property was embelished and maintained until 1996 when Abacha skillfully carved out Ijaw die-hards and the most ardent enforcers of abandoned property into Bayelsa state. It soon dawned on these Ijaws that actually, they owned nothing!"....Mz Ani
---------------------------------------------- "My view is that this should have been called "Stolen Properties" instead of "Abandoned properties..."
Diette Spiff, the governor of Rivers then plotted with OBJ and Federal Government to take over the properties of the fleeing refugees, deceiving themselves by calling them "Abandoned Properties""....Paul.
because "war refugees every where in world do, by fleeing for their lives.." ------------------------------------------------------
Nwannaa,
Medicine after death. Nothing, absolutely nothing is to be gained from the purported review. The point is these people kicked the Igbo nation in the stomach while it laid postrate on the ground. Such a review would have made sense in the 1970s, its is useless now.
One aim of abandoned property was to prevent Igbo people from participating in the buying of indigenized companies in the 1970s. Remember that part of the abandoned property "law" was that Igbo landed assets in Port Harcourt could not be used as colleterals for bank loans. That was a master stroke after confiscating Igbo bank accounts and giving everyone N20. They hoped to expel the Igbo from the Nigerian formal/organized economy for good. But today, most of the indigenised companies have been run to the ground and disappeared, the Igbo have coped and moved on.
The next aim of abandoned property was to award Port Harcourt to Ijaw henchmen as war booty and hemm the Igbo people into the fictionalized enclave called East Central State with no access to the sea. The Ijaws accepted their task with unbriddled zeal and this had two consequences (a) destruction of the port in Port Harcourt and the migration of Igbo import-export business to Lagos, Cotonou and other ports in West Africa (b) the destruction of the real estate sector in Port Harcourt and the flight of capital to elsewhere.
The fiction of abandoned property was embelished and maintained until 1996 when Abacha skillfully carved out Ijaw die-hards and the most ardent enforcers of abandoned property into Bayelsa state. It soon dawned on these Ijaws that actually, they owned nothing!
So what now? I our view the Igbo nation has learned a valuable lesson from the abandoned property saga and moved on. Despite the suffering of individual property owners, the overall outcome has been positive. Ndiigbo have learnt to think home always. Alternative growth points have been created everywhere in Igboland - Asaba, Onitsha, Nnewi, Aba, Awka, Owerri, Umuahia etc. Igbo trading network in West and central Africa has diversified away from PH as its focus and has been strengthened rather than weakened. Abandoned property has also enabled the Igbo to be more realistic about the distribution of infrastructure in their country. Today, Owerri with its 5-star hotels, universities, wide streets, housing estates and Airport exists side-by-side with Port Harcourt. And Akanu Ibian International Airport (AKIA) Enugu will complement PH international and Owerri to give people more choice in the region. Abandoned property has thankfully re-oriented young Igbo away from unhealthy fixation with Port Harcourt and diversified development thinking in our region.
Meanwhile those who owned abandoned property are mostly dead or have moved on. Any so-called review now is not for their benefit- more to soot the conscience of those reviewing it who are apparently haunted by their treachery. Review or no review, Igbo people have moved on. This is one piece of theater that should be pointedly ignored by every worthwhile Igbo.
Ani
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The question of Abandon properties and the frozen of the Biafran citizens bank account is the devil's mark on Awolowo which he took to his grave. As for OBJ and Spiff, they are yet to pay for it and so is Gowon. But I would be glad if Governor Amaechi would use his state executive prerogative to revoke that hidious decree and bost his credibility among his fellow Igbo speaking area people of the state. For Dieta-Spiff didn't give a hoot about Amaechi's people when he helped Gowon and Awo destroyed the Igbos as they thought. But today we are all still living and wasking strong in every way of life. HAIL BIAFRA THE LAND OF THE RAISING SUN: NOW AND FOREVER AMEN!!!.
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