Obidiently Yusful Nigerians

23/11/2022

*High Court Discharges and Acquits Deputy Chief Registrar of Federal High Court in ICPC Suit Against Her For Fraud*

*_Mrs. Nkem Mba who has served the Federal High Court for 21 years, is the most senior Deputy Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court, and was in line to be promoted to the position of Chief Registrar upon the elevation of Mr. Emmanuel Garko (now Justice Emmanuel Garko) as a judge in May, 2022. The curious timing and the trumped-up Charges by the ICPC was perfected to deny her of the exalted position..."_*

A Rivers State High Court presided over by Hon. Justice Letam Nyordee, hearing the trial of a Deputy Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court, Awka

22/11/2022

Revolution is Coming!!

Dr Kalu Idika Kalu, Nigeria's former Minister of Finance Writes Chukwuma Soludo:

“We noted that we were in opposing political parties and in response to my direct question as to how I might help him, he requested that I should just ensure a “level playing field” and let the people decide” (Charles Chukwuma Soludo)

After begging him to come to your party and collect the Presidential ticket and he refused, You then asked him how you can help him.

He didn’t ask you to fund his campaign .

He didn’t ask you to campaign for him.

He didn’t ask you to rig for him.

He didn’t ask you to hide his secret.

He only asked you to ensure a level playing ground.

This is exactly the character that has endeared millions of Nigerians to Mr. Peter Obi.

This is why your boss Olusegun obasanjo is behind him.

This is why Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is behind him.

This is why Obiageli Oby Ezekwesili is behind him.

This is why Pat Utomi is behind him.

This is why the Afenifere, the oldest political organization headed by a 94 years old man is behind him.

This is why the Northern Elders Forum is behind him.

This is why the Middle belt Forum is behind him.

This is why the Southern Professionals are behind him.

This is why Professor Uzodinma’s Alaigbo Development Foundation is behind him.

This why Ohaneze is behind him.

This is why the Zana Goni led North East Elders for Peace and Development are behind him.

This is why the Prof Abdulkadir Mohammed Gummi led Coalition of Northern Elders For Peace and National Unity are behind him.

This is why the Muhammed Gwadabe led Coalition for Arewa youths are behind him.

This is why a billionaire northern youth from Borno state Isaac Balami will come out and say “I have sold my majority stake in my aircraft hangar as well as my airline, to join my fellow Nigerians in the Obidient movement, just so I can more dedicatedly fight this struggle to rescue the soul of this great nation”

This is why northern youths will chant Obi kererenke inside the bowels of Arewa house.

This is why the revered Oba of Benin almost broke his official neutrality tradition by making very positive statements about Obi in his palace.

This is why he receives standing ovations from the NBA to the ICAN conferences, from churches to mosques, from the youths to the aged.

He has spoken at Harvard. He has spoken at Oxford . Today he will be speaking at the prestigious Lagos Business School.

Saying the same things; I won’t steal a penny of public money . I had opportunity for eight years and I didn’t steal any. I had the opportunity to acquire land and I didn’t. I reduced the cost of governance and made sure nobody stole . I gave priority to education . I was number one in health care . I was number one in security. I won an award on critical infrastructure. I left 50 million dollars each in three banks . I invested money in several companies. Nobody, including Soludo has been able to dispute these.

Hate him or love him, Peter Obi has become the new standard for public officers and political conduct in Africa .

There will always be counter revolutionaries in every revolution, but the revolution will come.

23/10/2022

Mr Peter Obi in Ogbaru, Anambra state, yet on his visit to flood displaced victims. The People's Candidate.

23/10/2022

His genuine empathy is second to none, even at the risk of his personal comfort, security and life, this is Peter Obi in Bayelsa identifying physically with the flood victims.

23/10/2022

Nigerians🇳🇬, let's not allow this opportunity escape us. Let's for once behave like humans with functional brains. ©UCA 🙋

21/10/2022

2023: CAN WE DECIDE TO GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME?

✍️ Ugochimereze Chinedu Asuzu

I am moved to begin this piece yet again with the quote on leadership attributed to an emerging young and dynamic writer from Ghana, which captures in essence the merit of my postulation in this political thought as espoused below; wherein he stated thus:

"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day." ~Israelmore Ayivor

As much as apportioning blames has become more frequent than offering solutions, the need to understand the level of decay our country is in now has become increasingly expedient, as elections is around the corner now politicians are strategizing and restrategizing to making their preferred candidates win, which by implications is only aimed at being within the corridors of power should their candidates win. Much more than this personal interest, we should begin now to tinker with the idea of really building a Nation since after the independence we got from Britain our former colonial masters. I think it's now time for us to look beyond primordial sentiments, personal or group entitlements or pecuniary considerations as it relates to political participation and see how best to salvage our country which is daily nosediving into oblivion and becoming a shadow of herself, almost sapped of all the trappings of stability, and in essence fashion out the best way possible to go for the common good of her citizens.

Most objectively,

The parlous state our country is in now requires a sound and visionary mind with physical, mental and intellectual capacity, one who thinks outside the box to preside over her affairs at the apex leadership cadre. We most sincerely doesn't have the need for a patronizing leader, or any leader whose physical, mental and intellectual acuity is a subject of suspicion or in obvious decline, rather a servant-leader without corruption baggages who is known to possess the necessary virtues and temperance to pull us out of the quagmire we found ourselves.

Obviously,

We are in unusual times in the Nigeria of today, made worst by the choices of leaders we have had and yet having, the corollary effects being the backward trajectory we keep finding ourselves in because of the bad choices made overtime, more so our inability to screen and verify the past records of individuals who offer themselves to serve, before allowing them access to leadership at our apex level.

Alas,

As it's impossible for anyone to give dried fish to rats for safekeeping, in like manner handing leadership to corrupt infested individuals to manage is tantamount to hanging oneself out to dry, hence the unusual situation we're in requires pragmatic and decisive steps to be taken by Nigerians beyond partisan pandering and consideration.

Hence,

It's suicidal for us as a country at this point in time not to collectively resolve to pick someone that already has what it takes to turn the tide and wedge the nosedive of our economy with very practical skills, the one who has distinguished himself as a stoic, frugal and prudent manager of resources, and who from day one of his assumption to office would be seen cutting the over padded cost of governance which is already choking us as a country. One who will be seen leading by example judging by his records in offices in time past, who already has the sobriquet and antecedents of frugality, which some uninformed individuals might term stinginess.

Inarguably,

Not a usual routine or run on the mill kind of politician who is being cheered on by friends and hangers on to become president so they begin from where they stopped, depleting the already drained resources of the country further, rather one who is known to be a wealth creator that will create conducive environment for businesses to strive and those who are ready to strive in such areas seen striving, not the ones that are parasitic in government, those who contributes little or nothing but only feed fat on our common patrimony simply for the reason of being in the corridors of power, while those who labour and put in their best to nation building go hungry and empty handed.

Admittedly,

Corruption strives more when a leader is in the business of satisfying his hangers on and friends from our common till at the detriment of the masses, because in such instances any opportunity given to those hangers on will be seen as settlement and conduit pipe from whence personal purses are filled, and not necessarily to work for the benefits of all. While not against patronage to friends, nevertheless the over bloated hangers on of certain presidential candidates would serve as albatross to the smooth running of government, hence we should look at the direction of the one who will work for the greater good of the greater majority, than those who's interest will be to enrich friends and hangers on not minding the negative effects on the greater percentage of the people.

In charge,

Let every hand be on the plough to labour today and harvest abundantly tomorrow for our continuous growth as a country, the national cake is already gone, we require that going forward we should collectively join to bake the cake afresh, so as not to be seen fixated on consuming the platter upon which the former cake baked by our forebears was placed simply because it's yet tasty, as there's no free meal even in Freetown.

It's instructive,

That we say a resounding no to known plunders, kleptomaniacs and financial rascals who are known to have barrage of questions to answer and avalanche of skeletons in their closets when it comes to management of public funds; hence our choice of a leader this time around must be in the direction of the ones who over time are known with the track record of savings, because without saving culture embedded in our governance module going forward this obviously plundered country is already headed to doom.

In effect,

We need an unusual kind of leader to attend to our very debilitating situation; above all else one that's a known prudent and frugal manager of resources, one who will be accountable to the core, a leader with proven record of personal and verifiable achievements with track record of fiscal discipline, without the oversized baggages of corruption whether imagined or real hanging on his head, that way even the international community will respect our country and the one in turn would be able to look other world leaders in the eyes and discuss serious matters affecting our country with them without fear of the unknown or fall into the trap of blackmail due to hidden or proven cases of corruption, and which in turn will hamper or slow the pace of governance or make the one pandering to the whims and caprice of those he ought to stand up to.

Consequently,

The idea is not to get a saint, rather one who already is known to possess the virtues as outlined, doesn't necessarily have to be a perfect human being but amenable to the expectations of the now in respect to leadership, one whose attitude to leadership is more selfless than selfish, who understands the nitty gritty of personal discipline in attending to public resources.

In choosing this leader,

We must shun personal sentiments and primordial interests and look at the overall common good of the Nigerian populace; we must shun undue influence of religion, because we are in dire straightjacket now, as such, whatever religion the one subscribes to should be secondary; yes, partisan pandering shouldn't be the consideration that much, though we practice a partisan democracy, but we have an emergency situation on our hands now which needs be tackled head on, hence the political party we're subscribed to should be secondary as well if we must get it right, because if this country fails it'll fall on everyone irrespective of the political parties' persuasion.

Subsequently,

We must all accept that this country is failing in all facets and aspects, also in all indices and economic indicators red flags are being raised here and there; most importantly in the area of economy collapse, the signs are so evident that if we don't get it right in 2023 we might as well get prepared to watch this country balkanize in fragments, because the people are daily becoming despondent, hopeless and utterly frustrated, the elasticity of patience of many is waning and some have since reached the breaking point, and any further stretch will only lead to uncontrollable disaster, and this is what we all should be afraid of, not our personal pocket consideration, rather the impending doomsday should we make any mistakes in not choosing the right leader.

Furthermore,

If we are sincere to ourselves, a look at those who already declared interest and has been thrown up by their various political parties, we already have an outstanding character most fitted for this job, who if the responsibility of starring the ship of the Nigerian state is saddled with will most definitely make us proud as a country, assuming we bury tribalism, overbearing religious inclination and consideration, ego and other negatives, then I think the right decision will be made for the betterment of our country and citizens come February 2023, then the full potentials of Nigeria and Nigerians will be explored to the maximum and the world would stand in awe to watch the positive transformation going forward, and everyone is happy.

Finally,

I leave you the reader to decipher the individuals or individual showcased by this personal reasoning and approve or disapprove accordingly, taking cognizance of the situation we are in now and what is expected of the one we'll vote for, with the hindsight of the capacity and capabilities of our choice.

Thank you for your audience.

©Ugochimereze
20/10/2022

08/10/2022

OBI-DATTI RALLY IN DELTA STATE.

28/09/2022

27/09/2022

*PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHIEF AYO ADEBANJO, LEADER OF AFENIFERE, ON THE 26TH OF SEPTEMBER, 2022, 11:00AM, AT WHEATBAKER HOTEL, IKOYI, LAGOS STATE.*

*WHY AFENIFERE SUPPORTS SOUTH EAST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR 2023 PRESIDENCY.*

Before the political parties conducted their primaries, a journalist asked what is my view about the 2023 general election? I answered and said the country should be restructured before the general election, and he followed up by asking if there should be an election, which zone should the Presidency come from? And I unhesitatingly said, of course, the South East.

After the primaries and the candidates emerge with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from the South West, APC, Atiku Abubakar on the platform of PDP and Peter Obi on the platform of Labour Party and I announced Afenifere’s support for Peter Obi, not a few Yoruba leaders question why I should be supporting Peter Obi a candidate of Igbo extraction against Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a Yoruba.

I took my time to explain that the presidency is not a contest between the Yorubas and the Igbos and to a large extent I was able to convince many.

But ever since social media has been filled with comments tending to ethnicize the campaign instead of making it issue-based.

Afenifere has therefore decided to address you today and through you educate the public on the ideological and equitable principles which have influenced our decision.

Let me state here for the benefit of those who may not know that Afenifere is the Yoruba interpretation of the social welfarist ideology of Action Group, a political party founded by Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his colleagues in 1951 with strong advocacy for federalism as the best form of government to give the federating units the requisite autonomy to thrive and peacefully compete among themselves for the ultimate development of Nigeria.

The system was eventually agreed to by our founding fathers, Sir Ahmad Bello, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, and Chief Obafemi Awolowo, and endorsed by the Colonial Secretary, Sir Oliver Littleton in 1954 and embodied in the 1960 independence constitution.

This is the modest contribution of Afenifere in shaping Nigeria into a federation where no person or ethnic nationality is oppressed.

In the countdown to the 2023 General elections, long before the parties conducted their Conventions to elect their National Executives and candidates, we had insisted and still advocate restructuring before the elections proposing a synthesis of the identical Resolutions of the 2014 National Conference and the APC El Rufai 2018 True Federalism Committee. We did this as Afenifere and on the wider spectrum of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF). We did this, when politicians, in spite of the monumental crises confronting the nation, carried on as if the attainment of power was all that mattered, the SMBLF unanimously proposed that the minimum condition for a peaceful transition from the disastrous 8years of Buhari’s government headed by a President of northern extraction was to have the next President from the South.

This position was also supported by all the southern governors, irrespective of their political parties at a meeting held in Asaba, Delta State.

Incidentally, this North/South consideration which is at the very root of our amalgamated federation is also the most important testament of all political parties in Nigeria. The principle of federal character enshrined in the constitution dictates that the government of the federation or any part thereof shall not be concentrated in any ethnic group or a combination of such groups.

It is therefore preposterous to adopt this principle for employment in public service admissions in educational institutions, political appointment, the composition of the executive committee of a political party only to jettison it in the most important question of rulership of the federation.

In this quest for peace, based on equity and inclusiveness, the Yoruba took the first turn at the zoning arrangement in 1999, and that led to the emergence of Chief Obasanjo, the current Vice President is a Yoruba man and equity forbids us for presuming to support another Yoruba person for the presidency in 2023. The current President is a Fulani from the Northwest and by virtue of the zoning arrangement that has governed Nigeria since 1999, power is supposed to return to the south imminently. The southwest as I have pointed out has produced a president and currently sits as VP, the South-South has spent a total of 6years in the Presidency, but the Igbo people of the South-East have never tasted presidency in Nigeria, and now that the power is due back in the South equity demands that it be ceded to the Igbo.

We cannot continue to demand that the Igbo people remain in Nigeria, while we at the same time continue to brutally marginalize and exclude them from the power dynamic.

Peter Obi is the person of Igbo extraction that Afenifere has decided to support and to back, he is the man we trust to restructure the country back to federalism on the assumption of office.

We will not compromise this principle of justice, equity and inclusiveness because one of our own Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is a frontline candidate.

It is on this same principle, we condemn the PDP for sponsoring Atiku Abubakar, a Northern Fulani Muslim to succeed General Muhammadu Buhari another Fulani Muslim who will soon complete 8 years of uneventful and disastrous rule. One can imagine such a high degree of political insensitivity.

On our part, we are certainly not alien to sacrificing personal interests in the quest for a National coalition to put Nigeria on the proper pedestal.

In this regard, the starting point is Southern solidarity for which we first enacted a handshake across the Niger, which had dovetailed to the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum. We enjoin the labour movement, students, youth organisations, women associations, and every institution whose foundation is built on fairness and justice to join hands in this task of enthroning a democratic government by supporting Peter Obi. If we are sincere and honest about keeping Nigeria together in peace, the slogan henceforth should be ‘To keep Nigeria one, everyone should be Obi/Datti compliant.’

In the final analysis, let it be said that we have no apologies but due courage of our conviction that Nigeria can only prosper in righteousness.

For me, in the twilight of my sojourn on earth at 94, it is too late to derail me on the track of true federalism and National inclusiveness on which I have travelled for over 70 years of my life as one of the few surviving initial prophets, I prefer to ascend on a chariot of fire, fueled by justice and equity.

Thank you all.

And may the good Lord bless Nigeria.

Signed
*CHIEF AYO ADEBANJO*
Leader of Afenifere

POEM Adds...
*What an elder can see sitting, a child can't see standing. Nigerians, let's listen to a man of 94 years and cure this country of her divisive ailment since Independence...and then blossom in UNITY in DIVERSITY*.

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