You have asked a great question but don't hold your breath for good answers. The Council of Progressives (COPS) is allergic to accountability. Have you tried engaging Nasir El-Rufai? Ask him any hard question and you will be rewarded with incoherent bluster. Ribadu is just as bad. In the West these not-so-young Turks would be in jail for so many crimes against the state. Instead they strut the stage making us sick with the halitosis of their noisemaking. How can we have credible and fair elections when all the candidates so far are CROOKS and bullsh*t artists? How come there is not an iota of outrage that we have a few months til January and Jega and Aluko assure us that somehow elections are going to be credible free and fair! Ikhide talk now, see fire for I'm head! Na wa O!
This democracy will please me only when it ends. It has been a boon to the confraternity of looters and bullsh*t artists now yelling at IBB. IBB is a convenient shield away from their own dysfunction. They are the ones who have looted us blind in the past 10 years. They are the ones that miseducated our youngsters in the past 10 years. If you want to see how bad things are with our youths, go to President Jonathan's mutterings on his Facebook page. If you survive his badly written musings, your heart will stop at the horrid writing of his youthful devotees. It was not IBB that carved up Abuja among his friends, wives, and fellow bs artists. It was El Rufai.
Abeg the more I think about these things, the more despondent I get. Nigeria is not a serious country.
- Ikhide
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-----Original Message-----
From: Noyo Edem <babytonia62@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:30:27
To: <naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com>; <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Cc: <xokigbo@yahoo.com>; <nidoa@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [NaijaPolitics] Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - UN-STAR LIST: Roll Call at IBB's AbujaDeclaration Event
I think every community has an assembly of elders. Are the names in the roll call to blame for the problems in Nigeria?
On Thu Sep 16th, 2010 9:34 AM EDT Mobolaji ALUKO wrote:
>Ikhide:
>
>Your artsy-bubbly "everyone-is-guilty" mantra is always interesting to me.
>I am not sure what it is aimed at achieving except to show your personal
>righteous indignation, which is your prerogative.
>
>Listen up, Ikhide: my major pre-occupation right now is free, fair and
>credible elections in 2011. The people deserve the leadership that they get
>only if they are not raped by unfree, unfair and incredible elections,
>following which they have little or no legal recourse except from the same
>violators.
>
>To prevent any particular person from winning, there must be sufficient
>number of people who:
>
>- register
>- select carefully the alternative candidate
>- vote
>- protect their votes
>
>This RSVP formula is the only pragmatic panacea to wailing in the wind.
>
>And there you have it.
>
>
>Bolaji Aluko
>
>On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:00 AM, <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> There is absolutely nothing "un-star" about the list. They have as much
>> right to screw the nation as Professor Aluko's friend Nuhu Ribadu to screw
>> the nation without apology. They are all modern day fraudsters. This is as
>> "un-Star" as all the unholy alliances and "forums" that our intellectual and
>> political classes have been engaging in using the pretend-process that they
>> shamelessly call democracy. IBB is probably a better human being than that
>> thug Obasanjo and yet we don't see "un-star" lists of meetings with him. Our
>> so called "progessives" meet with him in Minna, the thieving loud-mouths,
>> and yet we don't see a list. Who is to decide who is more amoral? Let's
>> decide that at the polls. Except that our intellectual elites, the
>> narcissistic among us have adopted an election calendar that is so bad that
>> it is designed to make Nigeria implode. Ask Professor Jega.
>>
>> I am not impressed. I will vote for IBB first before I vote for Nuhu Ribadu
>> or that clown El Rufai. When you adjust for the hope that the desperate once
>> invested in that generation of misrulers, IBB's sins pale in comparison to
>> their grand perfidy. We may be stuck. All these wailings from my good
>> progressive friend Professor Bolaji Aluko come across as hollow and
>> insincere because it is not clear to me that like Ribadu's selective
>> "Justice" during Obasanjo's lootocracy, he is not picking and choosing who
>> should be shot for the same crime. When Ribadu and El Rufai apologise to the
>> nation for helping to bring her to her knees, I might re-consider. Until
>> then, a pox on all their houses. And I say IBB for President. Why not? He is
>> a saint compared to the others. And Oh by the way, this is all merely a
>> fight among the elite, democracy my foot. Everybody is guilty. We are all in
>> this lootocracy looking for our own. We simply mouth the babble-speak of
>> pretend processes because in our minds, if we keep jabbering things like
>> "Baldrige," "accountability," babble babble babble, our sins will be
>> white-washed. Shame on our nation. Shame on all of us who are participating
>> in this charade. It is so wrong. IBB for president. He has my vote.
>>
>> - Ikhide
>>
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>> *From: *Mobolaji ALUKO <alukome@gmail.com>
>> *Sender: *usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>> *Date: *Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:13:58 -0400
>> *To: *USAAfrica Dialogue<USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>;
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>> ekitigroups<ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com>; naijaintellects<
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>> *ReplyTo: *usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>> *Subject: *USA Africa Dialogue Series - UN-STAR LIST: Roll Call at IBB's
>> Abuja Declaration Event
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *ROLL CALL*
>> * General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida himself
>> *Governor Murtala Nyako Adamawa State
>> *Governor Babangida Aliyu Niger State
>> *Governor Aliyu Shinkafi , Zamfara State
>> *Dr. Peter Odili, former Governor Rivers State,
>> *Hon. Ghali Umar Na'Abba, former Speaker, House of Representatives,
>> *Former Governor Abdulkadir Kure, Niger State
>> *Former Senate President, Senator Ken Nnamani
>> *Former Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Adamu
>> *Former Health Minister, Professor ABC Nwosu
>> *Alhaji Tanko Yakassai.
>> *General Mohammed Magoro,
>> *Alhaji Mohammed Abacha
>> *Kazeem Afegbua
>> *Abdulkadir Dantata
>> *Sen Nuhu Aliyu
>> *Gabriel Umoden
>> *Alhaji S. Bakare (Oluwalogbon)
>> *Chief Kenny Martins
>> *Chief Mrs. Remi Adiukwu-Bakare
>> *Hon. Awwal Tukur
>> *Senator Zainabe Kure
>> *Senator Awesu Kuta.
>> *General Saliu Ibrahim, former Chief of Army Staff
>> *Senator Kanti Bello
>> *Professor Sam Oyovbiare
>> *Hon. Abdul Ningi
>> *Democratic Party presidential aspirant, Chief Obinna Uzor
>> *Chief Francis Ayegbeni.
>> *Representatives of the Yoruba Council of Elders??
>> *Representatives of the South-South Youth Assembly??
>> *Dr. Mrs Gambo Zuweira
>> *Hazim Gbolarunmi, Former Dep. Gov, Oyo State
>> * Magaret Udom
>> *AVM Hamza Abdullahi
>> *Deputy Gov of Kwara
>> *Alex Akinyele
>> *Mike Nwaukoni
>> *Amb Leo Okogu
>> *Sunny Okogwu
>> *Dr. Abiye Sekibo
>> *Apollos Amadi
>> *Murtala Aliyu
>> *Dr. Bello Gusau
>> *Alhaji Sada Ilu
>> *Shettima Mustapha
>> *Alhaji Umar Abba Gana
>> *Prof. Jibril Aminu
>> *Sen. Sylvester Anyanwu
>> *Chief Regal Ofomba
>> *Dr. Tony Eze
>> *Prince Arthur Eze (represented)
>> *Francis Ogboru
>> *Alhaji Abbey Ibrahim
>> *Keneth Kobani
>> *Hon. Bawa Buari, former Chief Whip, House of Reps
>> *Alhaji Hassan Jalo
>> *Alhaji Danjuma Hammed
>> *Munir Jafar, former MD, NMA
>> *Clem Ohameze
>> *Dr. Junaid Mohammed
>> *Former Minister Musa Gwadabe
>> *Alhaji Hamed Hassan
>> *Hon. Shehu Sani
>> *Hon. Wadada
>> *Hon. Mercy Almona-Isei
>> *Hon. Linda Ikpeazu
>> *Princess Adama Dania
>> *Professor Mrs. Chinwe Obaji, former Minister
>> *Alhaji Bello Bagudu
>> *Alhaji Umaru Ndanusa
>> *Sen. Dangana Ndayako
>> *Sambo Dasuki
>> *Colonel Bello Fadile
>> *vAbdulkadir Dantata
>> *Gabriel Umoden
>> *Dr. Kunle Olajide
>> *Dr. Junaid Mohammed
>> *Alhaji Hamed Hassan
>> *Hon. Wadada
>>
>> etc.
>>______________________________
>>
>>
>> *NM NOTE*
>>
>> *If you were in attendance, and you were listed above, please let NM know.
>> *If you were THERE, and you were NOT listed, please let NM know.
>>
>> And there you have it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> NM
>>
>>
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