I would submit that it is preposterous for you to regard you or me as a rape victim when it comes to Nigeria's affairs. Enablers, perhaps, but definitely not victims. The real victims are the people who have been royally screwed by the prodemocracy movement, her friends and benefactors in the past decade. I appreciate your frustration with my attitude but with all due respects, your friends and those making unctuous noises at IBB dine with the devil nonstop, they have no credibilty and that is why they are not gaining traction. Why should my people get in the middle of the fight between your friends and IBB? They are still smarting from the screwing they got from Obasanjo. I am voting for IBB jo!
- Ikhide
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From: Mobolaji ALUKO <alukome@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:16:20 -0400
To: <xokigbo@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - UN-STAR LIST: Roll Call at IBB'sAbujaDeclaration Event
Ikhide:
1. A rape victim cannot be objective to his rapist simply because he or she understands the rapist's sexual predilections.
2. Heckling is part of politics. Even you are heckling me right now.
3. You are absolutely right. IBB has as much right to run in 2011 as Ribadu, since no law prevents them from doing so. Luckily, no law also prevents you from heckling Ribadu, me from heckling IBB or you from heckling me.
4. I will pray that you are alive way beyond January 2011, whether we have free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria or not.
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:40 AM, <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:
Bolaji,
You are not an objective party in this, let's be fair. You and your friends on the "progressive" bandwagon want us to be blind to the massive character flaws of your friends - Ribadu and El Rufai and instead heckle IBB. You and I know that they are all crooks along with IBB. You and I know that this is not a democracy but just a fight among us friends. You and I know that Professor Jega's timetable is ridiculous and would not work even in a well-oiled democracy. Let's stop fooling ourselves. This democracy will bring out the beast in us. I pray to be alive to see you bring free fair and credible elections to Nigeria by this January. In the meantime, leave IBB alone. He has as much right as Ribadu to run.
Be well.Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:34:27 -0400Cc: Ikhide<xokigbo@yahoo.com>; NaijaPolitics e-Group<NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com>; NIDOA<NIDOA@yahoogroups.com>Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - UN-STAR LIST: Roll Call at IBB's AbujaDeclaration EventIkhide: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 votesThis RSVP formula is the only pragmatic panacea to wailing in the wind.And there you have it.Bolaji AlukoOn 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.
- IkhideSent via BlackBerry by AT&T
From: Mobolaji ALUKO <alukome@gmail.com>Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:13:58 -0400To: USAAfrica Dialogue<USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>; NaijaPolitics e-Group<NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com>; NIDOA<NIDOA@yahoogroups.com>; OmoOdua<OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com>; ekiti ekitigroups<ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com>; naijaintellects<naijaintellects@googlegroups.com>; <NaijaObserver@yahoogroups.com>; NigerianWorldForum<NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com>ReplyTo: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.comSubject: 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. Wadadaetc.
______________________________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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