jing, my friend, you made me laugh...with that apt saying....speaking with food in the mouth. let us dare him to carry guns and forget his riches.
--- On Sat, 10/30/10, Thomas Jing <thomasjing@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Thomas Jing <thomasjing@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [NIgerianWorldForum] ||NaijaObserver||I’m ready for war to keep Nigeria’s unity — Danjuma
To: nigerianworldforum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010, 1:06 PM
yeah peter,
your analysis makes a lot of sense. he should just keep quiet and eat his millions. it is bad manners to speak with food in the mouth!
To: nigerianworldforum@yahoogroups.com; NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com From: ogbuonyeiro@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:39:51 -0700 Subject: RE: [NIgerianWorldForum] ||NaijaObserver||I’m ready for war to keep Nigeria’s unity — Danjuma jing my friend, i know general danjuma as a person, and i know that he meant what he was saying; but as one with half a billion dollars in his pocket amidst millions of poor starving peoples, who is to believe him; he has made his choice, as to who he thinks can fight corruption to a "stand still", but he did know the man he chose functioned only on the protection of baba obasanjo; once obasanjo was nowhere around, the criminal cabals went after ribadu, and ribadu ran away.....danjuma will be in no position whatsoever to protect baby ribadu from the cabal that will sure surround him, frustrate him and floor him, that is if he has a single chance at all of seeing aso rock...yet danjuma will throw his millions at ribadu. i get curious, darned curious, why danjuma countenances not Buhari. but i understand it some. Buhari will never, ever, allow a situation in very poor nigeria, where a single man reaps millions of dollars off of the common weal, no matter how. all them nigerian operators like danjuma are thus aware....the vast nigeria is their playground, wherein they reap what they please, at the expense of all of us....for that reason, baabangida countenances no snc, it is 'a no go area' for him as far as nigeria's being....danjuma now says he will go to war.....as the same snc is a no go area for him...this gets my blood boiling, when people are against what to me determines what is mine and what other's....now who is ready to take up arms against the danjumas and baabangidas to fight for the good of all and what belongs to all.....i mean these men are ready to fight to keep the status quo that is so good to them.....WHO AMONG THE YAPSTERS HERE IS WILLING TO TAKE UP ARMS AGAINST THOSE WHO PERPETUALLY WILL AGAINST ALL, UPON ALL? i mean, when danjuma says he is ready to pick up arms to fight, i recall rather quickly he and his ilk had arms 40 years ago to deny me freedom and security that i desired, and i want to say i count myself as one ready to fight, carry arms to fight for what i think is right for all in that godforsaken entity, a robbed and raped entity, some still want to keep as is because they get all they want from it, and the rest remain without.
--- On Sat, 10/30/10, Thomas Jing <thomasjing@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Thomas Jing <thomasjing@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [NIgerianWorldForum] ||NaijaObserver||I’m ready for war to keep Nigeria’s unity — Danjuma
To: nigerianworldforum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010, 11:22 AM
yeah right! "... make nigeria one great country" indeed. by doing what, bleeding her white. it is often terrible when people who helped in destroying nigeria carry out such media forays to conceal their true character. ironsi's wife once referred to danjuma as a coward; come to think of it, she's right.
To: NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com; NaijaObserver@yahoogroups.com CC: naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com; igboevents@yahoogroups.com From: olawaleaina@rocketmail.com Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:57:56 +0000 Subject: Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] ||NaijaObserver||I’m ready for war to keep Nigeria’s unity — Danjuma He is right on every point except that of the national conference. If I have 500 million dollars, I would say more than that! OA Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
From: vincent modebelu <vin_modebelu@yahoo.com> Sender: NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:17:43 -0700 (PDT) To: OBSERVE YOURSELF<NaijaObserver@yahoogroups.com> ReplyTo: NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com Cc: <naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com>; <NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com>; <igboevents@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] ||NaijaObserver||I’m ready for war to keep Nigeria’s unity — Danjuma
He said that the Obasanjo he knew in 1979 was not the one who presided over the affairs of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007....we would be called to rubber stamp because he had already given anticipatory approval.......danjuma
Saturday, 30 October 2010 05:42
Biodun Durojaiye
Former Defence Minister, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma has two words for the advocates of a Sovereign National Conference in Nigeria: Forget it. To him, convening such a forum would make the end of the country, an entity that he is ready to defend with his last blood. Even at 73, Danjuma declared on Thursday in Lagos, he is ready to take up arms to ensure that the oneness of the country is not tampered with.
He describes a Sovereign National Conference as a trip to court to end a marriage.
The Taraba State-born retired Army General made the declaration in a lecture he delivered on Thursday evening at the Lagos Country Club, Ikeja. The lecture was organised by the eminent social club.
Danjuma said: “Many people are saying we need to convene a National Conference to determine our existence. But I disagree with them. I am scared of (a) National Conference. Convening the National Conference country will be like going to a court to separate a marriage. At my age, I am ready to go to war to make Nigeria one great country.”
He also described the current National Assembly as the most expensive, least productive in the history of the country
His words: “The enormity of their allowances must be a genuine concern for us. The frequent changes in the leadership is a point to this fact, They are serving their own interest rather than the people who voted them into power. They lack the will and if the current trend continues, we are going to be in great problem in this country.”
Danjuma also used the occasion to express support for the candidature of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as the next president. He cited the “track records” of Ribadu in the war against corruption, which to him, has now reached “oceanic proportions.”
Danjuma said that Ribadu, a presidential aspirant of the Action Congress of Nigeria (can) is the best man for the job in 2011.
He said: “I recommend Nuhu Ribadu to you. He will fight corruption to a standstill. People must be held accountable. If not, they will get away with murder literally. If there is no restitution, we are sweeping the probe under the carpet because there is corruption of oceanic proportion in Nigeria.”
Danjuma also lambasted his former boss, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, for allegedly failing million of Nigerians at the latter’s second coming into power. He said that the Obasanjo he knew in 1979 was not the one who presided over the affairs of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007.
His words: “I was in the cabinet and I saw a totally different man. On so many occasions, when memos were brought, we would be called to rubber stamp because he had already given anticipatory approval. I strongly believed that Obasanjo was going to deliver but he failed.”
To the former Chief of Army staff, the problems of Nigeria rest solely on lack of good leadership, which he said explains why the nation has refused to move forward, 50 years after independence. He added that one good person at the top would turn the fortunes of the country around.
“The leadership problem is the issue. Leadership is very crucial to the survival of any nation. I am an absolute believer that one right man or woman can make it right in the life of a nation. Our country has so far been unlucky in this aspect,” Danjuma noted.
On the myriad of problems bedevilling the nation, Danjuma said this is not the time to apportion blames but to do something that would make the nation great in the comity of nations.
His words: “This is not the time to condemn others for what we perceive as their shortcomings. The nation has had so many of that.Whatever we have to offer, we should offer. Whatever anyone has to say, let him say. Whatever anyone can do, let him do.”
He continued: “The question is no longer what other persons have done or failed to do but what we have done or are doing to uplift our country. That is my expectation. The emphasis should be on what we can do for the nation, what we can do for others. That is the only way forward. I do not agree with people who keep quiet and say nothing about the problems of Nigeria. We must realise that we have something to offer the nation, objectively, to take it proper place. There are a lot of things to be corrected and it is our duty to correct them. I do not agree with those who have become resigned with the situations and have chosen to do nothing. The tenets of our country require radical change”
Danjuma noted that one of the major obstacles to creating progress on the part of the citizens “is lack of confidence in ourselves and total absence of pride in our country,” adding: “Each and every one of us has something to offer the nation and the world.”
He noted that it is good for a nation to have big dreams and to aim high “but we must take care not to overshoot the targets. In dreaming dreams we must be careful not to make fools of ourselves.”
He decried Nigerian’s lack of creativity even in the world of creative arts, saying: “We equate the Nollywood film industry to Bollywood without blushing.”
Danjuma said that at this time “when the nation is rife with every kind of factions and divisions, at a time when patriotism seems to be on the decline, I cannot but commend men and women like you who are committed to peace, progress and unity of the nation.” He added: “As you in this club place emphasis on the things which unite us rather than things which divide you, so it ought to be for our country.”
He argued that divided as Nigerians may seem to be, “the emphasis ultimately shall be on the things which unite us,” adding: “I am confident that in spite of all our differences, we shall come together in one strong united nation which shall be an example in eyes of the world and a pride for the black race.”
He said the Nigeria of his dream should be a truly democratic and free nation, transparently governed by knowledgeable, visionary, honest and pragmatic leaders who are accountable to all our people and are economically self reliant nation, where the majority of his people are gainfully employed.
Danjuma, who stated further that the Nigeria of his dream it one whose people would have a sense of history and respect for their cultural institutions, added that he felt sorry that “ we have destroyed or are fast destroying one of our most important cultural institutions, the village, at a time when we do not have a substitute.”
He continued: “We have replaced our villages with slums and the conditions in these slums have inhibited the cultivation of morals and given rise to all the vices that we have to contend with now.
He wants the government at all levels to fashion a programme which will enable the millions of Nigerians who have migrated to the cities return to the villages.
By Bimbo Ogunnaike
http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69183:im-ready-for-war-to-keep-nigerias-unity-danjuma&catid=43:news&Itemid=799
vin......///
yesterdays thoughts are today's news
will keep blowing while relaxed.....they are listening
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