RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Change is supposed to have come, so, what the hell is going on?

Doyin Aguro,
You cannot judge a book by looking at its cover, you must read its contents in order to offer a good judgement. When some cabals wanted to subvert the Constitution by attempting to render it subordinate to the PDP constitution, which stipulated the rotation of the Presidency to the North and South every other eight years, after the death of Yar'Adua we protested against the cabals and the supremacy of the Constitution was upheld. Hence Jonathan became the substantive President. After his re-election in 2011, Jonathan saw himself not as President of Nigeria but President of what in Nigeria's political circle is called minority. His miss-governance paved way for Buhari and his APC.
 
Tacitly referring to Buhari and APC, you asked rhetorically, where the heck is change?; where the heck is the (so called) change? Buhari is not a magician and you cannot expect him to make omelette without breaking eggs. And whenever he wants to break eggs in order to make omelette which Nigerians demand, it is people like you who always shout and accuse him of dictatorship. You demand that he should obey the rule of law and respect the fundamental human rights of treasury looters to enjoy their loots. The type of rapid change you and others want Buhari to accomplish in Nigeria can only be brought about by bloody revolution in which the deprived masses rise up against the 1% exploiting class. So what a hell are you waiting for?
S.Kadiri

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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 14:36:00 +0100
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Change is supposed to have come, so, what the hell is going on?
From: doyinaguoru77@gmail.com
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

I salute the Mazis and Ogbuefis,
Permit me to be really informal.
Things are a lot worse than you can write of or imagine.

I am one of those who didn't believe in Jonathan before or after he became and stopped being president neither did I or do I believe in Buhari and the strange indices with which he was elected or was preferred among the presidential candidates.

Let''s stop trying to pretty things up and be realistic

What the heck is change?

Where the heck is the
(so called) change?

On 26 Mar 2016 14:12, "Salimonu Kadiri" <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:

Ogbuefi Chidi Anthony Opara,
Only hypocrites would pretend that the National Assembly has not been captured by the old and new PDP members of the two chambers. That is why a PDP senator which normally should belong to the opposition is now Deputy Senate President. In normal societies, electorates would have protested to restore the mandates they have given to the APC through elections.
 
No one is demanding that accused persons be sent to prisons as it is being suggested by poetic pettifogers. What is obvious to Nigerians whose eyes are not at the back of their heads is that the accused persons in collaboration with some judges and lawyers frustrate trials. You will probably recall that Justice Marcel Awokulehin of Asaba Federal High Court, dismissed and acquitted 170 count charges of fraud and treasury looting against James Onanefe Ibori in 2010 when he was Governor of Delta State between 1999 and 2007. But the same Ibori was found guilty in London, in 2012,  for laundering £250 million stolen from Delta State while he was Governor. The trial in London revealed that James Ibori ought not to have contested election in 1999 because he was convicted for criminal negligence and theft of building materials at Usman Dam near Bwari in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in 1995 by Justice Awwal Yusuf. In order to conceal his conviction, Ibori changed his year of birth from August 4, 1962 to August 4, 1958. Charged along with Ibori in London was his only surviving sister born of the same mother, named Christine Ibori-Ibie. The London court observed through the passport of his sister that Ibori was only one month younger than his senior sister born of the same mother, which is bio-medically impossible. It was also revealed that Ibori was jailed in London in 1991 for theft and in the passport he used then, his date of birth was 4th August 1962. In Nigeria James Onanefe Ibori refused to be tried for fraudulent accumulation of wealth because he, as it is now a practice among looters, parted away with some of the looted funds to judges and lawyers.
 
I am not an intellectual giant and even though you proudly claim to be a roadside/motorpark poet, I think we are in the same boat as victims of Nigerian state robbers who have stolen our own portion of Nigeria's Gross Domestic Products (GDP). Nigerians in unison should stand up for our rights to retrieve our stollen wealth from itchy-fingered vandals masquerading as officials in Nigeria.
S.Kadiri    
 

> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:47:42 -0700
> From: chidi.opara@gmail.com
> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Change is supposed to have come, so, what the hell is going on?
>
> Intellectual S. Kadiri,
> The two chambers of the national assembly are in the hands of APC, if however, APC could not manage itself well, it means that they are not ready for governance in the first place.
>
> On the Judiciary, I hope you guys are not expecting that accused persons should just be sent to prison without prosecution?
>
> Why would an Intellectual giant like you expect a lowly roadside poet (motor park poet actually) like me to protest against the status quo in corruption? Would my protest as a roadside poet make any impact? And while I am at it, what would you, an Intellectual giant, be doing?
>
> CAO.
>
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