Lest we forget, DSS and EFCC existed during Olusegun Obasnjo's PDP led federal government from 1999. Lest we forget, the PDP ruled Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2015, making a total of 16 years. Lest we forget, Buhari was sworn in as the President of Nigeria on 29 May 2015. Lest we forget, most of the EFCC cases against corrupt PDP-political office holders began in 2007 and are still ongoing. Lets we forget, most of the corrupt PDP-political office holders being tried in the courts throughout the nation have now crossed over to the APC but cases of corruption against them have not been withdrawn. Lest we forget, it was not Buhari's EFCC who charged James Onanefe Ibori to court for stealing £265 million from Delta State Treasury during his eight years tenure as Governor of the State, but Jonathan's EFCC. Lest we forget, it was not Buhari's EFCC that arraigned a marginalised South-easterner and former Governor of Abia State (1999-2007), Orji Uzor Kalu, before an Abuja High Court on 27 July 2007 on a 107-count charge of money laundering, official corruption and criminal diversion of public funds in excess of N5 billion, but Yar'Adua's EFCC. Lest we forget, the EFCC accused Kalu of transferring billions of naira belonging to the Abia State government to his Slok Airlines. He was accused of transferring the funds over a period of time from the defunct Manny Bank (later merged with Fidelity Bank) to Slok's account at Inland Bank. Lest we forget, he was also alleged, between 1999 and 2007, to have removed various sums of government money into Slok Investment, Slok Nigeria Limited, Slok Incorporated all owned by him. Lest we forget, Orji Uzor Kalu admitted in court that the N 5 billion naira he transferred to his private companies' account from Abia State account was from security votes and since security votes are unaccountable and unretired-able, he had the right as Governor to disburse the security votes as he did. Lest we forget, the case is still in court even though Orji Uzor Kalu has now crossed from PDP to APC. Lest we forget, the economic situation which Nigerians are complaining about today are not caused by Buhari's administration and commonsense demands that the political party that ruled Nigeria for 16 years, until 29 May 2015, should be made to account for their stewardship while in power.
S. Kadiri
Skickat: den 8 september 2017 15:37
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Ämne: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: FW: Kenya's Supreme Court has cancelled Kenya's election, orders new election within 60 days
On Friday, September 8, 2017, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:
--Stockholm, Friday morning, 8th September, 2017"If it were in Nigeria, there would have been midnight raids by a combined team of DSS and EFCC on the homes of the Judges by now under the guise of anti- corruption." (A bitter and very pessimistic Chidi Anthony Opara) … as Brother Dylan put it and we can be sure that Baba Kadiri agrees from within"False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin
Only a matter of time 'til night comes steppin' in" (Jokerman)
Well, in Benin, Voodoo is one of the official state religions whereas in in the Federal Republic of Nigeria what is popularly/ unpopularly known in the missionary West as "voodoo" "/"Juju" /"witchcraft" has not quite attained that kind of official status yet ;I begin with this preamble before quoting Quran and in this case the Bible ( the so called " New" testament) that, "a prophet has no honor in his own country" (in advance, Jesus perhaps justifying his own rejection by his own people, whilst he was still alive)…as when predicting imminent future disaster/ under-development, corruption and incompetence politicians and commentators alike tend to put on some kind of prophetic toga ( even if Muslims among them know and understand that Muhammad Ibn Abdallah ( S.a.w.) was and is the LAST PROPHET! )
But unlike Baba Kadiri, Chidi was not revisiting the past. That was merely Chidi's devilish, nightmare premonitions about a worst case scenario in his native land. I'm as surprised as Chidi, in fact aren't we all surprised about that Supreme Court decision in Kenya or in any other African country for that matter, where on the one hand they preach and pay lip service to "the separation of powers" even when the actual praxis is that whatever incumbent president (Brother Buhari a notable exception) most other African presidents that we know of in the present and in the past, usually have the Supreme Court in their back pockets.
However, the assassination of a key electoral officer - with the key to the electoral data bank, that must have been the smoking gun, leaving the Supreme Court no alternative but to bite the bullet and declare the vote null and void!
Here's some revisiting the past, perhaps even reinventing that history as Victor Oguejiofor Okafor does, so succinctly and poignantly here in his "Nigeria's disputed Elections and the Resulting Leadership legitimacy crisis" he said: "In the final analysis Ex-President Obasanjo should realize that electoral crimes are also grave acts of corruption. Gaining political office by snatching ballot boxes and by filling ballot boxes with fake votes is as unconstitutional as seizing the reins of government with the gun – and should be considered and treated as treasonable"
On Saturday, 2 September 2017 00:24:26 UTC+2, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:If it were in Nigeria, there would have been midnight raids by a combined team of DSS and EFCC on the homes of the Judges by now under the guise of anti- corruption.
CAO.
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