ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. ] { VOL. 3. NO 91. 10-05-15.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32) THE JINX CALLED “TRANSITION” IN AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS. POWER intoxicates and corrupts; and absolute power disillusions and corrupts absolutely!Otherwise, why should the incumbent President of Burundi, who completed the constitutionally backed two terms in office, seek an extension by forcing the Constitutional Court to back his third term bid? Why is Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, whose health condition is so worrisome still holds on to power at the expense of the sovereign but impoverished electorate? Why did it ever occur to Nigeria’s former military Head of State who later governed for eight years (1999-2007), as civilian President, to seek for a third term in office? *At the last count, about 18 protesters have been killed and scores wounded by the military because Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi must rule his country by force and at all cost! He has filed his candidacy to run for a third term with a declaration that elections would go well though he admitted that the demonstrations had turned into insurrection! According to the opposition, Ukurunziza’s third term bid “violates both the constitution which limits a president to two terms in office and the accord that ended a 13-year civil war between Tutsis and Hutus in 2006. The President was a former rebel leader from the Hutu majority who has come under intense international pressure to withdraw from the upcoming election of 26th June, 2015, as it was alleged by one of the Constitutional Court Judges who refused to support the bid and subsequently fled to neighbouring Burundi, that he and his colleagues had been subjected to death threats! *President Nkurunziza was also quoted as saying that the current crisis in Burundi was “nothing compared to what we experienced in 1993-1994;” (referring to the civil war that killed about 300.000 people.) A report from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) states that more than 50.000 Burundians who have been internally displaced have fled to Rwanda, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the past few weeks! *Why would the transition of power become an albatross - a problem which the defeated Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) - finds very difficult to crack? Could it be that they greedily counted their chicks before they were hatched? It looks like the post-election trauma is still taking its toll on both government and party officials! In one vein, the Federal Government said it has set up a Transition Committee, which at the time of this publication, was yet to meet with its counterpart of the incoming administration of the All Progressives Party (APC). In another vein PDP is accusing APC of trying to form a parallel government through its activities at the “Defence House,” the official but temporary lodgings for the President-elect, even before 29th, May, 2015. An in-fighting bout is raging within the bowels of the PDP anatomy and the body is in disarray! *Recently, the PDP South-West Zone spearheaded by Chief ‘Bode George, called for the heads of the National Working Committee’s (NWC), members and simultaneously for total dissolution of the Executive in the South West to pave way for the injection of “new blood”! *An elderly member of the PDP has stated that his party was only on vacation and would definitely return to power in 2019! *Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State claims to be in possession of damning reports about Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, the embattled PDP Chairman, who is daring him to publish them! *On his own part, President Jonathan is embedded in making last-minute appointments into boards and agencies of government which already had over bloated staff whose salary payments are in arrears in order to provoke in-coming government into anger instead of solving the domestic issue of the intractable Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) scarcity, the worsening power outage situation and the grounded economy through maladministration and the outrageous corruption of the Oil Sector - specifically the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)! He is also advising Alhaji Buhari to complete all on-going projects in Abuja, especially, the Umaru Yar’Adua Way also called Airport Road, awarded in 2009, in a state of 98% completion, with a balance of between N5 - 15billion balance of payment and also the uncompleted Abuja Light Rail project at 61% completion which should be delivered by December 2015! *Federal Government has promised to make available the hand-over notes by the third week in May, 2015, but APC is opposed to this idea as there would be no time to scrutinize them before Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari is sworn in! *APC says they are in the dark and have no data to work with! For instance its National Publicity Secretary wondered on how they would scrutinize all handing over notes in one week to the investiture of the new President or how to plan in respect of the economy when the party is completely oblivious to statistics in respect of Crude Oil exportation or how many barrels of the substance is officially lifted from Nigeria per day! Political and economic watchers around the globe agree that the outgoing PDP government which had become nonplussed and could hardly cope with the reality of their defeat at the recent polls had no Plan B, which should have been, “The Blue Print on Transition of Power in Case of Defeat”! From 1999, it had been PDP all the way, bulldozing their way through organized corruption and rigging of all elections and were certain of ruling Nigeria forever! And unfortunately for them, no African country could assist them with any Blue Print on transition of power because the Black man is a SIT-TIGHT LEADER! *Unlike his Burundian colleague, the outgoing Nigeria’s Commander-in-Chief, could not get the support of the Military, whom the Almighty God has personally insulated from partisan politics forever and ever! President Jonathan’s waning administration has very short time left to beat about the bush, but even within that short period, he should remind himself and his subordinates to DECLARE THEIR ASSESTS BEFORE THE HAND-OVER DATE OF 29TH MAY, 2015! They owe this mandatory and constitutional duty to God and Nigerians to whom they must give account of their stewardship for verification and evaluation according to the RULE OF LAW. Count-down to 29th May, 2015! In spite of some outstanding “SUBSIDY PAYMENTS” made by the Ministry of Finance to petroleum marketers and in spite of the “NEW APPROPRIATION” for fuel subsidy now injected into the 2015 Budget, Nigerians have continuously slept at filling stations while the unending queues have drained the entire manpower of the nation to a standstill on our roads and streets! The in-coming administration of Alhaji Buhari has not left anyone in doubt that it would not tolerate CORRUPTION in any guise. In fact, it has publicly declared that it would re-visit the allegation of the missing $20billion US dollars which the NNPC failed to remit into the Federation Account between 2013-2014 - which means that it would no longer be business as usual for corrupt officials from the 29th May, 2015! However last minute corruption has shifted to the filing stations with tacit collusion of NNPC officials who look “the other way” as petrol attendants sell to the “black market” operators at exorbitant rates to the detriment of motorists who queue all day without getting the commodity. Investigations also showed that these officials-at-large also permitted the attendants to dispense PMS with one out of about nine pumps in the filling stations in order to prolong the distress of motorists and in the process make illegal gains for both parties! These last minute fraudulent activities can be likened to the Biblical account of the Lord Jesus Christ’s story of the “Unjust Steward.” A certain rich man had a steward who was accused of wasting his master’s goods. The master called him to ascertain the veracity of the allegations and asked, “How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest be no longer steward” “Then the steward said within himself, what shall I do? For my Lord taketh away from me the stewardship; I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. “I am resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.” *This unjust steward called all his master’s debtors and slashed by 50 to 60 per cent of their indebtedness to his boss and subsequently gained their friendship and “trust” for the “rainy day!” (Read Luke.16:1-13). *It is very instructive at this point to warn that no one should mourn the downfall of PDP because from all indications and last minute attitude of President Jonathan and his cronies, they have remained UNREPENTANT! They do not deserve the pity of any Nigerian who has suffered untold hardships through unfulfilled promises of all social contracts of 16 agonising years! Like most wicked people, they have prospered for some time but the time and moment of accountability and reckoning has come! Patriarch Job was one great man of the Old Testament Bible period, whom God personally testified of his perfection and uprightness but who in spite of these sterling qualities had to face and endure mental, physical and even health afflictions that he might please God! Job like most Nigerians have every cause to be grieved because very few greedy persons in government have almost milked this nation dried! The patriarch asked the following questions that are very pertinent and relevant to our Nigerian situation: “Why do the wicked live, become old, and become mighty in power? “Their children are established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes. “Their houses are safe [and] in peace, without fear; neither is the rod of God upon them. “Their bull breeds and fails not; their cows calve and do not miscarry. “They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children skip about. “They themselves lift up their voices [and] sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe. “They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol [the unseen state] in a moment [and] peacefully. “Yet they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways. “Who is the Almighty that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him? “But notice [you say] the prosperity of the wicked is not in their power; the mystery [of God’s dealings] with the ungodly is far from my comprehension. “How often [then] is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains [and] sorrows to them in His anger? “That they are like stubble before the wind and like chaff that the storm steals [and] carries away? “You say, God lays up [the punishment of the wicked man’s] iniquity for his children. Let Him recompense it to the man himself, that he may know [and] feel it. “Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.” (Job.21:7-20; Amplified Bible). *Awake Africans! Drive out all sit-down tight-leaders who believe that you and your God-given lands belong to them and their families whether they were former rebels or brigands or “freedom fighters”. They are the despotic, egoistic, very selfish and naturally wicked neo-colonialists of the 21 Century who want the continent to remain underdeveloped forever! *Awake Nigerians! This is the appointed time to set up the righteous government that will exalt our nation before God. Support Alhaji Buhari all the way and we and our generations yet unborn will definitely prosper and eat of the good of the land while the wicked outgoing generation will perish in their wickedness according to the WORD OF GOD, in Jesus Christ name. Amen. God cannot be mocked or deceived, whatever a man sows, that he shall reap in multiplicity Amen. If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations. Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access,to this newsletter, log on to: facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch or http://www.zfbbc1.blogspot.com, https://www.google.com/ +zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch . I am, Yours sincerely,Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08130669886, 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com .]