ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. ] { VOL. 3. NO 95. 07-06-15.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIANS DID NOT VOTE FOR A POLARISED APC!

Nigerians have become wiser and can no longer be brow-beaten, manipulated nor be fooled by politicians of any ilk or genre, even if they be aliens from other planets!

All Progressives Congress (APC) debut to political power after 16 years of successive failed civilian governments should not be a platform for greed after ephemeral positions and petty offices of the three tiers of government, but of a faithful and united party, which is determined to salvage whatever remained of our democratic dividends to succour the down-trodden who were always economically coerced to bear the brunt of the failures of vandals and predators who occupied position of authority!

We expected a clear and distinct departure from the attitude of those past politicians who cared less whether the nation swam or sank, but the wrangling over “who should be who” in both chambers of the 8th National Assembly to be inaugurated on Tuesday 10th, June, 2015, has sent a wrong signal to the Electorate which voted them to power.

Greed is a heinous crime before God and the following lines as recorded in Proverbs 15:27,28,32,33; should give some food for thought to the two APC polarised groups or factions that have exhibited shameless attitude in a party that is barely one week old at the helm of affairs:“He who is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.

“The mind of the [uncompromisingly] righteous studies how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

“He who refuses [and] ignores instruction [and] correction despises himself, but he who heed reproof gets understanding.

“The reverent [and] worshipful fear of the Lord brings instruction in Wisdom, and humility comes before honour.”

The word of God also says:

“For promotion comes neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south.

“But God is the judge; He puts down one, and sets up another.” [Psalm. 75:6-7].

*Firstly, those who jostled, and were very desperate to occupy those positions at all cost and who spoke loudest, (they are identifiable), have nothing to offer Nigerians, all they did was smear shame on themselves and members of their families!

*Secondly, the ensuing tussle had exposed the “gladiators” in their true “colours” that they lacked decorum, decent antecedents and pedigrees, judging by character assassinations and tantrums that were thrown up!

*Thirdly, in spite of appeals and counsels from eminent patriots and statesmen for “combatants” to sheath swords, they refused to listen to all sense of reasoning until Saturday, 6th June 2015, when the divine appointed were identified and elected!

*Fourthly, this unethical and orthodox kind of “CHANGE behaviour” among politicians who should exhibit polished mannerism and decency in the society, is unacceptable and must be condemned by all well-meaning Nigerians or are we now confronted with a situation of, “OLD WINE IN NEW WINE BOTTLE?

*In our last edition we counselled that black legs and fifth columnists should be expeditiously identified and expelled without delay to save the party from the evil effects and pollution of the “MIXED MULTITUDE!”

*The posts of Senate President, Speaker, their deputies and other principal and ranking officers in the National Assembly (NASS), are very temporal and transient and we believe that those who advocate CHANGE from Voodoo to Godly administrations would come to equity with clean hands and not contest such offices with fist cuffs!

*We wondered whether these new “distinguished” NASS Legislators were aware that Boko Haram suicide bombers struck twice in Maiduguri, Bornu State, once each in Yobe and Adamawa States during this one week of the APC Administration?

If the answer is positive, should they not divert their energy and attention to proffering solutions to such pressing national issues of insecurity than quarrelling over positions that had been divinely filled at God’s discretion!

The APC Central Working Committee (CWC) must quickly go back to the drawing board, strengthen party machinery to adjudicate as the supreme arbiter in matters of disputes, contests confrontations, conflicts of this nature, and discipline within the party’s rank and file - not excluding Mr. President!

*PARTY SUPREMACY, according to constitutional internal democracy stipulations, must be entrenched from the beginning so that no President or one individual ranking officer eventually become despotic nor a cabal turn abusive to the collective sensibilities through the introduction of the doctrine of divide and rule!

*The South African example during the tenure of former President Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, should remind APC “CHANGE” politicians that no one “high ranking” member would have the audacity to lord it over others without being sanctioned and shown the way out!

By the time Mbeki took office in June 1999 as President of the Republic of South Africa, he was ready to take forward the national reconciliation project with a focus on expanding the economy and deepening democratic transformation through policies including black economic empowerment.

He was also to drive better performance on the part of the State and made substantial progress in the areas of accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, building the integrity and legitimacy of the State and also, the entrenchment of the rule of law!

Mbeki’s passion for sound international relations especially in the area of African Development and Renaissance, which he made, “the central tenet of the country’s foreign policy outlook”, remained a cardinal point of reference!

*But in spite of his sterling qualities as a loyal ruling party’s African National Congress (ANC), President and an outstanding statesman, the moment he overstepped his bounds by sacking his deputy from office because of some personal disagreements, he was shown the way out by the party!

South Africa’s 11th President, Thabo Mbeki arbitrarily fired his deputy, Jacob Zuma from office in 2005 on suspicion of a plan to unseat him, the incumbent and this led to an epic power struggle between the two which almost brought the ANC to its knees by 2007, and which culminated in the divisive election battle at ANC’s 52nd Conference which Mbeki lost because the Party hierarchy maintained rule of law.

*A similar episode of power tussle occurred in Nigeria between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy Alhaji Atiku Abubakar between 2006-2007, and he (Obasanjo) succeeded in sacking Atiku because the sitting President also doubled as National Leader under their Party’s Constitution or convention; but as fate played out, both men departed the political space with ignominy and have remained insignificant ever since!

*Mbeki’s recall was as a result of that power battle which also provoked a substantial breakaway from the ANC’s hierarchy.

Jacob Zuma, who was at the recent investiture of President Buhari in Abuja, is currently serving his second term as President of the Republic of South Africa and yet the ANC binds Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma together always as successive leaders and comrades through the Party supremacy mechanism!

The moral lesson here is that ruling Parties of any kind of government should always play roles that would stabilize the polity by implementing supremacy through the rule of law and we recommend same to APC as they progress to make the necessary security and economic impacts in a very short period!

A Peep Into APC’s Cocoon!

President Muhammadu Buhari, had from the onset declared his good intention by steering clear of the NASS politics by allowing “distinguished” members to pilot their own affairs unlike his predecessor in office.

A terrible dent has been registered on the character and mien of the Party that claimed to be an agent of Change from the onset through the legislators’ charlatan attitude and the electorate is already losing faith in the people who promised to end all sufferings of the TALAKAWAS (poor masses and peasants) of Nigeria!

We believe that good leadership would birth good followership. President Buhari is blazing the trail in this direction because he wasted no time in tackling the burning issue of insecurity and had conferred with Nigeria’s neighbouring countries of Niger and Chad during his first foreign visit to strengthen the bond of military relationship and co-operation which were already on ground while his legislative counterparts were shamelessly fighting over temporal principal offices!

*He has also met with Service Chiefs to marshal out military strategies to end the prolonged Boko Haram terrorism which was handled with kid gloves for too long!

Mr President had within the week appointed two media aides, Secretary to the new government and also gotten Senate approval for 15 unnamed Special Advisers.

Like a fresh and uncooked Egg that fell and messed the floor, the new APC NASS members have fallen from grace to grass before starting the race because the team is troubled by a “mixed multitude” of renegades! They needed to be called to order by the party now that the divinely-chosen candidates have emerged in order to forestall a brewing animosity from the camps of the losers when the 8th NASS commences sessions after inauguration!

*Do you remember that this kind of attitude of greed played out during the appointment of key party officers at the foundation stage of APC when two prominent founding members, from Edo and Kano States respectively, stormed out of the caucus and pronto, were back to the last administration’s failed party because they both lost the position of CHAIRMAN to the incumbent who was elected according to Party’s internal democracy mechanisms that were in place!

*They and others of their ilk constitute the mixed multitude mentioned earlier!

According to Biblical records of Exodus.12:38 and Numbers. 11:4-10; those group of people constituted an albatross to the children of Israel as they journeyed toward the promised land, because they lusted after ephemeral things of the world! They must be avoided like plague in this new dispensation!

OUR attention was drawn to the gang- up of 14 political parties and 13 Civil Society Organisations (CSO’s), under the auspices of Credible Alternative Alliance (CAA), against the APC which they believed should constitute a government of national unity instead of relying on foreign governments’ support to run the country.

* Headed by Alhaji Balarabe Musa, a former Governor of Kaduna State and a former Secretary to Federal Government, Chief Olu Falae as co-Chairman, the group claimed that APC was rooting for a one-party state through its arm-twist tactics!

The Coalition’s co-ordinator, Dr. Damian Ugbonna, who read the statement endorsed by the co-chairmen also said APC should do more to cultivate domestic support from other political parties/relevant stakeholders, jettison the winner-takes-all and one-man show mantra being exhibited, as such posture was not good for Nigeria’s sovereignty, because APC could not govern effectively without their support and contribution!

The group also said they expected APC to come to power having good policies in place, but that it seemed that they were bereft of ideas because President Buhari’s inaugural speech had no policies/initiatives bite to tackle the enormous challenges facing the country.

*We must inform our readers that these Parties that have now donned the toga of SPECIAL ADVISERS were the same that shouted loudest during electioneering campaigns that “BUHARI WOULD NEVER RULE NIGERIA AGAIN!

What are they shopping for this time around? Your guess is as good as ours!

This is the divine government which all Nigerians have been longing for and we believe that with genuine and regular constructive criticisms, all errors of commission or omission and imperfections of government functionaries would be identified and corrected in no time as we move surely and steadily to achieving political and economic prosperity as a nation. Amen.

We wish the Coalition of the 27 groups a better outing in the year 2019 if they had not split because of GREED! 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.

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