ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 4. NO 118. 15th November, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).
MUST NIGERIAN YOUTHS BE DRAGGED INTO THE TRAUMA OF VICIOUS DECEITS AGAIN AND AGAIN BY PDP ?
Indeed,these are trying times for some Nigerian Youths who have remained pawn on the chess board of unfaithful politicians who continue to harass, intimidate, manipulate and dazzle the poverty-stricken among them with illicit money to submit to all manner of il legal activities ranging from thuggery to armed robbery, insurgency and even terrorism! Youths fought the Biafra war of the sixties; they were the Niger Delta militants who ravaged the South-South Geo-Political Zone in the eighties and the nineties; they were em ployed as ballot boxes snatchers and election riggers before the 2015 elections which was a knotty nut to crack with the introduction of Voter Card Readers; they were the “Frankenstein Monsters” known as Boko Haram , invented from the political laboratories of rouge politicians between 1999 and 2015; they have been groomed to do the dirty jobs of the immoral and insensitive adult population which engage d them for pittance and dump them at will! Those who had neither vision nor mission direction were sponsored and gathered together again last Thursday, 12 November, 2015, in Abuja to be brainwashed by the opposition party to participate in the mainstream partisan politics of a rebranded Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), hoping to return to power at the Federal level in 2019 and employ 2 million in their first year of return ! The immediate past PDP Youth Leader was 60 years old! It is on record that Nigerian Youths never had it so bad as they did in the last 16 years of PDP governments when they had to spend up to ten years in tertiary institutions instead of five for Arts and seven f o r Medicine Courses, due to incessant strikes by lecturers who did not receive regular salaries! Young people of all nation s should be guided and prepared for leadership positions with t he ideal philosophical doctrine that would enhance and increase development as societies grow and age slowly in order to avoid political, economic or social retrogression ! It is imperative that governments engage in efforts that would harvest the great potentials and positive energies of these youths who a re the nerve centre s or engine room s from which ideas should be regularly generated to replenish and sustain economic development and civilization instead of misdirecting and brainwashing them into believing unholy doctrines of nation-building and democratic principles through forceful agendas should lead them to understand mutual agreements and meaningful dialogue of conflict resolutions ! About 70 percent of the Nigerian population is made up of able-bodied youths! Six years into Nigeria’s nascent democracy, a military coup de’ tat which suddenly changed the political destiny of the nation into a civil war scenario erupted as the then Eastern Nigeria government agitated for self-determination, proclaimed and christened that region as “State of Biafra”! The war lasted for 30 months, 16 July , 1967 to 12 January, 1970! In a declaration over the t hen “Biafran Radio” Major General Phillip Effiong, unconditionally surrendered and was accepted on 15 January, 1970, by General Yakubu Gowon, Nigerian Head of State who declared general amnesty for all those misled into attempting to disintegrate the country and rejoiced that all Nigerians were once again re-united! The Biafran Civil War took an estimated TWO MILLION LIVES, including many Biafran able-bodied me n, children and women and cost over USD $840 mil lion dollars according to the Federal Military Government! W ould it not amount to sheer insensi b i li ty and moral ineptitude for pressure groups from that same region who did not experience the Civil War, to further agitate for a Biafran State which has become a dead delusion already tucked away in the annals of history 45 years ago since the sovereign State of Nigeria moved on to greater heights with 36 States of 774 Local Government Areas (LGA), including those of the Federal Capital Territory !
WHO ARE THE INDEGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA (IPOB), AND MOVEMENT FOR THE ACTUALIZATION OF THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF BIAFRA (MASSOB)? Are they those who have tasted the bitter pills of war or those who were not even born after the declaration of NO VICTOR NO VANQUISHED? These agitators are mere rabble rousers who would stop at nothing short of attracting attention of inordinate ambition to acquire some illicit financial gains ! Te n years into the new attempt o f fresh democratic experience – precisely from August 2009 - a small religious sect made up of young people and christen ed Boko Haram, rebelled against constituted authority in Bornu State in North East , through organised insurgency which involved the destruction of lives and properties on large scales through acts of terrorism! Until very recently after a change of government, all efforts by the previous administration to curb the situation did not yield meaningful results ! The reasons for the rebellion was predicated mainly on government’s dereliction of duty in respect of delivering on social contract promises of the basic amenities of life – food, clothing, shelter, education and employment opportunities with living wages for the teeming youths who roamed the streets without the hope of where regular income or meals would be obtained! According to available statistics, not less than a million lives have been lost i n this 21 Century mindless w ar of attrition and yet politicians of the failed past administrations are now more concerned about how they can bounce back to “power” in 2019, instead of giving account of their 16 years of stewardship of looting - 1999 -2015, which almost destroyed the economy! Apart from fresh agitations for another state of Biafra which has taken street protest s dimension and which some politicians from the six South Eastern States secretly and succinctly support , some failed politicians of PDP , recently gathered some sponsored youths mentioned earlier from the 774 Local Government Areas, ( two delegates each, male and female), from each LGA to participate in a “wishy-washy” Abuja National Conference rebranding effort which w as still-born on delivery on Thursday, 12 November, 2015, the d ay after the successful inaugur ation of very outstanding and ebullient newly-born Federal Executive Council Ministers who took oath of office and immediately roared into dynamic action! Befor e that infamous convention the C onvener/ Chairman, and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of Da ’ ar Communications took time to engage his news dissemination outfit s , African Independent Television (AIT), and Ray Power Radio, which took the centre stage for hate speeches and documentaries against the incumbent President during political campaigns leading to the 2015 General Elections , to now apologize to all Nigerians to forgive the PDP for messing up Nigeria for 16 years of bad administration characterized by ineptitude and impunity of those he described as the garrison commanders of the Party ! M ost importantly, Raymond Dokpesi, apologized to the nation for fielding Goodluck Ebele Jonat han in 2011 and 2015 against PDP’s policy of rotational presidency between the North and South ! We were not surprised when the Party’s spokesman, Olisa Metuh, contradicted Dokpesi’s apologies whom he said made personal statements since he was neither a member of the National Executive Council (NEC ), nor a member of the National Working Committee (NWC) adding that PDP had no apologies for anyone! An appraisal of the so-called rebranding conference exposed vituperations of bad losers - who were yet to pay dearly for looting the Nigerian treasury with reckless abandon for 16 long years - revealed the following outbursts from the unrepentant PDP remnants:
1. Acting Chairman Uche Secundu s, celebrated “victory” of the minority Party (PDP), over the majority Party (APC), at Senate plenary on Wednesday 11 November, 2015, when deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, presided over the affairs which was disrupted in a walk-out by some APC Senators before Senate President Bukola Saraki, took over mid-way, o n arrival from the inauguration of FEC Ministers at the Presidential Villa! What a small minority mind! We thank God that the leadership of the Nigerian Armed Forces not gullible to be pressured by desperate bloody civilians!
2. Ike Ekweremadu in his own contribution at the rebranding conference exploded without restraint that the ruling Party APC had not fulfilled a single item of its campaign promises and manifestos though it is very glaring that the issue of national security , counter terrorism and the anti-corruption cru sade is gaining strong momentum; that the Boko Ha ram terrorists have arrived the “Waterloo Station” and that all agencies of government are working on full steam to put t he economy on the right footing; that the promised presidential team of minist ers have hit the ground running; yet according to the ir wounded ego, APC was yet to function !
3. Interestingly, only AIT electronic outfit was on duty at the venue which lacked all the pomp and pageantry of previous PDP outings before their defeat and could not even complete the coverage due to the Edo State 7 Anniversary Ce lebration - fully paid for - and which could not be ignored due to the cash crunch situation of the outfit across board!
4. Retired General Ibrahim Babangida rejected the invitation of Dokpesi who could not see him to the Aso Rock Seat in 2011 as his Campaign Director Genera l; so were other absentees; regarded as “founding fathers” and members of the NEC and NWC!
5. Dokpesi continued his lamentations over the failure of the PDP Governments of the past 16 years and concluded by prophesying that the “rebranded” PDP was not dead, would not die and would never die ! “Who is he that saith , and it commeth to pass, when the LORD commandeth it not? [Lamentation.3:37].
6. We believe in the freedom of expression but would advise that the High Chief who could not rebrand Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida ( IBB ); may find it very, difficult to rebrand those who were mentored by the “ Maradonna ” and master drib b ler!
7. Did any YOUTH DELEGATE contribute meaningfully to the rebranding debates, lectures or interactions at the venue? We very much doubt it!
We believe it was high time Nigerian youths resisted all forms of mental and physical slavery to which they have been subjected by discredited politicians who only needed them to desperately get undeserved political offices for the sake of filthy lucre ; take their destiny in their hands and collaborate with this brand new dispensation of the divine Government of Righteousness! The Word of God for the Nigerian Youths: “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee and His glory shall be seen upon thee. Amen. [Isaiah.60: 1-2]. Let all Nigerians s upport the new government to destroy the neo-colonialist tendencies/ manipulations and the wicked attitude of man’s inhumanity to man of the past and together usher a vista of a new dawn and a new hope for these bright generations of future leaders ! PDP is not only dead like Babylon – it has gone under and will never rise again – because its sins are worse than those of Sodom and Gomorrah! 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.
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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. I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08130669886, 08098194390. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com .
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