JUNE12 POPULIST ELECTION WAS THE DIVINE AMALGAMATION OF NATIONAL CONSCIENCE!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 6. NO 201. 18th June, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

JUNE12 POPULIST ELECTION WAS THE DIVINE AMALGAMATION OF NATIONAL CONSCIENCE!

The furore over who should sign into law, the 2017 "Budget of Economic Recovery and Growth" - whether it should be flown to President Muhammadu Buhari who is on medical leave in London or be laid on the table of the Acting President, 'Yemi Osinbajo who is holding fort in Abuja, came to an abrupt end on Monday 12th June, 2017, when the latter proved to Nigerians that no form of CABAL would create a dichotomy within the presidency's joint ticket by appending his legitimate assent on the very essential Bill and doused the unwarranted imbroglio!

Was it a coincidence that the 2017 Budget was signed on JUNE 12 which marks a watershed in the annals of Nigeria's political history as a day when all Nigerians on that date in 1993, voted overwhelmingly for the Southerner among two Muslim presidential candidates of North/South political divide, in an election supervised by the Military Government of General Ibrahim Babangida and adjudged to be one of the freest and fairest ever held in Nigeria? Though that election was annulled by the military junta, 24 years ago (1993-2017), the annual commemoration of that memorable event had never ceased to be held by political pressure groups - especially in the South West, where the acclaimed winner, late business mogul, Chief Moshood Abiola hailed from!
In that epoch election, all Nigerians agreed in one accord to vote for both candidates without the sentiments of religion that none of the candidates was a Christian in an unprecedented patriotism of the national conscience and in the doctrine of ONE NIGERIA! 

June 12 which overcame ethnic, tribal, cultural, traditional barriers and diversities, has proved beyond all reasonable doubts that positive national ideologies have more impact among the citizens of this modern civilization than the mere geographical amalgamation of Nigeria's Northern/Southern Protectorates of 1914, which only aimed to expand the business empire of the colonial masters who governed with veto powers.
But has the Spirit of June 12 died in almost all the ethnicities/tribes who now opt for the break-up of our dearly-beloved indivisible, indissoluble, naturally and resourcefully-endowed country of over 250 tribe/ethnic groups and about 500 diverse languages? The latest assault on the Spirit of June 12, was an ultimatum issued on 8th June, 2017 by the Arewa Youths Coalition, which in 1993, voted massively for Southern candidate, Moshood Kashimawo Abiola in the Presidential Elections, but now have turned their backs on Southern Igbo citizens by issuing  a THREE-MONTH ultimatum (terminating on1st October,2017), for them to pack out of the 19 Northern States because of the persistent demand by IPOB/MASSOB for an independent state of Biafra which all Nigerians and patriotic Igbos have vehemently condemned!

IS IT NOT A SHAME TO NIGERIANS AS A NATION THAT AFTER OVER A CENTURY OF TOGETHERNESS AS A GEOGRAPHICAL ENTITY, "UNITY AMONG BRETHREN" IS STILL A FAR CRY? Whereas the Word of God says, in Psalm 133: 1-6, that UNITY IS THE HARBINGER TO BLESSINGS AND LIFE FOREVERMORE?

HOWEVER IT IS HEARTWARMING THAT A RECIPROCAL COUNTER ULTIMATUM issued by Igbos Youths against Northerners domicile in the South East has also been condemned and dismissed by the Federal and State Governments who gave assurances of protection and safety to all Nigerians who have constitutional rights to reside and acquire properties in any part of the country without molestation and so, have doused the tension that could have gravitated to anarchy. The tactical intervention by the Acting President, who has held peace meetings with leaders of thought in the various geo-political zones, should be embraced with faithful passion by the generality of the population of Nigerians while successes gained in the areas of counter insurgency, unrelenting war against corruption and resuscitation of the battered economy by the APC Administration should be jealously guarded because a UNITED STATES OF NIGERIA (USN), can only emerge  when all united hands are fully on deck! Nigerians MUST revive the SPIRIT OF JUNE 12, because it connotes a DIVINE INTERVENTION which defeated persistent military incursions which debuted from January 1966 - May 1999, so that the collective wishes of Nigerian masses for democratic governance could never be wished away by an insignificant and irresponsible gun-toting soldiers!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT! Let us imagine that the JUDGEMENT OF ALL NATIONS according to the Word of God in Matthew 25: 31-46, would commence tomorrow, would all Nigerians be counted worthy to be among the metaphoric SHEEP, who would be adjudged as Righteous people who would enjoy ETERNAL LIFE WITH CHRIST or be condemned to damnation of HELL FIRE AS "GOATS" who would be counted as Unrighteous and cast into EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT?
THE UNRIGHTEOUS LEGISLATORS AND THE 2017 BUDGET OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND GROWTH.
Although it took FIVE calendar months - 14th December, 2016, to 12th June, 2017, - for the Budget of Recovery and  Growth to be signed into law, was that delay gratifying and worth the while?
1. For the first time since 1999, the National Assembly, purportedly repented of keeping their annual fiscal appropriation SECRET, but published details of its 2017 budget breakdown as an act of TRANSPARENCY on 11th May, one month before the June12 assent by Acting President, 'Yemi Osinbajo.
2. The 2017 Budget appropriation of the "Open National Assembly" is now increased from N115 billion in 2016 to N125 billion in 2017 - an increase of N10 billion naira which clearly portrays a spirit of greed, selfishness and insincerity in a period of recession when all their salaries and allowances should have been cut by about 50% to support the downtrodden at this austere time!
3. The summary breakdown shows that NASS General Staff gets N14.9billion, Senate N31.3billion and the House of Representatives (HOR), gets N49billion. Of the N 14.9 billion appropriated to the general staff, NASS Service Commission getsN2.4 billion, Legislative aides get N9.6 billion, Public Accounts Committee (Senate), gets N118.9 million, while that of HOR gets N142.7million. Others are: General Services - N12.5billion; National Assembly Legislative Institute, N4.3billion; Service Wide Vote gets, N391.3 billion!
4. In spite of all the pretentious outing, the appended 2017 Budget still experienced NASS padding from N 7.28 trillion submitted by the Executive, on 14th December, 2016, to N 7. 44 trillion, passed by the legislators on 11th May, 2017 and which raised the ire of the Acting President before signing it into law on June 12, 2017!

It is widely believed that the Executive might approach the Supreme Court for a final arbitration over the annual manipulation, butchering and the RE-CREATION of the budget to suit legislators insatiable appetite for accumulation of illicit wealth through budget padding under the guise of "oversight functions"!
Professor 'Yemi Osinbajo made the following remarks while appending the budget for the reason of avoiding further delay that could negatively affect the economic recovery and for the sake of the TALAKAWAS who were always at the receiving end : "There are two broad issues about who could do what. The first report is about who can do what. When you present a budget to the National Assembly, it is presented as a bill, an appropriation bill. And secondly, do not introduce entirely new projects and all of that or modify projects. This is something that we experienced last year and this year again. It now leaves the question about who is supposed to do what."! Not surprisingly, the barefaced accomplices in the 2015 NASS leadership coup de tat, Senator 'Bukola Saraki and Mr. Yakubu Dogara, have respectively remarked that they would neither surrender their constitutional powers nor become a rubber stamp to the Executive!

WOULD THE TALAKAWAS BENEFIT FROM THE 2017 BUDGET? There is credible assurance by the Change Administration that "PROMPT EXECUTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY" in all aspects of the much-cherished SOCIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES (SIPs), which have been in the  front burner would continue unabated as CAPITAL PROJECTS in all sectors of the economy would be prioritized - especially when the INFLATION RATE HAD FURTHER DROPPED TO 16.25%  IN MAY FROM17.8%  AND THE CRUDE OIL BENCH MARK ON WHICH THE 2017 BUDGET IS PREDICATED WAS JACKED UP WITH $2 US DOLLARS FROM $42.5 TO $44.5   TO SUPPORT SIPs and also to pull Nigeria out of its economic recession which began last year in the midst of falling oil prices.
IN THE APPENDED BUDGET, A SUM OF N2.177.866.775.867 trillion, from the Consolidated Revenue Account, will be released for contribution to the Development Fund for Capital Expenditure, exclusive of Capital Expenditure in statutory transfers for the year ending on 31st December, 2017.

Also of note is the DIVERSIFICATION DRIVE OF THE ECONOMY away from OIL, and the attention focused on the NON-OIL SECTORS of Solid Mineral Resources/Agriculture, Tourism, Entertainment/Film Industry and Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMSEs), to shore up locally-generated revenues and more EXPORT earnings, which would greatly boost the economy if sustained and by extension increase the earning power of the WORKERS now that Labour Unions are agitating for an upward review of NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE! The adage states that where there is a Will, there would certainly be a Way and, United we stand and Divided we fall!
NIGERIA WILL SURMOUNT THESE ETHNIC CHALLENGES AND BECOME STRONGER AS A NATION IN JESUS CHRIST'S NAME.AMEN! For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36).

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