ARE CORRUPT EX-PRESIDENTS AND POLITICIANS REALLY UNTOUCHABLE?

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. 7. NO 263. 26th August, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

ARE CORRUPT EX-PRESIDENTS AND POLITICIANS REALLY UNTOUCHABLE?

Since independence, past Military and Democratic Presidents in Nigeria who had been alleged to have corrupted themselves while in office, have been treated like SACRED COWS because none so far, has been interrogated, indicted nor taken before any court of competent jurisdiction for trial and in spite of the fact that one of them, General Sanni Abacha, suddenly died in office and all of his dirty deals of mass looting of the treasury were exposed, still, no visible effort has been made to subject others (before or after him), to give accounts of their stewardship while in office!
But if Abacha who committed several financial crimes while in office between 1993 and 1998, were still alive, would any law enforcement institution be bold enough to bring him to justice?

During the GULF WAR in the year 1991 when self-styled military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, held sway, he was alleged to have converted the oil wind fall of $12.4 billion dollars which accrued for Nigeria, to personal use. He denied the charge and is still walking free!
Former Military Head of State/Democratically elected President,  Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo, was also accused of corruption in some Power projects dubiously executed with about $16billion dollars, including PHCN contract between 1999 and 2007;  Transcorp Shares,  Presidential  Library Fundraising, which realised N3.5 billion and US $ 250 dollars, in May 2007,  shortly before his exit from office;  NNPC contracts worth a total cost of US $300 dollars and disbursement of N500 billion naira, to about 200 contractors; Defence contracts valued at N 6.7 billion naira,  $28 million, €26 million and DM6 million etc, etc., and the EFCC WHICH HE ESTABLISHED COULD NOT FIND SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO PROSECUTE HIM because he claimed no wrongdoing in all allegations through a piece of STATEMENT submitted to them! He is still engaged in LETTER WRITING as a free man! 

Ex-President Ebele Jonathan was not spared of corruption allegations that were yet to be proved. He also is still walking free on the presumption of his innocence until the contrary was proven according to the Nigerian Constitution!
Have the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), crack detectives, investigators, prosecutors and lawyers who had been inundated with GENUINE PETITIONS - laden with facts, figures and authentic documents against these ex-leaders, become  lily-livered or too docile and intimidated to invite any of them for interrogation and if necessary to detain them from tampering with evidences that could lead to their convictions?

All over the world, with the exception of Nigeria, past corrupt leaders, including ex-Prime Ministers, Presidents in Pakistan, Israel, Indonesia, Liberia etc, and most recently South Korea, have been successfully investigated, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to spend several years in prison!

EXTENDED JAIL TERM FOR MISS PARK!
An Appeal Court was reported to have increased the prison sentence on former South Korea's female President,  Park Geun-hye to 25 years and her earlier fine by 2 billion won (1.78m), to 20 million won ($17.8m). The 66-year-old First Lady was found culpable of official corruption (involving fronting through a friend with whom she siphoned tens of billions of wons from major conglomerates), by a Constitutional Court in 2017 and forced out of office as the first democratically-elected Korean leader, to be so disgraced! Her friend, Choi Soon-sil, got only 20 years for her ignominious role in the whole saga! The ex-president earlier bagged 24 years in prison and 18 million won fine ($16m US dollars), by a lower court in April 2018 after a prolonged trial of about two years, which the unsatisfied prosecution which sought 30 years, appealed.
Like all politicians, she denied all accusations of wrong-doing and probably described them as "political witch-hunt"! However, she detained for months and did not get preferential treatment! It was also reported that in July 2018, Miss Park was sentenced by another court to 8-year in prison in a separate case arising from the same corruption scandal and for interfering in a 2016 parliamentary election!

THE RECOVERED ABACHA LOOTS!
In the SWISS BANKS alone, Abacha stashed away N1.073 billion, which, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, said in June 2018, had been  fully repatriated, going by the account of  Mayoraz, the Swiss Ambassador to Nigeria as follows: Two tranches of $752 million and $321 million, already with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)! The ambassador also said that the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty countries would no longer allow for stolen wealth to be kept in any place in the Switzerland! Abacha also stashed monies in many countries of the world in Europe and the USA!

The money from Switzerland is now being disbursed, with the support of the World Bank to succour the most under privileged as their common patrimony in the first instance, in a form of NATIONAL CASH TRANSFER SCHEME in order to benefit the entire populace. Already, 19 States and 270.000 households have been captured out of the estimated 302.000! Disbursement of $321 million dollars to beneficiaries began in JULY, 2018.
We advocate that other looters of the Nigerian Treasury past and present would make URGENT RESTITUTION before the long arms of the LAW catches up with them!

THE ADVOCACY FOR STRONG INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA CANNOT BE OVER-EMPHASIZED!
Political analysts find it very convenient to compare Nigeria's presidential form of government with that of the United States of America, in isolation to reality that America's system is deliberately supported with very Strong Institutions to afford continuous government policies to thrive, and no matter the personality involved, every act or decision must always be carried out "according to the law"! Incumbent President Donald Trump, has found it impossible to ride rough-shod over the Judiciary on legal policy decisions the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), on criminal probes involving him and the Republican Party and also on Immigration matters because these very strong institutions would always insist on executing all directives according to the "Rule of Law", to the letter without affording preferential treatment to the President!
It was high time that the present crop of leaders in the ruling APC government began to follow the US policies of allowing strong institutions to evolve naturally through judicious and adequate policies in areas of personnel training/re-training/equipment, funding etc. in a gradual process of meticulous planning by devoted, patriotic, resilient and selfless leaders!

SHOULD DASUKI AND EL-ZAKZAKY REMAIN IN DETENTION?
Legal opinion is divided on the continuous detention of retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki who was alleged to have diverted US $ 2.1 dollars appropriated for the purchase of arms and ammunition to fight Boko Haram insurgency in 2014, and El-Zakzaky the Shiite Muslim leader in Nigeria whom government strongly believed was in the process of raising another religious militant group for foment and unleash further violence against the people of Nigeria!  According to Section 293-296 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA), 2015, suspect should not be kept in custody/detention for more than a maximum time-frame of TWO WEEKS, and must be through an application and the expressed consent of a MAGISTRATE. Dasuki has been in detention for over TWO YEARS!
Although, Dasuki has been granted bail on FIVE different occasions, but on his release from KUJE PRISON on 29th December, 2015, he was re-arrested by the State Security Services (SSS), and has been kept in detention without fresh charges since then! According to Justices of the SUPREME COURT, in a unanimous decision read by Justice Ajembi Eko, said that the EFCC could not be held responsible for the continued detention of the ex-NSA since it was carried out by the SSS!  The apex court dismissed an appeal filed by Dasuki against EFCC for lack of merit and for abuse of court process! And the case of El Zakzaky, government said,  that the Muslim cleric and his wife were not in detention but PROTECTIVE CUSTODY in view of the danger to their lives for as long as the trial, which is on-going last! The couple dwell in a well-protected private apartment and have access to medical facilities.

IS THE LAW AN ASS?
In a recent interaction with a young barrister at law in respect of the continuous detention by government of both former National Security Adviser (NSA), in spite of about five court bails issued on his behalf and also El Zakzaky, the Shiite Muslim leader, I was persuaded to look at the whole scenario of incarceration of the duo from another legal perspective outside of the one vehemently held on to by the government! The Federal Government is holding on to a Supreme Court judgment which says that, "When the decision of bail in respect of a matter before a law court conflicts with STATE SECURITY,  liberty of a suspect could be denied in spite of the grant of bail according to fundamental rights of the suspect. 
The young legal practitioner believes that the Federal Government had erred in law by not APPEALING the BAIL JUDGEMENTS issued by those courts of competent jurisdiction in favour of Dasuki and El Zakzaky! According to his postulation, though the subsisting Supreme Court judgement was very valid, it was not BINDING on the LOWER COURTS to the extent that there was no pronouncement by the APEX COURT which restrained them from granting bail to the accused persons! That argument seemed plausible because, from the primary to tertiary levels, courts unite to execute justice but the rights and privileges of one court of competent jurisdiction was never usurped by the other!

HOW CAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESOLVE CONSTANT CONFLICTS OF RULE OF LAW AND NATIONAL SECURITY? It should expedite lawful trial to avoid unlawful detention! “For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: [Romans.13:3].  
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.
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.  08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

POLITICIANS ARE MAKING SLAVES OUT OF NIGERIANS THROUGH VOTE-BUYING!

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. 7. NO 261. 19th August, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

POLITICIANS ARE MAKING SLAVES OUT OF NIGERIANS THROUGH VOTE-BUYING!

Nigerians are warming up to another general elections in less than SIX MONTHS and there is so much tension, anxiety, excitement and exhilaration in the polity!
Politicians who lost out in the 2015 race are determined to regain lost glory while those lucky winners would still canvass and push for another victory at all costs! And as the saying goes, this up-coming political elections - already slated for February/March, 2019, will produce, "different strokes for the different folks!"

To the ELECTORAL UMPIRE: INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC), (1) it would be time to faithfully conduct another free, fair, credible, crime/confusion-free elections that would ensure good governance. (2) To SIT-TIGHT POLITICIANS, - a time to re-new their mandate of "CONTINUITY" to amass illicit wealth at the expense and detriment of the downtrodden, even if they must contravene the CONSTITUTION with impunity. (3)  To the VOTE SELLERS, it would afford another opportunity to merchandize their PERMANENT VOTERS CARDS (PVCS), and mortgage their conscience to the highest bidders. (4)  To the MISCREANTS AND HIRED POLITICAL THUGS, - another field-day to disrupt the process, snatch ballots boxes, exhume and wield their illegal weapons against helpless and defenceless "fellow Nigerians", who were already traumatized by the 9-year Boko-Haram terrorism, incessant inter/intra States kidnappings and also the sporadic killings of rural dwellers by rampaging herdsmen, who did not spare the citizens with the audacity of constant terror!

Apart from the constitutional roles of INEC at elections as enumerated in the ELECTORAL ACT 2010 (as amended), all of the activities of crimes/criminalities, listed in the preceding paragraph, which are alien to electoral norms and punishable by extant laws! For instance, Section 23 (1) (a) (b) & (c) and 24 (1) (a) to (f) and (2) (a) and (b), deal extensively with the offences of buying and selling voters cards and offences of registration of voters respectively. Offences in Section 23 attract N500,000 naira or imprisonment not exceeding two years or both and those of Section 24 (1) (2), attract N100,000 naira or imprisonment not exceeding one year or both and a fine of N500,000 naira or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years respectively!

From 1999- 2015, Wards to Presidential elections had witnessed several electoral malpractices that led to loss of several precious lives, but hardly had any person been successfully prosecuted and brought to justice in order  to serve as deterrent to future criminally-minded citizens, and this trend, had given vent to more criminalities at virtually all elections!

HOW DID NIGERIA GET INTO THE VICIOUS CIRCLE OF MONEY POLITICS?
Politics in Nigeria is synonymous to CURRENCY MINTING for private pockets! During the First Republic, (1960-1966), of the Parliamentary experiment, pilfering from government coffers was minimal but with the introduction of the expensive presidential system, consecutive administrations provided large but inexplicable remunerations for public holders while political appointments became the jackpot hit for lucky hustlers!
The salaries/allowances paperwork for Civil Servants of the Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDA's), as prepared by the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), looks flawless but much loopholes for siphoning illicit monies (in billions of naira on annual basis), from the system, could be detected from some civil service manuals which gave room for raising monetary vouchers for dubious official purchases or activities at random! These same very smart civil servants are working for the three arms of government and have perfected the devious act of robbing the treasury through mutual agreement to favour all parties involved!
Why should budget padding through insertion of new projects by legislators still thrive up to the current 2018 document, which was reluctantly signed on 20th June by the President, SEVEN MONTHS after its submission in November, 2017?

As at Friday, 17th August, 2018, the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, was still on the HOT SEAT before the Joint National Assembly (NASS), Committee on INEC/Electoral Matters, being queried over a discrepancy in the figures presented by the President for virement (N189 billion), and that tabled by the Chairman (N143 billion), for consideration and approval by the National Assembly (NASS), at plenary when it re-convenes!

It is common knowledge that the legislators are irked and pained to be deprived of the illicit monies that would have accrued to them from the 2018 Budget which they still cleverly padded with INSERTED CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS which did not originate from the Executive, but now badly needed to execute the 2019 Elections!
There are too many financial attractions in Nigeria's political system that got everyone (including the toddlers - not-too-young-to-rule), interested in politicking for personal gains instead of exuding patriotic zeal to serve and build strong institutions that would strengthen the nations' economic base!
There could be no better time than NOW for all well-meaning Nigerians to rise in unison to advocate for ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENT OF 74 LEGISLATORS ON PART TIME THROUGH A REFERENDUM AS WE MARCH INTO 2019!
WE DON'T NEED A MADDENING CROWD SO MUCH INTOXICATED WITH LOOTED FUNDS! JUST A FEW WISE MEN, WOMEN & YOUTHS AT THE HELM OF AFFAIRS TO GET THE WORK DONE AND STOP WASTAGES IN GOVERNANCE!

IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE TO SELL ONE'S VOTE?
VOTE, is a voluntary but democratic act of making a formalized choice by submitting a ballot for a preferred candidate at an organized election in the process of choosing a leader.
To a discerning mind, this act is both - civic in nature and also a conscience-driven duty and responsibility that should be accorded the sacredness it deserves!  However, that has not been the case in Nigeria's electoral and democratic processes since 1999!
Past reports of virtually all local and international observers, including INEC's monitoring teams, have confirmed that "vote buying on election days", was thriving business! How are votes sold since it is not a physical commodity?
According to some eye-witnesses, political party agents carry loads of money in their brief cases/hand bags to Polling Centres on election days under the pretext that such, were allowances with which to pay their officials on electoral duties; but in actual fact were used to bait gullible electorate to vote for their Political Parties! Once a "good bargain" was struck, the agents would position themselves at vantage points close to Polling Booths, where they could actually confirm thumb prints on ballot papers! In some cases, smart hand phones were used to capture the thumb prints as evidence which on presentation consummates the deal!

WHAT IS INEC'S RESPONSE TO VOTE BUYING/SELLING?
INEC has taken series of measures to checkmate the very shameful development first by  ensuring that the polling booths in subsequent elections would be re-positioned in such a manner to provide complete privacy that could be monitored only by its officials so that voters would be prevented from employing smart phones while voting. Secondly, the Commission would work hand-in-hand with law-enforcement agencies to ensure compliance in the ban on smart phones while voting. We are of the opinion that those who are involved in such unpatriotic business have mortgaged their conscience to the devil because, they did not care about the ripple effects such negative attitude would have on the entire social contract between the government and the masses. Politicians who spent large amounts of money to get into office through vote buying would their entire tenure in fleecing and looting the common patrimony at every opportunity in order to re-coup such illicit expenditures!
Because of vote buying and selling at elections, Nigeria has become the laughing stock, not only of international community’s but among the comity of nations! We are discredited as the most corrupt nation, a people dwelling in the worst unsanitized and polluted environment, the poorest of the poor on the face of the earth, the most un-educated, etc, etc, - all because of BAD GOVERNANCE BY THE MONEY BAGS WHO HI-JACKED THE GOVERNMENT FOR 16 YEARS - 1999-2015 - THE SAME LOSERS WHO TRIED TO CONTINUE IN THE SADDLE WITH THEIR ILLICIT MONIES! But the story has change, the new SHERRIF will recover all the looted monies as the crusade will be intensified into the SECOND TERM of the APC Government from 2019-2023! AMEN!

TIME TABLE OF 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS!
According to the INEC boss, Professor Yakubu Mahmood, the commission would conduct elections into 1558 constituencies comprising one federal, 29 gubernatorial, 109 senatorial, 360 federal and 991 state constituencies, as well as 68 chairmanship and councillorship constituencies of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), during the 2019 General Elections holding from February to March.
Say NO to vote buying/selling! Report suspicious agents to law-enforcement agents. Arm yourselves with your PVC's and vote for those who would not enslave you. Electioneering campaigns have been flag off by INEC for the now registered 91 Political Parties. Check out their manifestoes meticulously before elections and make informed choices. Take your destiny in your own hand and reject the status of being a SLAVE IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY! "Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife’’ (Prov 17:1).

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.

Please look forward to divine revelations in  The Sure Word Gospel Tracts, Our divinely inspired books on the Amazon KINDLE Store Namely: The Unbroken Chain of Grace, Nigeria’s Pot Pourri (Volumes 1-5), Godly Politicking For World Peace,  and The Wedding Mascot Died. 

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.  08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

THERE IS A GULF OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GODSWILL AND GOODLUCK!

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. 7. NO 261. 12th August, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

THERE IS A GULF OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GODSWILL AND GOODLUCK!

SENATOR GODSWILL OBOT AKPABIO'S defection of Tuesday 8th August, 2018, from opposition PDP to the ruling APC, took Nigerians and political pundits by surprise but it was a divine solution for a nation on the precipice of shutting down through a vicious game-plan and strategy of a few desperados in government!  
This self-confessed nationalist and erstwhile "minority leader" in the Senate Chambers up to 4th August, 2018, when he officially resigned his position, should be celebrated for subjecting himself to the authority of the Holy Spirit, who guided him to resist those devious members of his former party who were bent on destroying Nigeria because of greed and avarice! 

There are SIX major principal officers in the Red Chambers, namely: Senate President, and Vice, Majority Leader, Minority Leader, Chief Whip and Deputy. As the Senate President is the principal  representative of the ruling party by convention, so is the Minority Leader, the principal representative of the opposition party, in this scenario, the APC and PDP, respectively! Therefore, when Saraki thought he succeeded to deliver a deadly blow below the belt to APC through his diabolical defection with several co-conspirators, little did he envisage that a devastating and destructive upper cut loomed in the wings for him and the PDP through the Minority Leader's counter defection! CAN SARAKI NOW COMPREHEND THAT "GODSWILL" IS DIVINE AND "GOODLUCK" IS EPHEMERAL?

Akpabio's unprecedented political defection that sent shock waves to the PDP Camp and took the shine off what journalists had collectively described as "a gale of defections between JUNE and JULY 2018, has completely broken the carmel's back of these NATIONAL TRAITORS who ruled for 16 consecutive years but only have illicit wealth, court cases, prison jail terms etc, to show to the WORLD!
"THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH AS IN HEAVEN ...", is the very instructive portion of the Lord's Prayer for Man to cultivate the habit of godly obedience; as taught by the Lord JESUS CHRIST to His disciples during His earthly ministries and in his defection speech, Godswill Obot Akpabio, testified that he had always yielded to God's Will from youth to get to his present political destination.
He said that since he could not sit idle and watch some irrelevant and spent politicians gang up against God's Will, to destroy the very good/solid foundation which President Muhammadu Buhari, whom he also described as a nationalist and man of integrity, had tenaciously and meticulously built since his assumption of office in 2015!
"The country is at war and all hands must be on deck to salvage the situation and not to aggravate it", he further said.

GOD'S WILL AND NOT GOOD LUCK MUST PREVAIL IN ALL OF THE AFFAIRS OF MEN!
When desperate minds abandon godly entreaties, the option to fall for evil machinations would be so enticing, so alluring! Wrong steps, wrong moves, wrong decisions and then, the eventual but inevitable headlong crash!! For Ortom, Saraki and Tambuwal, who exercised unpopular fundamental rights of association by jumping ship to People’s Democratic Party, they must have to contend with the ripples effects of reactions and mass protests that greeted their decisions! But for the courts, Ortom, who was served an unconstitutional notice of IMPEACHMENT, would have vacated his exalted seat! In spite of that reprieve, the EFCC was reported to have frozen the bank accounts of Benue State which is owing workers salaries for between, seven to twelve months in arrears! However, this report and that of the Akwa Ibom FROZEN ACCOUNTS which went viral on the social media have turned out to be HOAX! 
Although massive condemnation greeted the supposedly EFCC's action, the financial crime agency has denied both allegations and explained that some financial officials from those States were at different times invited to clear certain grey areas in respect of their accounts in the course of official investigations!

HEAVY OR PAPER WEIGHT!
As for decampee Senate President, 'Bukola Saraki, he was de-mystified as a political heavy weight when the Kwara State PDP Chairman Mr. Iyiola Oyedepo, crossed over to the All Progressives Congress (APC), with over 80% of the entire PDP structure, with a strong declaration that he could NEVER be in the same party with the nomad, saying, "Darkness and light can never work together and I can never work with Saraki. I will rather pitch my tent with the APC instead of working with Saraki."  'Saraki who is bent on truncating Nigeria's 21st Century democracy boasted during a "World Press Conference" in Abuja on 8th August, 2018, that the APC Government could only remove him as Senate President with two-thirds (73), majority members of the House which he and his fellow conspirators believe would be a Herculean task for the ruling party!

From the venue of the conference, Saraki travelled to Minna, capital of Niger State to consult with ex- military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida, who annulled the JUNE 12,1993 Presidential Election, adjudged as the freest and most credible in Nigeria to hold consultations on how to further destabilize Nigeria?

TAMBUWAL AND WAMAKKO'S POWER RALLIES IN SOKOTO!
Governor Tambuwal, like the failed PDP, should by now have learnt his lessons that POWER BELONGS TO GOD, WHO GIVES TO WHOM HE CHOOSES! He despised the wise counsel of his erstwhile godfather, Senator Aliyu Wamakko and those of the Elders, defiantly defected back to PDP and has become totally irrelevant and isolated in his home State and the Caliphate’s political calculations!

Wamakko held a counter APC political rally which garnered a mammoth crowd, the kind that has not been witnessed in Sokoto in recent times and which had sent strong signals to Tambuwal that he would swim against a very strong tide in 2019, whether as governorship or presidential candidate! Already, the people are requesting Tambuwal to account for a total of N78.4 billion collected from the Federal Government as Paris Club Refund, Bail-out Funds, Salary Pension Arrears, CBN/FGN Agricultural Fund and Ecological Fund!

WHAT IS THE CHAFF AGAINST THE WHEAT?
".... He (GOD,) will thoroughly purge His floor and gather His WHEAT into the garner; but He will burn up the CHAFF with unquenchable fire." (Matthew. 3:12b, compare Malachi. 4:1).

The Nigerian political landscape has thrown up all manner of CHAFFS masquerading as politicians -  flaunting weird and incomprehensible ideologies/manifestoes of ABOUT 68 COALITIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS OF STRANGE BED FELLOWS WHOSE SOLE GATHERING WAS NOTHING SHORT OF HOW TO COLLECT THEIR OWN SHARE OF THE NATIONAL CAKE!
However, all avenues for stealing, looting or embezzlement have been blocked by the BUHARI ADMINISTRATION - the TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT (TSA), has made it very impossible for the pilferers to dip their filthy fingers into the TILL; Expired OIL BLOC LICENCES WERE NOT RE-NEWED; PORTFOLIO LEGISLATORS WERE BLOCKED FROM ILLICIT CONTRACTS THROUGH "OVERSIGHT FUNCTIONS"; ANNUAL BUDGET PADDINGS HAVE BEEN PROSCRIBED; there is no money to share or steal anymore! AND IN PMB'S SECOND TERM (2019-2023), THERE WILL BE A PARLIAMENT OF ONE LEGISLATIVE HOUSE WITH 74 MEMBERS ON PART TIME! THE ZEAL OF THE LORD WILL PERFORM THIS POPULIST DESIRE! AMEN.

THE SIEGE AT NASS ON 7TH AUGUST, 2018 - DAURA PLAYED INTO SARAKI'S HANDS!
Who hatched the plot?
(1) When Saraki was comfortably seated at plenary and presided over the defection of 14 APC Senators to the opposition PDP, he made Nigerians and the world to believe that he was at his home which was barricaded by his own security details;
(2) Because he wanted to hold on to the position of Senate presidency, he covertly suggested a meeting of some selected Party caucuses of PDP from both chambers to meet at the National Assembly at noon on 7th August, 2018,  to forestall an imaginary invasion by APC senators, whom he alleged had planned to remove him!
(3) THE CATCH was for him to supplant the invitees, protect his interest and force other security agents and Press outside of NASS to besiege the complex very early!
(4) His devious plan worked as usual and he made triumphant entry at about noon to receive applause and choruses of: Oloye, Oloye, Oloye, from hired photographers and some miscreants who accompanied him into the complex!

LAWAL DAURA, the now sacked DSS Director caught Saraki's BAIT! He had sent MASKED operatives to the complex very early on that day without presidential approval and provoked hue, cry, commotion and orchestrated pandemonium from the PDP Legislators who were privy to the whole plan and on hand to fan the embers of disunity among the good people of Nigeria!

BUT SENATOR BENEDICT MURRAY-BRUCE GOOFED BEFORE NOON: HE ALLEGED THAT SENATOR GODSWILL AKPABIO WHO WAS ALREADY IN UYO, AKWA IBOM, IN PREPARATION FOR HIS DECAMPMENT, WAS ACTUALLY ON HIS WAY TO INVADE THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COMPLEX AND SAID ON TV: "WE SHALL PHOTO- COPY (PHOTOGRAPH), HIS FACE AND SHOW IT TO THE WORLD" DID HE MAKE A COMMONSENSE? 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS WOULD TELL!
"God cannot be deceived, whatever a man sows, that he shall reap!"

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.

Please look forward to divine revelations in  The Sure Word Gospel Tracts, Our divinely inspired books on the Amazon KINDLE Store Namely: The Unbroken Chain of Grace, Nigeria’s Pot Pourri (Volumes 1-5), Godly Politicking For World Peace,  and The Wedding Mascot Died. 

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.  08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

CAN SARAKI AND THE DECAMPEE LEGISLATORS IMPEACH MR. PRESIDENT?

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. 7. NO 260. 5th August, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

CAN SARAKI AND THE DECAMPEE LEGISLATORS IMPEACH MR. PRESIDENT?

As the dust settles on the gale of defections, majorly from the APC ruling party to the opposition PDP, and vice-versa, a palpable storm that could overheat the polity has gathered momentum through the eventual defection of 'Bukola Saraki, and Aminu Tambuwal,of Sokoto State, who both failed to resign their appointments as SENATE PRESIDENT and GOVERNOR respectively!

Should Nigerians be surprised with Saraki's antics/gimmicks, which began on the 9th June, 2015, when he manipulated the entire APC hierarchy to surreptitiously assume the exalted position, in spite of a better and preferred candidate pencilled down for the job?

From that initial political coup which was stage-managed with the tacit support of PDP Senators, Saraki has not left anyone in doubt that he was out to trouble Nigeria and would remain a thorn in its flesh for as long as he could pull the stunt! He remained the arrow head of the opposition in the hallowed chambers, a scenario that was alien to the Nigerian parliament since independence in 1960!

He remained the clog of the wheel of economic progress by always supporting the PDP Senators to thwart all concerted efforts to move the nation out of a threatening RECESSION right from inception of the CHANGE administration by stifling the Executive of FUNDS through deliberate delay of budgets approval from 2016 - 2018!

Like the Benue State Governor, who also refused to resign his appointment, Saraki has blamed the ruling party for hounding him with criminal charges and pushed him out of the APC as if government had no right to prosecute him for the allegations of amassing illicit wealth through false declaration of assets as Governor of Kwara State for eight years!

He was recently fingered for financing thuggery and violence through some miscreants who graduated into bank robbers in which 9 policemen, including civilian victims, totalling 30 persons were killed in Offa, Kwara State, on 5th April, 2018, and he expected the Nigerian Police Force authorities to exonerate him in spite of all damning evidences against him by the robbery gang leaders! Senate presidency is not Saraki's birthright, because he is only one person among several (108), equals!

As if the wanton sponsored killings which had been squarely deposited at the doorsteps of the politicians should not suffice, 'Bukola Saraki now plans to instigate fresh bloodshed by holding on to that position as the number one principal officer, ganner more defections to PDP at all costs and move for the IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT, which he is aware would not be an easy task!

What APC has requested of Saraki is very simple: "Resign your post as Senate President in order not to overheat the polity, just as your protegee, Bolaji Abdulahi did resign as Chairman of the Nigerian Sugar Company!" But he is still sitting tight as at the time of this publication.

An adage states that a drowning person would cling to any floating object - even a broomstick! Saraki's tainted political career is definitely at its lowest ebb and the only honourable course open to him is to step down from his high horse, resign as Senate President and submit himself to the Police for thorough investigation or prosecution as the case may be! He cannot have his cake and eat it too!

SARAKI SHOULD RECONVENE NASS FOR VIREMENT TO FUND 2019 ELECTIONS!
He is postponing the evil day for delaying to re-convene the National Assembly as requested by the Executive for the approval of Virement or Supplementation of 2018 Budget for N242 billion for INEC, NSCDC, DSS, NPF, IMMIGRATION and others, to conduct the 2019 General Elections. The President requested that  N164.1 billion of total fund proposed for the election should be funded from the N578.31billion, illegal insertion in the 2018 Budget by the National Assembly (NASS)!

469 LEGISLATORS AND THE REST OF US!
No one needs a soothsayer to tell the renegades among the present crop of Nigerian Legislators in the National Assembly (NASS), that the battle line has been drawn between them and the Electorate that “voted” them to serve the nation!
Any river or stream that despises its source was bound to dry up just as any dog that ignores the command whistle of the master hunter would be lost in the forest and become prey to predators!

Party supremacy through internal democracy mechanism as entrenched in APC’s Constitution must prevail at all times, especially now that a handful of rebels had attempted to hijack the instruments of power from the Executive at legislative level, but God cannot be deceived, whatsoever that a man sows, that he would surely reap, and in multiplication!

Why was it so difficult for these “distinguished” parliamentarians to forget that their former parties which collapsed to form the All Progressives Congress (APC) are DEAD and BURIED according to extant laws of the land? Why would those who are now bent on wrecking the APC with impunity, think that they are now superior and independent of the Electorate who are the majority and possess the sovereign power to hire and fire?

Now that the polygamous children of the mixed multitude have now been openly identified through their inordinate lust for carnal power, it will be very easy to sift and flush them out of the CHANGE system because they belonged to the old order of past administrations which is anathema!

They thought that this new administration would follow the corrupt pattern of the past of money sharing, /looting through Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDA's) oversight functions, illegal fat salaries/allowances and the massive illicit gains in the name of quarterly constituency allowances paid directly to legislators bank accounts!
But as it is written every tree that is not planted by God in the present administration of the APC must be uprooted and cast into the furnace!

The individual downtrodden and illiterate citizen who could neither comprehend nor appreciate the main reasons or causes for his predicament in life, his misery, poverty, social and backward economic state, was prone to become an easy prey to be manipulated at will by politicians, enemies of the State or saboteurs to foment trouble in the polity.
We have every reason to believe that this new government is poised to reverse the trend of insecurity that berthed Boko Haram, and the killer herdsmen crisis, renew hope in the hopeless citizens, resuscitate the spirit of patriotism and give equal opportunities that would ignite the fire of nationalism above selfish interests!

We encourage the Electorate to get ready to vote out these selfish legislators during the coming 2018 Elections by ensuring that they possess their Permanent Voters Cards! A stitch in time saves nine!

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.

Please look forward to divine revelations in  The Sure Word Gospel Tracts, Our divinely inspired books on the Amazon KINDLE Store Namely: The Unbroken Chain of Grace, Nigeria’s Pot Pourri (Volumes 1-5), Godly Politicking For World Peace,  and The Wedding Mascot Died. 

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.  08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

NIGERIAN YOUTHS SHOULD DETHRONE POLITICAL DECAMPEES AND THEIR SUPPORTERS IN 2019!

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. 7. NO 259. 29thJuly, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIAN YOUTHS SHOULD DETHRONE POLITICAL DECAMPEES AND THEIR SUPPORTERS IN 2019!

Let us presume that every pre-election year in Nigeria must witness the unconstitutional defection, cross-carpeting and shopping for "sure banker" tickets by politicians; must the 2018 edition assume such a heightened, frightening, and unprecedented proportion, in view of the fact that bereaved citizens are still mourning the untimely deaths of their innocent/beloved ones hacked down by suspected killer-herdsmen/Boko Haram terrorists and who cannot REST IN PEACE in the ongoing commotion for ephemeral political gains?

The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Chapter V, Section 68 (1) (g) (as amended), is unambiguous in respect of circumstances that could lead to defection by political appointees from one party to another, but since the fresh attempt at democracy, 19 years on, those legal requirements had been side-lined and no one bothered to further contest the flagrant disobedience in the courts because they were all flouting the extant law with impunity!

Conservative statistics of death tolls in the Middle Belt States of Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Taraba, including Zamfara in the North West, between January and July, 2018, was put at about 1,800 people, consisting of men women and children, excluding security personnel, but after all hue, cry and lamentations, obsessed politicians forgot the pains/agonies of the citizens in their various constituencies/districts, passed the "buck" to the President and the ruling party and moved on to look for greener pastures by laundering illicit monies to attract to themselves, SUPPORTERS OF LIKE-MINDS, WHOSE ONLY GOAL IN LIFE IS THE CONTINUOUS ACQUISITION OF BLOOD MONEY!

Personal/positive ambition is not a crime in Nigeria's extant laws but INORDINATE AMBITION which borders on egotism, self-aggrandizement, nepotism, tribalism, pre-meditated institutional corruption, that could attract confusion, anarchy, homicide, civil disobedience, insurgency, terrorism etc, MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO FESTER IN EVERY SANE DEMOCRACY! It is therefore very imperative for politicians to shun attitudes that could lead to despotism, propagation and perpetration of individuals in positions of authority for too long to the detriment of other interested parties!

There are several politicians who served in the Legislative Arm for SIXTEEN CONSECUTIVE YEARS, (1999-2015), and are still serving in the present Change administration as if they were the proverbial "one-eyed person in a community of blind people"!
For decorum and moral consideration, such persons should have given opportunity to others after two tenures at least, since they did not possibly possess the monopoly of knowledge and wisdom; but this is the political scenario that is playing out in Nigeria presently!

Even those soldiers and bloody civilians who served the Army juntas of about 30 years, are still very vibrant, active and earning fat salaries as politicians - legislators/ministers/ board chairmen, etc. Local and international political pundits were not surprised when on Tuesday, 24th July, 2018, 'Bukola Saraki announced at plenary that FOURTEEN "APC" SENATORS had defected to the opposition PDP while his counterpart, Yakubu Dogara also disclosed that THRITY-TWO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MEMBERS, also defected to the PDP and other minority parties WHILE THE INCUMBENT APC BENUE STATE GOVERNOR, ON THE FOLLOWING DAY ALSO DECAMPED TO PDP!

The signs of internal wrangling had been manifest within the rank and file of the All Progressives Congress (APC), from inauguration and what has played out was the black/yellow bile from the gall bladders of the INORDINATE AMBITIOUS, VERY GREEDY AND SELFISH POLITICIANS WHO MUST BE PROMINENT ACTORS IN EVERY GOVERNMENT IN POWER! They are not interested in nation-building but only in NAIRA GAINS!

ANATOMY OF PROMINENT DECAMPEES FROM APC!
Although, Senate President, ABUBAKAR SARAKI and his counterpart, House of Representatives Speaker, YAKUBU DOGARA, were still sitting on the fence (with one leg in the PDP and the other in APC), as at the time of this publication, their spies and foot soldiers have crossed the RUBICON, to signify that there could be no turning back for both of them!
As for Governor AMINU WAZIRI TAMBUWAL of Sokoto State, it seemed that patriotism coupled with wisdom has prevailed over him to (maybe), sheath his sword!

We know that all decampees from APC have returned to EGYPT (PDP), where they would offer themselves FOR SALE, but nobody would purchase them! As a youth, incumbent Benue State Governor, SAMUEL IORAER ORTOM, (now 57-years-old), was very ambitious for good reasons! He had hardly completed his studies than he got embroiled in partisan politics of his State through engagement in grassroot party administration which paved the way for political appointment as Minister of State Trade and Investments during ex-President Ebele Jonathan's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Administration but became All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor of Benue State in 2015, when PDP denied him its ticket during the primaries of 2014!

Samuel Ortom's grouse was predicated over the presumed neglect of Benue people to their predicament by the APC's Federal Government as killer herdsmen ravaged their farmlands and destroyed the lives and properties of innocent citizens from 1st January, 2018, unabated!
It was common knowledge that armed invasion by killer herdsmen was not isolated to Benue State, yet Governor Ortom took it personal and bit the APC' s fingers that have fed him since 2015 - when he terribly needed a comforter and shoulder to cry on; AND BECAUSE HE MUST FULFIL TWO TERMS AS GOVERNOR AT ALL COSTS, HE HAS RETURNED TO HIS VOMIT BY QUOTING A SCRIPTURE WHICH PREACHES, REPENTANCE BY PDP AND FORGIVENESS BY HIM, BUT HE SHOULD RETURN HIS SECURITY VOTE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!

However, the most interesting part of the unfolding DRAMA was by the Benue (PDP?) Youths who in their numbers, "barricaded" the State Government's gates to "prevent" Governor Ortom from proceeding to Abuja, to mend fences with APC hierarchy and douse the political tension of several months!
Whether the youths belonged to either of the camps is very irrelevant because they have no doubt betrayed their patriotic counterparts in other parts of Nigeria with that STAGE-MANAGED ACT!
BENUE YOUTHS should remember that PDP does not believe in the "NOT-TOO-YOUNG-TO-RUN  DOCTRINE - the youth leader during the 2011-2015 administration was "only 60 years old" and by the time Governor Ortom, "completed FOUR years as PDP GOVERNOR" (?), he would be 62 years, while the youths would remain on the waiting list forever!

NIGERIAN YOUTHS AS POSITIVE THINKERS!
We have launched a national/global video campaign with the strong advocacy that Nigerian Youths should cultivate the culture of BUILDING A NEW AND EGALITARIAN NIGERIA, WHERE POSITIVE THINKING, IDEAS, AND ATTITUDE BY CITIZENS WILL TAKE PRE-EMINENCE AND PROVIDE THE REQUIRED PLATFORM FOR A BRAND NEW UNITED STATES OF NIGERIA (USN), WHERE POLITICAL POWER WILL SEAMLESSLY TRANSFER FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER WITHOUT ACRIMONY, BITTERNESS OR BLOOD-LETTING!
In this campaign, Nigerian Youths will be afforded opportunities to display their sterling qualities of ebullience, resilience, tenacity of purpose, energy and determination to excel and thrive in positive adventures that would compliment government policies in prosecuting the social contract in education, industry, manufacturing, agriculture, drama/culture/entertainment, film acting/production/tourism, oil/gas, natural mineral mining etc,!

BENUE YOUTHS did not have to support a decampee governor who has really not touched their lives positively in any way! Students of the Benue State University, in May, 2018 barricaded their gates in protest against increment in school fees with over 60% when their parents were not paid salaries for between 7-12 months and the other day, some youths protested on the streets of Makurdi, the State Capital and pelted his convoy!
Were they the same youths who challenged Mr. Ortom that he should rather CRUSH them with the tax-payers vehicles in his convoy than go to ABUJA for a reconciliation meeting with the APC Government?

It is not too late for them to have a re-think about their uncertain future which they are mortgaging for peanuts being doled out to them from their common wealth as compensation for solidarity! What stops anyone of them from taking over from Governor Ortom in 2019, OR IS IT COMPULSORY THAT HE SHOULD SERVE A SECOND TERM? OR ARE THERE NO 35-YEAR-OLD YOUTHS WHO ARE QUALIFIED TO TAKE OVER THE BENUE'S GEBERNATORIAL SEAT IN 2019?

We counselled EKITI STATE YOUTHS to resist the lure into thuggery by out-going Governor Ayodele Fayose, during the 14th July, 2018, Governorship Election and because they hearkened, peace, serenity and tranquillity reigned supreme and there was no death recorded through the duration and thereafter!
IF YOU ARE TRULY "NOT-TOO-YOUNG-TO-RULE IN NIGERIA, PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR OUR INTERNET VIDEO UPLOADS ON NATION BUILDING THROUGH POSITIVE THINKING, IDEAS AND ATTITUDES FOR DESIRED MENTORSHIP!” Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. (Proverbs.22:29).

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.

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.  08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

POVERTY OF PER CAPITA INCOME IS NOT POVERTY OF IDEAS IN NIGERIA!

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. 7. NO 258. 22ndJuly, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

POVERTY OF PER CAPITA INCOME IS NOT POVERTY OF IDEAS IN NIGERIA!

Nigeria as the most populous nation of black people in Africa and the Diaspora, the economic hub and business destination of international entrepreneurs from across the globe, should have been accredited as a potential candidate among the 20 most-economically- viable nations by the year 2020, according to recent report of the United Nations (UN) Common Country Analysis (CCA), in view of all economic indices on ground and through the purposeful and determined efforts of the current Nigerian Economic Management Team, in its aggressive poverty-alleviation policy drives (between May, 2015 to July, 2018), which have yielded  appreciable, noticeable and positive results for the citizens! It was wrong for the UN Body to employ analogue statistics to measure current digital achievements of a 21st Century Nigeria!

Reduced per capita income (or the "per person" equity share in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), of citizens would not translate into poverty of existence, soul, mind, or of ideas because through the execution of well-formulated/modulated ideas, great nations have emerged!
THE UNITED NATIONS would not have occupied the exalted position of co-ordinating world affairs if some great and outstanding NIGERIAN INTELLECTUALS have not contributed to the building of the strong institutions of developing nations, beginning from Africa to the Caribbean’s, including "developed nations/world powers" of the USA/EUROPEAN COUNTRIES in Education, Information/Communication Technology (ICT), Medicine, Law, the Arts, Politics, Aeronautics, Nuclear and Space Rocket Sciences etc,!
It is therefore very unfortunate for this world body to cast a blanket perception of institutional failure, based on the past discredited administrations of Nigeria, instead of seconding tested diplomats to RE-ASSESS NIGERIA'S CURRENT ECONOMIC PLATFORM of the new administration before jumping into such thoughtless and unsavoury conclusions, even if Nigeria's per capita might be lower than USD $2 dollars, considering the fact that the nation came out of RECESSION early in 2018!

WE BELIEVE THAT THOSE NIGERIANS WHO ORCHESTRATED THE POVERTY ANALYSIS BY UN (CCA), AND THE PROGRESSION CHART USED BY WORLD POVERTY CLOCK (WPC), TO DISCEDIT NIGERIA WERE VERY UNPATRIOTIC!

When Nigeria was not adjudged the most corrupt nation by global detractors, it was the country with the worst infant and maternal mortality rates according to their pre-conceived statistics; thereafter, it was the nation with the highest accident rates and the most unsafe country in the universe to do business; and in that succession, the list goes on BECAUSE THEY STILL BELIEVED THAT THE "LEOPARD CAN NEVER CHANGE ITS SPOTS!" The current travails of insecurity through Boko Haram insurgency, killer herdsmen/farmers clashes, kidnappings and communal clashes, are not classified social malaise that are exclusive or limited to Nigeria - EVERTY NATION SHOULD CARRY ITS CROSS!

THE OBNOXIOUS UNITED NATIONS REPORT PRESUMPTIONS ARE UNTENABLE!
In spite of the fact that Nigeria has one of the highest economic growth rates in the world, it was adjudged in the year 2016, in a United Nations (UN), report tagged, Common Country Analysis, (CCA), as the one of the poorest countries in terms of per capita income!
In the year 2017, it was reported that poverty- stricken Nigerians depended mostly on REMITTANCES from the Diaspora as economic crisis bit harder in the first quarter; and now in 2018 second quarter, Nigeria, according to " World Poverty Clock",  WPC, June, 2018, Nigeria had about 87 million people living in poverty as against India's 73 million! Before the turn of the 21st Century, China and India, the two most populous countries in the world hosted the poorest of the poor globally but the former which Nigeria is emulating, had transformed into a very viable economic nation, second only to the United States!

According to the unacceptable universal projections, Nigeria and the Republic of Congo, "now share" the last two positions at the bottom of the ladder of poorest nations, but we strongly belief that the efforts of the current admistration in erasing that notion through its determined and unrelenting efforts through diversification to land cultivation and exploration of god-given mineral resources, in the past THREE AND A HALF YEARS, were not considered in that report! Currently, there is a deliberate effort of transferring wealth to farmers, other land cultivators and the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMSE's), who have taken advantage of government-assisted bank support through the CBN, BOI, and the African Development Bank, soft loans, which were alien to those sectors in the past!
In addition, there were aggressive moves by APC governments (Federal and States), to reduce the number of able-bodied un-employment/under-employment of employable adults at all sectors of economic development of the nation through massive employment of technical/university graduates, which will increase to about 500,000 employments before the expiration the second quarter, in spite of the available scarce resources!

The market women, artisans of all grades and vocations, were not excised from the largesse rolled out by President Muhammadu Buhari, who perhaps, has the love of the poor masses of Nigeria at heart and has so exhibited his passion for them so passionately more than anyone else in this century!
NIGERIA IS POISED TO BE RANKED AMONG THE 20 MOST ECONOMICALLY-VIABLE NATIONS BY THE YEAR 2020 - WHILE THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs), PROGRESSES TO ITS LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS IN 2030!

NIGERIA SHOULD NOT BE JUDGED BY THE SPILL-OVER FROM THE DARK OLD DAYS!
Dubious Nigerian politicians had been the bane, the pains, sorrows and woes of Nigerians until determined and positive steps were taken by the ELECTORATE to give them the boots in 2015! While they have continuously dwelt in stupendous wealth and opulence, the masses they pretended to represent were virtually cursed to suffer in squalor and abject poverty for life, whereas the nation's wealth really belonged to the masses who "hew of the wood and draw of the water" as THE NATURAL WORKFORCE AND HUMAN CAPITAL that provided the luxuries with which they are puffed up! These politicians who dwell in tightly-secured posh houses in the high-rise government reserved areas of the cities, drive bullet-proof G- WAGONS, RANGE ROVERS and other state-of-art SUV's, fly in personal jet aircrafts across the state capitals for spurious selfish journeys not related to the welfare of their citizens, while their citizens were abandoned since Independence, to dwell in villages, hamlets mud/thatched-roofed houses in the remotest and undeveloped areas of the nation without any form of security for their lives have given room for FOREIGNERS TO CAST ASPERSIONS ON THE NEW ADMINISTRATION OF THE FAITHFUL TEAM WHICH IS DETERMINED TO RESTORE THE HUMAN DIGNITY TO ITS ENDEARING PEOPLE!

HOW AND WHY had a population of the Nigerian politicians and the entire Civil Service structure - who occupy positions of authorities (Federal and States) including all parastatals added together, which is less than 20 million - in a country filled with able-bodied men, women and ebullient YOUTHS of about 200 million - BEEN ABLE TO MANIPULATE the masses since 1999 - 2015; with the ripple effects of those inglorious years spiralling into the CHANGE AGENDA of the new administration as it struggles to establish a righteous government for the poor masses? THE UNITED NATIONS CANNOT ASSESS NIGERIA'S ECONOMIC SUCCESS THROUGH THE MISDEAMENOR OF THOSE OLD HORSES WHO ARE ON THEIR WAY OUT OF THE SYSTEM, FOR THE DESIRED CREDIBILITY OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION TO BE MADE MANIFEST!

VOTE BUYING IS AN ELECTORAL OFFENCE - IT MUST STOP WITH EKITI JULY 14, 2018 GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION!
The recently-concluded Ekiti Governorship Election, won by APC's Dr. John 'Kayode Fayemi, has again thrown up the nauseating and criminal practice of VOTE-BUYING, from the electorate through the FORMULA OF ROBING PETER TO PAY PAUL OR THE DOCTRINE OF DIVIDE AND RULE which cunning Nigerian politicians in power had successfully employed over the years (1999-2018) to keep poverty alive in the land!

Able-bodied citizens were deprived opportunities of GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION and by so-doing, were reduced to illiterates who would be willing to SELL THEIR BIRTHRIGHTS - THEIR PERMANENT VOTERS CARDS (PVC's), THROUGH SUBTLE COERCION), - FOR MEAGRE SUMS OF MONEY FROM BETWEEN N500 - 5,000 NAIRA ON ELECTION DAYS TO BECOME SERVANTS INSTEAD OF MASTERS TO THE CLEVER POLITICIANS FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF MIS-GOVERNANCE!

POLITICIANS ALWAYS HAD THIEFING FINGERS IN GOVERNMENTS' COFFERS!
The crooked politicians in government have all the official apparatuses to confuse issues and manipulate same in their favour! For instance, what do the Legislators who are aware of their limitations in respect of oversight functions of annual Budgets, but collude to dissect the citizens sacred document - (that did not originate from them), - make selfish and criminal insertions, - (and deliberately delayed such important document of the nation for over half of its life-span period), intend to gain from such attitude other than the illicit accumulation of illegal wealth to the detriment of the down-trodden masses they deceitfully claim to represent? 

In the event of such delays as had been occurring since 1999 till date, a FIRE BRIGADE approach is forced to be deployed by all CASH-DISPENSING POINTS of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA's), of government to disburse an avalanche of monies into the SYSTEM to cater for dubious infrastructural projects that were never meant to be executed within the limited time-frame for the budget year to EXPIRE and the illicitly appropriated monies were then diverted into the pockets/bank accounts of the politicians and their cronies for such to be eventually used to keep the TALAKAWAS (downtrodden), in perpetual slavery! GOD FORBID!

AS YOU READ THIS PIECE, HASTEN TO COLLECT YOUR PVCS BEFORE 22ND AUGUST, 2018, WHICH IS INEC'S CLOSING DATE FOR FRESH REGISTRATIONS AND ARM YOURSELVES WITH THE POWER TO VOTE OUT (IN 2019), POLITICIANS WHO HAVE PERFORMED DISCREDITABLY IN OFFICE IN THIS DISPENSATION! YOUR VOTE IS YOUR RIGHT, DON'T SELL IT! "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.’’ (Rev 3:22).

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.

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.  08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

THE GANG-UP AGAINST BUHARI WILL FALL LIKE A PACK OF CARDS!

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. 7. NO 257. 15th July, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

THE GANG-UP AGAINST BUHARI  WILL FALL LIKE A PACK OF CARDS!

If the intentions of current agitators amongst Nigerian politicians were pure, genuine and righteous towards the people they claimed to represent in governance, would they be so desperate to acquire transient power at all costs? Would they really need to form alliances, coalitions, associations, confederations etc, of 38 political parties to CAPTURE POWER at the centre and force themselves on the citizens except they had ulterior motives or hidden agenda which would be injurious to the Nigerian Project? The current confederacy by these groups to force the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari out of office by 2019, which was spearheaded by ex-President Aremu Obasanjo, has proved to be the "Achilles heels" of the professional hustlers whose false accusations and untruths about the performances of the ruling party have been debunked by serious political parties, which had identical people-oriented ideologies and manifestoes with the All Progressives Congress (APC)!

For these "wolves in sheep's clothing’s, their ultimate desire is to CAPTURE POWER as a political tool to influence, intimidate, control, coerce and manipulate without sensitivity to the feelings or plight of the masses who they are constitutionally bound to protect and provide for their welfare! They were there for SIXTEEN years and could not give account of good stewardship and because they could still walk free, believe that they could get back to continue the plumage! Had the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, sensed that those who claimed to be "election campaign foot soldiers who got the President elected in 2015, but had since been side-lined in the allotment of perks of victory, would later show their true colour as selfish hustlers and enemies of the State and of the Change Mantra, she would have saved her breadth in pleading their cause as she did in 2016!

GEORGE ORWELL DETESTS MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN!
English novelist, Eric Arthur Blair, aka, George Orwell, famous for his titles; "Animal Farm"(1945), and "Nineteen Eighty-Four", (1949), examines in the latter, the dangers of totalitarian rule when the lust for inordinate ambition for power results in an oppressive or dishonest social environment. The satirical novel opined that nothing good could be expected from despots but that the deliberate quest for education by citizens could save them from bondage and slavery!

Orwell could well have predicted the modern day Nigeria where the threats to democracy had been sinisterly heightened for the selfish motives of a few who are believed to be sponsors of the heinous crimes of terrorism and the unabated killings by herdsmen! Prior to Monday 9th July, 2018 when 38 political parties, N-PDP, and RAPC coalesced with the failed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the betrayal saga had long begun with the agitation of an N-PDP Group within the constitutionally-recognised All Progressives Congress (APC), which broke again into another faction, called Reformed APC, (RAPC), led by Buba Galadima, - a so-called ally of President Muhammadu Buhari! Galadima, who on behalf of his group announced on 2nd June, 2018, the "Coalition of 38 political parties", proudly declared that they were set to "battle" APC Government ahead of 2019 General Elections in order to seize power at all costs adding that they have all merged under the platform of Coalition of Concerned Political Parties (CCPP). and enjoined "aggrieved members" of APC to join them under the leadership National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Olu Falae, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federal Republic (SGF), during ex-President Obasanjo's first term! CCPP's mission was to "solve Nigeria's complex problem, for the progress and unity of Nigeria and to fight our common course of restoring of the nation's lost glory"!

QUESTIONS: Are they not the same charlatans/hustlers who caused all of the present woes and sorrows, insurgency, killings, terrorism, economic recession of 2016, reneging on the social contracts with the masses, etc.? Did they not hold sway in all previous governments which looted the treasury with impunity and fleeced the nation high and dry?

Did they not coalesce and connived with ex-President Ebele Jonathan's PDP Government to rob the Nigerian treasury of about N20 billion as salaries and sitting allowances for themselves as the anointed 469 DELEGATES of the 2014 illegal National Conference, deliberately foisted to perpetuate him in office?

What is the total POPULATION of the analog SDP, N- PDP, RAPC, and the 38 mushroom political parties in reality, or, are they not just hustling to identify how and where their "bread would be better buttered"?

How did they fair at the last 2015 General Elections and at the governorship elections in EDO/ONDO/KOGI/ANAMBRA States between 2016 and 2017?

DEAD ON ARRIVAL!
As we had predicted in past editions, all of the so-called amalgamations, confederations, alignments and coalitions of political parties in their bid for TRANSIENT POWER only succeeded to birth the MIXED MULTITUDES, which have become the FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTERS which are tormenting this nation as political thugs, armed militias, vandals, assassins, Boko Haram terrorists and lately, the KILLER HERDSMEN of this generation! However, in the midst of these commotions, GOD kept a REMNANT of SANE politicians for Himself to remain the BEACON OF HOPE AND LIGHT to the downtrodden and traumatized Nigerians who were always at the receiving end of BAD GOVERNANCE! On Monday 10th July, 2018, TEN POLITICAL PARTIES dissociated themselves from the much-publicised coalition of 38 parties with N-PDP and RAPC!

And on 10th July, 2018, the ACCORD PARTY dissolved its executive committee members for anti-party activities of supporting the Ekiti PDP candidate for the Saturday 14th July, 2018, Governorship Elections and adopted an endorsement of their own candidate, Abiodun Aluko, by former Kaduna State Governor, Balarabe Musa, and a coalition of 14 political, parties under the aegis of Credible Alternative Alliance (CAA). Outside of the TEN and FOURTEEN (24) Parties of the preceding paragraphs which had no affinity with Coalition of Concerned Political Parties (CCPP), there were also THIRTY (30) out of the total of SIXTY EIGHT (68), INEC registered and recognized Political Parties which also distanced themselves from the BUBA GALADIMA GROUP!

The CCPP of strange bed fellows has crumbled before it could birth and is of no effect or consequence for the following reasons:
All the failed politicians who ruined the economy of Nigeria between 1999-2015, and who are either being prosecuted in courts for all manner of financial crimes or are under the searchlight or investigations by law-enforcement agencies, now want to OCCUPY THE NUMBER ONE POSITION AS PRESIDENT in the HOUSE OF COMMOTION hurriedly constructed by the "old horse", Buba Galadima!
The role call as at the time of publication included but not limited to, - Atiku Abubakar, Aminu Tambuwal, Abubakar Shekarau, Ahmed Markarfi, 'Bukola Saraki,  Ayodele Fayose, Sule Lamido etc. SENATOR SARAKI began to test his popularity "as an executive president" the day after his acquittal (Saturday, 07-07--18), by the SUPREME COURT from all criminal charges by Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), when he flew to Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, to commission a road project as a special guest of PDP Governor Nyesome Wike, amidst fanfare, conviviality and camaraderie with the PDP fraternity!

BREAKING NEWS: APC WON GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION IN PDP's EKITI STATE ON 14TH JULY, 2018! WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND!
BUT NOW THAT THE PDP HAS LOST EKITI STATE TO APC WHERE WILL SARAKI, DOGARA, BUBA GALADIMA, SHEKARAU, TAMBUWAL, SHEHU SANNI AND ALL OTHER THREATENING APC DECAMPEES HIDE THEIR FACES? IS THE HANDWRITING NOT GETTING CLEARER ON THE WALL FOR THE 2019 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS? WHERE IS THE PENDULUM SWINGING BECAUSE THE BUBBLE HAS BURST AND THEY HAVE NO LEGITIMATE PARTY TO CALL THEIR OWN ANY MORE! WE WISH THAT THESE MIXED MULTITUDE WOULD JUST QUIT FOR RULING APC TO CONCENTRATE ON EXECUTING OUTSTANDING SOCIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES! THEY CANNOT AFFORD ANY CARRY-OVER INTO THE SECOND TERM!

All the PDP AND CCPP aspirants for the 2019 Presidential race have begun to work at cross purposes - and would not be able to settle for a consensus candidate since the "COLLAPSE OF THE 38 COALESED PARTIES WHICH HAD BOASTED OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE!

SONG OF BUHARI (SOB)
‘’Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.  Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us’’. Isa 8:9-10. (KJV)

FEDERAL LEGISLATORS WILL NOW WORK ON CREATION OF STATE POLICE WITH ALACRITY!
Finally NASS legislators have united to implement OUR UMPTEENTH CALL FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE POLICE!  On Tuesday 3rd July, 2018, the SENATE at plenary realised their predicament (since the saga of the stolen MACE), and raised a united voice in the call for the CREATION OF STATE/COMMUNITY POLICE through its Constitutional Review Committee in a bid to overhaul the nation's security system and finally end the senseless spate of herdsmen killings in the Middle belt and the violence through suicide bombings in the North East! Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekeremadu has led 76 other Senators to present a BILL to that effect during the last plenary on13th July, 2018. The House of Representatives had earlier on Wednesday 4th July, 2018, presented a similar BILL for the creation of State/Community Police through its Majority Leader, Hon. 'Femi Gbajabiamila and have gone through the first/second readings and we honestly believe that both chambers would hasten the passage just like they did when they altered the 2019 INEC Election Time Table to favour them! A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE!

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.

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.  08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

TO SALVAGE NIGERIA FROM ANARCHY - FEDERAL LEGISLATORS MUST RE-LOCATE FROM ABUJA TO THE GRASSROOTS!

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. 7. NO 255. 1st July, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

TO SALVAGE NIGERIA FROM ANARCHY - FEDERAL LEGISLATORS MUST RE-LOCATE FROM ABUJA TO THE GRASSROOTS!

Dastard, wicked and senseless killings of Nigerians of all ages escalated since the military incursion into the political terrain from January 15, 1966, when trigger-happy soldiers embarked on a kind of killing spree that had never been witnessed in the new sovereign state!

That aberration of the sacredness/sanctity of human lives between the group of soldiers (of the first and REPRISAL counter-coups), who perpetrated treasonable offences against their motherland with impunity, snowballed into the unfortunate "Biafra War", which lasted  for 30 months (July, 1967-January,1970), during which more blood of murdered innocent Nigerians - especially, defenceless women and children flowed ceaselessly!
The soldiers also forcefully stayed in office for almost 30 years during which politicians, defiants and miscreants also amassed illegal weapons to both defend themselves and perpetrate chaos against law-abiding citizens - the ripple effects that the whole world is now witnessing!

According to statistics, Nigeria hosts over half of about 750 million small arms proliferated into West Africa! Between January and June, 2018, according to AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL latest report, about 1,800 defenceless Nigerians have been murdered in cold blood by killer-herdsmen in the Middle Belt Region of Benue, Taraba, Kaduna, Nasarawa and in Plateau, where about 100 people were massacred on 23rd June, 2018!  According to that report, the attacks which occurred in several villages in three local government areas, continued for about SEVEN hours without any form of defence of the victims by soldiers and policemen, whose primary responsibilities were to protect lives and properties.
The ongoing ugly scenario of blood-letting being experienced now in the country needs the Wisdom of Solomon and the effectual fervent prayers of righteous patriotic/law-abiding citizens who strongly believe that Nigeria, under the watch of the faithful and righteous government of President Muhammadu Buhari, who loves this nation more than any of his predecessors, would survive this painful challenge and come out victorious in no time!

Each time there was a report of herdsmen/farmers clash resulting in heavy human casualties, the President had always taken re-active security measures to ameliorate such situations through marching orders to his Service Chiefs to counter the marauders and ensure arrests in order to bring those culpable to book, but it seemed that the President has desperate detractors who wanted to have him out of the way at all costs in view of the seemingly-unending nature of the dastard crimes!
On several occasions he had instructed them to re-locate to troubled areas in the North East, Middle Belt, South-South etc, according to priorities without neglecting any part as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, but those APC/N-PDP Federal Legislators headed by Senator Saraki and Hon. Dogara, who should support him have turned out to be the enemies within!

In a 12-point resolution they heaped all the blames of insecurity on President Buhari and even threatened to impeach him from the cosy chambers of the National Assembly (NASS), in Abuja, if the killings being sponsored by desperate persons of their ilk remained unabated!

Can these rebellious politicians wash themselves clean of the atrocities being perpetrated against the TALAKAWAS of this nation; or is it because they are still walking free and that the long arm of the law is yet to catch up with them? They can enjoy their short-lived "freedom" for now but they should remember, as it is written: "No sinner shall go unpunished!"

DOES THE RECENT PLATEAU MASSACRE PORTRAY RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE?
In the early years of Boko Haram insurgency, the terrorists deliberately targeted the Christians through the bombing of Churches during worship periods, and the brutal killings of Xtian Clerics which were not limited to the North East, where they had launched a JIHAD, but extended their atrocities to the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT)!
Luckily for innocent and defenceless Nigerians, the Christians did not resort to reprisals in order not to precipate a Religious War, but cried unto the GOD of creation to defend them! Presently, terrorist have become indiscriminate and have been attacking mosques, churches, markets, motor parks, and schools, which are soft targets - mostly in the North East States!

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), leaders were accused by the Benue State Governor as the "masterminds" behind the killing of 84 people in the State on 1st January, 2018, because he went ahead to enact the Anti-Open Grazing Law, in spite of their opposition!
Macban vehemently denied the allegation but following the June 2018, massacre in Plateau State, Chairman of the Northern Body of the Association was quoted as saying that 300 cows of Fulani herdsmen were killed by the Berom, (predominantly Xtian natives) and the attacks on their villages in which about 300 innocent people were murdered in cold blood, was a reprisal!

The Central Body has dissociated MACBAN from the statement and described it as a personal view of the author, but Nigerians cannot easily forget that sometime ago, the incumbent Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El Rufai, publicly stated that any person who killed a Fulani man's cow must expect a reprisal, no matter how many years it took!

THE GOOD OLD DAYS AFTER INDEPENDENCE!
We strongly believe that we can still get back to those good old days before 1966, when Nigerians lived peacefully and when our diversity played out to be our greatest asset in spite of the myriads of premonitions by prophets of doom who lost out in elections! The nomadic Fulani pastoralists were very friendly settlers to their host communities even as they moved from north to south, east to west.
They had grazing routes and grazing reserves which have gradually fizzled out due to population explosion which should have metamorphosed into RANCHES through diplomacy by the military and previous 16 years of PDP administrations, without the shedding of human blood! BUT they were all busy sharing OIL MONEY and abandoned their basic constitutional duties of providing adequate SECURITY to all citizens irrespective of ethnic or religious affiliations!

NEITHER RELIGIOUS NOR ETHNIC CONFLICTS SHOULD PUT NIGERIA ASUNDER!
Homicides that are precipitated through pre-meditated murders, organised killings, assassinations, pogroms, ethnic cleansing are as old as the Mother Earth! In fact, the very FIRST murder that took place on planet Earth occurred within a family of four people when the elder of the two sons rose against his younger sibling and hacked him down in cold blood according to biblical sources!
The murder was pre-meditated, well-conceived and executed with calculated precision by Cain who lured Abel into the farm and clubbed him to death for no just cause; just like what obtains presently in Nigeria and world-wide!  This is what the Preacher says: "...there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It had been already, which was before us. of old time." Of all human conflicts resulting in inter-tribal/ethnic squabbles since the beginning of creation, religious war had been the most-consuming, destructive, devastating, and of the greatest destabilising effects on national/inter-national economy, but these had been the trend from time immemorial! We MUST not allow it to gain root in our beloved nation because there is a thin line between religious and political violence!

IT IS THE TURN OF FEDERAL LEGISLATORS TO RE-LOCATE!
Because TALK IS VERY CHEAP, Nigerian Legislators have been the most talkative politicians in Nigeria who generate a lot of motions without meaningful/positive movements except when it comes to how to pad, re-write, re-invent, re-construct, cancel and insert new items in EVERY NIGERIAN BUDGET, from 1999-2018! But they have to get very busy from now on in order to justify that they are truly representatives of the downtrodden Nigerians now that the UNITED NATIONS (UN), IS WORRIED ABOUT THE HORRIBLE KILLINGS GOING ON IN NIGERIA AND FOR THE FACT THAT GLOBAL INDEX IN RESPECT OF POVERTY RATIO HAS REVEALED THAT ABOUT 50% OF THE 180 MILLION POPULATION ARE THE POOREST IN THE WORLD! THEY MUST ALSO DISMOUNT THEIR HIGH HORSES TO CONVINCE THE ELECTORATE THAT THEY ARE THE SERVANTS AND NOT THE LORDS OVER THE NIGERIAN POPULACE!
FIRST: THEY SHOULD WORK ON THE EXECUTIVE RECOMMENDATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE POLICE BY DISCUSSING IT, APPROVING IT AS A MATTER OF URGENCY, AND FORWARDING SAME TO THE PRESIDENT FOR ASSENT WITHIN THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF JULY, 2018!
SECOND: THEY SHOULD THEN PROCEED ON A LONG RECESS OF AT LEAST TWO MONTHS, RE-LOCATE TO THEIR CONSTITUENCIES AND DISTRICTS OFFICES (IF THEY HAVE ANY), AS INDEGENES OF THEIR RESPECTIVE STATES TO GET INVOLVED IN THE TASK OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION: WORKING WITH ALL SECURITY AGENCIES AND THE STATE GOVERNORS - INCLUDING STATE LEGISLATORS - TO PROFFER PEACE RESOLUTIONS AND ALSO THE MODALITIES FOR THE QUICK ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE POLICE EXCLUSIVELY STAFFED BY THE INDEGENES WHO UNDERSTAND THEIR TERRAINS AND WOULD PERFORM BETTER THAN THE FEDERAL POLICE IN ORDER TO STOP THE ON-GOING KILLINGS OF INNOCENT NIGERIANS ONCE AND FOR ALL!
THIRD: THEY MUST VOLUNTARILY REFUND ALL ILLEGAL CONSTITUENCY ALLOWANCES COLLECTED SINCE THE YEAR 2015 UNDER THE PRETEXT OF PROVIDING NECESSARY AMENITIES AND INFRASTUCTURES FOR THE POOR MASSES TO THE TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT (TSA), FOR ONWARD TRANSMISSION TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE STATES FOR REAL INFRASTRUTURAL DEVELOPMENTS TO BE MONITORED BY THE GRASSROOT PEOPLE THEMSELVES!

On the part of the Federal Government, it should ensure that the killers are fished out and punished according to the LAW to serve as deterrent to would-be criminals and for peace to reign permanently in all previous volatile areas of the country. WHERE THERE IS A WILL- THERE IS A WAY!

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.

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.  08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

THE "NOT TOO YOUNG TO RUN" YOUTHS OF EKITI MUST SHUN POLITICAL THUGGERY!

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. 7. NO 256. 8th July, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

THE "NOT TOO YOUNG TO RUN" YOUTHS OF EKITI MUST SHUN POLITICAL THUGGERY!

Governor Ayodele Fayose has been widely reported in the news and social media to have organised Ekiti State youths to be prepared to resist the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and lawful authorities in the event of any perceived act of rigging or malpractice on the 14th July, 2018, date of the gubernatorial election and has not denied the allegations!
But barring any unforeseen/unpleasant events, the already scheduled election, should hold peacefully under the watchful eyes of GOD, the divine umpire; the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), local/international monitoring groups and security agencies!
It is common historical knowledge that Ekiti State's political environment of that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), South West State, had suffered various degree of volatility since Governor Fayose, took office for the second time on 16th October, 2014, under very controversial circumstances!

A Nigerian Army (NA), intelligence officer, attached to 32nd Artillery Brigade, Captain Sagir Koli was reported to have secretly recorded for 37minutes, an audio vote-rigging plan on 20th June, 2014, while he accompanied his Commanding Officer, Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh, to a meeting at Spotless Hotel, Ado-Ekiti, which was owned by out-going Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose! In attendance, were Peter Ayodele Fayose, (who won the 2014 Ekiti governorship election), Senator Iyiola Omisore, a member of the National Assembly (NASS), Abdul Kareem, the Minister for Police Affairs, Alhaji Jelili Adesiyan, the former Minister of Police Affairs/Navy Captain, Caleb Olubolade, the Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musliu Obanikoro, Anambra PDP Chieftain, Chris Uba, who bribed the Brigadier General of rank promotion in view of his assistance in carrying out the electoral fraud!

A former secretary of the Ekiti State Chapter of the PDP, Dr. Temitope Aluko, also butressed the Captain's allegation and apologized to the people of Ekiti for the highly manipulated 2014 Election, which had the tacit connivance, authority and USD $ 37 million from ex-President Ebele Jonathan who was also poised to rig himself into office for the THIRD TERM!

In view of the preceding experience of the 2014 elections in perspective, and the benefits of hindsight, security agencies had intensified efforts to checkmate any loop hole that could pave way for rigging through the break-down of law and order by the youths who are being teleguided and brain-washed by the out-going governor to cause confusion!

However there was another report which claimed that THREE TRAILER loads of "foreigners" from other States armed with Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs), and headed toward Ekiti, were apprehended and being investigated! As it is generally believed that most Ekiti people are academically-endowed and that the State could boast of having more professors than other States of the Federation of Nigeria, we sincerely hope that the youths would bring to bear, their educational sagacity by refusing to be used as political thugs by the out-going Governor Fayose, who is so desperate to install his anointed candidate on the hapless citizens of Ekiti at all costs! He urged the electorate not to vote for the APC's candidate and said, “a vote for APC is a vote for Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen."

FAYOSE'S CONFRONTATIONS WITH PRESIDENT BUHARI AND APC!
Out-going Governor Ayodele Fayose needs no introduction to Nigerians at home and the Diaspora because of his hard stance against the ruling government headed by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, whom he had, without recourse to his age and position, consistently maligned, abused, disgraced and had published all manner of hate speeches through personal vendetta, against the President's entire family, wife and children since 2016, to date!
Fayose had condemned all Federal Government's policies/programmes and had dismissed President Buhari as a non- performer and even pronounced him DEAD, while the latter recuperated in a London hospital early in 2017, and claimed that he had pictures (which he is yet to produce), that the Buhari, who returned hale and hearty to Nigeria, was a SUDANESE CLONE of the Nigerian President!

This sinister out-going governor in April 2016, travelled to CHINA to personally deliver an official letter addressed to the Chinese President, Xi Jingping under his signature with an urgent request that Nigeria should not be granted a USD $ 2 billion dollar loan being sought by the Federal Government in a bi-lateral agreement to complete Railway Projects and other infrastructural projects that were initiated by previous administrations! He was not given an audience!
There were so many other antagonisms against the person of President Buhari and his administration (which are in the public domain through our 140th Edition publication, pages 2-3, of 20th April, 2016), that cannot find space in this edition, but would be left to posterity to judge!

FAYOSE'S PROFILE: FIRST OUTING/CONFRONTATIONS WITH EX-PRESIDENT OBASANJO!
Fayose was a "green horn" during his first incursion into the Nigerian political terrain between 29th May, 2003- 16th October, 2006; and in the process of learning the ropes through wrong advisers, got his fingers burnt badly, and was kicked out of office through a controversial impeachment, during ex-President Obasanjo's second tenure in 2006 ! He contested the faulty process of his impeachment in the courts and got a reprieve which earned him a second chance to become governor in 2014; but did he learn any lesson?
During the period of waiting, uncertainties and frustrations in respect of his political career, he tried his luck through the Labour Party in 2013 to get into the Red Chambers of the Senate, but failed woefully because the "Okada Riders and Motor Garage Touts, with whom he claimed to have great popularity, could not muster the sufficient votes against his opponent who won the coveted seat without sweat! But surprisingly, not long after that loss he was fished out by the PDP ruling government of ex-President Ebele Jonathan and foisted against, Dr. 'Kayode Fayemi, the APC Governor, who was just about to conclude his first tenure in office and was cleverly rigged out for the same Fayose who could not win Senatorial Elections in just ONE DISTRICT OF EKITI STATE, just few months back!

CONFRONTATION WITH INEC AND SECURITY AGENCIES!
Governor Fayose on Tuesday, 3rd July, 2018, accused security chiefs of working with the APC in the deployment of operatives to perpetrate rigging and illegal arrests in Ekiti in the approach the governorship election. He specifically alleged that the DSS boss of partisanship by ordering the arrests and detention of PDP members and some teachers in the State and tendered a video evidence to INEC top officials at the Civil Society Organisation (CSO), event, held to sensitize the Electorate ahead of the election, to confirm alleged "pre-loading of the Smart Card Reader by a political party in Akure, Ondo State!"
He also alleged that the plot was hatched to manipulate the election in favour of APC's candidate, Dr. 'Kayode Fayemi and accused the Ekiti State Commissioner of Police of complicity in the alleged plans to rig the July 14, 2018, governorship elections in the Ekiti State, following similar concerns raised by the PDP flag bearer Professor Kolapo Olusola (Eleka), over unacceptable deployments of security operatives, adding that he and his followers would resist all forms of harassments to ensure free, fair and credible elections in spite of all assurances from INEC that the election would be devoid of all form of malpractices!

INEC's Chief Press Secretary has refuted Governor Fayose's claim as baseless rumour being spread to taint the impeccable image of the Agency which had successfully conducted elections into 180 Constituencies since November, 2015! Elections will be conducted in over 550 polling units spread across Ekiti State on Saturday 14th July, 2018.

NOW THAT SUPREME COURT HAS REVERSED ITSELF OVER SARAKI - IT'S OVER TO GOD!
The First Supreme Court Judgment!
On Friday, 5th February, 2016, the Supreme Court's Seven-man Panel, presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, unanimously ruled in its judgment that Saraki's appeal against the jurisdiction of the CCT and the competence of the charges, lacked merit. Justice Walter Onnoghen, who delivered the lead judgment, dismissed all Saraki's seven grounds of appeal, affirming that the charges instituted against him were valid and that the tribunal was validly constituted with requisite jurisdiction to try him!

The Second Supreme Court Judgement - Two Years Later!
On Friday, 6th July, 2018, the Supreme Court of Nigeria deliver another judgement which favoured Saraki and finally put the criminal against case to permanent REST! The learned judges unanimously dismissed the false assets declaration charges against him before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), and vacated an earlier Court of Appeal's judgement which ordered the defendant to return and face three of the initial 13 counts at the lower court!

IF SARAKI HAD BEEN FOUND GUILTY!
The specified punishment which the Code of Conduct Tribunal may impose on a person convicted of charges of false declaration of assets and other related offences under the Fifth Schedule, Part I, Section 18(1) (2) (a)(b)(c) are as follows:
(1) Vacation of office or seat in any legislative house as the case may be,
(2) Disqualification from membership of a legislative house and from the holding of any public office for a period not exceeding ten years, and
(3) Seizure and forfeiture to the State of any property acquired in abuse or corruption of office and (4) 18 (3-7) which state that the sanctions mentioned above shall be without prejudice to the penalties that may be imposed by any law where the conduct is also a criminal offence.
(5) That guilty persons shall have right of appeal but that nothing shall prejudice the prosecution of such officer or preclude him/her from being prosecuted for an offence in a court of law and that
(6) the provisions of the Constitution relating to prerogative of mercy shall not apply to any punishment imposed in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 18(1-7).

Legislators are empowered to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Federation and not to contradict the Constitution according to Section 4 (8)(9)!
"Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow" Isa 50:11(KJV).
THY WILL BE DONE IN NIGERIA AS IT IS IN HEAVEN O 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.  08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.