ATIKU-OBASANJO'S COALITION SHOULD NOT BE "DO-OR-DIE" 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 270. 14th October, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

ATIKU-OBASANJO'S COALITION SHOULD NOT BE "DO-OR-DIE" IN 2019!

Contrary to the consensus of opinion, Nigeria does not lack good leaders but is inundated with a plethora of unprepared, selfish, greedy, unpatriotic and passionless leaders whose only reason for leadership positions is sheer aggrandizement to acquire inordinate wealth and power!

The gale of defections and anti-party activities that enveloped the polity before the National Assembly (NASS), recess of over two months which eventually terminated on Tuesday 8th October, 2018, when plenary sittings resumed, confirms the foregoing assertion of man's insatiable greed for lucrative positions of authority unceasingly because both Senate President, 'Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara jumped ship to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but have vehemently refused to relinquish their exalted positions although PDP is in the minority in both chambers!

At the resumption of plenary, aggrieved APC Legislators were counselled to sheath their swords in respect of a-sworn impeachment move against the traitors but to conclude actions on pending legislatives bills which needed urgent presidential assent, for the sake of the masses of the down-trodden who would suffer the consequences of any wrong move considering the fact that the 2019 General Election was just about FOUR months away!

APC'S SCORECARD OF ACHIEVEMENTS IN THREE-AND-A-HALF-YEARS!
Political analysts have also opined that there could be no better time than this short window of opportunity before the elections for the ruling party to showcase its achievements to the Electorate who would cast the votes and gain their confidence in other to destroy the blackmails by all the defectors at both Federal and State levels!
Although the Change Government had to grapple with 16 years of a plundered economy which was on the way to recession and a virtually empty treasury on 29th May, 2015, the economic managers were able to fix most of the mess within the limited time and did not renege on its anti- corruption drive and the battle against the Boko Haram insurgency to ensure adequate security across all geo-political zones!

SIXTEEN Local Government Areas (LGAs), seized by Boko Haram terrorists between 2010-2015, were all recovered by the Federal Troops within one year of APC's Administration and as October 2018, the remnants of the renegade group were being mopped up!

Although another security challenge in the form of herdsmen/farmers clashes claimed lots of lives - especially in the Middle Belt Region from January 2018, government mustered all security apparatuses to fish out the killers and their sponsors in order to bring the brutality, which was a deliberate ploy by Buhari's detractors, to discredit all his achievements, to a permanent end!

The SPECIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES (SIPs), of the ruling government was indiscriminatory from the onset as all States of the Federation have been affected positively in the very short time of the Change Administration. All uncompleted or abandoned projects of past governments from 1999-2015, were taken over and completed by the people-oriented APC Administration for faster developments in all sectors of the economy! Road and Rail networks have come alive in all geo-political zones as people, goods and services are discharged faster across the Federation in spite of the rainy season and floods!

Other achievements include, but not limited to:
(1) The introduction of the TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT (TSA);
(2) Whistle-blowing policy which exposed TAX EVADERS and fraudulent Civil Servants from whom at least over N 21billion naira and about USD $70 million, were recovered and the External Reserve Portfolio stood at USD$ 43.437,951,431 billion dollars as at 10th October. 2018, a commendable feat indeed!

THE EMERGENCE OF APC AND PDP PRESIDENTIAL FLAG BEARERS!
Although President Muhammadu Buhari emerged as the consensus candidate of the APC, the Party still held a national convention to ratify his candidacy on Saturday, 6th October, 2018 in conformity with the Party's Constitution!
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, also emerged from among 13 Candidates as PDP's flag bearer but not without vehement allegations that USD-FILLED FAT ENVELOPES were distributed to all delegates by his agents!

BUHARI'S PROFILE: President Buhari is an accomplished statesman and democrat having cast the military garb of autocratic rule out of his system in order to fulfil his manifesto's promise that "he was for nobody and was for everybody!" This divinely anointed ambassador and crusader against corruption is a man of integrity both in the ARMY and as a civilian and even his worst detractor could not rail any accusation against him! He never enriched himself outside of his legitimate earnings and has no foreign bank accounts. The President has never amassed mobile or immobile properties in Nigeria or overseas for himself or relatives as some of his predecessors in office did! He does not possess an OIL WELL/BLOC and no one has been able to trace any act of corruption to him!

ATIKU'S PROFILE: Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar had Para-military experience in the Nigerian Customs where he served and retired as Deputy Director in 1989. He later went into business where he acquired much wealth which he diverted into partisan politics since 1999. He was indicted in office by the EFCC, a Ministerial Panel and Federal Executive Council (FEC), on charges of alleged conspiracy, fraudulent conversion of funds corrupt practices and money laundering!

He was also alleged to have received bribe money of USD $100,000 dollars from one Congressman Jefferson, to facilitate a certain contract from the Federal Government, and that he withdrew N20 million naira from the PDTF Account without due process in 2006! The rumour mill has it that ATIKU HAS BEEN BANNED FROM ENTERING THE UNITED STATES SINCE THE YEAR 2006!

DOES THE ATIKU-OBI TICKET POSE ANY THREAT TO BUHARI-OSINBAJO CONTINUITY AGENDA?
NO! Atiku Abubakar is no match for President Buhari, even if he ganged up with Satan himself other than with OBJ (aka, Ebora Owu, meaning, Owu's demon), his former boss for EIGHT YEARS in the State House, Abuja, because, from his profile, he might lack sufficient pedigree and integrity for the top job! During their fall out between 2006-2007, Obasanjo accused him of "embezzlement" of N20 million naira from the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF), under his watch and was also allegedly accused by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), of involvement in the Congressman Jefferson's bribe scandal which was investigated by the Agency and Nigeria's EFCC!

Atiku's profile speaks volumes and for him to anoint Peter Obi, a former two-term Governor of South East's Anambra State, is another kettle of fish! Since Obi's exit as governor, he had defected from APGA's Party platform, through which he enjoyed eight years of governance, to Jonathan's defunct PDP Administration and lobbied vigorously for a political appointment but failed! Peter Obi will be Atiku's greatest undoing!

During the second term election bid of his anointed successor, Governor Willy Obioma, Mr. Peter Obi, dishonoured the incumbent, sided with the opposition PDP candidate but failed woefully as Obioma, who was staunchly supported with APGA's party structure coasted to victory seamlessly! Does Anambra State alone constitute the South East Geo-political Zone or the entire Ndi-Igbo Clan?
Of what profit is Peter Obi to Atiku Abubakar as a running-mate? The belief of some political pundits was that the entire Ndi-Igbo Clan would rush to the polls on 16th February, 2019, and put Atiku in Aso Villa where he spent EIGHT YEARS (1999-2007), and FORGET IGBOS AMBITION TO PRODUCE AN IGBO PRESIDENT THAT WOULD OCCUPY THE VILLA FROM 2023-2031! The Igbos massively voted for PDP en-mass in 2015, but Muhammadu Buhari won in a landslide! Would they be lured to commit the same "suicide" in 2019? Can the Igbo people afford to lose their sure presidency mandate in 2023 to Atiku, who is allegedly carrying several corruption excess baggages? APC has made incursions into other South East States outside of IMO and the likelihood of winning more IGBO States cannot be ruled out! NDI-IGBO KWENU!

WHERE WILL OBASANJO’S VOLTE-FACE LAND HIM?
Obasanjo tore his PDP membership card and disowned the group for good in 2014 - but he is now back in PDP! He swore that he would never forgive Atiku Abubakar, but in a swift "about-turn", he is now dinning with him like in the old times before the 2006 feud between both men!

The former President, having lost face amongst his so-called COALITION THIRD FORCE- which fell like a pack of cards, like a drowning man has only Atiku Abubakar to hang on as a "saving grace"? Atiku is very desperate politician who would stop at nothing to become the President of Nigeria in 2019. ..... BUT, CAN HE? ATIKU AND OBASANJO SHOULD ALLOW PEACE TO REIGN IN NIGERIA! NIGERIAN POLITICS SHOULD NOT BE "DO-OR-DIE-AFFAIR", LIKE OBJ DECLARED IN 2007!

When ATIKU challenged BUHARI in 2014 during the APC PRIMARIES, he was flogged and did not even come second! Atiku is the holder of the national record of political defectors and we will not be alarmed if he decided to RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN 2023 UNDER THE PLATFORM OF THE APC WHEN PRESIDENT BUHARI WOULD HAVE CONCLUDED HIS SECOND TERM IN OFFICE! MAYBE IT WAS TIME THE "EBORA OWU" RETURNED TO ROOST IN HIS SHRINE AND ALLOW THE "NOT-TOO-YOUNG-TO-RULE YOUTHS" OF THE APC TO TAKE OVER THE MANTLE OF CONTINUITY OF GOOD LEADERSHIP FROM PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI IN 2023!

"Righteousness exalts a nation, sin is a reproach to all people." (Proverbs. 14:34).

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