SAHARA PUBLISHER GOT IT ALL WRONG: NIGERIA IS NEITHER SUDAN NOR EGYPT!

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. 8.NO 313. 13th August, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

SAHARA PUBLISHER GOT IT ALL WRONG: NIGERIA IS NEITHER SUDAN NOR EGYPT!
The choice of the phrase: #Revolution Now', adopted by the organizers of a planned nation-wide protest and the timing of the nocuous event, conceived by Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, to provoke fresh civil disobedience was very offensive/insultive to the sensibilities of compatriots for peace, stability and good governance in Nigeria - especially the vulnerable downtrodden who would unfortunately become canon fodders, peradventure it succeeded!

Law-abiding citizens had hardly recovered from the atrocities unleashed on the innocent population severally at the Federal Capital and the Commercial cities of  Abuja and Lagos, by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Shi'ite protesters between June and July, 2019, when fresh news spread that another 'revolution', that would heat up the polity and further destabilize a nation grappling to contain acts of terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, farmers/herders clashes etc, by some disgruntled elements, was in the offing!

The nation-wide protest tagged, 'Revolution Now', which was disrupted by security agents on 5th August 2019, was a STUNT; a dangerous adventure which back-fired for Omoyele Sowore, the "not-too-young -to-rule" candidate and chairman of the African Action Congress (AAC), during the February 23rd, 2019, Nigerian Presidential Election because the Directorate of State Services (DSS), operatives did not waste time to arrest him on charges bothering on terrorism in Lagos, on Saturday, 3rd August, 2019, for questioning before he could hatch a CIVILIAN COUP-DE-TAT in Nigeria!

Without falling for the legal semantics making the rounds, the security agents who had other evidences against Sowore told him that his revolutionary project was a process of removal and replacement of a government in a political upheaval and was a criminal and treasonable offence  - against legally-constituted authority of a STATE/COUNTRY!
The DSS told Sowore that his planned protest was a ploy to overthrow the democratically-elected government of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), through the application of force!

IS SOWORE A HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST OR A CONFUSED POLITICIAN?
Prior to his incursion into Nigerian politics - 48-year-old Sowore stood out as an outstanding, respectable and successful entrepreneur in the Diaspora, being the chief executive of the internationally-accredited online news outfit, the SAHARA REPORTERS - a trait that cut across accomplished Nigerian professionals, who normally returned home to add value to their nation's socio-economic pursuit of a better life for the citizens!
Sowore lost woefully in the 2019 Presidential Election - coming 10th with 33,953 votes as against President Buhari's 15,191,847 million; but that was not all, the National Executive Council (NEC), of his party later accused him of anti-party activities including refusal to render accounts of donations/ expenditures and wasted no time to relieve him of his position as chairman, - even with a court judgement in their favour!
Sowore first tried his 'revolutionary ideology' to "BANDY OUT", military dictatorship at a very tender age of about 21/22 years as an undergraduate student at the University of Lagos, Akoka, but he and his cohorts seemed to have forgotten that constitutional democratic governments that cannot be 'bandied out' had been entrenched for about 20 years in Nigeria!
Sowore was born in February 1971, just when the 30 month-long BIAFRA WAR ended! That war consumed over one million lives and strategic properties in millions of dollars and by 1992, he was of age and matured sufficiently to re-act negatively to the military environment into which he was conceived and born!
BUT has he not negated his own ideology being the major dramatis personae who conceived the idea of the mass protest (this time, against a democratically constituted government), sold it to his cohorts who defied official ban and occupied some public spaces in Lagos and Abuja on Monday 5th August, 2019, while he was being quizzed by DSS operatives in respect of treasonable offences? Or was he acting the script of the opposition who never saw anything good in neither the APC ruling party nor the person of President Buhari or had he an inordinate ambition? IS HE A MISGUIDED YOUTH LIKE NNAMDI KANU - THE FUGITIVE SELF-ACCLAIMED LEADER OF THE PROSCRIBED INDEPENDENT PEOPLE OF BIAFRA (IPOB), WITH WHOM HE POSED WITH IN A RECENT PORTRAIT WHICH WENT VIRAL ON INTERNET?

'BUNDLE' DEMANDS FROM SOWORE'S 'REVOLUTIONARY' GROUP!
Sowore and the organisers of #Revolution Now' adduced several DEMANDS ranging from: * release of all political prisoners without trial; * implementation of new workers salaries, payment of pensions to retirees; *massive employment opportunities across board; * end of special privileges to the ruling class in the choice of private educational institutions and hospitals for their wards - in Nigeria or overseas; *abolition of humongous salaries to political appointees; *return of political power and national wealth to the working people in order to break monopoly over land ownership; *term limits for lawmakers; devolution of power from federal to states; resource control; * abolishment of the Senate; and the enactment of a new people's Constitution, among several others with IMMEDIATE MILITARY EFFECT! Although those contracted to participate in the protest were advised not carry weapons - even the smallest stones, BUT the organisers had fore-knowledge that members of the recently-proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), and IPOB fanatics would hijack the protest if government did not moved swiftly to nip the mis-conceived "revolution" in the bud?

THE LISTED DEMANDS, CONTAINED NO NEW SUGGESTION OR IDEAS - THEY ARE ALL BEING IMPLEMENTED SEQUENTIALLY BY THE CHANGE APC ADMINISTRATION! IT IS EVIDENT THAT SOWORE INTENDED TO TAKE OVER THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT AS WAS DONE IN SUDAN, TUNISIA, OR EGYPT, BUT THE NIGERIAN SITUATION HAS NO SEMBLANCE WITH THE ARAB SPRING!

Although, the Nigerian nation's challenges are multi-faceted due to its cultural, lingual, tribal and religious diversities but all citizens enjoy equal fundamental rights and cannot be manipulated by a mis-guided youth who in spite of his education believed that the POLITICAL UNITY - displayed by all of them in 1993, to vote MOSHOOD ABIOLA to presidency, was synonymous to a 'revolution' that could be replicated in 2019! NIGERIA IS NOT A MUSLIM STATE!

An Abuja High Court on Thursday, 8th August, 2019, granted an ex-parte motion by the DSS to further detain Sowore in its custody for 45 instead of 90 days requested by the agency, while further investigations continued in the treasonable charges brought against him under Terrorism Prevention Act, Section 27 (1) and the video evidences: exhibits/clips of his fraternity with the fugitive revolutionist, Nnamdi Kanu and also some proscribed IMN adherents! Sowore should go through the process of the law to prove his culpability to the charges or otherwise!

#RENAISSANCE NOW', NOT, #REVOLUTION NOW'!
Nigerian YOUTHS should come of age and embrace the lofty government programmes for better socio-economic life for all citizens, bond together with security agencies in intelligence gatherings to tackle on-going crisis of BOKO HARAM and other security challenges in the country, because they will eventually take over the reigns of administration in the nearest future! 
Are those social critics in support for a regime overthrow by Sowore who recently lost an election more populated than the united millions who voted for Buhari's first and second terms in office? Those to be bandied out are the terrorists, kidnappers, militants, bandits, herdsmen killers etc! Sowore is no doubt the arrowhead of the gang of bad losers who tried to stop BUHARI both in 2015 & 2019 elections without success!

Nigerians need SPIRITUAL REBIRTH - a process of change that would give fresh hopes to the downtrodden through the sacrifices of all compatriots - who must ensure good governance, block avenues for corruption, treasury-looting and financial wastages; for the common patrimony to go round and provide all social amenities for all citizens!  

All State Governors, irrespective of party affiliations should partner with the Federal Government to actualize the ongoing socio-economic/political restructuring programmes - which include aggressive diversification to agriculture, scientific/technological exploration and exploitation of natural mineral resources which abound in the 774 Local Government Areas, State and Community Policing etc. ALL HANDS MUST BE ON DECK TO BUILD ON THE APC GAINS OF THE LAST FOUR YEARS TO ACTUALIZE OUR DREAM OF AN EGALITARIAN NATION!

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." (Jeremiah. 29: 11).

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.

THIS NEXT LEVEL MUST ERASE THE WASTEFUL PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM 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. 8.NO 312. 4th August, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

THIS NEXT LEVEL MUST ERASE THE WASTEFUL PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM IN NIGERIA!
Concerned patriotic citizens of Nigeria believe that there could be no better LEGACY for President Muhammadu Buhari to bequeath as he serves out his second term in office, than to revert governance to the parliamentary system which was treasury-friendly and effortlessly fulfilled the fundamental rights of the people in areas of security, economy, education, health facilities, employment opportunities, shelter etc, as was the case from independence before the military interregnum!

The people enjoyed better life opportunities without parochial consideration, tribal sentiments, nor social discrimination/classification but as one united people which cared for one another!
But now, the youths have suddenly metamorphosed into Frankenstein monsters -- social miscreants, street children, insurgents, bandits, militants, gunmen and terrorists - especially in the past 20 years of the new democratic dispensation, because political jobbers of successive administrations short-changed them by forcing them into the illiterate world of the STONE AGE and invariably turned them into brutish beasts!

Although, heinous social crimes of kidnappings/homicides have turned out to be no respecter of persons considering the fact that the genre of victims cut across all facets of human discipline, We still believe in the determination of President Buhari to change the unpleasant scenario in no time for he is the divine Crusader who MUST give account of his stewardship to the Fathers of Lights who sent him!

To the ever greedy Nigerian politician, especially the LEGISLATORS, the presidential system is gold-mine, it is Eldorado, a  condition of advantageous illicit financial flow through which all manner of dubious economic transactions contrary to good governance were cleverly executed!
The Nigerian type of presidential system opens its doors for treasury looters who hide behind the faulty 1999 military-conceived and crafted Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to perpetrate all manner of heinous financial crimes from one administration to another through annual budget padding and dubious/illegal legislative oversight duties, unknown to the constitution!

The mono-economic crude oil foreign exchange earner did not help matter because those politicians were able to manipulate the system, acquired for themselves and their cronies Oil Licences through which they were able to penetrate the Oil and Gas Sector to become billionaires at the expense of the perpetually average youth/poor worker who could hardly survive with one US dollar (N360 naira), per day!

BRAZEN CORRUPTION AT NNPC!
In spite of the fact that President Buhari held on to the Ministry of Petroleum Resources portfolio in his first term, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), under his watch, was still perceived to be a citadel of corruption because of the deliberately-infused intricacies of financial accountability through the Petroleum Act which established it and also by its officials, who have taken criminal advantage of the entire commotion that allows the corporation to keep certain percentages of financial accruals for "running costs" without first remitting all oil sales/financial transactions into the Federation Account and by extension, to the Treasury Single Account (TSA), before such deductions were effected!

Although it is gratifying that Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachukwu and Group Managing Director, Mai Kanti Baru, who publicly washed their dirty linens over accusations/denials in respect of illicit NNPC contract awards running into billions of US dollars during the President's first term had been cleverly eased out, that unacceptable administrative step had in no way erased the fact that NNPC cannot boast of a clean slate of annual forensic financial audit records even under the president's eagle eye!

Most Nigerian billionaires made their dollars as recipients of illegal OIL BLOCS while Nigeria is adjudged as one of the most corrupt nation and its citizens, the poorest mass of people in the world because NO ONE, NOT EVEN THE PRESIDENT, CAN AUTHENTICATE THE BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL EXPORTED FROM THE NATION ON DAILY BASIS!

Should Nigerians continue to suffer in the midst of so plenteous natural resources while very few percentage of privileged politicians continue to take advantage of a deliberately faulty system of DIARCHY instead of GENUINE/TRANSPARENT DEMOCRACY?

ARISE AND SHINE MR. PRESIDENT!
President Buhari MUST rise from the onset of his second term last opportunity as a DEMOCRAT to prove his detractors wrong by putting his very best into the ring and defeat those who want to smear his IMPECCABLE INTEGRITY by not only stealing but squandering the COMMON WEALTH through frivolities and vanities of dubious salaries/allowances which they claimed were legitimate perks of office in all departments and sectors of the economy!
Between 1999 and 2018, legislators pretentiously made several attempts to amend the contentious Constitution without success because those bunch of egotistic lawmakers, at every turn, tinkered with the rules of engagement to favour themselves over and above the other tiers - the EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIARY!

ATTEMPTS BY 7TH-8TH NASS TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION!
The 7th National Assembly collected a "working capital" of over ONE BILLION NAIRA from the treasury to enable the Joint Committee of both chambers to function seamlessly and without any form of financial hitch.
Amendments to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Fourth Alteration) Act 2015, as presented by the National Assembly, met all statutory provisions as set forth in the 1999 Constitution. For instance, the two thirds majority resolution of States Houses of Assemblies were obtained according to Section 9(3) and not less than four fifths majority of all members of each House of the National Assembly, were also secured!

Although, the Nigerian Constitution is  silent on presidential assent for Constitutional amendments, the legislators decided in the spirit of  mutual co-operation of checks and balances, to send them like any other Bill of the National Assembly [NASS], that required such assent to become an Act, it was therefore a surprise that the outgoing  President could VETO the document; but in a letter dated13th April, 2015, to NASS, the ex-President Ebele Jonathan, rejected the Federal Republic of Nigeria Constitution (Alteration) Bill 2015 because he perceived deliberate attempts by the very ambitious Federal Lawmakers to whittle down presidential powers!
The 8th NASS also made similar moves shortly before the 2019 General Elections especially in respect of Amendments to the Electoral Act 2010, to regulate the conduct of Federal, States and Area Councils' Elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and were rebuffed by President Muhammadu Buhari who discovered several "booby traps" in the document which was submitted FOUR desperate times for presidential assent!

INTRODUCTION OF PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT FROM THE YEAR 2023!
For starters, the SENATE must be scrapped before the commencement of a new government in 2023, for a single unicameral parliament that will be people-friendly to come on board! Unicameral parliamentary governance is popular globally because the practice enables government to save more money to cater for masses social infrastructures and also create employment opportunities for Small and Medium Scale Entrepreneurs (SMSEs), who are the backbone of the Real Sector of the economy!
THE SENEGALESE GOVERNMENT ERASED THEIR SENATE IN 2012 TO PROVIDE FOR MORE FUNDS TO SUCCOUR THE VERY POOR IN THEIR NATION!

BUHARI MUST REMEMBER THAT HE WAS DIVINELY-CHOSEN TO SAVE THE TALAKAWAS FROM TOTAL ANNIHILATION BY POLITICAL PREDATORS!

Between the Nigerian Senate and its House of Representatives counterpart, N150 billion naira is consumed annually from the national budget with no visible or feasible impact on the downtrodden masses they claim to represent!

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.

WAS THAT MINISTERIAL LIST PRODUCED BY PRESIDENT BUHARI OR THE CABAL?

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. 8.NO 311. 28th July, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

WAS THAT MINISTERIAL LIST PRODUCED BY PRESIDENT BUHARI OR THE CABAL?
President Muhammadu Buhari is a thorough-bred Nigerian! He had lived all of his life in the country except for some periods spent during military training abroad and he was very much around from the first to 11th army coup-de-tat experienced by the poor masses (the talakawas), who did not bargain for forceful martial life! In fact, he benefited from one of the military escapades when his comrade-in-arms crowned him as Head of State and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces!

The President is a septuagenarian who had seen it all and knows who is who in both military and civilian/democratic politics of the country and was very affirmative when he said, he would prefer to work with the people he knew according to the statement he made "under tremendous pressure" before he forwarded a 43-man list of ministerial nominees to the Senate on Wednesday, 24th July, 2019!
In a soft-pedalled appealing tone of a converted democrat, the revolutionary, tough-talking, no-nonsense military numero uno between December 1984 to November 1986, who declared War Against Indiscipline, (WAI)/Corruption and revolutionized societal values, made that appeal to agitated and expectant Nigerians - especially the talakawas - whose very breadth of life depended on quick and faithful execution of government's social contracts of all basic necessities of life, especially employment opportunities - and would not be patient to wait for another SIX MONTHS like they did in 2015!

But come to think of it, have they not already waited for almost six months - counting from his victory at the pools on 23rd February, 2019 to the 23rd July, 2019, when the ministerial nominee list finally got to Senate for screening and confirmation? According to that report, he was pressurized to choose only APC ministers, whether he knew them or not, but that he was reluctant to agree in spite of the perceived delay because he was not very comfortable when he succumbed to Party pressure in 2015!

FRESH OPPORTUNITY FOR BUHARI TO PROVE HIS DETRACTORS WRONG!
Devoted and patriotic Nigerians, including members of the editorial board of this Newsletter voted on 23rd February, 2019, again for President Buhari for a second term in office, with great expectations that he would build on the solid foundation of his first tenure and he won overwhelmingly and convincingly!
In 2014, We predicted that he would win both the 2015 and 2019 Presidential Elections respectively according to divine revelation and would govern and transform Nigeria into an "UTOPIA" within the two terms of EIGHT YEARS, with divinely-chosen teams. We did not fault his choice of ministers in 2015 but were shocked to the marrows when the President drew up a “COMPENSATION LIST", dominated by some exceedingly and stupendously rich former governors/legislators who should normally take the back seat as elder statesmen and maybe, forgot that he had to give fair opportunities to others whose contributions could also move the nation forward!
It is inconceivable that innovative, gifted, humble, tested professionals, builders, engineers, economists, agro/space scientists, technocrats, information/communications technologists etc were rather sidelined and inconspicuous in that historic list!
Was the President seriously under pressure or duress? By whom, the CABAL? Although we take exception to the existence of a cabal in the Presidency, but when the President openly disclosed that he was under pressure to pick the right management team, he had given much room for wide/unfounded speculations!

During his first tenure when he submitted a similar list, we gave him the benefit of the doubt, being a first-timer in a democratic dispensation: We even compared that list which contained several senile dramatis personae with that of President Barak Obama, who had several elderly citizens in his cabinet but succeeded creditably! Can one conveniently compare the United States advanced and polished politico-administrative capabilities of 233 years with Nigeria's infantile, dirty and corruptive politics of 59 years!

THE MINISTERIAL LIST BREAKDOWN!
About 50% of the list consisted of those who have been re-cycled /spent and some discredited politicians with questionable character, antecedents and pedigree who should have been left on the shelf to be sorted out by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to prove their innocence or otherwise! Where are the wise elders whose integrity is intact but who have been denied the opportunity to serve and where are the vibrant Not-Too-Young-To-Rule YOUTHS?  Is APC bereft of such hoary heads and whiz-kids, who can turn Nigeria's economy round in a "jiffy", in this 21st Century global ICT - dominated space? The following groups of elites were on that controversial list:
Former two-term governors/ legislators;
Senators who have spent 12 years at the National Assembly (NASS), having  earlier served as governors and ministers;
Former State Commissioners, Board Chairmen/Heads of parastatals and critical Agencies of Federal Government;
The re-appointed 14 ministers, some of who for all intent and purposes were adjudged to have performed below expectation, in their former ministries in the first term of the President.
Women representation was only SEVEN! It fell short of gender balance expectation out of an entire list of 43 distinguished citizens which included 29 new names!

WAS AISHA BUHARI  INTIMIDATED?  HOW DID THEY PRESSURIZE THE MAN OF INTEGRITY?
An English adage states that, "a tree cannot make a forest." This is true considering  the fact that a forest needed scores of scores of trees to be so classified; but must the trees be of different species, especially when they are FRUIT-BEARING? While should birds of the same feathers not flock together?
Is it impossible to find a "BUHARI" in each of the 36 States, whether they were APC members or the Opposition? NO! There are many Buharis who were sidelined for party patronage because the elder statesmen (most of whom are very rich) and had contributed to the President's and APC victories at the polls MUST BE COMPENSATED -  otherwise the desperados who could "frighten" the president would definitely team up with the very bitter opposition to orchestrate an ungovernable State as in 2015! The President even found it difficult to fulfil his campaign promise of greater representation of women in the new cabinet!

IN OUR PREVIOUS ADVOCACY FOR SECOND TERM CABINET - We did not waste time to suggest to the President that his second term cabinet should be 100% BRAND NEW and also that he should promptly re-jig the security architecture by replacing all Armed Forces Chiefs and retain only the Inspector General of Police, who was newly appointed because NO ONE WAS INDISPENSIBLE!

THE "BOW-AND-GO" SYNDROME AT THE RED CHAMBERS!
The distinguished Senators at plenary during the screening of ministerial nominees according to "tradition"  adopted the bow-and-go privilege to former legislators/governors, without drilling them in questions and answers sessions to ascertain their competence and readiness to serve faithfully and with diligence. They were not asked if they declared their ASSETS, or did so at anytime in the past!  Was it not said that he who comes to EQUITY MUST come with CLEAN HANDS?
Re-appointed ministers were neither requested to give account of their stewardship nor quizzed about what innovation they would bring on board if hired again to serve in the NEXT LEVEL APC Administration! Former governors were not asked what happened to the BILLIONS OF NAIRA collected as SECURITY VOTES during their tenures in office, though security challenges are still very much with us!

PLAYING INTO THE HANDS OF THE OPPOSITION IN ORDER TO AVOID "SARAKIGATE", IS A DANGEROUS GAME FOR APC!
For Ahmad Lawan and 'Femi Gbajabiamila to emerge as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively, the ruling All Progressives Congress hierarchy had to seriously lobby the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), caucus in both chambers to achieve the herculean task which involved documented promises for juicy slots in the sharing formula of principal offices which have successfully played out accordingly!

The common cliche that there are no permanent enemies in politics but permanent interests is also very glaring in the choice of nominees for the position of Federal  Executive Ministers! Apart from Dr. Ogbonaya Onu and some former ANPP, CPC and ACP, who merged to form the APC in 2013, most of the present APC members in both Chambers and on the ministerial nominee list, were staunch PDP members at one time or the other since the advent of the new democratic dispensation in 1999!
WHAT WE NOW HAVE AS THE APC RULING PARTY IS A POT POURRI OF THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY, JOSTLING FOR RELEVANCE IN THE NIGERIAN POLITICAL PROJECT FOR THEIR SHARE OF THE NATIONAL CAKE!

AN URGENT SOLUTION TO AVOID FUTURE NATIONAL CALAMITIES!
This new Federal Executive Cabinet MUST be RESHUFFLED within the shortest possible period - not exceeding the year 2021- to accommodate new, fresh, vibrant, and more resourceful, brains who possess the requisite knowledge to fix the myriads of security, economic and  political/social challenges of institutional corruption by addressing their true perspectives, without politicising serious issues of economic crimes! “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.

BLOOD-SHEDDING WILL CEASE AS NIGERIANS FAST AND PRAY EVERY WEDNESDAY WITHOUT CEASING!

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. 8.NO 310. 21st July, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

BLOOD-SHEDDING WILL CEASE AS NIGERIANS FAST
AND PRAY EVERY WEDNESDAY WITHOUT CEASING!

The signs of the end-time according to biblical prophecies are very much around considering the manifestations of the wickedness of man against his fellow man as it had never occurred before!
Atrocities which have turned men and women into beasts that predate themselves viciously through kidnappings, murders, assassinations, banditry, militancy, terrorism, decapitation of humans, disembowelling of pregnant women to prove the worthlessness of human lives have become global phenomenon and Nigeria is not excepted!

Human blood-shedding became commonplace in Nigeria from the pre-independence elections, progressed into the senseless sectional military coups of 1966 which snowballed into the 30-month Biafra War between 1967-1970, and consumed not less than one million lives!
The use of the barrels of guns to settle conflicts became the norm throughout the almost 30 years of military rule in Nigeria and by the1999 change of guards (between the military and the politicians), the proliferation of arms, ammunitions, small weapons., big weapons, bazookas, rocket launchers etc, were securely in the hands of virtually every street guy and members of the underworld!

Ex-military Head of State, Aremu Obasanjo, was the first to test the murky waters of insecurity when he became the first elected president of the new democratic order and according to a recent BBC report, about 50,000 people were killed – excluding scores of undetected extra- judicial killings, high-profile assassinations/murders, during his two terms of eight years (1999-2007)! When his “third-term agenda failed he unabashedly and brazenly declared that the 2007 General Elections would be a "DO-OR-DIE mission for his ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and he made sure his threat because scores of innocent lives were lost!!

The bloodbath continued through Umaru Yar 'Adua /Ebele Jonathan’s PDP Administrations from 2007-2015 unabated - during which Boko Haram terrorism debuted in August 2009, and into President Muhammadu Buhari's APC Change Government, which took off in 2015! Fresh dimensions to the blood-letting became manifest from the year 2000, when the herders/farmers clashes reared its ugly head mostly across the middle belt States of Benue, Nasarawa and Niger, but has now become a national malaise, which places higher premium on cattle rather than human lives!

DEMONIC BLOOD-LETTING IS A GLOBAL SCOURGE!
Nigeria's predicament is not an isolated case but a global trend which confirms the signs of the end-time which are precipitated through man's sinfulness: homicides, drug abuse, prostitution, whoredom, homosexuality, body tatoos, sexual perversion/promiscuity, idolatry, satanic doctrines, stubbornness, false religion, flagrant disobedience/rebellion to God's holy commandments, all of  which were frequently reported by the Press/Social Media; documented and condemned by local/foreign servants of God, historians, scholars, professors and the academic, so that no one would claim ignorance of those laws which traversed the past, the present and also futuristic according to biblical ideologies, prophecies and eschatology!  “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. ........." (2 Tim. 3:1ff).

BUT THE NIGERIAN OPPOSITION POLITICIANS, HISTORIANS, PROFESSORS, SCHOLARS, ETC, TAKE EXCEPTION TO THE DOCTRINE OF GOD AS THE CREATOR OF THE HEAVEN AND EARTH AND ALSO, OF HIS SOVEREIGN POWER OVER ALL HIS CREATION! THEY ASSERT THAT NIGERIAN CALAMITIES AND WOES THROUGH PERENNIAL SECURITY CHALLENGES, WAS OPEN ENDED WITH THE CHANGE ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT BUHARI, THE LORD'S ANOINTED CRUSADER WHOSE MANDATE IS TO SAVE THE NATION & ITS PEOPLE FROM PERISHING THROUGH THE SINFUL NATURE OF AVARICE/AGGRANDIZEMENT (THE LOVE AND GREEDY ACCUMULATION OF MONEY), INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION WITH IMPUNITY, ADULTERY, FORNICATION ETC; WHICH ATTRACT DIVINE PENALTY OF DEATH! (ROMANS: 3:23; 6:23).

GOD REMAINS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY OVER HIS CREATION! (PSALM. 24:1-10).
Every people or nation, that refuses to acknowledge GOD'S Sovereignty as superior to its constitution, social legislations and its limited comprehension of the divine nature of GOD, is definitely bound to perish!
Most Nigerians who are treading the path of Godless existence and are, through careless vituperations in respect of trending social events and are pretending to forget that there would be severe consequences whenever the doctrine of sowing and reaping was abused, would ultimately  face the punishment of self destruction!
TWO prominent Nigerians who aptly qualified to be honoured and celebrated as elder statesmen, attracted international headlines through subtle indictments of the sitting President, Muhammadu Buhari, who in their opinion was incapable to effectively handle the security architecture of the nation!
In an umpteenth "Open Letter", ex-President Aremu Obasanjo, stated among several other things, that the incumbent head of government could no longer continue to be "nonchalant in respect of tackling escalating security challenges" across the geo-political zones. Obasanjo's latest open letter was that of a glaring defeatist, who would not honourably throw in the towel after all of his boasting as the KINGMAKER of the Nigerian politics, fell like a pack of cards at the 2019 polls which opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar woefully lost!
THE SECOND elder statesman, erudite scholar and Nobel Laureate, Professor 'Wole Soyinka, in a recorded interview, also took a swipe against President Buhari, whom he claimed could no longer pilot State affairs creditably in view of his incompetence to stem killings and bloodshed, in the nation, because the daughter of the leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, AFENIFERE, nonagenarian, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs. 'Funke Olakunrin, was murdered on the highway between Ore and Akure, South West Nigeria, by bandits, on Friday, 12th, July, 2019!
A THIRD Nigerian personality, ex- President Ebele Jonathan described, 'Funke Olakunrin's murder as "an act of terrorism" and implored President Buhari to implement recommendations of the 2014 National Conference Report (convened during his tenure and which he could not implement due to massive condemnation), to solve the intolerable security challenges! "When beggars die there are no comets seen, The Heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes." Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar’s”.

SOLUTIONS PROFFERED BY OBASANJO & COMPANY SOUNDED LIKE A BROKEN RECORD AS THEY WERE DEVOID AS USUAL OF SUGGESTIONS FOR DIVINE INTERVENTION THROUGH NATIONAL PRAYERS/FASTING/REPENTANCE! None of the armchair critics called for national repentance and that citizens should unite in diversity and together build an egalitarian society where equal opportunities, justice, fair play and equity would be ensured for everyone! WE ADVOCATE WEDNESDAYS PRAYER-FASTING

PRESIDENT BUHARI'S MAIN FOCUS ON SECURITY, ECONOMY AND THE ON-GOING ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION HAVE DOVETAILED INTO THE SECOND TERM NEXT LEVEL AGENDA SEAMLESSLY IN SPITE OF LOUDMOUTHS! In response to all criticisms, the President enjoined the commentators to focus more the unity of the nation instead of exaggerating few isolated cases of crime out of proportion!

TAI SOLARIN CONFESSED THE SUPREMACY OF GOD BEFORE HIS DEMISE!
A SELF-ACCLAIMED ATHEIST, LATE TAI SOLARIN, founder, proprietor, and principal of MAYFLOWER COLLEGE IKENNE, South-West Nigeria, who spent his entire life to propagate the doctrine of non-existence of the Almighty GOD, eventually acknowledged and confessed that he had an encounter with the SOVEREIGN GOD shortly before his demise. BOTH Obasanjo and Soyinka, coming from the same State and geo-political zone, have portrayed themselves not only as parochial, partisan, chauvinistic, ethicist, nepotistic, tribalistic etc, but have allowed senility to rob them of the salient/pressing need to harness Nigeria's adversity positively to unite the nation during their lifetime! What legacy do they intend to bequeath to posterity by sidelining TRUTH for tribal sentiments and HONESTY for farce?
COMING SHORT OF ACTUALLY ACCUSING PRESIDENT BUHARI OF THE MURDER OF 'FUNKE OLAKUNRIN, according to a virally publicised claim by 'Yinka Odumakin, Publicity Secretary to the South-West socio-cultural group, AFENIFERE, the two elder statesmen through their comments, subtly gave credence to the unfounded, unsubstantiated and ridiculous fallacy! Although fingers pointed to members of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), when allegations that armed "Fulani herdsmen" attacked the vehicle of 'Funke Olakunrin, the group had commiserated with Pa Fasoranti and denied that its members had no hand in the dastard crime! On that same fateful Friday,10 citizens were killed by bandits in Katsina State! They and many others after them in the following days, were unsung nor celebrated in death, but government is resolved to win the battle against terror with all hands on deck.

IF PROFESSOR 'WOLE SOYINKA WERE NIGERIA'S PRESIDENT!
Prof. 'Wole Soyinka: an articulate, sagacious and intelligent man of Letters, for whom we have great respect was definitely not cut out for Nigerian dirty politics! Having watched the internationally-acclaimed Nobel Laureate for Literature and scholar for decades, we came to the conclusion that each time he dabbled into national controversies; he always left the scene more confused than he found it! Now that he is advancing in age, he had gone native, tribal and nepotic as it suits his whims and caprices! If he were to replace President Buhari in 2023, would he perform better?

It was high time Nigerian leaders and politicians began to shun the bequeathed ANCESTRAL IDOLATRY LIFESTYLE and the current incessant EPIDEMIC AND ENDEMIC VIRAL CANAL SINS, call upon GOD for forgiveness and solutions to myriad of self-inflicted security challenges of the nation instead of seeking for non-existent SCAPEGOATS! ‘’If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land" (2 Chronicles. 7:14).

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.

A SHI'ITE INSURRECTION SPELLS NEGATIVITY FOR BUHARI'S SECOND TERM!

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. 8.NO 309. 14th July, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

A SHI'ITE INSURRECTION SPELLS NEGATIVITY FOR BUHARI'S SECOND TERM!
IF TELEVISION footages, social media videos and newspapers reports of Tuesday, 2nd July, 2019, of the enormous damages inflicted by defiant Shi'ite adherents to the heavily-guarded gates of the National Assembly Complex, Abuja, were truly authentic, it is fresh proof that teeming street children have come off age and are ready to foment fresh security challenges if swift, adequate and professional measures were not quickly put in place to securely nip in the bud the violent agitations for the release of Sheikh Ibraheem el Zakzaki, leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, from protective custody or detention!
Other protests by the same group in spite of the alleged fatal causalities of three dead persons, (two protesters and one policeman), continued elsewhere in Abuja on Wednesday, 3rd July, 2019, and Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria simultaneously, but were professionally dispersed with tear gas while unspecified number of protesters were arrested!
Their grouse was hinged on the same demand since 2015, that their leader whom they claimed was seriously ill should be released to seek medical attention abroad and were prepared to die if their demand was not met as they brazenly threw stones and several hard objects at armed security agents! It was reported that they also seized a policeman's pistol and shot sporadically at security agents!  Videos posted on the internet revealed that protesters involved in the violent uproar were youths between the ages of 15-25 bracket and were adamant and unremorseful
Government asserts that Shiite Muslims have been brainwashed to disobey laws of the Federation of Nigeria by el Zakzaky, who had elevated himself into an institution above constituted authorities in view of his large followership and international support from the Islamic State of IRAN!

THESE UNFORTUNATE YOUTHS NEED GREATER SOCIAL INTERVENTION!
Recent national statistics on child education claim that out-of-school-children in Nigeria has risen from ten to thirteen million, in spite of the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, (NHGSFP), and other incentives introduced to check-mate the alarming figure of primary school drop-out rate, pegged at about 30%, during President Buhari's first term on office! In 2018, over USD$ 183million was invested in the cost-effective programme, according to official sources!

Over NINE MILLION pupils in 30 States presently benefit from the Federal Government's free feeding programme which has taken the children off the streets to actualize formal education from Primary I to at least Junior Secondary I, while the economic value-chain-benefits of government's Social Investment Programme, (SIP), flow to agriculture/poultry farmers and food contractors who supply food stuffs, chickens and eggs etc. to actualize the masses-oriented venture.
But more needed to be done outside of feeding to vocational interests in agriculture, theatre arts, building technology/masonry, aquaculture, movie industry etc, to save the rest of these children who are endangered due to the influence of the Almajiri System of Education which selfish and exploitative religious leaders explore to brainwash them with fanatical doctrines that were opposed to acceptable international norms!

The freedom of association and worship as stipulated in the Nigerian Constitution gives much latitude for manipulators in the system to abuse those privileges but, it is believed that the Federal Government is now poised to proscribe the Almajiri System of Education and opt for formal studies that would embrace both Islamic and Western Education as substitute!

PAST VIOLENT PROTESTS LINKED TO SHI'ITE MUSLIMS!
Although, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), group claimed they were a peaceful Faith organisation, past events of violence linked to them proved the opposite. In December 2015, the group blocked the Zaria-Kano Highway in a massive procession of thousands of adherents and refused to give way for the Nigerian Army Chief of Staff entourage to pass through!
They resisted all entreaties but became very violent. And between 12-14th December days of the confrontation, the group alleged that at least 348 members died while the Army debunked the figure as highly exaggerated!

In another incident also, a lorry-load of hundreds of new cutlasses, camouflaged with leaves and straws were discovered by security agents during a protest march by the same group in Zaria in 2015!
On 30th October, 2018 the same group laid siege on the Federal Capital Territory from the satellite town of Nyanyan on the Nasarawa State axis forcefully marched into the city until they were halted by soldiers who mounted road blocks to repel the dangerous move to avoid another round of bloodshed!

DEMAND FOR EL ZAKZAKI 'S RELEASE!
Since the year 2015, when el Zazaki and his wife had been facing trial over allegations of culpable homicide, unlawful assembly among other charges, sustained pressures have been mounted by his followers for his release
This Islamic leader is educated and possesses a first degree of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, but majority of his followers are illiterates. He began to spread his religious ideologies on the city of Zaria, Kaduna State, since the early 1980s and over the years, was able to build a large population of followers who could not be said to have gainful employments but became unruly, unmanageable and disobedient to all social laws and lawful authorities/institutions - including the Police and Nigerian Army personnel!

It  is no secret that ambitious religious leaders needed adherents to believe in their doctrines and propagate the messages/ideologies in order to have exposition that would eventually attract popularity, fame, power and fortune and el Zakzaky is not an exception!

SHI'ITE MUSLIMS ACTIVITIES IN NIGERIA!
Shi'ite Muslims in Nigeria are in minority to their SUNNI counterparts world-wide and while desperately craving for global recognition, they began to constitute themselves into an autonomous religious sect due to the secular state of the nation which allows for freedom of worship! Although affiliated to IRAN – the acclaimed Shiite Muslim country of the world - not much searchlight was beamed on them by Nigerian security agents until in recent years when they grew in population and became unruly in their mode of worship and procession in Zaria, North Central State!

During the Sect’s confrontation with the Nigerian Army Chief of Staff whom they allegedly planned to assassinate in 2015, the Islamic State of Iran tried to meddle in the internal affairs of Nigeria by summoning Nigeria’s Ambassador in Tehran for explanations on the detention of Shiite leader, Sheikh Zakzaky and deaths of several of his followers in Zaria, but was rebuffed by the Federal Authorities!

NOW THAT THEY ARE GETTING WILDER!
With recent developments which involve violence of high degree, possession of dangerous weapons, arms and ammunitions, confrontations against law enforcement agents in a suicidal bid to overheat the polity:
The Shi'ite Islamic Movement of Nigeria can no longer claim to be a peaceful organisation!
Its members can no longer play the victim by declaring that they were ready to die, if their leader was not released!
Handlers of the Movement must follow due process of the Law and advocate their members to shun every form of violence if they were truly a peaceful religious body and should not exaggerate a matter that borders on national security/interest.
Religious extremism is unacceptable, even in a SECULAR STATE as Nigeria, which in NINE years, is still grappling with Boko Haram insurgency which had claimed thousands of innocent lives and We advocate all law-abiding citizens should be spared of any other form of religious upheaval from being unleashed on this nation!
The sanctity of lives must now take the front-burner because too much bloodshed had also been recorded by the hands of murderers, bandits, assassins, cattle herdersmen/rustlers, militants, gunmen etc, on virtually daily basis and all Nigerians must rise in unison to condemn the very unacceptable situation once and for all by supply authentic information to all law enforcement agencies about the activities and movements of these enemies of the STATE, who are not GHOSTS but human!
Nigerians are tired of all forms of insurgency and violence and concerted efforts should be made by National Orientation Agency (NOA), in this regard, to avail the good citizens who are in the majority all necessary precautions to take in all given circumstances of national upheavals!

IT IS OUR CANDID OPINION IS THAT THE TRIAL OF SHEIHK el ZAKZAKI AND HIS WIFE SHOULD BE ACCELERATED AND JUSTICE BE METED TO THEM - WHICHEVER WAY IT TURNS - PRISON OR FREEDOM, SO THAT ANOTHER BOUT OF RELIGIOUS INSURRECTION CAN BE AVOIDED! 

It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment. (Prov 18:5)

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.