BUHARI’S PARTY IS A “HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF”!

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. 9.NO 361. 12th July, 2020.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

BUHARI’S PARTY IS A “HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF”!

President Buhari has at long last wielded the “big stick” to check cantankerous party members in order to assert his authority as the authentic leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress and left no one in doubt that he was in full control when he:
Swept out the National Working Committee (NWC), of the APC, seamlessly and doused a tension which had almost ripped the party apart through gross incompetence exhibited in crisis management by the out gone diminutive Chairman, Adams Aliu Oshiomole, throughout his entire five years in office and most disgracefully in his Edo home state! The President also ordered that all pending court cases by aggrieved members against one another should be withdrawn with immediate effect!
Moved against the Office of the Vice President and virtually relegated it to oblivion because in spite of the fact that they both shared one ticket for the presidential slot at the elections; and that Professor ‘Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, was faithful to watch the President’s back while he was hospitalized for most times in the first term, the VP was not consulted to make input when his principal appointed the new set of Ministers and Advisers!
Believed the damming memo of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, (SAN), against the five-year in office, fire-breathing Ibrahim Magu, Head of the anti-corruption agency, (Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which had been in the fore front of the crusade, got him arrested with the tacit connivance of Directorate for Secret Service (DSS) Operatives and detained him in police custody!
Instructed an already constituted Presidential Probe Panel (PPP), to investigate allegations contained in Malami’s memo, approved the suspension of Magu and immediately appointed the agency’s Director of Operations, Mohammed Umar to take over the administration pending conclusion of the on-going investigation headed by Justice Ayo Salami, a distinguished former President of the Court of Appeal, an erudite judge, a man of impeccable integrity to head the Panel. It is strongly believed that hes would bring his wealth of experience to ensure that justice was served! 
The President cared less whether Magu’s 5-year high- profile and exemplary achievements in the war against corruption was rubbished through his ignominious arrest and detention like a common criminal – when he was constitutionally deemed to be innocent until the contrary was proved! As at the time of this publication on 12th July, 2020, he has spent 6 days at the Force Criminal Investigating Department (FCID). According to unconfirmed reports, Magu was arrested for failing to honor two invitations from the PPP! 

PROFESSOR IBRAHIM GAMBARI, THE BRAND NEW CHIEF OF STAFF (CoS), to the President, should be congratulated for all the “achievements” through the BIG STICK ass listed above!

DEARTH OF PARTY SUPREMACY IN APC!

Party supremacy structure like is practiced by the ruling African National Congress (ANC), of South Africa, did not debut with the Change Government of President Muhammadu Buhari on resumption of office for the first term in 2015, because he quipped at inauguration, “I am for everybody and I am for nobody”!
Messrs. ‘Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, arrowheads of the 8th National Assembly, cashed in on that declaration, staged a legislative coup-de-tat and forcibly entrenched themselves as Senate President and Speaker, House of Representatives, respectively to traumatize the entire system and the polity like it had never been in the nation’s political history!

In 2018 both men defected to the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), where they were formerly rooted and were audacious to hold on very firmly to their positions as principal officers of the National Assembly and neither the President, the Legislature nor the Party could remove them! 

To compound the already tensed situation, Comrade Adams Aliu Oshiomole, mounted the rostrum as the second Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), on  23rd June 2018, and declared that if President Buhari tolerated ineptitude among party members, he would not brew any form of non-sense or indiscipline from any of them, many political analysts including those of us on this platform sensed what the arrogant stance of the diminutive man portended for the party in no distant future!

MAGU IN THE EYE OF THE STORM!

Following the hue and cry by pro-Magu admirers who faulted the media trial, hype/drama orchestrated on the social media over the entire gamut of the accusations contained in Malami’s Memo; it has been uncovered that the same set of unproven allegations contained in a 2016/2017 DSS negative security reports which deprived Magu from Senate’s confirmation twice, were copied and pasted in the said memo!
There seems to be an unresolved controversy in respect of the extent of the supervisory powers of the Attorney General of the Federation over the EFCC – a grievance which Malami highlighted in his lengthy memo against Magu.

The President’s image maker Garba Shehu has said that there was nothing improper about Magu’s arrest, detention and probe because, no person, no matter highly placed, was above the law! We could not agree less, but is that the TRUE OFFICIAL stand? How many ministers, presidential advisers or civil servants who had been accused of corruption are currently in police custody and government perceives wisdom in turning the hunter into the hunted?

PACAC SAYS MALAMI’S MEMO WREAKS OF POWER PLAY!

The  Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), said on Monday 6th July, 2020, that Malami was “an arrowhead or a major agent of a power bloc that is not really interested in, or in support of, Buhari’s anti-corruption fight,” in a statement signed by a member of the Committee, Professor ‘Femi Odekunle.

He further said that DSS role in the arrest of Magu based on Malami’s memo now being investigated by a panel was suspect and mischievous as confirmed in some after- thought denial by DSS that “it was not arrest” but an invitation and added, “The alleged originating Malami memo up to the current ‘arrest’ seems an outcome of power play blocs in the corridors of power”.
It is obvious that Malami has been exploiting his loyalty and closeness to the president for his own personal/power bloc agenda without manifesting any genuine commitment to the anti-corruption fight, PACAC further said.

The Committee however warned that the President must be very careful while trying to nail any official of whatever status if found corrupt, “not to shoot his anti-corruption fight and modest achievements in the foot, and not to forget that EFCC under Magu has been the administration’s anti-corruption poster-face.”
Human Rights lawyer ‘Femi Falana, (SAN), has said that Magu could have his job back if he was not found guilty of allegations against him adding, that it was crucial that he was investigated as he was not the first EFCC boss to be probed.

Twenty-two (22) allegations were contained in the Malami Memo which accused Magu, who was arrested on Monday 6th July, 2020, among other charges, of insubordination, corruption, lack of control, disloyalty, diversion of recovered loots and giving N4 billion naira to the Vice President, etc etc.

According to the report, the panel had seated for more than three weeks before Magu was asked to be brought in for interrogation and clear himself!

THE TRENDING “ROFO’ ROFO” FIGHT IS A TICKING BOMB!

* Aggrieved APC members will still pursue individual agenda presently suspended through Buhari’s “big stick”!
*Some will jump ship to satisfy their ambition in other parties!
* Has Buhari not shot himself on the foot already by listening to his new CoS?
*Is the scenario of a “house divided against itself” not playing out - considering
the position of PACAC and the allegation that N4 billion was given to Mr. VP – which has been vehemently denied by Magu before the Panel?
*Northern leaders from Kano and Kaduna disagree with Malami whom they described as “an appointee” for trying to bring down Magu at all cost without considering the risky assignment he has performed creditably for Nigeria in the last five years and advised him to resign his appointment if he was not comfortable with the fearless officer!

IS APC TRULY AN ASSOCIATION OF STRANGE BED FELLOWS?

At this rate of commotion what would remain of the APC by 2023 when Buhari must pack and go? Won’t the CPC, ANPP, CAN AND THE NEW-PDP go their separate ways and chorusing; “To your tents O Israel”?

WHAT BECOMES OF THE THREE-PRONGED APC AGENDA: (1) Fight Insecurity, (2) Revamp the Economy and (3) Destroy Corruption from its very foundation?

WILL PRESIDENT BUHARI DEPART AND LEAVE NIGERIA WORSE OFF THAN HE MET IT IN 2015?

The buck stops at the table of the President! If he continues to listen to the crop of ministers, advisers, old cronies, CoS, and allow family considerations to becloud his judgments, he would have himself to blame at the end of his tenure which is closer than he thinks!

APC IS ON THE PRECIPICE AND COULD CRASH AT ANYTIME IF GREAT CARE WAS NOT TAKEN NOW!

Buhari should remember that he did not get to that exalted position by might, power or popularity BUT by divine intervention from the Almighty God Whom he would give account of his stewardship in due time! The TALAKAWAS whom he swore to protect are still dwelling in abject poverty now compounded with Covid-19 pandemic! “A stitch in time saves nine!”

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