NIGERIAN POLITICIANS HAVE KILLED MORE CITIZENS THAN BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS!

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 359. 28th June, 2020.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIAN POLITICIANS HAVE KILLED MORE CITIZENS THAN BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS!

Nigeria held its sixth round of national general elections on 23rd February 2019, amidst fears that violence would erupt like at other periods since the military packed bag and baggage and partially retired to the barracks!

It has become a norm in Nigeria that every election must witness bloodshed whether it is national, state or local government event! Elections from 2003 through 2007, 2011, and 2015 were conducted and supervised by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which was in power for 16 years while the All Progressives Congress (APC), ruling party conducted its first general elections in 2019!

Poll violence was usually sectarian or ethnic in nature, but at times along religious divide depending on who is accused of vote-rigging or masterminded its geographic spread!
In 2015 as many as 100 people were killed during and after the election, according to the International Group of monitors while four years before then (2011), it was reported that 800 people died when fighting erupted between Muslims and the mainly Christian backers of the ex-President Ebele Jonathan!
Statistics of poll casualties from independence to date are in thousand of thousands!

GOVERNORS WIKE & OBASEKI ARE ABOUT TO UNLEASH POLITICAL VIOLENCE OF “DO-OR-DIE” IN EDO STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION OF SEPTEMBER, 2020!

The sobriquet “Mr. Fix It”, relinquished at death by Chief Tony Anenih, in 2018, did not behave like the stupid fly, it stayed in the Niger Delta and camped with Nyesome Wike, the Rivers State PDP Governor!

Rivers Government Lodge had become a Mecca of sort since Mr. Wike commandeered and assumed leadership of a disarrayed PDP and menacingly called the shots from Port Harcourt on every major issue following the loss of ex-President Ebele Jonathan to President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015!

It’s on record that he hosted the election of the PDP Chairman, Caretaker Committee, to which two former governors of Kaduna and Bornu States, laid claim; he also single-handedly picked a Rivers man as the incumbent PDP Chairman who obeys the master’s voice!

Every PDP major decision was made by him with threats that any opposition would be summarily crushed without mercy and the most recent, the admission of a very desperate Governor Obaseki of Edo State and his deputy, who MUST run a second tenure in a “do-or-die” manner, having been rejected by the APC Screening Committee!

The frightening rate at which Nigerian politicians defected from one party to another without regard to relevant provisions of the Constitution since the advent of the nascent democracy and have gotten away without legal challenge, point to only one direction – and that is: this nation is on the threshold of slipping into the realm of a “failed state “ if urgent measures were not put in place by President Buhari to stem the ugly trend!

The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Chapter V Section 68 (1) (g ), as amended is unambiguous in respect of the circumstances that could lead elected politicians to defect from one party to another but since the fresh attempt at democracy 20 years on, those legal requirements had been side-lined and no one bothered to contest the flagrant disobedience in the courts because they all flouted the extant legislation with impunity!

DECAMPEES CLAIM INSECURITY & PARTY SQUABBLES AS EXCUSES FOR DEFECTIONS!

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!

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, MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO FESTER IN ANY 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 – and thereby building PERSONALITIES INSTEAD OF VIABLE INSTITUTIONS!

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, renegade '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!

ADAMS ALIU OSHIOMOLE WAS COMPLICIT IN EVERY MATERIAL ASPECT!  (Below is an excerpt of our publication, Edition 294 of 31st March, 2019).

“Comrade Adams Oshiomole, Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, has been very undiplomatic in his administration since his assumption of office!
Sitting Governors of, Ogun, Oyo, Imo, accused him of imposition of candidates during party primaries that produced factionalized candidates from the same party, and demanded for his removal without success! Now that APC has won the elections with comfortable majority in the National Assembly (NASS), he has begun a campaign of "winner takes all" and the imposition of principal officers on both chambers; and if not quickly checked, would likely play into the hand of Ali Ndume, who could become an insurgent and replay a coup drama with the opposition, like he did with Saraki in 2015!

“The General Elections have come and almost gone but APC's numerical advantage had been greatly compromised through acts of commission or omission, by the party's hierarchy, with Oshiomole as the arrow head! Before the 2019 General Elections, APC was in control of 23 States and boasted of majority figures in the two NASS Chambers, in spite of the gale of defections which defied all constitutional provisions!

“But as at the dust settled over the outcome of elections, it was very glaring that the ruling party had suffered several defeats at the States and the National Assembly, although statistics at the time of this publication stated as follows: States controlled by APC - 19, PDP, 15; Legislative Seats: APC - Senate, 65; House of Representatives (HOR), 203; PDP, Senate, 41; HOR;102 and the ripple effects of faulty diplomacy would definitely manifest at State Assemblies when a new Change Administration reconvenes in continuity from 29th May, 2019, and from early June, 2019, respectively!

“EVEN, APC's controlled States of Oyo, Imo, Bauchi, have now been won by the opposition PDP, due to defective diplomacy by the leadership because it is believed that Adams Oshiomole did not work in isolation from the party's National Executive Council (NEC)!

PRESIDENT BUHARI  MUST NOT STAND ALOOF THIS TIME AROUND!

“Unlike his 2015 inauguration speech of; "I am for nobody but I am for everybody," which was twisted by the ilk of the Sarakis, who took advantage to manipulate the system in their inordinate favour, this time around, President Buhari, MUST have his feet on the ground to ensure a well-co-ordinated and smooth synergy between the two arms, in other to avoid the unpleasant pitfalls of the past FOUR years which almost truncated the nation's nascent democracy!”

GOOD BYE TO OSHIOMOLE WHO WAS REMOVED IN A PALACE COUP AT ASO ROCK!

APC’s National Executive Council, (NEC), chaired by President Buhari, on Thursday 25th June, 2020, dissolved the National Working Committee (NWC), headed by Aliu Oshiomole, at a meeting held at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

The President also called for the immediate suspension of all pending litigations involving the party and its members, as well as the ratification of the party’s governorship  primary election recently conducted in Edo State, and stressed the need for members to enforce party discipline.

QUESTION: WILL OBASEKI AND WIKE GET AWAY WITH THIS RAPE ON DEMOCRACY? Time will tell!
‘’Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.’’(1 Cor 10:12)

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