THE AVERAGE NIGERIAN VOTER IS A FOOL – A ZOMBIE!

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 371. 20th September, 2020.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

THE AVERAGE NIGERIAN VOTER IS A FOOL – A ZOMBIE!

The fear and fright engendered in South-South Edo State Nigeria, months  before the much-publicized tensioned-soaked, very-intriguing and cantankerous keenly-contested gubernatorial election of Saturday 19th September, 2020, has been put to rest as the Electorate decided in favour of the incumbent, Godwin Obaseki of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who  garnered 307,955 votes against 223,619 of his age-long rival and closest contender, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), among the 14 other  participants from smaller parties! He won 14 out of the 18 Local Government Areas (LGAs), according to INEC Result Sheet which has gone viral on the social media and NOT SURPRISINGLY, EDO PDP ELECTORATE are celebrating and dancing on the streets of Benin the State Capital WITHOUT REALIZING THAT  THEY ARE NOTHING MORE THAN MERE PIECES OF CHIPS ON THE CHESS BOARD OF THE TWO GLADIATORS WHO WILL RETIRE TO THEIR CLOSETS AND SAVOUR CHILLED BOTTLES OF CHAMPAGNE WHILE THEY RE-STRATEGIZE FOR THE NEXT MOVE!

We have always told whosoever cared to listen that there are very few righteous politicians in NIGERIA, because decent people in the polity always shied away for fear of being maligned and mauled when the terrain got rough and bloody!

The so-called political leaders are WOLVES IN SHEEP CLOTHING – who pun the foolish masses of the Electorate for financial gains year-in year-out because they belong to the same CULT which registered and financed the TWO BIG Parties as sources of MULTIPLE INCOME!

The scenario in Edo State is a good case study:
In 2016, Pastor Ize-Iyamu was an aspiring APC governorship candidate who lost to Godwin Obaseki in the party primaries and not satisfied, jumped ship to the PDP to achieve his in-ordinate ambition, BUT unfortunately he lost!
Before the year 2020, he played out a new permutation by returning to the APC with the succinct support of ADAMS OSHIOMOLE , former two-term Governor of Edo State and the erstwhile Chairman of the ruling APC at the Federal level with a view to contesting and winning the just-concluded elections!
Now that Ize-Iyamu  has lost for the second time, he would definitely head for the Appeal Court to protest the  victory of Obaseki who during the race to the coveted seat participated in the primaries of  both the APC and the PDP, contrary to extant laws of the Electoral Act, for necessary intervention and adjudication! 
Peradventure, the Pastor’s arguments were upheld at the Apex Court, he would then take over from Obaseki and the seamless rotation of juicy political offices would continue between the duo at the expense of foolish/downtrodden electorate of Edo State who had been subjected to abject poverty in the hands of political predators – even though Pastor Ize-Iyamu claims to be a practicing servant of the Most High God! 

WERE THE EDO ELECTORATE DEAF TO ALL TANTRUMS THROWN UP DURING THE RUN TO THE BOTH 2016 AND 2020 GOVERNORSHIP ELECTIONS?
Comrade Adams Oshiomole will be remembered by Edo people for a long time as “a confusionist” who would have turned the concluded election into a battle field and thrown Edo State into a bloody land if it had not been for divine intervention through the effectual and fervent prayers of the righteous children of God across Nigeria and the Diaspora!

Oshiomole spoke from both sides of his mouth at both elections of 2016 and 2020, for and against both prominent contestants while the electorate watched WITHOUT THE HIND SIGHT THAT THEY COULD DIVERT THEIR VOTES TO A MORE RELIABLE GREEN HORN AMONG THE 16 CANDIDATES WHO WOULD DELIVER CREDIBLE GAINS OF DEMOCRACY TO THE MASSES!

EDO ELECTORATE HAVE PLAYED THE FOOL AGAIN!
African, Asian, Arabian and Chinese literature is resplendent with philosophical witty/wise/intelligent proverbs fables, anecdotes, innuendoes, deliberately, employed as moral/ethical nuggets to guide and mould human character with a view to achieving mutual/decent living among communities, societies, neighbourhoods, counties dwellers, etc, etc, across the globe!
An Arabian/Persian poem philosophizes as follows:
“He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool; Shun him;
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a (child) student; Teach him;
He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, Wake him;
He who knows, and knows that he knows, is Wise; Follow him.”

THE FOOL! [African Proverbs]
“A fool is thirsty in the abundance of water;
Is offended by wise counsel
Thinks he cannot be fooled;
Mocks a wise person;
Knows that he is headed for destruction, still continues on that path;
Delights in speaking his mind but never minding what he speaks;
Continues to make the same mistakes without ever learning from it!
When he is being cursed, he thinks he is being praised!

ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AVERAGE NIGERIAN ELECTORATE WHICH IS 85% OF THE VOTERS!
Politicians have fooled the electorate for 60 years from independence in 1960 and are still succeeding!
Why has the country practiced OLIGARCHY, colored as either PARLIAMENTARY OR PRESIDENTIAL , from Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa – President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration which is currently playing out in the same manner?
How have the politicians able to manipulate the masses for sixty years and we are still counting? Money politics that promises dividends BUT never delivered until close to another election when sum “bread & butter palliatives were distributed as incentives to encourage them to vote as ZOMBIES!

NB. Please find below questions we ask the past PDP of ex-President Ebele Jonathan in our Vol. 9. 13-10-13, when he inaugurated on Monday 7th October, 2013, a 30-man National Dialogue Committee, to prepare modalities for a mutual and interactive forum that would discuss, conflicting, political, economic and social issues of the Nigerian entity.

The Committee was a prelude to the Jonathan’s National Conference of 2014 which gulped over N18 billion of tax-payers money without any result to show for it till date! 
1. Why is there an uneven distribution of wealth and power in 53 years of independence?
2. Why is the great majority of Nigerians wallowing in abject poverty, while the few minority, (mostly, civil servants and politicians), who have illegally acquired and accumulated the ‘commonwealth’, dwell in affluence, gluttonous and abundant prosperity?
3. Why is the prevalent economic inequality, taking heavy tolls, especially in the Health and Education sectors? Treatable diseases, such as malaria, diarrhoea, whooping cough and measles, continue to take the lives of over 40per cent of children before the age of five; maternal mortality rate is on the upward trend- about 1.500 mothers die daily in child birth; with only 2 per cent of world’s population, Nigeria accounts for 10 per cent of world’s maternal deaths per annum, second only to India;(World Health Organisation statistics,2008); less than 20per cent of the rural Nigerians and 40 per cent of those in the urban, have access to safe and potable water; over two thirds of rural people, have no access to health-care facilities, because they dwell very far from clinics and can hardly afford their charges.
4. Why is the unemployment statistics sky-rocketing, with youth unemployment accounting for about, 35-40 per cent, and up to 3.5 million presently out of school because of the unresolved strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, [ASSU].
5. Why should our tertiary institutions, be classified as glorified secondary schools and our hospitals as ‘mere consulting rooms’; 
6. Why has the Transformational Agenda of diversification of the economy from the petroleum-based mono- product, to the multi agricultural and mineral resources platform, been difficult to implement?
7. Why should oil be the common asset to take care of all and sundry in a nation boasting of 168million citizens?
8. Why should the monthly sharing of petroleum funds accruing to the Federation Account between States and Federal Government, be acceptable as the panacea to Nigeria’s economic challenges?
9.  Why should oil bunkering, money-laundering and other national vices of corruption persist unabated?
10. Why has the industrial sector of the economy become comatose and all textiles, including, small and medium scale factories gone to bed?
11. Why are our borders so porous that vicious aliens have turned our common heritage into a den of robbers and terrorists?
12. Why should the findings and recommendations of the House of Representatives probe of the Power sector, be discarded and swept under the carpet, in spite of the discovery of economic crimes of embezzlement of about N16billion for contracts not executed?
13. Why did government pay petroleum subsidies, running into billions of naira to dubious contractors who never imported petroleum products into the country, only to request for refund of stolen monies without prosecuting them, to serve as deterrent to others of their ilk?

About two years ago the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP), released a startling statistics that about $300trillion(USD), had been looted from the Nigerian treasury since independence, adding that, if these currencies were to be stapled  together, would get to the Moon and back, in 26 times!

HAS ANYTHING CHANGED SINCE JONATHAN’S ADMINISTRATION TILL DATE? NO! NO! NO! BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL THE SAME! The CITIZENS must remember the letters of Chapter II, 14 (2) of the 1999 Constitution which unambiguously stated that, “sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government derives its powers and authority”;.....

The “Not-Too-Young-To-Rule” group should arise and shine NOW for the glory of the LORD has risen upon them! THEY SHOULD NO LONGER PLAY THE FOOL OR ZOMBIES TO THE POLITICIANS! They should carry their destiny to rule with diligence and dignity!

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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.