TWO PRESIDENTS NIGERIA NEVER HAD!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria and the World's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 409. 13th June, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

TWO PRESIDENTS NIGERIA NEVER HAD!

[IN COMMEMORATION OF JUNE 12 DEMOCRACY DAY, 2021]

Social analysts always postulate that politics is a game of numbers where majority would have their way and minority, their say! True as the assertion might seem, the reverse obtained in diarchy where strange bed fellows comprising the military and politicians run despotic/feudalistic agendas and are backed by defective constitutions as obtains in Nigeria!
Imagine if the military had allowed democracy to thrive through trial and error, commission and omission, from Independence, the late sage, erudite politician/legal practitioner, Chief Obafemi Awolowo [who through visionary leadership, transformed Western Nigeria into a hub of economic destination, introduced FREE PRIMARY EDUCATION TO ALL RESIDENTS irrespective of their tribe or region; established the first in Africa victory TELEVISION SERVICES, even before the European nation of France debuted the electronic tube etc, etc], would have been VOTED PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA and would have served very creditably!
Imagine if Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, a resourceful/tested, erudite business mogul and billionaire was allowed to claim his mandate at the 1993 Presidential Election and was NOT robbed by the Military junta of General Ibrahim Babangida, he would have become Nigeria’s President in a landslide victory which gave him the upper hand even in the local government area of his opponent, Alhaji Bashir Tofa, who hailed from Kano State!

BUT those thoughts were never to materialize  because the continuous/consecutive gun-toting  administrations in Black Africa’s most-populous nation has relegated the country to the bottom of the ladder in all international perception indexes – corruption, insecurity, poverty, infrastructural deficiency/decay in education, health facilities, social welfare and the economy at large BECAUSE  TRUTH was truncated for FALSEHOOD!

Apart from the dwindling foreign exchange earnings from oil and gas, Nigeria cannot boast of any substantive internally generated revenues from other sources because agriculture which was the nation’s financial mainstay was gradually abandoned by consecutive military governments due to “easy oil money” source readily available for imported foreign goods from virtually every country of the world!
AND BECAUSE the minority northern oligarchy in government believed they should remain in power at the Federal level forever therefore ganged up to truncate the JUNE 12, 1993 Presidential Election which marked a watershed in the annals of Nigeria's political history!

A day when all Nigerians on that date in 1993, voted overwhelmingly for the Southerner among two Muslim presidential candidates of North/South political divide, in an election supervised by the Military Government of General Ibrahim Babangida and adjudged to be one of the freest, fairest, credible and peaceful ever held in Nigeria!
Though that election was annulled by the military junta, 28 years ago (1993-2021), the annual commemoration of that memorable event had never ceased to be held by political pressure groups - especially in the South West, where the acclaimed winner, late business mogul, Chief Moshood Abiola hailed from!

In that epoch election, all Nigerians agreed in one accord to vote for both candidates without the sentiments of religion that none of the candidates was a Christian in an unprecedented patriotism of the national conscience and in the doctrine of ONE NIGERIA!

June 12 which overcame ethnic, tribal, cultural, traditional barriers and diversities, has proved beyond all reasonable doubts that positive national ideologies have more impact among the citizens of this modern civilization than the mere geographical amalgamation of Nigeria's Northern/Southern Protectorates of 1914, which only aimed to expand the business empire of the colonial masters who governed with veto powers.
But has the Spirit of June 12 died in almost all the ethnicities/tribes who now opt for the break-up of our dearly-beloved indivisible, indissoluble, naturally and resourcefully-endowed country of over 250 tribe/ethnic groups and about 500 diverse languages?

MILITARY INCURSION TO NIGERIAN POLITICS WAS ABERRATION!

The military as security organ of government that defends the country from external aggression WAS NOT IN MAJORITY and subject to civil authorities according to Chapter I, Section I (2) of the 1963 Republican Constitution which forbids “……the governance or the control of the Government of Nigeria or any part thereof, except in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution”, BUT with brazen effrontery and defiance to the said document, staged a coup-de-tat and took over government by force on 15 July, 1966, as the very first group of persons in Africa to  carry out such dastard act to get mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records!

Since that unfortunate incident the MINORITY has always had both its SAY AND WAY in every administration in Nigeria!

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Although Northern Nigeria always claimed larger population according to census demographic data, it has always been faulted by the South which alleged that COWS AND SHANTY HUTS were included in the figures always computed by successive Federal Governments mostly headed by NORTHERNERS!
The Prime Minister at Independence in 1960 was a Northerner supported by a figure-head “President” from the South!
In May 1962, the first post-independence census organized by the Federal Government began amidst fears by Southern politicians who were apprehensive of a repetition of past manipulation by the North and were poised to put an end to their dubious dominance of the Nigerian political space! Advocacy and massive mobilization through the media – print, radio/electronic and distribution of pamphlets were employed to sensitize the people but at the “end of the exercise”, final results were not made public because the North was very desperate to maintain a false status quo!
In 1963, a new census was held, and another in 1973 which produced alarming figures that were disputed and nullified! In 1992 General Ibrahim Babangida conducted another census which result in March 1992 was officially put at about 89 million people! In 2006, another census was conducted and the result was put at 140 million, more than 50% of the 1992 figure because more figures accrued to the North in the new exercise! The National Bureau of Statistics website is replete with all census data from independence!
There are more Northern Military Heads of State/Democratic Presidents than from the South: Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa; General Yakubu  Gowon; General Murtala Mohammed; General Olusegun Obasanjo; Alhaji Shehu Shagari; General Muhammadu Buhari; General, Ibrahim Babangida; northern leaders foisted the feudalistic hegemony; Interim President, Chief Ernest Shonekan; General Sanni Abacha; General, Abdusalam Abubakar; Retired General Olusegun Obasanjo; Alhaji Musa Yar Adua; Dr. Goodluck Jonathan; Retired Major General Olusegun Obasanjo; Retired Major General, Muhammadu Buhari – NINE Northerners as against TWO from the South?
Each and every one of the nine northern leaders foisted the feudalistic hegemony of “supremacy” of their region! 

LET’S GIVE IT TO PRESIDENT BUHARI WHO RECTIFIED THE JUNE 12 INJURY ON NIGERIAN ELECTORATE!

In an historic recognition of late Chief MKO Abiola, the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 cancelled election, President Muhammadu Buhari on June 6, 2018, awarded to him posthumously the highest honor of the land, Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR). On that date, the President also assented to a Bill amending May 29 previously set aside as public holiday to be replaced by June 12 as the new Democracy Day.
President Buhari’s gesture including the change of Abuja National Stadium to Moshood Abiola Stadium will remain an indelible, magnanimous/exemplary act of statesmanship and an unusual gesture from a sitting President to rectify an issue which had polarized Nigerians for 28 years!

JUNE 12, 2021 PROTESTS ACROSS NIGERIA!

There were street protests across Nigeria by aggrieved people who were tired of the Buhari Administration and wished that he should quit if he was bereft of solutions.

We thank God there were no human casualties because We have counseled them to KEEP OFF THE STREETS but preserve their YOUTHFUL ENERGIES till 2023 and take over the government with their VOTES!
THE NORTHERN MINORITY IN SEAT OF POWER HAVE CONTINUOUSLY EMPLOYED DUBIOUS CENSUS DATA AS SMOKESCREEN TO REMAIN IN OFFICE AT THE CENTRE!
Data collected by census determine the number of seats each State has in the House of Representatives and also used to adjust or redraw electoral districts/constituencies based on where populations have either increased or decreased with a view to assist in revenue allocation, including employee appointments into the civil service ministries, departments and parastatal by Federal Government which has prerogative of the Exclusive Legislative List (of 68 items), which virtually determines the LIVELIHOOD STATUS of the entire population of Nigerians!

Nigeria’s 2020 population is estimated at 206,139,589 people at mid-year according to United Nations (UN) data. Nigeria population is equivalent to 2.64% of the total world population and ranks number seven (7), in the list of countries (and dependencies), by population.

The 2006 census data which placed Nigeria’s population at 140 million people was most recent and was plagued by political interference from design through to implementation but in 2020, census was estimated at 206 million people.

The PDP Government of Dr. Ebele Jonathan could not conduct any census according to lack of funds neither has the current administration of President Buhari! The VEIL of deceit in respect of greater  population of the North has been torn to shreds because all high density and commercial are located -south of Rivers Niger and Benue – with their population increasing by the hour! Whenever funds were made available and high information technology employed – TRUTH will prevail! “Thou shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.” 

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.