HAS BUHARI FAILED TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE?

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 416. 1st AUGUST, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

HAS BUHARI FAILED TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE?

Organised agitations for political, economic and social restructuring of the Nigerian State has reached a crescendo! 

Vibrant and forceful advocacies for self-determination by federating units is no longer limited to geo-political zones but has cut across tribal divide which have in one voice pitched themselves against a tired and confused President Muhammadu Buhari, who seems to have lost grip to the infamous cabal stuck to him as  leach!

President Buhari’s unusual opportunity to govern Nigeria as a “democratic” politician was no doubt a divine intervention to rescue a nation on the precipice in 2015, having demonstrated a rare trait of INTEGRITY in his military days as the “ONLY SHEEP” among THE RAMPAGING WOLVES of BARRACK INVADERS between 1966-1999!

DID GOD MAKE A MISTAKE FOR GIVING BUHARI A SECOND TERM OPPORTUNITY? NO! 

The Word of God says, “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.

“Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil neither tempteth He any man.

“But everyman is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

“Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. (James.1:12-15). 

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), opposition tried fruitlessly to criticise the All Progressives Congress (APC), Government for the past SIX years because they left behind horrible mess/stench of CORRUPTION in 16 years of consecutive maladministration which APC still claimed militated and limited them from fulfilling their major campaign manifesto declarations of ensuring 

Provision of adequate security;

Confronting and destroying corruption and 

Building up the economy to enhance the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but the defeatist attitude of President Buhari from the onset had created a lacuna for delivering effective and righteous administration:

“I wish I were much younger to grapple with the rigours of presidency........but now at 72 .....,” he lamented! BUT yet another divine intervention put him into the saddle for the SECOND TERM in spite of all other political FORCES that ganged up against his bid for a Second Term in 2019, because the 2014 PROPHECY OF THE PROPHET OF GOD IN ZION 

THAT HE WOULD SERVE AN UNINTERRUPTED TWO TERMS IN OFFICE SUBSISTED!

QUESTION: ARE THE PEOPLE TIRED OF BUHARI’S  APC GOVERNMENT?

The cacophony of voices of dissent for secession, Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB Biafra/Sunday Igboho’s Yoruba Nation, separatism, devolution of power from federal to federating states, total break-up, self-determination, self-governance, restructuring, constitutional amendments, drafting of a brand new Constitution, creation of additional State for the South-East geo-political zone, unicameral parliamentary legislature including the application of a  CITIZENS’ SPEAR-HEADED REFERENDUM to achieve all of the above NOT an indictment against the president and his party?

When will the untameable INSECURITY IN THE NATION END?

LATEST AGITATION FROM NIGER DELTA LEADERS FOR RESTRUCTURING AND NATIONAL DIALOGUE!

Elder Statesman and Ijaw Leader, Papa Edwin Clark (94), has lent his weight to a South-South Zonal Conference which is presently demanding that President Buhari should within THREE MONTHS “restructure the country and convene a national dialogue comprising  representatives of ethnic groups in order to chart a new course for Nigeria!”

In a communiqué issued Friday, 30th July, 2021, at the end of the conference held in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State Capital, where his address was read by a representative, the Conference restated the urgent need for restructuring and devolution of more powers to the States, condemned the oppressive/repressive tendencies against the Niger Delta Region citizens and warned the apex government from further selling out their resources to the CHINESE and other expatriates!

The group which embraces stakeholders from SIX States of the region threatened to commence process that would guarantee their freedom and progress, if the Federal Government failed to heed their demands at the end of the THREE-MONTH ultimatum to chart a new course for the country!

Other demands in the communiqué include but not the limited to the following:

Niger Delta people are “the BREAD WINNERS of Nigeria and demand to be fairly treated with equity by the oppressive Nigerian State/insensitive political class to ensure peaceful co-existence.

Demand full control of their resource and put an end to further deprivation and despoliation of their environment in the last 60 years!

Demand that Governors of the South-South Region, set up security outfits/community-based defence forces in all LGAs to protect the ethnic nationalities from terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, land grabbers and other criminals.

Demand equal representation, control and headship of all relevant security and military organizations in the country and desire constitutional provision for the inalienable right to self-determination through a REFERENDUM in line with international laws!

NIGER DELTA YOUTHS/GOVERNORS REJECT PIB’S THREE PER CENT RECOMMENDATION FOR HOST COMMUNITIES TRUST FUND –DEMAND FIVE PER CENT!

The passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), on Thursday 1st of July, 2021, which was first introduced to the Sixth National Assembly (NASS), by late President Umar Yar’ Adua, (2008) and later to the Seventh NASS in 2012 but which failed to get concurrent passage from both chambers has finally got a controversial approval at the Ninth NASS in a journey of 13 years!

However there is a fresh controversy yet to be resolved in respect of the Draft PIB which recommended 2.5 % of the operating expenditure of the Settlor (operator of an oil licence), according to Clause 240 (1) to fund development of host communities in the oil producing areas. Although the Senate raised the figure to 3% and the House of Representatives Committee recommended 5%, the yet-to-be-signed Bill will still have to be harmonised at the Joint Committee of the NASS!

In summary, host communities stand to benefit immensely through tax exemption on designated payments and other packages of provisional incentives by each Setlor according to Clause 256 provided host communities prevented any form of vandalism, sabotage or civil unrest that could cause damage to petroleum/designated facilities or disruption to production activities within host communities!

NIGERIA’S INSECURITY ARE OF NORTHERN ORIGIN?  

Some critics have traced the multi-faceted and avalanche of insecurity spear-headed by Boko Haram remnants, now metamorphosed into splinter groups of bandits, kidnappers, gunmen, armed robbers etc. to the North which had ruled at the centre more than the South from independence but disagree because no State or Tribe has monopoly of brute force! Before the emergence of terrorist in the North there were the Niger Delta vandals who specialized in blowing up crude oil pipe lines!

WAS THE 1914 AMALGAMATION OF THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PROTECTORATES A POLITICAL ERROR BY THE COLONIAL MASTERS?

It was not an error! The idea of marriage conceived and master-minded by the imperialist colonial masters was predicated on the doctrine of unity in diversification!

“Though we are many, we are one body, we are one body in Christ; though we are many, we are one body, we are one body in Christ.

“One faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, binding us together to be One, one hope in the Lord Jesus Christ, binding us together to be one; Though we are many, we are one body, we are one body in Christ!” (Courtesy: Pastor Shehu Garba who has publicly accepted that whether we are JEWS OR GENTILES, we are One in Christ Jesus: Rom. 2:9-10; and Galatians. 3: 28). Praise God, Hallelujah! 

WAS GOVERNOR GENERAL LORD FREDERICK LUGARD A MONSTER OR DEVIL INCARNATE WHICH MASTER-MINDED AN UNHOLY UNION? No, no, no! He did what he did in good faith! The only error we noticed is that the Northern at some times were long-throated like when President Umar’ Yar Adua passed to eternity in 2010 and the North wanted to circumvent the Constitution and place another northerner to replace him instead of his Southern Vice! 

WERE THERE TREATIES OR DOCUMENTS OF AMALGAMATION?

Some historians believe that there were no international treaties, no agreements nor documents were employed in the transactions since they had administered both protectorates as their bona fide colonial territories since 1861! 

DID THE NATION OF NIGERIA SEIZE TO EXIST AFTER 2014 FOLLOWING THE EXPIRATION OF THE CENTURY-OLD AMALGAMATION TREATY?

The Nigerian nation remains an indivisible nation recognized as an independent republic by the United Nations and would never go the way of South Sudan which had been in turmoil since its severance from SUDAN in July 2011! 

FEDERALIZING THE POLITY THROUGH NATIONAL DIALOGUE OF NIGERIAN ETHNIC GROUPS!

Did President Buhari promise to organize a National Dialogue any time soon like his predecessor, Ebele Jonathan who convened a 2014 National Conference which has been discountenanced till date? If he did, it was not made official before he departed for London on Monday 26th July, 2021, for Global Education Summit/Medical Check-Up!

 Our advice is that as soon as he returns in the second week of August 2021, he should address all agitations according to their merits as quickly as possible and pacify all the aggrieved by supporting the call for A POPULAR REFERENDUM to determine legitimate demands as listed in our published in our 414th Edition of 18th July, 2021; pages 3-4; BUT not definitely inclusive of SECESSION!

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, 

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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.