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Monday 31 January 2022

PETROLEUM SUBSIDY UPROAR WAS AN APC STRATEGY TO WIN 2023 ELECTIONS!

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. 11.NO 442. 30th January, 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

PETROLEUM SUBSIDY UPROAR WAS AN APC STRATEGY TO WIN 2023 ELECTIONS!

Although members of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) and the out-going President of Nigeria were very much alert of the precarious signals that could trigger a fresh recession and civil commotion if government pressed the wrong button to rock the Petroleum Sector at such an infuriating time of a two-digit figure inflation of prices of goods and services that have robbed citizens’ of social obligations to their families but still, as a political strategy in October 2021, announced an impending total removal of fuel subsidy in June 2022, the mid pre-election year!

It can no longer be hidden that the Nigerian naira has been devalued, and that the purchasing power of citizens’ have hit rock-bottom as both local/foreign commodities were at all-high increase in most cases between 350%-700%!

It is inconceivable that in a pre-general election year, an incumbent government would want to rock the boat through an unpopular policy that could jeopardize their chances of continuity in 2023, except for very obvious campaign strategy!

And through the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, the plan was hatched when she informed the nation that the 2022 Budget would accommodate fuel subsidy for only six months (January-June)!
Her counterpart, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources corroborated the statement that the accented Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), of August 2021, clearly provided for complete deregulation of the downstream sector through total removal of the subsidy from June 2022!

A SUDDEN U-TURN BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS SUSPECT AND CONFIRMS DELIBERATE INSTITUTIONAL COMPLICITY!

A sudden u-turn by the Federal Government on Tuesday 25th January, 2022, has brought to the fore a statement credited to Senate President Ahmed Lawan on Tuesday 18th January 2022, after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari that: “The President did not authorize anyone to remove subsidy!”; and within six days of his statement government announced the suspension of removal for 18 months (June, 2023), for the in-coming administration to handle as deemed fit and proper while the implementation of the PIA has been put on hold for necessary amendments to that effect be made by the National Assembly (NASS), to pay fresh subsidy of NGN3trillion through a non-incorporated NNPC?

The decision for total removal of subsidy is contained in the PIA passed by government in August 2021!

BENEFITS OF PMS, DIESEL, KEROSINE LUBRICANTS ETC, TO THE DOWN-TRODDEN NIGERIANS!

It would amount to an understatement to extol the innumerable advantages of petrol, (PMS), kerosene, diesel, condensates which can neither be exaggerated nor over-emphasized as LIVE-WIRE to the over 90% of the poor masses whose livelihood depended on those crude oil refined products!

The over 100 million generating sets always fueled to provide energy in the face of permanent blackout through inefficiency of the public power supply, and volumes of the products also consumed daily by the multitude of official 41.5 million Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), comprising of at least 41.4million micro enterprises and 73,081 small and medium enterprises; all category of automobiles and articulated/haulage vehicles!

COULD BUHARI BE JINXED OVER SUBSIDY CORRUPTION?

President of Nigeria, Major General Muhammadu Buhari did not study Petroleum Technology in all of the military institutions he attended both at home and abroad, yet between 1976-1979, during the illegal occupation of Nigeria by his comrades, he was saddled with the portfolio of Commissioner of Petroleum and Natural Resource and first Chairman of the NNPC, which was instituted in 1977!

According to Military Wiki General Buhari as Head of State between 31st December, 1983 to 27th August, 1985 he was said to have “curtailed oil theft and used counter trade policy to barter seized illegally bunkered crude oil for needful goods like machineries, enabling it to export above its OPEC quota.” His Minister for Energy was late Professor Tam David-West.

BUHARI ALSO SERVED AS PTF CHAIRMAN UNDER GENERAL ABACHA’S JUNTA!
Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) was a body created by Abacha’s government and funded from the revenue generated by the increase in the price of Petroleum Products to pursue developmental projects around the country.

A 1998 Report in New African adjudged PTF under Buhari as “transparent” but also noted that critics believed that a 20% revenue allocation of its resources to the Military would not be accountable for!
From all of the above analysis, General Buhari should be regarded as a GURU OF NIGERIA OIL INDUSTRY with his long experience in the field from 1976 to 1998 (22 years), and should anyone wonder or be surprised that he kept the substantive ministerial petroleum portfolio to his chest in his two terms to closely monitor and prevent fraud supposedly!

WHAT IS FUEL SUBSIDY IN NIGERIA?

Fuel subsidy is the difference between fixed pump price and the market rate through landing cost of imported refined crude oil products borne by government to cushion the negative economic effects on the poor masses.

Fuel subsidy is failure and exhibition of ineptitude by the Federal Government to refine crude oil but export it overseas and eventually import the finished products in form of PMS (petrol), Diesel oil, Condensates, etc, at exorbitant landing costs beyond the pockets of an average Nigerian!

Nigeria has been subsidizing fuel since the 1970s to ensure Nigerians purchase petroleum products below the global price according to successive administrations!

During the Jonathan’s and from the inception of Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC), Administration, We opposed and criticized the Petroleum Subsidy FRAUD; castigated both governments for deliberate institutional dereliction of duties and ineptitude across board but all to no avail! BUT we know that the day of accountability, reckoning and divine judgment is closer that the pseudo Nigerian rulers might ever envisage!

Below are some excerpts from past publications:
ZBB-C Newsletter Vol. 3. No. 92. Of 17th May, 2015 We have never changed our position that the whole gamut of petroleum subsidy is nothing short of a MONUMENTAL FRAUD AGAINST THE NIGERIAN MASSES, and we still maintain our stand for the following salient reasons:
An oil producing country as Nigeria should have no business in importing finished products if a God-fearing management rules the nation.

Refineries would normally be the first consideration as soon as oil exploration and exploitation commenced.
Oil blocks should not have become Party patronage issue of who is closest to Mr. President as it has been since 1999, when the outgoing government began to rule but should be allocated to States of the Federation and responsible business groups instead of individuals as it is presently practiced.

The present scenario of the Petroleum Sector portrays a deliberate and well-calculated plan of a cabal in government to buy up Nigeria with wealth stolen from its ‘belly’ and they almost succeeded if it were not for divine intervention!

In one night the PDP raised over N22 billion for their presidential campaign and one large-hearted contributor who was said possess an oil block, donated N2billion for himself and a friend!

Starting with former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, no PDP administration has built a refinery in 16 years!
Outgoing President, Ebele Jonathan, admitted that 60% of subsidized petroleum products was smuggled out of the country by fraudulent marketers and their collaborators in government!

ZBB-C Newsletter, Vol.3. No. 102. 26th July, 2015.
While addressing Nigerians In Diaspora Organization (NIDO), members in America and Canada at a parley in New York, in July, 2015, President Buhari made the following remarks:
*He accused former Nigerian ministers of selling about one million barrels of crude oil per day and of diverting the gains to personal accounts.
He also alleged in the US that “250.000 barrels per day of Nigerian Crude are being stolen and people sell and put the money into individual pockets” adding that the US and other developed countries were assisting Nigeria to trace such accounts.

“We will ask that such accounts to be frozen and prosecute the persons. The amount involved is mind-boggling…we will trace and repatriate such money and use the documents to prosecute them.”

“As Minister of Petroleum, NNPC (i.e. Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation) had only two traceable accounts of payment to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), now everybody is doing anyhow.”
He expressed doubt if fuel subsidy was ever removed; transport, housing and food prices would go out of control and the average worker would suffer untold hardship. Who is subsidizing who? They say “remove subsidy”….they want petrol to cost N500 naira per litre.
“If you are working and subsidy is removed, you can’t control transport and market women, the cost of food, the cost of transport.”
“I will study if there’s need to remove subsidy with my experience and see what I can do.”
He lamented that “corruption in Nigeria has virtually developed into a culture where honest people are abused.”

WHAT DOES BUHARI EXPECT FROM NIGERIANS FOR ALL HIS DECEITS?

Would Nigerians rejoice that he suspended a fraudulent subsidy regime under his watch in spite of his exemplary resume of 29 YEARS of experience in the OIL INDUSTRY SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY or applaud him for planning to PERPETUATE APC IN GOVERNMENT on a platform of FALSEHOOD? President Buhari should thank his stars FOR NOT SETTING NIGERIA ON FIRE AS A DEPARTING LEGACY – because the gimmick backfired and the JOKE IS ON BUHARI AND APC!

Shame to Independent Petroleum Marketers of Nigeria (IPMAN), which was ready to reap where it did not sow; shame to APC which has faked the Doctrine of Welfarism and Utilitarianism since 2015!

“THE LORD DETESTS LYING LIPS, BUT HE DELIGHTS IN PEOPLE WHO ARE TRUSTWORTHY.” (Proverbs. 12:22).

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]

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.

Thursday 27 January 2022

IGBOS HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO SHOUT MARGINALIZATION BUT NOT SECESSION!

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. 11.NO 441. 23RD January, 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

IGBOS HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO SHOUT MARGINALIZATION BUT NOT SECESSION!

The fallibility of the human race has been responsible for all inconsistencies of the social order, disagreements, arguments and oppositions when very credible/meaningful engagements should have prevailed over sentiments!

Man remains the pride of creation and his Creator. He was created with much love and gifted with the silver spoon to be fruitful, multiply, subdue and have dominion over all of other creation before him according to divine order!

“Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity”!

The regrettable 30-month Biafran or Nigerian Civil War which origin could be traced to the very first military coup in Nigeria, spear-headed by officers of the Igbo stock began on 6th July and ended on 15th January, 1970, with the declaration of “No victor, no vanquished!”

Late Lieutenant Colonel Chukuemeka Odumegu Ojukwu’s mind- set that the Igbos were being marginalized in the scheme of administration, distribution of amenities and natural national resources by the Northern junta at the helm of affairs, declared the then Eastern Region of Nigeria as another sovereign nation outside of Nigeria to precipitate a war!

Determined that geographic Nigeria must remain one entity according to the declaration at independence in 1960 and also following the failure of many peace moves/agreements foisted by the then Organization of African Unity (OAU) to ensure peace retired General Yakubu Gowon, then military Head of State resisted the secessionist move and wounds/scars of war have refused to heal to date!

THIS EDITOR WAS AMONG THE PRESS DELEGATION THAT TRAVELLED WITH GENERAL GOWON TO ETHIOPIA, ADDIS ABABA EARLY IN 1967 TO BROKER PEACE WITH COLONEL OJUKWU’S DELEGATES WHICH REMAINED ADAMANT UNTIL WAR BROKE OUT IN JULY 1967!

However it is worthy of note that arrow-head of Biafra’s attempted secession late Colonel Ojukwu, before his death pleaded with the Igbo nation to let by-gone be by-gone and for everyone to support the popular doctrine of “TO KEEP NIGERIA ONE IS A TASK THAT MUST BE DONE!

The late Igbo leader returned to Nigeria from 12-year self-exile in Ivory Coast (Cote de Voire), to a hero’s welcome, in 1982, re-instated into the Nigerian Army, collected all of his remunerations and emoluments, recovered all of his late Father’s properties, married a former Nigerian beauty queen, enjoyed a peaceful family life, supported a political party, All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), pleaded with all Igbos to vote for the party during the 2011 Anambra Governorship Election as a honor to him, and he eventually died peacefully on 26th November 2011, and buried in Nigeria with full military honors!

ONE UNITED NIGERIA IS A DIVINE ORDER THAT SHOULD NO LONGER BE CHALLENGED BY THE IGBOS!

Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Nnamdi Kanu, now on trial on 15-count charge bothering on treason/treasonable offences is a proscribed group by the Federal Government of Nigeria, for still agitating for secession [fifty years after the Biafra War], from the State of Nigeria in a MOST VIOLENT AND BARBARIC MANNER that is threatening the very existence of the lives and properties of other ETHNIC GROUPS numbering about 369 across the nation!

Nnamdi Kanu was just a toddler of about three years when the regrettable war ended in January 1970; he was born 25th September, 1967!

Whosoever narrated the unfortunate Biafra War history to him as he grew up did a very damaging evil to his psyche for him to grow up with so much unforgiving anger in his spirit – in spite of persuasion for peace to reign in the South East Geo-Political Zone by the EMINENT ELDERLY OHANEZE INDIGENOUS PERSONALITIES!

And the most unfortunate aspect of THE VERY INCITING CAMPAIGN FOR SECESSION by KANU is that his followers have become more OBSESSED than himself and have also formed mushroom splinter groups that are even more vicious than the IPOB!

These groups operate like DEMONS from the PIT OF HELL in manner they unleash TERROR, the barbaric types of heinous MURDERS, ASSASSINATIONS, KIDNAPPINGS, SLAUGHTERING & DECAPITATION OF IGBO INDIGENES BY THEIR OWN KITH AND KIN – the kinds that have never been witnessed in IGBO LAND, ALL IN THE NAME OF SECESSION?

This Editor from childhood had enjoyed very cordial peer group – schooling/professional relationships with Igbo friends with very fond memories – they are still my very good friends to date!

IGBOS ARE ASSETS TO THE NIGERIAN EQUATION – THEY ARE NOT LIABILITIES!

The Igbo tribe is ubiquitous. Their people are everywhere all over Nigeria, all over the world – in the villages, cities, counties, in the metropolitan and suburbs doing business; occupied in one every trade on planet Earth!

They are the business people in the Diaspora and contracting business deals across board in all countries. They are business-minded people who bequeath the art of commerce/industry from generation to generation! I remember that as far back as the early eighties when CHINA was not very visible in universal commerce/industry, YOUNG IGBO YOUTHS WERE ALWAYS ON THE AIRCRAFT TO THIS FAR EAST NATION AND ALSO TO HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, TAIWAN, JAPAN ETC, !

How did I know? I interacted with many of them – barely twenty-year-olds when changing aircrafts - between 1980 and 1985 at Frankfurt Airport, Germany, simply dressed in T- Shirts, jeans, sneakers and jackets and revealed that most times they could be in the air for over 35 Hours! Definitely those kids are among the over 3,000 billionaires of Anambra and others in Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, and Abia who are not bragging about their wealth! Igbo billionaires compare favorably with their Chinese counterparts in the 21st Century Rocket Science universe!

There is a popular adage which states that WISE PEOPLE should desert communities where Igbos are not domicile because such places will be unprofitable for business and commerce!

IGBOS are calling the shots in all area of the industry as of today – aviation, automobile, transportation, manufacturing, hospitality, fashion, agriculture and mass production of agricultural produce, cosmetics, science and technology/scientific inventions, pharmaceuticals, crude oil exploration, entertainment, tourism, information communication technology (ICT,) education, the teaching profession, (I fondly remember my Igbo History teacher at 0bokun High School, Ilesa, Western State. now Osun. He taught me the subject for only two years and I scored CREDIT in my WAEC in 1963! I was a Science Student until the last two years when I had the only option to cross into an Arts institution before my first external examination).

HISTORICAL FACTS AND ANTECEDENTS OF THE IGBOS!

Prior to the unfortunate Biafra War in which between one to two million people died through war and starvation while properties estimated at millions of British pounds were destroyed on both sides, Igbos Eastern Nigeria extended to Niger Delta, and all the Riverine States of Delta, Cross River, Balyesa, Akwa Ibom, and Abia, were under the military control of the aborted secession bid of Col. Ojukwu!

By implication of geographical location Eastern Region owned all the OIL FIELDS eventually discovered by the military after the war in from 1970 upwards ; BUT COULD THEY BOAST OF ANY WINDFALL FROM OIL PROCEEDS DURING THE 30 YEARS OF MILITARY ABERRATION AND EVEN NOW IN THE 21 YEARS OF A DIARCHY CUM PSEUDO DEMOCRACY?

The Igbos have every right to shout that they are being MARGINALIZED but Not that they want to secede from Nigeria.

Igbos are SENIOR CO-OWNERS OF A PROSPEROUS INDUSTRIOUS, COMMERCIAL NEW NIGERIA OF OUR DREAM WHICH WILL EMERGE IN 2023 ACCORDING TO DIVINE REVELATION!

An Igbo politician is very qualified to become the NEXT PRIME MINISTER OF A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY NIGERIA!

The investments of Igbo entrepreneurs into the Nigerian Project are so enormous that it would amount to monumental loss to opt for secession!

IGBO Elders of no mean stature in Nigerian politics have met with Major General Muhammadu Buhari to seek for a political solution to resolve Nnamdi Kanu’s travails in the courts BUT they need to move further to appeal to the numerous SPLINTER GROUPS OF IPOB (We are told that they are over 200 of them), to sheath their swords!

The Igbos that this Editor has known were peace-loving and very industrious people. In my few days of life, I have never witnessed this kind of monstrous and bestial brutality being meted by Igbos against fellow Igbo brethren.

We want all Igbos (elders and youths), to support the CAMPAIGN FOR THE SHUTTING DOWN OF THE SENATE TO PAVE WAY FOR A UNICAMERAL LEGISLATURE IN THIS FIRST QUARTER OF 2022 THROUGH THE EMPLOYMENT OF A POPULAR REFERENDUM THAT WILL USHER A PRIME MINISTER, COME 2023!

From this platform an Igbo Prime Minister will be our first choice in 2023! When we are bonded in peace and UNITY, victory will flow seamlessly!

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

Thursday 20 January 2022

WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!

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. 11.NO 440. 16th January, 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!

The race to the number one seat, Aso Villa, Abuja in 2023, will not be determined by “Owners of Nigeria” but by the SOVEREIGN OWNER OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH for no man shall prevail by the arm of flesh!

“God changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings; He gives wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding. He reveals the deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness and the light dwells in Him.”

Pre-election year 2022 was inundated from the onset with the frenzied declarations of Nigerian Presidential aspirants of various genres who had waited impatiently to see the senile incumbent depart and make way for fresh blood with cerebral/digital ideas!

As at the last count, not less than ten politicians from both the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and opposition parties have publicly announced their desires while others who wait in the wings are being prodded by overzealous supporters to throw their hats into the ring!

Fortunately for them 2023 is an all-comers affair because the 1999 Military Constitution did not make provision for retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari to seek a third term in office and he is in a dilemma on whom to declare as successor because according to him, “such anointed candidate might lose his life before his time!”

The scramble for the topmost political positions outside of the presidency has also gained such momentum of the 2007 “do-or-die” brazen posture of ex-President Obasanjo who was determined that his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), must win at all costs no matter whose ox was gored!

However on resumption in office late President Umaru Yar’ Adua confessed that “the election that brought him to power had shortcomings and was fraught with flaws!”

HAS ANY ASPIRANT THOUGHT THAT PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY IS THE DIVINE WISH FOR NIGERIA?

Was it not high time the Will of God be done in Nigeria? In a parliamentary system of democratic governance of a state, the executive derives its democratic legitimacy/relevance from its ability to command the support/confidence of the legislature (typically, a parliament to which it is accountable.)

The head of state is distinct from the head of government in contrast to the presidential system where one person usurps both offices and wields draconian powers as being witnessed in Nigeria since 1999!

Parliamentary democracy which is cost-effective elects a ceremonial head of state whose role is always cordial with the head of government who has been chosen from among the legislators and sits daily with them in parliament to run the affairs of government through collective decisions.

The presidential system is very different ball game in that one man decides the fate of the entire population and arbitrarily dispenses scarce resources and squanders such in collusion with a corrupt legislature and the civil servants, because he does not derive his democratic legitimacy from the legislature!

INEC FIXES SIX BY-ELECTIONS FOR FEBRUARY 2022 IN THE FACE OF INCESSANT INSECURITY!

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has fixed Friday 26th February 2022, for the conduct of by-elections for six federal/state constituencies shortly after the Federal Capital Territory Area Council Elections scheduled for Saturday, 12th February, 2022, with a view to having sufficient time to prepare and focus on logistics for the Ekiti /Osun gubernatorial elections and by extension for the 2023 General Elections – all in the midst of chaotic and unceasing insecurity situations across the country.

In all of these political calculations, the “gladiators” remained absolutely focused on their very selfish inordinate ambitions and armed to the teeth to grab both elective/appointed positions at all costs!

And whereas the Ekiti/Osun Governorship elections slated for June and July 2022 respectively plus the Ekiti East 1 State Constituency election sandwiched in-between on the same day as the governorship election of 18th June 2022, are veritable landmines which the Federal Government has not paid enough security attention especially when the nation’s Chief Security Officer dismissed STATE POLICE as an option in solving insecurity - because the Electoral Act 2010 Laws (as amended), would still remain in operation as the harbinger of open doors to multiple forms of malpractices!

Although in a recent media interview, President Buhari promised to sign the new Electoral Act into law if the offending clause “mandating political parties to conduct their primaries through direct elections was removed,”

it is very uncertain that his intentions were genuine considering the slow legislative process which was yet to commence because the National Assembly (NASS), was still on annual vacation and also, the fact that he has less than one-and-a-half-years to finally quit office!

NIGERIAN POLITICIANS BELIEVE IN THE ARM OF FLESH – NOT IN GOD OF CREATION!

“In God We Trust” is the official motto of the United States of America and of the US State of Florida. It was adopted by the US Congress in 1956, replacing E Pluribus Unum (In Many, One), which had been the de facto motto since the initial 1776 design of the Great Seal of the United States. The inscription was signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President to appear on all papers, currencies, coins etc, in recognition of the Almighty God as sovereign over His creation!

The US without an iota of doubt or argument is the most etc, successful world nation - politically, economically, militarily, digital information technology, scientifically, space exploration, etc!

In the case of Nigeria, which is a SECULAR STATE, (meaning a non-religious nation), the motto is, “In arm of flesh we trust”, and the difference between the two nations is a distance between the earth and the moon! While America takes the lead in virtually every classification, indexing, comparative analysis; Nigeria takes the rear or last positions as the worst nation – poverty capital of the world, terrorist destination that should be avoided as plague by foreign investors, tourists, scientists, etc.

ALL POLITICAL ASPIRANTS HAVE BEEN CONSULTING WITH MR. PRESIDENT, PARTY CHAIRMEN, INFLUENTIAL PERSONALITIES AND “OWNERS OF NIGERIA” – BUT NOT WITH GOD, THEIR CREATOR! Question: Who is the owner of Nigeria except the Almighty God! (Psalm 24:1). [Please find below relevant verses of the divine discourse with carnal minds in Psalm 2:1-12].

1) ‘’Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

2) The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

3) Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

4) He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

5) Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

6) Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

7) I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

8) Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

9) Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

10) Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

11) Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

12) Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.”

NIGERIA IS AT THE DEPARTURE LOUNGE TO PARLIAMENTARY UNICAMERAL DEMOCRACY ACCORDING TO DIVINE PLAN!

With a unicameral parliament in place and the scrapping of the SENATE concluded, a Brand New Constitution will take care of all resolved issues of National Restructuring through a popular REFERENDUM then all presidential ambitions will fizzle into illusion!

Citizens of Nigeria would neither be deceived nor browbeaten any more by the antics and desperation of President Buhari and his FAILED All Progressives Congress (APC), administration to further perpetrate the very wasteful military presidential system beyond the year 2023! Presidency will perish with Buhari’s APC!

“Where there is a will, there is a way!”

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

Thursday 13 January 2022

# CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS! [NO.2]. 10-01-22.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT HAS NEVER WORKED, REFERENDUM WILL!- Dr David Olufon.

Just like the 2014 National Conference recommendations for true federalism by 492 selected delegates from the Six Geo-Political Zones of Nigeria ended up in Aso Villa trash bins, so were all Constitutional Amendments documents formulated and compiled to perfect intentional pecuniary gains from the 5th through to the 9th National Assemblies, have turned out to be political exercise in futility!

The National Assembly on assumption of office 1999 discovered ambiguities, inadequacies, irregularities/shortcomings/lacunas which should have prompted quick intervention during the 4th and 5th Assemblies of ex-President Obasanjo's tenure, but delayed the evil day which has eventually reared its ugly head in the form of demands for diverse kinds of RESTRUCTURING, like DEVOLUTION OF POWER from the CENTRE to federating States, RESOURCE CONTROL by Crude Oil producing States, reversal to REGIONAL system of the 1960s and even - SECESSION!

The faulty military document created the stampede of new breed of mercenary "do-or-die" politicians between 1999 and 2019, and the desperados were quick to jump ship from one Party to another as long as they would gain relevance in the band wagon of money-monger gangs and no remarkable achievement was recorded in the direction of drafting/crafting a new Constitution!

In fact, the last exercise of the un-amendable jig-saw puzzles in the 1999 Constitution during ex-President Jonathan's administration was thrown into the garbage bin because of selfish desires of the legislators to whittle down and eventually USURP EXECUTIVE AND PRESIDENTIAL POWERS!

Although the process of amendment of the 1999 Military Constitution as stipulated in SECTION 9 is deliberately made cumbersome through a vote of two-third majority at the NASS and simultaneously in all State Assemblies, to make it absolutely impossible. BUT with a simple YES OR NO plebiscite through POPULAR REFERENDUM, ALL CONTENTIOUS ISSUES WILL BE AMICABLY RESOLVED!

[Please join the campaign for REFERENDUM AND AVOID VIOLENT AGITATIONS! Share and look forward to the NO. 3 Edition in the coming days!].

BUDGET FRAUD IS CRIMINAL - BUHARI’S LEGISLATORS MUST BE CHARGED TO COURT!

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. 11.NO 439. 9th January, 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

BUDGET FRAUD IS CRIMINAL - BUHARI’S LEGISLATORS MUST BE CHARGED TO COURT!

In spite of the fact that Debt-servicing has taken a large chunk of the 2022 Budget Appropriation and that the Concurrent swallowed up Capital estimates, covetous legislators still smuggled into the debt-ridden document, a sum of NGN735.8 billion to “execute dubious and illegitimate CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS!”

According to media reports, the latest whooping NGN17.13 trillion Bill signed into law on 31st December, 2021, by the President was the sixth to be so inflated under President Buhari’s watch! The President had submitted a proposed fiscal budget of NGN16.391 trillion to the National Assembly on Thursday 7th October, 2021!

The visibly shocked President Buhari lamented that the lawmakers “reduced the amount allocated to some projects but added over 6,500 projects of their own to the 2022 budget”!

In the past six years consecutive budgets have been criminally inflated by the National Assembly Legislators as follows: (1) 2017: NGN143 billion; (2) 2018: NGN500 billion; (3) 2019: NGN86 billion; (4) 2020: NGN260 billion; (5) 2021: NGN505 billion; and (6) 2022: NGN735.8billion; all of which were surreptitiously inserted without consultation with the Executive until the very day of presidential signature when it would be impossible for the him to refuse or withhold assent!

OVERSIGHT OR OVER-STEALING?

Nigerian legislators have always hid behind some stipulated sections of the 1999 Constitution which they misinterpret as permitting them to butcher, remove, insert, pad, re-invent, re-create, re-arrange or and generate fresh projects of their own to rubbish the original annual painstakingly, meticulously prepared Executive document which they were privy to and involved in its initial preparation!

***“IN Section 4 (1) - (9) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, legislators are empowered (in a nutshell), (a) to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Federation or any part thereof with respect to any matter included in the Exclusive Legislative List set out in Part I of the Second Schedule to the Constitution, to the exclusion of the State Houses of Assembly; and (b) matters in the Concurrent Legislative List and any other matter with respect to which it is empowered to make laws in accordance with the provisions of the 1999 Federal Constitution.“They are also backed by law to carry out legislative oversight functions on both the Private and Public Institutions, especially the Ministries Departments and Agencies, (MDAs), for the purposes of CHECKS AND BALANCES, to ensure probity, equity in appropriation and execution in budgetary transactions of government at the Federal platforms.

“AND under Sections 88 (1) (2)-89 (1) (2), legislators have powers to conduct investigations into any matter or thing with respect to which it has power to make laws; and the conduct of affairs of any person, authority, Ministry or government charged, or intended to be charged with the duty of or responsibility for executing or administering laws enacted by NASS and disbursing or administering moneys appropriated or to be appropriated by NASS; EXPOSE CORRUPTION, INEFFICIENCY OR WASTE IN THE EXECUTION OR ADMINISTRATION OF LAWS WITHIN ITS LEGISLATIVE COMPETENCE AND IN THE DISBURSEMENT OR ADMINISTRATION OF FUNDS APPROVED BY IT ........ETC!

In all of the above, the Constitution did not expressly permit legislators to butcher budgets to suit their illicit and licentious lifestyle; AND NEITHER DID IT MAKE PROVISION FOR THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (NASS) TO BE MONITORED AND OVER-SIGHTED OR CHECKMATED BY OTHER ARMS OF GOVERNMENT!

As a result of this LACUNA, they have become busy-bodies and meddlesome interlopers and have struggled very unsuccessfully, to take over Presidential functions and power from the EXECUTIVE at every opportunity, through spurious interpretation of their oversight functions, when constitutional INTERPRETATION OF LAWS is the sole function of the JUDICIARY and PROSECUTION OF OFFENDERS, RESTS SQUARELY WITH THE EXECUTIVE ARM OF GOVERNMENT!

TIME FOR EFCC TO OVERSIGHT THE LEGISLATORS AND BRING THE CRIMINALS AMONG THEM TO JUSTICE!

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), boasted of 2,220 convictions across all its commands in the year 2021 which represented a 98.49% success rate in spite of challenges of criminal prosecution in court.

This outstanding achievement is the highest ever recorded by the anti-graft agency since inception in 2003 and it is worthy of celebration in spite of the fact that there was no mention of any high-profile cases involving those who are squandering the nation’s very scarce resources on CARNAL FRIVOLITIES!

POSERS FOR EFCC CHAIRMAN ABDULRASHEED BAWA!

1) Have the functions of EFCC as the lead financial crimes agency of the Nigerian government been limited to prosecution of petty crimes committed by miscreants since his appointment?

2) It is an open secret that INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA has been the bane of good governance since inception and that the real culprits are seated in the LEADERSHIP ECHELON!

3) Is the EFCC chairman unaware that the unbearable spate of insecurity in Nigeria is the brazen institutional robbery of the nation’s TREASURY by the “custodians” through their cronies?

4) Is Abdulrasheed aware of organized financial crimes being perpetrated daily in the Three Arms and the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), are regularly exposed in the public domain by patriotic Non-Governmental Agencies (NGOs), but were neither investigated nor prosecuted because the personalities involved were the “untouchables”?

5) The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice told the whole world that in a period of 2001-2019), budgetary allocation and income from statutory and non-statutory sources totaling a sum of NGN6 trillion naira which was received by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), went down the drains with no projects to show for the humongous amount! In those long years, was the EFCC in limbo in spite of the fact that the Commission operated 362 unhidden Bank Accounts and citizens’ unceasing outcries and allegations of embezzlement against NNDC officers?

6) And whereas the duties of EFCC include but not limited to general investigation, investigation of money laundering, advance fee fraud, bank fraud, economic governance, terrorists financing, countering terrorism, fighting corruptions relating to finance as well as economic funds, miscellaneous offences and other crimes relating to economy and finances, investigations and prosecution, judicial investigations within the mandate of the Commission according to international standards.

ICPC IN 2021 ACCOSTED, ARRESTED AND CONFISCATED, ILLEGALLY ACQUIRED PROPERTIES FROM CIVIL SERVANTS IN PURSUANCE OF ITS MANDATE TO ELIMINATE CORRUPTION IN THE POLITY!

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences (ICPC) recently exposed and arrested civil servants in pursuance of its official mandate of elimination of corruption.

In our recent publication 434th Edition of 5th December, 2021, We highlighted some sterling achievements of that agency as testified to the Chairman, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye himself. Please read below some excerpts of the Chairman’s success story which have been published in the media:

“ICPC CHAIRMAN IS NEW WHISTLE BLOWER WHO CANNOT BE GAGGED!

The Independent Corrupt Practices and related Offences Commission (ICPC), Chairman Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has confirmed that there was gross abuse of personnel budget as duplication of projects by some Federal Ministries Department and Agencies (MDAs), amounting to NGN20,138 billion!

He disclosed that a review by his anti-graft agency revealed that duplication and padding occurred in the implementation of the 2021 Budget which involved about 257 projects adding that ICPC was investigating Ministry of Labour for corrupt employment/ issuance of fake letters of employment and fraudulently enrolling them on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and posting them to unsuspecting MDAs to work!

Also on the ICPC searchlight are the University College Hospital, Ibadan and corrupt staff members of MDAs suspected of massive illegal recruitment!

In his privileged position as an academic and head of such an anti-corruption government institution, Professor Owasanoye’s claims which include but not limited to; massive budgetary scams, unilateral increase in wages, indiscriminate travels resulting in high inflation of personnel budget among other financial improprieties reflecting huge wage bills up to about 70% of annual budget can neither be faulted, wished away nor dismissed!

He also disclosed that ICPC was prosecuting one of the leaders of the syndicate from whose custody several fake letters of recommendation purportedly signed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Honourable Ministers, Federal Civil Service Commission and other high-ranking Nigerians!

In addition CPC also recovered an advance of NGN51billion naira promissory notes from various Real Estate developers dominated by top public office holders who are the fraudulent investors in Abuja, the nation’s capital!

ICPC RECOVERS 300 HOUSES FROM TWO CIVIL SERVANTS IN ABUJA!

In the October, 2021, the ICPC Chairman disclosed at a Public Hearing on Real Estate, organised by the HOR Ad Hoc Committee on Investigation of Operations of Real Estate Developers in the FCT, that the anti-graft agency recovered over 300 Houses from two civil servants in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FTC)!

He expressed dismay that public officers were using real estate developers as conduits for illicit financial flows!

It is therefore gratifying that the House of Representatives (HOR), has already moved to confirm all recent findings of the ICPC boss which were contained in his welcome address at the 3rd National Summit on Diminishing Corrupting in the Public Service and Presentation of Public Service Integrity Award held at the State House Conference Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday 30th November 2021.”

THERE IS URGENT NEED FOR INTER-AGENCIES CO-OPERATION AND SYNERGY OF OPERATIONS!

The EFCC and ICPC Chairmen failed to mention that they synergised in any of their operations which yielded such sterling results but merely gave credit to themselves and their agencies!

It is now very pertinent that a national orientation for collective performance geared towards collective gains be inculcated in all agencies of government both at Federal, States and Local Government Areas and in no time, the common enemies of the societies – terrorists bandits, armed herdsmen etc, will be annihilated for PEACE to reign in Nigeria again.

“It is good for brethren to dwell together in unity ...... “(Psalm 133:1-6).

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

Saturday 8 January 2022

THE “GOOD WORKS” OF MAJOR GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI ARE SWALLOWED UP IN MAFIA CORRUPTION/AUTHORITARIANISM!

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. 11.NO 438. 2nd January, 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

THE “GOOD WORKS” OF MAJOR GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI ARE SWALLOWED UP IN MAFIA CORRUPTION/AUTHORITARIANISM!

[2022 NEW YEAR EDITION].

There is no doubt that the negative ripple effects of sixteen consecutive years of maladministration (1999-2015), by the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (PDP), management team have made minced-meat of assumed claims/achievements, in most areas of the economy and security which President Buhari’s Change administration of six years is gloating about, considering the fact that the over 200 million Nigerian population have condemned him for non-performance!

The following facts are verifiable: that during the PDP era, Nigeria in the year 2000 became the leading petroleum marketer in Africa and was economically upgraded as follows:

1) That CRUDE OIL played a pivotal role and the country’s oil and gas exports of that year accounted for more than 98% of export earnings.

2) Garnered eighty-three per cent (83%), of Federal Government’s revenue.

3) Generated more than 14% of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

4) Provided 95% of foreign exchange earnings, and

5) Accounted for about 65% of government’s budgetary revenues!

However within the FIFTEEN YEARS (2000-2015), of economic buoyancy and national affluence the extravagant lifestyle of political leaders coupled with brazen institutional corruption reversed the trend and fortunes of the nation to deprive the masses of the people of all basic amenities of life!

Unemployment of able-bodied youths, contrary to human rights provisions gave birth to poverty, decadence, degradation and gave vent to crimes/criminalities which attracted international negative indexes in respect of massive corruption through leadership mismanagement of the MONO PRODUCT crude oil accruals, and foreign exchange earnings!

The appalling situation was further compounded when suddenly in December 2013, international crude oil prices plummeted from USD$110 dollars to USD$28dollars until the dramatic emergence in 2015 of APC which inherited a battered economy and an “almost empty treasury”!

WHICH WAS WORSE - 30 YEARS OF MILITARY LOOTING OF THE NIGERIAN TREASURY OR 16 YEARS OF PDP’S BRAZEN INSTITUTIONAL ROBBERY AND CORRUPTION?

The startling revelation that 55 Nigerians in position of authority stole over NGN1.34 trillion naira within a period of 8 years (2006-2013), was never denied by the obnoxious PDP damagers, BUT only very few rogues among them were successfully prosecuted by the Buhari Administration which declared war against corruption right from inception in 2015!

TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL INDICTED NIGERIA AGAIN!

In January 2021, Nigeria dropped from 146th to 149th position in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), released by Transparency International (TI), as a result of glaring failure in the anti-corruption campaign! Nigeria was classified as the second most corrupt country in 2020 – an indication that APC Managers were as bad as their predecessors!

In spite of the classification however, the President and his handlers have scored the leadership very high by claiming that the avalanche and myriads of socio-economic/security/corruption challenges which were inherited from consecutive PDP previous administrations had been largely decimated!

For instance the President and his lieutenants claimed that the Boko Haram’s insurgency which debuted from August 2009, and metamorphosed into a terrorist group was technically defeated between 2015-2016, when Federal troops recovered 17 Local Governments Areas (LGAs), of the Bornu North East State from the terrorists!

BUT contrary to that claim, as of January 2021 to date of this publication, the renegades were collecting taxes from farmers and traders in the North East Bornu including neighbouring North West and North Central States before they could venture into their farms!

(B) Because farmers from those regions have been hampered from cultivating the land by Boko Haram terrorists, armed herdsmen, bandits/gunmen, who kill and slaughter them at random, food scarcity and inflation of goods and services have remained an albatross to legitimate administration - a development that has made non-sense of the Central Bank of Nigeria interventionist agricultural “Anchor Borrowers Programme” which over TWO million farmers are believed to have benefited! Government has played down on rumours of a slide into another economic recession!

(C) Although the incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC), administration claims that “normalcy had returned to those regions except for dastardly attacks on soft targets by the terrorists who still wanted to remain in contention”, it is an open secret that those claims are fallacies and cheap propaganda!

APC’S SCORECARD IN 2021 - COMPLETION OF POWER/ROAD PROJECTS ETC!

*Construction of the abandoned Mambilla Hydro Power Project, Taraba State, commenced in earnest in 2021 and Minister of Power assured Nigerians of early completion and delivery.

*Construction of of the AKK Gas Pipeline, OB3 Gas Pipeline and the expansion of the Escravos – Lagos Pipeline, commenced in the first half of 2021 and ongoing.

*Ease of doing business through liberalisation of the Power Sector which allows for increased private sector participation to generate and sell power has been encouraged to expand the economy.

*Work was intensified on the Second Niger Bridge under construction in Onitsha, South East, which should be completed and delivered in 2022.

*Strategic damaged major bridges across the country are being repaired while in some States new ones are being constructed.

*The National Social Housing Programme got attention with completion of 13 Housing Estates in 2021.

*Construction of forty-Seven (47) ongoing road projects including those leading to major Ports from 2020-2021, are being completed and delivered.

*Refurbished Lagos, Kano, Maiduguri and Enugu International Airports were commissioned in 2020.

*Agricultural rural mechanisation scheme to spread over 700 Local Government Areas (LGAs), over a period of three years, was launched in 2020, to boost massive diversification to agriculture and increase the nation’s internally Generated Revenue (IGR), outside of CRUDE OIL!

*Launching of a Livestock Development Project Grazing Model in Gombe State, where 200,000 hectares of land has been identified began in 2020 and still ongoing.

*The training of 50,000 workers to compliment the country’s 7,000 Agriculture extension workers to increase the workforce to 75,000 began in earnest in March 2021 to boost quality of agricultural produce.

*The Lagos-Ibadan and Itakpe-Warri rail lines were commissioned in the first quarter of 2020.

*The Ibadan-Abuja and Kano-Kaduna rail lines also commenced in the first quarter of 2020.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SOLDIER AND A DEMOCRAT!

QUESTION: How can President Buhari who had been a soldier from his mother’s womb suddenly claim to become a “reformed democrat” because of politics? As soon as he completed his WAEC, he joined the Nigerian Army and reluctantly left when he was forcefully retired with the rank of a Major General through a military coup which ousted him as Nigeria’s Head of State 27th August, 1985!

A soldier is a person who voluntarily submits himself for the service of his country and takes an oath of allegiance to die in defence of his nation’s territorial integrity in the line of duty!

A soldier is immune to fear, frivolities, timidity, empathy etc, in the line of operational duties – especially in war situations! He is ready to kill or be killed! Soldiers hardly enjoy life after retirement because of their regimental mentality!

“ORDER IS ORDER” – is the soldier’s marching order having been programmed to obey orders without question - live and die without questions! Professional soldiers can neither be good administrators nor politicians after retirement by virtue of orientation to “Vertical Order From Above” operational command which they will always expect all citizens to imbibe!

Army power play transcends beyond the barracks! Retired soldiers dare not confront or disobey their superiors –they MUST remain subservient for life!

Retired Genenal Aremu Obasanjo – has publicly told the world that President Buhari was his “junior in the Army” and that he had every right to criticise or correct his actions in government! Buhari has NEVER disputed the fact nor talked back at his superior!

President Buhari’s propaganda that he is a reformed democrat is untenable. It’s nothing but a brazen deceit - a fluke! Since he assumed office he stuck to his 2015 Investiture declaration: “I am for everybody and I am for nobody” – and true to his words, he listened to nobody except the cabal of old friends mostly from the army!

BUHARI’S AUTOCRATIC AND OVERBEARING CHARACTER!

The soldier President is intolerant of opposition or dissenting voices because to him, “Order is Order”! To this septuagenarian soldier the Rule of Law is a paper tiger..... a ruse of law!

DIGITAL AUTHORITARIANISM DUBBED DECREE 4 I984!

During his short tenure as military Head of State from (31 st December, 1983 – 27th August, 1985), Major General Buhari enacted an anti-media law: “Protection Against False Accusations Decree” referred to as Decree 4 which gave his military regime powers to shut down newspapers and radio/tv stations adjudged to be hostile or detrimental to the administration!

It is believed that he intends to subtly re-introduce a similar or worse law to gag the Press through the Press Council Bill!

NOT-TOO-YOUNG-TO-RULE ACT PROPAGANDA!

President Buhari merely signed the Not-Too-Young-To-Rule Bill into law before the 2019 General Elections for very selfish reason and ambition to clinch a second term in office!

He does not seem to believe in the divine order of succession of the young generation of Nigerians as future leaders otherwise he would have spoken, pacify and counsel them as a loving father on 20-10-20 during the #EndSarsEndPoliceBrutality Youth Protest instead of abandoning them to soldiers bullets which sent some of them to untimely deaths!

ANTI-CORRUPTION.

His anti-corruption campaign has turned out to be a political stunt because all those who have either been fingered for the crime, or are already facing prosecution in the law courts are glaringly protected with the connivance of the Courts once they defected to the ruling APC and are treated with kid gloves! Nigerians will not be second class citizens in their country anymore! “Soldier go, soldier come but barrack remains!”

WHAT WILL BUHARI BE REMEMBERED FOR WHEN HE DEPARTS OFFICE “DO’OLE” ON MONDAY, 29TH MAY 2023!

The Grape Vine says, he would be remembered as a “Leopard that cannot change its spots;” because all of his travails are self-inflicted and his “good works” of Change Agenda are just few drops in the ocean – SHI’KEE NA!!

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

Friday 7 January 2022

# CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS! (1).“E PLURIBUS UNUM” – FROM MANY, ONE!- Dr David Olufon

# CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS! (1).

“E PLURIBUS UNUM” – FROM MANY, ONE!- Dr David Olufon.

"E Pluribus Unum", is the United States of America's Latin motto which appears on the nation's coins, currencies and many of its public monuments; which means, "From many, one"! America, a nation of immigrants of different nationalities boasts of a population of over 300 million people of diverse tribes, languages, cultures, castes and traditions with which it has built a united nation in which the American citizen's welfare remained government's priority of action and with such an uncommon policy, is globally classified as the best democracy in about 300 years of existence as an independent nation!

When the Nigerian Military eventually handed over to politicians in 1999, they left behind a very clumsy constitution which further divide instead of uniting the over 500 tribes, about 250 languages, enacted and established a unitary presidential system instead of a true federalism!

Unlike the US, Nigeria’s diversity was deliberately allowed to fester through divide-and-rule land mine bequeathed by the colonialists!

BUT the citizens are now agreed to resolve all controversial and nagging political issues through REFERENDUM! [Please join this campaign that will resolve the nation’s myriads of violent agitations and introduce a period of everlasting PEACE.] Share and look forward to next edition (NO. 2), in the coming days.