BUHARI HAS NO CHOICE THAN TO SUPPORT DANGOTE PETROLEUM REFINERY!

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 458.  22nd  May, 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

BUHARI HAS NO CHOICE THAN TO SUPPORT DANGOTE PETROLEUM REFINERY!

If Alhaji Aliko Dangote had succumbed to President Muhammadu Buhari’s entreaties and pressures to locate his 3 million metric tonnes per annum Fertilizer Complex and the 650,000 barrels per day Petrochemical Refinery in land-locked Northern Nigeria instead of Lekki, Lagos, the nation would have seized to be rated as Africa’s country with the highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to international perception index! 

The business magnate who had put several years of professional research into the entire project which must be accessed by air land and sea, pursued his ambition to locate the magnificent project complex at Lekki Free Trade Zone in Ibeju, Lekki Lagos, Southern Nigeria.

With great foresight, the first phase of the fertilizer project took off Tuesday 22nd March with the commissioning of USD$2.5 billion dollars Fertilizer Plant by the President and export of the it’s products have begun in earnest.

Foreign exchange earnings through these exports should contribute about USD$ 400-500 million dollars into the economy in view of the great demands with employment opportunities of qualified and able-bodied Nigerians in thousand of thousands!

The massive production should also generate adequate domestic consumption and enhance farmers outputs especially now that the Buhari Administration still believes that it could improve on it diversification to agriculture agenda drive before leaving office in 2023.

THE DANGOTE PETROLEUM REFINERY WHICH IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION SHOULD BE READY BEFORE THE DEPARTURE OF THE MAJOR GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI IN 2023.

From conception to actualization the Dangote Petrochemical and Fertilizer conglomerate was a project very dear to the heart of de-tribalized Nigerian and richest man in Africa, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, owner and financier of the

 Left to Mr. President who doubles as the Minister of Petroleum, the project should have been sited in the heart of Northern Nigeria rather than Lagos, the commercial capital which the shrewd and detribalized Nigerian captain of industry feasibility assessment had adjudged as the most appropriate, geo-physical and eco-friendly landscape in the Southern Nigeria!

Northern Nigeria has been desperate to explore and exploit its entire landscape in search of crude oil in order to prove that Southern Nigeria did not have monopoly of Crude!

During the period of the military interregnum it was rumored that oil was discovered in several States but till date there are no physical existence of crude oil in any part of the region!

In February 2020 when Nigeria's Minister of State for Petroleum Resources announced that ONE BILLION BARRELS {1billion),  of crude oil was discovered in Gongola Basin, Nigeria’s North East, it resonated like a comedian’s “April Fool” joke; and for two years on, according to media reports, neither the Federal Government nor the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC),

alluded to the existence of any oil project of such magnitude in 

Gongola Basin! 

GONGOLA BASIN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION IS BUHARI’S PET PROJECT!

We also have it on good authority that the president had passionately championed the Gongola project in more than 40 years but it was not until October 2019, that NNPC announced that crude oil, gas and condensates were discovered in the Kolmani River region at a border community between Bauchi and Gombe States!

It was also revealed that some 19 Northern States in 2007 won Oil Prospecting Licence in  the Gongola Basin for the sole purpose of exploration and exploitation of Crude but with no positive results to date!

Almost all Nigerians believe that President Major General Muhammadu Buhari is the best man to handle the petroleum sector of the nation in view of his “wealth of experience” of several decades!

 But under his watch it seems that his lieutenants who should be trusted, tested experts and technocrats in the field of crude oil dredging, exploration, exploitation and exportation for commercial benefits have been compromised in view of the systemic corruption which had produced several portfolio billionaires from the very sensitive sector of the Petroleum Industry of the Nigerian economy!

Have they all been righteous servants? Can they claim innocence in the allegations that 91% of the foreign exchange earner crude was being stolen by some syndicates?

Beginning from his military career days to date the  petroleum sector has suffered horrible corruption orchestrated even institutionally by stakeholders and key players to the extent that those oil billionaires in Nigeria have surreptitiously taken over the government and formed a cabal around him!

DANGOTE REFINERY COULD NOT HAVE DEBUTED AT A BETTER TIME THAN THIS!

Dangote Petroleum Refinery is covering a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares which is about six times the size of Victoria Island. The 650,000 barrels per day (BPD) integrated refinery project still under construction in the Lekki Free Zone near Lagos Nigeria is expected to be Africa's biggest oil refinery and the world's  biggest single-train facility.

The Refinery will meet 100% of the Nigerian requirement of all refined products and also  have a surplus of each of these products for export. Dangote Petroleum Refinery is a multibillion-dollar project that will create a market for USD$11 billion dollars per annum of Nigerian crude. It is designed to process Nigerian crude with the ability to also process other crudes.

The refinery alone has a 400 MW power plant that is able to meet the total power requirement of Ibadan Disco. It is being built at a cost of uUSD$19 billion dollars in Lagos and has 4.74 billion litres storage capacity and that 75% of its products will be moved by sea within Nigeria.

The project has been delayed by several years and the cost has shot to United States $19 billion dollars from earlier estimate of between USD12 to USD $14 dollars. The refinery should have commenced in 2013 and finished in 2016 if the projection had been right.

Before now Nigeria was Africa’s biggest oil producer and exporter but depended entirely on fuel imports after allowing it's significant refining capacity of 445,000 bpd to become dilapidated over several decades.

WILL FOSSIL FUEL GIVE WAY TO RENEWABLE ENERGY LIKE SOLAR AND WIND TURBINE?

As soon as Dangote expressed his intention to divert to oil and gas, business gurus faulted the venture which they believed would be grounded in no time in view of advanced technology in solar and turbine, which innovation in developed countries have produced carbon-emission-free vehicles/engines and that 

 fossil fuel (coal, oil, and natural gas), which was responsible for greenhouse emissions would be analogue!

We regard this position as very uninformed because developed countries are also still using fossil fuels to run their trains the factories alongside other energy sources like gas and electric.

We have said it over and over again that fossil fuel will continue to produce Man’s Energy Needs as long as the Earth Remains and play major roles in the upliftment of human resources and development. 

Let's assume that the CLIMATE CHANGE could be supported through renewable energies what about intensified Space Exploration Pollution which deplete the OZONE LAYER faster than fossil fuel emission from the earth?

PERENNIAL FUEL SCARCITY WILL FIZZLE OUT WITH DANGOTE REFINERY!

Although Nigerians are still experiencing fuel scarcity through deliberate artificial manipulation by marketers associations, it is believed that the process is a deliberate plan by government and petroleum dealers to set  the stage for Dangote Refinery to break-even when it comes on stream in the last quarter of 2022 and conform with international market forces!

 In the third quarter of 2021, the Federal Government mooted the idea of deregulation of Petroleum downstream Sector but quickly reversed the obnoxious policy because Civil Society Organisations, the Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), promised to ground the economy and also the because contentious policy was too close to the 2022 pre-election year!

Nigerians should support the upliftment of our oil industry which will boost the economy positively through the DANGOTE GENUINE INVESTMENT AS WE LOOK FORWARD TO A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION THROUGH REFERENDUM AND VOTE FOR A PRIME MINISTER IN THE YEAR 2023 TO DOUSE ALL RESTRUCTURING AGITATIONS FOR TRUE FEDERALISM!

“With God all things are possible!”

[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.

HOW NOT TO BE A NIGERIAN PRESIDENT: CHRIS NGIGE AS A TYPICAL GAME PLAYER!

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 457. 15th May, 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

HOW NOT TO BE A NIGERIAN PRESIDENT: CHRIS NGIGE AS A TYPICAL GAME PLAYER!

The three-pronged manifesto of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), of Nigeria from 2015 to date has not changed.

1) Elimination of threat to national security through the escalating Boko Haram insurgency which began in 2009, herdsmen/farmers bloody clashes over the contentious grazing routes, banditry and kidnappings;

2) War against endemic corruption which had become a social norm at all levels of government, private sector and the grassroots; and

3) Deliberate move to tackle the ailing economy through diversification and resuscitate confidence among all citizens.

Opinion polls across Nigeria and the Diaspora as at the close of the seventh year of Major General Muhammadu Buhari in the seat of power is less than 10% of achievements in all sectors – a drop of water in the ocean!

It was believed that the president took his time in 2015 for almost 6 months before choosing his cabinet because he wanted to put the best team on board. In fact among his ministers whom he believed performed creditably well were also appointed to serve in his second term in office from 2019 to date.

Sixty-nine-year-old medical doctor, Chris Nwabueze Ngige erstwhile Minister of Labour and Employment was one of the two-term minister of the Buhari Administration from 2015 and now a Presidential aspirant who believed that he could take over from President Buhari after his second term in office next year.

But he has chickened out from the race having realised that he was a loser from the starting point - a mere appendage among 30 determined and very serious patriotic contenders - judging from his antecedents and pedigree. He had never won an election without power brokers!

MEMORY LANE: ANAMBRA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION IN 2003!

In 2003, Ngige as a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), candidate for the Anambra governorship election knew that he stood no chance of winning without the support of the godfather of Anambra politics (Chief Chris UBA), who insisted that they must visit the famous OKIJA SHRINE to perfect the covenant of a monthly monetary transfer from State Government treasury to him as benefactor!

Although Chris Ngige “won” the election as planned, he however RENEGED the oath of agreement, the bubble burst and the whole world was entertained to the OKIJA Saga published by Uba with back-up pictures of both men dressed in half-naked shrine regalia within the confines of the deity!

A botched attempt was made to take him out of government house through abduction organised in connivance with police authorities! He served less than one term and was manipulated out of office and was unable to win subsequent elections to the anambra government house ever since.

Ngige served as Senator representing Anambra Central Constituency from April 2011 to June 2015, before his appointment as cabinet minister in Buhari’s APC Government from 11th November 2015 to 2022!

NGIGE'S WITHDRAWAL FROM 2023 PRESIDENTIAL RACE!

In a media interview Dr Chris Ngige was asked if the NGN100 million naira to purchase the express of interest/nomination forms was not too exorbitant for a ruling party which has declared war on corruption and he answered in the affirmative that he believed or thought that it should have been NGN 50 million naira.

However he said that the pressure groups and political associates who were sponsoring him and urging him to contest for the highest office in Nigeria would run around and make up for the increase and true to his word on Tuesday 19th April 2022 he publicly declared his interest to contest having paid the said amount!

But in a political somersault Ngige on 13th May 2022, publicly withdrew from the 2023 presidential election having claimed to have discussed with Mr President and also consulted widely with his family, constituents, supporters and well-wishers.

He further said that he would not participate any further in any of the internal party processes of the said election starting with the primary adding that he took the momentous decision firstly in the overall interest of the Nation in order to enable him concentrate on his job and assist the president and the government to weather the difficult last lap in the life of the administration and secondly for other family reasons.

VALEDICTORY SESSION FOR NGIGE AND NINE OTHER MINISTERS WHO SOUGHT FOR ELECTIVE POLITICAL OFFICES!

Dr. Ngige was one of the exiting ministers at the valedictory meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa on Friday 13th May 2022 but in a twist of events he declared that he was no longer interested in the presidential race!

Political analysts punctured the excuses and the assumptions which Ngige has claimed for withdrawing from the presidential primaries which will be coming up at the end of May 2022 for the following reasons:

On his own volition he purchased the forms, collected and filled them according to one of his numerous statements

Having filled the forms he claims not to have submitted them yet.

APC party guidelines requested for all filled forms to be submitted on Tuesday 17th May 2022.

He also claimed that he had not resigned his position as Minister of Labour and productivity and will be resuming back at his desk.

If he had filled the forms as he claimed Ngige would not be entitled to a refund of the NGN100 million naira which he paid into his party’s coffers.

From the onset of his political career according to his pedigree it had all been desperate drive to make monies from politics instead of his profession as a medical doctor

Before he opted to vie for the highest office in the land Ngige was entangled with the Association of Universities Staff Union (ASUU), strike which was not resolved for over TWELVE WEEKS but he cared less AND now he intends to return to the same job he could not cope with!

CONCLUSIONS: Ngige should be tried for ANTI-PARTY activities and be investigated by the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to ascertain hid donation claim alongside other aspirants and NEVER re-absorbed!

The same treatment should be meted to Abubakar Malami, the erstwhile Minister of Justice and Attorney General for the Federation and all others who have indicated intention to withdraw from the race.

FROM ALL INDICATIONS THE ENTIRE PROCESS OF VYING FOR POLITICAL OFFICES IN A PRESIDENCY SUCH AS PRACTICED IN NIGERIA HAS DEFINITELY CREATED MORE CONFUSION THAN SOLUTIONS BECAUSE OF HUGE MONETIZATION OF THE ENTIRE PROCESS!

Like the TOWER OF BABEL all the monetary structures which have been put up for the highest bidders to further keep Nigerians in BONDAGE WILL ALL CRASH AND BE REPLACED WITH A BRAND NEW UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION THAT WILL PRODUCE A PRIME MINISTER FOR NIGERIA IN 2023 AND NEVER A PRESIDENT AGAIN!

[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.

GREEDY NIGERIAN POLITICIANS ARE THE ROTTEN EGGS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM AND THEY STINK!

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 456.  8th May, 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

GREEDY NIGERIAN POLITICIANS ARE THE ROTTEN EGGS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM AND THEY STINK!

The Nigerian government has lived up to it's International index billing as the most corrupt country in the world by shamelessly announcing to the world that 91% of Nigeria's crude oil have been stolen by unknown SOLDIERS OR PEOPLE who will be investigated and brought to Justice!

In June 2012, a foreign ship fully laden with 8.5 million barrels of stolen crude oil disappeared into thin air from the CUSTODY of the Nigerian Navy Niger Delta Region where oil bunkering is the order of the day,!

 

According to new media reports, first quarter January-March 2022, statistics presented at a meeting in Abuja between the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission  (NUPRC), Oil Producers Trade Section  and the Independent Petroleum Producers Group (IPPG), revealed that USD$3.2 billion (NGN1.36 trillion naira) worth of crude oil was stolen from Nigeria between January 2021 and February 2022!

The worst hit areas were the Bonny Terminal Network, Forcados Terminal Network, and the Brass Terminal Network which is notorious for persistent pipeline vandalisation!

Except for the stack illiterates, Nigerians are fully aware that crude oil theft in Nigeria had always been organised crimes masterminded by insiders in government who are the greatest beneficiaries of the national economic sabotage of the worst kind because crude oil is the only foreign exchange earner produce for the country!

AND WHEREAS NIGERIA HAS FOUR REFINERIES - TWO IN PORT HARCOURT AND ONE EACH IN KADUNA AND WARRI - WITH A COMBINED CAPACITY OF 445,000 BARRELS PER DAY. ALL FOUR REFINERIES ARE NON-FUNCTIONAL AFTER BEING SHUT DOWN IN 2020!

Nigerian taxpayers should take note that while workers of these four refineries were redundant Federal Government kept paying salaries to them.

AND to add insult to injury in March 2021 Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Major General Muhammadu Buhari approved another sum of USD$1.5  billion dollars for another round of refurbishing the 32 year-old Port Harcourt Refinery.

We have it on good authority that Nigeria has spent about USD$25 billion US dollars in turn- around maintenance of refineries in the past 25 years and these refineries are not refining any crude oil!

An NNPC audit report in 2020 revealed that three of the four refineries recorded NGN1.64 trillion naira cumulative losses between 2014 and 2018. It further stated that the combined losses from the Port Harcourt Refinery and Kaduna Refinery were NGN 208.6 billion naira in 2014; NGN 252.8 billion in 2015; NGN 290.6 billion naira in 2016; NGN 412 billion in 2017 and NGN 475 billion in 2018!

It is a general principle for NNPC to export Nigerian crude oil overseas for refining at great losses to the Nigerian government which in turn has been deceiving Nigerians in respect of phantom Oil SUBSIDIES which amount into trillions of naira annually BUT with no visible dividends for the Citizens other than increased hardship to procure the divinely-endowed natural resource through corruption-induced and persistent artificial scarcity!

Presently the sum of NGN 4 trillion naira is to be spent on fuel subsidy for the year 2022; an amount that was not reflected in the annual budget for the year!

NIGERIA‘S ADOPTED PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM IS CORRUPTION-LADEN AND STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN!

Were it in a sane clime, these set of politicians would all have been arrested and thrown into detention while their president or head of state forced to resigned immediately but that is not to happen in a country headed by military billionaires whose sources of income are shrouded in secrecy and cannot be investigated?

At their whims and caprices consecutive Nigerian Presidents have  ENRICHED all of their friends and cronies through personal allocations of Oil Wells, Blocs and Allocations which did not pass through DUE PROCESS and therefore have NEVER be accounted for just like the unconstitutional SECURITY VOTES FOR PRESIDENTS AND GOVERNORS!

Up to the year 2020, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and its subsidiaries in the upstream, middlestream and downstream sectors of the petroleum economy could not (for 45 years), officially reveal nor publish daily lifting of barrels per day (bpd), from the Oil Wells and as such it has been a free for all comers!

But in that year a PERFORMANCE DATA which included the 2020 audited financial statements propped up since 1977 when NNPC was first established. The data constitute the following information

1) NNPC Audited Financial Statements 

2) NNPC Monthly Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) Report. 

3) Report on crude oil and natural gas production lifting and utilization.

4) Report on refinery, gas operations, sales and proceeds.

5) Petroleum product supply and distribution report.

WHO WERE THOSE REPORTS PUBLISHED FOR? NIGER DELTA PEOPLE OR THE ENTIRE NIGERIAN POPULATION? ARE THE REPORTS AUTHENTIC? WHO WILL BELIEVE THOSE REPORTS?

Especially when in spite of the three-year consecutive reports from year 2021-2022, the cabal in government was still able to manipulate the oil sector to the extent that 91% of Nigeria's crude oil was stolen without trace?

SO THE QUESTION REMAINS WHO ARE THOSE STEALING NIGERIA’S CRUDE OIL?

If the Niger Delta people in whose domain the oil wealth of Nigeria is domicile, who have suffered untold degradation through exploration and exploitation and after several years of protests and even militant activities resolved to construct their own local refineries to make money out of the “GOOSE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN EGGS” on  their soil, should they not be ENCOURAGED THROUGH LEGAL FRAMEWORK TO BUILD LOCAL REFINERIES AND PAY TAXES TO GOVERNMENT?

IT IS AN OPEN SECRET THAT CONSERVATIVE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENTS SINCE 1999 HAVE DELIBERATELY REFUSED TO BUILD NEW REFINERIES BUT KEPT “REFURBISHING” THE OLD ONES BUILT DURING THE MILITARY ERA TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CORRUPT OFFICERS AND POLITICIANS TO MAKE ILLICIT MONIES WHICH IS THE HALLMARK OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION WHICH PROMISED TO FIGHT CORRUPTION HEAD LONG!

The pre-independence era of Nigerian politics under the watch of the British Colonial Masters did not record massive exhibition of crimes and criminalities which are now festering!

In those good old days petty stealing was not commonplace neither were burglaries nor armed robberies! Nigerians boasted that people forgot bags of monies in public places and returned to pick them up without being tampered with!

But a lot of water have since passed under the bridge and with each passing day of the inflow of CRUDE OIL REVENUE, the inhumans who took over the government shortly after freedom year, introduced brutal force through martial laws into the system and we are in the midst of calamities!

The 30-month-old “Biafra War” (July 1966-January 1970), did not help matters because the proliferation of small arms, ammunitions and weapons took heightened dimension of large scale INSECURITY in which non-state actors who are determined to have their portion of the national cake by force and bloodshed have virtually dismantled Government’s  Security architecture!

NIGERIAN YOUTHS WERE PART OF INSECURITY AND MASSIVE STEALING FROM THE TREASURY AS COUPISTS AND POLITICIANS!

All the military coupists, Heads of State, Governors, Commissioners, Ministers and their Civilian collaborators from 1966-1999, who were aged between 22 and 35 years with very few exceptions, left office very rich and wealthy because there was no LEGISLATIVE BODY TO EITHER OVERSIGHT OR CHECK THEIR EXCESSES!

In 1999 when the military eventually handed over reins of government to the civilians another military head of state was adjudged to have won the elections so that the orchestrated fraud should continue to be perpetrated!

From that period onward, Nigerian youths boasted publicly that they would deliberately seek political offices to perpetrate/perpetuate massive institutional embezzlement of government funds and would neither care nor bother if they ended up in prisons provided they would return to enjoy their illicit, looted funds!

ARISE AND SHINE PATRIOTIC NIGERIAN YOUTHS AND CHANGE THE NARRATIVE!

Nigerian youths should take the lead in the campaign for REFERENDUM to draft a NEW UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION and produce for the country a PRIME MINISTER in 2023!

It is very clear to every Nigerian now that the present set of politicians are nothing but WOLVES IN SHEEP SKIN! Everyone of them was able to pay NGN100 million, 50 million, 40 million, 30 million, 20 million, 10 million naira etc, FROM THEIR BACK POCKETS FOR FORMS OF INTEREST for political offices a country where hyper-inflation had turned Nigerians into a people who now struggle to have a MEAL PER DAY!

IT'S TIME TO SHOW ALL CORRUPT POLITICIANS THE WAY OUT NOW BECAUSE THERE WILL BE NO PRESIDENT NOR BUT A PRIME MINISTER IN THE YEAR 2023!

 STATES STRUCTURE OF GOVERNORS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT CHAIRMEN WILL BE DISSOLVED INTO CONSTITUENCIES WHERE PARLIAMENTARIANS WILL EMERGE TO FORM A CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AND PICK ONE OF THEM AS HEAD OF GOVERNMENT!

 

[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.

“IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP FROM YOUR COMA –‘WOLE SOYINKA, ‘BOLAJI AKINYEMI, PAT UTOMI!”

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 455. 1st May, 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

“IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP FROM YOUR COMA –‘WOLE SOYINKA, ‘BOLAJI AKINYEMI, PAT UTOMI!”

From Independence no single political party was able to form a government at the centre without numerical support from others. 

In 1960, the Northern People’s Congress (NPC) formed an alliance with National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), to form a National Government in which majority Northern Representatives dominated the political space to the detriment of vibrant political ideologies and intellectualism which was the hallmark of the South!

The Action Group, a South-West political party dominated by articulate membership, was sidelined in the merger because it was convenient for NPC to fly with a bird of the same feather!

And whereas what the nation desired was neither the dominance of TWO mega parties nor  the proliferation of motley associations but of people of vision, ideas/ideals skills, diligence, innovation, inventions etc, that will move governance and economy in the right directions to the benefit of the masses for egalitarianism. 

However, Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo Chief Ladoke Akintola, the Sadauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Chief Anthony Enahoro and several other distinguished Nigerians were all founding fathers among several articulate patriots of the post independence period who believed in a bonded Nigeria in spite of its social/cultural diversities, they all decided to accommodate the political scenario/arrangement for what it was worth!

BUT the idea that a supposed Northern demographic majority must always have political dominance over other components of the Nigerian Federation MUST be ɗefeated to call the BLUFF that no Southern President could emerge without the support of the North!

Political pundits have always blamed the imbalance in governance at the Federal level between the North and the South to the deliberate thrust of power into the hands of the North by the British colonial masters in the years leading to and following independence.

There were three cabinets. The first was established in 1957 when Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was appointed Prime Minister by the British Governor-General. The second was formed after the General Elections of December 1959 just before independence in a coalition government. And the third was formed after the disputed General Elections of December 1964 and was dissolved after the military coup of 15th January 1966!

Following 13 years of military rule in 1979, another northern politician in the person of Alhaji Shehu Shagari who was the flag bearer of the National Party of Nigeria, (NPN), who narrowly defeated Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), and held sway from 1979 to 1983 before he was overthrown by Major General Muhammadu Buhari, at the beginning of his second term in office!

The TWO mega parties were relegated to the archives while Buhari tried his hand on some Socialist ideologies before being ousted in another military coup in 1984 by General Ibrahim Babangida!

THE MILITARY PRESIDENT IBRAHIM BABANGIDA AND HIS TWO EXPERIMENTAL PARTIES!

Retired General of the Nigerian Army, Ibrahim Babangida was a Military President of Nigeria from 1985 until his resignation in 1993.

He had to form TWO “detribalized political parties” named Social Democratic Party of Nigeria (SDP), and National Republican Convention (NRC), as part of a democracy project which he foisted through manipulative agenda to further perpetuate himself in office indefinitely but which turned out during the 1993 Presidential Election to be his albatross!

Because the idea of two mega parties was rooted in governance to run national affairs, SDP and NRC were doctrined to be one slightly to the left and the other slightly to the right in ideologies when they were both founded in December 1989 after 13 prospective parties were banned by his administration in order to create room for his new experiment!

 He encouraged the youths and radical intellectuals including socialist groups to join the parties which manifesto was precipitated on social justice and an improved welfare package for all citizens!

BUT THE ‘WOLE SOYINKAS, BOLAJI AKINYEMIS, JIDE OSUNTOKUNS, PAT UTOMIS OF NIGERIA NEITHER BELIEVED THE SOLDIERS NOR THE POLITICIANS!

As far as these set of academicians were concerned, Nigerian politics was a dirty game especially when institutional corruption, was always celebrated, election rigging, ballot box snatching, murders, assassinations and blood shedding became weapons of electioneering from campaigns to declaration of results!

So what was their resolve? From one administration to another they watched from a distance. Some of them picked up appointments from the military like Professor Wole Soyinka the Nobel laureate who in 1977 supported the military administration in Oyo State Nigeria to establish the Oyo State Road Safety Corps which made some local significant improvements in road safety and road discipline in the State. Professor Bolaji Akinyemi took up appointment as Minister for the Ministry of External Affairs but others just left everything to fate!

But at the exit of the military which handed over to a retired General Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999 political watchers noticed the insincerity of the khaki boys who still wanted to participate in civilian democracy And true to speculations the cabinets at the Federal and State levels including the legislative houses  - the Senate and the House of Representatives - were filled with retired soldiers who claimed to have become Democrats of the TWO emerging parties – Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and All Progressives Congress (APC).

AND NOW a clarion call for a THIRD POLITICAL FORCE to take over power from THE RULING PARTY AND THE OPPOSITION is gaining momentum BUT WE ARE NOT UNMINDFUL THAT THE PROPONENTS are the political jobbers who would rather prefer the status quo to remain!

Presidency is DEAD in Nigeria and should be laid to REST!

TWENTY-TWO YEARS OF PRESIDENCY IN NIGERIA HAS TURNED THE NATION INTO A LAUGHING STOCK LABELLED AS THE POVERTY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD!

For a developing country such as Nigeria a PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT should not have been an option therefore all the intellectuals that have been mentioned in the preceding paragraphs must now wake up to support the campaign for REFERENDUM  CLAUSE TO BE URGENTLY INSERTED in the existing 1999 MILITARY PRESIDENTIAL CONSTITUTION so that all restructuring agitations by well-meaning and patriotic Nigerians would be decided by the citizens without rancor or bloodshed and every insecurity will come to an end!

The current crop of Nigerian politicians are very much aware that the only solution to the persistent insecurity in the country is the ADOPTION OF A PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THROUGH A BRAND NEW UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION  which is virtually cost-free but they prefer prodigality in order to squander the God-given resources of the Nation for themselves and their cronies!

A CALL TO NATIONAL DUTY  TO THE INTELLECTUALS - FOR URGENT ACTUALIZATION OF THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS!

A BILL FOR THE ENACTMENT OF A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT TO BE USED IN THE CONDUCT OF THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS BY THE INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC), WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY!

THE NEW PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION (TO BE DRAFTED WITHIN THREE MONTHS), SHOULD BE TAILORED TO OUR LOCAL NEEDS TO EFFECTIVELY ERASE THE PRESENT BICAMERAL SYSTEM THROUGH THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SENATE, THE GOVERNORSHIP STRUCTURE AT STATE LEVELS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN THE GRASSROOTS.

 IT SHOULD IDENTIFY DESIRED NUMBERS OF REPRESENTATIVE PARLIAMENTARIANS TO BE ELECTED FROM THE SIX GEO-POLITICAL ZONES AND FROM WHOM A PRIME MINISTER WILL EMERGE!

A parliamentary system of government is grassroot-friendly and gives opportunity for all citizens from all cadres of life to participate and contribute effectively in the governance of their country. Most parliamentary governments of the world are very successful. Britain, Austria, India, Bangladesh Bulgaria Czech Republic Ethiopia Finland Germany Greece to mention a few practise this system and have been growing and flourishing economically with virtually zero tolerance for crimes and criminality!

Unlike the presidential system, Prime Ministers may be removed from power whenever they lose the confidence of a majority of the ruling party or of the Parliament. The parliamentary system originated in Britain and was adopted in several of his former colonies. It was practiced between 1957-1966 in Nigeria before the military truncated the new democracy!

 PATRIOTIC NIGERIANS EXPECT OUR INTELLECTUALS TO ACT SWIFTLY WITH WISDOM AND PRECISION TO ACTUALIZE THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM WHICH IS THE ONLY PANACEA TO COMPLETELY ERASE THE PERSISTENT INSECURITY WHICH HAS CONSUMED BOTH THE CITIZENS AND THE ECONOMY OF NIGERIA AT AN ALARMING RATE. THERE IS NO TIME TO WASTE!

“With God, all things are possible!” Amen.

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

 

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