Security agents aiding Boko Haram – Oritsejafor

by Orkula Shaagee 

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Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor of the Word of Life Bible Church is noted for being outspoken on national issues. Oritsejafor, who is also the President of Christian Association of Nigeria (ACN) and Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), spoke to reporters in Warri on the recent declaration of Boko Haram to cease fire, the conditions for cease fire and those behind the sect, among others. Excerpt:

Just recently, the Boko Haram sect announced their readiness for cease fire giving some conditions such as release of their members in detention, that the dialogue should hold in Saudi Arabia. It also named former Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari and Ali Mongumo to be members of the to mediate on their behalf in the ceasefire. They also demanded for the arrest and prosecution of former Borno State Governor Ali Modu Sheriff. What is your reaction to this?

First of all, is this really Boko Haram? I don’t know. I want to sit back and watch the unfolding events, because what we are hearing is much more interesting than what we are seeing.

So, my first question is, is this really Boko Haram or is it somebody else? We will know in the next few days whether it is Boko Haram or not. The next question is, are they sincere if actually they are Boko Haram or it is just blackmail. I am puzzled, I don’t understand how a criminal terrorist organization would give conditions to a legitimate sitting government of a country.

There are many things I would want to say, but again like I said earlier I am learning more to understand it more.

But if you have heard me say some things in the past, as time goes on I will be vindicated in Nigeria. The thing about truth is that you can’t bury it. Jesus in the Bible is referred to as the truth, they killed and buried him, but the third day he rose again. So there is nothing much you can do about truth. I would advise that we work for and with the truth. Why Saudi Arabi? So many whys; so many things to look at in the whole thing. Why Buhari, why all those names?; these are the things going on in my mind. To me what has happened raises more questions than answers, so this is as far as I can go for now. A day or two after that, a retired General was killed; so the questions keep increasing, I am a little puzzled. So, I reserve my comments for now.

How sincere is the Federal Government in handling the Boko Haram issue?

Oh! The sincerity of the Federal Government on the problems on ground, first of all I am not a member of the Jonathan cabinet, so I am not in the inner circle, I am not in the government and I don’t know anything that goes on in the government, so it will be hard for me sitting here to tell you how sincere he is but I will be surprised if President Goodluck Jonathan is not sincere, because it won’t do him any good.  He has nothing to gain from Boko Haram destroying Nigeria. First of all, it will not be good of him to be said it was during his time as president that an extremist group broke up the nation. Second, I believe as a good president he would want to do something for this country, but in this kind of situation, what can he do? Challenges come at different levels, ways and forms; so I think in my opinion he is sincere, whether they are doing enough is another thing.

There are many things that I think need to be done. For example, there is need to look again at the security agencies, they need to be trained and retrained, and constantly retrained.

If you look at the police, to be specific, they are under-equipped, under-funded and the problem with funding again is fraud, because there is no part of Nigerian that you don’t find fraud. Everywhere you turn to and loom at there is fraud. Greed in Nigeria is so high.

He must find a way of funding the police and bring them up to date with what is happening in the world.  Their salary should be increased, because you don’t expect a man earning a meagre amount to risk his life and die for how much you will give him. Even after you provide the good weapons, he has a wife  and children. What is going to happen to them, how much has he been able to save, what kind of pension does he have, what kind of security have you put in place for his future and his family? These things must be looked at.

There is another very sensitive issue. Among our security agents, there are some who are more loyal to their religion than Nigeria, it is a major problem and we all pretend.  Most of our security agents don’t believe in Nigeria the way they believe in their religion, they are ready to sell Nigeria and protect their religion and that is dangerous for a country like Nigeria, and I don’t know how far we can go as a nation. Many times, Boko Haram gets information about their movement, plans and intentions before they are carried. From who? From the same people who are planning it. It is a major thing that President Jonathan would look at, and God should help him find few trusted capable hands who will help him look for ways to fish out some of these people, some of whom are in strategic positions; so that if they know them, remove them and make them redundant and send them to places where they cannot get information and put then right people in right places. It may help.

Finally, Muslim leaders must go beyond condemning it. Boko Haram is first and foremost a fundamentalist ideology. They are Islamists, who take ideas from the Quran, not from the Bible. If they took it from the Bible, probably they would have invited people like us now that they say they want to dialogue, but you can see the list of names, they can’t invite people like us.

So, whatever way you look at it, there are certain beliefs they have and it comes from a certain very important holy book. So, they should look for the Sheiks, Imams and some of these people that may know these people and get in contact with them and convince them that Nigeria cannot be Somalia, Afghanistan and Nigeria cannot become a country of one religion. It is not possible.

The Imams who teach every Friday in the Mosque must begin to teach every average Muslim that this is their country; they should not say things that will help separate Nigeria from their minds. What I am saying is that we can join hands, they can work and we will support them in any way they want us to help fish out these people in their midst. They are giving a bad name to a great religion. I know there is fear, some are afraid they will kill them, but life is full of racers, you cannot live in this world without race. So, if you don’t want to take a risk with Boko Haram, you may take a risk with another thing tomorrow. Why not take this risk and have a better future. Look at the economy of the north now, it is gone.

What is your advice to others outside sports and security?

I am troubled by what is happening in Nigeria today, with regards to what our politicians are doing. So my advice is that those coming after them should know that there are many things more than acquiring wealth. There is nothing wrong in acquiring things, but if you cannot afford it, leave it alone. Life is not about what you have, life is about who you are and what you do with what you have, that is what it is all about.

What is the experience like, having spent 40 years doing the work of God, what are the challenges, the high points and low points?

To be a pastor for 40 years definitely there are so many challenges. Anyone who is an achiever, there must be problems somewhere, achievers are not ordinary people, extraordinary people because success and trouble were born on the same day, so when you see success, you see trouble, they go together. People who want success should be ready for trouble. So, when you talk about high points and low points. The one I have been sharing in recent times is I was married for 20 years and my wife died, that was my low point in my 40 years of ministering. It was very painful, a woman you slept on the same bed with for 20 years. In fact, she even died in my hands. It was painful.

As a pastor, people think you are not human being, though you have a head, two eyes and two legs like them. Pastors go through hard time, they go through pains.

But after her death, God was good to me because about two years later, I met my present wife, an incredible woman. God used her to wipe my tears, took away the pain and sorrow, and changed everything. I am so grateful to God.

I don’t feel that pain anymore; all that I feel now is joy and fulfillment, because of what He has done for me.

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CPC Tackles Presidency Over Link With 2011 Polls Violence

  RICHARD ABU

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has lambasted the presidency over what it called “uncivilised attack” on its national leader and presidential candidate in the 2011 election, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.
The party particularly took on the senior special assistant to the president on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, whom it said, made “cavalier, but utterly fatuous statements” against Buhari.
In a statement issued yesterday, CPC’s national publicity secretary, Engr. Rotimi Fashakin, said that Okupe, in a reaction to Buhari’s rejection of Boko Haram’s call to mediate between it and the federal government on a Channels’ interview on Thursday, “abandoned reason as a tool for dialectical engagement (based on verifiable fact) and sounded like a broken record in mouthing the same over-used propaganda (not based on substantiated fact), that Buhari incited his supporters to resort to violence during the 2011 polls.”
At an interactive session with journalists after the CPC Board of Trustees’ meeting on Wednesday, Buhari had labelled the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government of President Goodluck Jonathan “as the author of the political variant of Boko-Haram.”
Fashakin expressed shock that Okupe could dare to say that during the 2011 campaigns, “Gen. Buhari himself campaigned for violence, so it is too late in the day to try to back track. Those who sow wind should not try to look good.”
The CPC chieftain noted that it was this same “capricious but unfounded falsity’’ that the special adviser to the president on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, Okupe’s colleague, wrote in his Guardian newspaper column in May 2011.
“For the sake of preserving the records from the desperate attempts of revisionists in the nation’s power corridor, let us examine again the facts that stare us in the face about the consanguinity of this PDP-led federal government of President Jonathan, with the political Boko-Haram that had, in the last two years, inflicted incalculable damage on the essence of our nationhood.
“Fact one: Since the advent of the Fourth Republic on May 29, 1999, aside the agitation of the Niger Delta militants for resource control, there had not been any structured infrastructure for mass attack on innocents and religious institutions as has been seen in the last 25 months.
While Dr Jonathan was still vying for the presidential nomination of his party, there was a bomb blast near the Eagle Square, Abuja during the Independence anniversary celebration on October 1, 2011. Whilst the dust was still settling on an infamy that claimed innocent lives with many others severely wounded and without any preliminary report from the security agencies on the incident, the president spoke, saying, ‘It is not MEND.’
“A perspicacious check on the president’s statement would suggest that he had prior knowledge of the source of the blast. Of course, in the succeeding days, the campaign manager of one of the political elements (from northern Nigeria) that was contesting the party nomination with him was invited for questioning by the nation’s secret service as a way to deflect public gaze towards him. When he withdrew his candidacy, the president quickly incorporated his campaign manager into the ‘Goodluck Jonathan campaign organisation!
“Fact two: In May 2011, Dr. Abati, then chairman, Editorial Board of Guardian Newspapers and Friday columnist of the same tabloid, wrote a piece in which he laid the blame of the post-election violence of April 2011 elections at the doorsteps of Buhari. It did not matter to the writer that he had no empirical evidence to support his impudent assertion.
“Curiously, it was upon this decrepit literary predication that all other spurious attempts (on the Cyber-space and Nation-space) were based. After President Jonathan was sworn in on May 29, 2011, here placed his former special adviser on Media and Publicity, Ima Niboro, with Abati! The question is: Was this appointment a fitting reward to Dr Abati for the hatchet job of assisting to blacken Buhari’s pedigree?
“Fact Three:  On Friday, August 26, 2011, the United Nations’ building in Abuja was bombed by a suicide bomber, leaving trail of several fatalities and many others with serious injuries. Asked if the attack had adverse effect on the image of Nigeria, the president said, “Of course, you could have terrorist attack in any country, Nigeria is not an isolated case. Many countries have suffered from terrorists attacks; maybe it is the turn of Nigeria. But we are on top of the situation.”
On the first anniversary of the bombed UN building, the government of Dr Jonathan provided N3.2 billion to rehabilitate the UN House, made up of N2.6 billion to start the building and N600 million to provide temporary accommodation, in addition to promised refund of $580,000 for the treatment of victims. It did not really matter to this profligate PDP government that the UN, in its worldwide operations, has comprehensive insurance for its buildings and workers, even against terrorism! Was the offer by the government of Dr. Jonathan made because it is Nigeria?’’
Fashakin further cited Jonathan’s disclosure that his government had been infiltrated by Boko Haram, the trial of Mohammed Ali Ndume, a serving PDP senator from Borno South over alleged link with Boko Haram, erstwhile National Security Adviser to the president, Gen. Andrew Azazi’s assertion that the PDP was responsible for the activities of the sect as proofs that the ruling party was responsible for the ranging violence in the country.
Leadership

Africa Cup of Nations 2013: Why Nigerian viewers may miss out

As the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) draws closer, many Nigerians may not be able to watch the Super Eagles due to high tariffs being demanded by TV rights owners Direct 8 for terrestrial TV stations in the country.
According to a veteran sports journalist and CEO Master Sports international, Mitchel Obi: “Right owners (Direct are demanding about 6 million Euros for terrestrial TV stations to broadcast AFCON 2013 matches live to Nigerian homes” . What this entails is that only Nigerians with access to satellite TV may be able to see the live games if this impasse is not resolved.
Last year, the French owned TV station Direct 8 announced it had secured rights to the 2012, 2013 and 2015 editions taking over from French telecom brand Orange which held rights for the 2010 tournament held in Angola.
However, Direct 8′s association with AFCON has witnessed lots of controversies over TV rights. Most viewers in the continent were unable to see live away games of their teams during the qualifying round for AFCON 2013. This was also attributed to the high tariff demanded by Direct 8.
More so, in the build up to the last AFCON in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, several African countries like Zimbabwe, Zambia and Botswana complained about high charges and their inability to showcase the continent’s biggest football showpiece to their citizens.
Back in January, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Commission’s public relations manager Sivukile Simango queried the rationale behind the exorbitant charges by TV rights owners. According to him, “… if all countries pay that ridiculous amount some people will become very rich, but at whose expense? Why is an African tournament priced so exorbitantly?”
With the AFCON 2013 about two months away (January), the Confederation of African Football may have to wade if the continent’s football body wants to see its premier football competition in as many homes as possible in the continent.
 DailyPost

Heartbroken female student of University of Ibadan attempts suicide by drinking bleach

Dumped by her boyfriend, a student of the University of Ibadan (UI), drank bleach in anger.
The 100- Level student in the Faculty of Arts was said to have taken the solution, a product called Hypo, on Sunday when her lover, a student of the same university, told her it was over between them.
Students of the university are currently writing their second semester examination which began about two weeks ago and will be concluded by the end of this month.
Nigerian Tribune gathered from campus source that the lady was rushed to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, to save her from dying.
It was learnt further that the news of a serious damage to her kidney had spread on the campus.
A singing sensation on campus was said to have quickly waxed a hip hop lyric entitled “Hypo Love” to teach other students, especially ladies, the morals of the incident.
A source within the university said the lady is now fit and back in school after the poison was flushed out of her system at the institution’s Jaja Clinic.
However, he could not confirm why the lady decided to take the bleach as investigation into the matter was still ongoing as of press time.
 DailyPost

Scandal: “Uba duped me of N21 billion” – Cosmas Maduka, “It’s lies designed to take over my company” – Ifeanyi Ubah

 

by Rachel Ogbu
Cosmos Maduka, president of Coscharis Group, has taken to the media to demand a supposed N21 billion debt owed him by Ifeanyi Ubah, Capital Oil boss.
Maduka who returned to the country at the weekend was ready for showdown with his former business partner and threw more light on the raging loan saga with Capital Oil and Gas Limited. He vowed that he would use every legitimate means at his disposal to recover the debt, which according to him, is owed him by Uba.
“I will collect my money to the very last kobo,” Maduka said an alleged breach of contract between his company and Capital Oil which he said culminated into a loss running into billions of naira.
“The case is already a subject of litigation in court and I don’t want to comment on it,” Ubah said. “But I know that the target is my business; they want to take over my assets and they would stop at nothing, including lies to achieve their target.”
The problem began after Maduka’s Coscharis Group entered into a Joint Venture (JV) deal with Capital Oil for importing and distributing petrol.
Maduka said he really went into the fuel business with Capital Oil because he  sympathized and wanted to bail the young Ubah out of a credit crunch crisis as most Nigerian creditor institutions had refused to advance him any form of loan for his business. Vibrant Venture Limited was later appointed as a warehousing agent for the joint venture partnership.
Maduka claimed after the joint venture deal was sealed, both companies were able to secure a loan from Access Bank for the importation of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol), but he alleged that Ubah and his company breached the terms of the deal by engaging in the diversion of the imported products and other fraudulent activities which had marred the ability to execute the joint venture deal as a profitable establishment.
“Capital Oil’s diversion of these products in collusion with the shippers has made the repayment of the facility schedules to come from sales proceeds impossible,” said Maduka. “Accordingly, the exposure to Access Bank Plc stands at about N21billion while interest rate accrues. Capital Oil has also refused to release the 56,568,587.11 litres of PMS in the designated tank farm for this transaction under the management of our warehousing agent in its tank farm, for disposal to facilitate payment of our financial obligation to Access Bank.”
Maduka who hails Nnewi, Anambra State, same as Ubah said he had to report Uba to the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) when every effort to get Uba to live up to his contractual obligations in respect of the petrol import deal (including a meeting called by the traditional ruler of their town) failed to get Uba to the round table to sort out the matter.
Maduka showed Daily Sun various documents sourced from regulatory agencies to back up his allegations that Capital Oil did breach its terms of contract by not executing the letters of credit it collected for importing and discharging products in Nigeria so it could make claims to be reimbused by the government under the fuel subsidy scheme.
“These products did not arrive,” Maduka said of the breached contracts. “And when Capital Oil was asked for the whereabouts of the products, no satisfactory answer was provided,” he added.
Ubah acknowledged Access Bank as its creditor “financing over 70 per cent of its importation” deals. Ubah who honoured an invitation by the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigerian Police on October 9 was detained till October 19 due to allegations of corruption – collecting subsidy funds without importing products – brought against his company by the Presidential Committee, incidentally headed by the managing director and chief executive officer of Access Bank Plc, Mr. Aig-Imoukhuede.
Ubah’s Capital Oil has in response to these allegations, absolved itself of any form of corrupt act, noting however that the Access Bank chief lacked the moral credibility to probe an industry in which he was also an operator with equity stakes in some of the oil importation firms, just as it alleged that Access Bank stood the greater chance of taking over its assets if its CEO, now auditing the industry, was left to have his way of barring the government from settling fuel subsidy debts owed the firm over a long period of time.
Such delay translates to the accumulation of more debts as the oil firm is inhibited from timely settlements of its debts to the bank and with more interest default payment fines coming, in the company could go bust, thus paving the way for a creditor to take over.
According to records initially released by Ubah’s aides, the company is owed about N14 billion in subsidy refund (otherwise known as Sovereign Debt Notes, SDN) while the monthly interest on the N21 billion loan secured through Coscharis is put at about N380 million “The allegations are spurious, they border on the absurd and merely intended to pull us down in order to achieve Aig-Imoukhuede’s dream of aiding his company – Access Bank – to frustrate our business activities and take over our company,” said the oil firm. It noted that the bank checked every stage of the importation process to satisfy itself that the importation was actually carried out.
In effect, the investigation that Mr. Aig-Imoukhuede is currently carrying out on Capital Oil is an indirect investigation by his bank. “ Given the present circumstances, we strongly believe that it is most unethical and contrary to natural justice, equity and good conscience for Aig-Imoukhuede to continue to chair any committee charged with the responsibility of verifying the subsidy refund claims. “Because his bank is part and parcel of the whole transactions having financed them and, therefore, stands to benefit from any prolonged delay in the payment of the subsidy refunds to us.” But all these do not seem to impress Maduka.
According to him Aig-Imoukhuede’s character and integrity can never be faulted. He insists Ubah is just throwing so many things into the fray to confuse the public and divert attention from what the questions really are. “He should tell us: where is the consignment for which he drew on the letter of credit? We have evidence to show that the consignment was shipped, we have the bill of lading, but there is no record to show that the products ever got to Nigeria. If they did, let him show us the documentation”, Maduka maintained.
The Coscharis boss said the claim that the bank processed and received the SDN for the missing four shipments is a different kettle of fish and does not prove that the shipment ever got in. He said that of the 10 Letters of Credit opened for Capital Oil, Ubah only partly delivered on the first six while the last four simply vanished. What that means is that, of the 377,400,033 litres of petrol paid for, only 197,093,412 litres was delivered. The rest which left their country of origin for Nigeria since September 2011 have yet to arrive. To this development, Maduka says: “we have comprehensive insurance for the consignment. If it sank with the ship or got burnt on the way, let him provide the details so we can file for claim with the insurance company.”
“It is even more understandable if the shipment came and they said the product was contaminated or substandard, or even got caught up in the exchange rate somersault and he, therefore, sold at a loss. I can understand all that. What I can’t understand is this idea of the entire consignment disappearing into thin air.”
Producing documents to prove the transaction that allegedly saw him borrowing money for Capital Oil and how the entire transaction was properly structured from the onset, Maduka lamented, “What this means is that I am losing N21 billion and somebody says I should keep quite! I will get my money, even if it is the last thing I do. I am ready to die doing just that.”
 YNaija.com

The Legendary Boxer Mohammed Ali's advice to his daughters

Moral Lessons

An incident transpired when his daughters arrived at his home wearing clothes that were quite revealing. Here's the story told by his daughters.

"When we finally arrived, the Chauffeur escorted my younger sister, Laila and me up to my father's suite. As usual, he was hiding behind the door waiting to scare us. We excahnged hugs and kisses as we could possibly give in one day. My father took a good look at us, then he sat me down on his lap and said something that I will never forget. He looked me straight in the eyes and said; 'Hanna, everything that God made Valuable and Precious in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find Diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find Pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find Gold? Way down in the mine, covered over and protected by layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get them.' "He looked at me with seriousness in his eyes. 'Your body is Sacred. You are far more Precious and Valuable than GOLD, DIAMONDS and PEARLS, and you should be covered too.' Satan is preaching the message of NUDITY today because he knows that if a man looks at a woman lustfully, he has had sex with her. Be careful how you dress. Send this to all your sisters, daughters, nieces and girls in your life, their bodies are the temple of God!!!

OKUPE’s unintelligent response to Buhari’s statement - CPC Press Release

At the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), we have noted the cavalier, but utterly fatuous, statement by Dr Doyin Okupe, the Presidential Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, as a reaction to the assertion of our National leader, General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB). It would be recalled that, at an interactive session with

Journalists after the CPC Board of Trustees’ meeting on Wednesday, November 07, 2012, GMB had unambiguously labeled this PDP government of President Goodluck Jonathan as the author of the political variant of Boko-Haram.

At a Channels’ interview session on Thursday, November 08, 2012, Dr Okupe abandoned reason as a tool for dialectical engagement (based on verifiable fact) and sounded like a broken record in mouthing the same over-used propaganda (not based on substantiated fact) that GMB incited his supporters to resort to violence during the 2011 electioneering campaigns. He said inter-alia:

“during the election, during the campaign, General Buhari himself campaigned for violence, so it is too late in the day to try to back track. Those who sow wind should not try and start and begin to look good.”  

It was this same capricious but unfounded falsity that Dr Reuben Abati, his colleague in the business of image laundering project for President Good-luck Jonathan, wrote in his Guardian Newspaper column in May 2011; the subject of a libelous litigation that Abati is desperately making attempts to untangle himself from.

For the sake of preserving the records from the desperate attempts of revisionists in the Nation’s power corridor, let us examine again the facts that stare us in the face about the consanguinity of this PDP-led Federal Government of President Good-luck Jonathan with the Political Boko-Haram that had, in the last two years, inflicted incalculable damage on the essence of our Nationhood.

Fact one- Since the advent of the fourth republic which effectively started on May 29, 1999, aside the agitation of the Niger-delta militants for resource control, there had not been any structured infrastructure for mass attack on innocents and religious institutions as had been seen in the last twenty-five months.

While Dr Good-luck Jonathan was still vying for the Presidential nomination of his Party, People’s Democratic Party (PDP), there was a bomb blast near the Eagle Square, Abuja during the Independence anniversary celebration on October 1, 2011.

Whilst the dust was still settling on an infamy that claimed innocent lives with many others severely wounded and without any preliminary report from the security agencies on the incident, the President (Dr Goodluck Jonathan) spoke: “It is not MEND.”  

A perspicacious check on the President’s statement would suggest that he had prior knowledge of the source of the blast. Of course, in the succeeding days, the Campaign Manager of one of the Political elements (from Northern Nigeria) that was contesting the party nomination with him was invited for questioning by the Nation’s secret service as a way to deflect public gaze towards him.

When he withdrew his candidacy, the president quickly incorporated his campaign manager into the ‘Good-luck Jonathan campaign’ organization!

Fact two- In May 2011, Dr Reuben Abati, then Chairman, Editorial Board of Guardian Newspapers and Friday columnist of the same tabloid, wrote a piece in which he laid the blame of the post-election violence of April 2011 elections at the doorsteps of GMB. It did not matter to the writer that he had no empirical evidence to support his impudent assertion.

Curiously, it was upon this decrepit literary predication that all other spurious attempts (on the Cyber-space and Nation-space) were based. After President Jonathan was sworn in on May 29, 2011, he replaced his former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ima Niboro, with Dr Reuben Abati! The question is: was this appointment a fitting reward to Dr Abati for the hatchet job of assisting to blacken GMB’s pedigree?

Fact Three- On Friday, August 26, 2011, the United Nations’ building in Abuja was bombed by a suicide bomber, leaving trail of several fatalities and many others with serious injuries. Asked if the attack has adverse effect on the image of Nigeria, the president said, “Of course, wherever you have terrorist attack in any country, Nigeria is not an isolated case. Many countries have suffered from terrorists attacks, may be it is the turn of Nigeria. But we are on top of the situation”.  

On the first year anniversary of the bombed UN building, the government of Dr Good-luck Jonathan provided N3.2Billion to rehabilitate the UN house, made up of N2.6 Billion to start the building and N600Million to provide temporary accommodation, in addition to promised refund of $580,000 for the treatment of victims.

It did not really matter to this profligate PDP government that the United Nations, in its world-wide operations, has comprehensive insurance for its buildings and workers, even against terrorism! Was the offer by the government of Dr Good-luck Jonathan made because, “it is Nigeria’s turn for terrorism?”

Fact Four- In January 2012, President Good-luck Jonathan told a bewildered nation, still smarting from the spate of murderous bombings in the Northern parts of the country, that his government has been infiltrated by Boko-Haram. The cogent questions are: How did the President know this as a fact? With the elaborate surveillance and espionage infrastructure under his watch, why has the Nation not been informed on the unmasking of these fifth columnists in his government?

Since the preponderance of the cabinet members in his government consist of Party folks, has this challenge been finally resolved in the usual PDP ‘family’ affair?

Fact Five- In February, 2012, Mohammed Ali Ndume, a serving PDP Senator from Borno South, was arrested for links with Boko Haram. In March 2012, the Senator deposed to an affidavit, wherein he stated that all his activities with Boko-Haram are known to the Nation’s Vice-President, Mr Namadi Sambo.

There had not been any official rebuttal on the assertion, which realistically connotes acquiescence!

Fact Six- In April 2012, the erstwhile National Security Adviser to the President, General Andrew Azazi stated with a gusto that is devoid of ambiguity that Boko-Haram is PDP. It is a known fact that, as things stand today, President Good-luck Jonathan is the Leader of PDP!

Fact Seven- In April 2012, Henry Okah, the leader of the Niger-delta  militancy group (MEND), deposed to an affidavit before a South African court that President Good-luck Jonathan was the sponsor of the October 1, 2011 bomb blast near Eagle square. There had not been any official rebuttal from the Nation’s Presidency!

Fact Eight- In October 2012, Mr James Ineh, an Assistant Director with the State Security Services (SSS), told a Federal High Court  that Senator Ali Mohammed Ndume gave Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Mohammed Adoke’s telephone number to the Boko Haram. The raison d’etre for this reprehensible behavior was to ensure that the AGF influenced the Borno Election Tribunal to favour PDP’s cause!

As a Party, we have often counseled that the churlish demeanor of Dr Doyin Okupe is deleterious to the Jonathan regime. The nauseous, intemperate and inane mannerism of Dr Doyin Okupe as a Presidential aide is a collective disgrace to us as Nigerians. Whilst it is understandable that there is usually a strong desire to desperately hold on to a rehabilitative Presidential appointment -in a clime bedeviled with festering deprivation and corruption- there is nothing noble in talking when there nothing to be said.

The penchant for Dr Okupe in attacking whatever GMB says, with concomitant jettisoning of reason, is despicable and stands condemned. The good that the President can do to himself will definitely not be in pandering to the obsequious apologists around him like Dr Okupe but in properly distilling the well-meaning pieces of advice of acknowledged Patriots like GMB!

God bless Nigeria.

Rotimi Fashakin (Engr.)

National Publicity Secretary, CPC. 

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