BUHARI'S FARM: WHERE ATIKU MISSED THE POINT - Maiwada Dammallam

When I read the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar making fun of President Buhari's modest farm in Daura. I thought PDP/Atiku would be sensible to use the few months ahead explaining why any sensible Nigerian would abandon the safety of President Buhari's leadership to experiment with Atiku Abubakar as the modern day Christoper Columbus who will discover Nigeria's El-Dorado.

Not that I'm blaming Atiku for daily rolling in the mud just to stain President Buhari after all, you can only take a pig out of the gutter but you can't take the gutter out of a pig. I'm only interested in the absurdity of Atiku's campaign theme which is wholly centered on the person of President Buhari while ignoring the importance of explaining to Nigerians how he intend to address the problems he kept preaching to Nigerians that President Buhari has failed to address. It was quite petty reading his remarks about Buhari's farm. I will contribute few words to explain why Atiku couldn't comprehend the rate of growth of President Buhari's farm.

President Buhari farming business is a legitimate business, the only business civil servant are allowed to engage in. The rate of growth of his farm/cattle is commensurate with the economic reality of Nigeria and in conformity with what's obtainable in the North west. Buhari refused to used numerous opportunities that came his way to turn his farm into the big business Atiku had in mind when he attempt to assess the success of Buhari the farmer.

If President Buhari was a corrupt, unscrupulous, conscienceless and unpatriotic Nigerian, Atiku's farm in Adamawa which he claimed is the biggest, would be a little portion in Buhari's farm after he financed its growth with proceeds from his offices as Minister of Petroleum, Governor of N'East, Head of State and Chairman of the most successful intervention Programme in this part of the world, the PTF.

Had Buhari wanted, his Daura farm would have been an international brand with tentacles covering all parts of the globe long before Atiku discover the magic lamp that transmogrify a civil servant into a billionaire businessman that could afford to buy the conscience of a once described biggest political party in Africa, the PDP. But then, probably there wouldn't be a Kaduna or Port Harcourt refinery for Nigerians to see and acknowledge his uprightness. There would only be a Buhari playing big league in agriculture, rubbing shoulders with the John Marlones, Brad Kelly and the Emmerson family at the expense of shortchanged Nigerians. That he's being mocked by local giants for his modesty by Atiku only confirmed our disrespect for honor and integrity.

Buhari may not have a farm with a fancy name that resonate across Nigeria but he's generously compensated with a name that not only resonate across the globe but cause jitters among so called "successful businessmen" of Atiku's class and background. I'm sure President Buhari could easily give details of his investment without mixing gari and sand. I'm yet to get a coherent history of Atiku's so called business acumen. In one story Atiku claimed he started his business with a housing loan with which he built a house on a land allocated him by his state.

In another story he claimed he obtained a loan, bought vehicles and started a transport business. He left many unanswered questions without which making sense of his claims is humanly impossible. We may have to wait until Atiku settled on one of the two stories before we forensically audit his businesses to determine the rate of growth that made him the billionaire international businessman he is. Before then, let's just say it's highly probable that his business empire is an extension of the public offices he held and this stands until somebody provides detailed explanation of Atiku's sources of funding his conglomerate.

ATIKU: WE HAVE LEFT EGYPT FOREVER

By Abdulateef Usman Abiodun. 

Someone wasted 5 Billion Naira in one night and you want us to entrust Nigeria to him? To use us do exchange to his American friends? God will not "accept" for una. 

5 Billion Naira that can construct 200 world class health centres in rural areas at 50 million per one. It can build 10,000 world standard classrooms with all modern equipments fitted in. It can construct 500 kilometres of world standard roads at 50 million Naira per kilometre. If you inject 5 billion into any public university in Nigeria and it is judiciously utilised, it will turn the infrastructure there around for good.

That is the amount our moneybag politician called Atiku Abubakar blowed away in one night on 1500 individuals. That is the mindset of the man who wants to rule us in 21st Century. Are we that poor as a people? Are we that unfortunate as a society? Are we so much poor in reasoning? By the time he is done with his presidential campaign, close to a hundred billion would have been wasted. Surely, he will go recoup his money on getting to power (God forbid). 

But like the sayings of our fathers, flood won't hesitate to pull down one's building but the owner of such building will be the one to device means to outsmart the stubborn flood. We did it in 2015. We will do it again. We have made a lot of progress as a nation. We won't allow thieves to come back. We will stand to them and match them in whatever way they want it. Buhari must be reelected. We can't go back to Egypt. We are almost in our promise land.

#QuoteMeAsAUA

#Re elect PMB.

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10 posers for an aspiring VP- Anambra APC

We welcome His Excellency, Mr. Peter Obi to the 2019 presidetial election where he will run as Vice Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

We acknowledge Obi as an Igbo and native of Agulu in Anambra State, but will quickly state here that Obi is neither a candidate of Ndigbo, nor the South East, who both agree on a more altruistic corporate strategy for ascendency to the presidency of Nigeria outside 2019 time-mark and Obi’s individual ambition,that he is not in control of.

Again we need to remark that if HE Obi is not tainted himself, he will run on a tainted ticket,in which his principal VP Atiku Abubakar is in the eye of the storm for matters of integrity and reputation,in and out of Nigeria,and nothing in the horizon promises a recovery from the factual negative impression.

However ,with this lone- standing ambition of Obi’s comes an opportunity for the governor of Anambra State from 2006 to 2014, to introduce his real self to Anambra State and Nigeria. Obi’s first and last public office was Governor of Anambra State, but the state and the nation will now have a second chance to know the ‘stranger’ that the imperfections in Nigeria’s polity threw up to preside over their affairs.

While we acknowledge that there is time enough ahead  to deal with specifics, we quickly request, in reaction to Obi’s candidature and in the public interest,from HE, Mr Obi, 10 clarifications/causes of action in the immediate:

1- His Excellency Mr Peter Obi should personally present a Curriculum Vitae that Anambra State and this time, the entire Nigeria can rely on to know him, as the conflicting ones so far in the air are either scanty or inconsistent, lacking vital parameters than should be contained in a CV. We do not agree yet with those who think this is deliberate, but will have no option if within this week, ending October 19, 2018 this request is not honoured.

2- We request HE Obi to explain in clear detail how Anambra State paid the majority amount,but got minority shareholding in SABMiller Breweries, yet another company NEXT INTERNATIONAL  in which Obi has commanding interests and which built NEXT SUPERMARKET within Obi’s governorship tenure,combined with a traditional ruler under the outfit INTERFACT BREWERIES to bag majority shares without input. By extension, Obi should explain who he handed over as Chairman of Next International , prior to resuming as Governor of Anambra State ,what the performance trajectory was in his absence, and if he has returned as Chairman of the Company, which warehoused N250 million cash from Anambra State vaults in Lagos office under his watch as governor.

3- We request HE Obi to explain what his role was under President Jonathan in returning N135bn as cost of Second Niger Bridge,without connecting roads, and his interest in the company slated to install toll gates and collect money from users of the bridge ,mainly Ndigbo for an estimated 30 years , based on amortization of the given cost.

4- We request a clear explaination regarding the non- award of the Second Niger Bridge Contract under President Jonathan which ran against the grain of Obi’a campaign words as Cordinator of Jonathan’s campaign in Southern Nigeria. We are aware that it took the APC administration to execute the contract on the project and source funds to free Ndigbo from a 30-year toll- gate slavery under merchants with Igbo names.

5. We request HE Obi to explain what ecological projects the N8.4 billion accruing to Anambra State in August 2013 from ecological funds were expended on and what handover indications there were for that particular fund.

6- We request HE Obi to explain why he bribed INEC officials throughout Nigeria, during 2015 elections channeling the funds through a commercial bank he has major interest in, the slush funds for which INEC officials are under trial and if he is considering repeating that game for the tainted ticket on which he has been enlisted. 

7-We request HE Obi to explain why the bigotry of religion which served him unmerited favours well but left debilitating rifts  between christian denominations in Anambra State, will not rear up its head, to unstatesmanlike ends, in the national stage if Nigerians go out of their way to elect himVice President.

8- We request HE Obi to explain why under his watch over 100 Nigerians mostly of South East extraction were in 2012 killed to his knowledge and consent, and thrown into Ezu River,which ought to have been one of the base resources in Obi’s failed water supply project in Anambra State.

9- We will also humbly request  HE Obi to explain why in seven years and a half, out of eight years of Anambra governorship , no local government elections were conducted in Anambra State, yet his principal Atiku eulogises the provision of opportunities for the youth using the local government, an idea we do not oppose.

10. Finally, in this initial piece,we request HE Obi to explain his appointment as governor by interests extraneous to Ndigbo and the coincidence in the repeat of history, where the same extraneous iinterests appointed him as Vice Presidential candidate without the input of any fly from the South East, and correspondingly,with an agenda unknown to a zone with a different plan. This is particularly important because shortly after the system was manipulated for him to become governor, he ordered the shooting at sight  of agitating and unarmed members of the Movement for the Sovereign Statr of Biafra (MASSOB) , working on a set agenda from the extraneous interests.

Once again we welcome HE Obi to the race and wish him an enjoyable participation.

For : ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS,ANAMBRA STATE CHAPTER.

Arc. Okelo Madukaife

State Publicity Secretary 

Awka. October 16,2018

WE DON'T FORGET

President Buhari has stabilized the economy. The reserves have been boosted to close to $50billion again, up from $29billion they reduced it to by May 28, 2015.

What they refused to acknowledge is that GEJ did not save a dime in the time of plenty - living like there'll be no tomorrow. He spent the boom in oil revenue the time of plenty and depleted the reserves he inherited from Yar'adua. 

With low oil price for 3 years, and the unprecedented social intervention schemes like School Feeding Programme, N-Power Programme, payouts to the elderly and vulnerable, and payments of decades owed to Pensions and Gratuities, not forgetting the massive infrastructural development drives across the regions of the country, he still set aside so much because of prudent allocation of resources. Buhari's traducers will always turn blind eyes to these. 

Those bunch of guys, bandits all, that stole the country blind for 16 years and into recession, are now fighting tooth and nail to come and loot the resources again. 

The Snake Oil Salesman - you know who, is deceiving those who are only driven by hate for Buhari.

For those who are feigning ignorance of the timely warnings given by Soludo, Lamido Sanusi and Okonjo-Iweala between 2013 and 2014, these are the words on marble by Prof Charles Soludo:

"Whoever wins 2015 will NEVER find it easy to govern. Over 30trillion is mismanaged, unaccounted for or missing under Jonathan."

We don't forget. When mischief makers embark on their ignorant revisionism, we take them down memory lane.

Voting in looters once again is not an option.

Indiscretion goes with consequences.

Atiku owns 16 % of Intels.

Atiku owns 16 % of Intels. A company between the Volpis of Italy and a number of other international merchants of villainy against African states. Intels started in Nigeria as Nicotes, but eventually transformed to Intels. 

For years this company has held the monopoly of generating revenues from all marine activities in Nigeria for NPA. It’s been making massive revenues, making more money than perhaps any of the 36 states in Nigeria except Lagos. 

Anyone who knows the damage Intels has done to the Nigerian economy through its monopoly and extortionate rates, without remitting proper revenues to govt will stop Atiku from being President. 

Intels by compromising everyone at top level in govt, Presidents, ministers of transport, MDs of NPA got away with gross violations of the law. They couldn’t buy Buhari this time around or the young lady who is MD of NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman. She broke the monopoly of Intels allowing another yard to build the FPSO for Egina, the Total project. Other companies are also now allowed to run base services at Onne instead of Intels alone, which has been the case for years.

Intels has been a cash cow for years, generating over $200m a month with very little going to govt. This has gone on for years. The company has controlled all marine revenues for decades making billions of dollars. 

This is the primary source of Atiku’s enormous wealth. By breaking the monopoly, Buhari threatens the wealth of Atiku, reason he outspent every contestant in Port Harcourt to become the candidate of PDP. For Atiku it isn’t about Nigeria though he feigns that. It’s an existential fight. His vast empire of patronage, with Intels at the center is threatened. His Italian and Lebanese mafia are threatened with extinction. They will fight dirty, they will fight with everything they’ve got. 

If Atiku wins, Intels becomes a monstrous behemoth Controlling all govt revenues. They are behind Eko Atlantic City, a mega project built for the rich and well heeled, to separate the corrupt and opulent rich from the wretched poor in the country. Just like Atiku’s American University of Nigeria where the lowest fee is N5m per annum. 

Atiku is the ultimate exploitative bourgeois. Taking advantage of access to govt to make as much money as possible. The ultimate benefactor of a corrupt rentier economy, where state resources are shared by the powerful and the connected to amass enormous wealth at the expense of the country. That’s been Atiku’s life. You can’t point to any notable business with his name on it, but exploiting access to govts to buy NITEL or Intels monopolizing govt marine income for his use is his style. Cronyism, patronage that continues to enrich Atiku and impoverishes the nation.

Nigerians shouldn’t be deceived. Atiku will connive with Lebanese, Italians any foreigners to sell off Nigeria. If he became President, a few Nigerians in his circle will be very rich, but Nigeria will be worse off for the mass majority.

Above this the Lebanese and Italians in particular would have gotten a presidential accolyte that will work with them to enslave Nigerians.

If you doubt, go to Intels Onne and see the segregation. Italians, Lebanese and all whites treated like gods with the Nigerians as inconvenient appendages. Atiku will be bad for Nigeria. Nigerians open your eyes.

May God save us from Atiku.

The Osborne Towers in Lagos where evil men pay Two hundred and Fifty Million

The Osborne Towers in Lagos where evil men pay Two hundred and Fifty Million of our stolen money annually is the issue of discussion today. Chief Peter Obi and a few others are the occupants of this evil apartment known as Osborne Towers.

Sure, at 20 Million Naira a month, Chief Peter Obi has three apartments in the towers!

Now here is the real information, each of the apartments has four bedrooms and two sitting rooms. 

Why will Chief Peter Obi have three apartments at the Towers meaning he has twelve bedrooms and six sitting rooms? It is authoritative that the last rent of apartments 7A and 7B was paid by Peter Obi! The story of Osborne Towers will continue to explain the thrifty behind the saintly Peter Obi who wants us to believe that he carry his bag at the airport, books economy on air trips and and eats once a day so as not to spend so much money but pays rent of 60 Million a month on three apartments in Osborne Towers. He even want us to believe that he eat just one piece of kpomo in his soup for lunch! Biggest lies from the biggest lier of the century.

I am beginning to believe that Chief Peter Obi is not straight. If not, how can one be paying 250 Million a year for rent in a four bedroom apartment and still go about preaching saving culture. This to me is hypocrisy and idiocy joined together. Do Peter Obi thought that we all are fools? What the hell is wrong with Ngerian leaders. I am surprised that Peter Obi is not what he preaches. He is a stark opposite of who he wants us to believe he is. The gathering of the evil men at Osborne Towers has finally exposed Peter Obi and confirmed what people has been saying all along that he is the a human with the most complex characters. From what I have read about Peter Obi as a former Governor who lead the other Governors to court and obtained that judgement that forced Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to share our National savings, I am forced to believe that Chief Peter Obi is the most flexible mind ever to come out of the South East.

Allow me to borrow this line from Mr. Aghaduno that thoroughly describes Chief Peter Obi inter alia “The trouble with Peter Obi is that he thinks that he is cleverer than everyone else. He maintains a bland and colorless surface that conceals a grandiose interior. He talks with the voice of a woman in labor but carries a heart of stone. He maintains a well-cultivated religious outlook but his soul is the engine room of demons. The former governor of Anambra State reminds me of a luscious apple with a large maggot neatly embedded in its middle”. He is a contradictory person who will tell you a story in the morning and come out in the afternoon to tell the exact opposite of the story he told in the morning.

How can the world ever trust Peter Obi again? How do we believe him again each time he mounts a podium to display his craft of petty lies? Peter Obi should just disappear before he becomes an object of caricature. A friend once told me I want to do ‘Peter Obi’. I was bewildered but he laughed and told me that doing Peter Obi is just pretending to be who you are not.

Please the new generation should not do ‘Peter Obi’ as it is not in the character of the Igbos to pretend. Only God knows where Peter Obi picks his unusual unlike Igbo character.

Benson Nweke writes from Nnewi, Anambra state.

STOP FIGHTING THE WIND; YOU CAN'T WIN

Prof. Usman Bugaje wrote this on President Muhammadu Buhari

You don't change a government with hate and malice, you change government with tact and intelligence. This sustained onslaught against Buhari cannot move him from that seat. Never seen such a people who sleep and wake up with constricted venom against a man who aspired to be where he is today. 

The Nigerian presidential seat is not for Christians or Muslims, it is for that Nigerian who is a Nigerian and has the Nigerian blood in him. A nation bedevilled by calamity and the only advocacy by some of her citizens is that the president should resign or be voted out. Nothing is more sickening and illogical than this. 

Sincere people rally around themselves to solve problems, but here people gather in mosques and churches plotting the removal of a constitutionally elected man. The man you are so maliciously blackmailing has his own supporters who are doing everything to return their candidate. Instead of your surreptitious plot, why not promote  your candidate, polish him and sell his candidacy? 

Blackmail doesn't change a government, disguised venom don't win elections only sincere electioneering ideas wins election. These outdated strategies of using religion and ethnicity cannot fetch any electoral values. This is more than 3 years since Muhammadu Buhari assumed leadership, yet no single person has been islamized as peddled by the wicked merchants of mischief. If I were  you, I will resign to fate in the matter of this man. This is the same man that was set to die when his car exploded in volcanic IED, this man had his character mutilated on TVs, Radios, Newspapers, in Churches and Mosques; in fact he nearly lost his life but guess what? He defied all these excruciating experiences to come out strong because God was not done with him. Do not begrudge this man, it is not him manifesting mortality, it is God manifesting his awesomeness on this man. People like this are special; he has this special anointing, like the rock in the river, he is firmly rooted. Use wisdom to dislodge not these weak conspiracies flying round.

The Muhammadu Buhari I know is not here to promote any agenda other than his sworn oath of regaining the nation from the claw of usurper, looters, vampires and the acclaimed landlords of Nigeria. 

STOP FIGHTING THE WIND; YOU CAN'T WIN