Chief Chekwas Okorie.

A prominent Igbo leader, Chief Chekwas Okorie, who is currently the National Chairman of the United Progressives Party, UPP, has advised his fellow Ndigbo to stop being deceived by some politicians of Igbo extraction going about with the gospel of the presidency coming to Igbo land in 2023.

He stated this at the weekend while feeding questions from journalists. He said that Ndigbo should be mindful of what promises they rely on particularly those that bother on the presidency coming to the South East in 2023, adding that since President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, never promised to hand over power to them in 2023, there was no need giving Ndigbo any false hopes to that effect. He therefore described the offer being bandied about by some South East APC leaders as the ‘worst form of deceit’, noting that only the unintelligent would believe it.

“Those are carrying about the promise that Buhari and the APC would hand over to an Igbo successor in 2023 should stop being deceived. Prseident Buhari and APC never promised made any such promises. The fact is that Buhari would rather hand over power to his Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who has been loyal to him, to compensate the Southwest region. So it is a very unintelligent proposal by mostly Igbo politicians in APC that Igbo would succeed Buhari in 2023, because it’s not an APC agenda. Buhari or his close aides never alluded to anything like that. You always hear of it from Igbo people who do not know what they want from APC,” Chief Okorie stated.

He added that they, the APC leaders, believed that the only way they could get Igbo votes was to make this kind of promise that was not based on logic or any political thinking.

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“It is the worst form of deceit and it’s only the unwary, especially those on the lowest rung of intelligence quotient, that will buy into that kind of story. I say this very clearly because President Buhari has a Vice and they have been working very closely together from the observation of many Nigerians. This is a man that held forth when the president was away for over 100 days on sick leave.

“And if for any unfortunate reason Buhari comes back in 2019 (I put it that way because I’m one of those that don’t think he should come back) and decides to run with this same very loyal Vice President, what makes anybody think that after eight years in office, he will not reward him and his political zone, but them and go for the South-East?” he stressed.

Chief Okorie wondered what the attraction from the South East region was that would make Buhari go in that direction? He also wondered what Buhari has ever said or done that would give Ndigbo the impression that the President loved them that much as to raise a successor from among them.

“As a matter of fact, he has used every opportunity to tell them that he doesn’t like them. Even when Igbo leaders went to see him, he reminded them that he had only 198,000 votes from the South-east in 2015. He hasn’t forgotten the support that the South-east gave to former President Goodluck Jonathan. So, how he would turn around and reward them with support for presidential position against those who first of all made up the number for him to become president and gave him a loyal vice beats my imagination,” Chief Okorie mused.

Thus, he considered those who were canvassing this promise of an Igbo presidency in 2023 as exceedingly mischievous, dishonest and untrustworthy, and believed it could only be an act of stupidity, since they knew that they it could only result in the people being grossly misled.

Kindly drop your comments.

Senator Dino Melaye.

Dear Nigerian Youth,

Dino Melaye graduated from ABU in 1999 or 2000, whichever one Sowore tells you, it's true. Going by his year of graduation, Dino cannot be more than 47 years of age, at most.

If at 47 years a man is a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, a position hitherto meant for old recycled military men, and ex governors, then from my own estimation, that man should be respected.

Irrespective of political affiliation, Dino Melaye has been the most consistent whistle blower and anti corruption campaigner in the National Assembly since the advent of democracy.

In 2010, the 2nd Abuja Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport runway contract awarded at the sum of N64 billion to Julius Berger was cancelled after Dino Melaye revealed the fraud that characterized the contract.

In the same year, the same Melaye and other members of the House of Reps revealed to Nigerians how the then Speaker, Dimeji Bankole embezzled and misappropriated over $59 million between 2008 and 2009. He was beaten, his clothes torn and almost stripped on the floor of the House in the full glare of cameras. He was later suspended from the House. Some of us still remember what became of Dimeji Bankole. All these while, Dino was a member of the ruling party, PDP.

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Now as a member of the APC, Senator Dino Melaye has been a better and most vibrant opposition to his own party and the Presidency, more than all the PDP Senators put together. It was through Dino Melaye that Nigerians got to know about the "grasscutters" awarding contracts to themselves and embezzling the money in the Presidency while Buhari is busy writing memos and defending the stench of corruption and the deaths it has brought to the IDP Camps.

In all these, I cannot recall any corruption charge or allegation against Dino Melaye that we know of since he should naturally be a target because of his activism and brand of politics. Don't get me wrong Dino Melaye is not a saint.

My fellow Nigerian Youth, instead for you to take a deep breath and find out how this young man has been able to survive the treacherous murky waters of Nigerian Politics, you join the bandwagon of detractors and waste your internet bundle on Dino's Certificates when you have a President who doesn't have the minimum requirement and yet leading the most populous black nation into peril.

Our Youths aspiring into politics should ask Dino Melaye how he was able to defeat the smartest Senator in the last Senate in the 2015 elections, talking about Senator Smart Adeyemi.

For me, I have since resolved never to be swayed by the partisan affiliation of political parties but I will rather look at the substance and character of our political gladiators.

Look beyond what they want you to see. They have stolen the future of the Nigerian Youth, now they are going for the future of our children.

Hate him or like him, Senator Dino Melaye is a bold Nigerian youth and we all have a lot to learn from him.

“I can retain neither respect nor affection for a Government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality.”

- Mohandras. K. Ghandhi (1869-1948)

Since the advent of another phase of democratic rule in Nigeria in 1999, the year preceding the general elections never falls short of its billings as being the most dramatic in the nation’s political space. So far, the year 2018 has not disappointed many. The striking and interesting difference between 2018 and other penultimate election years is the relative high number of aspirants who had officially declared their interests to unseat the incumbent President come February, 2019.

Whilst some have mooted that 2019 might just be the last chance to salvage Nigeria from the monstrous claws of the carnivorous elite, a handful are resolute in their beliefs that the APC (the ruling party) would beat all comers come February, 2019. Amongst the latter, opinions are widely divided as to why and how the Buhari-led government would remain in Aso Rock for another four (4) years.

Judging by the varying commentaries in the mainstream and new media, there is a consensus that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was definitely not an option to consider. The reasons are not far-fetched. The hitherto ruling party is on a gradual descent to the abyss. In the last twelve (12) months, erstwhile party stalwarts of the PDP ignominiously defected in droves to the ruling APC. Arguably, the PDP might not rise to her former glory (again) courtesy the APC.

The recently released list of looters of the nation’s treasury by the APC which was replete with active members and political aficionados of the PDP might just be the death knell officially signalling the demise of the PDP. The released list is one-out-of-many ruthless strategies the APC would deploy to decimate the PDP rendering it impotent en route to 2019.

Undoubtedly, the crux of Nigeria’s political juggernauts is evenly distributed between these two political parties. Many have argued that the lack of asymmetric ideologies makes both parties birds of a feather. The shameless ease of cross-carpeting lends credence to this assertion. Simply put, the seeming contrasting forces (party names and ideograms) coupled with the interrelation and interconnectivity (ease of defection) morphs both parties into yin and yang-the Chinese philosophy for tangible dualities.

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It is against this apparent dualistic vicious cycle that the cry for a Third Force became the rallying point for two broad categories of political activists viz (1) The former President Obasanjo-led Social Democratic Party (SDP) and (2) A raft of politicians who appeal to the larger young demographic.

This brought-back-from-the-grave Social Democratic Party (SDP) is obviously not the stallion the late Chief M.K.O Abiola rode on in his quest to becoming the President of Nigeria in the ill-fated Presidential elections of 1993. The make-up of the SDP obviously makes it a hard sell. There is a growing disdain for recycled leaders. Some have labelled the SDP as The Third Farce-a Dead on Arrival (DoA) project.

The second constituent of the Third Force would be where real the action is. Leading the pack is Mr. Omoyele Sowore (Sahara Reporters), Mr. Fela Durotoye (Popular Motivational Speaker), Mr. Ahmed Buhari (an Entrepreneur), Dr. Kingsley Moghalu (Former Deputy Governor, CBN), Dr. (Mrs) Remi Sonaiya (KOWA Party), Dr. Bukola Saraki (Senate President), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (Former Vice President) to mention few. With exemption of the last two Presidential aspirants, attention should be beamed on these new breeds of political neophytes ready to the wrest power from the ruling APC.

With the benefit of hindsight, electioneering in Nigeria is beyond the game of numbers. Money plays a pivotal role in determining what direction the pendulum of victory swings. Besides the significant roles money plays, most elections in Nigeria are marred with a broad spectrum of irregularities ranging from underage voting to ballot box snatching under the watchful eyes of electoral officials. The Third Force political office seekers should definitely not be oblivious of these grim realities.

To make meaningful impact in the Presidential elections of 2019, it behoves all the political parties underneath the Third Force umbrella to form an alliance. In addition, elections are not won on Social Media. Arguably, the new media is fast becoming a veritable platform to gain traction, the real critical mass are the plebeians whose self-worth are measured in Vietnamese Dong during elections.

Finally, the political parties constituting this Third Force should embark on a massive campaign for the collection of the Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs). The only legitimate voters are the PVC holders. This does not require rote understanding. The political parties in the Third Force have less than nine (9) months to come up with a formidable plan to become the real force to be reckoned with.

Any strategy outside political alignments would only make the contending presidential aspirant a minced meat in the gnashing jaws of the political Cerberus at the elections.

Hon. James Abiodun Faleke.

The lawmaker representing Ikeja Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Hon. James Abiodun Faleke, has come hard on the governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yayha Bello over the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on its bid to recall Senator Dino Melaye, who represents Kogi West Senatorial zone of the state on Saturday.

Senator Melaye has been having a running battle with the state governor, who has been fingered as the mastermind of the recall process of the vocal Senator instituted by the electoral body following a petition by his constituents that he was not adequately representing them at the Senate.

Following this, the process had began, but not without legal suits by the embattled Senator to have the process of his recall stopped.

However, the process recorded a huge failure Saturday as most of the petitioners who were required to come forward for the verification of their signatures stayed away from the polling booths across the state.

This development has attracted divergent views from among Nigerians. According to Hon. Faleke, who is of Kogi extraction but representing a part of Lagos State at the House of Representatives, the failed process was the failure of Governor Yahaya Bello who promised to deliver votes in millions to President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 but couldn’t garner 10,000 signatures across the seven LGAs of Kogi West Senatorial District to support his ill-fated recall of Senator Dino Melaye.

Hear him: "What an irony. Governor Yahaya Bello who promised to deliver votes in millions to President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 but couldn’t garner 10,000 signatures across the seven LGAs of Kogi West Senatorial District to support his ill-fated recall of Senator Dino Melaye.

“I have been telling those who care to listen that Governor Yahaya Bello is not popular in Kogi State. The open rejection of his ill-fated Dino Melaye recall today (Saturday) is a clear testimony. Hundreds of millions of tax payers’ money wasted. So sad and unfortunate,” he stated.

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He said he could not but laugh at the outcome of the exercise, believing it is the people of Kogi West that have won as the recall project failed to achieve its aim.

“The people won. The outcome today (Saturday) is not just about Dino but the open rejection of the Yahaya Bello-led state government. Even in detention, Dino Melaye defeated them. It is a clear sign that Yahaya Bello is very unpopular in Kogi State.

“Governor Yahaya Bello is an unrepentant liar who should not be taken seriously. His recent claims on Channels Television are inconsistent and laughable. Good enough, the people know the truth,” Hon. Faleke said.

Meanwhile, in the same vein, a PDP member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Teejay Yusuf, who represents Kabba-Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency of Kogi State that includes Senator Dino Melaye’s hometown, told reporters in Abuja that the process was a mere APC agenda, adding that it was disturbing that a party that promised progressive change was massively rooted in anti-democratic practices and mere manipulations.

“As a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and as a Senator, Senator Dino Melaye has fundamental human rights and the police must strive to acknowledge this,” Yusuf said.

He therefore advised the police and the Senator to explore some measure of compromise, while urging the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Kpotum Idris to ensure that his men did not maltreat the Senator.

On April 25, 2018, Ex Vice President Atiku Abubakar was at the Chatam House, London, the United Kingdom, where he spoke at a forum, tagged “Get Nigeria Working Again”. He used the occasion to outline his plans to his audience on how he passionately desires to bring fortunes to Nigeria, where he was Vice President for two-terms of eight years under former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Atiku Abubakar: Restructuring Nigeria’s economy and polity is a necessity, not an option. It will foster a spirit of freedom in a diverse nation and nurture strong and democratic government.

We have to ensure the minimum amount of resources are allocated & invested in education & health. We will impose penalties for states that don’t comply. 1.6m Nigerians sit university entrance exams every year, but we only 600,000 places are available. $1bn spent on paying fees in Ghana schools by Nigerians..

Also in attendance: L-r: “Common Sense Senator" Ben Murray-Bruce, Reno Omokri, ex President Jonathan’s spokesman, and Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe.

Atiku Abubakar: If we want Nigeria to succeed, we must break with the misguided notion that the Federal Government, or the President, knows best, and that no one else can be trusted.

Atiku Abubakar:  We need a Nigeria that challenges our leadership to create wealth in every layer of government and make it work for our citizens. Propaganda is a poor substitute for a proper agenda.

Atiku Abubakar: I am pleased to lead a business round table at the Institute of Directors in London to share my vision for the future economic development of Nigeria with a host of international business and financial leaders.

Atiku Abubakar: I am pleased to lead a business round table at the Institute of Directors in London to share my vision for the future economic development of Nigeria with a host of international business and financial leaders.

Ex Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

Ex Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who recently renounced his membership of the ruling All Progressives Party (APC) and returned to his former party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, has been speaking on the plans he has for Nigeria.

It’s public knowledge that the Waziri Adamawa has never hidden his desire to lead the country again, in the capacity of the President in the forthcoming dispensation.  

Earlier in the week, he was at the Chatham House, London, the United Kingdom, where he spoke at a forum, tagged “Get Nigeria Working Again” (please see photos on the events gallery). He used the occasion to outline his plans to his audience on how he passionately desires to bring fortunes to Nigeria, where he was Vice President for two-terms of eight years under former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Here are the excerpts of what we pieced together from a series of tweets posted from the event venue.

“I’m not surprised that President Buhari

called Nigerian youths lazy…

He’s not an employer of labour.”

ON THE ECONOMY:

Restructuring Nigeria’s economy and polity is a necessity, not an option. That’s why I’ll restructure Nigeria in six months if elected president. It will foster a spirit of freedom in a diverse nation and nurture strong and democratic government.  

I’ve always said oil is not Nigeria’s greatest asset. Our greatest asset is our youths who created Nollywood out of nothing and an entertainment industry that is second to none in Africa.

The development of agriculture in Nigeria shouldn’t just be looked at a subsistence level. We must learn from South Africa and commercialise our agriculture.

I will make certain rivers are dredged to open up the hinterlands of the North. Licenses would be given to state governments to begin immediate exploitation of resources in their jurisdictions.

 I will extend railways to connect workers to jobs, suppliers to buyers, students to universities, and parents to their children in every major city in every state.

Nigeria must have a stable and predictable exchange rate to allow investors to plan long-term.  I am not a supporter of multiple exchange rates.

Ex Vice President Atiku Abubakar, at the Chatham House, London.

WHY MOST STATES IN NIGERIA ARE POOR:

Some Nigerian states are poor not because they are not receiving a fair share of oil money but because they are not receiving a fair shot at true federalism. Only restructuring can correct that.

When I talk about restructuring, I am not talking about just constitutional tweaks, I am talking about a cultural revolution. It is not about re-shuffling a few responsibilities or resources, but about disrupting the authoritarian politics our democracy has inherited.

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If we want Nigeria to succeed, we must break with the misguided notion that the Federal Government, or the President, knows best, and that no one else can be trusted. 

The question now is: why are we saddled with a heavy and almost unsustainable debt burden twelve years after President Olusegun Obasanjo and I provided the leadership that paid off Nigeria’s entire foreign debt of $32 billion in one fell swoop?

My idea is for the introduction of Matching Grants to be taken from the revenue accruable to the Federal Government for the purpose of matching IGR of each state in order to encourage states to become self-reliant.

These are some of the ways I believe Nigeria’s states can improve their capacity, increase their revenues & better manage their local economies which are critical to safety, prosperity & welfare of all Nigerians and will allow my homeland to realize its true potential.

We will streamline the operations of the Sovereign Wealth Fund, the Excess Crude Account and the Stabilization Account which is currently embedded in the Revenue Allocation Formula for more effective stabilization outcomes.

ON EDUCATION: 
We have to ensure the minimum amount of resources are allocated & invested in education & health. We will impose penalties for states that don’t comply. 1.6m Nigerians sit university entrance exams every year, but we only 600,000 places are available. $1bn spent on paying fees in Ghana schools by Nigerians.

POVERTY ERADICATION AND CITIZENS EMPOWERMENT:

I was raised by my mother & established a micro finance bank where 80% of loans go to women. We raised 45,000 families out of poverty - with 98% recovery rate from female entrepreneurs. If you want to tackle poverty, focus on women’s empowerment.

We need a Nigeria that challenges our leadership to create wealth in every layer of government and make it work for our citizens. Propaganda is a poor substitute for a proper agenda!

There has not been a year in the last twenty years that I have not set up a new enterprise to employ Nigerians. The latest being that we brought the Chicken Cottage franchise to Nigeria which will be creating direct and indirect jobs all across the country.

ON UNITY OF NIGERIA:

For Nigeria to be successful we must not only be united as a people but we must also be united in the protection of our environment. The price of economic prosperity must not come at the cost of destroying the one resource that makes our every day existence possible - Earth.

ON THE “NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE LAZY” CONTROVERSY:

I’m not surprised that President Buhari called Nigerian youth lazy…he’s not an employer of labour.

I own businesses and I am an employer of young people. I don’t agree with any assertion that the youths are lazy. They need education and opportunities.

Our youths are charting new frontiers; creating a huge tech industry on their own! Their entrepreneurial spirit, work ethic, and creative abilities are things of pride and should be applauded, encouraged and nurtured.

LAST LINE:

I am pleased to lead a business round table at the Institute of Directors in London to share my vision for the future economic development of Nigeria with a host of international business and financial leaders.

I particularly want to thank Nigerian nationals who are present here today. Your love for Nigeria is evident in that you have left your regular pursuits to be here to interact with lovers of Nigeria. Your presence inspires me.

It was a pleasure to meet Dr Liam Fox, the UK‘s Secretary of State for International Trade, yesterday. We discussed the importance of a trade deal between the UK and Nigeria post-Brexit which would be excellent for both our countries.

Kindly drop your comments.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent

about things that matter."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Regarding the GOVERNORS and the PARTISANS to whom BLOOD IS STEW, as you engage in the politics of endorsing PMB for 2019 without recourse to the killings across the Country, I pray that you do not lose loved ones to kidnappers, to marauding Herdsmen and to the armed bandits sacking towns and villages across the nation. I pray that human lives matter to you. And I pray that you realize that the propaganda 'that no one else but Buhari can fix NIGERIA' will amount to nothing should the killings degenerate to colossal anarchy. And do not forget that the primary responsibility of government is to guarantee peace and security.

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To those who see nothing wrong with the President's faux pas in London on the Youths, may I inform that Prof Patrick Otieno Lumumba who is not a Nigerian, a Wailer or a Hater, on live TV implored Buhari to 'apologize to the Nigerian Youth for calling them leeches', he chose a word worse than LAZY, even as Buharideens attempt profusely to validate it, sad they consistently defend the indefensible, including the terrible faux pas of a lethargic and mediocre President before global press and world leaders. I wish them well.

And they are quiet as Mr Integrity Buhari, and his men spends $496m without the approval of the National Assembly for 12 Tucano Jets which at $10.47m each should be $125.64m, why was the cost per Jet increased by $30.86m, has Mr. President and his Team of Saints defrauded Nigeria of $370.3m for electoral purposes?

When you defend Buhari, please think about Nigeria and generation next.

CONCLUDED.

Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia Jnr., a Barrister-at-Law, and social critic, is a Presidential hopeful in the forthcoming 2019 Presidential election in Nigeria.

Kindly drop your comments.

"My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question,

 but to be consistent with TRUTH as it may present itself to me at a given moment. 

The result has been that I have grown from TRUTH to TRUTH..Inconsistency is only apparent. 

It appears so to many friends because of my responsiveness to varying circumstances. 

Seeming consistency may really be sheer obstinacy." 

- Mahatma Gandhi.

The above words are for Buharideens who in the face of the collosal failure of the present watch defend the indefensible, and bandy deceptive propaganda. They lower the bar so badly, that for want of any concrete project with which to sell the lethargic and the mediocre, they consistently and sickeningly blame the past.

I supported and headed an arm of Buhari's 2014/15 campaign as DG of CHANGE AMBASSADORS OF NIGERIA CAN, and like some, we are humble enough to admit that this was not the CHANGE we envisioned, and the least we expected. But why are some so obstinate, and insensitive to the present reality?

Dateline: 4/04/2018 on The SUMMIT at 3pm on AIT, Deji Adeyanju a young man who is by no means an Orator tore Garba Shehu who is otherwise an Orator to smithereens, and so have my Egbons, Femi Adesina and Lai Mohammed become pitiable sights in the press for want of facts, programmatic, and tangibles with which to defend the Govt. and Buhari. But young ego driven and partisan propagandists are everywhere telling lies, and unwilling to concede that the present watch is shamefully failing.

I challenge my friend Festus Keyamo, and any Buharideen worth his onion to a debate on any media platform on why NOT to REINFORCE the present failure. God forbid we do.

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AS THE TAIL WAGS THE DOG II

"When was it said that a warning that one's house is on fire should not 

be attended because it came from a neighbourhood thief?" - CMN Jnr.

I have read scathing remarks against the intervention of OBJ, Danjuma, IBB, Atiku et al on the mediocre performance of Buhari's administration. But rather than address the merits/demerits, and perhaps the contextual truism of the reprimand, Buharideens and obstinate partisans regale us to a rendezvous of how OBJ, IBB, DANJUMA, ATIKU and others failed the nation in the past. Yes, they constitute a huge part of the problem with Nigeria, but to discountenance their fears on the kamikaze drift of the ship of State, is not only emotive but illogical.

Dateline: 2014 Obasanjo was a hero to the APC after a scathing 18 page letter to Jonathan. 2018, he is a villain to the APC after his 'so long a letter' to Buhari, what has changed? About a year to the 2015 elections, CHIBOK Girls were abducted and subsequently $1billion dollars released to buy Arms. About a year to the 2019 elections, DAPCHI Girls were abducted, and Buhari releases $1billion dollars for the purchase of Arms. What has changed? THINK.

Compatriots, what I make of the acronym PHCN, PROBLEM HAS CHANGED NAME, comes in handy. The problem was the PDP, and today it is the APC, they are siamese twins, same of the same, and a choice between the two, is of the rock and the hard place.

The Leviathan, PDP, brought us destruction, as the Behemoth, APC, brings us desolation. Don't be deceived, of the 24 so-called Progressive APC Governors, 14 of them were in the PDP, and so are Buhari's Ministers, they belong together. THINK.

So don't buy their hubris. Vote out the PDP/APC.

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AS THE TAIL WAGS THE DOG III

"And such as do wickedly against the covenant (BREAKING THE PROMISE OF CHANGE) shall he corrupt by Flattering (BANAL PROPAGANDA, PRAISE-SINGING AND COURT-JESTING): but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits (THE NEW DEAL IS RIGHT, FOR A NEW AND A BETTER NIGERIA IS POSSIBLE)." 

- The Bible... emphasis in caps, mine.

If you humbly look up the word, flattering, it will amaze you how well the Holy Book captured today's Nigeria. How can the APC deal so wickedly with the covenant of CHANGE, and you wonder why Buharideens are full of flattering. Not delivering up to 30%, their propaganda machinery lists payment of salaries and pensions as the achievement of a Govt., where in the world does that happen? It only tells how low we have sank as a nation, and how given to flattering, they are.

They name the fight against insurgency and talk about National Security as the reason they want a 2nd term for Buhari. Another flattering, but under this Govt. that will be 3years next month, more Nigerians have been killed, decapitated and left homeless, as opposed to what happened in five years of a failed past. So what has changed?

And why will anybody canvass a second term for a man who told you at 73years in 2015 that age would slow him down, and wished he were younger? Why then does he want to continue at 77? Where lies integrity and patriotism in all of this? Sad.

To be CONT'D. 

- Dr. Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia Jnr., a Barrister-at-Law, and social critic, is a Presidential hopeful in the forthcoming 2019 Presidential election in Nigeria. 

Kindly drop your comments.

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