OPINION: Role Of The Church In Politics And Governance Today
Dear beloved Leaders, Elders and Fathers, peace and grace be multiplied to you and to every reader of this message. Let me begin with this Yoruba proverb: “oro ki wuwo ka f’obe bu,” which simply means “words cannot be too heavy to require cutting it with a knife.”
With the just concluded election in mind, it is necessary to appeal to us on the need to bridge our religious, tribal and political divide, step by step, piece by piece towards building a sustainable “one-nation” Nigeria.
As a body with unique and unfettered access to God’s gift – the Holy Spirit, our greatest strength is to divinely align our congregants and the nation to the will of God Almighty. We can gain greater influence both economically and spiritually if we position ourselves as the light of the nation, and not just the star of our individual churches, and continue to broaden the light that shines collectively within us that darkness and its elements cannot comprehend. We should be the bridge between communities, the hope for reconciliation, and the resource centre for integrity, ethics and values.
Based on the countless challenges that faced our nation on her path to greatness, now is not the time for us to retreat into our shells, look the other way or move on “as if nothing happened” or to distance ourselves from the current administration. Instead, this is the time that we should lend our hands of support in prayer, faith and anointing, as our leaders continue to demonstrate the virtue of loyalty to the country, the body of Christ, and to God. The recent moves from the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to stretch a hand of fellowship to the government in power should be commended rather than criticised.
Though it is conspicuously evident that our nation has been polarised by greedy politicians who take advantage of the already existing divisions in the land to further create a split even within our folds while their sanity is at the mercy of grandiose delusions. As with politics, there will always be more than meets the eye. It also not a hidden fact, that Nigerians have been manipulated, in many ways by various beneficiaries of the democratic process.
As the body of Christ, we must remain 100 per cent committed to non-partisanship as a founding principle of our mission and in our work, as a unifier, not a divider, not undermining any conversation pertaining to the state of affairs in the nation.
Although in the past, we might have erroneously ignored some conversations, brazenly taken sides, and appeared clandestine in our support for candidates that appease to our minds, even from the pulpit. We need to do more than those. Now is the time to launch re-invigorated dialogue and movement.
There is no doubt that the world is under great turmoil at the moment, even the greatest countries in the world are having a moment of disunity, obstructions, abuse, waste and corruption. These are all in fulfilment of the scriptures concerning the last days and the attendant difficulties.
Our role as the church:
- This is the time to stay awake, alert, participate in whatever ways we can to create understanding, knowledge, and a more peaceful Nigeria to shine the light in the midst of this gross darkness that has crept in on the World.
- To amplify our collective voice for support, nonviolence and peaceful co-existence.
- To teach our members value for righteousness, justice, forgiveness, unity, love and equity in our churches.
- To begin grooming and investing in young men and women who would eventually penetrate the political sphere bearing the doctrine of honesty and integrity.
- Aligning ourselves with our brothers and sisters in power and giving them maximum support, they need to help function effectively in their assignment.
- As a body, we need to invest in research and development, take interest in analytical data gathering, endeavour to institutionalize standards, frameworks, procedures and best practices around the world.
- Let us negotiate with the present government to set up a committee who would revisit and review the 2014 National Confab Report so that would have been justified that no stone is left unturned by this administration towards economic growth, wealth creation and poverty alleviation. We have an opportunity as people to harmoniously rewrite the history of our nation.
Without the above mentioned, it would be almost impossible to mitigate the tribal, religious and cultural divides amongst us, our members are already broken into factions and mini denominations within us.
Suspicion and mistrust due to political leanings are at an all-time high and very worrisome. The adversary can only prey on our lack of response to these situations. However, we can do better by responding with wisdom, and by building systems for structural reform.
Although with so many changes that are happening in our political process lately, I would enjoin all our leaders to re-double their commitment in forming strong allies with leaders with credibility for the common good, doing everything they could to bring us to the shore, influencing nations, understanding political permutations, engaging in innovative economic reforms, reviving our infrastructure while preventing every atom of corruption. Such leaders will not merely be heroes, they will be forever cherished.
This should begin with us engaging members of other faiths in constructive dialogue on issues such as security, skills acquisition, poverty eradication, and education. We must never forget that we are not just the light of the church; but also the light of the world. When a leadership that is impacting a nation is trying to engage all stakeholders in nation building, it is rewarding that we embrace such dialogue.
Let me conclude by submitting that it is way too late for anyone to Islamize our great nation, Nigeria. And it will help if we stop propagating this anecdotal rumour, which breeds fear, despair and above all spread hatred and inhibits our primary mission; soul winning. Let’s invest our energies gainfully and for the glory of our Lord Saviour.
With gratitude to God.
- Abraham Great is the Convener, Diaspora Connect & Founder – He Lives Bible Church
'Leave Jonathan alone' - Civil Society Group Challenges Punch Newspapers
- Says
Punch is playing a hatchet role for APC
BY Napoleon
Azeez
THESave Ijaw
Nation Group has reacted to the recent Editorial, by the Punch Newspapers,
titled Jonathan's Pathetic Apologetics, describing it as not only paltry,
whining, but also falling within the category of world-class political
tantrums.
In a press
statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade IdrisUsman, and released
on Sunday morning in Abuja, the group said the approach by Punchconfirms its
long-held belief that Punch and some of its partners were in a campaign of
calumny against former President Goodluck Jonathan and his family; stressing
that the said editorial is coming at a time that several agencies and agents of
the incumbent administration are attacking the former President on all fronts;
a situation that has given Nigerians reasons to be worried about the fate of
our nation's democracy, particularly at a time that the Buhari-led
administration, has failed in providing the nation with good governance as
promised, while campaigning for the election.
The statement
in full reads:
PRESS
RELEASE: ENOUGH OF CAMPAIGN OF CALUMNY...NIGER DELTA GROUP WARNS PUNCH
NEWSPAPERS.............
The Save
Ijaw Nation Group wishes to react to the recent Editorial, by the Punch
Newspapers, titled Jonathan's Pathetic Apologetics. We see this editorial
column, as not only paltry, whining, but also falls within the category of
world class political tantrums.
In a most
unexpected approach by a media organisation of Punch's Standard, the rabid
nature of the Editorial, confirms our long held belief that Punch and some of
its partners in the campaign of calumny against former President Goodluck
Jonathan and his family, have abdicated their role as the fourth estate of the
realm, by playing sinister roles and agenda setting.
The role
played by Punch in the said editorial, coming at a time that several agencies
and agents of the incumbent administration are attacking the former President
on all fronts, should give Nigerians reasons to be worried about the fate of
our nation's democracy, at a time that the Buhari-led-administration, have
failed in providing the nation with good governance as promised, while
campaigning for the election.
No doubt,
Nigerians understand the basis of these recent attacks. We are not unaware that
the rising profile of former President Goodluck Jonathan both locally and internationally
has become a source of worry to the Buhari's administration and its trumpets
like the Punch.
They are no
doubts that they are now afraid and intimidated. But these people are quick to
forget that no amount of their campaign of calumny against Dr.Goodluck Jonathan
can cover up the fact that the incumbent administration is a failure. With the
present state of the nation, the incompetent Buhari administration and its
hatchet job executors will not be able to intimidate and blackmail Dr. Jonathan
and other patriotic Nigerians, into silence.
The way
Nigeria is currently being governed should be of more concern to the Punch,
than a Goodluck Jonathan, who has ceased being President of Nigeria, for about
two years now.
Finally, we
want to advise the Punch and others presently engaged in the ignoble agenda of
pulling down Dr. Jonathan, to focus their energy on calling out the incumbent
administration, to start implementing people oriented policies and tackle the
voluminous problems that confront us as a nation today.
Signed by Comrade
IdrisUsman
PICTURING
- Goodluck
Jonathan and his family 1 or 2
SegunAdeniyi and His Gratuitous Rationalizations
By Henry Omoregie
You cannot shave a man’s hair in his
absence. You cannot write a book about someone you never confirmed things with.
Mere gratitude to President Goodluck Jonathan does not translate to his
endorsement of a book he himself dismissed as figment of the author and his
‘reliable’ sources imaginations’
I have always known that portions of
the Fourth Estate of the Realm (Journalism) have been sold to Fifth Columnists
(self-aggrandizing detractors). It has been almost entirely acquired by
political megalomaniacs and hegemonistic rabble-rousers in the country called
Nigeria.
Truth is now spiced and spliced with
lies, falsehoods and calumnious aspersions provided in some cases by the
highest bidders to hungry and self-serving pen-pushers who would rather trade
off their noble professions for an opportunity to live a bigger, un-altruistic
life.
According to Punch News report
published Monday, May 1, 2017, the author of
a new book, ‘Against the Run of Play’,
Mr. SegunAdeniyi, has denied reports that former President Goodluck Jonathan
denied making comments credited to him in the book.
Adeniyi, who is
the Chairman of ThisDay Editorial Board, said this in a statement on Sunday.
Apart from
Jonathan, the book, which was presented last Friday, captured the accounts of
key figures in the 2015 general elections, including former President
OlusegunObasanjo; a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu; and the Minister of Transportation, RotimiAmaechi, among others on
key national issues.
Jonathan, in a
series of tweets on Saturday, however, said the views of many of the
respondents were inaccurate and promised to set the records straight in his
autobiography.
Jonathan’s words
have been interpreted by a section of the social media to mean that the author
misquoted him.
Adeniyi’s
statement read in part, “The respondents President Jonathan was referring to
are the people who spoke to me and whose claims he apparently disputes or
disagrees with. This should be clear enough to those who did not choose to read
his statement with a tendentious accent.
This is an insult on our intellectual
sensibilities. We may not all be trained journalists but many of us do
certainly understand English grammar.
One whole week before his book launch,
SegunAdeniyi’s publication which was leaked to his media friends had begun
salivating the gullible appetites of mischievous twisters of truth to garner
psychological advantage and enhance their confirmation bias.
It was a well-orchestrated
distraction from the failure of Buhari’s
rickety governance style which in Reno Omokri’s words has been dogged by Ghost
leadership, Ghost owners of discovered dollars, and Ghost achievements of the
APC-led failure called the Buhari administration.
One of the lies spread during the reviews
through snippets of Adeniyi’s book was that Ex PresidentGoodluck Jonathan had
‘’commissioned’’ SegunAdeniyi to write a book about his exit from government
via the 2015 polls.
Knowing his antecedents as a crafty
despiser of Jonathan’s tenure, I disbelieved that big fat lie from the first
minute. How can a SegunAdeniyi who about one year into Buhari’s government, attributed the recession
Nigeria got into, to Buhari’s inheritance of a ‘’Broken System’’ from President
Goodluck Jonathan be commissioned by the same Jonathan to write a book about
his travails in government with the likes of Reno Omokri and Reuben Abati still
alive and kicking?
What broken system is he talking
about? A broken system with an economic growth of between 6% and 7% and the 3rd
fastest growing economy on earth as projected by CNNMoney? A broken system
where the TSA, BVN and IPPIS ensured difficulties in misappropriating federal
funds by taking off 80,000 ghost workers from the Federal Civil Service? A
broken system where food prices and dollar naira exchange rates stabilized for
the entire 5 years GEJ led Nigeria?
Impossible! In his rejoinder to
SegunAdeniyi’s then lame and tacit support for Buhari’s cluelessness, Reno
Omokri, Presidential New Media Special Adviser under Jonathan wrote:
''There
is so much misinformation in Nigeria today and I really cannot understand how
the media which was like a Rottweiler under former President Goodluck Jonathan
has suddenly turned into a chihuahua. What is going on? A lot of Nigerian
journalists have reduced themselves to generators of excuses for President
MuhammaduBuhari and I am concerned for the fourth estate of the realm. Really
concerned''!
In
particular, I was rather disappointed when OlusegunAdeniyi, said in his regular
ThisDay back page column entitled ‘Leadership in a Time of Recession’ that ‘I
sympathize with President MuhammaduBuhari because he inherited a broken system’
(published July 28, 2016). Please! Inherited a broken system? Adeniyi in his
piece more or less accused former President Goodluck Jonathan of inheriting a
good system and handing over a worse and broken regime to President
MuhammaduBuhari. What a daring revision of history!
If
any President tried to unbreak the system, that President is former President
Goodluck Jonathan who demystified governance and lifted the veil that prior
administrations had placed on the government infrastructure of Nigeria by
signing the Freedom of Information Act into law on Saturday, May 28, 2011. The
question that should be asked is that if the signing of the FOI law helped to
un-break the system, what was the equal and opposite action for which the FOI
law was a reaction? The system of transparency was broken in Nigeria when Major
General MuhammaduBuhari (as he then was) promulgated Decree Number 2 which made
it a crime for any journalist or individual to report anything that embarrasses
the government EVEN IF IT IS TRUE!
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/that-segun-adeniyi-may-wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee/
So
much for an abysmally apologetic SegunAdeniyi who is telling us he holds
ex-President Jonathan in high esteem. What sort of abstruse reasoning is that?
Now
that his book may be snubbed by many due to Jonathan’s post on his Facebook
Page, Adeniyi’s attempt to strike gold with the Jonathan Brand has been
tobogganed into confusion, hence the hurriedly made up gratuitous
rationalization that GEJ did not rubbish his book, but only rubbished the
claims published in the book.
According
to Punch reports, Adeniyi continued: “But apparently, it is not. President
Jonathan did not say I distorted his views and the fact that others may have
presented him in ways he doesn’t like cannot be taken as an indictment of me or
of my work.”
Explaining the
process that went into the publication of the book, Adeniyi said he gave all
the respondents fragments of the book in advance so that their words would not
be misconstrued.
He added, “For the
record, after my first conversation with President Jonathan, I asked for his
email address and promised to send him the raw text of our conversation which
he could then amend as appropriate. I sent it to him that very day.
“When I went for a
second meeting, I took along a printed copy which we both went through
line-by-line. Whatever he wanted removed, reworked or rephrased was done while
in some areas he provided further context to what he said.
“I went through
this same process with former President OlusegunObasanjo; former Senate
President David Mark; APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; Governor Nasir
el-Rufai of Kaduna State; former NGF Chairman and current Transportation
Minister, Mr ChibuikeRotimiAmaechi; former Niger State Governor,
Dr.MuazuBabangidaAliyu; and a few other principal actors who all have, in their
emails, the raw text of our conversations.”
Adeniyi also
revealed that computer hackers had obtained soft copies of his book and had
started distributing the copies on social media.
What Adeniyi refused to say in his
press release, was that the Chief Calumny Professional and father of falsehood,
Sahara Reporters owner OmoyeleSowore was one of his acknowledged sources for
writing a book about Jonathan.
Those who indulge in casting
aspersions always cherish audiences which give them accessible pleasures which
in the end culminate in acrid controversy amid babbling gossip.
Jonathan has rubbished the book. Until
he writes his, or a closer Reno Omokri releases his own version of what
transpired in 2014 and 2015 with undiluted facts, SegunAdeniyi’s book will
remain a ‘’Misrepresentation of Facts’’
Henry
Omoregie is Oil and Gas Recruitment Consultant and a Public Affairs Analyst.
-The
opinions and views expressed in this article are solely those of the
writer/author, and do not necessarily represent the editorial policy of
Headline News Nigeria.
Photo of the day!
Abia state governor, Okezie Ikpeazu seen engaging a Chinese investor in arm wrestling at the state house yesterday!
Pres Buhari is healthy enough to run for a second term- Rotimi Amaechi
Minister of Transport and former Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi says President Buhari is healthy enough to run for a second term in office come 2019. Amaechi said this while responding to questions in a recent interview with Channels TV.
“If you look at the president since he came to the country, you will see there is a huge improvement. He’s regaining his weight.
This is a 74-year old man, he is no longer a 58 years old man. He is not 50. He is not a young man. I will advise that he should. The president is fit enough to govern and if he makes the decision to run again, if he does, I don't think there is anything wrong in supporting him"he said
Tinubu: the dilemma of a once-upon-a time political godfather By Osiagbovo Ehinare
Great men, without any human, spiritual or political calculations or qualifications, have been made great without any pre-plan or preparation for such exalted positions. Examples abound from Alhaji Aliyu Usman Shehu Shagari, to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, to the late Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, and his able successor, former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. But Jonathan stands out in the midst of these men. Without any aspiration, except that he wanted to become a Commissioner in Bayelsa State at the onset of the present democratic dispensation, rose from deputy governor to governor; vice president and acting president due to circumstances beyond his control and most instructing, unclear and unknown to him. That is why during the course of his six years outing as president of the most populous black nation, he never took for granted, how the hand of destiny raised him from the serene environment of Otuoke, a fishing community in Bayelsa State, to the presidential villa. As in other climes (only that some political rascals often times try to play God), some politicians would think that the position ascended by others were made possible through treachery. And in that state of illusion, try to outdo one another. Ours has not been different considering the enormous and high level political treachery that took place during the Presidency of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. And what was their primary problem you may ask? Jealousy! One man who exemplified this was the ex-Governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In his delusion that without him, no one could freely pilot the ship of Nigeria, conjured all manners of political ingenuity to make himself relevant. One thing that is most baffling is his pontification as a democrat per excellence. Without mincing words, the so called Asiwaju of Lagos and Jagaban of Borgu, is a double-faced politician who says one thing in public, and execute another from behind-the-scene. Like it is often said that "only truth will stand the test of time," the book written by Olusegun Adeniyi, titled "Against the Run of Play: How an Incumbent President was defeated in Nigeria," has succeeded in exposing the real Tinubu. Having earlier fed the public with how much intrigues were involved in the making of his protégé Vice President of Nigeria, the truth oozing out of Adeniyi's book showed that Jagaban only reluctantly conceded the exalted position to Professor Yemi Osinbajo, having exhausted all possible means of clinching the position, including the staunch opposition by the current Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and Senate President Bukola Saraki. Chapter Seven of Adeniyi's book exposed the 2Face politician Nigerians, mainly the so-called progressives, have been contending with. Even in the face of nursing so much hatred with the principal actors of the infamous vice presidential ticket, Tinubu was in Kaduna sometime ago to commission some projects for el-Rufai. In fact, on November 11, 2015, he drove in the same car with the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory while launching the new Kaduna Taxi Scheme and yet, harbouring such malicious thoughts. Nigeria can never progress with the likes of Tinubu and his cohorts. And as 2019 approaches, Nigerians should be wiser not to have anything to do with a leopard that changes its skin at any slightest opportunity. Thank God President Muhammadu Buhari, realising who Tinubu really is, gave him the political treatment of his life, hence, his present political oblivion. Osiagbovo Ehinare is a public affairs commentator based in Benin City, Edo State.
Tinubu’s Game Plan from the Shadows BY Inno Paul
THE vigour he displayed in the political field over the years earned him the blessings of his mentors put together. Prudence and vision were instrumental to his ascendance to the top. Undeniably, his dedication to the seeming common good galvanised the followership he enjoys now, no doubt. But his ultimate goal to create a kingdom far beyond his clan demanded a masterly blend in the documented rules of power. As a gladiator, he applied the skills he knew so well to overcome his opponents. At the negotiation table he made tasty offers to win the hearts of prospective partners. As a croupier who must not gamble would say, I foresaw the bounce back of an emerging generation of pragmatic leaders who believe in themselves beyond the old school of thought. So, right in front of us, the unfolding game was anchored on throne and thorns. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has always wanted to rule, and his tactics have always testified to it. When he led his party, the AC (Action Congress) into a merger to challenge the ruling party the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party), he had set his eyes at the top only to discover that his domineering card was being watched by the new generation of checkmates. He wanted to be the President of this country just like every other aspiring Nigerian, and there was nothing wrong with that, but what was available at that time was a pairing with General Muhammadu Buhari as his running mate. His ambition could not fly on a Muslim - Muslim ticket as these checkmates pointed out, because the people were not as desperate for the actualisation of CHANGE 2015 as HOPE 1993 had enjoyed in the time of the late Bahorun Moshood Kolawole Abiola popularly called and known as MKO. So many reasons played out in this resolution, and in a few words, fate favoured someone else. It took his spirit of sportsmanship to let go the loss to still remain the captain, yes he showed it indeed. Then the task of enlisting marketable options took over, and it didn’t come easy either. The natural drive to control the unfolding scenario always offered itself, but simultaneously the new generation kept sounding an alarm that it was a merger. Yemi Osinbajo, a Professor and former member of his cabinet while serving as Governor of Lagos State was nominated by him and sold for the job, much for loyalty and team spirit. In that scenario one would want the very best candidate to beat a sitting brilliant President. From a critical point of view, it has remained an after- thought. Within the realm of incumbency there were lots of impossibilities against the opposition he had formed. And truly the incumbent had gathered the masters of the media game to tear their opponents apart. And Tinubu had his own fair share of the pudding. In the course of strategizing to win, external alliances were explored to embolden this merger. There and then, was the arrival of the Dr. Bukola Saraki-front, a very potent arm that got the ears of the Presidential candidate. It is worth mentioning that they factored the checkmate against his candidacy as the running mate. Mallam Nasir El-Rufai brought in a certain analytical approach to most matters, he saw himself as a veritable participant, a thinker of a sort. When I sit back to ponder, I always wonder who wasn’t a thinker after all. His role merged with Sarak’si political dexterity to create a seeming balance in the emerging new generation of dreamers with purpose. The great Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a warrior of sorts, a Bashorun in his own rights, had matters arising with these gladiators. For Dr. Bukola Saraki, we all knew that a battle was going to play out in the future somewhere, somehow. When the platform emerged in the National Assembly playoffs, political analysts easily knew where the heat came from against his ambition for the Senate Presidency. The emergence of Saraki as the new Senate President was a Hollywood capture, and till today, the witty theatrics have only kept the western wing on the apprehensive to destabilise and overthrow. In the synopsis, new blocs have been formed thus creating factions, deadly factions, unforgiving factions and much more, and all of them within a particular house. With every passing minute and hour, the factions in their political worlds get more emboldened as they increase and multiply with every taken step. At some point, even their shadows are equally perfecting the art and science of creating more factions. Interestingly, we hope that shadows will not play some major roles in Tinubu's game plan for 2019. Inno Paul, a public affairs commentator cum activist writes from Lagos.
THE ROAD TO 2015 GENERAL ELECTION: HOW SARAKI, EL-RUFAI, AMAECHI AND THE NEW PDP GOVERNORS BACKED BY OBASANJO TRIMMED TINUBU TO SIZE…AS THE BATTLE FOR 2019 HEATS UP
How Buhari walked out on him - How he shed tears after the rejection - How Adeboye influenced the final choice BY Napoleon Azeez and Ramo Silvers ASIWAJU Bola Ahmed Tinubu described not too long ago by President Muhammadu Buhari as one of the national leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has once more opened up on the intrigues, the lobbying, scheming and backstabbing that characterized the 2014 Convention of the party. He has also gone a step further to lay bare the facts of how the trio of the current Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and the Governors' Cabal, then led by the former Governor of Rivers State and now Transportation Minister, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi truncated his ambition of becoming the running mate to Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 presidential election. It is not the first time Tinubu would go public about what actually strained his relationship with Saraki and how he failed to become Nigeria’s number two citizen. A year ago, Tinubu had hinted on this in Abuja during the presentation/launch of a book, "Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria", authored by a Professor of International Studies, John Paden. The former governor of Lagos State had stated: "There was the issue of selecting Buhari's running mate. After a careful study and discussion, it was agreed that we should field a religiously balanced ticket given the sensitivity of the moment. Based upon this conclusion, the name of a renowned professor, Yemi Osinbajo, a professor of law and former Lagos State Attorney-General during my tenure as governor was proposed and accepted as the running-mate. Aside Saraki, Tinubu also blames the new PDP Governors that decamped to the APC for truncating his vice-presidential ambition. His narration equally says that the names of Tunde Bakare and Rotimi Akeredolu were also pushed as possible VP contenders, but Osibanjo was picked. And that when he called Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to inform him that he had been chosen to be President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate to contest the 2015 presidential election, he (Osinbajo) was hesitant know the interest Tinubu had in the position; and only accepted the offer after he had consulted with Pastor Enoch Adeboye who gave his royal blessing to the offer. Another school of thought has it that contrary to the widely held belief that Tinubu was interested in becoming the running mate of General Buhari, he never really thought he was going to emerge as the VP candidate of the APC. Rather, the whole show put up by Tinubu was a stunt to get leaders of the party, particularly those from the South East and South South zones to accept the nomination of Osinbajo as Buhari’s running mate, that presenting Osinbajo would have failed if he (Tinubu) had not put up the front of wanting to become the VP candidate. The choice of Osinbajo was agreed at a Sunday night/Monday morning meeting of APC chieftains from the South West attended by Tinubu himself and many others from the zone: Bisi Akande, Kayode Fayemi, Babatunde Fashola, Ibikunle Amosun], Rauf Aregbesola and Abiola Ajimobi amongst others.. However, when Tinubu presented Osinbajo to the enlarged house of the party leaders in Abuja, he was out rightly rejected by leaders from the South South zone. But Tinubu who had already sensed that Osinbajo was going to be rejected at the meeting came with a Plan B. It was at this point that he indicated interest that he was going to nominate himself for the VP, knowing fully well that his choice was going to be a hard nut to crack for the APC leaders. As expected, the announcement of his interest infuriated many of the party leaders to the extent that Governor Rochas Okorocha and Atiku Abubakar, both of them presidential aspirants that were defeated by Buhari at the presidential primaries in Lagos walked out of the meeting. The Monday night meeting spilled into the early hours of Tuesday and it discussed other candidates like Rotimi Amaechi, Adams Oshiomhole and Kayode Fayemi, but the party was left with only two choices - Tinubu or Osinbajo. However, Tinubu’s recent comments on the issue are contained in a book titled ‘Against the Run of Play,’ written by the Chairman, Editorial Board of ThisDay, Olusegun Adeniyi. He said their reason was that Christians in the North would not accept a Muslim-Muslim ticket, and also revealed that El-Rufai wanted Pastor Tunde Bakare as Buhari’s running mate. In what appeared a background to the political game that marked the June 2015 National Assembly leadership elections, Mr. Tinubu was reported to have said Saraki and other former PDP leaders who defected to the APC disrupted the plans the party had made before the arrival of the so-called PDP bloc. “What they (Saraki and others from the PDP) did behind my back was wrong. We always do things as a group. By the time they joined, we were already too far ahead in our processes but we accommodated them. “We agreed to take their state structures and subsume them into the party and they all had their opportunity to nominate the candidates of their choices for different political offices. “But they went behind to instigate Buhari and some other people in the party against me on the pretext of religion. That was not right. They were canvassing arguments that the Christians in the North would not vote for a Muslim-Muslim ticket. “Nasir el-Rufai was also selling the same argument within the CPC (the defunct Congress for Progressive Change) because at that point, he still wanted to have Pastor Bakare brought in as Buhari’s running mate,” he said. The former governor was also reported to have said some senators and governors, who defected from the PDP to the APC, met with him on the eve of the APC presidential primaries in Lagos to know if there was an agreement between him and Mr. Buhari to run together. “I told them that it was better to resolve such issue after the primaries, but they wanted to make it a condition for supporting Buhari, which, for me, was very wrong. “I told them I could not insist on this as a condition for my support for Buhari. I felt that was not right to hold Buhari hostage in this manner. “I believe the support that we gave was fundamental to Buhari clinching the party nomination. Without that support, a different outcome would have been most likely,” Tinubu added. Buhari eventually asked Tinubu to present three names for the position, but he only provided Yemi Osinbajo. “I backed down because I did not want to be depicted as causing a problem. I backed away from the position in order to offer Buhari a name I once raised with him in 2011: that of Professor Yemi Osibanjo,” he added. But former Minister of Culture and Tourism, Femi Fani Kayode (FFK), has countered Tinubu's claim on why Buhari didn’t pick him as his running mate in 2015. FFK in a Facebook post on Thursday, said El Rufai had wanted Buhari to pick Fashola, former Lagos governor as his running mate. He wrote, “The Muslim/Muslim ticket was their plan all along and I was the first to expose and oppose it when I was in APC. That is why I left them. “Obasanjo opposed it too. Saraki did so behind the scenes. El Rufai did not oppose a Muslim Muslim ticket. It is just that he didn’t want Tinubu. He wanted Fashola. ‘I discussed this matter deeply with every single name that I mentioned here when I was with them. The whole thing sickened me.” But Saraki had, in April 2016, hinted at how he sabotaged Tinubu’s VP ambition, which he said was his ‘original sin’ that motivated the former Lagos governor’s opposition to him. Tinubu was strongly opposed to the emergence of Saraki as the Senate President, and was able to get the formal leadership of the APC to endorse Ahmed Lawan, for the country’s Number 3 position. “Most people talk about the Senate Presidency position, but this was not my only offence. I have also been accused of helping to frustrate some people’s opportunity to emerge as President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate. But I have no problem with anybody. My concern was that it would not be politically smart of us to run with a Muslim-Muslim ticket. “This, my brother, was my original sin. What they say to themselves, among other things, was that if he could conspire against our ambition, then he must not realize his own ambition as well. For me however, I have no regrets about this. I only stood for what I believed was in the best interest of the party and in the best interest of Nigeria,” Saraki said. Other pundits say the Osibanjo card was an after-thought. The author of Buhari’s biography, John Paden, on his account of how VP Osinbajo, emerged as Buhari’s running mate, had stated that Buhari chose Osinbajo despite much pressure from Tinubu against such. But Secretary to Lagos State Government, Mr. Tunji Bello, disagreed with Paden, insisting that the process of Osinbajo’s nomination started immediately after Buhari emerged as the presidential candidate at the December 2014 National Convention. The entire scenario could be called the many nights of long knives, though it still may not sufficiently capture the intrigues, betrayals, sellouts and drama that typified the various meetings which ultimately culminated in the choice of Osinbajo. But with barely 24 hours to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deadline for the submission of names of candidates by political parties, the name Osinbajo, which had been making the rounds as the alternative choice, finally got the official stamp of approval of the general to run with him on the party’s ticket. Practically all but the last meeting convened for the choice of a running mate for Buhari had failed for one reason: the reported interest of Bola Tinubu, who made a poor show of concealing his desire for the job. Tinubu, party sources alleged saw his probable ascension to the vice-presidency as an opportunity to be “compensated” for his incontrovertible role in the establishment of a strong and viable APC, a move other members of the party, including the governors, had opposed on the grounds that he would be a hard sell to the Nigerian public. To exemplify his all-consuming desire for the job, Tinubu was said to have attended one of the meetings with the South-west leaders of the party and told his audience a story of how Buhari had agreed to field him as his running mate. According to him, all he needed was the consent of those at the meeting in writing, in order to convince the retired general that he (Tinubu) also had the support of the South-west caucus to emerge as his running mate. But this, a majority of those at the meeting saw through, compelling one of governors to say if his statement was true, “Buhari has picked you, then you don’t need our signatures to get our support”. Unfortunately for him, some of those at the meeting were uncomfortable with the fact that he wanted to get them to sign a communiqué, which he would have taken to Buhari, informing him that his people in the South-west, majority of whom are governors, had asked that he be fielded as the VP candidate. In Tinubu’s estimation, the story would have been difficult to refute in order not to embarrass him nor put the party in a fix. When it became clear to Tinubu that his people had effectively opposed his emergence as Buhari’s deputy, and that his goal was slipping from his grasp, he reportedly broke down in tears, moaning that their stance would render him insignificant in the scheme of things if he was neither allowed the opportunity to field himself nor present a candidate of his choice. He was frankly told that it would be hard sell him because one, he is a Muslim and two, other issues might emerge from the woodworks that could be embarrass him and the party. When Tinubu tried to make Buhari see things his way, a shouting match ensued, compelling the general to walk out on Tinubu so that the situation would not degenerate. He then allegedly rushed back to his people to push for the emergence of Osibajo. To political observers, Tinubu, with his overt desire, covert antics and brinksmanship, may have secured a diminished victory. But of greater significance, he has had a taste of what it means to manage and square up against the contending interests and forces at play in a truly large national party. And on Dec 17, 2014, a statement was hurriedly released by Tinubu to announce his withdrawal from consideration for the APC Vice- Presidential Position. Way back June 2014, months before the APC Convention, Chief Tom Ikimi, co-founder of the party who later defected to the PDP, had in a lengthy letter strongly opposed the option of a Muslim Muslim or Christian Christian Presidential ticket for his then party in the 2015 elections. The dramatic emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara as the senate President and Speaker of the 8th National Assembly was likely to end the overbearing influence of Asiwaju who allegedly single-handedly picked Buhari, Osinbajo and Chief John Oyegun as the president, Vice and the APC chairman respectively, but in a terse statement, Tinubu after the election, vowed never to recognise Saraki as the gavel handler and landlord in the house. As at last week, The APC is touted to be currently divided into four warring camps: The Aso Rock Cabal Camp comprising family members of the President, and led by Mamman Daura; The Buhari Political Friends Camp (BPF) Kayode Fayemi, Rotimi Amaechi, Babatunde Fashola and their ilk; The Bola Ahmed Tinubu Camp - one of the leading members of this group, Senator Ali Ndume was suspended from the Senate by the Saraki camp and The Bukola Saraki camp - a major factor for his survival is his ability to plan ahead, aside being firmly in control of the Senate. Ahead 2019, Tinubu says he will never stand in any contest against President Muhammadu Buhari or support anyone against him. This was made known by his Media office to debunk a story published by THISDAY newspaper on Tuesday, February 28, suggesting that he was preparing for a presidential contest and that he might dump the APC and join the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to fulfil his ambition in 2019. Chief Ayo Adebanjo who is a leader of the Yoruba group, Afenifere and a top member of the defunct Action Group, in an interview with Vanguard last year, had expressed his notions on the ruling APC and most especially, the mistake of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. He said that the South-West voted profusely for the APC and their leader, Jagaban as a principal figure knew very well the position of the west but he thought that he would be clever enough to use the north to achieve what he wanted. That was the mistake he made.
ALEXANDER BARON EXPOSED BY PROFESSOR ALEXIA THOMAS INTUIT AS ORACLE
United
Kingdom is an Empire whose Myth is founded the Knights and Knowledgeable of the
Aristocrats. UK is now a Police State as No One Is safe.
People of
United Kingdom are warned to be Vigilant as Evil is working in the Shadows of
Light because Injustice is Chartered as Laws – By Her Knowledgeable Professor
Alexia Thomas
Truth is above Mud of Lies, so United
Kingdom Civilization can no longer be mocked – By
Her Knowledgeable Professor Alexia Thomas
We can officially
unmasked the Face of the Syndicate Alexander Baron who lives at 93C Venner
Road, London, Sydenham, SE26 5HU and is the Con Man who owned The Latest
News.Com a Scammers Blog set up by Mr. Alexander Baron himself and funded by UK
Immigration Militias for purpose of Releasing Fake News and Stories to brainwash
the Commonwealth People living the United Kingdom in deceit to disarm their Rights
to protect themselves with the British Commonwealth National Card in aid of their
Sovereignty to Settlement in Britain.
The Commonwealth
Liberation Party unmasked the Identity of the Fake Blogger who will soon be
facing Criminal Charges for Blackmail and Deformation of Character on Crimes
committed against Professor Alexia Thomas geared at discrediting her Reputation
to intentionally destroy her Credibility. The Crimes committed against the
Leader of The Commonwealth Liberation Party is equally Crimes committed against
the Party therefore the Offences of Mr. Alexander Baron is a perpetrated for
motives of Anti-Semitic attack. This is a Xenophobia attempt to assassinate
Professor Alexia Thomas Reputation whose Voice is the only Justice that protect
the Rights and Virtues of the Commonwealth People in the Great Britain.
On the 22nd August
2015, a False Publication was released about Professor Alexia Thomas as it
Reads - A Nigerian Scammer In London. The Latest News.Com is
a Syndicate Network Blog created to deceive the Coloured People with untrue
Stories and fake News. Mr. Alexander Baron is an Enemy of the Coloured and
Black People and he is a Cult Member of the Klu Klux Klan. He gets himself rich
in Blood Money that sees the Blacks and Coloured People killed every day in the
Detention Centres all over the United Kingdom.
The Crime committed against the People of Coloured is a
serious Confraternity between Britain and Europe to destroy the People of the
Commonwealth. The British Police fails
the Commonwealth Citizens in the United Kingdom as they have intentionally
allowed the corridors of destruction to entrap them in connivance with
Immigration Militia Syndicates currently working as Hitler’s Gestapo. Immigration Officers sees Commonwealth
Citizens as bugs and kill them silently in the Detention Centres and bury them
in Unmarked graves.
VEIL OF
PROTECTION
British Commonwealth National Card Allotment is available
for those interested to apply, can get directives from the Protectorate
Identity Website at www.protectorateidentity.org to safeguard
their Human Rights and Civil Liberties. Every
Commonwealth Citizens and Non-Commonwealth Citizens are advised to Protect themselves
by Enrolling for British Commonwealth National Card or you die the Death of
Shame as the UK Immigration Militias Syndicates are out to kill Commonwealth
Citizens and no British Court has ever brought any of the Militias to Justice
despite the Commonwealth Citizens Deaths. The British
Commonwealth National Card safeguard your Rights against Infringement by
Immigration or Police Harassment. Holders who faces Harassment are advised to
take note of the Officers credentials to report Crimes of Harassment. Do not be
Deceived, Brain-washed or Misguided.
The British Commonwealth National Card gives you Security
and Protection. The BCN Card allows you Global Social Integration,
International Relations, Status Enhancement and Travel Clearance by 2021 as it
upholds the UDHR 1948 United Nations Treaty, so Holders of this Card are immune
from Malicious Harassment.
SCAMMERS
BLOGS AND WEBSITES
THE PUBLIC IS INFORMED to disregard News from (i) THE LATEST
NEWS.COM, (ii) CITY OF LONDON POLICE, (iii) ACTION FRAUD AND (iv) NATIONAL
CRIME AGENCY to avoid being misled.
CITY OF
LONDON POLICE
The City Of London Police do not exist, instead they are Maggots
acting in their Kokum World. They are Militias Syndicate Gangs that execute Covert
Operations just to protect the German Politicians Blood Money Investment Profit
accrued from the Black and Coloured Peoples Rituals Scarification to lock up
and kill the Commonwealth Citizens in Immigration Detention Facilities in the
UK. Members of the Public can check the City Of London Website; Do not be
deceived by the Logos of various Agencies they are all bird of the same
feathers. The obvious clarity is that they are not the Metropolitan Police. This
is just Unbelievable that Monkey Organization that has no genuine purpose and
motives for United Kingdom Empire can exist debarring the UK Police from their
works of Peoples Civil Protection. It is now obvious whenever a Coloured Person
is in distress or being attacked by Militias and the Police are called out,
they refused to protect as the Syndicate Militias now lure Great Britain Streets
shaded like Chameleon, the Worst Atrocities to Hinder British Civilization.
METROPLITAN
POLICE
Her Knowledgeable Professor Alexia Thomas is the Leader Of
The Commonwealth Liberation Party (TCLP) and not wanted by the UK Metropolitan Police,
but the Immigration Syndicates deceived the Metropolitan Police Commissioner
office into signing a False warrant to declare her Most Wanted. The Police Commissioner
is still yet to Apologise to Prof. Thomas because receipt of Apology will come
with a Weighty Compensation not less than £50,000,000.00 as The Commonwealth
Liberation Party surge to Sue for the malicious Warrant of Arrest unlawfully
issued against her.
NATIONAL
CRIME AGENCY(NCA)
The National Crime Agency is a Militias Syndicate Organization
set up and funded by the Home Office as a Non-Ministerial Government
Department, but in their National Crime Agency Website, they call themselves a
Government Agency whereas they are just a Government Quango. The NCL Website Logo
is the Crown. How can the NCA use the Logo of a Crown when they are not set by
Royal Charter or granted Royal Assent by the Monarch?
The
Question: Does the Home Office have the Powers to set Up the NCA as an Organization?
definitely the Answer is No. The National Crime Agency malicious existence now
means United Kingdom is a Police State, denying the real UK Metropolitan Police
the Powers to protect the People of United Kingdom and Commonwealth. How
can Home Office in the Headship of PM Theresa May’s Conservative Political
Party operates United Kingdom with Slum Dog Politics? The
Huge payout by Home Office to National Crime Agency makes the NCA richer than
the Great Britain Police and Metropolitan Police Institution and Federation. The
Home Office Annual Payout of £448,000,000.00 to National Crime Agency since
their formation in 2013 is the reason why over 200,000 UK Police Officers are
denied Employment by the Police Federation.
The German Politicians own the National Crime Agency that
extorts Home Office Four Hundred and Forty-Eight Million Pounds (£448,000,000.00)
Annual Budget for their retention as a Corporate Klu Klux Klan Organization in
United Kingdom to protect their Blood Money Investment accrues from Immigration
Detention facilities for locking Black and Colored People as Human Animals and
Guineas Pigs.
NATIONAL
CRIME AGENCY AND EUROPEAN UNION
The People of United Kingdom Voted that the UK Leave the EU
because their National Health Service (NHS) System is suffering because UK
gives EU Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds (£350,000.00) Weekly, which
mean Pm Theresa May pays European Union Club Eighteen Million, Two Hundred
Thousand Ponds (£18,200,000.00) in a Year of 52 Weeks.
What is PM Theresa May’s interest by Funding the National Crime Agency
£448,000,000,00 which means that the National Crime Agency receives from the
Home Office weekly Eight Million, Six Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Pounds and Sixty-two
Pence (£8,615, 384.62) every week in 52 Weeks in One Year.
It is now
obvious why Her Knowledgeable Professor Alexia Thomas on the 12th of
July 2016 moved a Vote of No Confidence against PM Theresa May and her
Conservative Party. The malicious Payment
PM Theresa May gives to the National Crime Agency depowers the State Police Financial
Empowerment to give the UK People Protection.
The National Crime Agency will and must be close down, because their monstrous
organization has No Blood, No Vein or No Skin to Operate as a Vigilante Group
in United Kingdom which is why Commonwealth Peoples Deaths in Detention
facilities have been covered up because United Kingdom is now a Mafia Republic.
The National Crime Agency as a Vigilante Gangs are even worse
that than the American Mafias Drug Lords like Mr. Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone a Gangster,
Bootlegger, Racketeer. The German
Politicians And PM Theresa May Will And, Must Face The Wrath To Justice For Funding
This National Crime Agency which we have unmasked as Syndicate Vigilante Gangs.
The
Public is seriously warned to be Vigilant as Evil is working in the Shadows of
Light because Injustice is Chartered as Laws.
The Commonwealth Liberation Party’s Myth can never de
defeated as it is controlled by the Powers of the Thrones of Great Britain
Kingdom. The
Myth of Professor Alexia Thomas and her Headship of The Commonwealth Liberation
Party has come to Stay, Live and Reign and any attempt by Syndicates and
Government Surrogates to stop the Peoples Freedom and Justice will be Stopped.
The
Truth Is Above Mud Of Lies, United Kingdom Civilization Can No Longer Be
Mocked.
Every Body should watch out for Alexander Baron as his days
to face the gallows of Justice are equally Numbered.
The Commonwealth Liberation Party Says No Room for Slum Dog
Politics
Press Released 21st August 2016
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