"NIGERIA'S LEADERS LACK WISE PHILOSOPHICAL SAYINGS AND QUOTABLE QUOTES"

I have careful followed and meticulously watched the utterances, lifestyles and the leadership inputs of the crop of leaders that have emerged on the political landscape of Nigeria since the inception of the 4th political dispensation that started in 1999 to date. I can now bold come to my final conclusion by describing most of these men and women in power in Nigeria today as the worst examples of leadership materials that Nigeria is showcasing or exhibiting to the rest of the world in this 21st century human universe.

These leaders represent the highest forms of human mediocrity in power, chronic ignorance, bigotry, shady behaviors, corruption, greed, selfishness and immorality in the short history of the Nigerian nation. These set of leaders have no real plans, any genuine visions with practically implementable political agendas that can move Nigeria forward in our lifetime. These folks pursue political power primarily for their own self-serving purposes to become the negative role models for the tens of the millions of those young Nigerians. These bunch of leaders have no sense of history, time and posterity, but reside permanently on the wrong side of the Nigerian history. Their legacies are official corruption, resource mismanagement, psycho-talks, lawlessness and the rule of brutality, abuse of office, religious bigotry, tribalism and nepotism.

Nigerian leaders in this 21st century in this information age are still blaming their own inability and personal failures to provide electricity to their fellow Nigerians and the rampant air crashes on the power of darkness. The President still believe in the use religious prayers to fight against the act of terrorism in 2013. There are no enduring political achievements, wise philosophical sayings and any sensible or life-changing quotable quotes that can be associated with these leaders as they are seen today in Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Ghandi and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

THE REVEALER USES ITS EAGLE EYE TO PEEP INTO NIGERIA IN 2014"

The year 2014 in Nigeria will all be about politics and the proposed 2015 presidential election. The final battle line is now openly drawn between the incumbent President Jonathan Goodluck who is bent on returning to the Aso Rock villa in 2015 by all means and at all cost on one hand versus the combined political forces of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and the opposition APC. In any human battle to control power, one side will have to win and the other side will have to lose at the end of the day. The various political developments that have taken place so far in Nigeria in the year 2013 all point to the fact that it will be practically easier for a carmel to pass through the eye of a needle than for President Jonathan Goodluck to return to the Aso Rock in 2015.

On the Nigerian economy, there will be no changes or any visible and tangible improvement in 2014. Politicians in Nigeria will be totally focused like the laser beam on winning those elections and retaining their current political offices. The money that is meant for the recurrent and the capital expenditures will be diverted into winning those elections. The public elected and appointed officials who are not sure of surviving the oncoming political hurdles in 2015 will be busy stock pilling their last loots. The Nigerian government will continue to borrow more money from those international lending agencies in the name of the national development agenda that will never see the light of the day in all reality. The nation's foreign debt will continue to rise, the value of the Nigerian Naira will continue to drop against those major international currencies.

The minimum wage will stay stagnant, the unemployment rate amongst the youths will continue to increase, the prices of goods and services will go up due to the inflation that will be caused by the falling Nigerian Naira, the purchasing power of Nigerians without any access to the government coffers and contracts will drop drastically, the social services will not improve, the health care services will remain the same and the proposed plan to develop our national infrastructures will continue to be a lip service in all reality. I see more social unrests, Boko Haram terrorism, kidnappings for ransom, armed robbery, ritual killings, drug traffickings, prostitution, political uncertainties and workers' strikes due to the unbearable pains of the failing national economy and the national political tension or tussle in the land. 

In conclusion, these developments in Nigeria in 2014 could lead to the most turbulent political era that Nigerians have never seen or witnessed in the last 53 years of her nationhood. These massive political tensions may eventually result in the suspension of the 2015 presidential election for a uniform national demand by all Nigerian ethnic nationalities to now converge the long overdue Sovereign National Conference that will determine the future of the troubled Nigerian federating units.

"NIGERIANS ARE POOR STUDENTS OF THEIR OWN RECENT HISTORY"

The video clip on the Youtube that was posted by the Sahara TV on December 28, 2013 that showed the massive real estate owned by President Jonathan Goodluck of Nigeria and his wife in their own state of Bayelsa did not come to me personally as any big surprise to close this year. President Jonathan Goodluck is just a follow-follow man in the words of the late Nigerian Afrobeat musician, Fela Kuti. President Jonathan Goodluck and his wife are better students of the Nigerian history than the tens of the millions of the ordinary Nigerians who are crying foul over this shocking development to them.

President Jonathan Goodluck is not doing anything new in Nigeria today or anything that Nigerians have never seen, experienced or witnessed in their recent history. Have the same Nigerians forgotten that IBB was the first to retire into his own multi-million dollar Hilltop mansion in Minna since 1993 to date? Have the same Nigerians also forgotten that the late General Sanni Abacha owned a similar mansion in Kano? What about the mansion of the retired General Abubakar Abdulsalami in Minna? What about Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's mansion in Abeokuta? What about the mansions that are owned by the former and the serving Nigerian leaders, political appointees, public elected officials, military generals, security chiefs and top civil servants in Nigeria and all over the world (Europe, Middle East, North America, South Africa and the Caribbean)? In conclusion, President Jonathan Goodluck and his wife are religiously following the established precedence in Nigeria as a nation.

"THE NON-OIL EXPORTS OF NIGERIA TO THE WORLD TODAY"

Nigeria as a nation since her independence from Britain in 1960 is known worldwide for the oil export and its population that makes it the largest black nation in the world or the giant of Africa. About 1 out of every 5 living Africans is a Nigerian and Nigerians are globe trotting addicts with permanent residencies in all the 195 independent nations of the world of today. The vibrant national economy of Nigeria began to collapse in the 1970s shortly after the Biafran civil war and in the midst of her oil boom economy due to the reign of the chronic official corruption and the massive mismanagement of that oil wealth by the then military rulers.

This new economic development in Nigeria by the 1980s had started to directly affect the tens of millions of the ordinary Nigerians as unemployment rate began to grow, the value of the Nigerian Naira against the major international currencies began to fall, armed robbers and stealing became rampant, social services reduced, health care system collapsed, national infrastructures became overwhelmed, high inflation rate took over the prices of goods and services, poverty rate rose, standard of living and the purchasing power of millions of Nigerians fell and the entire nation was then plunged into social tensions, rampant workers' strikes and violent students' demonstrations.

These new economic indicators in Nigeria in the 1980s then gave birth to the era of brain drain that forced Nigeria's best brains and minds to seek for the greener pastures of Europe, North America and the Middle East. This era of economic uncertainties in Nigeria then forced the millions of those helpless, hopeless, vulnerable and ignorant Nigerians to turn to religions and crimes as their own way out of those economic problems.

Nigerians also began to see a new type of Christianity in the 1980s that was imported from America by the name of prosperity gospel that promises every faithful tither and regular offering giver enormous wealth and sound health in this life. Nigeria then became an international hotspot and transition for drug trafficking worldwide. Thousands of young Nigerian women began to move to the neighboring African nations and Europe as prostitutes. The desire to travel out of Nigeria to the western nations became the first-class dream of every young Nigerian to achieve. The era of the internet technology and mobile phone in the early 2000s gave birth to a new type of cyber crime in Nigeria that is known as the 419 in the legal circles. The biggest prosperity gospel Churches in Nigeria in the 1990s then began to export this new form of Christianity to the rest of the world where Nigerians live and work with the primary goal of getting financial reward in return as their primary motivation factor.

Today in 2013, Nigeria has successfully exported her crimes and criminals to the whole world with thousands of young Nigerians locked up in the prisons of the nations around the world for committing internet crimes, drug traffickings, prostitutions, visa frauds, security frauds, wire frauds, mail frauds and impersonations. The Nigerian Churches with their headquarters in Nigeria can also be found in the nations of the world today where Nigerians reside. These Nigerian Churches in the diaspora are serving as the direct conduits or the channels for the transferring of those hard currencies from those foreign nations to their parent Churches in Nigeria.

"AMERICA'S THREE BIGGEST GIFTS TO THE WORLD IN THE LAST 100 YEARS"

America's three unique technological inventions in the field of automobile, aviation and internet have all combined together by revolutionizing and shaping the entire world in the last 100 years for better. The automobile and aviation technologies radically and jointly changed the face as well as the pace of all the forms of transportations that involve the movement of humans, goods and services worldwide. The internet technology on it own has changed forever the way we communicate and do businesses all over the world as humans.

These technologies have also created enormous wealth or financial security for the nations, corporations, businesses and individuals everywhere that the sun rises and sets. These technologies have continued to lift up hundreds of millions of people all over the world from poverty into financial and material prosperity. There is no single human nation in this 21st century world that can survive, thrive, prosper and be able to function properly without embracing and using these technologies fully.

The global communication is now done globally at the speed of light via the internet technology of today. The online businesses or the e-commerce are rapidly replacing the convection ways in which businesses are done worldwide. Millions of people worldwide are now making money and creating jobs through the internet technology instead of the traditional business methods and employment creation. The field of traditional education is now harnessing the internet technology. Employers of labor worldwide are now promoting telecommute that saves them time, money and it is also more convenient for their employees.

In conclusion, America is truly the biggest global change agent in all reality, the true land of prosperity, technological innovations, scientific advancement, capitalism, free market enterprise, democracy, constitutional freedom, diversities and the global melting pot of today in all reality.

"NIGERIA NEEDS MORE THAN HER OIL TO MOVE AHEAD IN THIS 21ST CENTURY"

Nigeria is one of the world's largest oil producing and exporting nations, but more than 75% of the revenue from her oil sales is used to run her government at the federal, state and local levels. This development leaves Nigeria as a nation without any significant money left over for any capital and human developments. No nation under this type of financial status will ever develop in all reality as a nation or be able to truly meet the basic needs of its own citizens.

The four biggest loopholes that are directly siphoning the Nigeria's wealth today are:(i). The massive and unabated official corruption. (ii). The mammoth mismanagement of her state resources by her own public officials. (iii). The huge oil theft or oil bunkering that is growing daily. (iv). The many tax loopholes that allow companies, businesses, individuals and importers of goods as well as services to deny the Nigerian government her legally due tax revenues.

Nigeria has all what it takes to make more money than what this oil revenue is bringing into the government coffers at the moment. If Nigeria will ever move forward in our lifetime, then the country has to pursue the following goals now and not tomorrow:(i). Begin a massive war to stamp out official corruption and the mismanagement of own state funds by our leaders. (ii). Embark on a war to end this oil theft and tax loopholes. (iii). Put significant investment into education, agriculture, tourism, manufacturing, renewable energy resources, modern infrastructures, exportation of finished goods and services, mining, helath care services, social services, national security and then put a very effective taxation policy in place that punishes tax evasion severely in reality and then collects all the taxes that are legally due to the Nigerian government in general.

"NIGERIA TO SPEND MORE MONEY RUNNING HER GOVERNMENT THAN DEVELOPING THE COUNTRY IN 2014"

Nigerian government has proposed a budget of $29 billion for the year 2014 in which about 73% of this amount or $22.12 billion with be used to run this ever-growing federal government of Nigeria. The biggest consumers of the Nigerian budget are the presidency, the national assembly, 17,500 public elected officials and political appointees, the federal ministries and parastatals as well as the massive foreign trips and the huge estacodes for the government officials and political appointees who are globe trotting addicts.

How much is budgeted for education that is the hope for the future development of the Nigerian nation in all reality? How much is budgeted for the provision of the most needed social services for Nigerians? How much is budgeted to modernize our outdated and overwhelmed national infrastructures? How much is budgeted toward the rapid improvement of our health care services? How much is budgeted to create jobs for the millions of the presently unemployed young Nigerians? How much is budgeted to raise the poverty wages that are paid to the millions of the hardworking Nigerian workers instead of the true living wages? How much is budgeted to improve the security of life and properties of all Nigerians from the threats of terrorism, armed robbers, kidnappers for ransom, hired killers and ritual killers? Is this what democracy is all about in Nigeria today in 2013? Is this all that our democracy will offer Nigerians in 2014?

The Nigerian government also said that the 2014 budget will be lowered by about $0.3 billion than the budget of 2013 due to the rampant oil theft and the lower tax revenue from the importation of the goods and services to Nigeria. The Nigerian government also intentionally pegged the 2014 budget on $74 a barrel of oil price tag when a barrel of oil is presently selling for about $100 a barrel in the international market. This means than Nigeria will only sell about 325 million barrels of oil in 2014 to make $29 billion to finance her budget when Nigeria officially produces 2.5 million barrels of oil daily or 1 billion barrels oil a year according to OPEC. Where is the over 675 million barrels of oil that will not be accounted for in that budget in 2014? Are oil thieves in Nigeria going to steal about 675 million barrels of oil in 2014 or about 67.5% of the oil that will be sold in 2014 by Nigeria? This math does not add up in all reality.

Does Nigeria truly have any bight or any promising future in the hands of these treasury looters, visionless leaders, rogues in power, economic parasites and the nation's oil wealth suckers? Are the 160 million ordinary Nigerians going to be completely mute and totally passive over this monumental and mammoth daylight robbery of their own commonwealth and future by their public elected and appointed officials all in the name of democracy and public service? Time will sure tell.

"THE 6 MAJOR LIES THAT ARE TOLD TODAY BY THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL PREACHERS"

(I). One of the lies that is told today to the gullible, vulnerable and ignorant Church folks around the world by those charlatans who preach this greed gospel is to deceptively and manipulatively claim that Jesus Christ was very rich or super-wealthy during his earthly life and ministry on this planet earth about 2,000 years ago in the land of Palestine.
 (ii). The manipulation and the direct twisting of the biblical account about the life and the ministry of Jesus Christ is used by these prosperity preachers to manipulatively justify their own personal greed, covetousness, love of money, the life of materialism as well as to promote this greed gospel in which its primary beneficiaries are its own preachers and teachers only.

(iii). The truth is that the Bible was never silent or quiet in publicly naming the names of those that were truly rich or wealthy in the Bible days in both the old and the new testaments. Abraham, David, Solomon, Job and many others in both testaments were said to be very rich or super-wealthy by the Bible. Jesus Christ, his 12 apostles and the ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ in the early Church were never said anywhere by the same Bible to be rich or super-wealthy in all truth, honesty and reality.

(iv). Another lie of this prosperity gospel is to try to reduce the primary purpose of the entire earthly mission and the ministry of Jesus Christ through his finished work of eternal redemption for mankind on the cross at the Calvary mountains some 2,000 years ago to a simply life of money and materialism only. (v). The fifth lie of this prosperity gospel is the false claim that the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the lost world requires a hefty financial budget and donations from Church folks in order for this preaching to be physically possible on earth.

(vi). The sixth lie of this prosperity gospel is to limit the responsibility of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Church leaders (pastors or bishops) only and to indirectly or systematically exclude the ordinary Church folks from it. In conclusion, this gospel of deception is designed by its preachers to target and capture the biblically ignorant minds and the greedy Church folks who are looking for the so called heaven on earth, fast money and the overnight wealth in their own life. This greed gospel promises its followers their own unique heavens on earth, but leaves them financially destroyed, miserable and totally broke when this game of deception is finally over in their life as the main players, followers, givers and devotees to this strange form of Christianity at the end of the day.

"THE MEANING OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION"

Many rightwing politicians, conservative television anchors, newspaper columnists and radio talk-show hosts interpret the first amendment of the American constitution to mean that the free speech of every American citizen on any subject matter or on any issue of life under the sun is 100% protected and guaranteed in real life. Is that what the first amendment of this over 200 years old American constitution says in all reality? Are there any limitations to the coverage areas of this free speech clause that is entrenched in the American constitution?

The first amendment of the United States constitution states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The first amendment of the United States constitution centers its entire constitutional power on the United States Congress by directly preventing the Congress from ever making and passing any law that will either abolish or will limit the free speech or opinions of any American citizen.

The first amendment of the American constitution does not dictate, covers or limits the activities of any private entities or organizations in America in relation to the free speech or personal opinions of any American that is directly associated with such private bodies either through employment, consultancy or membership. Every private entity or organization can decide privately on what to do and how they will react or treat the free speech or the personal opinions of their employees, members, consultants or associates that they considered to be offensive, out of order, unacceptable and violate their organizations' mission statements, policies, goals and objectives.

"THE TRUTH AND REVELATIONS THAT THREATEN THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF NIGERIA TODAY"

(i). To speak the abominable missing truth to the Nigerian public elected and appointed officials by openly or boldly exposing the questionable activities of these powers that be in Nigeria is considered by the leaders of Nigeria as the major national security threat to the peaceful coexistence of all Nigerians in that country. (ii).To reveal the secret national agendas, official corruption, the mismanagement of the Nigerian state resources and the lifestyles of lawlessness that these Nigerian leaders live on daily basis are considered by these Nigerian elite in power to be one of the biggest threats to the Nigeria's national security that requires the immediate interventions of the entire federal agencies and security apparatus to address.

The following events that are listed below are never considered as the national threats to the security or to the future of the Nigerian nation as far as these Nigerian elite are concerned today:(i). The double-digit ongoing unemployment rate that is directly affecting the millions of the Nigerian educated youths that leave them in poverty, miseries and a very bleak future is not considered a security threat to the future of Nigeria. (ii). The poverty wages that millions of the Nigerians hardworking workers earn monthly that will never allow them to meet their own basic human needs, such as, decent housing, nutritional meals, health care, transportation, emergency funds and decent retirement is never considered as a national security threat to Nigeria by her leaders who are in charge of her national affairs and resources today.

(iii). The lack of modern and adequate social services that elude tens of millions of Nigerians daily is not a national security threat by Nigerian public officials. (iv). The outdated educational system that is currently failing millions of Nigerian students in all reality that will also never allow them to be globally competitive in this 21st century human universe is not one of the security threats to the future of Nigeria in the diaries of her leaders. (v).The reign of the insecurity to the life and properties of Nigerians all over Nigeria that is coming mainly from evil activities of the Boko Haram, armed robbers, kidnapping for ransoms, ritual killers and hired killers is not considered as a major threat to the Nigerian state security by her rogue politicians.

(vi). The massive brain-drain of the Nigerian best brains and minds to the western nations because of greener pasture is not considered as any threat to the national security of Nigeria by her elite in power. (vii). The ever-growing poverty rate in Nigeria that is now directly affecting about 80% of all Nigerians who now live on $1 to $2 a day is not a threat to the national security of Nigeria in the agendas of the Abuja-based mafia.

"NIGERIANS ARE TIRED OF READING UNPRODUCTIVE LETTERS"

I am personally tired of reading those letters and their responses from the movers and the shakers of the Nigerian state. What Nigerians are looking for in 2013 is not those letters and their replies, but the real practical dividends of our 14 years old democracy in their life. Most Nigerians do not want to read any letters, but they want the reign of the official corruption and the mismanagement of our state resources by our elected officials to be stamped out. The unemployed Nigerian youths are looking for good paying jobs and not letters to be read. 

The millions of the hardworking Nigerians workers on poverty wages are looking for the true living wages and not a personal letter from Olusegun Obasanjo to Jonathan Goodluck and vice versa. Nigerians from all walks of life want to enjoy the modern and adequate social services, the functioning 21st century educational facilities as well as the modern national infrastructures, but never a private letter from a former President to a sitting President. Nigerians do not have the time to sit down and read those lengthy and unproductive letters, but want to enjoy the security to their own life and properties in the 36 states and Abuja.

"PHIL ROBERTSON ATTEMPTS TO REWRITE THE HISTORY OF RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICA"

Phil Robertson, the patriarch of the Duck Dynasty spoke about race and growing up in Louisiana before the civil rights era to the GQ magazine and made the following comments:"I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once," he told GQ. "Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field. ... They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, 'I tell you what: These doggone white people' -- not a word! "Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues," GQ quoted Robertson as saying. - CNN

I have two simple questions that I want Phil Robertson to answer for me:
(i). Was Phil Robertson publicly claiming that lynching of black men, separate but not equal laws (white only and colored only policies) and the poll tax that prevented blacks from voting never happened in the state of Louisiana of his time growing up?

(ii). Has Phil Robertson completely forgotten that the first major bus boycott by blacks in America took place in 1953 in Butte Le Ross in the state of Louisiana where Phil Robertson was living at that time about two years ahead of the other bus boycott engineered by Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat in the public bus for a white man in 1955?

My honest conclusion is that Phil Robertson must be speaking to the GO magazine with the both sides of his only one mouth at the same time.

"PHIL ROBERTSON IS NOT THE ROSA PARKS OF TODAY IN AMERICA"

Mr. Ian Bayne, a candidate for the 11th congressional district in Illinois sent out this email to his supporters today and called Phil Robertson, star of the A&E series “Duck Dynasty,” the ‘Rosa Parks’ of our generation. Ian Bayne wrote in his email that:“In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians, said Ian Bayne. This politician then went further in that email and said that Rosa Parks was famous for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white person, as was the rule of her day, provided inspiration for a movement of equality of black people and white people in America. What Parks did was courageous, and what Mr. Robertson did was courageous too.”.

This statement above from Ian Bayne is a direct attack on the enduring legacies of Rosa Parks, the American heroine that started a political movement by refusing to give up her seat in a public bus to a white man which then gave birth to a new America of racial equality and justice before her own laws. Rosa Parks stood openly for racial equality and racial integration in America. Phil Robertson stands for sexual segregation, sexual discrimination and anti-gay comments that are based on individual's sexual orientation or preference in life. The legacies of Rosa Parks brought people from all the races, languages, nationalities, cultures, sexual orientations, religions and genders together as one family. The comments of Phil Robertson are offensive to gays and divisive in nature to people from all the walks of life. The legacies of Rosa Parks build the American society as one strong entity, but the comments of Phil Robertson divide the American society along sexual orientation lines. The legacies of Rosa Parks and the comments of Phil Robertson are like any two parallel lines that can never meet at any point when both lines are extended side by side into the eternity future.

"NIGERIAN MASSES CELEBRATE JUNGLE JUSTICE AND HEINOUS CRIMES"

Jungle justice against any identified petty thieves and homosexuals are now the order of the day in Nigeria without any of those perpetrators of these highly heinous crimes against their fellow Nigerians ever arrested nor prosecuted to date. These development leaves the families and friends of the murdered Nigerians without legal justice nor financial compensations on behalf of their loved ones.

These Nigerians that are publicly accused of stealing are instantaneously lynched by their fellow Nigerians on our streets who are always eager to take the law into their own hands and also in the presence of our so called law enforcement or peace officers. The suspects are never allowed to go through the Nigerian criminal justice system. The mentality of an average Nigerian is so myopic, aged and outdated in 2013 to the point that any petty thieves and gays that are arrested are immediately considered to be the worst enemies of that country instead of their own public elected and appointed officials who are the real pen robbers of that country in all reality.

Nigeria as a nation would have been better of today if the same ordinary Nigerians who are always ready to physically partake in the public lynching of their minor thieves and homosexuals will divert their negative and unproductive energy against those economic parasites, the bloodsuckers, the rogues in power and the looters of their nation's wealth and future. Are these 160 million ordinary Nigerians real dumb in all reality? Is Nigeria truly a nation of jokers, jesters, clowns and carnival barkers in all ramifications? Time will surely tell.

"NIGERIAN MASSES ARE POLITICALLY DECEIVED AGAIN"

The truth in Nigeria today is simply this:our public elected and appointed officials at the 3 branches of our government (federal, state and local) are the only direct beneficiaries from the entire dividends of our 14-year old democracy since its inception in 1999. There are no new massive infrastructures been built anywhere in Nigeria today and our national foreign debt has increased rapidly despite our foreign debt forgiveness few years ago by the western financial institutions. The massive official corruption from our public officials remained unabated and is now the official order of governance in Nigeria.

The provision of electricity to Nigeria after more than 200 years of the invention of this technology is still a major problem today in Nigeria despite the billions of the American dollar that have already be spent on this corruption-rooted and a typical white elephant project. The unemployment rate amongst the Nigerian youths has increased to its peak under this questionable democracy. The value of the Nigerian Naira continues to depreciate under this democracy. The poverty rate in Nigeria has now reached its highest level in her entire history of our nation under this so called democracy. Our universities and public schools remained the most under funded and outdated under this rogue democracy. 

The poverty wages that are paid to the Nigerian workers remained one of the lowest worldwide despite our oil wealth. Our public officials are now the highest paid in the world in the name of democracy, public service and patriotism. The health care system in Nigeria in 2013 is still outdated, overwhelmed and inadequate under this pseudo-democracy. The government of Nigeria has failed woefully to provide the much-needed social services and the security to life and properties for every Nigeria under this failing democracy. 

The ruling PDP has no single plan to turn these national anomalies around for good in the last 14 years of their firm control of the national resources of Nigeria and her federal government. The opposition APC has no plan also on the ground to address these issues except their desire to control the center of Nigeria in 2015 by all the means possible as a political party of all Dicks and every Harry, whether good or bad. The Nigerian masses are now directly and blindly caught up in the webs of these political lies, politics of deception and self-serving as well as in the highest form of political insincerity of our charlatan politicians in Nigeria 

"NIGERIA IS AT ITS BIGGEST POLITICAL CROSSROAD IN THIS DEMOCRATIC DISPENSATION"

The self-centered desire of the Nigerian politicians to control the political power and the wealth of the Nigerian nation through the 2015 elections is the primary driving force that is behind all the new political alignments, realignments and the public letters that Nigerians are now witnessing almost on the daily basis. The G-5 former PDP governors, Abubakar Atiku and their political followers saw no way forward for the realization of their political ambition in the PDP which is now firmly under the full control of President Jonathan Goodluck and Bamanga Tukur.

This new political reality then forced them to move into the APC as their only political alternative to stay relevant. Mr. Bola Tinubu, General Muhammadu Buhari and their followers want power at the center of Nigeria in 2015 beyond their present regional political limitations that make the APC to now become the political party of all Dick and every Harry in 2013.

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the uncrowned presidential kingmaker of Nigeria and the PDP suddenly woke up from his deep political slumber to suddenly discovered that he had finally lost the firm control of the remaining PDP to Jonathan Goodluck and his supporters. This political surprises have now forced Olusegun Obasanjo to only one political option of letter writing to President Jonathan Goodluck and his fellow Nigerians since APC is a no-go-area for him politically. All these political developments in Nigeria in 2013 are not designed by these politicians to move the Nigerian nation forward or to directly make the life of the 160 million suffering Nigerians better in 2015 and beyond.

"ASUU IS THE TRUE VICTOR IN NIGERIA AT THE END OF THE DAY"

After many months of their job boycott, ASUU has now decided to officially end their strike after signing a new agreement with the federal government of Nigeria that never kept her words nor respected all her legal obligations to ASUU. As a core democrat, I believe in the existing of professional bodies and the organized labor unions in our democracy to protect and to fight for the employees' legal or labor rights and for better job conditions. This is exactly what ASSUU has done in Nigeria by fighting for a better university education in Nigeria for all Nigerians in which our universities can truly be said to be the true citadel of global academic excellence as well as the real engine for research and development one day in the nearest future. 

No country in the world in this 21st century human universe can truly be developed in all areas of human endeavors without having the university system that is up-to-date with the dynamic world and never the one that is completely outdated or backward. Once again, I congratulate ASUU for their strong determination to stand openly for what is right, to stand boldly on the right side of history and to stand publicly for the establishment of the needed world class university system in Nigeria. One of the biggest political lessons that the millions of the ordinary Nigerians can learn today from the history of ASUU is their determined steadfastness to always stand firmly and unshaken against what is bad and for what is right without cracking, chicken out or to break ranks. If ordinary Nigerians will follow this exemplary position by standing against their own parasites, blood-suckers, myopic, inept and corrupt public officials, then Nigeria will definitely change for better in our lifetime.

"THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PARASITES AND THE HOSTS IN NIGERIA"

What type of relationship truly exist between the Nigerian leaders and the 160 million ordinary Nigerians in all reality? Who benefits primarily from this relationship in all reality? Who is directly cheated or exploited in this relationship? In the field of biodiversity in biology and environmental science where different organisms live together in the same ecosystem and interact with each other for their own survival in a food chain relationship.

The relationship between the Nigerian leaders and the 160 million ordinary Nigerians that they govern is 100% parasitic in nature. These leaders are the real economic parasites or the pen robbers of Nigeria and the 160 million ordinary Nigerians are their hosts that carry the direct economic burden of this relationship as a result of the economic activities of these parasites. These parasites are the direct beneficiaries from the oil wealth of Nigeria and their hosts are the losers from the same oil wealth of Nigeria. The parasites are feeding fat on daily basis by sucking the blood of their hosts and these hosts are also getting thinner, thinner and thinner by the day.

These parasites of Nigeria will always have their field day until their hosts are truly tired with them and will all unite together, put away all ethnic considerations, religious sentiments and geopolitical politics and fight off their common enemies who are these parasites or the blood suckers of Nigeria from their bodies. 

"MY PERSONAL ISSUES WITH THE ORDINARY NIGERIANS IN 2013"

Many Nigerians can intentionally continue to remain passive, indifferent and totally insensitive to the direction that their only country is moving toward by using their religious sentiments, ethnic considerations, geopolitical politics and the periodical crump that falls to them from the tables of their looters to protect and to defend these heavily corrupt public officials who are busy stealing the nation and her future blind. About $50 billion was reported missing recently and nobody is truly raising any significant eyebrow over this huge allegation of fraud against all Nigerians. The massive fraud that was carried out by the oil subsidy marketers against the nation and her citizen is now history. The allegation of fraud against Stella Oduah, the aviation minister has now finally been laid to its final resting place. 

The oil wealth in Nigeria if it is well managed will modernize our national infrastructures to the 21st century international standards. It will expand our health care facilities and the social services to all Nigerians. It will create a vibrant middle class and pay decent or true living wages to millions of Nigerian workers that will take them out of poverty. It will make our universities the epitome of academic excellence and the citadel of research and development. It will make electricity available to all Nigerians whether during the day or at night. The truth is this:the unabated destruction of Nigeria and her future by her evil leaders will only directly affect the over 160 million Nigerians that live in Nigeria today and have no other countries to move to and to reside. 

"THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WESTERN DEMOCRACY AND NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY"

(i). Playing politics, holding public elected and appointed positions in the western democracies are the direct avenues where the society can directly benefit from the public services of their elected and appointed officials. In Nigeria, it is a direct avenue for the personal enrichment of our public officials through all types of shady corrupt practices.

(ii). Politicians and public officials in the western nations do not become rich from holding public service. In Nigeria, it is the direct passport for public officials to become overnight dollar-rated millionaires and billionaires.

(iii). The important public offices in the western world are considered as the powerful positions where political policies and agendas can be implemented to shape the society for good. In Nigeria, those positions are called juicy and lucrative appointments where public funds can be stolen and mismanaged.

(iv). The richest members of the society in the western nations are not their politicians, elected and appointed officials, but business entrepreneurs, investors, investment bankers, sports and entertainment celebrities. In Nigeria, our richest men and women are the past and the serving Presidents, ministers, governors, ambassadors, military generals, senior civil servants and top security chiefs.

(v). In the western world, their politicians raise money for their own campaign expenses and to pay for the radio, newspaper and television adverts where their campaign promises and political ideologies are sold to their electorates. In Nigeria, our politicians use their own campaign money that is stolen from the state treasury to bribe those electoral officials and security personnels as well as to buy bags of rice and sugar for the electorates.

(vi). In the western world, their elections are always free, fair, transparent and credible by reflecting the general will of the majority of the voters. In Nigeria, our elections are marred with all types of electoral frauds and are sold to the highest bidders, incumbent public officials as well as to the moneybags politicians. 

"OLUSEGUN OBASANJO OF NIGERIA IS NOT A LETTER WRITER BY NATURE"

Most Nigerians are very poor students of their own recent history. Any objective thinking Nigerian that knows the key roles that were played by Olusegun Obasanjo's involvement in the governance of Nigeria can publicly testify to the fact that Olusegun Obasanjo does not believe for one second in the power of the pen as an effective change agent in the society, but in the deadly or the destructive might of the power-madness which he had used successfully as the military dictator of Nigeria from 1976 to 1979 and as a democratically elected President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 respectively.

Furthermore, Olusegun Obasanjo does not believe in the principles of democracy, free, fair and transparent elections where the will of the majority is honored and respected. Olusegun Obasanjo was a perfect master of electoral frauds, the forceful selection and the imposition of his own favorite candidates on his own political party and his nation (Nigeria). For Olusegun Obasanjo to decide personally to put his pen to paper by writing a letter to President Jonathan Goodluck is a clear-cut sign of Olusegun Obasanjo's highest level of political weakness, hopelessness, helplessness and failure.

Today in Nigeria, the whole political structure of the remaining PDP after the exit of the G-5 PDP governors into the opposition APC is now firmly in the hands of Jonathan Goodluck and Bamanga Tukur. This political development has reduced Olusegun Obasanjo into a political nonentity in the PDP instead of the anointed kingmaker of the PDP. The APC that the G-5 PDP former governors decided to move into is also a politically no-go-area for Olusegun Obasanjo due to the presence of Bisi Akande, Bola Tinubu and Muhammadu Buhari. For now, the act of letter writing remains the only viable political option for Olusegun Obasanjo, in order for him to be politically relevant in the Nigerian politics and in the 2015 elections.

"THE REAL ARMED ROBBERS OF NIGERIA" - RUDOLF OGOO OKONKWO

Before the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, announced two weeks ago that an estimated $129 billion (N20.6 trillion) has been illegally transferred out of Nigeria in the last 10 years, I had been cranking some numbers about Nigeria’s economy. The EFCC estimated that just between 2009 and 2013, over $25.4 billion was siphoned out of Nigeria via the borders by way of physical movement of cash and financial instruments.
The actual robbery is more profane.
Before the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria sent a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan accusing the Petroleum and Finance Ministers of diverting or outright stealing about N8 trillion from crude oil sales proceeds between January 2012 and July 2013, I had been crunching figures about Nigeria’s oil industry. The figures I saw left me dumbfounded and frightened for Nigeria.
In this piece, we will try to follow the money, the Nigerian money. It’s an extraordinary journey into the fuzzy math the people who collect Nigerian revenue use to fleece Nigeria. The greatest tragedy, however, is that the people charged with managing Nigeria’s economy, from the Central Bank of Nigeria to the Ministry of Finance up to the Presidency either have no clue what is happening or are complicit.
The real armed robbers of Nigeria are not those in prison. They are not those storming banks to cart away cash. They are not those dispossessing luxurious bus passengers of their possessions. The real armed robbers are not those stealing cell phones and pepper in Oshodi market. The real armed robbers of Nigeria are those who carry titles like Honorable, Excellency and Chief. They have robbed the nation blind.
Nigeria is the 13th largest oil producer in the world.  OPEC allocated a daily production of 2.5 million barrels of oil to Nigeria. At an average price of $100 dollars a barrel, Nigeria could be raking in $250 million dollars a day. In a year, it will be about $90 billion. In Naira, that will be about N40 billion a day and N14.6 trillion a year.
In the 2013 budget, Nigeria set the benchmark price for crude oil at $79 a barrel. At that rate, 2.5 million barrel of oil a day will give Nigeria $229.1 million dollars a day. In a year, it will be about $80 billion. In Naira, that will be about N25 billion a day and N13.1 trillion a year.
Nigeria also produces gas. According to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Nigeria produces 8.0 billion cubic feet per day of gas per day(BCFD). 5.2  BCFD is for Associated Gas (AG), that is gas produced along with crude oil while 2.8 BCFD is for Non-Associated Gas(NAG), that is gas produced independent of oil production.
Of this amount 6.6 billion cubic feet of gas per day is utilized while 1.4 billion cubic feet of gas per day is flared. At a market rate of $3.5 per 1000 standard cubic feet per day of gas (SCF), Nigeria makes $23.1 million a day and loses $4.9 million dollars a day to gas flaring. $23.1 dollars a day adds up to $8.43 billion a year. In Naira that is a revenue of N3.6 billion a day and N1.32 trillion a year.
Irrespective of how the calculation is done or revenue collection enforced (equity crude; Petroleum Profit Tax, royalty, third party financing and the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company), at the crude oil benchmark of $79 a barrel, Nigeria makes about $80bn a year. Add $8.4 billion revenue from gas, Nigeria makes a cool $90 billion or N14 trillion a year. That is a lot of money in any currency.
Revenues from oil and gas give Nigeria 80% of its income. Another 20 % comes from sources as diverse as mineral exploration and agriculture. In all, Nigeria makes over $100 billion each year from exports. So Nigeria is awash with money. The billions in internally generated monies from fees and taxes are stolen with ease as they trickle in. But it is petrol dollars that are the most attractive and the most easily embezzled.
Since 2009 crude oil thieves have been increasing the amount of Nigeria’s oil that they steal. According to the 2012 Ribadu Report, crude oil thieves now steal over 100,000 barrels a day. That is over $3.6 billion dollars a year. Some foreign sources put the figure of oil theft at 250,000 barrels a day. Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala recently told the Vanguard newspaper that the loss to oil theft could be up to $12 billion this year. http://www.daargroup.com/daar-group/latest-news/vanguardngr-oil-theft-fg....
These thieves are made up of a cabal of top security officials, retired and current military officers, top government officials, civil servants whose job it is to monitor foreign oil companies and report how much oil they pump out each day, militants who are charged with protecting oil pipelines, etc.
There are several other forms of theft going on in the refineries themselves. In 1997 a major contract valued at $215 million was awarded to Total International for the maintenance of the Kaduna refinery.  During Sani Abacha’s dictatorship, Mr. Emeka Offor got $100 million dollars to maintain the Port Harcourt refinery for which he did nothing. When brought before a senate committee to answer questions, he told them off.( This is the same Emeka Offor who got an $8 billion NEPA contract to build the Yola/Bauchi transmission line as part of the $16 billion that Obasanjo’s government wasted on power. The original sum for the contract was said to be $6 billion.)  In 2000, Nigeria awarded Italian company Comerint SPA a $7.6 million contract for turnaround maintenance for its 125,000 b/d refinery at Warri. In 2008, the Federal Government spent $57.9m for the turnaround maintenance (TAM) of the Kaduna refinery.
If the full amount spent in turnaround maintenance of Nigeria’s refineries in the last 20 years is made public, Nigerians will run amok and free all the armed robbers in Nigerian prisons. In October 2012, the Federal Government announced a plan to spend $1.6 billion on the turnaround maintenance (TAM) of the existing three refineries in Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna. Work is expected to end in January 2014 and that is when importation of petroleum products is supposed to end, if you believe the government’s argument during the oil subsidy debate. That is also when much of the subsidy is supposed to vanish. It is one month away. Now the government is busy planning to sell off the refineries.  When the selling price is announced, don’t be surprised if it is less than the $1.6 billion dollars used in the turnaround maintenance.
During the oil subsidy debate, the Minister of Petroleum and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala calculated that Nigeria was spending N1.134 trillion naira on oil subsidy. On January 1, 2012, the government increased the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise called petrol, from N65.00 to N141.00. With subsidies removed, the government said it would realize N1.134 trillion. The protests that followed forced the government to adjust the PMS price to N97. That increase would have cut in half the projected N1.134 trillion subsidy, meaning nothing less than N600 billion must have gone into the coffers of the government. That money is now entangled in the SURE-P program that is short on accountability.
On September 24, 2013 the Sun Newspaper published a story in which Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is said to be suggesting that Jonathan’s administration should be given credit because the federal government has saved N1.2 trillion from oil subsidy.http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/oil-subsidy-fg-saves-n1-2trn-says-oko... The story also says that the oil subsidy was N2.2 trillion in 2012 but has so far been reduced to N971 bn this year. All through the oil subsidy debate, the figure was N1.3 trillion. How did it jump to N2.2 trillion in 2012 after the subsidy has partially been removed? And with gains from improving capacities of Nigeria’s refineries won’t the current subsidy on its own be less than half of what it was in January 2012?
A ministry of finance committee led by Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede looked at the subsidy claims of 2011 and discovered that the Federal Government had overpaid importers and marketers of petrol by a whopping N430 billion naira. Last December, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala proudly announced that Jonathan’s government has recovered N29 billion naira from oil marketers out of N234 billion certified as stolen. A presidential panel was set up at the same time to look into what was really happening at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The Ribadu-led panel came out with a report that suggested that Nigeria had lost about N4.64 trillion in the last 10 years from deals Nigerian government officials signed with foreign oil multinationals. The Ribadu report also revealed that the NNPC had failed to report N86.6 billion to the government in 10 years by simple manipulation of exchange rates by officials of the corporation.
In January this year, a presidential committee on public service reform discovered that top government officials in Nigeria take home N1.126 trillion a year in salaries and allowances – out of a national budget of N4.9 trillion. These public officers constitute just 0.013 per cent of Nigeria’s population. They include 108 senators who each make over $1.7m a year. That alone is $183.4 million (N28 billion). Then the 360 members of the House of Representatives each takes home over $1.2 million, which amounts to $432 million (N65bn). Again, each state governor collects an average of N200 million naira a month just as security vote. In a year, they each get N2.4 billion naira. So our 36 governors take home N87 billion naira on security votes alone every year. Add our 38 ministers and ministers of state, 100 plus heads of federal and state agencies, over 432 state commissioners,  774 local government area chairmen or caretakers, almost 10,000 councilors and you will understand where the N1.126 trillion goes.
While receiving an honorary doctorate degree from Oduduwa University last month, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala asked striking university lecturers to return to work because the government has set aside N220 billion naira for the development of tertiary institutions in the country. Dr. Doyin Okupe, the Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, showed proof last week that the money has been deposited at the Central Bank of Nigeria. Over the weekend, I asked him during a SaharaTV interview where the government got the money when six months ago the same Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that the government could not find N90 billion for ASUU. Okupe said it was not important where the government got the money, after all, the government could not have stolen it.
Well, governments steal- especially this government. During an appearance before a senate committee in September, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was asked to explain why there was no subsidy figure in the 2013 budget for kerosene. In 2010, Nigeria spent N110 billion on kerosene subsidy. This figure jumped to N324 billion in 2011 and N200 billion in 2012. Suddenly, in 2013, there was nothing budgeted. Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala told the committee that NNPC should answer the question about kerosene subsidy.http://theeagleonline.com.ng/news/okonjo-iweala-unable-to-account-for-1-...
I asked Okupe how could the Coordinating Minister of the Economy know nothing about an over N200 billion naira subsidy on kerosene? Okupe said that he investigated the matter and spoke to relevant government agencies. At the end of his investigation, he said he found out that NNPC has been scraping for funds to make subsidy payment on kerosene. Okupe did not see any problem with that arrangement instead he felt we should commend the NNPC for finding the money to pay for kerosene subsidy. If NNPC could find N200 billion lying around somewhere this year, what did it do with similar money lying around last year and the year before when the government remembered to budget for kerosene subsidy?  
To complicate matter, the trillion naira revenue from customs has been facing shortfalls. The Comptroller-General, Nigerian Customs Service, Mr. Abdulahi Dikko, recently said that the service incurred a revenue loss of N603.2 billion between January and September this year. He made the statement during an appearance before the Senate Joint Committee on Finance and Appropriation. Dikko blamed the shortfall in revenue collection to various factors. N86.48bn was lost due to waivers, like the one that brought in the Aviation Minister Stella Oduah’s N220 million armored cars. He said another N59.5bn was conceded to the Niger Delta Development Commission. The customs also lost N96.94bn due to a ban on rice importation and another N76.1bn due to revenue loss to local manufacturers and assemblers.
Nigeria’s economy is 30th in the world with a GDP of $451 billion dollars. According to the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics, agriculture makes up 40% of the economy; services: 30%; manufacturing: 15%; and oil: 14%. Many of us do not know but Nigeria makes an average of $90 billion dollars in oil and gas revenue a year and another $10 billion from exports of other natural resources. Nigeria also makes N5 trillion from Federal taxes. From Customs duties, Nigeria makes another one trillion. That is a total of N22 trillion a year.
In the last 50 years, Nigeria has made over $500 billion from crude oil. Some of that money showed up in fraud cases that gave us headlines like these: Iyabo, Bello, Obasanjo in N300 Million Scandal, Igbinedion Embezzled Edo’s N19bn — EFCC, Money Laundering: Group Sues EFCC Over First Lady Patience Jonathan's $13 Million Fraud; EFCC Arrests Bode George, Dabo, Accuses Them of N100 Billion Dirty Contracts; Former Governor of Taraba State, Reverend Jolly Nyame, Must Face Criminal Trial Over Alleged Stealing Of N2.4 billion while In Office; EFCC Files N700m Fraud Charges Against Dariye, Others; N100 Million Scam - Court Grants Boni Haruna's Aide Bail; EFCC Declares Ibori Wanted Over N44bn Fresh Corruption Charges; Jigawa State’s Ex-Gov Turaki’s N30b Used To Finance Third Term Project; $16B Power Scam: IBB’s Allies Call For OBJ’s Arrest; N5.6bn Pension Scam: Court Denies Former Oyo State Head of Service, Others Bail; N19.2bn Scam: EFCC Re-arraigns Timipre Sylva; N1.8bn Subsidy Scam: EFCC RE-ARRAIGNS ABDULLAHI ALAO, THREE OTHERS.
A Google search of fraud and EFCC and any of the former governors of Nigeria’s 36 states in the last 15 years will show you indictments in billions - from Bola Tinubu to Orji Uzo Kalu to Ahmed Yerima to David Duke to Peter Odili. Add members of the National Assembly and ministers from Deji Bankole to Patricia Etteh to Farouk Lawal to Chuba Okadigbo to SundayAfolabi. Do not forget the portion of our commonwealth that went to bankers like Mrs. Cecelia Ibru, Erastus Akingbola, Bartholomew Ebong, Okey Nwosu, Sebastine Adigwe etc. If you add up the billions, you will be able to account for the money Nigeria has made over the years.
According to the NNPC, Nigeria’s crude oil reserve is at 28.2 billion barrels. At today’s price that is $2.8 trillion.  If no new oil is discovered in Nigeria and we continue to produce at 2.5 million barrels a day, our oil reserve will last for another 11,280 days. That is 30 years more.
From the DPR report, Nigeria’s total gas reserve is 182.8 trillion standard cubic feet (SCF). At today’s rate of $3.5 per 1000 standard cubic feet per day of gas Nigeria is on track to make $638.05 trillion dollars from gas. (Sorry, my calculator could not figure out the Naira equivalent).
In 1999, the average price of a barrel of crude oil was $16.56. In today’s dollar that is $23.08. The price stayed under $30 until 2004 when it jumped to $37.66 a barrel. In 2005 it went up again to $50.04. In 2007 it was $64.20. In 2008 it jumped to $91.48 and fell back to $53.48 in 2009. From 2011 till today it has remained above $86 a barrel. If the price of crude oil falls back to below $50 a barrel, Nigeria’s bloated government will not be able to sustain itself.
Only those benefiting from this insane structure that rips off a commonwealth of 160 million people will want it to continue. The other group of people who are not outraged enough to do something about it are the millions hoping to have the chance to soon be in a position to steal their own.
The real armed robbers of Nigeria are not those in prison. They are not those storming banks to cart away cash. They are not those dispossessing luxurious bus passengers of their possessions. The real armed robbers are not those stealing cell phones and pepper in Oshodi market. The real armed robbers of Nigeria are those who add before their names, bloated titles like Honorable, Excellency and Chief. They have robbed the nation blind - Published by the Sahara Reporters.

"THE 4 REASONS WHY OLUSEGUN OBASANJO WROTE A LETTER TO JONATHAN GOODLUCK OF NIGERIA"

(I). Olusegun Obasanjo considered himself as the anointed kingmaker of Nigeria who should determine the rightful occupant of the Nigerian presidency and never the Nigerian electorates. He did it in 1979 successfully when he handed over to Alhaji Shehu Shagari despite the controversial 12 and 2/3 states electoral issue. Olusegun Obasanjo did it again in 2007 when he gave us the sickly Musa YarA'dua because his 3rd term hidden tenure elongation political agenda failed. Olusegun Obasanjo also gave us Jonathan Goodluck indirectly when he made him the Vice-Presidential candidate to Musa YarA'dua in 2007.

(ii). Olusegun Obasanjo did not want to bite the political fingers that fed him into power in 1999 through the unwritten gentlemen agreement of the founding fathers of the PDP that supported rotational presidency between the north and the south. Olusegun Obasanjo won the 1999 and 2003 presidential elections with the massive support of the north The unexpected presidency of Jonathan Goodluck as a result of the sudden death of Musa YarA'dua broke this political order in the PDP. Olusegun Obasanjo's main goal is to return that power to the north through Sule Lamido, the present governor of Jigawa Stae. Olusegun Obasanjo once publicly claimed few months ago that Sule Lamido is the best state governor in Nigeria and the best presidential material for Nigeria.

(iii). The personal political ambition of Jonathan Goodluck to seek a second term due to the political pressure from his Ijaw's beneficiaries and by all means possible which recently resulted in the PDP's internal crisis, the formation of the nPDP and the G-7 PDP rebel governors association respectively have made it practically and politically impossible for Olusegun Obasanjo to have his way in 2015 through the present PDP political structure that Jonathan Goodluck controls firmly. The recent movement of the G-5 PDP rebel governors into the opposition APC and the arrest of Sule Lamido's two sons for allegations of massive official corruption further dealt a huge political blow to the political plan of Olusegun Obasanjo in 2015.

(iv). President Jonathan Goodluck's political camp has finally identified Sule Lamido as the biggest political threat to the political ambition of their master which they are determined to destroy before 2015. (v). Olusegun Obasanjo's political power as the PDP's king maker is now completely cut off with the domination of the remaining PDP machinery by Jonathan Goodluck's political men and women. The other political alternative by Olusegun Obasanjo to use the APC as a replacement political platform for picking our President in 2015 faces the combined political forces of Bola Tinubu and General Muhammadu Buhari which prove politically insurmountable for Olusegun Obasanjo thereby leaving him without any viable political base that has now forced him to write his letter as a man that is politically drowning but decided to hold firmly to a a single floating straw for his own political survival at the end of the day.

"THE SIX THINGS THAT NELSON MANDELA BELIEVED" - THINKPROGRESS

In the desire to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s life — an iconic figure who triumphed over South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime — it’s tempting to homogenize his views into something everyone can support. This is not, however, an accurate representation of the man.

Mandela was a political activist and agitator. He did not shy away from controversy and he did not seek — or obtain — universal approval. Before and after his release from prison, he embraced an unabashedly progressive and provocative platform. As one commentator put it shortly after the announcement of the freedom fighter’s death, “Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. Over the next few days you will try so, so hard to make him something he was not, and you will fail. You will try to smooth him, to sandblast him, to take away his Malcolm X. You will try to hide his anger from view.”

As the world remembers Mandela, here are some of the things he believed that many will gloss over.

1. Mandela blasted the Iraq War and American imperialism. Mandela called Bush “a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly,” and accused him of “wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust” by going to war in Iraq. “All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil,” he said. Mandela even speculated that then-Secretary-General Kofi Annan was being undermined in the process because he was black. “They never did that when secretary-generals were white,” he said. He saw the Iraq War as a greater problem of American imperialism around the world. “If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care,” he said.

2. Mandela called freedom from poverty a “fundamental human right.” Mandela considered poverty one of the greatest evils in the world, and spoke out against inequality everywhere. “Massive poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges of our times — times in which the world boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology, industry and wealth accumulation — that they have to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as social evils,” he said. He considered ending poverty a basic human duty: “Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life,” he said. “While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.”

3. Mandela criticized the “War on Terror” and the labeling of individuals as terrorists without due process. On the U.S. terrorist watch list until 2008 himself, Mandela was an outspoken critic of President George W. Bush’s war on terror. He warned against rushing to label terrorists without due process. While forcefully calling for Osama bin Laden to be brought to justice, Mandela remarked, “The labeling of Osama bin Laden as the terrorist responsible for those acts before he had been tried and convicted could also be seen as undermining some of the basic tenets of the rule of law.”

4. Mandela called out racism in America. On a trip to New York City in 1990, Mandela made a point of visiting Harlem and praising African Americans’ struggles against “the injustices of racist discrimination and economic equality.” He reminded a larger crowd at Yankee Stadium that racism was not exclusively a South African phenomenon. “As we enter the last decade of the 20th century, it is intolerable, unacceptable, that the cancer of racism is still eating away at the fabric of societies in different parts of our planet,” he said. “All of us, black and white, should spare no effort in our struggle against all forms and manifestations of racism, wherever and whenever it rears its ugly head.”

5. Mandela embraced some of America’s biggest political enemies. Mandela incited shock and anger in many American communities for refusing to denounce Cuban dictator Fidel Castro or Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who had lent their support to Mandela against South African apartheid. “One of the mistakes the Western world makes is to think that their enemies should be our enemies,” he explained to an American TV audience. “We have our own struggle.” He added that those leaders “are placing resources at our disposal to win the struggle.” He also called the controversial Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat “a comrade in arms.”

6. Mandela was a die-hard supporter of labor unions. Mandela visited the Detroit auto workers union when touring the U.S., immediately claiming kinship with them. “Sisters and brothers, friends and comrades, the man who is speaking is not a stranger here,” he said. “The man who is speaking is a member of the UAW. I am your flesh and blood.”