"THE POLITICS OF STOMACH INFRASTRUCTURE IS WORLDWIDE"

The political phrase "Politics of Stomach Infrastructure" is rapidly evolving in the political dictionary of politics in Nigeria. This phrase was birthed recently after the just concluded governorship election in Ekiti State of Nigeria in which an incumbent governor of the state on the platform of the opposition party, the APC was heavily defeated in an election that still remains controversial in nature till today. Many Nigerians who are staunch supporters of the opposition APC claimed that the voters of Ekiti State chose the provider of the infrastructure of stomach over the builder of the physical infrastructure.

Amongst the most important basic needs of life for the immediate survival of mankind in any human society today, food, food and food is the number one most important daily need of a human being. The food security ranks on top everywhere, whether in the developed nations with the advanced form of democracy or in the developing nations that still practice a form of  pseudo-democracy. Elections are won and lost based on whether a politician makes the politics of stomach infrastructure his main priority or not on his To-Do-List if elected or reelected.

The practical meaning of the politics of infrastructure of stomach may vary worldwide and from place to place, but, it is similar and boils down to the same issue of food or the food security. In the western democracy, the infrastructure of  stomach is the creation of jobs that provide reliable incomes to a worker that guarantees daily food on his table . No western politician or public office seeker can win an election easily or be reelected back to power by directly putting the building of physical infrastructures above joblessness, the rising unemployment rate, falling standard of living, skyrocketing inflation and the cost of daily living as well as the rapidly growing poverty rate. 

In conclusion, the outcome of the Ekiti State gubernatorial election should serve as a good political lesson for the incumbent public office holders in Nigeria who desire a reelection or the future aspirants for the public offices in Nigeria. The politics of balancing the infrastructure of stomach with the physical infrastructural development must go hand-in-hand and side-by-side. The Nigerian public officials can no longer subject the poor electorates to hunger, joblessness, poverty wages, hopelessness, helplessness and a very bleak future, all in the name of modernization or the building of the 21st century modern infrastructural development #PoliticsOfStomachAlwaysWins.

"HOW PRESIDENT JONATHAN GOODLUCK OF NIGERIA PLANS TO WIN IN 2015"

This President knows beyond any reasonable doubt that politics and winning any election are both local as well as a game of numbers. The highly flawed 2011 presidential election in Nigeria showed clearly that Jonathan Goodluck cannot easily return to the Aso Rock villa in 2015 without winning very big in the South-West and in the core North of Nigeria. The votes of the entire South-East and the South-South are not politically and mathematically sufficient for Jonathan Goodluck to win the presidency of Nigeria in 2015. Below are his political plans and strategies he is putting in place to achieve his goal and objective of winning the presidency of Nigeria in 2015.

(i). He will use the federal might, the stolen oil-wealth, the INEC, the federal military and security forces as well as all forms of electoral frauds to make Ayo Fayose the PDP governor of Ekiti State, Senator Omisore the PDP governor of Osun State and Ayo Dimeji the PDP governor of Ogun State. He will then use these governors to rig the presidential election in 2015. Lagos State proves too difficult for him at the moment and many political attempts will be made by Jonathan Goodluck in Oyo and Edo States to also win those states for the PDP before the presidential election of 2015. President Jonathan Goodluck is a bad and a very corrupt President but he is also a very good student of the dirty and the corrupt Nigerian politics. Nigerian should not forget that Olusegun Obasanjo did the same thing in 2003 when he politically removed the then AC governors from the South-West and replaced them with his own PDP governors who then helped him to win in the South-West.

(ii). President Jonathan Goodluck is very confident of easily repeating his 2011 INEC magic numbers of 99% of the voters' turnout in his favor. The South-East and the South-South governors except Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State are all Aso Rock errand boys who will obey the political directives from the presidency to their last letters.

(iii). In the core North of Nigeria, Kano State is still proving very difficult for Jonathan Goodluck to grap. Mohammed Abacha, the son of the late Nigeria's military dictator, the late General Sanni Abacha that was pardoned yesterday from his corruption charges will be used in Kano State by the Aso Rock villa in the 2015 presidential electoral experiment. Will Jonathan Goodluck succeed with his political game that he is playing at the moment all over Nigeria as the all-important year of 2015 is fastly approaching? Only time alone can tell for now. #NigerianPresidentialElectionOf2015

"PRESIDENT YAHYA JAMMEH AND THE FUTURE OF THE GAMBIA"

President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia continues to amaze me day to day with the way he is running his own country. He threatens to kill all the gays and the lesbians in The Gambia, jail every local journalist that he considers the enemy of his government, close down media houses that are critical of his administration and deport foreign journalists who are critical of The Gambia government. He withdrew the membership of his country from the British Commonwealth of Nations. So far The Gambia has lost tens of millions of the American dollar in foreign aid from the European nations and from the international NGOs. Yahya Jammeh does not believe in the human rights, freedom of the press, independent judiciary, court rulings, democratic principles, credible election and the rule of law.

Now, he plans to drop English Language as his nation's lingua franca. He said that the new national language with be one of the indigenous languages of The Gambia in a multi-ethnic nation. Does The Gambia has any language that is already well developed and internationally recognized that can adequately replace the English Language as its official language? Are the other ethnic groups of The Gambia going to be forced to learn the proposed new language that will soon be adopted as the official language of that country? Can The Gambia survive without those foreign aid coming it regularly and without the international patronage of her tourist industry? Can The Gambia as a nation survive from this self-imposed international isolation from the comity of the nations of the world in this 21st century human universe? Only time alone will surely tell #YahyaJammehAndTheDestinyOfTheGambia

"THINGS THAT ARE WRONG WITH NIGERIAN LEADERS AND FOLLOWERS"

The ordinary Nigerians are fooled and taken for a ride by the corrupt leaders of Nigeria who are truly united together as one single and unbreakable entity in the pursuit of power, the looting of the wealth of Nigeria as well as the sharing of her national cake amongst themselves despite the fact that they come from the over 389 ethnic nationalities, many religious faiths and from the different geopolitical zones. The tens of millions of these common Nigerians continue to fight themselves daily on behalf of these rogue leaders using the divisions of tribes, religions and geopolitical origins.

Job creation to a typical Nigerian state governor today is to blow up the size of his state civil service by creating jobs that do not exist in real life, hires workers that their services are not needed and creates a huge payroll that has no budget allocated for it to run it. Nigerian elected and appointed public officials do not know their primary job responsibilities in the public life. Your job is not to give your electorates those bags and cups of rice using the commonwealth or the stolen wealth of your voters to do that. Your job is to enact and to implement policies that will add beautiful colors to the daily life of all Nigerians.

These rogue Nigerian politicians have now reduced the whole essence of the people-representative democracy and its dividends to a small bag of rice or a small cup of rice. Are these corrupt politicians of both parties now humanitarians running charity organizations to help the needy citizens of Ekiti State?

IS HISTORY GOING TO REPEAT ITSELF AGAIN IN IRAQ?

The Sunni insurgency that is powered by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is the most singular and significant threat to the Iraq’s security and her existence as a sovereign nation since the official withdrawal of America from Iraq in 2011. The ISIS militant group is made up of the Sunni Muslims that is backed up by Iran and Syria. These insurgents have committed massive untold heinous crimes so far against the Iraqi Shiite Muslims by carrying out several cold-blooded executions of those captured Shiite soldiers and the helpless civilians in Iraq. They are reported to be very close to Baghdad, the seat of the Shiite dominated Iraqi government.

The United States government is now sending immediate military support to protect her diplomats, civilians and national interests in Iraq as well as a plan to launch the air and sea attacks against the ISIS militants to stop their military advances into Baghdad and to stop their ongoing massive executions of their perceived enemies. 

Will Iraq return to a full-scale civil war again? Will America be forced by this development in Iraq to put her military boots back on the ground in Iraq? Will American tax payers support the sacrifice of precious human life and treasure on the Iraqi soil and war theater again? Will Iraq survive this ISIS military adventure at the end of the day? Will the nation of Iraq break up into three pieces to represent the Shites, the Sunnis and the Kurds after the end of this ongoing internal crisis with many outside support and interest involved? Only time will surely tell #IraqIsOnTheBrinkOfDisintegration 

"HOW OBASANJO AND BABANGIDA DESTROYED DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA"

The year of 1979 was designed by the military government of Nigeria to usher in a civilian government after 13 years of their undemocratic rule. General Olusegun Obasanjo in 1979 handed over the military government of Nigeria to Alhaji Shehu Shagari in a highly controversial presidential election. General Olusegun Obasanjo used his government highly controversial electoral magic of 122/3 of the then 19 states to prevent a run-off from taken place between Alhaji Shehu Shagari and Chief Obafemi Awolowo. 

The Supreme Court of Nigeria at that time also refused to accept as exhibit the mathematical analysis and the proof that were jointly done by the two most brillIant Nigerians, the late Prof. Ayodele Awojobi and Chike-Obi . Their mathematical equation showed clearly that Alhaji Shehu Shagari did not win that presidential election of 1979 according to the then electoral laws of 1979 that was used by the then federal electoral commission (FEDECO). General Olusegun Obasanjo also practiced his dirty politics of politcal exclusion by refusing to register the political parties of the late Fela Kuti, the Movement of the People (MOP) and the Nigerian Advanced Party (NAP) of Tunji Braithwaite in the second democratic dispensation in Nigeria.

In the third political dispensation in Nigeria, General Ibrahim Babangida wasted an enormous amount of the Nigerian tax payers money on his never ending and deceptive transition agenda of returning the country back to democracy. This military dictator practiced politics of selection and exclusion by banning many prominent first and second republic politicians from politics and by pushing young and inexperience Nigerians into politics. IBB also formed two political parties that were not people or ideologically oriented for Nigerians which he called Social Democratic Party (SDP) and National Republican Convention (NRC). IBB finally killed democracy in Nigeria in the third political dispensation when he annulled the best, the most credible, the most transparent, the freest and the fairest presidential election ever conducted in the entire history of Nigeria that was won by the late Chief MKO Abiola.

In the fourth democratic dispensation, Olusegun Obasanjo was elected in an election that was considered to be flawed by the local and international observers. Olusegun Obasanjo practiced all forms of anti-democratic principles. He violated the Nigerian constitution by removing duly elected state governors and elected officials of his own political party without following the due process of the law. He refused to obey many court orders. He approved flawed elections. He practiced politics of selection to favor his errand boys and politics of exclusion to destroy his perceived political opponents. OBJ even diabolically attempted to elongate his own tenure beyond the stipulated maximum of 8 years based on the Nigerian 1999 constitution. 

Olusegun Obasanjo directly violated the constitutional rights of his own duly elected vice-president, suspended him from the party, removed his personal security, official cars and prevented him from running in the party's presidential primary. Finally to further destroy the future of democracy in Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo brought in two Nigerians, the late Musa Yar'Adua and Jonathan Goodluck who had no plan to run for the office of the President of Nigeria and forced them on his party. These two men would eventually become the most incompetent leaders in the annals of the history of the modern Nigeria to date ‪#‎HardLessonsLearnedFromTheNigerianHistory‬