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THE NIGER DELTA PALAVER The ruling People's Democratic Party(PDP)is wasting time setting up kangaroo Rivers State Truth and Reconciliation Commission where the former governor Dr. Peter Odili has been telling lies in defence of the PDP, the most corrupt and notorious political party in Africa. It has been a comedy of errors so far. The rogue gallery is a mockery of democracy and the rule of law. The Niger Delta Summit is going to be another opportunity for the misappropriation of our revenue allocations by the political contractors in power and cannot bring the chief perpetrators of the Niger Delta crisis to book. The Niger Delta crisis can be solved within one month if we have a fearless revolutionary leader like Jerry Rawlings of Ghana to sack the PDP and commence the arrest and trial of all the top dogs and pigs who have acquired illegal oil blocks they shared among themselves since 1979 to date. The plutocratic oligarchy has been in power since 1979 when the retired General Ol...

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President of Nigeria I am posting this press release by the former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for reference, since it was released before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, February 26, 2008, dismissed the suits of former military ruler, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and the former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and upheld the fraudulent election of "President" Umaru Yar'Adua in the April 2007 presidential poll . 23 Feb 2008 23:00 Africa/Lagos Atiku Abubakar: Africa's Fraudulent Elections: A Non-Violent Alternative Africa's Fraudulent Elections: A Non-Violent Alternative A statement by former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar In advance of a decision by a Nigerian tribunal on February 26 on whether the 2007 election of the President was legal, former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar delivers a statement. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-...

Alhaji Umaru Yar' Adua Gen. Muhammadu Buhari The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja, Tuesday, dismissed the petition of former military ruler, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, because he could not prove his case against the election of "President" Umaru Yar'Adua in the April 2007 presidential poll in Nigeria. Observers expect the same tribual to pass a similar judgment on the petition of the former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who has already vowed to accept the ruling of the tribunal. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal may have the brains to pass judgment on the petitions against the disputed election of "President" Umaru Yar’Adua, but will not have the balls to annul the election. The fact cannot be denied, that the April polls in 2007 were not free and fair . Therefore, the electios should be nullified . If the local election petitions tribunals, because of electoral irregularities and fraud, have annulle...

Nigerian Senate President, David Mark, has been sacked by the Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State in Nigeria. The tribunal annulled the April 21, 2007 election of David Mark on Saturday, February 23, 2008. More details . The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was abused and misused by the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) to rig the local and national elections held in April, 2007. Many voters were disenfranchised as the PDP employed thugs to intimidate the supporters of the opposition parties and over 700 people were killed in the political clashes of the tragic April polls. I have refused to accept the presidential election of President Umaru Yar' Adua, because it has no electoral legitimacy. President Umaru Yar'Adua has commenced electoral reforms without any judicial inquiry into the death of those who were killed during the last elections in April 2007, and without any legal Review Commission. The disgraced Senate President, D...

"Democracy can neither be attained nor sustained in a state of political illegitimacy." ~ Orikinla Osinachi Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been removed to scuttle the investigation of former president Olusegun Obasanjo's daughter, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, over the alleged N3.5 billion contract scam involving an Austrian firm, M. Schneider GMBH, and the ongoing prosecution of other criminal suspects who were sponsors of the presidential campaign of Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua and were also the employers of the political thugs and other criminals who rigged the last April polls in Nigeria. The cookie is crumbling. Prof. Wole Soyinka's commentary on the sudden removal of Nuhu Ribadu is a must read.

Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua I won April polls, Yar'Adua tells tribunal Vanguard Online Edition - Saturday, 08 December 2007 © Vanguard Online Edition The fact is, since the local and international monitors have provided facts and figures to prove that the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) rigged the presidential election last April, and even Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua agreed that the election was far from being fair and free, therefore, it is contradictory for him to turn around and claim that he won the presidential election based on the final result of the corrupt Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The government has failed to probe the death of over 700 people who were killed during the April polls and the political thugs of the PDP who attacked, maimed and murdered hundreds of people all over Nigeria have not been prosecuted for their crimes. A 17-year-old school girl who was gang-raped by the political hoodlums of the PDP in Osun state in southwestern Nige...

Nigerian politics is boring. The posts on this board are enough to support my conclusion, because most of the topics are duplications of other topics and having challenging discussions is like wasting your time. There are only very few informed commentators on the Politics discussion board of Nairaland and the rest are not different from the crowd at Oshodi market in Lagos, Nigeria. The majority of the Nigerian electorate are non-literates and semi literates who are always intimidated by the criminal politicians and that is why local thugs like chief Lamidi Adedibu can be accepted by his people and the likes of the ex-president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. The return of the primitive native. Dr. Pat Utomi and others of the Nigerian intelligentsia should not have joined the Nigerian politicians, because it is a waste of quality time to engage them in issues of the state when most of them are not political leaders or women, but opportunists. I hardly blog on Nigerian politics, because the...

The reins of the leadership of Nigeria is in the wrong hands and until the Nigerian electorate recover their stolen mandate, they will continue to be at the mercy of the crooks and rogues in power. Seven months after the election of President Umaru Yar'Adua, he is still playing party politics with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and using political tactics to stymie the prosecution of the corrupt ex-governors and other public office holders who are still bona fide sponsors of the notorious People's Democratic Party (PDP) of Nigeria. President Umaru Yar'Adua is already looking forward to ruling for eight years. But I pray for the divine intervention of God to sack the most corrupt government in Africa.

Kano LG Polls - the Inside Story Daily Trust (Abuja) ANALYSIS 25 November 2007 Posted to the web 25 November 2007 By Hassan A. Karofi Kano Last weekend's local government polls in Kano State left traces of violence, destruction and heavy presence of troops, reminding residents of the anarchy that reigned in parts of the state for days during and after the elections. The election was never envisaged to be peaceful. Reason: pre-election campaign tones of the rival political parties dimmed any ray of hope of peaceful polls in the volatile city and across the state. A day to the Saturday, November 17 elections, strange movements of men and materials were noticed, while political party offices soon became munitions depots. The party offices were taken over by weapons-wielding youths, who were publicly smoking marijuana, blowing flutes of hunters-reminiscent of the war period. These election-eve events instilled fear in the minds of residents of the looming danger ahead of the polls. An...

Nigeria: Siemens - My Hands Are Clean - Adebayo Leadership (Abuja) 20 November 2007 Posted to the web 20 November 2007 By Golu Timothy Former Minister of Communications, Chief Cornelius Adebayo has denied any involvement in the alleged bribe scandal involving a German telecom giant, SIEMENS, saying those who seek to draw him into the controversy are not fair to him. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP last night and personally signed by the former minister, he said, he never at any point in time entangled himself throughout his four decades in public service, and therefore, it should not be at this age and time, that he will mess up his hard earned integrity. "My attention has been drawn to media reports as it affects Siemens in Nigeria, wherein my name has been mentioned with the allegation of collecting bribe at some 'unknown time after 2002'. While the fact remains that I was minister of Communications between July 2003 and August 2006, I wish to state very clea...

Nigeria: Siemens - My Hands Are Clean - Adebayo Leadership (Abuja) 20 November 2007 Posted to the web 20 November 2007 By Golu Timothy Former Minister of Communications, Chief Cornelius Adebayo has denied any involvement in the alleged bribe scandal involving a German telecom giant, SIEMENS, saying those who seek to draw him into the controversy are not fair to him. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP last night and personally signed by the former minister, he said, he never at any point in time entangled himself throughout his four decades in public service, and therefore, it should not be at this age and time, that he will mess up his hard earned integrity. "My attention has been drawn to media reports as it affects Siemens in Nigeria, wherein my name has been mentioned with the allegation of collecting bribe at some 'unknown time after 2002'. While the fact remains that I was minister of Communications between July 2003 and August 2006, I wish to state very clea...

Promoting Internet Fraud through Music! By Bayo Olupohunda I write to express my dismay at the growing damage some Nigerian music, their promoters and recording labels are doing to the current fight against corrupt tendencies and internet scam among the youths in our country. The lyrics and message of most of the songs that are aired on our radio and television stations across Nigeria will further worsen the current campaign against internet scam by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other anti-corruption agencies. This is even more hurting taking into consideration that internet scam and their perpetrators known as Yahoo boys are mostly youths. Pop culture has become a fad among youths so it is expected that the message churned out in the lyrics of hip hop songs will affect their behaviour and belief system either negatively or positively. I have listened with concern the lyrics of a certain hip hop song currently enjoying massive air play on our radio stations. ...

The ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) popularly called by the derogatory name of Papa Deceive Pikin , in Nigerian pidgin English, is a notorious and monstrous plutocracy of kleptomaniacs, from their local wards to the corridors of Aso Villa, the State House in Abuja. The President, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua is exactly what I call him, Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves . As long as the notoriously corrupt ex-governors, Dr. Peter Odili and Chief “the thief’ James Ibori are still enjoying the protective custody and patronage of the PDP led government, I will never support President Umaru Yar’Adua, because anyone protecting criminals is equally a criminal. Therefore, Alhaji Umaru Yar’ Adua is as guilty as the criminal stalwarts of the PDP, because birds of the same feather flock together. And show me your friends and I will tell you who you are. As Jesus Christ said: By their fruits, you shall know them . If you are the chairperson at a conference of thieves, then you are the chairperson of the...