Prebendalism: Why Buhari Is Not Fighting Corruption and Why He Can Not Fight Corruption

President Buhari

When next someone tells you President Buhari is fighting corruption, look the person in the eye and call the person an ignoramus.

Let me explain to you why Buhari is not fighting corruption and why he cannot fight corruption.

First, if we are to judge an administration as fighting corruption based on how much EFCC recovered under the administration, then Buhari administration has not done anything special.

Before Buhari came into power in 2015, the EFCC had recovered over $12billion in the name of 'fighting corruption'.

COINDESK: Bitcoin Markets Muted as Donald Trump Becomes US President

When Donald Trump won the presidential election in November, the price of bitcoin jumped. Following his inauguration today – not so much.

On 9th November, prices bounced more than 3% as Trump, the controversial businessman and Republican presidential nominee, secured the votes to clinch the election versus former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton. That move came as stock markets worldwide sharply fell as Trump's victory became apparent.

The reaction to Trump's inauguration, by contrast, was far more muted.

GOODLUCK JONATHAN - THE SILENT DICTATOR

They think we have forgotten:

-Then President Jonathan sacked the President of the Appeal court because he refused to compromise on the case involving the ruling party and ruling that forensic examination be allowed on materials used for the 2011 Presidential election. Even when the NJC asked that he be reinstated, Jonathan refused yet, he is your HERO OF DEMOCRACY.

- All the security details attached to then Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal were withdrawn by the Federal Government led by Jonathan yet, you still didn't see any reason not to worship him.

- For weeks in 2014, the Governor of Kano State kept shouting that security aides posted to watch over the state house were recalled as a result of orders from above, not once did you accuse Jonathan of tyranny.

- For appointing Sanusi Lamido as Emir of Kano which was within the rights and powers of the Kano State Government, Jonathan ordered security agents to lay siege at the Emir's palace. For days, the Emir operated from the Kano State Government House. You didn't call Jonathan by the dictatorship that he was acting out then.

EFCC detains ex-Finance Minister, Yuguda

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained a former Minister of Finance, Amb. Bashir Yuguda, over his alleged involvement in the $115m (N23bn) bribe which was distributed by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.

The EFCC said in a statement that the ex-minister who is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, allegedly diverted N450m out of the money.

The money, which was distributed through Fidelity Bank Plc, was said to have been used in bribing officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission during the 2015 presidential election.

ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA ARE GETTING BETTER AND THE VOTES ARE COUNTING - PROFESSOR YAKUBU

Nigerian elections conducted under the watch of the Professor Mahmood Yakubu-led Commission are getting better and the votes are counting.


Addressing Editors of print and broadcast Media at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, last week, the INEC Chairman emphasized that the votes now counted unlike in the past. Argued he: “if you simply compare the outcome of previous elections with the elections we conducted recently, you can very clearly see how the elections are getting better and how the margin is becoming even smaller. Votes are also counting today more than ever before”.

Gen Muhammadu Buhari; The Symbol of Political Consistency and Reliability By: Jasper Azuatalam

The attitude of many poltucians in Nigeria will make one to wonder if there are still politucians with integrity, steadfastness, consistency, reliabilty among various qualities that a consummate and people oriented politicians should posses.

In 2002, Gen Muhammadu Buhari declared his intention to join politics as an opposition politician because of what he describes as the inability of the rulling Peoples Demicratic Party PDP to deliver the dividends of democracy which they promised Nigerians in 1999. He contested the 2003 presidential election as the leading opposition candidate.

In 2007, he did not change his mind as he contested against the rulling party. He stood firm in what he believes. He became more resilient and determined as the days go bye. In 2011, he took another step in the same direction. The Peoples Demicratic Party PDP was ready to wooe Buhari as they were ready to give even more than half of their kingdom to bring Buhari to their fold. Buhari stood firm and held to his believe and vision that the PDP which has failed Nigerians should be shown the way out by the ballots.

A Muslim/Muslim Presidential Disaster for the APC, By Femi Aribisala

"Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. The APC plan for a Muslim/Muslim ticket in this day and age in Nigeria is nothing short of madness. It will not fly. It will not only be rejected outright by Nigerians, it will tear the APC apart."

Bola Tinubu is standing on the horns of a dilemma. He became the godfather of the APC out of burning personal ambition to seek greener political pastures for himself in Abuja. The APC calculus is to present a Northern presidential and Southern vice-presidential ticket against the PDP’s Jonathan/Sambo ticket in the 2015 presidential election. If that APC vice-presidential candidate is not Tinubu himself, then all bets are off as far as Tinubu is concerned. However, the prospect of a ticket with Tinubu as vice-president is already ensuring that the APC is badly in need of aspirin.

An APC vice-president that is not Tinubu poses grave political danger to Tinubu. It means Tinubu has been sowing for somebody else to reap. If that person happens to be Yoruba, he or she could quickly become a contender for Tinubu’s much-vaunted position as the Asiwaju of South-West politics in Nigeria. That is the reason why Tinubu schemed against Mulikat Akande becoming the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Therefore, all systems are “go.” Tinubu must be APC’s vice-presidential candidate by hook or crook. If not, it is most likely Tinubu will end up by scheming against the APC in the coming presidential election.

Rowdy Session As Confab Delegates Reject Honour For Abiola …say no to immunity clause

Echoes of the June 12, 1993 presidential election reverberated at the National Conference on Thursday when a motion seeking national recognition for the presumed winner of the poll, the late Chief Moshood Abiola, was moved at the confab.

The motion, which was moved by Orok Duke, saw the delegates divided along regional lines as those from the southern Nigeria favoured the motion while those from the North rejected it.

Those who were opposed to the motion, led by a representative of the civil society, Mallam Nasir Kura, were shouting “no!, no!”

June 12 is worth defending with our lives, otherwise our children..... Kudirat Abiola

In the early morning of June 14 1996, Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, the late wife of the celebrated Hero of Democracy in Nigeria, the late Chie MKO Abiola, had an appointment to keep in the Lagos Island. She left her home in Opebi, Ikeja in her husband’s Benz 300 S-Class clearly unaware that some killers – Major Mumuni, Major Dan Asabe, Sergeant Rogers and one Major Daramola – were following her with an order from Abuja to kill her. The time was 9.40am that morning as they approached the Seven-up end of Oregun Industrial Estate to join the famous Lagos Ibadan Expressway and on this ungodly spot they shot and snuffed out life of an African Heroine. 

And Alhaja Kudirat Abiola died.

US Offer To Rescue The Abducted Chibok School Girls And GEJ Acceptance: Big Question We Need To Answer Before It Is Too Late By Yerwa Circle

The Abduction, US Offer To Rescue The Abducted Chibok School Girls And GEJ Acceptance, Is It A Step forward for US to Actualise Its Prediction of Nigeria's isintegration?

The big question that we need to answer before it is too late is why GEJ choose not rescue the abducted Chibok School Girls, and why only now barely a few month to presidential election that US felt obliged to offer rescue? That means US intelligence will intervene like they did in Somalia, Afghanistan and Libya and instead to rescue the abducted school girls FBI will make sure they actualise the disintegration of Nigeria. Otherwise, US if they could glean intelligence information on possible terrorist acts in Nigeria, they could have equally had the capabilities to share vital information with Nigerian government on who are the benefactors of Boko Haram.

Egypt presidential election set for May 26-27, electoral commission says

Egypt presidential vote set for May 26-27, electoral commission says.
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Abuja Gun Battle: 20 Boko Haram suspects killed