Written By Olufemi Sunday Afolabi



2019 election is still about 12 months away but it is just like tomorrow because everything in the nation is now set to work in that direction.

There has been a coalition of people trying to create the third force that can hijack power from the incumbent and we have also seen PDP trying to put its house together to wrestle power from the APC which dislodged it in 2015.

One of the heavyweights in Nigeria’s political space today is former President Obasanjo who has written an 18-page letter to President Buhari not to seek for reelection. He advised him to go and rest after his first term in office.

We have also seen some moves by some people, for example, the wife of the president, claiming that there is a cabal that is influencing some decisions at the centre . She is trying to make it abundantly clear that a force, other than President Buhari, is in control at the centre.

There is also the general view of the opposition in Nigeria. Many of them think in the same direction with either Obasanjo or Aisha. Some people have combined the views of the two ( Obasanjo and Aisha Buhari), as a result, they support these opinion leaders.

What is the bitter truth that we should know about this situation on ground?

The very first thing that we need to admit, if we want to analyze this issue without any iota of bias and sentiment, everything in life is about interest.The question will now be what interest is Obasanjo fighting for? What interest is Aisha fighting for? What interest is FFK, PDP, Ezekwesili, etc fighting for? That is another question to be answered, but the truth that we must accept is ‘ it is all about interest’. You remember the common saying ‘ there is no permanent friend, there is no permanent enemy but permanent interest in politics’.
Who is the accuser? The second issue to address is who is the accuser or adviser in this case? Let us start from Aisha Buhari. This is the wife of the President. She is supposed to be the closest person to him. She is supposed to be enjoying some direct benefits from him, etc. Unfortunately, something is wrong somewhere. Aisha Buhari believes that there is a ‘Cabal’ that has limited her influence, strength and power. Being a woman from a royal root, there is nothing you can do to remove royalty from her gene, she wants to rule and reign. Unfortunately, she has a husband that believes in doing it in the interest of all and not in the interest of any. Aisha has seen the ‘Cabal’ as the second ‘wife’ to her husband and she believes the only thing to do is to break the cabal. She cannot influence any appointment, she cannot influence any contract, she cannot influence her trips, there was a time she was barred from seeing her husband because of his health status , this made her to cry openly. She therefore has issues with the ‘Cabal’. She wants her husband in power but doesn’t want the cabal around him. How possible, you will ask?
President Obasanjo: This is a great man by all standards. An ex military man, former military Head Of State, former President, a writer, a PhD holder, Balogun of Owu Kingdom, an elder statesman, a Christian leader, etc. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is indeed a great man. But let us analyze his message and the messenger. The message is that Buhari should not contest for second term in office because there are elements of nepotistic approach in his government, his health status and his shallow knowledge of economic management and internal democracy. These are deep issues and they should be looked into. Who is the messenger is the second question here? Former President Obasanjo is the least right person to condemn Buhari in this country. Obasanjo’s first term was so bad that there was nothing that could be pointed to as his achievement. When i say nothing, i mean nothing at all. He practically was rolling on the floor to get his party ticket in 2003bfor reelection. He prostrated for Atiku, begged some governors and made them (governors) party leaders in their states in order to influence things and people for him. He had nothing to show as his achievement in his first term. Obasanjo, as we know, pushed for his third term in office. This shows that the kind of people Obasanjo is. Obasanjo practically manipulated everything to amend our constitution to allow a third term for himself but was pushed back by other forces. He sent emissaries to institutions, schools, churches, mosques, to push for his third term. He introduced politics of Bags of money popularly called ‘Ghana must Go’. Obasanjo could not point to any physical achievement in roads, rail, airport, power or anything. His era in power was full of bloodletting both political killings like the death of his attorney general, the Great Bola Ige, the Cicero of Africa, the death of Harry Marshal, the wiping away of a community in Odi,Bayelsa, the killings in ZakiBiam, Benue, many air crashes that lost hundreds of lives, the Niger-Delta problems began with him. Many freedom fighters like Asari Dokubo were jailed. The closure of Nigerian Airways, the introduction of political victimization leading to Atiku running away from his party, Rotimi Amaechi running to Ghana to save his life, there was a palpable fear everywhere, the insecurity leading to state of emergency in Ekiti and Plateau. The problem with Nigeria began practically with Obasanjo. We cannot forget what he did to South West Nigeria, how the governors, 5 of 6 governors were removed and he installed his own footsoldiers for his own personal second term interest. How he held back the allocations for Lagos States local governments for many months just to use Tinubu to make a political statement. How he separated brothers like Obanikoro being used against his boss and friend, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, etc His method of using EFCC to fight his political enemies. Politics of calumny, vendetta, etc was introduced by no other but Obasanjo. He openly called 2007 election a ‘do or die election’ on the national TV. Obasanjo is the architect of our woes according to the believe of many. Yar’adua had to admit it that the election that brought him into power in 2007 was a fraud. Obasanjo asked INEC to just write out results as confirmed by residents of many places after 2007 elections. Elections did not take place at all in many places yet Baba pushed his candidate to the seat of power. This is the Obasanjo advising us today. This is the person playing god on good governance today. Going into his role as father and husband, his children have said things that proved he is not a so good father, how he abandoned them, he didn’t train them in school, etc. His first wife does not have a good thing to say about him as well. How then can we compare him with Buhari? Many other moral issues are too bad to mention here for many reasons. We all remember the accusations of Mojisola, his son’s wife, etc.
What does PDP want? PDP was the vehicle that was supposed to have taken us to our promised land in Nigeria. The windfall of 2003 to 2007 and of 2010 to 2014 could have rewritten the history of Nigeria. We had the opportunity to work on our electricity, over $15B was embezzled by the people involved. It was so bad that the legislators that were to even probe Obasanjo shared part of the money being investigated. Nigeria lost the golden period and ended up worse than it was before PDP took over. We lost the glory of being the giant of Africa in sport and sporting events, we lost in military, we lost in politics of Africa, we lost in the world, we are deficient in infrastructures, no road, no water, no electrical power, no savings, no good airport, no standard university, nothing that PDP gave to Nigeria for 16 years of leadership.
Who are the people who don’t want Buhari to go for second term in office? They are many and belong to different political classes. Many of them are the corrupt people who keep on losing their loots to the Federal Republic of Nigeria everyday. Some of them cannot spend their loots so it becomes a do or die between them and Buhari. Many of them have run away from Nigeria. We know that Muazu, former PDP Chairman, Deziani Allison Madueke former Minister of Petroleum Resources, etc have run away from Nigeria because of the fear of Buhari. We know what Patience Jonathan, many permanent secretaries, former ministers , former governors, etc are losing everyday being products of corruption. These sets of people don’t want Buhari to continue.
Another set of people are the impatient people. Itbis believed that there is always a time-lag between when something is planned and when it is executed. ‘No leader can fix Nigeria in four year’ in the world of Goodluck Jonathan the immediate past president of Nigeria. It takes patience to achieve some things in life, especially good things. Rails, power, roads, cannot just get better in one day, it will take some times.

Finally, Buhari as a person may not be perfect, he has his flaws and shortcomings as pointed out by former President Obasanjo but he is the fairest of them all. Even Obasanjo who wrote the letter could only mention just about 4 major issues. This is nothing but an evidence that Buhari is better than Obasanjo himself. Buhari has started to put Nigeria on a solid rock of good governance. He needs to do it better and quicker though. He needs to ensure that security of lives and properties are maintained. He needs to create more jobs for the youths and old. He also needs to avoid nepotism in its entirety.

If today we are not importing rice again, rated as best in portfolio and stocks markets in the whole world, one of the best emerging economies in the world, one of the best in the ease of doing business, improved agriculture, improved security, etc then it shows things are getting better but may not be what we want. We want more from him.

Buhari is still the best. Primus inter pares (Best Among the Equal)


http://newsechoes.com/2018/01/24/buhari-and-the-dont-go-for-second-term-crew-the-truth/

Okay

Someobody should summarize this epistle

The writer is very wrong , for the first time Nigerians have a common interest which is to first save this nation of 180 million blacks from collapsing under the dullness of Buhari ... Removal of Buhari is in the interest of every single person of colour in the world, every country in Africa and Europe because it will be a human disaster of great proportion if 180 million black people are displaced by extremely poor leadership , who can handle such amounts of refugees , it's is in the interest of the world that Nigeria must work and the first step to take is removing Buhari

Trash

When everyone who stood by you in the beginning suddenly deserts you, common sense should tell you that you are not getting it right. The only people supporting buhari to recontest are the few who are benefitting from his nepotism. They are enemies of the state and will all be purged in due time.

I want buhari to recontest so that he wllbe disgraced and humiliated out of office. That will give me so much pleasure. That will sound a warning to any politician who thinks Nigeria is his/hers to toil with.

Olufemi Sunday Afolabi

It can only be them...always ready to die for their Fulani masters and their cows

so the Nigerians that supported buhari for firstbl term and now say he should not contest are now corrupt

It still baffles me that some people, at this present point in time still feels that Buhari is the right one to lead Nigeria out of her many woes.
How can one still say Buhari is the best.
The best in what ways? poor in understanding of the dynamis of internal politics, very poor in economics, poor in job creation but scored highest mark in job lose. very nepotic in every thing. Condolling & supporting his kinsmen bloodletting everywhere.
No visible achievement only imaginary.
Keep Buhari till 2040, he will never achieve anything except empowering his kinsmen to the detriment of the economy.
The question we should ask our selves is, how did Nigerians fared during his first coming as military leader?

APGA will present an Igbo presidential candidate in 2019. But some insecure and confused people now want to blackmail the party claiming we have been bribed!

Very biased and an 'out of touch with reality' write-up. For those who will request for summary, no need. The writer has been diagnosed with a serious case of zombified Stockholm syndrome.

Very biased and an 'out of touch with reality' write-up. For those who will request for summary, no need. Oga, Obasanjo has spoken the mind of every right thinking patriotic Nigerian. Of the points raised by OBJ in that 13 page letter there is none that you pointed out as lies/deceit? Rather than attack his character, reflect on what would be the future of this nation if we let the man in power carry on. Abi you no wan wise!?

Truly written like an afonja

Emmytes:
Trash

When everyone who stood by you in the beginning suddenly deserts you, common sense should tell you that you are not getting it right. The only people supporting buhari to recontest are the few who are benefitting from his nepotism. They are enemies of the state and will all be purged in due time.

I want buhari to recontest so that he wllbe disgraced and humiliated out of office. That will give me so much pleasure. That will sound a warning to any politician who thinks Nigeria is his/hers to toil with.

2019 will shock u

There are too many stupid people going about their stupidity in the most stupid way thinking everyone is stupid like them.

How anyone can make this stupid statement (in bold) is what sane people still find difficult to get.

Obasanjo's signature achievement (in fact the most visible, the most indisputable and most celebrated) is in the telecoms.

The liberalization of the telecoms sector beginning with the issuance of GSM license to ECONET WIRELESS and MTN was done in 2001.

Anyone who willfully lie about this in his bid to support the government for the COWS is satanic.

veraponpo:


Written By Olufemi Sunday Afolabi



2019 election is still about 12 months away but it is just like tomorrow because everything in the nation is now set to work in that direction.

There has been a coalition of people trying to create the third force that can hijack power from the incumbent and we have also seen PDP trying to put its house together to wrestle power from the APC which dislodged it in 2015.

One of the heavyweights in Nigeria’s political space today is former President Obasanjo who has written an 18-page letter to President Buhari not to seek for reelection. He advised him to go and rest after his first term in office.

We have also seen some moves by some people, for example, the wife of the president, claiming that there is a cabal that is influencing some decisions at the centre . She is trying to make it abundantly clear that a force, other than President Buhari, is in control at the centre.

There is also the general view of the opposition in Nigeria. Many of them think in the same direction with either Obasanjo or Aisha. Some people have combined the views of the two ( Obasanjo and Aisha Buhari), as a result, they support these opinion leaders.

What is the bitter truth that we should know about this situation on ground?

The very first thing that we need to admit, if we want to analyze this issue without any iota of bias and sentiment, everything in life is about interest.The question will now be what interest is Obasanjo fighting for? What interest is Aisha fighting for? What interest is FFK, PDP, Ezekwesili, etc fighting for? That is another question to be answered, but the truth that we must accept is ‘ it is all about interest’. You remember the common saying ‘ there is no permanent friend, there is no permanent enemy but permanent interest in politics’.
Who is the accuser? The second issue to address is who is the accuser or adviser in this case? Let us start from Aisha Buhari. This is the wife of the President. She is supposed to be the closest person to him. She is supposed to be enjoying some direct benefits from him, etc. Unfortunately, something is wrong somewhere. Aisha Buhari believes that there is a ‘Cabal’ that has limited her influence, strength and power. Being a woman from a royal root, there is nothing you can do to remove royalty from her gene, she wants to rule and reign. Unfortunately, she has a husband that believes in doing it in the interest of all and not in the interest of any. Aisha has seen the ‘Cabal’ as the second ‘wife’ to her husband and she believes the only thing to do is to break the cabal. She cannot influence any appointment, she cannot influence any contract, she cannot influence her trips, there was a time she was barred from seeing her husband because of his health status , this made her to cry openly. She therefore has issues with the ‘Cabal’. She wants her husband in power but doesn’t want the cabal around him. How possible, you will ask?
President Obasanjo: This is a great man by all standards. An ex military man, former military Head Of State, former President, a writer, a PhD holder, Balogun of Owu Kingdom, an elder statesman, a Christian leader, etc. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is indeed a great man. But let us analyze his message and the messenger. The message is that Buhari should not contest for second term in office because there are elements of nepotistic approach in his government, his health status and his shallow knowledge of economic management and internal democracy. These are deep issues and they should be looked into. Who is the messenger is the second question here? Former President Obasanjo is the least right person to condemn Buhari in this country. Obasanjo’s first term was so bad that there was nothing that could be pointed to as his achievement. When i say nothing, i mean nothing at all. He practically was rolling on the floor to get his party ticket in 2003bfor reelection. He prostrated for Atiku, begged some governors and made them (governors) party leaders in their states in order to influence things and people for him. He had nothing to show as his achievement in his first term. Obasanjo, as we know, pushed for his third term in office. This shows that the kind of people Obasanjo is. Obasanjo practically manipulated everything to amend our constitution to allow a third term for himself but was pushed back by other forces. He sent emissaries to institutions, schools, churches, mosques, to push for his third term. He introduced politics of Bags of money popularly called ‘Ghana must Go’. Obasanjo could not point to any physical achievement in roads, rail, airport, power or anything. His era in power was full of bloodletting both political killings like the death of his attorney general, the Great Bola Ige, the Cicero of Africa, the death of Harry Marshal, the wiping away of a community in Odi,Bayelsa, the killings in ZakiBiam, Benue, many air crashes that lost hundreds of lives, the Niger-Delta problems began with him. Many freedom fighters like Asari Dokubo were jailed. The closure of Nigerian Airways, the introduction of political victimization leading to Atiku running away from his party, Rotimi Amaechi running to Ghana to save his life, there was a palpable fear everywhere, the insecurity leading to state of emergency in Ekiti and Plateau. The problem with Nigeria began practically with Obasanjo. We cannot forget what he did to South West Nigeria, how the governors, 5 of 6 governors were removed and he installed his own footsoldiers for his own personal second term interest. How he held back the allocations for Lagos States local governments for many months just to use Tinubu to make a political statement. How he separated brothers like Obanikoro being used against his boss and friend, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, etc His method of using EFCC to fight his political enemies. Politics of calumny, vendetta, etc was introduced by no other but Obasanjo. He openly called 2007 election a ‘do or die election’ on the national TV. Obasanjo is the architect of our woes according to the believe of many. Yar’adua had to admit it that the election that brought him into power in 2007 was a fraud. Obasanjo asked INEC to just write out results as confirmed by residents of many places after 2007 elections. Elections did not take place at all in many places yet Baba pushed his candidate to the seat of power. This is the Obasanjo advising us today. This is the person playing god on good governance today. Going into his role as father and husband, his children have said things that proved he is not a so good father, how he abandoned them, he didn’t train them in school, etc. His first wife does not have a good thing to say about him as well. How then can we compare him with Buhari? Many other moral issues are too bad to mention here for many reasons. We all remember the accusations of Mojisola, his son’s wife, etc.
What does PDP want? PDP was the vehicle that was supposed to have taken us to our promised land in Nigeria. The windfall of 2003 to 2007 and of 2010 to 2014 could have rewritten the history of Nigeria. We had the opportunity to work on our electricity, over $15B was embezzled by the people involved. It was so bad that the legislators that were to even probe Obasanjo shared part of the money being investigated. Nigeria lost the golden period and ended up worse than it was before PDP took over. We lost the glory of being the giant of Africa in sport and sporting events, we lost in military, we lost in politics of Africa, we lost in the world, we are deficient in infrastructures, no road, no water, no electrical power, no savings, no good airport, no standard university, nothing that PDP gave to Nigeria for 16 years of leadership.
Who are the people who don’t want Buhari to go for second term in office? They are many and belong to different political classes. Many of them are the corrupt people who keep on losing their loots to the Federal Republic of Nigeria everyday. Some of them cannot spend their loots so it becomes a do or die between them and Buhari. Many of them have run away from Nigeria. We know that Muazu, former PDP Chairman, Deziani Allison Madueke former Minister of Petroleum Resources, etc have run away from Nigeria because of the fear of Buhari. We know what Patience Jonathan, many permanent secretaries, former ministers , former governors, etc are losing everyday being products of corruption. These sets of people don’t want Buhari to continue.
Another set of people are the impatient people. Itbis believed that there is always a time-lag between when something is planned and when it is executed. ‘No leader can fix Nigeria in four year’ in the world of Goodluck Jonathan the immediate past president of Nigeria. It takes patience to achieve some things in life, especially good things. Rails, power, roads, cannot just get better in one day, it will take some times.

Finally, Buhari as a person may not be perfect, he has his flaws and shortcomings as pointed out by former President Obasanjo but he is the fairest of them all. Even Obasanjo who wrote the letter could only mention just about 4 major issues. This is nothing but an evidence that Buhari is better than Obasanjo himself. Buhari has started to put Nigeria on a solid rock of good governance. He needs to do it better and quicker though. He needs to ensure that security of lives and properties are maintained. He needs to create more jobs for the youths and old. He also needs to avoid nepotism in its entirety.

If today we are not importing rice again, rated as best in portfolio and stocks markets in the whole world, one of the best emerging economies in the world, one of the best in the ease of doing business, improved agriculture, improved security, etc then it shows things are getting better but may not be what we want. We want more from him.

Buhari is still the best. Primus inter pares (Best Among the Equal)


http://newsechoes.com/2018/01/24/buhari-and-the-dont-go-for-second-term-crew-the-truth/

Mods should come and move this to the promise land

Why are they so scared of PMB running?

porka:

There are too many stupid people going about their stupidity in the most stupid way thinking everyone is stupid like them.

How anyone can make this stupid statement (in bold) is what sane people still find difficult to get.

Obasanjo's signature achievement (in fact the most visible, the most indisputable and most celebrated) is in the telecoms.

The liberalization of the telecoms sector beginning with the issuance of GSM license to ECONET WIRELESS and MTN was done in 2001.

Anyone who willfully lie about this in his bid to support the government for the COWS is satanic.

Do you doubt that claim or what?

Please by your own assessment, what did Obasanjo achieve between 1999 and 2003?

Just list 3 things here for all to see.

veraponpo:


Do you doubt that claim or what?

Please by your own assessment, what did Obasanjo achieve between 1999 and 2003?

Just list 3 things here for all to see.

Ikeja cantonment bomb blast and the mass graves at Oke Afa in Isolo Lagos, is one of his major achievements.
The problem with NIGERIA is no longer the politicians, it is now the citizenry who have eyes but cannot see, big ears like rabbits but cannot hear.

Just like the crook OBJ wrote, both paid and asslickers of Buhari's epileptic governance will start writing trash to salvage the wicked monster. What has Buhari done to be called the best? Some people are just talented in stupidity.

SalamRushdie:
The writer is very wrong , for the first time Nigerians have a common interest which is to first save this nation of 180 million blacks from collapsing under the dullness of Buhari ... Removal of Buhari is in the interest of every single person of colour in the world, every country in Africa and Europe because it will be a human disaster of great proportion if 180 million black people are displaced by extremely poor leadership , who can handle such amounts of refugees , it's is in the interest of the world that Nigeria must work and the first step to take is removing Buhari

Remove Buhari and replace him with who? Atiku?..

veraponpo:


Written By Olufemi Sunday Afolabi

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If today we are not importing rice again, rated as best in portfolio and stocks markets in the whole world, one of the best emerging economies in the world, one of the best in the ease of doing business, improved agriculture, improved security, etc then it shows things are getting better but may not be what we want. We want more from him.

Buhari is still the best. Primus inter pares (Best Among the Equal)


http://newsechoes.com/2018/01/24/buhari-and-the-dont-go-for-second-term-crew-the-truth/

If only this is true Lol


Better wake up

ABB

Emmytes:
Trash

When everyone who stood by you in the beginning suddenly deserts you, common sense should tell you that you are not getting it right. The only people supporting buhari to recontest are the few who are benefitting from his nepotism. They are enemies of the state and will all be purged in due time.

I want buhari to recontest so that he wllbe disgraced and humiliated out of office. That will give me so much pleasure. That will sound a warning to any politician who thinks Nigeria is his/hers to toil with.

see your flat head.
5% of idiotic pigs of Biafra cannot decide for us. Thief obasanjo vote is a minus

The writer of this article just spoke my mind. Ive got nothing more to add but.....

Buhari/Osibanjo 2019

usba:
Why are they so scared of PMB running?

They know his victory at the polls will be a landslide and they'll have to endure 4 more years of not being able to dip their greedy hands in the national treasury. They will fail

Turantula:
Someobody should summarize this epistle

Here is an excellent summary

Only a Foolish President, will listen to self serving Obasanjo Without testing his popularity at the Poll...

lalasticlala

GoroTango:
They know his victory at the polls will be a landslide and they'll have to endure 4 more years of not being able to dip their greedy hands in the national treasury. They will fail

The apostles of greed and corruption won't let us hear word. They only know stealing. PMB must run to foil their evil plot

Emmytes:
Trash

When everyone who stood by you in the beginning suddenly deserts you, common sense should tell you that you are not getting it right. The only people supporting buhari to recontest are the few who are benefitting from his nepotism. They are enemies of the state and will all be purged in due time.

I want buhari to recontest so that he wllbe disgraced and humiliated out of office. That will give me so much pleasure. That will sound a warning to any politician who thinks Nigeria is his/hers to toil with.

Buhari will recontest and win a free and fair election in 2019.

GoroTango:
They know his victory at the polls will be a landslide and they'll have to endure 4 more years of not being able to dip their greedy hands in the national treasury. They will fail

They have failed.

Emmytes:
Trash

When everyone who stood by you in the beginning suddenly deserts you, common sense should tell you that you are not getting it right. The only people supporting buhari to recontest are the few who are benefitting from his nepotism. They are enemies of the state and will all be purged in due time.

I want buhari to recontest so that he wllbe disgraced and humiliated out of office. That will give me so much pleasure. That will sound a warning to any politician who thinks Nigeria is his/hers to toil with.

WE ARE STILL WITH BUHARI....

EVERY SENSIBLE NIGERIA IS STILL WITH BABA

SAI BABA

NgeneUkwenu:
Only a Foolish President, will listen to self serving Obasanjo Without testing his popularity at the Poll...

Abi o, you dey mind idiots from the east