Happy New Year and Welcome 2007, a year of decisions!
"Our
resolution also includes staying away from SANs, for they cost too much
at N10m a piece! It is our believe most of the problems in Nigeria today
are caused by these set of super human Nigerians. Only a rich man
can afford 13 SANs at a time, or maybe a president with the resources of
the state."
Happy New Year and Welcome 2007, a year of decisions! NigerianNews
Editorial
Again, what a year! Year 2006 was marked with mixed occurrences in our
dear country. To some again, it was a totally bad year of presidential
rapacity and/or vice presidential obfuscation and lack of honor, and
to others it was a mixed bag of both!! We ask again; What is in a year
after all if not for the apparent relativity of its contents? To us
at the NigerianNews,
just as we did last year, we choose to look and enjoy the good part of year 2006 in the absolute
sense, hoping the rapacity, obfuscation and lack of honor never again visit our shore
in 2007.
Our
first resolution at the NigerianNews
is simply the same as last year. As we have always said about
ourselves, it is lack of knowledge that makes life look relativistic
in nature. Given an absolute acquisition of knowledge we are asserting
that we will wind up with a world full of knowledgeable people in the fashion of absolute knowledge itself. Therefore, our wish for our readers
this year 2007 are as follows:
Seek your own knowledge in its absoluteness. Do
not let these so-called leaders with their so-called academic
degrees or even ill acquired riches be your soul source of
information. Remember they are not any more knowledgeable than their
academic discipline or ill gotten riches. Assert your native
intelligence which is by far more superior than the narrow confines
of their academic qualifications. If you do not believe us, see
where their academic qualifications have led us!
Total adherence to the chivalry code of what a
Knight and even an ordinary man who loves his or her country should
follow. To this end, we hope every politician and none politician
will print this code by clicking
here if you have not done so previously.
Assuming you print the code of Chivalry, you will
be able to see the destruction a single man who deviates from this
code can do to our country. No matter how well meaning you are,
honor is more important than your so called good intention. So seek
honor in 2007.
If a constitution says a President must have his
Vice President from his own party, that seems to make sense to us at
the NigerianNews,
for a President gets elected based on his programs, and his Vice
President, once he feels he can no longer respect the programs or
their prosecution, Code of Chivalry dictates that this Vice
President quits without even belaboring the constitution which to us
at the NigerianNews
seems very clear, unless the intention of the constitution is to at
a future date allows an aberrant Vice President to throw the country
into mayhem.
If anyone confronts you with a list of
impeachable offences in 2007 prior to the election in April, be
suspicious of that person. Let these people know that Nigeria is
bigger and greater than personal ambition of individuals. Let them
know that your wish is to get rid of all of them in the 2007
election with a clean slate, ushering in clean people of God in
their place.
Our resolution also includes staying away from
SANs, for they cost too much at N10m a piece! It is our believe most
of the problems in Nigeria today are caused by these set of super
human Nigerians. Only a rich man can afford 13 SANs at a time,
or maybe a president with the resources of the state. This brings us
to the following section of the Nigerian Constitution:
142.
(1) In any election to which
the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Chapter relate, a
candidate for an election to the office of President shall not be
deemed to be validly nominated unless he nominates another candidate
as his associate from the same political party for his running for
the office of President, who is to occupy the office of
Vice-President and that candidate shall be deemed to have been duly
elected to the office of Vice-President if the candidate for an
election to the office of President who nominated him as such
associate is duly elected as President in accordance with the
provisions aforesaid.
Are the Atiku protagonists really saying
that this part of the constitution ends at the end of nomination? If
so, and if a honorable Knight can after election decide to join
another political party with different manifestoes, how does the
president proceed with his original mission? Or we must just let
Atiku be, because he is Atiku, or let Obasanjo wallow in his
mischoice because we don't like him?
If the SANs stop working for the money for a minute, can they then
see the damage they are doing to the country? If the 13 Atiku SANs
win, will there not be an immediate need for the amendment of this
part of the constitution because of the inconsistency it incubates,
or it is just a one time misapplication? If we let the application
be the way a non-SAN think it is, can we not then say that although
the Vice President has not tender an explicit resignation, however
his nomination as the Presidential candidate of the AC has actually
provided a rendering of an implicit resignation? For his acceptance
is an implicit and tacit act of resignation as the Vice President if
142(1) is not to be contradicted.
If the Vice President has implicitly resigned, what then do we say
about:
146(3)
Where
the office of Vice-President becomes vacant:-
(a)
by reason of death
or resignation, impeachment, permanent incapacity or removal in
accordance with section 143 or 144 of this Constitution;
(b)
by his assumption
of the office of President in accordance with subsection (1) of
this section; or
(c)
for any other
reason,
the President shall nominate and, with the
approval of each House of the National Assembly, appoint a new
Vice-President.
We know Atiku is still alive, has not been impeached and he is not
permanently incapacitated and we know that 143 and 144 are not
applicable in this instance, so only 146(3)(a) RESIGNATION (in this
case implied by 142(1)) and if he contests Implicit Resignation,
then 146(3)(c) "for any other reason", let a good patriot tell this
VP that this "any other reason" is 142(1).
We believe, Atiku
has implicitly resigned by violating 142(1) above, and the president
has also acted correctly by acknowledging his Vice president's
resignation. In our opinion, the implicit resignation makes
146(3)(a) applicable in addition to 142(3)(c) which if the National
assembly is not in the pocket of the Vice president will just have
to perfunctorily approve a new Vice Presidential nominee. However,
we understand those "Knight" politicians defeated in the primaries
are now spoiling for the settling of the scores stemming from the
primaries. You can see these National Assembly people may have to
read the honor involved in the code of Chivalry.
NO, in this instance, IMPEACHMENT is NOT what the constitution calls
for in removing this VP who Chief Gani Fawehinmi and Mr. Agbakoba
have described as dishonorable, however, IMPLICIT or EXPLICIT
RESIGNATION 146(3)(a) or "FOR ANY OTHER REASON 146(3)(c)" is! The
President needs not seek an impeachment, however, he needs to submit
a new name to the National Assembly as required in a NON IMPEACHMENT
situation. If the National Assembly people fail to approve the new
nominee, Nigerian nation will not fall apart if there is no Vice
President for 5 months.
At any rate, the SANs have their ways, the courts, which we cannot
trust have the case. It is a laugh to the banks all the way by our
prestigious SANs on both sides.
Be resolute with your votes! It is obvious those
who were in PDP while the election was purportedly rigged by PDP in
2003 are now in AC - PDP second eleven or is it disgruntled PDP? If
AC tells you about PDP being party of riggers, just tell them "you
too" Read the words of Ogbe, Atiku, and Solomon Lar while they were
still in PDP, you will know what we mean. Nigerian politicians are
equal opportunity riggers, so do not base your vote on what they
tell you but on issues. Do your own homework for it is about your
future. Because a candidate belongs to any of these 2 parties or any
other party should not be a reason for that candidate to be ignored,
look at the total being of this candidate apart from his party. A
man of God if nothing else, has conscience, and a man of conscience
is what should be of interest to you.
Last year, we asked that you beware of the so-called good journalists,
this year, we maintain the same warning! In our political space,
journalists are like prostitutes. Some sacrificed their conscience
at the alter of financial remunerations. Some are outright cowards
who change their minds once their friends show their disapproval.
Most of our journalists who cannot be bought are either spineless or
accomplices in dastardly acts. So in 2007, do not take the words of
any journalist, including NigerianNews
for it. Do your own homework.
It does not matter whether the EFCC only
prosecutes the enemies of the President, what matters is that EFCC
should NOT prosecute innocent people. If all they can get are
enemies of this president who are not innocent, another president
will come in to complete the job by prosecuting the friends of this
president who are not innocent. Good job Ribadu, so far so good!!!
Finally, do not let your access to God be through
your pastors or mullahs in 2007, for the Almighty God loves you more
when you reach Him by yourself. Remember Pastors or Mullahs make use
of their five senses (which make them souls) just like you.
However, all physical things like the five senses are subject to
deterioration. So, if you allow anybody to carry your message to God
for you, you stand a risk of this person's senses not comprehending
your need even as accurately as you deliver it to them. So, go for
it yourself. To God, there is NO special crown prince, we all are
special to Him, and He is eager to hear our voices in SPIRIT which
can only be attained through the TRUTH. Sinners, Saints, Christians
and Moslems who reach out to Him in Truth shall attain the
SPIRITUALITY which will get them into His presence. Remember LIARS
have NO chance of getting to HIM.
