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Blessed Isi Momodu
momodu_blessed@hotmail.com
Kassel, Germany
El Rufai, the
Senate and the Babangida Legacy
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"Election" 2003 in
Nigeria: The real losers
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politics in Nigeria
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El Rufai, the Senate and the
Babangida Legacy
by Blessed Isi Momodu
A scenario
similar to the colonial days in Africa is unfolding in Nigeria. In
those awful days, Africans who dare ask or even fight for independence
were regarded by the colonial authorities as psycopaths. This means
to demand for freedom, truth and social justice is to be mentally
deranged. In Nigeria, labour leader number one Pa Imoudu was often
disparaged by the ravaging colonialists as insane because he was
fighting for freedom and social justice. In Kenya, anicolonial
elements were often referred to as psycopaths.
In Nigeria today,
the notorious settlement culture under the dictatorship of Babangida
has taken firm root in all aspects of our national life. It is within
this context, one locates the very many bribery and corruption
scandals that have rocked the supposed legislature and the OBJ
administration. It was the opinion of this writer that the Nigerian
military with its inherent contracdictions was not in any position to
midwife a genuinenly democratic Nigeria. Now, an oppressive social
system which Fela calls a demonstration of crazy is daily snuffing
out the lives of millions of helpless Nigerians . A very corrupt and
murderous elite is managing this system for their western
beneficiaries. The class character of this elite has been analysed in
my previous article: Reflections on Bourgeois Politics in Nigeria on
this website. While commenting on the unresolved cold blooded murder
of a serving Attorney General and minister of Justice Bola Ige, Prof.
Wole Soyinka recently also made reference to the existence of a
murderous squard in the OBJ Presidency. Events sofar have revealed
that to be part of the OBJ administration, wether in the Presidency or
the Legislature, you have to be mean, crude, corrupt and murderous.
Not to possess any of these negative attributes and serving in this
administration is to sign one’s death warrant.
This is where one
feels very sorry for mallam El Rufai. He has no doubt convinced most
of us that massive bribery trailed the selection of OBJ’s henchmen.
The take a bow saga in the selection of these men in the shamefless
senate though still very fresh in our memory, only lends credence to
the veracity of El Rufai’s confession.The poor mallam is being
lampooned as a pathological liar by the senat of scandal, what a
colonial style? Did Nzeribe not accuse the same Mantu of collecting
millions of naira from the Presidency so as to scuttle the impeachment
move against OBJ? The selection of the so called ministers of deceit
was the anticlimax of a bidding system that started during the party
primaries of the PDP nig Plc. The highest bidder got the party
nomination to buy electoral votes from Adewusi reincarnate in the
Police, Balogun, alias Oga de hungry and INEC officials.
The fact remains
that both houses of parliament are business ventures occupied by the
highest bidders from gangs like PDP and ANPP.The likes of Mantu and
Zwingina could not have scaled through a fair and just party primary
not to talk of winning an election. Did Wabara win any election to be
preciding over how to share the oil loot? What makes these peolpe
legislators? Is Omisore not a share holder of this business venture
erroneously referred to as Senate? What a senate of shame, cheats and
thieves. El Rufai was at least courageous enough to expose the
hypocrisy of these corrupt and rotten elites who over the years have
mortgaged the future of Nigeria. The truth must be told. These insane
actors or are they senators collected huge sums of money from most of
the appointees to the knowlegde of the Presidency, PDP and the
security agencies. It has been business as usual.
Mantu and
Zwingina are in a serious trouble unless the matter is killed like the
many befor it or they sacrifice El Rufai in anyway. It would be
difficult for them to play the ethnic card because all of them are
from the same geo-political zone.Many Nigerians do not have faith in
any probe panel because it has become a way to cover up gross criminal
excesses of the elites.The results are often manipulated and in most
cases not made public.The only feasible punishment that will receive
popular support is to begin a process of recall of these wrogue
senators after all they did not actually win the election.
To arrest the
crisis of federalism that is tearing the entity called Nigeria apart,
the campaign for a souvereign national confernce should go beyond
rhetorics , prodemocracy groups and genuine lovers of democracy should
embark on concret actions to realise the conference as a panacea to
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"His corrupt military
dictatorship like a ravaging viral epidemic wreaked havoc on the
moral fiber of the Nigerian society to the extent that role models
like Tai Solarin were rubbished by his tyrannical regime. His
disastrous economic policy of SAP was so excruciating that an
alleged Ebony magazine publication, widely circulated, exposing IBB
as the most corrupt and richest army General in the world spurred
the IBB must go nation wide riots in 1987 in which many Nigerians
were killed. Today, Babangida is said to be worth 25 billion US
dollars excluding the 12 billion dollars from 1991 Gulf war oil
windfall which he refused to account for. His regime’s assassination
of Dele Giwa via a parcel bomb, closing of newspaper houses at
will, smuggling Nigeria into Organization of Islamic Countries(OIC),
annulling the political Bureau report in 1988, annulling the June
12th election in1993,are the mortal sins of Babandida against the
people of Nigeria. "
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