How to break the cycle of rigging….

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Why I choose GMB for President

Why I choose GMB for President. – Olu Ojedokun

I am a Nigerian of Yoruba origin with the privilege of being sired abroad in the United Kingdom.  I have had the benefit of growing and maturing in Nigeria and the opportunity of developing and reaching fruition in the United Kingdom.  I have benefitted from the best education a nation can offer, from the University of Lagos, Staff School, to a brief stint at CMS Grammar School, Bariga and of course at the illustrious King’s College, Lagos.  It is from the successful completion of studies at these institutions that ‘Great Ife’, the Obafemi Awolowo University beckoned.  Opportunities were also presented to me in England to attain the highest degrees in the research fields of Law, Ethics and International Relations. With this versatility, this pedigree and nurturing I have been prepared to speak truth to power for such a time as this and into the future. I am blessed and not limited nor confined by tribe, nor narrowed by personal self-interest, but what inspires and motivates me is the desire to bequeath a better space to my children than that which my father left me.

All through my adolescent years, through conviction voiced by my elders and those around me, the myth was sold to me that the Hausa Fulani and northern neighbours could offer nothing good for Nigeria and they were simply bent on Islamizing and pauperising Nigeria. I was fed with the myth that nothing good or strategic can come out from them, that feudalism was the only language they understood and that they could never willingly relinquish power. However, it was my admission into the illustrious King’s College, where my class and schoolmates came from origins dotted all over Nigeria.  Where I slept in the same dormitories with those of various tribes and backgrounds. They watched my back and I theirs, they offered me kindness, they gave me understanding and I appreciated that though of many nations we were actually brothers. Here I learnt there is no such thing as a typical ‘Northerner’ nor could I hold each and every one of them responsible for the proclamations and actions of their kith and kin.  I also discovered that my history is not my destiny, for I cannot allow my history to limit where I am proceeding.

So here I am today an unnatural supporter of the General, Muhammadu Buhari.  At the last election I supported and willed President Goodluck Jonathan to win because I saw him as the underdog because I thought with his own mandate with no 2^nd term in view he would be freed from the shackles of stagnancy and non-performance, he would acquire boldness and smelt his name in gold.  I thought he had the intellectual strength, the sturdiness of character, the integrity and he had assumed the exposure to run a modern economy.  I had assumed that he would inspire us and motivate us to reach into the Promised Land.  However, in less than four years into his cumulative reign as President I became heart broken, my heart was engulfed with disappointments and all around me lay evidence of promises shattered into broken pieces.  I have seen him pull out stunt after stunt, not in the national interest but in pursuant of his 2^nd term re-election interest.

After denouncing the national conference for years, the President succumbed at the twilight of his tenure.  For months he ignored its contents and then for political advantage persuaded his cabinet to promise its implementation.  For almost 6 years he allowed the Boko Haram to fester, to mature and to become the monster that it is.  He allowed territory after territory to be conquered and then days before the 14^th February election date, with other forces, he pulled a joker out of his bowler hat and with newly acquired weapons so suddenly he began to prosecute the war with belated seriousness. 

My President broke down the barriers between accountability and corruption, between good governance and impunity between economic competence and mismanagement.  He gloried in pardoning criminals, he rejoiced in his inadequacies, he celebrated state sanctioned theft and abused the trust we placed in him. Even with unprecedented revenues the progress made has been illusionary, half baked and disappointing, not much has been transformed yet lots have been degraded in terms of values and what we hold dear as a nation.  All major institutions have been inflicted and afflicted by state sanctioned largess otherwise known as settlement.  Finally he has deployed religion as a means of cementing himself in power, sectional in conception, approach and in execution.

It is for the above reasons and many more that I have sought an alternative to invest my hope in. I want a President I can be proud of, I desire a man of integrity and purpose. He may not have all the answers, he may surround himself with some of questionable pedigree but I say he who is without sin, let him cast the first stone.  For every inadequacy Buhari presents, it is magnified when you place President Jonathan beside him. As a human being I am limited to judging an incumbent on his past record and if he fails that test I am entitled to consider the offer presented by the alternative who promises and indicates that Nigeria can be and is better than President Jonathan’s transformation into a space for the dollarization of bribery.  I am convinced President Buhari will fight corruption and is prepared to die fighting it.  I believe he will begin the restoration of sanity to our body politic.  This is the minimum I ask for and the minimum I demand. It is on this basis that I stand upon Buhari, I invest my hope in him and I will be supporting him for President of Nigeria.     

President Jonathan accounts for Defence Spending….

Think about this with all the objectivity you can summon, even rebut it, but with facts and figures.  

It is claimed: " Buhari spent close to $1b on the equipping of the armed forces in 20 short months when he was Head of State, whereas GEJ had spent around $360m on military hardware in 5 years as President. What this means is that out of N4.4 trillion naira budgeted for defense in the last 5 years GEJ could not account for N4.34 trillion. Even the N66 billion naira he spent in 5 years was spent on outdated tokunbo military hardware that other nations had discarded. The subsequent spending from the additional $1b approved by the NASS was a collosal waste. In an exclusive investigative report by Sahara Reporters backed by leaked invoices from the ministry of defense it was revealed that GEJ awarded himself and his cronies a $500 million contract which could have been used to purchase 40 units of modern US military weaponized attack helicopters instead what was purchased was just 6 helicopters which were not equipped with weapons to fight in modern warfare. Almost all the helicopters have either been grounded or have crashed because they are a mismatch for the purposes for which the military needed them. Your guess is as good as mine where the dollar and naira rain is coming from." Please watch this video of his recent interview.  https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10204300877057381

BUSTING THE MYTH….

Today as recognized all around world is the World Down Syndrome day. The 21st of March was chosen to signify the trisomy of the 21st Chromosome.

Curious about Down syndrome, please learn more here >>http://www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/ab…/what-is-downs-syndrome/.

Thinking about today for many families around the world, my heart goes to families like us living in Nigeria. I'm very much aware that majority of the Nigerian society still has a long way to go when to comes to awareness and acceptance of people with down syndrome.

Please read this blog post and you will see that a lot of our friends with this condition are still largely marginalized in the society over therehttp://wdsdgroup.blogspot.co.uk/…/…/whilst-were-waiting.html

By the way, we are the family described in the blogpost. Our daughter had a hole in her heart when she was born and she was diagnosed on the same day she was born. It really breaks my heart that some DS children with this heart defect in Nigeria will likely have to be sent to India for surgery.

Perhaps, you can think about families like this when casting your votes this month. Enough of North versus south, just vote the right leader and improve the chances of these special children. In this day and age, these children shouldn't be locked away in Nigerian homes like prisoners and they shouldn't be mocked by taking them for deliverance. They can achieve anything you want them to achieve like any other child. It just takes them a little longer to learn compared to children without this condition. There is nothing like a typical child anyway. There has to be variety in life. Difference is okay.

Down syndrome is NOT a disease, it is NOT contagious. Infact Ignorance is the greatest disease. Down syndrome is simply the presence of an extra chromosome 21 in the body’s cells. It is not hereditary and it is not anything evil at all. In most cases, downs syndrome comes with conditions like heart defect and most are treatable and some are not treatable. Every child is not the same.

To our fellow Christians, everyone appreciate prayers but this condition is not present because we do not know how to pray. You know what 'Random' means right? Just like flipping a coin so for me the greatest prayer is for people of the world to love each other more. There was an interview I read a while ago about a disabled Nigerian musician. He fell into a gutter, a lady who was nearby started speaking loudly in tongues rather than extending a helping hand to get this blind man out of the gutter. So it is as simple as learning how to show love first before casting out anything!

There are several families in Lagos and many other Naija states with Down Syndrome, please show them love and not pity. Instead of a silly stare, perhaps you can go over to say 'hello'. This condition happens randomly like winning a lottery so quit asking 'why' questions as well.

My daughter, Joy is very lucky because there are many opportunities for her blossom here. It has certainly not been an easy ride as well with hospital visits and all but life isn't supposed to be a Cinderella story anyway. My personal opinion about any general disability is that it is simply a part of the variety of life. We can't deny that fact. People acquire random disabilities via car accidents or as they age. Nothing makes anything out of the world.

There is so much to say but I hope that you will remember these words when next you decide to mock anybody with down syndrome or any other disability. For those who want to support the work of down syndrome association in Lagos (they actually cover West Africa) , this is their websitehttp://downsyndrome-ng.org/. They can do with more volunteers. My younger sister, Tope has volunteered and raised funds for this charity in Nigeria. With my small business, we are hoping to send donations as well. Perhaps, we can all collectively do more 

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Nigerian Army appears to stand by as OPC wrecks havoc!

Is this photoshop?

Lekki Robbery Clip

President Jonathan's Transformation Fraud….

PRESIDENT JONATHAN'S PROPAGANDA ON NON-EXISTENT ENUGU-PORTHARCOURT ROAD

Transformation Continues! GEJ Flags Off New Section Of Enugu-Portharcourt Road - See more at: http://www.reubenabati.com.ng/2015-03-06-Transformation-Continues-GEJ-Flags-Off-New-Section-Of-Enugu-Portharcourt-Road.html#sthash.CWYfA4vs.dpuf

The Truth Exposed: This is what Presidential spokesman presents as the flag up off of new section of Enugu-Port Harcourt Road….

This is the reality as of yesterday…

This initial picture above, the computer simulation is far from the reality. The road has not been built yet. It is just an award of the contract for the second phase. They should have put the picture of the first phase for us to see.

We know because this because the road rehabilitation only began two days ago (5 March 2015). We also know because we have traveled on it. 

For the last six years, it was ignored because votes were not needed. 

Please see the picture above of how it really looks. 194 km of it. The record of this government for finishing roads is poor due to corrupt practices between contractors and government officials. By the way, I am non-partisan.

Come to think of it, unless you are stealing money using a front-loaded padded contract before leaving office, this is a suspicious time to inaugurate such a huge project N34bn. Why couldn't the President wait a mere 24 days until 1st April, after election results have been declared, to inaugurate this major road rehabilitation so that he is guaranteed to see it through?