There were also anti-transmutation of the sariki into life president. Hence the birth of G-18, then G-34 among others which later fused to become PDP. The acronym PDP was defined to Nigerians as People Democratic Party. Hitherto, it was accepted by Nigerians as defined, because it truly reflected and represented Nigerianism. The northern dominated military led by Alhaji Babangida hijacked the party with the money obtained through their rape of the national treasury. With billions of naira they looted at their disposal, manipulation and dealings by the military and Nigerian execu-thieves became a norm. The resultant effect of military dealing and manipulation was the selection of an ex-convict chief Olusegun Obasanjo as president to shelter them from their loots. He was a member of OLN (Operation Loot Nigeria) His selection and his presidency have no bearing whatsoever with redeeming Nigeria. Far from that.

After he was formally sworn in May 29, 1999, he hijacked the PDP, flushed out the founders and pioneers of PDP, sought for and brought all Abacha choristers and their choir masters, corrupted and financially empowered them. He must have loved and enjoyed their political songs while he was in the gulag.

On assumption of office, he encountered one major problem when his choristers reminded him of the meaning of democracy and the virtue of democratic governance--the power of National Assembly, checks and balances. Manipulation and dealings began. Nigerian factor was put in motion. G-M-G(Ghana Must Go) bags were readily available. Evan Ewerem was appointed senate president by Obasanjo in place of the senators electing the late Okadigbo as their senate president. A house without solid foundation never withstand multiple bricks, so Ewerem could not withstand the senate president’s operational virtues, so he capitulated.

Obasanjo had been in this game before. He knows Nigerian execu-thieves inside-out. He knows how gullible they are. He knows how to deploy the Nigerian naira. He knows the language of naira in Nigeria. And the ‘nairas’ were available for him. On the eventual election of the late Okadigbo as senate president, the Nigerian senate showed some flashes of checks and balances and in many occasions demonstrated senatorial independent.

To the chagrin of president Obasanjo, Okadigbo must be removed dead or alive. What would it take? G-M-G. He deployed them to the sin-ators with an arrow head his deputy the late senator Haruna led by that noisy and flimsy sin-ator called Idris Kuta. With millions of naira in the hands of the sin-ators, Okadigbo was removed and the senatorial independent was also abolished on the altar of corruption. Having successfully removed all obstacles on his way to dictatorship, Obasanjo took over People Democratic Party and rechristened it PDP- Poverty, Deceit & Power, changed its constitution, relegated Nigeria’s constitution to waste basket. Having successfully thrown out the foundation members, he brought into his PDP all manners of people of dishonorable credentials and characters, people who do not care of honor and integrity, people who would mortgage their conscience, integrity, wives and children to get what they want- money, even though they would loose what they need. When he discovered that there was still skeleton of opposition to his despotism in his PDP, he came up with re-registration to finally remove real Nigerians and re-peopled it with fraudulent criminals and corrupt choristers.

Chief among his third term choir masters besides Alhaji Ibrahim Mantu, is the current chairman of his PDP Ahmadu Ali. Ali would say and do anything to see Obasanjo stay in power perpetually as long as he can be chairman of his PDP, and use that office to appoint his wife, son and relatives to federal boards fraudulently and escape the sniffing nose of Alhaji Ribadu and his EFCC team A probe into their bank accounts before and after they were inducted in the PDP hall of shame would reveal why their call for Obasanjo's third term is imminent. These discredited execu-thieves have devised several methods to either concretize their plan for the third term or provide Obasanjo with plausible deniability should the opposition overwhelmed them. Among their efforts is the recent article that the originators of the third term are former heads of state except unnamed one, who were overwhelmed by Obasanjo's success What a fallacy! What is the definition of Obasanjo's success? Is that;

1. The establishment of EFCC and the plantation of Alhaji Ribadu as chairman, whose selective activities are centered on Obasanjo's political opponents and low level public servants. In the cases where a member of his political choristers are involved by accident, a deal would be struck. Mr. Nwude 419ned a Brazilian to tune of about $230 million and was imprisoned for 25 years. Tafa Balogun was entrusted with the Nigerian police force, and by extension, Nigeria’s internal security, he used his position to defraud Nigeria and Nigerians over 17 billion naira, all he got was 24 weeks in jail, but he got to keep his loots. His cousin Dr. Christopher Makanjuola embezzled over 400 million naira as permanent secretary ministry of defense, why was he not subjected to EFCC interrogation? Look at the rot and corruption in the ministry of petroleum under him, with every day discovery of financial scandal in billions of naira. Where is EFCC? ICPC? and all that?

The only credit to EFCC is that the Nigerian state governors are now staying at home to hide their loots instead of going to Britain and USA the countries who have the temerity, courage, morality and effrontery to have them arrested.

2.The 300 billion naira made available to a discredited ex-police officer Tony Anenih to build and repair Nigeria's obsolete roads which was never be. Where was EFCC?

3.The production and sale of 2.5 million barrel of oil daily whose financial return is visible only in the corruption chambers of national assembly, the police and military hierarchy, the hierarchy in other national security outfits, his Otta farm, the financial empowerment of criminals and mules in every Nigerian tribes, societies, cultural groups and affiliations.

4. His denigration of Nigeria's tertiary institutions whose academic contents and institutional management have been rendered senile.

5. His abrogation and corruption of Nigeria's democratic and political space through bribery.

6. The rushing of the only two survivors from the sosoliso air disaster of December 10, 2005 to South African hospital from a nation where there are too many chiefs ,but no Indians.

7. Success in an uninterrupted electricity in Abuja and Lagos the two cities known only to be Nigeria?

8. Success in the availability of water in Nigeria including 'international' airports of which the excess the fire fighters could not use to rescue the burning children in the sosoliso crash?

9. His debasement of Nigerians and lack of democratic dividends which have reduced Nigerians' life span to 43years?

10. His polarization of Nigerians through his mules, intoxication and arrogant of power?

Please can someone tell me Obasanjo's enviable success that will make Nigerians allow him for another terms into their political arena. I am sure if years are like clock, Nigerians would fast forward their hands to Y2K7. The flaw in Obasanjo’s political behavior began with the constitution drawn for Nigerians by the then northern military with the northern hegemony in their mind, and further edited by Abdul Salami Abubakar with additions and subtractions, concentrating Nigeria’s oil money and power in the hands of one man who uses them the way he knows how. No matter what reforms Dr. Iweala, Dr. Ezekwesili, Dr. Akunyiri, Prof. Soludo and co. would institute in Nigeria, they will never materialize as long as Nigeria has Obasanjo as president, corruption remains the level it is in Nigeria, and she still maintain her position in the global corruption ladder, and still have people like Ibrahim Mantu, Idris Kuta, Arthur Nzeribe and Ifeanyi Ararume in her senate, and Dr. Maurice Iwu as the INEC chairman and Andy Uba as his mule from igboland, plagurized Borishade, am sorry, ‘prof’ Borishade, thrice rejected by the Nigerian sin-ators, in his cabinet regardless of which ministry, be it “power and steal” the so-called reform will amount to nothing more than a paper trail. In spite of the efforts of his economic team, which are parallel with his political behavior, one can see why this reform has not yielded any democratic fruit.

Chidi P Eze [email protected]