There is a popular saying that goes thus,
�He who makes peaceful resolution
impossible makes a violent revolution inevitable.�
Too much criminal complicities, too much power intoxication, too much use and abuse of power and
too much fraud and corruptions exert excessive pressures on the culprits to confess their sins. Even when not asked.
This takes us to the interesting Igbo adage that goes thus, �when a child is too anxious to reveal the where about
his/her mother to his/her uninterested peers, he moaned, �my mom perhaps is almost coming home, so the uninterested
peers will ask where did
your mom go�. This explains what Obasanjo did with his broadcast on the program called �The President Explains�, titled, �Erring Governors
Won�t Escape� which was carried by Sunday Guardian of November 28, 2004. For the benefit of hindsight, please read
bellow the president�s insinuations.
Erring Govs Won't Escape
· My Case Against Dariye's 'Criminal' Acts, By
Obasanjo
BY EMMA EKE AND FABIAN
ODUM
AN emotional President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday put
the issues in Plateau and Anambra States
beyond legality, politics and constitutionality. He said there was a moral question that had propelled the untoward
happenings in both states. Stressing that people wallowed in lies and deceit without recourse to the truth of the
matter, the President said: "There is a great case of morality in Plateau. There is a great, great case of
morality in Anambra, which people do not look at. "As long as a country continues
to put truth in disfavour, as it becomes our greatest dilemma today, we will be wallowing
in lies, deceit, shame, disgrace and underdevelopment."
On his monthly live radio programme, 'President Explains' Obasanjo, whose voice rose
to high pitch as he itemised perceived crimes of some of the state governors, maintained his
hard-fighting stance against corruption, and promised that the cases of embattled Plateau governor, Chief Joshua
Dariye and his Anambra counterpart, Dr.
Chris Ngige would not be treated with kid gloves.
Reflecting on the activities of some of the governors, the President subtly questioned the seeming aiding and abetting
of the immoral acts as deduceable from reactions of some Nigerians to his government's stand on the
various issues, particularly those of Anambra and Plateau. He asked: "Is it ethically wise and right for
a governor to establish an airline when he is in office?... Is it ethically right
for a governor to establish radio and television stations while in office?...
Is it wise when a governor is interrogated and released only on bail, for the State Assembly of that governor to
say it is not their business... There is a great, great, great issue of morality in Anambra which people don't look at". And on the case of some governors, who have been indicted for
one violation of the law on corruption or the other, he said it was the duty of the various State Houses of Assembly
to check the excesses of their chief executives. The President criticised some governors,
who, he said, had hidden under the cover of constitutional immunity to perpetuate crime, adding "even if they
are not brought to book now, they will still face the music after their tenure.
Mr. President, these questions tantamount
to exhibition of
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absolute and fraudulent power. For Obasanjo
to look at Nigerians in the face and accuse some people or governors of immorality and termed the Anambra saga as morality which people don�t look at, is an
unprecedented height of monumental fraud. For Obasanjo
to accuse some governors of hiding under the constitutional immunity to perpetuate crimes is putrid, vain, naïve,
arrant nonsense and provocative. According to him, he asked, is it ethically wise and right for a governor to establish
an airline while in the office? Is it ethically right for a governor to establish radio and television stations
while in the office? Perhaps
not. Just as it is not right for a sitting
president to establish private university and 30 million naira a month farm.
Obasanjo criticizes some governors who had hidden under the cover of constitutional immunity to perpetuate
crime.
He also said that the duty of the State Houses of Assembly is to check the excesses of their chief
executives. Finally, that there is a great morality in Anambra and Plateau States.
Did he really read the speech prepared for him before exposing his gross insincerity ignorance? Funny enough, all
those governors he accused of hiding under the constitutional immunity are from PDP the party he controls, some
of whom have murdered their critics in their respective States while the president gave them protection from prosecution
by law and their States Houses of Assembly, because he is equally guilty of the same crime. Obasanjo has used government economic and security instruments to shut down a financial institution owned
by his political critic. Obasanjo has transferred judges who delivered uncompromising judgment he
did not like. Obasanjo has removed a competent, fearless national officer because he did
not come from his tribe and so, could not comprise his corruption and fraud, and employed his tribe�s man who will
cover his corruption and fraudulent flanks. Obasanjo is sitting in
Abuja presiding over injustice against a particular tribe and a particular
religion.
Mr. Obasanjo on morality! The use and abuse of the police, the army and SSS to haunt down his perceived political opponents and critics are not only immoral , but also criminal. Obasanjo used the police to visit and harass a senate president, the late
Dr. Okadigbo at 1.00 AM in 2001.
Obasanjo used the army to demolish Odi and Zaki Ibiam where thousands of Nigerians lives and properties were destroyed. The removal of the real and tested
Nigerians who developed and nurtured PDP to enable him monopolize the party is a great immorality. His complicities
in the killing of Nd�Igbo and other innocent Nigerians by the northern hoodlums without his condemnation of and
arrest of those hoodlums and prosecute them are not only immoral, but also criminal. His consistent violation of
the constitution with impunity is highly criminal. His use of the Nigeria�s resources to establish and maintain a farm that fetches him 30 million naira monthly, is robbery and corruption. His establishment of a private university
while in office is both immoral and criminal and bothers on corruption and fraud.
Was it not Obasanjo who furnished Arthur Nzeribe the billions of
naira to bribe the members of the national Assembly who tried to impeach him for his numerous crimes and constitutional
violation? Was it not Obasanjo who rigged the national selection of 2003 and through his control
and misuse of the nations security apparatus, foisted on Nigerians all those who
lost that selection, in the national Assembly, so he can violate the constitution unchallenged? Was it not Obasanjo who furnished the rouge, Chris Uba the money to take away
peoples mandate in the southeast in general and Anambra State in particular? Now that he cannot recoup the money, he is using the police to destabilize the State.
All his junketing the world, how much of the nation�s resources does he waste and how much does he, his wives,
children and cronies dump in the foreign banks?
He furnished his Igbo traitors retinue of police to protect them so they can continue to carry
his clandestine and diabolical designs against Nd�Igbo unchallenged? The yorubanization of Nigeria�s economy is immoral and tribalism.
The imposition of Adolphus Wabara who lost the 2003 selection on Nigerians as senate president
is immoral. The appointment of an academically challenged Ibrahim Mantu to head the constitutional review committee and all other committees to make Obasanjo�s bids is not only immoral, but also criminal.
The president said that, �As long as a country continues
to put the truth in disfavor, as it becomes our greatest dilemma today, we will be wallowing in lies, deceit, shame,
disgrace and underdevelopment�. Perhaps he truly described him self properly here as, lies, deceit, shame, disgrace
and underdevelopment. The fraudulent use of Nigeria�s
resources to perpetuate bribery and corruption, the abuse and use of the
police to intimidate, harass, maim, and destabilize political opponents, real or imagined is shameful. The rigging
of election using the government instruments, the imposition of un- elected individuals in the national Assembly
on Nigerians is deceitful. The forgery of electoral bill, the junketing around the world by a president using the
national resources is lie. The use of ICPC, the EFECC to witch hunt opponents
or perceived opponents is disgraceful. The collusion of the police with the hoodlums, under the president to unleash
death and destruction in Anambra State
is criminal, immoral and reprehensible.
On his hard fighting stance on corruption, Mr. President, what happened to your cousin Mr. Christopher
Makanjuola, the former permanent secretary ministry of defense who embezzled
more than 400 million naira? What happened to Oputa report and Okigbo report? This president is really fighting hard on corruption. Perhaps that�s why Chris Uba and Emeka Offor move about with retinue of mobile police? Why was state of emergency
declared in Plateau State
when nothing happened to Islamic north that had and continue to unleash death and destruction on Nd�Igbo and their
properties? Should a sitting president establish a private university to prove that he is fighting hard on corruption?
Should a sitting president operate a farm that fetches him 30 million naira monthly to prove that he is fighting
hard on corruption? For the 5 years Obasnjo has been in power, Nigeria has ranked number one, number 2 and number 3 as the most corrupt nation in the universe. The ratings
actually showed that Obasanjo is fighting very hard on the war against corruption. Perhaps if
the man called Obasanjo did not come to this would as a person, he should have come to the
world as corruption, fraud, lies, deceit, shame, disgrace and underdevelopment.