Needed: Referendum over Bakassi Peninsular

by Eze Eluchie

This is one of those posts one makes striving to use the most civil words to describe uncivil acts.

As the people of the Falkland Islands head for the polls (10th and 11th March 2013) for a Referendum to decide whether to remain a British territory or otherwise, I hope Olusegun Obasanjo, our quintessential buffoon who Nigeria had had the misfortune to be ruled by twice in his lifetime and Bola Ajibola, a pretender to the title of legal luminary who once sat on the hallowed bench of the International Court of Justice will bow their heads in shame for their ignoble roles in ceding Nigeria’s Bakassi Peninsular to Cameroun.

Politricks Nigeriana

by Eze Eluchie

I marvel at the naivety of the promoters of the ‘Alliance for Progressive Change’ (APC).

Whilst the said promoters were busy posturing for the media, taking walks down the streets of some volatile States in Nigeria northeast zone and stoking the embers of national discord, forgetting to approach relevant regulatory authorities to initiate their desire to register a political platform, some smart alecs approached the Independent National Electoral Commission with a request to register the ‘African People’s Congress’ (APC).

With the sly move by the African People’s Congress (APC), the Alliance for Progressive Change (APC), despite all their ranting in the media, can conveniently kiss goodbye to any idea of having their proposed name and acronym recognized.

Corruption gone amok

by Eze Eluchie

All hail Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan and his National Council of State (a body comprised of all past rulers of Nigeria, the State governors and principal national legislators) which approved State-pardons for someone Jonathan himself admits is his mentor, an ex-convict and former Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. D.S.P. Alamieyeseigha and a host of other ‘high’ profile criminals.

The list of ex-convicts granted State Pardon by Jonathan is most indicative of what Mr. President wants Nigerian youths to aspire to. The list includes a lilliputian ex-deputy head of a military junta, ‘general’ Oladipo Diya, who was caught on camera kneeling down and weeping profusely wearing underpants stained with pee when he was arrested in a coup plot and Mr. Shettima Bulama a rogue banker who was convicted for monumental banking frauds.