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Benue killing field and the Nigeria's humans slaughter slabs

Benue killing field and the Nigeria's humans slaughter slabs

 

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi



Political distraction not withstanding, it is important that we keep the record of how bad insecurity became under APC ticket of Muslim/Christian pair of Buhari/Osinbajo.


Our eyes as Christians must in hope look for a more secured future. Making a hasty congratulatory message given the dispute surrounding our presidential electoral decision isn't a smart way to go. What will happen, in case the table turns? For now I think the declared winner should be proving himself to be presidential. A condolence message to Benue State and Nigerians in general should be followed by a visit to Benue and engagement with President Muhammadu Buhari to enable him hit the ground running peradventure the judiciary confirms his election. 


In the first 100 days of this year (2023) 1,041 people have been slaughtered like goats, 5,068 citizens in all massacred for being Christians in Nigeria in 2022.  This is the record the Muslim/Muslim ticket of Tinubu/Shettima is expected to better, so help them Allah!


Benue was worst hit in the first 100 days of 2023, contributing 380 Christian deaths out of the 1041 as military air-bombed over 100 in Niger State

…since the 2009 Islamic terrorists uprising 52,250 Christians and 34,000 moderate Muslims have been butchered or hacked to death. The docility of Mr President towards security decisions has given tactical encouragement to radical Islamism since 2015 leading to 30,250 Christians killed; 18,000 churches and 2,200 christian mission schools attacked.


International Report Of Nigeria's Intersociety, issued on Easter Monday, 10th April 2023 is worth our perusal and must inform new generation of christian leaders engagement with their political counterparts; nothing should be as important as keeping our faith in existence in the Nigeria of today. Part of the report read thus; "since 2009, 14m Christians have been uprooted and forced to flee their homes and 800 Christian communities attacked

…Christians of Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Taraba, Niger, Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, and Kebbi were worst affected by the attacks

…Christian's in Eastern Nigeria worst hit in Nigerian military killings and property destructions on ethno-religious grounds

…hypocrisies of Nigerian Christian leaders may turn church buildings into Turkish church monuments in 50 years’ time

…progenitors of Christian converts were more protected during the Oracular Period under Pre-Christian Papacy than present.

 

International Report Of Nigeria’s Intersociety

Easter Monday, 10th April 2023, Onitsha-Nigeria

 

Dedicated To Chinwe Patrick, Abande Njoor, And 1,039 Others Killed By Jihadists In 100 Days

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) is emotionally dedicating this special investigative Report to 1,041 slain and disappeared victims of the Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and other Jihadists’ genocidal attacks carried out across Nigeria in the first 100 days of 2023. The underlisted slain and wounded victims also represent 5,068 others slain or caused to disappear without traces to date by Nigerian Jihadists in 2022. The 36 names listed below were among over 50 defenseless Christians slaughtered by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen on 13th March 2023 in Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State while 16 underlisted others including three Igbo female Christian sisters (Favor Patrick, Peace Patrick, and Chinwe Patrick), represent 17 defenseless Christians hacked to death in Ungwan Wakili, Zagon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State on 10th March 2023. The six wounded others included in the list are mentioned to remember thousands of others heartlessly wounded or maimed in attacks carried out in Jan to Dec 2022 and 1st Jan to 10th April 2023. It is therefore in their names, spirits, and blood that this special investigative Report on “Martyred Christians in Nigeria” is dedicated. Their names are: “Abande Njoor, Iornum Sonter, Abraham Terna, Aker Shagba Achuna, Kendon Tyover, Ornguga Tyodoo, Ajoh Iorhemba, Orshio Msughter, Abe Nyam, Aker Ushahembas, Ayagwa Lunen, Apav Terhile, Jirbee Amaku, Aza Bem, Ahil Wende, Iormumbes Ashi Shimave, Terhemba Madom, Andyar Aemberga, Kundu Igba, Tarkper Adomko, Jirbee Amaku, Terlumun Swen, Terna Udam, Atighir Aondokula, Terfa Mbagbar, Terver Mbagbar, Terzungwe Chagh, Tyoazua Aondona, Kogh Aondowase, Akura Utoo, Iortsor Shaapera, Awuhe Terhemen, Lase Mbanengen, Kuku Terngu, Kuku Mzehemen and Hangeuir Iorwuese Kuta”- 36 of over 50 Christian victims of Kwande-Benue Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen massacre of 13th March 2023. “Daniel Soji, Emmanuel Ibrahim, Jummai Gajere, Aaron Thomas, Rahila Sunday Ishaya, Blessing Zakaria, Felicia Zakaria, Gloria Zakaria, Gaji Tonak, Elizabeth Tokan, Peace Token, Favor Patrick, Peace Patrick and Chinwe Patrick (three Igbo female Christians); Ruth John and Emmanuel John”.-16 of 17 slaughtered victims of Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen attack in Ungwan Wakili in Zagon Kataf Local Council Area of Kaduna on 10th March 2023. “Precious Timothy, Sunday Ishaya, Jessica Zakaria, Chison Ikechukwu (Igbo), Patience Matthew and Jessica Tokan”.-Six Christians surviving Christians wounded in the attack.

 

We Have Monitored And Exposed Persecution Of Christians And Minority Others Since 2010

Intersociety is globally known and respected for strongly advocating for end of religious radicalism through the propagation of radical Islamism and fanatical Christianity in Nigeria since 2010 and has issued not less than twenty special reports or publications associated with them. Intersociety has also earned a name and international respectability as Nigeria’s leading anti-Christian persecution and radical Islamism watchdog and was admitted as a member of the United States-base International Alliance against Genocide since 2020. We have been closely monitoring patterns and trends of anti-Christian persecution since 2010 and killing of minority Muslims and moderate others by nonstate actor armed Islamists and Muslim-dominated Nigerian security forces from 2015 to 2023. The patterns and trends of the state actors of religious butcheries under our close watch include the introduction of state radical Islamism policy by the outgoing Government of Nigeria in 2016, the introduction of Nigerian security forces dimension to anti-Christian butcheries across the country such as pro Islamic internal security operations in Eastern Nigeria since 2016 involving ethnic and religious profiling associated with atrocious military operations in the East and the military protected invasion of Eastern Christian forests, bushes and farmlands by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen since 2016. We have monitored and tracked massacre of Christians and burning down or destruction of their sacred places of worship, religious symbols, Christian schools and residential houses and farmlands across the country. These are done or carried out using research, investigation, documentation and publications. We also generate statistics from local and international media, religious, community, security, research, intergovernmental, nongovernmental, international? parliamentary organizations or diplomatic institutions.

5,068 Christians Hacked To Death In 2022 And Hundreds Disappeared Without Traces

In January 2022, Intersociety updated its special report, disclosing that ‘5,191 defenseless Christians were hacked to death in 2021 and 3,800 others abducted by Nigeria’s Islamic Jihadists’. Intersociety had also in its Special Report of 14th July 2022 stated that from January to June 2022, ‘no fewer than 2,543 Christians were hacked to death and 1,401 others abducted; out of which, 10% or 140 captured Christians were not capable of returning alive’. We had further disclosed in the report that ‘out of the 2,543 total Christian deaths, Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen accounted for 1,913’. In our report of 7th Nov 2022, ‘4020 defenseless Christians were slaughtered in Nigeria in Jan to Oct 2022 by the country’s Islamic terror Jihadists’ and Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and their regionally assembled allied Islamic terror groups accounted for 2,650 of the 4020 Christian deaths while ISWAP, Boko Haram and Ansaru Jihadists accounted for 450 and the Fulani (Zamfara) Bandits 370 deaths. The Nigerian security forces particularly the Nigerian Army accounted for no fewer than 550 deaths linked to killings on the ground of ethnic and religious profiling. In this report, it is found that the 2022 ended disastrously for Nigerian Christians with 5,068 deaths, from 4,020 in January to Oct 2022; an increase of 1,048 Christian deaths. Out of this, Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and Fulani Bandits (Zamfara Bandits) accounted for 528 Christian deaths, Boko Haram, ISWAP and others 200 deaths, Nigerian Military 100 deaths and “dark figures of crime” 200 Christian deaths. The ‘dark figures of crime’ of 200 Christian deaths’ include the abducted Christians that are most unlikely to return to their families alive. The 2022 special report of ours also identified Benue State as the worst hit with at least 560 Christian deaths, followed by Kaduna 520 deaths, Taraba 479 deaths, Niger 354 deaths; Plateau 348, Borno 340 and South-East 350 deaths (mostly occurred in Enugu). Bauchi State also recorded not less than 49 Christian deaths between Nov and Dec 2022.

 

Why We Are Adopting WWL Report Of 4,756 Abducted Nigerian Christians In 2022

Intersociety had noted in its Nov 7, 2022 report that ‘not less than 2,315 defenseless Christians were abducted from Jan to Oct 2022 and that ‘in 2021, over 3,800 were abducted’. Also noted was the fact that ‘not less than 1401 Christians were abducted between January and June 2022 and 915 between July and Oct 2022; totaling 2,315’; out of which 10% or 231 were incapable of returning alive to their families as they are likely to have been killed in captivity for refusing to convert to Islam or pay huge ransoms demanded. Not less than 700 Christians were abducted between Nov and Dec 2022; bringing the total to over 3000 abducted from Jan to Dec 2022. The abduction of Christians in 2022 ascribed the worst-hit States to include Kaduna, Niger, Taraba, Adamawa, Bauchi, Imo, Enugu, etc. It must further be noted that the Nigerian military and the Nigeria Police crack squads also engaged in unchecked abduction and the permanent disappearance of dozens, if not hundreds of unarmed Eastern Nigerian citizens in furtherance of their ethnic and religious profiling “internal security operations” in Eastern Nigeria. Intersociety is adopting the statistical position of the Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List (WWL) on abducted Christians in Nigeria which stated that “4,726 Christians were abducted in 2022, sexually assaulted or harassed and forcibly married or physically or mentally abused”. The respected international body also added that “Nigeria led the world in Christians killed for their faith in 2022, with 5,014”. The reason for the adoption of the 2023 WWL figure is because it is possible that 3000 Christian abductions in 2022 recorded in our latest special report is under-reported with a shortfall of over 1,700.

 

1,041 Christians Slaughtered In The First 100 Days Of 2023, 707 Abducted

It has been investigated and found that no fewer than 1,041 defenseless Christians were hacked to death by Nigeria’s Jihadists in the first 100 days of 2023 or 1st Jan to 10th April 2023. The unveiled statistics showed that not less than 380 Christians were slaughtered by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in 100 days in Benue, 102 in Kaduna, 150 in Christian parts of Niger State (Paikoro, Munya, Shiroro, Rafi, etc), 100 deaths in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa by BH/ISWAP); 32 Christian deaths in Plateau, 20 in Ondo, 11 in Edo, 10 in Delta as well as Kebbi 10 deaths, Bauchi 9 deaths, Taraba 14 deaths, Katsina 10 deaths, Enugu 6 deaths; and 60 deaths arising from the military killings in the East since Jan 2023 and others 50 deaths. Also, no fewer than 707 Christians were abducted within the same period; out of which Niger State recorded more than 200 abductions including 14th March 2023 abduction of over 100 Christians in Adunu (Paikoro). No fewer than 101 anti Christian abductions were recorded in Kaduna while other affected States are Katsina, Taraba, Edo, Ogun, Nassarawa, Kwara, Kogi, Borno, Yobe and Adawama (about 60 abductions by BH/ISWAP), Bauchi, Enugu, Imo, Kebbi, Gombe, Bayelsa and Cross River.

 

 

380 Christians Hacked To Death In Benue In 100 Days, 940 Since Jan 2022 And 2m IDPs Generated

Slaying of Christians by Nigerian Central Government protected Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in Benue State has risen to an apogee. This is to the extent that in 2022, not less than 560 were slaughtered and in the first 100 days of 2023 or 1st Jan to 10th April 2023, the State has lost additional 380 defenseless Christians. The Federal Government protected Jihadist attacks have also generated not less than 2m internally displaced persons (IDPs). Apart from brazen conspiracy and lackadaisical attitudes of the outgoing Federal Government of Nigeria and federal security agencies, the outgoing Government of Benue State has also failed woefully to protect Christian citizens of the State. The State Government other than occasionally crying out, has failed woefully to put proactive measures in place to checkmate and tame such attacks; to the extent that the Jihadists now invade any Christian Community of their target at will and slaughter its natives and takeover their lands and properties at will. Available statistics have shown that apart from losing 560 Christian lives in 2022, not less than 12 Christians were slaughtered on 28th Jan in Kwande LGA, 9 in Guma LGA on 30th Jan, six in Apa LGA on 4th Feb, six in Gwer West LGA on Feb 9, eight in Gboko LGA on Feb 12, thirteen in Guma LGA on Feb 26, seven in Gwer West on Feb 28, 36 in Kwande on March 3, eight in Gwer West on March 7, over ten in Kwande LGA on March 8, seven in Guma LGA on March 8, three in Obi on March 13, over fifty in Kwande on 13th March, five in Agatu LGA and Oturkpo LGA on March 23, five in Guma LGA on March 26, seven in Apa LGA (six) and Logo LGA (one killed) on 1st April, 52 in Umogidi-Oturkpo LGA on 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th April, 47 in Ikobi-Apa LGA on 4th April and 36 in Mgbam, Nyiev ward of Guma LGA on 7th April 2023.

 

52, 250 Christians And 34,000 Moderate Muslims Or 85,250 Faith Believers Killed Since July 2009

Nigeria is most likely to have recorded ‘direct deaths’ of over 85,250 defenseless Nigerian citizens in the hands of Islamic Jihadists and their ‘esprit de jihad’ in the country’s security forces since 2009. As at July 2021, according to our special report of 4th August 2021, no fewer than 43,000 Christians were hacked to death involving: BH, ISWAP and Ansaru 18,500 Christian deaths, Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen 18,500-19,000 Christian deaths and others 6000 Christian deaths. The number of moderate Muslims killed for nonviolently professing Islam in Nigeria as at July 2021 was estimated at 29,000. Apart from about 1,300 Shiite Muslims shot and killed and thousands of Muslim women and children unlawfully killed by Nigerian Military in the North-East, the rest of Muslim victims were killed by Muslim jihadists. This is with the exception of Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen who specifically target and massacre Christians and wantonly destroy or burn down their sacred places of worship and learning; homes and farmlands. Going by our findings warranting this special investigative report, the number of Christians killed in the country for nonviolently professing Christianity between July 2009 and April 2023 has risen to 52,250 while that of nonviolent Muslims increased from 29,000 to 34,000; or a total of 85,250 religious deaths in all. The 52,250 Christian deaths in Nigeria in fourteen years recorded addition of 9, 250 Christian deaths from the July 2021 figure of 43,000; out of which, Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen accounted for 6000 Christian deaths and security forces, Jihadist Fulani Bandits, BH, ISWAP, Ansaru and others 3,250.

 

Radical Islamism Under Buhari Killed 30,250 Christians In Eight Years (2015-2023)

By our previous reports, BH, ISWAP and Ansaru killed not less than 11,500 Christians from July 2009 to May 2015 and Jihadist Herdsmen accounted for the death of 6,500 Christians within the same period. However, between June 2015 and April 2023, deadliest Christian deaths of 18,250 were recorded in the hands of Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen protected by the outgoing Buhari Government of Nigeria; involving: 650 Christian deaths in June-Dec 2015; 1,700 in 2016; 2000 in 2017; 2,400 in 2018, 1200 in 2019, 2500, out of 3,530 recorded Christian deaths in 2020, 3,700 of 5,191 in 2021 and 3,500, out of 5,068 recorded Christian deaths in 2022 and 600 of the 1,041 Christian deaths recorded in first 100 days of 2023. It is 30,250 Christian deaths when 8000 killed by BH, ISWAP, Ansaru and Jihadist Bandits as well as 4000 killed by the Nigerian Military including 2,500 in the East since August 2015 and others in Christian communities in Northern Nigeria since 2015 are added.

 

14 Million Christians Uprooted And Five Million Forced Into IDPs And Refugee Camps

No fewer than 50 million Christians majority of them in Northern Nigeria are facing serious threats from Jihadists for being professed Christians; out of which not less than fourteen million have been uprooted and eight million forced to flee their homes to avoid being hacked to death. About five million have been displaced and forced into IDP camps within Nigeria and refugee camps at regional and sub-regional borders. There are presently over two million IDPs in Benue State alone and close to 2m others are in the States of Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Taraba; with the remainder scattered in Niger, Kebbi, Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Nassarawa, Kogi, Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Abia and so on. Thousands have also become ‘urban refugees’ in foreign lands.

18,000 Churches And 2200 Christian Schools Attacked In Fourteen Years Or Since July 2009

By the findings of Intersociety, as much as 18,000 churches and 2200 Christian schools and other Christian learning centers are most likely to have been attacked by the Jihadists or destroyed in part or in whole including being razed or burned down. As at 2021, the number of churches attacked and destroyed or burned down rose to over 300 and from July 2009 to July 2021, about 17,500 churches and 2000 Christian schools were brutally affected. The number of Mosques and Islamic learning centers attacked by the Jihadists is minutely disproportionate when compared to number of churches or Christian schools attacked. While attacks on symbols of worship by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and Jihadist Fulani Bandits are 100 percent targeted at churches and Christian schools, those perpetrated by BH, ISWAP, Ansaru and others are mostly directed at churches and Christian schools with insignificant percent directed at Mosques and Islamic learning centers. The attacks on churches especially those belonging to the African Instituted Churches branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) by the Nigerian Military and the Police crack squads in Eastern Nigeria have also increased to over 300 since Jan 2021. The security forces have recklessly applied false labeling, stigmatization and false intelligence to target and unlawfully attack traditional religious sanctuaries leading to attack and destruction of not less than 500 of them in Imo, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia, Delta, Rivers, Cross River, Kogi, Benue, etc. Such attacks are deceitfully coded or coated with “counter Biafra terror operations” but the original motives are driving towards castrating rural Igbo/Christians’ self defensive mechanisms and paving way for Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen invasion and massacre. The Nigerian Military had also egregiously and grisly targeted and rained air-bombs and aerial attacks on Christian village-killing several hundreds of rural Christians. The affected Christian communities include Kala-Balge Christian IDP camp in Borno (Jan 2017), Numan Christian villages (Dec 2017), Southern Kaduna (2018, 2019 and 2020) and Christian parts of Munya, Shiroro, Wushishi, etc and etc in Niger State (2022/Jan and March 2023). According to Ms Anna Mulder of the US based Open Doors, “between July 2009 and Dec 2014, a period of five years, BH killed 11,000-11,500 Christians in Northern Nigeria, forced 1.6m to flee their homes to avoid being hacked to death by the Jihadists who also burnt or destroyed 13,500 churches and 1,500 Christian schools”.

 

800 Christian Communities Uprooted By Jihadists Since 2009

No fewer than 800 Christian communities have uprooted and seized or taken over; with many of them renamed and Islamized by the Jihadists since 2009. BH, ISWAP and Ansaru and Jihadist Fulani Bandits have forced Christians out of their ancestral homes and communities in droves in Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Gombe, Bauchi, Taraba, Kastina, Sokoto and Niger States while Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen have sacked and are still sacking hundreds of Christian communities in Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Benue, Taraba and Adamawa States. Over 150 communities have been affected in Southern Kaduna alone and in Benue, Plateau and Taraba States, Christian homes, churches and settlements have been destroyed and replaced with Mosques and Muslim settlements. Christian communities of Borno, Taraba, Niger, Adamawa, Plateau, Southern Kaduna and Benue States are the worst hit. Indigenous Christians used to be dominant in Southern Borno, Southern Kebbi, Northern Adamawa, and parts of Gombe, 40% in the entire Kaduna and over 80% in Southern part of the State and have 80% population in Plateau, over 90% in Benue and 60% in Taraba. They are also found in their large numbers in at least five Local Government Areas of Niger State including Shiroro, Munya, Paikoro, Rafi, etc. In Enugu State, not less than 22 communities are facing severe threats in the hands of the Nigerian Army protected Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and in Anambra’s Orumba North, Orumba South, the story is not different.

 

Progenitors Of Nigerian Christian Converts More Protected In Oracular Era than Present

It is the observation of Intersociety that the Nigerian Christian leaders have abandoned their spiritual calling as defenders of faith and protectors of their faith members and deeply engrossed in the pursuit of crude material wealth. They also pay more attention in building ‘palatial paradises on earth’ and little attention at protecting their churches and members of their laity; thereby exposing them to grave vulnerabilities to attacks by radical Islamists clandestinely funded by Muslim hardliners and hypocritical public office holders who pretend to be “Christians”. Most of them are so engrossed in the pursuit of material wealth that they have become ‘armed robbers’ using Holy Bible as their ‘AK-47s”. It is therefore no longer contestable that forefathers and foremothers of the Nigerian Christian converts were more protected and divinely guarded during the Oracular Period under Pre-Christian Papacy than they are under the present Christian leaders. The dry material quest and lackadaisical attitudes of the Nigerian Christian leaders are also forcing Christian converts to leave the Church in droves to embrace other non-Christian denominations. It must be warned that if extreme care is not taken to rescue the Christendom and the Church, the churches or church buildings in Nigeria will become the present day Turkish church monuments in fifty years time or less than that".


While leaders of our faith particularly in southern Nigeria are on the veranda of our faith's sanctuary waving at politicians, their foot soldiers are cracking our walls and setting the building on fire. Owo in Ondo State witnessed the smoke of their kindled fire against our faith on Sunday the 5th of June 2022 during a mass at St Francis Xavier Catholic Church. If nothing is done, is only a matter of time before the fire get to you and me.

 

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi



Political distraction not withstanding, it is important that we keep the record of how bad insecurity became under APC ticket of Muslim/Christian pair of Buhari/Osinbajo.


Our eyes as Christians must in hope look for a more secured future. Making a hasty congratulatory message given the dispute surrounding our presidential electoral decision isn't a smart way to go. What will happen, in case the table turns? For now I think the declared winner should be proving himself to be presidential. A condolence message to Benue State and Nigerians in general should be followed by a visit to Benue and engagement with President Muhammadu Buhari to enable him hit the ground running peradventure the judiciary confirms his election. 


In the first 100 days of this year (2023) 1,041 people have been slaughtered like goats, 5,068 citizens in all massacred for being Christians in Nigeria in 2022.  This is the record the Muslim/Muslim ticket of Tinubu/Shettima is expected to better, so help them Allah!


Benue was worst hit in the first 100 days of 2023, contributing 380 Christian deaths out of the 1041 as military air-bombed over 100 in Niger State

…since the 2009 Islamic terrorists uprising 52,250 Christians and 34,000 moderate Muslims have been butchered or hacked to death. The docility of Mr President towards security decisions has given tactical encouragement to radical Islamism since 2015 leading to 30,250 Christians killed; 18,000 churches and 2,200 christian mission schools attacked.


International Report Of Nigeria's Intersociety, issued on Easter Monday, 10th April 2023 is worth our perusal and must inform new generation of christian leaders engagement with their political counterparts; nothing should be as important as keeping our faith in existence in the Nigeria of today. Part of the report read thus; "since 2009, 14m Christians have been uprooted and forced to flee their homes and 800 Christian communities attacked

…Christians of Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Taraba, Niger, Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, and Kebbi were worst affected by the attacks

…Christian's in Eastern Nigeria worst hit in Nigerian military killings and property destructions on ethno-religious grounds

…hypocrisies of Nigerian Christian leaders may turn church buildings into Turkish church monuments in 50 years’ time

…progenitors of Christian converts were more protected during the Oracular Period under Pre-Christian Papacy than present.

 

International Report Of Nigeria’s Intersociety

Easter Monday, 10th April 2023, Onitsha-Nigeria

 

Dedicated To Chinwe Patrick, Abande Njoor, And 1,039 Others Killed By Jihadists In 100 Days

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) is emotionally dedicating this special investigative Report to 1,041 slain and disappeared victims of the Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and other Jihadists’ genocidal attacks carried out across Nigeria in the first 100 days of 2023. The underlisted slain and wounded victims also represent 5,068 others slain or caused to disappear without traces to date by Nigerian Jihadists in 2022. The 36 names listed below were among over 50 defenseless Christians slaughtered by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen on 13th March 2023 in Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State while 16 underlisted others including three Igbo female Christian sisters (Favor Patrick, Peace Patrick, and Chinwe Patrick), represent 17 defenseless Christians hacked to death in Ungwan Wakili, Zagon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State on 10th March 2023. The six wounded others included in the list are mentioned to remember thousands of others heartlessly wounded or maimed in attacks carried out in Jan to Dec 2022 and 1st Jan to 10th April 2023. It is therefore in their names, spirits, and blood that this special investigative Report on “Martyred Christians in Nigeria” is dedicated. Their names are: “Abande Njoor, Iornum Sonter, Abraham Terna, Aker Shagba Achuna, Kendon Tyover, Ornguga Tyodoo, Ajoh Iorhemba, Orshio Msughter, Abe Nyam, Aker Ushahembas, Ayagwa Lunen, Apav Terhile, Jirbee Amaku, Aza Bem, Ahil Wende, Iormumbes Ashi Shimave, Terhemba Madom, Andyar Aemberga, Kundu Igba, Tarkper Adomko, Jirbee Amaku, Terlumun Swen, Terna Udam, Atighir Aondokula, Terfa Mbagbar, Terver Mbagbar, Terzungwe Chagh, Tyoazua Aondona, Kogh Aondowase, Akura Utoo, Iortsor Shaapera, Awuhe Terhemen, Lase Mbanengen, Kuku Terngu, Kuku Mzehemen and Hangeuir Iorwuese Kuta”- 36 of over 50 Christian victims of Kwande-Benue Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen massacre of 13th March 2023. “Daniel Soji, Emmanuel Ibrahim, Jummai Gajere, Aaron Thomas, Rahila Sunday Ishaya, Blessing Zakaria, Felicia Zakaria, Gloria Zakaria, Gaji Tonak, Elizabeth Tokan, Peace Token, Favor Patrick, Peace Patrick and Chinwe Patrick (three Igbo female Christians); Ruth John and Emmanuel John”.-16 of 17 slaughtered victims of Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen attack in Ungwan Wakili in Zagon Kataf Local Council Area of Kaduna on 10th March 2023. “Precious Timothy, Sunday Ishaya, Jessica Zakaria, Chison Ikechukwu (Igbo), Patience Matthew and Jessica Tokan”.-Six Christians surviving Christians wounded in the attack.

 

We Have Monitored And Exposed Persecution Of Christians And Minority Others Since 2010

Intersociety is globally known and respected for strongly advocating for end of religious radicalism through the propagation of radical Islamism and fanatical Christianity in Nigeria since 2010 and has issued not less than twenty special reports or publications associated with them. Intersociety has also earned a name and international respectability as Nigeria’s leading anti-Christian persecution and radical Islamism watchdog and was admitted as a member of the United States-base International Alliance against Genocide since 2020. We have been closely monitoring patterns and trends of anti-Christian persecution since 2010 and killing of minority Muslims and moderate others by nonstate actor armed Islamists and Muslim-dominated Nigerian security forces from 2015 to 2023. The patterns and trends of the state actors of religious butcheries under our close watch include the introduction of state radical Islamism policy by the outgoing Government of Nigeria in 2016, the introduction of Nigerian security forces dimension to anti-Christian butcheries across the country such as pro Islamic internal security operations in Eastern Nigeria since 2016 involving ethnic and religious profiling associated with atrocious military operations in the East and the military protected invasion of Eastern Christian forests, bushes and farmlands by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen since 2016. We have monitored and tracked massacre of Christians and burning down or destruction of their sacred places of worship, religious symbols, Christian schools and residential houses and farmlands across the country. These are done or carried out using research, investigation, documentation and publications. We also generate statistics from local and international media, religious, community, security, research, intergovernmental, nongovernmental, international? parliamentary organizations or diplomatic institutions.

5,068 Christians Hacked To Death In 2022 And Hundreds Disappeared Without Traces

In January 2022, Intersociety updated its special report, disclosing that ‘5,191 defenseless Christians were hacked to death in 2021 and 3,800 others abducted by Nigeria’s Islamic Jihadists’. Intersociety had also in its Special Report of 14th July 2022 stated that from January to June 2022, ‘no fewer than 2,543 Christians were hacked to death and 1,401 others abducted; out of which, 10% or 140 captured Christians were not capable of returning alive’. We had further disclosed in the report that ‘out of the 2,543 total Christian deaths, Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen accounted for 1,913’. In our report of 7th Nov 2022, ‘4020 defenseless Christians were slaughtered in Nigeria in Jan to Oct 2022 by the country’s Islamic terror Jihadists’ and Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and their regionally assembled allied Islamic terror groups accounted for 2,650 of the 4020 Christian deaths while ISWAP, Boko Haram and Ansaru Jihadists accounted for 450 and the Fulani (Zamfara) Bandits 370 deaths. The Nigerian security forces particularly the Nigerian Army accounted for no fewer than 550 deaths linked to killings on the ground of ethnic and religious profiling. In this report, it is found that the 2022 ended disastrously for Nigerian Christians with 5,068 deaths, from 4,020 in January to Oct 2022; an increase of 1,048 Christian deaths. Out of this, Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and Fulani Bandits (Zamfara Bandits) accounted for 528 Christian deaths, Boko Haram, ISWAP and others 200 deaths, Nigerian Military 100 deaths and “dark figures of crime” 200 Christian deaths. The ‘dark figures of crime’ of 200 Christian deaths’ include the abducted Christians that are most unlikely to return to their families alive. The 2022 special report of ours also identified Benue State as the worst hit with at least 560 Christian deaths, followed by Kaduna 520 deaths, Taraba 479 deaths, Niger 354 deaths; Plateau 348, Borno 340 and South-East 350 deaths (mostly occurred in Enugu). Bauchi State also recorded not less than 49 Christian deaths between Nov and Dec 2022.

 

Why We Are Adopting WWL Report Of 4,756 Abducted Nigerian Christians In 2022

Intersociety had noted in its Nov 7, 2022 report that ‘not less than 2,315 defenseless Christians were abducted from Jan to Oct 2022 and that ‘in 2021, over 3,800 were abducted’. Also noted was the fact that ‘not less than 1401 Christians were abducted between January and June 2022 and 915 between July and Oct 2022; totaling 2,315’; out of which 10% or 231 were incapable of returning alive to their families as they are likely to have been killed in captivity for refusing to convert to Islam or pay huge ransoms demanded. Not less than 700 Christians were abducted between Nov and Dec 2022; bringing the total to over 3000 abducted from Jan to Dec 2022. The abduction of Christians in 2022 ascribed the worst-hit States to include Kaduna, Niger, Taraba, Adamawa, Bauchi, Imo, Enugu, etc. It must further be noted that the Nigerian military and the Nigeria Police crack squads also engaged in unchecked abduction and the permanent disappearance of dozens, if not hundreds of unarmed Eastern Nigerian citizens in furtherance of their ethnic and religious profiling “internal security operations” in Eastern Nigeria. Intersociety is adopting the statistical position of the Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List (WWL) on abducted Christians in Nigeria which stated that “4,726 Christians were abducted in 2022, sexually assaulted or harassed and forcibly married or physically or mentally abused”. The respected international body also added that “Nigeria led the world in Christians killed for their faith in 2022, with 5,014”. The reason for the adoption of the 2023 WWL figure is because it is possible that 3000 Christian abductions in 2022 recorded in our latest special report is under-reported with a shortfall of over 1,700.

 

1,041 Christians Slaughtered In The First 100 Days Of 2023, 707 Abducted

It has been investigated and found that no fewer than 1,041 defenseless Christians were hacked to death by Nigeria’s Jihadists in the first 100 days of 2023 or 1st Jan to 10th April 2023. The unveiled statistics showed that not less than 380 Christians were slaughtered by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in 100 days in Benue, 102 in Kaduna, 150 in Christian parts of Niger State (Paikoro, Munya, Shiroro, Rafi, etc), 100 deaths in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa by BH/ISWAP); 32 Christian deaths in Plateau, 20 in Ondo, 11 in Edo, 10 in Delta as well as Kebbi 10 deaths, Bauchi 9 deaths, Taraba 14 deaths, Katsina 10 deaths, Enugu 6 deaths; and 60 deaths arising from the military killings in the East since Jan 2023 and others 50 deaths. Also, no fewer than 707 Christians were abducted within the same period; out of which Niger State recorded more than 200 abductions including 14th March 2023 abduction of over 100 Christians in Adunu (Paikoro). No fewer than 101 anti Christian abductions were recorded in Kaduna while other affected States are Katsina, Taraba, Edo, Ogun, Nassarawa, Kwara, Kogi, Borno, Yobe and Adawama (about 60 abductions by BH/ISWAP), Bauchi, Enugu, Imo, Kebbi, Gombe, Bayelsa and Cross River.

 

 

380 Christians Hacked To Death In Benue In 100 Days, 940 Since Jan 2022 And 2m IDPs Generated

Slaying of Christians by Nigerian Central Government protected Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in Benue State has risen to an apogee. This is to the extent that in 2022, not less than 560 were slaughtered and in the first 100 days of 2023 or 1st Jan to 10th April 2023, the State has lost additional 380 defenseless Christians. The Federal Government protected Jihadist attacks have also generated not less than 2m internally displaced persons (IDPs). Apart from brazen conspiracy and lackadaisical attitudes of the outgoing Federal Government of Nigeria and federal security agencies, the outgoing Government of Benue State has also failed woefully to protect Christian citizens of the State. The State Government other than occasionally crying out, has failed woefully to put proactive measures in place to checkmate and tame such attacks; to the extent that the Jihadists now invade any Christian Community of their target at will and slaughter its natives and takeover their lands and properties at will. Available statistics have shown that apart from losing 560 Christian lives in 2022, not less than 12 Christians were slaughtered on 28th Jan in Kwande LGA, 9 in Guma LGA on 30th Jan, six in Apa LGA on 4th Feb, six in Gwer West LGA on Feb 9, eight in Gboko LGA on Feb 12, thirteen in Guma LGA on Feb 26, seven in Gwer West on Feb 28, 36 in Kwande on March 3, eight in Gwer West on March 7, over ten in Kwande LGA on March 8, seven in Guma LGA on March 8, three in Obi on March 13, over fifty in Kwande on 13th March, five in Agatu LGA and Oturkpo LGA on March 23, five in Guma LGA on March 26, seven in Apa LGA (six) and Logo LGA (one killed) on 1st April, 52 in Umogidi-Oturkpo LGA on 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th April, 47 in Ikobi-Apa LGA on 4th April and 36 in Mgbam, Nyiev ward of Guma LGA on 7th April 2023.

 

52, 250 Christians And 34,000 Moderate Muslims Or 85,250 Faith Believers Killed Since July 2009

Nigeria is most likely to have recorded ‘direct deaths’ of over 85,250 defenseless Nigerian citizens in the hands of Islamic Jihadists and their ‘esprit de jihad’ in the country’s security forces since 2009. As at July 2021, according to our special report of 4th August 2021, no fewer than 43,000 Christians were hacked to death involving: BH, ISWAP and Ansaru 18,500 Christian deaths, Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen 18,500-19,000 Christian deaths and others 6000 Christian deaths. The number of moderate Muslims killed for nonviolently professing Islam in Nigeria as at July 2021 was estimated at 29,000. Apart from about 1,300 Shiite Muslims shot and killed and thousands of Muslim women and children unlawfully killed by Nigerian Military in the North-East, the rest of Muslim victims were killed by Muslim jihadists. This is with the exception of Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen who specifically target and massacre Christians and wantonly destroy or burn down their sacred places of worship and learning; homes and farmlands. Going by our findings warranting this special investigative report, the number of Christians killed in the country for nonviolently professing Christianity between July 2009 and April 2023 has risen to 52,250 while that of nonviolent Muslims increased from 29,000 to 34,000; or a total of 85,250 religious deaths in all. The 52,250 Christian deaths in Nigeria in fourteen years recorded addition of 9, 250 Christian deaths from the July 2021 figure of 43,000; out of which, Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen accounted for 6000 Christian deaths and security forces, Jihadist Fulani Bandits, BH, ISWAP, Ansaru and others 3,250.

 

Radical Islamism Under Buhari Killed 30,250 Christians In Eight Years (2015-2023)

By our previous reports, BH, ISWAP and Ansaru killed not less than 11,500 Christians from July 2009 to May 2015 and Jihadist Herdsmen accounted for the death of 6,500 Christians within the same period. However, between June 2015 and April 2023, deadliest Christian deaths of 18,250 were recorded in the hands of Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen protected by the outgoing Buhari Government of Nigeria; involving: 650 Christian deaths in June-Dec 2015; 1,700 in 2016; 2000 in 2017; 2,400 in 2018, 1200 in 2019, 2500, out of 3,530 recorded Christian deaths in 2020, 3,700 of 5,191 in 2021 and 3,500, out of 5,068 recorded Christian deaths in 2022 and 600 of the 1,041 Christian deaths recorded in first 100 days of 2023. It is 30,250 Christian deaths when 8000 killed by BH, ISWAP, Ansaru and Jihadist Bandits as well as 4000 killed by the Nigerian Military including 2,500 in the East since August 2015 and others in Christian communities in Northern Nigeria since 2015 are added.

 

14 Million Christians Uprooted And Five Million Forced Into IDPs And Refugee Camps

No fewer than 50 million Christians majority of them in Northern Nigeria are facing serious threats from Jihadists for being professed Christians; out of which not less than fourteen million have been uprooted and eight million forced to flee their homes to avoid being hacked to death. About five million have been displaced and forced into IDP camps within Nigeria and refugee camps at regional and sub-regional borders. There are presently over two million IDPs in Benue State alone and close to 2m others are in the States of Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Taraba; with the remainder scattered in Niger, Kebbi, Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Nassarawa, Kogi, Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Abia and so on. Thousands have also become ‘urban refugees’ in foreign lands.

18,000 Churches And 2200 Christian Schools Attacked In Fourteen Years Or Since July 2009

By the findings of Intersociety, as much as 18,000 churches and 2200 Christian schools and other Christian learning centers are most likely to have been attacked by the Jihadists or destroyed in part or in whole including being razed or burned down. As at 2021, the number of churches attacked and destroyed or burned down rose to over 300 and from July 2009 to July 2021, about 17,500 churches and 2000 Christian schools were brutally affected. The number of Mosques and Islamic learning centers attacked by the Jihadists is minutely disproportionate when compared to number of churches or Christian schools attacked. While attacks on symbols of worship by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and Jihadist Fulani Bandits are 100 percent targeted at churches and Christian schools, those perpetrated by BH, ISWAP, Ansaru and others are mostly directed at churches and Christian schools with insignificant percent directed at Mosques and Islamic learning centers. The attacks on churches especially those belonging to the African Instituted Churches branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) by the Nigerian Military and the Police crack squads in Eastern Nigeria have also increased to over 300 since Jan 2021. The security forces have recklessly applied false labeling, stigmatization and false intelligence to target and unlawfully attack traditional religious sanctuaries leading to attack and destruction of not less than 500 of them in Imo, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia, Delta, Rivers, Cross River, Kogi, Benue, etc. Such attacks are deceitfully coded or coated with “counter Biafra terror operations” but the original motives are driving towards castrating rural Igbo/Christians’ self defensive mechanisms and paving way for Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen invasion and massacre. The Nigerian Military had also egregiously and grisly targeted and rained air-bombs and aerial attacks on Christian village-killing several hundreds of rural Christians. The affected Christian communities include Kala-Balge Christian IDP camp in Borno (Jan 2017), Numan Christian villages (Dec 2017), Southern Kaduna (2018, 2019 and 2020) and Christian parts of Munya, Shiroro, Wushishi, etc and etc in Niger State (2022/Jan and March 2023). According to Ms Anna Mulder of the US based Open Doors, “between July 2009 and Dec 2014, a period of five years, BH killed 11,000-11,500 Christians in Northern Nigeria, forced 1.6m to flee their homes to avoid being hacked to death by the Jihadists who also burnt or destroyed 13,500 churches and 1,500 Christian schools”.

 

800 Christian Communities Uprooted By Jihadists Since 2009

No fewer than 800 Christian communities have uprooted and seized or taken over; with many of them renamed and Islamized by the Jihadists since 2009. BH, ISWAP and Ansaru and Jihadist Fulani Bandits have forced Christians out of their ancestral homes and communities in droves in Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Gombe, Bauchi, Taraba, Kastina, Sokoto and Niger States while Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen have sacked and are still sacking hundreds of Christian communities in Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Benue, Taraba and Adamawa States. Over 150 communities have been affected in Southern Kaduna alone and in Benue, Plateau and Taraba States, Christian homes, churches and settlements have been destroyed and replaced with Mosques and Muslim settlements. Christian communities of Borno, Taraba, Niger, Adamawa, Plateau, Southern Kaduna and Benue States are the worst hit. Indigenous Christians used to be dominant in Southern Borno, Southern Kebbi, Northern Adamawa, and parts of Gombe, 40% in the entire Kaduna and over 80% in Southern part of the State and have 80% population in Plateau, over 90% in Benue and 60% in Taraba. They are also found in their large numbers in at least five Local Government Areas of Niger State including Shiroro, Munya, Paikoro, Rafi, etc. In Enugu State, not less than 22 communities are facing severe threats in the hands of the Nigerian Army protected Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and in Anambra’s Orumba North, Orumba South, the story is not different.

 

Progenitors Of Nigerian Christian Converts More Protected In Oracular Era than Present

It is the observation of Intersociety that the Nigerian Christian leaders have abandoned their spiritual calling as defenders of faith and protectors of their faith members and deeply engrossed in the pursuit of crude material wealth. They also pay more attention in building ‘palatial paradises on earth’ and little attention at protecting their churches and members of their laity; thereby exposing them to grave vulnerabilities to attacks by radical Islamists clandestinely funded by Muslim hardliners and hypocritical public office holders who pretend to be “Christians”. Most of them are so engrossed in the pursuit of material wealth that they have become ‘armed robbers’ using Holy Bible as their ‘AK-47s”. It is therefore no longer contestable that forefathers and foremothers of the Nigerian Christian converts were more protected and divinely guarded during the Oracular Period under Pre-Christian Papacy than they are under the present Christian leaders. The dry material quest and lackadaisical attitudes of the Nigerian Christian leaders are also forcing Christian converts to leave the Church in droves to embrace other non-Christian denominations. It must be warned that if extreme care is not taken to rescue the Christendom and the Church, the churches or church buildings in Nigeria will become the present day Turkish church monuments in fifty years time or less than that".


While leaders of our faith particularly in southern Nigeria are on the veranda of our faith's sanctuary waving at politicians, their foot soldiers are cracking our walls and setting the building on fire. Owo in Ondo State witnessed the smoke of their kindled fire against our faith on Sunday the 5th of June 2022 during a mass at St Francis Xavier Catholic Church. If nothing is done, is only a matter of time before the fire get to you and me.

#2023ELECTIONS: Boko Haram will be redeployed under Tinubu/Shettima Presidency, they are terrorist wing of APC (Video)

#2023ELECTIONS: Boko Haram will be redeployed under Tinubu/Shettima Presidency, they are terrorist wing of APC (Video)

 


The hypothesis of narrative and discerning of intentions.


"Anybody who can hold gun, who can handle gun, who can cork gun, and clean the chamber and cork and shoot is technically competent enough to repair a tractor in the farm".


Tinubu is saying so much in deliberate distortion of narrative, but proverbially, unfortunately we are too unintelligent to understand him. What you don't understand is what you call gibberish. Please, endeavor to understand Tinubu before you vote or not vote for him. 


There is probably a link and an understanding between him and the Boko Haramists who are competent to hold, handle, to cork, clean chambers and fire shots, in the estimation of this keen observer who has designed a new need for them. They are competent enough to repair tractors "in" the farms under his presidency. 


Good as this redeployment may sound, I don't think it will be any easy, the control system over this army of none state actors is lost. 


Tinubu/Shettima ticket must accept that de-radicalization can only be through ideological reorientation not economical empowerment. This none state actors can't be treated like South South militants who were sabotaging the economy for economic empowerment. This terrorist don't need. They want the state, they must be treated like who they are; ENEMIES of the state. They are already running a parallel government and consequently economy.


The "horse" for this "cart" must be ideological for the pull to succeed. Putting the economy forward is driving the "cart" ahead of the "horse".


Tinubu is not alone at been politically correct in the eyes of people who believe that this terrorist are serving a "northern interest".



Who ever can not promise to break their holds off the jugular of the nation doesn't deserve to be president in 2023.


Tinubu Shettima Presidency is a great danger in the making for already dilapidated country Nigeria.


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The hypothesis of narrative and discerning of intentions.


"Anybody who can hold gun, who can handle gun, who can cork gun, and clean the chamber and cork and shoot is technically competent enough to repair a tractor in the farm".


Tinubu is saying so much in deliberate distortion of narrative, but proverbially, unfortunately we are too unintelligent to understand him. What you don't understand is what you call gibberish. Please, endeavor to understand Tinubu before you vote or not vote for him. 


There is probably a link and an understanding between him and the Boko Haramists who are competent to hold, handle, to cork, clean chambers and fire shots, in the estimation of this keen observer who has designed a new need for them. They are competent enough to repair tractors "in" the farms under his presidency. 


Good as this redeployment may sound, I don't think it will be any easy, the control system over this army of none state actors is lost. 


Tinubu/Shettima ticket must accept that de-radicalization can only be through ideological reorientation not economical empowerment. This none state actors can't be treated like South South militants who were sabotaging the economy for economic empowerment. This terrorist don't need. They want the state, they must be treated like who they are; ENEMIES of the state. They are already running a parallel government and consequently economy.


The "horse" for this "cart" must be ideological for the pull to succeed. Putting the economy forward is driving the "cart" ahead of the "horse".


Tinubu is not alone at been politically correct in the eyes of people who believe that this terrorist are serving a "northern interest".



Who ever can not promise to break their holds off the jugular of the nation doesn't deserve to be president in 2023.


Tinubu Shettima Presidency is a great danger in the making for already dilapidated country Nigeria.


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If we fail to perform, stone us : stoning of APC members have started in Jos ahead of 2023 Elections (Video)

If we fail to perform, stone us : stoning of APC members have started in Jos ahead of 2023 Elections (Video)

 


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#2023ELECTION: - TINUBU’S MORAL OPACITY & SUNDRY FOIBLES

#2023ELECTION: - TINUBU’S MORAL OPACITY & SUNDRY FOIBLES

JAGABAN OF BORGU IN TROUBLE

BY ABEL ADA-MUSA


Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the strongman of Lagos politics and the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) is a familiar actor in stormy waters. He is known to controversy of various kinds, especially his source of stupendous wealth, age, nativity, real name and educational qualifications.


Since 1999, when contested and won the governorship of  Lagos State, these have been his Achilles heel; to wit, his political challenges. The good news, however,  is that he had always weathered the storms.


As a politician, Tinubu has often acted  as a disciple of Machiavelli and a worshipper of Mammon, than a disciple of Abraham Lincoln. He believes in coercive or authoritarian democracy. He knows all the instruments of acquiring power and how to keep it. He plays the game both fair and rough, depending on the circumstance. He is good at what he does! I count it as a plus for him, though.


His influence in Lagos is dorminant and unfettered, especially since when he became governor in 1999 till 2007. He has built political structures that made him lay hold of Lagos and its resources with a very firm grip. Rumour has it that he owns almost half of Lagos, in property and in affluence. His name looms large and easily reverberates across all political spectrum in Lagos State, especially.


But one thing that has besmeared his politics over the years, is the opaqueness of his character, lifestyle and accomplishments. 


When he was  elected governor, in 1999, one Mr. Wasiu Balogun wrote a petition against him, alleging that the information he pleaded in his Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) form CF001were false. It was a daring move that also attracted the indefatigable and firebrand lawyer late Gani Fawehinmi, who went to court to challenge Tinubu’s certain information on the INEC form. He contended that the state governor perjured; especially in the information regarding his university certificate.


He said the claim that his certificates were stolen by “unknown soldier” when they raided his house between 1994 and and 1998, in Lagos was not true. 


TheNews magazine did an investigation into the story. What it came out with was deep and damning. It was discovered that he did not attend St. Paul Children’s Home school, Ibadan. And also that the St. Paul School Aroloya, Lagos, which he quoted on the INEC form did not exist!


He also claimed to have attended the famous Government College, Ibadan between 1965 and 1968. When the Old Students of the college learned that the governor of Lagos State was also an “old student”, they proposed a grand reception for him.  But at a point, they paused to find out the actual year he graduated. His name could not be found anywhere. That was how the planned event died a natural death.


While the controversy was going on, it was rumoured that the then Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lam Adesina ordered  that all documents relating to the graduates of Government College, Ibadan, be submitted and stored in his office. The principal of the college was reportedly barred from speaking with any journalist or anybody, on the matter.


What was most worrying is the conspiracy of silence on that part of his supposed  classmates, schoolmates and teachers, IF ANY. No old student of Tinuhu has ever spoken for or against him, except the ‘bad boy’ like Femi Aribisala, who has gone public to deny that Tinubu was their mate. At least, if he doesn’t have a certificate, he should have a classmate! But none! No certificates, no classmates, no former teachers.


Also punctured was his claim that he attended Richard Daley College in US, between 1969 and and 1971. The same for his averment that he studied at University of Chicago, between 1972 and 1976.


The APC presidential candidate is mature enough to know the difference between University of Chicago and Chicago State University. Recently, fact emerged that Chicago State University confirmed that he attended the institution. A sigh of relief there, I think! 


Meanwhile, the case filed by Fawehinmi was decided by the Supreme Court in 2002, in favour of Tinubu, of course. The apex court ruled that the diehard lawyer was statute barred by the immunity clause in the constitution, which said that the governor could not be sued while in office.  


So, he escaped on a technical ground, but the substance of the case remained. It should be stated here that the Jagaban of Borgu kingdom, as he is fondly called, has never lost any legal battle. But he knew then that the snake had merely been bruised, not killed, as the matter keeps resurfacing.


In 2003, Tinubu stirred further controversy, when he filled the same INEC form CF001. This time around, he removed all the educational qualifications he pleaded in 1999. In the columns meant for primary school, secondary school, university attended, he wrote NOT APPLICABLE.


The matter has recently aggravated because of 2023 election. The summary is that Tinuhu has integrity issues around  his personality. He needs to come clean of all the baggage alleged to be in his kitty? 


Tinubu’ past and present are haunting him direly. One issue that has failed to leave the front burner of presidential politics is his alleged involvement in drugs trafficking, for which he was arrested in 1990.


In the course of a sting operation, one Abiodun Agbele sold white heroin to an undercover FBI agent on November 28, 1990. The fact of the matter is that the drug  charges brought against Tinubu by the FBI, sounded very clear, detailed, and unambiguous.


Upon his arrest, he named one Mueez Akande as his drug boss. Upon investigation, it was revealed that funds from Mr. Akande’s white heroin drug cartel had found its way into Mr. Tinubu’s account and that they could not be justified by his legitimate income, then which stood at about $2400 a month.


Bola Tinubu was found to have shared accommodation with the said Mr. Akande, who had been his known associate for years. And that rather than fight the charges of laundering money for a drug cartel, Bola Tinubu entered into a plea agreement with the US Federal Government to forfeit $460,000 in drug money to the government.


These are the undeniable FACTS!


The APC presidential candidate has not come out clean on the allegation. The fact that he entered a plea bargain, did not exonerate him of the offence!


The fact that they go in and out of US is not a proof that he was exonerated. If a US permanent resident is convicted and imprisoned and serves his sentence, he can fly in and out of America without hindrance.


The grounds for inadmissibility into the United States are found in Section 212(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.) and they do not apply to Bola Tinubu, who was carrying green card.


The fact remains that Bola Tinubu was involved in drug  case, and by accepting a plea bargain, in which he voluntarily agreed to forfeit his assets, rather than go to trial, he is seen in the eyes of the law to have admitted to being a drug lord.


Other controversies surrounding the Jagaban are his age, nativity and real name. Who is Tinubu? Who is his real father? Identity is very important. His identity is still shrouded in controversy.


Late Secretary General of Pan-Yoruba Cultural Organization, (Afenifere), Yinka Odumakin gave an insight into Tinubu’s origin and age. In a direct mail to him in 1999, Odumakin confirmed that he came from the same state with him – Osun. He went further to remind him that he came from Iragbiji. Odumakin, who obviously knew so much revealed that when Tinubu’s mother died, it  was Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi that led a delegation from Lagos that attended the burial, on  behalf of Tinubu. The reason was because, he had chosen another home and another family in Lagos. 


Tinubu should not be ashamed of his nativity, especially when almost every Yoruba in Lagos originated from somewhere, outside Lagos.


In 1999, Tinubu was quoted as saying that he was 66 years old. Odumakin, in the said memo to him, reminded him that one of the sons of Tinubu’s elder brother, had just celebrated his 63 years of age! And that he could not be senior to his nephew by just three years.


He also said that he saw a photograph of Tinubu taken in 1974 at the palace of Soun Ogbomoso, during the installation of the royal father. He said Tinubu was cooling off with a bottle of beer and a packet of cigarettes in his front, on the table. Odumakin rightly concluded that his age was seriously doctored, for no known reason.


The certificate controversy whirling around somebody of his stature is so unfortunate and sad. Yoruba people are very diligent when it comes to education and record keeping. It is very difficult to see a Yoruba man with questionable educational qualifications. Tinubu’s case is quite different and amazing.


Tinubu has once stated why he could not attend regular education, as other Yoruba children, citing poverty. The question is, why should he quote at all, in his 1999 INEC forms. And why should he removed them in 2003, when filling the same form? This is where allegation of perjury comes. He was not consistent with the information regarding his educational background.


Former political adviser to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri gave insight into why Tinubu could not cite his primary school and secondary school background. He said, they could answer some questions surrounding his nativity, age and real name. Ordinarily, we don’t need this information in order to contest election. We need them for the sake of integrity and responsibility. 


Everybody comes from somewhere, no matter how poor and remote. MKO Abiola once told the world that he took egg for the first time in the house of his late wife, Simbiat, whose parents were relatively rich. Your background is who you  are. We shouldn’t be ashamed of it. It is part of accountability required of every human being and a responsible leader.


It is so sad that in this era, we are talking about academic certificate for somebody aspiring to become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It means if he becomes president, we will be dealing with a leader with identity crisis. This raises many moral questions, for us, as a nation.


But who cares about morality and accountability in Nigeria, when it has to do with politics? Nobody! When will Nigeria produce a president that is a professor. When will the country have a president that is an engineer, a lawyer, a medical doctor, a surveyor, an accountant, et al?


The Buhari matter of 2015 is repeating itself in 2023, in Tinubu. Since 2015, the president of Nigeria has been submitting affidavits, in place of certificates, to INEC. Another question is, why are the presidential candidates of APC having issues with their certificates? 


Again, like Buhari his predecessor, Tinubu is dodging television or press interviews, with excuses. This is probably as a result of the various dirty  skeletons in his cupboard. Yet, this will not matter when we go to polls in 2023


 What manner of country is this?


A Professor of law, and Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo contested the APC presidential primary election with Tinubu, along with others. Osinbajo lost. Tinubu won. This is Nigeria! When you want to rule this country, you don’t need to go to school. The Nigerian electorate say, those that go to school only speak “grammar”; and that they are stingy. To be stingy as a politician, is that you don’t bribe voters with money, during elections.


This is the type of country we have. People with sound integrity and credible certificates cannot win elections


No responsible professor with his hard earned money will give $25,000 to one delegate, in order to win primary election. It is as immoral as it is fraudulent.


Tinubu is a shrew master strategist. He has always bought his way through all the challenges of his life, bearing in mind that he is grossly inadequate. Tinubu is a Mammon worshipper, like many of Nigerian politicians.


Tinubu can be likened to most of the emperor’s of ancient and medieval history, who ruled and dominated their environments by smooth plotting and brute coercion. He is a dictator par excellence. He is very arrogant!


What was his legitimate business before before 1999, when he became the governor of Lagos State? I don’t know. But we are aware that he could not properly fund his governorship election, in 1999. It was said that friends had to rally around him to help him print of his campaign materials and for other essential expenses. He had only a house in Lagos. According to Odumakin, the four cars he was using at that time belonged to one Solomon Ganiyu. There was nothing like Bourdillion Villa, in Victoria Island then.


Let us accept that Tinubu ran away from Nigeria because Sani Abacha’s military junta was looking for his head on a platter, as he claimed, being a NADECO activist. I presume that the first thing that should have naturally come to his mind after picking his transport fare was his school certificates. As we can see, he picked his bag, a few clothes and his money. And left his certificates behind, IF ANY! This is very hard to believe!


Nigeria is such an unlucky country. If Tinubu wins the next presidential election, we would be having a president we don’t really know. Buhari’s case in 2015 could be better. At least, we know that the president is from Daura in Katsina State, even though he is carrying WAEC ‘s “attestation certificate.”


The trend of voting political leaders with only affidavits should stop. In 2015, supporters of Buhari were quoted as saying that even if he was holding ‘toilet tissue paper’ or ‘NEPA bill’ as certificate, they would vote for him. And they did. We are again confronted with a similar situation, with Tinubu, in 2023. 


Tinubu’s age, nativity, real name, schools he attended have never mattered; and it will not matter in the next presidential election. We passed through this road before, up to Supreme Court. He has always won his legal cases, brought against him, as long as they are brought before Nigerian judges.


As Nigerians, we are not better than him. As the saying goes, those that vote such leaders in office are accomplices, not victims.


The issue of Tinubu’s certificates will not be on the next presidential ballot. Nobody in Nigeria wins election on the basis of integrity or educational attainment. What matters is the size and content of your bullion van. Tinubu already knows what to do in the next election. He should just deploy bullion vans to each of the 36 states of the country.


A bullion van for a state. This is the expected picture for the next presidential election.


GOD HELP NIGERIA!2023: TINUBU’S MORAL OPACITY & SUNDRY FOIBLES (updated)

2023: TINUBU’S MORAL OPACITY & SUNDRY FOIBLES (updated)

 

IN MAINSTREAM 

BY ABEL ADA-MUSA


Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the strongman of Lagos politics and the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) is a familiar actor in stormy waters. He is known to controversy of various kinds, especially his source of stupendous wealth, age, nativity, real name and educational qualifications.


Since 1999, when contested and won the governorship of  Lagos State, these have been his Achilles heel; to wit, his political challenges. The good news, however,  is that he had always weathered the storms.


As a politician, Tinubu has often acted  as a disciple of Machiavelli and a worshipper of Mammon, than a disciple of Abraham Lincoln. He believes in coercive or authoritarian democracy. He knows all the instruments of acquiring power and how to keep it. He plays the game both fair and rough, depending on the circumstance. He is good at what he does! I count it as a plus for him, though.


His influence in Lagos is dorminant and unfettered, especially since when he became governor in 1999 till 2007. He has built political structures that made him lay hold of Lagos and its resources with a very firm grip. Rumour has it that he owns almost half of Lagos, in property and in affluence. His name looms large and easily reverberates across all political spectrum in Lagos State, especially.


But one thing that has besmeared his politics over the years, is the opaqueness of his character, lifestyle and accomplishments. 


When he was  elected governor, in 1999, one Mr. Wasiu Balogun wrote a petition against him, alleging that the information he pleaded in his Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) form CF001were false. It was a daring move that also attracted the indefatigable and firebrand lawyer late Gani Fawehinmi, who went to court to challenge Tinubu’s certain information on the INEC form. He contended that the state governor perjured; especially in the information regarding his university certificate.


He said the claim that his certificates were stolen by “unknown soldier” when they raided his house between 1994 and and 1998, in Lagos was not true. 


TheNews magazine did an investigation into the story. What it came out with was deep and damning. It was discovered that he did not attend St. Paul Children’s Home school, Ibadan. And also that the St. Paul School Aroloya, Lagos, which he quoted on the INEC form did not exist!


He also claimed to have attended the famous Government College, Ibadan between 1965 and 1968. When the Old Students of the college learned that the governor of Lagos State was also an “old student”, they proposed a grand reception for him.  But at a point, they paused to find out the actual year he graduated. His name could not be found anywhere. That was how the planned event died a natural death.


While the controversy was going on, it was rumoured that the then Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lam Adesina ordered  that all documents relating to the graduates of Government College, Ibadan, be submitted and stored in his office. The principal of the college was reportedly barred from speaking with any journalist or anybody, on the matter.


What was most worrying is the conspiracy of silence on that part of his supposed  classmates, schoolmates and teachers, IF ANY. No old student of Tinuhu has ever spoken for or against him, except the ‘bad boy’ like Femi Aribisala, who has gone public to deny that Tinubu was their mate. At least, if he doesn’t have a certificate, he should have a classmate! But none! No certificates, no classmates, no former teachers.


Also punctured was his claim that he attended Richard Daley College in US, between 1969 and and 1971. The same for his averment that he studied at University of Chicago, between 1972 and 1976.


The APC presidential candidate is mature enough to know the difference between University of Chicago and Chicago State University. Recently, fact emerged that Chicago State University confirmed that he attended the institution. A sigh of relief there, I think! 


Meanwhile, the case filed by Fawehinmi was decided by the Supreme Court in 2002, in favour of Tinubu, of course. The apex court ruled that the diehard lawyer was statute barred by the immunity clause in the constitution, which said that the governor could not be sued while in office.  


So, he escaped on a technical ground, but the substance of the case remained. It should be stated here that the Jagaban of Borgu kingdom, as he is fondly called, has never lost any legal battle. But he knew then that the snake had merely been bruised, not killed, as the matter keeps resurfacing.


In 2003, Tinubu stirred further controversy, when he filled the same INEC form CF001. This time around, he removed all the educational qualifications he pleaded in 1999. In the columns meant for primary school, secondary school, university attended, he wrote NOT APPLICABLE.


The matter has recently aggravated because of 2023 election. The summary is that Tinuhu has integrity issues around  his personality. He needs to come clean of all the baggage alleged to be in his kitty? 


Tinubu’ past and present are haunting him direly. One issue that has failed to leave the front burner of presidential politics is his alleged involvement in drugs trafficking, for which he was arrested in 1990.


In the course of a sting operation, one Abiodun Agbele sold white heroin to an undercover FBI agent on November 28, 1990. The fact of the matter is that the drug  charges brought against Tinubu by the FBI, sounded very clear, detailed, and unambiguous.


Upon his arrest, he named one Mueez Akande as his drug boss. Upon investigation, it was revealed that funds from Mr. Akande’s white heroin drug cartel had found its way into Mr. Tinubu’s account and that they could not be justified by his legitimate income, then which stood at about $2400 a month.


Bola Tinubu was found to have shared accommodation with the said Mr. Akande, who had been his known associate for years. And that rather than fight the charges of laundering money for a drug cartel, Bola Tinubu entered into a plea agreement with the US Federal Government to forfeit $460,000 in drug money to the government.


These are the undeniable FACTS!


The APC presidential candidate has not come out clean on the allegation. The fact that he entered a plea bargain, did not exonerate him of the offence!


The fact that they go in and out of US is not a proof that he was exonerated. If a US permanent resident is convicted and imprisoned and serves his sentence, he can fly in and out of America without hindrance.


The grounds for inadmissibility into the United States are found in Section 212(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.) and they do not apply to Bola Tinubu, who was carrying green card.


The fact remains that Bola Tinubu was involved in drug  case, and by accepting a plea bargain, in which he voluntarily agreed to forfeit his assets, rather than go to trial, he is seen in the eyes of the law to have admitted to being a drug lord.


Other controversies surrounding the Jagaban are his age, nativity and real name. Who is Tinubu? Who is his real father? Identity is very important. His identity is still shrouded in controversy.


Late Secretary General of Pan-Yoruba Cultural Organization, (Afenifere), Yinka Odumakin gave an insight into Tinubu’s origin and age. In a direct mail to him in 1999, Odumakin confirmed that he came from the same state with him – Osun. He went further to remind him that he came from Iragbiji. Odumakin, who obviously knew so much revealed that when Tinubu’s mother died, it  was Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi that led a delegation from Lagos that attended the burial, on  behalf of Tinubu. The reason was because, he had chosen another home and another family in Lagos. 


Tinubu should not be ashamed of his nativity, especially when almost every Yoruba in Lagos originated from somewhere, outside Lagos.


In 1999, Tinubu was quoted as saying that he was 66 years old. Odumakin, in the said memo to him, reminded him that one of the sons of Tinubu’s elder brother, had just celebrated his 63 years of age! And that he could not be senior to his nephew by just three years.


He also said that he saw a photograph of Tinubu taken in 1974 at the palace of Soun Ogbomoso, during the installation of the royal father. He said Tinubu was cooling off with a bottle of beer and a packet of cigarettes in his front, on the table. Odumakin rightly concluded that his age was seriously doctored, for no known reason.


The certificate controversy whirling around somebody of his stature is so unfortunate and sad. Yoruba people are very diligent when it comes to education and record keeping. It is very difficult to see a Yoruba man with questionable educational qualifications. Tinubu’s case is quite different and amazing.


Tinubu has once stated why he could not attend regular education, as other Yoruba children, citing poverty. The question is, why should he quote at all, in his 1999 INEC forms. And why should he removed them in 2003, when filling the same form? This is where allegation of perjury comes. He was not consistent with the information regarding his educational background.


Former political adviser to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri gave insight into why Tinubu could not cite his primary school and secondary school background. He said, they could answer some questions surrounding his nativity, age and real name. Ordinarily, we don’t need this information in order to contest election. We need them for the sake of integrity and responsibility. 


Everybody comes from somewhere, no matter how poor and remote. MKO Abiola once told the world that he took egg for the first time in the house of his late wife, Simbiat, whose parents were relatively rich. Your background is who you  are. We shouldn’t be ashamed of it. It is part of accountability required of every human being and a responsible leader.


It is so sad that in this era, we are talking about academic certificate for somebody aspiring to become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It means if he becomes president, we will be dealing with a leader with identity crisis. This raises many moral questions, for us, as a nation.


But who cares about morality and accountability in Nigeria, when it has to do with politics? Nobody! When will Nigeria produce a president that is a professor. When will the country have a president that is an engineer, a lawyer, a medical doctor, a surveyor, an accountant, et al?


The Buhari matter of 2015 is repeating itself in 2023, in Tinubu. Since 2015, the president of Nigeria has been submitting affidavits, in place of certificates, to INEC. Another question is, why are the presidential candidates of APC having issues with their certificates? 


Again, like Buhari his predecessor, Tinubu is dodging television or press interviews, with excuses. This is probably as a result of the various dirty  skeletons in his cupboard. Yet, this will not matter when we go to polls in 2023


 What manner of country is this?


A Professor of law, and Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo contested the APC presidential primary election with Tinubu, along with others. Osinbajo lost. Tinubu won. This is Nigeria! When you want to rule this country, you don’t need to go to school. The Nigerian electorate say, those that go to school only speak “grammar”; and that they are stingy. To be stingy as a politician, is that you don’t bribe voters with money, during elections.


This is the type of country we have. People with sound integrity and credible certificates cannot win elections


No responsible professor with his hard earned money will give $25,000 to one delegate, in order to win primary election. It is as immoral as it is fraudulent.


Tinubu is a shrew master strategist. He has always bought his way through all the challenges of his life, bearing in mind that he is grossly inadequate. Tinubu is a Mammon worshipper, like many of Nigerian politicians.


Tinubu can be likened to most of the emperor’s of ancient and medieval history, who ruled and dominated their environments by smooth plotting and brute coercion. He is a dictator par excellence. He is very arrogant!


What was his legitimate business before before 1999, when he became the governor of Lagos State? I don’t know. But we are aware that he could not properly fund his governorship election, in 1999. It was said that friends had to rally around him to help him print of his campaign materials and for other essential expenses. He had only a house in Lagos. According to Odumakin, the four cars he was using at that time belonged to one Solomon Ganiyu. There was nothing like Bourdillion Villa, in Victoria Island then.


Let us accept that Tinubu ran away from Nigeria because Sani Abacha’s military junta was looking for his head on a platter, as he claimed, being a NADECO activist. I presume that the first thing that should have naturally come to his mind after picking his transport fare was his school certificates. As we can see, he picked his bag, a few clothes and his money. And left his certificates behind, IF ANY! This is very hard to believe!


Nigeria is such an unlucky country. If Tinubu wins the next presidential election, we would be having a president we don’t really know. Buhari’s case in 2015 could be better. At least, we know that the president is from Daura in Katsina State, even though he is carrying WAEC ‘s “attestation certificate.”


The trend of voting political leaders with only affidavits should stop. In 2015, supporters of Buhari were quoted as saying that even if he was holding ‘toilet tissue paper’ or ‘NEPA bill’ as certificate, they would vote for him. And they did. We are again confronted with a similar situation, with Tinubu, in 2023. 


Tinubu’s age, nativity, real name, schools he attended have never mattered; and it will not matter in the next presidential election. We passed through this road before, up to Supreme Court. He has always won his legal cases, brought against him, as long as they are brought before Nigerian judges.


As Nigerians, we are not better than him. As the saying goes, those that vote such leaders in office are accomplices, not victims.


The issue of Tinubu’s certificates will not be on the next presidential ballot. Nobody in Nigeria wins election on the basis of integrity or educational attainment. What matters is the size and content of your bullion van. Tinubu already knows what to do in the next election. He should just deploy bullion vans to each of the 36 states of the country.


A bullion van for a state. This is the expected picture for the next presidential election.


GOD HELP NIGERIA!2023: TINUBU’S MORAL OPACITY & SUNDRY FOIBLES (updated)

 

IN MAINSTREAM 

BY ABEL ADA-MUSA


Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the strongman of Lagos politics and the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) is a familiar actor in stormy waters. He is known to controversy of various kinds, especially his source of stupendous wealth, age, nativity, real name and educational qualifications.


Since 1999, when contested and won the governorship of  Lagos State, these have been his Achilles heel; to wit, his political challenges. The good news, however,  is that he had always weathered the storms.


As a politician, Tinubu has often acted  as a disciple of Machiavelli and a worshipper of Mammon, than a disciple of Abraham Lincoln. He believes in coercive or authoritarian democracy. He knows all the instruments of acquiring power and how to keep it. He plays the game both fair and rough, depending on the circumstance. He is good at what he does! I count it as a plus for him, though.


His influence in Lagos is dorminant and unfettered, especially since when he became governor in 1999 till 2007. He has built political structures that made him lay hold of Lagos and its resources with a very firm grip. Rumour has it that he owns almost half of Lagos, in property and in affluence. His name looms large and easily reverberates across all political spectrum in Lagos State, especially.


But one thing that has besmeared his politics over the years, is the opaqueness of his character, lifestyle and accomplishments. 


When he was  elected governor, in 1999, one Mr. Wasiu Balogun wrote a petition against him, alleging that the information he pleaded in his Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) form CF001were false. It was a daring move that also attracted the indefatigable and firebrand lawyer late Gani Fawehinmi, who went to court to challenge Tinubu’s certain information on the INEC form. He contended that the state governor perjured; especially in the information regarding his university certificate.


He said the claim that his certificates were stolen by “unknown soldier” when they raided his house between 1994 and and 1998, in Lagos was not true. 


TheNews magazine did an investigation into the story. What it came out with was deep and damning. It was discovered that he did not attend St. Paul Children’s Home school, Ibadan. And also that the St. Paul School Aroloya, Lagos, which he quoted on the INEC form did not exist!


He also claimed to have attended the famous Government College, Ibadan between 1965 and 1968. When the Old Students of the college learned that the governor of Lagos State was also an “old student”, they proposed a grand reception for him.  But at a point, they paused to find out the actual year he graduated. His name could not be found anywhere. That was how the planned event died a natural death.


While the controversy was going on, it was rumoured that the then Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lam Adesina ordered  that all documents relating to the graduates of Government College, Ibadan, be submitted and stored in his office. The principal of the college was reportedly barred from speaking with any journalist or anybody, on the matter.


What was most worrying is the conspiracy of silence on that part of his supposed  classmates, schoolmates and teachers, IF ANY. No old student of Tinuhu has ever spoken for or against him, except the ‘bad boy’ like Femi Aribisala, who has gone public to deny that Tinubu was their mate. At least, if he doesn’t have a certificate, he should have a classmate! But none! No certificates, no classmates, no former teachers.


Also punctured was his claim that he attended Richard Daley College in US, between 1969 and and 1971. The same for his averment that he studied at University of Chicago, between 1972 and 1976.


The APC presidential candidate is mature enough to know the difference between University of Chicago and Chicago State University. Recently, fact emerged that Chicago State University confirmed that he attended the institution. A sigh of relief there, I think! 


Meanwhile, the case filed by Fawehinmi was decided by the Supreme Court in 2002, in favour of Tinubu, of course. The apex court ruled that the diehard lawyer was statute barred by the immunity clause in the constitution, which said that the governor could not be sued while in office.  


So, he escaped on a technical ground, but the substance of the case remained. It should be stated here that the Jagaban of Borgu kingdom, as he is fondly called, has never lost any legal battle. But he knew then that the snake had merely been bruised, not killed, as the matter keeps resurfacing.


In 2003, Tinubu stirred further controversy, when he filled the same INEC form CF001. This time around, he removed all the educational qualifications he pleaded in 1999. In the columns meant for primary school, secondary school, university attended, he wrote NOT APPLICABLE.


The matter has recently aggravated because of 2023 election. The summary is that Tinuhu has integrity issues around  his personality. He needs to come clean of all the baggage alleged to be in his kitty? 


Tinubu’ past and present are haunting him direly. One issue that has failed to leave the front burner of presidential politics is his alleged involvement in drugs trafficking, for which he was arrested in 1990.


In the course of a sting operation, one Abiodun Agbele sold white heroin to an undercover FBI agent on November 28, 1990. The fact of the matter is that the drug  charges brought against Tinubu by the FBI, sounded very clear, detailed, and unambiguous.


Upon his arrest, he named one Mueez Akande as his drug boss. Upon investigation, it was revealed that funds from Mr. Akande’s white heroin drug cartel had found its way into Mr. Tinubu’s account and that they could not be justified by his legitimate income, then which stood at about $2400 a month.


Bola Tinubu was found to have shared accommodation with the said Mr. Akande, who had been his known associate for years. And that rather than fight the charges of laundering money for a drug cartel, Bola Tinubu entered into a plea agreement with the US Federal Government to forfeit $460,000 in drug money to the government.


These are the undeniable FACTS!


The APC presidential candidate has not come out clean on the allegation. The fact that he entered a plea bargain, did not exonerate him of the offence!


The fact that they go in and out of US is not a proof that he was exonerated. If a US permanent resident is convicted and imprisoned and serves his sentence, he can fly in and out of America without hindrance.


The grounds for inadmissibility into the United States are found in Section 212(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.) and they do not apply to Bola Tinubu, who was carrying green card.


The fact remains that Bola Tinubu was involved in drug  case, and by accepting a plea bargain, in which he voluntarily agreed to forfeit his assets, rather than go to trial, he is seen in the eyes of the law to have admitted to being a drug lord.


Other controversies surrounding the Jagaban are his age, nativity and real name. Who is Tinubu? Who is his real father? Identity is very important. His identity is still shrouded in controversy.


Late Secretary General of Pan-Yoruba Cultural Organization, (Afenifere), Yinka Odumakin gave an insight into Tinubu’s origin and age. In a direct mail to him in 1999, Odumakin confirmed that he came from the same state with him – Osun. He went further to remind him that he came from Iragbiji. Odumakin, who obviously knew so much revealed that when Tinubu’s mother died, it  was Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi that led a delegation from Lagos that attended the burial, on  behalf of Tinubu. The reason was because, he had chosen another home and another family in Lagos. 


Tinubu should not be ashamed of his nativity, especially when almost every Yoruba in Lagos originated from somewhere, outside Lagos.


In 1999, Tinubu was quoted as saying that he was 66 years old. Odumakin, in the said memo to him, reminded him that one of the sons of Tinubu’s elder brother, had just celebrated his 63 years of age! And that he could not be senior to his nephew by just three years.


He also said that he saw a photograph of Tinubu taken in 1974 at the palace of Soun Ogbomoso, during the installation of the royal father. He said Tinubu was cooling off with a bottle of beer and a packet of cigarettes in his front, on the table. Odumakin rightly concluded that his age was seriously doctored, for no known reason.


The certificate controversy whirling around somebody of his stature is so unfortunate and sad. Yoruba people are very diligent when it comes to education and record keeping. It is very difficult to see a Yoruba man with questionable educational qualifications. Tinubu’s case is quite different and amazing.


Tinubu has once stated why he could not attend regular education, as other Yoruba children, citing poverty. The question is, why should he quote at all, in his 1999 INEC forms. And why should he removed them in 2003, when filling the same form? This is where allegation of perjury comes. He was not consistent with the information regarding his educational background.


Former political adviser to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri gave insight into why Tinubu could not cite his primary school and secondary school background. He said, they could answer some questions surrounding his nativity, age and real name. Ordinarily, we don’t need this information in order to contest election. We need them for the sake of integrity and responsibility. 


Everybody comes from somewhere, no matter how poor and remote. MKO Abiola once told the world that he took egg for the first time in the house of his late wife, Simbiat, whose parents were relatively rich. Your background is who you  are. We shouldn’t be ashamed of it. It is part of accountability required of every human being and a responsible leader.


It is so sad that in this era, we are talking about academic certificate for somebody aspiring to become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It means if he becomes president, we will be dealing with a leader with identity crisis. This raises many moral questions, for us, as a nation.


But who cares about morality and accountability in Nigeria, when it has to do with politics? Nobody! When will Nigeria produce a president that is a professor. When will the country have a president that is an engineer, a lawyer, a medical doctor, a surveyor, an accountant, et al?


The Buhari matter of 2015 is repeating itself in 2023, in Tinubu. Since 2015, the president of Nigeria has been submitting affidavits, in place of certificates, to INEC. Another question is, why are the presidential candidates of APC having issues with their certificates? 


Again, like Buhari his predecessor, Tinubu is dodging television or press interviews, with excuses. This is probably as a result of the various dirty  skeletons in his cupboard. Yet, this will not matter when we go to polls in 2023


 What manner of country is this?


A Professor of law, and Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo contested the APC presidential primary election with Tinubu, along with others. Osinbajo lost. Tinubu won. This is Nigeria! When you want to rule this country, you don’t need to go to school. The Nigerian electorate say, those that go to school only speak “grammar”; and that they are stingy. To be stingy as a politician, is that you don’t bribe voters with money, during elections.


This is the type of country we have. People with sound integrity and credible certificates cannot win elections


No responsible professor with his hard earned money will give $25,000 to one delegate, in order to win primary election. It is as immoral as it is fraudulent.


Tinubu is a shrew master strategist. He has always bought his way through all the challenges of his life, bearing in mind that he is grossly inadequate. Tinubu is a Mammon worshipper, like many of Nigerian politicians.


Tinubu can be likened to most of the emperor’s of ancient and medieval history, who ruled and dominated their environments by smooth plotting and brute coercion. He is a dictator par excellence. He is very arrogant!


What was his legitimate business before before 1999, when he became the governor of Lagos State? I don’t know. But we are aware that he could not properly fund his governorship election, in 1999. It was said that friends had to rally around him to help him print of his campaign materials and for other essential expenses. He had only a house in Lagos. According to Odumakin, the four cars he was using at that time belonged to one Solomon Ganiyu. There was nothing like Bourdillion Villa, in Victoria Island then.


Let us accept that Tinubu ran away from Nigeria because Sani Abacha’s military junta was looking for his head on a platter, as he claimed, being a NADECO activist. I presume that the first thing that should have naturally come to his mind after picking his transport fare was his school certificates. As we can see, he picked his bag, a few clothes and his money. And left his certificates behind, IF ANY! This is very hard to believe!


Nigeria is such an unlucky country. If Tinubu wins the next presidential election, we would be having a president we don’t really know. Buhari’s case in 2015 could be better. At least, we know that the president is from Daura in Katsina State, even though he is carrying WAEC ‘s “attestation certificate.”


The trend of voting political leaders with only affidavits should stop. In 2015, supporters of Buhari were quoted as saying that even if he was holding ‘toilet tissue paper’ or ‘NEPA bill’ as certificate, they would vote for him. And they did. We are again confronted with a similar situation, with Tinubu, in 2023. 


Tinubu’s age, nativity, real name, schools he attended have never mattered; and it will not matter in the next presidential election. We passed through this road before, up to Supreme Court. He has always won his legal cases, brought against him, as long as they are brought before Nigerian judges.


As Nigerians, we are not better than him. As the saying goes, those that vote such leaders in office are accomplices, not victims.


The issue of Tinubu’s certificates will not be on the next presidential ballot. Nobody in Nigeria wins election on the basis of integrity or educational attainment. What matters is the size and content of your bullion van. Tinubu already knows what to do in the next election. He should just deploy bullion vans to each of the 36 states of the country.


A bullion van for a state. This is the expected picture for the next presidential election.


GOD HELP NIGERIA!




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JAGABAN OF BORGU IN TROUBLE

BY ABEL ADA-MUSA


Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the strongman of Lagos politics and the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) is a familiar actor in stormy waters. He is known to controversy of various kinds, especially his source of stupendous wealth, age, nativity, real name and educational qualifications.


Since 1999, when contested and won the governorship of  Lagos State, these have been his Achilles heel; to wit, his political challenges. The good news, however,  is that he had always weathered the storms.


As a politician, Tinubu has often acted  as a disciple of Machiavelli and a worshipper of Mammon, than a disciple of Abraham Lincoln. He believes in coercive or authoritarian democracy. He knows all the instruments of acquiring power and how to keep it. He plays the game both fair and rough, depending on the circumstance. He is good at what he does! I count it as a plus for him, though.


His influence in Lagos is dorminant and unfettered, especially since when he became governor in 1999 till 2007. He has built political structures that made him lay hold of Lagos and its resources with a very firm grip. Rumour has it that he owns almost half of Lagos, in property and in affluence. His name looms large and easily reverberates across all political spectrum in Lagos State, especially.


But one thing that has besmeared his politics over the years, is the opaqueness of his character, lifestyle and accomplishments. 


When he was  elected governor, in 1999, one Mr. Wasiu Balogun wrote a petition against him, alleging that the information he pleaded in his Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) form CF001were false. It was a daring move that also attracted the indefatigable and firebrand lawyer late Gani Fawehinmi, who went to court to challenge Tinubu’s certain information on the INEC form. He contended that the state governor perjured; especially in the information regarding his university certificate.


He said the claim that his certificates were stolen by “unknown soldier” when they raided his house between 1994 and and 1998, in Lagos was not true. 


TheNews magazine did an investigation into the story. What it came out with was deep and damning. It was discovered that he did not attend St. Paul Children’s Home school, Ibadan. And also that the St. Paul School Aroloya, Lagos, which he quoted on the INEC form did not exist!


He also claimed to have attended the famous Government College, Ibadan between 1965 and 1968. When the Old Students of the college learned that the governor of Lagos State was also an “old student”, they proposed a grand reception for him.  But at a point, they paused to find out the actual year he graduated. His name could not be found anywhere. That was how the planned event died a natural death.


While the controversy was going on, it was rumoured that the then Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lam Adesina ordered  that all documents relating to the graduates of Government College, Ibadan, be submitted and stored in his office. The principal of the college was reportedly barred from speaking with any journalist or anybody, on the matter.


What was most worrying is the conspiracy of silence on that part of his supposed  classmates, schoolmates and teachers, IF ANY. No old student of Tinuhu has ever spoken for or against him, except the ‘bad boy’ like Femi Aribisala, who has gone public to deny that Tinubu was their mate. At least, if he doesn’t have a certificate, he should have a classmate! But none! No certificates, no classmates, no former teachers.


Also punctured was his claim that he attended Richard Daley College in US, between 1969 and and 1971. The same for his averment that he studied at University of Chicago, between 1972 and 1976.


The APC presidential candidate is mature enough to know the difference between University of Chicago and Chicago State University. Recently, fact emerged that Chicago State University confirmed that he attended the institution. A sigh of relief there, I think! 


Meanwhile, the case filed by Fawehinmi was decided by the Supreme Court in 2002, in favour of Tinubu, of course. The apex court ruled that the diehard lawyer was statute barred by the immunity clause in the constitution, which said that the governor could not be sued while in office.  


So, he escaped on a technical ground, but the substance of the case remained. It should be stated here that the Jagaban of Borgu kingdom, as he is fondly called, has never lost any legal battle. But he knew then that the snake had merely been bruised, not killed, as the matter keeps resurfacing.


In 2003, Tinubu stirred further controversy, when he filled the same INEC form CF001. This time around, he removed all the educational qualifications he pleaded in 1999. In the columns meant for primary school, secondary school, university attended, he wrote NOT APPLICABLE.


The matter has recently aggravated because of 2023 election. The summary is that Tinuhu has integrity issues around  his personality. He needs to come clean of all the baggage alleged to be in his kitty? 


Tinubu’ past and present are haunting him direly. One issue that has failed to leave the front burner of presidential politics is his alleged involvement in drugs trafficking, for which he was arrested in 1990.


In the course of a sting operation, one Abiodun Agbele sold white heroin to an undercover FBI agent on November 28, 1990. The fact of the matter is that the drug  charges brought against Tinubu by the FBI, sounded very clear, detailed, and unambiguous.


Upon his arrest, he named one Mueez Akande as his drug boss. Upon investigation, it was revealed that funds from Mr. Akande’s white heroin drug cartel had found its way into Mr. Tinubu’s account and that they could not be justified by his legitimate income, then which stood at about $2400 a month.


Bola Tinubu was found to have shared accommodation with the said Mr. Akande, who had been his known associate for years. And that rather than fight the charges of laundering money for a drug cartel, Bola Tinubu entered into a plea agreement with the US Federal Government to forfeit $460,000 in drug money to the government.


These are the undeniable FACTS!


The APC presidential candidate has not come out clean on the allegation. The fact that he entered a plea bargain, did not exonerate him of the offence!


The fact that they go in and out of US is not a proof that he was exonerated. If a US permanent resident is convicted and imprisoned and serves his sentence, he can fly in and out of America without hindrance.


The grounds for inadmissibility into the United States are found in Section 212(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.) and they do not apply to Bola Tinubu, who was carrying green card.


The fact remains that Bola Tinubu was involved in drug  case, and by accepting a plea bargain, in which he voluntarily agreed to forfeit his assets, rather than go to trial, he is seen in the eyes of the law to have admitted to being a drug lord.


Other controversies surrounding the Jagaban are his age, nativity and real name. Who is Tinubu? Who is his real father? Identity is very important. His identity is still shrouded in controversy.


Late Secretary General of Pan-Yoruba Cultural Organization, (Afenifere), Yinka Odumakin gave an insight into Tinubu’s origin and age. In a direct mail to him in 1999, Odumakin confirmed that he came from the same state with him – Osun. He went further to remind him that he came from Iragbiji. Odumakin, who obviously knew so much revealed that when Tinubu’s mother died, it  was Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi that led a delegation from Lagos that attended the burial, on  behalf of Tinubu. The reason was because, he had chosen another home and another family in Lagos. 


Tinubu should not be ashamed of his nativity, especially when almost every Yoruba in Lagos originated from somewhere, outside Lagos.


In 1999, Tinubu was quoted as saying that he was 66 years old. Odumakin, in the said memo to him, reminded him that one of the sons of Tinubu’s elder brother, had just celebrated his 63 years of age! And that he could not be senior to his nephew by just three years.


He also said that he saw a photograph of Tinubu taken in 1974 at the palace of Soun Ogbomoso, during the installation of the royal father. He said Tinubu was cooling off with a bottle of beer and a packet of cigarettes in his front, on the table. Odumakin rightly concluded that his age was seriously doctored, for no known reason.


The certificate controversy whirling around somebody of his stature is so unfortunate and sad. Yoruba people are very diligent when it comes to education and record keeping. It is very difficult to see a Yoruba man with questionable educational qualifications. Tinubu’s case is quite different and amazing.


Tinubu has once stated why he could not attend regular education, as other Yoruba children, citing poverty. The question is, why should he quote at all, in his 1999 INEC forms. And why should he removed them in 2003, when filling the same form? This is where allegation of perjury comes. He was not consistent with the information regarding his educational background.


Former political adviser to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri gave insight into why Tinubu could not cite his primary school and secondary school background. He said, they could answer some questions surrounding his nativity, age and real name. Ordinarily, we don’t need this information in order to contest election. We need them for the sake of integrity and responsibility. 


Everybody comes from somewhere, no matter how poor and remote. MKO Abiola once told the world that he took egg for the first time in the house of his late wife, Simbiat, whose parents were relatively rich. Your background is who you  are. We shouldn’t be ashamed of it. It is part of accountability required of every human being and a responsible leader.


It is so sad that in this era, we are talking about academic certificate for somebody aspiring to become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It means if he becomes president, we will be dealing with a leader with identity crisis. This raises many moral questions, for us, as a nation.


But who cares about morality and accountability in Nigeria, when it has to do with politics? Nobody! When will Nigeria produce a president that is a professor. When will the country have a president that is an engineer, a lawyer, a medical doctor, a surveyor, an accountant, et al?


The Buhari matter of 2015 is repeating itself in 2023, in Tinubu. Since 2015, the president of Nigeria has been submitting affidavits, in place of certificates, to INEC. Another question is, why are the presidential candidates of APC having issues with their certificates? 


Again, like Buhari his predecessor, Tinubu is dodging television or press interviews, with excuses. This is probably as a result of the various dirty  skeletons in his cupboard. Yet, this will not matter when we go to polls in 2023


 What manner of country is this?


A Professor of law, and Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo contested the APC presidential primary election with Tinubu, along with others. Osinbajo lost. Tinubu won. This is Nigeria! When you want to rule this country, you don’t need to go to school. The Nigerian electorate say, those that go to school only speak “grammar”; and that they are stingy. To be stingy as a politician, is that you don’t bribe voters with money, during elections.


This is the type of country we have. People with sound integrity and credible certificates cannot win elections


No responsible professor with his hard earned money will give $25,000 to one delegate, in order to win primary election. It is as immoral as it is fraudulent.


Tinubu is a shrew master strategist. He has always bought his way through all the challenges of his life, bearing in mind that he is grossly inadequate. Tinubu is a Mammon worshipper, like many of Nigerian politicians.


Tinubu can be likened to most of the emperor’s of ancient and medieval history, who ruled and dominated their environments by smooth plotting and brute coercion. He is a dictator par excellence. He is very arrogant!


What was his legitimate business before before 1999, when he became the governor of Lagos State? I don’t know. But we are aware that he could not properly fund his governorship election, in 1999. It was said that friends had to rally around him to help him print of his campaign materials and for other essential expenses. He had only a house in Lagos. According to Odumakin, the four cars he was using at that time belonged to one Solomon Ganiyu. There was nothing like Bourdillion Villa, in Victoria Island then.


Let us accept that Tinubu ran away from Nigeria because Sani Abacha’s military junta was looking for his head on a platter, as he claimed, being a NADECO activist. I presume that the first thing that should have naturally come to his mind after picking his transport fare was his school certificates. As we can see, he picked his bag, a few clothes and his money. And left his certificates behind, IF ANY! This is very hard to believe!


Nigeria is such an unlucky country. If Tinubu wins the next presidential election, we would be having a president we don’t really know. Buhari’s case in 2015 could be better. At least, we know that the president is from Daura in Katsina State, even though he is carrying WAEC ‘s “attestation certificate.”


The trend of voting political leaders with only affidavits should stop. In 2015, supporters of Buhari were quoted as saying that even if he was holding ‘toilet tissue paper’ or ‘NEPA bill’ as certificate, they would vote for him. And they did. We are again confronted with a similar situation, with Tinubu, in 2023. 


Tinubu’s age, nativity, real name, schools he attended have never mattered; and it will not matter in the next presidential election. We passed through this road before, up to Supreme Court. He has always won his legal cases, brought against him, as long as they are brought before Nigerian judges.


As Nigerians, we are not better than him. As the saying goes, those that vote such leaders in office are accomplices, not victims.


The issue of Tinubu’s certificates will not be on the next presidential ballot. Nobody in Nigeria wins election on the basis of integrity or educational attainment. What matters is the size and content of your bullion van. Tinubu already knows what to do in the next election. He should just deploy bullion vans to each of the 36 states of the country.


A bullion van for a state. This is the expected picture for the next presidential election.


GOD HELP NIGERIA!2023: TINUBU’S MORAL OPACITY & SUNDRY FOIBLES (updated)

2023: TINUBU’S MORAL OPACITY & SUNDRY FOIBLES (updated)

 

IN MAINSTREAM 

BY ABEL ADA-MUSA


Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the strongman of Lagos politics and the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) is a familiar actor in stormy waters. He is known to controversy of various kinds, especially his source of stupendous wealth, age, nativity, real name and educational qualifications.


Since 1999, when contested and won the governorship of  Lagos State, these have been his Achilles heel; to wit, his political challenges. The good news, however,  is that he had always weathered the storms.


As a politician, Tinubu has often acted  as a disciple of Machiavelli and a worshipper of Mammon, than a disciple of Abraham Lincoln. He believes in coercive or authoritarian democracy. He knows all the instruments of acquiring power and how to keep it. He plays the game both fair and rough, depending on the circumstance. He is good at what he does! I count it as a plus for him, though.


His influence in Lagos is dorminant and unfettered, especially since when he became governor in 1999 till 2007. He has built political structures that made him lay hold of Lagos and its resources with a very firm grip. Rumour has it that he owns almost half of Lagos, in property and in affluence. His name looms large and easily reverberates across all political spectrum in Lagos State, especially.


But one thing that has besmeared his politics over the years, is the opaqueness of his character, lifestyle and accomplishments. 


When he was  elected governor, in 1999, one Mr. Wasiu Balogun wrote a petition against him, alleging that the information he pleaded in his Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) form CF001were false. It was a daring move that also attracted the indefatigable and firebrand lawyer late Gani Fawehinmi, who went to court to challenge Tinubu’s certain information on the INEC form. He contended that the state governor perjured; especially in the information regarding his university certificate.


He said the claim that his certificates were stolen by “unknown soldier” when they raided his house between 1994 and and 1998, in Lagos was not true. 


TheNews magazine did an investigation into the story. What it came out with was deep and damning. It was discovered that he did not attend St. Paul Children’s Home school, Ibadan. And also that the St. Paul School Aroloya, Lagos, which he quoted on the INEC form did not exist!


He also claimed to have attended the famous Government College, Ibadan between 1965 and 1968. When the Old Students of the college learned that the governor of Lagos State was also an “old student”, they proposed a grand reception for him.  But at a point, they paused to find out the actual year he graduated. His name could not be found anywhere. That was how the planned event died a natural death.


While the controversy was going on, it was rumoured that the then Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lam Adesina ordered  that all documents relating to the graduates of Government College, Ibadan, be submitted and stored in his office. The principal of the college was reportedly barred from speaking with any journalist or anybody, on the matter.


What was most worrying is the conspiracy of silence on that part of his supposed  classmates, schoolmates and teachers, IF ANY. No old student of Tinuhu has ever spoken for or against him, except the ‘bad boy’ like Femi Aribisala, who has gone public to deny that Tinubu was their mate. At least, if he doesn’t have a certificate, he should have a classmate! But none! No certificates, no classmates, no former teachers.


Also punctured was his claim that he attended Richard Daley College in US, between 1969 and and 1971. The same for his averment that he studied at University of Chicago, between 1972 and 1976.


The APC presidential candidate is mature enough to know the difference between University of Chicago and Chicago State University. Recently, fact emerged that Chicago State University confirmed that he attended the institution. A sigh of relief there, I think! 


Meanwhile, the case filed by Fawehinmi was decided by the Supreme Court in 2002, in favour of Tinubu, of course. The apex court ruled that the diehard lawyer was statute barred by the immunity clause in the constitution, which said that the governor could not be sued while in office.  


So, he escaped on a technical ground, but the substance of the case remained. It should be stated here that the Jagaban of Borgu kingdom, as he is fondly called, has never lost any legal battle. But he knew then that the snake had merely been bruised, not killed, as the matter keeps resurfacing.


In 2003, Tinubu stirred further controversy, when he filled the same INEC form CF001. This time around, he removed all the educational qualifications he pleaded in 1999. In the columns meant for primary school, secondary school, university attended, he wrote NOT APPLICABLE.


The matter has recently aggravated because of 2023 election. The summary is that Tinuhu has integrity issues around  his personality. He needs to come clean of all the baggage alleged to be in his kitty? 


Tinubu’ past and present are haunting him direly. One issue that has failed to leave the front burner of presidential politics is his alleged involvement in drugs trafficking, for which he was arrested in 1990.


In the course of a sting operation, one Abiodun Agbele sold white heroin to an undercover FBI agent on November 28, 1990. The fact of the matter is that the drug  charges brought against Tinubu by the FBI, sounded very clear, detailed, and unambiguous.


Upon his arrest, he named one Mueez Akande as his drug boss. Upon investigation, it was revealed that funds from Mr. Akande’s white heroin drug cartel had found its way into Mr. Tinubu’s account and that they could not be justified by his legitimate income, then which stood at about $2400 a month.


Bola Tinubu was found to have shared accommodation with the said Mr. Akande, who had been his known associate for years. And that rather than fight the charges of laundering money for a drug cartel, Bola Tinubu entered into a plea agreement with the US Federal Government to forfeit $460,000 in drug money to the government.


These are the undeniable FACTS!


The APC presidential candidate has not come out clean on the allegation. The fact that he entered a plea bargain, did not exonerate him of the offence!


The fact that they go in and out of US is not a proof that he was exonerated. If a US permanent resident is convicted and imprisoned and serves his sentence, he can fly in and out of America without hindrance.


The grounds for inadmissibility into the United States are found in Section 212(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.) and they do not apply to Bola Tinubu, who was carrying green card.


The fact remains that Bola Tinubu was involved in drug  case, and by accepting a plea bargain, in which he voluntarily agreed to forfeit his assets, rather than go to trial, he is seen in the eyes of the law to have admitted to being a drug lord.


Other controversies surrounding the Jagaban are his age, nativity and real name. Who is Tinubu? Who is his real father? Identity is very important. His identity is still shrouded in controversy.


Late Secretary General of Pan-Yoruba Cultural Organization, (Afenifere), Yinka Odumakin gave an insight into Tinubu’s origin and age. In a direct mail to him in 1999, Odumakin confirmed that he came from the same state with him – Osun. He went further to remind him that he came from Iragbiji. Odumakin, who obviously knew so much revealed that when Tinubu’s mother died, it  was Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi that led a delegation from Lagos that attended the burial, on  behalf of Tinubu. The reason was because, he had chosen another home and another family in Lagos. 


Tinubu should not be ashamed of his nativity, especially when almost every Yoruba in Lagos originated from somewhere, outside Lagos.


In 1999, Tinubu was quoted as saying that he was 66 years old. Odumakin, in the said memo to him, reminded him that one of the sons of Tinubu’s elder brother, had just celebrated his 63 years of age! And that he could not be senior to his nephew by just three years.


He also said that he saw a photograph of Tinubu taken in 1974 at the palace of Soun Ogbomoso, during the installation of the royal father. He said Tinubu was cooling off with a bottle of beer and a packet of cigarettes in his front, on the table. Odumakin rightly concluded that his age was seriously doctored, for no known reason.


The certificate controversy whirling around somebody of his stature is so unfortunate and sad. Yoruba people are very diligent when it comes to education and record keeping. It is very difficult to see a Yoruba man with questionable educational qualifications. Tinubu’s case is quite different and amazing.


Tinubu has once stated why he could not attend regular education, as other Yoruba children, citing poverty. The question is, why should he quote at all, in his 1999 INEC forms. And why should he removed them in 2003, when filling the same form? This is where allegation of perjury comes. He was not consistent with the information regarding his educational background.


Former political adviser to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri gave insight into why Tinubu could not cite his primary school and secondary school background. He said, they could answer some questions surrounding his nativity, age and real name. Ordinarily, we don’t need this information in order to contest election. We need them for the sake of integrity and responsibility. 


Everybody comes from somewhere, no matter how poor and remote. MKO Abiola once told the world that he took egg for the first time in the house of his late wife, Simbiat, whose parents were relatively rich. Your background is who you  are. We shouldn’t be ashamed of it. It is part of accountability required of every human being and a responsible leader.


It is so sad that in this era, we are talking about academic certificate for somebody aspiring to become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It means if he becomes president, we will be dealing with a leader with identity crisis. This raises many moral questions, for us, as a nation.


But who cares about morality and accountability in Nigeria, when it has to do with politics? Nobody! When will Nigeria produce a president that is a professor. When will the country have a president that is an engineer, a lawyer, a medical doctor, a surveyor, an accountant, et al?


The Buhari matter of 2015 is repeating itself in 2023, in Tinubu. Since 2015, the president of Nigeria has been submitting affidavits, in place of certificates, to INEC. Another question is, why are the presidential candidates of APC having issues with their certificates? 


Again, like Buhari his predecessor, Tinubu is dodging television or press interviews, with excuses. This is probably as a result of the various dirty  skeletons in his cupboard. Yet, this will not matter when we go to polls in 2023


 What manner of country is this?


A Professor of law, and Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo contested the APC presidential primary election with Tinubu, along with others. Osinbajo lost. Tinubu won. This is Nigeria! When you want to rule this country, you don’t need to go to school. The Nigerian electorate say, those that go to school only speak “grammar”; and that they are stingy. To be stingy as a politician, is that you don’t bribe voters with money, during elections.


This is the type of country we have. People with sound integrity and credible certificates cannot win elections


No responsible professor with his hard earned money will give $25,000 to one delegate, in order to win primary election. It is as immoral as it is fraudulent.


Tinubu is a shrew master strategist. He has always bought his way through all the challenges of his life, bearing in mind that he is grossly inadequate. Tinubu is a Mammon worshipper, like many of Nigerian politicians.


Tinubu can be likened to most of the emperor’s of ancient and medieval history, who ruled and dominated their environments by smooth plotting and brute coercion. He is a dictator par excellence. He is very arrogant!


What was his legitimate business before before 1999, when he became the governor of Lagos State? I don’t know. But we are aware that he could not properly fund his governorship election, in 1999. It was said that friends had to rally around him to help him print of his campaign materials and for other essential expenses. He had only a house in Lagos. According to Odumakin, the four cars he was using at that time belonged to one Solomon Ganiyu. There was nothing like Bourdillion Villa, in Victoria Island then.


Let us accept that Tinubu ran away from Nigeria because Sani Abacha’s military junta was looking for his head on a platter, as he claimed, being a NADECO activist. I presume that the first thing that should have naturally come to his mind after picking his transport fare was his school certificates. As we can see, he picked his bag, a few clothes and his money. And left his certificates behind, IF ANY! This is very hard to believe!


Nigeria is such an unlucky country. If Tinubu wins the next presidential election, we would be having a president we don’t really know. Buhari’s case in 2015 could be better. At least, we know that the president is from Daura in Katsina State, even though he is carrying WAEC ‘s “attestation certificate.”


The trend of voting political leaders with only affidavits should stop. In 2015, supporters of Buhari were quoted as saying that even if he was holding ‘toilet tissue paper’ or ‘NEPA bill’ as certificate, they would vote for him. And they did. We are again confronted with a similar situation, with Tinubu, in 2023. 


Tinubu’s age, nativity, real name, schools he attended have never mattered; and it will not matter in the next presidential election. We passed through this road before, up to Supreme Court. He has always won his legal cases, brought against him, as long as they are brought before Nigerian judges.


As Nigerians, we are not better than him. As the saying goes, those that vote such leaders in office are accomplices, not victims.


The issue of Tinubu’s certificates will not be on the next presidential ballot. Nobody in Nigeria wins election on the basis of integrity or educational attainment. What matters is the size and content of your bullion van. Tinubu already knows what to do in the next election. He should just deploy bullion vans to each of the 36 states of the country.


A bullion van for a state. This is the expected picture for the next presidential election.


GOD HELP NIGERIA!2023: TINUBU’S MORAL OPACITY & SUNDRY FOIBLES (updated)

 

IN MAINSTREAM 

BY ABEL ADA-MUSA


Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the strongman of Lagos politics and the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) is a familiar actor in stormy waters. He is known to controversy of various kinds, especially his source of stupendous wealth, age, nativity, real name and educational qualifications.


Since 1999, when contested and won the governorship of  Lagos State, these have been his Achilles heel; to wit, his political challenges. The good news, however,  is that he had always weathered the storms.


As a politician, Tinubu has often acted  as a disciple of Machiavelli and a worshipper of Mammon, than a disciple of Abraham Lincoln. He believes in coercive or authoritarian democracy. He knows all the instruments of acquiring power and how to keep it. He plays the game both fair and rough, depending on the circumstance. He is good at what he does! I count it as a plus for him, though.


His influence in Lagos is dorminant and unfettered, especially since when he became governor in 1999 till 2007. He has built political structures that made him lay hold of Lagos and its resources with a very firm grip. Rumour has it that he owns almost half of Lagos, in property and in affluence. His name looms large and easily reverberates across all political spectrum in Lagos State, especially.


But one thing that has besmeared his politics over the years, is the opaqueness of his character, lifestyle and accomplishments. 


When he was  elected governor, in 1999, one Mr. Wasiu Balogun wrote a petition against him, alleging that the information he pleaded in his Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) form CF001were false. It was a daring move that also attracted the indefatigable and firebrand lawyer late Gani Fawehinmi, who went to court to challenge Tinubu’s certain information on the INEC form. He contended that the state governor perjured; especially in the information regarding his university certificate.


He said the claim that his certificates were stolen by “unknown soldier” when they raided his house between 1994 and and 1998, in Lagos was not true. 


TheNews magazine did an investigation into the story. What it came out with was deep and damning. It was discovered that he did not attend St. Paul Children’s Home school, Ibadan. And also that the St. Paul School Aroloya, Lagos, which he quoted on the INEC form did not exist!


He also claimed to have attended the famous Government College, Ibadan between 1965 and 1968. When the Old Students of the college learned that the governor of Lagos State was also an “old student”, they proposed a grand reception for him.  But at a point, they paused to find out the actual year he graduated. His name could not be found anywhere. That was how the planned event died a natural death.


While the controversy was going on, it was rumoured that the then Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lam Adesina ordered  that all documents relating to the graduates of Government College, Ibadan, be submitted and stored in his office. The principal of the college was reportedly barred from speaking with any journalist or anybody, on the matter.


What was most worrying is the conspiracy of silence on that part of his supposed  classmates, schoolmates and teachers, IF ANY. No old student of Tinuhu has ever spoken for or against him, except the ‘bad boy’ like Femi Aribisala, who has gone public to deny that Tinubu was their mate. At least, if he doesn’t have a certificate, he should have a classmate! But none! No certificates, no classmates, no former teachers.


Also punctured was his claim that he attended Richard Daley College in US, between 1969 and and 1971. The same for his averment that he studied at University of Chicago, between 1972 and 1976.


The APC presidential candidate is mature enough to know the difference between University of Chicago and Chicago State University. Recently, fact emerged that Chicago State University confirmed that he attended the institution. A sigh of relief there, I think! 


Meanwhile, the case filed by Fawehinmi was decided by the Supreme Court in 2002, in favour of Tinubu, of course. The apex court ruled that the diehard lawyer was statute barred by the immunity clause in the constitution, which said that the governor could not be sued while in office.  


So, he escaped on a technical ground, but the substance of the case remained. It should be stated here that the Jagaban of Borgu kingdom, as he is fondly called, has never lost any legal battle. But he knew then that the snake had merely been bruised, not killed, as the matter keeps resurfacing.


In 2003, Tinubu stirred further controversy, when he filled the same INEC form CF001. This time around, he removed all the educational qualifications he pleaded in 1999. In the columns meant for primary school, secondary school, university attended, he wrote NOT APPLICABLE.


The matter has recently aggravated because of 2023 election. The summary is that Tinuhu has integrity issues around  his personality. He needs to come clean of all the baggage alleged to be in his kitty? 


Tinubu’ past and present are haunting him direly. One issue that has failed to leave the front burner of presidential politics is his alleged involvement in drugs trafficking, for which he was arrested in 1990.


In the course of a sting operation, one Abiodun Agbele sold white heroin to an undercover FBI agent on November 28, 1990. The fact of the matter is that the drug  charges brought against Tinubu by the FBI, sounded very clear, detailed, and unambiguous.


Upon his arrest, he named one Mueez Akande as his drug boss. Upon investigation, it was revealed that funds from Mr. Akande’s white heroin drug cartel had found its way into Mr. Tinubu’s account and that they could not be justified by his legitimate income, then which stood at about $2400 a month.


Bola Tinubu was found to have shared accommodation with the said Mr. Akande, who had been his known associate for years. And that rather than fight the charges of laundering money for a drug cartel, Bola Tinubu entered into a plea agreement with the US Federal Government to forfeit $460,000 in drug money to the government.


These are the undeniable FACTS!


The APC presidential candidate has not come out clean on the allegation. The fact that he entered a plea bargain, did not exonerate him of the offence!


The fact that they go in and out of US is not a proof that he was exonerated. If a US permanent resident is convicted and imprisoned and serves his sentence, he can fly in and out of America without hindrance.


The grounds for inadmissibility into the United States are found in Section 212(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.) and they do not apply to Bola Tinubu, who was carrying green card.


The fact remains that Bola Tinubu was involved in drug  case, and by accepting a plea bargain, in which he voluntarily agreed to forfeit his assets, rather than go to trial, he is seen in the eyes of the law to have admitted to being a drug lord.


Other controversies surrounding the Jagaban are his age, nativity and real name. Who is Tinubu? Who is his real father? Identity is very important. His identity is still shrouded in controversy.


Late Secretary General of Pan-Yoruba Cultural Organization, (Afenifere), Yinka Odumakin gave an insight into Tinubu’s origin and age. In a direct mail to him in 1999, Odumakin confirmed that he came from the same state with him – Osun. He went further to remind him that he came from Iragbiji. Odumakin, who obviously knew so much revealed that when Tinubu’s mother died, it  was Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi that led a delegation from Lagos that attended the burial, on  behalf of Tinubu. The reason was because, he had chosen another home and another family in Lagos. 


Tinubu should not be ashamed of his nativity, especially when almost every Yoruba in Lagos originated from somewhere, outside Lagos.


In 1999, Tinubu was quoted as saying that he was 66 years old. Odumakin, in the said memo to him, reminded him that one of the sons of Tinubu’s elder brother, had just celebrated his 63 years of age! And that he could not be senior to his nephew by just three years.


He also said that he saw a photograph of Tinubu taken in 1974 at the palace of Soun Ogbomoso, during the installation of the royal father. He said Tinubu was cooling off with a bottle of beer and a packet of cigarettes in his front, on the table. Odumakin rightly concluded that his age was seriously doctored, for no known reason.


The certificate controversy whirling around somebody of his stature is so unfortunate and sad. Yoruba people are very diligent when it comes to education and record keeping. It is very difficult to see a Yoruba man with questionable educational qualifications. Tinubu’s case is quite different and amazing.


Tinubu has once stated why he could not attend regular education, as other Yoruba children, citing poverty. The question is, why should he quote at all, in his 1999 INEC forms. And why should he removed them in 2003, when filling the same form? This is where allegation of perjury comes. He was not consistent with the information regarding his educational background.


Former political adviser to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri gave insight into why Tinubu could not cite his primary school and secondary school background. He said, they could answer some questions surrounding his nativity, age and real name. Ordinarily, we don’t need this information in order to contest election. We need them for the sake of integrity and responsibility. 


Everybody comes from somewhere, no matter how poor and remote. MKO Abiola once told the world that he took egg for the first time in the house of his late wife, Simbiat, whose parents were relatively rich. Your background is who you  are. We shouldn’t be ashamed of it. It is part of accountability required of every human being and a responsible leader.


It is so sad that in this era, we are talking about academic certificate for somebody aspiring to become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It means if he becomes president, we will be dealing with a leader with identity crisis. This raises many moral questions, for us, as a nation.


But who cares about morality and accountability in Nigeria, when it has to do with politics? Nobody! When will Nigeria produce a president that is a professor. When will the country have a president that is an engineer, a lawyer, a medical doctor, a surveyor, an accountant, et al?


The Buhari matter of 2015 is repeating itself in 2023, in Tinubu. Since 2015, the president of Nigeria has been submitting affidavits, in place of certificates, to INEC. Another question is, why are the presidential candidates of APC having issues with their certificates? 


Again, like Buhari his predecessor, Tinubu is dodging television or press interviews, with excuses. This is probably as a result of the various dirty  skeletons in his cupboard. Yet, this will not matter when we go to polls in 2023


 What manner of country is this?


A Professor of law, and Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo contested the APC presidential primary election with Tinubu, along with others. Osinbajo lost. Tinubu won. This is Nigeria! When you want to rule this country, you don’t need to go to school. The Nigerian electorate say, those that go to school only speak “grammar”; and that they are stingy. To be stingy as a politician, is that you don’t bribe voters with money, during elections.


This is the type of country we have. People with sound integrity and credible certificates cannot win elections


No responsible professor with his hard earned money will give $25,000 to one delegate, in order to win primary election. It is as immoral as it is fraudulent.


Tinubu is a shrew master strategist. He has always bought his way through all the challenges of his life, bearing in mind that he is grossly inadequate. Tinubu is a Mammon worshipper, like many of Nigerian politicians.


Tinubu can be likened to most of the emperor’s of ancient and medieval history, who ruled and dominated their environments by smooth plotting and brute coercion. He is a dictator par excellence. He is very arrogant!


What was his legitimate business before before 1999, when he became the governor of Lagos State? I don’t know. But we are aware that he could not properly fund his governorship election, in 1999. It was said that friends had to rally around him to help him print of his campaign materials and for other essential expenses. He had only a house in Lagos. According to Odumakin, the four cars he was using at that time belonged to one Solomon Ganiyu. There was nothing like Bourdillion Villa, in Victoria Island then.


Let us accept that Tinubu ran away from Nigeria because Sani Abacha’s military junta was looking for his head on a platter, as he claimed, being a NADECO activist. I presume that the first thing that should have naturally come to his mind after picking his transport fare was his school certificates. As we can see, he picked his bag, a few clothes and his money. And left his certificates behind, IF ANY! This is very hard to believe!


Nigeria is such an unlucky country. If Tinubu wins the next presidential election, we would be having a president we don’t really know. Buhari’s case in 2015 could be better. At least, we know that the president is from Daura in Katsina State, even though he is carrying WAEC ‘s “attestation certificate.”


The trend of voting political leaders with only affidavits should stop. In 2015, supporters of Buhari were quoted as saying that even if he was holding ‘toilet tissue paper’ or ‘NEPA bill’ as certificate, they would vote for him. And they did. We are again confronted with a similar situation, with Tinubu, in 2023. 


Tinubu’s age, nativity, real name, schools he attended have never mattered; and it will not matter in the next presidential election. We passed through this road before, up to Supreme Court. He has always won his legal cases, brought against him, as long as they are brought before Nigerian judges.


As Nigerians, we are not better than him. As the saying goes, those that vote such leaders in office are accomplices, not victims.


The issue of Tinubu’s certificates will not be on the next presidential ballot. Nobody in Nigeria wins election on the basis of integrity or educational attainment. What matters is the size and content of your bullion van. Tinubu already knows what to do in the next election. He should just deploy bullion vans to each of the 36 states of the country.


A bullion van for a state. This is the expected picture for the next presidential election.


GOD HELP NIGERIA!




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