And if the president had once claimed that 13 is greater than 16 in the governors’ forum affair, who is a governor not to uphold the harebrained action of seven where eighteen is stipulated?
This is more than serious…why must everything, from federal to state, be so much brigandage? Lord have mercy!’, wrote Professor Mobolaji Aluko on the ekitipanupo web portal, commenting on the sealing of the National Assembly by the Nigerian police as well as tear gassing its members on that unfortunate day when all of President Jonathan’s make-belief as to being a pacifist got completely blown up to smithereens as no Nigerian Inspector General of Police, born of woman, not to talk of a mere state Commissioner of Police, as is being claimed, would dare enact that horror movie without the express say so of the President.
Happily, if Professor Aluko was still wondering as to what has befallen the country under the Jonathan presidency, not so a perspicacious Tatalo who, in his column of Sunday, 17 Novembe, 2014 in The Nation had written, inter alia, as follows under the Title: Political War Games In Nigeria – “It would be politically foolish and obtuse to the bargain to ever imagine that Jonathan and his strategists are unwise enough not to realize his electoral limitations at this crucial moment. If that is so, it brings us to the central thesis of this piece. Jonathan and his handlers may very well not be preparing for an electoral competition but for a physical conquest in the guise of a democratic quest”. Evidence of that now abound as we would show in this article.
In the meantime, not knowing that what Ekiti people currently regard as the embarrassing dividends of their decision of 21 June, 2014 are nothing more than the dictates of a man dead set on contesting and winning an election, no matter what that entails for the nation, I am convinced that with what happened at the National Assembly this past week, they must by now have begun to see how exactly they have been badly had. For confirmation of that, simultaneously as the National Assembly members were being shut out from the House, the Ekiti state House of Assembly, in a most macabre undertaking, was deceiving itself into believing that 7 of its 26 members can impeach a speaker where the constitution prescribes two thirds, which is 18. I saw one of the seven on Channels television during the past week making what he considers a justification of their illogic and I saw perfectly why Ekiti has become the butt of jokes the world over as a visit to a Facebook account will more than confirm. However, the worst was to come when the state governor popped up claiming it is that illegal ‘speaker he was going to work with, emphasizing, repeatedly, that he had no apologies. What a land of honour gone awry! And if the President had once claimed that 13 is greater than 16 in the governors’ forum affair, who is a governor not to uphold the harebrained action of seven where eighteen is stipulated.
Nor did they stop there. As contained in a Press Release by Wole Olujobi, Press Adviser to the Speaker of the House of Assembly, the legal as distinct from the rabid impostor, “the Police and ?the Department of State Security have withdrawn their personnel from the security teams of the Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, and the Deputy Speaker, Chief Adetunji Orisalade. This followed the invasion of the Speaker’s Lodge this evening by Mr Dele Olugbemi, the purported new Speaker, who led PDP members in a forceful occupation of the building’. Again it should be obvious to Nigerians from these events that Abuja is the falconer and that the state governor is nothing more than the President’s viceroy in Ado-Ekiti.
It certainly cannot get more scary but only a fool would claim not to have seen all these coming given President Jonathan’s single-minded ambition, after six years already spent on the post, not only to contest, but to be declared winner in the 2015 presidential election. Indeed, given the unequaled success of their newly fangled election rigging tactics which we saw deployed in Ekiti in June, arising from which the President asked some foreign Ambassadors in the country to inform their Heads of state that the 2015 elections would be a successful and seamless excise, even where he had not proposed a single effort at improving our chaotic and fraudulent electoral process inthos six years, it is obvious that Nigerians must be prepared for more of the same as these people are not preparing for an election in its true sense, but as Tatalo put it, a physical capture. I just hope the oposition isbeing properly warned as it will no longer be able totalk of a failure of intelligence. Both PP and the President have shown enough of their hands.
So successful was their scientific rigging in Ekiti on 21 June 2014 that because there was not a single reported case of ballot snatching or illegal thumb printing but rather, a calm and peaceful voting, Ekiti people believed they got what they voted on that day even where neither the PDP nor its candidate had done a single positive thing for the state and the people for the past four years apat from the emergency rice and beans which in no way compared with all that Fayemi had done in office to cater to the needs of both the needy and the general populace. I can understand, however, that that the 20,000 ghost workers he eliminated by his introduction of e-payment to the government’s financial system rankled amongst the rogues. But I tell them, what they are celebrating is science, miraculously, but clinically settling matters long before the voting proper. And since VANISHING INK, instead of the constitutionally prescribed INDELIBLE ink was what INEC provided voters, the deed was done, even without a whimper. For those in doubt, I once again ask them to Google: NIKUV and the Zimbabwean presidential elections as well as NASENI and its own findings on the 2013 Presidential election in Zimbabwe, another African country. So PDP was not inventing the wheel but merely catching in on the new fad in election rigging. As to those who question why there were no riots, I say, how could any sensible person react to an apparently ‘flawless’ election, even if the state was not completely militarily locked down. And by the way, were there any cries of anguish from the victims of atomic bombing in Hiroshima? Science is clinical enough to ensure that the victims could not react. Instead, where they are not dead, the victims are put in a permanent state of delirium; the very state Ekiti presently finds itself though unknown to many.
But all these are mere preparations for the big prize: the 2015 presidential election. And so Nigerians, not only in Ekiti but in all the Southwest states as well as others like Akwa Ibom and Rivers, where you see governors or Abuja sponsored contestants daring everybody, insisting it is their way or the high way; in Kwara, where they hate Bukola Saraki with a passion, Kano, because they still cannot imagine a triumphant Emir Sanusi Lamido, in spite of all the make belief and some other state must brace up for the Ekiti treatment. Photocromism, otherwise known as scientific rigging, in its various variants, will be deployed in these states by their rogue scientists who are mostly from a Middle East country whose national economy thrives most on the military industrial philosophy.
As things stand today, President Jonathan’s strategists have their plans for ‘pacifying’ each geo-political zone to ensure that zones with high voter populations are compromised and others leaning more towards the opposition APC are completely messed up. It is this that accounts for the shenanigans we are witnessing in the distribution of Permanent Voter Cards and the man to pity here is Chairman Jega who is not complicit since he is not even trusted. Instead, middling officers in the IT departments with, possibly a dedicated director, are in charge of all the schemes to add to or subtract from the number of voters in each zone as illicitly decreed by the men of power. The Northeast,, unfortunately, shot itself in the foot when the likes of Modu Sheriff deliberately encouraged illiteracy, and ended up as the birthplace of Boko Haram which authorities have done everything to ensure thrives until the 2015 election is over. In the huge Northwest and North Central, what used to be occasional bloodletting between the various tribes has taken a life of its own and in the Southwest, it is the turn of the MACHO MEN to rein in the Yoruba, a distinguished people with thousands of years behind them. As for the South South and the South East, they are already presumed safe and delivered.
