NDIGBO IN THE PRESIDENCY ROWING THE BOAT OF THE NIGERIAN STATE: IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
Justitia suum cuique
- Justinian 1 (From Corpus Juris Civilis, 529-534).
Give Ndigbo a chance…what is good for the Fulanis, Hausas, the Kanuris, the Shuwa Arabs and the Yorubas is equally good for other nationalities within the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Source & photo credit: Significance of ‘Red Cap’ in Igbo culture - Obindigbo
Red crabs on Christmas Island. Photo credit: Parks Australia.
Again, red crabs on Christmas Island. Photo credit: Parks Australia.
ZONING AND THE MACRONIZATION OF MICROPOLITICS, SUB-NATIONAL POLITY IN A MULTILINGUAL, MULTI-CULTURAL, MULTI-RACIAL POLITY
Zoning is a commonsensical micropolitical arrangement introduced by political parties in Nigeria after due diligence, reflection, consideration, taking cognizance of the nation’s pluralism to give justice and fairness to all concerned, and with a view to correcting the correctable; reflecting the reflectable; representing the unrepresented; avoiding the avoidable; arguing the arguable; distributing the distributable; ensuring the ensurable; adding the addable; subtracting the subtractable; righting the wrong of the past or the inherent or systemic wrong or injustices or nepotism to ensure balance or balance of power by balancing the balanceable; assuring the assurable; promoting the promotable, advancing the advanceable and having thereto been agreed by all the stakeholders or the members of the party, (it) automatically assumes a macro level politics, becomes nationalised, albeit, not (now) an entrenched provision in the statute book of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and having been so nationalised, the prospective candidate that wins in the party’s primary or congress election is presented to the macro-national electorate to be voted for in a presidential election, and the candidate that wins, assumes office and rules the entire country as one people under one God, one vision, purpose, dream, goal, philosophy and one national aspiration.
AN INVITATION TO PONDER
General Elections 2015: Lest we forget, Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 49 years (vigilance-securitymagazine.com), accessed: 24/01/2022.
General Elections 2015: Lest we forget, Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 49 years (scorpionnewscorp.com), accessed: 24/01/2022.
2019: The danger that lies ahead, but what time is it in Ndigbo's Political Calendar having not ruled Nigeria for 49 years? (vigilance-securitymagazine.com), accessed: 24/01/2022.
Fellow country men and women, boys and girls, give your ear to me for a moment, together with your hearts, minds, souls, inmost beings (true beings), consciences and subconsciouses and I will plant inside them the eternal word of truth from the fathomless depth of my mind regarding our Commonwealth and common humanity such as has been motivated by unfathomable love, utmost loyalty to fatherland and an unalloyed patriotism, a deep sense of concern and responsibility, coupled with a sense of universal altruism, fairness, justice and for the sake of peace in the land thenceforward, the nation and all of its great people in and around the Lower and Upper Niger and in the diaspora that a major Geopolizone of this our great nation, even our Nigeria, has not ruled Nigeria for 56 years, foreshadowing ominous signs ahead as we continue arrogantly in this our ever checkered national odyssey.
And for peace and justice to reign in our body politics, in addition to keeping our country together permanently as one, genuine, and conscientious efforts must be made to right this grave wrong that has continued in our polity for these 56 calendar years, lest we all lose our dear nation before long:
In light of the aforesaid, I shall therefore as in the number of the tribes of Israel hasten to remind the Republic and the Nigerian people twelve times in the manner as hereunder listed, and proceed afterwards to summon the heavens and the earth – all lovers of peace, fairness and justice, all agents of truth and universal altruism, the angels and the cherubim, all the creatures of the universe and its other biotic contents thereof - the sun and the moon and the stars of heaven, light and even DARKNESS, the hills, the valleys, the caves and the mountains, streams, brooks, the lakes and the ponds and the rivers, wetlands, the seas, the oceans, the wilderness, the anthills, the trees and the forests, and all the creatures that do perch on them thereof as witnesses to the indisputable fact that:
- Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 56 years!
- Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 56 years!
- Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 56 years!
- Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 56 years!
- Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 56 years!
- Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 56 years!
- Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 56 years!
- Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 56 years!
- Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 56 years!
- Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 56 years!
- Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 56 years!
- Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 56 years!
PREDATORY, HUNGRY AND PERPETUALLY BROKE PROFESSIONAL PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS (PPAs)
“I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof!”
- John Adams
The Heat is on…Presidential Election Anxiety Disorder (PEAD)…the heat is on…Presidential Election Anxiety Syndrome (PEAS)!
Another season of theirs is here again, and they are all warming up right now to once again exploit and extort money from some gullible Nigerians once more, and INEC is hereby called upon to be very vigilant this time round and put a stop to this thoroughly indecent, indecorous, hollow rogues, thieving and morally bankrupt Roadside-how-for-do presidential aspirants – the Bomodus of this world.
They know they can never, ever win a constituency or ward election, how much more the highly competitive presidential election, which in a serious and sane environment is for persons of exalted minds with visions, missions, purposes and at least, an identifiable ideology to hold onto, but certainly not these kobo-kobo “brood of vipers”!
At every presidential election, they don their babariga and with sugar-coated mouths and fake English accents, they traverse the land with their band of good-for-nothing idlers – their food-is-ready-come-chop alleluia boys and girls, men, and women to bamboozle the gullible and the unwary Nigerians and sweet-tongue and cajole them into donating towards their so-called presidential campaign funds.
Two options: They collect millions from fellow Nigerians at home and in the diaspora, desperate for political appointments and contracts afterwards, but once they are weeded out of the race, they pocket all the monies – the millions they had collected from the unsuspecting Nigerians and foreigners, including foreign Governments through their embassies/high commissions.
Alternatively, they align themselves with the potentially winning presidential candidate and enter a deal with them for political appointments or contracts – and under this arrangement/agreement, they donate their prospective voters to the potentially winning presidential candidate (PWPC), and then go on to resume their unbridled dissipated lifestyles.
And because ours is not a questioning society/polity, they often get away with these unearned bonanzas that they had fraudulently and deceptively hoodwinked some people into parting away with, as no one, and neither the police nor the nation’s electoral umpire – the INEC will ever dare to question these professional fraudsters nor summon them to account for such bonanzas.
Thus, in line with a common dictum: to be forewarned is to be forearmed – firstly the Nigerian people must never, ever again make themselves susceptible to this four-yearly chicanery and fraud by these jokers and fraudsters; secondly, the Nigerian authorities need to protect our people from these political loafers and wayfarers; thirdly, the police in Nigeria are by this writing being put on alert ahead of time so they can be on the lookout for these political egbodas, efulefus and banzas (Yala, Igbo and Hausa – for thoroughly very worthless/inferior people), and fourthly, the INEC must be alive to its responsibility to the electorate/the Nigerian people and help them protect their hard earned money, especially in this covidized era, so the Nigerian people are never, ever taken advantage of anymore, by going all out, comb every nook and cranny of the federation to fish out these political crooks and prosecute them, and finally get them out of their Luciferian business.
ABOUT JOHN ODEY ADUMA
A highly successful and award–winning British Chevening Scholar, Poet, Editor, Columnist, Communications Consultant, Author, Commentator on national and international issues, Environmental and Publishing Consultant, with expertise in Conflict Management, Public Surveillance, Media, Business Management and Administration, General Marketing, Market Research, Sales, Advertising and Public Relations.
John Odey Aduma, British Chevening Scholar, Author of The Diamonds Are Here, Lord Rumens (ed.), Be A Beacon of Hope in the World: A Message to Young Britain released to the global public on January 4, 2022, by Austin Macauley Publishers, United Kingdom), and a renowned environmental journalist was born on December 13, 1963 at Okpoma, Yala in Ogoja, Cross River State of Nigeria.
He was educated variously at Christ the King’s School, Okpoma, 1969-1970; St. Mel’s Primary School, Woleche-Ebo, 1971; St. Gabriel’s Primary School, Ebo-Ipuole, 1972-1974; Christian Vocational Commercial School, Okuku, Ogoja, 1975; Faith Institute of Stenography, Shogunle, Lagos, 1976; Aladura Comprehensive High School, Anthony Village, Lagos, 1977-1982; University of Ibadan, Department of Adult Education, 1983-1984; Obafemi Awolowo University, 1985-1989, where he graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in English Studies; University of Lagos, 1991-1992, where he worked for and obtained an M.A. in English; and at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, 1994, where he took a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism; City University, London, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2004, where he was a British Chevening Scholar and studied for his M.A. in International Journalism with specialism in Environment; City Business College, London, 2005-2006 for a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies, but completed only the taught course; Voice Coaching, CSV Media, London, 2006; Radio Production, CSV Media, London, 2006 and the City and Guilds Certificate in Conflict Management. 2006.
Besides, he has attended many training courses in Planning, Writing and Production Skills on Communicating for the Environment.
He was the winner of the Nigerian Media Merit Award for Investigative Reporter of the Year and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence, Reporter of the Year, both in 1992. He also received a Community Service Award in 1997 and the Outstanding Staff Award of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc in the year 2001.
In 1994, he edited Lord Rumens, a book on a prominent Nigerian business tycoon and Lawn Tennis icon, Chief Ajisomo Alabi. He was a member of the Green Environment Movement, and the Nigerian Field Society (1990-2003), he was on the Core Committee of the National Technology Summit and doubled as the Summit’s Publicity; Products and Exhibition Chairman, 1998.
Other national and important committees on which Aduma has also served or headed included the National Planning Committee, Youth Development, Federal Ministry of Education and Youth Development, 1993; Core Committee, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)/Ford Foundation, Kano Eastern Bypass Roadside Tree Planting Exercise, 1997; Chairman, Planning Committee, Alhaji Babatunde Jose’s 75th Birthday, 2000, (Dr. Jose was a doyen of Nigerian journalism and was the first African Editor, Managing Director and Chairman of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc); Chairman, Planning Committee of the 7th and 8th General Murtala Muhammed’s Memorial Lecture (the late Nigerian Head of State), 2001 and 2002; Chairman, Planning Committee of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc’s 75th Anniversary, 2001 including sitting on many national techno-industrial committees (too numerous to mention here) in his capacity then as Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria (FAN).
Aduma, Communications/Environmental Consultant, Critic, Poet, Essayist, and Columnist, was formerly Staff Reporter, The Guardian (flagship of the Nigerian media) 1990-1993; Consultant/Chairman, Media, Green Environment Movement, Nigeria, 1990-2003; Senior Correspondent, The Independent Weekly, (1993-1994); Head, Environment and Property Desk, The Punch (1994-1997); Editorial Consultant and Contributing Editor, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation’s Tortoise Magazine, 1995; Contributing Editor, Pole Star Magazine (1998); Member, Editorial Board of The Nigerian Conservationist Magazine (1995-2000), Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria, (1997-2000), Editor, Foundry Chronicle, (1997-2000), Southern Coordinator/Public Affairs Manager, The Pastoral Resolve, 2000, (a pastoralists NGO) headed by one of Nigeria’s former Head of State), General Muhammadu Buhari, presently, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; and Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc (2000-2003).
He was one of the twelve eminent Nigerians appointed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo (GCFR) of Nigeria into the Administrative Panel of Inquiry, also known variously as Presidential Panel, Commission of Inquiry, respectively to investigate the illegal trade in and smuggling of Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna into and out of Nigeria in 2003.
In year 2003, he attended the Chevening Leadership Programme, (sponsored by the British Council and Shell) at the elite Lagos Business School (the Pan-African University) in Nigeria and thereafter, proceeded to the United Kingdom as a British Chevening Scholar to study International Journalism at City University, London, where he worked for and obtained an MA in International Journalism with specialism in environment.
Between 2005 - 2009 he was Media Director, PRONACO (Pro-National Conference), UK/Europe.
Also, between 2013 and 2021, Mr. Aduma was involved in the Professional Post Graduate Mentoring Scheme of City, University of London and he is currently a Doctoral Researcher at SOAS, University of London.
In addition to his array of degrees and extensive experience in journalism, environment, development, international diplomacy and international security, Mr Aduma obtained the AET (Award in Education and Training), Level 3 from CONEL, a Further Education College and member of the Capital City College Group (CCCG), London, including Higher Education courses in Education and Training – the CET (Certificate in Education and Training) Level 4 and the Specialist Diploma in Teaching English: ESOL & Literacy, Level 5 from the same Further Education College, all in 2018.
Aduma is the Chief Executive Officer of VIGILANCE-THE WORLD’S LEADING SECURITY MAGAZINE (www.vigilance-securitymagazine.com) and the founder of Scorpion News Corp (www.scorpionnewscorp.com).
His new book was released on the 4th of January 2022.
- ODEY OKABO OBOYA ADUMA (Johnny Boy).
One of God’s workmanships in His service, that of country and humanity.
CCLPS, SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.
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God bless our Nigeria.
Please take a pause and listen – source: Bob Marley - Everything's Gonna Be Alright - YouTube.
Good morning, fellow Nigerians and all friends of Nigeria, worldwide!
