Tosyn Oseni: Nigeria in 1 Week

Tosyn Oseni: Nigeria in 1 Week

So in honor of a sister and mentor Ewar (Adenike Ogungbe), I decided to take a 1 week break from commenting on issues on social media. I was deeply shocked at the death of an inspiration such as Ewar who has now taken her bundle of talents and beauty into the grave yard. It’s very difficult to inspire me but Ewar was one of the few ladies who inspired me. Like she tweeted, Even though I don’t understand, I trust now that she is good and God is good.

Let me start by pointing out that Nigerian Youths need to prioritize, we can’t sit back in our homes and be more concerned about BBA than we are concerned about PDP’s activities in Aso-rock. Like Martin Luther king Jr. said “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”. Many times I almost came out of my 1 week tweet exile to comment, as many raging issues occurred within this period… First, I heard about the massacre of about 25 lovely young Nigerians who should be the future of the Nation by HIS siblings and just about when I thought the nation would be in serious mourning and that this singular event should rejuvenate our call on the president for action, I was wrong as one Lekan dude who thinks he is a bad ass chose this sad period to display on twitter a screen munch of a private conversation he had with one Tinuola over their negotiations for sex. Nigerian youths promptly forgot about the killing of about 40 future leaders and instead decided to breathe life to Lekan’s immoral activities; some were even hailing him and castigating the lady. It was a shock to me that even though we joined Lekan in remorselessly ignoring the bloodletting of over 40 potential presidents of Nigeria and talents in Yobe, we refused to ask Lekan why in the first place he would demand for sex from girl who asked him for help and if that was all about their conversation….

While lekan’s issue was still raging, Pius Adesanmi’s write up surfaced on the internet, it was a mind blowing piece. Even though I disagree with some of his views on the two major characters in the article, I cannot but agree with his observation on the Nigerian youths on social media (otherwise known as voltrons). It is not a bad idea to defend someone as I have in time past had course to defend some of my political icons who I strongly believe in their records and ideologies and will defend them anytime I deem fit. However, what is of major concern is how the voltrons form their defense. It was shocking to find out that that the same thing Pius accused us of was the same thing we came back on twitter to do. The voltrons rained abuses on those who refused to share their views and some even cursed Pius for daring to write such an article. Haba!!! I at least expected The Nigerian youth to learn from this piece. Sometimes, the way we go about defending our political icons does a huge damage to their personality and is sometime a bad selling strategy…

Then the joke of my 1 week leave on twitter came when it was announced that the presidency had signed a peace pact with the hitherto faceless siblings of Mr. President who a day earlier he had attained the mantle of a spiritual leader and declared they would be going to hell. I consider this a joke as I am not aware that pacts can be signed with faceless groups or at what point did these folks gain a face??? Was it after the massacre of 40 citizens??? I thought all along that only MEND had a face in the likes of Asari… Or could it be that the FG was busy playing politics with a security issue when they described them as a faceless group??? Particularly, who signed the Peace Pact on their behalf with FG and where was it signed??? Well in any ways, its great news for the Nation if the pact has truly been signed at least we can have some peace and rest from the weekly waste of innocent lives by the President’s Brothers and sisters.

Just when I thought the jokes were over, I read Prisoner Bode’s joke in an interview with vanguard where he described Fashola, Tinubu, Aregbesola and even highly revered World Bank Economist Oby Ezekwesili as failures… It beats my imagination how an ex convict would have no shame and be seen commenting on critical national issues where he has been tested and he gloriously failed and issues upon which he was jailed…  I would agree though from Bode’s point of view that these guys have failed by not looting the economy like he did when he was in government. So I agree the four of them are failures when it comes to being corrupt and bad governance. It’s worth noting however that PDP defines a successful person as a corrupt person who can successfully mismanage and siphon at least N100bn when in government. A perfect model of the PDP success story is convict Bode George himself.

Did Uncle Bode crack the last of the jokes??? Hell no, 5 PDP Rivers Assembly members acting upon directives from the JANGician in Aso Rock redefined mathematics, they proved to us that 5 members can form a quorum in an assembly of about 32 members.  Blood was later to flow but did I hear you say the Amaechi members got it wrong by beating their five colleagues??? Well, “IN MY OPINION”, when you come out to prove to Nigerians how 5 folks can form a quorum in a house of 32 members, you probably deserve to be severely beaten.

Meanwhile to wrap it all up, I unconsciously unfollowed Ewar on twitter almost immediately I heard about her death but then followed back an hour later hoping to see a tweet from her that she is still alive and that her death is a rumor. Even though she has been committed to Earth, I am still waiting for that tweet from @EwarMakeovers confirming that her death is a rumor but until then “Rest in Peace Adenike Ogungbe” ….

I am @naijarevolts on twitter

Tosyn Oseni: And here is your marking scheme sir.

Tosyn Oseni: And here is your marking scheme sir.

So I heard our darling president dared the opposition to prepare a marking scheme for his transformation agenda so far at mid term. The ACN has since said there is no need for a marking scheme before we know that this government has failed Nigerians but I think it will be unfair to the president to conclude he has failed without seeing his marking scheme. He needs to know on what basis he is described as a failure at midterm assessment, so I have prepared not only a short marking scheme but also grades for the president.

Marking Scheme:

Student shall be graded on 5 key aspects that influence the living standard of citizens.  Each Aspect shall carry 20 points to make 100 points in total. The examiner shall then give a bonus of 10 point to the student.

The key aspects to be graded include:

1)      Economy

2)      Security

3)      Power

4)      Infrastructure

5)      Youth development

GRADES & COMMENT:

1)      Economy : 5 points

Considering the failed standard of living of the average Nigerian under this your not so able government and your failure to respond appropriately to a whopping $67billion question, I would have loved to score a zero here but my hands are tied as your imported world bank/IMF cheat has succeeded in getting you some favorable rank in world economies in the name of Macro- economic and GDP growth, I have no other choice but to give you a whooping 5points out of 20 here.

2)      Security :  -5 points

Needless to explain anything here as even a stranger to Nigeria on first visit will feel very insecure upon arrival as insecurity is written everywhere in the country and is fast becoming a way of life. Never has anyone in this level of leadership scored as low as this in security. Under your close watch, security is just an impossible task. Nigerians are now killed in hundreds weekly while you sit back and do nothing. To worsen things up, you watch your foot soldiers and kinsmen such as Asari make inciting tribal, religious and divisive comments. While terrorists were busy gathering weapons and intelligence, you were busy politicizing the security threat and playing the blame game. You will agree with me that I have been generous with the negative 5 points I awarded you here as the case of security under your very close watch is the worst in the history of the Nation despite huge security vote.

3)      Power: 5 points

From my point of view, this administration is not sincere with power. Your government has not spelt out any reasonable steps (such as unbundling the sector) towards solving the power problems, the only step the government has taken towards solving it is to talk about solving it in the media in terms of Mirage Megawatts to be generated and that’s where it ends. 5 marks is just because I watched some of your paid agents on TV recently who said they now have steady power supply but as for me and majority of Nigerians, our generators have been our closest source of power supply despite huge electricity bills.

4)      Infrastructure: 0 point

There is really nothing to say here. You have scored absolute zero. The only place where infrastructure is working is on your bound books and PDF files. There is no visible FG infrastructure being put in place or maintained across the country ever since you assumed power. You have being too proud to ask the likes of Gov. Fashola to guide you on steps to fix infrastructures. If one compares what FG (through Julius Berger and RCC) is doing on Lagos/Ibadan expressway to what LASG is doing through CCECC on Ikorodu road, the conclusion will be that Jonathan’s PDP led FG is a disaster to the nation. On infrastructure you have failed woefully.

5)      Youth Development: 3 points

Do I really need to spell it out the reason why you have scored this low here??? I am aware that to the PDP led FG, the ages of youth range between 50 & 60 and anyone below that age is regarded as a child. Well since you came into office despite your self acclaimed work experience, youths development have never being anywhere in your plans. Like I always say, “A nation that neglects its youths neglects its future”. Under your government, Employment has become absolutely impossible. The only way to get employed is through some form of gamble or lottery as exhibited in your YOUWIN and SURE-P programs.  Your government has even made it possible to have graduates apply for driver, cleaner, cook jobs etc. My heart bleeds anytime I hear you and your aides describe the Nation’s cup victory as one of the results of your youth & sports development strategies.

Overall Score:

1	Economy	5%
2	security	-5%
3	Power	5%
4	Infrastructure	0%
5	Youth Development	3%
	Total	8%
	Bonus	10%
	Grand Total	18%

Overall Comments: You failed woefully in the midterm assessment but can still do better over the next two years. If you continue at this pace of continuous thorough failure, you might be asked to withdraw even before the session ends in 2015. You need to sit up and get serious with the work.

Recommendations: You are advised to stay away from excessive alcohol and unholy gatherings and advisers such as Okupe, Usman, Akpabio, Asari, Clark etc. There is nothing wrong in learning from the opposition governors who have a lot of ideas. Furthermore you should stop making every Nigerian who disagrees with your non-existent policies an enemy; you should be more concerned about issues raised in the criticisms than the critics.

I am @naijarevolts on twitter

PLS HELP SAVE BUKOLA ADEYEMI

She is Beautiful isn’t she??? But Sorrowfully, I have taken out time to confirm and I can authoritatively tell you that “the beautiful lady (ADEBUKOLA ADEYEMI) whose picture appears above is dying in pains and needs the help of Nigerians to survive her battle against Chronic Kidney/Renal failure”. Bukola a graduate of Mathematics From University of Lagos needs N5 million for her surgery . I call on kind hearted Nigerians to once again put our hearts of gold into action by saving the damsel and talent above.  We have done it before, we can do it again with just N1000 from 5000 Nigerians, her dreams and hope will be restored, Bukola will live again. Pls help #SaveBukola!!!! She is running out of time…

Hear what her cousin has to say

“Adebukola Adeyemi is a young woman who has been through a lot in her life.

She was diagnosed with Chronic Kidney/Renal failure and urgently requires a kidney transplant procedure. Presently she undergoes dialyses twice every week at LAGOS UNIVERISTY TEACHING HOSPITAL (LUTH) just to survive and sessions cost not less than 100 thousand naira weekly (not adding cost of drugs, test, X-rays) while the need for the transplant has been regarded as top priority for her chance to survive.

Ironically, this diagnosis is coming just a few months after securing her 1st job since her National Youth Service which she completed in 2010 in the Federal Capital Territory. As my favorite cousin, I have adored this lady and respect her for her will to simply survive regardless of what came her way.

We call on Nigerians, NGOs, religious institutions to please come to her aid and help this young African woman with so many dreams to fulfill and a lot more to impact on the society.

For further details, please contact ADEYEMI ADEMOLA RAZAK (brother) through any of the following:

BBM: 2600E997 Phone: 08038511623”

 

Please send your help to her First Bank Account:
ADEYEMI ADEBUKOLA
Acct number : 3061412656.
Bukola’s phone number is: 08023591538

NB: I (Tosyn Oseni) have personally confirmed the case and you can also do same from the medical report below….

 

TOSYN OSENI: THE OTHER SIDE OF ACN; A CASE STUDY OF BARIGA

THE OTHER SIDE OF ACN; A CASE STUDY OF BARIGA

I was quite reluctant to write this because of the Applaudable performance of the ACN governors but the sad truth has to be said that there are two sides to the ACN story. The first is halve is that of their governors and some of the their federal representatives who are working assiduously to deliver the dividends of democracy, while the other half is that of their chairmen and Legislooters (bench warmers in the state and federal houses) who believe the major purpose of public office is Fanfare and enriching personal lives and that of friends and relatives.

It’s pathetic to know that in the centre of Excellence, A state in which EVERY Nigerian (except PDP leaders) have agreed that the governor is the best and has so far become a standard for other governors in Nigeria that there is a local government like Bariga. In Bariga, there is no sign of them having a chairman or representatives both in the state and federal houses. I passed Bariga early this morning and I could only wonder if the residents there pay taxes, Tenement rate and also come out to vote during elections  as there was no single grassroots government presence in the LCDA. In fact, the only government presence there is the road the state government has been fixing for about a year now. After you take a trip through any road in Bariga, you must take pain relievers to suppress the resultant headache that looms due to the deplorable situation of the roads. As a matter of fact, driving through Bariga roads in a private car is equivalent to lack of love for your car and an act of a wasteful person, that’s the state in which Bariga LCDA roads have become.

While they have intellectuals and Actualizers running the state government, the ACN leaves the local government which is closer to the people in the hands of Hungry and Retarded politicians who think of nothing but using the government purse to enrich their lives and those of their spouses and girl friends. Moving from Bariga to neighboring Somolu where the only thing their chairman has achieved in his second term in office (after a relatively good first term) is having a lot of Mistresses and buying the latest Hyundai cars for his friends. Moving to Ashi in Ibadan where Poverty not only says Hi but hugs you and in fact, Poverty is their way of life, the story remains the same. In Ashi very close to the elite Bodija, there is no single motorable road or even portable water for the people; some of the schools there have no fences surrounding them. From Lagos to Oyo and other states governed by the ACN, it’s all a case of performing governors with HEARTLESS local government chairmen. In my opinion, any political public official spotted in these local governments areas should be beaten and battered seriously…

ACN has a record of performance and actualizing their campaign promises and that’s why I have written, that they may push their chairmen and Bench Warmers in both the state and federal houses to do something. I am not writing to the PDP because we all know that naturally, it’s not in the character of the PDP government officials to perform, Performance in public office is Alien to the PDP constitution, so it will be a waste of time mentioning the PDP. And like I have always said, I love the political Ideologies of Asiwaju Tinubu because I see him as a success that is able to raise Successors and even know when to bury personal political gains to team up with like minded progressive politicians like Buhari to save Nigeria. I am hoping that the ACN hierarchy will see this and push their chairmen and bench warmers in the house to at least deliver some dividends of democracy to their constituents.

I am @naijarevolts on twitter

A LETTER TO REUBEN: HYPOCRISY OF TODAY’S MEN

Dear Sir,

RE: HYPOCRISY OF TODAY’S MEN

I have read with utter dismay and high irritation the article published in Vanguard on “THE HPOCRISY OF YESTERDAY’S MEN” and I can say that the article portrays sheer desperation on your path to save your job and stay in competition with Okupe who is notorious for writing such dirty articles. Sir, of recent you are a perfect example of the scripture that says “Your glory, O Israel (Abati), lies slain on your heights; How the mighty have fallen!!!”  You have indeed fallen from grace to grass just for filthy lucre and to be amongst TODAY’S men…

Sir your piece was bereft of common sense as it is a calculated attack on the person of El-rufai and Ezekwesili who are both people of integrity even though I would agree with you that there are some people who are frustrated just because they are no longer in power but definitely not these two whom your article is aimed at attacking.

Now Sir let’s get down to the topic, I think you don’t really know how to spot hypocritical people but now I have volunteered to give you 11 minor tips on how to know them.

Hypocrisy is when,

1. Today’s men ignore a whopping $67b question and debate to take on a full page advertorial on newspapers just to convince us that the question is from yesterday’s men and as such should not be taken seriously.
2. Today’s men write a book “MY FRIENDS AND I” before elections based on feedback from social media and barely a year after instead of writing part 2 of that book based on the latest reactions and feedback from those friends turn back to pages of newspaper to describe those friends as collective children of anger.
3. Today’s men go on CNN live to lie about the power and security situation in Nigeria even when the interviewer and the whole world is aware of the true situation of things.
4. Today’s men illegally remove a sitting president of the court of appeal even when there is a case in court over the weekend and refuse to return him to office just for the basic fact that the disgruntled men of their party have a case against the honest man for upturning their fraudulent elections but kudos to you guys, you succeeded in killing the judiciary.
5. Today’s men lie on the pages of newspaper like you did about airports and aviation sector that we all use and see. Today’s men even restored license of Dana air when the families of the victims are still in tears over the carelessness of the airline.
6. Today’s men legalize corruption in full scale by throwing the Ribadu report in the dustbin and then send Okupe to describe it as a lazy job.
7. Today’s men wine and dine with militants and give them huge contracts just because they are from the same region and in the same vein pass a life sentence on another man who is not even a militant but is alleged to be aware of militant activities.
8. Today’s men eat 3million naira in a day when the average Nigerian “LIVES” on less than a dollar per day. How cruel can Today’s men be???
9. Today’s men want an average Nigerian to pay N150/litre for PMS in the name of subsidy removal when we are one of the largest producers of oil in the world.
10. Today’s men who claim to be leaders on the giant of Africa cannot even show the AFCON to citizens on National TV and thus allowing a parody account of a footballer in CIV describe us as the Soil of Africa that they walk on. Today’s men have embarrassed us soo bad.
11. Today’s men who yesterday criticized all negative policies from government have a chance of joining government, sell their conscience and  come to the social media, newspaper pages, and TV stations to defend clueless ideas, wicked policies and non-existent project of their principal in the villa.

Sir I’m sure you now have a clearer idea of what hypocrisy is. Please Sir, ignore my criticism and unfair choice of words and take on the points in this letter and advice your boss accordingly that like Obasanjo worked with smart minds except that he was a stubborn man and ignored some of their intelligent counsels he should also work with such smart minds and throw away his current cabinet filled with gluttony minds who think of only their bellies.

Thank you for your time sir… Tell the President that I said he should make haste as the clock is ticking fast…There is vacancy in Aso rock even before 2015…. I hear drums of revolution and I don’t know if Today’s men hear same…

Sincerely,

An Extremely Angry Nigerian Youth

I am @naijarevolts on twitter

Tosyn Oseni: IN DEFENSE OF EL-RUFAI AND BUKOLA

IN DEFENSE OF EL-RUFAI AND BUKOLA

 

“@zebbook: If Jesus criticises Jonathan’s govt, Maku/Abati/Okupe will say he slept with Mary Magdalene.”….LWKMD…..”

The quote above has unnecessarily generated controversies in the past 24 hours or thereabout but really, we are missing the point here. I am especially moved to write this considering the recent reactions from Prof. Pat Utomi and Dr.Thomas Agande as they also criticized this tweet. I am a Christian and that tweet has not in any way insulted my sensibilities as stated by Dr Agande and JESUS is not in heaven just to always pick offences from people’s words so I’m sure JESUS is not offended as he knows the intentions behind the tweet.

Let me state clearly here that the blame on this tweet has been wrongly placed on El-rufai who only Retweeted Bukola’s tweet and if you check Mallam’s  bio properly you will find out that he has it clearly written that Retweets are NOT Endorsements!! So the criticism trailing his RT is unfair and uncalled for and I see pro-government intentions here in trying to shift away from the main point stated in the tweet.

Meanwhile Ogunyemi Bukola also didn’t plan to insult JESUS as is widely insinuated but he was only saying that when you reveal government flops they will look for something irrelevant to hit you back with as is the case with Maku and Ezekwesili.

El-rufai has apologized despite not owing anyone an apology for laughing over a tweet and therefore we should not try to create any religious conflict here and Bukola also wouldn’t have had it in mind to insult Jesus on twitter, so we should move away from our religious views on the tweet and rather check the intentions behind the tweet which is clear enough to understand.

Thank You

 

STILL CLUELESS

STILL CLUELESS

I missed the presidential media chat yesterday and I was so upset as I somehow thought the President might have some piece of good news to share with Nigerians this time. Just to be in fairness to the Cluelesss One, I keep giving Him the benefit of the doubt even though I always knew he will disappoint. I decided to get online to check highlights of the chat and Alas after checking all I could say was “Eureka!!! Thank God I missed it”. I swear if I had watched the chat, I could have lost by TV set yesterday as I would have smashed it in anger considering that I had wasted precious time and fuel (AS there is no power supply in Nigeria) watching that chat. The highlights I read suggested that he is still so comfortable being clueless and has no plans of getting clues anytime soon

His Excellency’s cluelessness seems to know no bounds as indicated in the highlights of the chat I saw. I saw that the president said he didn’t promise to reduce poverty but only promised to create wealth. This statement is a naturally unintelligent one. I suppose when wealth is created and normally distributed you would have reduced poverty. But don’t even assume the President is unintelligent as he said exactly what he wanted to say; He is not reducing poverty in the nation but creating wealth for himself, wife, his cohorts like DIezani, Ngozi, Okupe amongst others and also creating massive wealth for the Ex-militants of Niger Delta. SO the president was damn right…

I spent over six hours travelling from Ibadan to Lagos yesterday which is why I missed the chat only to check and find out that the man actually talked about that road which I wasted my time and risked my life on but all he said about it was that he is yet to take a Final Decision on the concession even after agreeing with us all that the contractor is unable to execute the contract.  So what is delaying the final decision? This is one reason I could have made my TV a victim of his speech… Why is he too proud to ask El-rufai or Governor Fashola on how to take firm decisions and eject erring contractors from project sites? I guess he will set up a committee to look into the failure of BI-Courtney on that road.

The giant of Africa was reduced to the level of Ethiopia that is battling with poverty when the president suggested that his living expenses were nothing compared to that of Ethiopia. That statement leaves one wondering if Ethiopia should be his reference point or countries like Ukraine, South Africa. He eats twice daily and the food is not expensive so why the heavy budget on feeding? Meanwhile I could eat twice daily but would have eaten what 5000 people would eat three times daily, as that is what the feeding budget in Aso-rock suggests. And why does the president keep giving us an insight into his meal retinue in Aso rock? The last time it was Abati that was telling us about the president’s dining table and his attitude towards kain-kain. I guess we don’t need all these details…

So journalists now know better than the president as he returned the question on long queues in petrol stations back to the reporters. He doesn’t care about the plight of Nigerians on fuel since you guys didn’t allow him remove subsidy in January and that’s why he shelved away from the question as he must have concluded with Aunty Diezani that we deserve the undue hardship we are facing to purchase PMS. Meanwhile he lied when he said he doesn’t influence anything to favour his Bayelsa or any other state.  What explanation will the president give to the overblown security contracts he gave to Bayelsa ex-criminals???? Isn’t that undue favor for his people??? Or do these militants have a past record in providing security other than criminality??

In conclusion, Nigerians You wrongly voted in 2011, Correct that error now before it’s too late by revolting. An opportunity to revolt is coming up soon as he plans to remove subsidy again; Please don’t stop him from removing it, let him remove it so that we can occupy Nigeria and this time not asking for a reversal of pump price but asking for the removal of government (including National Assembly). Let’s Revolt a NO IDEA government and replace with a people oriented government with plenty of clues.

Thank You… Your Comments and criticisms are welcomed below…

 

LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT

LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT

Dear President,

I remember sometime in 2009 when you were vice president Simon Kolawole of Thisday wrote an article where he Said “Mr. President, Nigeria is going down”. Simon’s write up was directed to the then President Umaru Yaradua but I am directing my own letter to you now as president by saying Mr. President, “Nigeria is still going down under your close supervision”. You have been deliberately quiet over issues affecting the country and have appointed both attack dogs and lions and even unofficial ones like Edwin Clark who speak defensively of your non-existent policies and wouldn’t hesitate to bite anyone who thinks you are clueless or says your administration is a wrong decision from those who voted you into office (I’m assuming you won though).

Mr. President, I did not bother to follow your election campaigns as I was already aware u had nothing to offer Nigeria but goodluck which Nigerians now know better from US presidential elections that success is better than goodluck as goodluck is like gambling. I am very aware you made promises on giving a stable power supply but alas looking at the way Nnaji was kicked out of office and how power privatization has been handled by your boy Atedo Peterside giving companies out to the same set of Nigerians that either have character issues to fix like Otedola and people who some have claimed to be the main cabal behind the power system failure shows insincerity of purpose on your path and that of your PDP led administration that boasts of ruling forever.

Your Excellency, the health system of the nation has deteriorated exponentially under you and even you and your aides will not dare visit any Nigerian hospital even for a cough. Citizens have now taken it upon themselves to save fellow citizens as the government can’t help. We shouted Save funmi, save meka, save Debbie and save musbaudeen all over the media networks and your prestigious office pretended not to know but if it were to be a criticism we were shouting, Okupe or Abati would have taken a full page on all newspapers to insult the critics. Meanwhile, why would the FG bother about these individuals as they are not of government or even PDP. Save citizens project went as far as citizens showing their private parts in public for days, just to get the needed help but barely 24hrs after Gov. Suntai out of sheer happiness crashed his plane, he alone gets flown out of the country out of about six casualties. Mr. President how cruel is your administration to non PDP top shots????

Kudos should be given to your Excellency in creating a sharp division in the Judiciary which should be the hope of the common man. You and Katsina-Alu led NJC  decided to play god and extra-judicially removed the president of the court of appeal just because he restored hope to the hopeless and truly making the judiciary a hope for the oppressed. Now the Katsina-Alu led NJC is no more and a viable NJC has since recalled the suspended PCA but the decision which you hurriedly took even over the weekend despite pending suits becomes difficult to reverse and your reasons are that the bad losers in your party has a suit against him in court for upturning their fraudulent victories and as such you can’t act on a case already in court. But Mr. President was there no case when you illegally removed him over the weekend??? In any case, you have killed the judiciary and since his exit, all PDP governors have retained their stolen mandates.

Needless to say Sir, that your administration does not care about the future as any government that does not plan for the youths, does not plan for the future.  Unemployment has always being high in Nigeria but under your own supervision employment has become impossibility. Even your administration considers it a lottery to get employed or empowered as it shows in YOUWIN lottery an idea from your less than brilliant and economy draining agent of the world bank Dr. Iweala. Under your government, it is now possible to have employers recruit graduate drivers, cooks, cleaners, messengers etc. Even drivers now have PhD’s under your fantastic government and yet Dr. Okupe seeing  PhD holders apply as drivers think we will beg you to come back in 2015…

Corruption and incapability is highly rewarded under your government as barely few weeks after Otedola bribed a lawmaker over our oil funds, he got rewarded with power plants, Dr. Okupe who is a celebrated fraudster is one of your spokes persons, and many others. Even Dana Air got its license restored by a non-performing minister who in the first place should have been sacked after the crash that  wasted over 150 lives due to poor service and regulations. Thank you sir for making Corruption very lucrative in Nigeria and indeed an industry, now I know if I need to become a minister, I just need to get contracts from government and abscond after payment. Sir what about the Ribadu probe report? I hear it is an unfinished and badly executed job as indicated by lousy Okupe….

Sir, since you have been in office, the most notable infrastructure you have put in place is the renovation of the 3^rd mainland bridge. Roads have become death traps, airlines are no longer safe and I’m yet to understand why you still keep Bi-Courtney on Lagos –Ibadan expressway. May be you should consult Gov. Fashola and ask him how to build roads and deal with erring contractors…

There are many issues to discuss but let me ignore the now very lucrative industry of ex-militants, your extravagant budget for Aso-villa, the degradation of the National Assembly by your office and its officials and your retinue of clueless aides who sometimes have overlapping functions like Dr. Abati and Dr. Okupe.

Mr. President, don’t mind my criticisms as your government is always more concerned about critics than the issues, but all I am trying to do is to tell you what I suspect you already know – that Nigeria, under your close watch, is not working and moving towards a failed state and vision 20:20 of the PDP has become illusion 20:20. I have  given up completely on you even though I never thought you were ever going to achieve anything but I just dint know you will be this busy doing nothing. Just in case you consider my letter as a constructive criticism, It is not too late for you to start pleasing those who voted you and work with people of clues and not hungry ones like Okupe who in any case will insult you when both of you are out of office just like he did with Obasanjo. I hear drums of revolution sir!!! Make haste, Your Excellency the clock is ticking.

Sincerely,

A very Angry Nigerian Youth.

FAILING MEDIA HOUSES

Some Nigerian media houses have either proved to be mouth piece for some political class while others just do a shabby job in reporting events to citizens. Independent Media houses should be the hope of knowledge to the masses but of recent they have not lived up to that expectation and thank God for the social media the Nigerian media houses would have divided us ethnically, politically or religiously depending on which one each citizen chooses to listen to.

THISDAY & VANGUARD newspapers are the papers to read if you want to be deceived on what the government is doing. You will never find anything against the government in the any of these two newspapers and they go ahead telling Nigerians that government is working. Recently, Thisday newspaper took their bias for the federal government to a different height when they stopped El-rufai’s column on the friday backpage of the newspaper a move Nduka Obiagena has since not had a concrete explanation to. The column was stopped at such a critical time when the man was enlightening Nigerians on the importance of the Justice Uwais electoral reform report and also immediately after he featured Japheth Omojuwa (a social media activist) who did a thorough job on the indifferent middle class and or failing (failed) government.

On the other hand, The Nation newspaper is the place to be when you want to hear positive news about the ACN and its members. Infact, The Nation newspaper didn’t hide their bias for the CAN during the Ondo governorship polls and even went as far as misleading the public on the status of the election when on Sunday October 21 2012, The Nation reported that ACN was leading in 18 local governments so far released in the Ondo election. Don’t get me wrong, I love the ACN and I believe in  their Political ideologies and especially that of the party leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (You can crucify me for saying this) but The Nation did a poor job in the handling of Ondo election.

Champions newspaper recently announced their intention to give the Icon of Democracy award to T.A. Orji of Abia state. To say this is an aberration is an understatement. What happened to the likes of Fashola, Mimiko, Amosun, Fayemi, Okorocha to mention but a few. Lets even assume they intend to give a governor from the East, Only an insane person would disagree that Okorocha is the candidate for such an award. T.A. Orji like Chinedu Ekekee put it, is one governor “who doesn’t bother to pretend about his desire to not govern. He just doesn’t govern, and he rubs it on the faces of his citizens” and has left Abia state is in a state of mess. Only a few governors will contend with Orji when it comes to absolute non-performance in office.

And lately, PM news reported the arrest of the First Lady of Oyo state (Florence Ajimobi) by the London Metropolitan Police; a report that has so far been denied by the Met. Police and even the First lady herself have since appeared to deny such allegations. PM news went further to state that the woman was going on her 52^nd trip in 17 months of the Ajimobi administration. How did PM news come about this report of arrest and the statistics of her travel? Does Florence Ajimobi report to PM news office before each of her travels?  Meanwhile the frequency of her travel should not be anyone’s business as long as she doesn’t make those trips on public funds. The office of the First lady is so irrelevant to the economy of Nigeria and that’s why I was less concerned about the Patience Jonathan’s absence from the country.

PM news is one media outfit I have always detested since my early days in Secondary school as they have no iota of good news. If all an Investor just entering Nigeria reads in his First week of Arrival Is PM news, he will pack his bags and run as he will just see Nigeria as a land of beasts. PM news is never there to report when projects are commissioned, scholarships are won, and Nigerians are blazing the trail both home and abroad. They are only present to report when a man gives birth to a dog, when ten people are butchered, when armed robbers are burnt etc. They derive their joy of publication in carrying negative reports and Peddling rumors as they know that’s probably what Nigerians love to hear.

Media houses need to rise above just being the media representative of any political personality or group and give true representation of events as it happens and not only those that favour their sponsors. Meanwhile, I’m hoping that someday, PM news will be permanently shut down (MY opinion)…..

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