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ABSTRACT
With the words "Corruptio
optimi pessimum est”...Read the full article.

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I would like to commend your courage for speaking the truth and not joining the fray in "Obasanjo bashing". It takes a lot of guts to hold out from the maddening crowd. There is obviously a grand conspiracy to taint Obasanjo's reputation and portray him as being worse than Abacha and Babangida.It is all politics and the tragedy is that the media can not see through the grand scheme and willingly allow themselves to be so used.
Undoubtedly Obasanjo is no saint but if we are sincere we should acknowledge the sterling achievements of his leadership. How is it possible that a leadership that assembled stars like Dr.Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealla, Proff.Chukwuma Soludo and Dr.Oby Ezekwesili who have been individually acclaimed for their achievements in office be so maligned?
Beyond the Press men who have relished the game of "Obasanjo bashing”, I am disappointed that a number of his erstwhile loyalists like Femi Fani-Kayode, Akin
Oshuntokun and El Rufai have kept mute.
It remains to be seen if YarAdua's government will be any better.Meanwhile, if the first year is anything to go by, I am confident that Nigeria will reflect over Obasanjo's regime with nostalgia.

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=onwuzuam;4295007658>”, I am disappointed that a number of his erstwhile loyalists like Femi Fani-Kayode, Akin
Oshuntokun and El Rufai have kept mute''
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They have to keep mute inorder to avoid search light on themselves beacuse they all have skeleton in their cupboard.Tell me who is not corrupt among those names you listed?

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=Robot;4295007556>ABSTRACT
With the words "Corruptio
optimi pessimum est”...Read the full article.

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Debt cancellation, due process, enhancing GSM technology, the setting up of anti corruption bodies, all now pale to irrelevance with the prevailing stories and the rumours that accompany them.





For 8yrs and billions of unprecedented OIL/OTHER INCOMES to the Nation, some Nigerians like this odd writer want us to praise Obj for giving us GSM that even the caves in Afghanistan have in abundance!

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Dear Sir,

My advice is read this article with the balance it brings, your conclusions are a parody of what I have written. As for 'unprecedented' oil revenues, there is such a thing as inflation and as for our corrupt state, all of us, including me are all complicit.

Thank you.

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=i-go-better;4295007732>Debt cancellation, due process, enhancing GSM technology, the setting up of anti corruption bodies, all now pale to irrelevance with the prevailing stories and the rumours that accompany them.





For 8yrs and billions of unprecedented OIL/OTHER INCOMES to the Nation, some Nigerians like this odd writer want us to praise Obj for giving us GSM that even the caves in Afghanistan have in abundance!

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=onwuzuam;4295007658>There is obviously a grand conspiracy to taint Obasanjo's reputation ....

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I thought he did that very nicely and very effectively all by himself. Nobody helped him out.

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=employlawone;4295007741>Dear Sir,

My advice is read this article with the balance it brings, your conclusions are a parody of what I have written. As for 'unprecedented' oil revenues, there is such a thing as inflation and as for our corrupt state, all of us, including me are all complicit.Thank you.

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I don't know you, but i bet you're the writer of the original article. You think the tripe you wrote is 'balanced'? i suggest you read it again!!! How do you explain the monumental corruption and incompetence in the power sector? OBJ, like the Machiavelli that he is, used the EFCC to bring those that disagreed with him into line. How come all those apprehended/being persecuted by the EFCC had their differences with the notoriously corrupt general from Ota? Even OBJ himself did not seriously believe that EFCC can stem corruption Nigeria. His modus operandi is entirely based on selective justice with a high level of unwavering vindictiveness. You opposed OBJ and Ribadu would be out to destroy you. simple. The good thing about the EFCC is that like the Frankenstein monster, it would ultimately destroy its maker. it is only when OBJ is safely locked away in gaol for the second time that i will credit the general with the initiation of the EFCC.

GSM? oh spare me that crap. Can you name any country in the world where there is no GSM? Don't even start to mention Cuba. even without massive oil revenues and with decades of US sanctions, cubans are faring better than Nigerians.

OBJ initially assembled a team of promising talents like Okwonjo Iweala and Oby Ekwesilizi, but where are they today? Are you not aware of the circumstances surrounding Iweala's exit from OBJ's cabinet? (some cynic suggested that OBJ cynically brought in those voluptuously luscious ladies because he wanted to get laid. and with the sorts of sordid allegations coming out of the Obasanjo household, this is a claim that you will find very difficult to refute). You should only credit leaders with sound policies that consistently stood the test of time and not some highly transient glories that are all but forgotten in a couple of years.

Your attempt to explain away the senseless squandering of the unprecendented oil revenues through inflation is highly ludicrous, and you know it. If you are even remotely familiar with global economics, you will know that oil prices have increased well beyond the average rate of global inflation in the 8 years of Obasanjo's administration.

YOU may be complicit in the massive corruption in Nigeria today, but i can assure you that there are millions and millions of Nigerians that are not and will never be.

Where is the balance in your article when all it does is paint OBJ critics as a mob bent on tarnishing the reputation of the general?

As for those thinking that we will one day remember OBJ's era with nostalgia, the igbo man would say Tufiakwa!

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=onwuzuam;4295007658>I would like to commend your courage for speaking the truth and not joining the fray in "Obasanjo bashing". It takes a lot of guts to hold out from the maddening crowd. There is obviously a grand conspiracy to taint Obasanjo's reputation and portray him as being worse than Abacha and Babangida.It is all politics and the tragedy is that the media can not see through the grand scheme and willingly allow themselves to be so used.
Undoubtedly Obasanjo is no saint but if we are sincere we should acknowledge the sterling achievements of his leadership. How is it possible that a leadership that assembled stars like Dr.Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealla, Proff.Chukwuma Soludo and Dr.Oby Ezekwesili who have been individually acclaimed for their achievements in office be so maligned?
Beyond the Press men who have relished the game of "Obasanjo bashing”, I am disappointed that a number of his erstwhile loyalists like Femi Fani-Kayode, Akin
Oshuntokun and El Rufai have kept mute.
It remains to be seen if YarAdua's government will be any better.Meanwhile, if the first year is anything to go by, I am confident that Nigeria will reflect over Obasanjo's regime with nostalgia.

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I challenge any of these names you mentioned to step forward for just a casual probe. If at the end they come out clean, i will offer a front page apology to all of them in three national newspapers. You are wondering why El Rufai is not defending his grand master, I guess you have not heard of the probe of the FCT administration going on now in Abuja. El Rufai is desperately looking for people to defend him. He is shopping for spin doctors to tell Nigerians the economic benefits the country gained, by having his and the Obasanjo family own all the choice plots in Abuja. By the way before we allow ourselves to be blindfolded by this gullible argument about 'STARS' and their STERLING achievements, we should be asking where these achievements are manifested in real terms. Under her watch as finance minister, the national treasury was raided in this barbaric manner. 16billion dollars was exchanged for darkness, roads and other infrastructure collapsed to a record low while billions of dollars were 'spent' for the maintenance of same. Even as finance minister Okonjo Iweala failed to see any evil. And do you realise we have not even seen the financial records of NNPC? For Eight years Baba Yahoo was the minister of petroleum, Yar'adua should in the name of God step down if he not serious about this probe.

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Dear Sir,

Thank you, however, my response is simply: "Corruptio optimi pessimum est”.

As for complicity, we are complicit, not because we are or were active participants in looting, but because for 8 years, most stood silent, whilst those in many spheres of our igerian' lives looted with reckless abandon.

I am glad you and millions are not, but I am part of the many who were and are and are determined to redress this by speaking truth to power.

Regards

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=ILN TOO;4295007794>I don't know you, but i bet you're the writer of the original article. You think the tripe you wrote is 'balanced'? i suggest you read it again!!! How do you explain the monumental corruption and incompetence in the power sector? OBJ, like the Machiavelli that he is, used the EFCC to bring those that disagreed with him into line. How come all those apprehended/being persecuted by the EFCC had their differences with the notoriously corrupt general from Ota? Even OBJ himself did not seriously believe that EFCC can stem corruption Nigeria. His modus operandi is entirely based on selective justice with a high level of unwavering vindictiveness. You opposed OBJ and Ribadu would be out to destroy you. simple. The good thing about the EFCC is that like the Frankenstein monster, it would ultimately destroy its maker. it is only when OBJ is safely locked away in gaol for the second time that i will credit the general with the initiation of the EFCC.

GSM? oh spare me that crap. Can you name any country in the world where there is no GSM? Don't even start to mention Cuba. even without massive oil revenues and with decades of US sanctions, cubans are faring better than Nigerians.

OBJ initially assembled a team of promising talents like Okwonjo Iweala and Oby Ekwesilizi, but where are they today? Are you not aware of the circumstances surrounding Iweala's exit from OBJ's cabinet? (some cynic suggested that OBJ cynically brought in those voluptuously luscious ladies because he wanted to get laid. and with the sorts of sordid allegations coming out of the Obasanjo household, this is a claim that you will find very difficult to refute). You should only credit leaders with sound policies that consistently stood the test of time and not some highly transient glories that are all but forgotten in a couple of years.

Your attempt to explain away the senseless squandering of the unprecendented oil revenues through inflation is highly ludicrous, and you know it. If you are even remotely familiar with global economics, you will know that oil prices have increased well beyond the average rate of global inflation in the 8 years of Obasanjo's administration.

YOU may be complicit in the massive corruption in Nigeria today, but i can assure you that there are millions and millions of Nigerians that are not and will never be.

Where is the balance in your article when all it does is paint OBJ critics as a mob bent on tarnishing the reputation of the general?

As for those thinking that we will one day remember OBJ's era with nostalgia, the igbo man would say Tufiakwa!

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=onwuzuam;4295007658>I would like to commend your courage for speaking the truth and not joining the fray in "Obasanjo bashing". It takes a lot of guts to hold out from the maddening crowd. There is obviously a grand conspiracy to taint Obasanjo's reputation and portray him as being worse than Abacha and Babangida.It is all politics and the tragedy is that the media can not see through the grand scheme and willingly allow themselves to be so used.

Politics as they say is subjective.Iam a serious advocate of people being allowed to air their views without any form of intimidation.What some supporters of OBJ have refused to understand is that, IBB and Abacha were not elected to office.They came in through coups and counter coups and were not supposed to be answerable to any body unlike OBJ who was assumed to have been elected by the masses.
OBJ, like Thomas Jefferson(3rd U S president)said he does not read newspapers.Jefferson is credited with a lot of racist writings,proclamations against slavery while he retained a female-slave he later had affairs with.His laudable achievements while in office were in total contrast to his public proclamations.OBJ told us he was fighting corruption in the country.The recent revelations show he was swimming in corruption as a president.
Freedom of association is one of the fundamental human rights.Mussolini, the fascist Italian leader still have supporters till date in Italy even though his names are written in the black-books of Italian political history. God help Nigeria and Nigerians!!!!!