Police threaten to shoot legislators opposed to Third –Term

Apr

2006

	By *Omoyele Sowore /Sahara Reporters* 05 April 2006

The campaign of terror and intimidation accompanying President Obasanjo’s desire to run for a third term took a frightening dimension today when state security agents threatened to shoot some members of the Nigerian lower legislative chamber- The House of Representatives- who had gathered to attend a strategy meeting aimed at scuttling the third term agenda.

Saharareporters was told by one of the participants that the botched meeting was to be attended by honorable members as well as opinion leaders such as ANPP presidential hopeful, Buhari, Professor Wole Soyinka, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Former Speaker Gha’ali Naaba and national congressmen opposed to the third-term agenda.

The meeting was stopped by a combined team of police officers and plain clothed agents led by Lawrence Alobi, the Police commissioner of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and Col. Kayode Are, the Director General of the State Security Service who also hails from President Obasanjo’s hometown in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

General Buhari (retd) arrived at the meeting at exactly 8:25 PM. He was turned back by fierce-looking mobile policemen known as “Kill’n Go”. He hurriedly left in anger muttering words of disappointment. A detachment of plain clothed SSS officer trailed him in an unmarked car.

Serious trouble started when Honorable Uche Onyeagucha and Amediegwu insisted that they will hold the meeting at the lobby of Sheraton Hotel in Abuja. Earlier the police had sealed off the Ladi Kwali Hall venue of the meeting. Policemen in the lobby led by Alobi threatened to shoot and kill the two honorable members. They cocked their rifles and shouted on the two men to lie down on the floor. The two men, both house of representative members however refused to bow to their threat. The policemen went for Amdiegwu and wrestled him to the ground dragging him on the floor of the hotel lobby to the street.

The security agents claimed that the organizers of the meeting did not obtain at “police permit” before embarking on such meetings saying the received orders from above to stop any such gathering. In June 2005, a Federal High Court in Abuja ruled that Nigerian citizens no longer require police permits to embark on public gatherings of any kind, thereby declaring the law unconstitutional.

It will be recalled that just yesterday a former minister of youth and sports. Mrs. Adedoyin and former ADC to the Vice President plus five other were arraigned before an Abuja High Court for sponsoring and participating in an illegal organization cited as Turaki Vanguard, a youth campaign organization affiliated with Vice President Atiku. A similar organization campaigning for the extension of President Obasanjo’s tenure –Obasanjo Solidarity Forum (OSF)- had recently launched a fancy website with President Obasanjo in attendance last Tuesday.

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# 1 | 06.04.2006 00:23

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# 2 | 06.04.2006 01:37

	When the PDP and their pro 3rd term band want to meet, the police clear the place of protesters and provide security. When those opposed to their agenda want to meet, the police seal off the place and bar anyone from entry and/or tear gas Nigerians for "unlawful assembly" - a right guaranteed by the constitution. This Obasanjo of a President has co-opted our insufferable and corrupt police and security services into a personal cult. As with the army who turned their guns on the people whom they are sworn to protect, Obasanjo has torn the constitution he swore to uphold to shreds. He has murdered sleep and will sleep no more. He is afraid of his shadows which is why he will not let us meet. We are his worst nightmare - a resolute opposition. Mr President , whether you like am or you no like, it is bye bye baby come 29 May 2007 and you better believe it. He had better buy more bullets because they will need to shoot all 120m+ of us Nigerians so he can continue to rule. What has been unfolding before us is the unmitigated disaster turning into an unmitigated terror. They are however mistaken because we will face them down and chase him out of the office that we have built for a true leader come May 2007. We need a leader with the best interest of the people at heart not one whose vaunting ambitions transcend the needs and aspirations of the people. Aluta! Gwobezentashi

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# 3 | 06.04.2006 03:12

	Anti-Third term meeting Police, SSS lock out Buhari, Ogbeh, others They didn’t have permit –CP Democracy has been murdered –Buhari by Hammeed M Bello & Sani Babadoko / 2006-04-06 DAILY TRUST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A combined team of armed policemen and State Security Services (SSS) operatives locked out former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) from a meeting of stake-holders against third term agenda yesterday. A combined team of armed policemen and State Security Services (SSS) operatives locked out former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) from a meeting of stake-holders against third term agenda yesterday. Also locked out were the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national chairman, Chief Audu Ogbeh and two former Inspectors General of Police, Alhaji Gambo Jimeta and Alhaji M. D. Yusufu. Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Umar Na’Abba was also locked out. The Federal Capital Territory police commissioner, Lawrence Alobi who led the operation along with the Director of SSS, Kayode Are, said they were instructed to stop the meeting because police permit was not sought. General Buhari while demanding to know who issued the order for the stop-page of the meeting and for what reason said “democracy has been murdered.” Elder statesmen, including former Head of State General Ibrahim Babangida, Professor Wole Soyinka and the Alliance for Democracy chairman, Bisi Akande were among those said to have given word to attend the meeting with National Assembly members opposed to the third term agenda. The security operatives took over the venue by 8.00 p.m. when the meeting was to start. Senator Uche Chukwumerije, other Senators and members of the House present for the meeting were driven out of the Ladi-Kwali Hall of the Sheraton Hotel and Towers where the meeting was to hold. The entranced was locked. Buhari came in a convoy of vehicles but could not enter as the door was locked. “I want you to tell me who stopped the meeting,” he said to Alobi and Are. The members however insisted that they will hold the meeting and nobody can stop them from holding a lawful assembly. While reacting, Hon. Shola Adeyeye said “God who removed Abacha will remove Obasanjo because Nigerians are suffering.” This is coming on the heels of statement by the Ch-airman of the Movement for Unity and Progress (MUP), Col Abubakar Dangiwa Umar that the desperate attempt to transmute Obasanjo into a boundless dictator will result in genocide, and that its perp-etrators should be ready to face the war crime tribunal. The legislators against third term met in the early hours of yesterday at the National Assembly in Abuja ahead of the meeting with the statesmen. Adeyeye said it was resolved that the meeting was necessary to bolster the morale of the legislators and to show Nigerians that there has been multilateral opposition against the third term agenda. The Northern Member Forum, most of whose mem-bers are against third term equally met Tuesday night to finetune arrangements ahe-ad of the meeting with the statesmen. A leader of the Forum said Nigerians should not bother themselves with the third term agenda, that what they concern themselves with should rather be the electoral law and revenue allocation. Meanwhile, the National Assembly Joint Committee on the review of the const-itution might have treated the recommendation for the third term in the report as the opinion of the committee, and not that of Nigerians. A member of the committee confided in Daily Trust after the committee rose from its meeting yesterday that following the observation made by Senator Udo Udoma, the committee at the meeting chaired by Senator Ibrahim Mantu reworked the recommendation treating it as the aggregate opinion of the committee, and not that of Nigerians. Dangiwa Umar, a former governor of Kaduna state said at a press conference in Kaduna yesterday on the international community should impose sanctions on all tho-se whose activities are dragging Nigeria towards implosion without further delay. He said the effects of the third-term inferno will be similar to those of a civil war and those who perpetrated it must be made to answer for genocide and war crimes. To the people of Nigeria, the MUP chairman said, “now is the time they have got to step forward and move to avert a future of brutality and anarchy. A stitch in time, the wise say, will save nine.” To the National Assembly members, the retired armoured officer said Nigerians have made it clear that a ‘yes’ vote for a third-term will be a cruel stab on their back and a wanton provocation to violence and conflict. History, he said, is beck-oning on members of our various parliaments. “They have, as a group and as individuals, through the votes they are entitled to cast on this crucial issue, the power to determine whether Nigeria remains in Obasanjo’s words: “A country perpetually and potentially great, almost permanently in crisis, regularly threatened with disintegration, provokingly devoid of democracy and unsually plundered and mismanaged, forever talking about demo-cracy but retreating from democracy.” His message to the governors is that, “what is and has been paralysing them is the value they would place on the promises President Obasanjo is making them. Given all that is known about Obasanjo, it should surprise no one that the governors are in this quandary. “And it is not being suggested that our state governors ask only the founding fathers of the PDP or the leaders of the AD in the South West, the Afenifiere or even, for that matter, new newspaper editors, journalists or any suspected enemy of the president. They should simply walk up to anybody on the streets of Owu and sound them out on this issue.” Dangiwa recalled the ways dictators are made: “an otherwise normal but ambitious ruler would latch on to a well advertised malaise his indispensability in the resolution of that problem. “Thereafter, if the people are absent minded, the would be dictator deploys forth a powerful cocktail of bribery, intimidation, blackmail and naked force to get parliament to surrender its powers and abdicate the stage for him alone. All along pleading the pretext-that it is the only way the nation’s problems could be solved,” Dangiwa added. He said the Information Minister, Frank Nweke Jnr has denounced people oppo-sed to the third term as ‘self-ish, unpatriotic and unprogressive,” adding that such people will henceforth face arrest. “Other officials are not so restrained: They are already calling critics of third term ‘vermin,’ the same name Nazis called Jews. This is similar to the name ‘cockroach’ which the Hutu of Rwanda gave to the Tutsis. Such name callings often precede genocide.” Dangiwa reminded the international community that, “Nigeria is the largest black nation in the world with a total population of over 120 million people endowed with abundant resources and ought to serve as a standard of order, democracy and good governance for the rest of the continent. Protecting its integrity and stability must be of paramount interest to all peoples of goodwill everywhere.” “Other officials are not so restrained: They are already calling critics of third term ‘vermin,’ the same name Nazis called Jews. This is similar to the name ‘cockroach’ which the Hutu of Rwanda gave to the Tutsis. Such name callings often precede genocide." Oh how so very desperate they must be for a battle already lost? Aluta! Gwobezentashi

War

# 4 | 06.04.2006 03:25

	War is imminent in Nigeria. Obasanjo's supporters better be ready to put their heads where there LOUD mouth has been for the past few years. Some of us have been ready for this moment. Buhari, Kalu, and Co: All you have to do is call us to action because Obasanjo has already declared a civil war against the North, the South-South, and the South-East. Only a fool call this something else.

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# 5 | 06.04.2006 04:12

	Fellow Nigerians, Please do not despair over this peice of news of suppresion of opposisiton. It has happened before in our recent history. This is a familiar road. I think this regime is not original - it is recycling all the ideas Babangida and Abacha nurtured. Remember Babangida who said he was not only in office but also in power, he was evicetd with his tail between his legs. Remember Abacha who thought he had silenced all opposition, he was carried to his home town in a box. My pastor said something last week Sunday. He said 3 things happened to those leaders who wanted to take Nigerians for a ride: Deposition as in Gowon, Disgrace as in Babangida, Death as in Abacha. I have a feeling Obasanjo's will be different. I think he is heading back to jail where he belongs. Fellow compatriots, we have 411 days to be rid of this evil regime!

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# 6 | 06.04.2006 04:26

	Does your Senator represent you or is he/she representing his/her stomach? Pro -Mantu Senators By Danladi Mohammed Ndayebo, Abuja 1. Sen. Oti Fred (PDP Benue North West) 2. Sen. Agboti Emmanuel ( PDP Ebonyi South) 3. Sen. Simeon Ajibola (PDP Kwara South) 4. Sen. Awoyelu Charles (PDP Ekiti Central) 5. Sen. Ambuno Zik S. (PDP, Taraba) 6. Sen. Ibikunle Amosun (PDP Ogun Central) 7. Sen. Jibril Aminu (PDP Adamawa Central) 8. Sen. Iyabo Anisulowo (PDP Ogun West) 9. Sen. Ifeanyi Ararume (PDP Imo North) 10. Sen. Balat Isaiah (PDP Kaduna South) 11. Sen. Hosea Ehinlanwo (PDP Ondo South) 12. Sen. Ekweremadu Ike (PDP, Enugu West) 13. Sen. Ewa Henshaw (Cross- River South) 14. Sen. Felix Ibru (PDP Delta Central) 15. Sen. Robert Koleosho (PDP Oyo North) 16. Sen. James Manager (PDP Delta South ) 17. Sen. Ibrahim Mantu ( PDP Plateau Central) 18. Sen. David Mark (PDP Benue South) 19. Sen. Niangwan Cosmas (PDP Plateau South) 20. Ssen. Arthur Nzeribe (PDP Imo West) 21. Sen. Obanikoro Olatunde (PDP Lagos Central) 22. Sen. Tunde Ogbeha ( PDP Kogi West) 23. Sen. Fidelis Okoro ( PDP Enugu North) 24. Sen. Ogunbanjo Olatokunbo (PDP Ogun East) 25. Sen. Gbenga Ogunniya (PDP Ondo Central) 26. Sen. Olasunkanmi (PDP Osun West) 27. Sen. Okpede Emmanuel (PDP Nasarawa South) 28. Sen. Ogunwale Felix Kola (PDP Osun Central) 29. Sen. Iyiola Omisore (PDP Osun East) 30. Sen. Partick Osakwe (PDP Delta North) 31. Sen. Victor Oyofo (PDP Edo North) 32. Sen. Sodangi Abubakar (PDP Nasarawa West) 33. Sen. Dalhatu Sarki Tafida (PDP Kaduna North) 34. Sen. Uba Ugochukwu (PDP Anambra South) 35. Sen. Udoma Udo (PDP Akwa Ibom South) 36. Sen. Obi Ben (PDP Anambra Central) 37. Sen. Brambaifa John (PDP Bayelsa West) 38. Sen. Ucha Julius (PDP Ebonyi Central) 39. Sen. Adigihje Chris (PDP Abia North) Abstained - Senator John Azut Mbata (PDP Rivers East) LEADERSHIP NEWSPAPER 06/04/2006 STOP PRESS: 1) Sen. Fred Oti - Benue NW to be recalled by constituents. 2) Plateau Central Senatorial District still waiting for INEC verification more than 90 days after recall petition submitted. 3) Sen F A Nzeribe - Imo West under recall threat. 4) Sen D Tafida - Kaduna N under recall threat.

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# 7 | 06.04.2006 04:38

	An open letter to President Olusegun Obasanjo--I am committed to bringing you and your government down I remember reading about you, on the eve of your first presidency. You were movingly described as one that had something to contribute, a breath of fresh air. They spoke about how you had laid a good precedent, by handing over power at the end of your tenure, the last time you came; they spoke about how you had found God in an event so needless, yet rewarding, caused by your detention by the maximum ruler you succeeded under a false charge. I remember the euphonious melodies made by people when Abacha died. I saw people united in joy ,their ecstasies were touchable.I heard stories of people, plunged into a whirlpool of endless celebration. People’s body languages declared a new beginning had come. Not long after you came to power , I saw people shouting down at Nzeribe for moving a motion to impeach you.I commiserated with their pleas, being mindful of the fact hat Nigeria is a difficult country to rule and couldn't be entangled in a day.I was indignant at Nzeribe, who I had come to see as a fringe politician. I plunged myself into grand expectations despite the despondent cries of “cynics”, who warned me nothing would come out of your government. I dragged on, on this lonely road, hoping you truly had the people you were governing at heart. They would tell me, expect nothing, but I chose to believe what I read about you .I chose to believe this was a light at the end of the tunnel ,I chose to believe that a new page had been openned in our history, I chose to believe we were entering a new dawn. Gradually but surely, I was dislodged from my suspense animation, I was confronted slap-bang with a gruesome and mean reality. You disappeared and out came a forty-headed,knife-weilding,fire-spitting monster. I had plunged my head into a cloud like a headless chicken. I had wandered naively in cloud-cukoo-land .I stood and watched helplessly with my mouth openned as your messiaic garb dissolved into a bloodsucking vampire. The painful reality has been a bitter pill of 6 years or more of gross mismanagement.I recall with fond memories a Zimbabwean newspaper that was shut down by Mugabe's government, but reopened on the internet.It may be that, you have drank so much sycophantic tripe about your mythical reforms--going by the amount of compulsive sycophants here on the Nigerian village square, who helplessly strain towards window dressings,when a blind man could see the fatalities of a failed government-- but I tell you, your government scores below zero. There is not a single sector I can turn to and give this government thumbs up. The only sector that comes close to it is the communication sector---I go through the depleting,heart-wrenching experience talking to people I left years ago----and it is filled with inefficiencies. Your government has been characterised by a catalogue of failures: Abuja stadium ,Id card,electoral,census et al controversies. Failures have followed you fanatically on your bum like flies to pooh.Anywhere you turn your attention there is this preternatural pull and acidic eruption of failures of governance . I would not go into great details of the many failures of this government ,lest I open old sores of gorged victims, but I would point a few. An immediate failure is the recent census count, which was marred by chronic irregularities. Your conspitorial and hypocritical leadership would not be forgotten in a hurry,infact in the due course of time you might face a history tribunal of the same magnitude as Charles Taylor’s, for your treacherous role in a census that carried a strong weight of importance and your historical affiliation to maintaining the fictional numerical might of the Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba ethnic groups, with the obvious pillage of Niger delta oil--state creation,federal character et al. In the heat of the many obstacles, including the rampage of MASSOB &MEND in the South-east and South-South respectively, the confusion, poor training nationwide, the NPC leader Makama, declared that 95%of the populace had been counted.I am not interested in the sarcastic content of this statement, but the brazen failure and neglect you approached something of this magnitude with. When you do "announce" the results, it would be greeted with the same response it received in 1953 till date. Speaking after the "debt cancellation”, the finance minister said, "The money saved, would help the country build infrastructure to help it diversify its economy" It has been almost seven years since you presided over the affairs of our country and there is little or no proof of diversfication.You have shunned local ingenuity. You get all worked out when you hear about the activities of MEND, because you know that is almost all you have--the last time I checked supplies were cut by 20%-- yet you do almost nothing to stop the oil companies spilling blood--pollution-- on their soil or a just deal for them. You have failed to come out with a blueprint for economic rejuvenation without a sting of external subservience--"economic police force ".You go on a peripatetic ride to oblivion under the illusion of purposeful global touring. The thought of you staying one more second should never arise under normal circumstances. In the place of working for the betterment of the nation your foot soldiers in the name of legislators and thieving governors have embarked on an incessant journey of toiling with our constitution, in order to perpetuate you under the guise of your "leadership immortality”. I put it to you that your silence is calculated.Daily we are inundated with the nauseating clangour of a man we cannot do without,daily we are briefed by spin-doctors about the necessity of you staying for a third term,we are told, you have to stay to prevent the North from coming and the need of carrying on your reforms. The irritating clank of this pathology has served as a red herring to cover the numerous failings, the government incurs every minute it breaths. You failed to rule out categorically, that you are not going to contest for election in your recent interview in America, against the back drop of your previous assertions that you were not going to contest. Your cheek by jowl relationship with Chris Uba crowned by an oil block says a lot about you. I have just read fresh reports by Omoyele Sowore that state security agents threatenned to shoot members of the lower house legislative chamber who gathered to scuttle the third term insanity. Under your tenure we almost relived, to the full, the genocides against Southerners in the '60s.Thousands of Southerners lost their lives in an incessisant bout of bloodletting festivals, all in a bid to snuff out infidels by jihadists.The perpetrators disappear into normal life afterwards .By your actions, it appeared you didn't have a care in the world if they all went down. There have been reports of security agents being in cahoots with these racists; they provided and still provide, the security lapse needed for the large body harvest. There are also reports, that Southern lives are snuffed at will, daily, but go unreported by the popular media. I watched with disgust as members of your government celebrated the "debt relief”. I endured the shame of your merry go rounds in your bid to get "debt relief" and foreign investments. I watched as your government begged like babies to get debts relief.You made a statement sometime ago that as long as Nigeria functions, there would always be a necessity of loan -taking, hence your loan-taking binge. You have sold us to that racist ,tear-down IMF and whatever organisation that do not have our apeal in their sight.Your actions have brought shame to our Nation.Yes,you got the debt relief, but not without the shame,racism,ridicule et al.Left to you nothing would happen in Nigeria. We would sling out in mud houses.It would be the same old damn story.We approach our fifth decade and we do not make aeroplanes,cars et al.Rulers like you, do not believe your fellow africans can make them .So in your uncle tomism pathology, you import the whole world into Nigeria,from jets,cars you name it, and you try to destroy people who believe they have the ability to produce and do produce. I say it is time we had a leadership that comes up with policies that encourage the development and impartation of skills if necessary to indigenes, a government that takes up the economic cudgel assertively, not a bunch of failed technocrats in the mould of presidents, finance miniters,CBN governors et al, that would continue to live in subservience and attract the scorn,laughter,sarcasim,racism et al of the outside world. A people labouring under a false sense of messiachood, who intracticably drain, virtually, the only resourse we depend on: oil and cry and run to the outside world with the irritating cries of bone- protuding,skeleton-showing,never-eaten folks. I have lost the slightest sympathy for your government. What we see in the place of proposals are pyramids of piffles.I would like to see every member of this oppressive government ejected forcefully if we are to move forward as a nation. I say, it is time you and your crew vanished from our sight, you all have failed, you do not deserve a second more, to plunge your heads and hands into our treasury. Maazi Rodman

VOR

# 8 | 06.04.2006 08:21

	Thanks for the list gwobezentashi WAR HAS BEEN DECLARED!!! This war will be fought even abroad. All those people that stopped the impeachment of Mantu let us make Europe and America no go areas for them, lets not give them honour but show them for the sell outs they are. Enough is enough lets stop honouring these men/women without honour. I know Amosun likes to come and give talks in London, Lets wait and see, he is in for some disgrace!!! I know tokunboh ogunbanjo as a playboy, whatever he is doing in the senate I dont know, he should go and concentrate on his wine women and horses!! he is a shame to his family because I know his father, Pa Ogunbanjo to be a man of honour, Tokunboh is a DISGRACE to his family and I will let him know when I see him. Iyabo Anisulowo I am not suprised, is this not the women who "borrowed" money from her committe allocation, thief ole barawo even more of a disgrace as a woman!!! I am writing to all the senators from my state I have seen their names here, they will explain to me if they were representing my and my family interest as much as Mantu was representing our interests at the committee hearing. They have murdered sleep, because I will work seriously to ensure they are not re-elected BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. Enough is enough. I have a shame list, these people are going on that list, they and there children and their children's children shall suffer for their crimes against Nigeria and Nigerians. WAR HAS BEEN DECLARED!! The pikin wey say im mama no go sleep, that pikin sef no go close eye!!

Root

# 9 | 06.04.2006 08:24

	Nigeria's VP opposes third term Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has helped Obasanjo win two elections Nigeria's vice-president has for the first time publicly backed those who oppose moves to let President Olusegun Obasanjo stand for re-election. Atiku Abubakar turned up at a meeting of senior political figures opposed to changing the constitution to end a limit of two presidential terms. The meeting was moved after security agents stopped it being held in a five-star hotel in the capital. Mr Obasanjo has not publicly said whether he wants to remain in office. But correspondents say Mr Abubakar's attendance at the meeting shows the battle lines are now clearly drawn ahead of elections due next year. Former military leader Muhammadu Buhari, who lost the 2003 elections to Mr Obasanjo, attended the meeting, along with MPs and both serving and former state governors. State security agents said they could not hold the talks at the Abuja Sheraton hotel because they had not sought police permission. Instead, they moved to a government office. The issue has divided the ruling People's Democratic Party and Nigerian public opinion. God's role On Wednesday Mr Obasanjo's spokesman told the BBC that the president would consider whether or not to stand if the constitution was changed. Femi Fani Kayode was responding to a US newspaper report in which Mr Obasanjo said God would decide whether to extend his time as president after 2007. Mr Obasanjo's second term in office ends next year Mr Kayode told the BBC this decision would not be decided by God alone and that there were other considerations. The National Assembly is due to consider more than 100 proposed constitutional amendments, including whether to extend the limit on a president's term in office from two to three terms. Supporters of Mr Abubakar, who is thought to be eyeing the presidency, oppose moves to change the constitution. Opponents of the constitutional change argue that the presidency needs to rotate among people from different regions and ethnic groups. Mr Obasanjo is a Christian from the south-west while Mr Abubakar is a Muslim from the north. Recently, a majority of Nigeria's state governors agreed that a constitutional review was necessary within the life of the current administration. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4882958.stm

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# 10 | 06.04.2006 10:14

	To all you tribalists: You can see from the list by gwobezentashi that the malaise confronting our country were caused by people from all regions. So do not think because Obasanjo is a Yoruba that he is being supported by his tribe alone for his mismanagement. His kinsmen for that matter, kinswomen can being found in different nooks and corners of Nigeria.

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