[MrOneNaija]

THE CRIME SYNDICATE CALLED THE PDP

Again, we should avoid the trap of tergiversation and put the blame for the orchestrated Ekiti disaster squarely on the crooked shoulders of the devious and sleazy impostor called Yar'Adua and his crime syndicate, the PDP. It is a sad commentary that the only thing Umoru can boast of since he was rigged into office by his mentor and godfather, the ex-tyrant from Otta, is the fact that he and his soi-disant regime have been actively abusing state institutions and thus rigging themselves to power in the various states where elections have been ordered by the courts.

Let me reiterate here that Yar'Adua and his PDP rigging machine will not escape the consequences of the evil they have sown in Ekiti and elsewhere in the country. And we cannot at this juncture exclude the Jerry Rawlings option of cleansing the land of political dregs. The vermin currently finding refuge under the sinister canopy of the anti-people vehicle of impunity and greed known as the PDP have murdered sleep and they shall sleep no more.

This perspective by the Abuja daily, Leadership:
http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/ind...ries&Itemid=74

Front Page Comment: End Of The Road For Democracy
Written by Jacob
Friday, 08 May 2009 02:22

Even before the governorship election rerun in 10 local government areas of Ekiti State on April 25, many a PDP linchpin was stating publicly that Ekiti was too important to be lost by the party. As it turned out, that was also the view of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Goodluck Jonathan, Ayo Arise, Olusegun Obasanjo, Mike Okiro and, of course, Maurice Iwu all of whom have no respect for democracy. Ostensibly, that was why the federal government deployed its armed forces and security agencies to the small state to deliver it to the ruling PDP. For, in a free and fair poll, the grouping that has severally been rechristened "Painted Devils' Party", "People Deceiving Party" or "Poverty Development Party" had no chance to win.

What are the facts? Ten thousand policemen were sent to Ekiti on Election Day, not to maintain law and order - there was no peace anyway - but to intimidate voters and observers sympathetic to the opposition. Many stood up to the election riggers, to the extent that it was only in Ido/Osi LGA that the criminals had the courage to collate "results" from a police station. The state commissioner of police, acting on orders from his bosses, was at the neck of the resident electoral commissioner (REC), Mrs Olusola Ayoka Adebayo, to accept the figures endorsed by agents of the PDP alone in a contest involving at least 12 parties. Those who cooked the figures had given the PDP candidate 15, 939 and the AC candidate 3, 793 votes. The REC resigned, citing "circumstances [that] changed in the middle of the process" and which were in conflict with her conscience as a Christian. The federal government rejected her resignation and Inspector-general of Police Mike Okiro threatened to declare her wanted if she failed to report to a police station or INEC office within 24 hours.

Inside Aso Rock, President Yar'adua was holding endless meetings with his henchmen - the national security adviser, the director of the State Security Service, IGP Okiro, INEC chairman Iwu, PDP chairman Vincent Ogbulafor and others - to find ways of fending off the REC's embarrassment. Nobody from any other political party was invited. In no time, according to credible sources, REC Adebayo was seized and guns pointed to her head: she was to choose between her life and doing the party’s bidding. She chose the latter. Thus, she had to withdraw her resignation, complete the election in Ekiti (voting in Oye-Ekiti LGA had been postponed) and announce the results. A “repentant” Adebayo, surrounded by gun-wielding soldiers and security agents, announced the results including the figures for Ido/Osi LGA that she had rejected, and declared PDP’s Segun Oni the winner. Oni had “defeated” AC candidate Kayode Fayemi by 4, 123 votes!

In our editorial of last Monday (“Again, The Gathering Clouds”), we warned that “just as the Ekiti vote is snowballing into a farce, the 2011 elections could mark the end of democracy in Nigeria or worse”. We have cause to edit that statement now: With that robbery carried out by the shameless rulers of Nigeria and their attack dogs, it is already goodnight to democracy in Nigeria. It is of no use wasting public funds on “elections” anymore. We advise the powers that be to quickly scrap INEC. In 2011, the party in power and its security agents should simply compile the names of selected representatives of the people. The billions of dollars that would have been frittered away or embezzled should be saved in our foreign reserve.

It takes unusual restraint to be law-abiding in the face of injustice. Accordingly, we commend the Ekiti AC for not repeating the mayhem of 1983. We support the resolve of Dr Fayemi to go back to the courts. Nigerians must never allow unscrupulous politicians to push them into another civil war of which innocent men, women and children would be victims. Until they see genuine change, they should no longer bother to register as voters or vote in polls whose results are prepared well advance of Election Day by criminals appointed for that purpose.

Yar’Adua has deceived all of us. It is now clear that his promises of electoral reform, rule of law, servant leadership and other garbage he uttered during his inauguration on May 29, 2007, were hypocritical. While this cunning president shed crocodile tears over the fraudulent election that brought him and many crooks to office in 2007, we never knew his government would be the one to complete the job of murdering democracy that his predecessor Obasanjo had pursued with missionary zeal. But true democracy, we predict, will resurrect in this country at a time none of the current mandate thieves will be able to enjoy it. The doomed never see foresee their own destruction.

The proponents of “Re-branding Nigeria” can now see that they cannot succeed unless they can hoodwink, intimidate or “settle” all decent Nigerians and foreigners. Whenever elections like the one conducted in Ekiti takes place, embassies and high commissions in Nigeria collect factual information which they dispatch to their home governments. Their reports - and the reports of other observers - form other countries’ judgement of our country. How will a devious government re-brand brigandage, robbery or assassination of voters by policemen and thugs working for a party? Will foreign investors prefer Nigeria to countries like the United States, Ghana, India, Iceland and South Africa that freely elected their leaders recently? Nigeria is undeveloped today - and apparently incapable of developing tomorrow - due to the absence of genuine democracy.