2015 General Elections in Nigeria: The Schedule of Military Operations; A Deserter’s Diary Part 1: The Vampires Pact: Uba brothers and Ekiti/Osun Stats’ Election Contracts When General Eme first gave a hint that Chris Uba was bidding for the Ekiti Election Fixing Contract for the PDP because Fayose could not raise enough money for the election and people were not willing to stake their funds on him on account of his political antecedent, I honestly had cause to doubt him despite his credibility with such high-tech top secrete pouch of information. He realy went cold with me for a few days for this Thomasic behaviour. By time this news becomes public item, I would have been declared a deserter -- this I mean being hunted by the crack team of the security command of the new clique of Nigerian hegemony I have designated strictly personally contrived and automatically convinced to so hold. Once heard of the Mystic Falls in the US and thought it a fictional tale of creative ingenuity, never would I contemplate a reality version of it in the real world. Lo and behold, they are here in Nigeria and to be encountered as political vampires. But vampire is vampire – feeding on human blood to kill. Blood has a metaphor in the world of economics to man. It’s the money power at its basic necessity for human survival, which globally is scaled in the terminology of ‘poverty level’. A man in penury of abject poverty is a living corpse. This I know from a practical experience of my life before I was ‘conscripted’ into the Niger ‘Delta Freedom Fighters Force’ – as we thought it; not the ‘militant group’ the press conspired to label us. Ever wondered my use of ‘conscripted’ for ‘initiation’ into that undoubtedly an occultist world of the Niger Delta militancy? The difference between what we ‘believed’ we were and what the public perceived us to be is the answer for the reason. But every militant is a cult with membership allegiance to identifiable group and its leader consequently. At that level the concept of initiation was applied. But at the macro level of Niger Delta’s interest, each cult group has a stake to commit into the project. Each thus becomes a platon of the general command of the freedom fighters. At this level, individual is a rank and file of the Nigeria Delta Army. At that level, concept of conscription is applied. Life in the creek’s had been so good to much of heavenly paradise; so had been life in ‘the camp’s before the Ekiti Election’s Operations (EEO) changed my orientation altogether happily for the comfort of my conscience. The change was inspired and the satisfaction optimally, as I for once looked into my toddler son in the eye and communicated with heart to him: “you can be happier, now that you know I am free from being a sire bond of the vampires. No more sucking of human blood!” The EEO made me wept midway into the Zero Hours after we split into civil and combatant operations on the Election Day, that June 21, 2014. Not even the fated termination of Azazi – in plot and executions – ever so moved me to emotions. “We all acknowledge his (Azazi’s) innocence, but FL said Oga believes he is not of our blood by that open declaration; and the silence has to be permanent, ‘General’ Eme had said. For the EEO, the combatants were to immobilize (execute the clamp down in mass arrest) of the President’s Enemies (PEs) – who happened to be leaders of the ruling party in that State, the All Progressive Congress (APC). The combatants comprised the combined team of soldiers – mostly our members (ND) brotherhoods clad in military fatigue which one would justifiably call ‘fake soldiers’ to a layman but ‘unknown soldiers – as we were acknowledged to be amidst the regular soldiers and known to the military command – as I would think; the State Security Service (SSS); the Special Anti-riot Police Squad (a.k.a. kill- and-go) and a handful men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC -- a.k.a. Civil Defense). However, a detachment of this combatant unit was to serve as a back-up for the civil arm, specifically to ward off the prying lenses of the press-camera. I belonged and led a team of this detachment and we were actually responsible for the arrest of some unfortunate journalists and press crew. The civil operation involved distribution of enticing materials -- bags of rice and physical cash to the electorate. Those to distribute the materials were mainly civilians identified as the ‘PL’ (President’s Loyalists) sometimes interchangeable in calling as ‘the patriots’. But to Mr. Chris Uba, it’s simply a matter of Mr. President’s loyalists versus his enemies – an orientation he consistently near successfully made us to recite by rote. They comprised the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leaders not only from Ekiti State as I was as sure as the PDP stalwart from Rivers State to whom our group was responsible to as our civil command’s channel of authority. I do not intend to hold back any identifiable personality involved in all our Ekiti and other prospective operations, but this commander’s name is elusive to me now in my hermitage of exile at home. The civil operation was however structured in three layers of distinct briefs but complementary into one goal: The civilians, the civil defence corps out team – the combatants. The Civil Defence was to be closer to the civilians and even involved in physical process of distribution – to give confidence of being an acceptable norm of that election process to the perception of the electorate. We the combatants are to keep equiline watch for any potential ‘a-no-go-gree’ from any quarter to be dealt with, much less as to keep fortive glances at the distribution process to ‘mark’ any one rejecting the largesse as a potential PE. An indignation suddenly pricked my conscience at about past eleven and mysteriously overwhelming me within seconds in a manner I still find to being beyond human comprehension to date. Though I, like my other Niger Delta militant colleagues in the EEO, was well equipped with ideology of military orientation from the creeks’ experience. To brutally murder an ‘enemy’ – man, for human face, if you like – is a pass time; not to talk of mere bullying. This one I have just beheld suddenly became obscene and I noticed a gushing feeling of empathy against inhumanity out of me. A middle aged man had just got a dose of the brunt of our military angst that had built up in every one of us in count down to the Zero Hours. I just turned my supposedly blank gaze on one of our parade ride passing by this polling unit to catch a glimpse of two of our men, in the nick of time, hit him at shoulder back. “For democracy?” An intrinsic poser had just challenged my emotion for human feelings What led to this, I could not personally attest to in oath of true eyewitness account. But a tale of response to my later enquiry suggested a tease in mockery between acquaintances from the opposing camps of political parties gone awry. An overzealous civil defense corps acting true to bidding had raised an unnecessary alarm to attract the fake soldiers. The flow of handing over a mini bag of rice with cash to every voter on the queue in turn had been smooth from the behind the line until it got to the victim of the brutality, a staunch APC faithful I presumed was well known to the distributor. I think the distributor had offered him his own with a wink of tease he could not find amusing. ‘Get out of my sight or…”, the APC man was still saying before a hard slap on his neck-back from the civil defense cut him short of further words. Other parts of the obscene followed and it instantly ignited my deserving pity for a treaty of misery -- a pact of miserable life these people of Ekiti have just been deceived to endorse with these PDP’s callous bait for a deeper wretched living in their land. Suffice to say the first leg of our Revisionism in throwback of the First Republic is a success. For those who do not know, the rested Igbo/Ijaw ethnic nations block making up the Eastern Region’s mission to dominate the political space of Nigeria has returned and alive with us in this democracy – now under South South/South East alliance. We shall get there. So, how many sons and daughters of Ekiti and Osun states know that the June 21, 2014 Governorship Election in Ekiti and the coming Osun State Governorship Election were contracted to Chief Chris Uba by the President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP to deliver as electoral victory to PDP? Do the Ekiti people know that going by the terms of that ‘election fixing’ contract, Chief Chris Uba shall begin to take N650million from the Ekiti State’s treasury via the State’s Federal allocations drawn at source every month effective from October 2014 after the swearing in of the new Governor?. This is a standing order exclusive of recurrent benefits in contracts awards. Do the People of Osun know that the same condition applies to Osun State if Chief Chris Uba Should also succeeds to deliver on the Osun Election Fixing Contract to the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan! Do the people of Osun State know that should Chief Chris Uba fixes the election and successfully deliver victory to PDP, Senator Iyiola Omisore as Governor of the State is sealed to pay him (Chief Chris Uba) a monthly sum of N850million every months via the same channel of drawing from source upon release of the monthly Federal Allocation to the State. The difference in the Osun’s Contract fee to Ekiti’s is because Omisore had preferred the lump sum of N850million refund every month to Chris Uba without any additional pact of recurrent benefits of contracts award. And this was accepted in this wise because for this State, Uba is not the direct beneficiary. You will know the beneficiary in due course. Do the People of Ekiti and Osun states know that the Resignation Letters of Mr. Ayodele Peter Fayose and Senator Iyiola Omisore from being the Governor and Chief Security Officers of Ekiti and Osun States respectively were signed before Mr. President, Goodluck Jonathan and in the presence of Chris Uba. These letters are being held in trust for both parties personally by Mr. President. The Story Continues: The Vampires Part 2 First, a tip of my identity in discourse to the Subject of Revisionism as my cause for defection It is for a common sense of the Nigerian public’s interest, especially the concerned Yoruba people who might have cause to take more than a passing interest in their fate in post 2015 Nigeria, that I will pre-empt a readers’ curious quests that could border on the axiomatic substances of my claims. For, the Goodluck Jonathan’s South East/ South South (Eastern Region) pact, the resolve is made and only a daring impunity is their interest for sustainable advances of their cause. Of course, for necessity of official comments they will tag ‘in the interests of Nigeria’s unity’, the Presidency of Jonathan will want to deny all this with dismissal claims, urging its prospective slaves to be captured – the Yoruba – to disregard me. But at the end of the whole story, I would have done my bit in divine mission to raise the consciousness of the Yoruba to the pending calamity to befall that ethnic nation of liberal conscience for accommodating every foreign nation without any suspicion. They will tell Nigerians to disregard me but they have intensified their hunt for me. I had only been – say – two steps ahead of them at pre-empting what their next move would be. Twice, as my trusted neighbours at my Ondo residence have confirmed to me with evidence of photographic shots of their vehicles on the second visit, they have begun a total man hunt for my family less than 36 hours of Ekiti Election Operations. The Eastern Region of the First Republic -- the 1960s -- with its misguided ambition to dominate the Nigerian political space, misrepresentatively by a few opportunists who lack the basic knowledge of the destructive capacity of a mere authority much more and absolutely corrupt power’s intoxication. The worst of this however is the calculated surreptitious vengeance against the Western Region -- the Yoruba – by the clan of this block. When we the Niger Delta youths went into the creeks, our ideology was clear and that informed why many of us bought into it with glees. It was, and still is, either Republic of the Niger Delta to take full control over our resources and never to goad any Ijaw blood for a life President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that will continue to consume over 80% of our future years of hope. Adaka Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa was clear about this as well as the Great Gedion Orka. So if our taking up arms was for justice as we Ijaws are known for, any decision to stay with Nigeria State must come with our readiness to subscribe to the oath of justice as prescribed by the country’s Constitution. That the First Lady would be in eternal gloom since Biafra war todate over her loss of a man he would have married and hold a section of the country – specifically, the Yoruba Nation – responsible for her revenge is what the Ijaw Nation, home and Diaspora, should denounce. When General Eme first gave a hint that Chris Uba was bidding for the Ekiti Election Fixing Contract for the PDP because Fayose could not raise enough money for the election and people were not willing to stake their funds on him on account of his political antecedent, I honestly had cause to doubt him despite his credibility with such high-tech top secrete pouch of information. He really went cold with me for a few days for this Thomasic behaviour. He was justified though, while I was wrong to have overrated Mr. Presidents true depth of intellect for governance. In all honesty, hours into the EO, it never crossed my mind as an iota of thought that I would never return to camp with the troop? But from that hour of pricking, it progressed to rumpus in me, and provoked a series of reflections into the activities and orientations in our daily lives at the camp. In the flash backs, certain actions and words began to make meanings to me. In fact it was an hour of a seeming bondage loosing off for my liberation – sort of a veil clearing off my face. Recall from my preamble where I noted that ‘life in the creeks had been so good to much of heavenly paradise; as so being life in the camp’. To discernible minds, it should not be difficult to understand; and that I did mean two different institutions altogether. They refer to pre and post amnesty life of the Niger Delta militancy (NDM) to go by the general ascription for clarity of these eras for every one of us. Amnesty, program which everyone globally has come to know is synonymous with Niger Delta Youth, was the best policy ever initiated by the federal government of Nigeria – in so far consistency of its continuum through inter-regimes of government is concerned. And for this, two distinct but antagonistic factors are routinely responsible: genuine leadership interest and abuse of ethnic interest. The former was for the late President Umar Yar’Adua while the later is for his successor, Goodluck Jonathan. I will explain. At incipient of the programme when it began to claim credibility for irreversible commitment of the administration of President Yar’Adua – may Allah (as my mark of recognition and respect for his religion) grant him paradise of eternity -- signs of ethnic discrimination from Ijaw axis against other ethnic component arms of the NDM. The perniciously affected more were those from the Akoko-Edo/ Ilaje axis of Edo/Ondo States conurbation. With keen sense of diligence to the list of potential beneficiaries, Yar’Adua queried it twice and his interest in that ethnic balance percolated down for the minority to feel substantially. Indeed, how he perceived the acts of injustice I could not say, but he detected it and called for remedy. Evidence I personally accessed pointed to the office of his Vice president as the manipulator of those lists. After the demise of Yar’Adua and Jonathan became officially in charge, the injustice resumed in the later stages of the Amnesty implementation. But in a pretentious balance of justice, the purported Edo/Ondo share for the 2010 was skewed, with impunity, in favour of Edo State by the amnesty office for political expediency. Edo was a PDP state but Ondo had fallen to the governance of a perceived ‘rascal’ – Dr. Olusegun Mimiko. Contrary to general beliefs, the term ‘rascal’ as would later be popularized by President Jonathan at the PDP campaign for 2011 general elections in Ibadan was the original coinage of the Senate President David Mark. An it meant a reference to Yoruba leaders in all ramifications – political, professional and civil society groups. It simply referred to what had become the distinct character of the Western region – sustainable civil disobedience as its arsenal for any systemic cause of justice. I picked this understanding as implied statement from a comment of the Pioneer Director General of the Amnesty Programme It was in actual fact, a part content of his open declaration to this Ondo part of the NDM that they “should forget any participation in the amnesty programme any longer because they have joined, as senate President would say, the states of radicals”. He made this statement at a meeting held to address this State’s NDM’s protest on July 16, 2010. And as a marching order he directed them: “if you could make him (Mimiko) the governor of that State, you could also make kiss the canvass of Mr. President and you will belong”. I was not told, rather I recorded attendance at that meeting. Thence the Ondo chapter of the NDM sufficiently blackmailed Mimiko to openly dump any trace of solidarity with his origin -- if indeed he is really of – the Yoruba race, going by the implication of some of his comments I have been privileged to hear when I encountered him at the Aso Villa wing of the First Lady. The most memorable one was when Eme, simply for ego tripping, slapped him (Governor Olusegun Mimiko) in the presence of the Mama (First Lady) for refusing to accept being called a goat – the general term we Niger Delta militants adopt for some of the Yoruba governors and leaders, simply describing them as cowards. We shall get there. However, the State’s NDM’s demand was notched higher recently for the demand on him to proclaim the state of PDP in Ondo State by his official defection to the party. To justify the NDM’s capacity to undermine his interests in Ondo State should he fail to do so, they withdrew their supports for the Labour Party at this year’s by- election to replace the late member of the House of Representative for Akoko Edo/ Ilaje Federal Constituency, if I am correct about this for now. As for how I could interpret the term of ‘rascal’ as broad reference to Yoruba leaders, Eme is a very close gallant comrade. He belongs, or you would want me to say used to be a member of, the Niger Delta Volunteers Force (NDVF) at the time I got to know him. That was when his boss, Dokubo – simply called Alhaji after his holy pilgrimage that made him unique amongst other leaders -- was unfortunate to slip into the enemy’s camp and became a war prisoner. That’s what we thought it to be in our line of reasoning in the creeks and territories of our stronghold in the cities of Niger Deltas. Nigeria was and yet our enemy contrary to the general impression our current membership could falsely posit. We are only on CFR – Cease Fire Retreat. Post Jonathan, not necessarily he wins or lose 2015 Presidential election, will determine our next line of action. As the Niger Delta’s permanent economic interest in the Nigerian project, full resource control derivation principle is non-negotiable. However, a conditional 50% derivation principle on considerable terms could make Nigeria friendly for good relations to us. On this is where Niger Delta stands for ever. Yet my curiosity lies in this standing creed expected to be upheld by every one of us (Niger Deltans) with respect to our choice of friends out of the component ethnic nation members making up Nigeria. If Southwest’s clamor for Sovereign National Conference (SNC) would help the Niger Delta achieve this objective on peace terms, why the current Jonathan’s policy to overrun that innocent region with military operations? I know the answer to be the failed Jonathan/Tinubu’s pact as an offer reject by the later. But alas my bitter impression to encounter the blueprint of ‘Operation CLIN-R’. I would later understand this under cover mission to be the exclusive contraption of three men: Chief Edwin Clark, President Goodluck Jonathan and Abia State Governor, Chief Theodor Orji of course. My privilege of this information was also through Eme and with later confirmation from implied statement of Chief Edwin Clark when we paid him solidarity homage at his country home over the kidnap of his son. That visit would in all sense of reality be the first flash of indignation for what was discerning to be unreasonable xenophobia aided by betrayal. I don’t know why it never made it to news after all or it did at all: it was as incensed slush at least to me, when one Barrister Kayode Ajulo well known to me as Baba’s PA would baselessly, vow to claim that an”APC leader”, paid the kidnappers to do the job. At further interrogative banters threw by me and one or two others sensible compatriots, he came to be specific that: “that Bola Tinubu paid those boys N22million naira” to do so. And when asked why? “Just to embarrass Chief”, he simply said’ We will get to this in due serious course. But clearly, the Yoruba Nation is in serious danger with the fall of Ekiti as the first leg of an ethnic revisionism. As I was saying, I met Eme for the first time at Abuja in 20.. at the first apperaence of his leader, Dokubo, in court. It was the period of our intense war with the Obasanjo led Federal Government of Nigeria. By the deceptive manner Alhaji was lured into captivity against the background of maximum damage to our psyche by the military invasion of Odi, our orientation had to change to accommodate the impression that the enemy’s command base (Obasanjo’s Presidency) had declared a total war without any rules of engagement. To that extent, identity caution had to be the first on survival precautions. Yet from our political leaders came and order: we must physically identify with ALhaji all through his travails, meaning to be present in court at all time of his appearances to sustain his confidence of justification in his cause to liberate Niger Delta. To show their resolve for this, the then Bayelsa Governor Diepereye Alamieyeseigha in company of Chief Edwin Clerk (President of the Republic of Niger Delta as we so designated him) personally visited General Gov. T – also in company of some selected other militant leaders to discuss the modalities. Eventually, N150million was committed into what would be classified as ‘project ADC Force’ No, I was not at the meeting, as I was a mere middle rank class of the creeks army – Col. Omot Ngeme. But it was mandatory that my General (Leader) would brief me, as would be in other camps. By the final modality, every recognized unit of the creek militias would contribute a maximum of two personnel to that rather armless force (ADC Force). One captain Dickson and I were sent from my unit. Indeed, project ADC Force really worked from day one. Alhaji was more than excited and it boosted his spirits when he began to see one, two, three….. of his compatriots in armed insurgence in court. “You could dare them too?” So he asked with exclamatory gesture, and verbally by proxy of his wife later in context of his vote of thanks through her. But I think the most morale building to the high esteem for him was a successful slip of a two-sentence note message personally signed by Governor Alamieyeseigha, encouraging him to sustain his courage. That was when he started going, I think, weird in court. Brig. Eme was fascinated with the way I saved a potential arrest of one of us, albeit one of the NDVF’s by an alert State Security Service (SSS) agent. My acts of that day’s delve move brought us to so close five and six relation. At post amnesty, he would successfully curry a right wing Presidency’s favour when he refused to identify with his leader, Dokubo’s incessant attack on President Jonathan. His strategy: “I knew what he wanted but the public thought he (Dokubo) was against him (Jonathan) on partisan ground of his Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) membership. But in that, I was wise enough to see a lose noose to escape into my independence and liberty. So I told him, I liked PDP. That’s why he could not label me a traitor”, General Eme, as he would become later on paper of Amnesty programme, explained how he parted ways with Dokubo. He has since leaped from strength to strength in matters of political recognition by the Presidency – the wing of First Lady in particular. Hence he became an authority on how Jonathan picked the term “rascals” for the Yoruba Governors of ACN from David Mark. Mark did not mean harm of derogation of the people either when he used it. According to him, First Lady once explained how Mark had consistently assured her husband at the time of Yar’Adua’s ill helath that he should not worry over the antics of some Presidential aides and a section of the North obstructing his (Jonathan’s) swearing in as the substantive President “because those rascals” have stepped in and they wont give up”. Eme said when Jonathan asked whom Mark was referring to, he replied “those Yoruba people”. One would also recall that time more as the utmost time of anxiety for us -- we the militant too because we feared what would happen to the Amnesty programme, especially when we had trustfully undergone the first phase: disarmament, as required of our role in the blue-print. I said ‘trustfully’ though; it wouldn’t be a bad confession this hour to say few of our arms were held back to relaunch our armed struggle should the government fail to honour its side. But then, the largesse of amnesty was quite so tempting to be ignored preferentiality to the anticipation of the Federal Government reneging on its promise. To appreciate this more, it may interest you to know that my balance in amnesty dedicated account as we were mandated to open stands at N27million naira, though already moved on Monday June 23 rd from my bank. My account officer and the manager of the branch got a parting gift of N100,000 and N250,000 respectively to overlook the Money Laundry Act requiring them to notify the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) of the drawing. I did this out of my lack of time to be in circulation for too long and not out of infringement of the law to cover up. In fact, I beat the manager to dumbness when I told him to run through my record of transaction to see that the money was an accumulation of legitimate earning – they knew amnesty to be the source already and that I hardly drew from the account unless I add to it more frequently. “Sarowiwa”, Eme had called me, as he fondly named me out of his respect for perceived depth of my intellectual acumen, when he was to notify me of the NDN’s move to raise a pro-Jonathan civil society group with names not to be traced to us. We were to join forces with the Southwest rascals to fight the Turai Yar’Adua and her northern cabal of pretenders to functional Presidency of the ailing Yar’Adua. He claimed it was the idea of Kuku – now head of the amnesty office.
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