Prince Frank Ukonga Lecture 19-The Politics of Mergers, Political Parties Cooperation and Union Governments in Nigeria;Focus on ACN,CPC,ANPP- SDMP,ACCORD,PPA & PDP &CO- A critical analysis by Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga

ACN National Leader H.E.Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and THE CPC National Leader. H.E. General Mohammadu Buhari

Prince Frank Ukonga Lecture 19-The Politics of Mergers, Political Parties Cooperation and Union Governments in Nigeria;Focus on ACN,CPC,ANPP- SDMP,ACCORD,PPA & PDP &CO- A critical analysis by Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga

The State of Nigeria came into being by the amalgamation of the Northern and southern protectorates of the British Government in 1914 about 100 years ago. The Nigerian polity was ruled by the British till it gained its independence in 1960 to become a sovereign Republic. Prior to this Nigeria was divided into three major Regions of Western Region, Northern Region and Eastern Region for administrative purpose, each ruled by a Governor and a Premier elected to the House. Later in 1963 another Region was carved out of the Western Region as the Mid West Region.

Before the first Republic in the 50’s of the previous century the British allowed for self rule by the Regions and elections were conducted as a stepping stone to full independence in 1960. And in those times several constitutional meetings were held in London, Lagos and else where to fashion out a working arrangement for the general election of 1959/1960.

The first Republic:

 In the 1959/1960 general elections that ushered into being the first Republic the major political parties that contested the election were as follows:

21 Political Parties of the First Republic:

Action Group-AG, National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroon-NCNC, Northern Peoples Congress-NPC, Northern Element Progressive Union-NEPU, Nigerian National Progressive Party-NNDP, Northern Progressive Front-NPF, Republican Party, United Middle Belt Congress-UMBC, Zamfara Commoners Party-ZCP, Kano Peoples Party-KPP, Igala Union-IU, Democratic Party of Nigeria and the Cameroon-DPNC, Igbira Tribal Union-ITU, Niger Delta Congress-NDC, Midwest Democratic Front-MDF, Lagos State United Front-LSUF and Dynamic Party, Mobolaje Grand Party-MGP. Borno Youth Movement- BYM, United National Independence Party-UNIP.

 A total of 21 political parties participated actively in the elections of the first Republic but the Major players where the Action Group of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the NPC of Sir Ahmadu Bello/ Tafawa Balewa, and the NCNC of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe and Hubert Macaulay. Also prominent but in the progressive camp was the NEPU of Alhaji Aminu Kano,The Akintola’s NNDP, The Joseph Tarka’s Middle Belt group and the Borno Youth Movement of the young Ribadu Brothers. Mid West Democratic Front –MDF of Chief Ogbodo Ukonga [The grand Father of Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga]

During the elections lots of horse trading came to being among the progressives and the conservatives alike.

According to the recently released memoirs of a prominent British officer that supervised the elections Sir Harold Wilson he claimed that the NPC and the NCNC were secretly sponsored by the British Government but that it was only the Action Group of Chief Obafemi Awolowo that sponsored itself out of the three major players in the general polls of the first Republic. He said that even the cars, bicycles, material and funds used by the two mentioned political parties were provided by the British government. So in reality the polls were the Action Congress of Chief Obafemi Awolowo against the British government. And he went further to reveal that they were surprised on how Chief Obafemi Awolowo was able to raise fund and materials to put up such a grandiose credible fight as to almost win the polls. But then the result came out and though the NPC lead the polls but did not have the sufficient mark to form a Government. Neither did the NCNC that came third has sufficient mark to form the central government nor the Action Group that came second… so the polls had to move to the Electoral College to form alliances. Chief Obafemi Awolowo was in deep discussion with Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe to form a Union Government of NCNC and AG and it was almost sealed only for Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe to show up as alleged on the orders of his sponsors to pick up the post of a Union government with NPC as a ceremonial President under the leadership of the NPC government in a Union where His Excellency Tafawa Balawa emerged as the first Prime Minister with executive powers, of the Nigerian State. So Chief Obafemi Awolowo had to form the opposition government,

But then lots of horse trading were also done among the middle weight political parties like the Borno Youth Movement , the NEPU, UMBC, the Middle Belt group were all allied to AG of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, while the NNDP, DPN etc were allied to the NPC and the NCNC also had its own alliances.

At this juncture we must mention that it was the implosion of the political parties due to ambition and irreconcilable differences in merger and cooperation that led to the crisis in the West that later conflagrated the entire Nigerian polity into a burning wild fire that brought into being the military intervention into Nigerian government in 1966.

The second Republic:

In 1979 the second republic came into being when Major General Olusegun Obasanjo decided to hand over government to democratically elected people. Six Major political Parties contested keenly to grab power in the second Republic

Political Parties of the Second Republic:

Unity Party of Nigeria- UPN, National Party of Nigeria-NPN, Nigerian Peoples Party-NPP, Peoples Redemption Party-PRP, Great Nigerian Peoples Party-GNPP, and the Nigerian Advance Party-NAP-

The UPN was led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo, with Chief Ebenizer Babatope, chief Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Bola Ige, Chief Lateef Jakande, Chief Ambross Ali, Chief Gabriel Onaivi Ukonga [Father of Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga- governorship candidate –Edo 2012-] ,Chief Anthony Enahoro, Chief Abraham Adesanya etc.

The NPN was led by Alhaji Shehu Shagari as the Presidential Candidate with Chairman in person of Dr Emannuel Adisa Meredith AMA Akinloye alias Adisco 87, Dr Umaru Diko,Basorun MKO Abiola, Alhaji Maitama Sule, Alhaji Abdulrahman Okene, , Alhaji Uba Ahmed, Chief Frank Alkali,Dr Omololu Olunloyo, Chief Richard Akinjide, Dr Chuba Okadigbo,K,O Nbadiwe alias man of Timber and caliber etc

The NPP was led by Dr Nmamdi Azikiwe, Sir Arthur Nzeribe, etc.

The PRP was led by Alhaji Aminu Kano, the Great Nigerian Peoples Party was led by Alhaji Ibrahim Waziri and the NAP was led by Barrister Tunji Braithwaite.

The polls was conducted and though the NPN won the election which incidentally was a grouping of the old NPC in a new wine bottle but did not had sufficient mark to form a government as the infamous 12 2/3 drama. And an attempt to form a union government was thwarted as Chief Obafemi Awolowo was already deep in Negotiations with other progressives the then powers that be went ahead and sworn in Alhaj Shehu Shagari based on the premises of single large vote. That election was highly controversial as many believed that Chief Obafemi Awolowo won the election but then because of his utterances that he was going to probe his predecessors he was edged out in the Nigerian roulette. We must note the contributions of Professor Ayodele Adedeji a vibrant genius of mathematics who explained the meaning of 12 2/3 in the constitution but to the favor of the progressives who are Social democrats. Alhaji Aminu Kano’s PRP was allied to Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s Unity Party. While the NPP allied to the NPN.

The second Republic was toppled again out of the irreconcilable differences in the ambitions of the various groups that were struggling for the control of power but this time it was the implosion of the Ruling Party the NPN that provided the necessary and sufficiency reason de entre of a military coup de Etat that brought in General Mohammadu Buhari and Major General Tunde Idiagbon to the helm of affairs of the Nigerian State. Major General Babangida later took over from the duo in a Palace Coup de Etat and ruled for 8 years. He also decided to step aside and hand over to a democratically elected government. He formed two political parties , funded them and conducted one of the best elections in the Nigerian history as in the June 12 1993 elections that was won by Basorun MKO Abiola .but unfortunately the election was annulled .

It should also be noted that the factors that led to the annulment of one of the best, freest and fairest election in Nigerian history are not unconnected with the same underlying reality of the suspicion and irreconcilable differences among the Ruling class as in mergers and cooperation among political groups, which as usual leads to implosions.

Political Parties of the Aborted third Republic;

Social Democratic Party-  SDP. And   National Republican Convention-NRC

Among the political gladiators of the third Republic were Chief Anenih who was the Chairman of SDP and Chief Kusamotu that was the Chairman of NRC.Alhaji Bashir Tofa was the Presidential candidate of the NRC.

The implosion of the political class now brought in to being the necessity of an interim National Government of Chief Ernest Shonekan addressed to sort things out but Chief Shonekan was ousted by General Sani Abacha and he ruled for 4 years and decided to hand over to a democratically elected government as well but this time it was an obfuscating transition program that produced 7 political parties out of which 5 were allegedly traced to the powers that be as in the transition common among the Francophone countries of Sub Saharan Africa and in the seething period of Latin American countries.

The Parties of the 4 th Republic

National Democratic Coalition- NADECO

Committees for National Consensus-CMC

Democratic Party of Nigeria-DNP

Grassroots Democratic Movement-GDM

National Centre Party of Nigeria-NCPN

United Nigerian Congress Party-UNCP

Justice Party-JP

The death of General Sani Abacha brought an end to that 4^th Republic in the making and ushered in a new dispensation of General Abdulsalami Abubakar and General Okhai Akhigbe that ruled for one year and decided to hand over to a democratically elected government in 1999.

The Fifth republic:

General Olusegu Obasanjo was horridly released from prison were he was jailed on trumped up charges of coup de Etat by the General Sani Abacha government and pardoned and asked to lead the PDP- Peoples Democratic Party to success in a widely disputed election ,with Chie Olu Falae’s Alliance for Democracy-AD Party. To cut the long story short General Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn in, 1999 as a democratically elected President of the Nigerian Federation after a protracted 5 years struggle of the progressives to install back democracy in the Nigerian polity. Later several other political parties came to being among which includes the ACN Action Congress of Nigeria led by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the ANPP, the CPC led by General Mohammadu Buhari, the SDMP led by Chief Olu Fale, The NCP led by Chief Gani Ifawehinmi, the Labor Party led by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the APGA party led by Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu, the PPA led by Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, the Accord Party led by Chief Rasheed Ladoja, the PPP led by Chief Gbenga Daniels, and several others that totaled 63 political parties.

From the fifth republic of OBJ, there were no major alliances in his tenor of 8 years as such it was a mere transitory period for the Nigerian state. Coupled with lots of economic and political exegesis the era was a seething period for the Nigerian state. But soon after in the era of the sixth Republic where major differences started to emerge then the reason de entre of mergers and cooperation among the political parties has become inevitable.

The Sixth Republic:

It first reared it head in the Era of President Yar Adua when H.E. Atiku Abubakar had to use the ACN lather to contest the 2007 elections. President Yar Adua decided to invite the ANPP of Genral Mohammadu Buhari in to a union Government but while the amiable General rejected the offer, the ANPP apparatchiks decided to accept the offer of a Union government with President Yar Adua and that heralded the first successful Union Government of Political parties in contemporary times in sub Saharan Africa.

The Seventh Republic;

Another major cooperation among political parties was the 2011 general elections in Nigeria were a number of political parties allied with President Goodluck Jonathan’s PDP to win the general polls; some of the parties include APGA, ADC, etc.

 While a major cooperation among the progressives was the cooperation between SDMP of Chief Olu Falae, Prof Pat Utomi and Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga alliance with ANPP of Alhaji Shekarau in the presidential polls which was an alliance that was heralded as beautiful in the annals of cooperation among the progressives. In 2011 polls ACN and CPC of General Mohammadu Buhari tried to work together but the alliance failed and ACN had to field Malam Nuhu Ribadu as their Presidential candidate while the CPC fielded General Mohammadu Buhari.

Mergers due to Political exigencies: In contemporary times as Nigeria is becoming more politically advance it has become imperative for political parties to horse trade and cooperated or even merge together to form bigger structures that can put forward credible struggles to capture political power. And that exactly is the reason for this thesis; 

The ACN ,CPC ANDS ANPP Marger is a great idea, but its workability is very obfuscating as such though the appear as all progressive parties but the ideological and personality frame work cannot not work but then if it can pull through then the PDP will face a stiff opposition in 2015.

The SDMP,ACCORD,PPP and co forming the new mega party is a great possibility that will make a big difference in the affairs of the progressives of this nation as it will give a third alternative.

The PDP will not fold its hand either while others form bigger mega parties. It is likely that the moves of the PDP is to woo H.E.Oji Uzor Kalu into a merger that is PDP AND PPA & CO. but 2015 is still far away.

A number of factors militate against political cooperation and mergers of political parties, some of which are the followings-

1] Anxiety: The fear of losing out in a merger or cooperation

2] The fear of being short changed: where the beneficiary of the merger/ cooperation renege to fulfill the terms of agreements be it written, verbal or gentleman’s agreement. And this is most common among politicians. Most make promises and overtures to other parties but after the victory of the election they simply hijack the victory and push away other partners and renege the terms of agreement. He hijacks the entire pot of soup and refuse to share with other partners with impunity.

3] Fear: The fear of losing ones identity and importance in a merger or union or even cooperation. For Instance if you stand the chance of being a Chairman of your political party going into alliance, or merger with another, you stand that risk, of loosing that seat to the newly emerging union and may perhaps become a second fiddle or irrelevant.

4] Irreconcilable political differences and orientations- ideologically there is nothing that you can offer some progressives parties in this world they will never allied or work with the conservatives in power. Like the CPC ,can never merge with PDP because they are ideologically opposed to one another.

5] Reasons of reputation- some political parties will never work or merge with another when they discover that the said political party harbor peoples of questionable personalities as in what Chief Bola Ige the former leader of AD party describes as peoples of Nuisance Value.

6] Mind set- Recent research by National Peoples News revealed a new reason why some Political parties will not want to merge or work with another which is traced to the traditional mind set of the peoples as to how they accept others from different geo political areas of the country. It became a startling revelation when one contributor to this discussion made a spectacular revelation that they don’t trust some peoples from certain geo political area of the country who they believe can sell out their political party if the price is ripe and will betray them so in the case of a merger with such political party that has a large membership of peoples from that geo political area they will insists on holding onto the major important political portfolios of the party and if that is ok by the other parties then they can merge… but  which political party will agree to that. I don’t think any political party will agree to merge with another where they will transfer all the key posts to the other… so inadvertently a merger can never be arrived at with such a party…due to lack of trust, suspicion and traditional iconoclastic bias that has perhaps no basis in contemporary times..

7] Tribal / ethnicity- Some ethnic groupings in the polity believes that they somewhat have a superior claim to rule over others and in a merger with a major political party that they predominate it will be unlikely that they will be insisting to grab all the positions of leadership while the other parties will be left with the crumbs as regards shearing of key positions of the party. And this factor also can alienate the other partners and the merger or cooperation will not work

8] Religious factor- Though this is held very fragile and many a time overlooked but subtly too this factor as to who leads the entire party to the battlefield and to what religious faith her/she hold to could be a factor that could obfuscate mergers and cooperation among political parties. Though, never really spelt out verbally.

9] The fear of Domination/ Marginalization: Most large political parties from certain geo political entities are afraid to go into merger because of fear of being dominated by the new arrangements if they had to play second fiddle.

10] Oppression and Neo colonization: This perhaps is the strongest of the factors why each geo political region want to evolve a home grown political party to govern them without  merger while they meet at the centre in the context of federalism. That was the major philosophy of Awoism , based on the premises that each region should govern itself with home grown political parties and cooperates with other political parties from other regions not as in mergers but as in loose cooperation for the purpose of ruling and accessing the central federal government. And this philosophy is still in place when the arrangements of the contemporary political structures are analyzed critically.

Conclusion: To move Nigeria towards the attainment of a stable egalitarian society and a strong economic giant by 2020 we need strong institutions. The political institution is too weak, frail and fragile and though this is a transiting period, it is believed that with time these frail political parties will develop and mature up into solid, big, well managed political structures and mergers and cooperation becomes inevitable if that culture of building strong political institutions will manifest.The Federal Government and other donor agencies and international stakeholders in the Nigerian Project are advised to assist in this context as it will be a wise investment-  We need to shed off some fears, dogmas, iconoclastic mundane believes and jockey the polity into the novae enlightenment through positive education of the people, tolerance and building the spirit of brotherhood, understanding and issue oriented discuss.

By Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga

Presidential Aspirant of the Nigerian federation 2015

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EDO POLLS : TRIBUNAL ROUNDS UP- SDMP, FRANK UKONGA THANK IRI OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT OBAMA, THE UNO, THE UNESCO, THE RUSSIAN, THE UKRAINIAN,BRITISH, CANADIAN, EEC, BRICS, THE INEC & PRESIDENT JONATHAN FOR THEIR TREMENDOUS SUPPORT

EDO POLLS : TRIBUNAL ROUNDS UP- SDMP, FRANK UKONGA THANK IRI OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT OBAMA, THE UNO, THE UNESCO, THE RUSSIAN, THE UKRAINIAN,BRITISH, CANADIAN, EEC, BRICS, THE INEC & PRESIDENT JONATHAN FOR THEIR TREMENDOUS SUPPORT

Mrs Linda Asuquo of IRI of the USA presenting polling  materials to Prince Frank Onaivi ukonga- SDMP governorship candidate Edo polls in SDMP campaign office in Benin recently.

The Edo governorship polls tribunal has formally rounded up today the 23ed January 2013 giving the final victory of the keenly contested Edo July polls adjudged  the best election in Nigerian History and one of the best in the entire world in 2012 elections. Where contenders of Adams Oshiomhlole of ACN,General Charles Aikhiavere of PDP, Prince Frank Ukonga OF SDMP, Chief Solomon Edebiri of ANPP and other gladiators locked hornes in the battle fields of Edo.

We at SDMP , Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga, Chief Olu Falae the Chairman of SDMP hereby thank the International Republican Institute of the United States of America who assisted to train all our party agents and campaign managers in the Edo polls, we also thank the Russian government, the Ukrainian Government, the British Government, the UNESCO, the UNO, the Canadian Government and all other governments of the world for their interest in the success of the Edo polls and the countries of Sub Saharan Africa in generality.

We thank the observers, both local and international, we thank the INEC staff whose great leadership of Prof. Atahiru Jaga was invaluable, we thank the IGP under the leadership of Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar and the entire police Force in Nigeria, we thank President Goodluck Jonathan for standing by the Edo People and making this great history to manifest in the Edo soils and above wall we thank the great Edo people who stood by democracy, truth and justice..We thank all Nigerians and the entire world for their support.... We shall continue to be indebted to all of you till the end of time...we are deeply appreciative and we thank you all.

Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga

SDMP governorship Candidate

EDO 2012

MS Linda Asuqou of IRI USA & Prince frank ukonga in Benin

Edo 2012.

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Breaking News-Edo Polls: Oshiomhole wins @ the Tribunal: Frank Ukonga, SDMP governorship contender- Edo 2012Polls, Congratulate Gov Oshiomhole, advice him to be magnanimous in victory; thank all Stakeholders & Nigerians.

Breaking News-Edo Polls: Oshiomhole wins @ the Tribunal: Frank Ukonga, SDMP governorship contender- Edo 2012Polls, Congratulate Gov Oshiomhole, advice him to be magnanimous in victory; thank all Stakeholders & Nigerians.

The Edo governorship election of July 2012 adjudged the best election in Nigerian History keenly contested by gladiators of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole of ACN, Major General Charles Airhaibvere of PDP, Prince Frank Ukonga of SDMP, Chief Solomon Edebiri of ANPP and others has come to an end with the final decision of the Tribunal judgment of Wednesday 23/1/2012- that gives the victory to Comrade Adams Oshiomhole after protracted court cases. This is the victory of democracy and the victory of the Edo People and we admonish comrade Adams Oshiomole to win in humility, fort rightness and magnanimity by extending olive branches to the allied Progressives as well as the other opposition parties .

We must remember that the whole world watched with  keenest interest the entire process and politicking of the Edo governorship polls and the consequences of the post election victory and the management of the post election victory by the ACN will be the sin qua non that will determine and impact either positively or negatively to future alliances, cooperation and mergers among progressives in Nigeria , Africa and perhaps the entire Globe .

As the Edo polls was adjudged one of the world’s best election in 2012,the entire world including the UN, the UNESCO,USA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, BRITAIN, CANADA, FRANCE, EEC, CIS , BRICS, etc are keenly watching the post election relations among the various political parties that  Horse Traded to produced such a spectacular result in the victory of comrade Adams Oshiomhole. While all the political parties that allied up are also keenly watching.

We at SDMP congratulate His Excellency comrade Adams Oshiomhole and reinstate our readiness to work with him to move Edo state to higher standards of rectitude, social economic and industrial development as we jockey towards the attainment of the ideals of Vision 2020.

We thank the entire staff of INEC under the distinguished leadership of Prof. Atahiru Jega, we thank the Nigerian Police Force under the leadership of Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, and we thank the Presidency under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan. We thank the entire world, the Observers, the great peoples of Edo State and all Nigerians for making this great election manifest in the soils of Edo. We shall forever be indebted to all of you. We express our sincere appreciations. Thanks and God Bless.

Long Live Edo State; Long Live Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga

SDMP Governorship Candidate

Edo 2012 Polls

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ANALYSIS OF THE OBASANJO [OBJ], JONATHAN [GEJ] FEUD & ITS IMPACT ON SUB-SAHARAN POLITY: A DIALECTICAL & HISTORICAL MATERIALIST PERSPECTIVE- BY PRINCE FRANK UKONGA-PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT OF NIGERIA 2015

ANALYSIS OF THE OBASANJO [OBJ], JONATHAN [GEJ] FEUD & ITS IMPACT ON SUB-SAHARAN POLITY: A DIALECTICAL & HISTORICAL MATERIALIST PERSPECTIVE- BY PRINCE FRANK UKONGA-PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT OF NIGERIA 2015

H.E.President Goodluck Jonathan and Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

*President Obasanjo wasted the sum of 16 billion dollars on electricity /power sector without anything to show for it.

The feud between President Goodluck Jonathan and his sponsors to power led by former President Obasanjo has its scientific, historical and dialectical explanation in the affairs of political philosophy. Many peoples of mundane predisposition may have obnoxiously ascribed the methods of the President Goodluck Jonathan in distancing himself from the regime of OBJ as one who is seen as biting the fingers that once fed him, which are aphorism of self pity and mundane sentimentality; but in political philosophy the explanation is different.

NOTE; My name is Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga-I am not President Jonathan’s Spokesman nor in his cabinet nor am I his friend but I am not his enemy…President Jonathan is in PDP , I am in SDMP. I am a rival, I am a presidential aspirant in the 2015 polls Isha Alau.. So it is imperative for me to study on daily basis the activities of the Nation so that I can input positively to its development with a view to gaining wider acceptability that will aid my presidential ambition in 2015, Addressed to edge out of power His Excellency President Goodkuck Jonathan and the PDP while the progressives of the SDMP and Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga will have and advantage to win the 2015 presidential polls.

Preambles: The President YarAdua’s silent Revolution: In the first place President Goodluck Jonathan was the Vice President to His Excellency President Umar Musa Yar Adua ,who in fairness to both of them share similar intellectual dexterity and ideological persuasion of political frontiers as Social Democrats that borrowed the political ladder of the conservative Ruling PDP to rise to power. President Yar Adua was a Social Democrat in the Aminu Kano fold of PRP. President Goodluck Jonathan by his stratagems is from same mould. They are progressives that used the PDP ladder to climb to power as prescribed by Social Democratic for runners. It is very difficult for social democratic progressives to climb to power on their own feeble strength.

President Yar Adua’s Policy Thrust: The President Yar Adua’s Government began the Transformation of Nigerian polity that was probing the regime of Obj and it was revealed to all Nigerians in the NEPA probe that President Obasanjo wasted the sum of 16 billion dollars on electricity /power sector without anything to show for it. The entire country and the entropy of public opinion were convinced that the OBJ- 8 years was the most corrupt regime in the annals of Nigerian History. All public companies, properties, landed assets and utilities belonging to all Nigerians were sold off to OBJ’S cronies in exchange for pea nut in his bogus privatization program. The economic theories of Soludonomics of market forces driven economy was implemented in emergency on an economy with feet of clay. Same with all the aspects of banking consolidation which witnessed the looting of all Nigerian private bank treasuries through the back door of director related borrowings and the Nigeria economy suffered and was heading for a collapse until Prof. Soludo was booted out by President Yar Adua and Malam Sanusi Lamido the new Governor of CBN had to reinvent the Keynesian economic theory of prudent fiscal driven economic premises to restore back normalcy into the economy. The director of NNPC Kupolohun had to be booted out, all the government refineries sold to Dangote and Otedola has to be reclaimed back, the Ajaokuta Iron and Steel plant sold to Global Resources ltd had to be repossessed back and President Yar Adua invited the Ukrainian Government who ware the original owner of the technology to come and complete what they started with an agreement of creating 2 million jobs and generating  800MW of electricity from the Beregu plant with renewed maximum interpretations of installed capacity utilization. The entire privatization program of OBJ had to be revisited. The so called hospital projects contracts and many other contracts awarded to OBJ cronies had to be revisited, the Nigerian choice properties sold out both in Abuja and other locations had to be repossessed by President Yar Adua and Nigeria was getting back to its feet when President Yar Adua had above 70 billion dollars in reserve. Before his sudden death President Yar Adua had finished arrangement to take the power generation capacity of Nigeria to above 10,000 MW and the equipments for that purpose had arrived at the port. He began an ambitious project of transforming Nigeria in to a Super Power by his project of Tran Saharan gas pipeline which will deliver oil and gas to Europe and Asia directly which when completed will immediately double our GNP and make Nigeria become a global force in the aspects of oil and gas security of the world… He began his Atomic and nuclear projects to generate electricity and signed memorandum of understanding with President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia to achieve this purpose… President Yar Adua was moving Nigeria in to the BRICS fold which is today the richest exclusive club of Nations in the entire Human Race; committed to the Vision 2020 to take Nigeria to the top 20 economic giants class of the world by 2020 with a road map of targeted 900billion dollars GNP and generating 25000MW of electricity by 2020 etc…It was this great transformational Agenda that President Goodluck Jonathan inherited and was part of this agenda as the deputy man Friday of President Yar Adua. And if you view the above analysis it was a rightly guided policy thrust.

The Era of President Goodluck Jonathan: President Goodluck Jonathan was a child of circumstance that became a child of necessity and relevance. He inherited a government with a transformational agenda, that he was part of as a Deputy but now as the Leader of that transformation. But yet the powers that brought him to position of  leadership of the new disposition are hell bent that he must revert the hands of the transformational agenda  to the old order of  status quo anti bellum, which will be counter productive and very risky to the goodwill of the transformational agenda that brought him to power. It is like asking him to commit a political suicide.

Because the government he inherited had already decoupled itself from the OBJ purportedly most corrupt government in the annals of Nigerian history. Which indeed is what is recommended in all books of political philosophy, be it Roberts Green, Machiavelli, General Sun Su, Karl Max- Das Capital, Thomas Panes, Ricardo etc.

So the only alternative left for President Goodluck Jonathan, if he wants to continue to enjoy the goodwill is to continue a moderate transformational agenda; which was exactly what he did.  Trying to pacify frail nerves of the powers that be, while tenaciously continuing the transformational agenda.

President Jonathan’s First Term as elected President; President Goodluck Jonathan contested and won the election in 2011 to herald his own entry legitimately as an elected President. But still the nagging question still hover around his neck like the sword of Damocles; what should be done: To revert to the past corrupt methods or to continue the transformational course which warms him to the electorate and maintains his goodwill ratings? The answer to this question is obvious even to the mundane.

There is no way he can revert to the OBJ order of doing things. This is both in his own interest, in the interest of other stakeholders in the Nigeria project as well an in the interest of OBJ. But then the forces that brought him to power had to some short change the so called federal character where the South West was seemingly short changed in the schemes of things as regards key positioning in the system and this he has been trying assiduously to compensate for.

President Jonathans’ Dilemma: In political philosophy the problem facing President Goodluck Jonathan is described by Karl Marx as the Theory of Negation of the Negation which in the lay man’s terms is called the theory of the laws of spiral spring evinced by would be Transformers and Revolutionaries- This theory of dialectical materialism holds that a would be Transformer/Revolutionary would necessarily be a member of the Ruling cabal that will emerge as a consequence of the contradictions of capitalism leading to an implosion and disagreement among the ruling elite. This new transformer/Revolutionary will emerge after the feud and will lead the people to freedom. And the on going feud among the Ruling class will eventually lead to the implosion of that class.

 Theories of Franz Fanon & Antonio Gramsci: The renowned intelligentsias of Martinique Frank Fanon and Antonio Gramsci as well as Che Guvera the great revolutionary of Bolivia interpreting the revolutionary theories of Karl Max to the third world setting had postulated that the poor Masses cannot liberate themselves from the bondage of the Ruling class on their own. Their liberation will only come due to the contradictions in the Ruling class and its subsequent implosion, to produce a member of that class who will transform in his ways and lead the masses out of the bondage. And it has started. The Oil subsidy issue is one of the bondage holding Nigeria and the masses down while the cabals were milking it. President Jonathan is set to resolve that issue in favor of the masses. He has removed the first stage of the subsidy and soon will remove the second stage and free the economy and the masses from the bondage of the dangerously calculating cabals.

Power, Steel, Oil & Gas Policy Thrust: President Jonathan insist on the continuation of the Ajaokuta Steel project which is not favorable to the cabals and their Western sponsors that want to keep Nigeria underdeveloped at all cost by what ever means possible-Any Nation that cannot generate its liquid steel can never become developed- just yesterday a new Managing Director has been appointed and the Ukrainians are back to continue the project that will empower Nigerians and create at least 3 million jobs in its down stream sector. The sold refineries have been reclaimed back and President Jonathan is building 5 more refineries in the Greenfield projects and fuel importation will soon be a thing of the past. He has broken the cement and building material production monopoly and prices of cement and building material as well as essential commodities will soon crash.. if not already crashing…He has been able to generate 5000MW of electricity as at today.

He is empowering the Civil Defense Corps to guide the pipelines and the coastlines as against vandalization and petroleum product bunkering and soon it will begin to have effect on the national economy and with that in place he will begin the Trans Saharan Oil and gas pipelines to supply our gas and oil to Europe and Asia that will double our GNP to above 600 billion and gradually make the targeted 900billion of President Yar Adua by 2020.

Each state has been empowered to look inwards to generate developmental finance of IGR, rather than wait for monthly allocations as usual and the response is good as the State Governors have become more active in resource generation and mobilization…

NOTE; I am not President Jonathan’s Spokesman nor in his cabinet nor am I his friend but I am not his enemy…President Jonathan is in PDP , I am in SDMP, I am a rival and contender, I am a presidential aspirant in the 2015 polls Isha Alau.. So it is imperative for me to study on daily basis the activities of the Nation so that I can input positively to its development with a view to gaining wider acceptability that will aid my presidential ambition in 2015. , Addressed to edge out of power His Excellency President Goodkuck Jonathan and the PDP while the progressives of the SDMP and Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga will have and advantage to win the 2015 presidential polls.

The Problems of the 7^th Republic of President Goodluck Jonathan: Most of the problems the 7^th Republic are facing were not caused by the young government, but are reactionary backlash of the OBJ mundane recklessness in power for the 8 years of  mundane adventure as Nigeria Leader. The 7th  Republic inherited the problems of falling educational standards, the problems of acute unemployment, the problems of endemic poverty and youth restiveness , decaying infrastructures, bad health delivery system, hunger, insecurity, inadequate housing, epileptic electricity, comatose industries, and a collapsing seething economy from its predecessors and are saddled with the responsibility of solving these problems.

The Theory of Dialectics: Reason should prevail that the 7^th Republic be given a breathing space to be able to concentrate on service delivery and the transformational agenda to repair the damaged polity. But since the 100 years of the creation of the State of Nigeria by His Excellency Lord Lugard , never had there been a government that had faced such levels of persecution, criticism and animosity, terrorism and other strange negative vices as that of the President Goodluck Jonathan’s Government of the 7^th Republic. Yet he kept to a high level tolerance of subtlety, patience, understanding, listening and ready to cooperate with rightly guided colleagues and opposition alike who could come up with genuine propositions to move the Nation out of the woods.

The Minority/ Majority Issue: We must realize that this is the first time in Nigeria History that the South South zone is producing a president and that zone has and is contributing immensely if not move than 80% of our GNP of Oil export based economy. So far President Jonathan had only been in power for 3 years in May 2013. We as a people should be magnanimous enough to give that zone a chance as well. Other Regions have ruled for upwards of 14 years while some have ruled above 30 years of our history. If we are truly committed to truth, justice and fair play then dialectics will suffice that we should make a great use of the emergence of President Jonathan to bringing the Nation into brotherhood by embracing and cooperating with him to transform the country to higher standards of rectitude, bringing the minorities of Ijaw, Ebira,Edo, etal into a closer relations of having a sense of belonging. If the majority tribes continue to behave with impetuosity and intolerance of minority heading the country then will the minority not be alienated and want to opt out of the union? If the South South Oil is good for us all and beneficial why are their sons not good enough to be President?.

Conclusion: We have no other Nation to call our own but Nigeria. This is a clarion call to all Nigerians to stop the madness of violence, terrorism, kidnapping, sabotage, vidalization of government properties and all vices that could lead to the brake up of the country. We are also appealing to all the stake holders in the Nigeria project to quickly come together and find solutions to all the aforementioned problems.

NOTE;I am not President Jonathan’s Spokesman nor in his cabinet nor am I his friend but I am not his enemy, President Jonathan is in PDP, I am in SDMP, I am a rival and contender, I am a presidential aspirant in the 2015 polls Isha Alau.. So it is imperative for me to study on daily basis the activities of the Nation so that I can input positively to its development with a view to gaining wider acceptability that will aid my presidential ambition in 2015. , Addressed to edge out of power His Excellency President Goodkuck Jonathan and the PDP while the progressives of the SDMP and Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga will have and advantage to win the 2015 presidential polls.

Thanks.

LONG LIVE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. AMEN.

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Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga

Presidential Aspirant 2015

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SDMP WISH ALL MUSLIMS OF THE WORLD HAPPY MOULUD:

SDMP WISH ALL MUSLIMS  OF THE WORLD HAPPY MOULUD:

SDMP -Social Democratic Mega Party Convention- Abuja

As we celebrate the Moulud, the birthday of our great Prophet Mohammed [S.A.W]- Peace be unto His Holy Name-We admonish all Muslims of the world to live by the noble ideals of Islam, the religion of Peace, Tolerance and Brotherhood as instructed by the Holy Prophet[ S.A.W] in the great books Surat Ul Yasin, Surat ul Taha,,Ar Rahman,Waqia, Mulk and the Al Baqarrah, which remains the greatest enlightenment of Allah to mankind in His most gracious splendor and  love for Mankind, as  the beneficent, the benefactor and creator of all of mankind...Happy Moulud from SDMP.

Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga

SDMP Presidential Aspirant-2015

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PRESIDENT OBAMA'S 2ED INAUGURATION:SDMP, CHIEF OLU FALAE, FRANK UKONGA & ALL PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS OF AFRICA & THE WORLD CONGRATULATE PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S 2ED INAUGURATION:SDMP, CHIEF OLU FALAE, FRANK UKONGA & ALL PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS OF AFRICA & THE WORLD CONGRATULATE PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

On the behalf of the Chairman of Social Democratic Mega Party, the most Progressive Political Party in Africa His Excellency Plenipotentiary Extra ordinary Chief Olu Falae, On the behalf of all members of SDMP-Social Democratic Mega Party in Nigeria and on the behalf of all Social Democrats of the entire world , I Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga- Presidential Aspirant of the Nigerian Federation 2015 congratulate H.E.President Barack Obama , His entire family and the great American peoples at the inauguration of the 44 President of the great Nation of the United States of America. We are proud to be associated with your tremendous success that is the greatest pride to the Black Race of all generations and a greatest legacy and asset to the entirety of the Human Race in Generality. Congratulations.

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Prince Fank Onaivi Ukonga

Presidential Hopeful of the Nigerian Federation 2015-polls

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NATIONAL PEOPLES NEWS :OUR MISSION STATEMENT:

NATIONAL PEOPLES NEWS :OUR  MISSION STATEMENT: 

 Our mission for coming into being in 1992 was to perform our role as a national Newspaper as a pressure group, as a social economic and intellectual praxis to bring about the establishment of freedom, democracy, Rule of Law addressed to the evolution of an egalitarian stable society of Sub Saharan Africa- Nigeria.

 We have our e-zine which many millions of peoples have access to read from, we also publish on Newsprint and bond papers a tabloid newspaper on weekly basis circulating Nigeria an some other countries of Africa and the pictures of some edition is shown. On the entertainment angle we publish four sporting papers weekly. namely- Sport Express, Arsenal Express,Chelsea Express,United Express,Barca Express....We also have the book and pamphlets publishing divisions

Prince Frank Onaivi ukonga

President/Publisher

NATIONAL PEOPLES NEWS -ISSN- 1595-0549

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