Today, General Obasanjo’s response to Ogbeh, fashioned after his traditional personal vindictive language and style, encouraged by his almighty power deriving from the aforementioned structure, has actually robbed him of any dignity and any professionalism where once he had assumed to impress the peoples with his approach. Indeed, if Uba and Ngige are likened unto two robbers quarrelling after a successful loot as Obasanjo has stated, then, Ogbeh and Obasanjo are equally likened unto two robbers after a huge windfall of a loot, where one thief is faulting the other for not stopping with the loot, but going beyond it to kick and stomp on the victims for more fun. As it happens, all four come from the same mold, as will be touched on shortly.

General Obasanjo does not have to reveal anything new or more about himself because the average person on the street can draw the General’s profile—accurately. In the end, the conclusion will be drawn that Nigeria is getting the punishment and curse she deserves as she now finds herself under the crushing heel of yet another sick-minded usurper, while not having even recovered from Abacha’s dehumanization and rape. It is a telling sign that the peoples suffering and dying in Nigeria today consider Abacha an angel next to Obasanjo.

To call Obasanjo a hypocrite reveals nothing new about the man. But, he carries hypocrisy to a level that can certainly force the revelation that he has a split personality; else, he is so full of himself that he truly does not understand what he is doing, nor is he able to correctly interpret what is happening around him. This is a sickness, a serious illness.

General Obasanjo has the temerity to call Ngige and Uba robbers—which is true—but he manages to forget who the Father-robber is: himself; and to forget who the Mother-robber is—PDP. Didn’t Obasanjo call this robbery a “PDP family affair” earlier, and cause it to be treated that way all along? Yes, Robbery is the PDP family motto and family business, and Obasanjo is in charge of this family and speaks for it. And, we won’t even mention the other word in the PDP motto, Murder, although the General never misses an opportunity to lecture the hapless peoples suffering in Nigeria on morality and godliness.

General Obasanjo actually used the _expression, “moral crisis” regarding Anambra, but he is quick to place himself on the moral high ground while his minion, Ngige is the one traveling the dark depths of immorality. Yet, it was General Obasanjo who recently said that the Anambra crisis is about breaking contractual obligations [between a godfather and his servant], an attitude that confirmed his known protection of Uba and or acquiescence if not active participation.

Did you read the General express shock when told that PDP did not win the election in Anambra? That is only one peak of hypocrisy in this mountain-range of duplicity. As if Obasanjo did not know that the entire 2003 election was rigged in the first place? He, along with his apostle and henchman, Anenih, planned the rigging soon after 1999. He now pretends that he was not aware of it?

Obasanjo has the nerve to adjudge “Governor Mbadinuju [was] an unmitigated failure in Anambra”; once again failing to mention that it was he, Obasanjo, who rode the horse called Mbadinuju in their wild ride which bit, kicked and trampled Anambra. Even then, Mbadinuju’s “unmitigated failure in Anambra” is nothing compared to Obasanjo’s colossal failure in Nigeria. Mbadinuju’s failings are miniscule compared to Obasanjo’s, but trust Obasanjo not to see this, even as Nigeria implodes.

And, while Nigeria rushes headlong into the abyss, General Obasanjo is saying: “…In spite of the malevolence of some Nigerians, Nigeria is moving to the cruising level and cruising speed…” Thus, we have to conclude that Obasanjo does not understand that, yes, there is “malevolence of some Nigerians” but that he is the Prime malevolent Nigerian; and that the “cruising level” that Nigeria is “moving to” is the self-destruct level. General Obasanjo really has no inkling that Nigeria is moving in the wrong direction, in a self-poisoned territory, and that he is the one leading Nigeria there, this time around? Pity! Sad; truly sad! Yet, can this be the very same man who much earlier described the 5-step “dance of death” and backward progress of Nigeria: one step forwards, one sideways, and three steps backwards?

Every opportunity General Obasanjo gets, he loves to remind the suffering peoples of Nigeria that he will give his life for Nigeria. No one in Nigeria is interested in Obasanjo’s life or his sacrifice; instead, people want to live their own lives and carry on their own struggles in life and fulfill the purpose of their own existence. Obasanjo was not the only one who fought in the Biafra-Nigeria war, nor is his stake in it the highest; so his life’s worth is not unique from that standpoint. Now that he has ruled by force as a Military strongman, ruled after “selection” as the stooge of a particular region of Nigeria, and finally, is ruling by usurpation after stealing the 2003 elections, the least that he can do is manage the affairs of state well, in support of the people needs. “Donating” his life is meaningless if he is not doing the job—and in fact, he is not doing the job. Of course, it is understandable that Obasanjo may see his life in terms of his Otta Farm, which was worth nothing in 1998, but ever since he became president of Nigeria, is now miraculously cycling and laundering N30 million per month; or in terms of being a local man in 1998, but now flies all over the world in a jet airplane paid for from the general coffers of Nigeria. At the same time, the life of the typical person suffering in Nigeria cannot produce or earn or afford even N120 (less than $1) per day, a productivity-plunge during the same period; and he or she is forced to trek, unable to afford transportation, what with Petroleum products priced out of his or her reach, as a result of Obasanjo’s policies. It must be logical, then, for Obasanjo not to understand that he cannot overrate and overvalue his life as compared to the life of the individual person suffering in Nigeria.

Without mincing words, and to avoid boring the reader with more examples from this exchange between the General and the Party Chair, it is concluded that:

General Obasanjo needs to resign and his administration needs to be sacked. His hypocrisy alone would dictate this, and if as he claims, he really had any morality, he should not have any problems about resigning (which, by the way, is the same recommendation he has implied for his fellow hypocrite, Ngige). Obasanjo needs to resign because he is ignorant of the constitution and the law and the role of a president, even for Nigeria.

An honest and knowledgeable head of state who receives a credible report of election-rigging goes to the Attorney-General. It’s a matter of the constitution and the law. That’s what Obasanjo should have done. But, he didn’t.

An honest and knowledgeable head of state who is notified that one of his governors has been kidnapped in a “police coup” goes to the Attorney General and the Courts for investigation and criminal proceedings right away; it’s a matter of the constitution and the law. The head of the police should have been sacked—whether it is the figurehead Inspector-General of Police (IGP); or the head of state himself, since both are opposed to the restructuring of the police and want it left instead as a federal structure under the command of whoever heads the country; or both (should have been sacked). This is a matter of crime, duty and professionalism. But, Obasanjo instead awarded the IGP the top Nigerian National Honors shortly thereafter.

An honest and knowledgeably head of state would have referred the Anambra matter to the Courts right away, employing the offices and using the services of the Attorneys-General of the state and the federal government. Obasanjo specifically and personally made this a PDP-family only affair; and then, a personal affair.

An honest and knowledgeable head of state would have used the police and the courts when Anambra was burning. It’s a matter of security, law and order and police responsibility. Instead, Obasanjo himself declared that it was a political problem needing a political solution, which everyone knows means a PDP-family problem and solution—a paradigm that has never worked before. In the meantime, the police is still being defensive about its ignoble and cowardly role, giving excuses, while the IGP still has his job and even travels on official business to foreign countries to receive “Achievement Awards.”

For these reasons, Obasanjo and his government should resign. Failing that, the peoples themselves should sack Obasanjo and his administration. It is the peoples who have lost so much because of Obasanjo’s malfeasance and non-performance, not to speak of his arrogance and hypocrisy. And insensitivity.

As for PDP, there should be no place for such a party anywhere in Africa—ever.

In the past, a military coup would punctuate this quandary. Then, the military regime would later fall prey to the same problems—and worse—resulting in each successor-regime being more horrible than the previous. In the present dispensation, a military coup is unlikely to happen; especially given the inevitability stated before.

The only remaining weapon is a Sovereign National Conference—done right, which means that it must be understood, recognized, validated and put into practice that “Sovereignty belongs to the peoples and their different ethnic-nationalities.” The sovereign ethnic-nationalities sit around a negotiating table and come to mutual terms on the mode, modalities, manner and means of inter-national co-existence and sharing of erstwhile Nigerian burden.

Keep in mind that in the beginning, it was averred that it is the structure of Nigeria that spawns and sustains dysfunction, and corruption of even the incorruptible. That is the reason that no regime has ever worked out in Nigeria, despite early promises, obvious potential and lofty ideals. If anyone still has doubts, check out the activities and line-up for 2007 and tell the rest of us with any sincerity that things will be any better. The fact is that the fruits of 2007 can be tasted today because we know of the bad seeds of 2004 planted in the same acrid soil, vintage 1960. True Sovereign National Conference as described above provides fresh, different, new seeds and fresh, different new soils, and new planters with different energies and zeal.

“Many nights are for the thieves [robbers], but one day is for the owner of the house…” says an old popular local song. The Robbers of Nigeria have had their nights, supported and boosted by a structure specifically designed for their permanence, and the loot has been plentiful and easy. Today, the Robbers quarrel over their loot. That means that that day which is for the owner of the house—the victimized peoples of the ethnic-nations currently suffering in Nigeria—has arrived. To capture this day, the owner of the house must first exorcise the cursed structure. A Sovereign National Conference will accomplish just that.