Ndidi Okereke: What Manner of Democracy

OBAMA CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISER, NDIDI OKEREKE AND MATTERS ARISING
What manner of democracy do we practice in Nigeria? It is a kind of democracy in which courts connive with politicians to prolong the tenure of Governors whose elections were dubious in the first place. That is why when the issue of Professor Ndidi Okereke-Onyiuke of raising funds for Obama campaign came up, least I was surprised. People like Okereke are the genesis of our problem in this country, especially in recent time. She was part of the cult that inflicted sufferings on Nigerians during Obasanjo era.
But what I can’t understand really is that; what is the relationship between Obama and Okereke? Nothing indeed. Mr. Obama Professor, why can’t you mind the democracy of your own country which is getting undemocratic by the day? The question is still does the Professor thinks that American politics is similar to the one run by the PDP here in Nigeria? Professor, what do you want to do with the money raised? I still cannot understand your motive. Are you going to import people to America from Africa to vote for the man or do you intend to bribe the American Electoral Body to announce the results their way as they did here in Nigeria or intimidate American voters through the police or Army for that matter to thumb print the ballot papers in traditional rural? houses.
She is probably enriching her own pocket because all her life she lived on people’s earning. She made money from other people suffering. That is why when opportunities like this come-up you will find her likes trying to establish a fundraiser with the sole intention of duping people out of their income to survive. She has to do that because she has to survive. And the easiest way to survive for people like her is either to steal from coffers or dubiously collect money from people for dubious project. Is it not illegal to raise money for American elections by non American? Madam please come out and tells us precisely what you want to use the money for?
The propriety and legality of this fundraising extravaganza, considering that US law forbids American politicians from receiving campaign donations from outside the US is questionable. The fund raising jamboree, which reportedly garnered about N100 million (approximately $900,000), had raised eyebrows and charges of impropriety, deceit and outright fraud. This woman is not new to controversies that has to do with dabbling in politics. She was widely condemned for organizing Nigeria’s top corporate players to raise campaign funds for former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s presidential campaign in 2003. Last year, she also joined Aliko Dangote and a few businessmen in a shady campaign fundraising for the gubernatorial campaign of Mr. Nnamdi (Andy) Uba, a former aide of Obasanjo’s who ran for the governorship of Anambra, which many analysts suspected that the so-called fundraiser for Mr. Uba was designed to deflect questions in the media about the source of Uba’s prodigal spending on his campaign. She was also instrumental in getting Mr. Obasanjo to support the founding of Transcorp, an investment group that bought up several of Nigeria’s assets at bargain prices. She also convinced Obasanjo to purchase more than 200 million shares in Transcorp, a move condemned as one of the most corrupt acts of the Obasanjo era. The issue of the Nigerians for Obama fundraiser may open the door to ask her other questions pertaining to Transcorp and her other activities.
Then the Daily Trust on its front page, August 26, 2008, reported that the CBN, NSE and SEC loss N3 trillion. Wow! What a country? Trust Nigeria, nobody is going to be prosecuted for that because they contributed or funded the president's campaign.

Kabiru Danladi.
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