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The “May 29th Group” and their anti-Nigeria adverts

February 19, 2010
Dear Sir: In order to close their corrupt and fraudulent tracks and taking advantage of the physical absence of President Yar’Adua, a group that calls itself MAY 29th GROUP in the recent past infested our newspapers with advertisements entitled “Yar’Adua and the rest of us” which ran in parts I – V. In those advertisements, the group tried but failed to justify a situation of urging Nigerians to hold on for Yar’Adua to come back or be allowed to preside even from a life-support-machine as suggested by the former Minister for Justice Mike Aondoakaa. But their plan seems to have failed.
Only few know those behind this. Unveiling them: they are the kitchen cabinet of the ailing Yar’Adua. It is being coordinated by a former governor of one of the south-south states who has lots of skeleton in his cupboard and facing EFCC charges and others outside the shores of this country.

The partial funding was carried out by another but a co-opted serving governor of a south-south state; but the state neither the acting president nor the coordinating former governor hail from. The agenda of the group is well known to many, reading from the serialized advertisements. There is also the allegation making the rounds that they (the coordinator and the financier of the advertisements) have become best of friends and were positioning as agents to some foreign companies that have shown interest in Nigerian oil blocks whose round of renewal or/and allocation would have taken place had Yar’Adua come back preferably under a life-support-machine. Both were seen recently in a newspaper as they paid a weekend courtesy visit to Barkindo (the NNPC GMD).

Government must suspend activities regarding the oil-blocks.

What beats many imaginations is how the cabal believe that they could hold Nigeria to ransom; stealing money with reckless abandon, even using advantage of Yar’Adua’s incapacitation and yet the anti-corruption agencies are looking the other way. This attitude might give out the operatives of the graft agencies as partners-in-crime; always waiting in the wings to be settled and once done matters are died.

Dr (Engr) Tunde Abayomi, Adeola Odekun, V/I, Lagos State
([email protected])

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