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Open Letter to Hon. Emeka Nwaofor - written By Nwaorgu Faustinus
Sir, permit me to use your widely read medium to reach Honourable Emeka Nwaofor who represents Ngor/Okpala Local Government Area in the Imo state House of Assembly.

Despite petitions alleging illegal transfer of $186 million out and back into Nigeria , federal authorities are yet to investigate. Is this another mortal blow to President Obasanjo’s transparency and accountability campaign?

By Maureen Chigbo - NEWSWATCH

National Award on King T.J.T Princewill is Recognition of Exemplary and Selfless Service - PPA

¶2. (S) Summary. Due Process Certification is the Obasanjo Administration's most effective anti-corruption measure to date.  The process requires what appears to be a cost-benefit analysis for all GON capital expenditures over N1 million and, according to the Presidential Special Advisors in charge of the process, it has saved the GON billions of Naira the past six months alone.  Executive branch officials, including the Minister of Solid Minerals, have commented that Due  Process Certification has tightened belts, forcing Ministers

[wikileaks||elombah.com] ¶1. (C) SUMMARY: In an unusually frank discussion, Nigerian Colonel and ECOWAS staff member M. Dixon Dikio (please strictly protect) told PolMilOff that a major breakdown of command led to reprisal attacks in Benue, and those attacks were unjustifiable.  In his view, LTG Malu's response to the Benue situation served to highlight Malu's lack of intellectual honesty, and furthermore, justified Malu's removal as Chief of Army Staff.  Touting both Operation Focus Relief and ACRI, the Colonel said more of both were needed,

[wikileaks||elombah.com] ¶1.  (C) Summary: During a February 1 breakfast meeting, former military Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar told Ambassador Jeter that President Obasanjo meant well but has performed badly the past several months.  Obasanjo's sincere intentions have been betrayed by his abrasive manner and by maladroit decisions that have alienated many supporters.
With his stature in the Northwest and Southeast significantly
eroded, Obasanjo would be hard-pressed to duplicate his 1999

[Wikileaks/elombah.com]The Ambassador stated that her intent was not to be
personally rude, but that the USG had little faith and confidence in either his ability or INEC's to run a transparent election process.  In addition, most of the
stakeholders that spoke to the recent US-UK funded election assessment team cited lack of confidence in the entire INEC Board.  INEC they believed was the number one problem for the 2011 election.

[Wikileaks/elombah.com] ¶1.  (S) Summary:  Former military ruler and possible

[Wikileaks/elombah.com] ¶1.  (C) Summary:  saying he was "under instruction" from President Obasanjo to touch base with American Ambassador and the UK High Commissioner as representatives of "Nigeria's closest allies," Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nasir el-Rufai met with the Ambassador on September 20.  His purpose was to provide President Obasanjo's strategy for denying Vice President Atiku the ability to contest the presidential elections and thereby succeed him.

[Wikileaks/elombah.com ¶1.  (S) Summary: Former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. (Ret) Aliyu Mohammed Gusau believes that President Obasanjo will try to rig the upcoming Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Convention so that it nominates as its presidential candidate Katsina Governor Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Villa denizen Andy Uba for Vice President.  Aliyu Mohammed believes that Obasanjo's choice of two manifestly unqualified candidates (Yar'Adua is ill and Uba has no political base) is a sure sign that he has no intention for elections to take place.

[Wikileaks/elombah.com] A senior official in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) told US Embassy Officials that "Andy Uba seems to have some sort of control over the President and has convinced him that the support of the West is not important," he said.  Still, he posited, "this is our last hope."

¶1.  (S)  SUMMARY:  A senior official in the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) discussed the current

[Wikileaks| elombah.com] SUMMARY ¶1. (C) Former President George W. Bush and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice included the Ambassador in their 30-minute courtesy call on Acting President Goodluck Jonathan at his official  residence February 21.  PolOff (notetaker) and an aide to Dr. Rice accompanied the delegation.  Various topics arose during the Bush-Rice courtesy call, including discussion of the need for credible 2011 elections and Nigeria's concern over the
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) watch list.  Both Bush

[Wikileaks| elombah.com] SUMMARY ¶1. (C) Ambassador met February 26 with Acting President (AgP) Dr. Goodluck Jonathan at the Vice President’s official residence, Aguda House, in Abuja to review the current political situation following the return earlier this week of ailing President Yar’Adua. Moves are afoot, between Jonathan and key northerners in the lead such as former Head of State Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, to encourage the Yar’Adua family to let go and let the President resign with dignity.

[Wikileaks| elombah.com] ¶1.  (C) SUMMARY: On January 24, Deputy Chief of Mission and visiting AF/W Deputy Director Donald Heflin met with All Nigeria Peoples' Party (ANPP) presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari at his Kaduna residence.  Buhari opined about the current Obasanjo-Atiku impasse, characterizing it as another signal of Obasanjo's attempts at prolonging his term in office.