Letter to the White House

By

SpinCiy Spinoza

nspincity@gmail.com

 

 

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

Comments: 202-456-1111

Switchboard: 202-456-1414

FAX: 202-456-2461

comments@whitehouse.gov

vice_president@whitehouse.gov

 

 

 

Dear Mr. President:

 

Pick your word to describe the actions of Obasanjo since 1999. Call the man a totalitarian, an autocrat, a despot, an oligarch, or an aristocrat. Each term fits the man and his actions because all the decisions made in Nigeria from 1999 to the present day are made directly by him alone or indirectly by his appointed friends. He decides what is good for the majority of the people in Nigeria, and the effects of his decisions are documented in your World Factbook from 2000 to 2005.

 

Obasanjo’s decisions are arbitrary and absolute, and compliance is mandatory under compulsion or intimidation. The masses in Nigeria do not participate in making decisions that affect their lives because Obasanjo believes that he knows what is good for everybody or that God administers directly to him about what is good for the rest of us. Once his arbitrary decisions are made, every citizen in Nigeria is forced to comply. Noncompliance means death or prison term or public humiliation.

 

Election process under Obasanjo has been nothing but a big joke. His own friends in the Senate, the House, and the Governorship have publicly admitted that they rigged elections in the past. All of them are still illegally occupying public offices in Nigeria without any punishment because they are protected by Obasanjo. So long as a criminal maintains a good relationship with Obasanjo and votes and acts at the whims of Obasanjo, the criminal is free to continue to benefit from his crimes. Irregularities and frauds in the next elections in Nigeria will be worse than the previous elections because the conditions for frauds have been carefully established by General Obasanjo and his thugs.

 

Because participation by the citizens has been effectively destroyed by Obasanjo, the outcomes of the next elections are now fixed and predetermined. Every Nigerian who made public pronouncements about his intention to run for the next presidential race has been arrested and his bank accounts frozen or he is now effectively silenced through threats of illegal investigations. Also, every viable political figure who disagreed with the third-term ambition of Obasanjo is now running for his life or has been arrested or murdered. If there is nobody to declare an intention to run for the presidency, how then can the voting process represent the will of the majority in Nigeria? If Obasanjo’s plan is to destroy all credible opponents and if the rights to participate in the decision-making process have been destroyed by the actions of Obasanjo, how then can any rational person call Nigeria a democratic nation? Therefore, to support Obasanjo’s illegal and autocratic scheme for a third term is to buy into his anti-democratic mindset. This would amount to helping a thug in his quest to destroy the will of the majority of Nigerians.

 

Freedom of association or freedom of speech means nothing to Obasanjo.  Freedom of speech involves the right to criticize bad decisions by the government. Michael Moore would have been dead by now if he was a Nigerian living in Nigeria. Freedom of association involves the right to participate in political gatherings and protests without being intimidated or murdered by the government. Cindy Sheean would have been dead and gone if she was protesting against Obasanjo in Nigeria.

 

Freedom of speech and freedom of association are fundamental rights of every citizen in a democratic government. Obasanjo is either too old to comprehend this fact because he does not respect these freedoms. In fact, whenever Nigerians protest his inaction or action, Obasanjo would respond by making more decisions that are intolerable, vile, disgusting, and barbaric to the individuality of the majority of Nigerians. Therefore, to support Obasanjo and his illegal third-term ambition is to deride the importance of these freedoms; it would amount to giving the tyrant the free ride to continue to dehumanize the masses in Nigeria.

 

Democracy means the rule of law and implies equality before the laws of the land. Democracy only works when all individuals and all groups, whether the family members or the friends of the president, respect and obey the decisions of the established courts of law. Democracy can never work if every member of the Nigeria society selectively and arbitrarily chooses which laws or decisions of the courts to obey. Also, democracy can never work if every person or group of persons exclusively retains the right to impose their will on the due process of the courts. This is exactly the case with Obasanjo and his friends; the man has consistently refused to respect the authority of the courts of laws in Nigeria; and his friends follow closely in his footsteps; they beat up law enforcement officers who are carrying out orders from the courts of law. Therefore, to support Obasanjo is to support a lawless man and his lawless friends who see themselves as above the laws of Nigeria.

 

The government of the United States works for the common interests of all citizens in economic matters. Hence, the need for such administrative agencies as FCC, EPA, EEOC, FTC, FDA, ICC, OSHA, etc, etc. The works of these agencies directly or indirectly affect the economic wellbeing of all the members of the American society. The contrary is the case in Nigeria under Obasanjo’s administration. All the administrative agencies in Nigeria are created by him to service the common interests of his friends and donors and their associated families. All the goals and decisions made by such agencies in Nigeria are made, perpetuated, and changed in autocratic and illegal ways to hurt the interests of the majority of Nigerians. Today, after Obasanjo’s 7 years in office, 60% of Nigerians live below the poverty line, an increase of more than 30% from 1999 figures (Refer to the CIA World Factbooks of 2000 and 2005).

 

All my claims against Obasanjo are documented and verifiable. Consult an independent agency either in Nigeria or in the United States to check the validity of my claims. The man has no iota of democratic blood in his veins. To support him now for another 4 years in office is to support his continued autocratic mindset.

 

Further, the interests of the government of the United States in Nigeria will be protected under another administration headed by another Nigerian. There are millions of Nigerians who are capable of running the nation. But to support Obasanjo’s illegal third-term schemes will certainly harm the interests of America because Nigeria will certainly implode in another civil war; many Nigerians may be forced to take up arms in terrorist activities in many adjoining African nations.