On December 13th, 2011, Senator Babafemi Ojudu while a Senator of the ACN party, read out a provoking speech in Akure during the marking of Nigerian Union of Journalists week, warning clearly about the impending fuel subsidy removal and advising Nigerian labor groups to be prepared for strike action. The senator in his must-read write-up also promised to not only challenge the fuel-subsidy removal on the floor of the Senate but assured Nigerians and the labour unions that he will march with us and protest with us.
You can find his 4,600 word powerfully written manifest on SaharaReporters of December 15th, 2011, with the caption, “Removal Of Oil Subsidy: Challenge To A Nation,” also in PMNews of December 19th, 2011. It can be recollected that on January 1st the next year, as a macabre new year’s gift, President Goodluck Jonathan suddenly announced the abrupt removal of the fuel subsidy. This announcement was greeted with nationwide strikes, protests and deaths. It can be recalled that the President during the reaction to his action, confessed that a billionaire ‘Cabal’ he was too weak to challenge were behind the suffering and cheating of Nigerians; but this admission was after Senator Ojudu had first made the exposition, boldly describing the role of the Cabal in the fuel supply and subsidy fraud debacle, in his thoroughly prepared public notice of December 13th.
Senator Babafemi Ojudu, representing the Ekiti Central district, is not scared to pen his thoughts and give his advice to the nation on all issues of national interest and civil rights; he does not hide behind his points-of-view and does not utilize spokespersons to present important statements for him. He writes himself… he likes to write and does so elaborately, confidently and recurrently as and at all instances necessary. He gives his speeches and challenges the Senate in the interest of the masses, whether his stance is popular or not among the wolves. The Senator whose valiance and uprightness did not start this fourth republic; an exemplary Nigerian who was arrested, tortured and detained several times during the Sani Abacha—Jonathan’s hero—regime, for his brave articles exposing the brutal dictator, is a lamb among the many Wolves in the Senate and the Executives. As hard as we criticize the wicked and evil rulers and lawmakers we have, so also must we praise and acknowledge those who stand up for us if and when they do.
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