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Gani by sucess001(m): 6:02pm On May 02, 2008 |
[size=8pt]STOP PRESS!!!! GANI FAWEHINMI IS DEAD!!![/18[color=Black][/color] ] |
Re: Gani by sheniqua: 6:04pm On May 02, 2008 |
Is that true? This is a sad day. This man I started hearing his name since I was a tot. Oh dear. May his family be consoled and may his brave soul rest in peace. |
Re: Gani by sucess001(m): 6:12pm On May 02, 2008 |
he celebrated his birthday just days ago, he was an icon and someone young lawyers like us look up to, he is a great loss indeed. |
Re: Gani by Nobody: 6:14pm On May 02, 2008 |
Source, please!!!! |
Re: Gani by 4Him1(m): 6:16pm On May 02, 2008 |
no source? |
Re: Gani by tollu: 6:17pm On May 02, 2008 |
Yeah source please, cos dis is really breaking my heart. |
Re: Gani by BigB11(m): 6:19pm On May 02, 2008 |
No source! Hopefully this information is incorrect. |
Re: Gani by BigB11(m): 6:20pm On May 02, 2008 |
Different strokes for different folks By Femi Adesina [ kulikulii@yahoo.com ] Saturday, April 26, 2008 Two celebrations occurred within the week. And incidentally, the people at the very centres of it are from Ondo town, in Ondo State. They both turned 70 within two days of each other. Legal luminary, Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN) and top public relations specialist and former Minister of Information, Sir Chief Alex Akinyele. At Gani Fawehinmi’s birthday party on Tuesday, the man was conspicuously absent. Why? He’s in a London hospital, battling lung cancer. For about a year now, the lawyer and human rights activist has spent more time in the hospital than out of it. Uniquely, however, his 70th birthday was graced not just by friends, relations and colleagues from the human rights community, but by those you can call the flotsam and jetsam of society. The blind, the lame, deaf, dumb, and generally destitute persons. It was a birthday party with a difference. As you read this, Chief Alex Akinyele is holding a birthday thanksgiving service at the Anglican Church in Ondo. On Thursday, which was the actual day he turned 70, a book had been launched in his honour, and the Alex Akinyele Plaza was commissioned by no less a person than former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida. Truly, it’s different strokes for different folks. When you look at the paradoxes of Fawehinmi and Akinyele at 70, you know that life can be baffling, confounding, enigmatic and puzzling. Two people from exactly the same background, born two days apart into poor families, and who through a combination of grace, luck and hard work, pulled themselves up by their boot straps, to get to the very top of their professions. You cannot write the history of the legal profession in Nigeria without Gani Fawehinmi being given prodigious mention. Neither can the story of public relations be told without Alex Akinyele being mentioned as one of the very fathers. Now, see how fate has treated them differently at 70. Right was the Abami Eda, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti when he described life as a “bitch.” This bitch of a life. It gives you something with one hand, and takes away something with the other. It gave Gani professional success and acclaim, and at the critical period, took away his lungs. Bitch, bitch, bitch. Oh, life, you can be so cruel. Remember the football coach, Theophilus Adeyemi Tella? Last September, he led the Golden Eaglets to win the World Cup in Korea. The world was at his feet, so we thought. One month later, he was dead. Of lung cancer. I did a piece then, with the title, ‘Tella: This bitch of a life.’ Permit me to quote a portion from that October 27, 2007 column, as it fits the issue at hand: “Tella came back home, got cash gifts, a house, and many other rewards from an appreciative nation. At that point, it seemed the world was his oyster. At only 56, he could still coach different teams for the next 20 years. From obscurity to stardom. From anonymity to global centrestage. But Bernard Shaw was right when he said, “there are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire, the other is to get it.” Tella got his heart’s desire, and he also lost it. Few days after the triumphal return, he was at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) battling a relapse of the lung cancer. Triumph and Disaster, those two impostors (Rudyard Kipling) had teamed up to deal him a deadly blow.” Crocodile tears? Some people may accuse me of celebrating Gani after I had excoriated him in a September 29, 2007 piece entitled ‘Once upon a Gani Fawehinmi.’ Yes, I accused him of ‘too know,’ that he had made himself supreme to the Supreme Court, that he had lost the virtues, ideals that made him our hero in the past. I said his support for Nuhu Ribadu, the then boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) bordered on zealotry, fanaticism, obsession. Yes, I still stand by all those. But lung cancer? You dare not wish anybody that evil. Not to Gani, not to anybody. Poor life. Bitchy life. Malicious life. Is that the reward Gani deserves from you after about 40 years of suffering in many prisons so that the rights of the average Nigerian will be guaranteed and preserved? Akinyele too. Don’t think he got his 70 on a platter of gold. He virtually got it by the whiskers, by the edge of his luxuriant moustache. He told Daily Sun in an interview that between 2005 and 2007, he underwent four surgeries in foreign hospitals. And he added what I think is food for thought: “You don’t become 70 because you eat well, or live well, or because you cared so well for your life. You reach 70 only by divine grace.” May that grace be available to us all. Say amen, somebody. Fawehinmi and Akinyele have so many things in common. Yet, they are dis-similar in very many other ways. I remember when Stella Obasanjo died on the surgery table abroad in 2005. News filtered into the country that it was in the process of procuring an abdominoplasty, popularly called tummy tuck, so that she could look stunning during her impending 60th birthday. The rumour was everywhere, but nobody verbalized it, maybe because of deference to the dead, or fear of the emperor in power. Until Gani came with a lengthy press statement, asking President Olusegun Obasanjo to clear the air on the cause of death of his wife. Most newspapers tucked the piece inside, but Daily Sun made it a cover choice. It became a major issue. So riled was Akinyele by what he described as Fawehinmi’s indiscretion and insensitivity that he called his Ondo compatriot all sorts of names. Trust Gani, he released his own scud missiles. It became real roforofo, and their paramount ruler, the Osemawe of Ondo, had to call for a truce. I did a piece on it then. The title was, ‘Ondo boys at war.’ Fierce loyalty. That is a hallmark of both people. Gani idolizes, nay worships Nuhu Ribadu and the anti-corruption war. Don’t say any evil of Ibrahim Babangida, or you have Akinyele to contend with. Ever loyal to the man who gave Ondo town its first minister ever. Controversy. The two Ondo ‘boys’ love it. When there is a river of contention to jump into, they never tarry at the bank. They dive in with a mighty splash. There must be something in the water they drank as babies in Ondo that makes them so bold. And this clincher of a similarity. They are no mean men where the opposite sex is concerned. Those close to Gani says he calls them “lubricants of the revolution,” and he has at least two official wives. Well, his religion permits it. Akinyele too has had three official wives, but he now says at 70, playing days are over. May it be so. The Ondo ‘boys’ have made their marks. We can only pray that life will treat them much more kindly in the days and years ahead. Gani Fawehinmi particularly needs a divine touch now. May he get it. Amen. http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/femi/2008/femi-apr-26-2008.htm |
Re: Gani by sucess001(m): 6:22pm On May 02, 2008 |
AM A LAWYER, GOT THE INFO FROM MY BOSS WHO IS IN "THEIR CIRCLE", DONT WORRY, U LL SEE IT IN THE PAPERS TOMOROW STILL WATER, THOT U WERE FEMALE, THATS THE MOST MASCULINE LOOKIN LADY IN UR PIX |
Re: Gani by Nobody: 6:26pm On May 02, 2008 |
You dey craze |
Re: Gani by 4Him1(m): 6:28pm On May 02, 2008 |
lung cancer again? |
Re: Gani by sheniqua: 7:33pm On May 02, 2008 |
stillwater: Oh my God Michael Bolton@ stillwater. He is[b] the only white man I find attractive[/b]. back to Gani The article says he had lung cancer,I didn't read where they said he died |
Re: Gani by sheniqua: 7:35pm On May 02, 2008 |
sucess001: OK. This is sad. All these great intelligent men are just dying off and we're left with airheads |
Re: Gani by 4Him1(m): 7:37pm On May 02, 2008 |
and obasanjo, atiku, babangida, bamaiyi, useni and other rogues are waxing stronger. Anyway its a sign that finally the 50-60s generation are slowly dying out before our very eyes. |
Re: Gani by sheniqua: 7:45pm On May 02, 2008 |
4 Him: Infact they should capture Obasanjo,rip out his kidneys and give them to Yaradua. |
Re: Gani by 4Him1(m): 7:46pm On May 02, 2008 |
sheniqua: Both of them should just go. There is very little difference between a thief and an inept but honest man. |
Re: Gani by bigben3: 7:57pm On May 02, 2008 |
that Gani is dead is a rude shock and it's also a reminder to we all that one definite thing in life is death it shall come when it will come,but then what will they say after we are gone good or bad |
Re: Gani by azorjiu(m): 8:37pm On May 02, 2008 |
What is the veracity of this claim? The author should contradict himself and say it not true. Don't bury a man before he dies. |
Re: Gani by manoy(m): 8:44pm On May 02, 2008 |
Unconfirmed story! |
Re: Gani by lucabrasi(m): 9:18pm On May 02, 2008 |
pls source |
Re: Gani by Ibime(m): 9:44pm On May 02, 2008 |
Stop lying! |
Re: Gani by dangermous: 10:10pm On May 02, 2008 |
@Big B1 Coupling Gani and Akinyele in he same article does a great disservice to Gani. One is a man of principles, the other is a washed out loudmouthed sycophant and the only other people who should be in an article with Akinyele are the likes of Bisi Olatilo and suchlike |
Re: Gani by BigB11(m): 10:35pm On May 02, 2008 |
The purpose of my post was to de-emphasize a topic that has no source and hope for the best for Mr. Gani's family. There is absolutely no one here promoting or praising anybody. I just wish Mr. Gani all the best and again, I hope this topic is inaccurate. |
Re: Gani by presido1: 10:59pm On May 02, 2008 |
How can somebody start a thread of this nature when its not correct. Hope its a joke anyway but its gone too far to be a joke. |
Re: Gani by Nobody: 5:34am On May 03, 2008 |
im not surprised he died of lung cancer. he's had a long running battle with the ailment. dude was always in england for treatment. RIP if this story is true |
Re: Gani by OsunAmazon: 5:52am On May 03, 2008 |
I reject this story in jesus name. |
Re: Gani by WebMonk(m): 3:29pm On May 03, 2008 |
Super Amen! |
Re: Gani by deor03(m): 4:18pm On May 03, 2008 |
I think this is a rude and insulting rumour. Provide a source or Edit the Topic right now!! I beleive the house deserves an apology from the poster for this thread |
Re: Gani by LAKANYE(m): 5:18pm On May 03, 2008 |
Sorry for those of you who thought or said Bro Gani was dead. We had dinner together in Croydon last night. perhaps he resurrected without my knowledge?? Ya'all Liers, especially that BIG-MOUTH; 4 HIM-why you lie so much. Do you have a J O B at all?? And I do not appreciate you writing stupid-bullshit on my forum!! Your BIG Igbo head looks like nothing dey inside. ALL OF YOU IN THIS FORUM ARE FUCKING LIERS!!! |
Re: Gani by Imani(f): 5:35pm On May 03, 2008 |
If this "story" is untrue, then i think Seun should take action against the poster. It is NOT funny spreading rumours about people's alleged "deaths". It is unscrupulous and shows a lack of credibility. One of the rules of this forum is to post a link about any story. |
Re: Gani by kasim155: 6:12pm On May 03, 2008 |
GANI HAVE REALLY DONE A GREAT JOB FOR THIS COUNTRY, SO WE SHOULD NOT BE HAPPY ABOUT HIS DEATH, WE SHOULD SAD BY GIVING HIM ONE MINUTE SILENCE. |
Re: Gani by dominique(f): 3:03pm On May 04, 2008 |
@poster YOU'RE AN IDIOT FOR POSTING SUCH A VICIOUS RUMOUR DO YOU REALLY WISH HIM DEAD , WHATS WORSE IS THAT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY BUYING IT. |
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