Chairman Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs Committee, Senator Ajibola Basiru, has taken on Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman for criticising the All Progressives Congress (APC’s) handling of ongoing Edo election campaigns as weak, defeatist, cowardly and at best treacherous.


Also, Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele (EKiti Central), condemned Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki over alleged invasion of the Assembly Complex in Benin City last week.

Basiru, in a statement in Abuja, insisted that Lukman should immediately be called to order by the APC Governors Forum and shut out from making disparaging remarks about the party.

The Spokesman of the Senate said: “People who really have nothing useful to contribute to the ongoing campaigns should desist from making remarks that will discourage genuine Democrats who are working for the progress of APC and the Nation.”

The DG had berated the leadership of the APC for adopting the wrong approach to electioneering campaign in Edo, specifically faulting allowing Comrade Adams Oshimhole to lead the campaign.

Basiru dismissed Lukman’s view point as conceding electoral victory to the opposition before casting the first ballot adding that “no true progressive minded individual ought to nurse this kind of negative view point.

“The approach advocated by the DG that Oshiomhole should be withdrawn into the background is cowardly, weak and at the best defeatist as well as treacherous,” Basiru said.

He added: “How can anyone withdraw his best asset when needed most? We shall be indulging in self delusion if we say Comrade Oshiomhole is not important or central to the ongoing campaigns especially when the opposition has made him the focus of their campaign.”

The Senate spokesman reminded the DG the same Oshiomhole led Obaseki by the nose and campaigned vigorously for him to become Governor in 2016.

“It is disturbing for a progressive to take the position of Lukman berating your own party publicly as ‘beating the drums of war’ and so conceding victory to your opponent before the actual contest.

“The view of the DG that Pastor (Osagie) Ize-Iyamu is an on looker in his own election is also not correct because Ize-Iyamu is sufficiently popular and had now been in political limelight in the State for years.

“In fact we fought ‘tooth and nail’ to defeat him in the last election.”
He advised the PGF DG to “rid himself of the anti-Oshiomhole sentiments running deep among his haters and allow him to perform his legal and fundamental rights of canvassing for the candidate of his choice, especially when those against him have nothing, absolutely nothing to contribute.

“The intentions of the DG and some of the so called progressive Governors whose opinions are represented in this unsolicited outburst, that at best could be an internal memo, are less than noble and amounts to shooting down what the party has laboured to build.”

On his part, Bamidele described the alleged actions of Obaseki in the invasion of the House of Assembly as unlawful, subversive and a damning threat to democracy in Nigeria.

Fielding questions from journalists in Abuja on Sunday, Bamidele insisted the continued onslaughts on members of the Edo Assembly by Obaseki should be condemned and resisted by all lovers of democracy because the legislature is an integral and critical component of democracy anywhere around the world.

He noted the deliberate and inordinate sabotage of the legitimate activities of the lawmakers in the legislature is a direct invitation to anarchy, which must be promptly halted before the situation is allowed to get out of hands.

According to him, the legislature, because of its representative power in a democracy, is the mirror of the will of the the people which must not be subverted by anybody under whatever guise.

“The legislature is the chief means of expressing popular will, a body that can speak on behalf of, and for, the people.

“It is, therefore, the assembly of the people’s minds and the general will of the populace within a polity,” he said.

He added the desperation of Obaseki to secure a second term in office should not be allowed to desecrate, destroy and totally subvert the legislative institution in Edo State, saying “democratic sustainability demands that political players should moderate and caution their political behaviours to safeguard the sanctity of democracy and institutions of democratic governance.”




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Make this edo election come and go

The source says it all.....The drug Baron and his cohorts are at work...

PDP will still come out victorious

Palliative from Edo



COVID-19 lockdown dealt with people, see how they are scampering for the crumbs from Edo State.

ManOfCompetence:
The source says it all.....The drug Baron and his cohorts are at work...

. you know them very well. Yoruba think we are still in the 90s when they held sway and fed everyone with misinformation. God don expose their nyash. wetin concern a Bamidele in Edo election if not to defend the druggy in burdillion because for the past week,he is been roasted for his disparaging remarks against Obaseki

Instead of attacking the DG, the leadership of the Progressive governors forum should be attacked for trying to sabotage the interest of the party. The DG can not issue those provocative press statements without the consent of Gov. Baguda of kebbi state. It is now obvious that Baguda, Fayemi etc are trying to work against the party in favour of Obaseki. They will all be defeated together. APC's victory is a done deal.

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Did the DG lie?

All the milestones recorded by Jonathan's government in the improvement of the electoral process has been invalidated by these janjaweedians.
Mr lifeless integrity is there just eating his vomit with gusto.

seunmsg:
Instead of attacking the DG, the leadership of the Progressive governors forum should be atacked for trying to sabotage the interest of the party. The DG can not be issuing those provocative press statements without the consent of Gov. Baguda of kebbi state. It is now obvious that Baguda, Fayemi etc are trying to work against the party in favour of Obaseki.

What I have come to understand with APC is, they run the party like a company with Tinubu as the MD/CEO amongst other henchmen, they want to lord over it all without putting into consideration that the people should actually own the company in a democracy not the other way round, where you try to own the people and dictate for the people..

If I had to put it in my own words, APC is a communist party, not a democratic one..

If the wings are not clipped now, they may start:
- Jailing dissenting voices like "Sowore",
- Assassinating people like "Funsho williams",
- Clipping the media like "social media bill",
- Impoverishing the poor like the poverty capital,
- Controlling the markets like "multiple dollar rates"
- Gifting Lands and houses like the "Alpha beta"
- Controlling growth and favours amongst "mandate group and Justice forum"

Think Nigeria, Think... it's happening in our very eyes today.

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seunmsg:
Instead of attacking the DG, the leadership of the Progressive governors forum should be attacked for trying to sabotage the interest of the party. The DG can not issue those provocative press statements without the consent of Gov. Baguda of kebbi state. It is now obvious that Baguda, Fayemi etc are trying to work against the party in favour of Obaseki. They will all be defeated together. APC's victory is a done deal.

Shebi when obaseki said he still enjoys supports from majority apc governors, u yeroba pple says e was lieing.... Don't worry september will soon come and go. As it's stands now, obaseki is 3- oshiomole is 0. Reason why I gave dis scores is 1.... Obaseki will still trash the cultist pastor, 2.... D Court wud have still flig d cultist pastor out, because apc has no candidate... Even d authentic state chairman validate it also.

3..... D cultist pastor running mate forge his documents.. imagine using 4 different names for 1 election.... D Court wud still interpret it and do justice... So obaseki 3- oshiomole 1....

Anago55:
. you know them very well. Yoruba think we are still in the 90s when they held sway and fed everyone with misinformation. God don expose their nyash. wetin concern a Bamidele in Edo election if not to defend the druggy in burdillion because for the past week,he is been roasted for his disparaging remarks against Obaseki

I tell you...All these desperate moves are lined up for 2023... Tinubu wants to have a foothold in South south....

Really the other members of the pgf should sanction Lukman or if Bagudu shields him they should resign as members of PGF so whenever careless statements like these are made they are not misconstrued as their thoughts also. Because the impression given is that it is the opinion of all APC govs

ManOfCompetence:

I tell you...All these desperate moves are lined up for 2023... Tinubu wants to have a foothold in South south....

. He has failed woefully

Edo no be Lagos

chiefkpokp:


Shebi when obaseki said he still enjoys supports from majority apc governors, u yeroba pple says e was lieing.... Don't worry september will soon come and go. As it's stands now, obaseki is 3- oshiomole is 0. Reason why I gave dis scores is 1.... Obaseki will still trash the cultist pastor, 2.... D Court wud have still flig d cultist pastor out, because apc has no candidate... Even d authentic state chairman validate it also.

3..... D cultist pastor running mate forge his documents.. imagine using 4 different names for 1 election.... D Court wud still interpret it and do justice... So obaseki 3- oshiomole 1....

Mr OMS Global, abeg where my goods. You and your so called procurement company decided not to deliver my goods.

The annoying part is, you decide to ignore all my messages.

I need my goods. Its been months since I have been asking.

If you don't have them, abeg refund.
Abi you be scammer now?

Anago55:
. you know them very well. Yoruba think we are still in the 90s when they held sway and fed everyone with misinformation. God don expose their nyash. wetin concern a Bamidele in Edo election if not to defend the druggy in burdillion because for the past week,he is been roasted for his disparaging remarks against Obaseki

U Dey mind them. I couldn’t have put it much different save to say, not all Yorubas. Though many vocal few clearly worshipping & under the influence of the froggy eyed godfather are the ones mostly spewing rubbish