Nashville: Nigerians in the Diaspora are playing their part. I wonder what the people at home are doing. Its time to hold these vagabonds accountable. I just cannot understand how this makes sense to anyone!! We need more protests of this sort AT HOME TOO!!

Anvaller:

Look meehn, this kind of statement is pointless. The fact that u are a rich man or woman does not make u a righteous or perfect person in any ramification. It only gives u an advantage over others. U are trying to absolve Ajimobi and Sumonu of this ill because u know them I have also known Ajimobi since 1993 there in Oluyole Estate... he is arrogant! if u claim to know him very well and u are not aware that he is, I smell sycophancy. I look at every one that I know along Alaafin avenue back then in Oluyole, who didn't work hard for their money? even on his street... Do u mean he was way richer than the Oyo treasury

Look, what u need to understand is that Sumonu's action is ACN's game plan (reminds me of another guy in here trying to tell us Ajimobi doesn't know about it). The whole thing is not solely about money but a part of their strategy to constantly keep the lawmakers locked down to the Governor's interest like buying them cars, houses, taking their wives to London etc but unfortunately, whose fund would they use to execute such strategies? public fund of course. Don't u understand?

braveheart2012:

You guys can keep barking at a woman for spending N50m on legislator's wives when the real thieves that have looted several billion dollars are still living large! At least we see what she spent the money on. Whatever happened to Akala's many stolen billions? And the old man that came before him?

These trips are common across all the states. To single-out Oyo State as especially bad smacks of basic politics. Anyone interested in true reform would go after the REAL looters instead of chasing cheap political shadows. Stop couching your politics in the language of reform. It makes you come across as disingenuous. This is the last I am going to say about. I haven't lived in Nigeria for many years and I just can't be bothered with abe-ile, local politics. Call me when there is a move for true reform, instead of a bunch of old men ganging up on a bunch of women and screaming foul instead of going after the men that are really robbing the state blind of funds.

jp philips:

@ london they are nobody, in Naija, they have mopol escorts, where u wan start the fight? mopol or law maker

Pukkah: Well done! The patriotic army of Oyo indigenes in London! You really behaved like 'The Pacesetters' that you are supposed to be but which your leaders have prevented you from attaining through senseless and ridiculous spending like this.

How can anyone try to justify this type of wasteful spending when thousands of the indigenes of the state are suffering?

asha 80: psychophants and relatives of those people in question.

Pukkah:

Meaning?

asha 80: people justifieing the frivolities of the women.

Pukkah:

You obviously read my post in a hurry and judged accordingly. You might want to read it again to see if you would reverse yourself.

asha 80: i do not know what you trying to say here.you said 'how can anyone try to justify this wasteful spending when thousands are suffering in oyo' or am i wrong?have you gone through the whole thread and not see some people doing just that?am i missing something?

ypzilanti: Locally, there have been wide condemnations of the state government’s sponsorship of the programme, with the Zonal Publicity Secretary of the party, Kayode Babade, querying the constitutionality, justification and relevance of the trip .

Pukkah:

I simply expressed my surprise that anyone would try to justify the wasteful spending in spite of the suffering of the Oyo people. I had no time to take up one by one the specific posters who justified it. I also praised the London-based Oyo indigenes who protested.

I thought I was clear enough.

asha 80: you are getting worked up over nothing.i simply gave an idea of people that are likely to defend the action and nothing else.i am not sure what the seeming ambiguity is all about.

Olatwodeletwo: Na wa for oyo govt despite non perfomance, they still have gut to waste our resource.what had been the outcome of trip of council chairmen's wives to Duubai now turn of legislatiive's wives. Who are the othe set of people going on trip?

Madawaki01: They weren't able to pay d minimum wage but can finance such a trip.God wil punish dem all.imagin dem sacking 27 out of a 28 teachers in a skul,and d governor said he wants to revive d education sector in d state.they are all stupid