Bola Tinubu Barred From Aso Rock

Ex-Gov Ahmed Bola Tinubu barred from Aso Rock
By Our Reporter
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Former Lagos State governor, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, may have incurred the wrath of President Umaru Yar’Adua over what was described as “acts unbecoming of a former governor.”


 
Indeed, the President may have ordered security agencies to thwart any attempt by the former governor to have access to Aso Rock, the seat of power.



Highly impeccable sources close to the presidency disclosed to the Saturday Tribune that the President declared Tinubu persona non grata to Aso Rock following what the sources disclosed as name-dropping of Yar’Adua by Tinubu.



According to the sources, Yar’Adua became angry when he got security reports that Tinubu was going about telling many people in the country and abroad that he was close to Yar’Adua and that he could enter the Aso Rock anytime he liked due to his closeness to the President.



He was quoted to have said that he used to see the president on a daily basis. But President Yar’Adua, the very credible sources said, got very angry when he got the report, saying that the last time he ever saw Tinubu was over 17 months ago.



The President was also reported to have said he never knew Tinubu before he became a governor, contrary to what the former Lagos State governor was telling people.



Yar’Adua reportedly said he only knew Tinubu through a very close aide.



The sources said President Yar’Adua had to call the top aide to inform him about the name-dropping attitude of Tinubu. He then asked him to warn Tinubu never to drop his name.



The visibly angry Yar’Adua also told his security aides that he should never see Tinubu at the Presidential Villa for whatever reasons and that the security chiefs should henceforth monitor his activities.



It was not long after this development that the issue of the controversy over the 57 local government areas resurfaced. It will be recalled that Tinubu had a running battle with former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the controversial 20 local governments and 37 development areas as the former president withheld the allocations to the local governments for many years.



The administration then insisted that Lagos must revert to the 20 local government areas before the allocations could be released, but the Tinubu’s administration insisted that Lagos must have more than 20 local governments.



After some time, his government reverted to 20 local government areas and created 37 council development areas, a move that did not go down well with the Federal Government.



But with the current attitude of Tinubu, sources said President Yar’Adua decided to revisit the issue of the 57 local government areas in the state which he said were illegal as the 1999 Constitution only recognised 20 councils.

He has, therefore, threatened to drag the current government of Babatude Fashola to court over the council issue. Fashola was the Chief of Staff when Tinubu was the governor of the state.

http://odili.net/news/source/2009/aug/1/600.html


 
 
 

and the drama continues, 

See as gullible people let hatred, jealousy, and bigotry cloud their judgment and  sense of reasoning. What's there to drop in yar adua's name?

Shouldn't any reasonable and right thinking pesin question why a man like TINUBU dey waka around dropping and claiming his known enemy's name?

What qualities and benefits yaradua get wey go make any sane pesin to dey drop and claim am?


You people no dey disappoint to amaze me I swear.

I know Ijawman no get sense so I go allow am small leeway,



“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”

- Coretta Scott King quotes

LOng ago, tens of thousands of Africans were taken from their continent to serve as slaves to white men who believed the black man is intrinscially inferior to the white race. This erroneous belief permitted much suffering and pain to be meted out on black people in the name of slavery.

Fast forward to 2009 and see some Nigerians stupidly trying to pass across this same message of superiority, albeit on a tribal/ethnic scale and not a racial scale. Do we never learn? What in God's name does anyone stand to gain from pursuing a tribalist agenda?

I feel the Mods should do more to stamp out these evil and divisive topics from NL.

Name dropping???Una get time o.

The above still holds sway. he should be restricted ONLY to intelligent threads. ^{wonder how he reach America sef?}

I pity the unfortunate woman that gave birth to this type of absolute shit of human specie.
 Make thunder fire and burn that  finger you used to type that rubbish.


Mr fool, where are you coming from?. Looks like you are already on full tank on some cheap liquid this early morning. Don't join that fool in this or else , you will regret.

Who is Yar' dull, if not for incestuous Gorrila that put him there, who is he? Yar' dull, mind you we are not in a military dispensation again ooooo and we practice democracy not theocracy (where Ayatolla can ban anybody at his characteristically will.
NB: To all the Yorubas' haters, would you get a life! We know haters everywhere, but do we care? Definitely no! Y'all faggots need to suck my nuts and let me fart in y'all stinking mouths.

Inferior Igboman, you will hide under Yoruba identity today and Ijaw tomorrow and Benin next tomorrow. Haba! It's all about this western region sha! Inferiority complex won't kill you fake-ass.

You are a tribalistic maggot for making such statement. On what basis are you passing your judgment.

I notice tribal bigots here as usual and it is sad.

The issue is Yar A'clueless alledge to have claimed that Tinubu is dropping his name all over the place.

If that story credited to Yar A'dull is true(and my instinct is that it is not true), the questions the are in two folds

1. Who on Earth want to be pal of Yar A'doubtful ?

2. Assuming someone want to be a pal of Yar A'Do nothing, what will be the benefits to such person unless he is IBORI, Aondaooka and Waziri(would anyone honestly respect any friend/pal of this President unless they are nation looters)

Also, Tinubu has Fashola in Lagos performing execellently, is that not a better and much proud Name to drop? and would it not be what Tinubu will be dropping if he choose to derive any benefit, infact, he need not drop the name, everyone knows already, and for those that do not know, all he would do is to make a direct phone call to Fashola.

Finally, I think the issue is more like Yar A'Failure is looking for relevance, attention seeking and looking for cheap publicity and finding a way to break into South West via Lagos.

Example is the Local govt saga which exposes Yar A'Nonsense as very shallow minded and fighting a wrong cause at the wrong time.

This country need good leadership, infrastructures at this time and Not trying to make the country A ONE PARTY STATE.

PDP want all the power without the corresponding discharge of the Responsibility. ANIMALS calling themselves human beings.

BY THE WAY, COMPARE AND CONTRAST 2 YEARS OF YAR A'CLUELESS WITH FASHOLA. your answer to the question is there.

I know in yorubaland, drug barons, thieves and ex convicts have good antecedents and are celebrated.

"Contrary to denials, the Nigerian Compass yesterday learnt that the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) confirmed that a former Lagos State Governor, Mr. Bola,

Ahmed Tinubu, ran a heroin ring in the country; was convicted, though with an option of fine; and was actually quizzed last month while entering into the country.

Documents available to the Nigerian Compass showed that the United States Government has written the Nigerian Government, highlighting the fact that Tinubu ran a cocaine ring in the country.

According to the document, signed by the United States Government Narcotics Attache in its embassy in Nigeria, Andre W. Kellum, Tinubu operated an organisation that distributed cocaine".

http://news.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=448

Why won't he be dropping Yaradua's name? Is he not in politics where permanent interest dominates . . .and by the way who wants to be yaradua's pal?

when the going was sweet and smooth, tinubu was given unfiltered access to the seat of power.

now that tinubu has successfully told his excellency where he is heading come 2011, the hatred begin.

let start watching as events unfold 

Is there any big deal about that, having a relationship with the president does not soil his name but rather his is adding to the reputation of the president but the harsh tone of the president has some political undertone and i can say categorically that it is because of the issue of the LG creation. Well, be as it may that should not cause ant rift between the two political icons.    

another tribal war on NL