can this 2 collect the same money, how can the smaller collect 4 times this big one and ijaw insist that most continue. that is not fair.



benin city





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If the committe were there to get peoples views about the proposed conference, why are they averse to opposing views? Is adams Oshiomole not entiled to his views? The conference has not even started and others are not allowed to hold opposing views, that to me points to one thing - FAILURE!!!

Adams Oshiomole should be carefuL. I don't even trust his so called APC.

homesteady:
Why will you call well respected people thugs and area boys! do you think it is anybody that attend this type of gathering?

Is that how well respected people behave in your village?... The essence of the consultations going on is to collect as many views as possible and at the end come out with what is good for Nigeria and Nigerians... The comrade Governor only said his mind about the proposed National Conference which was due to the previous 10 conferences that that only succeeded in wasting resources and time (a fact that is not disputable), moreover he said he might be making "an error of the head but certainly not error of the heart", which means that his assertion which was personal could still be proved wrong so why are people shouting?... Did he stop the different individuals and groups there from stating their own views?... Its only in Nigeria that a man automatically becomes a sinner because his opinion on issue differs from the hyperventilating popular opinion. Whatever happens to democracy and freedom to personal opinions... And for Col. Nyiam (rtd) to shouted the Governor down he is the height of disappointment and embarrassment to the federal that included such a character in a sensitive committee that should be made up responsible and open-minded men and women...

this is what you expect from ijaw people. It is obvious Jonathan is been a dictator . when did the people of nigeria create 6 zones.. Why dont the easterner hold their own meeting on their side.

if you want to play fair you will do that. You dont expect such a meeting to bring out what the Uhrobo people or Isoko people want because the ijaw will fight them.. everybody know that. So let the ijaw do meeting with their fellow easterners.

Look Edo and delta state are losing money the pension office is in calabar.. More than 100 billion have been taken to the east. They will not get back the money. less than 10% live to get pension. In the next 20 years , it is already 400 billion. Edo and delta will be the poorer state in Nigeria.

this is leagues because they can not fund it. the sponsor withdraw

Zet72: Ode which one be county again?

You are Egbon Ode, so that is the only thing u deduced from dat post

The governor is right but should have asked the president, if he is going to guarantee us that the final report would be implemented not just gathering people to come and make noise.

hycode:


He simply said that ''the exercise is unnecessary as it is not likely to solve the various challenges facing the country,adding that there are no indication that the exercise will not go the way of the other eleven conferences held in the past''.

So, what does he want?

National dialogue wahala, if you want people to talk about issues concerning this country,and Adams Osho. is saying a different thing,so why thugs wan beat the man.God pls.deliver this country b4 it is too late. Everything is politics in Naija. Agogo

Just because of one person'sopinion, u are rubbishing a whole state. Pls tell me where u are from and We will start a new trend comparing the culture, mentality, etc of the two state.

bloggernaija: Edo state may be grouped under the niger delta geographically but their mentality ,history, core values and culture is very different.
Look at the sort of people who were brought in to attend a strategic conference.
They are not different from the legions of political thugs ,touts,area boy and street urchins you see everyday on TV .
The itshekiris and binis have already made their submissions in AKURE .
Oil block sharing is the least of their problems.
They want a clearly delineated territory with people with whom they share an history culture and heritage ,from where they can choose their friends and alliances.

Oshiomole should be careful with Yorubas around him, he should stop following them, they going to lead him into ditch

Dialogue panel chief incites thugs against
Oshiomhole
Posted by: Osagie Otabor and Ben Ogbemudia
Benin in Featured, News 6 hours ago
The national dialogue roadshow went awry
yesterday in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
A meeting of the Presidential Advisory Committee
on National Dialogue in the Southsouth zone ended
in a fiasco at the Imaguero Hall. The delegates left
after comments by Governor Adams Oshiomhole
caused an uproar.
The hall was virtually empty by the time some
ethnic groups and individuals were presenting their
memoranda.
The meeting that began at about 2pm ended at
4:30pm after committee Chairman Femi
Okunrounmu declared that its members’ lives were
not safe in Edo.
The Isoko, Urhobo, Itsekiri and Bini had presented
their stand before the fracas.
It was as if some people were hired to disrupt the
event when somebody from the audience
interupted Oshiomhole a few minutes into his
speech.
The voice said” “Two minutes”. “I will do more than
that,” Oshiomhole replied.
The governor went on: “I want to make my own
comments. They are my views and not the views of
Edo State. It is not the view of any particular ethnic
nationality. I think as a Nigerian we all have stake in
this country and we have a duty to lay a solid
foundation for the future of this country. I have a
duty to be honest and truthful on the views and
position that I canvass. My views are different. I
asked the question, why are we having a national
conference?”
“I believe that anyone who convenes a meeting
must be clear why he convened a meeting. I have
the opportunity to travel far and wide. You don’t
assemble people and then ask them, what do we
talk?. Whoever wishes to convene a meeting must
be clear on what the issues are. When you have
stated why the meeting was convened, you can
then ask what should be added or deleted. You
have hundreds of agenda. When I was the NLC, a
former president convened a national conference
and up till now…
Another interruption. Oshiomhole said: “You cannot
shout me down. I know some persons were hired to
be here.”
He continued: “People from various states
converged, money was spent and in the end I can’t
remember what came out of that conference. It is a
valid point to make that we failed before, we can
make amend but it is important we learn from our
history. I will be surprised if anything changes. As a
leader, I have no business to mislead anyone. This
conference will not be different from any previous
conference.”
Some ethnic nationalities, mainly from Bayelsa and
Delta states, were accused of joining to shout down
the governor.
A member of the committee, Col. Tony Nyiam,
stood up and made some unprintable remarks
about Oshiomhole which led to a near free for all on
the high table.
Nyiam stood up, banging the table and screaming:
“No!”, “no!”, “no”. The ex-soldier was restrained by
other members of the committee who appeared
shocked at his behaviour.
The committee members hurriedly left after thugs
invaded the hall.
The governor was still making his contribution
when Nyiam started screaming for him to sit down.
He was then joined in by the thugs who disrupted
the proceedings and many scampered for safety as
a result of the unruliness of the committee member
and the thugs.
The governor, who insisted on concluding his
remarks, yielded the floor to the thugs, who were
getting violent.
The National Anthem was hurriedly played as the
governor took his exit.
In a statement last night, the dialogue panel
condemned the “unruly conduct” of one of its
members for joining the crowd to heckle the
governor.
At a visit to him in his office by members of the
committee led by Senator Femi Okurounmu either
Oshiomhole said he had no faith in the process.
He said: “All I owe Nigeria now is to speak my mind.
It could be error of my head, but certainly not of
my heart. As much as I wish you well, I just want to
say that I have no faith in this process and I do not
think it was necessary at all.”
The governor added: “I am unable to find any basis
to give me some illusion that this exercise will be
different from the others.
He lamented that 53 years after independence,
Nigerians still prefer to look at themselves from
their ethnic origin rather than being Nigerians. “For
me, I am just a Nigerian,” Oshiomhole said.
Oshiomhole said: “I do not think that more than
100 years when we have set aside billions of naira
to celebrate our centenary the fact of our
amalgamation of the North and Southern Nigeria,
and we have lived together as one country for over
a 100 years, and we have gone through
independence, we have been free for 53 years and
we are coming back to ask the question, how could
we be there?
“I think Nigeria needs to address very serious
issues. When I see eminent Nigerians discussing
this issue, I am sure they know that Nigeria’s
problem is not this politics of sharing, which the
national dialogue is all about; who is getting what,
who has this natural endowment, who should do
this or not do this. For me, this is the act of
perfecting poverty.
“The real challenge is getting Nigeria back to
production. The real challenge is creating industrial
base and this cannot be resolved through
conferences. We have moved from parliamentary
system in our own wisdom to the presidential
system. We have test-run it and it was aborted by
the military and it has re-incarnated in the present
form,” he said, adding:
“Nigeria does need a serious reflection about how
to return to those core values that made Nigeria
work before. Those healthy competition between
the governments, visit the whole question of
attitude and unless that changes, I do not see how
any dialogue can work”, he said.
The Governor said: “I was discussing with
somebody last week and he noted that this is the
eleventh conference and I ask what ten
conferences could not do, how would the eleventh
one do it? Why do we think we can continue doing
the same thing the same old way and think that
this time the outcome would be different?”
The Governor said nobody convenes a meeting
without stating the agenda and asking others to
draw up the agenda for that meeting. “From
conception we know we want to talk, but we do not
know what we want to talk about.”
Okurounmu said the committee was in Benin as
part of its tour of the six geopolitical zones to get
their input into the content of the agenda, the
duration, choice of delegation and legal framework
of the proposed dialogue.
Okunroumu expressed happiness over the
impressive turnout by Nigerians at the different
venues of its sittings.
“Nigerians have accepted the need to have this
conference. We have been to four centres Minna,
Akure, Jos and Calabar, and the turnout has been
impressive and overwhelming.
“In all the centres, Nigerians came from the rural
areas, even from the remotest villages to make
presentations to us and there are “no-go areas at
all.
“We are to listen to all Nigerians and I am happy
that the turnout has been encouraging to the
extent that we requested for bigger halls,’’ he said.
The chairman noted that “we have been listening
to different groups and views, but no single group
who threatens to dismember Nigeria has come
before us.
“Nigerians all over the world are entitled to submit
their views, but they must not be in the committee
to air their views.
They have our e-mail address. “Let them submit
their memo to us and their views will be
acknowledged. This is the essence of the
committee.
“That is why we are going round to know what are
the things agitating the minds of Nigerians.
“We will include these views in our report and these
will definitely set the agenda for government and
tell government how they want to be governed,’’
he said.

Dialogue panel chief incites thugs against
Oshiomhole
Posted by: Osagie Otabor and Ben Ogbemudia
Benin in Featured, News 6 hours ago
The national dialogue roadshow went awry
yesterday in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
A meeting of the Presidential Advisory Committee
on National Dialogue in the Southsouth zone ended
in a fiasco at the Imaguero Hall. The delegates left
after comments by Governor Adams Oshiomhole
caused an uproar.
The hall was virtually empty by the time some
ethnic groups and individuals were presenting their
memoranda.
The meeting that began at about 2pm ended at
4:30pm after committee Chairman Femi
Okunrounmu declared that its members’ lives were
not safe in Edo.
The Isoko, Urhobo, Itsekiri and Bini had presented
their stand before the fracas.
It was as if some people were hired to disrupt the
event when somebody from the audience
interupted Oshiomhole a few minutes into his
speech.
The voice said” “Two minutes”. “I will do more than
that,” Oshiomhole replied.
The governor went on: “I want to make my own
comments. They are my views and not the views of
Edo State. It is not the view of any particular ethnic
nationality. I think as a Nigerian we all have stake in
this country and we have a duty to lay a solid
foundation for the future of this country. I have a
duty to be honest and truthful on the views and
position that I canvass. My views are different. I
asked the question, why are we having a national
conference?”
“I believe that anyone who convenes a meeting
must be clear why he convened a meeting. I have
the opportunity to travel far and wide. You don’t
assemble people and then ask them, what do we
talk?. Whoever wishes to convene a meeting must
be clear on what the issues are. When you have
stated why the meeting was convened, you can
then ask what should be added or deleted. You
have hundreds of agenda. When I was the NLC, a
former president convened a national conference
and up till now…
Another interruption. Oshiomhole said: “You cannot
shout me down. I know some persons were hired to
be here.”
He continued: “People from various states
converged, money was spent and in the end I can’t
remember what came out of that conference. It is a
valid point to make that we failed before, we can
make amend but it is important we learn from our
history. I will be surprised if anything changes. As a
leader, I have no business to mislead anyone. This
conference will not be different from any previous
conference.”
Some ethnic nationalities, mainly from Bayelsa and
Delta states, were accused of joining to shout down
the governor.
A member of the committee, Col. Tony Nyiam,
stood up and made some unprintable remarks
about Oshiomhole which led to a near free for all on
the high table.
Nyiam stood up, banging the table and screaming:
“No!”, “no!”, “no”. The ex-soldier was restrained by
other members of the committee who appeared
shocked at his behaviour.
The committee members hurriedly left after thugs
invaded the hall.
The governor was still making his contribution
when Nyiam started screaming for him to sit down.
He was then joined in by the thugs who disrupted
the proceedings and many scampered for safety as
a result of the unruliness of the committee member
and the thugs.
The governor, who insisted on concluding his
remarks, yielded the floor to the thugs, who were
getting violent.
The National Anthem was hurriedly played as the
governor took his exit.
In a statement last night, the dialogue panel
condemned the “unruly conduct” of one of its
members for joining the crowd to heckle the
governor.
At a visit to him in his office by members of the
committee led by Senator Femi Okurounmu either
Oshiomhole said he had no faith in the process.
He said: “All I owe Nigeria now is to speak my mind.
It could be error of my head, but certainly not of
my heart. As much as I wish you well, I just want to
say that I have no faith in this process and I do not
think it was necessary at all.”
The governor added: “I am unable to find any basis
to give me some illusion that this exercise will be
different from the others.
He lamented that 53 years after independence,
Nigerians still prefer to look at themselves from
their ethnic origin rather than being Nigerians. “For
me, I am just a Nigerian,” Oshiomhole said.
Oshiomhole said: “I do not think that more than
100 years when we have set aside billions of naira
to celebrate our centenary the fact of our
amalgamation of the North and Southern Nigeria,
and we have lived together as one country for over
a 100 years, and we have gone through
independence, we have been free for 53 years and
we are coming back to ask the question, how could
we be there?
“I think Nigeria needs to address very serious
issues. When I see eminent Nigerians discussing
this issue, I am sure they know that Nigeria’s
problem is not this politics of sharing, which the
national dialogue is all about; who is getting what,
who has this natural endowment, who should do
this or not do this. For me, this is the act of
perfecting poverty.
“The real challenge is getting Nigeria back to
production. The real challenge is creating industrial
base and this cannot be resolved through
conferences. We have moved from parliamentary
system in our own wisdom to the presidential
system. We have test-run it and it was aborted by
the military and it has re-incarnated in the present
form,” he said, adding:
“Nigeria does need a serious reflection about how
to return to those core values that made Nigeria
work before. Those healthy competition between
the governments, visit the whole question of
attitude and unless that changes, I do not see how
any dialogue can work”, he said.
The Governor said: “I was discussing with
somebody last week and he noted that this is the
eleventh conference and I ask what ten
conferences could not do, how would the eleventh
one do it? Why do we think we can continue doing
the same thing the same old way and think that
this time the outcome would be different?”
The Governor said nobody convenes a meeting
without stating the agenda and asking others to
draw up the agenda for that meeting. “From
conception we know we want to talk, but we do not
know what we want to talk about.”
Okurounmu said the committee was in Benin as
part of its tour of the six geopolitical zones to get
their input into the content of the agenda, the
duration, choice of delegation and legal framework
of the proposed dialogue.
Okunroumu expressed happiness over the
impressive turnout by Nigerians at the different
venues of its sittings.
“Nigerians have accepted the need to have this
conference. We have been to four centres Minna,
Akure, Jos and Calabar, and the turnout has been
impressive and overwhelming.
“In all the centres, Nigerians came from the rural
areas, even from the remotest villages to make
presentations to us and there are “no-go areas at
all.
“We are to listen to all Nigerians and I am happy
that the turnout has been encouraging to the
extent that we requested for bigger halls,’’ he said.
The chairman noted that “we have been listening
to different groups and views, but no single group
who threatens to dismember Nigeria has come
before us.
“Nigerians all over the world are entitled to submit
their views, but they must not be in the committee
to air their views.
They have our e-mail address. “Let them submit
their memo to us and their views will be
acknowledged. This is the essence of the
committee.
“That is why we are going round to know what are
the things agitating the minds of Nigerians.
“We will include these views in our report and these
will definitely set the agenda for government and
tell government how they want to be governed,’’
he said.

Nosu:

You are Egbon Ode, so that is the only thing u deduced from dat post

Don't let me catch u!

If you see Musiwa or Dudu Negro in your L.G.A, please do not feed them or talk to them, allow them to wander freely and converse with fellow beasts of burden in the forest. Okija juju has been summoned.

eleyi giri kgan

Hmmm.

The country needed to be restructured and give way to federalism.

I sincerely like and want this country to break up. If the conference would give that I will be happy.

donphilopus: They will only try to mess up with him, but they don't know he's untouchable.

They've failed in so many attempt to kill him, so they'll continue to fail.

So this' just a minor issue to him

Attempt to kill him like how? Mention the various attempts nd i will prove you wrong. That oshiomole guy is an hypocrite, so stop being gullible by his cunning acts.

onimcee1: Attempt to kill him like how? Mention the various attempts nd i will prove you wrong. That oshiomole guy is an hypocrite, so stop being gullible by his cunning acts.

Onimisi I know you'll support PDP..

Have you forgotten what happened when the July 20th Election was approaching last year??

donphilopus: Onimisi I know you'll support PDP..

Have you forgotten what happened when the July 20th Election was approaching last year??

Seems you are unaware that the truck dat ran into his convoy is own by an ACN Chieftain in Edo state. Wat was the last you heard abt that case?

i pity oshobaba frm grace to grass. His words are no longer meaningful even when he is right.

bloggernaija: Edo state may be grouped under the niger delta geographically but their mentality ,history, core values and culture is very different.
Look at the sort of people who were brought in to attend a strategic conference.
They are not different from the legions of political thugs ,touts,area boy and street urchins you see everyday on TV .
The itshekiris and binis have already made their submissions in AKURE .
Oil block sharing is the least of their problems.
They want a clearly delineated territory with people with whom they share an history culture and heritage ,from where they can choose their friends and alliances.

..Am trying to find one single sense in your post, but can't find any. I wonder why people like you will come here to condem a whole people? Ooh God, so many people have sight but they can't see. You should be used for experiment or put in zoo.

onimcee1: Seems you are unaware that the truck dat ran into his convoy is own by an ACN Chieftain in Edo state. Wat was the last you heard abt that case?

Tell me the reason why he decided to be moving on air when the election was approaching

Hahaha....chei! This man get luck today...them for beat am well commot that Tinubu saliva wey dey him mouth, for those APC goons,this alone will send a very strong message to them and I bet you that Oshiomole will never utter rubbish next time in a public gathering.....them for teach am lesson today....hahahahaha....the next person is Rochas....hahahaha

theshadyexpress:
you are the one deceiving yourself.since if Thomas Edison had looked at his past failed experiments and decided to give up on his ambition then you wouldn't have electricity today . so Mr alex we dwell in the past,treat the future as it is but if u choose u can keep living in the past.

pls its not every idi0ts argument that you reply with a counter argument, what he just posted is like asking a baby not to learn how to walk when he falls on the first try or expecting a footballer to lie down permanently after a slight tackle, if non of these sad mor0ns have faith in this country its their problem & their life to waste. There are too many opportunities for each and every one of us in a united Nigeria just that many people are too lazy to think hence they suffer from a severe case of herd mentality whereby they expect their so called leaders to think & make statements for them instead of asking questions or taking initiatives to progress themselves. Nigeria shall remain united

domcarez: Hahaha....chei! This man get luck today...them for beat am well commot that Tinubu saliva wey dey him mouth, for those APC goons,this alone will send a very strong message to them and I bet you that Oshiomole will never utter rubbish next time in a public gathering.....them for teach am lesson today....hahahahaha....the next person is Rochas....hahahaha

some people will just open their mouth GBOSA and utter rubbish! How was what he said unreasonable? How will Ʊ hold a national conference without any issue up for discussion? All he said was the truth even though he hasn't been making good use of his brain of recent. By d way Ʊ sound like a thug

Edoboy1: ..Am trying to find one single sense in your post, but can't find any. I wonder why people like you will come here to condem a whole people? Ooh God, so many people have sight but they can't see. You should be used for experiment or put in zoo.

pls ignore this object, he cant even point out Edo state in a map of Edo state while the only Edo person he has heard of is Oshiomole and that is true the news. He calls himself bloggernaija yet he's completely out of tune with the different facets of naija of peoples who make up this beautiful country. He thinks his ideas & arguments (affected by the herd mentality syndrome obviously) are superior & not to be questioned even with simple logic. Na wa

its a sign of frustration within the state, I think our leaders should learn to listen and not always talk nonsense

my one pence advice