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Health › Re: 389 New COVID-19 Cases, 116 Discharged And 5 Deaths On May 27 - (1422 Tested) by 2gbasky22(m): 8:01am On May 28, 2020
burgerpay1:
Copy cat!
you're seriously Maaarrdd

my post was done yesterday
and this shit up there was Don 6hours ago ....who does "FTC" on twitter.?
Ode!


Chai people don dey copy and paste my comment.
I am going places
Health › Re: 389 New COVID-19 Cases, 116 Discharged And 5 Deaths On May 27 - (1422 Tested) by 2gbasky22(m): 6:14am On May 28, 2020
chukasson:
how can we test less Dan 1000 sample in a day and return back 389 positive cases....Germany tested 1745, and returned only 10 positives last three weeks....England tested 1048, and returned only 4 positives this week....y is our own here different....they just keep boosting the figures....pls NCDC, stop deceiving us.....
capital lie
Health › Re: 389 New COVID-19 Cases, 116 Discharged And 5 Deaths On May 27 - (1422 Tested) by 2gbasky22(m): 6:13am On May 28, 2020
EyezofGod120:
ode
Chai.... e pain am
Health › Re: 389 New COVID-19 Cases, 116 Discharged And 5 Deaths On May 27 - (1422 Tested) by 2gbasky22(m): 12:33am On May 28, 2020
Omoluabi16:
Do people still follow this ncdc abi corona news? Despite all the predictions and fears that africans will start dropping dead like flies. Europe has virtually opened their economies, and I expect us to fully open shop in 2 weeks.
No
people don't follow the news.... but what are you doing here sir
Health › Re: 389 New COVID-19 Cases, 116 Discharged And 5 Deaths On May 27 - (1422 Tested) by 2gbasky22(m): 12:29am On May 28, 2020
EyezofGod120:
You are all mad,,if you believe say corona dey Nigeria you are suffering from low sperm count
Na person pay this one School fee.. so oh
Health › Re: 389 New COVID-19 Cases, 116 Discharged And 5 Deaths On May 27 - (1422 Tested) by 2gbasky22(m): 12:27am On May 28, 2020
TRADELYN:
389 new cases in just one dayhuh shocked What if there were no lockdown?
Is there still Lockdown?
Health › Re: 389 New COVID-19 Cases, 116 Discharged And 5 Deaths On May 27 - (1422 Tested) by 2gbasky22(m):
KOGI STATE Finally Joined the league.

389 highest daily figure recorded thus far.

Only Lagos 256 cases in one dayhuh haba
Mehn this is serious

Edo is just increasing every day 240 confirmed cases .... Hehehe, Las Las , direct primary election will not hold in that state on June 22... lol.

Chai first FTC in 8years

I dedicate this FTC .....
To all those in the various Isolation centres around the country and by extension around the world.
I pray that Corona virus will not see your end, but you shall see the end of Corona virus sooner than later ... in Jesus Name/Insha Allah.
Politics › Re: Ize-Iyamu Collects APC Governorship Nomination Form by 2gbasky22(m): 10:27pm On May 27, 2020
osydennyz:
Oshiomole is just the national chairman of the ruling party...the capacity to rig elections rest with the Inec backed up by the federal government and security agencies......Use Rivers State of instance, despite all the gimmicks APC pulled out, Wike succeeded
He's the national chairman of the ruling party. Which has the president who controls INEC and The Security Agencies.....
So what are not saying.

Have heard of militialisation of elections?

Back to the state.... Oshiomhole also controls all the rigging apparatus... Tony kabaka and his gang etc.
Those guys are ready to shed thousands of blood... Just to unseat obaseki.


You mentioned Rivers state and wide. ...lol
1. Rivers is Conk Pdp state
2. Apc had no candidate in that election
3. Wike is a well breeded politician which obaseki is not.

Obaseki only chance is
1. Indirect Primary
2. Play the spoiler.... Nobody gets the apc ticket. Apc gets disqualified
Or
3. Fight gallantly and go down with his head up high. And not like ambode.


The day he Switch to pdp, thats the day he looses the election
Politics › Re: Ize-Iyamu Collects APC Governorship Nomination Form by 2gbasky22(m): 5:01pm On May 27, 2020
osydennyz:
4+4 is non negotiable....I'll simply advise Obaseki to decamp to the PDP if he wants to be reelected.....since oshiobaba and his cohorts are bent on seeing him out of office.... PDP still have a good support in Edo state.....Atiku won there last year...2 out of the 3 senators are PDP members....
it's going to be a fight to the end.... nothing is guaranteed yet....
My brother that will be the worst political decision he'll take.

Do you think votes counts?
Oshiomhole will just rig him out with thugs even to his own polling unit.

He should remain in Apc and fight. He's got a better chance there than de camping
Politics › Re: The 16 Allegations Raised Against Adesina, AfDB President The US Wants Revisited by 2gbasky22(m): 4:49pm On May 27, 2020
All i see is BAD BELLE ALLEGATIONS.

Baba nor worry Baba God nor go shame you
Health › Re: 276 New COVID-19 Cases, 74 Discharged And 16 Deaths On May 26 - (1741 Tested) by 2gbasky22(m): 12:04am On May 27, 2020
Sijo01:
shocked shocked Edo 27 cases huh

Obaseki, you are doing well; continue!!!
Is obaseki the cause? or is Edo the only state that recorded new cases?

what would you have him do?
manufacture vaccine?
Do Governor Wike style of Lockdown?
or coma tie every edo citizens to their house

you should be happy that Edo is one of the states with the highest number of testing rate.

lemme nor jux talk
Health › Re: 276 New COVID-19 Cases, 74 Discharged And 16 Deaths On May 26 - (1741 Tested) by 2gbasky22(m):
Here we go again...
This Shiii is part of our daily routine already

We Subconsciously anticipate this shiii to drop everyday.

LIFE GOES ON
Health › Re: The Video Of Kano Empty Isolation Centre Is Fake - Kano State Ministry Of Health by 2gbasky22(m): 7:55pm On May 26, 2020
GamalNasser:
So you believe a Ganduje that openly denied a video of his own self collecting bribe
and you also believe that a state can Fool it's citizens and the entire nation.... with a completely empty isolation centre?

even if they want to cut corners, they can put sickbed and mattresses ....then put some healthy people there, who will pretend to be sick. ..... and not a completely empty hall Abi na tent.

those politicians are wiser than you think they are.

are are you even sure the video was recorded in Kano sef?
Health › Re: The Video Of Kano Empty Isolation Centre Is Fake - Kano State Ministry Of Health by 2gbasky22(m): 7:29pm On May 26, 2020
It was obviously fake.
I was ashamed at some gaulible Nigeria finding base for their display of sef Ignorance...

was patiently waiting for the disclaimer
Health › Re: 229 New COVID-19 Cases, 48 Discharged And 7 Deaths On May 25 - (1120 Tested) by 2gbasky22(m): 12:00am On May 26, 2020
Government should please open up all sectors of the Economy cos if you notice
WE'RE ALREADY GETTING USED TO THE VIRUS WE LIVING WITH IT ALREADY.
Allow life to return
Health › Re: 229 New COVID-19 Cases, 48 Discharged And 7 Deaths On May 25 by 2gbasky22(m): 11:56pm On May 25, 2020
Government should please open up all sectors of the Economy cos if you notice

WE'RE ALREADY GETTING USED TO THE VIRUS
WE LIVING WITH IT ALREADY.

Allow life to return
Health › WHO Suspends Trial Of Hydoxychloroquine For COVID-19 by 2gbasky22(op): 6:38pm On May 25, 2020
A clinical trial of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in coronavirus patients has been suspended amid safety concerns.
The drug has been touted by President Donald Trump and he even revealed he took the medication for two weeks as a prophylactic.
But the World Health Organization (WHO) said it was concerned after a study from The Lancet published on Friday revealed higher mortality rates among COVID-19 patients who took the drug.

Therefore, researchers said they’re suspending the use of hydroxychloroquine in the WHO’s Solidarity Trial, which is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of four drugs and drug combinations against the virus.
‘The executive group has implemented a temporary pause of the hydroxychloroquine arm within the Solidarity trial while the safety data is reviewed by the data safety monitoring board,’ WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.

However, the other arms of the trial are continuing.
President Trump was among the first to wax lyrical about the possible benefits of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus patients last month.
‘This would be a gift from heaven, this would be a gift from God if it works,’ he said. ‘We are going to pray to God that it does work.’

He then repeated the claims on Twitter.
‘HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains – Thank You! Hopefully, they will BOTH (H works better with A, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents),’ he wrote in March.
Last week, Trump said he’d been taking the malaria drug for a week-and-a-half to stave off the virus.
In an interview with Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson that aired on Sunday, Trump announced he’d finished taking his prescription.

‘Finished, just finished,’ the commander-in-chief said. ‘And by the way, I’m still here. To the best of my knowledge, here I am.’
Trump has faced criticism for repeatedly promoting the drug’s use against the coronavirus and urging people to try it.

On Friday, a study published in The Lancet looked at more than 96,000 people hospitalized with COVID-19, including those treated with hydroxychloroquine or its analog chloroquine.

Researchers found no benefit for coronavirus patients taking the drugs.
In fact, patients had a higher risk of death and heart rhythm problems than patients who were not given the medicines.

The authors suggested that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine should not be used to treat COVID-19 outside of clinical trials until studies confirm their safety and efficacy in such patients.

Source: Daily Mail

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/05/who-suspends-trial-of-hydoxychloroquine-for-covid-19/
Politics › Re: Obaseki: Why I Am Opposed To Direct Primary by 2gbasky22(m): 6:24pm On May 25, 2020
the power of incumbent will take preeminence.

ban gathering of of more than 10 persons
simple matter.

if that direct primary takes place, it will be more deadly than the presidential election.

it America war film plus 44 minutes.... pit together.
blood bath. these politicians will do anything to gain power
Health › Re: 313 New COVID-19 Cases, 89 Discharged And 5 Deaths On May 24 by 2gbasky22(m): 11:54pm On May 24, 2020
hmmmm
Health › Re: 265 New COVID-19 Cases, 167 Discharged And 10 Deaths On May 23 - (1130 Tested) by 2gbasky22(m): 12:14am On May 24, 2020
andrewtosin:
See them space bookershow much you wan sell your space bros?
shay na you get the space ni
Health › Re: 265 New COVID-19 Cases, 167 Discharged And 10 Deaths On May 23 - (1130 Tested) by 2gbasky22(m):
I think the Federal Government should at this point Open up the economy and let life return to normal.. Cos it doesn't look like this virus is going anytime soon....we've got to learn to live with it.

The government should tell the patients drugs combination they're using to Treat patients at the isolation centres, and release the the patients.
Because as it stands it doesn't look like they still use ventilators.

Instead of wasting billions isolation thousands of people... why not open the economy let life return to normal, Tell the public what you using to treat those discharged patients, so that if anybody get the virus, he/she can treat him/her self .
Just like malaria.


Someone should please take this message to Mr President
Health › Re: BREAKING : 256 New Cases Of Covid-19 In Nigeria, 221 Deaths by 2gbasky22(m):
I think the Federal Government should at this point
Open up the economy and let life return to normal.. Cos it doesn't look like this virus is going anytime soon. we've got to learn to live with it.

the government should tell the public what they're using to Treat patients at the isolation centres, and release them. Cos as it stands it doesn't look like they still use ventilators.

Instead of wasting billions isolation thousands of people... why not open the economy let life return to normal. Tell the public what you using to treat those discharged patients, so that if anybody get the virus, he/she can treat him/her self . ....Just like malaria

Someone should take this message to Mr President
Politics › Re: The Last Statement Of Ken Saro Wiwa At The Military Tribunal In 1995 by 2gbasky22(op): 10:34pm On May 23, 2020
dnawah:
u said last statement,I was expecting to see" it is finish". " e no go better 4 Nigeria"" make God punish una".. .etc
Settle down read the headline (Topic) bros
Politics › Re: The Last Statement Of Ken Saro Wiwa At The Military Tribunal In 1995 by 2gbasky22(op): 3:07pm On May 23, 2020
Dedetwo:
You lived a false life and got slammed with false charges. This is the way the cookie crumbles
How did he live a false life
Politics › The Last Statement Of Ken Saro Wiwa At The Military Tribunal In 1995 by 2gbasky22(op):
THE LAST STATEMENT OF KEN SARO WIWA AT THE MILITARY TRIBUNAL IN 1995


My lord, since my arrest on the 21st of May, 1994 I have been subjected to physical and mental torture, held incommunicado and denied food for weeks and medical attention for months. My seventy-four year old mother has been whipped and arrested, my
wife beaten and threatened with detention, the three telephone lines to my office and residence cut and the they remain cut to this day, my office and home have been ransacked on three different occasions and personal and family property, official files and documents taken away without documentation. I have been calumniated in the press and on satellite television before the whole world by a Rivers State government anxious to prejudice the mind of the public and to convince that public of my guilt even before trial. Only recently, before the United Nations Committee for the Eradication of Racism and Discrimination in Geneva, an official delegation of the Federal Government which included the Special Adviser on Legal Affairs to the Head of State, Professor Yazudu, declared me responsible for the murders which are the subject of this Tribunal, even before Tribunal has found against me or anyone else.


The fact that a case of homicide is being charged before a Tribunal set up under Decree No. 2 of 1987 speaks for itself. I am aware of the many strictures laid against the decree and this Tribunal by local and international observers. All the same, I
have followed the proceedings here with keen and detailed interest, not only because I am charged before this Tribunal, but also because, as a writer, I am a custodian of the conscience of society. I regret that the legal counsel I freely chose, Gani Fawhimi, the human rights hero and pride of this country, was forced to withdraw. His withdrawal has denied credibility to this trial.


With the permission of the Tribunal, I would now like to make a filmic representation which will graphically demonstrate all that I have said here and amplify the details thereof.


My lord, we all stand before history. I am a man of peace, of ideas. Appalled by the denigrating poverty of my people who live on a richly-endowed land, distressed by their political marginalization and economic strangulation, angered by the
devastation of their land, their ultimate heritage, anxious to preserve their right to life and to a decent living, and determined to usher to this country as a whole a fair and just democratic system which protects everyone and every ethnic group and gives us all a valid claim to human civilization, I have
devoted all my intellectual and material resources, my very life, to a cause in which I have total belief and from which I cannot be blackmailed or intimidated. I have no doubt at all about the ultimate success of my cause, no matter the trials and tribulations which I and those who believe with me may encounter
on our journey. Nor imprisonment nor death can stop our ultimate victory.


I repeat that we all stand before history. I and my colleagues are not the only ones on trial. Shell is here on trial and it is as well that it is represented by counsel said to be holding a watching brief. The company has, indeed, ducked this particular
trial, but its day will surely come and the lessons learnt here may prove useful to it for there is no doubt in my mind that the ecological war the company has waged in the delta will be called to question sooner than later and the crimes of that war duly punished. The crime of the company's dirty wars against the Ogoni people will also be punished.

On trial also is the Nigerian nation, its present rulers and all those who assist them. Any nation which can do to the weak and disadvantaged what the Nigerian nation has done to the Ogoni, loses a claim to independence and to freedom from outside
influence. I am not one of those who shy away from protesting injustice and oppression, arguing that they are expected from a military regime. The military do not act alone. They are supported by a gaggle of politicians, lawyers, judges, academics and
businessmen, all of them hiding under the claim that they are only doing their duty, men and women too afraid to wash their pants of their urine. We all stand on trial, my lord, for by our actions we have denigrated our country and jeopardized the future of our children. As we subscribe to the sub-normal and accept double standards, as we lie and cheat openly, as we protect injustice and oppression, we empty our classrooms, degrade our hospitals, fill our stomachs with hunger and elect to make ourselves the slaves of those who subscribe to higher standards, pursue the truth, and honour justice, freedom and hard work.

I predict that the scene here will be played and replayed by generations yet unborn. Some have already cast themselves in the role of villains, some are tragic victims, some still have a chance to redeem themselves. The choice is for each individual.

I predict that a denouement of the riddle of the Niger delta will soon come. The agenda is being set at this trial. Whether the peaceful ways I have favoured will prevail depends on what the oppressor decides, what signals it sends out to the waiting
public.

In my innocence of the false charges I face here, in my utter conviction, I call upon the Ogoni people, the peoples of the Niger delta, and the oppressed ethnic minorities of Nigeria to stand up now and fight fearlessly and peacefully for their rights. History is on their side, God is on their side. For the Holy Quran says in Sura 42, verse 41: "All those who fight, when oppressed incur no guilt, but Allah shall punish the oppressor." Come the day.

Ken Saro-Wiwa
Port Harcourt
21st September, 1995.

Health › Re: 245 New COVID-19 Cases, 100 Discharged And 10 Deaths On May 22 - (1421 Tested) by 2gbasky22(m): 11:39pm On May 22, 2020
IT IS WELL

THINGS WILL FALL IN PLACE SOON
Politics › Re: FG To Hand Over COVID-19 Battle To Governors by 2gbasky22(m): 11:28pm On May 22, 2020
Hmmmmm
Politics › Road To Edo 2020: Pro, Anti-oshiomhole Forces Fight Dirty by 2gbasky22(op): 8:37am On May 22, 2020
•Intense horse-trading on for consensus candidate to tackle Obaseki
•Edo stakeholders petition, take case to Buhari
•Oyegun twisting facts, alleges Edo APC vice-chair


AN end to the steaming crisis in the All Progressives Congress, APC, especially in Edo State, is far from over. Concerned stakeholders of the party in Edo, yesterday in a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari, said that the National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s “unforced losses” and waging of “endless unprovoked battles against Edo APC” may hurt the party’s chances in the forthcoming governorship election in the state.

Also, a faction of the party in Edo has taken on a former national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, urging him to stop acting as Governor Godwin Obaseki’s hireling.

The faction was responding to Oyegun’s claims that a reconciliation meeting was held where it was agreed that for the party to retain the state, its governorship ticket should be ceded to Governor Obaseki.

This is coming as many APC governorship aspirants desirous of stopping Obaseki from getting a second term have intensified horse-trading to present a consensus candidate against the incumbent at the APC primaries.

After what seemed like a ray of light in the APC crisis, the hornet’s nest was stirred on Wednesday when the Deputy National Chairman (North), Lawal Shuaibu, warned that the party risks disintegration, and losing the Edo and Ondo governorship polls, if the alleged arbitrariness and lawlessness of Oshiomhole were not checked.

Shuaibu, who faulted Monday’s inauguration of Waziri Bulama as the party’s Acting National Secretary by Oshiomhole queried his decision to personally constitute both the screening committees for the governorship and senatorial elections, as well as the final appeals committee, all in violation of the extant constitutional provisions of the party vesting the power in the National Executive Committee, NEC.

Why consensus must be built behind Obaseki – Oyegun

Yesterday, Odigie-Oyegun urged the APC to hand second term tickets to Governors Obaseki (Edo) and Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo) in line with a recent peace deal or ensure free and fair primary elections in both states by unbiased party leaders.

In an advertorial, he said: “I welcome most warmly the news that Mr. President has firmly endorsed the agreement reached to settle the disruptive leadership crisis at the national level that was threatening the very existence of the All Progressives Congress. The immediate relevant part of that agreement was that both the governors; Mr. Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki of Edo State and Mr. Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, SAN, of Ondo State, having performed creditably should be returned unless they do not so wish. This means that the party, in unity, should organize to support the return of both governors.”

Odigie-Oyegun hoped and prayed that a consensus could be built behind Governor Obaseki because “he has not offended any aspect of the APC’s constitution nor has he in any way brought the party to disrepute.

“He has performed in an exemplary manner. In his time, there has been peace and freedom for the ordinary Edo man and woman from harassment by official thugs. Through him, Edo State must prove that our democracy can only survive if we do not create a situation where an individual or a small group can make or unmake our governors or other elected officials at will.’’

However, he said if consensus could not be built behind the incumbent Obaseki, “everything must be done to ensure that the persons in the leadership of the party at the centre who are part of the contrived crisis in Edo State must not even remotely be allowed to plan, participate or supervise the primary election.

“It is of critical importance that the primary be seen, even by a blind man, to be free and fair, otherwise there could be political consequences. Allowing any member(s) of the national leadership who have been involved in the contrived crisis in Edo State would equate to making such person or persons judges in their own case. This is contrary to the principle of natural justice and will be naturally resisted.”

Don’t be Obaseki’s hireling, Edo APC faction tells Oyegun.

Tackling Odigie-Oyegun, factional State Publicity Secretary of Edo APC, Mr Chris Azebamwan, challenged the former party chairman to name those he accused of contriving crises in the state chapter of the party.

He said: “It is not in our character, upbringing or culture to take an elder to task, especially an elder with the towering stature and credentials of Pa John Odigie-Oyegun who retired as a federal super-permanent secretary, has been a state governor and served as national chairman of a major political party. He celebrated his 80th birthday recently, and we wish him many more years of service to the nation.

“Against this background, one is at a loss to understand why Chief Odigie-Oyegun would make utterances that portray him as a mouthpiece or hireling of Godwin Obaseki. That the forthcoming primaries in Edo State would be credible is not in doubt.

‘’It is neither desirable nor in the interest of anyone to compromise the process, and in so doing, give room for the courts to intervene and upturn the results. The leadership of APC is determined to conduct credible primaries. In addition, one would have expected Chief Odigie-Oyegun to name or identify those he claims are contriving a crisis in Edo State.”

No automatic ticket.

He also dismissed as untrue, claims by Chief Odigie-Oyegun that the party had agreed to offer an automatic second term ticket to Governor Obaseki.
His words: “The more worrisome part of Pa Odigie-Oyegun’s outburst is his claim that as part of the reconciliation process, an automatic ticket was promised to Godwin Obaseki. To the best of my knowledge, Chief Odigie-Oyegun was not at the meeting where reconciliation was discussed. He is no longer a principal officer of the APC, and is in no position therefore, to lay claims to the inner workings of the Party.

“One wonders why the National Reconciliation Committee headed by Chief Bisi Akande would have needed to be set up, if positions had been taken on crucial issues like the ticket for Edo State governorship elections.

“We operate a democratic dispensation and Pa Odigie-Oyegun should allow the process throw up the best man for the job instead of attempting to throw a spanner in the works by promoting his personal opinions and the desperate ambitions of Godwin Obaseki as decisions or resolutions of our party leadership.

“He is an elder statesman and should not allow himself to be dragged into the fray. That would be a tragic fall from the high pedestal to which we are accustomed to place him.”

APC may get hurt in Edo – Stakeholders

However, some APC stakeholders in Edo said Oshiomhole’s unprovoked battles against the party in Edo could hurt the party’s chances in the forthcoming governorship election.

In a joint statement by Etiosa Ugiagbe, Chief Enakhare Odaro, Emmanuel Umweni, Mr Akhere Odion, Engr. Jude Okojie, Chief Edionwele Ikpea, Mrs Odia Abubakar, Mr. Greg Onimisi, and Dr. Omoruyi Graig, the concerned stakeholders, in an appeal to President Buhari, said: “We have come to the point where as leaders and members of the APC, we clearly see a similarity in the pattern of the attacks by Oshiomhole in Edo to other states hitherto controlled by the APC, but were needlessly lost to the opposition.

“We are now compelled to begin to put the numbers together and it is drawing us to a definite conclusion that the unforced loss of several states may actually be part of a conspiracy to gradually whittle down the spread and influence of our party as part of a grand plan to create an alternative platform for Oshiomhole and his co-travellers to pursue their ambitions at the national level in 2023, should they be unable to do so within the APC.

“The story and pattern of the losses of the APC under the leadership of Comrade Oshiomhole would amuse even the most taciturn individual and send the most critical of persons into extreme contemplation as to how these events can be correctly considered as mere happenstance.

“For instance, in Taraba State, the APC lost the governorship seat and could not even field a candidate because the person cleared for the position by the party under Oshiomhole’s leadership was indicted for forgery, a condition that could have been avoided were the necessary internal mechanisms explored to properly vet the candidates before they were confirmed to fly the party’s flag. The party also lost Bauchi and Oyo states due to the poor leadership displayed at the national secretariat of the party.

“In Zamfara State, the APC gifted the governorship, National and State Assemblies seats, and other elective offices to the opposition because of its inability to get it’s acts together. The cause: inability of the party to successfully conduct primaries that was acceptable by its stakeholders.

It is noteworthy that the state used to be a traditional All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP)/Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) controlled state until the coming of Comrade Oshiomhole, who upturned the party structure in the state and undid years of toiling by party faithful, by helping to stoke the fire raised by some elements against the governor of the state at the time.

“Down South, what played out in Zamfara State repeated itself in Rivers State, where the inability of the party leadership to provide direction and harmoniously address the concerns of stakeholders set the state chapter of the party on the path of perdition, such that it could not also field candidates in the elections as a result of legal intrigues that surrounded the primary elections. Comrade Oshiomhole, it appeared, could care less, even if the state was crucial to the party in Southern Nigeria.

“For Bayelsa State, a classic case of what could be termed gross negligence or for lack of a better phrase, a calculated act of subterfuge delivered the state to the opposition, even after the APC won the governorship election. Interestingly, we won the battle, yet lost the war.

‘’For the objective-minded, the jury is out whether these unforced losses are mere coincidences or part of an elaborate scheme to reduce the strength of our great party and provide a somewhat viable alternative in the opposition as an option for desperate power seekers who sense that they may not be able to achieve their ambition within the APC at the national level in 2023.

‘’Since Comrade Oshiomhole became chairman of the APC, the party has lost its strategic territories, shedding off states to the opposition. While the APC’s territories receded to 20 from 23, the ranks of the opposition swelled from 13 to 16 states, with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP with 15 and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) with one.

‘’Could these losses have been deliberate? How much more damage would come to the APC should the same fate befall the party in Edo State in September 2020. It would simply mean that the APC would have 19 states and the opposition, 17, in addition to the fact that the party would not be able to boast of a state in an entire region. Where then stands the claim of being a national party?

‘’Against this backdrop, if these losses suffered in Oshiomhole’s era were coincidental, how can he explain his decision to embark on the wreckage of the party in Edo State with the instrumentality of the illegal Edo Peoples Movement (EPM), which has been fighting to fracture the APC in Edo for over one year?’’

Intense horse-trading for consensus aspirant against Obaseki.

Meanwhile the search for a consensus aspirant among seven persons vying to contest the governorship primary of the APC in Edo State has been continued after attempts to pick one among them ended in a deadlock a few days ago.

Former Deputy Governor, Pius Odubu, former Minister of State for Works, Engr Chris Ogiemwonyi, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, Solomon Edebiri, Saturday Uwalekhue, Professor Ebegue Amadasun and Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma have indicated interest in contesting the governorship election on the plank of the APC.

The consensus arrangement is to give them a chance of defeating Governor Godwin Obaseki in the primary election. They have agreed to support the would be consensus aspirant instead of all of them going into the contest.

Governor Obaseki is also working to get his second term ticket which he has said is not negotiable.
Vanguard gathered that Obaseki and his handlers are also reaching out to party stalwarts, including fellow governors, to prevail on the leadership of the party both at the state and national level to support the second term bid of Obaseki who has gone back to the drawing board to re-strategise after the failed attempt to remove National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

Vanguard gathered that some unit leaders were recently invited for a meeting, asked to register their names, and submit their party membership cards.
“We are yet to be told what they are going to do with it. But we know it has to do with the coming primary election” one of the affected executive members told Vanguard.

The process of agreeing on consensus candidate was slowed down by the COVID-19 pandemic but activities are picking up, following the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, insistence on going ahead with the election timetable.
There is anxiety among supporters of the aspirants as the contest enters critical stages.

In trying to move ahead of others, it was gathered that Ize-Iyamu is already reaching out to some of the other aspirants to step down for him, while it was gathered that he is also already offering positions to the camps of some of the aspirants he feels may be reluctant to step down for him, with a view to weakening their influence.

Several groups are also drumming support for their aspirants.

A group, Concerned APC Youth in Edo Central Senatorial District, has also called for a fair and just process in arriving at a consensus candidate, andi n a joint press released by Comrade, Itua Otoide and John Isesele after a meeting in Irrua, urged that Engr. Chris Ogiemwonyi be adopted as consensus candidate.

Yet another group, the Edo Reformers said Ize-Iyamu remained the best option for the APC.
A statement by the Publicity Secretary of the group, Efe Wilson Omuemu, said: “There should be no dispute about who is most qualified for the job. Ize-Iyamu was selfless from the beginning, that is why I wonder when they say he just came from PDP.

“He was there from Grace Group which eventually became Action Congress and while people were preparing for election, he was looking for more people to come and join the new party.

“He was Vice Chairman, South-South of the now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, he was the Vice Chairman, Constitution Drafting Committee of the APC is that the person you call a new comer?’’

Oyegun twisting facts, says Edo APC vice-chair

Similarly, Edo State APC Vice Chairman, South, Benson Edosomwan, accused Chief Oyegun of twisting facts, saying President Buhari never endorsed any agreement to give Obaseki and his Ondo State counterpart, Rotimi Akeredolu, to be returned as the party’s candidates in the forthcoming governorship elections.

‘’President Buhari subjected himself to party primaries in the build up to the 2019 general elections. He allowed other aspirants to contest with him, knowing that no portion of the APC constitution states that a President, governor that has performed should be given right of first refusal.

‘’If Governor Obaseki’s popularity has, indeed, grown tremendously across party lines as Chief Oyegun claims, then he should have no problem putting such rating to test with members of APC through direct primary so that Edo APC faithful can demonstrate their love and wide acceptance through their votes rather than seeking right of first refusal that is undemocratic and alien to our constitution.”


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/05/edo-pro-anti-oshiomhole-forces-fight-dirty/
Health › Lagos Running Out Of Bed Spaces, FG Raises Alarm; Mulls Home Isolation by 2gbasky22(op):
THE Federal Government said yesterday it was considering issuing a new set of guidelines with regards to COVID-19 case management in the country, saying Lagos State, Nigeria’s epicentre of the pandemic, has currently ran out of isolation and treatment spaces.

Government also expressed concerns over the growing purchases of Hydroxychloroquine by Nigerians, warning against self-medication in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

While it again warned states against relaxing the containment protocols, the Federal Government apologised to essential workers, particularly journalists and medical professionals, who have had to bear the brunt of police brutality during the enforcement of COVID-19 curfew.
These were disclosed yesterday in Abuja during the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force, PTF on COVID-19.

Inadequate Spaces

Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC, Dr Chikwe Iheakwazu, said with the new cases in Lagos, the state has ran out of spaces, adding that government was considering a new case management strategy.

He said as opposed to its initial protocol of patients having to test negative twice before they were discharged, such persons would now be discharged after testing negative to one test.

Iheakwazu said: “The only reason we are isolating asymptomatic patients is to prevent them from transmitting to others. In many countries in the world, when this outbreak just broke out, they carried out a very similar policy. They treated all the severe cases in hospital and isolated every person infected in the temporary isolation centres, some of which you saw being built in 10 days or two weeks.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/05/lagos-running-out-of-bed-spaces-fg-raises-alarm-mulls-community-mgt-home-isolation/
Health › Re: 339 New Cases Reported On May 19,7016 Total Confirmed,1907 Discharged,211 Death by 2gbasky22(m):
LOGOS is the Liverpool of this league. Runaway league winners.. My thoughts and prayers are with the people and government of Lagos State

What is going on in EDO and OYO STATE?
seems they want to join the high flying league.



With the way this thing is going, Nigeria will get to TEN THOUSAND before the end of May.
Health › Re: 339 New COVID-19 Cases, 67 Discharged And 9 Deaths On May 21 - (1864 Tested) by 2gbasky22(m):
With over 3k confirmed cases already, LOGOS is the Liverpool of this league. Runaway league winners..

My thoughts and prayers are with the people and government of Lagos State

What is going on in EDO and OYO STATE?
seems they want to join the high flying league.



With the way this thing is going, Nigeria will get to TEN THOUSAND before the end of May.





This Egungun has entered private Jet oh
Health › Re: 339 New Cases Of #COVID19 In Nigeria, Total Case Hits 7016, 211 Deaths. by 2gbasky22(m): 11:55pm On May 21, 2020
OK ooo

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