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Peter Obi's aide writes about Bola Tinubu


Valentine Obienyem, a media adviser to the presidential candidate of the Labour Labour ( LP), Mr Peter Obi, on Sunday revealed his first encounter with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress ( APC) Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu .


According to Obienyem the encounter was when he(Obienyem) was a student of the Lagos State University ( LASU), when Tinubu was the governor of Lagos.

In Obienyem's narrative circulated to journalists ,titled: "When Tinubu was after me", he said an article he wrote in a national daily brought the trouble to him.

Obienyem said, "My first remote encounter with BAT was in the 90s. As a student of Lagos State University, LASU, I wrote an article entitled “Lest LASU be Forgotten.” At that time, Dr. Okey Ikechukwu was the Chairman of the Editorial Board of Comet newspaper (now The Nation). It was Dr. Ikechukwu, a dutiful mentor, that requested I write on the topic as part of his painstaking mentorship.


"If there is one person I would ever remain grateful to, he is Dr. Okey Ikechukwu. In spite of protests from the Editorial Board, he insisted I would be published every week even when I was not a columnist.

He did almost the same thing for Mr. Sola Fasure when other members of the Editorial Board had questioned his qualification for membership, being too young, and according to some of them, inexperienced.

"Ikechukwu settled the argument by pointing to the quality of our contributions which always enhanced national discourse. In the case of Sola, he reminded them that part of doing the job well was also grooming successors. Indeed, Sola later became the boss.

"Not ready to see Tinubu play ping pong with his mentee, Ikechukwu said to me: “Finally, Tinubu is after you”, he told me in his usual calm voice always mirroring the mellow metaphysics of personified wisdom. After telling me the details and the drama that played out at “Comet“ over the article, I asked, like a young Oriental seeking wisdom from his Yogi teacher: What do I do?


Flowing from the interaction, I wrote another article entitled “Still on LASU.” Thereafter, I returned to LASU comforted by Ikechukwu’s words: “Should your school try to be funny with you, just let me know.”

At LASU, my name was on the notice board all over the Faculty of Law, directing me to see the Faculty Dean immediately. Students flocked around me trying to figure out what the problem was. They guessed one of my weekly, probing articles usually published on the notice board must have irked the dean.

"The fatherly Prof. Olusegun Yerokun received me affectionately and tried to stifle me with his embrace: I was re-assured that I was safe. Seated, the Dean brought out the two articles and said, smiling: “Do you know the problem you have caused for the VC? Even when the dust raised by the first article was yet to settle, you wrote another one."

The Dean was surprisingly happy with me. Now relaxing over a bottle of malt drink which he insisted I must take, he started reading the article again and made further observations: “Val, you write so lucidly and so serenely.

"However, got your peace of mind, avoid writing about LASU and about Tinubu.” I suspect he was enamoured by the fact that the subject of the write-ups were about lecturers strike at LASU, where I castigated Gov. Tinubu and supported the lecturers.

Obienyem added, "Seriously interested in my progress, the Dean took time to ask about my grades, my other involvements in LASU. When I told him I was the editor of the Faculty’s Magazine, he said he would make sure I handled that till I left LASU.

"The Dean told me how the then Gov. Tinubu requested the VC to warn me over the article under reference because I always signed off my articles thus: “ Mr. Obienyem is of the Faculty of Law, Lagos State University.” The perplexed Tinubu thought I was a lecturer.

"When the VC reached the Dean, he told him there was no such lecturer. He mandated him to find out and send whoever it would turn out to be to come and see him. “I am very close to the VC, I shall meet him on your behalf and tell him that you need encouragement and not harassment. I am sure he would know how to dribble the Governor,” were the comforting words of the Dean to me. This was the origin of my friendship with Prof. Yerokun, such that when he wrote a book on Insurance Law, I reviewed it in the newspaper.From the encounter as recalled, would you say that Tinubu is a tolerant man?"

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Have seen people screaming FTC.on this platform,pls is there any trophy given for being first to comment?

Asiwaju Tinubu will not waste time attending to tantrums from candidates of mushroom parties.

They are so many of such categories of minor and fringe candidates seeking his attention but it is not worth it when you have PDP to defeat before 12 noon on election day next year.

Mushroom parties already lost. They can keep writing, it is utterly useless.

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This Akpu munching lunatics with victim mentality

You wrote an article, you imagined Tinubu read and got angry over it without any evidence or proof

You went further to state after the publication in Tinubu's own Newspaper, you were allowed to publish a sequel again without anything happening to you except for your Dean hugged you and bought you Maltina

What this ungrateful leech failed to tell people was that he graduated his four years course in four years without intimidation or strike Because this same Bola Ahmed Tinubu that he wants to slander was the reason why LASU doesn't go on ASUU strike till today


Can you see the reason why Ikpeazu decided not to pay lecturers for 30 months and also refused to complete a bridge

They only want Kerosine not development

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Thiefinubu

Moh247:



This Akpu munching lunatics with victim mentality

You wrote an article, you imagined Tinubu read and got angry over it without any evidence or proof

You went further to state after the publication in Tinubu's own Newspaper, you were allowed to publish a sequel again without anything happening to you except for your Dean hugged you and bought you Maltina

What this ungrateful leech failed to tell people was that he graduated his four years course in four years without intimidation or strike Because this same Bola Ahmed Tinubu that he wants to slander was the reason why LASU doesn't go on ASUU strike till today


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all of a sudden Nigeria will need a man like Tinubu to fix Buhari's mess.
all of a sudden after 7 years they've now realised that Buhari's government is now a failure since campaigning for continuity of their party's failure means mocking Nigeria.
all of a sudden buhari is no longer the best thing to happen to Nigeria after cat fish pepper soup.
all of a sudden they're now Buhari's critics just to project and tested failure within the same party.
because how will they explain to Nigerians that their party is the cause of their problems.
how can they explain to Nigerian youths sitting at home that their party is the reason they're rotting at home when they're supposed to be in the school.
how will they explain to Nigerians that their party is the cause of ravaging insecurities we found ourselves today and that their presidential candidate will be recruiting 50 million youths into the army to feed them agbado and cassava.
how can they explain to Nigerians that their party has failed them in every aspects.

of course they have no explanation for all these hence their only hope is to go tribal and play their usual old tribalism and tribal card tactics.
but you as a citizen of this country ask yourself this question.
will tribalism better our economy to at least prior to 2015?
will tribalism end insecurity and make everyone safe?
will tribalism send our children back to school and equip our schools.
will tribalism make life better for an average citizen?

so after pushing for a failure to be President what next?
when the suffering comes will it select other tribe and leave yours?
today all Nigerians are suffering but Buhari got the highest votes from the North.

dear fellow citizens it's time to look into these people's eyes and tell them to go to hell with their division tactics.
at a point all major tribes never believed in Nigeria but today they made it look like they love Nigeria most but keep presenting bad leaders ruining this country.
it's time to say enough is enough.

THE YOUTHS ARE COMING!

So the idiot also benefited from Lagos State subsidized education and he probably still lives in Lagos?

Which 90s was he talking about because Tinubu became governor in 1999?

Who is even this one gan?

Attention seeking baby factory criminals

Julesrimet:
finally registered on Nairaland after many years of being a guest. �

Because you want to add to the voice for Peter Obi right ... You're welcome

KehindeDare:


Because you want to add to the voice for Peter Obi right ... You're welcome

Hehehe...... but that shouldn't be a problem na. Anyway thanks.