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Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by imagrg(m): 6:05pm On Mar 04, 2023
Obaseki is the best Governor Edo State has ever had after late Prof. Ambrose Ali.

He made sure they stopped wasting the state resources.

Oshiomole dissolved the Pensions Board so that he could use the money to entertain himself at State House.

Till date, workers gratuity has been on hold since 2012.

Obaseki stopped this...the reason why he was not liked by a majority of his party men.
Obaseki has the interest of Edo people at heart.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by orion7: 6:09pm On Mar 04, 2023
Apc win my own edo central. Dey play. Bloody fools
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by brutal1(m): 6:10pm On Mar 04, 2023
What are you doing in 2023 angry ? You should have just di$d last year
potopotoking:
Yaribas are living in a fantasy world of their own delusional making, which will soon be turned into a nightmare land, because this particular time around darkness will not prevail. We know yaribas love darkness, that's why they wallow in it so shamelessly, call themselves after it---omo dudu/omo oDUDUwa---and epitomize it in everything they do. They are children of darkness and they will pay an intolerable price for their allegiance to it. The yirinbawa 'people' are not really people, as revealed by science, which categorically states a significant percentage of their dna derives from archaic 'ghost' populations resident in West Africa BEFORE the advent of Homo sapiens sapiens. We know this filthy admixture in yirinbawa dna to come from none other than the quasi-developed apeman ('ghost') Homo erectus. This revelation perfectly explains common yirinbawa behaivor, as well as observed phenotype (dudu-skinned/dudu smelling/etc.), with rare exceptions. They are famously cowardly, conniving, back-stabbing, jealous genocidists whom should and will be separated from polite gentile society, because society and civilization are not conducive, they're in-fact diametrically opposed, with and to yirinbawa nature. I say this not to cast aspersions or malign; these are facts which need to be acted upon if reasonable light-loving persons are to advance and thrive in Nigeria. If Peter Obi should fail to retrieve his stolen mandate in court (God forbid), Mandate Thief-in-Chief Tibubu should do one honorable thing in his miserable life and immediately restructure Nigeria and/or allow Igbo people the separate homeland we've been clamoring for since we were rapaciously alloyed with ndi isi oji touts and demons.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by stickle(m): 6:11pm On Mar 04, 2023
Okealaaye:
๐‘พ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฌ๐‘ต ๐‘ป๐‘ฏ๐‘ฐ๐‘บ ๐‘บ๐‘ป๐‘น๐‘ผ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฎ๐‘ณ๐‘ฌ ๐‘ญ๐‘ถ๐‘น ๐‘ซ๐‘ฌ๐‘ด๐‘ถ๐‘ช๐‘น๐‘จ๐‘ช๐’€ ๐‘พ๐‘จ๐‘บ ๐‘น๐‘จ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘ต๐‘ฎ, ๐‘พ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฌ๐‘น๐‘ฌ ๐‘พ๐‘ฌ๐‘น๐‘ฌ ๐‘จ๐‘ป๐‘ฐ๐‘ฒ๐‘ผ & ๐‘ท๐‘ฌ๐‘ป๐‘ฌ๐‘น ๐‘ถ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฐ

๐‘ฌ๐’™๐’„๐’†๐’‘๐’• ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐’‚ ๐‘ช๐’๐’Ž๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’‰๐’†๐’๐’”๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’—๐’Š๐’†๐’˜ ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ฉ๐‘จ๐‘ป ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐‘ต๐‘ฌ๐‘พ๐‘บ. ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ. ๐‘ต๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’‚ ๐’Š๐’” ๐’‚ ๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’Œ๐’Š๐’๐’๐’” ๐’‰๐’†๐’• ๐‘ฉ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’”

๐‘ธ๐’–๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’
When were you arrested?

๐‘ป๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’ƒ๐’–.
I said we would continue to struggle until we had democracy. We had a group of 30 senators called the G-30. The G-30 was determined to actualise the mandate on the floor of the Senate. Suddenly, Abacha came and General Oladipupo Diya and Babagana Kingibe were also running around. Diya was one of the most respected and credible military officers then, and he later approached us that there might be change in government. Abiola was around. General Chris Alli met us and said there would be a change of government, which would be in favour of June 12, because they were tired of the shenanigans of the ING. That night, Abacha changed the government. He outsmarted everybody. They met with me, Dele Alake, Segun Babatope and Doyin Abiola. We were asked to write the terms and conditions, which they would broadcast after a change of government. We wrote it and gave it to Diya. They are all alive.
On the night the government was to be changed, Abacha outsmarted everyone and installed himself. These people I mentioned are all alive to testify to what I have said. I can say categorically that I was even called to leave my office because, as they claimed, that night was a dangerous night for them and that everyoneโ€™s life might be in danger. Abiola was told not to sleep at home until the broadcast had been made. We were all fooled! Big time deception.
When we heard the broadcast the next day, there was no mention of June 12 and no proclamation of Abiola. I was mad, but was still determined. I rushed to Diya and he was still saying that there was no problem and that they were planning to announce the cabinet containing eminent June 12 people. Abiola said what? I said no, announce Abiolaโ€™s victory.
Diya told me that I didnโ€™t know the military and that things were not done like that in the military. But I insisted that it was deception. I said I know the military. I called Okadigbo to my office in Lagos and I put the plan before him that we had to confront the military and we had to declare Abacha himself illegal. I got members of our group together; we wrote the script declaring Abachaโ€™s government illegal. Since we could not get to the National Assembly, we opted to hold our session at the Tafawa Balewa Square. We had gotten Dele Alake to be the media coordinator. We told him to get the CNN and other foreign media ready. I put the coat of arms on a rod! That was the mace. We created our own mace.
We reconvened the Senate here in Lagos and declared Abacha illegal before the international media and others. My colleagues had scattered. After we assembled, and having drafted the resolution, they still didnโ€™t know where we would hold the session. I told them to relax, this is Lagos. After the broadcast, everybody took off, because the SSS and other security agents were combing everywhere for us. I went underground, using the 090 mobile phone. I was still granting press interviews to foreign media. The military people were mad. I became a thorn in their flesh and they arrested some of my colleagues, including Abu Ibrahim, the late Polycarp Nwite, Ameh Ebute and Okoroafor. I was still underground, holding press conferences. The military declared me wanted.
Suddenly they granted bail to the arrested senators. I thought I would be a beneficiary, but I was not. Then, there was a manhunt for me by the police and the SSS. Meanwhile, my late uncle, K.O Tinubu and the present Oba of Lagos, Oba Akiolu, who was then a police officer, were pressuring me to disclose where I was. My uncle called to ask where exactly I was. I did not disclose my whereabouts. I told Akiolu that even though he is my relative, I would still not tell him where I was since he was a police officer! He said: โ€˜Ha!โ€™
My uncle advised that the military would kill me if they found me underground and no one would be able to locate my whereabouts. He said it was better I surrendered myself because he wanted me to be alive. I told him that I would call him back, that I was to hold a press conference at the time. And he shouted in amazement: โ€˜You are holding press conference when your life is in danger.โ€™ I told him I would surrender, but would not tell him when.
I disguised perfectly, dressed like a malam, and went to the police at Alagbon. The officers didnโ€™t even know me when they saw me. I went in, deposited my phone and my charger. Senator Abu Ibrahim was with us. The officers were wondering why I, a Mallam, could not speak Hausa! I removed my turban, showed up at the front desk and declared that I had come to surrender. And there was pandemonium among the officers, as to how I got there.
The AIG then was very nice and they put me in the cell. They poured water into the cell room and said, โ€˜sleep thereโ€™. That was the nastiest experience I had within first 48 hours that I was there. It was on a weekend. I told them I would embark on a hunger strike. The late Anthony Enahoro was on the stairway and Beko Ransome-Kuti was at another angle on the stairway. They brought me out repeatedly for interrogation. They asked me to renounce but I said no, I would not recognise Abacha. They took me and my colleagues to court. People who were supposed to meet their bail conditions were stopped from doing so immediately they saw me. They cancelled everybodyโ€™s bail because they could not isolate me.
They gave an order that we should be taken out of court, but kept in the police custody at Alagbon. They kept about eight of us in a photocopying room, an eight-by-eight room. We were sleeping across one another. It was a matter of the first to sleep would maintain the position. If your head was this way, your leg would be there and so on. It was a nasty experience.
There were a lot of interrogations, with a lot of carrot and stick. I can never forget the role and determination and sincerity of a compatriot at that particular time. They made an exception to uphold the earlier bail granted to Senator Abu Ibrahim. He was asked to go. He was the only Hausa-Fulani man with us. The late Hassan Katsina had intervened. But Senator Ibrahim said he would rather stay, except every one of us was granted the same bail conditions. He said he would not leave his colleagues behind.
He is a courageous and a detribalised Nigerian, who had a vision of what Nigeria should be. He refused to accept an isolated bail. They started sending emissaries to us in detention, offering us all sorts of appointments and opportunities to renounce our positions, but we refused. The judiciary was still very courageous then. We went to the Court of Appeal. An incident occurred at the lower court. Market women turned out hugely to support us when we were brought to the court. The day they refused my bail, some of the market women appeared naked and so they stopped taking us to the court. The court sessions were usually interesting for us because of the scenes. At Alagbon, we bathed in the open between 4 and 5 a.m.
The condition started improving when they began to bring officials of the failed banks. Those ones contributed money to repair the generating set at Alagbon and we started enjoying electricity a little longer than we used to. It was during the time that the protest became intense. Nigeria was playing at the World Cup then. Italy defeated Nigeria and the security people lied to us that it was otherwise. Eventually, the Court of Appeal courageously granted us bail in enforcement of our fundamental human rights. Our passports were confiscated and deposited with the court. Later, the High Court ruled that our passports be released to us. That night, they finally announced our bail and conditions attached to it. The presiding judge then is today the Emir of Ilorin, Sulu Gambari. We heard that they put so much pressure on him (Clement Akpamgbo was the Attorney-General) not to release us, but he ordered our release. They were going to re-arrest me and I suddenly went underground to continue my protest.
They would throw bombs and say it was us. Mobil called me to come back to my job, but I refused. They bombed my house, but luckily, my wife and children had been evacuated. I would not want to reveal how they were evacuated because there was a diplomatic involvement. They told me that my life and those of my family were in clear danger.
Suddenly, they announced that I was wanted again. They alleged that I was going to bomb the NNPC depot at Ejigbo. Ah! I was still being tried for treason, which carries a sentence of life imprisonment, and I was again accused of trying to bomb an NNPC depot. I couldnโ€™t go back because my photograph was all over the place that I was wanted. A diplomatic source advised me that I should leave the country if I wanted to continue the struggle. Dan Suleiman, Alani Akinrinade were in danger. We asked Bolaji Akinyemi to leave the country and promote the struggle at the international level.

๐‘ธ๐’–๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’
That was the National Democratic Coalition thenโ€ฆ

๐‘ป๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’ƒ๐’–
Yes. I was at the forefront of the struggle at that level. When I went to see my uncle, K.O Tinubu, at home, he shed tears that night. He said he didnโ€™t want to lose me and that I was about to be killed. He begged me to leave Nigeria and affirmed that, being a former police officer, he was sure I would be killed.
He said that I couldnโ€™t return to my house since they had bombed it. I went to a friendโ€™s house. Before then, there was an incident that made them believe that I was at Ore Falomoโ€™s hospital. They went to the hospital to look for me. Eventually, I left Nigeria for Benin Republic by NADECO route.

๐‘ธ๐’–๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’
How did you make it across the border?

๐‘ป๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’ƒ๐’–
I disguised with a huge turban and babanriga and escaped into Benin Republic on a motorbike. My old Hausa friend gave the clothes to me. In fact, when I appeared to Kudirat Abiola, she didnโ€™t know that I was the one! I gave her some information and some briefing. I left at 1 a.m. While in Benin Republic, I was still coming to Badagry to ferry people, organise and coordinate the struggle with others on ground. We put a group together, ferrying NADECO people across. It was a very challenging time. I canโ€™t forget people like Segun Maiyegun and other young guys in the struggle. I would come from Benin to hold meetings with them and sneak back. The military created a whole lot of momentum around me. They took over my house, guest house and carted away all my vehicles and property to Alagbon. That is why today, I donโ€™t have old photographs. They took eight of my cars away.
My wife and my two toddlers were dropped in a bush; nowhere to go. Beko and the diplomatic missions came to our aid and ferried my wife and kids to the United States. I was still in Benin Republic. Besides, I didnโ€™t have a passport and couldnโ€™t have been able to travel. At a stage, they discovered our routes, because they had spies all over, including Benin Republic. Twice I was caught and I fortuitously escaped. They traced me to one dingy hotel I was hiding.
The day they came for me at the hotel, I had gone out on an Okada to buy amala at a market, where Yorubas are dominant. I was also to meet Akinrinade and the rest of them. The spies went to the hotel and as I was approaching, I saw two people wearing tajia (skull caps) at the front desk, asking questions. The man attending to them at the reception (I had been very nice to the receptionist) winked to me and I turned back. I contacted a friend in Benin Republic, who was an architect, and had very strong sympathy for us. Professor Wole Soyinka and Alani Akinrinade, who lodged in a better hotel, were fortunate to have escaped that night, too. The people on their trail pursued them to the hotel, but fortunately missed them.
Then the British High Commission got proper information through the Consular-General that my life was in danger. He stamped a visa on a sheet of paper and did a letter, authorising the airline to pick me from Benin Republic to any port of entry in Britain. I didnโ€™t know how they got to me. A lady just walked up to me and handed me an envelope. She said I had been granted an entry into the United Kingdom. She said I could be killed if I failed to leave in the next 48 hours. It was Air Afrique that took me from Benin Republic to London. Meanwhile, my wife was still in the United States. I landed in Britain and worked my way back to Benin Republic. I picked up my passport from somewhere. I went to an African country and through their connections, they gave me a diplomatic passport as a cultural ambassador.

๐‘ธ๐’–๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’
What country was that?

๐‘ป๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’ƒ๐’–
No, please! The African country that helped us with the diplomatic passport was showing gratitude for the help Abiola had done to its president before. So, you can make your deduction. Then, I was shuffling and coordinating our activities in the UK, Benin Republic and Cote dโ€™Ivoire. I used the passport to travel to Cote dโ€™Ivoire to hold meetings at the Hotel Continental, because we were planning to make another broadcast that would be aired in Nigeria. By the time I returned to the hotel, the military assailants had broken into my hotel room and taken away my briefcase and diplomatic passport. They dropped a note, saying: โ€˜You cannot be twice lucky.โ€™ I was taken over by panic. Fortunately, in my back pocket, I had the photocopy of the sheet of paper on which the British had stamped a visa for me to travel out of Benin previously. I took that to the British High Commission in Abidjan. They listened to my story and asked me to come back at night. They did all their verification and found my story to be true. I returned to them and they gave me another sheet of paper and wrote the number of the flight that would take me out of that country.
But I had no money. Somebody suddenly drove in. The person is a well-known name I donโ€™t want to mention. I met him and explained my condition. He had a travellerโ€™s cheque, but the money was not enough. I went back to the British High Commission and the woman said she could assist me with her own personal money to bridge the shortfall in cash.
We founded and coordinated Radio Kudirat and Radio Freedom and we continued to organise. I didnโ€™t see my family for two good years. They were in America. Bayo Onanuga, who also was part of the struggle, joined us there in December 1997. The law of political asylum stipulates that your first country of landing and acceptance is the safe haven, so itโ€™s not transferable. That was how Cornelius Adebayo was stuck in a United Nations camp. My wife had to invoke a family clause that exists in America to fight for her husband to join her before they granted me a special privilege to leave UK to join my family in the United States.Announcement Announcements.

I implore everyone to read, digest and post to other platforms so that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tunubu's enemies will know that this man is truly a democrat who fought for the democracy we all enjoying today. He had long paid the price for the PRESIDENCY of this great country. Indeed and in fact Oun lo kan, Bola lo kan, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) lo Kan.

To God alone be the glory.

Will they agree?
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Issfat: 6:12pm On Mar 04, 2023
Okealaaye:
๐‘พ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฌ๐‘ต ๐‘ป๐‘ฏ๐‘ฐ๐‘บ ๐‘บ๐‘ป๐‘น๐‘ผ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฎ๐‘ณ๐‘ฌ ๐‘ญ๐‘ถ๐‘น ๐‘ซ๐‘ฌ๐‘ด๐‘ถ๐‘ช๐‘น๐‘จ๐‘ช๐’€ ๐‘พ๐‘จ๐‘บ ๐‘น๐‘จ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘ต๐‘ฎ, ๐‘พ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฌ๐‘น๐‘ฌ ๐‘พ๐‘ฌ๐‘น๐‘ฌ ๐‘จ๐‘ป๐‘ฐ๐‘ฒ๐‘ผ & ๐‘ท๐‘ฌ๐‘ป๐‘ฌ๐‘น ๐‘ถ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฐ

๐‘ฌ๐’™๐’„๐’†๐’‘๐’• ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐’‚ ๐‘ช๐’๐’Ž๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’‰๐’†๐’๐’”๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’—๐’Š๐’†๐’˜ ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ฉ๐‘จ๐‘ป ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐‘ต๐‘ฌ๐‘พ๐‘บ. ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ. ๐‘ต๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’‚ ๐’Š๐’” ๐’‚ ๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’Œ๐’Š๐’๐’๐’” ๐’‰๐’†๐’• ๐‘ฉ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’”

๐‘ธ๐’–๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’
When were you arrested?

๐‘ป๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’ƒ๐’–.
I said we would continue to struggle until we had democracy. We had a group of 30 senators called the G-30. The G-30 was determined to actualise the mandate on the floor of the Senate. Suddenly, Abacha came and General Oladipupo Diya and Babagana Kingibe were also running around. Diya was one of the most respected and credible military officers then, and he later approached us that there might be change in government. Abiola was around. General Chris Alli met us and said there would be a change of government, which would be in favour of June 12, because they were tired of the shenanigans of the ING. That night, Abacha changed the government. He outsmarted everybody. They met with me, Dele Alake, Segun Babatope and Doyin Abiola. We were asked to write the terms and conditions, which they would broadcast after a change of government. We wrote it and gave it to Diya. They are all alive.
On the night the government was to be changed, Abacha outsmarted everyone and installed himself. These people I mentioned are all alive to testify to what I have said. I can say categorically that I was even called to leave my office because, as they claimed, that night was a dangerous night for them and that everyoneโ€™s life might be in danger. Abiola was told not to sleep at home until the broadcast had been made. We were all fooled! Big time deception.
When we heard the broadcast the next day, there was no mention of June 12 and no proclamation of Abiola. I was mad, but was still determined. I rushed to Diya and he was still saying that there was no problem and that they were planning to announce the cabinet containing eminent June 12 people. Abiola said what? I said no, announce Abiolaโ€™s victory.
Diya told me that I didnโ€™t know the military and that things were not done like that in the military. But I insisted that it was deception. I said I know the military. I called Okadigbo to my office in Lagos and I put the plan before him that we had to confront the military and we had to declare Abacha himself illegal. I got members of our group together; we wrote the script declaring Abachaโ€™s government illegal. Since we could not get to the National Assembly, we opted to hold our session at the Tafawa Balewa Square. We had gotten Dele Alake to be the media coordinator. We told him to get the CNN and other foreign media ready. I put the coat of arms on a rod! That was the mace. We created our own mace.
We reconvened the Senate here in Lagos and declared Abacha illegal before the international media and others. My colleagues had scattered. After we assembled, and having drafted the resolution, they still didnโ€™t know where we would hold the session. I told them to relax, this is Lagos. After the broadcast, everybody took off, because the SSS and other security agents were combing everywhere for us. I went underground, using the 090 mobile phone. I was still granting press interviews to foreign media. The military people were mad. I became a thorn in their flesh and they arrested some of my colleagues, including Abu Ibrahim, the late Polycarp Nwite, Ameh Ebute and Okoroafor. I was still underground, holding press conferences. The military declared me wanted.
Suddenly they granted bail to the arrested senators. I thought I would be a beneficiary, but I was not. Then, there was a manhunt for me by the police and the SSS. Meanwhile, my late uncle, K.O Tinubu and the present Oba of Lagos, Oba Akiolu, who was then a police officer, were pressuring me to disclose where I was. My uncle called to ask where exactly I was. I did not disclose my whereabouts. I told Akiolu that even though he is my relative, I would still not tell him where I was since he was a police officer! He said: โ€˜Ha!โ€™
My uncle advised that the military would kill me if they found me underground and no one would be able to locate my whereabouts. He said it was better I surrendered myself because he wanted me to be alive. I told him that I would call him back, that I was to hold a press conference at the time. And he shouted in amazement: โ€˜You are holding press conference when your life is in danger.โ€™ I told him I would surrender, but would not tell him when.
I disguised perfectly, dressed like a malam, and went to the police at Alagbon. The officers didnโ€™t even know me when they saw me. I went in, deposited my phone and my charger. Senator Abu Ibrahim was with us. The officers were wondering why I, a Mallam, could not speak Hausa! I removed my turban, showed up at the front desk and declared that I had come to surrender. And there was pandemonium among the officers, as to how I got there.
The AIG then was very nice and they put me in the cell. They poured water into the cell room and said, โ€˜sleep thereโ€™. That was the nastiest experience I had within first 48 hours that I was there. It was on a weekend. I told them I would embark on a hunger strike. The late Anthony Enahoro was on the stairway and Beko Ransome-Kuti was at another angle on the stairway. They brought me out repeatedly for interrogation. They asked me to renounce but I said no, I would not recognise Abacha. They took me and my colleagues to court. People who were supposed to meet their bail conditions were stopped from doing so immediately they saw me. They cancelled everybodyโ€™s bail because they could not isolate me.
They gave an order that we should be taken out of court, but kept in the police custody at Alagbon. They kept about eight of us in a photocopying room, an eight-by-eight room. We were sleeping across one another. It was a matter of the first to sleep would maintain the position. If your head was this way, your leg would be there and so on. It was a nasty experience.
There were a lot of interrogations, with a lot of carrot and stick. I can never forget the role and determination and sincerity of a compatriot at that particular time. They made an exception to uphold the earlier bail granted to Senator Abu Ibrahim. He was asked to go. He was the only Hausa-Fulani man with us. The late Hassan Katsina had intervened. But Senator Ibrahim said he would rather stay, except every one of us was granted the same bail conditions. He said he would not leave his colleagues behind.
He is a courageous and a detribalised Nigerian, who had a vision of what Nigeria should be. He refused to accept an isolated bail. They started sending emissaries to us in detention, offering us all sorts of appointments and opportunities to renounce our positions, but we refused. The judiciary was still very courageous then. We went to the Court of Appeal. An incident occurred at the lower court. Market women turned out hugely to support us when we were brought to the court. The day they refused my bail, some of the market women appeared naked and so they stopped taking us to the court. The court sessions were usually interesting for us because of the scenes. At Alagbon, we bathed in the open between 4 and 5 a.m.
The condition started improving when they began to bring officials of the failed banks. Those ones contributed money to repair the generating set at Alagbon and we started enjoying electricity a little longer than we used to. It was during the time that the protest became intense. Nigeria was playing at the World Cup then. Italy defeated Nigeria and the security people lied to us that it was otherwise. Eventually, the Court of Appeal courageously granted us bail in enforcement of our fundamental human rights. Our passports were confiscated and deposited with the court. Later, the High Court ruled that our passports be released to us. That night, they finally announced our bail and conditions attached to it. The presiding judge then is today the Emir of Ilorin, Sulu Gambari. We heard that they put so much pressure on him (Clement Akpamgbo was the Attorney-General) not to release us, but he ordered our release. They were going to re-arrest me and I suddenly went underground to continue my protest.
They would throw bombs and say it was us. Mobil called me to come back to my job, but I refused. They bombed my house, but luckily, my wife and children had been evacuated. I would not want to reveal how they were evacuated because there was a diplomatic involvement. They told me that my life and those of my family were in clear danger.
Suddenly, they announced that I was wanted again. They alleged that I was going to bomb the NNPC depot at Ejigbo. Ah! I was still being tried for treason, which carries a sentence of life imprisonment, and I was again accused of trying to bomb an NNPC depot. I couldnโ€™t go back because my photograph was all over the place that I was wanted. A diplomatic source advised me that I should leave the country if I wanted to continue the struggle. Dan Suleiman, Alani Akinrinade were in danger. We asked Bolaji Akinyemi to leave the country and promote the struggle at the international level.

๐‘ธ๐’–๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’
That was the National Democratic Coalition thenโ€ฆ

๐‘ป๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’ƒ๐’–
Yes. I was at the forefront of the struggle at that level. When I went to see my uncle, K.O Tinubu, at home, he shed tears that night. He said he didnโ€™t want to lose me and that I was about to be killed. He begged me to leave Nigeria and affirmed that, being a former police officer, he was sure I would be killed.
He said that I couldnโ€™t return to my house since they had bombed it. I went to a friendโ€™s house. Before then, there was an incident that made them believe that I was at Ore Falomoโ€™s hospital. They went to the hospital to look for me. Eventually, I left Nigeria for Benin Republic by NADECO route.

๐‘ธ๐’–๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’
How did you make it across the border?

๐‘ป๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’ƒ๐’–
I disguised with a huge turban and babanriga and escaped into Benin Republic on a motorbike. My old Hausa friend gave the clothes to me. In fact, when I appeared to Kudirat Abiola, she didnโ€™t know that I was the one! I gave her some information and some briefing. I left at 1 a.m. While in Benin Republic, I was still coming to Badagry to ferry people, organise and coordinate the struggle with others on ground. We put a group together, ferrying NADECO people across. It was a very challenging time. I canโ€™t forget people like Segun Maiyegun and other young guys in the struggle. I would come from Benin to hold meetings with them and sneak back. The military created a whole lot of momentum around me. They took over my house, guest house and carted away all my vehicles and property to Alagbon. That is why today, I donโ€™t have old photographs. They took eight of my cars away.
My wife and my two toddlers were dropped in a bush; nowhere to go. Beko and the diplomatic missions came to our aid and ferried my wife and kids to the United States. I was still in Benin Republic. Besides, I didnโ€™t have a passport and couldnโ€™t have been able to travel. At a stage, they discovered our routes, because they had spies all over, including Benin Republic. Twice I was caught and I fortuitously escaped. They traced me to one dingy hotel I was hiding.
The day they came for me at the hotel, I had gone out on an Okada to buy amala at a market, where Yorubas are dominant. I was also to meet Akinrinade and the rest of them. The spies went to the hotel and as I was approaching, I saw two people wearing tajia (skull caps) at the front desk, asking questions. The man attending to them at the reception (I had been very nice to the receptionist) winked to me and I turned back. I contacted a friend in Benin Republic, who was an architect, and had very strong sympathy for us. Professor Wole Soyinka and Alani Akinrinade, who lodged in a better hotel, were fortunate to have escaped that night, too. The people on their trail pursued them to the hotel, but fortunately missed them.
Then the British High Commission got proper information through the Consular-General that my life was in danger. He stamped a visa on a sheet of paper and did a letter, authorising the airline to pick me from Benin Republic to any port of entry in Britain. I didnโ€™t know how they got to me. A lady just walked up to me and handed me an envelope. She said I had been granted an entry into the United Kingdom. She said I could be killed if I failed to leave in the next 48 hours. It was Air Afrique that took me from Benin Republic to London. Meanwhile, my wife was still in the United States. I landed in Britain and worked my way back to Benin Republic. I picked up my passport from somewhere. I went to an African country and through their connections, they gave me a diplomatic passport as a cultural ambassador.

๐‘ธ๐’–๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’
What country was that?

๐‘ป๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’ƒ๐’–
No, please! The African country that helped us with the diplomatic passport was showing gratitude for the help Abiola had done to its president before. So, you can make your deduction. Then, I was shuffling and coordinating our activities in the UK, Benin Republic and Cote dโ€™Ivoire. I used the passport to travel to Cote dโ€™Ivoire to hold meetings at the Hotel Continental, because we were planning to make another broadcast that would be aired in Nigeria. By the time I returned to the hotel, the military assailants had broken into my hotel room and taken away my briefcase and diplomatic passport. They dropped a note, saying: โ€˜You cannot be twice lucky.โ€™ I was taken over by panic. Fortunately, in my back pocket, I had the photocopy of the sheet of paper on which the British had stamped a visa for me to travel out of Benin previously. I took that to the British High Commission in Abidjan. They listened to my story and asked me to come back at night. They did all their verification and found my story to be true. I returned to them and they gave me another sheet of paper and wrote the number of the flight that would take me out of that country.
But I had no money. Somebody suddenly drove in. The person is a well-known name I donโ€™t want to mention. I met him and explained my condition. He had a travellerโ€™s cheque, but the money was not enough. I went back to the British High Commission and the woman said she could assist me with her own personal money to bridge the shortfall in cash.
We founded and coordinated Radio Kudirat and Radio Freedom and we continued to organise. I didnโ€™t see my family for two good years. They were in America. Bayo Onanuga, who also was part of the struggle, joined us there in December 1997. The law of political asylum stipulates that your first country of landing and acceptance is the safe haven, so itโ€™s not transferable. That was how Cornelius Adebayo was stuck in a United Nations camp. My wife had to invoke a family clause that exists in America to fight for her husband to join her before they granted me a special privilege to leave UK to join my family in the United States.Announcement Announcements.

I implore everyone to read, digest and post to other platforms so that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tunubu's enemies will know that this man is truly a democrat who fought for the democracy we all enjoying today. He had long paid the price for the PRESIDENCY of this great country. Indeed and in fact Oun lo kan, Bola lo kan, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) lo Kan. INFACT, AS I WAS READING THE SCRIPT I COULDN'T HOLD BACK MY TEARS, BECAUSE IT WAS LIKE A TESTIMONY TO ME BEEN PART OF THE STRUGGLE THEN IN MY OWN LITTLE WAY. MAY THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH CONTINUE TO GRANTS HIM ENORMOUS WISDOM TO PILOT OUR NATION TO THE FAVOURABLE DESTINATION FOR ALL ITS CITIZENS. ALLAHUMMA AMIIIN


To God alone be the glory.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by imagrg(m): 6:16pm On Mar 04, 2023
Labour Party won all through in Edo State except in Edo North where Oshiomole had his influence.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by sirgoody: 6:16pm On Mar 04, 2023
Edo people must not because of anger and hatred give the state back to the caprice and whims of Oshiomhole and the APC.
We know and can remember where we are coming from.

#VoteEdoPDPHoACandidates come 03/11
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by CursedOsuPigs: 6:26pm On Mar 04, 2023
potopotoking:
Yaribas are living in a fantasy world of their own delusional making, which will soon be turned into a nightmare land, because this particular time around darkness will not prevail. We know yaribas love darkness, that's why they wallow in it so shamelessly, call themselves after it---omo dudu/omo oDUDUwa---and epitomize it in everything they do. They are children of darkness and they will pay an intolerable price for their allegiance to it. The yirinbawa 'people' are not really people, as revealed by science, which categorically states a significant percentage of their dna derives from archaic 'ghost' populations resident in West Africa BEFORE the advent of Homo sapiens sapiens. We know this filthy admixture in yirinbawa dna to come from none other than the quasi-developed apeman ('ghost') Homo erectus. This revelation perfectly explains common yirinbawa behaivor, as well as observed phenotype (dudu-skinned/dudu smelling/etc.), with rare exceptions. They are famously cowardly, conniving, back-stabbing, jealous genocidists whom should and will be separated from polite gentile society, because society and civilization are not conducive, they're in-fact diametrically opposed, with and to yirinbawa nature. I say this not to cast aspersions or malign; these are facts which need to be acted upon if reasonable light-loving persons are to advance and thrive in Nigeria. If Peter Obi should fail to retrieve his stolen mandate in court (God forbid), Mandate Thief-in-Chief Tibubu should do one honorable thing in his miserable life and immediately restructure Nigeria and/or allow Igbo people the separate homeland we've been clamoring for since we were rapaciously alloyed with ndi isi oji touts and demons.

Yaribas like darkness abi? Why are the cursed OSU pigs in Yoruba land. Why are they in Ibadan, Abeokuta, Lagos and other Yoruba cities?

I'm sure you're also a gala seller in Lagos or Ibadan.

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Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by stillme231: 6:26pm On Mar 04, 2023
dgmoni123:
The last election prove to me that obaseki is a pepper weight politician
because e no ring mugu...
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by DaSailor: 6:28pm On Mar 04, 2023
yusufu16:


Read before you comment.

Bros, stop na, this is the fun part of Nairaland..๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by famology(m): 6:28pm On Mar 04, 2023
Emir01:
APC, LP & PDP will dominate the state assembly


PDP will not get one seat I dey tell u.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by oludavkay: 6:29pm On Mar 04, 2023
Are you not surprised how it's easy for God (The Light) to relate better and raise more mighty men from the tribe you called darkness than your tribe full of hateful and proud people. God neglected your tribesmen and preferred to work with us.

potopotoking:
Yaribas are living in a fantasy world of their own delusional making, which will soon be turned into a nightmare land, because this particular time around darkness will not prevail. We know yaribas love darkness, that's why they wallow in it so shamelessly, call themselves after it---omo dudu/omo oDUDUwa---and epitomize it in everything they do. They are children of darkness and they will pay an intolerable price for their allegiance to it. The yirinbawa 'people' are not really people, as revealed by science, which categorically states a significant percentage of their dna derives from archaic 'ghost' populations resident in West Africa BEFORE the advent of Homo sapiens sapiens. We know this filthy admixture in yirinbawa dna to come from none other than the quasi-developed apeman ('ghost') Homo erectus. This revelation perfectly explains common yirinbawa behaivor, as well as observed phenotype (dudu-skinned/dudu smelling/etc.), with rare exceptions. They are famously cowardly, conniving, back-stabbing, jealous genocidists whom should and will be separated from polite gentile society, because society and civilization are not conducive, they're in-fact diametrically opposed, with and to yirinbawa nature. I say this not to cast aspersions or malign; these are facts which need to be acted upon if reasonable light-loving persons are to advance and thrive in Nigeria. If Peter Obi should fail to retrieve his stolen mandate in court (God forbid), Mandate Thief-in-Chief Tibubu should do one honorable thing in his miserable life and immediately restructure Nigeria and/or allow Igbo people the separate homeland we've been clamoring for since we were rapaciously alloyed with ndi isi oji touts and demons.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by famology(m): 6:29pm On Mar 04, 2023
ppogba:


And the idiot in his write-up attributed his success to " stroke of luck".
Someone was crisscrossing the length and breath of the entire landscape for campaign and delivered 100 out of 144 thousand and yet he mentioned luck.



You misunderstood him
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Comelysync: 6:38pm On Mar 04, 2023
Okealaaye:
๐‘พ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฌ๐‘ต ๐‘ป๐‘ฏ๐‘ฐ๐‘บ ๐‘บ๐‘ป๐‘น๐‘ผ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฎ๐‘ณ๐‘ฌ ๐‘ญ๐‘ถ๐‘น ๐‘ซ๐‘ฌ๐‘ด๐‘ถ๐‘ช๐‘น๐‘จ๐‘ช๐’€ ๐‘พ๐‘จ๐‘บ ๐‘น๐‘จ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘ต๐‘ฎ, ๐‘พ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฌ๐‘น๐‘ฌ ๐‘พ๐‘ฌ๐‘น๐‘ฌ ๐‘จ๐‘ป๐‘ฐ๐‘ฒ๐‘ผ & ๐‘ท๐‘ฌ๐‘ป๐‘ฌ๐‘น ๐‘ถ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฐ

๐‘ฌ๐’™๐’„๐’†๐’‘๐’• ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐’‚ ๐‘ช๐’๐’Ž๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’‰๐’†๐’๐’”๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’—๐’Š๐’†๐’˜ ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ฉ๐‘จ๐‘ป ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐‘ต๐‘ฌ๐‘พ๐‘บ. ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ. ๐‘ต๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’‚ ๐’Š๐’” ๐’‚ ๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’Œ๐’Š๐’๐’๐’” ๐’‰๐’†๐’• ๐‘ฉ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’”

๐‘ธ๐’–๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’
When were you arrested?

๐‘ป๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’ƒ๐’–.
I said we would continue to struggle until we had democracy. We had a group of 30 senators called the G-30. The G-30 was determined to actualise the mandate on the floor of the Senate. Suddenly, Abacha came and General Oladipupo Diya and Babagana Kingibe were also running around. Diya was one of the most respected and credible military officers then, and he later approached us that there might be change in government. Abiola was around. General Chris Alli met us and said there would be a change of government, which would be in favour of June 12, because they were tired of the shenanigans of the ING. That night, Abacha changed the government. He outsmarted everybody. They met with me, Dele Alake, Segun Babatope and Doyin Abiola. We were asked to write the terms and conditions, which they would broadcast after a change of government. We wrote it and gave it to Diya. They are all alive.
On the night the government was to be changed, Abacha outsmarted everyone and installed himself. These people I mentioned are all alive to testify to what I have said. I can say categorically that I was even called to leave my office because, as they claimed, that night was a dangerous night for them and that everyoneโ€™s life might be in danger. Abiola was told not to sleep at home until the broadcast had been made. We were all fooled! Big time deception.
When we heard the broadcast the next day, there was no mention of June 12 and no proclamation of Abiola. I was mad, but was still determined. I rushed to Diya and he was still saying that there was no problem and that they were planning to announce the cabinet containing eminent June 12 people. Abiola said what? I said no, announce Abiolaโ€™s victory.
Diya told me that I didnโ€™t know the military and that things were not done like that in the military. But I insisted that it was deception. I said I know the military. I called Okadigbo to my office in Lagos and I put the plan before him that we had to confront the military and we had to declare Abacha himself illegal. I got members of our group together; we wrote the script declaring Abachaโ€™s government illegal. Since we could not get to the National Assembly, we opted to hold our session at the Tafawa Balewa Square. We had gotten Dele Alake to be the media coordinator. We told him to get the CNN and other foreign media ready. I put the coat of arms on a rod! That was the mace. We created our own mace.
We reconvened the Senate here in Lagos and declared Abacha illegal before the international media and others. My colleagues had scattered. After we assembled, and having drafted the resolution, they still didnโ€™t know where we would hold the session. I told them to relax, this is Lagos. After the broadcast, everybody took off, because the SSS and other security agents were combing everywhere for us. I went underground, using the 090 mobile phone. I was still granting press interviews to foreign media. The military people were mad. I became a thorn in their flesh and they arrested some of my colleagues, including Abu Ibrahim, the late Polycarp Nwite, Ameh Ebute and Okoroafor. I was still underground, holding press conferences. The military declared me wanted.
Suddenly they granted bail to the arrested senators. I thought I would be a beneficiary, but I was not. Then, there was a manhunt for me by the police and the SSS. Meanwhile, my late uncle, K.O Tinubu and the present Oba of Lagos, Oba Akiolu, who was then a police officer, were pressuring me to disclose where I was. My uncle called to ask where exactly I was. I did not disclose my whereabouts. I told Akiolu that even though he is my relative, I would still not tell him where I was since he was a police officer! He said: โ€˜Ha!โ€™
My uncle advised that the military would kill me if they found me underground and no one would be able to locate my whereabouts. He said it was better I surrendered myself because he wanted me to be alive. I told him that I would call him back, that I was to hold a press conference at the time. And he shouted in amazement: โ€˜You are holding press conference when your life is in danger.โ€™ I told him I would surrender, but would not tell him when.
I disguised perfectly, dressed like a malam, and went to the police at Alagbon. The officers didnโ€™t even know me when they saw me. I went in, deposited my phone and my charger. Senator Abu Ibrahim was with us. The officers were wondering why I, a Mallam, could not speak Hausa! I removed my turban, showed up at the front desk and declared that I had come to surrender. And there was pandemonium among the officers, as to how I got there.
The AIG then was very nice and they put me in the cell. They poured water into the cell room and said, โ€˜sleep thereโ€™. That was the nastiest experience I had within first 48 hours that I was there. It was on a weekend. I told them I would embark on a hunger strike. The late Anthony Enahoro was on the stairway and Beko Ransome-Kuti was at another angle on the stairway. They brought me out repeatedly for interrogation. They asked me to renounce but I said no, I would not recognise Abacha. They took me and my colleagues to court. People who were supposed to meet their bail conditions were stopped from doing so immediately they saw me. They cancelled everybodyโ€™s bail because they could not isolate me.
They gave an order that we should be taken out of court, but kept in the police custody at Alagbon. They kept about eight of us in a photocopying room, an eight-by-eight room. We were sleeping across one another. It was a matter of the first to sleep would maintain the position. If your head was this way, your leg would be there and so on. It was a nasty experience.
There were a lot of interrogations, with a lot of carrot and stick. I can never forget the role and determination and sincerity of a compatriot at that particular time. They made an exception to uphold the earlier bail granted to Senator Abu Ibrahim. He was asked to go. He was the only Hausa-Fulani man with us. The late Hassan Katsina had intervened. But Senator Ibrahim said he would rather stay, except every one of us was granted the same bail conditions. He said he would not leave his colleagues behind.
He is a courageous and a detribalised Nigerian, who had a vision of what Nigeria should be. He refused to accept an isolated bail. They started sending emissaries to us in detention, offering us all sorts of appointments and opportunities to renounce our positions, but we refused. The judiciary was still very courageous then. We went to the Court of Appeal. An incident occurred at the lower court. Market women turned out hugely to support us when we were brought to the court. The day they refused my bail, some of the market women appeared naked and so they stopped taking us to the court. The court sessions were usually interesting for us because of the scenes. At Alagbon, we bathed in the open between 4 and 5 a.m.
The condition started improving when they began to bring officials of the failed banks. Those ones contributed money to repair the generating set at Alagbon and we started enjoying electricity a little longer than we used to. It was during the time that the protest became intense. Nigeria was playing at the World Cup then. Italy defeated Nigeria and the security people lied to us that it was otherwise. Eventually, the Court of Appeal courageously granted us bail in enforcement of our fundamental human rights. Our passports were confiscated and deposited with the court. Later, the High Court ruled that our passports be released to us. That night, they finally announced our bail and conditions attached to it. The presiding judge then is today the Emir of Ilorin, Sulu Gambari. We heard that they put so much pressure on him (Clement Akpamgbo was the Attorney-General) not to release us, but he ordered our release. They were going to re-arrest me and I suddenly went underground to continue my protest.
They would throw bombs and say it was us. Mobil called me to come back to my job, but I refused. They bombed my house, but luckily, my wife and children had been evacuated. I would not want to reveal how they were evacuated because there was a diplomatic involvement. They told me that my life and those of my family were in clear danger.
Suddenly, they announced that I was wanted again. They alleged that I was going to bomb the NNPC depot at Ejigbo. Ah! I was still being tried for treason, which carries a sentence of life imprisonment, and I was again accused of trying to bomb an NNPC depot. I couldnโ€™t go back because my photograph was all over the place that I was wanted. A diplomatic source advised me that I should leave the country if I wanted to continue the struggle. Dan Suleiman, Alani Akinrinade were in danger. We asked Bolaji Akinyemi to leave the country and promote the struggle at the international level.

๐‘ธ๐’–๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’
That was the National Democratic Coalition thenโ€ฆ

๐‘ป๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’ƒ๐’–
Yes. I was at the forefront of the struggle at that level. When I went to see my uncle, K.O Tinubu, at home, he shed tears that night. He said he didnโ€™t want to lose me and that I was about to be killed. He begged me to leave Nigeria and affirmed that, being a former police officer, he was sure I would be killed.
He said that I couldnโ€™t return to my house since they had bombed it. I went to a friendโ€™s house. Before then, there was an incident that made them believe that I was at Ore Falomoโ€™s hospital. They went to the hospital to look for me. Eventually, I left Nigeria for Benin Republic by NADECO route.

๐‘ธ๐’–๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’
How did you make it across the border?

๐‘ป๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’ƒ๐’–
I disguised with a huge turban and babanriga and escaped into Benin Republic on a motorbike. My old Hausa friend gave the clothes to me. In fact, when I appeared to Kudirat Abiola, she didnโ€™t know that I was the one! I gave her some information and some briefing. I left at 1 a.m. While in Benin Republic, I was still coming to Badagry to ferry people, organise and coordinate the struggle with others on ground. We put a group together, ferrying NADECO people across. It was a very challenging time. I canโ€™t forget people like Segun Maiyegun and other young guys in the struggle. I would come from Benin to hold meetings with them and sneak back. The military created a whole lot of momentum around me. They took over my house, guest house and carted away all my vehicles and property to Alagbon. That is why today, I donโ€™t have old photographs. They took eight of my cars away.
My wife and my two toddlers were dropped in a bush; nowhere to go. Beko and the diplomatic missions came to our aid and ferried my wife and kids to the United States. I was still in Benin Republic. Besides, I didnโ€™t have a passport and couldnโ€™t have been able to travel. At a stage, they discovered our routes, because they had spies all over, including Benin Republic. Twice I was caught and I fortuitously escaped. They traced me to one dingy hotel I was hiding.
The day they came for me at the hotel, I had gone out on an Okada to buy amala at a market, where Yorubas are dominant. I was also to meet Akinrinade and the rest of them. The spies went to the hotel and as I was approaching, I saw two people wearing tajia (skull caps) at the front desk, asking questions. The man attending to them at the reception (I had been very nice to the receptionist) winked to me and I turned back. I contacted a friend in Benin Republic, who was an architect, and had very strong sympathy for us. Professor Wole Soyinka and Alani Akinrinade, who lodged in a better hotel, were fortunate to have escaped that night, too. The people on their trail pursued them to the hotel, but fortunately missed them.
Then the British High Commission got proper information through the Consular-General that my life was in danger. He stamped a visa on a sheet of paper and did a letter, authorising the airline to pick me from Benin Republic to any port of entry in Britain. I didnโ€™t know how they got to me. A lady just walked up to me and handed me an envelope. She said I had been granted an entry into the United Kingdom. She said I could be killed if I failed to leave in the next 48 hours. It was Air Afrique that took me from Benin Republic to London. Meanwhile, my wife was still in the United States. I landed in Britain and worked my way back to Benin Republic. I picked up my passport from somewhere. I went to an African country and through their connections, they gave me a diplomatic passport as a cultural ambassador.

๐‘ธ๐’–๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’
What country was that?

๐‘ป๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’ƒ๐’–
No, please! The African country that helped us with the diplomatic passport was showing gratitude for the help Abiola had done to its president before. So, you can make your deduction. Then, I was shuffling and coordinating our activities in the UK, Benin Republic and Cote dโ€™Ivoire. I used the passport to travel to Cote dโ€™Ivoire to hold meetings at the Hotel Continental, because we were planning to make another broadcast that would be aired in Nigeria. By the time I returned to the hotel, the military assailants had broken into my hotel room and taken away my briefcase and diplomatic passport. They dropped a note, saying: โ€˜You cannot be twice lucky.โ€™ I was taken over by panic. Fortunately, in my back pocket, I had the photocopy of the sheet of paper on which the British had stamped a visa for me to travel out of Benin previously. I took that to the British High Commission in Abidjan. They listened to my story and asked me to come back at night. They did all their verification and found my story to be true. I returned to them and they gave me another sheet of paper and wrote the number of the flight that would take me out of that country.
But I had no money. Somebody suddenly drove in. The person is a well-known name I donโ€™t want to mention. I met him and explained my condition. He had a travellerโ€™s cheque, but the money was not enough. I went back to the British High Commission and the woman said she could assist me with her own personal money to bridge the shortfall in cash.
We founded and coordinated Radio Kudirat and Radio Freedom and we continued to organise. I didnโ€™t see my family for two good years. They were in America. Bayo Onanuga, who also was part of the struggle, joined us there in December 1997. The law of political asylum stipulates that your first country of landing and acceptance is the safe haven, so itโ€™s not transferable. That was how Cornelius Adebayo was stuck in a United Nations camp. My wife had to invoke a family clause that exists in America to fight for her husband to join her before they granted me a special privilege to leave UK to join my family in the United States.Announcement Announcements.

I implore everyone to read, digest and post to other platforms so that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tunubu's enemies will know that this man is truly a democrat who fought for the democracy we all enjoying today. He had long paid the price for the PRESIDENCY of this great country. Indeed and in fact Oun lo kan, Bola lo kan, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) lo Kan.

To God alone be the glory.
do u av the complete soft copy? Kindly post or share please.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Unigrad: 6:38pm On Mar 04, 2023
oikirodah:
Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Their Lives ย As Oshiomhole, Obidient Sends Them To Oblivion



Osigwe Omo-Ikirodah is the Chairman and CEO of Bush Radio Academy.
https://ireporteronline.com.ng/blog/obaseki-shaibu-in-battle-for-their-lives-as-oshiomhole-obidient-sends-them-to-oblivion/

Source iReporteronline
Governor Obaseki, Philip shaibu and Osarodion Ogie the SSG are owners of many fuel stations, they are the reason why fuel price is so high in Benin City. Their fuel stations decide the price of fuel in Edo State while others follow suit. This is the reason why the taskforce setup by the Governor have refused to work, if you are in Edo State, have you heard the taskforce working? Absolutely No. Majority of Edoites knows this. Philip shaibu is the leader of thugs in Edo State, he empowered them to commit attrocities against Edo people. POVOW have so enriched themselves to the detriment of Edo people. They have asked POVOW to stop work for a while to buy the heart of Edo people.
Governor Obaseki and his deputy is so irrelevant in Edo State, nobody takes them serious.

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Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by famology(m): 6:39pm On Mar 04, 2023
orion7:
Apc win my own edo central. Dey play. Bloody fools


MUMU who won the senatorial seat in Edo central?
Who won rep seat for esan north east/esan south east?
Even the one for igueben,esan central,esan west that was inconclusive, the Apc is leading. It'll be concluded next Saturday.

Just in case you don't know, there's an alliance between the Apc and legacy pdp in Edo. That's the results you're seeing right now. Una no know anything about politics. Ozuor!
Watch out for March 11. Apc will sweep majority of the assembly seats.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by famology(m): 6:42pm On Mar 04, 2023
As far as Edo is concerned PDP won't smell one seat in the assembly election. Obaseki is in serious pepper soup right now. The collaboration between Apc and legacy pdp will finish him off by March 11.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by godofuck231: 6:46pm On Mar 04, 2023
Two greedy men , obih and obaseki, one took money and refused funding elections, the other claims to own the party he paid rent to camp , for the greater good of the party all should cut the cases , or loose to the apc
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Etuagievin(m): 6:48pm On Mar 04, 2023
I knew the write-up will be from osigwe omo-ikirodah, oshiomholes mouth piece.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Eriyoshegz: 6:49pm On Mar 04, 2023
APC the rigging party!!!!! APC that rigged the recently conducted elections. They stole the mandate of the presidential elections from LP and they also plan to do so in the up coming elections on Friday. A vote against PDP is a vote for APC. My fellow edolites if you don't want us to return to the days of Tony Kabaka, the tout that celebrated #1 billion in office, we must vote out the APC on Saturday, the 11th of March.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by DEROXMAN: 6:51pm On Mar 04, 2023
potopotoking:
Yaribas are living in a fantasy world of their own delusional making, which will soon be turned into a nightmare land, because this particular time around darkness will not prevail. We know yaribas love darkness, that's why they wallow in it so shamelessly, call themselves after it---omo dudu/omo oDUDUwa---and epitomize it in everything they do. They are children of darkness and they will pay an intolerable price for their allegiance to it. The yirinbawa 'people' are not really people, as revealed by science, which categorically states a significant percentage of their dna derives from archaic 'ghost' populations resident in West Africa BEFORE the advent of Homo sapiens sapiens. We know this filthy admixture in yirinbawa dna to come from none other than the quasi-developed apeman ('ghost') Homo erectus. This revelation perfectly explains common yirinbawa behaivor, as well as observed phenotype (dudu-skinned/dudu smelling/etc.), with rare exceptions. They are famously cowardly, conniving, back-stabbing, jealous genocidists whom should and will be separated from polite gentile society, because society and civilization are not conducive, they're in-fact diametrically opposed, with and to yirinbawa nature. I say this not to cast aspersions or malign; these are facts which need to be acted upon if reasonable light-loving persons are to advance and thrive in Nigeria. If Peter Obi should fail to retrieve his stolen mandate in court (God forbid), Mandate Thief-in-Chief Tibubu should do one honorable thing in his miserable life and immediately restructure Nigeria and/or allow Igbo people the separate homeland we've been clamoring for since we were rapaciously alloyed with ndi isi oji touts and demons.
bro am very happy you are pained I love to see an angry Igbo man grin

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Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Cantonese: 6:51pm On Mar 04, 2023
Mylove55:
go and hide in one corner,
Upon the tsunami, apc still won 2 senate seat and 8 reps.
This time, idiotic pigs are not interested to come out again,
It is Apc all the way


Hahahahahahahaha. You guys are truly shameless o.

I thought you all said โ€œno structureโ€, or โ€œnoise makersโ€, โ€œTwitter Presidentโ€? If in six months LP amassed over ten million votes (reduced by APC remote control to six million), is that not enough to tell you the strength of the people?

In all its years, ACN could not achieve anything until BAT merged with elements of PDP and CPC to get something. Does that not show you how strong LP is? Two seats in Edo state and you are rejoicing after been at the center for eight years. Did you not read where the OP said that Oshiomole won by luck? Your APC OP used the word tsunami and not me. He told you exactly what happened and what you should expect next week.

The idiotic pigs you inferred must be your people who are afraid of humiliation. Without guns, thugs and ballot snatching, how far?

By the way, how are you fellows able to support leaders who assume power in such manner?

APC all the way to oblivion very soon bro.

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Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by bobbyblaze4life: 7:01pm On Mar 04, 2023
This is not needed In helping to Move Edo State forward. All well meaning Edolites should please disregard such unwarranted information.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Franklinadaz: 7:07pm On Mar 04, 2023
Poorly drafted propaganda. Gov Obaseki stands out amongst other governors in Nigeria. He allowed the will of the good people of Edo to prevail unlike his counterparts who rigged the election to boost their political ego.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by GoodForceMedia: 7:11pm On Mar 04, 2023
Come March 11 PDP will retain it's mandate in the state. The MEGA movement cannot be disrupted by the so called lions and tigers. Edo is safe in the hands of Governor Obaseki and PDP.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by slimanyd: 7:12pm On Mar 04, 2023
dgmoni123:
The last election prove to me that obaseki is a pepper weight politician

Him bite wike hands that time. He don forget say nah wike teach am how to win elections when ure In the opposition.
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Mylove55(f): 7:16pm On Mar 04, 2023
Cantonese:



Hahahahahahahaha. You guys are truly shameless o.

I thought you all said โ€œno structureโ€, or โ€œnoise makersโ€, โ€œTwitter Presidentโ€? If in six months LP amassed over ten million votes (reduced by APC remote control to six million), is that not enough to tell you the strength of the people?

In all its years, ACN could not achieve anything until BAT merged with elements of PDP and CPC to get something. Does that not show you how strong LP is? Two seats in Edo state and you are rejoicing after been at the center for eight years. Did you not read where the OP said that Oshiomole won by luck? Your APC OP used the word tsunami and not me. He told you exactly what happened and what you should expect next week.

The idiotic pigs you inferred must be your people who are afraid of humiliation. Without guns, thugs and ballot snatching, how far?

By the way, how are you fellows able to support leaders who assume power in such manner?

APC all the way to oblivion very soon bro.
obi not supposed to get 2m vote, if not for buhari bad policy for people to revolt against apc from top to bottom,,

If obi had experience half of what tinubu experience from primary to two weeks to election of buhari bad policies, if na obi, he wouldn't even survive the primary,not to talk of getting 1m vote in general election.
Tinubu is the greatest politician alive today,
Just imagine,
Buhari cabals + obj+ atiku+ idiotic pigs+ kwakwasiya, all combine could not stop jagaban.

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Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Mylove55(f): 7:24pm On Mar 04, 2023
imagrg:
Obaseki is the best Governor Edo State has ever had after late Prof. Ambrose Ali.

He made sure they stopped wasting the state resources.

Oshiomole dissolved the Pensions Board so that he could use the money to entertain himself at State House.

Till date, workers gratuity has been on hold since 2012.

Obaseki stopped this...the reason why he was not liked by a majority of his party men.
Obaseki has the interest of Edo people at heart.
hope you're not talking about oshiomole that clear 17 months pension from 1999 owned by lucky to osunbor,
Only outstanding 2 months pension before obaseki election in 2016.
Oshiomole remain Best Edo governor

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Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Mylove55(f): 7:26pm On Mar 04, 2023
Franklinadaz:
Poorly drafted propaganda. Gov Obaseki stands out amongst other governors in Nigeria. He allowed the will of the good people of Edo to prevail unlike his counterparts who rigged the election to boost their political ego.
obaseki that personally snatched ballot box
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by hspda: 7:29pm On Mar 04, 2023
potopotoking:
Yaribas are living in a fantasy world of their own delusional making, which will soon be turned into a nightmare land, because this particular time around darkness will not prevail. We know yaribas love darkness, that's why they wallow in it so shamelessly, call themselves after it---omo dudu/omo oDUDUwa---and epitomize it in everything they do. They are children of darkness and they will pay an intolerable price for their allegiance to it. The yirinbawa 'people' are not really people, as revealed by science, which categorically states a significant percentage of their dna derives from archaic 'ghost' populations resident in West Africa BEFORE the advent of Homo sapiens sapiens. We know this filthy admixture in yirinbawa dna to come from none other than the quasi-developed apeman ('ghost') Homo erectus. This revelation perfectly explains common yirinbawa behaivor, as well as observed phenotype (dudu-skinned/dudu smelling/etc.), with rare exceptions. They are famously cowardly, conniving, back-stabbing, jealous genocidists whom should and will be separated from polite gentile society, because society and civilization are not conducive, they're in-fact diametrically opposed, with and to yirinbawa nature. I say this not to cast aspersions or malign; these are facts which need to be acted upon if reasonable light-loving persons are to advance and thrive in Nigeria. If Peter Obi should fail to retrieve his stolen mandate in court (God forbid), Mandate Thief-in-Chief Tibubu should do one honorable thing in his miserable life and immediately restructure Nigeria and/or allow Igbo people the separate homeland we've been clamoring for since we were rapaciously alloyed with ndi isi oji touts and demons.

Bit by bit, Una dey resort to faith that BAT is your new president. Good one
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by VOICINGOUT: 7:29pm On Mar 04, 2023
All arguements raised in this biased writeup is hinged on an obviously rigged general election, thus baseless.

Give Edo a free and fair election come Saturday March 11 and see that Edo people are not fools; they will all stand with the best Governor ever seen in the history of Edo state, and it will be PDP all the way.

Edo will never change a winning team!

#SayNoToAPC
#WeStandWithObaseki
#VoteForPDP

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