Fiscus105: If they want to agitate for Yoruba nation, is it igboho(tout) that would be in fore front?
Yoruba never agitating to exist, infact Yoruba is still the tribe magneting all other tribes to make Naija still remains as a nation.
Do you think that this serial betrayer can be in front of agitation for Yoruba Nation
anonimi: My dad, victim of complex conspiracy – Kola Abiola
What role did Bola Tinubu play in all of these?
At the very beginning, he was part of the Yar’Adua PF group from Jos. He was a senator then, and as far as the group went, we related. The crisis started post-election. When Abacha came, one of the things he wanted to do was to be the administrator for Lagos.
That is Tinubu?
Yes. I am sure you have seen pictures of him and my dad. He was hoping that there would be civilian administrators like we had under IBB but Abacha said no, that he was going to have military administrators. So he (Tinubu) said okay, in that case, can I be a deputy administrator? But Abacha said that there wouldn’t be deputies. Then he wanted the post of a commissioner.
He wanted to be a commissioner?
Yes. Then it was a choice between him and someone very close to Jakande who has passed on now. I can’t remember his name, but because Babagana was already in the government, that guy was picked as commissioner. But really, Senator Tinubu had lost out already.
Was Tinubu very close to MKO?
Yes, he was close enough. He and Adeniyi Adele, a very good guy, were close to my father. In fact, Adeniyi was closer to my father and more dedicated to the process than anyone of them. When my documentary comes out, you will see Tinubu’s take on issues. So once he lost out, automatically, he became a NADECO member and Adeniyi was incarcerated.
anonimi: How we foiled Jonathan’s effort to make Mulika Adeola Speaker, Akande reveals
AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.
Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.
The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.
In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.
He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.
Igboho has joined the lawless ranks of Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Criminals, APC to work with another political enforcement agbero thug, MC Oluomo.
Racoon: Appeal Court Removed ‘Illegal’ NURTW President ‘MC Oluomo’, But He Won’t Quit Office Musiliu Akinsanya, a former chairman of the Lagos State Parks and Management Committee, has continued to disregard the law in acting as national president of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), a trade union of transport workers in the country.
In November 2024, a Court of Appeal in Abuja affirmed an earlier National Industrial Court of Nigeria judgment pronouncing Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa as president of the union. Baruwa had served for four years and he was to be serving his second term, having been reelected in August 2023, three months to the termination of his first tenure as enunciated by the union’s constitution.
But some members of the union, led by Najeem Usman Yasin, a former president of the same union and current chairman of its Board of Trustees (BoT), disputed Baruwa’s re-election, causing the police in the Federal Capital Territory to arrest and detain him many times.
Yasin unilaterally dissolved the National Administrative Council led by Baruwa and then facilitated the setting up of a National Caretaker Committee to administer the union. At this point, Baruwa and 13 others, including the NURTW as a juristic personality, headed to the National Industrial Court.
INDUSTRIAL COURT’S CONCLUSION Baruwa and others, referred to in the case as claimants, filed their case, marked NICN/ABJ/263/2023, on September 28, 2023, against Yasin and six others referred to as defendants. After arguments by both parties, the court delivered a judgment in favour of the claimants on March 11, 2024, according to a certified copy of the judgment obtained by FIJ.
Justice O. O. Oyewumi of the National Industrial Court collapsed the 10 and 11 distinct issues for determination submitted to the court by the claimants and defendants separately into four.
ISSUE ONE: The first issue to be ruled upon was “Whether the Claimants’ action as presently constituted is competent to give the Court the necessary vires over this action? If this is answered in the positive”.
The defendants argued that the court was incompetent to hear the case because it was commenced through an improper application. But the judge rejected their opposition, saying they failed to attach an affidavit to disclose the facts they were advancing.
“Failure of the defendants to file an affidavit to back up their grounds of objection which has delved into the facts of the case having left the realm of the law is fatal to the objection,” Justice Oyewumi ruled, dispensing with the first issue.
ISSUE TWO: Are the names of the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th and 14th claimants are liable to be struck out from this action?
In the course of the proceedings, the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th and 14th claimants (Bello Adamu, Eugene Eze Job, Prince Isah Dahiru Usman, Suleiman Adamu, Muhammed Bello Madu and NURTW) sought to pull out, saying they did not consent to the case. It was based on their withdrawal application that the judge formulated the second issue for determination.
In his ruling, the judge said that even though the law permits a co-claimant to challenge the inclusion of their name in a case, there are exceptions. Where that person is a necessary party “without whom an action cannot be effectually and effectively determined”, the challenge becomes a nullity.
“Thus the application to strike [out] the name of a co-claimant will not succeed automatically, as it was not a matter of course to allow a co-claimant to withdraw and have his name struck out at any time,” the judge ruled.
Furthermore, the judge found that 9th claimant Muhammed Bello Madu appeared in the early stage of the litigation and identified himself in court, without equivocation, as the 9th claimant. Therefore, his claim that he did not give his consent to the case was surprising.
“If he never gave his consent and was not aware of the pendency of this suit, then what was he doing in court on the 24th day of October, 2023 and identified himself as the 9th claimant?” the judge asked.
As far as the second issue was concerned, the judge found that those seeking to be removed from the suit were indispensable to the proper determination of the case, “hence the need for them to remain parties in this suit”.
“It is settled law that the main reason for making a person a party as stated earlier is so that he would be bound by the outcome of the action and in which case the questions to be determined in the action would be such that could not be effectually and completely fairly settled without him,” the judge stated on Page 32 of the judgment, specifically adding in Page 33: “Issue two is thus resolved against them [the six claimants claiming to be unaware of the suit].”
ISSUE THREE: The arguments on the third issue: Whether paragraphs 13, 15c, 17, 29, 30 and 31a and b of the defendants’ counter-affidavit are liable to be struck out, were treated briefly.
Baruwa and his co-claimants implored the court to strike out paragraphs 13, 15(c), 17, 29, 30 and 31(a) and (b) from a counter-affidavit filed by the defendants for containing “extraneous matter including legal conclusions, arguments, speculative conjectures and opinions irrelevant” against Section 115 (2) the Evidence Act, which states: “An affidavit shall not contain extraneous matter, by way of objection, prayer or legal argument or conclusion.”
The judge concluded that those paragraphs truly offended the provision of the Evidence Act and were struck out accordingly. In the same vein, he held that expunging them from the records would “not inexorably have dismal or caustic consequence on the Counter Affidavit” because its remaining paragraphs were enough to sustain the defendants’ position.
ISSUE FOUR: The last issue, “whether or not the claimants have proven the questions posed for determination of this court to be entitled to the reliefs sought”, which was the livewire of the case, was treated extensively.
The claimants argued that Yasin’s role as chairman of the NURTW BoT was advisory alone, per their constitution, and as such, lacked the power to dissolve the administrative council or take far-reaching decisions on the daily affairs of the union.
Article 6 of the NURTW Constitution says that the BoT at various tiers “shall include” offering “advice on the administration and policy direction of the Union in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution”. It shall also mediate in misunderstandings that may arise from time to time between the Union and any government or security institutions.
The claimants argued that Yasin’s BoT had not been inaugurated at the time he presided over the meeting which illegally dissolved the Baruwa-led council. But the court rejected this argument.
The court also found that the decision to constitute the caretaker committee was not taken at any BoT meeting and “the decision to constitute a Caretaker Committee cannot be imputed to the 1st defendant [Yasin] as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees going by the content” of the supplied exhibits. “I so hold,” the judge ruled.
The judge considered whether Baruwa and others were validly elected for a second term. Elected national leaders of the union emerge, per the constitution, through what is called “Quadrennial National Delegate Conference”. The defendant alleged that no such conference was held to produce the Baruwa-led council.
Baruwa is from Ogun State in the southwestern region of the country, where most states had proscribed the NURTW. For this reason, according to the defendants, he could not have been validly nominated from the zone for the position of the president.
The court trashed this contention by referencing its settled position that the suspension of the union’s activities by some governors in the zone does not invalidate the rights of members from the zone to unionise and participate in the activities of the union.
Justice Oyewumi found that Baruwa was validly elected. “The court also finds that contrary to the position of the defendants in their counter affidavit, the 1st claimant [Baruwa] was validly nominated and elected for the position of President of the Union at the Quadrennial National Delegates Conference,” the judge wrote in Paragraph 58.
“I equally find that contrary to the position of the defendants by Exhibit R14 at page 903 of the Record that there was a National Credential Committee constituted for the purpose of the screening of candidates for election into the National Administrative Council and shall also conduct the election, including the swearing in of the new NAC members. The defendants have not placed any document before this court to state contrary to the exhibits attached by the claimants in proof of the fact that before the constitution of the Caretaker Committee there had been Zonal and National Conferences which produced elected new officers.” more ↓ Aliyu Isa Ore, the third defendant, claimed that he never attended the conferences that produced Baruwa. Per the court’s findings, not only did he attend those conferences, he was nominated as a deputy president candidate from Kwara State and he appointed one Garba Musa as his polling agent.
On the appointment of 4th defendant Agbeyangi as acting general secretary on August 14 to legitimise the Special Delegates Conference earlier talked about, the court found that 13th claimant Asogwa had not vacated his position at that material time, making Agbeyangi’s appointment invalid. Asogwa only retired and lawfully relinquished his position from the union on October 28, 2023, having turned 65 years of age.
“I have perused the said Exhibits and I find therein, especially in Exhibit R4 that the 13th Claimant was born on 28th October 1958 which means that he would be 65 years of age which is the mandatory retirement age in the Union’s Conditions of service on 28th October 2023 contrary to the assertion of the defendants which was not backed by any credible evidence,” the judge stated in Paragraph 62.
“Again, the defendants who would want this court to believe that the 4th defendant [Kayode Agbeyangi] as at the relevant day (that is 14th August 2023) was the Acting General Secretary failed to place before this court any instrument appointing him as such especially since the claimants are alleging that the Acting Secretary is one Alhaji Suleman Musa who is the 4th defendant’s superior and who only just became such upon the retirement of 13th claimant on 28th October, 2023.”
“In my humble view it is only when the 4th defendant, Kayode Agbeyangi, has been shown to validly occupy the office of the Acting General Secretary that it can be said that he had the power to convene the Special Delegates Conference in line with Article 8 (2) of the Union’s Constitution. The States Council Resolution cannot give validity to the exercise of the power where such assumed power did not exist at that time it was purported to have been exercised.”
According to Justice Oyewumi, the only evidence placed before him to legitimise Agbeyangi’s appointment was a supposed resolution that emanated from an illegally convened Special Delegates Conference.
Before the caretaker committee could arise at all, the National Executive Council must have been dissolved first by a vote of no confidence by the majority of State Councils. By the court’s findings, nothing of such existed to justify the removal of the Baruwa-led council.
In a situation where a caretaker committee is validly constituted, it is only permitted by the constitution to convene a Special Delegates Conference to elect a new leadership within six months. Contrary to this, the committee in question went ahead to convene two conferences through which new officers were elected. Even at that, the election was held on October 25, 2023, contrary to the constitutional requirement that such an election must be held every four years and in the month of August.
A copy of the Certificate of Judgment issued by the National Industrial Court. “An illegal act has no any other name; it is illegal. The defendants were clever by half. Since the Special Delegates Conference, which is the foundation, has been knocked off, then the constitution of the National Caretaker Committee cannot stand and since the Caretaker Committee equally exceeded its powers by convening the Zonal Delegates Conference and National Delegates Conference which led to the subsequent purported election and emergence of some persons as new officers vide Exhibit NURTW 5, which are the superstructures, must equally collapse like a pack of cards, because they lack foundation or structure to stand on and thus their purported election is a nullity,” the judge said, invalidating the caretaker committee and the election it conducted.
Assuming there were crises, said the judge, a better alternative was to ask the National Industrial Court under Sections 18 or 19 of the NICA 2006 to act in accordance with the powers conferred on it.
Instead of following the rule of law, the defendants chose to take laws into their hands and tow an illegal path. Akinsanya, alias MC Oluomo, who currently occupies the office of the union president, was one of the beneficiaries of that unlawful election.
NIC’s JUDGMENT AFFIRMED BY APPEAL COURT In April 2024, the defendants appealed the industrial court’s judgment at the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja.
L-R: Hakeem Adeosun (7th defendant in the court case), Musiliu Akinsanya, Tajudeen Badiru Badru Agbede (2nd defendant in the same case), taking oath of office as Trustee, President and Vice President respectively on November 11, 2024. Source: SocietyNow. In a 40-page judgment delivered over six months after filing the appeal, the Court of Appeal unanimously agreed with and upheld the National Industrial Court’s findings.
The lower court found that all the contentious issues raised by both parties centered on the provisions of the union’s constitution. Based on this, the court decided the case by interpreting the applicable sections of the constitution.
At the Court of Appeal, Yasin and his co-appellants argued before a three-man panel interpreting the constitution without calling for oral testimony amounted to denial of fair hearing.
“On the denial of fair hearing by the grant of the reliefs, I have earlier found that the Appellants were not denied fair hearing by the Trial Court, the Appellants have clearly not shown, how the grant of the reliefs by the Trial Court denies them their right to fair hearing. Again, I resolve this issue in favour of the Respondents [Baruwa-led group],” Justice Asmau Ojuolape Akanbi, delivering the lead judgement on November 8, 2024, ruled.
The court remarkably resolved all the issues raised against the appellants [who were the defendants before the lower court], adding that they failed to show how the granting of reliefs in favour of the Baruwa-led council by the lower court denied them fair hearing.
“On the whole, all the issues are resolved against the appellants and in favour of the respondents. The appeal is devoid of merit and the same is hereby dismissed. I affirm the Judgment of the Trial Court delivered on the 11th day of March, 2024 in respect of Suit No: NICN/ABJ/263/2023,” Akanbi ruled.
Matters of this nature mostly terminate at the Court of Appeal. But it got worse. Despite the court ruling that there was no vacancy in the presidency of the union, Akinsanya-led Tajudeen Badru Agbede, acting as vice president, and Akeem Adeosun as a national trustee, and others assumed leadership of the union just three days after the appellate judgement was delivered.
Editor Note: This is the first of a two-part series on the leadership tussle facing the NURTW. The second, revealing how powerful people in the Bola Tinubu administration and federal security establishments have been frustrating the enforcement of the judgements, will be released on Sunday.
LagosOrigin: Na dat challenges go finish all of una in that terrorist party 😂
If opposition party leaders are not united around the brainbox of PDP's deregulation and privatisation policies that gave us 16 years of widespread prosperity, how do you expect A-looter Propaganda Congress, APC to be finished for the benefit of 200 million Nigerians
erad: “This is political extortion at the highest level join us or be destroyed. That is the message being sent,” Atiku said.
What do you call this? Resorting to threats? SMH! I'll believe anyone as a savior, definitely not Atiku.
I can see he has also started employing propaganda language like 'regime' and the likes. That's what our own leaders learnt from the Israel-USA/Iran war. The language of terror propaganda.
Atiku led other democracy heroes to save us in 2007 from Obasanjo's 3rd term agenda.
By God's grace he will help us defeat this aspiring Paul Biya now.
Lithiumite: Atiku was VP when odi and choba happened where was his voice then.......Deborah was murdered in cold blood and atiku was unequivocally flippant because he didn't want to stand on the side of truth against his people
......people are being murdered daily across the north by bandits buy atiku has never one day looked his people in the face to tell them the home truth that the north is the majorly problem of itself.......abeg make he gettat!!
Can you please remind what city boy said when Deborah was killed?
And what he said when Obasanjo ordered OPC people to be shot at sight because of two fighting in Ketu 27 years ago when Tinubu was Lagos governor.
The Jagaban of Borgu is more northern than the Sultan, for his own selfish, power grabbing goal.
Highways: Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'
When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.
Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country
The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW
— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019
Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.
Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....
However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.
Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.
hisexcellency34: Atiku will do much worse if he becomes president
His track record says you are not being truthful, concerning the brainbox of PDP's deregulation and privatisation policies, in this matter.
anonimi: Wike lobbied PDP committee to be Atiku’s running mate – Ex-gov’ship aspirant
Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:33:04 WAT
Muazu Magaji, a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State, has alleged that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lobbied members of the party’s committee constituted to advise the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the choice of his running mate.
Magaji disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, on Thursday.
The Kano politician also argued that there was no proof that Atiku promised Wike the vice president position as claimed.
The PDP committee had recommended the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa; Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel and Wike.
The committee, however, scored Wike above the other two contenders but Atiku decided to settle for Okowa. A decision that has since unsettled Wike’s camp.
Magaji, however, claimed that Wike lobbied to be scored ahead of others, adding that the Rivers State governor should not be trusted with important positions in the country.
2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury
Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.
One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.
Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.
ddippset: Says a man who hijacked the party and singlehandedly produced the last 4 National Chairmen of the party for his own selfishness.
Says a man who accepted nomination to be running mate to Fulani Atiku. He knew it was injustice to give Atiku the ticket yet he lobbied to be the VP.
He knew the party had to go South for the 2023 election, yet he still put Secondus as National Chaiman just to hijack the party.. Only to push Secondus out because he wanted the ticket 2023.
This man remains the biggest problem of PDP.
He can only deceive and fool his minions, not reasonable people.
edogu: Some of these defections would have made sense if the new electoral law provided room for compulsory upload of electoral results. With the ruling party fully in control, I don't see the possibility of ADC making major impact.
Tinubu is not like Jonathan that had to condone alot of things. He no send anyone.
Is it because Tinubu no send anyone that he is increasing tax burden on people and stealing the revenue instead of employing workers to make government services and utilities available for everyone?
edogu: I have no issue with this arraignment to court, but it raises a question: why are some individuals accused of corruption moving about freely without any interference?
Some have even been appointed as ambassadors by the current administration. If El-Rufai were still aligned with the present government, would the ICPC have arrested him?
Those moving freely and even appointed ambassadors, are the ones loyal to the Ogas at the top of Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Crooks, APC.
chisomkachy: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has withdrawn the alleged money laundering suit it filed at the Federal High Court against Lagos Speaker Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa.
Naija News understands that the anti-graft did not give any particular reason for its application for withdrawal.
Following the application to withdraw, Justice Nicholas Oweibo discharged the ‘lien/Post No Debit’ placed on Obasa’s three accounts in Standard Chartered Bank.
The accounts are (US Dollars) 0001852063; (Current) 0001852056 and (Saving) 5002309624.
The judge also set aside the ex-parte orders he made on September 15, 2020, which led to the freezing of the accounts.
Recall that the court on September 15, 2020, granted an interim order freezing Obasa’s accounts following the EFCC’s application in a suit marked FHC/LCS/1064/2020.
The agency had said it was investigating the Speaker for the alleged offences of conspiracy, diversion of funds, abuse of office and money laundering.
But Justice Oweibo, on August 16, 2023, heard the application to unfreeze the accounts in his chamber.
During the hearing, the EFCC was represented by Mr. Sulaiman I. Sulaiman, while Obasa was represented by Mr. Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN).
The EFCC lawyer told the court that the application to unfreeze the accounts was pursuant to Section 44(2)(K) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Sections 26, 29 and 34 (1) of the EFCC (Establishment) Act, 2004, and under the court’s inherent jurisdiction.
Section 44 of the Constitution concerns constitutional rights to property.
Justice Oweibo held: “It is hereby ordered that an order is hereby granted to the respondent/applicant setting aside the ex-parte orders of this court made on the 15th day of September 2020 upon the ex-parte motion of the Applicant/ Respondent in relation the funds of the Respondent/Applicant domiciled in the accounts stated in the following schedule:
“ACCOUNT NAME, FINANCIAL ACCOUNT INSTITUTIONS, TYPE OF ACCOUNT, 1. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered, (US Dollars) 0001852063 2. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Current) 0001852056 3. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Saving) 5002309624.
“Issued at Lagos, under the seal of this Honourable Court and by the hands of the Presiding Judge this 16th day of August 2023.”
Saturnalia: And he’s also using his connections with Bandits & Boko Haram to destabilize the Country simply because he was rejected for a Ministerial Slot.
He wiretapped the NSA phones and even had to the audacity to come on T.V and reveal it because he thinks he’s above the law.
He must have thought he was still dealing with the docile & helpless “Southern Kaduna Christians”.
This is now the same fanatical Jihadist that the “directionless Obidients” are now rallying behind. Very Shameful & Hypocritical!
How come Americans violated our sovereignty because of Christian genocide last year, when El Rufai was no longer governor and not even in this clueless city boy government
UzorIyke: They have done what they knew best. This is their achievement 👏 Nigeria must succeed.
If our country must succeed then we must work hard together to ensure that opposition leaders unite around the brainbox of PDP’s deregulation and privatisation policies that gave us 16 years of widespread prosperity, cheap petrol, low debt burden, better life of peace and security.
Will you join other Nigerians to work on this objective
dragunov: So you're afraid that the president is digging deep and looking for solutions to the problem of insecurity.
So you think you can stop a moving train?
We are concerned that the president is selling out Nigeria because he is clueless about the job he fought for and grabbed, before running directionlessly like a headless pig 🐖
Don’t you think that every patriotic Nigerian should be equally concerned
At what point during the PDP prosperity years did we have it this bad?
FutureFocus: Nigeria is like a business center to our leaders, just milk the masses, tax them left right and center with zero electricity,
just imagine a nation who has the opportunity to sell electricity to 250 million households , and make good money from it, imagine how much the government will generate from that, but no, you don’t care because you prefer to collect duty tax on solar panel, you are not willing to revive the productive labor market because you prefer to tax imports and remain unproductive , It’s a shame
Why did we allow Tinubu to screw us over in 2015 with his expired Buhari of four years earlier?
Why did we swap PDP widespread prosperity for APC extreme poverty shege that was fraudulently sold as positive change
How can we work together to restore our country to PDP deregulation and privatisation policies that gave us 16 years of cheap petrol, better life, less debt, lower corruption, safety and security?
Gotocourt: Conflict of interest 🤷🏿. America is here, Emilokan is bringing in France. Hope the master plotter strategist founder won't get fried 🤷🏿
You see how the thing goes.
Same Macron that trekked in New York, Emperor Trump na no nonsense man.
The master plotter strategist who had no clue how to answer insecurity questions in Chatham House and delegated El Rufai to answer them, even though Ribadu was part of his campaign team
runningriot: Whatsoever the case is, Wike decapitated, liquidated, neutralised and dismembered PDP for his own personal gain. Wike inordinate and megalomaniac driven desire put PDP in rocky and wrecking boat. His impulsive and insensitive behavior clearly shows he is a vindictive individuals that lacks the moral tenets of nature. In all, no matter what and how it goes PDP can never gather the momentum and morale to serve as a pathfinder of trust again.
You are a wiseman and you have spoken well about this matter.
anonimi: Wike lobbied PDP committee to be Atiku’s running mate – Ex-gov’ship aspirant
Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:33:04 WAT
Muazu Magaji, a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State, has alleged that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lobbied members of the party’s committee constituted to advise the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the choice of his running mate.
Magaji disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, on Thursday.
The Kano politician also argued that there was no proof that Atiku promised Wike the vice president position as claimed.
The PDP committee had recommended the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa; Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel and Wike.
The committee, however, scored Wike above the other two contenders but Atiku decided to settle for Okowa. A decision that has since unsettled Wike’s camp.
Magaji, however, claimed that Wike lobbied to be scored ahead of others, adding that the Rivers State governor should not be trusted with important positions in the country.
2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury
Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.
One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.
Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.
ddippset: Says a man who hijacked the party and singlehandedly produced the last 4 National Chairmen of the party for his own selfishness.
Says a man who accepted nomination to be running mate to Fulani Atiku. He knew it was injustice to give Atiku the ticket yet he lobbied to be the VP.
He knew the party had to go South for the 2023 election, yet he still put Secondus as National Chaiman just to hijack the party.. Only to push Secondus out because he wanted the ticket 2023.
This man remains the biggest problem of PDP.
He can only deceive and fool his minions, not reasonable people.
merrymike47: The best Wike will get is that ministerial position he holds right now, he'll never rule Nigeria. Write this down and save it for later.
Sheriff’s curse may still come to pass on the ingrate who has destroyed the party that made him from LGA chairman.
anonimi: No room for Wike, Fayose in PDP again —Sheriff
Also reacting to the judgment, its apparent beneficiary, Senator Sheriff, vowed to put in place a machinery that would not give room to people like Governors Nyesom Wike and Ayodele Fayose of Rivers and Ekiti states, respectively in any future arrangement in the party.
“I will engineer a restructuring of PDP such that characters like Wike and Fayose cannot find a way through to attain any position of prominence in our party in the future. They have brought shame and agony through the application of their crude and godless politics which is at variance with the principles upon which our founding fathers built our great party.
“We must find a way to sieve things so that only men of character and integrity can come through for positions of responsibility at all levels of our political engagement in the country.
“We must urgently steer the ship of PDP clear of the path of infamy which Wike and Fayose has brought our party, making Nigerians to mistaken PDP as a training ground for thugs. That is the urgent task we have. We cannot continue to advertise thug brand and expect Nigerians to take us seriously,” he said.
wellmax: Most people who say they want to visit Africa mean they want to go on safari. A small number mean the pyramids.
Almost none of them can tell you much about where they would go in #Ghana, or why Rwanda has quietly become one of the most discussed destinations on the continent.
Ghana has a rich history before slavery and during slavery, as well as beaches.
Rwanda has a great history of recovering from genocide and the gorillas for those who are interested.
Hungrychicken: If I were from any of the North African countries, I wouldn’t even associate myself with the other Africans neither would I want to be called an African. It’s a degrading name, it’s darkness as they come. A race of defeated people.
Na so o. We must reward him for his fulfilled promises to make him do even better in the second term, and then we will crown him with a 3rd term that Obasanjo failed to achieve. Fulfilled promises like N300/$1 in the short term.
Obasanjo’s 2007 failure was led by Atiku and other democracy heroes, to kill the bill despite Baba Iyabo’s Ghana must go bags of bribes to NASS members.
Stephen0mozzy: Everyone dies, when it's your time. Even your billions won't keep you One minute longer on Earth.
There better not be hell o 😅
While you are on earth, your billions will make extreme poverty paupers beg you to oppress them, in the manner that clueless city boy begged Trump to kill innocent northerners on Christmas Day, under the guise of looking for Muslim terrorists accused of Christian genocide.
Is it not better to be rich and enjoy life with everyone around you being comfortable as well
keemsleek: 2 What state do u come from first let know? I have noticed u always post this same thing all d time.
I am from the state that had Jakande as governor for four years, during which he did far more than Tinubu and his placeholder successors have done in 27 years of perpetual increase in tax burden, IGR, budget and even loans despite PPP off budget projects.
I am definitely not an ayederu atohunrinwa like the son of Iyaloja Mogaji who has Tinubu as surname.
Splashme: The first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Tuesday, said that the cancellation of the Lagos metroline project in 1985 was a major mistake and disservice to many Nigerians.
Jakande spoke in Lagos during the launch of a book which chronicled his life in politics and journalism.
The book, entitled, ‘Jakande: Leadership in Action’ is written by Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, who told the audience at the event that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was not responsible for the cancellation of the project.
Jakande said, “Reflecting on the metroline project, I think it is a major disservice to many Nigerians. Imagine how many people would have benefitted. It would have made life easier and changed the face of transport in Lagos. Whoever cancelled it or gave the advice towards its cancellation didn’t do right.”
The former governor asked Nigerians not to vote for unserious leaders in the coming polls, saying the elections presented Nigerians with a good opportunity that should not be squandered.
Expressing the hope that Nigeria would soon overcome its developmental challenges, Jakande said hope would be actualised faster if credible people emerged as leaders in the next dispensation.
He said, “This book comes at a very auspicious time in Nigeria’s history as we need leaders who can act. We need leaders who would not compromise the standards of good governance. God has blessed this nation the most in Africa, although we have not reached where we should be; with the right leaders, Nigeria would overcome its challenges.”
eluquenson: REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE
* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.
* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.
* His government built the Lagos State Television
* His government built the Lagos Radio
* His government built Lagos State University
* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.
* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.
* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.
* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.
* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.
* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.
* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.
* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.
* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.
* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.
* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.
* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.
* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.
* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).
* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.
* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.
* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980
* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).
* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.
*His government established LASACO Insurance.
*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.
*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.
WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?
IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.
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