anonimi: The often cited biography titled Madame Tinubu: Merchant and King-maker, authored by Nigerian historian Oladipo Yemitan, paints her views regarding slave trading.
On one occasion, during her final sojourn in Abeokuta, she was alleged to have sold a young boy into slavery and was accused of it. When arraigned before Ogundipe Alatise over the matter, she reportedly explained: 'I have a large house-hold and I must feed them well. I need money to do that, that's why'.
— Oladipo. Yemitan, 'Madame Tinubu: Merchant and King-maker'
Another section of Yemitan's Tinubu biography, referred to as the Amadie-Ojo Affair, captures a slave trading deal gone sour in 1853 (notably after the 1852 Treaty abolishing slavery in Lagos) wherein Tinubu tells another slave trader (Domingo Martinez) that "she would rather drown the slaves [20 in number] than sell them at a discount".
frog12: Why is this TINUBU promoting just CROOKS?? only crooks, ambassadors crooks, ministers crooks, even spokesman have no integrity and disgrace himself on al-jazeera.
what a pity ! he is setting dangerous example to nigerian youths.
Birds of a feather flock together, not so
His lootocracy tax model of a master plan in Lagos set a dangerous example for other governors since 1999, based on how successful he is. Do you think that reflects our own tribalistic lack of integrity that uses zoning and rotation for public office in local, state and federal governments?
swaggerjack: Reno Omokri: I Challenge Tinubu To Prove If He Was Not A Drug Lord In Chicago
maasoap: This one still sees difference between Nigeria's political parties when everyone is just freely cross carpeting daily. Sorry, ehn
If there is no difference between our political parties then why did we have widespread prosperity, less debt and better life with peace and security during the 16 years of PDP deregulation and privatisation policies
Why have we had palliative-sharing progreThief policies worsening extreme poverty, growing unemployment, increasing debt burden, worsening insecurity since Tinubu made Buhari APC messiah in 2015, four years after calling him expired?
anonimi: Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?
In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;
or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority? @ @ The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.
Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.
More than a decade of wailing and gnashing of teeth sure takes its toll.
It’s more than a decade since All Promises Cancelled, APC said that petrol should NEVER cost more than N70.
Can you please explain how this beautiful picture is used to pay for the subsidy forced on Nigerians by the massive corruption in APC’s oil sector
anonimi: Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC
January 19, 2015
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.
On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.
But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.
It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has announced that the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries have been successfully re-streamed after a nine-month rehabilitation exercise conducted by its in-house engineers and technicians.
The corporation, in a statement, noted that both plants commenced preliminary production of petroleum products after successful test-runs, adding that while PHRC was ramping up its operation to about 60 per cent of its 210,000 barrels per day capacity, WRPC production was projected to hit 80 per cent of its installed 125,000bpd capacity.
The NNPC said the Port Harcourt refinery was projected to boost the nation’s local refining capacity with a product yield of five million litres of petrol per day, while Warri refinery would contribute 3.5 million litres of petrol.
Providing insight into the rehabilitation exercise, the NNPC noted that it had to adopt the phased rehabilitation strategy after the Original Refinery Builders, who were initially contacted for the project came up with unfavorable terms.
It said, “Though a decision was taken in 2011 to rehabilitate all the refineries using the ORB of each of the refineries, we were impelled to switch strategy after the ORBs declined participation and nominated some partners in their stead who came up with outrageously unfavorable terms.”
The NNPC stated that the nominated partners, as sole-bidders, came up with humongous price offers after two years of thorough and exhaustive scope of work definition and price negotiations.
It added that the proxies were also unwilling to provide post rehabilitation performance guarantees.
The corporation said, “The phased rehabilitation strategy which entailed phased and simultaneous rehabilitation of all the refineries using in-house and locally available resources in line with the spirit and letter of the Nigerian Content Law, also involved the use of Original Equipment Manufacturer representatives to effect major equipment overhaul and rehabilitation.”
The national oil firm said the phased rehabilitation programme, which started in October 2014 after the required funding stream was established, created a 70 per cent reduction in costs which helped largely in mitigating the financing challenges of refinery rehabilitation.
It observed that with the successful re-streaming of the PHRC and WRPC, attention has now moved to the 110,000 barrels per day Kaduna Refining and Petrochemicals Company which was billed to come on stream soon.
saintopus: Dec 06, 2024 The PH Refinery ships its first export of petroleum products to Dubai. The company is expected to load the cargo in the coming days onboard the Wonder Star MR1 ship, signalling the commencement of operations at the plant and the exportation of petroleum products.
The ship will load 15,000 metric tons of the product, which translates to about 13.6 million litres.
Although the volume coming from the NNPC into the global market is still small, the development has the potential to impact the Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) benchmarks in the future while changing the market realities for Atlantic Basin exporters into Nigeria and other regions.
The sulfur content of the export by NNPC stands at 0.26 per cent per wt and a 0.918 g/ml density at 15°C, according to Kpler, a data and analysis company.
The cargo was reportedly sold at an $8.50/t discount to the NWE 0.5 per cent benchmark on a Free on Board (FOB) basis.
Kpler reported that the development would help displace imports from traditional suppliers in Africa and Europe, as Nigeria’s falling clean product (CPP) imports are already decreasing, dragging imports into the wider West Africa region lower as well.
press9jatv: Even the ones that doesn't know 2X2 is condemning the governor, he is able to perform because the FG make is easier, Yes we are far to where we ought to be but we are not where we used to be as a country.
How are 36 governors that share 27% among themselves, able to perform but the president is not able to perform with 53% to himself alone
The courage belongs to Buhari who first removed subsidy in 2016, before removing it a second time in 2023 from the budget he presented a year earlier.
gabydaniels: Aug 25, 2016 The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has disclosed that the federal government has so far saved the sum of N1.4 trillion for not paying oil subsidy.
He also assured Nigerians that very soon, the foreign exchange market would stabilise going by some radical policies already introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
The vice president who spoke in Kano yesterday during the third day of the 15th Joint Planning Board and National Council on Development meeting, urged Nigerians to restore confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, insisting that soonest, the current economic problems would become a thing of the past.
“With the deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector, there has been a significant increase in the availability of petrol throughout the country for the savings of N1.4 trillion on subsidy payments alone,” he said.
“Also, a more flexible exchange rate regime, we will have to decrease the pressure on the external reserve. In the short run of course, there should be consequences for inflation. We expect that with greater priority we have seen in the implementation of the policy by the CBN, the foreign exchange market will stabilise and confidence will be restored.
watchindelta: This show the country is not working and does have dignity. I no no why now only yeye country president they sabi tell this kind words by return immigrants but not to a working country. I noticed that.
What dignity can we have when we allow our governors to steal money that should employ workers to make water supply available to all households
Is there anything more basic than water supply? What else is more basic than this
maasoap: To receive failed asylum seekers: yes. But they should be tried in courts because those people do fabricate terrible lies against Nigeria and this further tarnish Nigeria's image. To receive offenders: No. They committed crimes in UK when they were free and contributing positively to UK economy. Why should they now become Nigeria's burden now that they are behind bars and further draining our resources?
The offenders will become Nigeria’s burden because leaders looters of Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC have been settled by British government with a juicy amount.
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.”
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.
TEYA: Now you have gotten the point! You are asking a very valid question! When some nairalanders like the funny Righteousness 2 see me chriticising America and Israel while supporting Iran, they simply don't get it.
These oyinbo people are racist and will rather relate with Pakistanis, Palestinians and Afghans that are currently making money in their country and raping their daughters than associate with a black sub Saharan African that only seeks economic emancipation. It breaks their hearts that those Arabs with a similar skin colour to them are hurting and always fighting them.
What rights do tribalistic Nigerians have to point fingers at racists
rock003: Bianca ojukwu has betrayed the Igbo people by working for tinubu, same with soludo and obi cabana. Because of this, we can also say betrayal is in the DNA of the Igbo people, right?!
How does Bianca, Soludo and Obi Cubana’s betrayal compare with the serial betrayal of Tinubu in his fight for power, before he grabbed and ran with it cluelessly like a headless pig
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.
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.
SamuraiXXX: Only hunger can reset a person's brain this quickly
His revenue has probably dwindled and hunger and starvation are staring him in the face that's why he decided to retrace his steps
You understand the importance of hitting people where it hurts most- their pockets.
We need to do more of this to salvage our country from Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC and their palliative sharing agenda that has wrecked Nigeria into extreme poverty shege.
Fekumzi123: Alh Atiku and Peter Obi have left the thread
Even you should leave the thread because it’s the usual propaganda that is empty as a barrel for making noise.
Have you seen the trace of what was signed with the UAE three years ago? What is the impact of the billions on the dollar rate, which city boy promised to crash to N300 in the short run, after hitting the ground running
[quote author=wwwihy post=125726830]PRESIDENT TINUBU SECURES LANDMARK DEAL WITH UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ACROSS SECTORS; VISA BAN ON NIGERIAN TRAVELERS IS LIFTED IMMEDIATELY
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, on Monday in Abu Dhabi, have finalized a historic agreement, which has resulted in the immediate cessation of the visa ban placed on Nigerian travelers.
Furthermore, by this historic agreement, both Etihad Airlines and Emirates Airlines are to immediately resume flight schedules into and out of Nigeria, without any further delay.
As negotiated between the two Heads of State, this immediate restoration of flight activity, through these two airlines and between the two countries, does not involve any immediate payment by the Nigerian government.
In recognition of President Tinubu's economic development diplomacy drive and proposals today presented by President Tinubu to his counterpart, an agreed framework has been established, which will involve several billions of U.S. dollars worth of new investments into the Nigerian economy across multiple sectors, including defense, agriculture and others, by the investment arms of the Government of the United Arab Emirates.
Additionally, President Tinubu is pleased to have successfully negotiated a joint, new foreign exchange liquidity programme between the two Governments, which will be announced in detail in the coming weeks.
In conclusion, the President wishes to commend the UAE President, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, for his unalloyed friendship and his determined effort to join hands with him to fully normalize and reset to excellence, the standard of relations between the two important countries.
Hoelujohn: I am scared of asking, please what are the prices now? The last time I bought them , the big fan ice was around 60 naira and the small one 30 naira or so.
Was that before APC made us lose out on PDP prosperity by promising us N70 petrol?
How much subsidy do you estimate that we are being forced to pay Tinubu & co now for the massive corruption in their oil sector
anonimi: Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC
January 19, 2015
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.
On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.
But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.
It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.
PigTormentor: Mobilize a massive protest by IPOB members? By the same man that was deported from UK? Pls stop clowning 🤡 Sane Nigerians are wiser now, they are no longer falling for that packaged fraud, it's obvious even to the gullible ones.
Is there any Nigerian more fraudulent than the city boy who currently occupies Aso Rock
caprini1: Oh shut up!.....APC has been in power since 2015.
Don't mind the guy jare.
I thought A-looter Propaganda Congress, APC said that they ended terrorism 11 years ago.
Nigeria Boko Haram: Militants 'technically defeated' - Buhari Published 24 December 2015
Nigeria has "technically won the war" against Islamist Boko Haram militants, President Muhammadu Buhari says.
He told the BBC that the militant group could no longer mount "conventional attacks" against security forces or population centres.
It had been reduced to fighting with improvised explosives devices (IED) and remained a force only in its heartland of Borno state, he said.
Boko Haram has been described as one of the world's deadliest terror groups.
Critics of the government argue that it has exaggerated the scale of its success against the militants, and that each time the army claims to have wiped out Boko Haram, the militants have quietly rebuilt.
Nnamdd1: The Nigerian Army has handed over the flag of Boko Haram that was recovered from “camp zero” in Sambisa forest to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Major General Lucky Irabor, Theatre commander of Operation Lafiya Dole handed over the flag to Buhari at exactly 10:30 pm on Friday, December 30th, at this year’s regimental dinner organised by the presidential brigade of guards.
Speaking at Friday’s dinner, Irabor said troops arrested 1,240 suspected Boko Haram members during a mop-up operation inside Sambisa.
In his response, Buhari, who recounted how he was nearly killed even before he collected his first salary in the army stated that keeping Nigeria united was paramount.
“I believe you are here because you want to be here and you cannot complain. We will do our best to build the national institutions in the country,” he said.
“There are 250 ethnic groups, so keeping Nigeria one is a task that must be done. So even for a personal reason, you must make sure this country stays one and remain strong.”
On his part, Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai assured Nigerians that they will continue their onslaught in the north-east.
sisisioge: Yorubas would say " the child we refuse to invest in would end up selling the houses we invested in". Those northern boys who have now become terrorists were once babies left to fend for themselves. Now they are putting the country on the map for a very wrong reason!
I just wish they would stop terrorizing their fellow broke neighbors and turn their anger on the leadership that made them who they are!
How are we Yorubas and other southerners any better than the northerners?
How much progress have we made in ensuring free education for all children in schools with enough professional teachers who are well paid compared to politcians?
Which Yoruba/southern governor has employed up to 19,500 teachers in five years like PDP's Makinde did?
Which southern governor has consistently provided matching funds to obtain federal funding from UBEC, established by the Obasanjo/Atiku administration 17 years ago to make nine years of education free and compulsory for all children?
Let us stop doing sobolation for northern problems which takes away the motivation to address our own problems.
muyico: congratulations 👏 🎉 to opposition's parties, fueling it
Was that how APC fueled it to drive PDP out of power and end 16 years of widespread prosperity, low debt, low inflation, low unemployment etc
EkoIle1: It is now abundantly clear that President Jonathan has finally bared his fangs confirming what was widely speculated. By declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, he has intimidated and emasculated the governors of these States. We are witnessing a dangerous trend in the art of governance and a deliberate ploy to subvert constitutional democracy.
The body language of the Jonathan administration leads any keen watcher of events with unmistakable conclusion of the existence of a surreptitious but barely disguised intention to muzzle the elected governments of these states for what is clearly a display of unpardonable mediocrity and diabolic partisanship geared towards 2015.
Borno and Yobe states have been literally under armies of occupation with the attendant excruciating hardship experienced daily by the indigenes and residents of these areas. This government now wants to use the excuse of the security challenges faced by the Governors to remove them from the states considered hostile to the 2015 PDP/Jonathan project.
Let me be quick to say that this administration will be setting in motion a chain of events the end of which nobody can predict. Experience has shown clearly that actions, such as this one under consideration, often give root to radical ideologies and extremist tendencies, a direct opposite of the intended outcome of unwarranted and unintelligent meddlesomeness. The present scenario playing out in the country reminds one of the classical case of a mediocre craftsman who continually blames the tools of his trade for his serial failure but refuses to look at his pitiable state with a view to adjusting.
It has become crystal clear, even to the most incurable optimist, that the country is adrift. That the ship of the Nigerian state is rudderless is clearly evident in the consistent and continual attacks ferociously executed by elements often referred to as the insurgents in some northern states of the federation, particularly Borno and Yobe states respectively.
Indeed, no part of the country is immune from the virulent but easy attacks, veritable indices of a failing state. Unfortunately, the tenuous and uncoordinated approach adopted by this government betrays a grossly incompetent disposition which stands at variance with current realities in the country, nay the international community where acts of terrorism are engaged and contained. No Governor of a state in Nigeria is the Chief Security Officer. Putting the blame on the Governors, who have been effectively emasculated, for the abysmal performance of the government at the centre which controls all these security agencies, smacks of ignorance and mischief.
Seunpapa65: You see black man there reasoning is something else Honestly the can never make life better for their follow man
Is there a way we can enlighten ourselves to get out of this vicious cycle that keeps all of us down at the bottom of the human race
TheBedWench: The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States in the 20th century. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of black blood) is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms).
This concept became codified into the law of some states in the early 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" that developed after the long history of racial interaction in the South, which had included the hardening of slavery as a racial caste and later segregation. It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status, regardless of proportion of ancestry in different groups.[3]
The one-drop rule is defunct in law in the United States and was never codified into federal law.
jameshankss: Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”
Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.
He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.
Do you know where he will defect to for someone like Utomi to step down for him, solely for the purpose of splitting opposition votes and smoothening city boy's continuity of APC extreme poverty shege for another four years
lexylaw40: The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State, Tawfiq Akinwale, [/b]on Wednesday [b]stated that the “President-elect” Bola Tinubu asked popular economist, Prof Pat Utomi to step down for Peter Obi in the buildup to the 2023 general elections.
Akinwale made this revelation while he appeared as a guest on a radio programme on 101.7 YES FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, while alleging that Obi received campaign funds from Utomi, whom he described as Tinubu's "son."
The LP aspirant, who spoke in Yoruba language, said "In the buildup to the 2023 elections, Obi who had purchased the nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), suddenly announced his exit from the party.
"Initially, Pat Utomi had secured the LP's presidential ticket, but when Peter Obi said he resigned from the PDP and joined the LP. Bola Tinubu, a master political strategist, quickly told Utomi, that everyone knows to be his son to step down for Obi.
"The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
"What Peter Obi didn't know is much more that what he knows, he started collecting campaign funds from Utomi, while Tinubu was giving the money to Utomi.
"This went on until Obi's presidential campaign got to a stage it went beyond target. Obi was used without him knowing," Akinwale said after announcing his departure from the party.
Obi defected to the LP after resigning his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and also withdrawing from the presidential race under the party.
The former governor consequently joined the race for the party’s presidential ticket, while Professor Pat Utomi, in June 2022 stepped down for him to emerge as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, unopposed in Asaba, Delta State.
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