Na why e dey pain you? Abi you follow am chop Edo people money ni Or you joined him to harass poor people in the state instead of providing employment, water, healthcare, good roads etc for them and schools for their children?
Woke up with strength and vigour this morning and was up to face today with all hopes and aspirations but was sad & almost started crying after watching this video.
I've been an advocate of leaders been strong at all time with will power to carry out leadership responsibilities. And that emotional leaders don't go far but certainly not this way.
In leadership and governance, there's a place for 'Human face' no matter the circumstances. Widows to the best of my knowledge are integral part of our society and if we don't apply human face when dealing with them, am afraid we are far from getting there as a people.
Two wrongs indeed can never make things right and as such, can't fathom why the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams A. O. will treat this widow like this and even tell her to go and die when she's struggling to provide food for her family. I think it would've been far better to make her pay a fine for her wrong doing than this humiliation.
EastGold: Hahaha, abeg make una leave Oshiopikin. Make him enjoy his oyinbo wife. But politically, he don die.
Which oyinbo wife? Iara wey don abandon am when she realised he had sacrificed his balls to APC witches in their coven so they could make him chairman? Abeg leave the akata to enjoy her share of Edo loot jooorrr.
Raalsalghul: Why una like to dey tackle Jagaban like this?
Where were you when he was asking for Obaseki to be impeached, and when that failed, he ordered Edo people, on video, to vote him out. He must have thought that Edo people are docile like his home state where he lambasts everybody and they still line up behind his bullion vans for stomach infrastructure nothings. Right there in the palace of a king. What effrontery from the drug dealer associate of Esho Jinadu aka Buruji Kashamu.
2cribz: Obaseki na laugh now,cry later. He has done nothing in the state. I mean zero physical achievements All na for paper.
Because you live on paper The Association of Past/Present Criminals, APC leaders looters and their zombie followers can't breathe without telling lies per second, per second.
dre11: FLASHBACK: Oshiomhole once wanted building named after Obaseki for ‘selfless service’
Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), once said Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo, worked for the state using his brain and creativity.
Oshiomhole, who praised the governor during the governorship campaign of 2016, said a building at the government house should be named after Obaseki for his selfless service.
Oshiomhole said while he was governor of Edo, Obaseki helped him build the economy team of the state with his network.
“I know my limit. He knows his limit. Godwin Obaseki has worked for seven and half years for the people of Edo state, using his brain, creativity, quietly, not making noise,” Oshiomhole said.
“He sits in the office of the economic team which he built using his network of friends inside the heart of government house without demanding one naira.
“A man like that who will not ask me to give him contracts, but will promise me, comrade, you just do the thinking, we will create the means to actualise your thoughts. And to his credit today, check the books of Edo state, we did not build new structures in government house with government money. That economic team office was built through Godwin’s network. Today, it remains a permanent asset of the state government.
“I want us to be calling that building Godwin Obaseki building. I don’t see your opponent Ize-Iyamu being able to say that. In 2007, check the records, Ize-Iyamu was hiding from EFCC. He didn’t not vote. How can somebody who didn’t vote claim that he made me.
“If you have to look at Godwin and his credentials and you look at a man whose only work, by his CV, was a student and rusticated for two years, he read law but he is not a barrister. That is his foundation. I never gave him government job. Lucky Igbinedion’s mother was reported to have slapped Ize-Iyamu for misleading her son. He tried it with me, but we kept him away. Nothing near government circle. No access to public funds.
“Look at the road to his house, in our books, was dual carriage way. They took the money, constructed the road to his house and stopped. Although we have liquidated the godfathers politically, the entire political family will be liquidated.”
9jamustchange: It seems the position of godfatherism thrives on electoral profligacy. Once exposed to the sanitizing scrutiny of free, fair and credible election, it loses all it's pretentious and overrated influence and power.
onatisi: ize iyamu was just a scape goat , the edo election was a fight of survival for oshiomole , majority of apc elites wanted him out so many used this election as means to ridicule him and rubbish him , the forces against oshiomle was just too much for him to contend with , as he was contending with edo apc elites who were hell bent of making sure that he is removed from been their leader , there was also the external factor who knew that if apc should win edo again, oshiomole will have an excuse and platform to bounce back politically at the national level, which they didnt want to see happening .
and lastly he had pdp and a sitting governor to fight against , that alone is a big task . The edo election was all about cutting down oshiomle and that cause had more than enough willing powerful political elites to support it
Excellent analysis, but what of the ThiefNuibu aspect with his video call on Edolites to follow Iya mumu enter the godfather trap that is choking Lagosians since 1999 That was after his call for Obaseki's impeachment failed to fly.
anonimi: Edo 2020: Obaseki Has Committed Impeachable Offence — Tinubu AUGUST 8, 2020
The National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has waded in on developments in the Edo State House of Assembly, blaming the state governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki for what he called his “perverse” actions.
In a statement last night, Tinubu said the blocking of the legislative house to prevent the inauguration of the two-third lawmakers of the APC was a mockery of the constitution.
He argued that “Governor Obaseki’s conduct in the past year is undoubtedly impeachable”, adding that “these legislators have made no threat to impeach the Governor. Their only desire is to peacefully perform the duties asked of them by the constituents who elected them”
According to him, “By his refusal to permit duly elected members of the Edo State House of Assembly to perform their constitutional duties, Governor Obaseki betrayed contempt for the people of his state and, unfortunately, his ignorance of Nigeria’s constitutional order.”
He stated that as a Governor, Obaseki “ought to know better than to obstruct the functioning of his own legislature, but perhaps he is in need of a quick lesson.”
Na so o. Edo people spoke loudly and the gods saved them from the useless bullionaire godafther who has held Lagosians hostage for two decades plus. Edo airways fly-by-night power no be small thing
bezimo: So why did science fail to deliver man from Covid 19 problem which killed him? France, USA, Italy, UK which are advanced technology and science countries, Why did their science and technology fail them?
God's wisdom is the solution to man's problem I am an academic with speciality in construction engineering and management, but I would be among the first to admit that without God, man is nothing and his science wisdom is limited.
If science failed to deliver man from Covid-19, why did the gods of men- pastors, imams and priests- not save man from the disease
deantimes: Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s President, has reportedly said his party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) won last year’s governorship election in Osun with the help of remote control.
Mr President is quoted as making the above statement on Saturday when he visited traditional rulers in the state seeking their endorsement for his re-election.
The governorship election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in September was won by the APC although the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took early lead.
A rerun election which was later conducted in the areas believed to be the stronghold of Senator Iyiola Omisore, the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) saw the ruling party leading the opposition party.
Mr Omisore, POLITICS TIMES recalls, had entered into alliance with the APC to deliver his stronghold to the party. This was after he met a delegation of the PDP seeking similar help from him.
“I know how much trouble we had in the last election here,” Buhari was quoted by TheGuardian as saying while addressing the traditional rulers at the banquet hall of Osun State Government House.
“I know by remote control through so many sources how we managed to maintain the party (APC) in power in this state,” he added.
The president at the meeting did not elucidate clearly what he meant by remote control.
Ghen ghen!!! MOU Governor get your lawyers ready Pastor Ize Iyamu's Lawyers and APC lawyers were already set far before the election .
Despite all the oyoyo places you travelled to with fine fine infrastructure based on educated citizens? What is the essence of all that if you still support bullshit in your own country? Do you get joy in our shithole status of fantastically corrupt by Barawo Bubu and his Association of Past/Present Criminals, APC rogues?
Beverlyjean: When Jonathan was there...u curse and abused him and u made fake promises...now u understand the proverbial that its easier said than done ... u never can make real prmises unless u hv experienced it...Jonathan's government was way much better than the crap u guys offer
Racoon: After your government promised but failed to provide refineries as promised? After failing to rehabilitate the old refineries thereby constituting sources of economic wastage? Why was subsidy, TAM & other overhead costs being paid while they remain moribund? Let's be honest with ourselves for once.
Na so o. Liars get caught out in the long run, especially when they finally get the power they were hustling for. No more excuse. No hiding place. Compare and contrast.
ManirBK: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday in Kaduna reiterated his plan to privatise the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC), if elected president on Feb 23. Abubakar spoke at a town hall meeting with ward, local government and state party leaders in the state at the Kaduna Trade Fair Complex.
He said that the NNPC had failed to serve the purpose for which it was established in 1977. According to him, selling-off the Corporation and all the three refineries is the best option for the country, likening it to the sale of Nigerian Telecommunication Limited (NITEL).
Abubakar said Nigeria is among the biggest producers of crude, but lamented that the country still imports refined products for local consumption at exorbitant prices to the detriment of the common man. He said, if elected President, he would deregulate the NNPC and sell it to Nigerians. the way Obasanjo sold NITEL. However, he forgot to mention that the sale of NITEL was disastrously done. Under Obasanjo, NITEL went through several botched sales and management turnaround contracts. First, 51 per cent of the shares was sold to a group of investors under the trading name of Investors International London limited. The sale was cancelled after the investors failed to pay. Then in 2003, , the government approved a management turnaround contract with a firm called Pentascope. The contract was cancelled in 2005 after it became clear Pentascope did not have the adequate resources to run NITEL. In 2005, government again offered NITEL to Orascom. This failed again, leading the government to sell it to a subsidiary of Transcorp in 2007. The sale was revoked in 2009. In 2014, the firm was sold to NATCOM, a group of investors led by Tunde Ayeni. Ayeni since then has been running it as NTEL
We Won’t Sell NNPC, Refineries, FG Assures Feb 6, 2019
The Federal Government has assured Nigerian workers that it had no plans or agenda to sell any of the nation’s refineries or the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Speaking at the 12th Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of the NLC in Abuja, on Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari, who was represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said government was determined to attain the decent work agenda, which involves opportunities for workers, saying it will deliver a fair income, security at work places, and social protection for families.
“I want to reassure you of the commitment of this administration to the issue of welfare of workers. This is evidence of numerous programmes and policies that have been initiated by this administration in promoting the interest of the wellbeing of our workforce.
nextstep: I don't understand these debates at all.
For those who believe in a Creator: are you not open to the idea that the Creator can create life on an infinite number of planets? It's entirely possible.
For those who don't believe in a Creator: what is wrong with people personifying creation if it helps them sleep at night? We have had many personifications, and Yahweh is neither the first, nor the last in the long line of deities.
The truth is not one of us knows, and in my opinion the Bible described things to an audience that doesn't have the same scientific understanding as we do now. From that perspective, God, through scientists, is reaching out and writing an upgraded Bible, but the religious currently living refuse to understand that...
Babasessy: Awo Family Without An Awo By Sam Omatseye (The Offensive Article)
The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.
It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.
So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history. Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.
He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.
In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.
In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.
Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.
Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.
The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off. But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.
I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.
Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.
The only person that made a real try was Awolowo-Dosunmu in the early 1990s and she lost roundly. She was accused of trying to ride her father’s coattail. Political families are good for democracies. They can exemplify the high ideals of diligence, dignity, ideas, character. We have seen these in such families as the Kennedys, the Adamses, the Roosevelts, the Ghandis. They just don’t claim family. They appeal to the high ideals that endeared the families to their societies.
It’s also an irony that these families are falling into twilight. Some of them have vanished. Enoch Powell, a British MP, once gave us the famous line: “All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure because that is the nature of politics and human affairs.”
Columnist Ambassador Dapo Fafowora adverted to this idea in a recent outing, and I debated it with him afterwards. I don’t believe that a political life should be judged by how it ends but what it means. The quote is often missed by many who mistake “careers” for “lives.” A political life should be judged by its legacies. If we judged Awo by how he ended, we would look at him only as the loser to Shagari. That is why I see an intrinsic mischief in Enoch’s quote. But I would agree that political families end also in failure if you judge how they peter out and not the legacy.
Awo’s legacy is alive and well. Members of other families in flesh and blood can carry on. Immediate families tend to suffer from what an author, Noemie Emery, describes as dynastic curse. The children tend to be intimidated by the standards set by the fathers. So they just don’t want to try. They feel they cannot match them or come even close. The problem probably comes from the fathers themselves. The Adams, who produced important presidents, later gave birth to moral vagrants and drunks. The Bush daughters showed themselves as party girls when their father was contesting the political battle of his life.
But Joe Kennedy groomed his sons assiduously, and they excelled in politics. They also had a fair share of tragedies. Ted Kennedy regained his sobriety and voice in America after a season of debauchery. In Nigeria, we are seeing the Sarakis fade. A Saraki – Bukola - is wiping out the Sarakis from politics. It is a classic case of oedipal tragedy, something I predicted earlier this year on this page.
It is not late though for the flesh-and-blood Awolowos to join their father’s fold. But they must be genuine. Awo was the most important Yoruba personage in history after Oduduwa. They had stellar men like Oranmiyan, Balogun Latosa, Lisabi, Sodeke, et al. None of them had the unifying vision and organisational acumen that Awolowo gave the race. The wife, children and grandchildren should not watch others glow in his jewel without them.
fuzek: THE General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly and running mate of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) during the April 16 presidential election, Pastor Tunde Bakare, declared that it would be fool-hardy for “any bastard and the son of a concubine” to assume the leadership mantle of the Yoruba.
While preaching in his church in Lagos on the topic: “It is time to speak”, the fiery cleric said: “Look at the madness going on in Yoruba land. slowpoke, nincompoop, people without family background causing problem because of money, ill gotten wealth. If a town or settlement is at peace, the bastard there is yet to grow up.
“If you are a bastard, there is nothing you can do to cover up with money. Where is your father’s compound? A bastard pretending to be a patriot. We are proud of our heritage because we have goodly heritage. There are those who call themselves nobles who are under the influence of Jezebel. Until they drink kainkain, they cannot function. They pretend to be larger than life,” he added.
He likened the person angling to take over the leadership of the Yoruba to the Biblical Abimelech who forcefully took over a kingdom that did not belong to him and was eventually destroyed.
Omooba77: Big lie, it is not operational, I was at Abuja Airport sometimes ago. I asked for train terminal, I was told it is not completed yet!
Five years after Jonathan left the project at 80% completed, according to Amaechi? So what has Barawo Bubu’s Association of Past/Present Criminals, APC done with all the revenue, reserves, ECA, loans etc of the past five years? Looted everything?
somehow: Does he go to meet BBC/the UK government for treatment?
Use your brain.
And has he died since he has not gone for the past 6 months?
If you used only a tiny little fraction of your brain, you would know that the UK government provides the environment that enables their healthcare system to be good enough for Barawo Bubu to waste our scarce resources going there. In addition to authorising his travel.
ThreeEyedRaven: The place is truly fine ...but access roads to it for those of us who can't afford a flight to cross River state nko
If Aisha Buhari keeps going there instead of Dubai, when she is tired of doing Baba ba n gbesi in the other room, sharp sharp all the access road maintenance palaver will disappear. Don’t you think so
Buhari conducted a wonderful Election in Edo without violence or death... You haven't thanked him for that... Abi Na only criticism you Sabi?.
Are you a clone of the incompetent illiterate of Asshole Rock? If you are not, you would have read and understood what you quoted instead of wailing like a sheeple follower of a blind leader looter
sinkhole: When NNPC were called, after this video, they still denied that ruptured pipeline caused the explosion despite overwhelming evidence Why do we like denial in this country? Whenever there is complaint or observation, the first line of response is to deny such an observation ever occurred! A policeman will, unprovocatively shoot and kill people and when complaint is made, NPF will deny, saying that their officers are proffesionals who will nor harm the citizens they are to protect
Should we just continue talking about the problems, or it is time for all of us to work on the solutions as Edo people did to avoid the bullionaire godfather’s annexation of their state treasury?
Who else is the petroleum minister if not Barawo Bubu that tells lies with a straight face, just like Alhaji LIE Mohammed and other Association of Past/Present Criminals, APC leaders looters
Righteousness89: The Writer said they come with "Vanity Plate Numbers" It's Great to see that the World knows all these are Vanity.. Riches, Wealth and all that is not a Sin if Gotten through GENUIE Means Infact they could make Life here fun and Splendid. What is Most Important is the Salvation of your Soul..
No Matter the Latest Ferrari, Buggati or Mercedes that you Own or drive. No Matter the Amount of Cash Accessible to you.. No Matter the Connect that you Can pull.
If you Depart without JESUS , it's A Waste of Existence!
Treat these things with Light Hands.. They Have no Eternal Relevance.. They are Deceivers! Don't let them Deceive you
Politics › Re: Rochas Okorocha Celebrates His 58th Birthday Today by anonimi: 9:05am On Sep 22, 2020
