These artifacts or status might still have spiritual powers in them that makes these white people to pay so much money to acquire them.

omoilewa:
This is Gafaru street in Ikotun, Alimosho Local Govt, Lagos State, Nigeria.

There is a Councilor there, A Chairman, A member, HoA, House of Rep, A Senator and Governor.

This and many more streets have been like this for many decades and they are neglected with reckless abandon.

https://mobile.twitter.com/oakoak21/status/1277287862707392516

I have stayed in ikotun for two weeks it seems that area has the worst road network in the entire lagos state I don't know why the state govt abandoned that community the only good road u will find there is the one leading to tb joshua church probably tarred by the church.

You all brought this upon urselves when you refused to arrest and prosecute all ur brothers that were committing genocide in benue and other states in the early years of this buhari's regime. All the head of all the security agencies are all from the core north so there's absolutely nothing southerners can do to remedy the situation.

Yoruba jornalists and media outlets are experts in blackmail and distortion of facts am not surprised.

DEROX:
hmm what did goodluck do during his 6yrs to address this or will anyone challenge the president for doing his region well.take a look president gej deputy senate president ekweremadu deputy speaker ihedioha Finance minister iweala petroleum minister madueke power minister nebo, or should I go on with the list why was it hard for them to get things done in their region but they are quick to insult northerners and buhari who are wise to favour their region so who is the architect of their failure pls?

Govt is a continuous process why did ur nepotic buhari abandoned the $16b epz gas project in delta to now now start this one in kaduna?

legitnow:
I AM YET TO COME ACROSS A MORE FOOLISH PERSON THAN A SOUTHERNER (ODUDUWA & BIAFRA) CHAMPIONING THE UNITY OF ONE NIGGER-AREA

-Even more dumb are the literate dummies that say they are Nigger Delta the ‘Our Oyel’ brigade, South South, Bendel, Mid-West, South-East and goodness knows what other nonsensical name their masters from the Sahel will give them to bear tomorrow.

As these morons are busy dividing themselves with their useless slave names. The Fulani ‘PRESIDENCY’ supported by their terror group Miyetti we gather will on Wednesday- day after tomorrow, flag off their AKK gas pipeline which will cost the ZOO $2.8 billion. Mind you all this money came from Biafraland by virtue of our resources the British stole with the active connivance of their Fulani lapdogs and Oduduwa treachery.

We understand AKK stands for Ajeokuta, Kaduna, Kano.

The sole aim of the gas pipeline is to transfer gas from Biafraland to the terror breeding supporter of APC Sharia territories in a bid to industrialize the north and from there export the gas to other Islamic North African countries.

But here is the issue, the entire Biafraland including the retards that call themselves Nigger Delta, South East and South South have no industrial gas pipeline that will aide industrialization but they are the ones that produce the gas. They drink from the same pool of dirty water they go to toilet in.

Igboland has the biggest gas reserves in the whole of Africa in Ohaji/Egbema/Ugwuta axis. Dangote has been busy purchasing choice acres of gas rich lands with the help of Fulani Supreme Court Governor Hope Uzodinma.

Oduduwa are also benefitting from the enslavement of Biafraland because they too are getting their own gas pipeline from Igboland to the Ogun and Lagos area, to help provide steady electricity for companies there. This is why they want One Nigger-area by all means not because they love you but because of their parasitic tendencies. They are all hypocrites. Now you know why you head to the north or west once you graduate.

According to Okenyi Kenechi, “few months ago, Governor Wike dredged the Iwofe River to allow NLNG gas vessels to deck there. Before that, NLNG gas vessels take gas from Bonny to Lagos where gas is hauled in trucks back to Port Harcourt and other parts of the region. That's why cooking gas is cheaper in Lagos than in Port Harcourt.” Yes you heard him right, cooking gas is cheaper in Lagos than anywhere in Biafraland. When Yoruba tells you about one Nigger-area now you know why.

Kenechi went on to say “you see, when I see young people from South East and South South insulting themselves over Biafra and Niger Delta Republic, I laugh and shake my head. You people are living in the dark. The rest of the country are playing okoso with your futures.”

“Keep shouting APC and PDP while your region is roundly underdeveloped.”

When will our people learn to reason. by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

Buhari is no doubt a sectional leader he has abandoned the $16b epz gas project in escravos in delta state that was started by goodluck and now about to commission this one in kaduna.

This is extremely beautiful hope sea pyrates don't disturb in these islands? Private bodies can also develop it not only federal and state govts.

Edokingdom:
It is not a Hidden agenda anymore that some parts of edos looks much like igbos while some parts of edo state also look
much like yorubas,
For example, some beautiful yellow women of edo state, if you get to see them out side, you will definitely think they are igbos,
Does this have secrets undiscovered?

Op u are absolutely correct I have also noticed it myself.

MinorityOpinion:
If you check Pre-Colonial pictures of igbos documented by the Europeans that visited them, they are all dark and brown like their Africans brothers, the pictures above are of Igbos in 1800 taken by European photographer. Do you see anything like yellow? No.

Let's fast forward it to 2020, if you look around you or your Igbo friends, most of them are dark or brown like their African brothers, go to any igbo dominated markets, what do you see? Dark skinned and brown skinned igbos.

Now this is where it get tricky, I know people will ask the question "but what about lightskinned igbos?", there is perfect explanation for that.

Now look at this Pre-colonial pictures of igbos again, do you see lighter shade of skin? The answer is NO. So where does the Igbos get their lightskin from?

To be honest, the truth is igbos bleach the skin of their child right from when they are young, although there is nothing wrong with it, it their body and their child's body. Apart from it, igbo in their teens or adolescent stage also bleach their skin to look more light skinned, i'm not saying other tribes are not doing it, but the magnitude of igbos doing it is more compared to other tribes.

Another perspective is inter marriage between igbos and other tribes from south south, most of the light skinned igbos you're seeing are the cross breed of igbos with their south south neighbours.

This one must have smoked dried amala before posting this trash here.

Am sure the guns are for self protection from bloodthirsty fulaniherdsmen that have been killing a lot of people in delta. Why haven't this same police arrested all the terrorist fulaniherdsmen openly carrying sophisticated weapons and massacring hundreds of deltans in their homes and farmlands?

Fariq:
The Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) pipeline is a 614km-long natural gas pipeline currently being developed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

It is set to be laid between Ajaokuta and Kano in Nigeria and forms phase one of the Trans-Nigeria Gas Pipeline (TNGP) project.

The pipeline project is being implemented via a build and transfer (BT) public-private partnership (PPP) model, which involves the contractor providing 100% of the funding.

The pipeline will cost an estimated $2.8bn and ground breaking ceremony is scheduled for tuesday 30th June.

The project will result in the establishment of a connecting pipeline network between the eastern, western and northern regions of Nigeria.

It also aims to create a steady and guaranteed gas supply network between the northern and southern parts of Nigeria by utilising the country’s widely available gas resources.

NNPC originally announced tenders for the development of the AKK pipeline in July 2013.

A project proposal was submitted to the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) in June 2017.

The PPP compliance certificate was issued in July 2017 along with the approval of the feasibility study.

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) granted approval for the project in December 2017.

https://mobile.twitter.com/OvieAli/status/1276817690796138496

These greedy wicked northerners think they will rule nigeria forever.

But northern leaders have been boasting of feeding the whole nigeria what then are they afraid of? Oil is even fast loosing it's value in the international market why can't the north look beyond the oil and gas deposits in the niger delta and agree to the restructuring of nigeria that all the regions except the core north have agreed to?

All i can çlearly see in this whole write-up is great fear and cowardice.

This writer deserves an award for this masterpiece am personally loving and getting really entertained the way everything is finally playing out. This clearly shows that there is no honor amongst theives, tinibu has no doubt lost out in this political chess game and should just continue to quietly lick his wounds in his closet with the looted billions he has accumulated he has no other choice.

Biety:
Your waka waka seems to be blessing now but it is a curse in the real sense.

In the future the reality would stare at you when the indigenes of the regions you are living now stop buying from you and start selling those things they are buying from you today to themselves.

Trading is the only thing giving you advantage over the indigenes of the regions you are livng today and you cannot monopolize it (trading) forever, soon others will start selling goods like electronics, tiles, clothes, drugs etc in their numbers, then you'll be stucked in different parts of Nigeria not knowing what else to do, then most of you w'ld head back home after selling most of your properties.
This is going to happen in the future whether you like/ believe it or not.

So u think igbo business men and women are foolish not to divest their investments and businesses to other sectors of the economy? Someone like innoson has already gone into the oil and gas industry.

KEVIND:
Embattled National Leader of the All progressive Congress, APC Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has taken a huge swipe at President Mohammadu Buhari, describing him as an ingrate on whom he spent over N35 billion to make president.
Tinubu’s outburst came a day after Buhari torpedoed his Presidential ambition, endorsing another faction of the APC in the leadership tussle that has engulfed the party, sources close to the former Governor of Lagos State told Pointblanknews.com.
On Wednesday, Buhari endorsed acting national secretary, Victor Gaidom as acting National Chairman of APC. Barely 24hrs later, he orchestrated the dissolution of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC. Yobe State governor Mai Mala Bunu was appointed to lead the party’s caretaker Chairman.

Sources told Pointblanknews.com that Bunu, Abubakar Bagudu and Nasir El-Rufai, governors of Yobe, Kebbi and Kaduna States respectively, as well as Transport Minister Chibuike Amaechi belong to the same political camp opposed to Tinubu.

Soon after Thursday’s NEC meeting, gathered Pointblanknews.com, Tinubu got on the telephone with a former national chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, lamenting and cursing everyone perceived to be behind his political travails.

A source who privy to the conversation told Pointblanknews.com that the former Lagos state Governor complained to Akande, reportedly expressing regrets on all he did for the APC.

“Asiwaju lamented that he invested over N35 billion to fund Buhari’s elections in 2015 and 2019 and yet, he is never appreciated,” the source told Pointblanknews.com

Pointblanknews.com could not independently verify the figure Tinubu claimed to have spent on Buhari’s two elections.

The source further hinted that the embattled APC leader regretted not backing his former political ally and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar in 2019 over Buhari, and blamed El-Rufai, Amaechi and former Ogun State governor Ibikunle Amosun as the arrowheads of the opposition to his political aspiration.

“Asiwaju told Akande that had he backed Atiku in 2019, he won’t have suffered this kind of political humiliation. He said that were it not for him, the APC would not have won the 2015 and 2019 elections,” disclosed the source.

Pointblanknews.com gathered that Tinubu may have been dealt the biggest political blow of his life yet in retaliation for how he (Tinubu) humiliated the immediate past governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode.

According to the source, Buhari and other top leaders of the APC had begged Tinubu to allow Ambode complete his tenure. As events later proved, the pleas fell on deaf ears.

The APC leaders were said to have vowed to pay Tinubu in his own coin for not just disobeying the President but also carrying on like the sole owner of the party.

Meanwhile, a cold war is currently brewing between Tinubu and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

According to sources close to both political gladiators, Tinubu may have since 1999 skimmed up to $1.5 billion directly and through proxies. Governor Sanwo-Olu is reportedly not pleased with Tinubu’s “overbearing demands and his attempt to control his government.”

Ambode is reportedly happy that Tinubu’s humiliation would give him some respite.

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/buhari-ungrateful-after-i-spent-n35-billion-to-make-him-president-tinubu/

Tinibu wants to run nigerian politics like his former drug business.

Oshomole wants to go against the directive of buhari not to go to court does he have what it takes to fight the presidency?

JasonScoolari:
For a moment, I thought it was former president Olusegun Obansanjo popularly known as "Baba Iyabo" giving out his letters to whom it may concern...

In the words of that popular Instagram comedian and I quote; "fergie006, you're doing well"

Now, I am not Baba Iyabo that have the luxury of time to write letters, my words are VENOMOUS and I waste no seconds sending them to whom it may concern.

Grade 8 zombies in this forum can testify.

Just like Esau in the Holy book, Tinubu sold the South for a plate of "Amala and Ewedu" but instead of getting that delicacy, he is now getting some rotten Tuwó shinkafa and kunû filled with flies.

That's what you get from someone whose mother was a slave merchant that made huge wealth from selling his own people to the white men am not surprised u can clearly see the same traits and behavior from her son today.

The blogger that blurred his face must also be a child rapist.

Factshunter:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sunnewsonline.com/operation-amotekun-arrests-42-cows-over-alleged-destruction-of-farmlands-in-ondo/amp/

Nice one those primitive barbarians called fulaniherdsmen really deserves to be put in their place enough is enough southerners have tolerated these bloodthirsty monsters from hell enough.

Indigenous:
Stolen From The Mind Of The Fulani
We are the Fulani, we own Nigeria. They know we own Nigeria, the Igbo knows, and the Yoruba will not say they don't know. The Fulani has no particular home. We take and possess wherever we want. Before 1804 we weren't in Nigeria. A certain Hausa King, Yinka welcomed our most revered Uthman Dan Fodio and from a preacher, he rose to Kingship. He killed Yinka, took his Kingdom, and since then Hausa has become our obedient slaves.
For many years we have opened the Nigeria door for the influx of the Fulani into Nigeria. Those that came in some little years back are today governors and in charge of Nigeria. We the Fulani are in charge of Nigeria. And we have ruled them more and more, and we will continue ruling them. We have opened the borders and in few years millions of us will come in to possess our possession.
We the Fulani are Lords. We can steal and still jail those from other tribes that stole. We can kill and still arrest other tribes that didn't kill. Our youths are killing people, sacking villages and occupying them. We go about with AK47 without being molested. Yet we have arrested Igbo youths and imprisoned them for shouting Biafra. We are the Fulani, we do whatever we want.
We shall never allow them take control over their destiny. We must keep making sure the rogues among them rule them. Criminals who doesn't care about their people or have regard for them. People we can control, those that will rule for us and enjoy accelerated looting of their people's resources. That's the type of leaders we the Fulani will gift them. Why do you think their governors rejected Regional Security and embraced our packaged Community Policing? They are our proud slaves.
Didn't you see what happened in Imo state? Those Igbo people voted for Emeka Ihedioha and we gave them Hope Uzodimma, our shameless stooge. A known thief who has case with our dogs the EFCC.
Yes, we own the EFCC, the army, the police and even the Air force etc. They all belonged to us. Is that not why they are all headed by we the Fulani, with our intellectual slaves from the East and West defending us. They say on our behalf that it doesn't matter if the Fulani takes charges of every organization in Nigeria. That what matters is their performance. That we should all rise above tribe and stop seeing a Fulani, but rather see a Nigerian. They are slaves and we pay them with their own resources.
We are the Fulani, we take whatever we want. We are sacking villages, killing Christians, occupying and renaming their villages and there is nothing anyone of you can do. Rise up and we will bring you to your kneels using your own brothers. That's how powerful a Fulani is.
They say they are sophisticated, intelligent and rich,yet they are fools and we the Fulani controls them.
Is that not why we own their oil wells and give them pipe line guard contract. And they are happy and doing it well. Pathetic slaves.
We are the Fulani and we will become indigenes of every state in Nigeria. We have become indigenes in Benue and will soon become indigenes in Ebonyi and Enugu. After which the Koran will be dipped into the ocean. And your brothers will make all of these possible.
All hail the Fulani!

This barbarian tribe will still fail in their evil mission of total conquest of nigeria. All the lands their foot soildiers have already captured will surely be retaken by the real owners once again immediately buhari's regime is over.

Some nigerian youths have PhD in online bashing they just murdered that lady.

StagethemTVee:
Steve Bing, an American producer, philanthropist, and writer has died by suicide at the age of 55. According to TMZ, he died on Monday June 22nd after jumping from the 27th floor of a luxury apartment building in L.A.'s Century City neighborhood. Sources told the publication that he had been suffering from depression due to lack of human contact during quarantine.

Bing, who founded Shangri-La Entertainment inherited a fortune of some $600 million from his grandfather, L.A. real estate developer Leo S. Bing.
After dropping out of University, Bing pursued a career in Hollywood and became the executive producer of the Sylvester Stallone film, "Get Carter," in 2000.

In 2003, he co-wrote the action-comedy “Kangaroo Jack,” and he also contributed to “Missing in Action” and wrote an episode of “Married With Children.” The philanthropist later invested some $80 million in “The Polar Express,” the Tom Hanks-voiced 2004 film directed by Robert Zemeckis. Bing had producing credits on films including “CSNY/Deja Vu,” “Rock the Kasbah,” “Get Carter,” “Girl Walks Into a Bar” and a Jerry Lee Lewis documentary in the works.

Bing is survived by his two children, Damian Hurley from his relationship with Elizabeth Hurley and daughter Kira Bonder, who he had with former pro tennis player Lisa Bonder.

Source: https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/22/kangaroo-jack-writer-steve-bing-dead-suicide/

Probably he is into drugs or something else how can a man with such wealth and influence end up committing suicide just like that?

post=90971200:


https://dailytimes.ng/father-of-electricity-in-nigeria-dies-at-86/

When it comes to striving by merit u must give it to the igbos this is why the nigerian state don't want to allow a level playing field for them cos they know that the other ethnic groups can't compete with them.

Replacing all the service chiefs will never change anything without changing the head of the terrorists in aso rock. Service chiefs are all acting based on the orders they received from buhari.

If not for this coronavirus pandemic he would have since been flown abroad by now. Build standard hospitals these corrupt politicians won't they rather prefers to loot nigeria to the ground now look at how they are now stranded and dieing one by one in nigeria.

StagethemTVee:
Uche Elendu has responded to trolls who attacked her dad after she shared a picture of him on Father's day. In her words; ' the money her Daddy gave me to start a business, most of you will have to sleep with 34 men to get half of it'. Makes one wonder why her choice example to make money is sleeping with men.

Below is the message she shared before the trolls descended on her timeline.



https://www.instagram.com/p/CBtMl6Jnr5u/?igshid=urbo73uyyvrm

Below are the series of exchange that ensued afterwards. My only ish with this is she is trying too hard to explain to people who don't really care.

Most igbo men don't bother about fashion and showing off even though they can comfortably afford it what they are mostly after is how to take good care of their families.

flokii:
I'm sure the betrayers from a particular region will queue up behind Atiku or whichever Northerner they choose to do the bidding out of envy of SW presidency in 2023.

Na their way be that, reasons the Northerners feel they are born to rule.

Why can't yorubas support igbo presidential candidate in 2023? Tinibu presidency will not benefit the igbos in any way that is the reason why the SE will rather prefer to support atiku if they can't get the seat themselves.

[quote author=light099 post=90909812]He's likely going to overcome it and get well just like many others, at the same time, that's not enough reason to take the deadly virus for a joke.

CoronaVirus works in mysterious ways and it's activeness is jointly dependent on location and individual's body system.

Presently, it seems the version of the virus operating in Africa is the Chinese version and perhaps the Italian version. Luckily for Africa, our climate isn't giving the virus a space to thrive because of the hot weather and the Vitamin D we freely have access to everyday. Since the climate of African's location has devoured the virus to a good extent, it's just left for the body system of each African to fight the remaining battle. That is why CoronaVirus is national in some countries but it's personal in Africa, it's you and your immune system against the virus.
However, I feel while the virus seems to be inactive on this side of the planet, it's not because it isn't spreading fast, rather, it's just because many Africans are asymptomatic to the foreign version of the virus.

The scary part is, one can only hope the Virus is not quietly adapting and mutating to produce the African version of itself. That is why we can't afford to be careless or throw caution to the winds, so that Melinda Gate's prophesy wouldn't eventually come to pass. Many people take this shiit for a joke, unfortunately the battle is not yet won. No one knows what's brewing-up underground. In a smart world where gadgets are getting smarter, I won't be too surprised if the viruses are also getting smarter.[/quote


We really hope that the nigerian version of the virus won't mutate to a very deadly one that will be killing thausands of nigerians.

masterpiscles15:
#FathersDayGift

GOV. UZODIMMA ADOPT 9 YEAR OLD IMO WIZKID SINGER, AS OWN CHILD... SPONSORS HIS EDUCATION

Luck smiled on Mbaise born 9 year old Imo wizkid singer, Master Joseph Oluomachi Opara, yesterday as Governor Hope Uzodinma announced that he has adopted him as his child and undertook to personally sponsor him from primary school to Catholic priesthood

Master Opara made waves in the internet at the weekend with a video of his catholic hymn songs which marked him out as a specially talented kid singer. This attracted instant applause and commendations from the public.

Announcing the good news to the Opara family home in Nekede mechanic village in owerri yesterday, state commissioner for information and strategy, Declan Emelumba, said the governor sent him to inform the family that he has adopted thier son as his own child and will personally take over full responsibility for training him until he becomes a Rev. Father which he said is his ambition

"His Excellency Dist Sen Hope Uzodimma was so excited after listening to the video of Master Opara that he directed me to locate you and inform you that from today Joseph is now his child and that sience he wants to become a catholic priest he will take up the responsibility of training him from his present primary 4 class until he is ordained a priest" Emelumba announced to the family

Joseph's Father Berneth Opara, said he was very grateful to the governor for his magnanimity" Pls thank our performing governor, ONWA Oyoko for me. God has used him to bless my family" he said, just as Joseph himself was full of gratitude to the governor.

#HopeNewAndElectronicMediaCenter

Why not save the parents from abject poverty first they can always train their child to any level? The state govt can employ or empower the father and mother and the story of that little boy will surely never remain the same. All I see here is just cheap publicity for the governor.

Observer131:
Gambari has turned out to be not the Abba Kyari replacement Aisha had hoped he would be. Instead, Sabi’u “Tunde” Yusuf, her nemesis’ nephew, is the new Abba Kyari.

BY FAROOQ A. KPEROGIJUN 20, 2020

By now, most people have read the story of the scuffle that occurred between Mrs. Aisha Buhari, her children, and her security aides on one hand and Sabi’u “Tunde” Yusuf, son of Buhari’s niece who also works as his private secretary, on the other hand, which caused Aisha’s ADC to shoot at Sabiu inside the Presidential Villa, narrowly missing him.


Recall that I was the first to publicly publish the names of Muhammadu Buhari’s close relatives working for him in the Presidential Villa, including Sabiu Yusuf. At the time I published the names, the regime activated its online troll factory to call my revelation “fake news.”

Daily Trust even refused to publish a column by Sonala Olumhense that repurposed my revelations of Buhari’s close relatives working in the Villa. Now most of the names are in the open, and official communications from the presidency mentions them.

Well, Aisha’s attempt on the life of Sabi’u “Tunde” Yusuf, a 30-something-year-old former recharge card seller in Daura who is now the third most powerful Nigerian after Buhari and Mamman Daura was a consequence of her frustration at not being able to take over power after Abba Kyari’s death.

Abba Kyari was the face of the cabal made up of Mamman Daura, Samaila Isa Funtua, Babagana Kingibe, and former DSS boss Lawal Musa Daura. Kyari was almost literally Buhari’s babysitter, which, as you would expect, made him Aisha’s sworn enemy, although Aisha got a heck of a lot of placatory concessions and favors from him.

When Abba Kyari contracted the coronavirus, Aisha and her children were ecstatic. The prospect of the cessation of Kyari’s grip on Buhari gladdened them to no end. They were so thrilled at the thought of his death that they couldn’t contain it.

For instance, on March 24, shortly after news of Abba Kyari’s coronavirus infection became public knowledge, Zahra Buhari Indimi rejoiced on Instagram. “Earth is cleansing itself and it’s [sic] inhabitants,” she wrote. A few minutes later, she added: “Karma is the most patient gangster ever.”

Several social media users— and even some traditional news organizations— noticed. PM News’ headline was, “Zahra Buhari reacts to coronavirus after Abba Kyari tested positive.” Others called it what it was: perverse mockery of Kyari for testing positive for the coronavirus.

Even before Abba Kyari died on April 17, Aisha Buhari exploited the vacuum created by his absence to exert some influence and “cleanse” (to use her daughter’s words) the Presidential Villa of the bureaucratic vestiges of Abba Kyari. She caused Jalal Arabi, Permanent Secretary of the State House and Kyari's slavish underling, to be redeployed from the Villa.

In my April 18 social media intervention titled “Abba Kyari's Death, End of a Surrogate Presidency, and the Coming Chaos” in the immediate aftermath of Kyari’s death, I told people to “Watch out for Aisha Buhari to assert herself more aggressively and to work to grab power in the fashion that Turai Yar'adua did.”

She hasn’t disappointed. After Kyari’s death, she immediately got to work to get Buba Marwa appointed Chief of Staff to Buhari. Had that happened, she would have effectively taken over as president. Mamman Daura on whom Buhari has been emotionally and intellectually dependent for decades would never countenance that.

Babagana Kingibe, a member of the cabal who wanted to replace Abba Kyari as Buhari’s Chief of Staff, is a notoriously treacherous wretch with whom Mamman Daura was uncomfortable. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari emerged almost fortuitously as a compromise.

But Aisha Buhari was more enthusiastic about Gambari than Mamman Daura was. Gambari’s candidacy was almost entirely pushed by Maiduguri multibillionaire Muhammadu Indimi whose son is married to Aisha’s daughter, Zahra, who celebrated Abba Kyari’s coronavirus infection.

Of course, Gambari is known to Buhari. Apart from serving as his minister of external affairs when he was a military dictator in the 1980s, possibly on the recommendation of Tunde Idiagbon with whom Gambari shared Ilorin identity, Gambari was drafted to speak to presidents and international bodies to lend legitimacy and credibility to Buhari in the aftermath of his in-your-face electoral heist in 2019.

Nonetheless, had Indimi not pleaded with Buhari to consider Gambari for the Chief of Staff position, he wouldn’t have stood a chance. It turned out, however, that Buhari and, most importantly, Mamman Daura had not yet been totally sold on the Gambari candidacy when news of his appointment littered social media.

A close friend to Aisha Buhari’s media consultant told me that it was Aisha Buhari who commissioned his consultant to reach out to social media influencers to spread the story of Gambari’s appointment. At the time I learned of this, it didn’t make sense to me because I knew she wanted Buba Marwa to succeed Abba Kyari.

Then, in an unusual move, the emir of Ilorin issued a public statement thanking Buhari for appointing Ibrahim Gambari, his uncle, as Chief of Staff to the President even though Gambari had not formally been announced by the presidency as Buhari’s Chief of Staff.

When I read the emir’s statement, I called an older friend of mine who is close to power brokers in the north and asked if he knew what was happening. He said some opinion leaders there had called Gambari after they read the emir’s statement and asked him if he had been formally appointed.

My friend reported Gambari to have told them that he had not been formally informed that he had been appointed Chief of Staff. I was confused. Exactly three hours later, my friend called back to say Gambari had just spoken with one of the leaders and said he had just then received word from the Villa that he had been appointed Chief of Staff to Buhari.

Apparently, realizing that her candidate wouldn’t make the cut—and in order to forestall the possibility of Mamman Daura imposing a candidate on her husband— Aisha decided to compel Buhari into appointing her father-in-law’s candidate through artful social media manipulation.

I don’t know if she coordinated with the emir of Ilorin, but at the time the emir thanked Buhari for appointing his uncle, Buhari and Mamman Daura had not made up their minds on whom they wanted to be Buhari’s Chief of Staff.

So Buhari and Daura were dealing with three simultaneous pressures: social media chatter that Gambari had been appointed Chief of Staff when he hadn’t, the emir of Ilorin’s letter of gratitude for an appointment that had not been made, and Muhammadu Indimi’s push on behalf of Gambari. It was too much to resist, so they caved in at the last minute.

Why is this background important to the Aso Rock gunfight? Well, it’s because Daura, having been beaten by Aisha in the choice of Gambari, decided to make Sabiu “Tunde” Yusuf, the son of his sister, the real Chief of Staff and a bulwark against Aisha’s encroachment into Buhari’s politics and policies.

As I noted in my May 30, 2020 column titled, “Gambari: Embrace and Alienation of an Outsider on the Inside,”“unlike Abba Kyari who had a direct access to Buhari and whom Buhari said all ministers should meet if they wanted anything from him, Gambari has an intermediary between him and Buhari. And it isn’t just any intermediary; the intermediary is Buhari’s blood relative whom my November 23, 2019 column titled ‘Government of Buhari’s Family, By His Family, and For His Family’ exposed.”

In other words, Gambari has turned out to be not the Abba Kyari replacement Aisha had hoped he would be. Instead, Sabi’u “Tunde” Yusuf, her nemesis’ nephew, is the new Abba Kyari. Since the “Earth” hasn’t “cleansed” itself of the man like it did with Abba Kyari, she and her children wanted to do it themselves.

Sabi’u’s refusal to self-quarantine after potentially exposing himself to the coronavirus is, of course, a legitimate reason for Aisha Buhari to be antsy, but naked power grab is the real motive force for the animus against him.

Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter: @farooqkperogi

http://saharareporters.com/2020/06/20/backstory-behind-aisha-buhari%E2%80%99s-gunfight-sabiu-yusuf-farooq-kperogi

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So this means Prof. Gambari is just chief of staff on paper why can't he resign instead of taking orders from a small boy who only have experience in selling recharge cards?