₦airaland Forum

TheNiceGuy:
"All of us can contest but not all of us can win"


Ashiwaju has won this already.

Children raised with HATE, full of anger, perdition and sorrow should get ready to wail and shed salty tears for 8 years.

Salty tears? Abi blooded and bloody tears. Na serious calamity don cast dem for pit so.

kahal29:
https://dailypost.ng/2022/05/11/2023-i-will-consult-my-constituency-before-i-resign-ngige-on-buharis-order/

Has anyone seen Mr ' RELUWE " ,Amaechi, for me? Cos the president is waiting for his letter.

kahal29:
https://dailypost.ng/2022/05/11/2023-i-will-consult-my-constituency-before-i-resign-ngige-on-buharis-order/

Do you see why an Iboman cannot be president? Are you employed by your constituency? And , are the other appointees not having their own constituency? Are you given the appointment to serve your people or the nation ? Does this now show that the Ibos are desperately seeking the presidency to serve their tribal and sectional ends. Without any constitutional provisions does Buhari not have the power to hire and fire those he chooses to work with him?. Does he not possess the power to reshuffle his cabinet at will without giving any reason?And those internet beasts will soon start to recite their marginalisation and victimisation dirge. Ohanneze must be having their siesta, else they would started their senile senseless rantings.

envoymedia:
https://igberetvnews.com/1419757/ministerial-resignation-order-buhari-power-remove-ministers-lai-mohammed-video/

Will Mr reluwe troo resign?

specialmati:
you see I don't discuss politics with people with undeveloped mind like you point out all am saying is stop hating on people that careless of your existence. Keep your rotten heart full of hatred to yourself and family the igbos you hate don't care

The Igbos really don't care. No wonder your reaction, because you reacted because you don't ' care '. And of course, the strident Ibo noise all over the social media. I know before I post now, Ohanneze would have come with their senseless agitation and shout for Ibo presidency. The Igbos don't really ' care '

osinbanjoisaliar:
Jesus talk sey watch your tongue. Take that one as advice

Fake pastor, did the same LORD teach you to describe someone expressing his opinion without even mentioning your name as dull ?.If you actually know JESUS you need that counsel more than anyone else. This is just to teach you that you don't flap your mouth anyhow without considering hurt to others.

SamuelOamen:
https://thenationonlineng.net/breaking-angry-buhari-orders-emefiele-akpabio-amaechi-sylva-others-to-resign/

Oga, how about the anointing before we go ? I carry my bottle !!!!!!!

meritadavize1:
First time nyamiri will do something commendable

But suicidal. Lol

osinbanjoisaliar:
O, boy you dull O. Wetin you get for university. Shey na please let him go

I'll neither believe nor agree that you're hurt by the plain incontrovertible truth until I see your obituary. Please, don't keep waiting, cos I don't have the time.

God1000:
1. Somalia
1. Ethiopia
3. Egypt
4. South Africa
5. Ghana
6. Cameroon
7. Nigeria
8. Tanzania
9. Eswatini
10. Kenya

I personally believe that every country has beautiful women, so no need of bickering here.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ47FT4DlEU

Fake research. Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania that you put there fault your list,even putting Ghana ahead of Nigeria. And where are the Gambians and the Senegalese? You're a fraud.

Parachoko:
The appeal Court didn't cancel it.

On Bola Ahmed Tinubu Mandate I Stand Gidigba

Why do you bother to reply them, they're illiterate ' go-slow' gala hawkers .

specialmati:
sorry Mr rotten product dictator, I know it's only rotten dictators like you will never like a good product because of the rotten heart that immanate hate for a good product. Pray to have a good heart and a good eye so that you will know a good product when it's marketed

You're an Iboman with undeveloped mind that always celebrates mediocrity and trash .Anything Ibo is always excellent in your warped thinking because the level of excellence in your society is so low. And it's hard for you to build excellence because anything any Iboman has ever been in Nigeria has always been dashed to him, and never true personal industry, acumen or dexterity. Which of these, Saraki, Tambuwal and Amosun, can you compare your Obi with, just a two-term governor of a tiny and not so significant state. And these are some of the lowliest contending for the office. The joy of it is that there's absolutely nothing within your power as a zone or as a tribe to make an Iboman the president. Even to be the VP, someone has to be kind enough to dash you. So you can go on crying and wailing and sulking until your heads are off your neck. NOTHING SPOIL.

specialmati:
shebi na this reno they support atiku abi, now he thinks he can demarket obi because of the old atiku. Atiku ruled with obasanjo for 8years and didn't push the country forward na now wey him Don over old him want to perform magic abi. Just like buhari.

Obi is a rotten product ,only Ibos can buy it.Then only few and insignificant number of it can be because the potential buyers are so few and insignificant. So, Obi is an insignificant contender.

Kwanza:
…judgement has reaffirmed constitutional right to fair hearing, freedom of expression of every individual – Barr. Odo



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/05/just-in-court-declares-ebonyi-cybercrimes-law-illegal-unconstitutional/

That's what their Umahi is coming to do at the centre.

DOTian:
He's actually right.
Bayelsa was created to allow the ijaws stop trying to create tension all over the South South with their boundary dragging habits. But it seems like they are no more interested in their Bayelsa state. They want to invade Rivers. They need to be pushed back. The habit of settling at every available seashore and then claiming ownership of everything around, is a recipe for war and conflicts..

That's absolutely right. You go to a community, they give you their waterine area to live your primitive live. Then when you become greater in number ,you start to claim the land. Though Wike is an animal with crass bestiality. So crude and primitive.

AJOBI77:
Can't this war Stop

Until all Russian commanders are dead .

englishmart:
Random reactions.

Illuminati are back for return on their investment in his life. Sure as death for all.

seunmsg:
Peter Obi Pandora is leading on Twitter NG

Twitter NG is a den of fools.

NasCarter:
I am a 28yo medical student still in 400L and i am feeling like i am too old..

You're a medical student, you should be able to do something about it if you're feeling too old.

Islie:
https://thenationonlineng.net/exclusive-akinwumi-adesina-may-join-2023-presidential-race/

APC is so much confused that there's no how they will not make irredeemable and exceedingly costly error. The schemers are set to irreversibly scheme themselves into a political disaster .

tunene66:
http://saharareporters.com/2022/05/08/breaking-former-nigerian-senator-arthur-nzeribe-dead

The old rogue and the most unscrew Nigerian that ever lived.

PrinceOfLagos:
Just about 30 delegates out of over 5000 penned down "audio" signature for you and you're shamelessly bragging about it

Jagaban my foot

You will be so disgraced on May 30th

Ibo and their woes, and in their woes - pathetic human beings, so insignificant and irrelevant in all facets of Nigerian life.Absolutely so valueless.

Karlovych:
It must have been sango, ogun or one of the numerous skull mining deities because with the way you and the dullard have completely wrecked the country, even Yahweh would avoid failures like you, spits.

Or human- flesh pepper soup loving amadioha , the supreme god of the Ibos.

adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/God-made-me-VP-to-serve-Nigerians-as-President-Osinbajo

That's why you looked the other way fighting for RUGA as Christians are slaughtered by Muslim herdsmen.

NurseMaryUSA:
With so many scams going on how can an African American female find a serious African man to marry. It doesn't seem like many African men are interested in marrying us.

Get connected through Church, even if you're not a member of that, you confide in the pastor of any branch of the Church avail to you. That's the surest way.Or you can contact me.

ijustdey:
https://leadership.ng/lagos-ibadan-highway-for-inauguration-next-month-federal-govt/

Lalasticlalaù

941 kilometers of roads, and how many kilometers of electricity?

Hugotee:
He is the one

Obi don carry correct virgin for correct human-flesh pepper soup. GOD save Nigeria.

aminulive:
POLITICSNIGERIA.COM



https://politicsnigeria.com/2023-crisis-looms-as-apc-includes-withdrawal-letter-in-presidential-form-photo/

You're an indolent and lazy news channel, giving us this stale and sour news

Lucasmuyiwaa:
What happened was that my Dad collected a brand new iPhone I bought from me February last year all because some uncivilized people like him keeps telling him the phone I use is very expensive and said it’s used by yahoo boys and which my Dad hate the word YAHOO.

Though , I felt very sad wondering why he would collect a phone from a 27 years old Son.

I pleaded to him severally to please give me back the phone and I also sent some of his friends which they value each other to him to please help me beg him to return the phone but he keeps telling them he’s not gonna give me and instead get me a small phone that doesn’t browse so as to stop having internet access.

After many Months of using a small Android phone which is very uncomfortable for me and hoping I will gather some money and get a better phone for myself anytime soon.

I waited for some months but couldn’t afford a better phone cuz I don’t want to buy a very low budget phone since I’m addicted to smooth browsing on my IPhone.

Then I tried to find solution for myself by going to find the iPhone he seized in his room even though I don’t enter his room anyhow.

God so good i got into his room when everyone wasn’t aware and I found the phone where he kept it and took it.

I started having conscience on it and asking myself if I’ve messed up.

I came to Nairaland to ask what I should do maybe to return the phone or keep it with me.

I found out some people blamed me for invading his room and getting m my stuff.

Some people told me to return it and never do that again.

when I was going to return the phone I found out that the whole house are back and it’s not possible to go there that time.

I don’t know what to do because it was a luck that nobody was at home that day.

I reasoned to my self maybe I should go and deliver the phone to him myself fearing if he found out the phone is no more there the issue will escalate and will be too late.

The next morning I took the phone to him and told him I find it using a device on the phone with another phone to track it.

He was very annoyed and said what I did was bad with a very cool voice and gave me the phone back himself.

After few hours he called me and said he put some Saudi Money (Riyadh) in the carton he hide my phone and he couldn’t find the money there and asked me if I took it.

I sensed he was trying to tell me that in order to know what I did was bad.

I told him I didn’t take any money there and I honestly didn’t see any money there.

He let me leave and said he will try to find it very well later.

Then just today he called my married elder sister to come to our house and wanted to have a meeting with us cuz we are just two from our late mother.

From his speech he said he can’t be seeing me not working since I’m a graduate and I should find something doing.

He knew I was into exportation of Petrol to Cotonou before the work stopped due to border close down and too much customs officials on the road.

So he started insulting me I’m just being idle and don’t want to work because I’m getting money from yahoo because he returned my phone to me to have internet access.

I accepted all the insults he did to me and didn’t argue with him not until he said if I’m a good boy I won’t go into his room to take my phone and even take his money he kept there the other day.

I then knew he meant that word that I took his money again and which I didn’t even take or see.

Then he began raining insults on me and begin to lay emphasis on the money that I took my phone and his money.

At this point I was very mad and couldn’t hold myself from keeping silence and then I had to break it.

I told him I can take everything he do to me but accusing me wrongfully I will never take that with a mini voice and suddenly wanted to hit me which I run from him to escape.

On running through the steps, he suddenly grab the big stool in the sitting room and dropped it on my head which nearly hit me . (If that stool hit me I don’t know what will happen to me )

But I managed to escape and he started raining curses on me and insulting my late mother for giving him a son like me.

My sister was there too and all she kept saying was I’m very rude to disclaim the accusations and defending myself and she also start insulting me that how dare should I talk when he’s talking.

After few insults he gave me so he came downstairs and started insulting me again while I stand not too far from him.

He quickly picked up a very big stone and a big plank on the floor threw at me which if these two objects meet me I will still be bleeding by now.

He told me with anger that I’m a bastard and cursed me saying it will not better for me and we can never sleep together in the house today and he left and went out.

So my stepmother returned and I narrated everything to her and made her known I’m leaving the house to avoid unnecessary violence again because I’ve been planning to leave the house due to everyday arguments and his nags.

The stepmother told me not to leave the house and rather he will talk to him and calm him down and everything will be fine.

I already made my mind to leave the house and stay at the hotel for some days because my friend which I could go and stay with has traveled last week and said he will be back today.

I got to the hotel and booked the room and having some rests then I saw my stepmother call and she said I should come home and we need to talk.

I sensed maybe she was trying to set me up and I told her I’m at where I’m going to sleep tonight because I just don’t want to come home today.

She said I shouldn’t even think that way and promised me nothing is going to happen.

I believed her because she knows I respected her and I knows she likes me.

Then she told me to come home and sleep and assure me no violence will happen as she just need to talk to me privately which I don’t have idea what else she want to tell me .

Now should I go home or just sleep at the hotel and probably not going to go to that house again soon if I sleep at the hotel today ?

If you have to leave home, it shouldn't be in circumstances of quarrel verbal violence with your own father. So, you have to go home and allow the matter to be settled and your father sufficiently appeased. Thank GOD you have a selfless step mother who GOD has graciously positioned as a mediator for you. But as some suggested up , don’t go alone, but in the company of people for whom your father has respect and regards. If you you can't find, write a long text of a moving apology to your dad as a forerunner. Then ask sister to go ahead of you and make a personal plea of apology to your dad,after your own message. You can now approach your dad to make apology in company of your sister and your step mom. Dont leave without settling the row.May the curse not cling you , may the good LORD help you ,sll on the Name of JESUS ,amen.

cablenews:
Governor Soludo Recieves VP Osinbajo

Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo today, Friday, 6th May, 2022, arrived Anambra State.

The Vice President was recieved at the Anambra International Airport, Umueri, by Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State.

Vice President Yomi Osinbajo is in the state for some official engagements.

https://evideostv.com/osinbajo-lands-at-anambra-intl-airport-soludo-received-him/?amp=1

Osinbajo's Problematic Ambition - The Cable by jbow: 5:11am
After several months of speculations and seemingly unending denials by his spokesperson, Laolu Akande, Vice President Yemi Osinbanjo on Monday, April 11, finally declared his intention to contest for the office of the president in 2023. The months-long delay, according to very reliable sources was ostensibly due to his repeated failure to secure Buhari’s anointing as the preferred or consensus candidate despite several entreaties and lobbying. Unfortunately for him, the APC constitution does not make room for the nomination of a presidential candidate by consensus. It is either direct or indirect primary. With time running out and less than two months to the APC presidential primary, he took his destiny into his hands and declared notwithstanding. Therefore, similar to other persons who have declared interest in the office of the president come 2023, it is apposite to also interrogate the declaration of Osinbajo’s ambition. Given his position as a sitting vice president, his ambition will be interrogated from three perspectives, namely: hard facts, soft facts and leavings.

On hard facts, Osinbajo’s performance as head of the economic management team (EMT), chairman of the National Economic Council (NEC) and chairman of the board of the Debt Management Office (DMO) for the past seven years is a complete disaster. The scorecard reflects the complete failure of the man whom the 1999 constitution saddled with the responsibility of managing the Nigerian economy. The statistics are quite damning. For instance, the price of a 50kg bag of rice has increased by 200% from ₦10,000 in 2015 to ₦30,000 in 2022 while a 50kg bag of cement has increased by 150% from ₦1,800 to ₦4,500 over the same period. The price per litre of petrol, diesel and kerosene has increased by 90% from ₦87 to ₦165, by 330% from ₦151 to ₦650 and by 110% from ₦198 to ₦415 respectively between 2015 and 2022. The price of a 12.5kg cylinder of cooking gas has increased by 204% from ₦2,800 to ₦8,500 while a Lagos-to-Abuja flight ticket has increased by 317% from ₦12,000 to ₦50,000 over the aforementioned reference period.

The official exchange rate has depreciated by 116% from ₦192.4/$ in 2015 to ₦416.4/$ in 2022 (the parallel market is currently at ₦590/$) while inflation and unemployment rates increased by 6% from 9.3% to 15.7% and by 24% from 9.2% to 33.3% respectively between 2015 and 2022. Whereas the Nigerian economy grew by 2.65% in 2015, it contracted by -1.79% in 2022 (Nigeria’s economy nosedived into a recession twice between 2016 and 2021 under the stewardship of Osinbajo). Foreign debt has increased by 268% from $10.3bn in 2015 to $38bn in 2022 while domestic debt has increased by 123% from ₦10.1 trillion to ₦22.4 trillion over the same period thus resulting in a 214% increase in total public debt from ₦12.1 trillion in 2015 to ₦38 trillion in 2022 yet with seemingly nothing to show for it. The Excess crude account (ECA) balance declined by 98% from $2.1 billion in 2015 to a paltry $35.8 million in 2022. With this kind of performance which is F9 (total failure) by any standard in the world, why did Osinbajo declare an intention to run for president in 2023? If as the man directly in charge of  economic management of the country, you failed woefully in seven years, what can and will you do differently in 2023?
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As proof of the statistics reeled out above and in pseudo-reinforcement of the same, Osinbajo’s declaration speech failed to mention a single achievement in seven years. Yes, not one single achievement was mentioned in the speech because there is no achievement to brandish. How can a man superintend over a country’s economic affairs for seven years and yet, cannot point to a single achievement? Shouldn’t what he has achieved in office be the basis for campaigning for office in 2023? To worsen matters, he said in the declaration speech that he would continue what Buhari has started. That is classic hate speech and it is extremely offensive to Nigerians! Buhari failed on security and anti-corruption while Osinbajo failed on the economy. What is there to continue or build on? In saner climes, Buhari and Osinbajo would and should be apologizing to Nigerians for their abysmal failure and not even contemplating running for president. Osinbajo becoming president in 2023 is akin to giving the ignominious duo a 3rd term in office. It must not happen! Nigeria needs a fresh start and a complete break-away from the past seven inglorious years. Besides the economy, Osinbajo lectured in UNILAG and was a member of ASUU. ASUU, his primary constituency, has been on strike for months. What has Osinbajo done as VP to resolve the issue? There is a world of difference between parading paper qualifications and execution. Oratory is cheap and the incompetence is benumbing.

On soft facts, Osinbajo has a moral burden hanging on his neck and this speaks to four issues, namely: ingratitude and betrayal, and loyalty and trust. On ingratitude and betrayal, the two positions Osinbajo has held in public office have been through Bola Tinubu’s imprimatur. Tinubu first appointed him as attorney general and commissioner for justice in Lagos (1999–2007) and sacrificed his ambition by nominating Osinbajo as running mate/VP to Buhari in December 2014 (VP from 2015 – date). Having ridden on the back of Tinubu, if Tinubu declares intention for an office, should Osinbajo indicate interest in the same office too? It is the height of ingratitude, treachery and betrayal. It shows a man who has no principles and does not appreciate favours. He is simply an ungrateful being. The speaker of the house of representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, and Babatunde Fashola, minister of works, two protégés of Tinubu are equally qualified to run for the office of the president. Given that Jagaban had indicated an interest in the same office in January, they shelved their ambitions for the greater good of the south-west region. What makes Osinbajo think he is the only one qualified in the south-west to run for president? He is a bad party man. A polling unit loser with zero political structure and completely detached from the grassroots.

On loyalty and trust, while Buhari was ill and attending to his health in London, Osinbajo made some dangerous political moves including sacking Buhari’s cousin, Lawal Daura, the director-generalcousin, Lawal Daura, the director-general of the Department of State Services (DSS). Osinbajo made this move and took other major steps against the backdrop and his personal wish, prayer and expectation that Buhari will not return alive. Not only did he sack Daura, he equally removed some newly appointed public office holders by Buhari and replaced them with his cronies. Examples include Alhaji Waheed Olagunju (a Yoruba Muslim) who was appointed acting MD/CEO of Bank of Industry by Buhari in 2016 but was fired by Osinbajo and swiftly replaced with Kayode Pitan, an RCCG pastor who presided over the same parish where Osinbajo presided before his assumption of office as VP. Kayode’s appointment was with immediate effect. More on Osinbajo’s RCCG bigotry later.
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Osinbajo also hurriedly reconstituted the board of National Pension Commission (PenCom) by sacking Dikko Aliyu Abdulrahman as DG of Pencom and speedily replacing him with Funsho Doherty. Buhari had previously appointed Abdulrahman as DG and Funsho Doherty as chairman, both of PenCom in April 2017 but within a month (May 2017), Osinbajo undid everything. Only a dare-devil would have done what Osinbajo did. His forecast of Buhari’s making it back alive was sub-zero. He was never to be trusted with power again and hence the reason why Buhari never handed over to him again to date no matter the number of days Buhari is away on medical vacation. To complicate matters for Osinbajo, the northern establishment view his declaration for the office of the president as an affront to his benefactor and second-level betrayal. They are of the view that if this man could betray his principal (Buhari) and betray his benefactor (Tinubu), there’s nothing he cannot do to achieve his ambition and nobody is indispensable or un-expendable to him. In the eye of the north, Osinbajo will sell his soul to the devil for a pot of porridge. Therefore, such a man cannot and must not be trusted with power.

Osinbajo is not loyal to anyone but his unbridled ambition. Put simply, Osinbajo has displayed disloyalty twice. He will never be trusted again. Unfortunately for him, loyalty is the currency of politics. Once you fail the loyalty test, you are down and out. To add insult to injury, this week, Osinbajo’s campaign team released a 32-page document titled “The Plan (Abridged)” which they say he will implement to address insecurity, infrastructure, manufacturing, governance reforms and so on. The question begging for an answer is: if this man had the plan to tackle insecurity, what has he been doing for seven years? He attends FEC meetings every week and the periodic security council meetings. What does he tell them there? If he has a plan to fix security, why didn’t he share it with his boss and the security council? Did he deliberately prep Buhari’s government to fail? This is another case of disloyalty and working at cross-purposes with his principal. Why did he turn down the memo for security installation on the railway lines at one of the September 2021 FEC meetings thereby contributing to and facilitating the infamous bombing of the Abuja-Kaduna train with several human casualties? Osinbajo has been undermining this government for years and in several ways— has blood on his hands.

On leavings, despite winning and dining with politicians, public sector and private sector officials, his extensive education and international exposure, Osinbajo has unfortunately and paradoxically, remained a narrow-minded and parochial person. Osinbajo sees a Nigerian first as either an RCCG member or not. Virtually all his appointees are members of RCCG, not just RCCG members, many are pastors starting with his spokesperson, Pastor Laolu Akande. His bromance with cosmopolitan Tinubu and the Lagos political and private sector establishments over several decades was expected to have rubbed off positively on him so that he is more broadminded, accommodating and religiously tolerant. Unfortunately for Osinabjo, the more he rolled with the elites, the further steeped in religious bigotry and Christian fundamentalism he became. Given his professorship, SANship, private sector and public sector experience, Osinbajo has shown that you can take a pig out of the gutter but you cannot take the gutter out of the pig. His professorship and years of lecturing in UNILAG are a complete waste of expensive education.

The story of Osinbajo filling the social intervention programme (SIP) offices with members of RCCG and ensuring that members of RCCG benefited enormously to the exclusion of Muslims and other non-RCCG Christians is the stuff of legend. The story of how huge funds were grossly mismanaged and embezzled by members of RCCG in the SIP office is one of the reasons why President Buhari removed the SIP office from the VP’s purview gave it to the newly created ministry of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development superintended by Sadiya Umar Farouq while over 30 officers (overwhelmingly RCCG members) in the SIP office were sacked by the presidency. Several of them were investigated and found to have bought properties in the United States with funds misappropriated from the SIP budget. The quiet easing out and the decision not to prosecute the culprits was to save the VP from public embarrassment.

If Osinbajo sees a Nigerian first as either an RCCG-member or not, why does he want to become the president of a multi-religious Nigeria with a Muslim-majority population? There are non-RCCG Christians, Muslims and atheists in the country. Adeboye is 80 years old and close to the departure lounge. Osinbajo should rather declare an intention to replace Adeboye when the octogenarian retires or passes on. That would be a better and more fitting declaration and calling than wanting to be president of 200 million Nigerians. A presidential ambition based on phantom spiritual prophecy is an anaesthetized presidential dream which can only be actualised with the change of guard at the GO-level at the RCCG camp on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, not at Aso Villa where a broadminded, religiously liberal, inclusive and accommodating bridge-builder and unifier is required.

In conclusion, given the above, Osinbajo should be apologising to Nigerians for the Chevrolet Aveo 2007 model of the current administration. Nigerians are worse off in 2022 compared to 2015 when Buhari and Osinbajo assumed office. Nigeria must not be afflicted twice with a backdoor 3rd term for the current Buhari-Osinbajo administration which has failed on all socio-economic parameters, measures and indices. It is an insult to the sensibilities of Nigerians that Osinbajo even intends to contest for the office of the president in 2023. What an affront!



ochejoseph:
Youth Pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Dr. Oche Otorkpa has called on the church to sack the Head of Politics and Governance of the church, pastor Timothy Olaniyan over a comment he made about the Vice-president, Yemi Osinbajo.
The statement currently making the rounds and credited to Pastor Olaniyan has equally irked many quarters, with some condemning it.
The pastor had, in the said statement, claimed that only Osinbajo can change the narrative of governance in Nigeria.

However, condemning what is clearly a one-sided partisan stance by pastor Olaniyan, the youth pastor, alongside others, called for his sack.
In a statement to newsmen, pastor Otorkpa said the RCCG is a congregation of all parties and as such, cannot support a single party.
The statement reads thus:

I was saddened when my attention was drawn to the statement credited to the Head of Politics and Governance of the Redeemed Christian Church, RCCG, “Pastor” Timothy Olaniyan. This act reminds me of the tragedy promoted by many of my colleagues in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, who used the RCCG altar to promote Buhari as the only savior of Nigeria because Osinbajo also a Redeemed Pastor, was his running mate.

Against all admonition by our father the General Overseer, these "Goats" as Pastor Leke Adeboye call them choose to ignore an express order and promoted Buhari /Osinbajo using the RCCG pulpit in 2015 and the results are what we see today.

While I have nothing personal against Osinbajo and those campaigning for him, our father, the General Overseer has made it clear to everyone that the church is a congregation of all parties and all are his children.

If truly the said “Pastor” Timothy Olaniyan voiced such a one-sided opinion, then he should be ashamed of himself, and the many people who insulted Leke for calling such people goats should apologize to him because this man’s action has not only ridiculed the mission but also the reputation of our father in the Lord.

As one of those who fiercely defended the RCCG when concerned Nigerians labeled the newly created Politics and Governance directorate as an Osinbajo campaign arm of the church, I felt I owe it a duty as an ordained minister and someone who has spent close to 3 decades working to help achieve the church’s missionary objectives, to speak out.

How can a Redeemed Pastor saddled with the responsibility of promoting all insist on a public forum that one person is the only child of God that could change the narrative of governance in Nigeria?

This is someone who says he wants to consolidate Buhari’s legacies, a legacy characterized by banditry, kidnappings, massive killings, corruption, stealing and diversion of crude oil, unfulfilled promises, and borrowings that are about to throw us into a state of bankruptcy as a nation.

Pastor Olaniyan claimed that politicians will promise heaven and earth, and at the end of the day, you see them giving N1000, N2000 to eligible voters. That was similar to what Osibanjo did the last time with Trader money prior to the elections, jumping from one market to the other.

When it comes to failed promises, nobody beats Osinbajo and  Buhari. They promised three million jobs per year, it is almost 8 years, and those who have jobs before they came to power are now jobless.

Osinbajo and Buhari promised 20,000 MW of electricity within four years, but today, grid collapse and darkness are what Nigerians are battling.

When Osinbajo and Buhari came to power on the 29th of May 2015, the naira was exchanged at N199 to the dollar. Today, the naira is exchanging at almost N600 when they promised to make it equal to the dollar.

As I write this response, our youths and children are at home due to the ongoing ASUU strike, Osinbajo and Buhari had promised to give up to 20 percent of the national budget for the educational sector, they have never exceeded 6% since they took power. Even the foreign scholarship created by Jonathan for First Class students has been canceled by them.

They promised to clean our electoral system but ended up creating devilish inventions such as the inconclusive elections and the “remote control” in the words of Buhari which they used on the people of Osun state to deny Adeleke his last mandate and Nigerians in the last general elections.

They promised to reduce the fuel pump price to N40 per liter, this year, the price ranges from 165 to infinity depending on where you are buying. Even diesel that was very available has now disappeared, thanks to the change championed by some of our Pastors.

Proverbs 12:22 says the LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy. When a pastor begins to brand deceptive people as the only ones being capable of changing the narrative of governance in the country, then you know there is a problem.

While Pastor Olaniyan has the constitutional right to hold a political opinion, he clearly does not understand the sensitive nature of the office he occupies and the diversity of the interest and the people he is meant to manage.

We therefore humbly call on the church leadership as a matter of urgency to remove “Pastor” Timothy Olaniyan as the Head of Politics and Governance, to enable the unit to discharge its mandate without shamefully taking sides and dancing naked in the market square.



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