Cityqueengirl:
yes sure. We can chat here.

Here is too public na. Are u on Facebook or WhatsApp. Let dm each other there plz

Cityqueengirl:
Hello cyrilamx I got your pm

Yea. I sent you that. Thanks. Is there a forum we can chat plz?

primestreams:
If I hear pim

America can carry buhari at night without any body knowing


Read more about supper powers

And almost 9yrs later, they have not been able to dislodge Assad. It seems you don't know what is re-aligment in foreign policy. Nigeria can easily tilt her policy towards Russia and get her backing, then The US will only back but can't do shit.

lexy2014:


I didn't stop u from using sledgehammer but as far as I can tell, ur comment has not in anyway answered d questions I asked:

"What do u mean by "if the funds came clean"? How many politicians in Nigeria under d APC have clean funds in their accounts? Those that hoarded palliatives in d midst of hunger, what has been done to them?"

We still on same footing, my take on ur post is ur deliberate omission of PDP except u telling me they have clean funds or is only APC states that hoarded palliatives.

TheLionofLasigi:
No logical argument can explain the witch hunting of protesters by a government that came to power through protests.

We're currently living in 1983

who was in power in 1983 cos Buhari only spent like12 hours as HoS

lexy2014:


What do u mean by "if the funds came clean"? How many politicians in Nigeria under d APC have clean funds in their accounts? Those that hoarded palliatives in d midst of hunger, what has been done to them?

You so clever to ignore mentioning PDP or did PDP govs not also hoard palliatives? Are they saints in PDP. Plz use same sledge hammer for both parties

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lamentor78:

They sold this lie to us and we bought it, how much was the external reverse then that a whooping $16 billion we be wasted or embezzled, is all lies ...agreed that OBJ messed up in some areas but this hoax is what they made us believed...

How much was Nigeria's external reserve in 1991 during the gulf war that IBB embezzled $12B oil windfall then? The reserve wasn't even up to $10B, yet babangida stole that much on single tranch

prekumohtim:


Do you have a farm ?
Why can't you go into agriculture yourself?

Guy I was doing odd jobs including farming b4 I got a job. Let not see farming as demeaning. It true we all can't be farmers. Still most of us want easy money like our politicians. There is hunger in d land also, but state govts ain't doing enough in area of agriculture to complement that of FG.

prekumohtim:


The man in Aso Rock has made bag of rice more valuable than a human life. Open border , lef there be free flow of goods. Price of bag of rice will drop and the value for human life will increase

So is agriculture not in d the concurrent list again? What stops state govt from investing in agriculture? Must everything be blamed on the president? Instead of us to invest in agriculture in Edo state since we have the arable land, we busy pursuing real estates at d detriment of agriculture. Is a shame we can't feed ourselves. No Edo youth wan go green, instead na yahoo, abroad or driving. When hunger beat us Wella, we go tell ourselves d truth

While I personally support the objectives of EndSARS and similar protests towards good governance, the media and civil society groups should be wary of fake news on the social media by subjecting eye-witness accounts and other contents to critical verification and authentication before authorising their dissemination. Human society, as we know it to be, might one day depend on that crucial necessity of caution.


What we have learnt from history, including World Wars, civil wars and communal conflicts are what others are failing to learn from, as newer cycles of history unfold before our eyes. It is, no doubt, easier to tell lies about incidents than to go the inconvenient way of seeking the truth about situations and happenings.

In the last one decade of my life as a humanitarian worker and crisis communicator, working closely with the media, the security and response agencies, I have found out that many crises situations are triggered by reckless statements, irresponsible behaviours and unnecessary confrontations.

I was directly involved in managing the plights of internally displaced persons (IDPs) during the peak of Niger Delta militancy in 2009; that of the victims of post-election violence in the North in 2011; and situations attendant upon the rampant Boko Haram suicide bombings across the Northern states and Abuja between 2011 and 2013. I was also a member of a special team assigned to evacuate stranded Nigerians from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, during the turmoil of the Arab Spring.

My engagement as a consultant on crisis management by the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd.), also further exposed me to the reality of the conditions of service and sacrifices of personnel of the Nigerian military, paramilitary and intelligence services, who are working tirelessly to keep us safe. Although my official engagements in those regards terminated with the tenure of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, however since emergency management is everyone’s business, I have continued to provide advisory services at NO COST to the same security agencies.

This mutual relationship has afforded me unfettered access to security sector spokespersons, as I volunteer my time in cementing the rapport between these agencies and the media, and by extension civil society groups.



When the protest against police brutality broke out a few weeks back, I ensured that as an independent forum, our news platform monitored and reported on the activities of the EndSARS protesters, as well as those of the ProSARS agitators. I also received regular updates from the spokespersons of the Police, the Department of State Services (DSS), the Customs, and the federal Correctional Service, among others that were in the frontline of response to the protests.

Surprisingly, while the Federal Government approved the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robber Squad (SARS), which was the original instance for the demonstrations, and acceded to other requests of the protesters, the situations rather grew worse.

Rather than have our objective reportage discredited, we asked for contrary evidence that showed true information about the purported deaths from the protesters and eyewitnesses of that evening. All we received as evidence were pieces of mostly unrelated footages to the incident, including doctored images and manipulated videos.


Self-acclaimed freedom fighters, social media influencers and activists, aggravated the already tense situation, through the uttering of reckless and unsubstantiated statements.

In an audio broadcast, a highly divisive Igbo agitator, Nnamdi Kalu, incited the followers of his group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), against security operatives, leaders of other ethnic groups and their structures, as located in different host communities. Thereafter, Mujahideen Asari Dokubo, a former Niger Delta militant, responded by threatening Kalu and his followers with dire consequences if they dared to carry out any attack, or even assault on Muslims.

From Abuja, the nation’s capital, to other states, peaceful protests were turning violent. A prompt statement by Igbo leaders, denouncing Kalu’s provocative broadcast, averted what would have been a major ethnic clash in Nigeria’s most populous state of Kano.



Meanwhile, on the evening of Tuesday, October 20, the social media was suddenly driven into a frenzy as news came online that troops of the Nigerian Army were shooting at and massacring scores of innocent protesters.

Almost immediately and citing eyewitness accounts, the media and international community condemned what rapidly gained momentum as #LekkiMassacre. While these parties had genuine reasons to be concerned about the safety of citizens, it was a bit worrying to realise that the same level of attention, outrage and condemnation had not been paid by the global community to the atrocities regularly meted out to security personnel, who are also Nigerians, in the line of their duties. These have included beheadings, arsonist attacks, assaults on security infrastructure, the looting of armouries, and also jailbreaks involving fatalities.

When our news platform reported on the subsequent disclosure of Governor Sanwo-olu of Lagos State that there had been no massacre at the Lekki Toll Gate on that Tuesday, except for an isolated case of a person who died from brute force to the head, we were accused of a one-sided report.

Rather than have our objective reportage discredited, we asked for contrary evidence that showed true information about the purported deaths from the protesters and eyewitnesses of that evening. All we received as evidence were pieces of mostly unrelated footages to the incident, including doctored images and manipulated videos.

Regrettably, many people share stories before they even read them, at a period when the social media landscape is bedevilled by the antics of dangerous and anonymous sources who, for ulterior motives, manipulate contents for the consumption of publics whose gullibility are exploited.


Concerned about the integrity of the media in relation to responsible and credible reporting, I personally reached out to friendly media to insist on concrete evidence from eyewitnesses, so as not deteriorate the security situation in the country at that particularly very tense moment. I spoke to the editor of Daily Trust, Hamza Idris; the editor-in-chief of PREMIUM TIMES, Musikilu Mojeed, the publisher of Daily Nigerian, Jaafar Jaafar; and the Aljazeera Chief Correspondent in Nigeria, Ahmed Idris. I also contacted respected columnist, Fredrick Nwabufo of The Cable newspaper; a prominent social media influencer, Gimba Kakanda; as well as a civil society activist, Auwalu Musa Rafsanjani of CISLAC. In addition, I engaged spokespersons of the Amnesty International and Emmanuel Onwubiko of HURIWA to help in facilitating the gathering of evidence on the alleged massacre.

In fairness to the media and civil society groups, they all spoke about relying on eyewitness accounts mostly from celebrities and social media influencers, without subjecting the information received to rigorous verification. There was also the admission that there was no authenticated footage of the said ‘massacre’ at Lekki Toll gate so far.

Equally disturbing was the fact that despite the increasingly widespread usage of the term “massacre” – which literally means an “indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings” – to describe the Lekki incident, no single family has stepped forward (even till date) to report the loss of a relative during the Lekki shooting.

In the aftermath of this confusion, the largest social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, have continued to flag several contents containing the alleged images of the Lekki Massacre as false information, after these were subjected to scrutiny by independent fact-checkers.



Similarly, credible fact-checking sites have debunked footages purported to be from the alleged Lekki Massacre. Leading the pack in debunking fake images from the EndSARS protests is the world’s oldest news agency, Agence France-Presse (AFP) which describes bodies recovered from Lekki Toll Shooting in Nigeria as FALSE. It is followed by Dubawa, Nigeria’s first indigenous independent verification and fact-checking project; AllNews.ng, Aledeh, and a very recent fact-checking site on the alleged Lagos Black Tuesday.

Regrettably, many people share stories before they even read them, at a period when the social media landscape is bedevilled by the antics of dangerous and anonymous sources who, for ulterior motives, manipulate contents for the consumption of publics whose gullibility are exploited. The promoters of such deliberate disinformation spread false and misleading contents that confuse, fool and deceive their targets, with the sole aims of reinforcing sentiments, influencing bad judgement, aggravating anger, inciting mob attacks and plunging society into monumental crises and conflict.

While I personally support the objectives of EndSARS and similar protests towards good governance, the media and civil society groups should be wary of fake news on the social media by subjecting eye-witness accounts and other contents to critical verification and authentication before authorising their dissemination. Human society, as we know it to be, might one day depend on that crucial necessity of caution.

Yushau A. Shuaib is editor-in-chief, PRNigeria.com; editor@yahoo.com.

http://opinion.premiumtimesng.com/2020/10/26/lekki-massacre-fake-news-anarchy-and-the-rest-of-us-by-yushau-a-shuaib/

topboss:
THESE ARE ALL STAGED BY APC TO COVER UP THE MURDER OF NIGERIA AND MAKE IT LOOK FAKE.



THEY HAVE ALL BEEN PAID.



SEE THE VIBRANT YOUTH THAT ARE NO LONGER WITH US BECOS OF THAT OLD MAN.



ALL ATROCITIES ARE RECORDED LIVE AND THE WORLD IS VIEWING THEM, SO SAVE YOUR LIES.





https://www.instagram.com/p/CGnWHu5j88V/



https://www.instagram.com/p/CGnLn4wjw2n/



https://www.instagram.com/p/CGmyyg4jTSt/

The first video ain't that of lekki cos it happened in d evening. The second pic has already be disclaimed.

Kingdemu:


When the destiny of this nation was being squandered, you kept quiet.

$2.1billion arm money siphoned, you kept quiet.

$20billion missing in NNPC, you kept quiet.

They looted our foreign reserve from 62 down to $28.9 billion, you kept quiet.

Malabu oil deal , you kept quiet.

When militants were blowing our oil away you were clapping for them.

When all the monies budgeted for roads were embezzled with nothing to show, you kept quiet.

They showed you how much was stolen under NDDC you kept quiet.

You kept quite when the issue of $16billion power contract was mentioned!

Today you have the audacity to criticize a man who is building more infrastructures with less resources?

A man who is embarking on the biggest Social Investment Program in Africa.

A man who reduced Boko Haram attacks from 10 States to 3 States.

Please Let's fear God.

plz you didn't add the P&ID scam,
the sale of Discos to their cronies and how they inserted $8B clause to be paid them should FG revoke the contract.
How Intel shortchanged Nigeria for years.
The CCTV camera scam.
The solarization of the economy by Gej to pursue his second term ambition.

otomatic:


That is why APC banned history from the school curriculum so that they can distort information at will.

APC banned history from school? I guess OBJ as president and madam Oby as min. Of education who proscribed history were APC?
The PMB u loved to despise is d one who undid the wicked policy of OBJ.

Buhari revokes Obasanjo's policy, returns history to schools' curriculum
www.ripplesnigeria.com › Politics
21 Jun 2019 · Nigerian Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari, has directed that all primary and secondary schools should

money1000:


You talk like a kid, please get something doing it will help you.

Have u commented on the Intel scam perpetrated by PDP and which Atiku benefitted immensely from or the sale of discos which can't be reversed despite their incompetence else the govt pays $8B ? Or the P$ID scam or the Abuja CCTV camera scam running into $470M? Tell if all these scams by PDP govt can't destroy a country, what else? The previous admin literally signed Nigeria into a lots of debts due to greed and its ripple effects we are bearing now

dingbang:
Whoever looks at a woman lustfully has committed sin..


It didnt say


Whoever dresses seductively has committed sin..

Africans sef.

Didn't same holy writ says that what causes sin must surely happens, but woe onto whom through which it happens? Lk. 17:1. Read also 1. Tim. 2:9

middlebelter:


The biggest lie of the month! Why did GMB not remain neutral on Kogi election to the point of sending his wife to campaign. Why did he not send his wife if he couldn't attend Pastor Ize Iyanmu campaign?

I just pity Tinubu, because of Buhari, he has amassed more enemies for himself and SW and now that it is time for pay back, Buhari has been consistently been working against his candidates because of his northern agenda. The only way for Tinubu to make political headway is to silently support Yemi Osibanjo as president in 2023, anything different will be a political miscalculation for him

Thanks for ur last sentence. Tinubu as a master strategist that he call himself should eschew his presidential ambition cause it is destroying the party. Let him rally troops for Osibanjo candidacy. Buhari and many APC bigwigs don't want Tinubu and that is what is tearing the party apart. Should he dump his ambition, u see how normalcy returns.

Na so one woman plan with her pastor lover and eventually killed her husband and father of her 3 kids in Benin city. Materialism and adultery are twin evil that overtake most women reasoning.

Woman Who Killed Her Husband With Her Pastor Lover Sentenced ...
amanaijablog.com › blog › 2020/03/13
13 Mar 2020 · A High Court in Benin on Thursday, sentenced a housewife Eniobong Isonguyo and her pastor lover, Udoka Ukachukwu, ..

Mikelarteta:
If INEC, Federal Government and all the security agencies behave well as they did in EDO and let the votes count, Akeredolu will not be returning to the government house after 10/10/2020. The damage that is been done daily by the federal government, is been visited on the APC led government at all levels.

And the damage the PDP did to Nigeria and Nigerian psyche is being hailed and asking them to come back. Except u re economical with d truth not to realise that the free for all of PDP administration plunged Nigeria into recession something NOI warned about in 2014, even the epileptic power supply we re experiencing now is d handwork of PDP to extent that a clause was put on the contract that FG would pay Disco $8B should they revoke it. What of the P&1D PMB is battling with? The $470M Abuja CCTV camera scam? The ongoing Malabu scandal trial in Italy involving billions of dollars? Are we to deny that oil sold for 4yrs under Gej at more than $100 a barrel and by 2014 Gej was borrowing to pay salaries? Are we to deny also that over 21 stayed were bailed out by PMB and couldn't pay salaries? Are we to deny that Soludo accused Gej govt of wasting over N30T? Or that Gej govt made $305B during his presidency, yet he not only depleted our foreign reserves from $45B to $28B on handing over to PMB? And also increased our debts profile from $30B in 2010 to $67B in 2015? Tell me if all these don't lead to recession. Nitel, Nigeria Airways, Biafra police Pensioners were owed their pensions and in midst of dwindling resources, PMB paid them all. Tell me how PDP govt assuming they got reelected in 2015, would have steered Nigeria from recession judging from the afformetioned problems then coupled with a drop in oil to $23 a barrel and Niger Delta Avengers bombing oil intallations. Plz tell me

tiger28:
You are sooo correct! Back then , environmental Sanitation was The REAL deal . EVERYTHING is shut down and everyone troop out to clean all day. Now the Sanitation day is like a 4 hours vacation. Can you IMAGINE how Brave Nigeria was to KIDNAP Dikko in UK , put him in a crate and ALMOST succeeded in bringing him back to Nigeria to face prosecution. Nigeria even employed the connivance of the Israeli Mossad and the Nigeria embassy in UK.....Nigeria govt wasn't taking crap back then from anyone, now we have ORDINARY Ghana disrespecting us... Sad!

My bro is not only sad but heartbreaking. I was like a year old when they came to power and read much about them later and coupled with what my dad told me. You don't eat biscuits and throw the rap on the floor or urinate anywhere u seem fit else u will regret ever doing it. Even they even chastened the youths to dress well. Looters and drug pedllers never love them cos they made these rogues and saboteurs pay with long jail terms and their lives. The painful aspects is today Indomie generations with dearth of history believed the cooked lies told them by those who destroyed these nation's but hated these duo cause they were called to accountability. Today Buhari can do little cos those who looted have not only secured their loots, but now established media houses, bought the judiciary over and hv foot soldiers of jobless youths to defend them. That why I hate democracy.

see all the hypocritical accolades here. Many of you or your parents hated that corrective regime. You now realise he was the brain behind WAI. Nigeria would have been less corrupt and more developed had those duo stayed the 8yrs just like the maradona. Nigerians want a great nation, but none want to go through the ordeal of building one. Sadly Babangida happened, Nigerians trooped in celebration to the streets, but things fell apart, and conditions were no longer at ease.

fof1:


Thanks,Though You qualified but You were dropped. Pls Reat Ur Mind. You were not Judged. Clearly You were told,the Job is not Meant for a Catholic Christian but Other Sect Preferred by the Employers. So Move on
However,To be a Born Again Christian, You Must Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as Your Lord and Personal Saviour. You MUST Believe and Accept His Sacrifice and Atonement for Our Sins and Take the Scriptures as Ur Final AUTHORITY on the Balance of Truth, filled with the Holy Spirit Baptism,not just Water Baptism, not to talk of Sprinkling. We are not talking about Denominational Creed here,Pls. Martin Luther of Blessed Memory Could not Stay under the Catholic Dogma after He came to the Realisation of the True Gospel of Jesus Christ, So CAN YOU AFTER BEING BORN AGAIN? Pls Seek the Lord in True and Genuine Repentance and Conversion,Pls. Not Engaging in Penance and Confession to a Rev.Father. Christ sets Free and only His Shed Blood is Required for ur Cleansing and Purifications not Holy Water and incense Burning. You are engaged in Religious activities not the New Testamental Creed of True Christianity,Where Holiness and Personal Integrity is what God Demands from us.Thanks.

You Pentecostals will never ceases to amaze me. Every day u keep bring up ur conjectures as truth. May I ask you how the Bible came to be and how the early Christians carried out their worship prior the codification of the Bible in late 4th century? May I ask you how those who professed Christianity during the persecutions, night b4 their execution were baptised since baptism was a prerequisite of christian initiation? Where they taken to the river or baptised there same night via sprinkling? May I also asked you the meaning of Jn. 20:23? Truth is you Pentecostals are really shallow.. you don't have documented evidence of what the early church went Tru save for few narratives in the Bible, yet your so called "mog" consults most of these Catholics books to start teaching you, you applaud him that it is the holy Spirit that inspire him. Maybe you should read the Didach of the early church and see if they were Pentecostals or Catholics. If you hate the Catholic church, stop using the Bible cos they selected the new testaments books from all ranch of existing books and added to the 46 books of the old testament, they called it the Bible. Stop worshiping on Sundays, cos the Catholic Church fixed Sundays as worship for christians. Stop observing Christmas and Easter since they were set as feast by Catholic church u love to hate.

OtemAtum:
My brother, many members of other christian denominations may find it impossible to ever forgive the Catholic church because of what happened between them many years back. More than 8 million people were killed when the Catholic church was refusing the existence of other church denominations. You can google search the 'Thirty Year War'. It is a war of the catholic against the Lutherans, Methodists, Anglicans etc and more than 8 million people lost their lives to the fight.

Yes the 30 years religious war in Europe is what every historians will know. But then Protestants also killed Catholics. or what will u say of the English persecution of the Catholics during Elizabeth long reign? or That of Sweden killing of Catholics or even the United States suspicious of the Catholic Church then. still the Catholic Church is the largest and richest single denomination in the US. If both parties were guilty of killing each other, why the continuous hate?

DonBenny77:
Organisation no want catholic see me see case.
Go and meet your Pope for employment

You re a great hypocrites. do you know that Catholic charities do not discriminate when given aids. Even the United States of America, the Catholic Church has the largest schools and hospitals that cater for christians and non christians. One thing I want to tell u, the hate and criticisms of the Catholic Church by Pentecostals will not have effect on the church.. it makes her stronger. The church had weathered greater hate throughout d centuries till now. For ur info, the Catholic Church has more establishments than Pentecostals.

That is to show u that majority of Pentecostal pastors don't even understand what it means to be Christ like. So were ibiyomie to be martyred for his faith like the numerous martyrs I f the Church, he would have cursed his phone persecutors? Despite the Apostle Suleiman calling pope Francis unprintable names and accusing him of killing Italians at the outbreak of Covid 19, did u hear any Catholic bishop or priest use derogatory words for Suleiman when countering him? Truth is most pastors can't endure one-tenth of what Catholic clergy endures.

new2012:


Congratulations with the insults, hope you enjoyed it.
The contract was signed in 2010, GEJ became president in May, 2011. I know you're not capable of insulting those who signed and approved it and even if u do, it won't give you all the likes that fuel your existence.

Oga nothing go do u if u admit the truth. This is one of the failures of Gej that make people question his Ph. D. If u have read the article you would have seen where it was stated the contract was signed when Yaradua was on a sick bed and Gej acting president.

ArmaniUhuru:


You are just a confused Ronaldo fan. If Messi decides to stay, na only una go say make he comot. He won comot now, you still dey yarn nonsense.

The difference is the "international bottler" is quitting on d back of a humiliating defeat, while the real G. O. A T left after leading Madrid to triple UCL glory.

Tunde Odesola   August 24, 2020


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Matthew Aremu Okikiola Olusegun Obasanjo – one man, one name, one destiny; complicated personality.

For the Yoruba, names hold special meanings and are categorised into five, namely: Oruko Amutorunwa (predestined names), Oruko Abiso (acquired names), Oruko Oriki (panegyrics), Oruko Abiku (abiku’s names) and Oruko Inagije (aliases). Obasanjo isn’t an abiku for he came, he saw and he stayed.

Matthew and Okikiola are acquired names. Matthew means ‘Gift of Yahweh,’ Okikiola means ‘Gloriously Famous’. Aremu, a panegyric name, means ‘Prince Charming’ just as Olusegun means ‘Conqueror’ and Obasanjo means (the king rewards). Powerful names for an all-powerful man.

In Yoruba mythology, the ‘egbere’ is the malevolent nocturnal gnome that inhabits the woods, weeps inconsolably and unrelentlessly clutches a mat. Obasanjo isn’t an ‘egbere’, though you appear to clutch a mat on your journey to earth. Obasanjo is the Ebora Owu.

Today, the demeaning, mat-clutching imagery of the ‘egbere’ resonates only in the metaphysical past. Nowadays, mat-clutching is chic and synonymous with sustainability, longevity and tenacity. When the youths of today strive to stay long on an enterprise or in a relationship, they would say, ‘Mo gb’eni wa ni o’, meaning, I brought a mat along with me.

I don’t believe in the Zodiac because it belongs in the realm of obsolete knowledge. Humans are no plants or rocks to be viewed in crystal balls and compartmentalised as a body of astrological knowledge perpetuating hollow horoscopes and surreal confusion.

Born on March 5, 1937, Baba is 83 years old. He’s also a piscean. Pisces is a water sign symbolised by two fishes swimming in opposite directions. Doesn’t this suggest confusion? Well, I don’t believe in the zodiac.

According to astrology, “Pisceans are charitable, compassionate and will promptly place the needs of others before their own. Pisceans are extremely faithful, loving and caring of their mates. Pisceans are never judgemental and always forgiving. Pisceans are (the) most tolerant and kind of all other zodiac signs.” I told you, I don’t believe in the zodiac.

But I admire you, Baba, because you don’t sit on the fence; you pull fences down along with bridges and sit over their rubble, dust and all.

When the going was good between you and the late senator Buruji Kashamu, you prayed for the fugitive businessman at a rally, saying, “We know the enormity of the support you gave (the PDP) in the past. May God reward you for the support you gave in the past. All that makes you happy, God won’t take them away from you.”


Baba, you’ve come under heavy artillery bombardment since you criticised Kashamu who fell to coronavirus, scornfully saying the US-wanted businessman couldn’t escape the icy hands of death, though he evaded justice when he lived.

Speaking a few days ago, however, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, accused you of dripping hypocrisy, saying the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, under your watch, gave favourable evidence which cleared Kashamu of drug charges and stalled the US request for his extradition and prosecution in America, in 2003. Falana said Kashamu, who had served five years in a British jail, had to be released on the grounds of the uncertain identity evidence given by the NDLEA to Britain, which subsequently turned down the extradition request of the US. Thus, Kashamu returned home, joined the Peoples Democratic Party and took sides with you to subdue then Ogun State governor, Gbenga Daniel.

Falana believes it was wrong of you, Baba Obasanjo, to turn a praise singer when Kashamu was spending billions in entrenching the PDP in Ogun, only to pounce much later when Esho Jinadu decided to support the 2015 presidential ambition of Goodluck Jonathan. Falana said, “It’s against African culture to aid and abet a criminal suspect in his lifetime only to turn round to attack him in his grave.”

By opening up Kashamu’s underbelly, you corroborate Mark Antony, who philosophises in Julius Caesar, saying, “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.” Humans are forgetful and ungrateful. The arrow you shot at Kashamu smashed the pot of hypocrisy and blew ashes the way of the archer. “Eni da eeru, ni eeru ntan.”

But you don’t give a hoot and I stand with you on this, Baba. You roar, “Let people say whatever they like when I transit. Now that I am alive, am I not being abused? Whenever I transit, let people say whatever they know or think about me… What my maker thinks of me is what matters most.”

Without playing the devil’s advocate, I’m certain many would open their dirty mouths in abuse after your glorious exit, but, thank God you’ve told them you don’t care, ‘ipako o gbo suu ti, ori elegan baje’.

Daddy, I stand with you and I pray you live above 100, a wish you expressed in Abeokuta last Tuesday during the first coronation anniversary of the Agura of Gbagura, Oba Sabur Bakare. By the time you live well beyond the century mark, time probably would’ve tempered the bellicosity of the former Ekiti governor, Ayo Fayose, against you, I believe.

Surely, a multitude will gloat over your death. But Olusegun is neither Jesus, though he’s permanently on the cross; nor is Aremu Satan, though stones are hurled at him ceaselessly.

But, what would your condolence writers say other than the toxic allegations already in the public domain sef?

For instance, Fayose, who menacingly threatened you in Okuku, Osun State, in 2010, had repeatedly accused you of seeking a third term as president and corralling elected politicians to use public funds to build you a personal library.

I know your traducers would remember the multi-billion dollar Halliburton scandal that rocked your administration; the controversial killing of a serving Minister of Justice and Attorney-General, Bola Ige; the seizure of Lagos federal allocations despite Supreme Court ruling; your non-recognition of MKO Abiola, a fellow Egba citizen, during your eight-year presidency; $214m National ID scam; multibillion-dollar electricity darkness; removal of governors and Senate presidents, among others. But you don’t care.

If I outlive OBJ, I’ll stand with him when vindictive condolence writers turn their poisonous pens against him as he did against Kashamu. Even if all the ‘sins’ of Okikiola are sordid and uncountable – and all the perfumes of Arabia can’t overcome their rancidity, I’ll still stand with OBJ, a born-again Christian, for mowing Odi down and calling Plateau State CAN chairman, Rev Yakubu Pam, “an idiot.” Total annihilation is what a town like Odi in Bayelsa gets when some of her youths kill security agents, and your response, ‘CAN my foot!’ is the appropriate reply to Pam’s call for Christians to defend themselves in the face of killings on the plateau.

I know how unforgiving some Nigerians could be, Sir. In their condolences, many are likely to go down filial lane and scribble, “The President whom his son publicly accused of having sexual affairs with his wife!”

Baba, just like you did to Kashamu, after you live for more than 100 years and go to your grave, many Nigerians will intern your good deeds and only remember the everlasting bile in your firstborn’s letter to you in 2013.

General Obasanjo, I foresee some Nigerians rereading Iyabo’s harrowing letter before penning their condolences. I’m sure they’ll quote Iyabo’s exact words which described you as “a manipulator, hypocrite, narcissist, greedy, third-term seeker, megalomaniac, intolerant, two-faced and an uncaring father and husband”. But you would be too far gone to hear their babble, I know.

Freely, I’ll defend you over your political ‘sins’ but I’ll decline my support against the verdict of your family because nobody can know you more than your family, sir.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom, whispers Thomas Jefferson, from the grave.



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pretydiva:


If it had happened in a sane country, that guy would have been behind bars by now for sexual harassment. He is a douchebag

That lady would also have been charged in developed Arab countries. It goes both ways. The west is so permissive and allow undue rights to women even if it offensive, while the Oriental countries give undue power to men and regulate women dressings. Even in Nigeria, institution of higher learning have to issue dress code cos u cant infringe on others' right while observing yours. While in Rome, behave like the Romans.

Naira Marley advised girls to make their own money and he explained why this is necessary.


“Girls make your own money it will save you from unnecessary sex,” he wrote.