₦airaland Forum

I'm a registered APC member and this is my take: For Lagos, I shall vote Akinwunmi Ambode, but for Aso Rock, na GEJ: reason: Some stability/continuity of purpose. Nigerian leaders are no good when it comes to opposition continuing wt the progress of (esp oppossition) predecessors.

If PDP takes Lagos, in a bid to get at Tinubu, the 'grass' will suffer.

Also, if APC gets the presidency, in a bid to get at this and that, trust me, there wont be any progress. This is endemic and when u look around, u see abandoned projects/programmes .. vision 2000, vision 2010..... (the list continues)....

For now, we are not really ready for that change we are clamourg for. Our mindset is so cynical; of course i see it when we try to disparage the achievements of the opposition. The bane of our progress is cynicism!

All i can deduce is that GEJ is one man that successfully got rid of Obj from PDP...GEJ, i vividly remember was called clueless, weak, etc, but over the years he has proved doubting thomases pretty wrong...And i am sanguine that GEJ would definitely deliver more dividends in his second term as it appears that this mandate has been sealed and delivered! I would rather identify with slow but/and steady to identifying with UNKNOWN UNKNOWN, which is the worst risk any sane person would even cogitate about!

To drag an oldman in a quagmire is worse than killing him...it's somewhat unfortunate that obasanjo as stopped so low, so every foot matches on him...

To drag an oldman in a quagmire is worse than killing him...it's somewhat unfortunate that obasanjo as stopped so low, so every foot marches on him...

This report validates GEJ's remark that over the decades, the Nigerian military had been left ill-equipped. We commend his bold step to re-equip the military with state-of-the-art equipment. Kudos GEJ!

Mbu happens to be a performer who achieves results SMARTLY... Once again, he implies that if a governor who is erring/straying cld be arrested, and every hand must be on deck so collectively, we can achieve a very credible election!

I understand these bags of rice represent change in the agricultural sector, as they are home-made rice...which other way to convince thomases that reforms and transformations hv indeed occured in this sector...

This Anambra self...pple are talking about austerity measures, hunger, bad news...and here you are increasing salaries...this is a case of 'when there is casting down, some people are claiming: there is a lifting up'...i rejoice with all the beneficiaries...Peter Obi's prudence has made it easy for Obiano... Imagine a predecessor handing over empty/debt-ridden treasury to a successor...wld he ever think of increasing salaries at this time?

At this time, shldn't we really focus on the message and not the messenger? The assiduity that comes wt the presidence, methinks, honestly that Buhari @ this age cannot handle it ..can u imagine the schedule of the president? Or do they really want to run this country with the veepee...Cld it be true that there is more to it that meets the eyes?

Do not be deceived: NDI-IGBO would never put all their eggs in one basket esp in Lagos; therefore, what u wld find is this: Split votes for PDP and APC, but it does appear, that whoever shouts more, that they hv got the NDI-IGBO's votes in Lagos or South West seems to be winning propaganda war of enjoyg max support of NDI-IGBO...so just sit back and enjoy the tug btw pdp and apc...an average Igboman wld want just peace and a very conducive environment to trade and live...

With Wike taking over as Governor of Rivers, and with Jonathan returning to complete what which he has started...where will Rotimi Amaechi be...? I guess by now, he wld hv perfected plans to jet out b4 his tenure elapses...

But why would the yorubas be willing tools to destabilise the south; do they at all see beyond their noses? But again, not all yoruba folks, but very minute selfish sorts who always would succeed in marrg the perceived values of the entire race...

But why would the yorubas be willing tools to destabilise the south; do they at all see beyond their noses?

Obasanjo can’t write own history – Odumakin
Frontline political activist, Yinka Odumakin, is the National Publicity Secretary of pan- Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere. In this interview with Senior Correspondent, TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI, he speaks on his latest book ‘Watch the Watcher’, which was a response to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s My Watch. He also spoke on the forthcoming general elections and other issues. Excerpts:

Odumakin
Your book, ‘Watch the Watcher’, came out one month after former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, released his book, ‘My Watch’. Some Nigerians have alleged that you were paid by some highly influential people to attack Obasanjo. How true is that?
Those who have said such things are men and women of little understanding, who don’t know what exactly they are talking about. I have been on the scene for a while. Obasanjo is a subject I have dealt with over the years. I recalled that for over two decades now, if you goggle on the net, you will see all my comments and views on Obasanjo. Even when he was a sitting president in this country, I wrote an article in The Guardian, titled The Owu in Obasanjo. Few months after the article was published, he asked the police in Panti to lock me up for six days. So, if you have read the book, what will anybody find there that is a lie? That Obasanjo’s son, Gbenga, swore to an affidavit that his father slept with his wife, that Iyabo’s mother said that he had a horrible experience living with him as his wife and that Iyabo Obasanjo recently took him to the cleaners. Like Chief Ayo Adebanjo said at the book launch, if a man said that his father is immoral, if the wife said he is not useful, if his daughter said he is inhuman, what will somebody sponsor anybody to write or say about such a man? All I have done in that book is a public service duty, to nudge our collective memory as a country, to remind this country that an Obasanjo cannot be posing like Gani Fawehinmi, because, he has every opportunity for 11 years out of the 12 he presided over this country, he messed it up, left the country in a worse shape than he met it and so he cannot be gallivanting about now and be lecturing Nigerians on what he feels is right. For those who said I am paid to write about him, they are entitled to their opinion. When people cannot fault what you are saying, they begin to look for innuendos, rumours and cheap blackmail. Let Obasanjo and his minions challenge the content of the book.
In your book, you mentioned Obasanjo’s views about criticism while in power. When you compare that to the way the incumbent president receives criticism, which would you say is better?
In fairness to President Jonathan, you may say anything about him. I think one of his strength today is that he has allowed freedom of speech. And like he said recently during his campaign, nobody is imprisoned today or in exile because of their views about his administration. That was not so under Obasanjo. We know the number of people who were politically murdered under Obasanjo and no serious investigations were carried out. Few years ago, two former aides of Obasanjo went on Saharareporters to say all they knew about the murder of Bola Ige and Marshall Harry. And they drew parallel that it was shortly after they took money to Harry from Obasanjo that he was killed. That they also took money to Bola Ige. Now a lot of people were kept in confinement under Obasanjo because of their beliefs. I experienced it for six days. I remember I had to go and see Gani Adams in Kuje Prison, Abuja, when Obasanjo locked him up for several months without trial. He did same for Dr. Frederick Fasehun. So many people were dealt with under Obasanjo. Under him, you cannot differentiate between a military regime and a civilian democratic regime. Today, Obasanjo is talking about Chibok girls that Jonathan did not accept in the first few days were kidnapped and he was trying to point that out as insensitivity. But, the truth is that there were conflicting signals from the security. Don’t forget that even the Chief of Defence Staff came out and said the girls had been found. And so, they confused the man at the beginning, and if I will blame Jonathan, it is because some heads should have rolled for that level of irresponsibility. When there was bomb blast at Ikeja Cantonment, he (Obasanjo) came there and when people were protesting, he said ‘Shut up! I don’t have to be here’. Blood was still flowing on the streets, yet he asked the people to keep quiet. That is the gap between what Obasanjo does and what he says. If Obasanjo were a preacher, every sermon of his would end with ‘Do as I say, but don’t do as I do’. Definitely, the atmosphere today in terms of freedom of expression, political arrests and the rest are far better than Obasanjo’s days. You heard Chief Adebanjo say at the book launch that at the time Obasanjo was using EFCC to harass Mike Adenuga, he was busy extorting money from the same Adenuga for his Bells University. What kind of man is that? Obasanjo ran a very despotic, tyrannical and impunitous regime in this country and that cannot be compared with the administration of the current president.
Some Nigerians have wondered why Obasanjo is criticisng the President since he facilitated his emergence as president. Did you discuss that in your book?
Criticism is part of democracy. You are entitled to criticise, but it has to be constructive and it must have limits. President Jonathan is naturally a reserved person; but, when you push him to the wall to the extent of his saying that some elder statesmen are behaving like motor park touts, which is the exact way Obasanjo is behaving, you could see that the man has no shame. Few days ago he surfaced in Abuja taking a bow before Jonathan whom he has called all kinds of names. People should understand Obasanjo and why he does what he does. I tried to psychoanalyse him in my book. I think his troubled past is still haunting him and that has made him a very cantankerous man. His criticism did not just start with Jonathan. Around 1982, he started attacking Shagari until the military struck. What he did then was called coup baiting. At a time, he was criticising Abacha. According to Bello Fadile, it was because he wanted to head the Interim Government that
Shonekan headed. When that failed, he started National Unity Organisation, which was going around the country. The plan with him was that Major Fadile and other officers should overthrow Abacha and put an Interim Government to be headed by Obasanjo himself. So, you now see that anytime Obasanjo is engaging in criticism, he is preparing ground for something. There was a time he wrote Babangida and because IBB knew the kind of man he is, IBB left Abuja and went to meet him in Ota. He never responded to that letter. He knew Yar’Adua was ill before he brought him into power. On Yar’Adua’s dying bed, Obasanjo was going about abusing him. That was why he brought in Jonathan so that when Yar’Adua dies, Jonathan will be at his beck and call. He never knew that Jonathan will develop into his own man. As he was leaving Abuja to Ota, he was boasting to people that he will run Nigeria from Ota in 2007. That is Obasanjo for you. A man who thrives in confusion. Everything he does is about himself and his selfish agenda. He only gains relevance whenever he runs down his predecessors. He always paints them black so Nigerians can still make him the reference point and say ‘It was better during Obasanjo’s time’.
In summary, what message are you trying to pass across to Nigerians about the man, Obasanjo, in ‘Watch the Watcher’?
It is to put him in the public courts. What I just did is exactly what the English did when a notorious dare-devil died. They buried him and on his tombstone they wrote ‘Here lies a burglar. Even this stone was bought with the money found on him’. Like I said in the introduction to the book, if you allow men to write their own story, they will write it in their own favour, not minding if it is full of lies intended to deceive the public. If a person like the late daredevil robber, Lawrence Anini, is allowed to write his own epithet, you might find something like ‘Here lies Lawrence Anini, a great industrialist, who contributed to the rebasing of the Nigerian economy’. What I have done in the book is to paint it exactly the way it is, to let Nigerians know that we have come to a point where we will not allow them to write their own history. So, if you want history to be good to you, do the right thing. Don’t think after you have left office, you start falsifying history. Not only Obasanjo, anybody who tries to do that, you put their authentic history beside their own, so posterity can know the actual thing they did while alive.
Your book generated applause and criticism from the public. One of the criticisms came from former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oye Ibidapo-Obe, who said it is full of abusive words, that you called Obasanjo a liar and that it is not in Yoruba culture to say an elderly man is lying. What is your view on that?
I was on national television to speak on the book, Professor Ibidapo-Obe was also there. He was part of Obasanjo’s book presentation. So, I assume he was Obasanjo’s spokesman on this issue. I can understand what he is talking about. Does it mean that the professor will tell his children that lie has a different coloration or they should call lie truth? Why should an elder lie? So, if you lie and it is obvious, we should not say the person lie because he is an elderly person? I don’t know Ibidapo-Obe’s school of morality. In the Yoruba culture where I came from, there is a saying that ‘If your eyes is bringing out mucus, you pull it out and show it to the eyes’. That is the Yoruba of honour and public morality. There are so many sayings in Yorubaland that deals with forthrightness. In Yorubaland, there is a saying that ‘A man walks straight, it is only a debtor that begins to go through corners’. So, I don’t know where the professor has found his own code of conduct for the Yoruba nation. In Yorubaland, it is not a virtue to tell lies no matter your age. Anybody that understands Yoruba culture will know that there are so many social sanctions against certain misconduct. If a man is accused of theft and taken to police station, he will never return to that community. But, today, a professor is telling us that somebody who had lied to Nigerians, who has stolen public funds, should be venerated because of age. Where is that in our code of conduct in Yorubaland? So, I think it is people like Professor Ibidapo-Obe who are corrupting our youths by prescribing a corrupt code of values that is telling them to embrace the culture of calling a thief a chief because he is an elder. That is not the way we are brought up. With due respect, he has not shown a deep understanding of Yoruba cultural milieu. Let me end with this Yoruba saying, ‘An elderly person that ties a band of corn around his waist has turned himself to the playmate of fowls’. That is the Yorubaland of honour. I challenge Prof. Ibidapo-Obe to a public debate to come and tell us where in Yoruba philosophy that says that elders are permitted to lies and get away with it because of their age.
Pastor Tunde Bakare recently called for the postponement of the coming elections, suggesting rather that a transitional government to be headed by President Jonathan be set up. Do you share this view?
In Yorubaland, there is a saying that ‘The man who tells the truth is the enemy of the city’. But, courage is the ability to say the unpopular and stick by it and I think Pastor Bakare has shown that over the years. I have seen some political parties saying PDP wants to postpone elections and they are using some political and religious leaders to achieve that aim. It is an insult. Did they know where Bakare is coming from? In 1993, when he told this nation that SDP will lose and NRC will fail even before June 12 election, did it not happen? In 1999, he said Obasanjo is not Nigeria’s messiah and that if Obasanjo is sworn-in, three things will happen. Corruption will be on the increase, occultism will be on the rise and family life will collapse. Did it not happen? When he gave the prophecy then, there were all kinds of abuses and curses from all quarters, but it came to pass. So, it is only the enemies of this country and those power mongers who want power for self, who want to turn the country to their personal fiefdom and are promising all kinds of nonsense that cannot see the dangers ahead. In a badly divided country like this, going to the polls along faulty lines can spell doom. Jonathan’s campaign buses were burnt down in Jos, Buhari’s supporters were shot at in Rivers and his billboards were burnt in Warri. All the candidates are now campaigning in the South. I am waiting for when they will go to campaign in Yobe, Borno and the other North Eastern states. Nigeria is a nation that is founded on the foundation of lies.
Foundation of lies? Why do you say that?
It is because we pretend a lot. If we have a patriotic political class, what Pastor Bakare is saying is what we should have done. All these fight that is going on now, there are two major issues at stake. One, all the oil blocs are due for renewal this year. Whoever gets power will be the one to allocate the oil blocs and will determine the economy of this country for the next 32 years. Two, census is due for next year 2016. Those who are in charge of census now are talking about the fact that they are going to do digital survey, they are going to use the best technology that will give the actual result throughout the country. There are people who have held this country to ransom over the years on the basis of false population census because everything in this country is tied around population and the rest. These two things, census and allocation of oil blocs has made the election a do or die affair In the midst of ‘We want our power back’ from the North and ‘We must have our full term’ by the South. I was a delegate at the National Conference. When you look at 2009 to 2012, in those four years, the revenue accruing to the Federation Account of this country, average of 68 per cent of the total comes from the South South, 23 per cent from the South-West, and seven per cent from South East. North Central zero per cent, North East 0.0 per cent, North 0.00 per cent. Now when it now comes to distribution; local government funds alone, the three northern zones that put in zero per cent to the federal allocation take 54 per cent, the three zones that put in 100 per cent take 46 per cent.
And what are the statistics they use in sharing? Population. That is why when we get to the Conference, some northern delegates were talking about 80-20 sharing formula. They even used it to design their agbada. The whole question is: If you go to election in the midst of all these, you know what you are going for and that is the danger that Pastor Bakare is warning about.
But some people have also accused Pastor Bakare of clamouring for Jonathan’s continued stay in office, through his speech…
(…Cuts in) It is surprising that the APC said he is working for tenure elongation for Jonathan. When he gave the address the other day, about six pages was used to criticise the Jonathan administration. He even accused the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of bias for saying Nigerians should pray against APC. If APC should come into power in this country, people should kiss freedom of speech bye, because, they take delight in criticising people. But anything against them, they will muzzle the press and do all sorts of vile things.

Obasanjo can’t write own history – Odumakin
Frontline political activist, Yinka Odumakin, is the National Publicity Secretary of pan- Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere. In this interview with Senior Correspondent, TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI, he speaks on his latest book ‘Watch the Watcher’, which was a response to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s My Watch. He also spoke on the forthcoming general elections and other issues. Excerpts:

Odumakin
Your book, ‘Watch the Watcher’, came out one month after former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, released his book, ‘My Watch’. Some Nigerians have alleged that you were paid by some highly influential people to attack Obasanjo. How true is that?
Those who have said such things are men and women of little understanding, who don’t know what exactly they are talking about. I have been on the scene for a while. Obasanjo is a subject I have dealt with over the years. I recalled that for over two decades now, if you goggle on the net, you will see all my comments and views on Obasanjo. Even when he was a sitting president in this country, I wrote an article in The Guardian, titled The Owu in Obasanjo. Few months after the article was published, he asked the police in Panti to lock me up for six days. So, if you have read the book, what will anybody find there that is a lie? That Obasanjo’s son, Gbenga, swore to an affidavit that his father slept with his wife, that Iyabo’s mother said that he had a horrible experience living with him as his wife and that Iyabo Obasanjo recently took him to the cleaners. Like Chief Ayo Adebanjo said at the book launch, if a man said that his father is immoral, if the wife said he is not useful, if his daughter said he is inhuman, what will somebody sponsor anybody to write or say about such a man? All I have done in that book is a public service duty, to nudge our collective memory as a country, to remind this country that an Obasanjo cannot be posing like Gani Fawehinmi, because, he has every opportunity for 11 years out of the 12 he presided over this country, he messed it up, left the country in a worse shape than he met it and so he cannot be gallivanting about now and be lecturing Nigerians on what he feels is right. For those who said I am paid to write about him, they are entitled to their opinion. When people cannot fault what you are saying, they begin to look for innuendos, rumours and cheap blackmail. Let Obasanjo and his minions challenge the content of the book.
In your book, you mentioned Obasanjo’s views about criticism while in power. When you compare that to the way the incumbent president receives criticism, which would you say is better?
In fairness to President Jonathan, you may say anything about him. I think one of his strength today is that he has allowed freedom of speech. And like he said recently during his campaign, nobody is imprisoned today or in exile because of their views about his administration. That was not so under Obasanjo. We know the number of people who were politically murdered under Obasanjo and no serious investigations were carried out. Few years ago, two former aides of Obasanjo went on Saharareporters to say all they knew about the murder of Bola Ige and Marshall Harry. And they drew parallel that it was shortly after they took money to Harry from Obasanjo that he was killed. That they also took money to Bola Ige. Now a lot of people were kept in confinement under Obasanjo because of their beliefs. I experienced it for six days. I remember I had to go and see Gani Adams in Kuje Prison, Abuja, when Obasanjo locked him up for several months without trial. He did same for Dr. Frederick Fasehun. So many people were dealt with under Obasanjo. Under him, you cannot differentiate between a military regime and a civilian democratic regime. Today, Obasanjo is talking about Chibok girls that Jonathan did not accept in the first few days were kidnapped and he was trying to point that out as insensitivity. But, the truth is that there were conflicting signals from the security. Don’t forget that even the Chief of Defence Staff came out and said the girls had been found. And so, they confused the man at the beginning, and if I will blame Jonathan, it is because some heads should have rolled for that level of irresponsibility. When there was bomb blast at Ikeja Cantonment, he (Obasanjo) came there and when people were protesting, he said ‘Shut up! I don’t have to be here’. Blood was still flowing on the streets, yet he asked the people to keep quiet. That is the gap between what Obasanjo does and what he says. If Obasanjo were a preacher, every sermon of his would end with ‘Do as I say, but don’t do as I do’. Definitely, the atmosphere today in terms of freedom of expression, political arrests and the rest are far better than Obasanjo’s days. You heard Chief Adebanjo say at the book launch that at the time Obasanjo was using EFCC to harass Mike Adenuga, he was busy extorting money from the same Adenuga for his Bells University. What kind of man is that? Obasanjo ran a very despotic, tyrannical and impunitous regime in this country and that cannot be compared with the administration of the current president.
Some Nigerians have wondered why Obasanjo is criticisng the President since he facilitated his emergence as president. Did you discuss that in your book?
Criticism is part of democracy. You are entitled to criticise, but it has to be constructive and it must have limits. President Jonathan is naturally a reserved person; but, when you push him to the wall to the extent of his saying that some elder statesmen are behaving like motor park touts, which is the exact way Obasanjo is behaving, you could see that the man has no shame. Few days ago he surfaced in Abuja taking a bow before Jonathan whom he has called all kinds of names. People should understand Obasanjo and why he does what he does. I tried to psychoanalyse him in my book. I think his troubled past is still haunting him and that has made him a very cantankerous man. His criticism did not just start with Jonathan. Around 1982, he started attacking Shagari until the military struck. What he did then was called coup baiting. At a time, he was criticising Abacha. According to Bello Fadile, it was because he wanted to head the Interim Government that
Shonekan headed. When that failed, he started National Unity Organisation, which was going around the country. The plan with him was that Major Fadile and other officers should overthrow Abacha and put an Interim Government to be headed by Obasanjo himself. So, you now see that anytime Obasanjo is engaging in criticism, he is preparing ground for something. There was a time he wrote Babangida and because IBB knew the kind of man he is, IBB left Abuja and went to meet him in Ota. He never responded to that letter. He knew Yar’Adua was ill before he brought him into power. On Yar’Adua’s dying bed, Obasanjo was going about abusing him. That was why he brought in Jonathan so that when Yar’Adua dies, Jonathan will be at his beck and call. He never knew that Jonathan will develop into his own man. As he was leaving Abuja to Ota, he was boasting to people that he will run Nigeria from Ota in 2007. That is Obasanjo for you. A man who thrives in confusion. Everything he does is about himself and his selfish agenda. He only gains relevance whenever he runs down his predecessors. He always paints them black so Nigerians can still make him the reference point and say ‘It was better during Obasanjo’s time’.
In summary, what message are you trying to pass across to Nigerians about the man, Obasanjo, in ‘Watch the Watcher’?
It is to put him in the public courts. What I just did is exactly what the English did when a notorious dare-devil died. They buried him and on his tombstone they wrote ‘Here lies a burglar. Even this stone was bought with the money found on him’. Like I said in the introduction to the book, if you allow men to write their own story, they will write it in their own favour, not minding if it is full of lies intended to deceive the public. If a person like the late daredevil robber, Lawrence Anini, is allowed to write his own epithet, you might find something like ‘Here lies Lawrence Anini, a great industrialist, who contributed to the rebasing of the Nigerian economy’. What I have done in the book is to paint it exactly the way it is, to let Nigerians know that we have come to a point where we will not allow them to write their own history. So, if you want history to be good to you, do the right thing. Don’t think after you have left office, you start falsifying history. Not only Obasanjo, anybody who tries to do that, you put their authentic history beside their own, so posterity can know the actual thing they did while alive.
Your book generated applause and criticism from the public. One of the criticisms came from former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oye Ibidapo-Obe, who said it is full of abusive words, that you called Obasanjo a liar and that it is not in Yoruba culture to say an elderly man is lying. What is your view on that?
I was on national television to speak on the book, Professor Ibidapo-Obe was also there. He was part of Obasanjo’s book presentation. So, I assume he was Obasanjo’s spokesman on this issue. I can understand what he is talking about. Does it mean that the professor will tell his children that lie has a different coloration or they should call lie truth? Why should an elder lie? So, if you lie and it is obvious, we should not say the person lie because he is an elderly person? I don’t know Ibidapo-Obe’s school of morality. In the Yoruba culture where I came from, there is a saying that ‘If your eyes is bringing out mucus, you pull it out and show it to the eyes’. That is the Yoruba of honour and public morality. There are so many sayings in Yorubaland that deals with forthrightness. In Yorubaland, there is a saying that ‘A man walks straight, it is only a debtor that begins to go through corners’. So, I don’t know where the professor has found his own code of conduct for the Yoruba nation. In Yorubaland, it is not a virtue to tell lies no matter your age. Anybody that understands Yoruba culture will know that there are so many social sanctions against certain misconduct. If a man is accused of theft and taken to police station, he will never return to that community. But, today, a professor is telling us that somebody who had lied to Nigerians, who has stolen public funds, should be venerated because of age. Where is that in our code of conduct in Yorubaland? So, I think it is people like Professor Ibidapo-Obe who are corrupting our youths by prescribing a corrupt code of values that is telling them to embrace the culture of calling a thief a chief because he is an elder. That is not the way we are brought up. With due respect, he has not shown a deep understanding of Yoruba cultural milieu. Let me end with this Yoruba saying, ‘An elderly person that ties a band of corn around his waist has turned himself to the playmate of fowls’. That is the Yorubaland of honour. I challenge Prof. Ibidapo-Obe to a public debate to come and tell us where in Yoruba philosophy that says that elders are permitted to lies and get away with it because of their age.
Pastor Tunde Bakare recently called for the postponement of the coming elections, suggesting rather that a transitional government to be headed by President Jonathan be set up. Do you share this view?
In Yorubaland, there is a saying that ‘The man who tells the truth is the enemy of the city’. But, courage is the ability to say the unpopular and stick by it and I think Pastor Bakare has shown that over the years. I have seen some political parties saying PDP wants to postpone elections and they are using some political and religious leaders to achieve that aim. It is an insult. Did they know where Bakare is coming from? In 1993, when he told this nation that SDP will lose and NRC will fail even before June 12 election, did it not happen? In 1999, he said Obasanjo is not Nigeria’s messiah and that if Obasanjo is sworn-in, three things will happen. Corruption will be on the increase, occultism will be on the rise and family life will collapse. Did it not happen? When he gave the prophecy then, there were all kinds of abuses and curses from all quarters, but it came to pass. So, it is only the enemies of this country and those power mongers who want power for self, who want to turn the country to their personal fiefdom and are promising all kinds of nonsense that cannot see the dangers ahead. In a badly divided country like this, going to the polls along faulty lines can spell doom. Jonathan’s campaign buses were burnt down in Jos, Buhari’s supporters were shot at in Rivers and his billboards were burnt in Warri. All the candidates are now campaigning in the South. I am waiting for when they will go to campaign in Yobe, Borno and the other North Eastern states. Nigeria is a nation that is founded on the foundation of lies.
Foundation of lies? Why do you say that?
It is because we pretend a lot. If we have a patriotic political class, what Pastor Bakare is saying is what we should have done. All these fight that is going on now, there are two major issues at stake. One, all the oil blocs are due for renewal this year. Whoever gets power will be the one to allocate the oil blocs and will determine the economy of this country for the next 32 years. Two, census is due for next year 2016. Those who are in charge of census now are talking about the fact that they are going to do digital survey, they are going to use the best technology that will give the actual result throughout the country. There are people who have held this country to ransom over the years on the basis of false population census because everything in this country is tied around population and the rest. These two things, census and allocation of oil blocs has made the election a do or die affair In the midst of ‘We want our power back’ from the North and ‘We must have our full term’ by the South. I was a delegate at the National Conference. When you look at 2009 to 2012, in those four years, the revenue accruing to the Federation Account of this country, average of 68 per cent of the total comes from the South South, 23 per cent from the South-West, and seven per cent from South East. North Central zero per cent, North East 0.0 per cent, North 0.00 per cent. Now when it now comes to distribution; local government funds alone, the three northern zones that put in zero per cent to the federal allocation take 54 per cent, the three zones that put in 100 per cent take 46 per cent.
And what are the statistics they use in sharing? Population. That is why when we get to the Conference, some northern delegates were talking about 80-20 sharing formula. They even used it to design their agbada. The whole question is: If you go to election in the midst of all these, you know what you are going for and that is the danger that Pastor Bakare is warning about.
But some people have also accused Pastor Bakare of clamouring for Jonathan’s continued stay in office, through his speech…
(…Cuts in) It is surprising that the APC said he is working for tenure elongation for Jonathan. When he gave the address the other day, about six pages was used to criticise the Jonathan administration. He even accused the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of bias for saying Nigerians should pray against APC. If APC should come into power in this country, people should kiss freedom of speech bye, because, they take delight in criticising people. But anything against them, they will muzzle the press and do all sorts of vile things.

In epitome, people will always perish due to ignorance or rather crass stupidity...

From Yinka Odumakin:

Nigeria is a nation that is founded on the foundation of lies.
Foundation of lies? Why do you say that?
It is because we pretend a lot. If we have a patriotic political class, what Pastor Bakare is saying is what we should have done. All these fight that is going on now, there are two major issues at stake. One, all the oil blocs are due for renewal this year. Whoever gets power will be the one to allocate the oil blocs and will determine the economy of this country for the next 32 years. Two, census is due for next year 2016. Those who are in charge of census now are talking about the fact that they are going to do digital survey, they are going to use the best technology that will give the actual result throughout the country. There are people who have held this country to ransom over the years on the basis of false population census because everything in this country is tied around population and the rest. These two things, census and allocation of oil blocs has made the election a do or die affair In the midst of ‘We want our power back’ from the North and ‘We must have our full term’ by the South. I was a delegate at the National Conference. When you look at 2009 to 2012, in those four years, the revenue accruing to the Federation Account of this country, average of 68 per cent of the total comes from the South South, 23 per cent from the South-West, and seven per cent from South East. North Central zero per cent, North East 0.0 per cent, North 0.00 per cent. Now when it now comes to distribution; local government funds alone, the three northern zones that put in zero per cent to the federal allocation take 54 per cent, the three zones that put in 100 per cent take 46 per cent.
And what are the statistics they use in sharing? Population. That is why when we get to the Conference, some northern delegates were talking about 80-20 sharing formula. They even used it to design their agbada. The whole question is: If you go to election in the midst of all these, you know what you are going for and that is the danger that Pastor Bakare is warning about.
But some people have also accused Pastor Bakare of clamouring for Jonathan’s continued stay in office, through his speech…
(…Cuts in) It is surprising that the APC said he is working for tenure elongation for Jonathan. When he gave the address the other day, about six pages was used to criticise the Jonathan administration. He even accused the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of bias for saying Nigerians should pray against APC. If APC should come into power in this country, people should kiss freedom of speech bye, because, they take delight in criticising people. But anything against them, they will muzzle the press and do all sorts of vile things.

Indeed, people will always perish because of ignorance or crass stupidity...

From Yinka Odumakin:

Nigeria is a nation that is founded on the foundation of lies.
Foundation of lies? Why do you say that?
It is because we pretend a lot. If we have a patriotic political class, what Pastor Bakare is saying is what we should have done. All these fight that is going on now, there are two major issues at stake. One, all the oil blocs are due for renewal this year. Whoever gets power will be the one to allocate the oil blocs and will determine the economy of this country for the next 32 years. Two, census is due for next year 2016. Those who are in charge of census now are talking about the fact that they are going to do digital survey, they are going to use the best technology that will give the actual result throughout the country. There are people who have held this country to ransom over the years on the basis of false population census because everything in this country is tied around population and the rest. These two things, census and allocation of oil blocs has made the election a do or die affair In the midst of ‘We want our power back’ from the North and ‘We must have our full term’ by the South. I was a delegate at the National Conference. When you look at 2009 to 2012, in those four years, the revenue accruing to the Federation Account of this country, average of 68 per cent of the total comes from the South South, 23 per cent from the South-West, and seven per cent from South East. North Central zero per cent, North East 0.0 per cent, North 0.00 per cent. Now when it now comes to distribution; local government funds alone, the three northern zones that put in zero per cent to the federal allocation take 54 per cent, the three zones that put in 100 per cent take 46 per cent.
And what are the statistics they use in sharing? Population. That is why when we get to the Conference, some northern delegates were talking about 80-20 sharing formula. They even used it to design their agbada. The whole question is: If you go to election in the midst of all these, you know what you are going for and that is the danger that Pastor Bakare is warning about.
But some people have also accused Pastor Bakare of clamouring for Jonathan’s continued stay in office, through his speech…
(…Cuts in) It is surprising that the APC said he is working for tenure elongation for Jonathan. When he gave the address the other day, about six pages was used to criticise the Jonathan administration. He even accused the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of bias for saying Nigerians should pray against APC. If APC should come into power in this country, people should kiss freedom of speech bye, because, they take delight in criticising people. But anything against them, they will muzzle the press and do all sorts of vile things.

Indeed, people will always perish because of ignorance or crass stupidity...

From Yinka Odumakin:

Nigeria is a nation that is founded on the foundation of lies.
Foundation of lies? Why do you say that?
It is because we pretend a lot. If we have a patriotic political class, what Pastor Bakare is saying is what we should have done. All these fight that is going on now, there are two major issues at stake. One, all the oil blocs are due for renewal this year. Whoever gets power will be the one to allocate the oil blocs and will determine the economy of this country for the next 32 years. Two, census is due for next year 2016. Those who are in charge of census now are talking about the fact that they are going to do digital survey, they are going to use the best technology that will give the actual result throughout the country. There are people who have held this country to ransom over the years on the basis of false population census because everything in this country is tied around population and the rest. These two things, census and allocation of oil blocs has made the election a do or die affair In the midst of ‘We want our power back’ from the North and ‘We must have our full term’ by the South. I was a delegate at the National Conference. When you look at 2009 to 2012, in those four years, the revenue accruing to the Federation Account of this country, average of 68 per cent of the total comes from the South South, 23 per cent from the South-West, and seven per cent from South East. North Central zero per cent, North East 0.0 per cent, North 0.00 per cent. Now when it now comes to distribution; local government funds alone, the three northern zones that put in zero per cent to the federal allocation take 54 per cent, the three zones that put in 100 per cent take 46 per cent.
And what are the statistics they use in sharing? Population. That is why when we get to the Conference, some northern delegates were talking about 80-20 sharing formula. They even used it to design their agbada. The whole question is: If you go to election in the midst of all these, you know what you are going for and that is the danger that Pastor Bakare is warning about.
But some people have also accused Pastor Bakare of clamouring for Jonathan’s continued stay in office, through his speech…
(…Cuts in) It is surprising that the APC said he is working for tenure elongation for Jonathan. When he gave the address the other day, about six pages was used to criticise the Jonathan administration. He even accused the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of bias for saying Nigerians should pray against APC. If APC should come into power in this country, people should kiss freedom of speech bye, because, they take delight in criticising people. But anything against them, they will muzzle the press and do all sorts of vile things.

Indeed, people will always perish because of ignorance or crass stupidity...

From Yinka Odumakin:

Nigeria is a nation that is founded on the foundation of lies.
Foundation of lies? Why do you say that?
It is because we pretend a lot. If we have a patriotic political class, what Pastor Bakare is saying is what we should have done. All these fight that is going on now, there are two major issues at stake. One, all the oil blocs are due for renewal this year. Whoever gets power will be the one to allocate the oil blocs and will determine the economy of this country for the next 32 years. Two, census is due for next year 2016. Those who are in charge of census now are talking about the fact that they are going to do digital survey, they are going to use the best technology that will give the actual result throughout the country. There are people who have held this country to ransom over the years on the basis of false population census because everything in this country is tied around population and the rest. These two things, census and allocation of oil blocs has made the election a do or die affair In the midst of ‘We want our power back’ from the North and ‘We must have our full term’ by the South. I was a delegate at the National Conference. When you look at 2009 to 2012, in those four years, the revenue accruing to the Federation Account of this country, average of 68 per cent of the total comes from the South South, 23 per cent from the South-West, and seven per cent from South East. North Central zero per cent, North East 0.0 per cent, North 0.00 per cent. Now when it now comes to distribution; local government funds alone, the three northern zones that put in zero per cent to the federal allocation take 54 per cent, the three zones that put in 100 per cent take 46 per cent.
And what are the statistics they use in sharing? Population. That is why when we get to the Conference, some northern delegates were talking about 80-20 sharing formula. They even used it to design their agbada. The whole question is: If you go to election in the midst of all these, you know what you are going for and that is the danger that Pastor Bakare is warning about.
But some people have also accused Pastor Bakare of clamouring for Jonathan’s continued stay in office, through his speech…
(…Cuts in) It is surprising that the APC said he is working for tenure elongation for Jonathan. When he gave the address the other day, about six pages was used to criticise the Jonathan administration. He even accused the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of bias for saying Nigerians should pray against APC. If APC should come into power in this country, people should kiss freedom of speech bye, because, they take delight in criticising people. But anything against them, they will muzzle the press and do all sorts of vile things.

Indeed, people will always perish because of ignorance or crass stupidity...

From Yinka Odumakin:

Nigeria is a nation that is founded on the foundation of lies.
Foundation of lies? Why do you say that?
It is because we pretend a lot. If we have a patriotic political class, what Pastor Bakare is saying is what we should have done. All these fight that is going on now, there are two major issues at stake. One, all the oil blocs are due for renewal this year. Whoever gets power will be the one to allocate the oil blocs and will determine the economy of this country for the next 32 years. Two, census is due for next year 2016. Those who are in charge of census now are talking about the fact that they are going to do digital survey, they are going to use the best technology that will give the actual result throughout the country. There are people who have held this country to ransom over the years on the basis of false population census because everything in this country is tied around population and the rest. These two things, census and allocation of oil blocs has made the election a do or die affair In the midst of ‘We want our power back’ from the North and ‘We must have our full term’ by the South. I was a delegate at the National Conference. When you look at 2009 to 2012, in those four years, the revenue accruing to the Federation Account of this country, average of 68 per cent of the total comes from the South South, 23 per cent from the South-West, and seven per cent from South East. North Central zero per cent, North East 0.0 per cent, North 0.00 per cent. Now when it now comes to distribution; local government funds alone, the three northern zones that put in zero per cent to the federal allocation take 54 per cent, the three zones that put in 100 per cent take 46 per cent.
And what are the statistics they use in sharing? Population. That is why when we get to the Conference, some northern delegates were talking about 80-20 sharing formula. They even used it to design their agbada. The whole question is: If you go to election in the midst of all these, you know what you are going for and that is the danger that Pastor Bakare is warning about.
But some people have also accused Pastor Bakare of clamouring for Jonathan’s continued stay in office, through his speech…
(…Cuts in) It is surprising that the APC said he is working for tenure elongation for Jonathan. When he gave the address the other day, about six pages was used to criticise the Jonathan administration. He even accused the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of bias for saying Nigerians should pray against APC. If APC should come into power in this country, people should kiss freedom of speech bye, because, they take delight in criticising people. But anything against them, they will muzzle the press and do all sorts of vile things.

Indeed, people will always perish because of ignorance or crass stupidity...

From Yinka Odumakin:

Nigeria is a nation that is founded on the foundation of lies.
Foundation of lies? Why do you say that?
It is because we pretend a lot. If we have a patriotic political class, what Pastor Bakare is saying is what we should have done. All these fight that is going on now, there are two major issues at stake. One, all the oil blocs are due for renewal this year. Whoever gets power will be the one to allocate the oil blocs and will determine the economy of this country for the next 32 years. Two, census is due for next year 2016. Those who are in charge of census now are talking about the fact that they are going to do digital survey, they are going to use the best technology that will give the actual result throughout the country. There are people who have held this country to ransom over the years on the basis of false population census because everything in this country is tied around population and the rest. These two things, census and allocation of oil blocs has made the election a do or die affair In the midst of ‘We want our power back’ from the North and ‘We must have our full term’ by the South. I was a delegate at the National Conference. When you look at 2009 to 2012, in those four years, the revenue accruing to the Federation Account of this country, average of 68 per cent of the total comes from the South South, 23 per cent from the South-West, and seven per cent from South East. North Central zero per cent, North East 0.0 per cent, North 0.00 per cent. Now when it now comes to distribution; local government funds alone, the three northern zones that put in zero per cent to the federal allocation take 54 per cent, the three zones that put in 100 per cent take 46 per cent.
And what are the statistics they use in sharing? Population. That is why when we get to the Conference, some northern delegates were talking about 80-20 sharing formula. They even used it to design their agbada. The whole question is: If you go to election in the midst of all these, you know what you are going for and that is the danger that Pastor Bakare is warning about.
But some people have also accused Pastor Bakare of clamouring for Jonathan’s continued stay in office, through his speech…
(…Cuts in) It is surprising that the APC said he is working for tenure elongation for Jonathan. When he gave the address the other day, about six pages was used to criticise the Jonathan administration. He even accused the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of bias for saying Nigerians should pray against APC. If APC should come into power in this country, people should kiss freedom of speech bye, because, they take delight in criticising people. But anything against them, they will muzzle the press and do all sorts of vile things.

Indeed, people will always perish because of ignorance or crass stupidity...

From Yinka Odumakin:

Nigeria is a nation that is founded on the foundation of lies.
Foundation of lies? Why do you say that?
It is because we pretend a lot. If we have a patriotic political class, what Pastor Bakare is saying is what we should have done. All these fight that is going on now, there are two major issues at stake. One, all the oil blocs are due for renewal this year. Whoever gets power will be the one to allocate the oil blocs and will determine the economy of this country for the next 32 years. Two, census is due for next year 2016. Those who are in charge of census now are talking about the fact that they are going to do digital survey, they are going to use the best technology that will give the actual result throughout the country. There are people who have held this country to ransom over the years on the basis of false population census because everything in this country is tied around population and the rest. These two things, census and allocation of oil blocs has made the election a do or die affair In the midst of ‘We want our power back’ from the North and ‘We must have our full term’ by the South. I was a delegate at the National Conference. When you look at 2009 to 2012, in those four years, the revenue accruing to the Federation Account of this country, average of 68 per cent of the total comes from the South South, 23 per cent from the South-West, and seven per cent from South East. North Central zero per cent, North East 0.0 per cent, North 0.00 per cent. Now when it now comes to distribution; local government funds alone, the three northern zones that put in zero per cent to the federal allocation take 54 per cent, the three zones that put in 100 per cent take 46 per cent.
And what are the statistics they use in sharing? Population. That is why when we get to the Conference, some northern delegates were talking about 80-20 sharing formula. They even used it to design their agbada. The whole question is: If you go to election in the midst of all these, you know what you are going for and that is the danger that Pastor Bakare is warning about.
But some people have also accused Pastor Bakare of clamouring for Jonathan’s continued stay in office, through his speech…
(…Cuts in) It is surprising that the APC said he is working for tenure elongation for Jonathan. When he gave the address the other day, about six pages was used to criticise the Jonathan administration. He even accused the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of bias for saying Nigerians should pray against APC. If APC should come into power in this country, people should kiss freedom of speech bye, because, they take delight in criticising people. But anything against them, they will muzzle the press and do all sorts of vile things.

Indeed, people will always perish because of ignorance or crass stupidity...

From Yinka Odumakin:

Nigeria is a nation that is founded on the foundation of lies.
Foundation of lies? Why do you say that?
It is because we pretend a lot. If we have a patriotic political class, what Pastor Bakare is saying is what we should have done. All these fight that is going on now, there are two major issues at stake. One, all the oil blocs are due for renewal this year. Whoever gets power will be the one to allocate the oil blocs and will determine the economy of this country for the next 32 years. Two, census is due for next year 2016. Those who are in charge of census now are talking about the fact that they are going to do digital survey, they are going to use the best technology that will give the actual result throughout the country. There are people who have held this country to ransom over the years on the basis of false population census because everything in this country is tied around population and the rest. These two things, census and allocation of oil blocs has made the election a do or die affair In the midst of ‘We want our power back’ from the North and ‘We must have our full term’ by the South. I was a delegate at the National Conference. When you look at 2009 to 2012, in those four years, the revenue accruing to the Federation Account of this country, average of 68 per cent of the total comes from the South South, 23 per cent from the South-West, and seven per cent from South East. North Central zero per cent, North East 0.0 per cent, North 0.00 per cent. Now when it now comes to distribution; local government funds alone, the three northern zones that put in zero per cent to the federal allocation take 54 per cent, the three zones that put in 100 per cent take 46 per cent.
And what are the statistics they use in sharing? Population. That is why when we get to the Conference, some northern delegates were talking about 80-20 sharing formula. They even used it to design their agbada. The whole question is: If you go to election in the midst of all these, you know what you are going for and that is the danger that Pastor Bakare is warning about.
But some people have also accused Pastor Bakare of clamouring for Jonathan’s continued stay in office, through his speech…
(…Cuts in) It is surprising that the APC said he is working for tenure elongation for Jonathan. When he gave the address the other day, about six pages was used to criticise the Jonathan administration. He even accused the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of bias for saying Nigerians should pray against APC. If APC should come into power in this country, people should kiss freedom of speech bye, because, they take delight in criticising people. But anything against them, they will muzzle the press and do all sorts of vile things.

Indeed, people will always perish because of ignorance or crass stupidity...

From Yinka Odumakin:

Nigeria is a nation that is founded on the foundation of lies.
Foundation of lies? Why do you say that?
It is because we pretend a lot. If we have a patriotic political class, what Pastor Bakare is saying is what we should have done. All these fight that is going on now, there are two major issues at stake. One, all the oil blocs are due for renewal this year. Whoever gets power will be the one to allocate the oil blocs and will determine the economy of this country for the next 32 years. Two, census is due for next year 2016. Those who are in charge of census now are talking about the fact that they are going to do digital survey, they are going to use the best technology that will give the actual result throughout the country. There are people who have held this country to ransom over the years on the basis of false population census because everything in this country is tied around population and the rest. These two things, census and allocation of oil blocs has made the election a do or die affair In the midst of ‘We want our power back’ from the North and ‘We must have our full term’ by the South. I was a delegate at the National Conference. When you look at 2009 to 2012, in those four years, the revenue accruing to the Federation Account of this country, average of 68 per cent of the total comes from the South South, 23 per cent from the South-West, and seven per cent from South East. North Central zero per cent, North East 0.0 per cent, North 0.00 per cent. Now when it now comes to distribution; local government funds alone, the three northern zones that put in zero per cent to the federal allocation take 54 per cent, the three zones that put in 100 per cent take 46 per cent.
And what are the statistics they use in sharing? Population. That is why when we get to the Conference, some northern delegates were talking about 80-20 sharing formula. They even used it to design their agbada. The whole question is: If you go to election in the midst of all these, you know what you are going for and that is the danger that Pastor Bakare is warning about.
But some people have also accused Pastor Bakare of clamouring for Jonathan’s continued stay in office, through his speech…
(…Cuts in) It is surprising that the APC said he is working for tenure elongation for Jonathan. When he gave the address the other day, about six pages was used to criticise the Jonathan administration. He even accused the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of bias for saying Nigerians should pray against APC. If APC should come into power in this country, people should kiss freedom of speech bye, because, they take delight in criticising people. But anything against them, they will muzzle the press and do all sorts of vile things.

Indeed, people will always perish because of ignorance or crass stupidity...

From Yinka Odumaking:

Nigeria is a nation that is founded on the foundation of lies.
Foundation of lies? Why do you say that?
It is because we pretend a lot. If we have a patriotic political class, what Pastor Bakare is saying is what we should have done. All these fight that is going on now, there are two major issues at stake. One, all the oil blocs are due for renewal this year. Whoever gets power will be the one to allocate the oil blocs and will determine the economy of this country for the next 32 years. Two, census is due for next year 2016. Those who are in charge of census now are talking about the fact that they are going to do digital survey, they are going to use the best technology that will give the actual result throughout the country. There are people who have held this country to ransom over the years on the basis of false population census because everything in this country is tied around population and the rest. These two things, census and allocation of oil blocs has made the election a do or die affair In the midst of ‘We want our power back’ from the North and ‘We must have our full term’ by the South. I was a delegate at the National Conference. When you look at 2009 to 2012, in those four years, the revenue accruing to the Federation Account of this country, average of 68 per cent of the total comes from the South South, 23 per cent from the South-West, and seven per cent from South East. North Central zero per cent, North East 0.0 per cent, North 0.00 per cent. Now when it now comes to distribution; local government funds alone, the three northern zones that put in zero per cent to the federal allocation take 54 per cent, the three zones that put in 100 per cent take 46 per cent.
And what are the statistics they use in sharing? Population. That is why when we get to the Conference, some northern delegates were talking about 80-20 sharing formula. They even used it to design their agbada. The whole question is: If you go to election in the midst of all these, you know what you are going for and that is the danger that Pastor Bakare is warning about.
But some people have also accused Pastor Bakare of clamouring for Jonathan’s continued stay in office, through his speech…
(…Cuts in) It is surprising that the APC said he is working for tenure elongation for Jonathan. When he gave the address the other day, about six pages was used to criticise the Jonathan administration. He even accused the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of bias for saying Nigerians should pray against APC. If APC should come into power in this country, people should kiss freedom of speech bye, because, they take delight in criticising people. But anything against them, they will muzzle the press and do all sorts of vile things.

From Yinka Odumakin:

Nigeria is a nation that is founded on the foundation of lies.
Foundation of lies? Why do you say that?
It is because we pretend a lot. If we have a patriotic political class, what Pastor Bakare is saying is what we should have done. All these fight that is going on now, there are two major issues at stake. One, all the oil blocs are due for renewal this year. Whoever gets power will be the one to allocate the oil blocs and will determine the economy of this country for the next 32 years. Two, census is due for next year 2016. Those who are in charge of census now are talking about the fact that they are going to do digital survey, they are going to use the best technology that will give the actual result throughout the country. There are people who have held this country to ransom over the years on the basis of false population census because everything in this country is tied around population and the rest. These two things, census and allocation of oil blocs has made the election a do or die affair In the midst of ‘We want our power back’ from the North and ‘We must have our full term’ by the South. I was a delegate at the National Conference. When you look at 2009 to 2012, in those four years, the revenue accruing to the Federation Account of this country, average of 68 per cent of the total comes from the South South, 23 per cent from the South-West, and seven per cent from South East. North Central zero per cent, North East 0.0 per cent, North 0.00 per cent. Now when it now comes to distribution; local government funds alone, the three northern zones that put in zero per cent to the federal allocation take 54 per cent, the three zones that put in 100 per cent take 46 per cent.
And what are the statistics they use in sharing? Population. That is why when we get to the Conference, some northern delegates were talking about 80-20 sharing formula. They even used it to design their agbada. The whole question is: If you go to election in the midst of all these, you know what you are going for and that is the danger that Pastor Bakare is warning about.
But some people have also accused Pastor Bakare of clamouring for Jonathan’s continued stay in office, through his speech…
(…Cuts in) It is surprising that the APC said he is working for tenure elongation for Jonathan. When he gave the address the other day, about six pages was used to criticise the Jonathan administration. He even accused the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of bias for saying Nigerians should pray against APC. If APC should come into power in this country, people should kiss freedom of speech bye, because, they take delight in criticising people. But anything against them, they will muzzle the press and do all sorts of vile things.

Can someone confirm this: APC is surreptitionsly considering changing presidential candidate due to health issues!

In a dream.....Buhari is sworn in as president....Q: Mr President: how again did u say you would fight corruption...Buhari answers: Did i ever promise you that...just look behind me ...do you think I can bite the fingers that fed me?

Oh Fashola has lost touch wt governance and commonsense no longer leads in the brain of a SAN! Another loss! Why do those who shld know better violate d very constitution they swore to protect and do so wt impunity...

There is no such thing as Mar's apparition... In fact, Mary is now in heaven and does not even know all the idolatery that is going on in her name. It's hi time pple understood the tircks of the devil and looked unto Jesus only, the way, the truth and the life...

Good news and very encouraging... Keep thyself pure; it pays to marry as virgins! The Lord is honoured as we honour our bodies, which are the temple of God; he who destroys it, shall God destroy!