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OAM4J: How best to honour Abiola, by Tinubu

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Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has suggested ways the Federal Government can honour the late Chief Moshood Abiola.

He suggested the naming of a national monument in the Federal Capital Territory (Abuja) after Abiola, his posthumous declaration as president and the setting aside of a day in his honour.

He contended that though the President’s decision to rename the University of Lagos (Unilag) after Abiola was welcome, it falls short of what is required.

Tinubu spoke in Lagos on Wednesday while receiving protesting students of the university. Numbering about 100, the students, who handed a protest letter to the former governor, said they were in his Freedom House, Victoria Island office to express their displeasure over the renaming of their school.

Tinubu said: “We must congratulate the president for attempting to do it, but we say: do it right. MKO was elected by the entire country, not just by the Yoruba. He was arrested and taken to Abuja.

“He was tried, incarcerated and eventually died in very controversial circumstances in Abuja under the custody of federal agents. Abiola’s mandate was a national mandate which he tried to reclaim.

“But we must be careful not to localise or sectionalise MKO. Without Abiola, without June 12 elections, we would not be enjoying this democracy now or even the freedom we now have. The seed for what we enjoy was sown by Abiola’s victory on June 12 and millions of Nigerians who voted.

“There are preliminary options for President Jonathan. There is a pending resolution by the National Assembly that recommended that the National Stadium be named after Moshood Abiola.

“Let the President go ahead and name the Abuja stadium after Abiola- a pillar of sports and political icon. Then we will celebrate and respect that.

“Before now, various excuses were given over the inconclusiveness of the elections. Some of us were incarcerated and suffered during the June 12 struggle. Since then, the various actors, especially the umpire or head of the Electoral Commission, Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, in his book declared the result of the election and that Abiola duly won.

“The President can on the basis of this go to the National Assembly to declare him winner, enter it into record and posthumously declare Abiola as the democratically-elected president of Nigeria. We will support the President on this and recognise this.

“I won’t stop saying the truth. I won’t stop supporting and promoting the democratic ideals I believe in; we must depart from doing things by fiat as if we are under the military.”

To the protesting students, Tinubu said: “You have the right to air your grievances over this matter. Let me speak to you as a mentor and a leader. Though I am in support of your position, but do not criticise the government without giving it alternatives.”

Tinubu urged the students to find a constructive way to tell the President what options are open to him. He cited the National Stadium, Abuja, National Hospital Abuja (where Abiola died), Eagle Square and the International Conference Centre, Abuja.

Some of the student leaders said they were not against the move to immortalise Abiola, but were opposed to the motive behind the renaming of their school.

They argued that the President’s decision was not informed by his belief that Abiola should be immortalised, but an attempt by his government to trivialise Abiola’s name and gain political relevance in the Southwest.

The Coordinator, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone D, Adeyemo Monsuru Tunde, said: “The President is not immortalising Abiola because he loves the Yoruba, but he is doing so to gain his lost political relevance across the geo-political zones in Nigeria, particularly in South West of Nigeria,”

A former Senate President, Unilag, Agbabiaka Ahmed, said the renaming of their school will not only destroy the brand name it had grown and maintained for 50 years, it was also capable of demoralising the students.

Ahmed, who later handed Tinubu the protest letter written on behalf of ‘concerned University of Lagos alumni, students and youths of Lagos State,’ wondered why the Federal Government failed to consult the school’s Executive, Governing Council and other relevant stakeholders before taking its decision.

The daughter of the late Abiola, Mrs. Hafsat Abiola-Costello, welcomed the honour.

In a statement yesterday, Mrs. Abiola-Costello described her father as an icon of democracy.

Praising President Goodluck Jonathan for the honour, she said the best way to immortalise her father was through transparent, free and fair elections, obedience to the rule of law, due process and banishment of injustice, poverty and want.

She urged the Federal Government to revisit the circumstances surrounding the death of her father to effectively close that dark period in Nigeria’s history and prevent a recurrence.

Mrs. Abiola-Costello said: “It was the sacrifices of pro-democracy activists, the supreme price paid by my father and other martyrs that led to the current civil rule.”

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This idiot is talking about how best to honour the man he betrayed to death? Bola Tinubu May his hypocrisy lead to his untimely and inglorious demise. May his lies open the road for suffering in his life. The degree to which he has risen through betrayal, backstabbing, double-speak and treachery will be the same degree by which he will suffer penury, disgrace, dishonor and lack, in Jesus name.

Ole alainitiju! Is it not now obvious that indeed, the protests were sponsored by him and his leprous party

I've never seen anyone make as obviously self destructive a move as the one made by Tiwa Savage in choosing to join Don Jazzy in his ill-thought out MAVIN records adventure. She was doing quite well, creatively speaking, on her own, and if she had any sense, she would have waited to let the dust settle before choosing who to go with between the obviously more business-savvy D'Banj and the more creative Don Jazzy.

Already an acknowledged song-writing talent, all she needed was to get a good platform to market herself as an act in her own right, INTERNATIONALLY. Of the entire MAVIN crew, she's the one most likely, based solely on her prodigious talent, to break the international market. Don Jazzy obviously doesn't have the balls to play global, and the rushed "Solar Plexus" album demonstrates how appalling he actually can be in the absence of the kind of exacting standards a badly under-rated D'Banj obviously brought to his game.

With D'Banj now having signed Davido, and having access to the excellent facilities of G.O.O.D. Music and Def Jam, it's not too late for Tiwa to cross over. I reckon the smart D'Banj will soon make a play for JJC (Abdul Bello), who's a SUPER TALENTED producer and international player too. If he could pull that off, the sky would be the limit for his Def Jam Africa label. JJC is already a big brand in Africa, having mentored artistes from all over the continent, including North Africa!!

Tiwa, Tiwa, Tiwa omo Savage!!! How many times did I call your name Retrace your steps from those clueless amateurs before they ruin your promising career for you o!! It's not too late. I promise!

Fashola ke? Buhari ke?

Is this a ploy to sack all medical doctors in the employment of the Federal Ministry of Health, and send us all to an early grave? Or perhaps a devilish plan to soak every Nigerian in blood, as Buhari is determined to do? The bobo is so slow, even if he wins, he might not realise he won and just shout "Zey rigged!! Zey rigged za elekishans!", sending hordes of baying Al-Majiri after all southerners in the north AND the south...!!!

Forget it mate. Nobody will vote for those two in the south now o. Fashola just finished his political career with his military style in Lagos. Lt. General Raji Fashola!!!

Fashola ke? Buhari ke?

Is this a ploy to sack all medical doctors in the employment of the Federal Ministry of Health, and send us all to an early grave? Or perhaps a devilish plan to soak every Nigerian in blood, as Buhari is determined to do? The bobo is so slow, even if he wins, he might not realise he won and just shout "Zey rigged!! Zey rigged za elekishans!", sending hordes of baying Al-Majiri after all southerners in the north AND the south...!!!

Forget it mate. Nobody will vote for those two in the south now o. Fashola just finished his political career with his military style in Lagos. Lt. General Raji Fashola!!!

Conscience is an open wound, and only the truth can heal it. I am a PDP member, and I can confirm that one of my leaders in my state was subjected to this kind of mercenary treatment.

I support President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, but frankly, the idiots surrounding him, especially in his personal security setup, are dragging his name in the mud with their pay-per-view system of gaining access to the President.

Given the experience of my leader, where he too, was asked to pay exactly N5m to get access to the President, I have to say that this man's allegations ring very true. The fight against corruption has to start from within. The President may be corruption free, but there are too many people close to him that are deep into the act of corruption.

This is the UNDILUTED TRUTH. Take it how you will.

While the ACN Lagos State spread lies and propaganda all over the place, the doctors are getting juicy offers from private hospitals, other states and the Federal Ministry of Health. Let them keep deceiving themselves while the gullible sheep they're killing with taxes continue to cheer them on, as they die like flies due to the senseless sacking of the doctors.

Power show will end soon, when people begin to realise that up to 50% of those doctors are already in other jobs, with a good number going abroad, where they paid much better. Better go and sign up with the nearest herbalist. Awon oponu buruku.

No be Nigerians be fools? We can refuse to visit their yeye country, and they will have no choice but to cut their prices. We can face South Africa for tourism, China and UAE for trade, Ghana for investments, and give them the middle finger. Let's see who blinks first. Idiots. Even education sef, we can face US, Canada and Australia if we need English speaking first world degrees. yeye people. Is it not our thieving politicians and civil servants that have turned everybody into economic refugees finish? Small time now, they will celebrate fake 60th birthday, and fools will be hailing them and struggling for sweet sensation package.

Wetin dem get sef?

Didn't I say some time ago that this idiot should be sacked? Is he not proving now to be a greater idiot than we originally thought, being the thieving Anenih's henchman?

He wishes he had state police to kill the Lekki 19, instead of arresting them; to kill the doctors, instead of sacking them; to round up all PDP in Lagos State and charge them for the offence of opposition.

State Police ke? In Lt. B. R. Fashola's hands, they would be an instrument of repression. In Field Marshall Bola Ahmed Tinubu's hands, they would be an army of occupation. Forget state police and give us potable water to drink joor. Yeyenatu!!

joyceok: TINUBU IS A HEARTLESS THIEF

You think so Many on Nairaland think he's an angel of light. Oh, sorry, I forgot....they're on his payroll too, probably being paid with money squeezed out of those poor Lekki residents as they cross the tollgate to go to hospital on Lagos Island, since the land meant for their General Hospital has been taken over by......yes, Bola Tinubu, and used to build his one of his many private estates, Royal Gardens Estate, at Ajah.

Filming has been completed on the second part of this documentary. It's now going through post production, and will be released at the end of June. It presents mind-blowing ron cast evidence of links between certain individuals at ARM, LCC, Deux Projects, Bola Tinubu and Babatunde Raji Fashola. It also presents evidence of , official corruption in the very existence of Plycon Construction, as well as the contracts from which they've benefited.

All of this evidence is available to the EFCC, but they have refused to investigate, right from the time of Ribadu. Considering that Ribadu emerged the Presidential Candidate of ACN, we now know why! Lamorde was Ribadu's defacto number two, and continues their agenda from back then, or Bola Tinubu, Tunji Olowolafe and several other ACN linked personalities would not be roaming free today. Ibori is a boy scout by comparison with Bola Tinubu!

redsun: This is korokoro oppression and it is making my blood boil.How can man be so inhumane to man?

You think Bola Tinubu is still human? He became an animal after 2003. The cocaine got a few crucial brain cells that control empathy. With those gone, the beast in him was fully unleashed.

That's just Part 1. Part 2 is in post production now and will be released soon.

redsun: Nigeria is truly a mad country.Look at the environment of people that suppossedly pay taxes.Like piggery and unlike human habitats.

What are they using the taxes for?Tax proceeds should all go back to the commnunities,not for politicians pockets.

They're using the taxes to build an empire of hotels. Four Points at Sheraton, the Ikeja Shopping Mall at Alausa, Lakowe Lakes Estate, Royal Gardens Estate, Fara Park Estate, Beechwood Estate, Adeva Gardens, and many, many other things places where the communities can eat cake!

redsun: Mehn,these people are crazy man!How can they be tasking ordinary hard up citzens like that?Why can't they restrict the collections to heavy duty vehicles,government vehicles and viable commercial vehecles?

They do it because they can. Simply because they can. Expect their goons here in 3, 2, 1......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw8FzN5AjR4

You need to watch this to the end!

ekt_bear: Nigerians enjoy playing politics with everything sha

Very hypocritical people.

If you want him to use healthcare in Nigeria for something as serious as his sick father, then shouldn't you "buy Nigerian" for everything?

What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

you had better not be using a foreign computer to be typing...you'd better be using one made in Nigeria.

I dunno how you can play politics with somebody's family. It is disgusting.

You really are quite the dimwit, aren't you? Is he a private citizen? Did he not recently sack all doctors and announce to us that he'd hired new ones? Why didn't he avail himself of the services of those new doctors? Is there a screw loose in your amoebic brain or something? Better scoot back to Ekiti and stop commenting on things you know nothing about and can never understand...opeloko oshi!

ekt_bear: How is this our business?

It is between him and his father.

What a man does to take care of his family and loved ones should not be mixed with politics.

Of course it's not your business, since you are an at'ounrinwa in Lagos. You cannot poke your stinking nose in our matter. Go and find somewhere else to troll. He is not just any man. He is the governor of Lagos state. The governor who decided to deprive the people of quality health care by constructively dismissing all the medical doctors on government payroll with his refusal to improve their working conditions, contrary to promises made by him and on his behalf.

He cannot deprive the people and give us the middle finger by ferrying his own across the pond to a better standard of health care than he's made available, upon all the taxes he's squeezing out of us.

You are a hypocrite sir, and a very bad one at that. God will punish you for the nonsense you just typed up there.
He-goat!

Apparently, Governator Lt. General Babatunde Raji Fashola, who gallantly sacked 778 overworked and underpaid experienced doctors from Lagos State service and recruited 373 newly qualified super-doctors to replace them, demonstrated his trust in his new recruits 2 days ago by shipping his sick father abroad away from their clutches to the tried and tested US medical system. Bless him.

The rest of us non-governors will just have to make do with the recruits, babalawos, dibia, herbalists and elewe-omos!! A-C-N!!! Democrazy for jaundice!!!! Demoncrazy...! Jaundice!!! Mscheeewww!! Yeyenatu.

OAM4j, you never lock this one?

How can they negotiate after sacking? Is their head on their yansh and vice versa?

If not, why is OAM4J scandalously locking threads about Fashola's despotic sacking of 1000 doctors for daring to hold him to a promise he made two years ago? Nairaland is going the way of conventional Nigerian media houses. How many plots at Lekki Phase 1 have they allocated to you, moderators and owner? The blood of those that will die from this demomic action will be on your hands and heads. Vampires!

Cocoyam is low in starch? What is the matter with these illiterate idiots What has Yorubaland turned into? Ignorant buffoons running things by force of arms and bribes....na wa oh!

Yorubaland, how art the mighty fallen!!!

This President says he is a Christian. Doesn't the Bible say something like "Flee all appearance of evil"? I don't care how this is spun. This is bad for the President, and it makes him look like the weakling they're saying he is. He came to Lagos, with Bankole in tow, to see Tinubu, for what? No wonder PDP lost all the LCDAs they won to Tinubu's dictatorial announcements through his LASIEC lackey, and heavens did not fall. He has collaborators within the PDP at the highest levels. Na wa o. PDP are decieving their own party faithful!

Fashola's boys, go and show this to your boss before the incoming rains drown Lagosians again.

TheShopKeeper: The rate is just pure day-light robbery which doesn't make any sense.
Yet our Mallam SLS is not doing anything about this to help business owners and large corporates.
No wonder, it's just too difficult to do business in the country.

Isn't the boy just a useless loudmouth Emir wanna-be? What really does he know about banking, seriously?

Beaf, don't let this usurping turncoat fool you. He works for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and even got his company, Alpha Beta Consulting, into Apapa ports for the collection of Customs revenue when he was Finance Minister.

If he is not removed from office in the next cabinet reshuffle, I'll have to consider that the President is a blind man. Aganga's loyalty is to Aganga only, and whoever he perceives as better able to protect his personal interest.

If there was any doubt before, it is now crystal clear that the last traces of omoluabi in this glorifed agbero and Tinubu slave died the day his master bought him that worthless SAN award from Olisa Agbakoba and co, just prior to his election into office. Clearly, there is no sense of law, equity or justice operating in his hammer-shaped ogor.

We didn't hear pim from him when he shamelessly blocked all roads in Lagos to spend state funds on his unelected, freeloading master, yet, he wants to open his forty mouth to cry fowl where there is none. Obviously, he would have preferred a situation where their "generals" in the NURTW would have a free hand to slaughter the first lady, like his blood-thirsty master ordered the murders of Bola Ige, Fun so Williams, Dipo Dina (the idiot even danced and sang at the poor guy's funeral).

Fashola should close his stinking mouth and concentrate his efforts on how he will not end up in jail after his tenure for the grand larceny he calls governance. Heeediiioooort!!!

Beaf!:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201204050474.html

Stupid speculation. I like the way Obasanjo keeps bufoons guessing. Tukur was appointed Chairman of NEPAD for 8 years by who? He was Chairman of African Business Roundtable for 8 years at who's request? Fools must speculate sha.

How many of you know that to become a lawmaker in any ACN state, the only required qualifications are:

1. Unquestioning loyalty to Bola Ahmed Tinubu

2. See 1 above

3. Lack of reasoning capacity

4. Abject stupidity

If you're able to fulfil these conditions, you will be appointed (not elected) a lawmaker in Lagos or any other ACN controlled state. This, as you can see from their senseless pronouncement, is factual!

Gbawe: "Successful National Congress of the PDP"? With the emergence of a 60 year old "youth" leader and the "stepping down" farce that saw Bamanga Tukur , trounced in his own ward, becoming chairman?

To be honest, I doubt if you are sane. OBJ was thoroughly disgraced in the SW with the last elections. As the most prominent PDP leader in the region, OBJ supervised the total annihilation of his own Party in that region!!! Even his daughter was booted out unceremoniously and remains in the wilderness to date. OBJ's Military pal and fellow Dinosaur he tried to foist on Ogun State, Olurin, found no joy with his misadventure of contesting against the ACN.

Somehow you interprete the humiliation and retirement into political wilderness of OBJ( Courtesy of "Ojuyobo" ) as him "wrong-footing" me, ACN supporters and Tinubu ? My guy, you need serious help. I ain't joking pal.

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My people, make una look this video o. This is the announcement by the LASIEC Returning Officer for Badagry Central, of the results of the LG elections there. "Justice" Fatai Adeyinka was to announce the following day, that ACN won, without giving any voting numbers!! This is what this clinically insane idiot, gbawegbawe is here trying to defend o! Yet he has the gall to question my sanity. Oriburuku ti ba e, o de ma ba e kale ni. Eni ti won ti fi opolo e gba paro. O je lo ya brain ko fi kun brain cell meji to ku l'agbari korofo e!

Gbawe: Is djustice short for dabaru justice?

A freudian slip? A reference to your principal's active corruption of the judicial system, that has produced incredibly breath-taking Salamic judgements across the South West? The name sir, is Justice. Daniel Justice.

I guess your name is also another freudian reference to your proclivity for smoking the same weed your god, Ojuyobo, aka, Yekini Amoda Ogunlere, aka Bola Ahmed Tinubu is smoking, abi? Akuri omo!!

Akainzo: In reference to the bolded part in your quote, you must either be smoking weed or you must so blinded, your brain refused to grasp the happenings in 2007 nor could it comprehend what was later written about the happenings around that time.

My word of advice to you, go and read!

Where are all these worms crawling out from Ni ibo ni awon oponu ayirada yi tii nwa na You'd better follow your own advice and put down that crack pipe. What the doctors are telling you is true. It's not good for your health. Olopolo dudu oshi!!