"An online blogger"! LOL! I dey laugh.

President Jonathan referred to Sahara Reporters' Sowore as "an online blogger".

Now, the same fools who usually hailed the same Sowore whenever he lied against APC members (or other groups and persons they hate), will agree with Jonathan regarding Sowore! If it was an APC member who described Sowore in this manner, "they" would have filled this thread with hate!

Hypocrites!!!

Sowore is a good guy, my contemporary, and a pro-democracy activist I've known since 1987. However, his Sahara Reporters platform has zero credibility. Its penchant for slandering people and publishing lies is damn too much!

The quantum of hypocrisy one sees on Nairaland could make our corrupt politicians look like saints.

Sahara Reporters are usually hailed and commended when they report this kind of "exclusive report" on APC people or on APC matters, BUT when they report the same for PDP people/matters, some of us here, who are definitely PDP supporters or sympathisers, would start insulting Sahara Reporters and Sowore!

It's the same approach with Kemi Olunloyo, Nnamdi Kanu, Femi Fani-Kayode. When they publish, write, or say what some of us love to hear, we HAIL them as though they were the best thing to happen to humanity since bread and butter emerged, BUT when they tell us things we dislike based on religious, ethnic, or political party interest (even if true), we start insulting them!

Hypocrisy has no other meaning...Amazing. And people here on NR want to change Nigeria!

Oh boy see money! How can we be sure he is worth this much? Abi did he 'amplify' his net worth with the aim of 'filling in the blanks' during his tenure as governor?

Ajimobi, who had his first degree and MBA in the US, before he got elected as Senator in 2003, was the MD/CEO of National Oil & Marketing Company Ltd, a subsidiary of Shell.

Anyone who rose to the MD/CEO position at ANY subsidiary of Shell, that globally-acclaimed oil multinational, must have been rich; just like one would expect for an ED of any top bank.

And he submitted these assets declaration forms BEFORE/ON THE DAY he was sworn-in as Governor.

However, this is not an excuse for any form of corruption; but I thought that it was good to say the truth about his professional background, after I read some comments as though he was a nobody before he joined politics.

Oh boy see money! How can we be sure he is worth this much? Abi did he 'amplify' his net worth with the aim of 'filling in the blanks' during his tenure as governor?

Ajimobi, who had his first degree and MBA from the US, before he joined politics and was elected Senator in 2003, was MD/CEO of National Oil & Petroleum Marketing Company Ltd, a subsidiary of Shell.

Anyone who rose to be MD/CEO of the subsidiary of such a major multinational oil giant like Shell should be very rich; just like an ED in a major bank. And he declared these assets BEFORE he was elected Governor; so, they are somewhat believable.

However, this is not an excuse for any corruption under any guise; but just to say the facts, considering that I have read some funny comments as though the man was a nobody before he joined politics.

And some fools (some are even "I never chop" o) would create enmity among theirselves, curse and insult each other for these Bucaneers, who are friends despite being in different political parties!

Nigerian politicians are like football players changing clubs. While they swap jerseys, exchange backslaps, shake hands, and go partying after games they even lost, their emotional opposing fans would start insulting each other!

Legendary actor in the Yoruba movie genre. A master in the art of interpreting roles.

May God bless his soul and comfort his family and loved ones. Amen!

APC, a useless, uncoordinated political party!

It was not even this bad when PDP's Ali Modu Sherif and Ahmed Makarfi had their tiff.

This is beyond disgraceful. And as usual, Buhari does nothing! He knows nothing!!!

May our country never see this kind of daft, rudderless political party again.

Some of us supported them in 2015 (and to a lesser extent in 2019) out of conviction, but as corrupt as PDP was, in their 16 years of perfidy, these clowns at APC, from top to bottom, are worse in strategy, policy, cohesion, etc.

A shame!

I know that Fisayo is a good guy and is also a budding investigative journalist. However, this reporting is distasteful. Some things are better not written, even if they are true.

The urge to be the first to publish ‘breaking news’ has a limit. Death is not a play thing...

Africonji:
PDP will shock APC in this coming Edo election. Mark my words.

You said the same thing in 2015 and 2019 (on behalf of Atiku) and it all ended in failure!

People who know nothing about Edo politics are writing ignorantly.

Go and check the results of the 2016 Governorship election that ushered in Obaseki and the entire 2019 election results for the Presidency, Senate, and House of Reps in Edo State.

Ize-Iyamu will flog Obaseki in September like a mother would beat a stubborn child...

Mark my words!

This is the most cantankerous First Family in the history of Nigerian presidency.

It’s damn too clear that President Buhari is not in charge...

These public squabbles, especially for and against the First Lady, are too embarrassing!

Tragic.

A PDP Governor, who is also Atiku's boy, Fintiri, said this about an APC aspirant!

Nigeria's democracy is unique; one should just imagine a Democratic Governor in the US 'campaigning' for a Republican Governorship aspirant/incumbent! It can never happen...

This is the reason they (politicians) defect within the twinkle of an eye- APC today, PDP tomorrow, APC the next day; even APGA, Labour, etc.

Zero ideology politics!

Atiku, the Camerounian ATM is about to start "pouring out" money again.

So many people and gangs (yes, gangs, as I can't address them as associations) are salivating already having read this 'expose' from his son, Adamu Abubakar Atiku...

They are ready to rape his stolen wealth again! LOL...

The stupid traitor has continued to abuse and insult his boss and benefactor, Oshiomhole, yet again!

And some clowns claimed that this buffoon wanted reconciliation?

Oshiomhole has continued to keep dignified silence, without even mentioning Obaseki's name, yet the wicked, unappreciative monkey denigrates, harasses, and insults Oshiomhole every day!

Before now, one thought mutual give-and-take should happen, but with these unabating insults and use of harsh and toxic words still coming from Obaseki, the ingrate, Oshiomhole should now go for an all-out war and end the political experience of the foolish Obaseki finally!

Traitors and ungrateful dark souls like Obaseki do not end well!

The fool, the power-drunk traitor, who insulted Oshiomhole almost everyday and also allowed kids who are far younger than Oshiomhole and who cannot even clean Oshiomhole’s “political shoes” to insult and abuse Oshiomhole every hour online and offline because they are his political appointees, is BEGGING everybody!

Oshiomhole has NOT mentioned Obaseki publicly since the crisis started. He has maintained dignified silence. Yet, he gets insulted everyday by the ingrate Obaseki for whom he fought everybody and eased his way to Edo Government House in 2016!

Yesterday, he was in Lagos with his fellow anti-Oshiomhole traitor Governors, with whom he plotted Oshiomhole’s removal as National Chairman and failed, to BEG TINUBU! Tinubu, the political colossus that he is, refused to give him and his band of fools any categorical promise.

Today, with his legs behind his tails, he has gone to Aso Villa to BEG BUHARI! The same Buhari who could have received nomination form from a PDP member if the aspirant visited the Villa? How can mere photo ops at Aso Rock Villa save this stupid Obaseki nah I laugh in Swahili! LOL.

Obaseki should remember that failed Ambode and failed Akinlade (Amosun’s boy in Ogun State who was defeated by Governor Dapo Abiodun) also visited the Villa, laughing like clowns, yet, when the chips were down, they ALL failed miserably!

The clown refused to swear-in majority (14) members of the Edo State House of Assembly. He used thugs to bomb the homes of his fellow APC members in Edo State. He harassed Oshiomhole, blocked the road to his house, caused policemen to apply teargas on Oshiomhole’s family members and supporters in Benin. He also told Oshiomhole to write him (Obaseki) for permission every time he wanted to visit Edo State! Imagine the insult to his benefactor!!!

To those hailing Obaseki, can you allow these chain of humiliation, harassment, and daily insults from a junior colleague or younger fellow you helped in the course of his career?

It’s too late when the head is cut off!

His party, APC, raised the first reconciliation committee led by Senate President Lawan, this same Obaseki rejected the Committee and insulted everyone on that Committee. The party ‘swallowed’ the insult and inaugurated a new reconciliation committee under the leadership of pioneer Chairman Baba Akande, a man in his 80s (and who could easily have been Obaseki’s father regarding age), yet, this same Obaseki boy refused to meet the members!

When he is close to Ambode Bus Stop, he should shout “O wa, O wa” and come down from the bus!

DAFT Governor without emotional intelligence and people management skills.

How could someone who established a thriving investment bank in Lagos fail ‘people management course’ in public service ? Tragic!

Obaseki should start dusting his old office in his firm’s building on Gerrard Road Ikoyi, Lagos, as he prepares to resume work very soon as the investment banker he had always been.

This is a lesson to other ungrateful fools for whom party members suffered during campaigns for their election, such as Akeredolu of Ondo, AbdulRazaq of Kwara, and others contemplating any plan to rubbish the party that brought them to power...

martineverest:
u obviously don't understand my Statement....Edo people love obaseki and PDP at the same time....should he decamp to PDP,the south south region will be totally PDP...it's either obaseki or PDp

My brother, Martin, bookmark these posts against both June 22 and September 2020. We will return to compare notes, God should keep all of us alive.

Cheers!

Sermwell:

you just commented without sense!! How can obaseki defect to PDP when he has gotten his nomination form from APC already?? how?

You started with insults; so, let me go the gutter with you, since you are a confirmed pig!

If you had a brain, and have been following Nigerian politics since the 2nd Republic, 1979, that is (you might be too young to know, or, you may not have been born at that year), or even since the return to democracy in 1999, you should know the following:

1. The fact that Obaseki had collected APC’s nomination form DOES NOT prevent him from defecting to PDP BEFORE the election! Examples abound, even as recent as 2015: Samuel Ortom was a Minister under Jonathan until he resigned and participated in PDP primaries in Benue, lost by being 3rd behind Suswam’s anointed candidate, yet, APC begged Barrister Jime to yield the APC ticket to Ortom. Ortom was elected under APC!

A somewhat similar scenario played out in the case of Wammako of Sokoto, Isa Yuguda of Bauchi, Attahiru Bafarawa of Sokoto, Shinkafi of Zamfara, etc, etc.


2. There is something called “horse-trading” in politics- that is if you actually had a brain to comprehend (judging by the fact your entire life is about insulting people on a public forum instead of debating fairly with decorum). By this, PDP has scheduled its Edo primaries to a date AFTER the conclusion of APC’s primaries.

The intention is clear: they will wait to see who APC must have selected in their primaries, and depending on Obaseki’s war chest (that means ‘funding prowess’, if you had any thinking faculty that is), they (PDP) will give him the ticket after their NWC would have granted him a membership waiver.

THIS IS POLITICS; laced with facts (and not fiction), as opposed to the daft, uninformed exchanges you share through your N10 phone.

Oloshi radarada! Ewu! Banzan Wofi Kawai!

martineverest:
obaseki in PDP will be far stronger than obaseki in APC. candidacy

I disagree. Please check up the Presidential, Governorship, and National Assembly election results, both in 2015 and 2019, when Ize-Iyamu was in PDP with Obaseki as APC Governor.

Obaseki is a ‘political baby’ when compared with Ize-Iyamu- a former SSG, Director-General of Oshiomhole’s Governorship Campaign, Deputy National Chairman of APC in the South, etc.

It was Oshiomhole, as incumbent Governor, who practically got Obaseki elected as Governor. In fact, 95% of the campaign speeches of the APC, throughout Edo State, had Oshiomhole selling Obaseki to the people. Obaseki simply laughed sheepishly, in the background, like a toddler with candy and lollipops! He barely spoke. That same man, Oshiomhole, who lost a lot of his own longtime political associates, friends, and followers is being insulted daily by both Obaseki and a long list of kids who couldn’t attract 10 votes in their polling booths!

June 22 2020 is almost here, September 2020 is not far too.

Obaseki should continue to run to beg for intervention by Tinubu, Buhari, Governors’ Forum, etc, etc, it’s damn too late. When he was cautioned several times, he got bellicose and arrogant and even spent millions to remove Oshiomhole as National Chairman!

It’s too late to cry when the head has been cut off!

Stupid opposition party Chairman!

These guys are continuously digging a hole for the ungrateful clown, Obaseki, to fall.

One could imagine the depravity of an opposition party (PDP) Chairman talking like the Publicity Secretary of Obaseki’s Edo APC faction!

They (PDP) can’t even pretend that he is set to defect to their party. Shame.

Chapii:
Ogbeni, you speak as a toddler. So if you become governor just once you now have the right to determine who becomes governor for the rest of your life. SMH. Does the state resources belong to Saraki or Oshiomole? No wonder you guys are locked up with Tinubu.
The loyalty of the Governor is with the people not Godfather. Get that clear.

Your choice of words, regarding a debate on a public forum, says a lot about your character. It's needless responding to your insults.

This was the same thing the cerebral Economist and foremost banker, Emir Sanusi, advocated, but this US Dollar-thieving fool called Ganduje, dethroned him!

I laugh in Swahili!

The 'political toddler', ungrateful clown, called Godwin Obaseki, should start preparing to return to Ikoyi, Lagos.

Just like his grandfather betrayed the Oba of Benin, who made him a prominent Chief and handed the Oba of Benin to the colonial masters for annihilation, is this a curse for Obasekis to betray their benefactors?

After consistently insulting Oshiomhole personally and through his retinue of appointees, who ordinarily are 'political babies' to Oshiomhole, he's running everywhere in the night begging. It's too late to cry when the head is cut off!

You shut out 14 (a whole 14!) members of the House of Assembly, who are your fellow party members for almost 4 years!

You went on a demolition spree against enemies within your own party!

You, everyday, kept on insulting and abusing the man who practically did ALL your campaign to be Governor, who lost his own long-term friends and associates because of you!

I do not care whatever you have with Oshiomhole, all I know is that an INGRATE is wicked! Ingratitude is a huge character flaw- a huge MINUS!

I recall when some people in Kwara State urged immediate past Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed to betray Bukola Saraki just under one year after he was elected Governor in 2011, Abdulfatah said, I can't forget: "I was a Senior Manager at Guaranty Trust Bank Kano when this man called me and appointed me as Commissioner for Finance and after eight years in his cabinet, he did EVERYTHING to make me Governor, even against his longtime friends. Should I betray such a benefactor? No, I'm not an ingrate, I would not!"

It was the same thing when people told current Governor (Professor) Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State to betray immediate past Governor and current Senator, Kashim Shettima. Zulum said: "This man brought me from the University of Maiduguri as a lecturer and made me Commissioner, he entrusted me with huge resources for the resettlement of IDPs. He also went out of his way, and practically abandoned all those who have been politicians for several decades and picked me, a 'baby politician'. Should I now start insulting the same man? I do not have any strand of ingratitude in my DNA."

Ask Fashola. He used tact and wisdom to manage Tinubu, and he eventually had a smooth 2nd term as Governor and he's a 2-term Minister of the Federal Republic today!

arsenal33:
He said the same in 2019

Their Godforsaken party has been saying it since 1999!

The fool named Taofik Gani (PDP Publicity Secretary) has always said this same nonsense since 2011 when he took over from Dr. Wale Ahmed in that position and NOTHING has changed for Lagos PDP.

In fact, the same Dr. Wale Ahmed is currently a 2-term Commissioner under APC. He resigned as Publicity Secretary and immediately defected to ACN in 2011 and he was made Commissioner for Special Duties. Today, he is the Commissioner for Local Government & Home Affairs in Lagos under Sanwo-Olu.

How the guys administering National PDP in Abuja have not stopped wasting money on Lagos PDP is amazing! Since we returned to democracy in 1999!!!

They always "chop" election money every 4 years and eventually defect to Tinubu's party! Examples abound: Obanikoro, Ogunlewe, Salvador, Olorunfunmi Bashorun, Yomi Finnih, Kamal Olorunoje- these were Lagos PDP heavyweights who are now with Tinubu in APC...

The daft, ungrateful Obaseki was in Lagos (as CEO of Afrinvest) when this same Oshiomhole invited him into government and made him DG of the Edo State Economic Management Team; and despite the huge resistance of his longstanding political friends and associates (and some of them abandoned Oshiomhole because of Obaseki), he did EVERYTHING to have Obaseki elected as Governor!

I have a friend in Edo State public service hierarchy who told me that Obaseki was so powerful under Oshiomhole that he practically sidestepped the Deputy Governor, Pius Odubu. Yet, this same Obaseki has insulted Oshiomhole to the heavens and back. He has also allowed nonentities like Osagie and other fools to continue to insult Oshiomhole every day.

Some people say Oshiomhole should forgive Obaseki. How? The father (Oshiomhole) had long kept quiet, yet, the son (Obaseki) mounts the podium personally and through his appointees and daft minions (such as Oyegun) to insult the father EVERYDAY! Yet, you want forgiveness! Now, he has gone, with his tails by his legs, to beg Tinubu to help him in his already failed plot. I dey laugh!

I do not care whatever caused the rift between those two; however, I dislike UNGRATEFUL PEOPLE! Obaseki should start packing his bags, as he returns to Lagos soon. He should ask Ambode for the handout on ‘political treachery and ingratitude’.

And talking about Covid-19 and APC primaries; Obaseki is just being clever by half! A direct primary will NOT involve putting 400,000 people in one location. That was a thoughtless lie! Direct primaries are done at Local Government headquarters of political parties. The Edo direct primaries can be successfully done through social distancing and wearing of face mask at each LG secretariat of APC.

Now, to even stretch Obaseki’s dumb reason further, would he ask INEC to conduct indirect election in September? Won’t Edo people still gather in their polling booths to vote amidst Covid-19

Obaseki, you are already gone. Start planning your retirement back to Lagos, Ikoyi precisely!

Best decision Buhari made in the last one year (at least).

The emperors at the states (Governors) would, hopefully, start respecting (and allowing freedom for) state legislature and state judiciary, both of which they have, hitherto, pocketed and treated as slaves and errand boys!

I remember the year Fayose publicly and shamelessly approved Ekiti State annual budget by himself (wearing shorts), right inside the hallowed chambers of the Ekiti House of Assembly, without any single debate by the House of Assembly, and with the daft, subdued Speaker of the House laughing loudly like a demented cow!

This is good news. Elated!

There are too many hypocrites and tribal/religious bigots on Nairaland.

When, recently, one of the wives of the deposed Emir Sanusi of Kano gave birth, he, the wife, and Kano people were insulted to no end.

Now, today, Oba of Benin, who is even older than Sanusi, has had a new baby, but the shameless hypocrites are congratulating the queen, the Oba, Benin people, and praising the king's heritage.

Hatred kills...

wengerjay:
Good development.
GMB is fair by picking 3 APC and 3 PDP states as the locations.

No; 4 PDP states and only 2 APC states.

The PDP states are:

Bauchi
Benue
Ebonyi
Sokoto

Only Edo and Osun are the 2 APC states on the list.

So, he actually favoured PDP.

Melezenawii:

No , it is Ebonyi . Whenever a State what to borrow from outside the country, from any multilateral institution , you have to go through Federal Govt . It is the sovereignty they recognize. Federal Govt will be the guarantor . That is why FG make deductions from FAAC Monthly Allocation to States

Sound.

True.

You are well informed about public-sector finance.

Thanks for educating those who did not know....

fairfora:
Its hard to defeat the incumbent. It could only happen in my lagos where godfatherism prevails. There's none in Edo as far as I know. He would win the 2nd term...I can bet with any amount.

Not true!

1. Gov.Mala Kachalla, as incumbent Governor of Borno State, was defeated by Ali Modu Sherif and he thus lost a 2nd term opportunity. He died shortly after.

2. Gov. Mohammed Lawal, as incumbent Governor of Kwara State, was defeated by Bukola Saraki and he thus lost a 2nd term opportunity. He also died shortly after.

3. Gov. Rabiu Musa Kwankwanso, as incumbent Governor of Kano State, was defeated by retired School Principal, Ibrahim Shekarau, and he thus lost a 2nd term opportunity.

You did not need to write a lie about Lagos State and Tinubu to make your point...

lekki1444:
so obasekis chief of sstaff was a yoruba man. he sounds like a detribalised man

Yoi gotit wrong. Akerele might be Yoruba, but he is from Akoko-Edo area of Edo State. It says nothing about Obaseki being detribalised.

The most detribalised cabinet in Nigeria is Lagos State, from the administration of Tinubu in 1999, till today. Their (Lagos) cabinets always had/have non-indigenes, including Igbos and Hausas.

The current Lagos cabinet has an Igbo as Special Adviser and a Northerner as Commissioner. You can't try it in many states- the elites and the common people will revolt and tell the person his parental history...

cbngov01:
whicbh one is jukun militants again

Go and read the history of incessant wars and killings between Tivs and Jukuns in Taraba State. It’s a multi-generational war over land. Only God can make peace between those two tribes.

So sad.

This is the BEST policy on semi-tertiary education by any state government in Nigeria in the last 5 years.

Anyone who is involved in the education sector, at primary and secondary school levels, would know about my assertion above.

The clear lack of preparedness in term of cognitive skills and development of the “rushing-culture-children” who their parents, by fire by force, make to graduate from University at 18-19 is glaring. I can confidently talk about this- examples abound.

Last session, a parent withdrew her child from JSS 1 and returned her to Primary 6 due to this rush mentality. The little girl was practically emotionally tortured when she was ‘rushed’ from Primary 5 to JSS 1.

One hopes that some unscrupulous owners of private schools would not discretely beat this new regulation.