₦airaland Forum

rentAcock:
There is nothing innovative about what these guys are doing. Anyone can go online and buy those fabrics. Heck, ever since the release of the movie Black Panther, so many people have developed keen interest in African attire.

Show us your own innovation lazy Nigerian youth

DREAMZZZ:
China germany us ....are building cars that would soon start flying and see what this morons in Africa are more concerned about? No wonder africa remain the most backward continent in the world

Whitemen are building flying cars, Edo and Yoruba switches too fly. So, what is the fuss about flying?

This marriage cannot last one year because fucck boys and sugar daddies will get her contact at the wedding venue. Ask Tonto Decay, Tiwa Garbage, Toke Makinwa, Mercy Aigbe and other slay queens how long theirs lasted.

Pipedreams:
I'm not surprised. Most Yoruba men are irresponsible. Mayd shame on you. Why not love the child? I've seen a Yoruba man on my street borrow and use his last card to throw party for his child's 1year birthday and kill ram while he is owing 7months Nepa and dustbin bill.

Are your forefathers more responsible than Yorubas? If truly they are, they will stay back in their crime and drugs ravaged mud-land instead if rushing to die in Lagos.

Funnicator:
Me too wonders.

But I think if Nigerians can forgive a coup plotter and executionist, who not only was a side-kick to Tyrant Abacha, but was also his petroleum minister and right-hand-man.

Then, Atiku too can have an easy ride, all he needs is re-branding.

This country is land of iberiberism and a wonderland!

Buhari, Abacha's petroleum minister? Lord forgive me, so this is the type of miscreants I argue with on Nairaland.

Governor's son is in US while IPOB miscreants are being shot everyday on the streets.

For just 5% votes?

Okuchris:
He passed his failure to our players.
He can't even do half of what they did

Yes, Nigeria won the world cup when Goatluck Jonaddaft was president.

Has the albino Twitter Senator repaid the poor masses money that he collected as loan from Union Bank? If not, he should go and pay his debts first because I don't argue with debtors. Secondly apart from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Niger bridges with 10 lanes on either sides that Goatluck commissioned on the drawing board, what are the drunk fisherman's other achievement?

Please bring someone who is good at election rigging. Buhari must win next election by fire by force. Never again will generational looters of yesteryears come near the national treasury.

The AIG in charge of the South-South zone during the 2015 Presidential elections will be good for election rigging. If he could give PDP 1.4 million votes in Rivers, 1.2 million or so in Delta, about 0.8 million in Akwa-Ibom even when the total population of each of these states is not more than 500,000. Such rigging policeman will be good as new IGP rig the 2019 elections for APC just as we have sent Musiliu Obanikoro to Ekiti to repeat what he did in 2014 but now for APC.

Firefire:
So, this is the promised 10,000MW by 2018 from the fraudulent and dubious APC?

How many megawatts did PDP generate in its 16 wasted years? The report stated what caused the low generation yet you are here convulsing.

johnkey:
how about that guy who just drives to a campus, pick up a girl, drives her to her hostel, collects her number, meet her friends same night, call her the next day to meet in a nice hotel, they chill, everywhere soft, girl is getting wet, tell her lots of lies to get her wet( yeah it's okay lying to girls), they bang later that night, he drives her home next morning so she won't be late for classes, he blocks and deletes her number. I'm that guy lol. wise up and make money brother.

We the executives of Yoruba Demons Association (YODA) hereby send you a basket of accolades. Weldon honourable member. Keep up the good work.

I am Muslim and don't give a fucck what you think about me. One thing is sure, falsehood will never triumph over truth.

IslamicRebel01:
The Islamic zoo eagles lost the match.

Dear slowpoke, I hope you can recollect that the team that loss had about 85% Igbo's.

Anigreat:



Shameless Vp

Walking and smiling .

Shameless lazy youth from a broken home. An unfortunate youth without home training.

EweduAfonja:
Only our brothers that are addicted to head slamming will support buhari

The Thunder that will strike you is already on its way. Post your house address so that the Thunder will not go to wrong address.

Omeokachie:
Buhari is now desperate.

A desperate man will do anything, just anything.

But he has not started going to Churches, Mosques, Ogboni, e.t.c. like Goatluck did towards last election.

zombieHUNTER:
Democracy is under attack in the country...


Dogara and Saraki has been threatened to be blackmailed if they don't become stooges of the Executive...

Democracy is dead under the watchful eyes of the worst government ever known to man kind

Yes, Saraki and Dogora have been whipped into submission. If they don't behave, they will put behind the bars. Buhari is a military strategist, bloody criminal civilians in the NASS cannot arm twist the people's general. Even Obasanjo, IBB, TY Danjuma and other old fools have been given the last warning. Any nonsense talk from thhe new Sheriff has spoken.

Town criers like you, your adopted father Obasanjo, Wike, FFK, Fayose and others will cry for long because if you do anyhow, you will see anyhow.

ISLAMBAD:
Oshogbo Muslimm, you have bigger issues making your state unbearable ..

Skull miners fall on you...

Pls come over here, lets use your skull for money rituals so that we can increase Nigeria's external reserve.

zombieHUNTER:
It's true

Ice fish.... You can rule forever in zombie land

Anger and hatred is driving you fast to your grave, even Buhari is now healthier than you.

What Buhari actually mean is he is healthier than Fayose, FFF and Obasanjo.

Why is everyone associated with Goatluck senseless？ ImPatience Mama Piss, FFK, Fayose and this Reno Omo Kirikiri.

Nukilia:
Bastard child! Because Nigerians have refused to stone you and your family to death for the cruelty done against this nation. I wonder why Nigerians keep supporting these criminals

She is not a bastard. That is where you got it wrong. If a father is a wicked dog and a heartless murderer, a true daughter should be senseless, shameless and wicked also. So, she is the true daughter of her wicked father. Very soon, she will be joining her father in hell.

Alariiwo:
Hamza Al Mustapha that the buffoon released and is celebrated by Igbos till date.

Well thanks to MKO and other freedom fighters who laid down their lives so we can have democracy.
They are the true heroes we will never forget.

Igbos only celebrate criminals.

humilitypays:
....and 20yrs after, the chief adviser and strong supporter of the man that pressured for the annulment of that credible election and even headed the crushing of supporters finally decided to recognize the man they hated and killed and wiped his family as the winner and even conferred him with the honor of GCFR just to spite IBB and OBJ who advised him not to seek for reelection, and his people are rejoicing and already preparing in ecstacy to vote him in again for another term in office, hoping he announces Oladipo Diya as the rightful president in 1994

This one is another unfortunate fellow. You should be crying over the 3,000,000 of your brethren that were used for pepper soup and suya between 1967 and 1970 instead of whining over Yoruba/Hausa issue.

Babacele:
you try. We want official declaration that can cause that monster in Minna an heart attack.

He already has a leg attack, he spends more time in a foreign hospital than in his house, please don't give him heart attack again.

resurgent2019:
I wont insult you and the individual that liked your bigoted post. I will leave you and your minions to be consumed by the hate you harbor for yorubas.

3,000,000 of the children of hare and anger were consumed between 1967 and 1970 and everyday the bitterness in them is passed from generation to generation. What a bitter tribe.

The Chairman of the defunct National Electoral Commission, Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, has announced that he will not be able to attend the posthumous investiture of the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, as the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic scheduled for Tuesday (today).

The Federal Government had invited Nwosu and key stakeholders in the struggle for the revalidation of the election to the event during which the late human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, will also be honoured posthumously with the Grand Commander of the Order of Niger alongside Abiola’s running mate, Babagana Kingibe.


But Nwosu regretted that he would not be able to attend the event because he was outside the country. He however commended President Muhammadu Buhari for recognising June 12 as the country’s Democracy Day and for honouring Abiola.

He said the honour would rekindle the national consciousness of all Nigerians for a better nation.

Nwosu’s position was contained in a letter addressed to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha.

Copies of the letter dated June 10, 2018 were made available to journalists in Abuja on Monday by the SGF’s spokesman, Lawrence Ojabo.

Nwosu said June 12, 1993 marked a turning point in Nigeria’s tortuous journey towards a democratic polity.

The letter read, “I thank His Excellency, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Government of Nigeria for recognising June 12 as Democracy Day and also honouring the winner of June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola.



“Indeed, June 12, 1993 marked a turning point in Nigeria’s tortuous journey towards a democratic polity. It is an honour to the very hard-working men and women of the defunct National Electoral Commission under my leadership at this long awaited recognition. I humbly commend this action by the President.

“Undoubtedly, the democratic system of governance is the best especially for a multi-ethnic nation like ours. I thank you for building on the foundation which my team and I laboured strenuously to establish and actualise on June 12, 1993.

“It is our hope that expanding the frontiers of democracy of which all the people of Nigeria, regardless of ethnic group, will provide economic, social and developmental benefits that will certainly make Nigeria a great nation not only in Africa but across the world.

“Certainly, the scheduled event on Tuesday, June 12, 2018 will rekindle the national consciousness of all Nigerians for a better nation.

“Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control, I will not be present at the investiture ceremony as I am outside the country. May God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!”

June 12 should inspire democratic ideals – Atiku

Meanwhile, a former Vice-President and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has warned against what he called a consistent pattern of departure from constitutional due process to tendencies of authoritarianism.

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The former Vice-President said in a statement to mark the 25th anniversary of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, that there was a growing culture of arbitrariness in some of the institutions of government at all levels that were contradictory to the notion of inclusiveness and fairness that a democratic society guarantees.

In the statement released in Abuja, the former Vice-President noted, “Perhaps at this point, we need to remind ourselves that the democracy which we enjoy today did not come at a cheap price. It came at the cost of the supreme price paid by persons that included Chief MKO Abiola, Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, Maj. Gen. Shehu Yar’Adua, Chief Alfred Rewane and Bagauda Kaltho, among thousands of other patriots.”

Atiku said that democracy was not merely a mechanism of appointing a government; but that its beauty was in the inherent safeguard to the citizenry to live and prosper as free people under the law.

He called on all political actors “to let June 12 and all that it embodies, inspire us to promote democratic principles, especially as Nigeria is about to go to the polls again.”

Presidency politicising Abiola’s investiture – PDP

But the Peoples Democratic Party has accused the Presidency of politicising the posthumous national award given to Abiola.

The party also accused President Buhari of midwifing the circumstances that led to Abiola’s travails.

The PDP alleged that Buhari overtly betrayed his political inclination in the article published by the Presidency, which it claimed, relegated the virtues of Abiola and dwelt on praise-singing of the President.

The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Monday, noted that the Presidency, in the article, relied on false performance indices and insinuations, ostensibly aimed to set up perceived political opponents of the current administration as Abiola’s traducers.

Ologbondiyan said, “This publication also confirmed fears that President Buhari desperately seeks to use Abiola’s revered name and person to draw political capital ahead of the 2019 general election.

“The Presidency in its desperation went ahead to demean the exalted office of the President, as well as the import of the posthumous award, by sponsoring tweets to divert public attention from Chief Abiola and his virtues, to procure praises for President Buhari.

“If there is any person to blame for Chief Abiola’s travails, should it not be President Buhari who, on December 31, 1983, staged a military coup that destroyed democratic governance, locked up politicians without trial and set the stage for the deferment of democratic governance, which Chief Abiola paid the supreme sacrifice to restore?

“Also, the Presidency, by asserting that ‘detention without trial, even under the military was wrong’ has directly indicted President Buhari, who, in 1984 clamped politicians into detention without trial; an injustice he recently boasted about.”

Abiola’s kinsmen hail Buhari

However, the people of Gbagura in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, who are the kinsmen of the late Abiola, have commended Buhari for bestowing the GCFR honour posthumously on MKO.

They gave this commendation during a media briefing held at the palace of Agura of Gbagura, Oba Halidu Olaloko, on Monday.

The Agura of Gbagura, who was represented by Balogun of Ojoo-Gbagura, Adio Baiyewun, however, appealed to the President and the National Assembly to go a step further by making June 12 the handing over date to every new government.

Oba Olaloko said, “We appreciate President Buhari for bestowing the posthumous award of the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic on the late Chief MKO Abiola.

“We equally applaud the National Assembly led by the Senate for directing the Independent National Electoral Commission to formally declare Chief MKO Abiola winner and as an ex-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with all his entitlements fully paid.

“We, however, passionately request the National Assembly to take a second look at President Muhammadu Buhari’s proposal on June 12 and demand that, for proper actualisation and immortalisation of the date and Abiola, there is need to support Mr President on the need to replace the hitherto public holiday of May 29 and celebration as well as handover day with June 12 since the date marks a watershed in the Nigerian political history.”

But a member of the Gbagura Council of Chiefs, Bode Mustangs, advised President Buhari to send an Executive Bill to the National Assembly with the view to giving constitutional backing to the President’s declaration.

Kokori, Lamido clash over role in annulment

Some chieftains of the defunct Social Democratic Party in the Third Republic who shared their experiences on the annulment of June 12, 1993 presidential election on Monday trade blame over their alleged involvement in the annulment of the election widely believed to have been won by Abiola.

A former General Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, Chief Frank Kokori, in an interview with one of our correspondents, said members of the defunct SDP betrayed Abiola.

A presidential aide, Garba Sheu, had on Sunday said the nation’s elite conspired to annul the presidential election.

Lamido, others betrayed Abiola, says Kokori

Kokori said the position of the presidential aide was spot on, adding that even some members of the SDP betrayed the cause.

He said, “Even in my SDP, there were fifth columnists. It was obvious. The military were also part of it at the time. Abiola was the richest black African at the time. He had so much wealth and when you have that with power, people would be afraid of you.

“So, it was a grand conspiracy. Some wondered how would you have wealth and still want power. So, there was a grand conspiracy and we have known that since. The military and the elite were all part of it (conspiracy) to stop it (June 12). I was even more disappointed in my own SDP.”

Kokori, who was part of the SDP executive leadership, said the leaders of the SDP including the National Secretary of the party, Sule Lamido, who later became the governor of Jigawa State, betrayed Abiola.

He added, “The leadership did not fight for the mandate of the SDP. After we left, the SDP leadership including, Lamido, lasted for about one year before the coup. They did not fight for the mandate. So, they betrayed us even in the SDP. So, what the Presidency has said (Garba Shehu article) is correct.”

Kokori’s allegation untrue, I’ll speak soon – Lamido

But Lamido denied allegations levelled against him by Kokori over the June 12 saga.

Lamido was reacting to an allegation that he abandoned the June 12 struggle.

The former governor, in a text message to one of our correspondents, said as of the time of the events leading up to the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election, Kokori was not in a position to know what occurred.

Lamido said, “Kokori was a member of the first (SDP) executive under Babagana by which time I was the Kano State chairman.

“(Chief MKO) Abiola came on board during the (Chief) Tony Anenih-led executive to which I was the National Secretary. By then, Kokori was out of circulation! Babagana couldn’t have run as Abiola’s running mate and be the National Chairman at the same time.”

He promised to speak up “very soon” about what transpired at the time.

We were deceived into working with Abacha — MKO’s campaign DG

On its part, the Director-General of the MKO Abiola campaign organisation, Senator Jonathan Zwingina, on Monday, said the SDP members who served in the Gen. Sani Abacha government all had the permission of Abiola.

Zwingina, who ran the campaign tagged ‘Hope ’93,’ said Abacha deceived them into working with him.

The former lawmaker said this during a live breakfast show on Channels Television on Monday.

He said, “I have been the secretary of most of the meetings on the June 12 campaign and I can tell you some facts that we sat in a meeting chaired by MKO Abiola and agreed as a team to work with the government of Abacha in anticipation of declaring June 12 after about six or 12 months.

“That is what happened. Nobody just ran away. That is not correct. I have seen it in the media. Everything is just speculation.”

He defended the likes of Kingibe, a former Lagos State governor, Lateef Jakande and Olu Onagoruwa (SAN), who all agreed to serve in the Abacha government.

Zwingina said he was in possession of the minutes of the meeting where the decision was taken by Abiola and others to serve in Abacha’s government.

He added, “It may not be quite accurate to say somebody jumped ship or ran away from a mandate. That is not accurate. I had the list of those who were presented to Gen. Abacha and we had protests about some areas and they were corrected.

“With the benefit of hindsight, we can say we were deceived but the fact was that we had good faith, we believed it was going to happen and so we threw in our best heads. The late Onagoruwa didn’t really want to be in the government but I remember that my principal (Abiola) said to him ‘look, if you are not there and June 12 is being discussed, who would speak for me?’

“This same argument was presented to Lateef Jakande and other leaders and this was what encouraged them (to work with Abacha). It is true that we were given this impression strongly that this was going to lead to the validation of the June 12 mandate and I am speaking with authority because I have the minutes of the meeting.”

Annulment will haunt IBB forever —Akerele

However, a former personal assistant to the late Abiola, Lisa Olu Akerele, has appealed to President Buhari to give financial compensation to the late politician’s family for the loss and pains they suffered as a result of the June 12 saga.

Referring specifically to MKO’s crumbled business empire including the Concord Press of Nigeria, Radio Communication Nigeria Limited, Abiola Bookshops, Abiola Bakeries, Abiola Farms, Concord Airlines and Summit Oils, Akerele said the compensation would help the family to revive the companies.

While commending Buhari for granting posthumous honour to Abiola, Akerele noted that those who suffered incarceration and other economic losses should be compensated to ameliorate the pains they suffered in the wake of the 1993 political crisis which followed the annulment of the June 12 presidential election.

The veteran journalist, who was also incarcerated for two years by Abacha, commended Asiwaju Bolaji Tinubu, for sustaining the campaign for Abiola’s posthumous award.

He recalled that on March 1, 2016 he and the late Abiola first son, Kola, met with Tinubu in Lagos where they brainstormed on the issue.

Akerele blamed the military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, for truncating the June 12 dream, adding that this would haunt IBB through the rest of his life.

Akerele decried the role played by former President Olusegun Obasanjo “who declined to right the wrong perpetrated by an evil genius,” adding that the former President ignored persistent calls by right thinking individuals in the society to correct the evil Babangida planted.

He praised Buhari for “coming to judgment at the nick of time,” noting that posterity would place his name in the right sphere of Nigeria’s history.

Akerele cautioned those he described as agents provocateur in the National Assembly to allow democracy take firm root in the nation’s body polity.

Atiku’s ex-aide asks court to stop conferment of GCFR on Abiola

Meanwhile, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Adamawa State, Dr. Umar Ardo, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the conferment of posthumous national honours on Abiola and Fawehinmi.

Ardo, a former Special Assistant to then Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, on Research and Strategy, also asked the court to stop the investiture of such national honour on Abiola’s running mate in the 1993 presidential election, Kingibe.

The PDP chief on Tuesday filed the suit marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/609/2018, contending that “without the advice of the Council of State” the President lacked the power to confer the national honours as planned.

He also asked the court to set aside the decision of President Buhari to confer national awards on the planned honourees.

Ardo joined the President, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha, and the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), as the defendants.

He filed along with the main suit a motion seeking “an interlocutory injunction” restraining President Buhari and other defendants from going ahead with the conferment of the national honours as planned for Tuesday.

He also wrote to the SGF through his lawyer, Mr. Doueyi Fiderikumo, shortly after filing the suit on Monday, warning that the conferment ceremony be stayed in the light of the legal action.

The lawyer wrote, “In this development, you are advised to stay action on the conferment of the said award on the late Chief M.K.O Abiola, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, and the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, so as not to interfere with the subject of the said case.

“An advance copy of the said suit is hereby attached for the avoidance of doubt,” he added.

But Ardo in his suit filed on Monday argued that the national honours could not be conferred since the President had yet to obtain the advice of the Council of State in that respect.

He argued that the conferment of the national honours planned to hold on Tuesday (today) would violate section 5(1)(b) and section 6(a)(iii) of Part 1 to the Third Schedule of the Nigerian Constitution.

He asked the court to determine “whether having regard to 5(1)(b) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and section 6(a)(iii) of Part 1 to the Third Schedule thereto, the 1st defendant (Buhari) is not under a legal obligation to consult or at least obtain the advice of the Council of State before the conferment of a national award on any person?”

He therefore urged the court to make, “A declaration that the 1st defendant (Buhari) lacks the constitutional powers to award National Honours to the late Chief M.K.O. Abiola, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi or anybody else for that matter without the advice of the Council of State as provided for in section 6(a)(iii) of Part 1 to the Third Schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).

“A declaration that the decision of the 1st defendant to award National Honours to the late Chief M.K.O. Abiola, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, late Chief Gani Fawehinmi or anybody else for that matter without seeking and obtaining the advice of the Council of State is contrary to sections 5(1)(b) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and section 6(a)(iii) of Part 1 to the Third Schedule thereto and is thus null and void.

“An order of this honourable court setting aside the decision of the 1st Defendant to confer national awards on the late Chief M.K.O. Abiola, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe and the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi.”

SOURCE: http://punchng.com/june-12-election-umpire-nwosu-writes-fg-on-abiolas-award/