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Islandlady:
I have always wanted to write on this particular article about the lack of enough gap or spacing of children by most Nigerian parents!

Few months back I was driving along that Abuja-suleja road and decided to stop by to buy some roasted plantain (boli) from a woman by the roadside! But I couldn't help notice her two baby boys crying profusely, she was holding onto one while the other was on the floor, initially I thought they were twins but after looking well, I noticed that the boy on the floor was a bit older! So I offered to help her console the older child because she was obviously frustrated and so that she can be faster with my plantain so I can hit the road back!

I carried the boy to console him and I was surprised by the way the boy clinged to me and immediately stopped crying, he was still a baby who needs his mother's attention and cuddling but all was cut short becos he now has a baby brother! I asked the women for their ages and she said the older was 2years old and his brother was 1year old! I was not really suprised but angry at the poor spacing between children by most of our Nigerian parents!

I mean if she has given them atleast a 3 to 4years age gap, the older brother will be old enough to console and play with his younger brother, while she will be able do her work without getting fraustrated and depriving the older baby of the care, attention and also stopping his breastfeeding at that early stage! This lack of child spacing harbits is very common among our parents!

I just want to urge our upcoming parents, new couples and singles hoping to get married someday and give birth to please practice a good child spacing of atleast 2-4years age gap, it has a lot of benefits and also give you time to take care of the child properly and also allowing the mothers body rest and become stronger in preparation for another child
Thanks for reading!

. Good piece! In addition to spacing give birth to children you can cater for. It is here in Nigeria you see the rich having 2 kids but the poor will have 5 or 6. Some children are "causing" thier parents today because of the miserable life they have been exposed to for having children they cannot cater for. Please plan yiur families; ,you will be glad you did

Kunkiddo:
https://twitter.com/PeterObi/status/1539685084558761984?t=QK_evMUClx-wmWosjYmmhA&s=19

Previous thread
https://www.nairaland.com/7191075/wike-closed-door-meeting-peter

. OBI OBI OBI! How many times did I call you ? You said 3.You cannot rule Nigeria without the following: 1. A strong party structure 2 Core North acceptability 3 The entire North approval. 4. Giving the trust and assurance to the North about the Igbo presidency 5 The support of the SS and SW. For more information , ask Ekeremadu who understands the Nigerian politics well and Osinbajo who now understands the meaning of structure after his loss n Abuja primary.

Adexxi:
From your mouth Hope after the election if the governor was perhaps defeated you won't start shouting Aregbe name

. How will Aregbesola work against APC? How many Top members are in Osun Central Osun East and Osun West? All of them are not up to hundreds with their wives and children? Even at Ilesa,how many followers do Aregbesola have? He has lost relevance in Osun

Prince111111:
until next month my Brother

. It is alright

garfield1:
Swing states are states that can be won by any party or candidate,they are battleground states and do not give bloc votes.they give marginal votes.in the USA,Florida,Nevada,Colorado etc are examples of swing states while in nigeria most states in the north central are swing states...

Nasarawa: apc/ buhari won here in 2019 for the first time by 8000 votes.even when buhari lost here,he still got 40%.2023 will be no different although apc might still win here narrowly due to the infighting in pdp and tje state exco is loyal to wike.The incumbent gov engr sule will be reelected..labour should get up to 20% here

Kogi: the okun yorubas will join forces with the ebiras to deliver for tinubu while the igalas will vote atiku narrowly..a narrow win for apc will suffice.labour party will get at least 10%

Benue: in 2015 apc won Benue for the first time winning 9 out of 23 LGAs due to bloc votes from zone b..buhari lost in 2019 by 7000 votes inspite of the hatred and outcry against with...with the middle belt looking favourably at the south and not wanting another fulani ruler and with the rev alia tsunami,tinubu should win here narrowly.labour party should get 25% here

Fct: the three major parties will get at least 30% here but it might swing narrowly to labour party.

Bayelsa; this state usually gives buhari his lowest votes.he got less than 5000 in 2015 but surprisingly and miraculously got 117,000 while PDP got 180,000.with the unpopularity of diri and the rise of apc here,apc might just win it or get at lest 45%.obi should get 20%.

Cross river:apc got 30% in 2019 despite not having any elected official.with the governor now in apc and almost all elected officials at the grassroot and the guber cabdidate being very popular and with the back to south movement gaining momentum, it might swing to APC although PDP still has a slight advantage.labour should get 25% here.the party was very popular here between 2011 and 2015.APC will win the guber here

Edo: Edo will swing badly.apc lost the state by 8000 votes in 2019 despite winning more LGAs.with the governor losing the party structure to wike and thinking of defecting and the Dan orbih faction not keen to work for atiku and with the historical affinity of the state to the west,apc should win here narrowly with labour taking second place.PDP will take third. .

Ondo,ekiti,Oyo: these states swung in the past but with tinubu a son of the soil,an omoluabi on the ballot,they might just deliver bloc votes to apc...

Sokoto: buhari lost here in 2007 and struggled to win here in 2019.with tambuwal contesting for senate,atiku might narrowly win here.obi will not see 10% here but the apc guber candidate Ahmed aliyu will win this state..


Kebbi; this would have been a safe state but with sen adamu aliero and sen yahaya joining PDP with many bigwigs,it might swung narrowly to atiku.atiku has a lot of strong loyallists here led by the turakin gwandu kabiru tanimu.obi won't see 5% here even from the Christians in zuru...nasiru idris is the next governor

Kaduna: this state can go either way but apc should have a narrow win here based on the dexterity of el rufai and sani.sani is the next governor

Gombe: it should be safe for tinubu but PDP is growing stronger here and the political grandmaster sen goje is an associate of atiku though in apc.a narrow win for tinubu or atiku will suffice.

Plateau:it is a PDP state normally but the people are tired and weary of the fulani hegemony and attacks.they might just decide to switch to tinubu but PDP still has the advantage while obi should get 10%

Ebonyi:this state will swing heavily but obi should win it with tinubu and atiku tagging along respectively.


Mynd44
Lalasticlala
Kyase
Kahal
Frowland
Warriaproko
Oghenaogie
Noethnicity
Cajal
Quotasystem
Ogidigboigbo
Tutudesz
Moferere

Good analysis !!!

Kwanza:
The commissioner is said to have later apologised over her outburst.



https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/538469-youre-stupid-filthy-soludos-commissioner-tells-job-seeking-teacher.html

. The applicant is in neecd of Job. She is frustrated akready. Instead of pacifying her a Professor of English who has forgotten what is called Communication Barriers began raising abuses at her. Ordinary Commissioner! Will a man not handle it better? That is why some societies do not want women in responsible positions.

Prince111111:
you should know the umpire never supported Adeoti. Whoever the umpire supports wins now. Aregbesola would spoil show for APC

I disagree with you sir! How many votes did he win for APC in 2018 as a sitting governor? He could not even contest for Senate then! APC nearky lost to the PDP at Ikesa the home town of the sitting governor.The truth is Osun is tired of Aregbesola and his wikced second term policies. Anti masses make up TOP that is why even PDP members suppoted APC to vote at the APC primary.Look at Osun Central. what will Aregbesola do there with the APC Oyos living there? What will Aregbe do in Osun West dominated by the Oyos? What will he do at Osun East especially at Ife where Omisore boys are? Aregbesola is from Ikesa where I come from but he is not on ground there! He will soon go into political extinction.

Prince111111:
and you say Aregbesola isn't important in Osun politics? With a series of Apc TOP members moving to PDP? With the former Commissioner for Civil Service in Osun State, Niran Ibo, Kuba amongst all in just only Ilesha city? Just wait till 29th of his month after the hearing now..

. Were those people not there when they were all suppoting Adeoti ? Did Adeoti win? How many Osun people are supporting Top and Aregbesola? Even Osinbajo that he was supooting crashed in Abuja! TOP can move to any party but they can't change anything in Osun politics

Prince111111:
Is it the same Osun that I come from?

I am from Osun too! Ilesa precisely!

Mynd44:
They are going without Aregbe?

Somebody should hold me, I want to fight

Aregbesola has no relevance in Osun again!

[quote author=AfricanColumbus post=114020209][/quote]. Those people should know that if the tanker explodes they can't be OBidient in 2023. Thank you BAT men that went there to save them.

PaChukwudi44:
Lol how did Emmanuel Macron emerge?

Tell us here!

garfield1:
Swing states are states that can be won by any party or candidate,they are battleground states and do not give bloc votes.they give marginal votes.in the USA,Florida,Nevada,Colorado etc are examples of swing states while in nigeria most states in the north central are swing states...

Nasarawa: apc/ buhari won here in 2019 for the first time by 8000 votes.even when buhari lost here,he still got 40%.2023 will be no different although apc might still win here narrowly due to the infighting in pdp and tje state exco is loyal to wike.The incumbent gov engr sule will be reelected..labour should get up to 20% here

Kogi: the okun yorubas will join forces with the ebiras to deliver for tinubu while the igalas will vote atiku narrowly..a narrow win for apc will suffice.labour party will get at least 10%

Benue: in 2015 apc won Benue for the first time winning 9 out of 23 LGAs due to bloc votes from zone b..buhari lost in 2019 by 7000 votes inspite of the hatred and outcry against with...with the middle belt looking favourably at the south and not wanting another fulani ruler and with the rev alia tsunami,tinubu should win here narrowly.labour party should get 25% here

Fct: the three major parties will get at least 30% here but it might swing narrowly to labour party.

Bayelsa; this state usually gives buhari his lowest votes.he got less than 5000 in 2015 but surprisingly and miraculously got 117,000 while PDP got 180,000.with the unpopularity of diri and the rise of apc here,apc might just win it or get at lest 45%.obi should get 20%.

Cross river:apc got 30% in 2019 despite not having any elected official.with the governor now in apc and almost all elected officials at the grassroot and the guber cabdidate being very popular and with the back to south movement gaining momentum, it might swing to APC although PDP still has a slight advantage.labour should get 25% here.the party was very popular here between 2011 and 2015.APC will win the guber here

Edo: Edo will swing badly.apc lost the state by 8000 votes in 2019 despite winning more LGAs.with the governor losing the party structure to wike and thinking of defecting and the Dan orbih faction not keen to work for atiku and with the historical affinity of the state to the west,apc should win here narrowly with labour taking second place.PDP will take third. .

Ondo,ekiti,Oyo: these states swung in the past but with tinubu a son of the soil,an omoluabi on the ballot,they might just deliver bloc votes to apc...

Sokoto: buhari lost here in 2007 and struggled to win here in 2019.with tambuwal contesting for senate,atiku might narrowly win here.obi will not see 10% here but the apc guber candidate Ahmed aliyu will win this state..


Kebbi; this would have been a safe state but with sen adamu aliero and sen yahaya joining PDP with many bigwigs,it might swung narrowly to atiku.atiku has a lot of strong loyallists here led by the turakin gwandu kabiru tanimu.obi won't see 5% here even from the Christians in zuru...nasiru idris is the next governor

Kaduna: this state can go either way but apc should have a narrow win here based on the dexterity of el rufai and sani.sani is the next governor

Gombe: it should be safe for tinubu but PDP is growing stronger here and the political grandmaster sen goje is an associate of atiku though in apc.a narrow win for tinubu or atiku will suffice.

Plateau:it is a PDP state normally but the people are tired and weary of the fulani hegemony and attacks.they might just decide to switch to tinubu but PDP still has the advantage while obi should get 10%

Ebonyi:this state will swing heavily but obi should win it with tinubu and atiku tagging along respectively.


Mynd44
Lalasticlala
Kyase
Kahal
Frowland
Warriaproko
Oghenaogie
Noethnicity
Cajal
Quotasystem
Ogidigboigbo
Tutudesz
Moferere

. Can a party without structure win a presidential election? It has never happened in the world and it won't start in Nigeria. LP can't win in 2023 presidential election. The votes cast for the part will even be less than the percentage allocated in this analysis.

ZIAZI:
Can you supply the citation of the matter pending before the SC?

https://guardian.ng/news/algon-challenges-judgment-on-marriage-registration/. https://tribuneonlineng.com/fg-debunks-reports-on-federal-high-court-judgment-on-ikoyi-marriage-registry/ We can read more on the case here! The matter reached the SC then .I woukd check citation in due course

AmazingELixir:
On what premise is the judgement a nullity, was it set aside by a superior court...if you follow the reportage the case birthed 2018 and judgement was passed 2021 and there is no mention of appeal by the defendants. Besides the judgement upheld the relevant sections of the constitution which empowers only the local government to carry out such responsibilities.

The case I am referring to is different from the one decided by the Federal High Court in 2021. This case ihas been before the SC since 2018. My concern is. why did a FHC give a order on a case that is before the SC with similarprayers as presented by the LGS?

AmazingELixir:
https://punchng.com/rivers-lg-seals-marriage-registry-premises/

The Federal High Court judgment in 2021 is a nullity. There has been a. pending case on this matter since 2018..The SC is yet to decide on it. A Federal High Court in Lagos in 2018 ruled that it is Federal government that has the constitunal power to handle marriage matters including the printing of certificates as eshirined in 1999 constitution. Disatiisfied the Unified LGs approached the Appeal Court and lost again .Yet it was taken to the SC. We wonder the relevance of 2021 judgement on a case still pending at the SC.

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kokooro:
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade’s role in the aftermath of the annulment of the 1993 presidential election is widely thought to have been less than noble. In Awujale, the recently released autobiography of Oba Sikiru Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebuland, Sijuade’s connivance with those who annulled the election is brought into sharp focus

His position as the most revered traditional ruler in Yorubaland has not innoculated Oba Okunade Sijuade Olubuse 11, the Ooni of Ife, from public scorn. Since 1993, much of the mystique around him has been eroded, largely through the carnage sparked by the controversial annulment of the 1993 presidential election, aka June 12. Oba Sijuade came out of the annulment saga with grave reputational injuries from which he is yet to, and may not, recover, given the decision of Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebuland, to re-invite public attention to Sijuwade’s role in one of the most grotesque episodes in Yoruba and Nigerian history.

The medium chosen by Oba Adetona is Awujale, his recently released autobiography, in which the 11th chapter is dedicated to the annulment and the struggle for the de-annulment of the election won by the late Chief M.K.O Abiola.

In Awujale, Adetona presents what can hardly be described as a worm’s eye view. And in the book, the Ooni does not come out smelling like roses. As one of the most prominent Yoruba traditional rulers, Adetona was regularly invited to meetings with General Ibrahim Babangida, the military president that annulled the election and installed an Interim National Government, ING, headed by Chief Ernest Shonekan.

As the widespread anger provoked by the annulment and Babangida’s ING contraption raged, the former military president hoped to limit the damage to his reputation and that of his government, appealing to leaders from all the country’s geo-political zones, especially the South-West, which felt wounded because of Abiola.

For one of those meetings in Abuja, writes Adetona in Awujale, he arrived on a Thursday. The meeting was to hold the next day. While in his hotel room on the day of arrival, Adetona called the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, to say that there was a need for a meeting of Yoruba traditional rulers, where they could arrive at a common position to be presented at the next day’s meeting with Babangida. Adeyemi agreed. Adetona then suggested that there was also a need to inform the Ooni and asked Adeyemi to accompany him to Sijuwade’s room.

Adeyemi, however, was not keen because of the rivalry, over superiority, between him and the Ooni. Eventually, he gave in. The late Oba Adeyinka Oyekan, Oba of Lagos, was also informed. He agreed that a meeting was required, but refused to accompany them to the Ooni’s suite. However, he said he would support whatever position the meeting adopted.

In the Ooni’s suite, Adetona and Adeyemi met the Ife monarch dining with Alhaji Ado Bayero, Emir of Kano. Another Yoruba monarch, Oba Frederick Aroloye, the Owa of Idanre, writes Adetona, sat in a corner. When the two dining monarchs finished their meals, they went into the Ooni’s room for a discussion, after which the Ooni came out to meet Adetona and Adeyemi.

“When we told the Ooni the purpose of our meeting, he said he had met the Northern Emirs. Their position was the same as ours. We asked how and he said that they wanted a fresh meeting to be called of the Council of State along with us. The Council of State, as enshrined in the constitution, has powers to advise the President,” Adetona writes.

But what the Northern traditional rulers wanted was not exactly what the Yoruba monarchs wanted.

“Our mandate from the Yorubas was that the election had been concluded and our son was clearly the winner. So, all we wanted was that they should just simply release the results,” the author explains.

Adetona then insisted that if a Council of State meeting was to be called, it should be for the purpose of ensuring that the election was de-annulled and the wish of the people respected. The Ooni agreed. But the Alaafin, writes Adetona, said there was no need for another meeting because the key members of the Council had already expressed their opposition to the annulment.

When Adetona and the Alaafin left the Ooni, they went to discuss seating arrangements for the next day’s meeting with the other Yoruba traditional rulers. Apparently suspicious that the Ooni could switch positions, the monarchs agreed that they would sit in a way that would ensure that the Ife monarch was hemmed between two of them “so as to forestall any wavering of position.”

The planned sitting arrangement was foiled. As the traditional rulers walked into the venue of the meeting, they found seats that bore each attendee’s name. Babangida came in, explained the position of the government and sought reactions from his audience. The first came from Ibrahim Dasuki, then Sultan of Sokoto, who said very little apart from accusing the government of using traditional rulers to quell crises brought upon the nation by the government itself.

He suggested that Babangida should invite members of the Council of State to join the traditional rulers in the discussion of the annulment. The Ooni was the next to speak and presented the position of the Yoruba obas: declaration of Abiola as the winner.

It was something the meeting had not expected. “You could have heard a pin drop,” writes Adetona. Next was Bayero, who expressed no opposition to what the Ooni said, but called for a fresh Council of State meeting. After him spoke the Oba of Benin, who condemned the annulment and rejected calls for a Council of State meeting.

The natural rulers continued turning the heat on Babangida. According to Adetona, Gbong Gwon Jos, the late Chief Fom Bot, told the meeting that he could not return to his domain if Babangida did not to de-annul the election, as his subjects had demanded, and asked the former president to find accommodation for him in Abuja. A traditional ruler from the South-East, Adetona writes, was more dramatic, telling Babangida to quit as president. “Please go. Please go,” he shouted.

Then Babangida cut in, explaining that the decision to annul or de-annul was not solely his, but that of the military heirachy. He kept on calling on others to speak, but the obas observed that he was calling only people who sat to his right. The obas sat to his left. This drew a protest from the Alaafin, who Babangida was forced to ask to speak.

The Oyo monarch insisted that another Council of State meeting was needless because the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, a member, was out of the country, while some other key members had expressed their disapproval of the annulment in the media. Other traditional rulers told Babangida that he should save the country from a huge crisis by respecting the wishes of Nigerians.

Then, Babangida attempted one more throw of the dice. In a somewhat emotional tone, he told the meeting how close he and Abiola were. His government, he added, had paid Abiola hefty debts owed him by previous regimes. The sum, Babangida said, was about $600million. The scent of money scrambled a particular royal head–the Ooni’s.

“When he heard this piece of information, the Ooni became angry and said something to the effect that if Babangida paid him (Ooni) that much, he would be living on the Island of Capri in Italy,” Adetona writes.

Sijuade then got up to go to the toilet. Adetona followed, spewing criticisms at his fellow oba for going against what the Yoruba traditional rulers had agreed on. After the meeting, watched by Uche Chukwumerije, Information Secretary in the Interim National Government, the Ooni told journalists that he was in support of Babangida’s position that a fresh election should be held and that the obas should return to their domains and tell their people to prepare for the election.

Adetona thought he had not heard Ooni right. “To assure myself that what I heard was true, I invited one of the reporters, who was there when the Ooni was speaking to my room. This was a reporter from The Nigerian Tribune. Fortunately, the Alaafin was with me when the reporter played the tape for us. We were stunned,” the Awujale writes.

From his hotel room, the Ooni called Adetona on the intercom and announced gleefully that he had told the world (through the media) of the Yoruba position. Adetona replied that he was not sure that Sijuwade’s claim was correct. Adetona, accompanied by the Alaafin and the reporter, went over to Sijuade’s room. The Ooni repeated his claim that he presented the Yoruba position to the press.

He was instantly put to shame, when the reporter was asked to play his tape, which contained the opposite of Ooni’s claim. Adetona and the Alaafin then pressured Ooni into granting another interview, restating the position of the Yoruba. He did and the reporter was asked to take the interview to media houses for publication the next day. The interview was published by newspapers the next day, but Chukwumerije had caused the first interview to be used on the network news of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA.

In the book, the Awujale was unsparing in his attack on former Nigerian leader, Olusegun Obasanjo. He described him as a Judas, “who would betray his people,” who lacks credibility and squandered “the enormous goodwill,” which he carried into office “with a performance that left him with a second term short of tangible achievements.”

Oba Adetona recalled an event on 24 July 2002, the late Abraham Adesanya’s 80th birthday in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State, when in a ride with Obasanjo to a makeshift helipad he told Obasanjo how disappointed he had become over Obasanjo’s kitty-footing on the issue of federalism. “This was the dividing line for me in our relationship,” Awujale recalled and

Adesanya’s birthday presented an opportunity for him to tell Obasanjo how he felt about him, when they rode together in a Mercedes Benz limousine, with former Ogun governor, Olusegun Osoba, as witness. “It was going to be a short trip but I had something to say and so it had to be said quickly enough while the three of us shared some privacy. I said there was a time when I had trusted Obasanjo so much so that I could swear by his name, but that the trust was now gone. Obasanjo asked why. I answered that Obasanjo was no longer credible.” The Oba recalled further in the book, that at another time when he visited Obasanjo in Aso Rock, Obasanjo revisited their earlier conversation during which he told the Awujale, accusatorily, that he painted him a Judas. Awujale reconfirmed the labeling according to his account.

“I told him that I not only remembered but still maintained that he was a Judas who would betray his people…I had no qualms about speaking plainly to him. In high office, people who surround leaders tend to skirt around the truth,” Awujale wrote.

The Awujale was clearly not impressed by Obasanjo’s tenure as Nigeria’s leader. ‘‘Eight years in office was ample time to put electricity on a very strong footing. Eight years was enough to put down a strong foot against corruption and make a clear difference. Eight years was adequate for orderliness and the rule of law to triumph in every facet of our society. These were the basis upon which I gave my support for the office,” he submitted.


http://saharareporters.com/reports/exclusive/6549-june-12-why-ooni-betrayed-mkoabiola-thenews.html

. This piece contains the meeting Obas had with Babangida after June 12 annulment and the role of traditional rulers in the saga.It also contains what late Oba Sijuwade said that led to the bombard of Oonis palace at Ife by OAU students.The students went there to register their displeasure with what Oonirisa said in Abuja when talking to the press about the annulment.OAU students between 1989 and 1995 can testify to that incident.. Kunle Ologundudu album after the anulment gives credence to the saga too Thank God our house is in order our Yoruba unity is sustained. The region with all Obas is behind Tinubu project.

Adexxi:
Nothing to back up your claim so I should be watching Ologundudu , Ologundudu ko ologuneru ni how many will I watch? Your claim is quite baseless . Even at the height of war , did the king seek refuge? Stop behaving like Oyo people again
We move

Your opinion appreciated and conclusion respected

Adexxi:
I do listen to him but he never mentioned anything relating this , left to you tell the world source of your information Mo ti get baba

. I made reference to his album after June 12 anulment.. OAU activists like Adewale Soetan Sho Baba. Anthony Fashayo. Thony Fash etc would remember. This is for history only and an attempt to justify the crisis that followed June 12 annulment . No other string is attached.

Adexxi:
I'm from ife and I school in that same OAU and I can't buttress your point till now . I'm not here to argue with you , I'm busy man . Social media has already give every man a power to say whatever they like . I doubt you know what they call Oonirisa.

Even at the height of Modakeke war , Ooni didn't leave palace or it vicinity , so na OAU students , ordinary students ooooo go make baba leave palace orisirisi eniyan

. At your leisure listen to Ologundudu album after the anulment of June 12 He made references to this incident. and condemned the roles of Yoruba Obas then in the anulment.

Adexxi:
Ooni palace was attacked Must lie to justify your write-up . There is no one , I mean human or spirit who can dare that , you even said he went to seek refuge at Oba Wara palace . Mumu buruku you thought Ooni is like your regular village king.

. In 1993 you may ask people who know about it .Kabiyesi granted talked on NTA about the meeting
All First Class Obas held with Babangida concerning the annulment of June 12 .Emir and Sulan were there. Oni spoke on behalf of the Obas. Oba Sijuwade said ".....we reason with him on the matter"....The OAU students misinterpreted what he said to mean he was supprting the annulment. On the following day OAU students bombarded. Ooni palace. ...I am saying this to justify crisis that occured during June 12 crisis. Additionally. I am Yoruba in Osun State. .... I am here not to distort history or distrespect Oonirisa.. Baba Mi ......I said what occured then which those at Ife can butress!

aribisala0:
The Tinubu project is dead on arrival. It will not happen
Anyone can come out and claim to know some imaginary facts that are top secret that no one else know.

Tinubu is on record of insulting Yoruba Obas publicly because he holds them in contempt

. Kabiyesi Onirasa Oba Ogunwusi will even laugh at your conclusion! Let us continue to watch as the drame unfolds However this is the turn of Yoruba to rule. No utterance factual or fictitious can change it Yirubas know how they resokve their crisis.

aribisala0:
Irrelevant nonsense.
All totally fictional

What evidence do you have that Ooni was in NPN or PDP. and how is that relevant here?

Bottomline is Tinubu said
all Yoruba Obas are useless except 3

Is that True or False? That is what matters here

Not all these diversionary tactics

. Only those who know about the rivakry between. Bisi Akande Bola Ige Tinubu and other Awosists in relation to June 12 then would grasp the vituperation of Asiwaju and the historical background I gave. I was not there when Asiwaju made this utterance. However many of our Yoruba Obas and politicians contribted to the June 12 Criss by collecting money from Abacha. Bisi Akande occasionally visited Ife because of party differences . The June 12 crisis might have made Tinubu accuse
Obas. Those who were there then can butress what the Awosists went through on June 12 matter. As I said earlier the unity of Yorubas has gone beyond this age long matter. The Yorubas including all our revered Obas are behind Tinubu project.

aribisala0:
We have not forgotten

THE Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, has responded to a statement credited to the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, that “there were three good traditional rulers in Yorubaland,” saying it was the traditional rulers in the South West that held their subjects together, giving room for people like him (Tinubu) to actualise his political ambition.
Oba Sijuwade said this while addressing the audience at a two-day conference of foremost traditional rulers in Osun State on the overall development of the state, in Osogbo.
The traditional ruler said he had to express his protest over the statement credited to Tinubu on behalf of the majority of Yoruba rulers in Nigeria.
According to Oba Sijuwade, Tinubu had forgotten that “when our country was upside down, it was the traditional rulers in this country that saved the situation. If we left the country as politicians did, there would have been no state for the leader of APC to rule when he came back.
“Two among the three obas mentioned by him were the best friends of the late military head of state, General Sani Abacha and among them, one was on the paylist of the late General and one lifted crude oil allocated to him by General Abacha. You can ask them, Abacha gave me money on more than one occasion, but I refused.
“And if you want to talk of the annulment of late Chief M.K.O. Abiola’s election, these two/three traditional rulers should be properly investigated, because they were neither here nor there,” the traditional ruler said.
He also used the medium to caution political leaders against unguarded and unfounded statements which had to do with traditional rulers, to always be sure of their facts before going public.
“If any of our leaders wants to make a categorical statement on an important issue like the Oba in Yorubaland, he should please try to check records to know exactly what each one of them has done, because there is so much blackmailing and, fortunately, the late Abacha’s Chief Security Officer (CSO) is alive and he is in a position to tell the world the obas who were close associates of his late boss,” Oba Sijuwade added.
The two-day programme had in attendance, the governor of Osun State, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, his deputy, Mr Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, traditional rulers in the state as well the Alake of Egbaland, Oba (Dr) Aremu Gbadebo; the Olowo of Owo kingdom, Oba (Dr) Victor Folagbade Olateru-Olagbegi, who was represented by Dr Okajare Solomon.
In his presentation, Oba Olateru-Olagbegi preached unity among the obas, saying, “genuine unification of Yorubaland can bring back the much-cherished heritage of love, unity and solidarity of our forebearers.”
Speaking at the programme, Governor Aregbesola, who described the traditional rulers as custodians of culture, further enjoined them to ensure peace in their domains.
“Traditional rulers are powerful, reverred in Yorubaland and their subjects attest to this. Therefore, I urge you to use your influence in your various domains to ensure that peace igns perpetually beyond election period,” he said.
Ni igerian Tribune

. Kabiyesi Onirisa
Oba Sijuwade was NPN and later PDP He became king in 1980 .It was Awolowo who told Bola Ige to crown him regardless of Party differences. Baba used his party membership to win national and federal influences. Asiwaju was in UPN AD ACN and now in APC. There was a conflict of politics between Asiwaju and Oba Sijuwade then just as it was btween the Kabiyesi and Bisi Akande On Abiola saga, many Nigerians especially the Awosits believed Oba Sijuwade had a tussle with Abiola and he was not POSSIBLY supporting him. .There was even a time Oba Sijuwade palace was attacked by OAU students after annulment of June 12 because of the interview he granted in Abuja after meeting with Babangida..Kabiyesi was reported to have sought safety at Iwara in the palace of Oba Adewale Kaseem for about a month. Kunle Ologundudu in his song then referred to this incident. Truly many Obas in Nigeria and some Yorubas contributed to the stillbirth of June 12. by collecting money from Babangida .I am saying this not to disrespect Yoruba kingdom and the revered Ooniship. I am a Yoruba too from Osun State. Every Oonirisa is my Father. Now the present Oni of Ife was enthroned by APC. The reference to Oba Sijuwade utterance holds no water again as Yoruba Obas are behind Tinubu including Kabiyesi Oba Ogunwusi.

LesbianBoy:
Yes we get it. Everything in Nigeria is bad and all that and there are so many hilarious things we see on a daily.

But what is that one story or stories especially in politics that broke in the media whether internet, newspapers etc and you were like....

"shey my eye dey pain me abi wetin be this?" (in skit maker lasisi elenu voice)

Or

"Nigeria true true suppose dey Netflix sha WTF"

Or

"is this playing, what type of playing is this?"

Or

"Ahhh, Nigeria is truly a joke sha"


So I ask what is that political story?


So I will go first.....


When buhari was gaining momentum and was declared 2015 presidential election winner. it was at that moment I knew Nigeria might not be good again. I mean, some of us saw or read of how buhari perform in the past and how he was talking anyhow when he was out of power. So how he managed to deceive lots of people that he has changed and will turn Nigeria around still dey baffle me.

When people in politics come out and say buhari has integrity or when APC supporters try to exonerate buhari from the corruption going on in APC. I find this really surprising because all the criminals in APC that have been accuse of stealing billions are seen almost immediately going to dine with buhari in aso rock

When politicians are hale and hearty whether APC or PDP but as soon as EFCC comes for them, fainting and sickness everywhere

The kind of people that have declared to run for president. As I am typing this I even heard that INEC chairman who should be concerned about how to give us free and fair elections wants to contest too. No be juju be that?

When Minister of labour ngige said the government doesn't have money to give ASUU but he and others 100 million naira to waste. (yes because we all know he doesn't even stand a chance to win).


I will stop here. This is just a fun thread guys so drop yours let's read

The. Killing of defenceless 40 and 70 sustainning injuries at Owo. Ondo State.

Penguin2:
The problem with some of you is that you seem to have acute difficulty in differentiating data.

The frenzy about Labour Party is strictly around Peter Obi and not about any state elections.

Ask the residents all the states that are supporting Labour Party, you will realize that most of them are either voting PDP or APC in state elections but for presidential elections, the agenda is to deliver Obi.

So do not judge from Ekiti gubers.

There was never a time any Obi supporter said Labour Party will win Ekiti elections.

So you people should grow up.

Obi will win in in the SW SS NW NC NE ? LP ? This is an impossibility. Anybody who thinks Obi will rule in Nigeria from LP with nothern votes is groping in the darkness of uncertainty and unreality..

Adexxi:
Welcome my brother

we however are happy with his status as the National Secretary of the party. He is a full suppoter of APC in Osun and presents all aspirants at Ife for 2023 elections. Against my expectation,APC Osun has been fair to him and that has made him have stardom in the state.It is evident he will deliver Ife and its axis to APC. Osun is an ardent supporter of Tinubu project.

Adexxi:
Kare. Omo obalufe mini , omo afinla jaye Omo Ooni òde iremo ... The truth is many are cursing him particularly those that felt he hijacked the party from them . You are I know ife is a pdp town . This same Omisore was once dealt with at the poll by ife people . We are not subservient to Omisore

Thank you so much!!!!

Adexxi:
Same Omisore people are cursing . Answer this question first ; Kabi ogbon re

. Nobody curses Omisore at Ile-Ife ......Ile Akogun la Arubidi

Peacecore:
I'm not from the west but this is the bitter truth some people fail to agree. Immediately Tinubu won d APC ticket, I said it that it would change many political equations in SW. This bcoz d people will see it voting in Adeleke will translate to voting against Tinubu.









The only thing that can brighten Adeleke chance is to declare support for Tinubu publicly, though this mayn't be possible but that's d truth.

. Exactly

Peacecore:
I'm not from the west but this is the bitter truth some people fail to agree. Immediately Tinubu won d APC ticket, I said it that it would change many political equations in SW. This bcoz d people will see it voting in Adeleke will translate to voting against Tinubu. Excatly!









The only thing that can brighten Adeleke chance is to declare support for Tinubu publicly, though this mayn't be possible but that's d truth.

. Excatly

Adexxi:
I'm from osun state in ile-ife , I'm telling you pdp is taking over that state . Pdp can't win Ekiti where Fayose imposed a candidate . Osun east and west is lockdown for pdp

. I am from Osun State too. Ile-Ife is the home base of Omisore Iyiola. PDP knows it is a sure bet for the APC. .It will be easier for a camel to enter the hole of a needle than for PDP to win Osun with Tinubu project in the South West now.