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Christianity EtcRe: I’ll Expose How We Got Stephanie Otobo To Apologise Over Sex Scandal by epondudu: 3:55pm On Feb 08, 2021
Pls how does one become a pastor. cry
PoliticsRe: Former Katsina Local Govt Chairman Arrested For Aiding Bandits (photos) by epondudu: 3:40pm On Feb 08, 2021
Hardgun:
Imagine even you...they need to behead this bastard
Guy look like a see frog. Beheading will be w favour to him..#teamslowdeath#
PoliticsRe: FFK: I Told Nnamdi Kanu How Buhari Told Me He Hates Igbo People by epondudu: 6:30am On Feb 08, 2021
Because baba no dey pay, Mr who is sponsoring me.
"GIVE KAYODE MONEY AND SPEAKER AND SEE HIM SING YOUR PRAISE"...Obasanjo.
PoliticsRe: If You're A Fulani Miscreant This Message Is For You by epondudu: 6:26am On Feb 08, 2021
uBuNiT:
That is !!! If you see how they now sing against that Igboho ? Like "we don't wan wahala o".Leave Fulani o, we v been together for years o. Igboho must apologize for telling ooni the truth"

I spit on people without balls
#Victimmentality#
PoliticsRe: What My Friend Son Who Wanted To Join The Nigerian Army Told Me by epondudu: 9:03pm On Feb 07, 2021
Quim2:
Lol, I don jam craze
grin
PoliticsRe: Communal Clash: Osun Declare 24-hour Curfew As Two Die, Many Injured by epondudu: 8:22pm On Feb 07, 2021
Every region in Nigeria is at war except the SouthEast but sooner Kanu will take them there. grin
PoliticsRe: DON'T GIVE NNAMDI KANU MONEY - LET HIM USE HIS 100 MILLION FOR GOV WIKE BOUNTY by epondudu: 8:13pm On Feb 07, 2021
God bless Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: Breaking News: Ex Owerri NBA Chairman N.H Nwankwo Esq Slaughtered In His Owerri by epondudu: 8:06pm On Feb 07, 2021
They will blame the Fulanis.
PoliticsRe: Posters Ordering Herdsmen To Vacate Surface In Eleme, Rivers And South East by epondudu: 7:53pm On Feb 07, 2021
Jones4190:
History

I remember a time in this country when all the sir ministers in Jonathan's kitchen cabinet were all Igbo's. Ayim Pius Ayim was SGF, Ngozi Okonjo Iwealla was in charge
finance, Emeka Wogu was in Labour and productivity, Berth
Nnaji was in Power and Energy, Dieziani Madueke was the
powerful minister for oil. The sir of them outside the Federal
Executive Council would meet and decide what and what not to be discussed at the larger FEC. Whatever they decided
would eventually be the position of government. In 6 years,
this was the situation. Okiro and Onovo had the police under their control. Ihejerika and later Minimah controlled the Army.
These powerful Igbo's could do and undo. Nigeria was in their pockets. Rather than care about the poor Igbo chaps
scattered all over the country, they were busy diverting billions of naira into their accounts at home and abroad.
The 2nd Niger Bridge, they didn't do. They shared the money. The
Lagos/Calabar rail lines passing through 9 States, 3 of them
in the SE, they were not bothered. They refused to pay the
Chinese the Counter part fund. They shared the money. Enugu/
Onitsha, Aba/PH and other roads of economic importance to
their fellow Igbo's, they abandoned. Who is to blame? Who
Was marginalising the Igbo's that time? You had your chance, you bungled
it.
There was only 1 Yoruba minister worth mentioning at that time, Akinwunmi Adesina. He was in Agric, the oruba did called complain of been marginalized. His budget was
less than 1% while Emeka Wogu in Labour had over 10% for
his ministry, Ayim had unlimited access to the treasury for the
benefit of himself and family members. The poor Igbo guys
meant nothing to him. If an Igbo becomes President
tomorrow after bubu, will there be any difference? The
Igbo man will marginalize his fellow Igbo people.....
Seems they control this platform they will turn a blind eye to this writeup. This is a fantastic assertion...#victimmentality#
PoliticsRe: What My Friend Son Who Wanted To Join The Nigerian Army Told Me by epondudu: 7:45pm On Feb 07, 2021
Quim2:
I did say you can reason.
So I am now Op?
I reasonably repeated what I said......Op you are lying.
CrimeRe: Lodge Caretaker Kills Nekede Poly Student Over House Rent (Photos) by epondudu: 7:42pm On Feb 07, 2021
Alagolo ko sinwi óni miliki lon siéré
PoliticsRe: What My Friend Son Who Wanted To Join The Nigerian Army Told Me by epondudu: 7:19pm On Feb 07, 2021
Quim2:
OR you simply can't reason for yourself
If I can't reason I wouldn't have reasonably reasoned that you are unreasonably lying...
OP you are lying. grin
BusinessRe: Dangote Fertilizer Factory Near Completion. by epondudu: 7:13pm On Feb 07, 2021
zickyclef:
After construction fertilizer price will skyrocket
You make a lot of sense, see the price of cement now
PoliticsRe: What My Friend Son Who Wanted To Join The Nigerian Army Told Me by epondudu: 7:04pm On Feb 07, 2021
Op can lie oooo.
PoliticsRe: Sunday Igboho: I Can Fight Boko Haram Without Government Support by epondudu: 10:47am On Feb 07, 2021
The government will not listen now, someone is pleading to the job free of charge. tongue
CrimeRe: Fulani Man Caught Spying On Yoruba Traditional Rulers During A Meeting In Ibadan by epondudu: 4:13pm On Feb 06, 2021
undecided
PoliticsRe: Sowore Confronts RRS Officer Who Broke His Nose As Police Sends Same Squad To Op by epondudu: 1:52pm On Feb 05, 2021
I have never been a fan of Sowore but the guy got some balls unlike the one made in China Shekau.
CrimeRe: Efcc Storm 1004 Estate In Lagos by epondudu: 4:05pm On Feb 04, 2021
May his soul rest in peace. But the guy is greedy Sha how much will he pay efcc?
EducationRe: LAUTECH Student's Leaked Sex Video: Story Behind The Sex Tape, The Girl Reacts by epondudu: 3:38pm On Feb 04, 2021
Silentgroper:
I would've given u but ur balls is too black..
grin
EducationRe: LAUTECH Student's Leaked Sex Video: Story Behind The Sex Tape, The Girl Reacts by epondudu: 10:56am On Feb 04, 2021
Pls, I need that video.....you will be doing a favor by sharing the link to the video, and may God bless you as send the video or provide a link.embarassed
PoliticsRe: “the Nigeria Military Will Hear From Us Soon” – Nnamdi Kanu by epondudu: 6:42am On Feb 04, 2021
Violence is embedded in this man's DNA he believes only war can give them Biafra, right from the onset of his agitation he has been soliciting weapons. With the way things are going the east will become northeast. God protect your children.
PoliticsRe: Three Policemen Die While Coming Back From Ebonyi War Zone by epondudu: 6:24am On Feb 04, 2021
R.I.P to the gallant officers.
They might be the good ones among the force, I am very sure they are someone's father, brother, husband, uncle or someone's son. We should learn to respect the dead.
CrimeRe: Murdered By African She Sheltered by epondudu: 10:59pm On Jan 25, 2021
OP if you are white are a racist but if you are a black man TAKE THIS......

PoliticsIs Betrayal In Yoruba's DNA? by epondudu(op): 10:49pm On Jan 25, 2021
Ojudu shares details of Tinubu’s secret meeting with Sunday Igboho in 2009
Ojudu shares details of Tinubu’s secret meeting with Sunday Igboho in 2009
January 25
17:14
2021
by Jemilat Nasiru
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Babafemi Ojudu, the special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on political matters, has narrated how Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), held a secret meeting with Sunday Igboho in 2009.

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Igboho, whose real name is Sunday Adeyemo, has been in the news lately over the eviction notice he served to herders in Ibarapa local government area of Oyo state.

In a piece on Monday, Ojudu said with his support, Tinubu persuaded Igboho not to interfere with the 2009 rerun election in Ekiti state.

Segun Oni of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had defeated Kayode Fayemi of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the 2007 gubernatorial election.

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Dissatisfied, Fayemi, through the support of Tinubu, challenged the outcome of the election in court.

In February 2009, an appeal court sitting in Ilorin ordered that a rerun be held in some polling units.

In his piece, Ojudu said Tinubu summoned him after the ACN got wind of information that the PDP was planning to recruit thugs to rig the election.

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Tinubu: The maverick politician

Ojudu said he suggested that they should invite and dissuade the PDP thugs from disrupting the election.

“A few days to the election, we got an intelligence report that the PDP big wigs had perfected a plan to unleash thugs recruited from across Yoruba land on Ekiti. The plan was to kill and maim as many as possible, snatch ballot boxes and win by any means possible,” he wrote.

THE DIALOGUE WITH ‘POLITICAL WARLORDS’

“Tinubu summoned me to Lagos and said Femi, “I have conducted a scientific opinion poll. You people can win this election. The only snag however is they are deploying state security as well as thugs against you. State security men we can handle ( and he did creatively handled them ) but how do you handle thugs?”

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“I then suggested we dissuade them by engagement and inducements. After all, they are in the business only for the money and not for ideological reasons.

“We reached out to both Ade Basket in Akure and Fada Geri in Ondo. Both were dreaded in political circles. We had a series of meetings with them and were able to squeeze an agreement with them that they will not make themselves available to PDP for hire. I got them to even sign documents for me that they were going to stay off Ekiti elections.

“The biggest headache for us then was Sunday Igboho who we learnt has been hired and paid by a Senator from Osun to come and cause mayhem in Ekiti. Tinubu instructed we must get him at all cost.

FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH IGBOHO

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Igboho: Dreaded by the high and mighty

“Six days to the election we began our search for him. Eventually, we met someone who had his number. I put a call through to him and he agreed to meet with me in Ibadan. We scheduled an appointment and had a meeting at a small hotel not far from Premier Hotel.

“Tinubu, I told him, has sent me to him that he will like to have a meeting with him. He said he will love to meet him as he has heard a lot of good things about him too. The problem he said is he is PDP and not ACN. I said that precisely is the reason why he wanted to meet with him. He asked if I could keep this a secret, I said why not. Papa Adedibu, and our Osun Senator, he said must not learn about his meeting Tinubu. I told him there is no way they will know except it leaks from his side.”

He explained that they were able to convince Igboho to ditch any plans of interfering with the electoral process after a meeting with Tinubu in Ondo state.

“He agreed to a meeting on Thursday preceding the election. I reported back to Tinubu who then relocated from his base in Lagos to Sunview Hotel in Akure. Igboho drove down alone at about 10.00 pm. I and Tinubu had a dialogue with him,” he wrote.

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“Igboho,”!Tinubu said, “ I have heard a lot about your bravery. The Ekiti people have suffered too long under the rule of PDP. They are looking for a change. I learnt you have been hired to make this impossible. I have invited you to plead with you to allow the poll to be conducted peacefully. If after that the PDP wins fine. If the ACN wins, all well and good”.

TINUBU ‘LECTURED IGBOHO ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF DEMOCRACY’

“Tinubu went on and on lecturing him on the beauty of democracy and the unencumbered electoral process. By the time Tinubu finished with him, he became sober and contrite. “ Baba”, he said, “ I have heard you and I am pleased with what you have said. Whatever you want me to do I will do even though I have collected money from the other side”.

“This was the extent Tinubu went to secure Ekiti for his party, ACN. Most of this the candidate, Fayemi, himself was not even aware of.

“Tinubu then beckoned me to follow him to the bedroom of the suit he occupied in the hotel. “ Femi this guy appears sincere. It does appear we have dissuaded him.“

“Thank you, Baba,” Igboho said with a smile across his face as soon as he received a golden handshake for agreeing to not kill in Ekiti as they had planned.”

Ojudu also shared details of a plot with which Igboho used in deceiving the PDP so as to abandon the plot to foil violence during the rerun exercise.

‘THE FAKE DIG’

“He then said that he will be in Ekiti on the eve of the election but when it is 2.00 am I should put a call through to him. He will put his phone on speaker and I should tell him I am a police AIG and that the police has discovered his presence in Ekiti and will be raiding in 30 minutes,” he said.

“With that call, he will tell his minders he can no longer stay. He will pack his boys and their lethal weapons and leave town. Tinubu ordered food and drink for him. He will touch neither. He however overtime became comfortable in our midst and regaled us with several anecdotes from his career as a political enforcer. One particular anecdote stayed locked up in my memory till today because it was so funny.

“According to Igboho, he went through the tutelage of Chief Adedibu, the strong man of Ibadan politics. He said he was one of his most reliable and trusted thugs. At a point in their relationship, Adedibu, he said began to suspect he was getting too powerful and independent. Adedibu, he narrated, then invited him to a meeting and told him he will like him to run for the chairmanship of a local government.

“He said he knew this was an attempt by Adedibu to bench him and he, therefore, told Adedibu that he was not educated, not able to speak English, and could therefore not be chairman of a local government.

“Adedibu, he said, looked at him and barked an order STAND UP! He stood up. “SIT DOWN!” He sat down. Adedibu then said “and you claim not to be educated. Whatever is left we shall add it unto you”.

‘TAKING OVER ALL THE ROOMS IN EKITI HOTELS’

“A week before the election, we had reserved and paid for all the rooms in all the hotels in Ekiti. The money ran into several million. Tinubu, as usual, paid for this. The strategy was to ensure no thug or any undesirable element had a place to stay in the state. Security men and INEC officials had to appeal to me, sometimes through Tinubu, to release some rooms to them to stay. With this, we knew who was staying where. And we closely monitored them and their activities.

“When Igboho and his band of 50 thugs arrived Ado Ekiti that Friday we were able to monitor them till they were taken to be accommodated overnight in government house due to lack of hotel accommodation in the state.

“This was the situation when at 2:00 am I did exactly what Igboho instructed me to do and he and his men fled town. Two hours after leaving I got a call from him. They did a headcount and found out two of their men were missing. They found out the two had gone to town in search of women. Igboho pleaded with me to help retrieve them and get them out of town the following morning.

“At about 5.00 am that morning I picked them up in front of the Fire Station at Fajuyi Park, took them to my house, and by 6.00 am got a driver to take them out of town.”

Source: The cable
CrimeRe: Fulani Herdsmen Attack Bus & Kidnap Passengers Along Lagos Benin Ore Exprss Road by epondudu: 10:00pm On Jan 25, 2021
I still believe in the unity of this country but each state must have its borders, and also state police and every citizen must take biometric data at the point of entry to any state. The government should subsidies guns, missiles even tanks for the citizens..... angry

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