₦airaland Forum

heayernu56:
APC may not get bloc vote in the oke Ogun axis as they did during Ajimobi's election if they do not feed in a governorship candidate from that side which is likely not going to happen this time around since the more grounded and top aspirant are from ibadan (Even Ajimobi promised the oke Ogun his support). Though, they may get bloc vote from ogbomoso with the presence of Akala, provided that there is no form of discord in case Akala fail to emerge as their governordhip candidate

seunmsg:
I just hope this consensus nonsense won't backfire in Ogun state. So many people all over the south west made sacrifices to ensure ACN/APC emerged as the ruling party in the state. Amosun better not destroy the party in the state due to greed.

senatordave1:
I know but ibadan people has been ruling ever since 1979 from the time of olunloyo to adesina from 1999 to 2003 to ladoja.only akala broke that trend for a short period.in the spirit of fairness,equity and rotation,let other zones rule abeg.oyo is not the only state where a particular group has a larger population than the rest.some other states like akwa ibom,kogi,rivers,edo,delta,cross river,imo etc has the same peculiarity yet allows for zoning of the guber post

Johnnyessence:
all what you listed up there is not Tinubu project, that's fashola project. the questions is to list the projects Tinubu started and completed. what a straight forward questions. if not the assassination of Williams of the blessed memory, Tinubu is no where to be found in Lagos State politics. list it and let us learn OK.

The idea of developing a light rail network for Lagos was revived by Governor Bola Tinubu in the early 2000s with a formal announcement of its construction in December 2003.

The project began in 2006 when the Bola Tinubu administration granted SENL the concession to reclaim and develop land for the city. Since then, the company has recorded a huge success, as more than 1.3 million square metres of land has already been reclaimed and is up for sale.

MrMystrO:
That guy is always high, Real gist man.

Corrinthians:
Such a beautiful town with a good mix of modern and historical architecture.

Only hateful bigots wouldn't appreciate the contrast.

sean1000x:
There is no picture in Igboland you will find that will ever come near to this...

sean1000x:
This is Onitsha Skyline like Las Vegas....a city leveled to the ground during the civil war.

sean1000x:
Is that not Ibadan downtown...yes or no?

Adebowale89:
yes I get time. I have lived with them, dine with them and even dated them before so I know mostly everything about those empty things

Adebowale89:
mechionu gi. which aba boys goto sch. Enugu and IMO still school than Abia in general after Enugu and IMO followed by Anambra. stop fooling yourself here beside we are talking about braveness


why didn't they use their bravery to resist NA oppress in the last military invasion in east. chest beating gbuo gi there


you no even get shame you're talking of Abia leaders. is it the same rogues that sell you people out to Fulani? or the one that refuse to develop abia from Theodore Orji, to ouk to that fat Albert ikpeazu

TundeBricklayer:
I know you too well incoherency becloud your perceives faculty when you’re uncomfortable with facts, you can't muster the courage to tackle facts, rather start throwing insults and exposing your vicious cycle, that's what your people are known for. I'm very familiar with your style boy
Discussion continue!!
Ibadan is 94% slum city, three skyscrapers in middle of slums

TundeBricklayer:
Oduavanguard your long essay doesn't change the fact that 94% of Ibadan people are living in slums, stop deceiving yourself, it not about landmass, Lagos is the smallest but bigger economy, Anambra economy is fourth largest after Lagos, Rivers and FCT, Niger state is largest in landmass but Imo state is more economically viable, Oyo is large no doubt, but Anambra trashed Oyo in banks transactions, which CBN said can be use to measure viable states, with Oyo landmass, Anambra host more bank branches than Oyo state, more industries, more markets, more productive in agro sector, oil and gas etc., Ibadan is the only city in Oyo largely covered by slums, this is a state I know it's not about media propaganda, showing two skyscrapers at Dugbe while streets are slums and dirty doesn't make sense, If I start posting pictures of Anambra na you go run.

Yyeske:
What you don't know, you don't know.
Stats of Onitsha has always been restricted to Onitsha north and South LGAs while more than 80% of the city is never added in its population or landmass. It's like restricting stats for Lagos to only the old Lagos FCT, meaning places like VI, Lekki, Mushin, Ikeja, Agege, Oshodi, Iyana Ipaja, Festac, Ojo etc are not added but only Lagos Island, Ikoyi, Surulere, Yaba, Oyingbo, Iddo etc is used for Lagos.
Travel and see, you won't.
Moreover, that landmass for Ibadan you provided was for Ibadanland and not the built up area of the real city of Ibadan. If Ibadan is about 3,000 square kilometers as you posited, that means it is more than or almost same as the whole of Lagos state which is about 3,500 square kilometers.
Using your Google Map or Google Earth to compare can cure your ignorance sef.

Published June 15, 2018

Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja

Mr. Kola Abiola, the oldest son of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 Presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola, said he made three attempts to make former President Goodluck Jonathan bestow the Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic title on his late father.

Kola, however, said for political reasons, it just could not be done.

He said this during a programme titled, ‘Question Time’, which aired on Channels Television on Thursday.

According to MKO’s son, he first approached the then Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), to honour his father during the Centenary celebration in January 2014 but a gold award was given to the deceased, which was rejected by the family.

Kola said during his second attempt, he wrote a letter to Jonathan through the Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, during the build-up to the 2015 elections but nothing was done.

He said even after Jonathan had lost and was preparing to leave office, he made another attempt to get him to honour MKO but it failed again.

Kola said, “Towards the election, I approached them again, this time in writing, and solicited the help of Pastor Bakare and told them that even if it was for selfish political reasons, this was something you could do to help your chances of winning elections.

“I really didn’t mind how he got it done. But we couldn’t get President Jonathan to get it done so we left that.

“After he lost the election, I approached him a second time also through the same Pastor Bakare to try to get him to do this as a legacy of his Presidency, something that Nigerians would never forget about him. Last minute, we couldn’t get it to happen.”

Abiola’s son said after President Muhammadu Buhari took office, he sent a letter through Pastor Bakare again to take to the President who was in Kaduna at the time.

He said Buhari bought into the idea and exceeded the expectations of the Abiola family as he did not only honour the deceased with the highest title in the land but also issued an apology to his family on behalf of the Federal Government.

Kola noted that he did not approach former President Olusegun Obasanjo to honour his father because he felt there was no point doing so as the answer would have been obvious.

He, however, said he approached the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, who promised to address the issue but died in office.

When asked his view on Jonathan’s naming of the University of Lagos as Moshood Abiola University, Lagos, Kola said, “That was a mistake. They were trying to regionalise MKO. He was beyond that. This man was voted across Nigeria irrespective of religion.

“I went back to them and told them if they had consulted me, I would have told them what to do.”

Kola said there was no need demanding the release of the result of the June 12, 1993 presidential elections since it was obvious to all Nigerians.

He, therefore, faulted the National Assembly for asking the Independent National Electoral Commission to release the result.

Kola added, “Like Rochas Okorocha would say, ‘It is Ibeberism’ as far as I am concerned. How many times have I been to the National Assembly? All they do is just talk and it gets to the committee and it dies there. That is what they call filibuster in politics. How many times have they not done what is right?

“For me, Mr. President has done undoubtedly what no one was capable of doing and that apology given not just to my father but to Gani Fawehinmi’s family was more than what I bargained for when I was pushing for this.”