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tarryT: Aha! Tears of a lunatic.

Run along fool.

tarryT: Finally, Gbawe has letting it out. This is good for his rehabilitation. The grief is so much and any attempt to suppress it will amount to further depression. Please cry more, don't hold it back, let the tears flow.
Can anyone get this old man a bucket?

How is this possible..Gbawe is still breathing, yet PDP flag is now flying in Ekiti and Adamawa

The ranting of frustrated janjaweedian always implant a sinister smile on my face. Am loving this.

Ikology: Gibberish as usual, AD,ACN has been on the helm of affairs in your region, stop your fixation on PDP

presido1: @Gbawe, quoting the context below to defend the impeachment or malign the president makes no sense. Its akin to those guys defending Stella Odua in the sense that she is not the only corrupt minister so why should she be the first being booted. its obvious now that those defending Stella are doing it cos they come from the same tribe or party likewise you defending Nyako cos you guys are of the same political party.
I will keep on saying it. We are not ripe for democracy in Nigeria. It will be easy for us to fight tribalism alone than to fight tribalism and political affiliation together. Once somebody I support is accused of corruption I will rush out to defend him/her and term it political witch hunt but if its from the opposite side I will be shouting jail him jail him. We can not move forward as a nation like this. All the 36 govs and the president deserve impeachment but all cannot be impeached on the same day, somebody must be the first to fall just like Stella was first.

Highvotage: @op, It was the temporal bridge that was made for free movement of the people that collapse why the new bridge itsef is still under construction.
It occurred almost 2 week now but people were gathering there to watct rise in water lever in compsrative to were the makeshift bridge used to be.
To be sincere, Oyo government should have hasten the job faster than this to avoid this embberashment or public propaganda from some people.
Lets just continue to pray to God for leaders that will have the love of masses at heart, irrespective of party, religion, ethic or otherwise.

Vincenzi: This is a weeping thread,where a set of people wish to console themselves. If it were the other way round,we would hv seen contrary reactions. Nyako's hands were not clean,yet he boldly pointed dirty fingers at ''someone'' clearly bigger than him.
OP,deal with it. We hv seen desperate actions frm the opposing party .

At various levels of government, from the executive to the legislature to the judiciary, all have sinned and come short of political glory; so, why is justice selective? If who goes and who stays in office is truly determined by the level of corruption in one’s government, even the President should have been long impeached. So, why pick on one thief and let others live?

luvmijeje: In addition, they should also spare us, it's because Jonathan is from the minority and also because he's a christian. This is a political war and all is fair in war.

jaytee01: I hope we will all be alive to see the end of this drama. History is replete with megalomaniacs who drove their nations to brink while being cheered on by a band of short sighted folks who refused to peer beyond the end of their noses into the future. Hitler, Mussoloni, Saddam come to mind.
The people I pity most in all of this are the SS and SE. The SS because they can no longer complain of being shortchanged after GEJ wasted a golden opportunity to right the wrongs of the past. The SE may never produce a president because of the penchant of their leaders to sell out for filthy lucre.
Whether the ethnic champions like it or not, after GEJ steps down, power will return to the North because of the peculiar configuration of Nigerian politics. Just like GEJ played dumb before grabbing power with both hands, the majority of Northern politicians are playing dumb now. But it does not mean that they are stupid!

texaco1: Aregbesola and nasarawa state governors to go very soon too. Enough of janjanweed nonsense

The fall of Nyako

JULY 17, 2014 BY ABIMBOLA ADELAKUN 4 COMMENTS


Viewpoint, Thursday, July 3, 2014

One has to be either naive or a perpetual denier of the obvious to extricate the impeachment and subsequent removal of the Governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako, from the contest of wills he engaged in with President Goodluck Jonathan. In fact, when his impeachment saga started, I wondered why it took that long in coming.

When Nyako started that battle, I had expressed some surprise the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was not after him yet for the ostensible sin of taking on the Presidency. It turned out that I was jumping ahead of myself because, in the fashion these things take in Nigeria, it was only a matter of time before his wardrobe was cracked open and his skeletons came tumbling out.

Knowing where his fate would berth required neither a Nostradamus insight nor a deep understanding of Nigeria’s political power play. As it was in the days of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, so it is in the days of Jonathan and so shall it continue to be as long as we have leaders with overripe egos. When those with incommensurate power like Nyako criticise their leadership or show themselves a threat to their superior’s ambitions, their Judgment Day comes. Such is the absoluteness of power wielded by leaders on this side of the equator – they have the balls of their opponents in their left hand and a grinding stone on the right.

Nyako himself was not without sin and could not convince anyone of his innocence in the various allegations of corruption made against him.

When he saw the impeachment train coming in his direction, he declared a meaningless two-day holiday and never showed up before the panel to defend his integrity. He spent the last few weeks considerably sobered up and he even backtracked on the fierce stance he had earlier taken on the politics of the Boko Haram war when he delivered a speech in Washington DC in March. He was also quick to absolve the Presidency of its woes. None of those placatory measures could save him, however.

[b]I find it curious that some commentators seem to find the power tussle between the President and the governor rather entertaining. There is some sort of psychological abuse that must be plaguing those who are amused by this spectacle of power play and even take it to the point of insinuating that the fall of Nyako – and the subsequent implication for his party the All Progressives Congress – is one more proof that Jonathan is not as clueless as is generally bandied around. They see it as a gladiatorial show rather than a reckless use and abuse of power.

To them it does not matter that every arm of government in Nigeria is just as corrupt as the other, and Nigeria rots and stinks from the head to all parts of its anatomy. To them, it is no big an issue that other governors routinely dip their hands in the public till but remain immune from impeachment as long as they do not overreach themselves and make the “Abuja Big Ogas” uncomfortable. To these spectators, it is no issue that the various instruments of democracy are to provide checks and balances and not to be manipulated as someone’s battle-axe. To those among them whose heads have been rewired by religious dogma, the fall of Nyako is one more proof of divine working power in the affairs of the Nigerian state.
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While I was not in support of Nyako’s petition, I thought he should have been given a listening ear if only for the sake of posterity. It was obvious he was using rhetoric the way ardent Jonathanians had done in the past few years. They have successfully sold the logic that Boko Haram was a creation of some northerners who once vowed to make Nigeria “ungovernable” for President Jonathan. Nyako tried to upturn the argument – that rather than some powerful northerners on a vindictive mission, this was actually a David vs. Goliath fight; that it was a southern minority President trying to decimate the powerful north.

Rather than merely shouting him down or discrediting him as a frustrated and petulant noisemaker, I thought some of his accusations were grievous enough to warrant at least a legislative hearing. He should have been made to prove his allegations and if he failed, subjected to appropriate punishment. No matter what, he should have been treated like a governor who was in the position to know if the Boko Haram war is what it is or something else. By shouting him down till he backed down, we lost a chance to improve the integrity of our democratic processes as envisioned by those who sculpted the concept. Now, democracy looks more like who has what power to wield over whom.

Another implication of impeaching Nyako is that his colleagues and fellow public officials will learn restraint. They all have their hands soiled and they know it will not be hard to pull the rug from under their wobbly feet. This is not all about justice or a course of democratic process no matter how much it is packaged that way. Nyako’s removal as a climax to his confrontation with the President is no coincidence either. At various levels of government, from the executive to the legislature to the judiciary, all have sinned and come short of political glory; so, why is justice selective? If who goes and who stays in office is truly determined by the level of corruption in one’s government, even the President should have been long impeached. So, why pick on one thief and let others live?

There is also the added aspect of decimating the opposition party before the 2015 elections. The momentum built by the APC when it had the Peoples Democratic Party members defecting to its side earlier this year has largely waned and would probably continue to do so. Presently, the Nasarawa State Governor, Umar Tanko Al-Makura, has been served a notice of impeachment and who knows how his case will end. The message seems to be that salvation, for these executives, lies neither in their good or bad works but on how much they can play worthy subjects of Pharaoism. To avoid becoming another casualty, it won’t be surprising they will rush to Aso Rock to declare allegiance by chanting, “I remain loyal, Sir.”

blaise26abj: This is a reasonable line of thought. If the Govt or the contractor is slow, call the attention of the governor to it. OP made it seem like a major bridge collapsed. There is no way any makeshift wooden bridge wont collapse with that kind of flow unless it is a RC bridge or suspended steel bridge and the OP showed a pix of one being constructed right beside the temporary bridge.

OP should not politicize it. If previous govts did the needful, will we be here talking about this?

Besides every "professional" should know that construction slows down significantly during rainy seasons.

alingo4life: This is my area.This is where i live..Since 2011 when the Flood occurred,There hasnt being a serious attempt by the Government of Senator Ajimobi to fix the bridge.All what has being done are make-shift bridges that keeps on collapsing and killing people every now and then.The one that collapsed yesterday luckily did not Kill anyone..Of all the bridges that collapsed in 2011,not one bridge has being built..now when the APC loses election,they will be blaming the PDP with their stupid Lair Mohammed shouting all around..#APCMYBLACKHAIRYASS

blaise26abj: OP: Please stop calling yourself a professional if you will politicize even procedures in your so called profession. It is a freaking makeshift wooden bridge. If he closes that route till the bridge construction is completed, you will complain. He provides a temporary bridge, you are shouting. Are you saying he should have provided a RC temporary Bridge? See this guy o

@Gbawe, I dey surprised @ the guy. Professional indeed.

Oyo Govt. completes new Apete pedestrian bridge, promises another one in two weeks
Posted in Featured News on July 10, 2014
In fulfillment of Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s earlier promise, a new pedestrian bridge has been constructed on the Apete River and opened for public use.
The Oyo State Commissioner for Works, Mr. Bimbo Kolade told newsmen shortly after inspecting the bridge that the newly-constructed bridge would be restricted to vehicular activities.
The commissioner explained that though the bridge was solid enough for vehicular activities, it would only be used by pedestrians, for now, to give room for the continuation of the main bridge.
Mr. Kolade assured the people of Apete that another pedestrian bridge would be constructed at the other side of the bridge within the next two weeks.
According to him, the second pedestrian bridge, on completion, would serve both pedestrians and commercial motorcyclists with the exception of vehicles pending the completion of the main bridge.
“The bridge is solid enough for vehicular activities but because of the need to continue work on the main bridge the pedestrian bridge will be restricted to vehicular activities for now, it will only be opened for pedestrian activities, we will not even allow Okada riders to use it”.
We are appealing to our people to abide by the instruction on the use of the bridge in another two weeks a similar bridge will also be constructed at the other side of the bridge.
He, therefore, appealed to the people of Apete and its environs to abide by the instruction for their and that of the contractor handling the project.
The commissioner also disclosed that work was going on on the 3.5 km. Ijokodo-Poly-Apete Road, adding that the side drainages on the road had been completed, urging the people to exercise patience with the government pending the completion of the road and the Apete.
He also disclosed that work was going on in other bridges similarly washed away by flood, stressing that most of them had reached 80 to 90 per cent completion.

emiye: Very apt, Falana dissected the situation so correctly, it was less of "stomachstructure" but protest votes against reforms by the incumbent. The Election was not rigged, Fayemi lost. Fayemi was not a street smart politician, he was a general figthing several battles in a war, he ought to have left some battle for his 2nd term.

With the 18,000 minimum wage to pay for workers, a deluge of promises to lots of disgruntled electorates, and dwindling allocation, Fayose will barely pay salaries, talkless of executing capital projects.

oduastates: Falana was right in some ways but to say that chop I chop politics did not play a part is denying the obvious.

Fayose said he’ll not embark on industrialisation of Ekiti, what does this portend for the state?

My deputy won’t succeed me -Fayose

by Kamarudeen Ogundele and Eniola Akinkuotu, Ado-Ekiti


The Ekiti State Governor-elect, Mr. Ayo Fayose, of the Peoples Democratic Party has said his deputy, Dr. Olusola Eleka, will not succeed him in 2018.


He also said he had no plans to embark on industrialisation of the state because there was no adequate power supply to support that, adding that he will empower the people through contract award to indigenes.


Addressing journalists in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, Fayose, who admitted that the Constitution did not permit him to take the oath of office more than twice said, “I have taken one and I will take another one in October. After that, I will find my way to my house.


“Again, I have chosen a deputy governor and I have told him from the beginning that the two of us will pack our load and leave the Government House because I don't want a deputy that will start playing politics behind me when we are in government and will be distracting me, I don't want that again.


“So, he is practically here for me to look after certain things for me and ensure that we succeed. When I am going, I will hold his hand and say bye to Ekiti people.”

Goddex: Falana is becoming a huge embarrassment to his admirers. Ekiti people have made their choice. Ayo Fayose is the man!

Punch newspaper, Fashola, Leadership, Falana Nations, TV Continental, Sahara Reporters, Radio Continental and all APC agents may go hug a transformer.

shift15: Trust Gbawe. He will never disappoint.
The best headline you can coin for this interview is what you have just came out with?
Haba Bros, you can do better.

Mind you, Falana had a very good advise for you and your ilks in APC. Read the interview again and take the advise serious.

Fayose: Ekiti people back to Egypt, says Falana

JULY 15, 2014 BY OLUSOLA FABIYI 146 COMMENTS
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Mr. Femi Falana
Mr. Femi Falana


In this interview with OLUSOLA FABIYI, Lagos lawyer, who is also an indigene of Ekiti State, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), speaks on the outcome of the June 21 governorship election in the state.

Were your surprised with the outcome of Ekiti governorship election?

I was flabbergasted by the outcome of the results. Based on several projections in the media I thought that Governor Kayode Fayemi was going to win the election.

Why did you say so?

Going by some development projects executed by the government, I had hoped that Fayemi would defeat his opponents. I never knew of the decision of the vital stakeholders in the state to vote him out of office. That decision was taken before the emergence of Mr. Ayo Fayose as the PDP governorship candidate. The loss of the election by Fayemi has nothing to do with ‘stomach infrastructure’ or the popularity of Fayose.

You think so?

On a critical analysis of the political situation in Ekiti State, Fayemi is a victim of the ideological crisis of his party, the APC. Of course, the arrogance of some of the governor’s aides who were allowed to wield enormous powers equally contributed to the loss of the election.

Sure?

I have read very interesting but diversionary commentaries on the election results. Some of them have deliberately denigrated the Ekiti people. Most commentators have forgotten that the Ekiti people felt relieved when Fayose was impeached in October 2006. In fact, his removal was celebrated by the Ekiti people. Most of the commentators have also forgotten that Senator Babafemi Ojudu defeated Fayose with over 45,000 votes in the election to the Senate in the Ekiti-Central Senatorial District during the 2011 general election. Rice and money were also distributed by Fayose then.

Was this the basis for the gang up?

That was the basis of the gang up against the Fayemi regime by teachers, civil servants, local government staff, undergraduates and their parents . Whether they are right or wrong, time will tell. Those who have reduced the ideological crisis to what the Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has erroneously referred to as ‘stomach infrastructure’ are merely begging the question.

People thought that Fayemi’s achievements would speak for him during the election?

From 1999-2003, the Bisi Akande administration in Osun State was rated one of the best in the country in terms of infrastructural development. But it lost the election because it did not carry the people along. Fayemi has just suffered the same fate. He assumed that the Ekiti people understood the programmes and policies of his regime. Not much was done to explain the basis of the sacrifice they were asked to make. Can you imagine that the closure of miracle centres by the regime was opposed and misinterpreted by those who were profiting from examination malpractice?

Is it right for the APC leadership to proceed to court after Fayemi conceded victory?

With respect to the validity of the result of the election there isn’t much to contest in court. Apart from the case filed by the E-11, a socio-cultural group which is challenging the competence of Fayose to contest the election in court in view of his impeachment, I do not believe his victory at the polls should be challenged in an election petition tribunal. To that extent, the APC ought to build on Fayemi’s concession speech and reorganise its affairs. However, the APC should sue the Federal Government in a Federal High Court to justify the restriction of the movement of some governors, the arrest of a serving commissioner in Fayemi’s cabinet and 14 other unarmed protesters at Ado Ekiti who were later transferred to Abuja and charged with terrorism, the arrest of 25 party members on election day, the militarisation of the electoral process, the imposition of curfew and other incidents of impunity carried out by the army, the police and other gendarmes before and during the election. A government which cannot maintain adequate security in the North-East region which has been overrun by insurgency ought to justify the deployment of 36,790 soldiers, police and civil defence personnel, all bearing arms and terrorising people including those who have no business with the election.

Did the election not reflect the wish of Ekiti people?

Frankly speaking, I don’t know about the wish of the people. Out of a population of 2.3 million people in Ekiti state 1.6 million people are qualified to vote but only 750,000 were registered to vote. Out of that figure only about 50 per cent voted. Fayose, who won the election scored only 203,000 votes. In the circumstance, you can only talk of the wish of the registered voters.

Fayose said he’ll not embark on industrialisation of Ekiti, what does this portend for the state?

Fayose is perfectly entitled to his views. I wish him well. As I said earlier, the Ekiti people have gone back to Egypt with Moses firmly in the wilderness. I can only wish them luck. In fairness to the governor-elect he says that he has changed his old ways. Let us wait and see.

What does ‘stomach structure’ phenomenon portend for Ekiti?

It is not fair to insult Ekiti people for voting for the candidate of their choice. Did Americans not vote for Mr. George Bush instead of Mr. Al Gore? Did they not pay for the consequences of their decision? Is the world not paying for that choice with the rising wave of terrorism all over the place? Even in the Bible, did the Israelites not ask for Barnabas who was a well known criminal in place of Jesus Christ? For goodness sake, can you blame a people who have been traumatised and pauperised for years for collecting bags of rice and money from politicians once in four years? Governor Fashola knows that the concept of “jeun s’oke” did not originate from Ekiti State. It has its origin elsewhere. I am sure that the governor is not unaware of the celebrated case of Olu Falae v Obasanjo in which the petitioner alleged that rice and salt were distributed by the PDP to entice voters during the 1999 presidential election. Even though the allegation was proved beyond reasonable doubt the Court of Appeal held that there was no evidence that the beneficiary, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, authorised the criminal action. Since then, rice and money have always been distributed by political parties and candidates through proxies during elections in Nigeria.

Do you think the Ekiti election was actually rigged?

The election in Ekiti was not rigged. I witnessed it. I spoke to people before and after the election. Fayemi gave a good concession speech.

But the APC has raised the possibility of photo-chromic ballot papers being used in favour of the PDP.

I have been told by many APC members that photo-chromic ballot papers were used. I think the allegation is bunkum. Unless the party is ready to confront the reality of the election it is not going to draw the vital lessons from it. There were protest votes against the government. Instead of questioning the credibility of the election the APC should engage in a critical review of the verdict of the electorate.

What do you foresee in Ekiti during next year’s general election?

Many states today have to take loans to pay salaries because of shrinking statutory allocations. It would soon be clear to Ekiti people that the ruling party has no solutions to the crisis of infrastructural decay, unemployment, falling standard of education, corruption and abuse of office confronting them like other Nigerians. Having raised the expectations of the people, the Fayose administration will be under serious pressure to perform.

The PDP said if the election was rigged, Ekiti people would have revolted. Do you believe this?

No doubt, there would have been a violent eruption if the election was rigged. It happened in 1964.

What do you foresee coming up in Osun election?

Ceteris paribus, I am convinced that Governor Rauf Aregbesola will win the election in Osun State. Even the PDP members admit that he is a grassroots politician. So, you cannot accuse him of being disconnected or alienated from the people in any sense. In spite of the crisis of relevance that the APC is going through, Aregbesola’s socialist background has influenced his policies and programmes. Those programmes have endeared him to the people. Even the World Bank has taken officials from 12 states to Osun State to learn about job creation in the midst of massive unemployment caused by the neo-colonial capitalist system. Through the school feeding programme, the Aregbesola regime has boosted the rural economy in his state. No doubt, there are limitations in view of the dwindling statutory allocations from the federation account but he has engaged the masses in a pedagogical relationship. In 2011, he made sure that the presidential candidate of his party, the former ACN, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, won the election in Osun State. That was based on ideological commitment of some sort. But that was not the case in the other states in the South-West region.

What’s your assessment of Nigeria’s democracy from 1999 till date?

For the majority of Nigerians the democratic experiment has been an unmitigated disaster. While President Goodluck Jonathan recently measured our prosperity on the basis of private jets owned by less than 150 people it is better to rely on the evidence of the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics that 113 million Nigerians live on less than $1 a day.

khamas19: ...while i agree with your points...I am quite concerned that the damage left behind by Jonathan will be irreparable...alot of the relationships

and heritages they have been toying with are as old as anyone can remember....I pray we can trust these time tested values to withstand this

pariah that is PDP..

p.s. good to read the likes of you again....nairaland has become very "aba made" of late...

prof800: Mike Tyson inspired.!




But the guy is not Nigerian, please...

He's British.

Anthony Joshua
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Real name Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua
Nickname(s) AJ

Early life[edit]
Joshua was born in Watford to Nigerian parents. He attended school at Kings Langley Secondary School.[4][5]

berem: that dude is an epitome of lunacy and idiocy! Please ignore his rants.

people like gbawe promised us that they will deactivate their account if Apc lose ekiti state election, among all the people that made that promise only Gbawe kept his side of the bargain even though he have been commenting here with his numerous monikers.

VICTORCIZA: gush he is still ranting!!!
toothless bulldog barking woo woo woo woo

VICTORCIZA: are you still ranting
get a life please!!!
what is it with you and long epistle? like it is going to give you edge against others!
Oponu supporter of APC

myola777: Is that all what u can say to all the allegations? it shows that u a useless liar. case closed

egbaguy: pdp may continue to av itz way cos most Nigerians are FOOLS. This OP is nothing but a disgrace to his family and generation. Pdp is full of criminals.