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What if the guy had up to N20,000 of his own personal cash which he wanted to withdraw from? Abeg First Bank, do the right thing jo!

1025:
obasanjo walking without security? well, u never can tell, ppl might mistake him for a chimpanzee.

No! People are quoting me wrong! I meant Osoba. Coincidentally, I have travelled with other past and seating governors like Donald Duke (when he was in power), James Ibori, Bola Tinubu, Voctor Attah, Odili, Kwankwaso, Dariye etc to mention a few. I have never seen Obasanjo face-to-face, talkless of travelling with him. Osoba was without security, and even the last time I saw him, 2 weeks ago, he was still without security.

In fairness to Osoba, I have travelled with this man, in Aero flight before. He is a complete gentle man. He never had any security detail, and even at Abuja airport, he carried his bag by himself and had to wait right in front of the arrival hall for about 5 minutes, before a green Prado jeep later appeared to pick him.

Well, perhaps, he never had the chance to enrich himself that much (since Obasanjo had to flush them out), because he can never claim innocence (as all contemporary Nigerian leaders are corrupt). He lives a life of a free man. He walks even without any company.

Hardtalk:
I challenge Obasanjo to a walk in Ota – Osoba

I want Obasanjo to do the same without any security. Let him just go out alone in Ota, in Abeokuta, anywhere in Ogun State and see whether the security of the people that I enjoy will give him cover.

What happened to Stephen in the Bible, will be an understatement, compared to what will happen to Obasanjo.

I challenge Obasanjo to a walk in Ota – Osoba
PoliticsOct 26, 2010

ASTUTE journalist, politician and former Governor of Ogun State was an active facilitator of the affairs of the Alliance of Democracy, the party which held sway in the Southwest between 1999 and 2003. The AD upon some, yet to be fully disclosed, political machination lost its dominion in the 2003 election with Governor Osoba being one of the notable victims.

In this interview with Vanguard’s BASHIR ADEFAKA, Osoba narrates, in ways never before, the events and political scheming by former President Olusegun Obasanjo ahead of the election and affirms that, the Progressives in the Southwest are long distance runners.
THE proposal by President Goodluck Jonathan for amendment of Section 87 of the Electoral Law has been described as a repeat of President Obasanjo’s Third Term agenda, sir what is your take on that?

I do not see any comparison between the two. Actually I am even against the original Electoral Act itself in the sense that the Electoral Act describes the mode of selection of candidates by all parties in the country. That is against the fundamental right of each association to determine the mode of selecting their candidates.

For example, we may decide in a particular party that we want Open Ballot where members will queue behind the pictures of their candidates. Some others may decide on Secret Ballot; others may decide on a mode where delegates that will elect candidates will emerge right from their wards to a congress at Local Government level, state level and then at the national level.
That should be a decision by each party.

So, as I told somebody, the whole arrangement is a PDP arrangement, which is very, very nauseating and insulting to all of us in the different political parties.
With the increasing spread of what is described as the progressive movement from Lagos, Ondo and now to Ekiti State, what do you think is the possible destination of the Awoist Southwest?

Olusegun Osoba
I expect that by now, discerning observers should know that we, who are genuinely disciples of Awolowo are long distant runners. They must now know that we are marathon specialists in terms of political war.
Papa Obafemi Awolowo till he died, believed very much in due process. He believed as a matter of principle and as an eminent lawyer in the rule of law and in the judiciary.

Even though at every turn he was disappointed; he never gave up. In every election he would go through the due process. He would go through all the laid down rules by the Constitution of the country, at the end of which, in most cases, he was always short-changed. But he never gave up. So we have learnt from him and I drank directly from his hands that you don’t give up; you must continue to fight.

For example, Papa Awolowo never believed in boycott of elections even where he knew that the result was already concluded. Therefore, we did not give up since 2003 when the do-or-die politicians, the garrison commanders rigged and seized the whole of Southwest through fraudulent means. We are at it and by the grace of God, we will regain every inch of the political space in Southwest.

But in Ogun and Oyo states, we discover that the judicial dust raised earlier has settled. Is there any more hope?
You wait till when the campaign starts. I promised the progressives in Ogun State that I will return home and lead them to regain and redeem the image of Papa Awolowo in Ogun State.

I deliberately left Ogun State when I was rigged out in 2003 in order to give the government a free hand and a free space to operate. They have had eight good years of heavy allocation of money; deluge of allocation unprecedented since Nigeria was founded. Now we know what they have done with the money.

We know what we did with the money in the four years that we were there. We will go into the field and make comparison.
It will be a political war of ideas, issues, debates on the aspiration of our people and expectation of our people. We are going to have interesting days ahead in Ogun State and Oyo State.

I am confident, as I told you, the whole of Southwest; we would regain those states through political due process.
Former Oyo State Governor, Lam Adeshina gave a brief account of how President Obasanjo rigged Southwest governors out of office in 2003. What is your own account of how it started, I mean the friendship that the former President seized to remove you from the Government Houses?

It was the then President Olusegun Obasanjo who invited us into the residence of former President Shehu Shagari, which was also used by Heads of State at various times, in Dodan Barracks. It was inside the presidential office in Dodan Barracks he invited us in July 2002 to a meeting and only himself, AD governors and the then head of SSS (State Security Service), Col. Kayode Are (rtd) were present at that meeting, where he came to lobby and beg us to help him.

And our reply at that time was that we could not take decisions on our own and that he should go to our leaders led by late Papa Abraham Adesanya and discuss the issue. That was how the whole thing started. And we reported back to the Afenifere caucus. I don’t want to go on bemoaning what happened.

Obasanjo
For example, in Ogun State, he (Obasanjo) wrote a figure of 1.2 million votes for himself. Then the votes scored by all of us; gubernatorial candidates which they wrote was six hundred thousand. So there was difference of six hundred thousand votes between total number of votes scored by all the gubernatorial candidates compiled and that of Obasanjo.

Till today, Obasanjo has not been able to explain how, when the elections took place the same time, two ballot papers were given to every voter; one for presidential election, one for gubernatorial election. Did six hundred thousand voters throw their votes for governorship away? Were the votes voided? Did they destroy the ballots? When these questions were put to him, he had no answer.

And at the Court of Appeal Tribunal, Ogun State was not part of the votes that made him President. Even the Court of Appeal threw out Ogun State to show you that they did not win anything in Ogun State.
Therefore, I don’t want to go back to it. I mean the issue has settled itself.

Today, Obasanjo, who undermined us, is himself out of office. In Yorubaland today, if we the progressives, the governors of AD and himself meet at a public function, you will get the verdict of the people on the spot.

It had happened before. There was a ceremony at St. Saviour Church, Tafawa Balewa Square, where the funeral ceremony of a Judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Ejiwumi, was being held. Obasanjo was in the Church and the progressive governors were in the Church before eminent Nigerians, highly placed Judges, lawyers.

We got the verdict of the people right inside the Church when his name was announced and we got the verdict of the people when all of us, former governors of the AD including former governor of Edo State, Chief John Odigie Oyegun were announced.
The people gave their verdict on him that day.

Despite the claim that you won the 2003 election but denied the mandate, you never went to court to seek redress. Why?
We, the AD governors, then resolved that we would not bother at all. In fact, Lam Adeshina, where we held the first meeting after the rigging of the election in April, 2003 before we left office, said that in Islam, the God that he served was God of vengeance and that He would rule in vengeance on perfidious characters and that we should leave it to God to decide what to do with anybody who committed perfidy against us.
Verdict of the people

There and then, all of us agreed that nobody should go to court; leave everything to God, leave Obasanjo to the verdict of the people and I am happy today that the judgement of the people is very, very heavy in the air.

There has been this persisting rumour that President Obasanjo visited you on the day of the 2003 elections as a way of distracting you from the alleged plans to rig……
(cuts in) No, no, no. Forget.
He did worse than that. That one is inconsequential. The Commissioner of Police in Ogun State, Mr. Israel Ajao, a first class, decent officer, was deliberately transferred out of Ogun State on the eve of the election purposely to create fear in the entire police force in Ogun State and to show to them there was a presidential power, which was ready to be used to whip everybody into submission.

And what was the offence of Israel Ajao? A petition was written that the PDP had organised thugs and hoodlums in a particular place to disrupt the elections. He got the petition from Senator Okurounmu and, as a decent officer, he sent his men to go and investigate whether it was true or not.
That was the only offence he committed!

Obasanjo threw him out of Ogun State: He called Tafa Balogun and told him that Israel Ajao should be withdrawn to Abuja. And Israel Ajao had to travel almost all night to get to Abuja and was kept out of reach throughout the first…. What else do you want to talk about? He brought out army personnel, all Immigration personnel, all Civil Defence personnel; all institutions that had anything to do with Federal Government.

In fact, the rigging was perfected at the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, UNAAB, by a very top officer of that institution, who wrote all the figures and the whole thing was done in UNAAB. We knew a lot. I don’t want to go back. Let’s put it behind us like Lam Adeshina used to say.
Today I work freely anywhere in Nigeria. I want Obasanjo to do the same without any security. Let him just go out alone in Ota, in Abeokuta, anywhere in Ogun State and see whether the security of the people that I enjoy will give him cover.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/10/i-challenge-obasanjo-to-a-walk-in-ota-osoba/

isimili:
Poor Dokpesi. All because he chose to support an expired politician?

believe me if IBB gets the PDP ticket as Ciroma seems to be so sure about, then if dopkesi calls another lecture even in a gutter the seats will be filled to capacity and every docking politician will show his face and make noise.

Dopkesi is a very lucky man. Jonathan is a real democrat who seems keen to be seen in that light.

Otherwise If Dokpesi crossed carpets in this way during papa Iyabo's regime walahi talahi, he will be cooling off in Kirikiri with Bode George accused of the 1st October bombing with written and signed confession on the table.

God bless Nigeria.

For sure, trust OBJ.

http://www.zbc.co.zw/news-categories/entertainment/3655-munya-wins-big-after-bb-disappointment-.html


I laughed so much when I read this. In fact, it was more laugh when I read comments from the same subject matter from the site above from Zimbabwean Broadcasting Corporation .

Nigeria, I mean.

Ileke-IdI:
I don't have the answers to those questions. But I'm sure you do since you already determined that it should not be an international airport.
And feel free to answer your own questions, I'm waiting.

Okay Dear, lets not quarrel. I give up. Do not feel I am against this project. I was only talking from experience about airports in Nigerian and how we rush to label them "International", thats all.

@ Ileke-Idi, I hope is not that same airport that advertise on Manual Notice board (with chalk) , that you are talking about, because I have been there. Airports I have not been to in Nigeria, are not up to 7.


Waiting, please,

Ileke-IdI:
L.O.L

Down to business:

1. What is the length of Enugu Airport?
2. What is the airport area site?
3. What is the Passengers Terminal Floor Space.
4. How is the mode of access to the airport?
5. What is the aircraft movement capacity like around the tarmac?
6. How can the airport be accessed from town?
7. In case of huge traffic, how can the airport handle it?
8. How many airlines (local for now), are running the airport?
Please for now, just answer these. How you answer this little test, will determine whther you are ripe for the rest.

Ileke-IdI:
You're not making sense.
I asked you to define "INTERNATIONAL" to me and you're rambling.
Your outburst was based on YOUR opinion, is that what you're saying?
I dont expect you to give me the details sweety, I was just joking BTW.
So how did you learn Yoruba? Lagos?

Here is my definition of International airport.

An international Airport means, International Airport!.

The truth is, the bases of naming some of our airports International is not just there.
I have been to over 80% of all the airports in Nigeria. Even MMIA is long due for a new structure.
MM2 should be used as a minimum standard for any airport in Nigeria, talkless of International.
Anything short of that, is a Poultry farm.

Even the local airport in Abuja, is an eye sore. So, think very well, before labelling any structure, "international".

EzeUche0:
Shut up Hardtalk!  

We do not need your kind on this thread.

See, no one is enemy of progress here, but the reality will justify the statement.
The way we tag every airport in Nigeria, "international", ridicules our sense of international status and symbol.
Why not let us call it a standard airport, and drop the word INTERNATIONAL for now?

Which one are we to believe now?
* Dokpesi have no case to answer - SSS
* I am not aware that Dokpesi was arrested - SSS Spokes person.
* Bomblast: Dopkesi have a case to answer - SSS.
Nigeria, which way to go?

That is why those seats are empty. No one wants to offend the government of the day, who is now a small gods, as a poster earlier said.

I have a dream!
That one day, KLM, BA, Delta Air, Virgin Atalantic and many others, will struggle to land at a Enugu Sophisticated Airport, only to meet less than 10 passengers. That one day, British Airways will have to spend 2hrs 30mins in the air (waiting for visual landing), just becos PHCN took light, and there were no diesel to power generators, to power runway lights (Part 2 of Abuja airport shame).
That one day, Nigeria will learn not to tag a Poultry house "An International Airport"
I have a dream!

selingel:
If Uzor Kalu had attended to this matter long before now, it wouldnt have degenerated to this. That part of the nation was allowed to degenerate to a pitiable state. In fact, it got to an extent, I thought it was no longer part of Nigeria. Aba - Ikot Ekpene road, is a living example of government neglect (even from federal level). Today, all the tiers of government and security agencies are looking for immediate solution over what degenerated over a long period of time. Go to Aba, and see whether water will not come out from your eyes, from years of neglect.

Good talk.
As for Theodore, will he seize C of Os belonging to America and UK Embassies, if they were to be closed down in Aba?

Another 1,000 Curriculum Vitaes will soon be typed.
Anyway, welcome to the market.

I pity babies, because soon, they will have nothing to suck.

What a religion!


http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/06/08/a-pair-of-muslim-tits-in-saudi-arabia-want-women-to-breast-feed-adult-males/

Israel has barred its state airline El Al from making flights to Nigeria because of concerns about terrorism.

Israeli Tourism Ministry official Rafi Ben Hur says the ban will affect thousands of Nigerian Christians who had planned to fly to Israel during the upcoming pilgrimage season, which runs from later this month to January.

The original plan called for El Al to carry out the round trip flights on behalf of a Nigerian firm.

Last December, a Nigerian man was arrested on charges of trying to blow up a plane flying from Amsterdam to the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan.

Ben Hur says the Nigerians will most likely have to rely on other air carriers for their flights to and from Israel.

http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2010/10/14/israel-bans-state-owned-flights-to-nigeria/

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/10/14/bombings-israel-bans-flights-to-nigeria-28000-pilgrims-affected/

Daily, Nigeria is been embarrassed by events happening at home front.

One has exhausted every possible opinion on these people. The only solution is to wipe them off the surface of this earth.

slap1:
The university has been on strike for up to three months, and you've done nothing. Olodo. Who even has a C of O in Aba? Ishi azu!

I think the MD should shut up, if he does not have any genuine reason to do so. In Nigeria today, there is no hope for the current workforce, talkless of the unemployed, and worse more for those in school.

Ecobank disengages 400 staff
NewsOct 14, 2010

As part of its restructuring strategy for enhanced growth and market competitiveness, Ecobank Nigeria recently announced the disengagement of about 400 members of staff.

This is part of the Ecobank Group strategy designed to consolidate and optimise its operations.
Announcing the shake-up, Managing Director of the bank, Mr. Jibril Aku, said the action was predicated on the bank’s strategy to drive performance and deliver optimum value to all of its stakeholders with a highly efficient structure.

He assured customers of unhindered service delivery and pledged that Ecobank will live up to its vision to build a world-class pan-African bank that will contribute to the economic development and financial integration in Africa.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/10/ecobank-disengages-400-staff/

Babangida, ACF react to IBB Kaduna rally cancellation


KADUNA—Former military President and presidential aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, says it would amount to lack of patriotism for him to sit back and watch things go wrong in the country, saying this was why he decided to contest the 2011 election.
Addressing his supporters under the aegis of All Kaduna State NGO Support for IBB Forum at his Kaduna residence yesterday, Babangida said that he put his hat in the ring because of his love for the country as well as his desire to bring back the country on the path of development and glory.

Babangida said Nigeria had practically stagnated since he left office in 1993.

He spoke against the backdrop of yesterday’s cancellation of the public declaration of his presidency as well as commissioning of his campaign office in the state by the Police which insisted that the former Nigerian leader must give it sufficient notice of at least 48 hours according to the Public Order Act to ensure adequate security in the vicinity.

ACF fears insinuations

However, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has reacted to the cancellation and urging security agencies to be more discreet in matters affecting political opponents so that they would not be accused of bias as well as lead to insinuations that President Goodluck Jonathan was using his power of incumbency to his personal advantage.

According to Babangida, his decision to run for the presidency was also to ensure the people had a country of their dream.

He said: A country “Where every Nigerian, irrespective of tribe, tongue, religious or party affiliation will enjoy equal rights and have quality life.”

IBB emphasised that the current development challenges facing the nation were beyond any individual, group, political or sectional interest.

He, however, noted that “God will not let us down in our resolve to put Nigeria back on track of rapid development. We had expected that those who came after us would take over from where we had stopped in the task of building a great Nigeria of our dream.

“Here we are today, things are worse than when we left the corridors of power. It is unpatriotic of an elder statesman like me or any other person to watch things wrong when I know I can still make a meaningful impact.

“I appreciate your trust and confidence in me to be able to give Nigeria the kind of leadership it truly deserves.

“I have done it before; I will do it again, God willing. I want to say that I sincerely need your support.
“What you have demonstrated here today is worthy of emulation.

“Other Nigerians should emulate you. There are Igbo, Yorubas, Hausas and other minority tribes among you here. But you have come together to give me this support. That is a true reflection of how Nigeria should be.

Earlier in his speech, the Deputy Director General of the Babangida’s Campaign organization, Senator Kanti Bello said that it was time for Nigerians to elect a leader who can take the nation out of the woods, adding that people prevailed on the former military president to contest the 2011 elections owing to his good leadership qualities.

Senator Bello further said that he supported Chief MKO Abiola in the June 12, 1993 presidential election which Babangida annulled and expressed confidence that Babangida will not only win the PDP primaries, but will go ahead to win the presidential election itself.

In their comments spokesman for the group, Alhaji Yahaya Ahmed told Babangida that they were in his house to identify with his presidential aspirations and dream for the country, stressing that they “will continue to pray for his success and will never betray his trust”.

According to Ahmed, “we believe in you and your abilities. We know what you can do because some of us are living witnesses to your great achievement while you were the military president.

“You have the experience, you have the passion, patriotism and courage required of a good leader”.
Meanwhile, ACF which reacted to the police cancellation of the IBB’s public declaration of his ambition in the state through its National Publicity Secretary, Anthony Sani said, “ACF does not have all the facts surrounding the refuses of the Nigerian Police to grant IBB the permit for his rally in Kaduna.

“As a result, the forum cannot provide fair comments on the issue.

“However, in view of the whiff of mistrust and suspicion hovering over the polity, ACF advises relevant security agencies to be more discreet in matters affecting political opponents, lest it be said he (President Goodluck Jonathan) is misusing power of the incumbency to keep his opponents at the short end of the competition”.


https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?action=post;topic=428343.256;num_replies=258

damas11111:
100% supported but beleive me Ribadu is still far better than GEJ. At least he comes by as a more intelligent chap than the DUMB.

amaham:
Chineke! So ohakim sycophants dey nl, pls help tell ohathief and his deluded uncle joe that as imo is employin 10,000 ghost workers that abt 10,000 real students of SE campuses dey strike.Hope dat gej also hail him 4 lockin out igbo leaders out of concord hotel.

No way! It wasn't to praise him, but to expose his stupidity.