The wedding must go ahead

Too bad. The old woman is a legend. She doesn't deserve this. Anybody has her account details pls?

46 Sad

Na true ooo. But if he goes today as president, can they do anything to him?

Rantingpiglets:
Why can't TINUBU travel to America as President?

Buhari’s shildren

Yahaya really goofed even though we know Olukoyede is doing Tinubu’s job

He turned Kogi into his family property. Useless man

I heard all his commissioners are retained in Ododo's cabinet

Nauttyprof:


The Governor is just a puppet of Yahaya Bello. Besides, Yahaya Bello is still seen as the Governor in Kogi state

Highly ashamed

Akwamkpuruamu:


See wetin person mama dey type this morning.
Iyaebe, Rose have you told Tinubu to use hypo to brush his teeth as recommended by Reno the idiot?

Olodo . That wasn't a judge but former NDDC MD, Joy Nunieh

vanbonattel:


Didn't he shield a judge from arrest when he was governor?

Wetin Wike do

vanbonattel:
Wike nko?

Kingsley Fanwo, Director- General of Media and Publicity to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state has described his principal as the ambassador of Nigerian youths in governance, saying youths in Kogi and Nigeria are proud of him and will want him to continue in office for another term.

Describing Bello as a courageous and hardworking leader, he said the governor has devoted all his time and energy into delivering the dividends of democracy to the people of the state since he was sworn-in over three years ago.

Speaking in an interview with Daily Independent in Lagos, Fanwo said contrary to claims by the opposition that the governor is an example of failure of youths in governance, Governor Bello has demonstrated sound leadership in the way he has managed the affairs of the state which in turn, has won him several awards both locally and internationally.

He said the manner the governor quickly addressed the challenges of insecurity in the state and provisions of jobs to many unemployed youths through various agricultural programmes are clear testimonies to the fact that he is an ambassador of youths in governance today.

He said “ Governor Yahaya Bello is a big role model to Nigerian youths today. He is a reference point in governance. I will cite the example of his approach to the issue of security in Kogi state.

The energy he invested in fighting security in Kogi state would have been very difficult for a 70 year-old person to do”.

“The way he moved around and the way he was able to put in place Operation Total Freedom is highly commendable and a lot of people in Kogi can testify to the fact that he is devoting his youthful zest and energy into ensuring that the people of Kogi get the best in terms of democracy dividends” .

“ He is a big role model and I am always proud whenever I am opportune to represent him picking up awards both in Nigeria and abroad from organisations and agencies that are very happy with what he is doing in the state, especially for the youths. When you look at youth empowerment in the state, it has never been this good”.

“We have been able to encourage hundreds of youths to invest their energy in various agricultural programmes in collaboration with the Federal Government like the Anchors Borrowers Programme. A lot of them also benefited from the land’s we cleared. We prepared lands across the 21 local government areas and encourage youths, we facilitated loans for them, gave them agricultural machineries and today, they are millionaires because they could practice agriculture”.

“ It’s not enough to tell these youths not to go into crimes. If they don’t go into crimes, what alternatives are you offering? That is exactly what governor Yahaya Bello has been able to do”.

“ He is able to do most of these things because he is a youthful governor and because he is youthful and useful. That is why I have the confidence that Nigerian youths are proud of him and are solidly behind him as the ambassador of youths in governance today”.

Fanwo also said the governor has received several congratulatory messages from residents of the state since he signified his intention to seek reelection in office. This according to him was because he has justified the mandate given to him by the people since he came to office three years ago.

“The flow of congratulatory messages since he declared his intention to seek reelection has clearly shown that the people of Kogi state were very ready for that declaration on Wednesday. They were anxious for him to come out and declare his intention to seek second term in office”.

“This is a testimony to what he has done in the last three years in the state. He has been there for 39 months now and he has really justified his mandate. He has delivered on his key promises to the people of the state and that is why they have pressurising him for almost six months now too come out clearly and declare his intention” he said.
https://www.independent.ng/yahaya-bello-role-model-to-nigerian-youths-fanwo/

Dude looted Kogi blindly.. even wasted money on failed presidential election...while owing workers years of salary.

Buhari, come and save your son ooo

Collect every penny looted by him

Rot in jail..well done Tinubu

Coward black 🦎 calling himself white 🦁

send wike beeelow

vanitybutiwanti:
so what do you want him to do?

this Fubara dey act like mumu even with the support given to him by Odili, Amaechi, Omehia, Asari and other leaders in Rivers. he should go and learn from Obaseki

that governor in Ekiti Oyebanji doesnt know his left from right

Oluwaferanmi

SojWORLDWIDE:


BETTY Anyanwu-Akeredolu, former first Lady of late Governor of Ondo State, Oluwaferanmi Akeredolu has condemned the All Progressives Congress, APC Primary election held in Ondo State on Saturday, April 21, 2024.

In a Press Release signed by Betty available to SOJ WORLDWIDE, she said the adversaries of Aketi has succeeded in "urinating on his grave with relish."

She referred to Nigeria as a Zoo and that what Aketi worked for in seven years have been bastardized.

"What happened, yesterday, at the primaries was unprecedented. It was terrible! Never experienced that kind of kangaroo and fraudulent primaries in Ondo State in the last 7 years.

It was like Aketi's adversaries have succeeded in urinating on his grave with relish. The hands of professional election riggers known and unknown were all over the place.

Without credible elections, Nigeria will continue to crawl with disabilities in leadership given that the power interlopers at the helm of affairs lack character, compassion, sincerity of purpose, mental and intellectual capacities for providing quality leadership required to stand firm and engage in impactful developmental strides.

It will interest you to note that, throughout the election cycles during Aketi's time, elections were relatively free and fair. Though tension soaked yet interesting to be involved or watch.

No thuggery, (Aketi was known for NOT encouraging thuggery), voters voted in peace without molestation. Go and verify as PO would say.

I make bold to say that Nigeria witnessed peace and decorum in the conduct of elections in Ondo State while Aketi was the Governor. Imagine, PDP won 2 MHA seats in Akoko and Aketi didn't upturn them.

I remember party stalwarts wanted him to reverse the results to favour APC but he refused stating that it was the choice of the constituents.

I was very proud of my husband because that's how things should be if we were in a sane clime.

Sadly Nigeria is a ZOO! It is heartbreaking that the positive changes in the conduct of elections that Aketi nurtured for 7 years have been thrown to the dogs.

Thuggery is back in Ondo State politics with vengeance. Beeni! Big time!!!
Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu writes from Owo, Ondo State."

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You dey ment? which one be Oluwaferanmi Akeredolu

Buhari's first son is now hiding like a common thief

na Buhari nah

VinnyBaba:

Couldn't he least Mentioned who brought it to the Level where Obi or Atiku would have Crumbled it Finally? 😏😕

See how Tinibu Followers are Implying that Buhari is a FAILURE.
But afraid of calling his name.

Such COWARDICE.

He campaigned for Tinubu. So i dont expect him to praise Obi or Atiku

Felabrity:
Clowns everywhere
Whatever makes you sleep at night

If you have shares in Firstbank, better sell it fast now!

Election that Aiyedatiwa has won already. They only said that to douse tension and deceive the remaining 15 mumu aspirants

I can only praise Tinubu on economy if naira gets to N500 to a dollar. Anything he is doing now is whitewash

Bosun Oladele, the national secretary of South West Agenda for Asiwaju 2023 (SWAGA’23), representated the Irepo/Olorunsogo/Orelope federal constituency of Oyo state at the national assembly from 2015 to 2019. He is also a former commissioner of information in the state.

In this interview with TheCable’s TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI, he spoke on developments in the country since President Bola Tinubu assumed office in 2023.

TheCable: You campaigned vigorously for Tinubu and promised Nigerians that things would be better if he won. It’s almost one year since Tinubu was sworn in, are you impressed with his performance, especially when you consider the hardship Nigerians are facing?

OLADELE: The truth must be told. President Tinubu has never minced words from his campaign to his various speeches in office. He has always said it that he wished that there could be other ways that some of these things could be done but there isn’t. A popular age-long saying is that gold will not be gold until it has passed through fire.

If you look at it, every country that has emancipated till date had their own history and story of turbulence. The reality is that a sick person will either take medication or go through surgery in order to get well. None of these two is sweet or palatable. They all leave bitter taste in the mouth; but at the end, the sick person will get back on his feet.

I will say President Tinubu has been a leader that has walked his talk. He has spoken to every situation and has listened to the demands of Nigerians. He never disconnected himself from the reality of what is going on outside. In the area of policy formulation, drive and implementation, he has considered the opinion of people that matter. I will say that we have never had a leader in his mold before so far, so good.

The indices are clear. Apart from the fact that he keeps saying it at every point in time, most of the things that he has promised, he has been working assiduously on them. He has involved critical stakeholders in most of his policy formulation and implementation. For the first time, the CBN has been dictating the rate of forex rather than what we used to have, when you have the parallel market or BDCs dictating the race.


When it comes to fighting the ills in the society, those things that have constituted themselves into the cog in the wheel of progress in the economy. I think he has really tried more than anyone else in this time. I can’t remember who has done it that way. I want to say at the risk of sounding immodest that Tinubu is putting Nigeria on the right path. He doesn’t waste time in addressing issues and he is never afraid of policy reversal once there is a superior argument regarding those policies. I believe those are the stuff that any good leader is made of. You don’t have to be rigid just for the sake it. You have to be rigid and be positively so. I think I’ve seen that in Tinubu.

TheCable: An international media platform recently said Nigeria is burning through foreign-exchange reserves at a rate not seen in four years, raising concerns that the central bank is depleting its dollar holdings to support the naira. If true, don’t you think that is not sustainable in the long run?

OLADELE: I beg to disagree. Whoever is giving them that kind of analysis or information upon which they based such assumption, that person is more of a trader than an economist. The CBN has churned out many policies and taken many positive actions which have really strengthened the naira. They have made it so that you can’t be throwing around dollar in our economy today. If you have more than 10,000 dollars today, you have to explain the source. That alone has put a lot of money launderers off their usual tracks. Also, sourcing for forex from unscrupulous sources have been cut off. Also, the diaspora remittances can no longer be received in dollars. This will only help the naira if you can’t get it in dollars and that is part of what we are witnessing now.

Again, his interaction with state governors has really helped. There have been speculations that immediately monthly allocations from the federal government are released to states, there is a spike in dollar rate. This led to the belief by some Nigerians that maybe some of the governors have been mopping up dollars with slush funds. I had it on good authority that the president has addressed it several times with them. To me, that is a leader that knows his onions.


Some of the government-owned refineries are starting. In fact, the senate ad-hoc committee investigating the turnaround maintenance of Nigeria’s refineries has said the Port Harcourt Refinery will begin operation before the end of December. The private-owned one, that is the Dangote Refinery, is already working. The demand on dollar to be able to buy diesel has dropped sharply. All these policies will only gear at nothing but upward mobility of the naira.

Look at the foreign reserve that we are talking about. I was reliably informed that Nigeria has paid at least $12 billion in terms of foreign debts. If we had paid that and we had about $34 billion when this administration was coming in, as of today, we still have about $1.5 billion debit from the foreign reserve. If you juxtapose that with the $12 billion that has been paid out, are we really depleting the foreign reserve? The answer is no! So, the media platform has done nothing but to bring in trading theories and layman analysis in place of doing due diligence and research. Unfortunately, some media houses here in Nigeria have been lashing on that and parroting these laymen analyses. That is wrong.

TheCable: The value of the naira is rising, yet the prices of food items and other commodities are not coming down and still beyond the reach of the common man. Why is that so?

OLADELE: Number one, CBN’s job is to defend the naira, not to attack it. They are defending it right now in terms of policies on the table that can not only be seen but also verifiable. Two, most traders that inflated prices, they did it off the cuff without any economic basis. These were people that increased prices immediately they heard that subsidy was removed. That also affected the dollar rate too because if you want to change money, the BDCs fix arbitrary prices and that was why it kept going up. Those sharp practices kept going on until the CBN decided to cut their wings through well-tested policies that were very effective. The prices we have in terms of commodities and food items are artificial. It has nothing to do with the dollar.

TheCable: What is your assessment of the performance of the ministers in President Tinubu’s cabinet?

OLADELE: Of course, Nigerians expect the ministers to have done better in some areas. I believe that at the end of the day, they will perform creditably well to the admiration of Nigerians. Like we have been told in the past, he doesn’t give you assignment while waiting for you to work and bring feedback. He works with you in ensuring that there is a feedback. So, definitely, he has shown good leadership and his actions show that he was prepared for governance.

TheCable: Do you think any of the opposition presidential candidates, especially Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, would have done better if they had won the election?

OLADELE: Never! Those two don’t have the experience required to govern a country like Nigeria. This is the first time we are having a finance expert manage the affairs of Nigeria as president. Show me what these two men have done before when they held public offices and I will also tell you that I have seen a virgin in a maternity ward before.

Obi was a governor for eight years in Anambra state. There is no traceable impact of his administration in that state till date. Governors that spent less time running Anambra had more positive impact than Obi in terms of infrastructure, developmental projects and so on. The only thing he could point out was that he saved money. Economists would ask you what is the benefit of saving if you are not using it to grow your income or bring development to yourself or the state? Of course, he was able to bring in a personal business which is the brewery. Is that the person you want to entrust Nigeria into his hands?

When you look at his campaign, when Obi gives you statistics, they are always faulty. Many people didn’t get to know because they don’t bother to fact-check his words. Immediately we started fact-checking, we discovered Peter Obi was giving off-the-cuff statistics in order to bamboozle people and get votes in the election.


Atiku is becoming more like Former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He keeps writing press releases on every issue, both the ones he understands and the ones he doesn’t. He just wants to impress Nigerians that he is doing the work of opposition. Meanwhile, these were issues that were not addressed when he was in government as vice-president to Obasanjo. What did they do in terms of refineries? It was the same Atiku that told us that he was going to sell our refineries to his friends if he becomes president. He is the same one criticising Tinubu for giving the 700-km Lagos-Calabar coastal highway to a supposed ally at a highly competitive price. The design of that highway, alongside the East-West road, Bagary-Sokoto, Ikere Gorge Dam in Oyo North have always been there when Atiku and Obasanjo were in power. What did Atiku do while in power? The National Shipping Line was scrapped under them. Nigeria Airways was scrapped under them. A lot of government-owned properties was scrapped or sold under them in the name of privatisation without providing any alternatives. The roads were bad and tollgates, which were meant to earn money to rehabilitate those roads, were dismantled. What was the social security schemes that they put in place for Nigerians? What did they do about power supply when they were in government?

It was under them that we used $16 billion to generate darkness. Was Atiku not part of that administration? What is he going to do better if he becomes president? So, I don’t think Atiku and Obi would have done anything better. In fact, with the kinds of challenges Asiwaju met in office, Nigeria’s economy would have crumbled if either Atiku or Obi are in charge now. Anybody can challenge me to a debate on this issue. None of them could have done anything better than what Tinubu is doing now.
https://www.thecable.ng/interview-nigerias-economy-would-have-crumbled-with-atiku-or-obi-as-president-says-ex-oyo-rep/

i'm surprised to read that too

garykoeman:
How can u father someone that died thousand of years ago, is this guy alright.

But he is right about others whichever way.

LP doesn't have a single member in Ondo

ufotunang:
Ondo state people if you want a better life, development and better standard of living and good goverance vote for labour party Ondo state candidate... labour party candidates are caring and provide good goverance for their people