After taking a short break from the public following the heat generated by his careless statement about the Igbos in Lagos, the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu has returned with some potentially controversial utterances on the relationship of the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) and a former governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

At an event marking Governor Fashola’s 2,900th day in office, which was attended by former governors, former deputy governors, serving and former commissioners, Oba Akiolu, spoke, amongst other things, against those working to cause disaffection between Gen. Buhari and Asiwaju.

“All Lagos residents should pray the labour of Tinubu should not be in vain. A lot of things have been happening now. Some people have been telling Buhari all sorts of things. Awujale and I have decided to meet Buhari because Lagos and South West states must benefit from the Buhari administration.

The monarch accused some alleged fifth columnists as working against the choice of the president-elect Muhammadu Buhari, some of whom he said were seated right in the audience.


The same people, he contended, have started pitting the duo of Tinubu and Buhari against each other the same way they set the former against Fashola.

“People, who are now telling Buhari all sorts of things, are sycophants. They did not want Buhari to emerge winner in the election. These people know themselves. When it gets to a stage, I will name them one after the other. I am not afraid of human beings,” Akiolu said.

It was reported that it took the intervention of Governor Fashola, who tactically calmed Oba Akiolu down as he threatened to name those he had alluded to in parables as moles in their midst.

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Spokesperson of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh has exonerated the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) from any blame for the loss to the opposition All Progressives Congress ( APC) at the last general elections.

He rather inferred that the blame should be put on Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayo Fayose, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode and other hate campaigners including First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan who led hate campaigns and deployed hate speeches against the APC candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari during the election campaigns.

These individuals, in his view, were busy making hate speeches instead of selling the good deeds of President Jonathan

Mr. Metuh stated that not only was the party headquarters completely sidelined, it was starved of funds to run an effective campaign.

He revealed that because some persons were allowed to run a hate campaign against Mr. Buhari, they made the former military ruler who was the APC Presidential candidate more popular.

“The PDP campaign was characterized by hate campaigns against Mr. Buhari with little emphasis on the achievement of Mr. Jonathan.

Mr. Metuh stated, “In 2003 President Obasanjo ran against Odumegwu Ojukwu, while latePresident Yar’adua also ran against him in 2007.
According to Metuh “If the PDP had run its campaign based on hate speech against the Ikemba Nnewi, he would have won by a landslide in the whole of the South East,” he said
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After an unsuccessful bid in 2010 to acquire Arsenal Football Club, Africa’s richest man, Nigerian Aliko Dangote has renewed interest in taking over one of the English Premier Clubs.

The 58-year-old Nigerian billionaire, who is worth over an estimated €13.5 billion – which makes him Africa’s richest man – says he is still keen on buying Arsenal.

“I still hope, one day at the right price, that I’ll buy the team,” Dangote told Bloomberg Business. “I might buy it, not at a ridiculous price but a price that the owners won’t want to resist. I know my strategy.”

Dangote, who has made his fortune through various operations including cement manufacturing, sugar supply and oil investments, says that he will concentrate on expanding his own business before launching a new offer for Arsenal.

“We have $16bn-worth [€14bn] of investments in the next few years. Right now I want to take my own business to a certain level. Once I finish on that trajectory, then maybe an offer will follow,” he continued.

Dangote is an Arsenal fan but has criticised Arsene Wenger, claiming that the 65-year-old “needs to change his style a bit” and warning that the club “need new direction”.

Notable South African politician and leader of Economic Freedom Fighters Julius Malema blasted President Jacob Zuma and his family following the president’s statement around the current xenophobic violence in the country.

Here’s the video
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Barring any last minute political considerations and horse-trading, Nigerians may have witnessed the public declaration of a man likely to succeed Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal as speaker of the House of Representative.

Close ally of Tambuwal and Chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Finance, Honourable, Abdulmumin Jibrin has formally declared his ambition to take over from his good friend as speaker of the House of Representatives.

Tambuwal, having secured the governorship ticket for the APC in Sokoto State, has bid a goodbye to the House of Representatives.

Addressing journalists in Abuja on his ambition, Jibrin said he was in the race to take the parliament to a pedestal that it would be at par with other parliaments across the world.

Jibrin, who is the first Reps member to formally declare his interest in the position of Speaker, stated that the country was witnessing a change, stressing that the House of Representatives must have a leadership that could drive it towards “deepening the po­litical change.”

The lawmaker, who hails from Kano, explained that he was presenting himself for Speaker based on the experi­ence he had garnered from 2011 when he first came to the House.

The youthful politician, who is an alumnus of University of Abuja, Ahmadu Bello University, Harvard, London and the Swiss Business School, Zurich stated that the House Committee on Finance under his leadership had recorded significant improvement in several areas including but not limited to Internally Generated Revenue, reduction in domestic borrowing, tax compliance by corporate bodies and providing a suitable medium term expenditure framework.

He pledged that if elected Speaker, he would pursue a three-point agenda, which, according to him, are trans­parency, strengthening of the institutions of the House and continuity in legislative busi­ness.

He said the March 28 presidential election had shown that Nigerian democ­racy was growing, hence, the need to consolidate it to set a great example for other Afri­cans.

Poligist had previously shared a gist in which Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin celebrated Rt. Hon. Tambuwal’s last birthday in the House with a Legislative Selfie

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Oronto Douglas, a top presidential aide and confidant of President Goodluck Jonathan, has died.

According to a source in the Presidency, Mr. Douglas died early this morning at the State House Clinic.

The source said Mr. Douglas died from cancer-related complications.

Mr. Douglas came to national and international prominence as an environmental activist on behalf of the oil-producing communities of the Niger Delta. A lawyer by profession, the deceased was born in 1966.

Mr. Douglas is survived by a wife and children.
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Following Nigeria’s opposition, All Progressives Congress party (APC), victory at the just concluded presidential election, the national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, fielding questions from a pool of journalists in which he said a chieftain of the ruling party, Chief Bode George can now proceed on self-exile.

Chief Bode George was reported to have boasted at the peak of the electioneering and campaigning for the presidential contest that his party, PDP, will win the presidential election. The notable politician and PDP leader said he will go on exile if the APC won.

Here’s the video
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It’s a must watch, forget accent, this compassionate Nigerian makes sense than Femi Fani-Kayode. Be the judge LOL

Here’s the video. Enjoy!

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Tony Nwulu a Lagos-based Igbo politician of Peoples Democratic Party has been declared winner of the election to the Federal House of Representatives from Oshodi/Isolo (II) Federal Constituency in Lagos state having defeated the incumbent, Hon. Hakeem Muniru of the All Progressive Congress who was seeking a second term in office.

http://poligist.com/atmosphere-of-change-igbo-politician-defeats-incumbent-in-lagos-for-reps/

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari won 1.1 million votes in the key northern swing state of Kaduna against 484,000 for President Goodluck Jonathan, final results showed on Monday,

Buhari, a northern Muslim, also won by a wide margin in the biggest northern battleground state of Kano, with 1.9 million votes to Jonathan’s 216,000, the final result showed.

Kano is a Buhari stronghold but was seen as one of the northern states where Jonathan had the best chance of making in-roads.

Culled from Reuters
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KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari won 1.1 million votes in the key northern swing state of Kaduna against 484,000 for President Goodluck Jonathan, final results showed on Monday,

Buhari, a northern Muslim, also won by a wide margin in the biggest northern battleground state of Kano, with 1.9 million votes to Jonathan’s 216,000, the final result showed.

Kano is a Buhari stronghold but was seen as one of the northern states where Jonathan had the best chance of making in-roads.

Culled from Reuters
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In an interview by Channels TV during yesterday’s Presidential election which many political analysts have described as an embarrassment to President Jonathan’s reelection bid and a defeatist statement by his campaign organisation, the director of media and publicity of the campaign organisation Femi Fani-Kayode sounded in an unusually sober and civil manner that suggested defeat for Mr. President and the PDP at the end of the election.

Femi Fani-Kayode who was overtly confident about the prospect of President Jonathan at the poll during the campaign, and was constantly attacking and describing the opposition figures of the APC with unprintable words surprisingly changed his tunes while expressing neutrality and expressing warmth to the opposition in the video.

Pls watch…http://poligist.com/video-jonathan-must-not-see-or-hear-this-femi-fani-kayode-changes-tune/

In an interview by Channels TV during yesterday’s Presidential election which many political analysts have described as an embarrassment to President Jonathan’s reelection bid and a defeatist statement by his campaign organisation, the director of media and publicity of the campaign organisation Femi Fani-Kayode sounded in an unusually sober and civil manner that suggested defeat for Mr. President and the PDP at the end of the election.

Femi Fani-Kayode who was overtly confident about the prospect of President Jonathan at the poll during the campaign, and was constantly attacking and describing the opposition figures of the APC with unprintable words surprisingly changed his tunes while expressing neutrality and expressing warmth to the opposition in the video.

Pls watch…http://poligist.com/video-jonathan-must-not-see-or-hear-this-femi-fani-kayode-changes-tune/

In an interview by Channels TV during yesterday’s Presidential election which many political analysts have described as an embarrassment to President Jonathan’s reelection bid and a defeatist statement by his campaign organisation, the director of media and publicity of the campaign organisation Femi Fani-Kayode sounded in an unusually sober and civil manner that suggested defeat for Mr. President and the PDP at the end of the election.

Femi Fani-Kayode who was overtly confident about the prospect of President Jonathan at the poll during the campaign, and was constantly attacking and describing the opposition figures of the APC with unprintable words surprisingly changed his tunes while expressing neutrality and expressing warmth to the opposition in the video.

Pls watch…http://poligist.com/video-jonathan-must-not-see-or-hear-this-femi-fani-kayode-changes-tune/

The senior special adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta affairs, Kingsley Kuku, has predicted victory for Jonathan in the coming presidential elections.
The President’s aide, who is also the chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, said in a television interview by 60 Mins With Angela that Jonathan will win 21 out of the 36 states.

See the video at http://poligist.com/video-kuku-predicts-massive-victory-for-president-jonathan/

Firebrand preacher and Catholic Priest, Reverend Fr. Ejike Mbaka of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, has shut his worship centre and suspended weekly crusade until after the general elections citing alleged threat to life.

Mbaka’s worship centre in Enugu popularly know as The Adoration Ground is noted for attracting over 100,000 worshippers every Friday from the South-East zone and beyond for spiritual healing and deliverance from satanic attacks.

Mbaka had in a statement signed by his Media Officer, Ike Maximus Ugwoke, stated: “It is with a deep sense of concern that we are constrained to make this statement on the continued threat to the life of Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka over his 2015 New Year message titled ‘From Good Luck to Bad Luck.’

“Last Wednesday, mean looking men in a black Hilux besieged his parish compound but they left disappointed when they could not see him”.

The catholic priest had incurred the wrath of some political enthusiasts particularly the supporters of President Jonathan following Reverend Fr. Mbaka’s explosive New Year message which was described by the President’s followers as a fierce attack on President Jonathan and the President’s re-election bid by .
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The Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Tele Ikuru, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party from the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Ikuru declared his defection on Sunday, six days to the general elections.

In an address entitled “A Call On The Conscience Of The People of Rivers State”, the Deputy Governor said the address was delivered out of the fullness of his heart.

Ikuru’s defection comes as a big surprise to the APC chieftains in Rivers State, particularly Governor Rotimi Amaechi who Ikuru has been working with as deputy governor of the state since 2007.

http://poligist.com/shocker-ameachis-deputy-defects-to-pdp/

The spokesperson of President Jonathan’s campaign organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode is known for controversy, and infamous for ridiculous comments and allegations.

Fani-Kayode recently claimed that the APC Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari allegedly had a deal with some Western leaders, during Buhari’s recent trip to London, to support his presidential ambition on agreement that the former Nigerian military head of state would encourage gay rights and reverse anti-gay law enacted by the Nigerian government when elected as president in 2015 election.

Meanwhile, a report gathered from The Elites Nigeria has actually revealed that Femi Fani-Kayode is very Gay by every sense of it as he secretly plans to immortalize is gay elder brother who died of AIDS-related illness at the age of 34.

So who is fooling who?

http://poligist.com/who-is-fooling-who-femi-fani-kayode-sets-to-immortalize-gay-elder-brother-who-died-of-aids-and-claims-buhari-is-supporting-gay-rights/

Recent appearances of Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe and his 24-year old daughter, Bona Mugabe-Chikore at official functions and state visits have sparked speculation that Bona is being prepared for power after his father.

President Mugabe, 91, is the leader of Zimbabwe serving since 1987, 31 years ago, and there are discussions that he may soon quit the presidency.

Photographs this week show the 24-year-old with Mugabe as part of Zimbabwe’s state delegation to Japan.

The inclusion of Mugabe-Chikore on the government trip to Japan and the decision to allow her to sit by Mugabe’s side during an official meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has intensified talks that the president is grooming her daughter for the high office as part of his retirement plans.

http://poligist.com/retirement-plan-president-mugabe-prepares-24-year-old-daughter-for-power/

Former captain of the Nigerian football team, Joseph Yobo is on top form in his campaign for President Jonathan’s re-election bid.

The ex-professional footballer is also of the view that developing “Stomach infrastructure” by sharing of bags of Yobo-rice is a good strategy to scoring fantastic political goal and winning for Mr President.

Goodluck Yobo!
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Former captain of the Nigerian football team, Joseph Yobo is on top form in his campaign for President Jonathan’s re-election bid.

The ex-professional footballer is also of the view that developing “Stomach infrastructure” by sharing of bags of Yobo-rice is a good strategy to scoring fantastic political goal and winning for Mr President.

Goodluck Yobo!

Celebrated as one of the rising stars of the Republican Party in the US, Aaron Schock a 33-year-old politician and congressman seems to have it all. He has looks, age and future.

But he unfortunately quickly fell on a banana peel and crashed his promising political future after the pictures of his luxury lifestyle he was posting on social media page generated public outrage and criticism which attracted search-light into his whole life.

Schock tendered his resignation from the US congress a few days ago after allegations of misspending campaign and political funds, and show of opulence that is deemed not compatible with his position and earnings as a public officer.

The FBI has therefore launched criminal investigation into Schock’s lifestyle and spending.
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Former minister of Aviation and Director of Media and Publicity of President Jonathan’s campaign, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is indeed speaking, leading and oozing “Transformation”, and the married controversial politician has just picked a young lover, Precious Chikwendu who is an ex-beauty queen to showcase his personal Transformation.

According to a story exclusively reported by The Capital, the news of Fani-Kayode’s new lover has been causing his legal wife, Regina, who is based in Ghana, a sleepless night. Details on this link http://poligist.com/transformation-tinz-femi-fani-kayode-picks-young-lover/

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, 90, fell down steps from a podium after speaking to supporters upon his return from Ethiopia, say witnesses.

Mugabe appeared to miss a step and toppled when he left the raised lectern at the airport according to several witnesses, who insisted on anonymity because of security concerns.

Though Mr Mugabe, according to reports, had immediately after being aided into his private vehicle mandated his security aides to seize cameras and ensure the footage of his fall is not seen outside, unfortunately the embarrassing moment has made its to the public in video and pictures which has now been spreading all over the internet.

Pic – Mirror UK
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As many may have been wondering what a former CBN governor, Prof Charles Soludo must have done or said to have attracted attacks from the the top aides and associates of president Jonathan.

Here is the gist.

A few days ago Soludo wrote a long article entitled, “Buhari vs Jonathan: Beyond the Election” , in which he lashed out on the programmes of the leading political parties in Nigeria, the PDP and the APC, and their presidential candidates, the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan and Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

On the PDP and President Jonathan’s re-election bid, Soludo made the following comments amongst others:

1, Today, the combined domestic and external debt of the Federal Government is in excess of $40 billion

2, Abandoned capital projects littered all over the country amount to over $50 billion

3, Poverty incidence and unemployment rate at the moment have attained the worst records in the history of Nigeria

4, The government’s economic team is very weak, dominated by self-interested and self-conflicted group of traders and businessmen, and so-called economic team meetings have been nothing but showbiz time

5, Transformation Agenda is an empty slogan

On the APC and Gen Buhari’s presidential aspiration, Soludo made the following comments amongst others:

1, The APC manifesto contains some good principles and wish-lists, but as a blue print for Nigeria’s security and prosperity, it is largely hollow.

2, Most people who want to vote for Buhari do not know the specifics of what he would offer or how Nigeria would be different under him.

3, I have not heard anything from the APC or Buhari regarding the national conference report or what kind of federalism they envisage for Nigeria.

4, The APC should stop the joke and be realistic on their promises of creating 20,000 jobs per state in the first year, totalling a mere 720,000 jobs for a country where the new entrants into the labour market per annum exceed two million

5, Buhari and his team must realize that they do not yet have a coherent, credible agenda that is consistent with the fundamentals of the economy currently

The former CBN governor concluded his commentary by advising both parties and their presidential candidates to re-work their programmes to conform with the reality of existence of many Nigerians in order to attract more voters and emphasised that Nigeria must survive and prosper beyond Buhari or Jonathan.

Though Soludo clearly did not not spare any party or candidate in his critical piece, he has received barrage of hits from presidential aides such as the minister of finance and head of media and publicity of the president Jonathan’s campaign amongst others who have found the former CBN governor’s opinions on the government too harsh and needless at this time.

The question is must the presidency react angrily to every public opinion especially when it concerns two parties?
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Chinese Telecoms services giant, Huawei has cancelled its street lamp poles outdoor contract with a Lagos-based outdoor advertising agency, Touchpoint over illegal deployment of President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign posters on poles paid for by the company.

Huawei had secured the old tollgate location by Motorways, Ojota for a period of one year and had paid the mandatory Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency fee for same. Touch Point in a statement said ‘Our client, Huawei cancelled the contract saying it was due to the breach by the PDP to run a parallel campaign on poles solely reserved for Huawei’’.

The statement went on further: ‘Elections should not be used as an avenue to disrupt the honest business of hardworking Nigerians. There are procedures for deployment of items on street lamp poles and, going through this crude means is not only damaging, it is unfair, inconsiderate and above all illegal by a political party that seemingly prides itself on the rule of law. I have spoken with my lawyers and we are considering legal action over this inconsiderate action by the PDP and its agents’’.
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Some outgoing members of the British Parliament popularly known as the MPs will be helping themselves to new iPads and laptops as they stand down from the parliament at the next election.

And the request for the latest technology gadgets, which they will be claiming as part of parliamentary expenses, will be covered by the British taxpayers.

Report shows that in the last six months over ten MPs have claimed laptops and tablets on expenses, including Labour’s Tom Watson – who claimed for two – Siobhain McDonagh, Michael McCann, Huw Irranca-Davies, Roberta Blackman-Woods and Fabian Hamilton, and Tories Theresa Villiers, Nick Hurd, Keith Simpson, Glyn Davies and Tobias Ellwood.

If you assume that it is only in Nigeria or some African countries you hear that political leaders are feeding fat at the expense of the helpless masses, you will be surprised about what happens on the other side.

Perhaps we are “Smarter” on this side though…

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An Abuja-based politician (name withheld) faced an embarrassing moment when his very expensive automobile, Mercedes Benz G-Wagon refused to wag or move on a highway.

The visibly disappointed politician had to seek the help of a nonprofessional technician popular known as road-side mechanic and support of a rickety towing-vehicle to pull the multi-million naira car from its immobile position.

While many Nigerians had called on the government for necessary support in skill acquisition and empowerment for the road-side mechanics, some politicians, perhaps including the owner of the faulty vehicle, have always overlooked such important request.

But ironically the political leaders can turn to the semiskilled mechanics in a bad moment like this.


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The fight between the Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency (LASAA) and the PDP governorship candidate in Lagos state, Mr. Jimi Agbaje took a new twist as the campaign postal of Mr Agbaje on illegal space is shared widely on the internet.

Mr Agbaje had accused the government agency ‎of destroying posters of the opposition and preventing them from acquiring advertising spaces because LASAA is controlled by the APC, the ruling government in Lagos state.

Though LASAA had refuted the allegation and showed evidence of posters of candidates of different parties displayed on permitted spaces and billboards across the state, some suspected supporters of the APC have refused to let the dust raised by the matter settle.

To further prove a point against Agbaje’s claims, they have produced picture of the posters of the PDP candidate pasted on a space that clearly carries the warning sign of LASAA against illegal bill posting in Lagos state.

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