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emperorblog21:
lol until u have the experience sha.

i have d experience lieke 4 times

Share them with us, please

AnanseK:
Livestock industry development will no doubt be of great economic value to any country. In Nigeria this move would be a revival and major improvement of a colonial heritage, and it is about time.

Those working against ranching or Ruga ( call it whatever name) are only directing their hostility against Buhari and they will oppose whatever development he introduces. It is a manifestation blind ethnic hatred and they can not overcome their anger over the Buhari’s second term election victory. ( in their wildest miscalculation they believed that Atiku could become the President and Peter Obi the Vice President Of this country).

Postage stamps from the colonial Nigeria traditionally depicts potential wealth and areas of development or ongoing projects. Thank God our attention is returning to livestock and dairy development as well.

People do not hate Buhari. They hate his partiality, his impunity, his incorrigibility and his bigotry.

EASY32:
w97 5/15 p. 5-6
Should You Believe in Reincarnation?

THE Greek philosopher Plato connected falling in love with the idea of reincarnation. He believed that after the death of the body, the soul, being immortal, migrates to what has been called the “realm of the pure forms.” Bodiless, it remains there for some time, contemplating the forms. When it is later reincarnated into another body, the soul subconsciously remembers and yearns for the realm of forms. According to Plato, people fall in love because they see in their beloved the ideal form of beauty they vaguely remember and seek.

Identifying the Source and the Basis

The teaching of reincarnation requires that the soul be immortal. The origin of reincarnation, then, must be traced to those peoples or nations that held such a belief. On this basis, some think that it originated in ancient Egypt. Others hold that it got started in old Babylonia. To create prestige for the Babylonian religion, its priesthood advanced the doctrine of transmigration of the soul. They could thus claim that their religious heroes were reincarnations of notable, though long dead, ancestors.

It was in India, however, that belief in reincarnation came to full bloom. The Hindu sages were grappling with the universal problems of evil and of suffering among humans. ‘How can these be harmonized with the concept of a righteous Creator?’ they asked. They tried to resolve the conflict between God’s righteousness and the unforeseen calamities and inequalities in the world. In time, they devised “the law of karma,” the law of cause and effect—‘whatever a man sows, that shall he reap.’ They worked out a detailed ‘balance sheet’ whereby merits and demerits in one life are rewarded or punished in the next.

“Karma” simply means “action.” A Hindu is said to have good karma if he conforms to social and religious norms and bad karma if he does not. His action, or karma, determines his future in each successive rebirth. “All men are born with a blueprint of character, mainly prepared by their actions in previous lives, though their physical traits are determined by heredity,” says philosopher Nikhilananda. “A man is [thus] an architect of his own fate, the builder of his own destiny.” The ultimate goal, however, is to be liberated from this cycle of transmigration and be united with Brahman—the ultimate reality. This, it is believed, is achieved by striving for socially acceptable behavior and special Hindu knowledge.

The teaching of reincarnation thus uses as its foundation the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and builds on it using the law of karma. Let us see what God’s inspired Word, the Bible, has to say regarding these ideas.

Is the Soul Immortal?

To answer this question, let us turn to the highest authority on the subject—the inspired Word of the Creator. In the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, we learn the accurate meaning of “soul.” Regarding the creation of the first man, Adam, the Bible says: “Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7) Clearly, the soul is not what a man has but what he is. The Hebrew word used here for soul is neʹphesh. It occurs some 700 times in the Bible, and it never refers to a separate and ethereal part of a human but always to something tangible and physical.—Job 6:7; Psalm 35:13; 107:9; 119:28.

What happens to the soul at death? Consider what happened to Adam at his death. When he sinned, God told him: “You [will] return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19) Think of what that means. Before God created him from the dust, Adam did not exist. After his death, Adam returned to the same state of nonexistence.

Simply stated, the Bible teaches that death is the opposite of life. At Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, we read: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going.”

This means that the dead are unable to do or feel anything. They no longer have any thoughts, nor do they remember anything. The psalmist states: “Do not put your trust in nobles, nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs. His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.”—Psalm 146:3, 4.

The Bible clearly shows that at death the soul does not move on to another body, but it dies. “The soul that is sinning—it itself will die,” the Bible emphatically states. (Ezekiel 18:4, 20; Acts 3:23; Revelation 16:3) Thus, the doctrine of the immortality of the soul—the very foundation of the theory of reincarnation—does not find any support in the Scriptures. Without it, the theory collapses. What, then, explains the suffering we see in the world?

Beautiful write-up, but conclusions are suspect and contradictory of the premise you yourself laid. It also knocks heads with the Gospel, with the Koran and with reality.

The whole of the book of Revelation is devoted to the fate of the soul, both the good and the evil. The Koran talks of Al-Janna. Traditional Religions speak of the world being the marketplace and heaven the final home. Surah Al-Jathiyah 45:26:
"Allah causes you to live, then causes you to die; then He will assemble you for the Day of Resurrection, about which there is no doubt, but most of the people do not know."

Jesus Himself came as a body, in the flesh, John 1:1-14. Does it mean that when He died He was extinguished? No. Reality is that He came back, and had post-resurrection interactions with living human beings! In fact, he became a model of what was to come -and the scriptures called Him the firstfruits from the dead. Fact!
1Corinthians 15:20 "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept."

In John 14, after His resurrection, He made post-life promises:
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

So the soul dies but lives to face judgement. Thereafter, it either lives with God in eternal bliss or lives forever in the lake of fire, a fate worse than death.

starbuck:
I don't have any biblical backing but from what I have seen and experience so far, reincarnation is real, the world is really mysterious....


2018 and above really thought me about spiritualism and Co...

I beg give us the benefit of this experience. Please, share with us. Eagerly waiting. Don't keep us in suspended animation, biko.

During a Sunday School session in a Christ Apostolic Church at Surulere, Lagos, a matter cropped up about someone who saw her dead father in dreams, giving her instructions on some matter.

Several suggestions were made to explain the phenomenon, with the Pastor dismissing it as demonic because it contradicted Heb 9:27, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment."

The Pastor rather confidently generalised and categorised as evil all stories of departed souls being seen in unfamiliar environments, and the tendency for families to name new babies after a departed relation, in the belief that such were reborn. Can such cases be pinned on demonic body thieves?

Preferring to only listen, I wished I could tell the church that Jide Kosoko, yes, the Nollywood actor, had his maternal lineage enmeshed in such a story. His cousin, my friend, told me. And I am told the man produced a movie on the subject.

Today, a lady, told me of her Dad, a wealthy Igbo businessman, was matchetted to death in ethno-religious riots in Zaria in the 1960s. When the man's pregnant wife delivered, the baby girl bore dark marks all over her body that looked like machete cuts. That baby grew and always told her siblings and mum that she was their father and husband and had returned to continue the assignment of catering for them, which he was prevented from doing by his untimely death.

Can dead people return with repaired bodies? The Bible cites one instance, Matthew 27:52-53, "And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many."

Really, do we totally understand this subject of dead people having a second chance at life? Have we exposed everything about the cycle of life?

Abi, did the Bible not say in 1 Corinthians 13:9 "For we know in part..." and " Deuteronomy 29:29 "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law"?

What are your thoughts? Share factual experiences, please.



PLEASE, CAN YOU HELP PUSH SO WE CAN GET ANSWERS? GOD BLESS YOU GUYS AS ALWAYS

If the government turns deaf ears to widespread protests and makes Ruga settlements inevitable, the locals should turn into herdsmen, buy cattle heads, change the name and occupy the settlements. Those settlements will be built with Nigerian funds and cannot be be monopolised by anybody. Overwhelm the strangers with the sheer population of locals in the settlements.

Now they will miss Ayo Fayose.... Now they will appreciate all he did for them

natedroid:
It wasn't staged. I was stuck in that gridlock yesterday as well. Countless of persons saw it happen live. We spent more than 4hrs there


I know the billinaire that was airlifted but I won't mention his name. I saw him In close range from the Gig vehicle I was in

Na lie, you no know am.... stop forming joor!

Now, immediate eviction is in order. They have overstayed there welcome. They have expended your goodwill. File a report at the police and charge them for stealing. Take police, OPC or "boys" there and get them off your property pronto, like yesterday. No ceremony involved at all. They cannot claim to come to equity now with their unclean hands.

RIP. Another victim of fibroid operation gone wrong! This is one key reason women fear fibroid operations and seek non-surgical solution to this scourge. The search is on!

https://www.nairaland.com/5238202/sister-fibroid-afraid-surgery-alternative

Racoon:
Nothing like palliative repair work on this Mile 2-Coconut-Tin Can road.What the road need is total overhaul with constructing firm like Julius Berger handling the project.

Let me shock you! Julius Berger worked on that bridge the last time it was overhauled. This is the result of JB that you are seeing. Let them try someone new.... definitely not Dangote sha o, except they want it delivered infinitum

Phtthjt:
Gfg

Terribly insensitive of you to post this advert inside a posting announcing the tragic death of a young man. There is a time and a place for everything and this is neither the time nor the place for your message. You would salvage some of your humanity if you could delete.

Fine Daddy with beautiful daughter and handsome son. God bless the children. May they bring him pride and joy and comfort in his old age

By
FELIX OBOAGWINA

Frank Ovie Kokori has suffered, really suffered! Physically. Psychologically. Politically. Professionally. This diminutive labour leader has passed through “hell.” Today, he spends his life savings nursing a wife virtually turned vegetable from a debilitating stroke. Esther Kokori has been in that condition since 1999, shortly after her husband secured his freedom from three years of detention (August 1994 to June 1998) at the Bama Prisons, in a town whose burning weather makes it virtually next door to hell. Kokori earned his time in that Borno State jail for leading oil workers to demand that Nigeria’s then maximum dictator, General Sani Abacha, relinquish power to civilians.

For the love of democracy, Urhobo-born Kokori, as General Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, passed through the fiery crucible of vicissitudes. When the umbrella Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, under Paschal Bafyau, vacillated in 1994, Kokori led NUPENG to sustain the struggle for the restoration of the June 12 mandate of Nigeria’s undeclared President-Elect, Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola.

Indeed, if a roll-call of the heroes of Nigeria’s contemporary Republic should hold, it would amount to an unforgivable oversight and uncharitable injustice for Kokori not to make top five. Kokori will easily rate as poster-boy of that epic crusade. Yet the man continues unsung and unrewarded. After four regimes and four Presidents, he still remains in the cold.

I helped put together his memoirs, FRANK KOKORI: THE STRUGGLE FOR JUNE 12. During interview sessions at his Ojuelegba, Lagos, home, he spoke of dashed hopes suffered at the instance of President Olusegun Obasanjo. Severally, the President would be flying in from Abuja and invite Kokori to meet him at the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos. Kokori would abandon everything to wait for His Excellency. As soon as OBJ landed, both men would take a chopper ride to Obasanjo’s Ota Farm or Abeokuta home. They would spend days together till His Excellency returned to Ikeja Airport en route Abuja.

“Oh, Obasanjo, Obasanjo will not give you a kobo!” Kokori would chuckle during these narrations. The retired oil-workers’ leader apparently made those trips at his own expense. But the President always assured his fellow Bama Prison alumnus that his chairmanship of the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was a done deal. This organisation Kokori had walked away from when Babangida around 1992 appointed him onto the board as Secretary only to render the position non-executive and subordinate to an executive Chairman. Kokori waited in vain for OBJ to play ball. The promised appointment remained on “hibernation mode” until that regime expired. Kokori blamed hawks in the ruling PDP, whom he felt warned Obasanjo against appointing an unbendable ideologue (a non-party member for that matter!) as head of such a “juicy” agency.

Ideologically speaking, Kokori belonged to Nigeria’s second generation of Socialist and Communist-trained unionists. His NUPENG waged wars against casualisation and defied the oil giants to unionise every arm of the oil sector. These labour leaders paid heavily effrontery. Last time I checked (and I stand to be corrected), not a single one of Kokori’s about seven children had the privilege of employment in an oil company. Not one. Why? For one simple reason: Their father, working with the Asiya Otus, the John Enas Dubres, the Joseph Akinlajas, the Elijah Okougbos, wrested from the oil giants juicy welfare packages for oil workers.

But he got paid back with an evil coin. Returning from Bama into a blaze of national and international awards, including being declared “Prisoner of Conscience” by the late Nelson Mandela and Pope Saint John Paul II, this prophet would be stung by his own constituency. Perhaps intimidated by Kokori’s towering image, new NUPENG leaders hastily shooed him off into an impromptu retirement post-detention. This ingratitude is a story hardly told.

It has often been said that this democracy failed to reward its real heroes. In fact, apart from a handful, like Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Comrade Shehu Sani, those who frontally defied the military’s gun barrel to birth this democracy have been left in the cold. Today, what benefits have accrued to democratic heroes like Bolaji Akinyemi, Ayo Opadokun, Arthur Nwankwo, Dan Suleiman, Alani Akinrinade, Frederick Fasehun, Popoola Ajayi, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Joe Okei-Odumakin, Olu Falae, Amos Akingba and Umar Dangiwa?

Bottom-line: Kokori stands as metaphor for our unrewarded heroes of democracy who remain sidelined while charlatans and pretenders run the show.

Many of these heroes turned down opportunities offered for reward. Shortly after releasing political prisoners from detention, the new Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, invited Kokori to Aso Rock. The meeting dragged into the witching hours of the morning, during which the Commander-in-Chief apologised for the unionist’s travails, and towards the end asked him, “What do you want? What can we do for you?” Perhaps Kokori’s felt that having laid down his life, limb and liberty fighting a military regime, why should he curry favour from another one? This morning after, he rues not asking for the governorship of his home Delta State, achievable on a platter of gold in that atmosphere of military penance. Instead, he told the generous General that he preferred to wait for due recognition and reward in the coming regime of Bashorun Abiola. Abiola died in detention mysteriously. Kokori would forever rue his blind faith.

Similar blind faith recently drove Kokori into the eye of the controversy pitching him against former Labour Minister, Dr. Chris Ngige. Should any Nigerian imagine that an appointment made three years earlier by no less than the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and confirmed by the President could be so summarily rubbished by an ordinary Minister? It shows a level of administrative indiscipline that government’s commitments change merely over the whims and caprices of some well-heeled individual.

Ngige, as supervising minister, unilaterally rubbished Kokori’s appointnment as Chairman of the National Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF). Labour and NUPENG, Kokori’s primary constituencies took to the trenches to make his case. Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, said: “In fact, I am aware that Ngige met Kokori over four times on the issue of inauguration. In July last year, a committee was actually set up to inaugurate the board. If they are afraid of Kokori’s integrity, they should come out clean.” Former NLC Chairman and current APC Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, also, fought for government to redeem the commitment to Kokori.

Not a few consider it strange that Ngige would pontificate on Kokori. Talk about the tail wagging the dog! Where was Ngige in the deadly fight for democracy? More contemporarily, why would a Minister of Labour antagonize his own constituency? Could it be for a pecuniary motivation? Claiming massive fraud by the last board, Ngige assumed sole administration of NSITF. If he fell to temptation there, would it not make commonsense to plant a stooge who can cover his tracks? Did he consider, like Wabba insinuated that Kokori would be too clean to do the dirty job? Questions and more questions! Unfortunately, as Shakespeare said: There is no art to read the mind’s construction in the face. And only Ngige can voice the reason for his opposition.

Unlike Ngige and the man he prefers for the job, the Kokoris, the Akinyemis, the Falaes, the Nwankwos, the Suleimans, the Dangiwas know what they fought for. They know what they died for. They know the visions that propelled them into the trenches against military dictatorship. Unfortunately, although good activists, they proved to be clumsy politicians, an explanation for why they never won power. But as long as these visionary heroes of democracy remain sidelined as spectators outside the corridors of power, so long will this country languish in the wilderness of underdevelopment.

Should Kokori, Labour and NUPENG have a sense of entitlement? Yes, and rightly so! Compared to the sacrifice they made, the job Kokori recently lost is pittance –a garland fit for a slave. Fact is, Nigerian politicians owe heroes of democracy like Frank Kokori a bottomless pit of gratitude. And they have not begun to pay.

Felix Oboagwina is a Journalist and he wrote from Lagos[b][/b]

Nairalanders, please, how did DEMOCRACY DAY hold in your part of the country? Could you please update us on how the government and people marked the day in your state?

The South-West had always held events. Ogun, for example, held a programme of events at the MKO Abiola Stadium in Abeokuta. In Lagos, citizens gathered at the Abiola Park, Ojota, to observe the day.

People have expressed fears that the holiday would be observed more de jure than de facto, meaning that legislation may make it a holiday but, in fact, the citizens and governments would discount it by failing to plan events to actually mark the day.

So please do let us into what happened in your state. Post pictures if possible.
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checkedout:
This writeup was extracted from a newspaper page and you did not even reference the writer?

Would you be happy if it happened to you?

The Villains name are not completed according to the newspaper that has the article in it.

Ernest Shonekan and one other Yoruba leaders are among the villains.


Oga make amend and do the rightful

Thank you

May God deliver Nairalanders like you o! So you cannot generate an original copy of your own? Tufiakwa! No wonder you go looking for expo for your exams.

Okay, since you know the newspaper it was cited from, oya, send the link Mr. ITK.

Today is June 12, a day that South-West states have celebrated since 1999 as their own Democracy Day, and the Federal Government has adopted for celebration as Democracy Day throughout Nigeria. This years marks the first time it will be celebrated nationwide.

The undisputed Hero and Icon of the day is the Millionaire Business Mogul and Presidential Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. He had as his Running Mate, Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe. Running on the ticket of the rival National Republic Convention (NRC) in the two horse-race was Kano Businessman, Alhaji Bashir Tofa, who has Dr. Sylvester Ugoh as his Running Mate.

In an election that local and international observers adjudge as the best ever in Nigeria, Abiola won with 8,341,309 (58.36%) votes to Tofa’s 5,952,087 (41.64%). However, General Ibrahim Babangida surprised the entire nation and the world by annulling this highly credible election.
In the fight for the revalidation of his mandate, Abiola was arrested and detained by General Sani Abacha, and he died in detention in 1998.

Who are your heroes and villains of the entire June 12 episode?

My personal list will read as follows:

HEROES

MKO Abiola
Kudirat Abiola
Alfred Rewane
NUPENG
Frank Kokori
Nigerian Masses
Nigerian Media
NADECO
OPC
Dan Suleiman
Colonel Umar Kangiwa
Frederick Fasehun
Wole Soyinka
Gani Fawehinmi
Ayo Opadokun
Adekunle Ajasin
Walter Carrington
Arthur Nwankwo
Chukwuemeka Ezeife
Sam Mbakwe
C.C. Onoh

VILLAINS

General Ibrahim Babangida
General Sani Abacha
Baba Gana Kingibe
Tony Anenih
Paschal Bafyau

olasamuel52:
Contact me if she can use agbo ( herbs) but I'm in Lagos anyway.

How do we make the contact, please?

Vcent50:
Hmmm,R.I.P to my lovely mother,fibroid operation is what takes her life,had it been we know,we should just have been managing it like that

Sorry, Vcent. RIP to Mama. But what really happened? People here are making it sound like fibroid operation is safe and routine, but the fatality actually scares people off it. Someone like May Ellen Ezekiel, Richard Mofe Damijo RMD's first wife, fibroid operation killed her!

Do you mind sharing your mum's experience, what went wrong?

Macdove02:
Thank you, it was a very sad experience, she gave birth to her baby through surgery, so the fear of going through another surgery was the issue and before we know it, it was too late.

I am really, really sorry for this loss. May God console your family.

YoungG12:
there are some herbal remedy my grandpa do use back then for those women that come to her but i don't think i remember it again and am far away from home right now,
if being use she will just excrete it as feaces or pass it out like a bloody stinking mess!!

Eeyah, it is a pity you forgot the herbal remedy. Is there any way you could communicate with home people to know if anyone inherited the skill and know what to do? Do try. It will help millions of people, bro

evanpass70:
....am talking from experience here,it happens to my sister as well.what you need is kedi health care products(no need of operation)they will check what stage the fibreod is,give you the do's and don't to follow for like six weeks and you will be fine.if you do the operation it will still grow after few years expecially if you have not given birth..I can request for the guy number on your behalf from my sister,if you are interested.

Please, PM me the person's number

Sorry, I am not on twitter. How else can I connect, please

missyblissy:
Don't listen to anyone that tells you that there's an alternative. She should go for surgery and remove those parasites cos thoses things hindered me for many years until i removed it surgically.

Yes i also vowed never to go under the knife but over the years in search for tradironal alternative to shrink the fibriods made it bigger and it filled my womb. I discovered I had it in 2014 and it was 3 small tumors that with my search for alternative grew over the in to tumors that look like 25 weeks old pregnancy.

I went online, infact Nairaland TTC thread, i thought i was alone but many women have conquered it and they all removed it surgically and they encouraged me to remove it and i should not be afraid. FEAR is a thief of time!!!! Tell your sister to join the the ttc thread on Nairaland and see her situation change for better. Nothing will happen to her i removed it in 2017 and today am a mother!!!! I dont have it anymore!!!!!

If you want a certified gynecologist please tell her to go to teaching hospital, if you are in Lagos, please go to gynecological section in LASUTH.

Wow, thanks a lot.

And congrats on your baby

RolyRoly:
I believe it was God that sent you here,. Please tell her to go to Christ Mercy Land Church in Warri , Delta State her case is settled.. I have seen many cases of fibroids that the God of senior prophet Jeremiah has solved

As you can see, several people have expressed skepticism about the spiritual option. Can you give actual experiences of testimonies to clear doubts and skepticism? Is it everyone who attends Mercyland that gets cured of fibroid? What is the modus operandi?

PrecisionFx:
She go soon become barren or dead

Wouldn't want to be rude, but have you ever heard of BACK TO SENDER?

propynich123:
There is a drug for it, she don't need to do surgery

Can we get the name, the price and possibly testimonies?

ajepako:
Surgery is the best solution to fibroid

I did my own procedure in 2015 and six weeks later l was fully back to work..

I was scared of surgery too but after spending almost a million buying drugs both locally and internationally, l resorted to surgery and four years after,l don't even have the slightest trace or symptoms of fibroid

I even underwent the surgery fully conscious and watched the removal of the fibroid after being injected with Epidural..

So, as someone who's undergone the same health problem,l strongly advice your sister to go for surgery.....l can even recommend an excellent surgeon if she can afford his medical fees..

Experience is the best teacher, as they say. Please, like how much should we be looking at?

We really need your advice on this crucial matter. We have a sister who has been diagnosed with fibroid. Having seen a few doctors, she is confronted with solving the problem through undergoing surgery to evacuate the mass. However, she would prefer an alternative to surgery to evacuate the fibroid.

There is a bit of background. She has a daughter from a previous relationship. Her husband has two children from his previous relationships. However, they want to have children together, which has not happened. Everyone supposes that the fibroid issue may be blocking fertility between them.

Is there a confirmed non-surgical procedure that has worked with anyone out there? Where did the lady go for this non-surgical evacuation? What is the rate of success? What is the cost implication?

Please, counsel and insights are urgently needed.

The Governorship Candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Jimi Agbaje, has described insinuations that he has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the concoctions of a sick mind.

He dropped the bombshell in reaction to Wednesday’s statement by PDP former National Vice Chairman, Chief Bode George, that the Pharmacist-turned-politician had joined the rival All Progressives Congress (APC).

Agbaje warned: “People should please tell Bode George to shut up and leave PDP if he lacks any value to add to the party, instead of being a dog in the manger hampering the progress of the party in Lagos State.”

The PDP chieftain, however, clarified the true position about him cross-carpeting.

In a statement through his Director of Media and Publicity, Felix Oboagwina, Agbaje described the news about the purported defection as misinformation that should be discountenanced.

The former PDP Governorship Candidate said he had never been a member of APC and talks of his “returning” to the ruling party had never crossed his mind.

He said: “That false narrative is the product of a sick mind. Or how else do you describe someone who just sits down to concoct fiction and markets it as reality? He should tell the world where he got the news being spreading round.”

Agbaje said: “These shameless party leaders have 2023 in mind. The game-plan is mischievously simple: Give the dog a bad name and chase it away from the party. By 2023, this mudslinging will have scared off credible people from the party, which will leave the whole field to them to continue to corner party resources.

"I am too big to sneak out of one party into another one. And the reality remains that I have not left PDP for any other party, least of all APC.”

Dismissing the rumour as the antics of detractors bent on soiling his name and destabilising the party, Agbaje said, the outburst finally unveiled the secret hand of Esau that had propelled antagonists to embark on a smear campaign against him after the 2019 governorship election he unexpectedly lost to APC’s Babajide Sanwoolu.

He blamed the false narrative on the same set of self-styled party leaders who, on the eve of the governorship election, went to declare for a rival candidate.

“These are people who feel that they want to continue business as usual within PDP,” he said. “All their interest revolves upon sharing campaign and election funds without giving any thought to how to elevate the party’s chances at the polls or adding value to the process.”

Agbaje pointed out that as long as the PDP National Headquarters continued to pamper the divisive characters and pander to their whims, so long would the party continue to fail in elections in Lagos State.

He calculated that George in the past clashed with former PDP chieftains who tried to contribute towards elevating the party but ended up frustrated, including the Late Funso Williams, Muhammed Muritala Ashorobi, Musiliu Obanikoro, Moshood Salvador, Rahman Owokoniran, Femi Pedro and Remi Adiukwu.

https://punchng.com/shut-up-ive-not-left-pdp-agbaje-tells-bode-george/

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/333539-im-still-in-pdp-jim-agbaje-says-attacks-bode-george.html

https://theeagleonline.com.ng/agbaje-blasts-bode-george-over-his-rumoured-defection-to-apc/

Even PMB had nothing against Oyegun. No one can forget that he gave PMB victory in 2015. Primarily, his issue was with Bola Tinubu. His tenure cut Tinubu to size and saw the elevation of Fashola and the Abuja clique in Lagos State.

Even Oshiomhole has been unable to clip the wings of Saraki and Dogara. And yes, the tenure of Oshiomhole did see the exodus of bigwigs from the party. Atiku and Saraki and Dogara ARE cases in point. Today, the party is more divided than ever. It has fewer states and Senators than Oyegun handed over.