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Leave him....vote your choice!!!

To what end? Are you APC members? Vote your choice and stop the noise.

Ode! Oponu Sinato...dramatist Dino. Older Atiku sees as what? Starting point abi? Afofun....ordinary opportunist. Unrepentant repugnant idiot!

Alaseju baba asete

No shame!!!

Just like that

Nothing in the video

Nonsense and ingredients

Excellent but why always Obaseki?

So a Northerner can emerge Presidential candidate of the party even after Buhari has done 8years? Who is the real Fulani slave? What happens to South East Agenda? Which party will now give Presidency to Igbo? Now, Dave can be seen to be spot on. Abaribe and Co !!!! Una hypocrisy no be here...

Rabbish!!! Who is Cama wetin? #Disrespect

What is the role of Peter Obi in the super delegate brouhaha?

Ibeberism....

Joke of the century

Idiots!!!

turbotech11:
In sane climates before such an exercise is to be carried out,NIMC should have consulted with relevant stake holders most especially the health sector as the exercise is bound to attract mammoth crowds during a pandemic..This really goes to show that these guys don't really care about the common man...The (real) intention behind this forceful NIN registration at a perilous time like this has not been revealed.....Make we dey watch

Just corruption!!! Budgeted and must be spent

Una head dey hot......still thinking?

Link all BVNs to NIMC database and make it easier for people to obtain NIN.








#Covidiot

Too little too late as the deed has been done! Many more lives lost, businesses brought down and bleeding. Many families are rendered homeless, many more are jobless now. We cried of unemployment but we just increased it and freed many criminals into the society. #EndSARS yes we say! But unscrupulous elements will unleash more terrors soon, pray tears � no more in the coming days. Peace remains the best. It is well with Naija.

Same Governor your Party scored F9 just few months ago. Same 3 credit Governor of 2016. PDP tax collectors are enjoying failure Obasek billions.

Who cares? Has he been able to deliver to the Party in his locality even when he was National Chairman. Paper weight political benefactor.

Always talking like he was never there....empty barrel. Media propaganda is too much.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/the-oshiomhole-bombshell-obaseki-betrayed-me-edo-people/

COMRADE Adams Oshiomhole, the immediate National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Edo State, X-rays Saturday’s governorship election which, he says, his party would win convincingly, how he fell out with his successor, Governor Godwin Obaseki, just as he calls for peace amidst rising tensions of violence in the state. Excerpts.

How has the campaign been after moving around with the candidate of your party? What have been your feelings, observations interacting with the people again after you left office?have been quite excited to see the worth of the people across the 18 local government areas, people are extremely warm and they are excited seeing me after four years. It is like what more do I expect from a public office other than to govern a place for eight years, go back there after four years and I have been succeeded by a governor who has turned hostile, who tried to destroy my legacies and even lied effortlessly on a variety of issues, but to find that the people are not fooled and they have very fond memories of my time, my style and so on and so forth?

It goes beyond physical infrastructure, social infrastructure and all of the things that we did then. I remain proud that the people are quite appreciative. Even the human touch, the recognition that you are just another guy down the road that God has favoured using people to make you the governor which is very transient and that there is life after it.

Everywhere I go, when I see elderly women, I can notice them from the crowd saying “yes, that is him, look at him”. I can see the joy in them; so it cannot be better. I am so fulfilled and happy that I am able to join the candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, across the 18 local government areas, across the 192 wards. Besides the fact that I enjoy doing that to support him, it also helped me to also renew my bond with the people of Edo and I find it extremely exciting and fulfilling.

What are the chances of the APC in this election considering that you are contesting against an incumbent governor?

Now, incumbency can be an advantage and at the same time it can be a liability. When a governor has performed, then you can use the slogan ‘tested and trusted’, but when a governor has failed woefully like Obaseki, he is tested and failed and it is not difficult.

But my problem with the media is that you don’t report all that you see, you edit yourself out, otherwise I will pose the question to you, in all the rallies you have attended, when the question is put to the people “do you have a new school in your neighbourhood?” the answer is always “no” and there is always the cry, “we do not have teachers”. A royal father told us he had two and a half teachers in the school in his community and I was like “two and a half teachers, how?” He said because they are only three, one is the Principal and out of the other two teachers, one will retire in December and if Obaseki remains as a governor, he will be left with two; so, on education, it is zero, you can’t teach people without teachers and he lied effortlessly and a section of the media indulge him when he talks about EdoBEST, he even paid for plastic award.

How can you talk about EdoBEST when a government has closed the College of Education where teachers are trained in formal, structured academic manner and you are using consultants, some of whom have never taught and you pay those consultants N1.5m per teacher? If you want to read education in the University of Benin, you will not need N1m for a four-year degree programme to be able to teach, so all these are just fraudulent things that I am shocked that Obaseki has got himself into.

You heard people saying “we have had no light for four years” and Obaseki goes to those communities like Ilushi and says “I know you have no light for four years, but if you elect me, in three months I will give you light” and the people are like “so, you can fix it in three months, what you have refused to do for us in four years” and they just laugh at him.

There are fears of violence ahead of the election and during the election…

I believe that there will be no violence; it is a pity that most commentators have made that a big issue, but also the commentators derive their take off points from the comments made by the governor and his deputy and even lately the wife of the deputy governor. The governor had started about a year ago saying his second term is not negotiable and, according to him, he deserves it and he earns and he will have it. Now that in itself is a foundation for violence because if it is not negotiable, it means nobody will contest against you. He holds the view that it is his fundamental human right to remain governor; that undemocratic pronouncement laid the foundation for the tension.

Second is again the media; I came here to Benin at the invitation of the Oba and, when I went out in the night, I was told by my orderly that some people had arranged truck loads of thugs and they were throwing stones into my compound shouting all kinds of slogans. He said he had called the police and, by the time I got home, I met close to 100 policemen and they told me they had dislodged them. Till today why they did that, I don’t know.

The same policemen that came to my rescue, when the issue became public, then police commissioner shamelessly denied that there was such incident; rather, he said he gave me more than 25 policemen to escort me to Oba’s palace and back to the airport. So the question is why will a Nigerian citizen require 25 policemen to escort him from here to Oba’s palace less than seven minutes drive? Those who were involved in that exercise, I got their names, I did a petition, they were invited, some of them confessed, they had video where they recorded and they were boasting how they came to my house and police let them off and I said to the police “this is how crime starts”.

The second incident, I was coming to Benin for the burial of the mother of Hon. EJ Agbonayinma. I was on my way to the airport and I got information that thugs were at the airport, they had sent thugs because Obaseki’s people did not consent to my coming to Benin and I called the CP, he said the matter was under control but, by the time I got to the airport, the CP called to say I should better stay away because the thugs were too many and I said to him “these are the names you have been given that are in the airport”. He said the governor has immunity and I asked “do the thugs have immunity too?” He said I should just stay away from Benin. I told the CP he was joking, that I was going to come to Benin and he should go and do his job.

I came and on landing, he called that I should stay away but I said I was there at the tarmac. I was shocked to find out the entire airport road was blocked with police supervising the blockage and they were making bonfire on the airport road, destroying that beautiful road, but I came down with the efforts of the air force personnel.

It took me an hour and a half instead of seven minutes to drive from the airport to my house. I went for that function, I came back and my attention was drawn by my security that they blocked the two entrances on the street to my house with Edo State Waste Management Board vehicles. I called the Inspector General of Police that I was under siege and he directed the CP to intervene.

The CP sent more policemen and himself came and I was shocked when he said that they went to see Obaseki and he agreed that he (governor) ordered the blockage because he did not want me to hold any political meeting in my house. In his naivety, he thought those harsh, repressive and undemocratic measures he took will scare me and other people from asking questions about his second term. In that case, he forgot my background. In the night, they set one of the trucks near the transformer on fire and their calculation is that because the transformer is close to my house, it will explode and possibly affect my enemy, yet nobody was arrested.

Many people complained when they dropped explosives in Chief Francis Inegbeneki’s house in Benin, at the residence of the party Secretary Lawrence Okah, at the office of former Attorney General Henry Idahagbon and five other party leaders; this is not to add the ones he used bulldozer to destroy their hotel. Somebody who has gone to court and the court was to deliver a ruling on Friday and, on Wednesday, he sent bulldozers to level the place, a 32-room hotel and he once had a political meeting in that hotel. All of these laid the foundation for the tension people are talking about.

The governor is on record, now the world is so sophisticated that nobody can escape, the media cannot kill any story so you Google it you will find where Obaseki was threatening that if I come to Edo without permission from him, he will deal with me decisively, he will tell me he is the executive governor of this state. About four weeks ago, on television, he said if they want violence “I will give them violence, I will tell them I am the governor of this state”.

When a governor talks like that, what do you expect his followers to do? Not done, about three weeks ago, Obaseki said himself and his deputy are the only two people who have immunity in this state and any other person, no matter what he was before and you know “what he was before” is referring to, “I will deal with him ruthlessly” and his supporters replied “you will give him wake and see treatment”. So when the emperor talks like that, he laid the foundation for this tension. I challenge these commentators, including the media, to show me anywhere I made any violent statement.

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When Omonoba was warning Philip Shaibu publicly, some were shouting partisanship. Oba of Benin knows exactly danger species among them all. PDP are merely crying foul just to nail Oshiomole and APC .

Polls was to suggest candidates to attend the Debate since the slots are limited. Can Pro Obasek goons think at all? It could means all oppositions want failure Obasek to come and nailed himself which is normal.
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Lies!!! This is media misinformation. Oba warned of this.

Foolish man !!! A known criminal pointing fingers and crying foul. You that can chase armed thugs without weapon, what are you scared off. Unrepentant liar.

But you are already godfather yourself to 7 law lawbreakers figure head kangaroo nocturnal HOA

That makes a fool!

....but beginning of tax collectors

Happy birthday Kongi...More grace Sir!

Incorrect penalty decisions were made by the video assistant referee in all three of Thursday's games, the Premier League has told BBC Match of the Day.

Bruno Fernandes won a spot-kick which he scored in Manchester United's 3-0 win over Aston Villa.

James Ward-Prowse hit the bar after a disputed penalty as Southampton drew 1-1 with Everton.

And Tottenham should have had a penalty for a Joshua King shove on Harry Kane in a 0-0 draw with Bournemouth.

The Premier League confirmed United and Southampton should not have been given penalties, but Tottenham should have been awarded one.

Former Everton midfielder Tim Cahill, a Match of the Day pundit, said a former player should be involved to work alongside the VAR at Stockley Park.

"I think that would really help them, to understand the movements," the former Australia international said.

"When a player falls to buy a penalty you can feel it. It must need a player there to give advice on what the player is doing."

"They're there to make the big decisions and they can't do it. It's really disappointing."

Fifa is taking over direct responsibility of VAR from football rulemakers IFAB and is expected to insist on greater consistency across more than 100 global leagues, on issues such as the use of pitchside monitors.

There has been confusion in the Premier League, with referees' chief Mike Riley limited the use of monitors because it slowed the game down.

1. Mourinho: 'Powerful people do not like to be criticised'
Harry Kane VAR shout
Tottenham were not given a penalty for this Joshua King shove on Harry Kane
Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho said "everyone in the world" thought his side should have had a penalty, apart from video assistant referee Michael Oliver.

King pushed Kane in the back as he defended a cross but referee Paul Tierney did not award a penalty and Oliver chose not to intervene.

Oliver, who will referee Sunday's north London derby against Arsenal, was also the VAR official when Kane had a goal ruled out in Spurs' 3-1 defeat by Sheffield United last week.

"The game had the most important moment - you know when, you know who," said the Spurs boss.

Mourinho told BBC MOTD he feels "powerful people do not like to be criticised".

Asked to clarify who he was referring to, Mourinho told Sky Sports: "The same referee that was the VAR against Sheffield United. In the world, everybody knows that is a penalty. And I say everybody, I mean everybody.

"Like Sheffield, the man of the match was not one of the players. But at Sheffield I could blame myself and the players, today I could not do that."

BBC Match of the Day pundit Dion Dublin said: "It's clear because Harry is setting himself ready to head that ball and he gets fouled. It is a penalty."

2. Smith: 'Disgraceful decision' to give United penalty
Manchester United got a penalty when Bruno Fernandes span into Ezri Konsa
Bruno Fernandes benefited from the penalty he won - by scoring his eighth Manchester United goal
Moments after Trezeguet hit the post for Villa, United won a penalty which Fernandes converted to set them on their way to a 3-0 win.

The Portuguese pirouetted on the ball and appeared to catch Villa defender Ezri Konsa's leg - but referee Jon Moss awarded a penalty, a decision supported by the VAR.

Fernandes scored from the spot to set United on their way to victory and leave Villa four points from safety.

The Premier League match centre told Match of the Day: "It was the wrong decision. It should have been overturned by VAR but wasn't and should actually have been a foul on Konsa."


Aston Villa manager Dean Smith calls VAR’s decision on Man United's penalty ‘baffling’
Villa boss Dean Smith called it a "disgraceful decision".

"I can understand Jon [Moss, referee] getting it wrong but I don't know what VAR are looking at," he said. "They have a screen they can go and look at it but they don't seem to be bothered.

"Fernandes is trying a double drag-back - his first touch is on the ball, his second touch is on Ezri Konsa's shin."

His Manchester United counterpart, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, disagreed.

"I think it's a penalty. The boy sticks out his leg, Fernandes does a fantastic Zidane, Maradona turn and he lands on him," he said.

Dublin, who played for both clubs, said: "It's clearly, in our opinion, not a penalty.

"Anybody who has played the game knows what Fernandes is trying to do. He does the turn and he gets it wrong. He puts his stud on Konsa's shin. It changed the game.

"VAR is there to say has the referee made an error and they didn't think he had. That might cost Villa millions."

Cahill said: "It's a big mistake. I feel for Aston Villa. This totally goes against them. VAR needs to step in and it needs to protect the players as well."

3. Saints' disputed penalty
Southampton got a penalty when James Ward-Prowse seemed to fall towards Ande Gomes
Southampton got a penalty when James Ward-Prowse seemed to fall towards Ande Gomes
The Premier League also confirmed Southampton should not have had a penalty against Everton.

Ward-Prowse appeared to fall into the standing Andre Gomes, although he missed the penalty as he hit the crossbar.

"The performance of the referee was like my team, not so good," said Everton boss Carlo Ancelotti.

"Straightaway we said no penalty," said MOTD pundit Cahill.

Analysis - BBC football reporter Simon Stone
The pre-planned move for Fifa to manage the implementation of VAR comes at the end of a four-year process as it was phased into elite football.

Although Fifa has declared VAR to be 'a universal success', the lack of pitchside monitors in the Premier League went against the general guidance and the anticipation is Fifa will expect this to be used more extensively.

In addition, rules around handball, offside and goalkeepers standing on their lines for penalty kicks will all be dealt with through Fifa, with clarification expected for next season which individual leagues will be expected to adhere to.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/53357841