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vanbonattel:
This list has been well 'subsidized' for propaganda and bragging rights

As a northerner, I must protest the lack of federal character and quota system I'm this list above.

vanbonattel:
The fear of Peter Obi is the beginning of wisdom for you.

Reno writes on the hypocrisy of Peter Obi

Parents of Nigerian children in the Southeast are facing a dilemma as close to 300,000 students may not write their WAEC exams as IPOB is threatening them over the May 30, 2024 exam date, which IPOB wants postponed for coinciding the 57th anniversary of the defunct rebel Republic of Biafra. And Peter Obi has said NOTHING. Would Peter Obi and the beautiful Oby Ezekwesili be this silent if this were happening in Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, or Sokoto?

Peter Obi seizes every opportunity to attack the Federal Government as long as the issue he is complaining about occurs outside the Southeast. But when it happens in Igboland, he will chop and clean mouth.

Four days ago, he spoke up on the Banex Plaza closure. Five days ago, he condemned the insecurity in Northern Nigeria. Last month, he attacked the Tinubu administration over the Landmark Beach demolition. Six weeks ago, he lied that Tanzania has better electricity infrastructure than Nigeria. But he cannot speak on this significant issue affecting 300,000 children.

Is this not why Professor Wole Soyinka said he is unfit to lead? Can a clannish individual, who treats others differently from his own ethnicity be the right man to preside over Nigeria?

#TableShaker

akezn:
He is a private citizen.

ALCOHOLKILLS:
Source

helinues:
Post the remaining states

thesicilian:
True. But at least Sanusi has a legitimate claim to the throne. And he's relatively an upright person. That is, compared to those around him

thesicilian:
What an embarrassment. If he was a self respecting person he would not have allowed himself to be used by Ganduje in the first place to fight the rightful Emir Sanusi 4yrs ago

Twitter: @farooqkperogi

My Saturday Tribune column on the return of Sanusi as emir of Kano. Kano’s Muhammad Sanusi II has been rethroned the exact way he was initially enthroned and dethroned: in the melting pot of the politics of vengeance and recrimination.

And he just might be dethroned yet again by this, or another subsequent partisan government, given Sanusi’s infamous incapacity to rein in his tongue and to understand the wisdom in restraint and tact, which his position requires of him—and, of course, the juddering, hypocritical contradictions between what he says and what he does.

Recall that when he worked at the UBA, Sanusi had derided then Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as a scorn-worthy “rural aristocrat” who “surrounds himself with provincials and places key posts in the hands of rural elite.” He characterized the Kwankwaso administration as “the classic comedy of the Village Headmaster in a village council.”

Kwankwaso was so incensed by Sanusi’s boorishness and Kano urban condescension that he threatened to pull out the Kano State Government’s money in UBA if Sanusi wasn’t fired from his job. Yet it was the same Kwankwaso who, for partisan, anti-Goodluck Jonathan political considerations, enthroned Sanusi as the emir of Kano even when he wasn’t the choice of the kingmakers.

And let’s not forget that Sanusi is a vicious, unashamed enemy of common people. His entire economic philosophy revolves around sheepishly advancing the annihilating policies of the IMF/World Bank, such as removal of every kind of subsidy for the poor while leaving intact the subsidies that sustain the sybaritic extravagance of indolent but overprotected elites like him.

Well, after destroying properties worth billions of naira and restoring Sanusi as emir all in the bid to get even with Ganduje, I hope the government will now get down to actually governing and improving the lives of the people who elected it.

The sense I get from people in Kano (many of whom are supporters of the government) is that governance has been on hold in Kano in the last one year in the service of retaliation. Not even the dirty water that Ganduje’s government caused to be distributed to homes is available now, Kano people tell me.

Anyway, when Abdullahi Ganduje dethroned Sanusi in March 2020, I wrote a column titled, “Ganduje is a Monster, But Sanusi Is Not a Victim.” On the occasion of his rethronement, I reproduce portions of it below:

Governor Abdullahi “Gandollar” Ganduje is no doubt a contemptibly philistine monster of avarice and debauchery who dethroned Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano because he couldn’t stomach the former emir’s disapproval of the electoral fraud that brought him to power.

There is also no doubt that Sanusi’s unrelenting public censures of the rotten, if time-honored, cultural quiddities of the Muslim North discomfited many people who are invested in the status quo, and this became one of the convenient bases for his ouster.

But Sanusi isn’t nearly the victim he has been cracked up to be by his admirers and defenders. First, he rode to the Kano emirship in 2014 on the crest of a wave of emotions stirred by partisan politics and came down from it the same way.

Even though he wasn’t initially on the shortlist of Kano’s kingmakers, APC's Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso (who is now in PDP) made Sanusi emir in 2014 to spite PDP’s President Goodluck Jonathan and shield Sanusi from the consequences of his [false] unmasking of multi-billion-dollar corruption at the NNPC. Apart from his unceremonious removal as CBN governor for his [false] whistle blowing, he was going to face other untoward retributions from the Jonathan administration, but his appointment as emir put paid to it.

Now, Sanusi lost his emirship to the same partisan politics that got it for him in the first place. In an ironic twist, he was made emir by an APC government for making privileged [if false] revelations that disadvantaged a PDP government and was removed as an emir by an APC government for his overt and covert acts that could have benefited the PDP in 2019.

In other words, Sanusi’s emirship was molded in the crucible of partisan politics and was dissolved in it

Nonetheless, Sanusi, given his intellectual sophistication and pretenses to being an advocate of egalitarianism, had no business being an emir. Monarchy is way past its sell-by date not just in Nigeria but everywhere. It’s an anachronistic, vestigial remnant of a primitive past that invests authority on people by mere accident of heredity. Any authority that is inherited and not earned, in my opinion, is beneath contempt.

Emirship isn’t only a primeval anomaly in a modern world, it is, in fact, un-Islamic. In Islam, leadership is derived from knowledge and the consensus of consultative assemblies of communities called the Shura, not from heredity.

Monarchies in the Muslim North, which have constituted themselves into parasitic, decadent drains on society, but which pretend to be Islamic, are grotesque perversions of the religion they purport to represent. Anyone, not least one who makes pious noises about equality, that is denied the unfair privileges of monarchy is no victim.

Most importantly, though, Sanusi embodies a jarring disconnect between high-minded ideals and lived reality. He rails against child marriage in public but married a teenager upon becoming an emir. When the late Pius Adesanmi called him out, he told him to “grow a brain.” He suddenly became the patron saint of conservative Muslim cultural values.

He expended considerable intellectual energies critiquing polygamy among poor Muslim men, but he is married to four wives. His defense, of course, would be that he can afford it, and poor Muslim men can’t. Fair enough. But transaction-oriented reformists lead by example.

Fidel Castro, for example, stopped smoking when he campaigned against it. It would be nice to say to poor, polygamous Muslim men, “Why are you, a poor man, married to four wives when Sanusi, a wealthy man and an emir, is married to just one wife?”

That would have had a much higher impact than his preachments. In spite of their moral failings, Buhari, Abba Kyari, and Mamman Daura would be much more effective campaigners against disabling polygamy by poor Muslim men than Sanusi can ever be because they are monogamists even when they can afford to marry four wives.

This is a legitimate critique since Sanusi has a choice to not call out poor Muslim men who marry more wives than they can afford since polygamy is animated by libidinal greed, which is insensitive to financial means.

Sanusi habitually fulminates against the enormous and inexorably escalating poverty in the north, but even though he is an immensely affluent person, he has not instituted any systematic mechanism to tackle the scourge of poverty in the region in his own little way.

Instead, he spends hundreds of billions of naira to decorate the emir’s palace, buy exotic horses, and luxuriate in opulent sartorial regality.

And, although, he exposed [what he thought was] humongous corruption during Goodluck Jonathan’s administration and dollar racketeering during Buhari’s regime, he is himself an indefensibly corrupt and profligate person. In two well-researched investigative pieces in 2017, Daily Nigeria’s Jaafar Jaafar chronicled Sanusi’s mind-boggling corruption as emir of Kano, which apparently didn’t abate until he was dethroned.

Sanusi was ostensibly a Marxist when he studied economics at ABU, which explains why he exhibits flashes of radicalism in his public oratory, but he is, in reality, an out-of-touch, unfeeling, feudal, neoliberal elitist who is contemptuous, and insensitive to the suffering, of poor people.

He supported Jonathan’s petrol price hike in 2012 and even wondered why poor people were protesting since they had no cars, and generators, according to him, were powered by diesel, not petrol!

When his attention was brought to the fact that only “subsidized” and privileged “big men” like him use diesel-powered generators, he backed down and apologized. But I found it remarkably telling that until 2012 Sanusi had no clue that the majority of Nigerians used petrol-powered generators to get electricity.

In a September 1, 2012, column titled, "Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s Unwanted 5000 Naira Notes," I noted that Sanusi was "one of the most insensitive, out-of-touch bureaucrats to ever walk Nigeria’s corridors of power."

Again, in my December 10, 2016, article titled, "Dangerous Fine Print in Emir Sanusi's Prescription for Buhari," I wrote: "If you are a poor or economically insecure middle-class person who is writhing in pain amid this economic downturn, don’t be deceived into thinking that Emir Sanusi is on your side. He is not. His disagreements with Buhari have nothing to do with you or your plight. If he has his way, you would be dead by now because the IMF/World Bank neoliberal theology he evangelizes has no care for poor, vulnerable people."
https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2024/05/sanusi-lamido-and-kanos-royal-ding-dong.html

strangest:
TINUBU 0

Sanusi 1

ArcSEMPECJ:
He will brag on hearing this but the project won't be completed. ..lols

Let him work on the inflation he has caused Nigerians abeg Sir,Personal Assistant to Tinubu on development matters....

Exousiang01:
He has become a political genius because he met someone at another mans event?

I ate at the same restaurant in London with Anthony Joshua a while ago, I should say I am now a great boxer.....

These Obidients get small small brains

Svoboda:
Building boreholes in the north doesnt guarrantee political consolidation. What structure has he even built in the north in the first place that obi is consolidating?

Lizzysamuel:
Even at a simple program, PO attracts people like bees to honey. He no need to shout too much.

Lizzysamuel:
Just as if Tinubu is inec president and Peter Obi is Nigeria President.😂

Lizzysamuel:
So they are sitting on the drainage 😂.

You will cry this night.

Lizzysamuel:
But you won't use the road.

Cry blood

vanbonattel:
No drainage, hide you face in shame.

Lizzysamuel:
Atleast I can jump on that road from Port Harcourt and hit Akwa Ibom.

I can swear with my life.

Till you die, you will never use the road.

Person wey never comot for face me I slap you in Ado Ekiti is bragging with what he and his generation can't use😂

Lizzysamuel:
Where is the drainage to the one that is costing NIGERIA 15trillion that your drug lord claim to be building?

Lizzysamuel:
Your god Tinubu is bragging today because of Road.

Ordinary road oo.

Not even industry

A whole President flying up and down because of road 😂

MEEVEET:
No tribe in Nigeria produce more oil and gas than igbos... None

Ohanaeze youths submits list of 578 Nigerians in Benin Republic Prisons

The Youth wing of the Igbo Socio-cultural organisation, Ohaneze has submitted a list of 578 Nigerian youths detained and languishing in the Republic of Benin to the Public Petition Committee National Assembly, Abuja.

The national President of the Youth Council, Igboayaka O Igboayaka and his team presented the list of illegally arrested and detained youths by the Republic of Benin in D’Akpro Misserete & Cotonou Prison.

In a statement issued on Friday, Igboayaka recalled that earlier on 30th April 2023, the council led by him made a shocking revelation before the Public Petitions Committee of National Assembly Abuja that 5000 Nigerian youths were held captive in 13 different prisons in the Republic of Benin.
The statement read in part, “During the second Summon at Public Petition Committee hearing room National Assembly Abuja on 23rd May 2024, the House Chairman on Public Petition Committee, Mike Etaba adopted the list of 578 detainees from Ohanaeze Youth Council, (OYC) as a working document that will aid in investigation and intervention of the federal government into the matter.

“The respondent petitioned the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which pleaded for more time on 30th April 2024 during the first summon by the public petition committee to reach the Benin Republic Government.

“The Chairman of the Public Petition Committee, Mike Etaba, therefore, summoned the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to appear before the committee on the next sitting, for quick feedback concerning the letter they claimed to have written to Benin Republic to get the actual numbers of Nigerians in Republic of Benin prison.

He said, ”Nigerian Youths who are doing their legitimate business are facing the Republic of Benin and urged the Committee to speed into action to rescue the innocent youths that are in excruciating agony in the Republic of Benin Prisons.

https://dailypost.ng/2024/05/24/ohanaeze-youths-submits-list-of-578-nigerians-in-benin-republic-prisons/