₦airaland Forum

Mushmush:
The obedience movement is made up of delusional, pathological and habitual liars just like your leader. You guys will never cease to amaze me. Even after your Elupee spokesman confirmed that the leaked Yes Daddy conversation was genuine, Mr Pandora Peter Obi came out and denied it and even threatened to sue the PG news. They didn't even bulge. Just like Sowore had rightly predicted, He said Peter Obi was only bragging to sue them and wouldn't because he is a liar. I watched his interview on TV where he opened up a lot on some issues. Including the "Yes Daddy " phone call conversation and he admitted stylishly. All I can say is that Nigerians really dodged a bullet. I'd rather vote for Sowore than vote for Mr Pandora Peter Obi aka him tu lai

Is this what this thread is about?

Are these things you have talked about the reason the Primary School in Lai Mohammed’s hometown was left in ruins?

nairalanda1:
No, people should do the job they are paid for, and voted for.

Simple, and no, I don't like Lai Mohammed or APC, and your point on them spending 40m for a foreign trip is germane, and on point.

But at the end, it is not the responsibility of the Minister of Information to fix schools in his village....that's the responsibility of the state government.

Granted.

But I insist that the minister of information has enough influence to either draw attention to the school if it’s not done or lobby one of the federal parastatals in charge of basic education to give the school a facelift. If anything, the Minister of Education is Lai Mohammed’s colleague in the federal cabinet.

See, Lai Mohammed never thought it important to give that school a facelift. Maybe he holds same mentality with you that it’s not his responsibility. Had he prioritized that school, he would have done it. But he prioritized telling lies and going to foreign lands to accuse people of what they didn’t do.

Okiton:


Tunibu is widely rejected
Tunibu is a reproach to Nigeria, Nigerians and African at large.
A man without state of origin no paternal or maternal history.
No well know siblings
No college mate
No primary or post primary school mate
No history ever recorded about his childhood life
Dual citizenship
A drug baron


Tunibu can't and will never rule Nigeria

Lol!

His Owambe boys say they love him like that.

That they don’t care if he goes to Aso Rock to be sniffing cocaine from morning to night.

Neither do they care if he paints the streets of Abuja white with powder.

Godjone:
I have no issues with these known families of fraud and drug cartels. I only have issues with some bastards zombies who are still using their suffer suffer body to defend nonsense. Useless youths

Very abhorable set of elements.

Don’t be surprised to see them attacking you here.

They are in chains ⛓.

They know they are in chains ⛓.

But they love those who put them in chains ⛓.

And are ready to murder you for daring to attack those who put them in chains ⛓.

They are a different kind of breeds, trust me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5dao-pibBk

Sometimes two years ago in an interview with BBC Pidgin, when queried if he would consider joining or working with the APC, Nyesom Wike shutdown the idea; referring to his party, the PDP, as malaria while he likened the APC to “4th degree cancer”.

Wike wondered why he would abandon a curable malaria for in incurable 4th degre cancer.

Well, the happenings of the just concluded 2023 general elections have proven that truly politicians are not to be taken seriously.

Because who would have imagined that the same Nyesom Wike would one day wine and dine with the APC and declare public holiday for its candidate.

More

Earlier in the day, Bloomberg broke the news of how Seyi Tinubu acquired a property that is linked to fraud; a property that was seized from Kola Aluko, an ally of Deziani Allison-Madueke.

Well, not only did Bloomberg break that news, they also made sure that it was posted across all the social media handles of all their different franchises/branches including their most followed arm which is Bloomberg Business with over 9 million followers on Twitter.

Aside Bloomberg Business, the news was also posted on their Bloomberg Africa, Bloomberg UK, Bloomberg Asia and Bloomberg Middle East pages.

Such a global recognition for Seyi Tinubu. His supporters must be proud.

International disgrace. Keep playing with Global shame!

Bloomberg Asia
Bloomberg Middle East
Bloomberg UK
Bloomberg Business
Bloomberg Africa

https://twitter.com/KadunaResident/status/1653338988743122946?t=RjNO7NioPGLiSfHhJIkKQQ&s=19

hardbody:
I am sorry to ask but is this Orji one of rhe descendants of the patrimony of the state dating back to Orji Uzo Kalu through TA Orji and Okezie? I don't seem to know this guy or maybe he was foisted on the people by the powers that be

In anycase, good riddance to bad rubbish. Abia shall rise again

This guy that was just impeached is the biological son of T. A. Orji.

He was just a governor in waiting. That’s why they made him speaker. The only reason he wasn’t the PDP flagbearer is because of zoning.

But God has disrupted that evil plan of theirs.

nairalanda1:
The problem with your comment is that it implies that if Lai Mohammed had never gotten a ministerial appointment, his village would have been forever underdeveloped

There is a state governor, a commisioner of education, and a local government chairman, to say nothing of a state house of reps member and councillor at LGA level who could all do something about the school.

If Lai Mohd fixes the school, it would be a good thing, but it would also be a bad thing...in the sense that it shows that the government is just there for decoration.

I am not here to defend APC, or any corrupt poltician. I am here instead to tell you Nigerians that there are people who are not doing their jobs here, and you are ignoring them completely. No wonder we never have development. We all want to wait until our person gets to be a minister before they can fix things in our village? What if they never get there? Na so we go stay for underdevelopment?

Some years ago, some people were blaming GEJ when he was in power for not providing potable water for his village...forgetting that there was a Governor, commisioner of water resources, LG chair, senator, house of reps, state rep....all of whom could have done something since.


Focus on the people responsible for not fixing the school. They have budget allowances for the purpose, yet they are not doing their work. Must the Minsiter of information come and do their work for them? What happens after he leaves office?

So because those people failed to do their job, therefore Lai Mohammed is equally justified to look away while the school is left in ruins? What stops him from showing leadership?

freshvine:
They're seriously mobilizing and paying. Government house car park is filled right now with hired people.

Imagine

trutharena:
There is no proof by anyone that shows it’s in Lai Mohammed village.

Headless mob just lifted a school from Kwara and ran on Twitter to self-service on it.

It has been verified that the school is indeed from Lai Mohammed’s village.

If it’s not, we dare you, APC supporters, to post the primary school Lai Mohammed’s village.

After Peter Obi, Fashola is my favorite Nigerian. Man always delivers wherever you put him. Except for power that he failed woefully after he bragged that any serious government can solve power problem in 6 months only to get into office and realize that it’s not by mouth.

The third is Osinbajo.

The 4th is Bukola Saraki.

And the fifth is Babagana Zulum.

Having said that, how are these houses going to be allocated? Abi na man know man dem go take allocate am 🤔?

Because I don’t trust that Gbenga Ashafa that is the MD of the Housing Authority. I’m sure he’s an ethnic bigot.

Lol

Who remembers that Wike’s interview where he was asked if he would consider joining APC, and he replied by saying that PDP was “malaria” while APC is “cancer”. He then queried why anyone would leave malaria to go and carry cancer.

Na the same dey declare public holiday for cancer today🤦.

And I once thought Wike really stood for integrity, justice and fairness.

I’m sure it is the fear of empty streets that made him declare public holiday so that he can order civil servants to come lineup along the road to give the false impression that Rivers people came out en masse to welcome Tinubu.

But I dare to say that Tinubu will still be met by a ghost town.

Quote me after the shameful outing tomorrow.

Lol

Watch as Tinubu Owambe boys will come to his defense.

They are already asking for Ekweremadu’s release from UK.

They are also saying there’s nothing wrong in Seyi Tinubu buying an $11million fraud-linked mansion in the UK without any justifiable source of income for such an amount.

Just like they see nothing wrong with Tinubu being a confirmed international drug lord and gearing up to rule Nigeria.

You can’t help but wonder what kind of brain these guys possess that allows them see evil and see nothing wrong with it🤦.

WorldRichest:
In 2017, Tinubu was neither governor, minister, senator, nor president.

Therefore, he was free to engage in fraud?

TUANKU:
Interpol?
This is fake news, Interpol no dey handle domestic cases oga.

It is believed that Mr Yunusa has fled the country. Now, how do you catch him without Interpol’s collaboration?

Make una dey try dey reason

helinues:
Chai, we have so many educated illiterates in this country walahi.

Interpol with Nigeria election? Are you kidney us?

Pathetic thinking you got here🤦

The Adamawa REC, Yunusa Ari, has refused to answer Police invitations and was allegedly last seen boarding a private jet which suggests he may have fled the country.

Now, if Mr Ari has fled Nigeria, how do you get him without Interpol?

She was reappointed for going to a war torn Sudan and segregating Nigerians according to State of Origin and finally asking Igbos to come down from the bus that was supposed to take them to safety?

She was reappointed for always naming and shaming Igbos who get arrested for drugs in Indonesia and Malaysia but would never do the same when other ethnic nationalities are arrested for same offense in Saudi Arabia?

She was reappointed for living a Nigerian girl to die like a chicken in Ivory Coast only to be dodging questions from David Hundeyin, a journalist who has been following the case?

Well, as long as her ill actions were against Igbos, she did well. Kudos to her!

yinkus6750:
End of the road for the Orji dynasty in Abia State.
This is the real CHANGE
Time for Oti to proof himself and move the state forward
However, I don't succumb to impeaching a governor who has less than a month to conclude his tenure in office.
They all wined and dined together for the past years.
It's now they want to show legislative rascality

Same thought here.

I don’t see the sense in trying to impeach a governor who has less than 4 weeks to the end of his tenure. Na now daybreak? Why not allow him to just do and carry himself and his troubles and go?

Meanwhile, I’m so happy that the Orji dynasty has been dismantled in Abia, never to rise again. Never ever!

It was a dynasty of criminality that cared less about the welfare of the people.

Thank God for saving Abia.

Karmaisme:
This is community primary LGEA school, Oke-ola Oro. Kwara state...
The picture is true.

Seun
Mynd44

Somebody seems to have confirmed that this is in Lai Mohammed’s village which authenticates the claim.

Tochj:
Renovation of schools is a very small thing
It won't cost him anything to even ask a small contractor under his ministry to do.
But he doesn't care about them.
He is only interested in lies and propaganda.
Useless son.
In my community,such son is regarded as a bastard.

Abi o!

That school is something that if he sacrifices his one month salary, it can go a long way in putting it back to shape.

But I didn’t even want to suggest that he should do it with his own money. I only talked about the influence he has and the fact that he can press one or two buttons and get that school fixed without even touching his own money.

But of course, like you said, he wouldn’t do it because he’s more interested in propaganda.

Aquila99:
He is a businessman, never been accused of anything, never held a political position. So d journalists dat posted d news should also go and make dia findings.

What business does he do?

nazicartel:
Seems your side is very much different ooo. My community age grades has different classroom blocks in my community. They build road, health care centers and the rest. The richest is one Ahuamara or something like that. They have produced Justice, Ambassador, professors there are morethan 3. Like when they shout. Even NDDC and state govt listens to my community within 2 seconds.... What I'm trying to say is that individuals builds structures for govt In my place. And Yes, Lai can do that for his people.

Don’t mind him.

As a Minister, Lai has the influence to attract virtually anything to his constituency. But he wouldn’t do it because he would devote his time defending Fulani Herdsmen and accusing Obi of treason that he didn’t commit.

And somebody is here defending him.

Iamgrey5:
Which stupid project attraction?

You just come up with some silly shit to justify stupidity.

The job of minister of information is limited to the scope of his office.

What if he lobbied and hasn't gotten any response.

Universal basic education still reserves the power and discretion to allocate resources to develop schools.

The ultimate responsibility still lie with the state and local government to attract development and investment to Kwara not minister of information.

Lol!

How funny you guys can be sometimes.

Between a Federal Minister and a Local Government Chairman, who is closest to power and with more influence to attract anything in their constituency?

Secondly, the Senior Minister of Education, and even the junior one, is Lai Mohammed’s colleague. What stopped Lai Mohammed from making a case for the Primary School in his village? The Minister of Education could not have ignored such request.

But Lai is not interested in that. He’s more interested in running to the US to accuse Obi of treason.

Iamgrey5:
Lai Is suppose to take money meant for ministry of information to finance primary schools in his constituency.

I mean by passing the state and local government with original jurisdiction over the projects.

Have you heard of project attraction before?

There are people in government whose positions are not directly in charge of the projects they have attracted to their constituencies. True or false?

There’s the Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) which is a Federal Parastatal in charge of welfare of Primary Schools across the country. What stopped Lai Mohammed from lobbying such parastatal to look into the welfare of the Primary School in his village?

A Twitter user @Aminaruk has posted some pictures she claims is the current state of the school in Lai Mohammed village.

Recall that Peter Obi had berated Lai Mohammed for spending the amount of money enough to build 6 classroom blocks in his (Lai Mohammed) village to go trying to tarnish his image in the United States and the UK while he (Peter Obi) was in Onitsha.

Hopefully there would be some Nairalanders in Kwara who can help to either corroborate or debunk this.

Mynd44
Nlfpmod

helinues:
Are you not the person who always claiming penguin the wise of bird bla bla. So you couldn't read the news and comprehend it before posting it on NL. I thought you claimed you are exposed? Interpol looking for Adamawa REC like wtf

Can you tell Nigerians how Buhari resurrected while Jubril was repatriated back to Sudan?

Same logic question

Can you stay on the topic? And not put both your two hands and two feet in your mouth at once?

Majesty7:
So was the property listed for sale? Do because the property was once owned by someone involved in fraud the property should be burnt?

Now buying property is now a crime? What should be investigated is that if the fund used to buy the property is fraudulent. If not, then go to hell.

If EFCC list a building for sale and I bought it. Does that means I did wrong because the house was once seized due to fraud?

Can you tell us, and the world, how Seyi Tinubu made $11million that he used in purchase of the company?

helinues:
No be this same op created a thread about interpol looking for Adamawa REC which he ran away after his ignorance was cured.

Why do some of you people like to embark in futility exercise. Make una be productive with una time so that you can be useful to your community

I posted a news piece as reported by Peoples Gazette and you say I misinformed? Take that to Peoples Gazette.

About Tinubu, I’ve told you that I’m a man principle and I don’t care if Tinubu rules Nigeria for 8 years, I will always be here to remind the world that he’s a criminal, a drug baron, a liar, and represents everything wrong in a society; that he’s the worst of us who got to where he is through establishment of a criminal structure.

Prepare to have me around for a long time holding Tinubu’s scrotum.

Now, can you tell Nigerians how Seyi Tinubu made $11million dollars to buy a property in London?

The son of the President-Elect of Nigeria, Oluwaseyi Tinubu’s company is being reported to be enmeshed in an $11million London property scandal; as reported by Bloomberg Africa.

A firm belonging to the son of Nigeria’s president-elect bought an $11 million London mansion that his predecessor’s government was seeking to confiscate as part of a probe into one of the biggest corruption scandals in the West African nation’s history, according to previously unreported UK company documents.

There’s no suggestion that President-elect Bola Tinubu was personally involved in the acquisition of the UK property in 2017. Current President Muhammadu Buhari visited him there in August 2021, nearly four years after the purchase took place. Tinubu, who will take over as head of state this month, has long been questioned about the source of his family’s wealth, including throughout the recent election campaign, when he and his representatives were pressed about it by local and international media.

He and his campaign have said he made his fortune before going into politics by inheriting real estate, investing well and working as an accountant at Deloitte LLP and an executive at the Nigerian subsidiary of Mobil Oil in the 1980s and early 1990s. In an interview with the BBC in the run-up to the election, Tinubu cited Warren Buffett as an example he followed to become rich.

The corporate documents seen by Bloomberg show for the first time that Tinubu’s 37-year-old son Oluwaseyi is the main shareholder of Aranda Overseas Corp., an offshore company that paid £9 million ($10.8 million) to Deutsche Bank for the property in north London in late 2017. The private three-floor residence in St. John’s Wood — a district favored by American bankers — is equipped with an eight-car driveway, two gardens, electric gates and a gym.

Bola Tinubu’s spokesman and Oluwaseyi Tinubu did not respond to emails, phone calls and text messages seeking comment. A British lawyer listed as Aranda’s agent in the UK declined to comment citing confidentiality rules.

At the time of the purchase, Nigeria’s government was seeking to arrest the house’s former owner, accusing him of going on the run while owing the country an oil-trading debt worth more than $1.5 billion. The state was also attempting to confiscate the upscale real estate and other assets it suspected had been acquired by the businessman — Kolawole Aluko — with the profits of crime. Aluko denies all allegations of wrongdoing and says a court judgment earlier this year acquitting a former business partner has cleared his name. That ruling is being challenged by Nigeria’s anti-graft agency.

Tinubu, 71, won an election in February as the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress and is scheduled to succeed his political ally Buhari on May 29. He was a key powerbroker in the merger of opposition parties that brought the current head of state to office in 2015.

While Buhari was elected on a pledge to tackle widespread graft, the country’s ranking in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index has deteriorated over the past eight years.

Buhari Visit

A former governor of Lagos state, Tinubu has long been dogged by allegations of graft and rule-breaking, which he denies. In 1993, he forfeited $460,000 to resolve a lawsuit in Chicago after US federal authorities said that bank accounts in his name held the proceeds of heroin trafficking. Tinubu’s lawyers have said he was never charged over the matter.

While staying at the 7,000-square foot London home in August 2021, Tinubu received a visit from Buhari there, according to the Lagos-based Premium Times.

The online newspaper — using documents obtained from the Pandora Papers leak of offshore companies data — revealed that the shareholders and directors of Aranda from its formation 24 years ago until at least 2010 were Adegboyega Oyetola, the former governor of Osun state, and Elusanmi Eludoyin, head of a Nigerian property group. Oyetola’s spokesman and Eludoyin did not respond to requests for comment.

Documents filed this year in response to new anti-money laundering rules in the UK and seen by Bloomberg show that Tinubu’s son — an entrepreneur active in advertising who played a prominent role in his father’s presidential campaign — has been in control of British Virgin Islands-registered Aranda since June 2011. The company registered as an overseas entity in the UK on Jan. 20.

Aluko Allegations

Early in Buhari’s first term, his administration initiated legal cases against Diezani Alison-Madueke, who served as oil minister for five years until 2015, and two businessmen — Aluko and Olajide Omokore — who won lucrative contracts during her tenure. The US government said in a 2017 forfeiture lawsuit filed in Texas that the pair bribed the minister by funding her “lavish” lifestyle and failed to pay the state energy company for most of the crude they received.

Alison-Madueke, who is based in London, has denied the allegations. She is challenging multiple forfeiture orders issued by Nigerian courts and has accused the anti-corruption agency of blocking her efforts to defend herself in criminal proceedings.

In June 2016, a federal judge in the capital, Abuja, granted a request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to seize more than a dozen properties that Aluko had acquired in Nigeria and abroad, including the one in St. John’s Wood. That forfeiture order was still in force when Tinubu’s son bought the house out of receivership 16 months later.

The ruling was made on an interim basis pending the conclusion of an investigation into Aluko that was still ongoing as of at least the end of 2018, according to court filings. Aluko can’t comment on the forfeiture case because it is still “sub-judice,” his lawyer Tokunbo Jaiye-Agoro said by email.

Deutsche Bank had foreclosed on the house and appointed receivers to sell it in late 2016, though there is no indication in court filings that the Nigerian government was aware the lender had taken over the house from Aluko as it proceeded with the seizure process. Aluko took out loans using other properties as collateral, according to the US Justice Department.

The EFCC said the buildings “were suspected to have been purchased with the proceeds of crime” and Aluko “fled the country” to avoid answering the fraud allegations against him, according to court filings.

Omokore was acquitted in February by a Nigerian court of charges related to the same allegations. The EFCC – which accuses him of defrauding the state energy firm of $1.6 billion – has said it will appeal. The judge removed Aluko and Alison-Madueke from the indictment because they were not in the country. Aluko’s location is unknown.

The acquittal of Omokore “puts to rest all the false allegations” about his and Aluko’s wealth, according to Jaiye-Agoro. Despite the appeal, “the current state of affairs” is that Aluko’s income was “legitimate and not from any corrupt practice,” Jaiye-Agoro said.

Omokore “objects to the continuous link of his name to any corrupt practices,” his lawyer, Rafiu Lawal-Rabana, said by text message. The court decision earlier this year discharged Omokore on all counts and any hitches in the implementation of the oil contracts were “purely technical not criminal,” he said.

Buhari’s spokesman and Alison-Madueke’s lawyer declined to comment. Spokespeople for Attorney General Abubakar Malami, the Nigerian National Petroleum Co. Ltd. and the EFCC did not respond to requests for comment.

Yachts, Penthouses

In October 2017, as the government that Tinubu played an instrumental role in bringing to power was chasing Aluko and his assets, his son’s company bought one of the targeted properties. Aranda still owns the building and there is currently no mortgage registered to it, according to the UK land records.

The firm didn’t purchase the house directly from Aluko, but from a UK unit of Deutsche Bank AG that held a mortgage on the property and had appointed receivers to sell it a year earlier. Aluko acquired the mansion via a BVI company in 2013 and, according to Premium Times, paid £11.95 million. Deutsche Bank declined to comment.

Aluko has no knowledge of Aranda or the individuals behind the company and “was not privy to the sale” as the bank had foreclosed on the house, Jaiye-Agoro said. The UK’s National Crime Agency did not respond to questions about whether it had ever received a request from the Nigerian authorities to freeze the property. The UK Home Office declined to comment.

The US Justice Department announced on March 27 that it has recovered more than $53 million by confiscating assets bought by Aluko for more than $160 million with what it considers to be the proceeds of corruption — including a 65-meter superyacht and luxury

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-02/a-1-8-billion-oil-probe-a-london-mansion-and-nigeria-s-next-president?srnd=politics-vp

InyinyaAgbaOku:
Did Yorubas take obj as Yoruba president and did obj see himself as one ?

Yoruba did this and that, yet, after all these years, the easy way Tinubu thugs could separate Igbos from non Igbos during the Lagos elections are neat, good looking, fair , rich looking and sophisticated. What did you do with the politics?

For them, Nigerian affair is a dick measuring contest between Igbo and Yoruba while objectivity suffers.

Pathetic!

MetaPhysical:
Americans do not understand the idea of going to another country to run a protest against your own nation as an instrument of civil activism. They will never tolerate any of their political parties going to Europe or Asia for instance to complain of defeat at the polls.
Americans view people who do that as unpatriotic sell outs.

But you understand Lai Mohammed, a serving minister of the Federal Republic, going to the same US to go to the same US and try to pin treasonable felony on Obi who did nothing but contest an election?

Why did he not do it in Abuja?