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16 Muslims out of over 50 aides? Is that a pass mark? But then, the problem is beyond bigotry. If majority of Nigerians say they want Osinbajo, so be it, as long as the proces that produces him is free and fair.

They'll soon ask for the release of names & positions of Christians in the VP's office; while the decision to release this video is intended - I believe - to dismiss allegations that Prof. Osinbajo is a bigot, those sponsoring these allegations may well be justified if he has far more Christian appointees in his office & they occupy better offices.
But really, do all this really matter? Politics of religion, ethnicity?

tamdun:
Trust me, Tinubu's own is well balanced compared to that of osinbajo

yeah just that is too sickly to govern dude's can't even held a mobile phone had to used both Arms

SenatePresdo:
As if it was the Aso Rock Houseboy that appointed those ones by himself.


Judas Osinbajo is a Pastor and a religious Bigot, he cannot be given the most powerful position in Nigeria.

We don't need bigots, be it a Christian or a Muslim.

No vex if he no allow you thief government money.

some people accused him of not having northerners as his staff, that is why he is clearing the air, to avoid rumor mongers dishing fake news.

Chriswazo:
Rubbish PR. What does it have to do with capability and good governance

zakari123:
Do we need this what kind of thing is this, this small criticism you can't with stand but want to Govern a country like Nigeria

i share your thoughts. This is pedestrian.

SenatePresdo:
As if it was the Aso Rock Houseboy that appointed those ones by himself.


Judas Osinbajo is a Pastor and a religious Bigot, he cannot be given the most powerful position in Nigeria.

We don't need bigots, be it a Christian or a Muslim.

I agree with you.

It's bad enough to be a religious bigot, the imagine being a pretentious one for that matter....that one is even more dangerous


Na die be dat...oshigbanjo odale shoud GTFOH

TheNiceGuy:
Out of how many appointments made?

Because you're all Hypocrites.

If this were to be Buharis's appointment, you all will let the hell loose with Islamization noise.

out of 40. So you expect all of them to be Moslems abi? Na only Una get Nigeria . how many aides does buhari have and how many are Christians. Desperate primitive hyprocrite

Safyqueen:
Osinbajo’s RCCGification Part of Plot for Theocratic State Capture
By Farooq A. Kperogi

Let me start by making it clear that most of the liberal RCCG members I’ve interacted with over the last few weeks don’t support Osinbajo’s overt bigotry in favor of the church.

Several of them are embarrassed by it—the same way that I’ve been embarrassed by Buhari’s favoritism toward northern Muslims. So, please don’t understand me as demonizing the RCCG, which I believe is a great spiritual sanctuary and source of hope for many.

Now, let’s get started with empirical facts and end with a conceptual wrap-up of what Osinbajo’s bigotry represents, which is scarier than the facts. Osinbajo’s deceitful parade of a little over a dozen Muslims who work in his office (which includes at least two that no longer work there and several that were appointed directly by Buhari or the Presidency) is a poor attempt to paper over his vast record of deliberate, religiously inspired exclusion of Nigerians who don’t worship at his church.

Here's a list of the 80 people who work in his office. Most of them, I have confirmed, are members of the RCCG. Of the 80 people who work in his office, including those appointed by the Presidency, take a look and tell me what you see.

Osinbajo was the pastor of the Olive Tree Parish of the RCCG in Lagos. In May 2015 when he became VP, Okechukwu Enelamah succeeded him as the pastor of the parish. Months later, when Osinbajo was given a chance to nominate a minister, he chose Enelamah.

In the aftermath of Enelamah’s appointment as a minister, Alex Ayoola Okoh became the pastor of the Olive Tree Parish. In 2017, a vacancy emerged for the position of the DG of BPE. Osinbajo again chose Alex Ayoola Okoh, Enelemah's successor. That’s three successive pastors of the Olive Tree Parish in government at the same time.

But it gets even more interesting. Osinbajo’s predecessor at Olive Tree Parish is pastor Olukayode Pitan. He is said to be the pioneer pastor of the parish. He pastored there from 1995 until 2009 or thereabouts when he handed over to Osinbajo.

Well, Osinbajo made him MD/CEO of the Bank of Industry (of course with the later approval of Buhari who had no clue what was going on) when he was acting president. That’s 4 pastors from the same RCCG parish!

Joseph Chiedu Ugbo, the MD/CEO of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited, is another RCCG pastor whose appointment Osinbajo facilitated. (Osinbajo is the chairman of the company’s board.)

Another prominent RCCG pastor that Osinbajo caused to be appointed as Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation is Ben Akabueze. He was (probably still is) the pastor of the Lagos Province 39 parish of the RCCG.

Jumoke Oduwole, Osinbajo’s SA on Industry, Trade, & Investment (from 2015 to 2019) and SA on Ease of Doing Business (from 2019 to now) is an RCCG member whose husband, Tunde Oduwole, is an RCCG pastor.

Afolabi Imoukhuede, who leads the Job Creation Unit and is part of the N-Power/Job Creation Cluster Lead of the National Social Investment Program (NSIP) in Osinbajo’s office, is an RCCG member, although it doesn’t seem like he is a pastor there.

In a June 20, 2020, interview with the Vanguard, he said, “when I met him in 2015, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo took the risk to appoint me as Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation…” When he studied at UNILAG, the Vanguard story said, Imoukhuede “had come under the influence of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).”

Edobor Iyamu, one of the over 30 Osinbajo appointees that the Presidency fired in 2019, is a pastor of the Jesus Family Parish of the RCCG in Ribadu Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.

What’s also interesting about the appointments is that these Osinbajo RCCG pastor-appointees always replicate their kind wherever they go. For example, almost all the management staff at the BOI that Pastor Kayode Pitan heads are RCCG members. The bank’s interventions also reflect the narrowness of the demographic profile of its management staff.

How to Make Sense of Osinbajo’s Bigotry

Yemi Osinbajo’s unflagging pursuit of appointing pastors and members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God every opportunity he has isn’t the run-of-the-mill nepotism we’re habituated to in Nigeria. It’s more sinister than that.

It's the product of a deliberate, systematic agenda of theocratic state capture, which would certainly instigate national instability when it becomes noticeably manifest with a President Osinbajo.

You see, Osinbajo is merely the lynchpin of a phenomenon called entryism, which is the systematic, carefully preplanned infiltration of every structure of a government or an organization with the intention of taking it over from within.

Entryism isn’t exclusive to the RCCG, of course. The term actually came from Leon Trotsky, a Russian Marxist who recommended the infiltration of French workers’ parties by communists so as to change their form and character from within.

Northern Nigerian Salafists have a similar project, and it’s called “A shiga a gyara” (literally: “enter and correct it” but figuratively: participate in government to take it over from within). But they haven’t been successful so far.

So, Osinbajo’s RCCGification is particularly troubling because he is prosecuting a project that is beyond him. He is executing a plan that was conceived, birthed, and nursed by the RCCG whose General Overseer, Enoch Adeboye, prophesied that an RCCG member will become a Nigerian president in his lifetime.

Osinbajo thinks he is the fulfilment of that prophecy and that his march to the presidency is an inexorable manifest destiny that no one can stop. Osinbajo actually used the expression “manifest destiny” on March 22 to describe the expected outcome of the APC convention!

Many scholars of Nigerian Pentecostalism such as Professor Ebenezer Obadare who wrote the book “Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria” and Professor Ruth Marshall who wrote "Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria" have brilliantly and carefully captured this.

Osinbajo’s RCCGification is the fullest realization yet of what I call Pentecostal theocratic entryism. His quest for the presidency is propelled by the desire to complete what he surreptitiously started during his commissionership in Lagos and continues during his vice presidency.

I’ll continue to expose it in the coming days and weeks.

In a country divided by two proselytizing religions, religiously inspired state capture is a recipe for disaster because it will inspire a forceful pushback from several constituencies—non-RCCG Pentecostals, non-Pentecostal Christians, Muslims, secularists, etc.—which would create another layer of instability on top of what we already have.

I’m doing my bit to warn the nation of the avoidable catastrophe that an Osinbajo presidency will engender.

very rubbish,

JosephXavier:
This is a very poor and useless campaign strategy by Osinbajo's media team

What Nigeria need is a credible leader that can stand for his people

One who shows he is compassionate to the condition and plights of it's citizens bad would do all within his capability to deliver good governance

Yemi Osinbajo failed in all these aspects and came to tell us that he wants to continue from where Buhari started

We all know that what Buhari started is misery and disaster

He is not a man of his words

These are mere words anybody can say anything just to be in the good books of the other, trust me there are lots of policies the VP may not agree with the President on, well sha una get strength,as for me anybody that wins na him sabi

Dem ready sha

Lol

By seun himself

The promo is heavy

UncommonLogic:
These were appointed by others including Buhari. Stop the rubbish propaganda. Osinbajo is going back to Ogun state after 2023.

I tire o. Did he appoint them? The guy is just grasping at straws.

SenatePresdo:
As[s] if it was the Aso Rock Houseboy that appointed those ones by himself.


Judas Osinbajo is a Pastor and a religious Bigot, he cannot be given the most powerful position in Nigeria.

We don't need bigots, be it a Christian or a Muslim.[/s]

nan agbero job for Oshodi you dey drag,that's why you want tinubu, don't worry nobody will take it from you. Osinbajo all the way

All these appointees were appointed by presidency not Oshi himself, don't deceive us

musicwriter:
I hope this give you all a clue that this forum is owned by a Muslim.

Lol. I doubt it. However I believe it's never prudent to vote a pastor as president of this country, or any country at that.

[quote author=SenatePresdo post=111944744]As if it was the Aso Rock Houseboy that appointed those ones by himself.


Judas Osinbajo is a Pastor and a religious Bigot, he cannot be given the most powerful position in Nigeria.

We don't need bigots, be it a Christian or a Muslim.

Osinbajo can't be our president.


TAAAAAAAAAA
YOU ARE A PIG

Boyooosa:
I still don't understand why Nigeria is still going through all these tribal-religious sentiments when security and development stare at us hugely.

Are we sure we are going to survive this retrogression has deepen down into the hearts of citizenry

Sad!

I blame the greedy oyibo for this stupid amalgamation, there's nothing like unity amongst us. It's either we go back to regionalism or we dissolve everything make everybody dey go im papa house.

Seun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBmw7rQYVUQ

https://www.thecable.ng/osinbajos-office-releases-video-of-muslim-appointees-amid-bigotry-accusation

Out of about 250 staff



Werey ni yin

Unfortunately


Osibanjo established his personal chamber only after serving under Tinubu in 2007


Prior to that


Osibanjo was just sileku professor like any other useless professor in unilag


He was a tithe collector also




If it's by professors

So many in SW


It's about
capacity
Public administrator
Social performance in Govt
Courage
Political solutions (he couldn't resolve any fighting parties in APC since 2015)


And this short man


Want to be a spoiler

No comment before landlord evicts me

Millimann:
I like Osinbajo and Tinubu. They have paid keyboard warriors working hard by promoting their image here on Nairaland.

I wonder if they are also paid N30K.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws1RNO7gd7o

We've started again abi? These useless religious issues and sentiments are what we're going to ramble about for another 5 years. What an unfortunate country.

Troublemakers can shut up now.

This one has been paid by Tinubu to drag and demarket Osibanjo. Tinubu has started playing dirty. Expect more attacks in the days ahead to APC primaries.

Below are the names of Muslim appointees listed in the video:

Abdulrahman Ipaye (Lagos) — deputy chief of staff to the president, office of the vice-president

Mariam Uwais (Kano) — special adviser to the president on social investment, office of the vice-president

Babafemi Ojudu (Ekiti) — special adviser on political matters, office of the vice-president

Balkisu Saidu (Sokoto) — senior special assistant on legal research and compliance matters, office of the vice-president

Abdullahi Gwari (Yobe) — head of protocol and senior special assistant on foreign affairs

Olabisi Ogungbemi (Kwara) –special assistant on political matters to the president, office of the vice-president

Ahmad Zakari (Jigawa) — special adviser to the president on infrastructure, office of the vice-president

Afeez Kau (Kano) — personal assistant, office of the vice-president

Abdulrahman Baffa-Yola — special assistant to the president on political affairs, office of the vice-president

Muhammed Braima (Kwara) — special assistant on internally displaced persons (2015 – 2019); he was later appointed as special assistant on job creation

Mariam Masha (Lagos) – senior special assistant in humanitarian intervention

Yusuf Ali (Kwara) — special assistant to the president on power regulation, office of the vice-president

Gambo Manzo (Gombe) — special adviser on political affairs

Muritala Aliyu (Kogi) — special adviser on logistics

Ibrahim Salama (Katsina) — media assistant, office of the vice-president

Lanre Sasere (Lagos) — senior special assistant to the president on planning and coordination, office of the vice-president

Just look at the bolded and tell me that there is sanity in this government!
What the helllllll is the difference between political affairs and political matters?

olatuns2017:
Out of about 250 staff



Werey ni yin

Unfortunately


Osibanjo established his personal chamber only after serving under Tinubu in 2007


Prior to that


Osibanjo was just sileku professor like any other useless professor in unilag


He was a tithe collector also

Iwo no werey to ti fi ori gbale. Ba common sense.

Yankee101:
Lol

By seun himself

The promo is heavy

They must have oiled his palms for him defend and promote the vp on nairaland

Watch out for more threads in coming days in support and defense of osi-ogbanje

Jackson105:
It is only a fool that will say Osibanjo is a tribal or religious bigot.

Star boy for a reason

I'm a southerner and a Christian but I like these alligations. Though I know it's malicious but what goes around comes around. The same lies they used against GEJ is now served very hot to him. This world na table fan the breeze go reach everybody.