Okealaaye:


Embittered Omo Eboe spotted! To you it's the Zoo, but it is the Fatherland to us! You see that Aso Rock villa, it is No No to Afghaneasterns. Make we teach you to play national politics, you no gree.

Okealaaye:



Ousmane Yara Explains Tinubu’s Link With Guinea, Addresses Helicopter

A few days after a viral video showing President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in a helicopter belonging to the Guinean government surfaced, the man at the centre of it all, Amb. Ousmane Yara, has exclusively revealed to Daily Sun what transpired.

In a chanced meeting with Daily Sun in a highbrow Abuja hotel on Sunday, Yara opened up on the relationship Tinubu, former Guinean President, Alpha Conde and him had.

He also shed light on Tinubu’s special recognition by the Guinean government under Conde.

Yara, a Guinean, who is Ambassador African Union (AU) Agenda 2063, told Daily Sun that the viral video was shot sometime in 2016 when Tinubu visited Guinea as guest of then President Conde during the country’s independence anniversary celebration.

He said that Tinubu, him (Yara) and Sanwo-Olu, who was not governor then, were travelling in the helicopter from Guinean capital to Mamu, in the Fula region of the country, to attend independence anniversary celebration, as, according to him, then President Conde used to move the state function related to the anniversary from region to region every year, when he was in power.

Yara revealed that Tinubu first visited Guinea in 2015 after he hosted former President Conde in Lagos earlier. According to him, the president-elect’s attendance of Guinea’s independence anniversary celebration in 2016 was his second as guest of former President Conde.

He said: “Through one of Tinubu’s aides at that time, who is now a minister in the government of Nigeria, I facilitated a meeting between President Conde and Tinubu. President Conde was going for reelection, for the second term, in office then in 2015. He came to Nigeria to see Tinubu, who organised a dinner in his honour. At the dinner, Tinubu invited many Nigerian businessmen and others.

“President Conde then invited Tinubu to Guinea about one month to the election for his second term. Tinubu honoured the invitation and came with a team of economic experts and businessmen, who took time to discuss with Guinean government officials how the country could better harness its resources for economic prosperity and development.

“Tinubu spent only one day and travelled to London from there, but left the team he came with to continue engagement with Guinean officials on how to transform Guinea. The team and Guinean government officials worked for three days, and came up with an economic roadmap.”

Amb Yara said that thrilled by Tinubu’s support for his reelection and for bringing the team that worked with Guinea officials to chart an economic and development agenda, President Conde invited Tinubu to the independence anniversary in 2016.

“President Conde invited Tinubu to the independence anniversary. Since the official function at every independence anniversary was done in different regions, Tinubu was required to fly from the country’s capital, in a helicopter, to Mamu, where that year’s event held. That was the video being circulated. At the independence anniversary celebration, President Conde gave Tinubu the honour and privilege of a president, in appreciation of what he did for him during his reelection bid and towards economic development of Guinea.”

Yara said it was in order to show appreciation to Tinubu that former President Conde gave him a “Special Envoy” status.

“Conde recognised Tinubu as a pan-Africanist and saw him as a special envoy,” Yara said.

The AU Ambassador said that governments extend honorary citizenship to important people who may not be their citizens as a mark of recognition of their contributions to socio-economic and political developments in the countries, which does not make such persons citizens of the countries.

Daily Sun findings from Wikipedia is that honorary citizenship is a “status bestowed by a city or other government on a foreign or native individual whom it considers to be especially admirable or otherwise worthy of the distinction. The honour usually is symbolic and does not confer any change to citizenship or nationality.”

Yara said Tinubu, being a friend of Conde, is not strange as individuals and politicians all over the world have presidents as friends.

He revealed that many Nigerian politicians and businessmen were friends of Conde when he was in power, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and President Muhammadu Buhari, who hosted the former president in Abuja.

Amb. Yara, in a bid to authenticate what he said, put a video call through to former President Conde, who has been living in Turkey since he was ousted from office in 2021.

Conde, answering a question on his relationship with Tinubu, said: “Tinubu is the biggest pan-Africanist I have seen. Before I met Tinubu, I had noted his accomplishments, right from when he was governor. I see him as a ‘Lion of Africa’ because of his contributions towards the stability and development of Africa. He has always supported African presidents who were pan-Africanists in disposition and others.”

Conde confirmed that he recognised Tinubu as ambassador extraordinaire (special envoy) of Guinea, while promising to speak in details about the president-elect in due course.

The former president expressed confidence in the ability of Tinubu to do well as president.

He noted: “I am convinced that Tinubu’s leadership will be good for Nigeria. Nigeria is a country other West African nations look up to. I am happy for Tinubu. Anything he may require of me to make his government successful, in my personal capacity, I will willingly do. He helped us in Guinea and I will never forget that. Nigerians should pray for the success of Tinubu’s government because his leadership will be impactful.”

Bvlgari:

kpompey:

Who is the real bigot. The illiterate tiger seller and igbo choir member backing him in their igbo market.

Funkyswagzz:


All this explanation is irrelevant besides am not even interested in the dual citizenship. My concern is the drug case the original copy is there. If nigerians can allow someone like tinubu to be our president that mean if pablo escobar was a nigerian he would have been a nigeria president as he inspired to be one in columbia and people like you will praise him. Im sorry to say buh i think you guys are bunch of lunatics or you are suffering from psychotic disorder cos i dont know if you guys are ok mentally.

Funkyswagzz:


All this explanation is irrelevant besides am not even interested in the dual citizenship. My concern is the drug case the original copy is there. If nigerians can allow someone like tinubu to be our president that mean if pablo escobar was a nigerian he would have been a nigeria president as he inspired to be one in columbia and people like you will praise him. Im sorry to say buh i think you guys are bunch of lunatics or you are suffering from psychotic disorder cos i dont know if you guys are ok mentally.

Okealaaye:



Seen this before? It's written by a bona fide Eboe!

zomby:

Tiger has just been deported from UK like a sack of fake rice. I heard he was deported because of tax issues...

Funkyswagzz:


All this explanation is irrelevant besides am not even interested in the dual citizenship. My concern is the drug case the original copy is there. If nigerians can allow someone like tinubu to be our president that mean if pablo escobar was a nigerian he would have been a nigeria president as he inspired to be one in columbia and people like you will praise him. Im sorry to say buh i think you guys are bunch of lunatics or you are suffering from psychotic disorder cos i dont know if you guys are ok mentally.

Funkyswagzz:


And he won anambra while tinubu lost in lagos. Maybe peter obi rigged the election right? Where was these guys when they were conducting presidential election in anambra?😂😂🤡

Okealaaye:

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Funkyswagzz:


Oga wetin concern me with guinea president. Who even know him before this drug saga. Look at how u are dragging ur so called president elect down by urself. You guys should deal with the mess uve created be rest assured no one is a kid we dey here dey watch u.

tsdarkside:


shattapu....!!
mama teresa....olodo....!!

Okealaaye:


Tinubu victory de gnaw at your innards! Like it should have been an Eboe man, say Peter Obi ehn? Learn to live in sanity with the reality of the next 8 years of Tinubu presidency. There's ABSOLUTELY nothing you can do to change that. It's obvious you did not learn any lesson from your maligning Buhari since 2015 with no benefits and advantages redounding to you and your clansmen! Tell me Eboe boy, why do you hate anything bearing he imprimatur of the Yoruba this much? Yet you'll be the first to wail bigotry and tribalism!

Okealaaye:


Liar! Better put: Biafrans love Peter Obi so much! You think say us Nigerians no get sense to come love an Unpaid Labourer? Nevertheless! You and the Failed Scam Peter Obi make me laugh four times, viz:

xamuel17:



Very soon u guys will start blaming Igbos for your weak erection.

The more you hate, the more we keep buying up all your lands and making more money.

Funkyswagzz:


Hmm na d first time person dey win election for nigeria? Oga u dey mumu i swear why una no make noise like dis when obasanjo was a president. Tinubu is clearly using u guys like lap dogs and u are here defending him with ur last blood. Better wise up and do something sensible with ur life cos u wont gain a federal job ozuo!

Okealaaye:


Obasanjo ke? Who tell you say Obasanjo be Yoruba? Obasanjo na Nigerian o, im no be Yoruba! Tinubu de use us like lap dogs. So, Obi no de use you guys like lap dogs? You people are fond of complaining about the things you too do all the time! Meanwhile, your basic problem is that you think Nairaland is peopled by paupers like you!

Funkyswagzz:


Wait u said we igbos hate yoruba buh the yoruba in lagos want igbos out. You see why i say u are stupiid. Talking with you is just point cos ur mental capacity is too low. Bdw i read the first few lines the rest is mumbo jumbo

IrawoKross:
Check in to rehab for relapse

Get busy, get productive, time na money, make it like that man

Funkyswagzz:


Wait u said we igbos hate yoruba buh the yoruba in lagos want igbos out. You see why i say u are stupiid. Talking with you is just point cos ur mental capacity is too low. Bdw i read the first few lines the rest is mumbo jumbo

tsdarkside:


go get real jobs and not sittin in 2x2 shops....awon olomo kiosk....

IgweOfNnewi:
I am not disappointed , he is Igbo as predicted, the igbotic manipulative accent is conspicuous and unhidden, the man is still licking wounds of defeat, just like chimamanda the Igbo tribalistic girl and like their yes daddy religious bigot daddy

Okealaaye:


Eboe boy don become dry! You're now bereft of answer. Na so you and your folks go carry your bitterness for the next 8 years! There's no peace for the wicked.

kpompey:

And your village gutter keep deteriorating

xamuel17:


Says a man that have never visited the southeast, keep living in your bubble