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| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by bajosky: 9:22am On Jan 20, 2015 |
NO VACANCY @ASO ROCK GMB ghost will be sworn in on 29th jan 3015 as confirmed "President Fed Rep of customize presidential election loosers" Gej is transforming nigeria 6 Likes |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by Nobody: 9:25am On Jan 20, 2015 |
Wahala90: The Corrupt general did! 2 Likes |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by philips70(m): 9:26am On Jan 20, 2015 |
ichidodo: I pity your family that have to endure losing their son till Feb 14th when this programming will expire. They should pray hard you can still function normally with your brain. Meanwhile you guys should tell FFK to fully disclose his psychiatric health status. 2 Likes |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by Diligence: 9:28am On Jan 20, 2015 |
Obasanjo can’t write own history – Odumakin Frontline political activist, Yinka Odumakin, is the National Publicity Secretary of pan- Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere. In this interview with Senior Correspondent, TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI, he speaks on his latest book ‘Watch the Watcher’, which was a response to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s My Watch. He also spoke on the forthcoming general elections and other issues. Excerpts: Odumakin Your book, ‘Watch the Watcher’, came out one month after former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, released his book, ‘My Watch’. Some Nigerians have alleged that you were paid by some highly influential people to attack Obasanjo. How true is that? Those who have said such things are men and women of little understanding, who don’t know what exactly they are talking about. I have been on the scene for a while. Obasanjo is a subject I have dealt with over the years. I recalled that for over two decades now, if you goggle on the net, you will see all my comments and views on Obasanjo. Even when he was a sitting president in this country, I wrote an article in The Guardian, titled The Owu in Obasanjo. Few months after the article was published, he asked the police in Panti to lock me up for six days. So, if you have read the book, what will anybody find there that is a lie? That Obasanjo’s son, Gbenga, swore to an affidavit that his father slept with his wife, that Iyabo’s mother said that he had a horrible experience living with him as his wife and that Iyabo Obasanjo recently took him to the cleaners. Like Chief Ayo Adebanjo said at the book launch, if a man said that his father is immoral, if the wife said he is not useful, if his daughter said he is inhuman, what will somebody sponsor anybody to write or say about such a man? All I have done in that book is a public service duty, to nudge our collective memory as a country, to remind this country that an Obasanjo cannot be posing like Gani Fawehinmi, because, he has every opportunity for 11 years out of the 12 he presided over this country, he messed it up, left the country in a worse shape than he met it and so he cannot be gallivanting about now and be lecturing Nigerians on what he feels is right. For those who said I am paid to write about him, they are entitled to their opinion. When people cannot fault what you are saying, they begin to look for innuendos, rumours and cheap blackmail. Let Obasanjo and his minions challenge the content of the book. In your book, you mentioned Obasanjo’s views about criticism while in power. When you compare that to the way the incumbent president receives criticism, which would you say is better? In fairness to President Jonathan, you may say anything about him. I think one of his strength today is that he has allowed freedom of speech. And like he said recently during his campaign, nobody is imprisoned today or in exile because of their views about his administration. That was not so under Obasanjo. We know the number of people who were politically murdered under Obasanjo and no serious investigations were carried out. Few years ago, two former aides of Obasanjo went on Saharareporters to say all they knew about the murder of Bola Ige and Marshall Harry. And they drew parallel that it was shortly after they took money to Harry from Obasanjo that he was killed. That they also took money to Bola Ige. Now a lot of people were kept in confinement under Obasanjo because of their beliefs. I experienced it for six days. I remember I had to go and see Gani Adams in Kuje Prison, Abuja, when Obasanjo locked him up for several months without trial. He did same for Dr. Frederick Fasehun. So many people were dealt with under Obasanjo. Under him, you cannot differentiate between a military regime and a civilian democratic regime. Today, Obasanjo is talking about Chibok girls that Jonathan did not accept in the first few days were kidnapped and he was trying to point that out as insensitivity. But, the truth is that there were conflicting signals from the security. Don’t forget that even the Chief of Defence Staff came out and said the girls had been found. And so, they confused the man at the beginning, and if I will blame Jonathan, it is because some heads should have rolled for that level of irresponsibility. When there was bomb blast at Ikeja Cantonment, he (Obasanjo) came there and when people were protesting, he said ‘Shut up! I don’t have to be here’. Blood was still flowing on the streets, yet he asked the people to keep quiet. That is the gap between what Obasanjo does and what he says. If Obasanjo were a preacher, every sermon of his would end with ‘Do as I say, but don’t do as I do’. Definitely, the atmosphere today in terms of freedom of expression, political arrests and the rest are far better than Obasanjo’s days. You heard Chief Adebanjo say at the book launch that at the time Obasanjo was using EFCC to harass Mike Adenuga, he was busy extorting money from the same Adenuga for his Bells University. What kind of man is that? Obasanjo ran a very despotic, tyrannical and impunitous regime in this country and that cannot be compared with the administration of the current president. Some Nigerians have wondered why Obasanjo is criticisng the President since he facilitated his emergence as president. Did you discuss that in your book? Criticism is part of democracy. You are entitled to criticise, but it has to be constructive and it must have limits. President Jonathan is naturally a reserved person; but, when you push him to the wall to the extent of his saying that some elder statesmen are behaving like motor park touts, which is the exact way Obasanjo is behaving, you could see that the man has no shame. Few days ago he surfaced in Abuja taking a bow before Jonathan whom he has called all kinds of names. People should understand Obasanjo and why he does what he does. I tried to psychoanalyse him in my book. I think his troubled past is still haunting him and that has made him a very cantankerous man. His criticism did not just start with Jonathan. Around 1982, he started attacking Shagari until the military struck. What he did then was called coup baiting. At a time, he was criticising Abacha. According to Bello Fadile, it was because he wanted to head the Interim Government that Shonekan headed. When that failed, he started National Unity Organisation, which was going around the country. The plan with him was that Major Fadile and other officers should overthrow Abacha and put an Interim Government to be headed by Obasanjo himself. So, you now see that anytime Obasanjo is engaging in criticism, he is preparing ground for something. There was a time he wrote Babangida and because IBB knew the kind of man he is, IBB left Abuja and went to meet him in Ota. He never responded to that letter. He knew Yar’Adua was ill before he brought him into power. On Yar’Adua’s dying bed, Obasanjo was going about abusing him. That was why he brought in Jonathan so that when Yar’Adua dies, Jonathan will be at his beck and call. He never knew that Jonathan will develop into his own man. As he was leaving Abuja to Ota, he was boasting to people that he will run Nigeria from Ota in 2007. That is Obasanjo for you. A man who thrives in confusion. Everything he does is about himself and his selfish agenda. He only gains relevance whenever he runs down his predecessors. He always paints them black so Nigerians can still make him the reference point and say ‘It was better during Obasanjo’s time’. In summary, what message are you trying to pass across to Nigerians about the man, Obasanjo, in ‘Watch the Watcher’? It is to put him in the public courts. What I just did is exactly what the English did when a notorious dare-devil died. They buried him and on his tombstone they wrote ‘Here lies a burglar. Even this stone was bought with the money found on him’. Like I said in the introduction to the book, if you allow men to write their own story, they will write it in their own favour, not minding if it is full of lies intended to deceive the public. If a person like the late daredevil robber, Lawrence Anini, is allowed to write his own epithet, you might find something like ‘Here lies Lawrence Anini, a great industrialist, who contributed to the rebasing of the Nigerian economy’. What I have done in the book is to paint it exactly the way it is, to let Nigerians know that we have come to a point where we will not allow them to write their own history. So, if you want history to be good to you, do the right thing. Don’t think after you have left office, you start falsifying history. Not only Obasanjo, anybody who tries to do that, you put their authentic history beside their own, so posterity can know the actual thing they did while alive. Your book generated applause and criticism from the public. One of the criticisms came from former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oye Ibidapo-Obe, who said it is full of abusive words, that you called Obasanjo a liar and that it is not in Yoruba culture to say an elderly man is lying. What is your view on that? I was on national television to speak on the book, Professor Ibidapo-Obe was also there. He was part of Obasanjo’s book presentation. So, I assume he was Obasanjo’s spokesman on this issue. I can understand what he is talking about. Does it mean that the professor will tell his children that lie has a different coloration or they should call lie truth? Why should an elder lie? So, if you lie and it is obvious, we should not say the person lie because he is an elderly person? I don’t know Ibidapo-Obe’s school of morality. In the Yoruba culture where I came from, there is a saying that ‘If your eyes is bringing out mucus, you pull it out and show it to the eyes’. That is the Yoruba of honour and public morality. There are so many sayings in Yorubaland that deals with forthrightness. In Yorubaland, there is a saying that ‘A man walks straight, it is only a debtor that begins to go through corners’. So, I don’t know where the professor has found his own code of conduct for the Yoruba nation. In Yorubaland, it is not a virtue to tell lies no matter your age. Anybody that understands Yoruba culture will know that there are so many social sanctions against certain misconduct. If a man is accused of theft and taken to police station, he will never return to that community. But, today, a professor is telling us that somebody who had lied to Nigerians, who has stolen public funds, should be venerated because of age. Where is that in our code of conduct in Yorubaland? So, I think it is people like Professor Ibidapo-Obe who are corrupting our youths by prescribing a corrupt code of values that is telling them to embrace the culture of calling a thief a chief because he is an elder. That is not the way we are brought up. With due respect, he has not shown a deep understanding of Yoruba cultural milieu. Let me end with this Yoruba saying, ‘An elderly person that ties a band of corn around his waist has turned himself to the playmate of fowls’. That is the Yorubaland of honour. I challenge Prof. Ibidapo-Obe to a public debate to come and tell us where in Yoruba philosophy that says that elders are permitted to lies and get away with it because of their age. Pastor Tunde Bakare recently called for the postponement of the coming elections, suggesting rather that a transitional government to be headed by President Jonathan be set up. Do you share this view? In Yorubaland, there is a saying that ‘The man who tells the truth is the enemy of the city’. But, courage is the ability to say the unpopular and stick by it and I think Pastor Bakare has shown that over the years. I have seen some political parties saying PDP wants to postpone elections and they are using some political and religious leaders to achieve that aim. It is an insult. Did they know where Bakare is coming from? In 1993, when he told this nation that SDP will lose and NRC will fail even before June 12 election, did it not happen? In 1999, he said Obasanjo is not Nigeria’s messiah and that if Obasanjo is sworn-in, three things will happen. Corruption will be on the increase, occultism will be on the rise and family life will collapse. Did it not happen? When he gave the prophecy then, there were all kinds of abuses and curses from all quarters, but it came to pass. So, it is only the enemies of this country and those power mongers who want power for self, who want to turn the country to their personal fiefdom and are promising all kinds of nonsense that cannot see the dangers ahead. In a badly divided country like this, going to the polls along faulty lines can spell doom. Jonathan’s campaign buses were burnt down in Jos, Buhari’s supporters were shot at in Rivers and his billboards were burnt in Warri. All the candidates are now campaigning in the South. I am waiting for when they will go to campaign in Yobe, Borno and the other North Eastern states. Nigeria is a nation that is founded on the foundation of lies. Foundation of lies? Why do you say that? It is because we pretend a lot. If we have a patriotic political class, what Pastor Bakare is saying is what we should have done. All these fight that is going on now, there are two major issues at stake. One, all the oil blocs are due for renewal this year. Whoever gets power will be the one to allocate the oil blocs and will determine the economy of this country for the next 32 years. Two, census is due for next year 2016. Those who are in charge of census now are talking about the fact that they are going to do digital survey, they are going to use the best technology that will give the actual result throughout the country. There are people who have held this country to ransom over the years on the basis of false population census because everything in this country is tied around population and the rest. These two things, census and allocation of oil blocs has made the election a do or die affair In the midst of ‘We want our power back’ from the North and ‘We must have our full term’ by the South. I was a delegate at the National Conference. When you look at 2009 to 2012, in those four years, the revenue accruing to the Federation Account of this country, average of 68 per cent of the total comes from the South South, 23 per cent from the South-West, and seven per cent from South East. North Central zero per cent, North East 0.0 per cent, North 0.00 per cent. Now when it now comes to distribution; local government funds alone, the three northern zones that put in zero per cent to the federal allocation take 54 per cent, the three zones that put in 100 per cent take 46 per cent. And what are the statistics they use in sharing? Population. That is why when we get to the Conference, some northern delegates were talking about 80-20 sharing formula. They even used it to design their agbada. The whole question is: If you go to election in the midst of all these, you know what you are going for and that is the danger that Pastor Bakare is warning about. But some people have also accused Pastor Bakare of clamouring for Jonathan’s continued stay in office, through his speech… (…Cuts in) It is surprising that the APC said he is working for tenure elongation for Jonathan. When he gave the address the other day, about six pages was used to criticise the Jonathan administration. He even accused the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of bias for saying Nigerians should pray against APC. If APC should come into power in this country, people should kiss freedom of speech bye, because, they take delight in criticising people. But anything against them, they will muzzle the press and do all sorts of vile things. In epitome, people will always perish due to ignorance or rather crass stupidity... 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by philips70(m): 9:28am On Jan 20, 2015 |
bajosky: And also transforming your English language through Mama Peace! 1 Like |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by nagoma(m): 9:29am On Jan 20, 2015 |
Criminals will do anything to remain in their comfort zone - the PDP Mal- administration. 2 Likes
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| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by anonimi: 9:30am On Jan 20, 2015 |
egift: If ANY of these reasons is true then the following should not be campaigning for the pretending pensioner: - Tinubu - Amaechi - Saraki - Atiku - Obasanjo - Gemade - Sylva etc. is this not the same pope Buhari who canonised Abacha as saint for not stealing our money  Association of Pretending Crooks, APC telling LIES since 1999! Kai Buhari!!! #Liberate-Lagos 7 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by Nobody: 9:30am On Jan 20, 2015 |
lawrencemleopo: stop this please... Nobody is gonna impeach him, if they can't impeach him now that APC is dominating the HOA, how're they gonna do it in may when PDP fully takes over EVERY seat in the HOA. |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by chrislong(m): 9:31am On Jan 20, 2015 |
Burger01: Why do people talk with such sentiments...if anybody is to be a thief....well then fayemi deserves a chamber in kirikiri. ...but then ur political leanings has blinded u...well ok bye...awa o #febuhari so therefore #failbuhari 1 Like |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by SailorXY: 9:31am On Jan 20, 2015 |
Wahala90:[size=25pt]General Mahammadu Buhari - the acclaimed Minister of Shaanje[/size] 1 Like |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by manutdadex(m): 9:33am On Jan 20, 2015 |
NnamdiN:u hate dem? When amaechi and co are callin Gej names, nobody say its too extreme, come to lagos and listen to APCs campain, u go fear for anybody who supports PDP and Gej, now PDP throw one punch una dey cry fowl, we dey here, hopefully forums like NL wont b Bannd if Buhari makes it...because we go stil cry come here 2 Likes |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by enesjoe(m): 9:34am On Jan 20, 2015 |
egift: 2 Likes |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by egift(m): 9:34am On Jan 20, 2015 |
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| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by Nobody: 9:35am On Jan 20, 2015 |
egift:I sorry for you.  egift:I sorry for you. 1 Like |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by taheer88(m): 9:35am On Jan 20, 2015 |
Oya goto hell NnamdiN: 1 Like |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by anonimi: 9:36am On Jan 20, 2015 |
www.nairaland.com/attachments/2046760_image_jpeg9f360c5ab7736510df54c882e9dbf188 Loved by the upright indeed. Upright ko, downleft ni  What a bunch of HYPOCRITES => Oyegun - Buhari Will Not Probe Past Corrupt Leaders Oyegun seems to be keen on elevating his idol Buhari to a higher level than pope. What could that higher level be- lord & saviour, messiah  Olorun maje! Tufiakwa!! God forbid!!! Kai Buhari!!! #Liberate-Lagos |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by manutdadex(m): 9:37am On Jan 20, 2015 |
PassingShot:well am ashamed of for u...so u will call anyone dat has a diff opinion to urs names even their relatives? And u are angry abt Fayose?? Mtcheew..i shake head for u and ur kind! 2 Likes |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by OLADD: 9:38am On Jan 20, 2015 |
egift: Op, stop your mischievous and futile attempt trying to repackage and remould a failure and an unrepentant murderer. Buhari, from his antecedents does not have a semblance of the attributes you ascribed to him. How can a former "general" who could not pass ordinary secondary school exams strengthen anti-corruption machinery? It's on record that all the activities of his govt were carried out by his deputy, the late Idiagbon and I want you to refute its veracity. Buhari is a stack illiterate, a confusionist, a bloodhound, a bigot, fundamentalist who's only riding on Nigerians' shallow mentality to brainwash us into believing he's the messiah whereas he's just a wolf in sheep's clothing. Fayose, whether you like him or not, is a phenomenon. Someone who has unseated 3 sitting governors with such simplicity, someone who even Tinubu cannot and will not stand against. He's not and will never be afraid of Buhari. Never. Stop deceiving Nigerians. Buhari will never rule Nigeria again. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by PassingShot(m): 9:40am On Jan 20, 2015 |
manutdadex: Where is the reference to his relatives?  You are his fellow bigot. 1 Like |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by dunkem21(m): 9:41am On Jan 20, 2015 |
CaptainAmerica1: Consider yourself, a family member of the Fela kuti family. Consider yourself, a family member of those who died serving their fatherland. Consider yourself, as a member of the Ekwueme family. Consider yourself as a member of GEJ family and hear people calling your dad derogatory names? Consider yourself as a citizen where a governor threatened parallel govt? Please, we can stop this hate campaign or ... Should we rather start it? ..Let's dig the archives He that comes to equity must clean his hands. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by Nobody: 9:41am On Jan 20, 2015 |
stebell: At least, he is a hero to your paymasters. 1 Like |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by PassingShot(m): 9:43am On Jan 20, 2015 |
egift: SPOT ON! 1 Like |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by kazmanbanjoko(m): 9:44am On Jan 20, 2015 |
A teacher asked his students, 1+1=? A student stood up and said 4. A man passing by overheard the answer He shake his head and said to himself My God, Jonathan will not kill us in this country Every thing has increase, Transport fare, fuel price, nomination forms, WAEC, NECO, JAMB Form Even 1+1 that used to be 2 has now gone up to be 4!! Nawa oh 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by Nobody: 9:45am On Jan 20, 2015 |
Ozin: Don't mind the ediot. 1 Like |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by NnamdiN: 9:47am On Jan 20, 2015 |
manutdadex:calm down. I'm on your side |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by mamajohn(f): 9:49am On Jan 20, 2015 |
whether Fayose likes it or not, he will rot in jail 1 Like |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by fujirice: 9:49am On Jan 20, 2015 |
So OP the thing pain you? I no know o! Now compare that to GEJ's supporters that had to deal with you people's onslaught, which is laced with so much vile that even the devil himself will grimace. My only concern is if the grand pa will accept defeat if he looses again. 1 Like |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by Nobody: 9:49am On Jan 20, 2015 |
Ozin: God bless you. |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by hermesprogidy(m): 9:53am On Jan 20, 2015 |
So on point. Fayose is a dead man walking egift: 1 Like |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by 4stylz: 9:55am On Jan 20, 2015 |
so Ameachi/tifnubu will be free from kirikiri if buhari wins, it will still be bizness as usual. Check out everyone around him, are they free of corruption? GEJ IS OUR BEST EVIL. Take it or leave it |
| Re: Why Gov. Fayose Is Vigorously Campaigning Against Buhari by infinitty(m): 9:56am On Jan 20, 2015 |
this thread is just an indirect campaign for buhari, the man that said women can never have their say in his government, the man who sends Nigerians to prison without court trial, the man that banned the National association of Nigerian students. But person that posted this indirect campaign for buhari should know that so many people out there are willing to vote in Jonathan again!! 1 Like 1 Share |
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