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Nature abhors a vacuum. As long as Buhari has refused to apply a minister for information, Oshiomole will continue to act in that capacity.

Why is that short ugly man always running his mouth? The one wey e no sabi e go still put mouth.

Chai....

This man go soon cause ban on Nigerians marrying foreigners
Either that or his tongue is too weak for what it is licking now hence the profuse leaking aka oral diarrhea

GEJ tarred uselu road in Benin. You won't believe this man went and ran two single lanes on each side like service lanes so people would say he fixed the road?

Why he won't concentrate on his state I don't understand. onye ara

That gold digger that oshomole married hav made him more stupid. It is very obvious the agric minister programs was d best in gej administration.

That ethiopian prost he married will suck him dry and bring his sense back. It is well known fact dat adesina brought innovation into agric sector. u want to rubbish him because he worked under gej

slyopez:
Yoruba APC members are defending Adesina because he's their own. I thought nothing good came from GEJ administration. Imagine if it's Okonjo-Iweala or Diezani he just criticized, yoruba's and bigotry are like bread and butter.

my brother, this people are terrible. When he was hitting on Noi with unfounded allegations and figures he was right now he turned on a Yoruba minister he is unanimously condemned.
Yorubas are the biggest and most Shameless tribalists in Nigeria

175:
What has Iara done to Oshiomole

That lady juice strong oooo. . . .

what do u expect frm a man marrying a girl that is supposed to be his daughter age. Just foolishness

g4everybody:
We know that PDP really mess up in certain areas, but critisizing Jonathan Agricultural sector has just confirm my fear that governor Adams is not only insane, but need serious rehab

it was very obvious that adesina was d best minister under gej,just because of cheap politics u see d truth and cover it

wingman:
my brother, this people are terrible. When he was hitting on Noi with unfounded allegations and figures he was right now he turned on a Yoruba minister he is unanimously condemned.
Yorubas are the biggest and most Shameless tribalists in Nigeria

They are all against their loved mouth piece(Osho), i couldn't believe what i was reading, look at how objective they are in defense for Adesina. Shameless tribe.

angelTI:
....and the washing of dirty linens in public continues

President Buhari has not started and you people are already jittering and exposing yourselves

Unfortunately for you and oshi omo ole, no be everybody wen go school go know book

APC has little or no interest in agriculture.

Interest of APC is only on oil.

slyopez:
They are all against their loved mouth piece(Osho), i couldn't believe what i was reading, look at how objective they are in defense for Adesina. Shameless tribe.

it is not by tribe. I am frm delta. Adesina was acknowledged all over d world by his innovative programs in agric.

juman:
APC has little or no interest in agriculture.

Interest of APC is only on oil.

if apc does not continue wit innovative programs of adesinain agric then l pity dis country.

juman:
APC has little or no interest in agriculture.

Interest of APC is only on oil.

if apc does not continue wit d innovative programs of adesinai in agric then l pity dis country.

Nelkoko:
Osho was a well respected Labour leader....i lost respect 4 him wen he started say tins he knows nothing about.....Wat a shame

when he starTed tasting d sweet juice of Lara

Querty:
the moment Osho started sucking dat juice from his gorgeous wife...he has started acting strange..

PMB should probe Lara's juice!!

buhahahahahaha

hadura29:
In as much as I hate the Jonathan govt. Abeg I no dey take agricultural sector follow anybody play ooo... The guy try for that end.. Osho baba Abeg no go there....

it is obvious osho-foolish wants to rubbish d best minister in d past govt because he worked under pdp

front247:
if apc does not continue wit innovative programs of adesinain agric then l pity dis country.

You are right.

This is a country with always bad "leaders".

slyopez:
Yoruba APC members are defending Adesina because he's their own. I thought nothing good came from GEJ administration. Imagine if it's Okonjo-Iweala or Diezani he just criticized, yoruba's and bigotry are like bread and butter.

yorubas are perpetual tribalist

I love this man response unlike one woman wey go attack anything that try question am. Oshiomole, you too watch well next time, no be everyone be that woman wey no get facts of things happening in her domain.

Goke7:
I tire o, anyway if this is truly coming from Adesina, i think he may be playing bad politics here, lots of folks thinks Adesina got the afdb post on merit whereas it was the support of PMB that made him get the afdb position. Adesina had better take it easy with the present administration, he had to delete all his anti-buhari twitter posts before March 28 to get this position.

dt be behave osho-foolish.adesina was never a politician he was forced to campaign for gej

Goke7:
I tire o, anyway if this is truly coming from Adesina, i think he may be playing bad politics here, lots of folks thinks Adesina got the afdb post on merit whereas it was the support of PMB that made him get the afdb position. Adesina had better take it easy with the present administration, he had to delete all his anti-buhari twitter posts before March 28 to get this position.

dt behave like osho-foolish.adesina was never a politician he was forced to campaign for gej

It seems the comedy Osho is playing with iara is affecting his brains.

Chubhie:
It seems the comedy Osho is playing with iara is affecting his brains.

he will soon realize it when the ethiopian prost suck him dry financially

Oshobobo keeps asking questions and keeps getting schooled !!!!. He keeps showing his total lack of understanding of economic policies by releasing statements without any proper substance or documentation to substantiate his claim.

He is becoming a beer parlour dem say dem say politician.

Bros please bring facts or channel your facts to EFCC.
He is making the fight against corruption look mediocre

PS tell us what you have achieved so far in Agricultural sector in Edo State

g4everybody:
Adesina just wasted his precious time by educating a school drop out like oshiomhole and other blind APC folks

Glad to click the 100th like.

Governor Oshiomhole should learn how to pick his opponents. Adesina is someone that the Kano State Government under opposition(APC) went ahead to name an Irrigation Project after him. If he didnt work I dont think they would have done this.

This is Fatallity. Adesina finished oshom-Ole.

Basket mouth Oshiomhole should face his job of running Edo State and stop making a fool of himself.
He has not done a good job as governor. Last time I visited Benin (Uniben), in 2013, I was disappointed on the condition of the roads; full of pot holes.
I hope a different party wins the governorship in Edo State so his administration could be thoroughly probed.

I wanted to say something more intellectual and meaningful but then i realised i'm on nairaland.
On behalf of Adesina to Oshimhole,........."go and die".

aijazNija:
Immediate past Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has slammed Edo State Governor, Adams Oshimhole, for describing the Agricultural Programme of former president Goodluck Jonathan as a scam.
Adesina, who is warming up to assume office as the President of the African Development Bank next month, said it was unbecoming of Oshimhole to tag Jonathan’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda, ATA, as a dismal failure.

In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Dr. Olukayode Oyeleye, the former minister said it was most uncharitable for the governor who was in a better position to know the success of the ATA to attempt to discredit it for reasons best known to him.
Disagreeing with Oshimhole, Adesina insisted that the ATA was a real success story and not a sham as claimed by the governor

“Foremost, it is a bad public relations stunt, not expected from the governor. Secondly, his comments detract from the ATA – a reform that was vigorously pursued and implemented by Dr Akin Adesina, now president elect of African Development Bank,” the former minister said.

” For reasons of safeguarding the economy and strengthening the confidence of the international community in Nigeria, genuine efforts towards ensuring food security and diversifying the economy away from oil should not be subjected to cheap politics as the negative impact that follows such public comments could be to the nation’s detriment.

Governor Oshiomole ought to know better that, under ATA, efficient distribution of subsidised farm inputs – also known as the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GESS), reached 14.3million farmers with 1.3million MT of fertiliser, 102,703 metric tons of improved rice seeds, 67,991 metric tons of improved maize seeds, 6,171 metric tons of improved cotton seeds, 130 million stems of cassava, 45.5million seedlings of cocoa, nine million seedlings of oil palm amongst many other crops between 2012 and 2014.

“Those inputs helped produce an additional 21million MT of food that has acted as a buffer against inflation with the devaluation of the Naira.

“At a time that the nation desperately needs to build upon the achievements of the immediate past minister of agriculture, Governor Oshiomole can only do the Edo people some good by recognising the fact that lending by commercial banks to agriculture increased from 0.07 per cent in 2011 to five per cent in 2014 while banks lent a total of N27.5 billion to fertiliser and seed companies.

“As the chief executive of a state so blessed with natural resources so highly favourable to productive agriculture, Governor Oshiomhole ought to think rather on how to make Edo more enterprising. In doing so, an area he is expected to be more interested in, should be agriculture.

“For that reason, Governor Oshiomhole ought rather to be keen on how the intervention that brought agriculture from policy oblivion to a sector that is now widely embraced could be replicated in Edo State within the remaining number of months he has to spend as a governor.

“He ought to have been asking, for instance, the erudite, resourceful and hardworking former minister, how he was able to achieve so much within so short a time.

“If Governor Oshiomhole knows how to play the politics well, he should be thinking of how to leverage on the former minister’s growing relevance at the continental level as the new head of the biggest development financial institution in Africa.

” He is supposed to be expressing interest in the increased investment in the fertilizer sector totaling $5billion from major companies such as Indorama, Dangote, and Notore.

” He should have been asking his special assistants to study how usage also rose from 13kg per hectare in 2011 to 80kg in 2014, or how seed companies in Nigeria grew from 11, producing 14,000 metric tons of improved seeds, to 134 companies doing 174,000 metric tons of seeds.

“The governor should be asking how Nigeria become the world leader in the use of ICT to reach farmers directly with farm inputs and how the World Bank is trying to scale out this efficient system of ensuring high productivity of small holder farmers across Africa.

“It is grossly unfair for Governor Oshiomhole not to recognise that ATA of 2011 to 2014 was Nigeria’s equivalent of the ‘green revolution’ that took place in Asia in the 1960s and 1970s, where new highly productive varieties of rice and wheat, and the chemical fertilisers that helped them achieve their potential, led to a doubling and tripling of yield and self-sufficiency.

“Particularly troubling is the fact that a political leader of a State as enlightened as Edo State could feign ignorance at the fact that the number of integrated rice mills, needed to produce parboiled rice, preferred by Nigerians, has grown from just one in 2010 to 24 in 2014.

“Equally worrisome is he fact that he is unaware that our parboiled rice milling capacity increased from 70,000 metric tons to 800,000 metric tons. His former colleague in Lagos, at some point, had bought as many as 56 trailer loads of paddy rice from Kebbi (a major massive producer of rice under ATA) for processing into ‘ Eko Rice ‘ brand in Lagos. It means Governor Oshiomhole’s criticism is fraught with irregularities.

“Realising that the demand for import quality-grade parboiled rice was estimated at 2.5million Metric tons (MT) in Nigeria, the gap in milling capacity prompted the Federal Executive Council to approve a N9billion fund to support private sector companies to acquire nine new 36,000 metic tons per annum factories to further raise the capacity to 1.2million MT, leaving a national supply gap of 1.3million MT that was to be met by controlled imports under the new rice policy.

“The new Rice Policy, aimed at reducing the amounts of rice imports and instead encourage new domestic rice investments in the nation, has led to new investments in rice production and milling of over N500billion, including N200billion by Aliko Dangote, of which a 200,000MT per annum mill and 10,000 hectares will be located in Edo State. Is Governor Oshiomhole aware of this?
The former minister also lambasted Oshimhole for claiming that the past government frittered away over N800billion on waivers for rice millers and others, killing local rice production and making agriculture unattractive.
He made it clear that contrary to the governor’s claim, the total amount owed the government by rice importers, who imported beyond their approved limit, is estimated at N30billion, an information that is conspicuously displayed on the website of the Nigerian customs.

“It has to be emphasised here again that it was the immediate Dr Adesina that the took up the fight against the erring importers, asking them to pay what they owed the government.

“The truth is that under ATA, Nigeria has made giant strides towards achieving self-sufficiency in rice. Between 2011 and 2014, a total of six million rice farmers were reached with improved rice seeds and fertiliser and an additional two million hectares cultivated.

“National paddy rice production rose by an additional 7 million MT and the nation reached 85 per cent sufficiency in rice production.

” Furthermore, for the first time in Nigeria, rice cultivation is twice a year, in the wet and dry seasons. We have also seen the rise of thousands of small mills fitted with destoners and polishers producing parboiled rice of similar quality as imported rice. With the new investment in large scale rice mills, imported rice will soon become a thing of the past.

“The governor may wish to ask the leader of the cocoa value chain, an illustrious son of Edo State, who served under the immediate past minister of agriculture in revolutionising cocoa production, Edo was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the efforts to increase cocoa production base through the free distribution of cocoa pods for raising seedlings in many farms in the cocoa-producing states.

” In the Oil Palm value chain, a total of 9 million sprouted oil palm sprouted nuts were distributed to 45,353 small and large oil palm estate owners between 2013 and 2015. Additional Crude Palm Oil (CPO) production due to these interventions is projected to be 400,000 MT of crude oil palm which would close the gap of 350,000MT of crude oil palm that is currently being imported. There has been well over N100billion new investment in crude oil palm production in the country.

“Nigeria’s agriculture sector has undergone major reforms and transformation in the past three and a half years under the leadership of the immediate past Honorable Minister of Agriculture and President-elect of the African Development Bank, Dr Akinwumi Adesina.

“Governor Oshiomhole would benefit from data originating from the National Bureau of Statistics, showing that the agricultural sector grew by 9.19 per cent (year-on-year) in the third quarter of 2014, up by 2.7 per cent from Q3 of 2013. The agricultural sector grew by 38.53 per cent between 3rd and 4th quarters of 2014, with crop production being the main driver, with a growth of 43.5 per cent. The Agricultural Transformation Agenda has proven to be a well-thought-out policy with great gains for Nigeria.

“It was Philip Asiodu, the former super permsec who recently opined that ‘What has killed this country is the refusal of any new government to build upon what their predecessors had done.”

” If ATA is allowed to continue as conceived and implemented under Adesina, Nigeria could reach an additional 32 million farmers by 2019, up from 14.5million farmers reached with inputs between 2012 to 2014, reaching at least 8 million of unemployed youths.

” Under ATA, a production of 7.1 million MT per annum of rice paddy was achieved With the new investments in milling, milling capacity could rise to 5 million MT and Nigeria will be self-sufficient in rice production by 2017. It is indeed shameful for a country like Nigeria to import rice
Should ATA continue, cassava processing capacity, currently just below 100,000MT/annum and a bane of the cassava industry, will be raised to 675,000MT per annum by 2019. Same thing with maize production, from the achievement of over 12 million MT/annum in 2014 (compared to 9million MT/year in 2011), we will increase this to 18 million MT/annum by 2019 to accommodate the rise in demand for food, poultry feed, and maize for the milling industry.

“For Sorghum, we will go from 9.76million MT in 2014 to 13 million MT by 2019 to cater for the increase in demand from the malted sorghum and high energy food markets. We can produce 1.2million MT of soybean by 2019, up from 700,000MT achieved in 2014 (compared to 500,000MT in 2011).

“Same for cotton, from 240,000MT/annum in 2014 ( was 125,000MT in 2011) to 500,000MT/annum by 2019, Cocoa production from 350,000MT exported/annum in 2014 to 700,000MT exported/annum by 2019; crude oil palm, production from 800,000MT/annum in 2014 to 1.6million MT/annum in 2019 and Nigeria will become self-sufficient in CPO.

“It is uncharitable and against the interest of Nigerian public to politicise issues of agriculture and food security as Governor Oshiomhole did in his criticisms of that sector.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/you-goofed-on-jonathans-agricultural-programme-adesina-tells-oshimhole/#sthash.zJRloXSJ.dpuf

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