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ADMAF:
Copy and paste, OP- Copy and Paste! ...... This simpleton technique has existed for centuries undecided

Yes, it has existed for centuries but not without acknowledging the original writer.
Publishing other people's writings as if you were the author would be regarded as PLAGIARISM!

He made the whole thing looked like he initiated the idea. The internet is just like the world, It's a small place.

BTW, learn how to use the quote format henceforth. Always type your comment after the closed bracket...

ba7man:
Abeg, you guys should carry your neutral online activists and go.

Go and collect your appointments from Atiku.

Get behind me with this myopic views of yours.
Not everyone have their conscience imprisoned in the deceitful cage of this directionless administration.


BTW, I'm engaged and don't have to get an appointment before I comment on any issue related to Nigeria.

usmanniya:
After reading Festus Adedayo's account of his aborted appointment, I have now realised how shameless some people can be. Few days after bashing the process that produced Ahmad Lawan as Senate president, our guy was already in Ahmad Lawan's office for interview as media spox.

At his age and 'qualifications', he has to grovel before a man whose party and politics he consistently condemned. There are many opportunists like Festus who lurk around conflating their hustle with activism. I know of one 'young' presidential candidate in the last elections who is pushing his CV to a senior government official for job but will come on this platform and 'be forming woke.'

Our man now says the reversal is a blessing in disguise as he will now be able concentrate on his law school. The fact that he was willing to forego his law school education (with just two months to graduate) in order to take an appointment with the 'devils' he condemned speaks volumes about his desperation for the new job. He must be in 'severe pain' now!

I understand that the economy is harsh and I was reminded that people of Festus' age have school fees to pay and house rents to settle, together with many endless bills. But if you choose to take a career in government criticism, stay on your lane. You cannot condemn the devil in the morning and appear at his dining table in the evening.

Well done o, Mr copy and paste.
You did a great job here.

Twitter must hear this

OGHENAOGIE:
lawan failed his first test of standing his ground... let's see how he conduct himself

No wonder some said he was obviously backed by the presidency to become the SP because he would be easier to manipulate due to his indecisive characteristic.

His action in this matter has obviously uphold those assertions.

He will now feel the heat of the seat and come to realization that being the SP isn't as easy as it seems...

It's a position which directly places someone's integrity and intellect on a public scale for all to see.

At the end of this administration, it will be very difficult for him and APC e-rats to reconcile with their conscience for the misfortune they have caused this country. And that's if they still have their conscience intact.

Although I have this scar on both knees but not from s*x while kneeling on rug carpet or any hard surface but actually from playing football

OGHENAOGIE:
leave them they fail to understand that the Senate president is not for apc alone...he was even voted by both pdp and apc and I wonder the useless logic of they campaign for him as in how...were they d ones who convinced the lawmakers to vote lawan

They have forgotten already that it took both PDP and APC lawmakers to vote him as the SP

OGHENAOGIE:
shows you are clown then if you can't give a decent review

Sorry, that mention wasn't for you

OGHENAOGIE:
do they know anything...bringing useless logic of you cannot work for mtn and this etisalat... the man was Just doing his job as a critical journalist.... it's like when Man Utd wanted to employ mourinho and some folks were looking at his attitude and mourinho told them he his mourinho despite they told him to sign a behavioral attitude he refuse and still got the job....here is a man who has worked with pdp nnamani and apc ajimobi how is he partisan... it's a shame that lawan allowed some unscrupulous element to railroad him..like u said they have helped his image grow more

Don't mind them. I wonder how people who must have been within the four walls of a tertiary institution could be going about with poor sense of comparison in terms of arguments.

It's sad. I mean very sad!

seunmsg:
Nobody is talking about jungle justice here my friend.

If Adedayo is truly competent, he should wait for Atiku, Saraki and other PDP rogues that he supported to get into government. Those are the people he believed and trusted. Why work for a government whose agenda you have ridiculed severally?

This idealogy of yours is completely flawed given that you ignored the basic fact that he is a fierce critic of both APC and PDP alike.

Have you heard of the word " Modus-vivendi" Which means - an arrangement that helps people, groups, or countries work together peacefully even though they do not agree with each other?

How about asking the civil servants who do not share some of the views of this government to resign from their duties?

There's no genuine basis to justify APC's action in this matter except you wish to go wild by saying APC detest and despise the desire to work with people who show the slightest atom of integrity.

No matter which government comes to power, it is only a fooool who will agree with them all round. And it is even more foooolish for any government to expect any reasonable person to agree with all of their principles and antecedents.

oduademonest:
Just because he used big words innappropriately, you think he is a good writer? The write up was terrible. Stop reading crap. Read some good international newspapers for a change, NYT for starters, come back and tell me how persuasive this dodoyo festus is

What a good writer you must be to think this write up is terrible. Can you please show us some of your craftsmanship in writing?

Swallow your ego and appreciate those who deserve it.

seunmsg:
He attended an interview and was even willing to sacrifice his law program for the job.

Even at that, your opinion portrays a moral fallacy of trying to justify a wrong with a wrong.
The fact remains that he was outstanding and competent among his peers who were nominated for the job. How do you deal with that?

I hope you are not one of those who always try to justify jungle justice.

ADMAF:
And some lazy readers will indolently agree with you without knowing that even you barely read through the piece.

So I posted the topic without reading it?

Guess you didn't notice I was the OP

Blainz:
Evidence? Google is your friend.

He was an aide to Saraki of PDP and he was always attacking Buhari

Sorry, google is not my friend. Try and be specific with a direct link to your claim.

Tbh, Festus Adedayo is a writer whom one can scarcely mention 2 to 3 of our top Nigerian politicians who hasn't suffered the venomous bite of his pen.

In terms of true and non partisan journalism, Mr Festus is a top notch to say the least.

stanley000:
Rustication is usually as a result of lite offences such as exam malpractice or fighting while expulsion is a punishment for criminal offences like cultism,rape,riot etc know the difference. My friend was rusticated for one year due to exam expo and he stayed a year behind while another one O2 was expelled coz he was a cultist, he never got to graduate.

So exam malpractice is a lite offense in your school

I laff in swahili language

Blainz:
He was never neutral,he chose side and should stand by that side

So which side was he? Any evidence to showcase your claim?

IamPatriotic:
Shut up! you couldn't have read the whole thing and still come up with this lame point! He was desperate about being appointed.

Shut up! You couldn't have read the whole thing and still think he was desperate about being appointed. Appointment should be based on merit and competence, not based on political or ethnic affiliations.

Perhaps you will support if the government were to fish out civil servants who voted against them and deprive them their salaries as well.

ba7man:
They've already pulled him out of the Senate so the rest is irrelevant.

He should go back to opposing APC as he's always done.

You can't work for MTN and collect salary from Etisalat.

So who is the Mtn and who is the Etisalat in this case?

The man was just being nailed for standing neutral. He already confirmed that he was given the appointment based on merit after an interview session with Lawan.

One thing I strongly believe is that APC has just succeeded in making him even more popular.

You can take this post to the bank as we await what the future holds for him...

Such a talented writer deserves more.

seunmsg:
Guys is just a clown. This silly attempt at damage control is dead on arrival. You are down already. APC supporters only dragged you into the mud where you rightly belong. Only men of very low morals who lacks principles and integrity goes about lobbying a government they criticize so much for an appointment.

In as much as I agree with you, such mentality is lethal to true journalism. If everyone has to be crucified for standing neutral, it will be a dangerous trend for the society.

This piece isn't for lazy readers...

If you read till the end, you will notice what a mockery of competence and intelligence by this APC government...
This man is a talented writer but APC chose to sacrifice competence and intelligence on the sacrilegious alter of ignorance and shamelessness

The Festus Adedayo They Thought They Could Pull Down -By Festus Adedayo


I was just informed a few minutes ago of the withdrawal of the appointment offered me as the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan. I had hitherto enjoyed every of the diatribes provoked by the appointment.

I was told it was the most discussed issue in Nigeria in the last few days. Of course, it was not humanly possible for me to read the over 5000 tweets and thousands of comments on other social media. As at the time of writing this, the issue was said to be the most-discussed in Nigeria on the social media. Said to be the brainchild of some hired Rottweiler dogs loyal to some lords in the APC, a campaign dubbed #sackfestus adedayo was mounted immediately and within hours, had given birth to thousands of recruits. Many of the commentators who took liberty to harangue me have no idea of who I am and went on a railroaded binge to dress me in an alien robe.

Of a truth, I am a venomous critic of President Muhammadu Buhari, with no apologies. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Adams Oshiomhole, Ibikunle Amosu, Bukola Saraki and several others have been on the receiving end of the unkind temper of my pen. But call my attention to five pieces I did in dispraise of Tinubu, I will call yours to the three I did in his praise, at very grave danger to my life and career, even though Tinubu can’t pick me up in a crowd.

Someday when he and I meet, I hope to tell him the consequential bullet I once bit for his sake. Since 1998 when I began column-writing, I have a graveyard of public personalities whom my cudgel has whiplashed for perceived infractions in power. Give me 10 pieces I wrote in uncomplimentary review of President Buhari, I will give you 20 I did in utter vilification of Jonathan, his ministers and those close to him. Jonathan never raised a voice against me. One thing my traducers don’t know is that I have no attachment to those criticisms. I am like a prophet; once I deliver my message, I move on.

What those who are vilifying me for always writing against government should have done was to rise from their laziness and conduct an x-ray of my writing. In my close to 20 years of public sphere intervention, I am a rabid anti-establishment person. I believe that in establishment lies the plague of the Nigerian state and my writings reflect this much. Even though I am everything but a saint, I believe that government should reflect the highest moral echelon of society and those who run it should make covenant of chastity and fidelity with themselves.

More fundamentally is that my pen knows no friend or foe. Very early in my writing career, I learnt that I could go far in the people’s heart if I sided with the public against government. This was abetted by my philosophy degree background which teaches me to always look for disorder, even in order. I am a natural pessimist and see pessimism in optimism. Anyone who does a critical assessment of my journey as a columnist will see this without any equivocation.

I doubt if any government has received greater unfavourable reviews from my pen than the Olusegun Obasanjo government. His ministers were weekly captives of my acidic pen. His Chief Press Secretary, Chief Tunji Oseni, upon once inviting me to the monthly Presidential Media Chat, told me to my face that he regretted inviting a rabid anti-Obasanjo journalist like me to the event. Chief Bola Ige, God bless his soul, was the first recipient of my column’s bile in the government. He wrote Page 9 while I wrote Page 3 of the Sunday Tribune, with his Uncle Bola’s Column, even as Attorney General of the Federation.

A few weeks after the ministers’ inauguration and they were given Wardrobe allowance, I flagellated all of them, including Chief Ige, a known acolyte of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who owned the medium. When Chief Ige reacted to my attack and spoke of me in bad light, I took him up again and almost insinuated that he was senile. Rather than take further umbrage, he apologized to me. This was the Ige who, one day when I went to his house, in the company of other colleagues, once commended my writing.

Very scant people know that the governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, is my friend. A few weeks ago, I rudely dragged him to the public square over his decision to cancel the N3000 school fees in the state, so much that those who know my association with him asked if there was a dissonance in our relationship. If you rummage through the archives, you would see lacerations on the body of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, products of my unkind jabs. It began from 1999. If I have written 100 articles referencing Abubakar, we may barely find three that are positive about him. Apart from seeing him on the television, I probably saw him once in my life in the crowd.

Former governors Niyi Adebayo of Ekiti State, Olusegun Osoba, Adebayo Alao-Akala, Rashidi Ladoja received unkind tackles from me. I am very close to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State; the day I felt his decision was against my people of Akure, I wrote against him. Rummage through the archives, you would see how I pounced on Senator Bukola Saraki severally with my pen; you would think we once sparred over possession of same woman. The truth is, my writings are political party and tribe-blind. I detest injustice, politics and run away from politicians as much as I can. One thing you cannot accuse me of being complicit of is the vermin that has eaten into the fabrics of my journalism profession. While I am not a saint, I have never blackmailed anyone in my life and I have very scant veneration for the god of Mammon.

The person who nominated me for this office under contention will bear me witness: I told him point blank when he intimated me of the proposed nomination that I had sworn never to do the job of a publicist again in my life, after my two experiences in government. It is a job that almost asks for your life; where you have no respite of any kind. More importantly, all my life, I have never lobbied for any office. Second is that, I believe that my stints in government have almost killed the deposit of writing talent in me. Judging by my beginning as a writer, today I should be one of Africa’s most-read fiction writers.

Meeting Senate President Ahmed Lawan in Abuja rekindled my hope in Nigeria. Like me, he is tribe-blind. He is also very unassuming and cerebral. He interviewed me and another candidate as if we were in a doctoral defence class and settled for me as his choice. Nigerian politicians have a lot to learn from that gentleman and his politics of blindness to tribe and political party affiliation. He told me he wanted excellence and would pick whoever among us he saw as equating that score.

I have read all manner of lies concocted against me on the social media by politicians, all because they want this job at all cost. I do not have any problem with that. One post said Tinubu gave me a Lexus jeep. Those who are close to me know how mendacious this is as I have never even entered such Luxury in my life. That I was considered for the job is enough happiness for me and that, in my life, I would see a Nigerian like Lawan who has such pan-Nigerian mindset, is a great accomplishment.

I was told the job has been withdrawn. I thank Lawan for the offer. He will be my model of a good Nigerian forever. If those who spearheaded the attack thought it would silence me in my bid for a good country, they have another think coming. I can never be silenced. I will always advocate for a good country; whether it hurts Buhari or anyone.

If I had finally settled for the job, I would be doing it at a great cost. I am right now a student of the Nigerian Law School and the rules forbid my working while a student. I would have had to walk away from a painful studentship I embarked upon last November that will come to an end in about two and half months from now. It is providence in action that I am not going to have the job.

To those who spearheaded it, I have no space in my heart for any acrimony against them. It has further strengthened my belief that we must rid Nigeria of hate and politics of the stomach. One thing that Nigerians who read my column should be rest assured of is that I will never waver on the side of power or any politician in government for a pot of porridge. According to Bob Goldstein, “a principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.” I am happy that this is what my quest for a good society, through my writing, has cost me. This is my creed.

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lancelotsylvanu:
This is exactly why he was chosen by the presidency. He cannot take decision on his own.

I was also wondering if it was the responsibility of the presidency to choose his media adviser for him, but I later realized it was the reason why they all wanted him as the SP

Kyrx:
One of Nigeria problems? Definitely no.

I'm not asking for textbook definitions or similar crammed up work, but the illustration as presented by a J.S.S 3 Pupil is a big NO, the idea is presented in such a way that you would think it's coming from a primary 4 pupil.

And if that's a presentation of marriage in any community in Nigeria, then the community is headed to doom IMO. Marriage has VERY little or nothing to do with what was outlined there.

Don't mind people jare...
It's very clear that the story was fabricated, but even if it wasn't, the whole language used in the student's explanation portrays a pervert in the making. This is different from understanding something but not being able to explain properly in which case it would have been fair to award him some marks.

This member of BMC is also demanding for the sack of Mr Festus Adedayo on Twitter but went further to escalate things.

This is the result of always trying to sit on the fence to benefit from whichever side the power pendulum swings to.

Mr Festus' village people has finally nailed him


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A member of the BMC Buhari Media Center, or Council as some call it, posted a tweet which has sparked up some reactions from many Twitter users.

Read the tweet and some of reactions from the screenshot below...

Anjollyzlov:
Anjolasblogonline.com

Teacher scores a JSS3 student zero in a social studies test over his definition of marriage, but Twitter users do not agree with the teacher's judgement

Whoever posted that story is a bloody LIAR!
Any child who is able to use the possessive pronoun "whose" properly, can never be as dumb as this.

My point >>>the whole story was fabricated.

Hit like if you think this whole writeup is meaningless