There was no technical glitch, inec is compromised they intentionally didn't upload it just to get enough time to manipulate the results slip in favour of their preferred candidate that's all
I knew the election was rigged in Edo when I saw the number of vote tinubu got, for this Benin wey everybody dey obidient, I believe obi won Edo state with over 85 precent of the vote, people are looking at how rivers state was rigged, Edo state was also rigged too against obi, some fools we say obi is an Igbo project belonging only to the south east, in Benin here nobody knows tinubu or atiku.
haybhi1: You have no idea how much dumb you sound, regarding technicality. SA population census in 2011 cost 1+ billion, for a population less than 52 million people. US last population took place 2020, and it cost 14+ billion dollars. Quit revelling in ignorance.
Make una dey use una sense wella na abeg. I'm begging you. No be everything be emotion and attack or backlash-demanding. Ok, what have you gained in disreputing and libeling your country now? Just likes and shares! Now to what end and use? Which country on earth is perfect, WannaHowzit will never bring his country's flaws into the light for you, but quick to bring the beauty, an action I don't bemoan.
Please supporting Obi is not supposed to be an outright invitation to forget your use of brain na. Write in a paper and post on your wall, 'I will use my brain henceforth'. You may start observing changes in your thoughts, actions, and life consequently. Ire o.
you didnt take into consideration the purchasing power of each currency, the wage bill of conducting census is south Africa, and the wage structure of each country, south Africa's minimum wage is about 130,000 per month while Nigeria is at 30,000 per month, comparing both countries cost of census base on cost is not right, your only argument is our population size, furthermore, even when given the 1.3 billion they are asking for what is the guarantee that the census body would do it right, we gave inec almost 700million dollars for this election does this look at election that they spent 700million dollar on.
Dapagun: 1. You can't increase salary without budget considerations. Have you spoken with the Accountant General, Finance Ministry, is there budgetary allocations for this? Does this person understand governance in anyway?
in one of his manifesto he talks about weighing cost of govt contract with world bank standard, with the inflation of govt contract do you not think that if he can reduce the inflated cost of govt contract fuelled by corruption, with the saved extra cost alone minimum wage can be increased look at the Lagos light rail line that cost about 1.5 billion dollars when other African nations are doing same project with less cost.
Cancel your tax consultants then where will the money came from to do what you said you will do with the "money saved"?
Have you thought that the legal battle that will arise from terminating tax contracts might actually bankrupt the state? Who now handles taxes? Corrupt civil servants who no one can monitor?
who monitor's alpha beta is there transparency in the tax system at the moment, how can alpha be taking 5bn monthly from state cuffer.
Brendaniel: But this was the same person that was shouting at another senator; Are you opposition ? when he raised a motion to do something about Buhari's incompetence on insecurity when terrorist beheaded over 100 rice farmers in Bornu state.
Because Buhari promised her husband the presidency as a return favour for making him president, so people can die for her husband's ambition - This is hypocrisy
I swear that incident really showed her true colours, I can never forget the horrific news during those period of endless massacre by herdsmen, how she tried to shut her colleague up against speaking about the killings and massacre was just terrible and showed just how callous and vile she is.
In fact, It deserve the number 1 position alongside the cashless policy
lies for me the major reason is tinubu, he doesn't have a good reputation, his personality reflect corruption, cruel godfatherism, and institutionalization of thuggery, and of course his age and health, reflected by his incoherence and dementia, it was too hard to shake all this off.
Inec intentionally refused to follow it's guildlines so that they can rig the election what's most absurb is the fact the spent almost 700million dollars on this fraudulent election. Mahmood needs to be jailed same with Tinubu.
Inec that was given over 400billion could not account for it, yet they still delivered a poor job, yet this fools are asking for almost a 900billion naira for census after the census them no go know how many people be humans wey them count.
According to the 1999 Constitution, presidential candidates must not only win a single majority but whoever will be recognised as an elected president must have won a stipulated minimum in every region of the country.
The candidate that receives the highest number of votes shall be declared elected only if they also fulfill a quota of 25 percent of the total votes cast in about 24 states including the Federal Capital Territory.
lol una don dey quote constitution, abeg try quote the jail term limit for fraud too make we know how many years tinubu go spend for jail, fyi he won 19 states and got 25 percent in some others making the minimum 25 percent in 25 states
the pdp situation room also confirmed this, I watched a pdp chieftain confirming that from their situation room lp was approaching 1 million vote while tinubu and apc was still struggling to get 100 thousand, they have the evidence from the various polling unit same with lp, tinubu didn't even get 25 percent in his home ground yet urchins want us to believe these false numbers from inec, evidence plenty even in my sister's polling unit the result no match on irev portal, only a compromised judge will overlook all this, tinubu would be disgraced and exposed as a fraud he has always been.
dustmalik: OP, we dash LP all the APC votes in Rivers and Lagos, LP still won't catch up. So what's the point?
Obi could never have won this election, no matter how you look at it. Take a second look at his numbers in the core north, he did very poorly.
Obi will be wasting his time and money going to court.
lol when you say look at the number in the north, the same way you guys were saying look at the number in rivers, until the fraud was exposed, no be your money he want spend for court, a mandate thief cannot be my president.
If only they knew the Igbos plans on ground, they will understand that the Yorubas are more like endanger species in this country. The hate is beyond ordinary.
They tell you the reason for their morbid hate for Asiwaju is his age, health and Muslim Muslim tickets. Can you now ask them the reason for all these campaign of calumny against Sanwo-Olu?
Only a fool will willfully surrender political powers to his enemies.
rest with the bullshit must every non indigene in Lagos support sanwolu, tinubu or apc, you do not speak for the Yoruba people that's for sure is jandor the pdp guy not Yoruba even the labour party guy is Yoruba every governorship candidate in Lagos election are Yoruba then why do you think for the fact that they are not supporting sanwo olu means they are not supporting Yoruba, so in your mind sanwo olu and tinubu are more Yoruba that other candidate, I am from Edo state I would never imagine in a million years that a day will ever come when I will be telling non indigenes in Edo state which Edo man they have to vote and support, and failure to do so means they want to take over Edo state, no matter what happens on Saturday one thing is certain a Yoruba man will still be the gov of Lagos so what is the fuse about people not supporting tinubu and sanwolu you guys are some of the most myopic folks I've seen in my life, this is just cheap blackmail, only fools will fall for this .
ADEGUNWA01: Leave Tinubu out of ur mouth, u ppl have bn saying for a long time, did u read the article at all. NO cause if u read u will understand what the writer is saying
look I read the article, but why is the argument still valid today, you can't deny the fact that a lot of that narrative that I have seen online has to do with politics, I have seen when remi tinubu was talking about how they accommodate the Igbos and how they are ungrateful, I have also seen the narrative about how because they don't support tinubu and apc meaning they are anti-yoruba, was it not the oba of Lagos who told the Igbos to jump into the lagoon if they don't vote the apc, you can't deny the fact that a lot of this talk has political undertone, Lagos is Yoruba land that's a fact and I am not Igbo but I hate when apc guys are trying to blackmail folks that you being against tinubu or apc means you are against the Yorubas take for example right now all Guber candidate in Lagos governorship elections are Yorubas, but why do you guys always make it looks like if anyone support another candidate outside the apc's that you are automatically betraying and backstabbing the Yorubas that is what I hate. Lagos is Yoruba land, and yes I read the article.
LeonSaab: nobody is asking you not to live anywhere in Nigeria but to say the states don't have their host is a big no no.....you won't go to kaduna and claim it's no man's Land, a Yoruba man will not go to Akwa ibom and claim it is no man's land , so don't come to Lagos and say it is a no man's land, your father has no knowledge of its history and its host are clearly visible......
i'm not Igbo and neither do I believe that Lagos is no man's land, my major issue with this argument online what I have noticed is that you folks always bring the Lagos talk as a form of political blackmail, like oh you have to support tinubu and if anyone disagrees you tend to call them anti- Yoruba, if they decide not to vote for apc you call them ungrateful pdp's jandor and labour parties gbadebo vivour Rhodes are both Yorubas but if non indigenes decides to support either of them you guys on the internet always act like you are being backstabbed or betrayed there was a Lagos before apc and tinubu, most non indigenes have lived in Lagos before the tinubu era, no matter the outcome of Saturdays election one thing is certain a Yoruba man will still be the governor of Lagos, for me Lagos is yoruba land.
BECAREFUL OF THE IGBO JIHADIST. THAT IS THEIR WAY ALL OVER THE WORLD.
When a former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspaper penned reasons as to why there must be a limit to Igbo’s participation in the politics of Lagos, his friend and former classmate of Igbo background thought the submission betrayed his exposure, experience and education.” CROSSFIRE, reproduces the requirements as canvassed by Femi Kusa and Pat Utomi.
I am a yoruba and I condemn all forms of electoral malpractice, including ballot box snatching on election day. The Yorubas are an intelligent people with their own fair share of rascals.There are many intelligent and creative ways open to the yorubas to deal with the Igbo question in Lagos or elsewhere.
Chief Obafemi Awolowo dealt with it when Dr Nnamdi Azikwe abused the generousity of the Yorubas and attempted to take over their land as the Dutchmen took over Southern Africa. The Yorubas also dealt with this question intelligently when Biafran soldiers tried to invade the West from Ore, after overrunning Bendel State with the aid of Igbo connections there. At different fora where the Igbo question in Lagos comes up, I always invite the Igbos to remember that the Yorubas have always been their best friends in Nigeria.
The Yoruba leader of the 1950s, HERBERT MACAULAY, founded the NCNC (National Council for Nigerians and the Cameroons). When Macaulay died following an illness during his nationwide campaign for independence, wasn’t it the Yoruba NCNC leadership which invited Dr Nnamdi Azikwe and Igbo, to return home from Ghana and lead their party? And when he held their hand in the soup pot, to bar them from having the meal they prepared, didn’t they peacefully and intelligently show him the way back to the East?
Yorubas were generous and trustful. Dr Azikwe insulted their sensibility, abused their generosity and trust. Why would he, an Igbo, wish to be premier of the West and then install an Igbo, as premier of the East when the Yorubas at that time had more literate people than the Igbos? That was cunning, greed and betrayal of trust to say the least.We were all fighting to send the white man away and, after we had succeeded, you wished to impose local Igbo colonialism on a better educated Yoruba race. Who would have accepted that?
Secondly, I remind my Igbo friends that, after the civil war ,their properties in the North, Port Harcourt, Cross River and Akwa Ibom States, their present political allies, were seized from them as “abandoned” property and handed out to the aborigines.But in the West, Igbo property were all returned with all the rent which accrued to them. Were the Yorubas stupid or merely civilised, honest and friendly or, if you like, God fearing?
OKOTA BALLOT BOX
As I said in the first part, the snatching of ballot boxes after all the warnings by government was unecessary, crude, condemnable and punishable. If the yorubas condemn it elsewhere, they should condemn it also in Okota.
But after the condemnation and necessary punishment under the law, it will not be right for all of us to not get to the bottom of why it happened and the bigger problems which are brewing beneath. The major problem ,in my opinion, is the Igbo penchant to wish to take over another person’s land. I say this with all sense of responsibility.
Recently MOFE OYATOGUN of STAR 101.5FM radio station in Lagos played her EARLY RUSH SHOW, a 1952 audio clip of an interview with Ahmadu Bello, Governor of Northern Nigeria. He said unequivocally that the North would not employ Igbos in its civil service, because if you gave them an inch, you will not know when they would take a mile.That was way back in 1952, about 67 years ago.
Is this not what is still playing out today in South Africa, Benin Republic, Cote d’ivoire, Ghana, Libya and China, to mention a few countries? In the last presidential election, President Mohammadu Buhari probably won landslide victories in Northern states because that Ahmadu Bello radio interview clip went viral in that political landscaper. Peter Obi, an Igbo, was vice presidential running mate to Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, a Fulani from the North-East. It was possible the North still lived in fear of the Igbo man as Ahmadu Bello had taught them to do and as they were reminded in that audio clip replay.
In Yorubaland, we are a society governed by laws. That is why we have ministries of chieftaincy affairs. All the land in Lagos have owners. Lagos was either a colony or a part of Western Nigeria. But because of the generousity of Yorubas and the foresight of their forefathers which made this region the star region in West Africa, the Igbos would like the Yorubaman to believe that LAGOS IS NO MAN’S LAND.
Can anyone say that of Benin without eating his pounded yam as raw yam? Can the Igbos say that of Kano and Jos? The people there know how to make themselves husbands of the mothers of the territorial expansionist. Everywhere on earth, we have seen that territorial expansion ends in chaos.In recent history, we can pin the two world wars to it. What about the war in Liberia between the aborigines and the settled slaves? What about Rwanda? What about Hitler’s war on the Jews? What about the liberation wars in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Why did general Idi Amin of Uganda chase away the Asians? Why did Bangladesh separate from India, Eritrea from Ethiopia and Senegal from SeneGambia? What about the communual clashes over land in Nigeria? Recently, almost 100 Fulanis were killed in Kaduna.We cannot forget the Zango-Kataf problem.
So, we should be careful when you come to settle on my land and say you must represent me in the Nigerian Senate or the House of Representatives, or the Lagos State House of Assembly, taking away from me my aboriginal right to have my kith, kindred and blood represent me, while back home you are being represented in the senate and House of Reps, when you insist on becoming a commisioner in my state or a deputy governor, or a local government chairman when you try to govern me in my own land as Dr Nnamdi Azikwe once tried to do, all because I was generous to let you become in my land what you couldn’t become in your land, simply because you believe you have the numbers, I will tell you that is greed and unnatural irrespective of the backing of the law you may think you have.
Think, for example, about an Igbo becoming the chairman of Lagos island local government and arrogating to himself the right under the laws of Nigeria and of Lagos State to issue instructions to the Oba of Lagos about how the kabiyesi should conduct himself and govern his people. What will this breed?
That is what has been happening in countries from where the Igbos are being sent back home.It happened once in the North as Ahmadu Bello said in 1952. And seriously speaking, I believe this is why the North rejected Atiku Abubakar.
The Igbos should reflect on this…Why does everyone tend to (hate ) us?
JIMI AGBAJE/AFENIFERE
The Igbos should be wary of JIMI AGBAJE and AFENIFERE.They are politicians who are looking for ethnic heads to break coconuts on.
The Igbos are hardworking and resourceful and should try to overcome ethnic politics as the Yorubas have done. They should learn from immigrants from other lands worldwide. The Indians do not trouble their hosts or try to take over their lands. They make their money quietly and take it back home to develop their own land. That is why India has been able to lift herself from poverty. In contrast, the Igbos do not develop their own lands. All they do is largely to make money from abroad through whichever or whatever means and buy up property which other people have built and then claim they own the land without remembering that they can never hold aboriginal rights to the land in their hands whenever the chips come down.
Meanwhile, their land back home is languid, crying and shouting for investment and development and they begin to talk about marginalisation. Did they not flower and fruit under Obasanjo and Jonathan’s administrations? What happened to Igbo land in those 16 years that they were not marginalised? What happened to Yoruba land in those 16 years that the Yorubas were marginalised that Yoruba land still continued to be a honey pot for the Igbo?
I would go anyday with Chief Emeka Anyaoku who looks at the world with universal spectacles.
Succeeding Lagos governments have beautifully held the ethnic balance in Lagos and prevented ethnic disturbances. Igbos should stop saying they own Lagos or that they built Lagos or that Lagos is a “no man’s land”. Only a bastard Yorubaman will not feel affronted by such statements. And in spiritual terms, the man or woman who cannot defend his land is not fit to live. Wasn’t this the failure of the sons of the Incas?
It is good news that the leaders of the Igbos and other nationalities in Nigeria have met with the traditional leaders of the Yorubas in Okota and Oshodi areas to avert a backlash in respect of last election. As I said earlier, Agbaje and Afenifere are outside the mainstream of Yoruba politics. They are trying to take control of it. And they have the right to so aspire, being Yorubas.
What is objectionable to the mainstream Yoruba is their attempt to knock the heads of the Igbo against the head of the mainstream yorubas. They remind the yorubas of a similar affront by Afonja, the Yoruba army commander in Ilorin who was sent there by the Alaafin of Oyo to stop jihadist expansion. Afonja betrayed the Alaafin and invited the jihadists to defend his betrayal. They did and Afonja triumphed momentarily only to be killed afterwards by the jihadists who took over the land.
The perception in Yorubaland today is that the Igbo in Lagos especially are the modern jihadists and that Agbaje and Afenifere are the modern Afonjas. This is the underlying perception which, in my opinion, triggered the surface reaction in Okota last Saturday. The Yorubas remain an accomodating people. But they never fail to rise in their defence when they have to, as they did in the 1950s in respect of Dr Azikwe’s blatant attempt to usurp their land and as they also did at Ore during the civil war.
Kusa, a former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian Newspaper, writes from Lagos
I don't believe that Lagos is a no man's land, Lagos is Yoruba land that's a fact, I think this tinubu presidential journey just increased the tension, I think this argument often comes up when tinubu supporters are trying to blackmail everyone to support tinubu by claiming he built Lagos which is false by the way, and the argument of others has always been that Lagos been a federal capital enjoyed advantage that others didn't have, I'm from Edo state and I understand your sentiment, Lagos is not no man's land, my only issue is with tinubu supporters and the Lagos argument.
Fut9ure: Inec is useless I'm from Edo state..Tinubu will never become the president Tinubu didn't get 25 percent from Edo, rivers, lagos, Benue, akwa ibom and so many other states Inec think we are fools
Every sane Nigeria should look at this and read a meaning to it 1) Tinubu political party and administration is ruling but he was unable to win Abuja where them sit down put 2) his own state of origin osun. Even a twelve year old will win thier own state yet he was unable to win
3) all development in lagos is attributed to Tinubu and he is regarded as the father of lagos yet he was unable to win
Nigerians should put on thier conscience and see that tinubu was rejected completely by Nigerians
If you can't handover your daughter or sister to a man who is old and sick with dementia, who is not mentally and physically strong. Someone not aware of his environment
But you supported the same man to head over 220 million Nigerians at this critical time of our nation suitation then may you and your children know no peace
I suprise when I see the same things for the benin wey we dey see numbers wey inec say tinubu get who know tinubu for here in my polling unit apc no get one vote and I didn't even see anyone who spoke of tinubu in a positive light or anyone who was willing to vote for the criminal yet inec say 144thousand people or so voted tinubu in Edo state no God go punish inec and the mandate thief called tinubu
AntiChristian: I checked my polling unit and it was exactly as it was in reality. APC won LP by 1 vote. i.e. (APC- 47, LP-46, NNPP-1, PDP-1, ZLP-1, Total- 104)
I checked another unit in my street and LP won by 16 votes i.e. (APC-30, LP-46, AAC-1, APGA-1, PDP-5, Total - 83).
These results are correct!
my sister checked hers it did not tally I have so many people on my WhatsApp who are saying the same thing that the numbers does not tally so inec manipulated the results.
𝑻𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒃𝒖. I said we would continue to struggle until we had democracy. We had a group of 30 senators called the G-30. The G-30 was determined to actualise the mandate on the floor of the Senate. Suddenly, Abacha came and General Oladipupo Diya and Babagana Kingibe were also running around. Diya was one of the most respected and credible military officers then, and he later approached us that there might be change in government. Abiola was around. General Chris Alli met us and said there would be a change of government, which would be in favour of June 12, because they were tired of the shenanigans of the ING. That night, Abacha changed the government. He outsmarted everybody. They met with me, Dele Alake, Segun Babatope and Doyin Abiola. We were asked to write the terms and conditions, which they would broadcast after a change of government. We wrote it and gave it to Diya. They are all alive. On the night the government was to be changed, Abacha outsmarted everyone and installed himself. These people I mentioned are all alive to testify to what I have said. I can say categorically that I was even called to leave my office because, as they claimed, that night was a dangerous night for them and that everyone’s life might be in danger. Abiola was told not to sleep at home until the broadcast had been made. We were all fooled! Big time deception. When we heard the broadcast the next day, there was no mention of June 12 and no proclamation of Abiola. I was mad, but was still determined. I rushed to Diya and he was still saying that there was no problem and that they were planning to announce the cabinet containing eminent June 12 people. Abiola said what? I said no, announce Abiola’s victory. Diya told me that I didn’t know the military and that things were not done like that in the military. But I insisted that it was deception. I said I know the military. I called Okadigbo to my office in Lagos and I put the plan before him that we had to confront the military and we had to declare Abacha himself illegal. I got members of our group together; we wrote the script declaring Abacha’s government illegal. Since we could not get to the National Assembly, we opted to hold our session at the Tafawa Balewa Square. We had gotten Dele Alake to be the media coordinator. We told him to get the CNN and other foreign media ready. I put the coat of arms on a rod! That was the mace. We created our own mace. We reconvened the Senate here in Lagos and declared Abacha illegal before the international media and others. My colleagues had scattered. After we assembled, and having drafted the resolution, they still didn’t know where we would hold the session. I told them to relax, this is Lagos. After the broadcast, everybody took off, because the SSS and other security agents were combing everywhere for us. I went underground, using the 090 mobile phone. I was still granting press interviews to foreign media. The military people were mad. I became a thorn in their flesh and they arrested some of my colleagues, including Abu Ibrahim, the late Polycarp Nwite, Ameh Ebute and Okoroafor. I was still underground, holding press conferences. The military declared me wanted. Suddenly they granted bail to the arrested senators. I thought I would be a beneficiary, but I was not. Then, there was a manhunt for me by the police and the SSS. Meanwhile, my late uncle, K.O Tinubu and the present Oba of Lagos, Oba Akiolu, who was then a police officer, were pressuring me to disclose where I was. My uncle called to ask where exactly I was. I did not disclose my whereabouts. I told Akiolu that even though he is my relative, I would still not tell him where I was since he was a police officer! He said: ‘Ha!’ My uncle advised that the military would kill me if they found me underground and no one would be able to locate my whereabouts. He said it was better I surrendered myself because he wanted me to be alive. I told him that I would call him back, that I was to hold a press conference at the time. And he shouted in amazement: ‘You are holding press conference when your life is in danger.’ I told him I would surrender, but would not tell him when. I disguised perfectly, dressed like a malam, and went to the police at Alagbon. The officers didn’t even know me when they saw me. I went in, deposited my phone and my charger. Senator Abu Ibrahim was with us. The officers were wondering why I, a Mallam, could not speak Hausa! I removed my turban, showed up at the front desk and declared that I had come to surrender. And there was pandemonium among the officers, as to how I got there. The AIG then was very nice and they put me in the cell. They poured water into the cell room and said, ‘sleep there’. That was the nastiest experience I had within first 48 hours that I was there. It was on a weekend. I told them I would embark on a hunger strike. The late Anthony Enahoro was on the stairway and Beko Ransome-Kuti was at another angle on the stairway. They brought me out repeatedly for interrogation. They asked me to renounce but I said no, I would not recognise Abacha. They took me and my colleagues to court. People who were supposed to meet their bail conditions were stopped from doing so immediately they saw me. They cancelled everybody’s bail because they could not isolate me. They gave an order that we should be taken out of court, but kept in the police custody at Alagbon. They kept about eight of us in a photocopying room, an eight-by-eight room. We were sleeping across one another. It was a matter of the first to sleep would maintain the position. If your head was this way, your leg would be there and so on. It was a nasty experience. There were a lot of interrogations, with a lot of carrot and stick. I can never forget the role and determination and sincerity of a compatriot at that particular time. They made an exception to uphold the earlier bail granted to Senator Abu Ibrahim. He was asked to go. He was the only Hausa-Fulani man with us. The late Hassan Katsina had intervened. But Senator Ibrahim said he would rather stay, except every one of us was granted the same bail conditions. He said he would not leave his colleagues behind. He is a courageous and a detribalised Nigerian, who had a vision of what Nigeria should be. He refused to accept an isolated bail. They started sending emissaries to us in detention, offering us all sorts of appointments and opportunities to renounce our positions, but we refused. The judiciary was still very courageous then. We went to the Court of Appeal. An incident occurred at the lower court. Market women turned out hugely to support us when we were brought to the court. The day they refused my bail, some of the market women appeared naked and so they stopped taking us to the court. The court sessions were usually interesting for us because of the scenes. At Alagbon, we bathed in the open between 4 and 5 a.m. The condition started improving when they began to bring officials of the failed banks. Those ones contributed money to repair the generating set at Alagbon and we started enjoying electricity a little longer than we used to. It was during the time that the protest became intense. Nigeria was playing at the World Cup then. Italy defeated Nigeria and the security people lied to us that it was otherwise. Eventually, the Court of Appeal courageously granted us bail in enforcement of our fundamental human rights. Our passports were confiscated and deposited with the court. Later, the High Court ruled that our passports be released to us. That night, they finally announced our bail and conditions attached to it. The presiding judge then is today the Emir of Ilorin, Sulu Gambari. We heard that they put so much pressure on him (Clement Akpamgbo was the Attorney-General) not to release us, but he ordered our release. They were going to re-arrest me and I suddenly went underground to continue my protest. They would throw bombs and say it was us. Mobil called me to come back to my job, but I refused. They bombed my house, but luckily, my wife and children had been evacuated. I would not want to reveal how they were evacuated because there was a diplomatic involvement. They told me that my life and those of my family were in clear danger. Suddenly, they announced that I was wanted again. They alleged that I was going to bomb the NNPC depot at Ejigbo. Ah! I was still being tried for treason, which carries a sentence of life imprisonment, and I was again accused of trying to bomb an NNPC depot. I couldn’t go back because my photograph was all over the place that I was wanted. A diplomatic source advised me that I should leave the country if I wanted to continue the struggle. Dan Suleiman, Alani Akinrinade were in danger. We asked Bolaji Akinyemi to leave the country and promote the struggle at the international level.
𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 That was the National Democratic Coalition then…
𝑻𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒃𝒖 Yes. I was at the forefront of the struggle at that level. When I went to see my uncle, K.O Tinubu, at home, he shed tears that night. He said he didn’t want to lose me and that I was about to be killed. He begged me to leave Nigeria and affirmed that, being a former police officer, he was sure I would be killed. He said that I couldn’t return to my house since they had bombed it. I went to a friend’s house. Before then, there was an incident that made them believe that I was at Ore Falomo’s hospital. They went to the hospital to look for me. Eventually, I left Nigeria for Benin Republic by NADECO route.
𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 How did you make it across the border?
𝑻𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒃𝒖 I disguised with a huge turban and babanriga and escaped into Benin Republic on a motorbike. My old Hausa friend gave the clothes to me. In fact, when I appeared to Kudirat Abiola, she didn’t know that I was the one! I gave her some information and some briefing. I left at 1 a.m. While in Benin Republic, I was still coming to Badagry to ferry people, organise and coordinate the struggle with others on ground. We put a group together, ferrying NADECO people across. It was a very challenging time. I can’t forget people like Segun Maiyegun and other young guys in the struggle. I would come from Benin to hold meetings with them and sneak back. The military created a whole lot of momentum around me. They took over my house, guest house and carted away all my vehicles and property to Alagbon. That is why today, I don’t have old photographs. They took eight of my cars away. My wife and my two toddlers were dropped in a bush; nowhere to go. Beko and the diplomatic missions came to our aid and ferried my wife and kids to the United States. I was still in Benin Republic. Besides, I didn’t have a passport and couldn’t have been able to travel. At a stage, they discovered our routes, because they had spies all over, including Benin Republic. Twice I was caught and I fortuitously escaped. They traced me to one dingy hotel I was hiding. The day they came for me at the hotel, I had gone out on an Okada to buy amala at a market, where Yorubas are dominant. I was also to meet Akinrinade and the rest of them. The spies went to the hotel and as I was approaching, I saw two people wearing tajia (skull caps) at the front desk, asking questions. The man attending to them at the reception (I had been very nice to the receptionist) winked to me and I turned back. I contacted a friend in Benin Republic, who was an architect, and had very strong sympathy for us. Professor Wole Soyinka and Alani Akinrinade, who lodged in a better hotel, were fortunate to have escaped that night, too. The people on their trail pursued them to the hotel, but fortunately missed them. Then the British High Commission got proper information through the Consular-General that my life was in danger. He stamped a visa on a sheet of paper and did a letter, authorising the airline to pick me from Benin Republic to any port of entry in Britain. I didn’t know how they got to me. A lady just walked up to me and handed me an envelope. She said I had been granted an entry into the United Kingdom. She said I could be killed if I failed to leave in the next 48 hours. It was Air Afrique that took me from Benin Republic to London. Meanwhile, my wife was still in the United States. I landed in Britain and worked my way back to Benin Republic. I picked up my passport from somewhere. I went to an African country and through their connections, they gave me a diplomatic passport as a cultural ambassador.
𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 What country was that?
𝑻𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒃𝒖 No, please! The African country that helped us with the diplomatic passport was showing gratitude for the help Abiola had done to its president before. So, you can make your deduction. Then, I was shuffling and coordinating our activities in the UK, Benin Republic and Cote d’Ivoire. I used the passport to travel to Cote d’Ivoire to hold meetings at the Hotel Continental, because we were planning to make another broadcast that would be aired in Nigeria. By the time I returned to the hotel, the military assailants had broken into my hotel room and taken away my briefcase and diplomatic passport. They dropped a note, saying: ‘You cannot be twice lucky.’ I was taken over by panic. Fortunately, in my back pocket, I had the photocopy of the sheet of paper on which the British had stamped a visa for me to travel out of Benin previously. I took that to the British High Commission in Abidjan. They listened to my story and asked me to come back at night. They did all their verification and found my story to be true. I returned to them and they gave me another sheet of paper and wrote the number of the flight that would take me out of that country. But I had no money. Somebody suddenly drove in. The person is a well-known name I don’t want to mention. I met him and explained my condition. He had a traveller’s cheque, but the money was not enough. I went back to the British High Commission and the woman said she could assist me with her own personal money to bridge the shortfall in cash. We founded and coordinated Radio Kudirat and Radio Freedom and we continued to organise. I didn’t see my family for two good years. They were in America. Bayo Onanuga, who also was part of the struggle, joined us there in December 1997. The law of political asylum stipulates that your first country of landing and acceptance is the safe haven, so it’s not transferable. That was how Cornelius Adebayo was stuck in a United Nations camp. My wife had to invoke a family clause that exists in America to fight for her husband to join her before they granted me a special privilege to leave UK to join my family in the United States.Announcement Announcements.
I implore everyone to read, digest and post to other platforms so that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tunubu's enemies will know that this man is truly a democrat who fought for the democracy we all enjoying today. He had long paid the price for the PRESIDENCY of this great country. Indeed and in fact Oun lo kan, Bola lo kan, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) lo Kan.
To God alone be the glory.
lol there are rules to democracy a democrat does not steal mandates or use thugs to harass and intimidate voters a democrat does not use bullion vans to influence voters, tinubu is criminal has always been will always be.
Goodconcept78: Read it slowly and digest it again. If this can't be done, then Igbos should forget about ever becoming the president of our great nation, Nigeria
No party that is built on ethnicity and religion can win presidential election in a multiple society like Nigeria.
Labour Party supporters are celebrating their victories in other parts of Nigeria. But no party won in the East. It is a closed region open to Igbos only.
The Igbos enjoy the openness and acceptance of other societies, but they close their society to outsiders.
To be accepted by others you have to accept them as well. It would have been good for the Igbos and the polity to see Atiku or Tinubu winning a state in the South East. It shows political maturity and sophistication.
The Igbos should learn from the North and Yorubas. Unless they accept others and build bridges,an Igbo man will not be voted president of Nigeria.
This is just the bitter truth, since the candidate will need other regions' votes to emerge president.
but historically the Igbos have been voting for other candidates the voted for Obasanjo even when ojukwu was also running they voted Jonathan so where did you get this analysis from, regarding this election it is very insensitive for you to expect them to leave out the most accepted candidate and just vote in tinubu just to prove your so called definition of political maturity, you claim other regions voted for obi, that is because they believe in him , I'm from Edo state a bini man out here nobody I know voted for tinubu even though I strongly believe the numbers he got here were rigged, three saying obi ran on an ethnic and religious ticket is also false, the candidate that did that was tinubu we all know the shettima ticket was mainly to appease to the northerner Muslim community and nothing more, if peter obi wanted to play on ethnic sentiment of the north he would have chosen an ethnic and religious fundamentalist from the north as his vp just to manipulate northern voters but he didn't he went for a refined northern politician who is liberal leaning and an industrialist, this is also the only candidate who despite coming from a region who has never been at the presidency ever, he never for once played or say anything across regional, ethnic or religious lines the only thing they have against him was because of his indentification with the church, the church and christian community willfully adopted him,. Can you blame him for that, was it not tinubu who went to Abeokuta to say it is the turn of the Yorubas, did you ever hear obi make a statement like that that it is the turn of the Igbos, they say he didn't build bridge how else should he build bridge he went to the north, south east and west to campaign, he was at the arewa house, the met the northern elders forum leaders, he campaigned everywhere, he talked about his plans for the north, he was at various town halls, he had northerners in his campaign teams even the party the labour party he was running on can be best described at the most pan Nigerian political party, if you don't like him it's okay but it is wrong to say he ran on a religious or ethnic ticket, when he wasn't the one who ran on a Muslim Muslim ticket just because he wanted to. Appeal to religious fundamentalist never did he ever say it is the turn of the Igbos,just as tinubu has said, I hate when a lie is just been repeated without facts.
Asgard13: When you tell them a vote for Obi is a vote for Tinubu.. they curse and abuse
When you tell them .. Atiku is the closest to anything igbo President they mock and sing the Yoruba song .. north cannot handover to north..
Forgetting a Muslim is about handing over to a Muslim.. what’s the difference?
You tell Obi will come third and can’t win elections ., emotion rises and they will scream..
Now tell me .. when Igbos will be coming this close .. again or even Christian’s
Their calculations were so wrong .. you tell them to control narratives.. and not allow southwest media do that for southerners .. but no.. they believe in what’s impossible
Nigeria politics is all about alignments and interest.
See how Obasanjo out of his bitter hatred and selfish interest has craftily taken igbos back in national politics.. same easterners that were almost close to power .. Yoruba media taunt them and abuse them of serving out PDP for years without reward .. now I asked .. where’s their reward ? Obasanjo will disappear back into the hood and still a national hero… and former president.. his kinsman is the President, his place is assured .. so nothing
East must learn to play the national politics and not politics of sentiments and emotions .. which most times .. southwest always take advantage of this naivety to claim political Sophisticators.. leading southern narratives..that always appear real.. but hidden behind an agenda that favors and work for them.
If Obi has remained in PDP.. or aligned with Pdp towards the later days of campaign.. nobody would have been going to court
If Obi has avoided church politics and focus more on national politics.. Muslims won’t have been emboldened like they will be in the next four years
For the fact that he’s going to court on his own.. even when offer a hand of alignment.. shows most of them are still to learn .. the reality of the process..
Wetin we know
We’re all in court .. just being hopeful.
But the sad reality remains fact.. Asiwaju is the President of Nigeria … Obidients in particular made him President.. not Apc or Muslims
I know you are a pdp supporter but the people who shot themselves in the foot were the pdp leaders who out of greed decided to give atiku it's ticket. See obi ran as a vp to atiku in 2019 so he already had a presence there was a growing sentiment from the south for a southern president, apc's Muslim Muslim ticket also increased the call for a christian president now if the pdp were wise and have given obi it's ticket pdp would have been in power by now look at the impact a man without structure was able to make, if he had been paired with a powerful northern politician like maybe tambuwal he would have cleared the south and done well in the north the mood of the people should be taken into consideration always by political parties, I found it hard to believe that pdp would present atiku again even when the mood of the south who is your major base didn't even support a northern Fulani Muslim taking over from another northern Fulani Muslim, in politics while you may have your own ambition it is easier to align your ambition with the popular sentiment of the people, I"m from Edo state even before the primaries everyone was already open to an obi candidacy for the the Pdp, but the pdp never took into consideration the mood and wishes of the masses they allowed individual greed and ambition devide their house, for me the man who made pdp lose was atiku and his greed which didn't align with the wishes of the masses.
Goodconcept78: I love this election. It really exposed the Agenda of the Igbos very well.
We thank God that their plans failed woefully.
Next time you will learn how to play politics well...
Sai JAGABAN
the tweet image you posted below is quite insensitive as it defiles common sense so you expect the south east a south east state to vote for tinubu just to prove your so called definition of maturity, how does that make sense like I"lol just go to the polling unit to vote in the worst of all Candidate your to show political maturity.
IyaebeTheGreat: You rabid dog Obi supporters are delusional to ever think Obi can win a presidential election.
but a drug baron and a Demetia patient can win, your tinubu is a laughing stock to sane Nigerians even south Africans, Kenyans, Ghanaians and the rest of the 🌍 are all making fun of him, but yet fools are celebrating the idiot.
Princessstee: You people believe you are intelligent and liberals but you proved the opposite.
Liberated group of people cannot 100% agree on same thing because they think of many possibilities ....Only people under bondage and spell does that!
LEARN!
Your obi wanted to break all the structures and the laws we have been building since over 60years+ and you people think its good we lose all we've gathered and start again, does that makes sense to you? Don't you think that's war? I still maintain that only political neophytes will support Obi because he is the worst among them when it comes to management and he would have lead us all to doom!
Look now, Just 8 months, he has successfully gaslighted our youths and tribes against each other!
Obi knows he is not doing it the right way, he is an opportunist just using you all his victims when he saw what you are capable of doing during #endsars. How can a man just come within 8 months and wants to be the president of the whole Nigeria?
Its absurd to some of us because we haven't seen any experience, works or influence(no reasonable friends) of his whatsoever!
Let's follow, support and encourage our leaders who has experience more than us, its the only way!
the people chose him end of discussion, so you think the presidency should be an corrupt elitist club for some people imagine you saying "he just came in 8months he wants to become president " I don't know how you guys think, I swear , one of the principles of democracy is the right to vote and be voted , if the people decides this is who they want that is it, is this the reason tinubu had to steal his mandate and you are all supporting it?
Aufbauh: Obi got what? Immediately I started seeing that he's missing in SW then I concluded that he's out of the game cos there's no way he can secure even 5% in the core Northern states.
Obi should first learn how to effectively penetrate through different region of the country before believing he can be president of Nigeria.
Anyone that sold him the ethno religious strategy dealt him a serious blow.
how many states is the core northern state, the person who truly lack a national spread is tinubu there is no way tinubu can get 25 percent in any ss and se state, if not for inec's rigging obi was very popular in the ss, se, and he had acceptance in the sw too and even nc, southern Kaduna and some percentage in the core northern states, combine his regional spread of ss, se, nc and some sw vote, Jonathan won the 2011 election without securing the votes of the core northern states you, can't decieve anyone that because he does not have a large number in the core northern states, that means his mandate wasn't stolen.
0monnak0da: do you have evidence? If you are STILL CHECKING How can you say his MANDATE WAS STOLEN? All these are still not enough
Fewer than 25 states required He has 16 states with 25% Where are the remaining 9? NE and NW are 13 states He couldn't penetrate because he played a strong religious card Maximum he can get is 23 When you say MANY MORE you are deceiving your self
NW and NE rejected his message
another question is did bola tinubu actually get the 25 percent in the 25 states, it is all part of the rigging from what the pdp guys in Lagos situation room confirmed peter obi had almost 1 million votes while apc was a little above 100 thousand same with the pdp now if you look at the Lagos case tinubu didn't even get the 25percent in Lagos his home state so how are we sure he even got the 25 percent elsewhere, when an election is already rigged you can believe anything from it anymore, people are saying he came out third, did he? Or that was the position inec decided to place him. I know Edo state my state vote was rigged for tinubu yes he didn't win the state but he got a large number here, when Edo didn't even vote for him, now when we say Edo was rigged tinubu supporters will tell you that he didn't win the state you don't have to win a state to justify the state was rigged everyone is talking about rivers how it was rigged because tinubu won, Edo was also rigged for tinubu even though he didn't win, even the northern votes too might have been rigged also.
IyaebeTheGreat: Let the court cases begin. Who was rigged between PDP and LP sef because I’m confused already
it is very possible to rig both against both candidates. Atiku's vote might have been reduced in some areas for tinubu, likewise obi's for the same tinubu let inec release the full details that's all
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