₦airaland Forum

Ofunaofu:
Yes, the 2022 Electoral law and it's guidelines

Otiwaikuku:
Everyone is quick to condemn the actions of the OBIdient but let me ask what did Pastor Adeboye do?

Is his actions and talks a noble one that will encourage true democracy in Nigeria?
Fine. Now that you have come from this angle, please quote him and let us examine what he said together.

You may end up realising that his only offence is that his views do not align with that of those attacking him

Why is it that no one is talking about the action/talk that prompted the actions of the OBIdient?
We have too many churches in Nigeria but we don’t have righteous people.

A4alpha:
His old is is now full blown and baba don already enter dementia. When he was sound and active he couldn't have uttered such rubbish.
Baba need some dough for his treatment and wailing and feigning ignorance of the great Obidient family is one of the conditions.
He be like..Obi see what your visit have caused naw.. them don call me say them say..

Odewaleadesoye:


VANGUARD

Segzy19:
One thing I like about these obidient boys and girls is that they know how to delude themselves.
The same way they did before the elections, now they have started making noise all over again.

Again, this is the first time a lot of them will be following post-election case. Ask them what happened with post-election cases of Obasanjo Vs Falae, Buhari Vs Obasanjo, Buhari Vs Jonathan etc... They don't know... They are so ignorant...

Court/judiciary has its processes and doesn't pander to media noise and emotions..

This tribunal case will not be concluded under 2 weeks if that your expectation. It may take over a year before it is laid to rest in favour of the President-elect. So guys, just calm down and stop disturbing the media space all over like you did before the general elections. This is reality!

Tinubu will be sworn in on the 29th of May by the grace of God....

jaybenugo:
I Will Follow Yar’Adua’s Footsteps In My Administration – President-Elect, Tinubu



https://igberetvnews.com/1444403/will-follow-yaraduas-footsteps-administration-president-elect-tinubu/

slam7000:
…and Keyamo has to manufacture lies to be relevant! He has to come up with all sorts to assure Tinubu and APC that he is doing his job and loyal.

How does he come up with all these stories. He is not a known abuser of any sort of substance. What inspires these delusions?

Jogs1900:
I know Asiwaju is not a betrayer going by his antecedents..He will not betray the G5

ovieigho:
Be jubilating
As if you can live happily in China ..🤣


I remembered Nigerians that absconded during Russia 2014 World Cup !! Body tell them before they cried for self deportation


I wonder why people hate USA that have done so much for the world ….

Jerryherd:




Dey sleep...

Dey play....

You filed a motion with INEC and APC as respondent and they responded, same thing happened in Osun tribunals and INEC defense led to Adeleke's victory... At this point it's best to ignore 3rd class Philosophy graduate Obi and his bunch of miscreants


President Bola Ahmed Tinubu SouthWest Yoruba

VicePresident Kashim Shetima NorthEast Kanuri

Senate President Akpabio Goodswill SouthSouth AkwaCross Ibibio

Speaker of house Hon Wase NorthCentral Plateau Hausa

Deputy Senate President NorthWest Kaduna

Deputy Speaker SouthSouth

CJN Justice Ariwoola SouthWest



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Acidosis:
Say only what you know. Taraba/Plateau has over 80% Christians. In Kogi, Christians are at least 45-50%.

Igala - 45% Christians
Ebira - 30% Christians
Okun - 80% Christians

JASONjnr:
Will Kogi state ever produce a visionary leader who will bring about the necessary changes the state needs.


The Voodoo play is one of the reason why the state is so backward.

mrvitalis:
Meanwhile umiah commissioned 16 flyovers , best state owned airport in Nigeria
Biggest mall in Nigeria
New government house
New university
New stadium
New teaching hospital
New market
Far too many roads to list

With less than 15% of wike revenue without borrowing

Cantonese:
The same issue remains.

Atiku insisted on the two things while the disagreement persisted:

1. That Ayu would not go as it was too late.
2. That Dapagum, a northerner was the next person to replace Ayu. He said they would remain in the same position of north/north.
Wike and his group insisted that they could work it out and ensure balance of power.

The rest became history, as they say. Ayu lost his PU, ward, local government and state. One may not doubt the claim of his ward exco that Ayu worked for APC. He probably tried to get back at Ortom for not supporting him.

Now Atiku himself could not muster straight victory in his state; maybe he is in Dubai now. Atiku's greed was unbelievable. Now he cannot be the President. Now Atiku can only have plenty of IFs. If only this, if only that. If he unified the party. If he did not contest. If he did not allow Obi and Kwakanso go. If he listened to Wike and co, etc.

The election was PDPs to lose. It was a great opportunity gone.

Now OBIdience is very important. We are now completely and unshakably OBIdient.

onuman:
Obidients and Atikulateds are dying of what the APC you still support caused in Nigeria. Who voted for a fragmented APCwith a presidential candidate suffering dementia to return to power? Very few block heads.

Seefinish:
You vote an incompetent person because he is from your tribe or religion. You will not be spared of his incompetency. There is no special market or filling stations for APC

Hambivert:
The minority members of the national assembly would be doing the nation a great good if they can put aside their differences and ensure the APC doesn't chair the National Assembly.

The minorities are the majority when they are together.

Okealaaye:
𝑾𝑯𝑬𝑵 𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑺 𝑺𝑻𝑹𝑼𝑮𝑮𝑳𝑬 𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑫𝑬𝑴𝑶𝑪𝑹𝑨𝑪𝒀 𝑾𝑨𝑺 𝑹𝑨𝑮𝑰𝑵𝑮, 𝑾𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑬 𝑾𝑬𝑹𝑬 𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑲𝑼 & 𝑷𝑬𝑻𝑬𝑹 𝑶𝑩𝑰

𝑬𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒂 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝑨𝑻 𝒃𝒚 𝑵𝑬𝑾𝑺. 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒕 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔

𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
When were you arrested?

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.

asanausana91:
When I tell some animals that this is the first stage for Christianity to be destroyed in this country, the foolish Yoruba Christians think otherwise.
This is just the beginning! Congratulations to keyamo for closing the chapel.

helinues:
Sebi Aso rock chapel Don't have pastors or members, president or vp attend alone..

Hian

potopotoking:
Yaribas are living in a fantasy world of their own delusional making, which will soon be turned into a nightmare land, because this particular time around darkness will not prevail. We know yaribas love darkness, that's why they wallow in it so shamelessly, call themselves after it---omo dudu/omo oDUDUwa---and epitomize it in everything they do. They are children of darkness and they will pay an intolerable price for their allegiance to it. The yirinbawa 'people' are not really people, as revealed by science, which categorically states a significant percentage of their dna derives from archaic 'ghost' populations resident in West Africa BEFORE the advent of Homo sapiens sapiens. We know this filthy admixture in yirinbawa dna to come from none other than the quasi-developed apeman ('ghost') Homo erectus. This revelation perfectly explains common yirinbawa behaivor, as well as observed phenotype (dudu-skinned/dudu smelling/etc.), with rare exceptions. They are famously cowardly, conniving, back-stabbing, jealous genocidists whom should and will be separated from polite gentile society, because society and civilization are not conducive, they're in-fact diametrically opposed, with and to yirinbawa nature. I say this not to cast aspersions or malign; these are facts which need to be acted upon if reasonable light-loving persons are to advance and thrive in Nigeria. If Peter Obi should fail to retrieve his stolen mandate in court (God forbid), Mandate Thief-in-Chief Tibubu should do one honorable thing in his miserable life and immediately restructure Nigeria and/or allow Igbo people the separate homeland we've been clamoring for since we were rapaciously alloyed with ndi isi oji touts and demons.

illuminutty:
We have a corrupt drug baron as president-select! It is finished for Nigerians. Brace up for massive corruption, thuggery and infighting between Shetimma and Tinubu's family. No Nigerian will be spared whether you are Obidient, Atikulated or BATist. I repeat nobody will be spared. Even the likes of FFK, Adamu Garba, Festus Keyamo and Bashir Ahmad will later join the wailing wailers.

IgOga:
Edo has 2 APC senators too....people are voting whoever they want

peckhamboi:
Stop embarrassing yourself pls.

APC had 375,183, PDP had 284898 and LP had 80,000

Total vote cast: over 740,000

25% of 740,00 = 185,000

MikeofAfrica:
Tinubu is lossing Buhari's Bloc votes in the north to Atiku and Kwankwaso. It is Atiku that is making inroads in the north and turning APC states to PDP.