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SycophanticGoat:
You didn't even read the article. Just made a mess of yourself with this comment if yours because the article clearly pointed what you're claiming out..

Congrats Mr reader but to understand is your problem because it was clearly stated that amosun, Fayemi,fashola and Shittu will take over from tinubus boys and as an OYO state indigene the write up is not only funny but ridiculous because shittu can not win his local government which is saki west so tell your master buhari to stir clear of OYO state because #oyo2019 bimbo kolade the current commissioner for local government is the annoited candidate.

The most ridiculous write up by sun newspaper,because if I may ask how many local government can bayo shittu win in OYO state.

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Fayemi an ordinary minister who can be removed tomorrow think he can talk to the jagaban and still stand politically in south west let us wait and see where they and pub will end there journey #Istandwithasiwaju #

That is senator olalekan a.k.a yayi not dangote.

My leader would surely make a statement on November 27 when Apc loose in ondo #Istandwithasiwaju .

Buhari and his Co plotter are in for a long thing because we the yorubas have lost faith is him Just because he want to disgrace Tinubu that made us support him #Istandwithasiwaju from kwara state.

What about engeniering course.

After he don betray ashiwaju he now come to Lagos and as expected he should av been the last one to betray him.

Op there is no ambassador yet buhari just want to appoint.

lereinter:
He is not the immediate past Vc after him there ve been two more

mention their name because after him was prof ganiyu ambali who is still there now.

Stop this religious sentiment, Christian have always been there from prof Peter okebukola to prof Julius okegie and don't forget prof oloyede is the immediate past unilorin Vc he did a wonderful job and also he is from Ogun state not from kwara as been speculated.

This two were friends during oau days and are both members of S. U. G of their set,mimko was the src for medicine and surgery and akeredolu a. K.a Aketi was Oau sug vice president.

Mboi:
God has already punished you. Can't you see you are now sounding like a mad man?

he pain you, Wetin concern agbero with overload.

Jacko1:
Shut up sef tou OPC member
Any1 dat disagree with you is IPOB......

Come dont ridicule genuine struggle of my race oh..... I wont take that
You ppl are united.... Now my race have a rallying you make fun of it....if i catch you ehn walai il slap the taste outta ya mouth

Tout like you

Back to the matter.... If fayose indeed said all those things..... The guy is really insane...... If he did i have officially withdrawn my love and support for him dayum

am very sorry for abusing you, but I won't take a bullshit from you because you pple are ipob and for me opc remain for the tout of the south West for which I will never be proud of.

mazichika:
Op,you are a shameless liar.
Fayose never said all these rubbish you posted here.
Now I know that fayose is relly giving you guys nightmare.

God punish you ipob members, everything the Op said was the truth I heard it myself he even told the interviewer to shut up that he did not need his view before doing something and he even said his father told him ekiti people will always serve him, to confirm search fresh FM on YouTube to confirm.

Fayose vs Aisha buhari and Dino melaye vs Remi Tinubu @this pple no dey tired.

Op if na make pple dey visit person you want take judge the fight, I bet jagaban go win for that side because even some African countries president go come.

Kogi pple just dey hit front page this week from Dino melaye to Lola alao, unstable pple.

Dino claim to be monitoring Mrs Tinubu in Lagos during her first Term, when he himself never become senator @ lie spotted

Dino melaye and Balotelli are they in anyway related, even when the person wey you dey fight no talk he still find trouble he is a controversial human .

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The good old days when , I go dey tell my best friend wey they no get light for their area the episode they did that week even when teachers dey class.

Hbd my leader, I wish you llnpp.

Op you fit lie ooo, Senate don't sit on Friday they only sit 3 times a week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and secondly this is not true @mynd44 do the needful rule 8 broken.

http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/blog/bola-tinubu-trip-to-america-evokes-passion
http://www.google.com.ng/search?ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Tinubu+visit+usa&btnG=Search
Check this links.

[quote author=sexybrooke post=44162662]I dare tinubu to visit the US if the propagandist are hell bent on the credibility of this man as southwest leader, I dare him to visit the united states. if he get there and comes back I ll forever show my loyalty my loyalty to suppose lion of bourdillon[/quote
God punish you for what you just wrote cuz na false information Tinubu was in us when Obama was campaigning for second term, I could remember you pple were accussing him of insurburdination.

eshietIntrepid:
I see part of the reason apc are desperate to sieze akwa ibom and Rivers.

Why will wike collect bail out after collecting 30billoon Naira grant.

My dear nairalanders I will keep on asking when will we stop been fooled by this politicians, who are using us to make political stunt everyday, in as much as I agree with fayose on many things I disagree on this (1) he was present or represented by his deputy when the decision was made to hold the economic summit he did not raise this objection then (2) he attended an received the bonuses and benefit meant for his state (3) he was called their like others to give his own view and come out with a way our not to come out here and be forming Mr righteous for and be blaming Fayemi who is highly educated @fayose Pls criticise this government constructively not like a tout.

ckmayoca:
If criticism is not allowed, improvement will not achieved. That's how the world roll like egg roll.
I pray for better Naija.

Constructive criticism is the best,not the kind one I dey see for nairaland nowadays which is all about hate a wish for the government to fail and when government fail it will affect everyone of us both negatively or positively, later you pple go con come online say jamb don fail you when no wish your country good, God bless Nigeria.

Demoore:
It will be an uphill task to elect both APC National Chairman (John Odigie Oyegun) and APC BOT Chairman (Tinubu) from the South.

I believe Atiku has an edge in this contest.

The same way the president,senate president, speaker came from the north my guy what is good for a is good for b so oyegun come from south south and Tinubu from.south west and the bot na another organ of the party not the nwc.

Given the way you have turned out to be a fearless politician,i hope it is not unreasonable to assume that you were not a compliant child while growing up.

What were those pranks you played and how were you dealt with when caught?　
I admit that I played some pranks and got spanked while growing up. Yes, I indulged in some pranks, like trespassing into other people’s gardens to pluck oranges, despite warnings not to do so. I would spend my allowance on bicycle renting. I told a couple of lies. For example, I would collect money from big uncles for the purchase of five books – Dic, Tion, Na, Ry –) instead of one dictionary! It was only one that I needed. I did that so as to have enough money to play around, rent bicycles and buy sneakers. I would play football, go and play at the lagoon, and turning out very dirty and rough in the evenings. There were so many of such pranks.
I would seize football from my mates and take it home. The boys would come to the house, asking for the football and my parents would spank me and order that I return the ball to its owners. There was a time I asked my uncle, the late Kafaru Tinubu’s dispatch rider to lend me his motorbike to ride. One day, he gave the motorbike to me to ride. As I got back home, my uncle, who had travelled and was not expected back at the time, had arrived. He caught us and ordered that we be locked up. It took a while before he released us, and I was severely flogged.
　
There were instances in which I and few of my friends would sneak into the truck of musicians, like the late Adeolu Akinsanya and Roy Chicago, without knowing where they were travelling to for musical performances. We would hide ourselves in their instrument trucks. There was a particular day when we did that and found ourselves in Ado-Ekiti, somewhere I had never been before. We did not know that he was going to perform at Christ’s School, Ado Ekiti. We had no money to return to Lagos and were stranded there. We couldn’t follow them back to Lagos because they were headed for another location, where they had a show. We managed to get to Lagos by jumping on a cocoa truck that was coming to Lagos.Why did you opt to study Accounting?
Sincerely, it was accidental. It was the university placement. I was good in Mathematics and business courses. In fact, if I were to choose a career for myself, I would have chosen marketing. I know Tunde was placed in the Mathematics department also by the university. I came in with A grades and I had nothing less than A+ in Accounting and Statistics.

How did you get into Mobil?

At Deloitte and Touche, I chose to travel more than 80 per cent of my working years there. And that is because if a staff chose to travel, he would make more money because he would get travel allowances. That got me into National Oil, which became the Joint Venture Partner of Aramco Oil in Saudi Arabia, which is like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. We had gone there to set up their accounting and auditing system. It was while on that service that I got my financial break. When I returned to the United States, my employers gave me a huge bonus, which instantly turned me into a millionaire.

How much was that?

The bonus was $850,000, before taxes. My salaries were also being paid into the bank and I was not touching them. At the time, my salary deposits in the bank had risen to about $1.8 million.ince you were having a good time in Mobil, why did you leave all that to join politics?
It was when I was arranging these finances. There were a lot of things that I don’t need to talk about now that got me in contact with Ahmadu Abubakar and Ibrahim Babangida. Such things got my name around socially. Then, my cousin, Alhaji Kola Oseni, and Dapo Sarumi, who was US-trained, told me their group wanted to contest for governorship. They had started their politics, but I didn’t participate. I was only raising funds for them. They said they wanted quality service delivery for Lagos State. I saw the Lagos State governorship as a department that needed a good manager. We were looking at civilization, quality control. If you went to some housing estates then, they were like this, like that. There must be good quality, standard. And the person who must fix these things must be civilized.
We decided to support Dapo Sarumi.
Gradually, I moved from raising funds to getting involved. I brought some money to Nigeria out of my dividends. I was comfortable because my investments in America and London were already yielding dividends. Then came the crisis leading to the ban of Professor Femi Agbalajobi and Chief Dapo Sarumi. I threw my weight behind Yomi Edu. He lost the election and our group was devastated. I went to Ahmadu Abubakar and IBB. I wrote a report and I was strongly against the Structural Adjustment Programme introduced by the military government. The idea of the new generation banks came from those reports. Abubakar, from being a permanent secretary, became Minister of Finance.
IBB saw the significance of the advice as well as the short, medium and long term vision that was in the report. That man was a good listener. You could think with him. He is still alive. This probe of NNPC dates back to those periods. You can give the NNPC a bank draft for 120 days and you will still be using that money!
They started touting the idea that intelligent, brilliant and dynamic people like me should be in the Senate and must change Nigeria. The idea gradually started coming into my head. People like Kola Oseni, Alhaji Hamzat, Busurat Alebiosu, Demola Adeniji-Adele, Prince Olusi, who were members of the Primrose Group at that time, started persuading me to go to the Senate. The Primrose Group was piling so much pressure on Alhaji Kola Oseni to persuade me.
The MD of Mobil, Bob Parker, thought I was crazy when I told him I wanted to join politics. I also told the Finance Director, Akinyelure, that I wanted to join politics and use my brain for my country and that I couldn’t continue to be an armchair critic. The two of them could not believe what I said. They said, given my career path in Mobil, if there was any chance of anybody becoming something there, then I would be the one. I stood my ground and said I would give it a try.
I told them that people do it in America and Bob Parker agreed. They said they would give me a leave of absence for four years, during which they would not fill my position. They later said that they would not stop me because it would rub off positively on them if I became successful in politics. They told me to come back and take my position if I found it uninteresting and unchallenging.
So I contested the Lagos West Senatorial district election.After your governorship, your life rhythm has not changed – travels, meetings etc. How do you cope?
I have given you my background, a corporate background; working in a different cultural environment as a black man in a reputable company like Deloitte and Touche. You have to work harder to impress the average white man that you are as good, if not better, than he is. If you cannot go that extra mile and discipline yourself, you are not going to achieve.

Don’t you think this is the time for you to retire?

The challenges of governance are monumental. The model we set up in Lagos is working well and I will recommend it for Nigeria. Let the governor take care of the administration and its nitty-gritty, if he is scholarly enough and sharp, while other political leaders take the political pressures off him. I don’t have files to sign. Let them go and sign the files and deal with the routine of governance so that he can focus on the developmental goals of the state. It is all about service and as long as I still have energy and ability to think, I believe I should continue.
You waged several battles against Obasanjo on issues like fiscal federalism, seizure of local council funds etc. Which of these wars did you consider the hottest?
If I have to rank them, I think the creation of the local governments was my favourite because the processes are clearly stated and well articulated in the constitution. And if you do all of that and comply with the constitutional requirements, then you should not be denied. I believe in true federalism. I believe in local government administration, which I think is a service centre for the state. The constitution is clear. It is wrong to even think that there are three tiers of government in a federal system of government. There are only two – the state and the federal. It is because the constitution was put together by a group of military people, who believe in command and control that we have this kind of anomaly.
They tinkered with it and they tailored it in a way that would suit a unitary system and I believe that was the problem. We still don’t have a constitution of ‘we the people’. The battle was not personally directed at Obasanjo. I know he is a dictator and I knew he would be imperialistic, which he was.
My commitment to the fundamentals of a democratic system and federal principles has not changed. I believe that we still must discuss; you might call it a constitutional conference, whether it is sovereign or not. Sovereignty belongs to the people, but we still need a constitutional conference that would respond to the need of our people, and that would devolve power to the state and all local governments.
It is cheating and illegal to list 774 local governments in a constitution that allows for the creation of additional councils. It doesn’t even give the consequential order or right to the National Assembly.
The constitution doesn’t allow them the rejection. Go to the constitution. So, the constitution lists the 774 as a directory of existing local councils when the constitution was promulgated and enforced. It doesn’t forbid you from creating new ones. That is why we have the perverted revenue allocation formula, which is equally unconstitutional. When you determine the farcical allocation of the federal revenue, with 52 per cent to the federal government and 28 per cent to the states and the remaining to the local government, you are using vertical indices. The population of that state has not changed, the geographical boundaries in the state have not changed or been altered and the number of schools have not changed either. So, if you are given 28 per cent, divided by 36 states, it is funny. Local government finances and revenues will be administered by the state and House of Assembly. What are we talking about? We are just a lawless nation. We are not sincerely committed to constitutional democracy and that is why we can have any hogwash.
That is why you take the total money for local government.

People say Asiwaju is the richest Yoruba man. How rich are you?

If you are talking in monetary terms, it is a lie. But I want them to continue to believe that I am rich. The fact is that I cannot prepare for my death. I want to live long and I believe in people and I believe in sharing. So, whatever you ascribe to me in terms of wealth is your own imagination. I will not do two cheques – one to the Central Bank of Heaven and the other one to the Central Bank of Hell – cashable when I am dead. The money will remain here. I don’t want to be greedy, but frugal with the little I have and be contented. There are certain things they can’t dispute and one of these is that I wasn’t a poor man when I joined politics. I financed the struggle during the NADECO days. Before the NADECO days, I financed political goals and aspirations. I financed political groups and individuals.
No matter how you dream, it is empty without financial success. If you have no concrete financial progress for a state or an entity, it will not endure. I have not taken Lagos to bankruptcy. It was bankrupt before I took over, I turned it into a success within my two-terms as governor. It had existed for so long before I became governor.
During my tenure, former President Olusegun Obasanjo described Lagos as an urban jungle and uninhabitable. But he chose to celebrate his 75th birthday in Lagos recently! There was a dispute on the control of the Bar Beach during my tenure, but if I didn’t rigidly follow my vision and my belief in Lagos State, Victoria Island would have been submerged. Go there today, it is gradually emerging the biggest real estate that you could ever imagine. You don’t have to go to Dubai again. So, whatever they say, I say let them say. I am proud of my achievements in all facets of life. I won’t use two breast pockets or trucks to load money to heaven when it is time. I just pray that I live longer and continue to struggle for quality and better life for my people.
We don’t have reasons to be poor in this country, because we are blessed. Take a helicopter and fly to Kwara, Kogi, Abuja, Kaduna, etc, you will see vast green land. We have land for food.
Education is the greatest weapon against poverty and we have seen this to be true. We cannot innovate without education; we cannot be great without education; yet we have not committed ourselves to it. We need a leader that is a thinker and a doer to drive that vision for this country.
The last hope of human defense in any democracy is the judiciary. That arm is now being decimated. There are so many challenges and so much injustice out there. But when you amputate justice, you are opening up the nation for instability. When you have to bypass the constitution to ensure that one political party is in power, you are looking for chaos and instability. When you take away the right of the citizens to fair hearing in any democracy, you have committed a crime and you have set the nation on the path of instability and destruction. Once we lose faith in the judicial system, we are saying we should not settle our disputes. If that be, disputes will now be settled on the streets with dane guns, cutlasses and so on. So you are creating an environment for a banana republic. We have those challenges in the judiciary. If we neglect the society and allow it to slip into chaos, many of us who invest in our children and their education and development at the expense of the poor people are putting that investment at risk. Because the children of the poor will revolt one day. When they start, we can’t predict the outcome. We should do it right or else we will have ourselves to blame.
You asked a question whether I am not tired or thinking of retirement now. Even to be idle will be too dangerous.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/04/03/tinubu-my-life-my-story/