₦airaland Forum

May her gentle soul rest in perfect peace! Amen.

Aigbofa: I wish we could clone 36 of him....And the original to Abuja.

;DIf u carry original go Abuja, that means the rest na fake na!

2015: Group launches interactive session for public office holders
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Lagos Tuesday, 19, 2014 Ahead of the 2015 elections, a leading human rights group, the Coalition of Nigerian Civil Right Groups, CONRIG has launched an interactive forum aimed at creating a platform of engagement between the electorate, political stakeholders and electorate elected leaders at the grassroots.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the coalition of rights groups said the interactive forum will bring together elected leaders at the state and national levels an interactive section aimed with locals with the aim of deepening democratic culture in the country.
The statement signed by CONRIG’S National Secretary, Mr Samuel Olorunwa said the programme which will be launched early next month will cover several states in Nigeria using Lagos as a pilot project.

The project will highlight the imperative of good governance and popular engagement with local people and their representatives.
Apart from the elected representatives and the electorate, representatives of the international development agencies like the United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP) the Department for International Development, (DFID) and the media will also be invited to the chain of events scheduled to begin in September this year.

“Leadership is about accountability. The people elected on trust to hold public posts should be subjected to constant engagement by the electorate to give account of their stewardship especially in the state that has recently been engulfed with different allegations of financial mismanagement” CONRIG stated in the statement. The rights group said such interaction will stem the emerging culture of violence and promote the tradition of debate as against violent confrontations that characterize most elections in Nigeria.

The group stated “It is time to hold the elected office holders to account for their steadwardship. We think it is the right time to do this before the next elections. We are starting with elected representatives in Lagos. We hope to cover at least 80 percent of the 36 states before the next election.”

“Poor leadership continues to fuel anger, underdevelopment and distrust, but this forum seeks a medium through which public office holders can be engaged to express themselves unhindered,” the group stated.

CONRIG urges all the local government chairmen and other elected representatives to prepare a comprehensive repot of their achievements in the past four years in anticipation of constructive engagement with the people that elected them.

CONRIG is a coalition of several civil rights groups drawn from various aspects of human socio-political development. Established in 2007, the group has taken active part in promoting human rights and democratic culture in Nigerian and in many West African countries

https://irohinodua./2014/08/20/2015-group-launches-interactive-session-for-public-office-holders/?shared=email&msg=fail

oluwasegunfummi: I listened to pastor bosun's audio about the "abuja declaration" , at a point in his speech he stressed the fact that nigerians should be mindful APC, I believed every single thing he said including this statement because the man is so intelligent and he has an admirable sagacity, he backed all of his statement with facts and proof, For him to have mentioned APC, that means there's problem. Why did he warn nigerians against APC?

oluwasegunfummi: ;;;;;;;; BUSTED!!!!! an Igbo Bastard!!!!

madamoringo: She looks like a huge sack of dirty beans, full of shaite! Eeeeeewwwww...gross thing!

That's too bad a statement to make. Retract your words!!!

TribalEAST: we political section nairalanders are already use to your ilk. An impostor like. You fades off in Just a matter of weeks. Goodbye

Don‘t mind the outrageous onponu! He has already implicated himself. An imposter with tiny brain!!!

People should stop deceiving themselves with all these light has improved thoughts. wait for the dry season and you'll realize its only a mirage!

Fashola is a great leader no doubt.

LMAO!!! You pple no go kill person! Hahahahakikikikikiikkiiii!

Chairman of the
Independent National
Electoral Commission, Prof
Attahiru Jega, Acting
Inspector General of Police
Suleiman Abba and the
Director General of
Governor Aregbesola’s
campaign organisation,
Professor Sola Adeyeye,
disagreed on Wednesday
over modalities for voting
in Saturday’s Osun
governorship election.
This almost disrupted the
Stakeholders’ Forum
organised by INEC which
was also attended by
political parties and their
candidates in Osogbo.
The disagreement started
when INEC chairman
urged voters to disregard
APC candidate, Governor
Aregbesola, who asked
voters to take photograph
of their ballot papers with
their camera phones on
the day of the election.
Jega said such practice
would violate electoral
law and that nobody
would be allowed to use
their camera phones to
take photographs of his
ballot paper and that
anyone who tries it would
be arrested.
This did not go down well
with Aregbesola and APC
chieftains who were at the
forum, including Adeyeye
and instantly expressed
their disapproval of the
statement of the INEC
chairman.
Adeyeye told INEC
chairman that nobody can
stop the voters from
taking photograph of their
ballot papers. Adeyeye
who is the Senator
representing Osun Central
Senatorial District said he
would take his
photograph of his own
ballot paper and that he is
ready for the arrest.
“I have written my will.
I’m ready to die. I will take
photograph of my ballot
paper. All of us will take
photograph of our ballot
papers. We are ready for
whatever would be the
consequence. Let us see
how many of us you can
kill,” Adeyeye said.
While speaking, the IGP
insisted that anyone who
attempts to disrupt the
election process would be
dealt with. He advised the
voters to be mindful of
electoral laws so as not to
commit electoral offences.

--DAILY TRUST

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PDP2Uba brothers: Ekiti & Osun Stats’ Election Fixing Contracts and The Vampires’ pact From a Deserter’s Diary

2015 General Elections in Nigeria: The Schedule of Military Operations; A Deserter’s Diary

Part 1: The Vampires’ Pact: Uba brothers and Ekiti/Osun Stats’ Election Contracts

“When General Eme first gave a hint that Chris Uba was bidding for the Ekiti Election Fixing Contract for the PDP because ‘Fayose could not raise enough money for the election and people were not willing to stake their funds on him on account of his political antecedent’, I honestly had cause to doubt him despite his credibility with such high-tech top secrete pouch of information. He realy went cold with me for a few days for this Thomasic behaviour.”

By time this news becomes public item, I would have been declared a deserter — this I mean being hunted by the crack team of the security command of the new clique of Nigerian hegemony I have designated strictly personally contrived and automatically convinced to so hold. Once heard of the Mystic Falls in the US and thought it a fictional tale of creative ingenuity, never would I contemplate a reality version of it in the real world. Lo and behold, they are here in Nigeria and to be encountered as political vampires. But vampire is vampire – feeding on human blood to kill.

Blood has a metaphor in the world of economics to man. It’s the money power at its basic necessity for human survival, which globally is scaled in the terminology of ‘poverty level’. A man in penury of abject poverty is a living corpse. This I know from a practical experience of my life before I was ‘conscripted’ into the Niger ‘Delta Freedom Fighters Force’ – as we thought it; not the ‘militant group’ the press conspired to label us.

Ever wondered my use of ‘conscripted’ for ‘initiation’ into that undoubtedly an occultist world of the Niger Delta militancy? The difference between what we ‘believed’ we were and what the public perceived us to be is the answer for the reason. But every militant is a cult with membership allegiance to identifiable group and its leader consequently. At that level the concept of initiation was applied. But at the macro level of Niger Delta’s interest, each cult group has a stake to commit into the project. Each thus becomes a platon of the general command of the freedom fighters. At this level, individual is a rank and file of the Nigeria Delta Army. At that level, concept of conscription is applied.

Life in the creek’s had been so good to much of heavenly paradise; so had been life in ‘the camp’s before the Ekiti Election’s Operations (EEO) changed my orientation altogether happily for the comfort of my conscience. The change was inspired and the satisfaction optimally, as I for once looked into my toddler son in the eye and communicated with heart to him: “you can be happier, now that you know I am free from being a sire bond of the vampires. No more sucking of human blood!”

The EEO made me wept midway into the Zero Hours after we split into civil and combatant operations on the Election Day, that June 21, 2014. Not even the fated termination of Azazi – in plot and executions – ever so moved me to emotions. “We all acknowledge his (Azazi’s) innocence, but FL said Oga believes he is not of our blood by that open declaration; and the silence has to be permanent, ‘General’ Eme had said.

For the EEO, the combatants were to immobilize (execute the clamp down in mass arrest) of the President’s Enemies (PEs) – who happened to be leaders of the ruling party in that State, the All Progressive Congress (APC). The combatants comprised the combined team of soldiers – mostly our members (ND) brotherhoods clad in military fatigue which one would justifiably call ‘fake soldiers’ to a layman but ‘unknown soldiers – as we were acknowledged to be amidst the regular soldiers and known to the military command – as I would think; the State Security Service (SSS); the Special Anti-riot Police Squad (a.k.a. kill-and-go) and a handful men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC — a.k.a. Civil Defense). However, a detachment of this combatant unit was to serve as a back-up for the civil arm, specifically to ward off the prying lenses of the press-camera. I belonged and led a team of this detachment and we were actually responsible for the arrest of some unfortunate journalists and press crew.

The civil operation involved distribution of enticing materials — bags of rice and physical cash to the electorate. Those to distribute the materials were mainly civilians identified as the ‘PL’ (President’s Loyalists) sometimes interchangeable in calling as ‘the patriots’. But to Mr. Chris Uba, it’s simply a matter of Mr. President’s loyalists versus his enemies – an orientation he consistently near successfully made us to recite by rote. They comprised the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leaders not only from Ekiti State as I was as sure as the PDP stalwart from Rivers State to whom our group was responsible to as our civil command’s channel of authority. I do not intend to hold back any identifiable personality involved in all our Ekiti and other prospective operations, but this commander’s name is elusive to me now in my hermitage of exile at home.

The civil operation was however structured in three layers of distinct briefs but complementary into one goal: The civilians, the civil defence corps out team – the combatants.

The Civil Defence was to be closer to the civilians and even involved in physical process of distribution – to give confidence of being an acceptable norm of that election process to the perception of the electorate. We the combatants are to keep equiline watch for any potential ‘a-no-go-gree’ from any quarter to be dealt with, much less as to keep fortive glances at the distribution process to ‘mark’ any one rejecting the largesse as a potential PE.

An indignation suddenly pricked my conscience at about past eleven and mysteriously overwhelming me within seconds in a manner I still find to being beyond human comprehension to date. Though I, like my other Niger Delta militant colleagues in the EEO, was well equipped with ideology of military orientation from the creeks’ experience. To brutally murder an ‘enemy’ – man, for human face, if you like – is a pass time; not to talk of mere bullying.

This one I have just beheld suddenly became obscene and I noticed a gushing feeling of empathy against inhumanity out of me. A middle aged man had just got a dose of the brunt of our military angst that had built up in every one of us in count down to the Zero Hours. I just turned my supposedly blank gaze on one of our parade ride passing by this polling unit to catch a glimpse of two of our men, in the nick of time, hit him at shoulder back. “For democracy?” An intrinsic poser had just challenged my emotion for human feelings

What led to this, I could not personally attest to in oath of true eyewitness account. But a tale of response to my later enquiry suggested a tease in mockery between acquaintances from the opposing camps of political parties gone awry. An overzealous civil defense corps acting true to bidding had raised an unnecessary alarm to attract the fake soldiers.

The flow of handing over a mini bag of rice with cash to every voter on the queue in turn had been smooth from the behind the line until it got to the victim of the brutality, a staunch APC faithful I presumed was well known to the distributor. I think the distributor had offered him his own with a wink of tease he could not find amusing. ‘Get out of my sight or…”, the APC man was still saying before a hard slap on his neck-back from the civil defense cut him short of further words. Other parts of the obscene followed and it instantly ignited my deserving pity for a treaty of misery — a pact of miserable life these people of Ekiti have just been deceived to endorse with these PDP’s callous bait for a deeper wretched living in their land. Suffice to say the first leg of our Revisionism in throwback of the First Republic is a success. For those who do not know, the rested Igbo/Ijaw ethnic nations block making up the Eastern Region’s mission to dominate the political space of Nigeria has returned and alive with us in this democracy – now under South South/South East alliance. We shall get there.

So, how many sons and daughters of Ekiti and Osun states know that the June 21, 2014 Governorship Election in Ekiti and the coming Osun State Governorship Election were contracted to Chief Chris Uba by the President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP to deliver as electoral victory to PDP?

Do the Ekiti people know that going by the terms of that ‘election fixing’ contract, Chief Chris Uba shall begin to take N650million from the Ekiti State’s treasury via the State’s Federal allocations drawn at source every month effective from October 2014 after the swearing in of the new Governor?. This is a standing order exclusive of recurrent benefits in contracts awards.

Do the People of Osun know that the same condition applies to Osun State if Chief Chris Uba Should also succeeds to deliver on the Osun Election Fixing Contract to the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan!

Do the people of Osun State know that should Chief Chris Uba fixes the election and successfully deliver victory to PDP, Senator Iyiola Omisore as Governor of the State is sealed to pay him (Chief Chris Uba) a monthly sum of N850million every months via the same channel of drawing from source upon release of the monthly Federal Allocation to the State.

The difference in the Osun’s Contract fee to Ekiti’s is because Omisore had preferred the lump sum of N850million refund every month to Chris Uba without any additional pact of recurrent benefits of contracts award. And this was accepted in this wise because for this State, Uba is not the direct beneficiary. You will know the beneficiary in due course.

Do the People of Ekiti and Osun states know that the Resignation Letters of Mr. Ayodele Peter Fayose and Senator Iyiola Omisore from being the Governor and Chief Security Officers of Ekiti and Osun States respectively were signed before Mr. President, Goodluck Jonathan and in the presence of Chris Uba. These letters are being held in trust for both parties personally by Mr. President.
http://irohinodua./2014/08/03/urgent-for-irohin-how-pdp-sell-the-future-of-south-west-people-for-a-porridge-account-of-an-insider/

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Ibadan, July 20, 2014
O’Odua Nationalist Coalition, (ONAC) has said that the Yoruba youths are ready for the dissolution of Nigeria as proposed by some Northern youths few days ago.

The Pan-Yoruba group asked people of Hausa-Fulani extraction living in the South West to quit the region saying that the quit notice was an act of proportional response to the ultimatum given to Southerners, including the Yoruba to quit the Islamic North within the next two weeks.

ONAC said the dissolution of Nigeria is in the interest of the Yoruba masses but may not be in the interests of mercantile politicians and self-seeking business men and women who are rich enough to provide means that lift them above the human misery facing the Yoruba nation, arising from the contradictions of the country Nigeria.

“We urge Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri people in Yorubaland in the states of Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi, Akoko Edo, Itsekiri and Osun to leave without any further delay. If our people are being asked to quit the North, it follows that the aggressors also need to leave our land to create opportunities for Yoruba people coming back home from the North, ONAC said in a statement issued after the group’s meeting held in Ibadan on Sunday.
The Pan-Yoruba group said it welcomed the position of the Northern youths during a rally in Kano where the organizers called for the peaceful dissolution of Nigeria.

“This is a welcome development. All along, we have been living in denial that we are one country. We are not one and Nigerians can never have a common destiny. It is time to call it quit with a century of marriage that has seen more of unending misery and calamities both for the bride and the bridegroom. We support the peaceful dissolution of Nigeria. That is the right step to the freedom and liberation of all the ethnic groups tin Nigeria that have been in perpetual bondage since the 1914 amalgamation.”

ONAC said it believes that the statement by the Northern youths represent only the feelings of the Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri stock, saying that the Northern youths lack the legitimacy to speak for Northern minorities who have been perpetually oppressed by the core North.

ONAC said the two week ultimatum given by Hausa-Fulani has confirmed the fear that the bomb attacks on most parts of the North were pre-conceived and targeted against people of southern extraction. The ONAC’s Head of Internal Affairs, Major Kareem Ogunade who signed the statement urged Yoruba and southerners to take the threat serious adding that giving the increasing rate of bombing, the kidnapping of young girls and the air of terror in the North, the threat by the Northern youths is real.
“The Yoruba people have lost many people to the series of attacks in the North for the past 100 years since Nigeria was amalgamated by the British. These attacks were common during the reign of National leaders of Hausa-Fulani extraction. However, since 1999, when Southerners have had the opportunity of ruling the country, the attacks on innocent Yoruba and Southerners generally have become more ferocious. The victims include Yoruba Muslims and Christians, meaning that ethnicity is one of the major underlining factors responsible for the violent bombings,” Ogunade stated.
https://irohinodua./2014/07/20/were-ready-for-dissolution-of-nigeria-says-oodua-group/

Gives two weeks ultimatum to southerners to quit.
By AbdulSalam Muhammad

KANO – The march towards 2015 General Election took a dangerous dimension in Kano Wednesday following calls by youths under the auspices of Arewa Youth Development Foundation for the division of Nigeria as a political entity.

The protest that was held outside the palace of the Emir of Kano shortly after a courtesy call on the on the monarch, attracted hundreds of youths believed to be students drawn from tertiary institution in Kano.

Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, appealed for calm and enjoins the youth to imbibe the lesson of peace in their entire endeavour considering the critical role they play in nation building.

Sanusi II told the protesting youths during a courtesy call on him that “it is only natural that people of different and divergent culture to live in one entity as a nation, and I enjoin you people to imbibe the lesson of peace considering your role in nation development”.

The youth carrying placard with inscription that support the dissolution of the country hold a rally outside the palace and was addressed by the Secretary General of the Group, Comrade Alfred Solomon who decaalred that their stand was informed by what he called “continued intimidation of Northerners by the federal Government.”

Some of the placard bore the message “Hold your petro dollars, let everyone goes his direction”, Southerners are not welcome here in the north”, Southerners must Go, Shegu” Nigeria belong to all of us not militants” we say no to Northern identification in southern Nigeria”.

Other telling messages in the placards also reads “Southerners are militants, kidnappers/ rituals, armed robbers, drug pushers, terrorists, sons/daughters are products of baby factory” were on display during a protest that lasted one hour.

A prepared speech jointly signed by National President and Secretary General, Barrister Aliyu M Usman, and Alfred Solomon respectively but was read by the Secretary General during the protest urged northerners to “rise and support agitation for peaceful dissolution of this union called Nigeria for every region to go its own way.”

Alfred directed that “we urged all artisans, students, public and private sector servants , traders business holders currently operating , residing or intending to do so in any part of Nigeria to relocate back home within the next two weeks”
Alfred Solomon in the same vein further advised non Northerners residing in any part of the northern Nigeria to relocate to their various regins of origin within two weeks to make room for accommodating our northern brothers who would be returning home.

Solomon noted that the “measure would bring an end to the mutual suspicion that is presently causing some southern states to demand Northerners to obtain resident permits and perhaps any similar action that may arise from northern state Government as a consequence”.

The rally that was originally schedule to crisis cross designated streets in Kano was cancelled while no reason was given also by the Organizers from cancelling scheduled visit to the Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso at the Government House.
The city is however calm and quiet as residents move about their legitimate businesses without molestation.
http://irohinodua./2014/07/17/lets-dissolve-nigeria-now-northern-youths/
culled from Vanguard

By Samuel Olu.
Two people, including a minor, were feared dead this evening in an auto accident involving a lone drunk driver. Our correspondent saw at least two dead bodies being removed from the cite of the accident that took place 7pm this evening in the Ikotun area of Lagos State.

Other eye witnesses told our correspondent that the drunk driver was in a high speed and blindly rammed into a retinue of road side hawkers and haggling market women in the usually boisterous Lagos suburb. 'The driver was drunk. He was in a state of drunken stupor. He came out of the vehicle smelling like someone drenched in a pool of beer', one eye witness told IrohinOodua this evening. Our correspondent could not ascertain the names of the victims as at the time of going to the press. Many wailing sympathizers thronged the scene of the wreckage blaming the drunk driver for the mayhem. Police also did not arrive at the scene on time to save lives.
http://irohinodua./2014/07/11/two-dead-in-lagos-as-drunk-driver-over-runs-hawkers/

Posted by irohinodua ⋅ July 11, 2014
Ekiti Poll: Segun Ayobolu’s salad of lies and bitterness

ekiti electionBy Olayinka Oyebode
Reading Segun Ayobolu’s “researched piece” on Ekiti June 21 election, which is essentially a diatribe against Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi titled : “Further Thoughts on Ekiti Polls” in his back page column in The Nation Newspapers last Saturday, one must extend deep sympathies to Ayobolu as he toiled laboriously, employing all the lies he could muster and expired beer parlour gist, to deconstruct Governor Fayemi and find justification for the highly controversial loss of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the election.
Placed side by side with his first opinion article on Ekiti election published by the newspaper a week earlier, one cannot but wonder what has changed (within the space of a week) in Governor Fayemi’s personality, politics and record of achievements in office as well as the inter play of forces that marred the fairness of the election and, of course, its highly suspicious outcome? In taking it further, one may also ask what has changed in Ayobolu’s mindset, sense of value, judgement and decency? For, at best, his July 5th article is nothing but a cocktail of outright lies, mischievous innuendoes, outbursts of personal animosity and very crude and shallow inferences and conclusions.
While one may not necessarily query Ayobolu’s license as a columnist to reach a conclusion that suits his fancy or his decision to portray himself as a hack writer in his desperate bid to re-write history, one can at least set the record straight for the sake of the newspaper’s teeming population of readers and the general public who could be misguided by the discredited article.
For the avoidance of doubt, nothing could be farther from the truth than Ayobolu’s claim that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Candidate , now Governor-elect, Mr Ayodele Fayose would have won the June 21 election with or without the security onslaught on APC members. A thorough investigation of the events preceding the June 21 election and the election proper, especially the controversy trailing the ballot materials would have guided the writer. Ayobolu’s conclusion that the outcome of the election was a rejection of Governor Fayemi and not APC is rather unfortunate, especially coming from someone who ordinarily should know better.
Perhaps in Ayobolu’s haste to crucify Governor Fayemi, he alluded that the Governor lost his ward to Fayose. The truth is that in spite of the “abracadabra” (the more you look the less you see) nature of the election, the Governor still won his unit and ward. The result as released by INEC is as follows: Unit 09: APC (Fayemi) – 167; PDP (Fayose) – 1; LP (Bamidele) – 0. For the ISAN/ILAFON/ILEMESO Ward : APC (Fayemi) – 2,022 and PDP (Fayose) – 261; LP (Bamidele)- 06. It becomes worrisome where Mr Ayobolu got his own version of the result, which he tried, howbeit crudely, to rationalise by claiming that the people of Isan were unhappy that the Fayemi administration did not do anything for the town. Aside the fact that the town, like any other community in Ekiti State, got its own fair share of the commonwealth in form of free medical health, free education, youth empowerment, school renovation, social security for elderly citizens and community empowerment programmes, the newly established College of Agriculture is located in Isan Ekiti. The N750 million project with modern facilities is built on an expanse of land in the community.

Ayobolu’s suggestion that the Wife of the Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi had a university in Ghana, is perhaps the unkindest cut of all. While the first family had on numerous occasions debunked the allegations and challenged anyone to come up with facts- name and location of the university, it is unbelievable that a writer would join the bandwagon of such a criminal allegation without stopping to ask a few pertinent questions such as the name of the institution, its location and principal officers. Mr Ayobolu, in his bid to give credence to the lie said the Governor had remained silent over the matter, therefore, his conclusion was that the allegation was true. This, he wrote in order to justify his claims that the Governor only succeeded in empowering a few of his cronies while he left others in abject poverty. Sadly, Ayobolu’s Ghana University tale falls into the same mould of the now expired mudslinging of the Opeyemi Bamidele-led Labour Party. Need we ask Ayobolu his source of information again ?

Not satisfied with the Ghana University allegation, Ayobolu went a step further to claim that Governor Fayemi “had built an imposing country home in Isan in his first year while most of the people remained immersed in poverty”. This is a lie from the pit of hell. The Fayemis’ country home has been built before he became Governor. Indeed, the Isan country home was part of the assets declared by the Governor in his Code of Conduct Bureau asset declaration deposed to at the Registry of the State High Court, Ado-Ekiti, on November 15, 2010 barely a month after assuming office. Details of the asset declaration were also published in some national dailies on December 19th, 2010.

In Ayobolu’s assertion, Governor Fayemi- his friend- became inaccessible immediately he assumed office and that the “brilliant, humble and unassuming Fayemi” was later “turned by power to haughty, hubristic governor, almost contemptuous of his party and people”. Then he was never Fayemi’s friend, for this is exact opposite of what Fayemi represents. Ayobolu also claimed that in the course of his “investigation”, a legislator told him he could not access the Governor. Well, I can tell you of countless ordinary citizens that access the governor direct daily on his telephone and email address which are well publicised and who can access him at home, in the office or at social or official functions, depending on the approach they so wish to take. Others have their days with the Governor during his regular interface with interest groups or the town hall meetings he holds across the 132 communities yearly and which has become a benchmark for participatory democracy in the country, where communities have rare opportunities to juxtapose their developmental priorities for the year with that of government and make ample contributions to budget planning.

Quite embarrassing to truth and all that is decent is Ayobolu’s attempt to demonise a former Governor of the state, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, whom he tried to portray as the cankerworm that destroyed Governor Fayemi’s moral fibre and political base through his insatiable appetite. There is no denying the fact that Ex-Governor Adebayo as a former governor of the state and a respected leader of the party is accorded much respect by the government the same way other noted leaders of the party are well treated. But Ayobolu went off the track by stating that Otunba Adebayo nominated two commissioners into the cabinet and had his 22 years old son as a Special Adviser on Diaspora Matters, in addition to five other cousins of his manning strategic positions.

A click on the state website http://www.ekitistate.gov.ng is all Ayobolu needed to have done to get the list of Commissioners and Special Advisers in the government as well as their telephone contacts. As a matter of fact, the position of Special Adviser on Diaspora Matter does not exist in the state. It only exists in the fickle imagination of the writer. What we have is a Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Diaspora. His name is Mr Femi Adefolaju from Ire Ekiti.

If legal luminary and renowned Ekiti Brand Ambassador, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) is accorded respect as an Ekiti icon and an entrepreneur extraordinaire who has impacted positively on the socio-economic development of the state, what is Ayobolu’s problem with that? Baba Afe, as he is fondly called, remains the highest employer of labour in Ekiti State today with his thriving private university- Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti and other business concerns. His philanthropic gestures also cut across the country. He surely has a right to his own opinion.
Ayobolu’s attempt to bring in the personality of APC leader and former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to the picture is a crude attempt at manipulation. His claims that Asiwaju was kept at arm’s length by the Governor in preference for other “godfathers” is most ridiculous and needless. The Governor never for once shy away from acknowledging the role played by Asiwaju Tinubu in the actualisation of the mandate as well as his support for the government and his re-election bid.
Blaming Fayemi for the exit of Hon Opeyemi Bamidele from APC is most appalling. It shows Ayobolu’s shallow knowledge of politics. May be Ayobolu needs to be reminded of the number of serving commissioners that left the Asiwaju Tinubu’s administration when the lot fell on Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) as the governorship candidate of the party in the run off to the 2007 election in Lagos State. As a matter of fact, the then Deputy Governor, Mr Femi Pedro left the party as part of the fallout. It is also on record that the late Engr Funsho Williams left the Alliance for Democracy (AD) after Asiwaju Tinubu emerged as the preferred candidate of AD for the 1999 election. The question is: were there genuine efforts by the Governor and other leaders of the party to prevail on Hon Bamidele not to leave the party when he did? The answer is YES! But the efforts failed, it was like squeezing water out of stone. Thus, it was more of a collective failure.
Considered most unfortunate is Ayobolu’s deliberate efforts to adduce several reasons for APC loss in Ekiti and blaming it strictly on Fayemi, while exciting himself with the fact that the Osun election would be a walk over. If Ayobolu, with his training and exposure in politics and government could boldly declare that all was well with the Ekiti election at a point the party was set to challenge the outcome, then he is of all men most pitiable. The danger in Ayobolu’s attempt to crucify “his friend” is that he might just be unwittingly strengthening the hands of the very enemy they ought to fight collectively. Like the kietergard’s theatre where the actor shouted “fire”, whereupon the audience clapped and shouted “bravo”, Ayobolu and many of his likes seem not to recognise the warnings that the Ekiti election portend.
On a final note, Ayobolu’s allusion to the fact that he never asked nor got a bottle of coke from the government of Dr Kayode Fayemi is not only laughable, it is pettiness in its worst form. More than anything, it reduced his postulation to the joke of a national circus. And like an online commentator put it rather succinctly, may be the basis of the jaundiced write up was the refusal or inability of the Governor to offer the writer a bottle of coke. This he can choose to have now before power changes hand on October 16th. He may also choose to have it through the new kid on the block.
With his pen dripping with venom, Ayobolu’s piece is a classic case of a writer who needs urgent help. His analysis shows his disdain for rigorous research which is sine qua non to an informed commentary. Even though he claimed to have written a lot based on principle, his piece is not only in bad taste, it depicts a man in a hurry to sacrifice principle, truth and justice on the luciferian altar of exigency. A malicious fiction like his helps neither the writer nor the society.

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Posted by irohinodua ⋅ July 11, 2014

Alo Abiola

— July 11, 2014

KFAWife of Ekiti State governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, yesterday said that the story of how the June 21 governorship election was allegedly manipulated against Governor Dr. Kayode Fayemi, would soon be revealed in due course.

Mrs Fayemi who stated this while delivering a keynote address at the 50th anniversary public lecture and award ceremony of the state chapter of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), said events unfolding after election in the state suggested that the election was manipulated from ‘source.’

She said, “I would like to state that we have not heard the last about the election. Two weeks after the immediate confusion and hysteria of the June 21 elections, a picture has begun to emerge.

“In due course, the full and real story of how the Ekiti elections of June 21 were manipulated from source will be revealed. There are many implications of Ekiti people having voted the way they supposedly did.”

The theme of her address was “Women Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – the Ekiti Experience.”

According her, many armchair analysts and commentators have opined that the electorate embraced patronage, popularly known as ‘stomach infrastructure’ as opposed to sustainable development during the last elections.

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Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has described the death of Lagos lawyer and human rights activist,
Mr. Bamidele Aturu as “very tragic and unfortunate”.

Fayemi in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Yinka Oyebode, said the death of the prominent
lawyer is an unprecedented loss to the pro-democracy and human rights community in Nigeria.

He said Aturu’s demise has robbed the oppressed of an irrepressible defender, a tireless advocate and a
committed fighter of injustice, oppression and repression in the Nigerian society. The Governor said he
received the news with shock as no one expected the death of Aturu whom he described as “a young man
bubbling with life” at a time when the nation needs his contribution to quest for a just society.

Fayemi pointed out that Aturu had committed himself to selfless service to mankind since his student days
when he was a terror to tyranny, dictatorship and subjugation of the rights of the powerless.

According to him, it was this motivation that fired the zeal in Aturu to study Law after he had earlier
received a Bachelor’s degree in Physics in a bid to use Law as a weapon to fight for the oppressed and
speak truth to power.

Fayemi noted that Aturu’s contribution to the legal profession especially in the areas of Constitutional Law,
Advocacy and Human Rights would remain indelible in the minds of Nigerians.

The Governor recalled the roles played by Aturu as a key actor in the fight to chase the military away from
the corridors of power and enthrone democracy which is being enjoyed by Nigerians today. He said Aturu
was irrevocably committed to the struggle and never kept quiet in the face of impunity being committed by
elected officials after the hard won democracy.

While praying God to grant the deceased eternal rest, Fayemi urged his family, friends, colleagues and
associates to be consoled by the good life he lived and the positive ways he has affected the society.

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The human rights community this evening hope for the survival of one of Nigeria’s most outstanding stormy icons, Mr Bamidele Aturu. A lawyer and human rights activist, Mr Aturu was rushed to the hospital this evening following a shock. ‘He was taken to the hospital. He is in a critical condition and we can only pray for his survival’, a family source told IrohinOodua. One activist said by 5pm this evening, Aturu was in a ‘dead’ coma and could only hope for a miraculous escape from the cold claws of death.

Sources told IrohinOodua that the General Overseer of the Redeem Christian Church of God, Baba Adejare Adeboye in the midst of the crisis later this evening had sent the ‘Mantle and Annointing Oil’ to Aturu on the sick bed. Aturu, who few years ago had a full circle turn around from an atheist to a Pastor in the RCCG, distinguished himself as a radical pastor who stood by the people and continued his crusade for the poor and the vulnerable in a country wrecked by corrupt and inept leadership, with daring consequences on public health of which Aturu seemed to have now become another painful victim.

Many activists broke down in tears at in Lagos and Abuja this evening when the news of Aturu’s demise was passed on to them. Aturu became an instant national hero in 1987 when as a Youth Corper, he rejected a National Award bestowed on him by the regime of Ibrahim Babangida. He was later denied a job placement across the country. He decided to go back to school to read law. He graduated in high grades from the Obafemi Awolowo University where he met his Christian and dedicated wife, Bimpe. Aturu’s home town is Ogbagi, in the present Ondo State. His parents live till date in Akure, the capital of Ondo State
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