Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state knows that he had been gathering ant infested faggots in the past five years he’s been Governor of Oyo state. He equally knows that he would gather the faggots for another three years remainder of his tenure as a two terms Governor. Like Chinua Achebe postulated in his book ” Arrow of God”, he who brings ant infested faggots into his hut will surely be visited by lizards. What faggots have Governor Makinde been gathering? What lizard is he afraid of? Why would he need a lilly livered successor? Governor Seyi Makinde is indeed…
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Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state have started talking, or, should I say, dreaming about the Legacies he will leave behind as the Landlord of Agodi Government House for eight years. During the signing of the Project Monitoring Agency Bill, 2024 at the Secretariat last week Thursday, Governor Makinde declared that Oyo state doesn’t require strong Governors but rather strong Institutions to thrive. He went on to say that what he would like to leave behind as his Legacies are the strong Institutions he is building. He admitted to meeting on ground a Bureau of Public Procurement and Governor’s Monitoring…
Last week, Nigeria was faced with what Yoruba call Egbinrin ote. When afflictions come in multiple, they become a plague. A plague is almost synonymous with Yoruba’s “Egbinrin ote.” Literally, Egbinrin Ote is leaves of conspiracy. When you pluck a single leaf out of the branch of a tree of conspiracy, another leaf sprouts immediately to replace it. Any attempt at striking one down, multiple leaves grow from it. On Tuesday, the country literally went into a feverish frenzy. Nigeria’s Central Bank had shot up the whole nation’s adrenaline by a considerable measure. In a circular, the bank directed all…
A video by a popular Ibadan OAP, Oriyomi Hamzat is currently trending . In the said video, a picture of the former chairman of the Parks Management System, PMS, Mukaila Auxiliary could be seen while Oriyomi in a voice over is heard singing about what would definitely be the fate of Auxiliary. ” A fi Olorun sin o, Olorun je o dewon layo, A fi Olorun sin o..” in translation, Oriyomi was singing and bidding Auxillary a farewell to the prison yard. In fact, in his cocksuredness, he stated that the only option left for Auxiliary is to choose where…
A press release by Otunba Adegbenro Fagbemi and Eng. Gbeminiyi Ayodele, Chairman and Public Relations Officer of the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) created, at best, some sad amusements. Yorubas would call such ” oro buruku toun terin”. The subjective views by the duo is not a new thing in our electoral patterns. It has become a fashion for election riggers to look for some funny individuals who are privileged to hold some positions to try and use them in a desperate bid to create a semblance of acceptance and legitimacy. The old trick could be likened to the wisdom…
Local Government Election have been done with by OYSIEC according to the wishes of Governor Seyi Makinde. However, the process is not completed. Section 33-42 of the OYSIEC Law allows for anyone who has an issue with the returns of the Commission to ventilate his or her complaints at the Election petition Tribunals. Having made a complete mess of the electoral Commission, the dirty games have proceeded to the hallowed Chambers of the Court. It is shocking to see that Governor Makinde and OYSIEC are leaving no stone unturned to cover up the disgraceful act they combined to put out…
Unfortunately, the battle for the survival of the Local Governments in Oyo state have shifted wholesome to the Judiciary. I used the word wholesome emphatically because the evil perpetuated by Governor Makinde and OYSIEC traversed the over six thousand polling units, the 351 wards and the 33 Local Governments. It is as if April 27 never happened. Another phase of wastage of public funds have been opened by Governor Makinde and his OYSIEC. The opposition parties who are rightly aggrieved will definitely try to ventilate their grievances before the election petition Tribunals in line with section 33 to 42 of…
The scholar and researcher had taken a trip to an open market. There, he met a female fishmonger. Attracted by the casual attention this researcher paid to a croaker fish on display on her stall, the lady attempted to win this potential buyer to her stall. So, she began to dish out a mesh of adulations and panegyrics of the buyer. “Aguntasoolo, okoo mi, e wa ba mi raa,” she chanted. The researcher translated the chant thus: “Dapper-and-gracefully-tall-one, my husband, please buy from me.” The marketing gambit won and the researcher branched by to haggle the price of the fish.…
On Saturday, 27th April, 2024, Oyo state Governor, Seyi Makinde conducted election in the 33 Local Governments of the state. The circumstances before, during and after the election eventually laid to rest whatever doubts any right thinking human being had about the turn of events that produced a shock defeat of the APC in the gubernatorial election of 2023. Many of us have said it repeatedly that Seyi Makinde did not defeat the APC in 2023. How could the PDP come from a crushing defeat, where it lost in the presidential ballot, the Senatorial ballot a conceded 9 out of…
Would The Beautiful Ones Ever Be Born? Our societies are in a big mess. Men of means and role models are going into extinction. All we have are desperate individuals, professionals of diverse background who would rather get things done, no matter how crooked the procedure precedent. The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the debut novel by the Ghanian Novelist, Ayi Kwei Amah. The book was first published in 1968. Unfortunately, up until now, Nigeria is still in search of the beautiful ones. By all some standard, the likes of Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and…