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…
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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…
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state is one individual who surely loves to amuse. Sometimes you imagine what a fantastic clown the Governor would have been if he had chosen to go the way of the Baba Suwes and Baba Latins. The Governor, a couple of weeks ago treated us to another round of amusement. He had declared that the one who will succeed him would have to be in his fifties and according to him, there will be no room for people above sixty to be Governor of Oyo state. What a rib cracking, yet expensive joke? Expensive in…
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state and the Oyo state police command have a lot of questions to answer for the way they have dramatized the circumstances surrounding the purported attempt to arrest the former Chairman of the Parks Management System, Lamidi Mukaila aka Auxillary. Mukaila had been declared wanted by the Oyo state police command after a purported failed attempts to arrest him in both his hotel and residence. He was supposedly wanted on allegation of possession of illegal fire Arms and Ammunition. After the police failed to get him arrested, he was declared wanted or so the public…
There have been massive support for the establishment of state police recently. Those who have been voicing support for the establishment seem to be concentrated on just one point, the fact that they consider crime and policing a local phenomenon. They are very correct. However, they seem to have overlooked the evils that would definitely come with the establishment of a state security apparatus that will be wholly in control of state Governors who have been given too much powers already through the Constitution. Power corrupts and absolute powers corrupt absolutely. Before we all join the bandwagon asking for the…
A sad Drama was enacted in Oyo state between Saturday the 27th of April and Sunday 28th by the Oyo state Independent Electoral Commission, (OYSIEC). The unfortunate Drama was supervised and delivered by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria who is the Chairman of the Oyo Electoral Commission. I have said a lot about the person of Isiaka Olaguju SAN and I won’t flog issues about how he did what he did here. Sadly again, another Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Niyi Akintola compounded the unfortunate Drama orchestrated by a fellow SAN as him when he appeared on a live Radio…