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…
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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…
Announcement Of Fake LG Election Results: Oyo APC Have Exposed The Ostrich In Olagunju. April 27 have come and gone. Olagunju has finished acting the script of his tragi-comedy called Local Government Election. The drums of shame have been beaten and the dance of shame have climaxed in the announcement of some 33 clowns who will want to continue the mindless plundering of Oyo state resources as proxies for the drummer. The role played by Olagunju in this show of shame is the talking point which will not go away for a long time. That the Senior Advocate will be…
The enchanter recited the incantation with utmost fury: “River Niger and River Benue, the confluence is in Kogi State. Except say River Niger and River Benue no come meet for Kogi; if River Niger and River Benue come meet for Kogi, dem no go fit arrest Bello… Dem dey use EFCC pursue am, dem no go succeed o. Dem go lay siege for im house for Abuja… Except say I no be born of Igala kingdom… EFCC dey front, you dey back; you dey back, dem dey front; you dey left, dem dey right; you dey right, dem dey left;…
On Thursday last week, I had just arrived in Enugu for the funerals of Ezinne Margaret Nebechi Nwomeh of Ozalla in Enugu state when another news of demise hopped in like a demonic apparition. Big brother and friend, Ayogu Eze, senator who represented Enugu North, had passed on. I met Eze 21 years ago there in Enugu. Once the commissioner for information in the first term, I felt it a great honour to serve with him in the state. Blessed with a gift of the garb, Eze was detribalised in every sense. Perhaps resulting from his matrimony to a woman…
As each day passes and we approached the April 27 Local Government Election in Oyo state, I knew Aare Isiaka Olagunju’s day of reckoning was near. He was fortunate in 2021 when he presided over his first Local Government Election as Chairman of OYSIEC. In 2021, the main opposition political party, the APC boycotted the Local Government Election for reason of having a matter It was pursuing in Court and which Its participation in the election would have prejudiced. The Chairman of OYSIEC, in 2021 had no hassles in brushing aside the efforts of the Labour Party and the Zenith…
From reports available to us, what is presently going on in Oyo state is not an election, it is a script, written and submitted to the Chairman of the supposed State ” Independent” Electoral Commission, Aare Isiaka Olaguju by the Governor of Oyo state, Seyi Makinde. Some days ago, the drumbeat started in Ido where the Governor was waxing lyricals about ” tiwon and tiwa”. Governor Makinde on the occassion sang a song about how this is his and PDP’s time to annexe the 33 Local Governments. “Tiwa naa lo de e I fara moo, igba ti tiyin de e…
This is the eve of Local Government Election in Oyo state. Already, the PDP and OYSIEC Local Government Electoral Officers across the 33 Local Governments have started acting a similar script. They have been preventing the APC from inspecting sensitive materials. In Ibarapa Central for example, the OYSIEC EO specifically told the APC that the materials he got from Ibadan Ibadan could not be inspected until 8pm because the ones he got are short of expectation. In Kajola, Oorelope and other Local Governments, there have been one issues or the other. In Ibarapa East, it is an issue of repeating…