Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state had a live interactive session on both Television and Radio stations of the Broadcasting corporation of Oyo state and quite a number of other Radio stations in Oyo state were on to the program live. As usual, the Governor did not fail to amuse and annoy. He seized the opportunity of the session to sing his own praises and latch out at critics of his Government’s policies. To those who know the Governor very well, his manner of dishing out caustic insults to those he sees as adversaries is legendary except that he took…
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The political crisis in Rivers State has assumed a new twist, as six elders have dragged President Bola Tinubu to the Federal High Court in Abuja, for allegedly compelling Governor Siminilaya Fubara to enter into an unconstitutional agreement. The plaintiffs, led by a member of the Rivers State House of Assembly representing Bonny State Constituency, Victor Jumbo, are Senator Bennett Birabi, Senator Andrew Uchendu, Rear Admiral O. P. Fingesi, Ann Kio Briggs and Emmanuel Deinma. They maintained that the said agreement, which was signed on December 18, was not only illegal but amounted to an usurpation, nullification, and undermining of…
Governor Seyi Makinde presented Instruments of office to the Soun of Ogbomosho, Oba Ghandi Olaoye on Tuesday, 29th of December, 2023. Such activities are usually common routine for state Governors and ordinarily should not make much of a news, except that Governor Makinde chose the occasion to pour scorn and venom on some aggrieved princes and the Judiciary. In the course of delivering his speech, Governor Makinde chose to use the opportunity to issue threats against some individuals who are aggrieved with the process that led to the choice of then Prince Ghandi Olaoye as Soun elect. One Prince Kabir…
The intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the crisis between Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State and FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike has generated ripples with some Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), including a human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, expressing concern that the truce brokered by the president might have breached the provisions of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria. In an eight-point peace agreement brokered between Governor Simi Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike in Abuja on Monday, the parties had reportedly agreed, among other things, to withdraw all the pending court cases immediately and also drop the impeachment notice on…
Amid the controversy trailing the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the crisis rocking Rivers State, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has said that the President cannot reinstate 27 cross carpeting members of the Rivers State House of Assembly. In a statement on Tuesday, Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said that presidential interventions must always be grounded in the provisions of the constitution. “With respect, the presidential reinstatement of the 27 cross carpeting members of the Rivers State House of Assembly by the Presidency is alien to the Constitution in every material particular,” Falana said. Rivers State has…
FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has said that the directives issued Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State as resolution of the political crisis in the state are not only appalling, but also unacceptable, particularly to the Ijaw ethnic nationality. The Ijaw leader said that he was threatening to take legal action against President Bola Tinubu. Clark said Tinubu’s actions have shown his dislike and disdain for the Ijaw people and confirms his hatred for them. He said “as the leader of the Ijaw, we will resist it”. Recall that the directives were given at…
A former governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has asked the All Prigresives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to project the party’s manifesto and relate to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the true state of affairs and the feedback from various communities, not the information he gets in the villa. Fayemi, a former chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), made the appeal during the public launch of a book titled, ‘APC and transition politics’ authored by a former national vice chairman (North West) of the APC, Salihu Mohammed Lukman, on Tuesday in Abuja. Powered By VDO.AI…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asserts that there is no remedy for the 25 former members of the Rivers State House of Assembly who by virtue of Section 109 (1)(g) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) vacated and lost their seats by reason of defection from the PDP, the Party platform upon which they were elected into the House of Assembly. Our Party insists that having now vacated and lost their seats, the only option available for the former lawmakers, if they wish to return to the House of Assembly, is to seek fresh…
There is a development today in a Federal High court in far away Abuja which will affect citizens of Oyo state either directly or otherwise. A Federal High court of the Federal capital territory, presided over by the Hon. Justice A.O Ebong granted an order of garnishee in favour of the Local Government Chairmen elected during the days of late Governor Ajimobi and against the Governor of Oyo state, Seyi Makinde and others. Specifically, the court ordered the freezing of the Accounts of Oyo state in 10 different Banks. The reasonable question that anymore would like to ask is, how…
President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, the former governor of Rivers State, Sir Peter Odili, and some other stakeholders from the state at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. This is coming on the heels of the face-off between the governor and his predecessor, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike. The FCT Minister was earlier seen at the State House. Although the agenda of the meeting between the President and the protagonists in the Rivers State crisis was not made public at the time of filing this report, it may not…