When Governor Makinde exits office in 2027, some citizens of Oyo state who have fallen for the Governor’s mischievous strategies would be in for a big shock. Hate him or like him, Governor Makinde is a master in the game of manipulations of the psyche and emotions of the unsuspecting members of the public. He has completely alienated some people to his line of thinking. To this set of people, the Governor is always right, even if the roads to their houses are impassable and the schools their children attends do not have roofs. If you’re a student of psychology…
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The above was the question asked by Britons and the rest of the world in the afternoon of May 22, 2013. Close to the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, Southeast London, two young men of British-Nigerian descent, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, had attacked a 25-year old British Army soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby and killed him. Rigby was of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. It was a case of religious extremism. The soldier had been on off-duty and was walking along Wellington Street. His attackers mowed him down with a car, ran towards him and, like Jack the Ripper, stabbed…
I was on several Radio stations this week to ventilate on burning issues in the areas of politics, economy and governance in Nigeria. Of particular interest was the series of allegations I raised against Governor Seyi Makinde regarding misappropriation of Government funds, most especially, Local Government funds. I made clarifications and repeated the challenges I have always thrown at the Governor and which he has decided to ignore. I used the opportunity of the Radio to repeat the demand that the Governor avail the public with the details of the income and expenditures of the 33 Local Governments since 2019.…
When the Oyo state House of Assembly purportedly ” suspended” Sola Oluokun, Chairman of Oyo East Local Government Council last week, I was certain that the action was not only face saving, it was deceitful and only meant to divert public attention. I deliberately refrained from making my feelings public at the time, because, these days, when you go up against Governor Makinde, you must anticipate and prepare for both his official and diehard unofficial mouthpieces. I thought about how to expose the treachery of both the Governor and the House of Assembly and came up with a counter attacking…
In a gripping but evergreen musical rendition of a Yoruba folklore, late Fuji music lord, Ayinde Barrister, once deployed the canvas of the forest to paint the inequality of the world. In his Fuji New Waves album, he also depicted the acrimonies that follow the sharing of jointly hunted games. What the anecdote tells us is that, if we listen to the unspoken voices of the forest, humanity may find answers to some of its knotty matters. The narrator and about eleven of his friends, had gone on a hunting expedition in the forest. After a very tedious day-long exercise,…
The Clownish Chairman Waxing Lyrical In A Viral Video Just Gave Us Some Important Hints. A few days ago, an absurd video trended online. In the video, a particular individual was recorded, bare chested, a gold necklace dangling on his neck. The fellow in the video said he is a Local Government Chairman in one of the Local Governments in Oyo zone of Oyo state. The man could be seen eating what looked like cooked rice and he was full of praises for a former female Speaker of the Oyo state House of Assembly who also represented Oyo Central at…
We are our problem in this country and at the heart of our challenges is a combination of senseless politics and a lack of patriotism. One needs to know why Mal Nasir Elrufai is not the minister of power given the serious level of background work I know for a fact he had done before our brand of myopic politics would not clear him but in their wisdom clears jokers and confirmed average Joes. When you need an outlier who will take no prisoners to get the power situation fixed, I know because I am not just in opposition, I…
In 2011, less than six months into the birth of a new government in Oyo State, a proposal was brought for the celebration of a festival in the state. The memo got to the topmost decision-making organ of the state, the Executive Council. A the Exco, a very suave and articulate man marshaled points on the need for the festival and everybody who spoke gave the memo thumbs-up. However, I constituted the one-man kanda, the stone in the bowl of his rice. So, I raised my hand and the governor, Abiola Ajimobi, gave me the go-ahead to speak. “Your Excellency,…
As I was concluding this piece, my eyes caught a presidential sledgehammer which landed on the head of Conscience Nurtured by Truth – The Guardian. In a release issued by the State House yesterday, authored by erstwhile Editor-in-Chief of TheNews, Bayo Onanuga, the newspaper was accused of a crime almost similar to what General Sani Abacha accused it of in 1994 which led to its closure. The “NADECO government” of Bola Tinubu merely rehashed the allegation. I will address this presently. All over the world, the Lady Justice is sacred, representing the divine order, law, and custom. It is also…
The Emperor has been touched where it pains once again. The ” Abobakus” and ” those who thrives on eye services” have lost the appetite for a peaceful sleep. For those who consistently rely on eye services to cash out from the Emperor, this is show time. I enjoy it so much when both the official and unofficial”akedes” of Governor Seyi Makinde begin to show signs of desperation, frustrations and anger each time you have the back of the Governor to the walls. Gotcha! Interestingly and sadly so but fortunately for me,these funny individuals have refused to take note that…