We wait to hear what the fallen former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele has to say on the lurid report of a probe of his years at the apex bank. The report was leaked on Friday and is the sensation in town. Emefiele himself is said to have perfected his bail conditions and has been released from prison custody. Whatever it is, we are sure of weeks of circus shows akin to that of Sambo Dasuki. Meanwhile, all manner of epithets are today being used to describe Emefiele. The latest is the scathing attack on him by…
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After President Bola Tinubu intervened in the seismic crisis that rocked oil-rich Rivers State last week, one thing and two people unraveled. By their unraveling, pretentious veils were lifted off their faces. They were, the president himself, the nature of Nigeria’s presidential democracy and the governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara. Nigerians distrusted the piece of paper that emanated from the Tinubu intervention. To them, it reeks of the proverbial partiality of one entrusted with the task of deploying their incisors to halve a piece of meat called the “af’eyin pin’ran”. Let me break into granules who the Yoruba af’eyinpin’ran…
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…
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…