I listened to Akeem Olatunji, erstwhile Public Relations Officer of the People’s Democratic Party on the program tagged “Ijoba Ibile”. Honestly, I pitied the gentleman who obviously struggled without success to defend the scandalous handling of the Local Government funds by Governor Seyi Makinde. As we speak, Olatunji is the candidate of the PDP in the Local Government Election slated for April, 2024. His approbation and reprobation in the attempt to justify the illegal meddlesomeness by the Governor in the reconstruction of the Akesan market without wanting to admit that the Governor actually engaged in illegal spending of Local Government…
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Why do Nigerian public officials always fail to see the divide between the public and the private? Perhaps taking a cue from their parents, children of successive Nigerian presidents have also made this a pastime. A recent example is the reported cruising in Nigeria’s presidential jet by the president’s son, Mr. Seyi Tinubu. He had flown the aircraft last Sunday to attend polo games in Kano State. By convention, it is only the president of Nigeria, the First Lady, Vice-President, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Justice of Nigeria, ex-presidents and a presidential delegation who are authorized…
Who is the man who today sits atop the presidency of Nigeria? What is his name? Who are his parents? Who are his childhood friends? What was his childhood like? What primary school did he attend? Where did he attend secondary school? Or, the university? Is he a criminal? Is he a serial forger? On account of the above, can we trust him? Can he be trusted with the destinies of over 200 million Nigerians? Can the rest of the world trust him as the embodiment of Nigeria? Last year, I wrote about the history of certificate forgeries and identity…
The high point of the Splash FM gubernatorial debate of 2023 was the furore caused by Governor Seyi Makinde in a desperate bid to defend the former Chairman of the Oyo state Parks Management System, Mukaila aka Auxiliary. The then gubernatorial candidate of the APC , Senator Teslim Folarin had alluded to the fact that the body language of Governor Makinde vis a vis his appointment of a notorious ex convict in person of Auxiliary didn’t help in the maintenance of peace in the state. To Senator Folarin, the Governor’s continuous romance with Auxiliary who, at the material time was…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) won the February 25 presidential election and was duly sworn in as presidential and Commander in chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 29th May, 2023, yet, all is not well within the platform of the party that sponsored him for the election. There seems to be peace and calmness in the APC presently. That seeming calmness must not be mistaken for peace and contentment. It is the calmness of the graveyard. The kind you see before a big bang. Yes. The APC was victorious in the last presidential…
As God would have it, the Governor of Oyo state, Seyi Makinde got re elected for a second term in office. Whether his re election was deserved or based on merits considering the prevailing circumstances during the election would remain a matter for a debate for a very long time. However, the fact that many who hitherto supported the re election of Makinde are now regretting regretting the support they offered him is less debatable. Even, many, if not all of those who veered off the lane from their political parties to offer Makinde support for a second term are…
When Chief Obafemi Awolowo died in 1987, amid a deluge of musical tributes in his honour, a line among those offerings stood out, evergreen. Sang by Fuji music lord, Kollington Ayinla, while extolling Awolowo’s panegyrics, he sang: “ookan ile l’osa gbe, Baba Yinka//eyin t’o funfun kii gbe koro enu.” This line profoundly articulated the open life of Awolowo, as well as his trackable history and pedigree. As short as the lines were, they drilled deep into the most granular of Yoruba’s concept of openness and transparency. Literally translated, it means that shrines that a people are proud of are erected…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is about done with a larger percentage of juicy appointments in his Government. So far, he has appointed most of his Kitchen Cabinet, personal Aides, Security Chiefs, Exertive personel and heads of crucial parastatals. So far, it appears like the president concentrated a large chunk of critical appointments in the Southern part of the Country, most especially, the South West states. The Chief of staff to the president, CBN Governor, Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Services, Ministers of Finance, Power, Attorney general of the Federation amongst others are concentrated in the South West states to the exclusion…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu since his assumption of office has made several appointments from Oyo state. Interestingly, none of his appointees is from the mainstream APC in the state. Rather, the President had consistently snubbed the Party structures and opted for picking his choice of appointees from opposition political parties within the state. The National Chairman of the APC, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje was in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital yesterday to pay a visit to the Ondo state Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu who is recuperating in Ibadan after returning from a medical trip abroad. Thankfully, the National Chairman, who was received…
The Political base of APC shrunk between 2019 and 2023 with a 43% decrease. In 2019 APC polled 15,191,847 to beat the closet rival PDP which polled 11,263,423.