Some days ago, the Oyo State Police Command arraigned a few accomplices of Mukaila Lamidi erstwhile Chairman of the Oyo State Park Management system before a Magistrate Court sitting in Ibadan. The said accomplices have been remanded in Prison custody while the matter was adjourned to a later date due to the issue of jurisdiction raised by defense Counsels. The step by the Police Command to arraign about eight of the suspects earlier arrested in relation to the allegations of illegal possession of firearms and other criminal allegations against Mukaila and other associates is commendable but it is not enough.…
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All eyes are on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the world awaits those who will make his Cabinet. Of particular concern is who gets the President’s nod in Oyo State. Political activities before, during and after the general election have made Oyo a place of special interest. What will the President do? How will he treat the platform known as the All Progressives Congress, upon which he contested and won the Presidency? Will he strengthen the platform or are we about to witness the unthinkable, where the President will completely throw the Party to the dogs and strengthen dissidents masquerading…
Journey to perdition is the Title of an American block-buster. Perdition, according to the Advanced Learner’s Dictionary is described as “punishment that lasts forever after death”. These days, I shudder when I see how some individuals who have benefitted in no small measures from the APC have turned the Party to a punching bag. Making reckless and unguarded statements about the Party and Its Leaders have become fun to many. When things were normal, no one in his or her right senses would dare to work against his Party and come out to admit it publicly. Unfortunately, things have changed.…
The world is in a mourning mood. After a fruitless five-day search for a missing deep-sea submersible vessel with five passengers on board, its wreckage was eventually found last Thursday. The five occupants on board were killed in the process. The search had been spearheaded by a robotic diving vehicle deployed from a Canadian ship. The five were on a voyage to see the century-old wreckage of the famous Titanic by the time this catastrophic implosion occurred. The robotic vehicle had found the debris of the submersible Titan on the seabed, “some 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the bow of…
I just read the piece by one Gbenga Akanni. The said piece, obviously a reaction to an Article I titled: Makinde: An Artful Deceiver made a interesting reading. Gbenga Akanni in his desperate bid to discredit my Article and person demonstrated some funny exuberance. He started by referring to me as a faceless writer. Let me correct that impression. I am Sola Abegunde, a bonafide son of Eruwa in Ibarapa East Local government council, precisely from ward four. I hope that answers Mr. Akanni’s baseless insinuations about my identity. I also noticed that he made heavy whether about grammatical constructions…
In Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, a character seriously caught my attention each time I critique Seyi Makinde and his antics. “The artful dodger”. The artful dodger in Oliver Twist was so skilful in the art of pickpocketing to the extent that he did his trade with the speed of lightening and invisibility of Air. Makinde have demonstrated that he possesses an uncommon, infact, unthinkable skills when it comes to hypnotizing his victims, spellbound dribbling and playing havocs with their sensibilities while ensuring that in the end, even, those you expected to be clever and intelligent fell for Makinde’s antics and…
I just read a news release signed by Bolaji Tunji, Media aide to Mrs. Florence Ajimobi, former First Lady to late Governor Ajimobi of Oyo State. In the said release, Mrs. Ajimobi, apparently in defense of the accusations of Anti Party activities leveled against her and others made a tame and tasteless attempts to deny the fact that Governor Makinde offered her and her co travelers two Commissionerships slots. According to Mrs Ajimobi, Governor Makinde of the PDP is ” doing a good job and providing leadership” . Perhaps, those attributes warranted and justifies her anti-party activities during the recently…
This obviously are interesting times in the political cycle. Elections have been concluded. Inauguration of Government at the National and States levels done with. The next phase is the fierce battles to share the spoils of election victories and the battle has been raging. I will concern myself with the struggles by tendencies within the Oyo State APC to corner the President’s patronage. The battle to get the attention of the President in Oyo State is complicated because, no thanks to some subversive elements within the Party, the APC in Oyo lost the Governorship election and thereby, Oyo APC is…
Between 1960 and May, 1962, the Action Group, AG, led by the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo was engulfed in a fierce Intra Party scuffles which threatened Its foundations. A battle of supremacy and control between the Leader of the Party, Awolowo who was at the material time Leader of opposition of the Nigerian parliament and Akintola, Deputy Leader and premier of the Western Region had snowballed into a matter of National discourse. What started as an issue between two leading individuals within the Party eventually led to, not only the death of the Party but also the end of Democratic…
This season, President Bola Tinubu is harvesting big pods of cocoa from his plantation. His co-farmers are looking at him with concentrated envy. And jealousy. Exhilaration is in the air. In the last two weeks, he has shown tremendous energy to change the status quo. His sack of Nigeria’s CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, is exciting the Nigerian economy. That Agbor, Delta state-born banker’s exit marked an end to one of the most turbulent eras in the CBN. Getting rid of him has signaled a very strong, positive impact on the capital and foreign exchange markets. When the CBN announced an…