Local government election in Nigeria have been perceived as a one sided affair where the ruling Party in a state just put together a charade to select pre-determined individuals to run the affairs of the Local governments. In fact, the general believe is that an opposition political party can not win a local government election conducted by the states Independent Electoral Commissions. Those who hold this view are largely but not totally correct. I think the only reason this perception have continue to resonate is the lack of will and strategy by opposition political parties to take on the ruling…
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Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose says he is with the government of President Bola Tinubu but he won’t hesitate to criticise the current administration if it fails to fulfill its campaign promises to Nigerians. “If the government in power is not doing the right thing, we’ll be courageous enough to tell the government in power,” Fayose told State House correspondents after a meeting with the President on Thursday. “When (Muhammadu) Buhari was President in this country I didn’t shy away from telling him the truth and the government. If President Ahmed Bola Tinubu is shying away from his…
“About the ministerial list, the simple truth is that, you know, this is an executive presidency, we’re not running a parliamentary system “So the president, the bucks stops on his table, and he decides when it is fit and proper for him to make his cabinet list public. “So, we are not unaware of all the speculations, and innuendos and rumours, all kinds of things in the media. Now, I as a media man, I chuckled to myself that people just want to sell, so they just fabricate. “I can tell you all of those things you’ve been reading in…
When a person is privilege to have a final say in a matter, Yorubas will say, “…ati isu, ati obe, lowo e lo wa”, meaning, such a person holds the knife and the yam and is expected to cut as he likes. There is also a Yoruba panegyric of the “Olofamojos” which interestingly align and seems to complement how the holder of both the knife and the yam is expected to cut the yam and it goes, “…ikan o gbodo ju kan….bi ikan ba ju kan, ogun nii da sile nile baba won” and it translates to mean that in…
AS former governor Nyesom Wike gains prominence in speculations over likely ministerial appointees to form President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has denied ceding the ministerial slot of the state to Wike. Rivers APC in response to media reports suggesting the party has ceded ministerial slot to Wike said in Port Harcourt Wednesday that the thought has never crossed its mind and the burden would be on President Bola Tinubu to respect party supremacy and not consider Wike for appointment. The Amalgamated Bola Tinubu Campaign Council, an APC interest group under the headship of…
Major stakeholders of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers state, have urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to strongly consider the former governor of River State, Nyesom Wike, in his Ministerial appointments. The stakeholders under the aegis of Amalgamated Bola Tinubu Campaign Council Rivers State, led by former Chief of Staff to the Rivers State Government and stalwart of the party, Chief Tony Okocha, explained that the call was premised on the ‘enormous’ roles played by Wike which ensured Tinubu’s sustained victory in the state, during the February 25 presidential election. Furthermore, he called on the general public, at a briefing…
Fresh crisis appears to be brewing in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC as the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu has disowned the list of principal officers announced by the leadership of the two chambers of the National Assembly on Tuesday. Adamu at a meeting of the party’s National Working Committee and Progressives Governors’ Forum in Abuja says the National Assembly breached protocol by announcing the principal officers without the knowledge of the party.
I have seen that Oyo State PDP is terribly afraid of Distinguished Senator Teslim Kolawole Folarin. The rate at which they reacted to Folarin’s harmless statement regarding his observation about the last gubernatorial election is curious. Incidentally, that is the first public statement Senator Folarin would make since INEC declared Seyi Makinde of PDP as winner of the election and the PDP is already catching cold. It is interesting to note that a statement directed much more at his own party men would elicit so much panic from the PDP! It is either the PDP is idle or they were…
The piece by Akeem Olatunji on behalf of Oyo State PDP concerning the statement made by Distinguished Senator Teslim Kolawole Folarin is amusing to say the least. Folarin had a couple of days ago stated that he was thrown under the Bus during the gubernatorial election. A careful analysis of the statements made by Teslim showed that his statement was directed at arrangements within his Party. How the matter jumped over to concern Akeem Olatunji and the PDP is what I do not understand. The kind of anger dissipated by the PDP in this matter actually confirms the observations of…
Inunibini ko kan taimowa hu. Whether you misbehave or not, those who will hate you will still do.