President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is currently holding a meeting with members of the defunct ‘G5 Governors’ at the State House, Abuja.
Author: Editor-in-chief
A careful analysis of the activities of the events preceding the 2023 general election and its aftermath would convince a critical conclusion that Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State is one of the biggest beneficiary but yet one of the biggest losers. Politics is such a funny Game. It is a Game where you might have to regret some steps taken towards achieving victory for the rest of your life. It is not news that Governor Makinde was one of the five Governors who expressed open displeasure towards the Candidate of their Party the PDP. I carefully but deliberately avoided…
For Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, I have come to respect his unrivalled ability to take advantage of the situation inherent in the society to deceive the people, alienate them to his line of thinking and get them to do his will. Charisma has been described as the ability to make others do, what ordinarily, they wouldn’t have done. How Makinde have succeeded repeatedly to spin a large percentage of the people to see things in his cosmetics and deceptive ways must interest right thinking individuals. There is this very popular maxim that says: you can deceive the people…
Government Seyi Makinde of Oyo State is a classical specimen any time you discuss Government Policy somersaults. GSM as he is fondly called had many times in his first tenure of four years reversed himself on his Policies. I will give two examples of such dramatic turn around by Governor Makinde. The Agbowo shopping Complex which Governor Makinde had earlier leased out to a mysterious Consultant for a fee of five billion Naira and unfortunately, for a fifty years period is now an eye sore. The processes leading to such an incredible transaction, the activities of the said Consultant, who…
When the Government of Oyo State and the Oyo State Police Command moved against the former Chairman of the Oyo State Park Management system, Mukaila Lamidi aka Auxiliary, I was one of those who were sceptical about the motive of the manhunt and the sincerity of the Governor to see the matter to a logical conclusion. Recent events seem to be reinforcing my scepticism. All along, I had a strong feeling that Governor Makinde in his characteristics deceptive manner was just acting a script. A script that is mainly targeted at making Auxiliary take the fall for his ineptitude and…
The high point of the Splash FM gubernatorial debate was the altercation between Teslim Folarin, then candidate of the All Progressive Congress, (APC) and Seyi Makinde, then candidate of the People’s Democratic Party. A fierce argument had ensued between the duo after Folarin referred to Lamidi Auxiliary, then Chairman of the Oyo State Park Management system as an convict. Governor Makinde, in a burst of anger had, in defense of Auxiliary threatened Folarin and accused him of alleged complicity in the murder of Salako Eleweomo, a former Chairman of the Oyo State National Union of Road Transport Workers,…
In Port-Harcourt, Rivers State last week as guest of Governor Nyesom Wike, President-elect, Bola Tinubu, promised to fight corruption. To delink judicial officers’ minds from corruption, Tinubu’s blueprint of fighting this goblin, he said, would be to incentivize judicial officers. “You don’t expect your judges to live in squalor, to operate in squalor and dispense justice in squalor. This is part of the changes that are necessary. We must fight corruption but we must definitely look at the other side of the coin. If you don’t want your judges to be corrupt, you got to pay attention to their welfare.…
The divorce epidemic in the world and its attendant crises in divorce property sharing assumed a different colour last week in the matter of Moroccan, Achraf Hakimi Mouh and his erstwhile wife, Spanish actress, Hiba Abouk. Hakimi is reported to be Africa’s sixth highest-paid player whose extreme popularity has stuck to him like a lapel since he led his home country, Morocco to the semi-finals of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The French magazine, First Mag, had reported that in her claim upon the grant of the divorce by the court, Hiba had requested for half of Hakimi’s assets and…
Some huge, evil men surround a big, black pot. It is apparent that a food is being cooked. The men strung round their waists black cloths like priests of a dreadful god. Their torsos are naked like the day of creation. Their countenances are scary, with eyes dilating like pebbles immersed in crimson syrup. The sweats that glide down their barrows are crimson-red too. Underneath the black pot are logs of firewood with billowing charcoal-black fumes and red flame. As one of the men heaves the lead off the black pot, the broth on fire catches the attention. It is…
In the course of my research into the work, Ayinla Omowura: Life and Times of an Apala Legend, I came to the conclusion that stardom and eccentricity are intertwined. One of my sources told me that one day in the late 1970s, Omowura, the late Yoruba musician, as a litigant in a matter that took place in an Abeokuta, Ogun State High Court, walked into the courtroom clutching a half-smoked wrap of burning marijuana. The judge was so scandalized that he shouted, “Get out of here! Where do you think you are!” apparently in deference to his stardom; otherwise, he…