Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos state took oath of office as President, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria on 29th Day of May, 2023 having defeated his closest challengers, Abubakar Atiku of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and Peter Obi of the Labour Party. In about a fortnight to his first tenure of four years, a critical assessment of his actions is a pointer to the fact that the man, now President of the Nation must have endured so much in the years preceding his election to the office of President. Tinubu during these years…
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Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde is seriously in the mood to amuse these days. When I read his statement where he pledge to be physically present at the National Assembly to support Senator Godswill Akpabio’s Senate Presidential ambition, I asked myself: with what? Very obviously, the contest for the Senate Presidency is not a Football game where supporters could cheer their team to victory by clapping of hands or beating of drums. The business of electing a Senate President is strictly by elected Senators. Yes. I agree that at this point, serious lobby is required. The question again is, who…
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde while trying to explain his frequent visits to the Aso Rock Presidential Villa said he was making the needless visits in the interests of Oyo State. According to Makinde, he has been going in and out of the Villa to demand for the money Oyo State spent on Federal Government Roads! If indeed the Governor is saying the truth, then, it is safe to see him as a most insensitive individual. How on earth is it reasonable for a Governor to be making such a demand from a President who is just a few days…
Everytime I reflect and analyze the circumstances and the results of the 2023 gubernatorial election in Oyo State, I always come to one conclusion that Seyi Makinde who was declared winner of the polls did not actually win and Teslim Folarin, who was runner up in that election did not loose the election! I know those reading this would be confused given the fact that the runner up, Senator Folarin of the APC did not even challenge the declaration at the Election Petition Tribunal. Yes. He did not. I assume, just like I have seen, Folarin realized that there is…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is currently holding a meeting with members of the defunct ‘G5 Governors’ at the State House, Abuja.
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,…