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…
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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…
When Governor Makinde unleashed the Police against his former associate and Chairman of the Oyo Transport Agency, Lamidi Mukaila popularly known as Auxiliary, I was so sure the action lacked sincerity. For me, the Governor, in his usual ruthless manner was just punishing an errant former associate whose handshake went beyond the elbow. Though, it seemed the Governor, possessed by rage went too far in the procedure employed to crush a fellow who overdressed his luck. The way the dust is settling on the whole saga, it is obvious that vendetta rather than the need to address security concerns and…
“Hannibal is at the Gate” was a popular phrase used to instill fears into children by the Romans during and after the historic invasion of the Roman empire by a North African General, Hannibal. Hannibal was a General of the Carthage Army who crossed the Aalps to defeat a massive Roman Army. More than Spartacus the Thracian, Hannibal was a name the Romans would forever remember because of the fear and commotion he caused the Roman empire at the peak of Its military strength. Hannibal, to the Romans, at that time was terror to the Romans just as President Bola…
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…
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…