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hardynwa · 2 years ago

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Guber polls: Save us from Bande – Kebbi group tells Buhari

Concerned Kebbi Citizens, CKC, a socioeconomic development forum, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene and stop the planned imposition of General Aminu Muhammed Bande, the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kebbi State. With just days to the gubernatorial and state House of Assembly elections slated for the 11th of March, the CKC alleged that the reasons Bande (rtd) is so desperate for power soon after his retirement is to acquire immunity from investigation and prosecution over his links with bandits. According to Malam Ibrahim Dangana, spokesman of the group, “It is a do-or-die race for the retired General because he needs to cover his tracks in aiding and abetting banditry and kidnapping in the northwest geopolitical zone while in service.” The CKC alleged that while General Bande was in charge of the Nigerian Army in Katsina State between 2016 and 2019, he was collecting N6 million monthly from each of the 11 local government area councils suffering incessant attacks from bandits. He noted that despite the payments of such huge amounts as security support, the conditions of the people only kept getting worse until he was transferred to Sokoto to oversee Katsina, Zamfara, Kebbi and the host state. As claimed by the group, similar scenario played out with the General extorting money without any results. “For instance, General Bande collected over N30 million from government promising to organise the rescue of the kidnapped students of Federal Government College Yauri but till date 11 of them are still with the kidnappers.” It added, “We believe Bande used his position and pretended to negotiate with the bandits simply to amass funds which he believes will buy him the governorship of our dear state. We appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to broadcast a special message to caution our voters against such a calamity as he did for Kaduna State.” The CKC warned that Bande is prepared to pay any price for the exalted seat and he must be stopped in the interest of democracy. Read the full article

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didilosemymindordidifindit · 4 years ago

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IF ONLY BUHARI'S PARENTS HAD ALLOWED HIM TO FOLLOW HIS DREAM, NIGERIA WILL NOT BE IN THE STATE IT IS IN.

You see why everyday I beg parents to allow their children to study or be what they want to be and not force them to not be one thing or the other but you guys never listen.

"I want my child to be a doctor"

"I want my child to be a lawyer"

"I want my child to be an engineer" etc etc.

This is the rubbish that caused the wahala we are now in. People are being killed on a per second billing, we are all on an hunger diet but yet the presidency is nonchalant. If not for the fact that the price of rope has also gone up, the number of suicides would have been off the charts.

All this because of the ignorance of Buhari's parent. They are in their graves rotting and we are here suffering their misdeeds. I would have love to rain curses on them but what's the point.

You see a child, always waking up before the crack of dawn. Without brushing his teeth, he would go to check on the cows at the backyard. Give them water and fresh grass. This child has been doing this from adolescence till his teenage years. Finally, it's time to decide what this child will do with his life, you open your mouth waaa,

"I want my son to be a General in the army"

The child begged you with heaven and earth to see his passion that he has shown over the years for cows and cattle rearing that maybe he should be a vetinarian or an agriculturist but no you insist that he must be a General in the army.After years of shouting and beating, the boy capitulates and joins the army.

Fast forward decades later, by a stroke of magic, our boy grows up and becomes the Head Of State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1985; A very bloody tenure. people eye see wheeeen! God in his infinite mercies decides to remove the boy(now a man) from the seat.

Fast forward again to 2014, people start shouting "Goodluck Jonathan is too sluggish", "Goodluck Jonathan is too slow". How won't he be sluggish? How won't he be slow? When baba has 'down-ed' five litres of Ogogoro before preciding over FEC meetings. You see him on TV, his eye will now be like a flag on half mast. His eye like that of Eugenia Abu of NTA News fame. People kept complaining "He's too soft" like married women at night.

Some even went further to say, "We need somebody with iron hand".

Kai!!! This mouth get power!!!

Yanga dey sleep, trouble go wake am.

People were eating at least two square meals even if there was no meat, instead of thanking God, they said they wanted iron hand.

Price of fuel was N67, Good luck wanted to remove subsidy, they screamed against it. Wole Soyinka with his canopy of hair, Buhari and the rest protested against it and the 'sluggish' man came to an agreement without the shedding of a single drop of blood.

Yet the clamour for "iron hand" grew louder.

Children were in school studying, no problem. Yes! ASUU striked once in a while(With the way ASUU strikes, If we swear-in our leaders with them holding ASUU membership book and saying the words "if I do not do what I promised in my manifesto,may ASUU strike me dead", they will keep to their words.) unlike now when there is something wrong if ASUU are not on strike. Yet people kept clamouring for iron hand.

Tinubu with his lust for power, went to our boy (who is now a grand father) who was happily rearing his immortal cows; finally living his childhood dream, and convinced him to run for president, that this time he will win because of the support of the south.

I don't know what he used to convince him; Promise of giving him the whole of southern Nigeria for his cows? We will never know but we can only guess because our 'boy' for one reason or the other, left the love of his life and became the president of Nigeria. Or so we thought. For us, we thought this was a new dawn in democracy not knowing it was a DemoCowCy; it's new variant which is the government by the people, of the people, for the cows.

Nigeria should be given an award by PETA(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) as the most animal loving nation in the world. We are so in love with animals, we are willing to kill thousands just for the life of one.

Farms are destroyed, farmers are killed, we face food shortage, hunger and the threat of a tribalism fuelled civil war but the government doesn't care. For as long as the cows have fresh farm produce to eat, we can all die.

At the moment, human life is way below in the food chain.

All this because Buhari's parent refused to allow him follow his dream. Thunder ehn!!!!!!

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thisdaynews · 7 years ago

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Buhari must not die on us

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Buhari must not die on us

President Muhammadu Buhari is once again on medical tourism to the United Kingdom. According to media reports, the number of days Buhari has been absent from his duty post for medical reasons has now surpassed the record of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua. Buhari has been in office for three years, but he has been on medical tourism for up to six months. From the time he stepped out in June 2016 to ostensibly treat an ear infection in Germany, Buhari has gradually abandoned pretences that he is a healthy man who is only dealing with minor human frailties. Now, we know the man is unwell. The tense question everybody seems to be avoiding – and understandably so too due to cultural reasons – is, what if he dies?

I know Buhari apologists reading this are already listing their rehearsed line of defences: life belongs to God; nobody can say whose turn it is; death is an inevitable biological reality; age, sickness, and death are not necessarily coterminous; it is immoral and irreverent to talk about the death of someone still living; Buhari was hospitalised for a prolonged time last year, and he recovered, etc. Some of his most zealous followers even add that nobody in this world is more qualified to be the President of Nigeria till 2023 than he is. They urge us to overlook his health issues and focus on whatever they think his administration has managed to achieve. While I do not personally wish anyone dead (partly because it is pointless), we should not avoid a deliberation of what is at stake if anything happens to Buhari.

We cannot ignore the fact that Buhari has one of the most fanatical sets of followers in the world. They are so enamoured of the Buhari mystique they take him to be a god. Like all gods, they do not think he can succumb to the vagaries of the flesh. They think the man is superhuman and their minds are the shrine where he is worshipped in a manner befitting a deity. Remember there was a time they invented stories of how his body language was healing all of Nigeria’s maladies, ranging from corruption to power failure? Even now that their grounded feet are yielding to the vertigo of reality, they still have not let go of the myths about Buhari’s abilities. They continue to imagine Buhari their god can indeed transcend human limitations. They believe that things fell apart in Nigeria, not because the hyped Buhari mystique is incompetent to fulfil its extravagant promises, but because corruption fought back. They are content to fashion simplistic and reductionistic answers to complex problems.

They are the reason Nigeria needs to be extra wary. If anything ever happens to Buhari, these people could raze Nigeria to ashes and needlessly sacrifice innocent lives over nothing. This is not mere conjecture; we saw it happen in 2011. When Buhari lost the presidential election, his followers did not think he deserved to lose, and they went on the rampage for days. They were aggrieved. They killed, they stole, they destroyed. They let loose their murderous maniac upon people who had nothing to do with Buhari’s electoral loss. They imagined the Presidency was a throne, and Buhari a divinely appointed monarch. The democratic rights of others, they surmised, should not prevent his reign. According to a human rights organisation, about 1,000 lives were killed during that conflict. While the killings were going on, Buhari himself retreated into his shell, sulky and adamant that they robbed him of the Presidency. He refused to caution his supporters and waited for a public outcry to be unleashed against him before he finally disowned the rioters. In his mind, Buhari probably thought the carnage was warranted. When he would later speak about the electoral crisis in Nigeria, it was to warn us about baboons and monkeys that would be soaked in blood. He sounded as unrepentant as ever. Those unfortunate lives were collateral damage and barely merited his empathy. For that man, ambition is everything even if it comes at the cost of human lives.

Since Buhari started going to the UK on medical holiday, he has hardly addressed the issue of his health. On one occasion though, he did admit that he was sicker than he had ever been in his life. And that admission must have been a slip because his aides had spent weeks fibbing about the man’s true health conditions. When he rushed home from a prolonged medical vacation in 2017 because he feared the pro-Biafran protesters would break up the country, he did not speak on what took him away for so long. He could have used the opportunity to inform people he was unwell and that his condition is natural but that would detract from his myth. If anything ever happens to him, his uninformed followers, and innumerable they are, will throw a fit because they will assume the southerners killed him. They will imagine they got rid of him because he is honest, and because he stopped corrupt people from turning Nigeria into a feeding trough.

Buhari’s popularity among his talakawa crowd is as strong as ever. At every rally he has had in recent times, they dutifully assemble in their mammoth numbers, their spectacular presence a major middle finger to critics of Buhari’s incompetence. No matter how simple-minded those followers might be, they can still read meanings into the Nigerian political drama. They are aware that without Buhari, the All Progressives Congress would never have smelt the Presidency. If he embarks on a gruelling re-election campaign schedule in 2019 and gets exhausted by the demands of his job, they will not let him take responsibility for his choices like an adult. They will blame the APC for using him and his huge following to win the election. They will suspect that the whole “Sai Baba” movement in the South-West was not borne out of sincerity but a mere ploy to return power to the South-West. Anyone who has seen the murderous rage of these people when their religion was supposedly desecrated will not toy with the death of someone they adore with relish. Buhari is aware of the following he has and the threat they constitute. The danger is unspoken but that does not make it unreal.

We should not assume that their rage will be confined to the northern region where Buhari is most popular. No. For daring to speak against Buhari in Wuse Market in the Federal Capital Territory, Charly Boy was nearly lynched by Buhari’s supporters. That should tell us these people have no sense of limits. They are too zealous in their affection for Buhari to be restrained by the tenets of democracy that grant all of us the equal right to speak against our leaders and the conditions in which they oppress us. Charly Boy did not go into their houses to complain about Buhari; his campaign was in a public square, and he was well within his rights as a Nigerian citizen. It is in this same country that a man, Joachim Iroko, was attacked by Buhari’s supporters because he named his dog “Buhari.” That one happened in Sango-Ota, Ogun State. Nobody should underestimate what his adorable followers are capable of, and that is why his health issue needs to be taken seriously. If the APC has not raised it with him till now, they should tell him that he cannot afford to be sneaky about his condition. He needs to be selfless and consider the possibility that the stress of governance and re-election, coupled with his old age will take its toll at some point. They should raise the possibility of him retiring and going home to nurse his dignity. If he genuinely loves Nigeria, he should not leave us with more problems than what we already battle. There is too much bloodshed in Nigeria as it is, and our security apparatus can barely contain them. If his followers could destroy so many lives in 2011 over an electoral loss, I shudder to think what they will do if anything happens to him.

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eduson-youngest · 3 years ago

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Beware of the ploy of the DSS. After having failed to destroy the heart of IPOB, they have deviated to other means. DSS is not sleeping in targeting IPOB DOS knowing that as soon as DOS is gone, IPOB will stop functioning, then they will do whatever they want with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Their latest blackmail will be to blackmail ESN using DOS. I am equipping your mind in case if you see their blackmail in the future don't shilver or panic. DOS is in full control of ESN and our men are well trained under one central command. Any News that DOS have betrayed ESN, sold ESN or have abandoned ESN should be thrown to the dustbin. It is still the ploy of Nigeria DSS to cause confusion in making you think that DOS is not in control. If you come across such message in audio ,article or any form, be reminded that it is still the plan of DSS to destroy the heart of this struggle so don't give in. DSS told Jubril (Buhari) that there is no need to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditional, they assured Jubril that as soon as DOS is destroyed that IPOB will die natural death. Seeing that they have failed despite spending huge amount they are now sponsoring audio blackmail targeting ESN against DOS and DOS against ESN just to instigate you against DOS. We are preparing your mind on their next attack. Our men are intact and under the command of DOS . Any one seen fighting DOS must be seen as enemy of IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Why am saying this is to let you know that the pillar of this struggle is the DOS and the destruction of DOS is the end of IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu. Our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will say I am telling you now so as to prepare your mind . Be vigilant. Share wide #EmekaGift (at Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CX5k1QZjjR6/?utm_medium=tumblr

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torixus · 4 years ago

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APC Condemns US riot, Urges Trump to Emulate President Buhari

The All Progressives Congress has urged US President Donald Trump to emulate his Nigerian counterpart, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), After losing an election.

The APC made this known in a statement by its Secretary of its Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee, John Akpanudoedehe, titled, “The integrity of a leader is as important as strong institutions’.

The party also condemned the US Capitol Hill riot by pro-Trump protesters and faulted Trump’s refusal to concede defeat in the US November 2020 presidential election.

It stated that in instances where Buhari was dissatisfied with the outcome of an election, he approached the court for redress.

The PUNCH reports that Trump’s supporters had stormed a session of Congress held Wednesday to certify Joe Biden’s election win, triggering unprecedented chaos and violence at the heart of American democracy and accusations the president was attempting a coup.

Hours after an extraordinary rally by Trump seeking to overturn the election, a flag-waving mob broke down barricades outside the Capitol and swarmed inside, rampaging through offices and onto the usually solemn legislative floors.

At least five persons died in the riot generally believed to be incited by the US president.

The statement read, “The events of the past 72hrs in the United States of America is to say the least condemnable. Over time, the elections of the US have been used as a touchstone for elections in other democracies.

“It is settled that strong institutions are fundamental to the sustenance of democracies. However, this US election saga strongly underscores the fact that the integrity of the country’s leader essentially complements the workings of these institutions.

“President Muhammadu Buhari contested and lost elections a couple of times and followed the process through to the Supreme Court on all accounts. This is an outstanding credential of a true democrat.

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“Upon ultimately gaining victory in 2015, the APC-led administration has carried out fundamental reforms to strengthen our institutions.

“For instance, non-interference in the functions of INEC. The APC has contested elections; won some, lost some without splitting hairs. In fact, at some point, the APC lost over 5 states to the PDP, yet we allowed democracy to prevail. We have remained resolved in our belief that in every electoral contest, popular will must prevail. "

Akpanudoedehe faulted the Peoples Democratic Party’s statement warning Buhari and APC to concede defeat if they are defeated in the 2023 general elections.

He said, “This is a far-cry from the days of the do-or-die politics of PDP, where civilians took control of the security apparatus to subvert the people’s will and determine the outcome of elections.

“Electoral reform is a core plank of the programs of the APC-led administration and a legacy that Mr. President has promised to bequeath to Nigerians.

“Therefore the statements by the PDP are merely designed to gain political mileage and only reinforces the disinformation on all issues, which the PDP constantly and laboriously pursues at all times. The positions taken by PDP Governors against these institutional reforms are in the public domain. "

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hardynwa · 2 years ago

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Naira Redesign: Nigerians may revolt against FG, cleric warns Buhari

The Co-Executive Director, Interfaith Mediation Centre, Kaduna State, Mohammed Ashafa has warned of an imminent revolt against the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government of the president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), over the naira redesign policy. He said the government must act fast to forestall the looming crisis, noting that if not well handled, the 2020 EndSAR protests that claimed several lives across the country would be child’s play. Ashafa, a renowned Islamic scholar, disclosed this in an exclusive interview with our correspondents on the sideline of a one-day interactive session on ‘Women’s Economic Empowerment and Role of Leaders and Opponents,’ organised by Interfaith Mediation Centre with support from Development Research and Project Centre. Interfaith Mediation Centre is a faith-based non-governmental organization Ashafa co-founded in 1995, working to end violent clashes between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria. According to the cleric, the naira redesign, which is not the first in the history of the country, has brought hardship on Nigerians. He appealed to the federal government to obey the ruling of the Supreme Court and halt the naira swap with immediate effect or extend the deadline for another six months. He warned that the government must refrain from anything capable of causing violence in the country as the 2023 general election approaches otherwise, “the 2020 EndSAR protests will resonate.” Ashafa said, “I fear for Nigeria that we don’t have a second phase of the EndSAR protest in the name of financial crunch which the government deliberately inflicted on us. I fear that what happened in France in 1776 during the revolution will happen in Nigeria. Revolution may happen in Nigeria. We have seen people who attempted to commit suicide because they have the money, but they don’t have access to it. “So, we are appealing to the government to come with a voice of reason so that what happened in Tunisia, Egypt won’t happen here. “We don’t want bloodshed. It seems this policy is a deliberate intention of the formulators to cause confusion in the county.” Meanwhile, the cleric while stressing the need for issue based politics ahead of the 2023 general elections, cautioned the political elite against what he termed “a do-or-die politics”, noting that “it(politics) should be a process that will help us to improve and enhance our lives. “So, most of these politicians who believe in using force to get to power are those misusing and abusing vulnerable youths in the country,” he added. Ashafa called on women to come out and participate in politics for empowerment, noting that “they are the people who deserve to encourage, work with her voices are silent and power voice.” “We have seen many women across the world who have transformed their communities. Let women come out and engage politically, economically to change our nation for the better,” he added. Read the full article

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thisdaynews · 4 years ago

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EDO ELECTION:I Will Not Tolerate Any Nonsense Again ‘Call Your Boys To Order’ - Oba Of Benin Tells Shaibu(Video)

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EDO ELECTION:I Will Not Tolerate Any Nonsense Again ‘Call Your Boys To Order’ - Oba Of Benin Tells Shaibu(Video)

The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, on Wednesday called on the Edo state deputy governor, Hon. Philip Shaibu to call his “boys (thugs)” to order, ahead of the September 19 Edo Governorship election.

Igbere TV reports that the monarch spoke at a peace meeting between Governor Godwin Obaseki of the PDP and Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the APC at his palace in Benin City – where both candidates signed a peace pact.

At the meeting, monitored by Igbere TV, the revered Oba who expressed concern over spate of violence in the state, issued a direct warning to Shaibu to rein in on his “boys” and halt further escalation.

Igbere TV had reported how Oba Ewuare II summoned the two major candidates, Obaseki and Ize-Iyamu, alongside their running mates to express his concern on the incessant outbreak of violence in the state ahead of the guber poll.

He said he has been having sleepless nights on the violent conduct and has held continuous prayers for peace. He urged the politicians to sue for peace and relay the message to their followers across the State.

However, during the course of the meeting, Hon. Philip Shaibu, Governor Obaseki’s running mate, earned specific mentions, over alleged direct involvement in violent clashes in the state.

“I have noted that Edo State’s politics has been in the news for quite some time for all the wrong reasons. I have been having sleepless nights for some days. We are all from Edo State. We are no strangers,” the Oba said.

“Philp, they say you are the tough one inside, you must behave. Please. Tell your boys…to cease fire that your baba has told you that they should cease fire. Enough is enough! I don’t want to hear shooting of guns anymore, enough is enough! Don’t go and kill yourselves because of office.”

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While noting that elections were not a do-or-die affair, Oba Ewuare II said politicians in Edo must note that they have only Edo State to call their own and, thus, must do everything to protect it from disintegration.

“Must it be a do-or-die affair? Do not kill yourselves because of public office. Stop the shootings. I am very sad about what is happening in Edo. This is the worst scenario. Let us eschew violence and give peace a chance in our state.

“It is for four years and at most another four years. Why will you [politicians] now want lives to be lost? Why do we hear that you people are arming boys (thugs)? Why?,” the Oba of Benin queried.

The monarch also advised Governor Obaseki “to look beyond his office” because he will not be there all the time. He said political office is transient and urged him to look at the bigger picture so that he can continue to earn the respect of all when he is no longer the governor.

On whoever emerges at the polls, Oba Ewuare urged Obaseki and Ize-Iyamu to emulate the action of former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 when he lost to President Muhammadu Buhari.

As a symbolic gesture, in his address at the Palace, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu embraced Governor Godwin Obaseki and assured the Benin monarch of his commitment to peace, describing the governor as his “senior brother.”

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edisonashley · 4 years ago

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Oba Of Benin Chides Obaseki, Ize-Iyamu Over Electoral Violence

Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, yesterday rebuked politicians in the state, particularly the governorship candidates of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Governor Godwin Obaseki and the All Progressive Congress (APC), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, for the pre-election violence and belligerent electioneering utterances, threatening to tear the state apart ahead of the September 19 election.

However, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Johnson Kokumo, has assured the monarch and the people of adequate security, saying there’s no cause for alarm.

“The utterances, statements and activities that I hear are most immature”, the revered monarch told the two leading candidates and their promoters, including former governors John Odigie-Oyegun and Adams Oshiomhole, in subdued anger during a peace meeting in his palace in Benin.

The Benin monarch at the meeting initiated by him said there were talks about the candidates of the two major parties arming thugs. He warned them to desist from the act and expressed worry about what the guns would be used for after the elections.

Oba Ewuare II, who said that he was worried about the violence across the state over the September 19 poll, stated that politicians must learn to conduct themselves in a peaceful manner, noting that election was not a do-or-die affair.

He admonished the politicians and parties to note that they have only Edo State to call their own and must do everything possible to protect it from disintegration.

He said not only has the state been in the news for wrong reasons, but that the governorship election has divided the people. The first-class monarch said, “I have noted that Benin politics has been in the news for quite some time for all the wrong reasons. I have been having sleepless nights for some days. We are all from Edo State. We are no strangers.

“Why do you want lives to be lost by arming thugs, who will later hide the guns? Enough is enough. Let the September 19 governorship election in Edo State be peaceful.

“Be mature and be proud of Edo State. Do not make Edo State a laughing stock.” He added, “Don’t kill yourselves over an office, don’t kill yourselves over votes, let us have a working relationship that President Muhammadu Buhari had with Goodluck Jonathan, it is not a do-or-die affair.

“The two candidates must toe the line of peace just like Jonathan did when he willingly announced his acceptance of defeat in 2015”.

In their response, Obaseki, who commended the monarch for his fatherly role, said, “I have sworn on oath to protect the people and it will be irresponsible of me to do otherwise, especially that which can lead to the destruction of lives and properties. “

He assured the monarch that he would strive to see that there’s peace in the state.

Ize-Iyamu said he would ensure that his supporters conduct themselves in a peaceful manner throughout the remaining campaign and during the election.

Oshiomhole said as a product of peaceful elections, he would not deviate from that which would lead to a peaceful Poll, assuring the monarch that they heed his counsel.

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Senate On Fire, As Senators Debate On Security, Ask Buhari To Sack Security Chiefs

A debate on the worsening security situation in the country sparked fireworks in the Senate on Wednesday. The session became rowdy following a call by the minority leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign for his failure to protect the lives and property of Nigerians since 2015. Senators, however, were divided on the need to adopt a model of state police in the country. However, they were unanimous on the urgency for the president to dismiss the current heads of service. Abaribe insisted that Buhari and the All Progressive Congress (APC) had told Nigerians during their election campaigns to stone them if they did not succeed. He said: “it is now time to pick stones to stone them” in view of their obvious failure. Senate President Ahmad Lawan however interrupted Abaribe. He called on him and all those who were going to contribute to the debate to be apolitical. He said that bandits and Boko Haram insurgents do not operate on partisan grounds when they kill citizens. Abaribe said: “When I was coming this morning, I saw a newspaper headline of THISDAY, which said: the ‘Commander-In-Chief expresses shock at the level of violent crimes’ in the country. “In other words, Mr President was expressing surprise but in accordance to our rules in Order 53 (13), I will not go into that but I can only say in pidgin English ‘this surprise, surprise me.’ “Mr. President, you have told us that on this solemn day and in discussing this matter, that we may not at any point be partisan. “I want to say Mr. President, if you didn’t insist that we will not be partisan, I would have called out the presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, who when the CAN (Christian Association of Nigeria) leaders complained about the killing of a priest, he turned around and said CAN was acting like a political party. “Now that we are talking about it here, let me hear him say that all of us are acting like a political party when many are complaining about these incessant deaths in this country. “Because we have to get to the root of this matter, I can only say one thing: those who live by propaganda will die by propaganda. “This is a matter of life and death and I was building up to something and I will say what I was building up to simply. “Boko Haram has been defeated, Nigeria is now safer, everything that was being done to make sure that the hard work that was supposed to be done in securing Nigeria was not done because certain people did not do their work but preferred to cover the eyes of Nigerians with propaganda and trying to find all these excuses for non-performance have now come to stare us in the face. “Mr President, Nigerians did not elect the Inspector General of Police, we did not elect the Chief of Staff, we did not elect the Joint Chiefs or the National Security Adviser. “We elected the government of APC in 2015 and re-elected them in 2019. The reason we re-elected them is that they continued to tell us that they had the key to security. “When you want to deal with a matter, you go to the head, so we will go to government and ask this government to resign because they can no longer do anything.” At this point Lawan intervened and cautioned Abaribe not to be partisan in his contribution. “Let me remind you once again that Nigerians voted for APC in 2015 and because they saw improvement in their lives they voted APC again in 2019. I don’t want to be partisan and I would advise against hate speech,” Lawan said. On his part, Abaribe added: “In conclusion, I want to say that Nigerians voted a government into power and that government even said ‘if we don’t perform stone us’ we are going with the stones to stone them now…” Again Lawan cut Abaribe shot, and said he has exhausted the allotted time to make his contribution. Lawan added: “The situation in this country is such a serious situation that our debate should be towards ensuring that we are able to get solutions.” In his contribution, Senator Abudullahi Adamu took exception to Abaribe’s call on President Buhari to resign. Adamu insisted that the Senate President ought to have ruled that Abaribe should withdraw his submissions. Adamu said: “There is no doubting the fact that we do face security challenges in this country. “Anybody who says otherwise is only pretending but the fact that we have security challenges and the fact that we are in a democratic dispensation, and the fact that in the National Assembly, on the floor of this hallowed chamber, we enjoy some immunity. “Mr President, if we do not approach this debate with the level of sensibility that it demands, we shall be doing more harm than good to this issue of national security. “If we all stand up and talk about campaign pronouncements, manifestos presented by different parties, those accepted and those rejected, we will not have time to discuss what we are here to discuss. “But for us to talk as if nothing is happening, it does not help the situation we are in. I believe that if government agencies have not been able to get us to the promised land, we should try to go into the nitty gritty of what their problems are. “How do we help resolve what we have instead of outright condemnation and seeing nothing good and throwing the baby away with the bath water? “The opening salvo by the Minority Leader where he landed and crash landed by saying he is going with stones. “Stone in the spirit in which he made that contribution is a weapon. We cannot sit here as elder statesmen and be adding salt to injury. “It is not within our duty to do so. I would have wished the Senate President did not to only tell the minority leader that the time allotted for the discussion was up but should have told him to withdraw the statement as a respect and that he is a man of honour to stand by the oath of office he took.” Lawan had on Tuesday promised that the Senate would dedicate its plenary of yesterday (Wednesday) to debate the worsening security situation in the country and to proffer a way forward. President Buhari had also on Tuesday expressed surprise about the growing violent crimes in the country and promised that his government would henceforth be harder on bandits. Lawan had also said that the security architecture of the country is ineffective and fast deteriorating. Senate Majority Leader, Senator Yahaya Abudullahi sponsored the motion titled: “Nigerian security challenges: Urgent need to restructure, review and reorganize the current security architecture.” The motion was co-sponsored by 105 other Senators. Abdullahi, in his lead debate, called on his colleagues to note the recent upsurge of security related challenges and “the devastating loss of lives, limbs and properties that it unleashed on the nation.” He further urged the Senate to note the comprehensive new National Security Strategy that the government unfolded in December, 2019, “with its very clear statement of goals, objectives and challenges that faced the nation particularly those challenges whose recent upsurge have a direct and devastating impact on the lives and safety of the people.” The security challenges according to him, include: Terrorism and violent extremism, armed banditry, kidnapping, militancy and separatist agitation. Others are Pastoralists/farmer clashes and cattle rustling; organized crime; piracy and sea robbery; and cross border crimes of smuggling and illegal drugs and fire arms trafficking. He insisted that even though the Senate appreciates the recent effort to redefine the nation’s approaches to the security challenges, the “implementation strategy must be operationalized in a manner that takes a critical and intrusive review of the nature, structure and disposition of the security institutions, particularly the Police, Civil Defence, Intelligence, Customs, Immigrations, etc.” Abdullahi added: “Further notes that the various local, state and regional responses to these security challenges by way of selfhelp initiative such as Civilian JTF, Hisbah, Yausakai, Yanbanga and more recently Amotekun which are mainly expression of peoples desperation and disappointment with the failure of the state security architecture to protect them; “Opines that the current structure, operational strategies, Personnel training and disposition of these critical institutions has been outgrown by our contemporary security challenges. “This is because, in the current challenging dispensation, we must prioritize the restructuring and the reorganizing those security apparatuses that shoulder the direct responsibilities of protecting the Nigerian people and their urban and rural space. “This is with a view to making them more effective, responsive community integrated and people friendly. “Far reaching measures and structural reforms are necessary in order to arrest the rapidly deteriorating internal security environment. “The current challenges seem to have overwhelmed our security Institutions.” The Senate, after five hours of debate, set up a 17-member Committee to interface with all heads of security agencies for a way out of the deteriorating security situation in the country and to report back in two weeks. The ad hoc Committee is to be chaired by the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi. Members include Senators Enyinnaya Abaribe, Aliyu Sabi Abudullahi, Ali Ndume, Abba Moro, Yusuf Yusuf, Bala Ibn Na’Allah, Stella Oduah, Ibikunle Amosun, Ibrahim Gobir, George Sekibo, Sulaiman Kwari, Aliyu Wamakko and Haliru Dauda Jika among others. The committee is also to engage the National Security Adviser on the implementation modalities of the December 2019 national security strategies. The panel is also to engage the national security institution to discuss their operational structures, funding, equipment and staff disposition with a view to reviewing the national security architecture to make it more responsive in tackling the myriad security challenges facing the nation and the people. Besides, it is to produce a draft implementation modality/blueprint on the ways and means of tackling the current security challenges for the consideration of the Senate. The Senate also summoned the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to brief it at plenary on the modus operandi of state policing in the country on Wednesday. The upper chamber also called on Buhari to declare a national security emergency in the country. Lawan in his contribution said the legislature must not shy away from what affect the people. He said: “This is not something we can do alone, we must work with the executive to achieve these. “The President himself has been working hard with security agencies to ensure that we protect the lives and property of our people but we have come to a point where the legislators will also intervene or we give the necessary legislation and support to the executive arm of Government. “So what we have done is the first thing, I think the most difficult step is the next step and that is, we have passed resolution now, the list of the adhoc committee members. “They will be charged to work assiduously to ensure that they finish their work in two weeks but that is the second step, the third step will be the implementation of whatever we are able to adopt from the ad-hoc committee support, in that case we have to work much more closely to ensure the implementation on those things we resolved on. “We should prepare our minds that not all what we have resolved on would be implemented, we pray that whatever we resolve that will bring solution the executive may have their own solution on the way forward so there would be need for us to join and marry the two efforts to ensure that the lives and property of Nigerians are protected.” In their contributions, Senators raised the issue of community policing and the over stay in office of the present Service Chiefs. However, while senators where divided on the desirability of state police, those who spoke were unanimous on the need for the current Service Chiefs to be asked to proceed on their overdue retirement. While the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege opposed state police, Senators Oluremi Tinubu, Solomon Adeola, Danjuma Goje, Adamu Aliero, Olubunmi Adetunmbi and Opeyemi Bamidele, among others, supported the creation of state police. Omo-Agege said: “The current personnel strength of 300,000 to police about 200 million people and the constitutional structure of the Police Force, there is no way they can do this job. “Assuming we decide to go the route of state police, we don’t want to create a Nigerian police and give it another name. “If we create state police today, what are the challenges the police is facing that will not be faced by the community police. “Now, we have State Governments who want to create State police. These are the same state government that are not able to pay salaries of workers. “If we create the state police, we will go back to the Nigerian police and have the same challenges if not worse. “We also have the misuse to which the state police could be deployed. All politics is local as we are told. “There are some states where those challenges will not be present but there are also states where state police will be abused by the state governments and by the state Governors.” Senator Adamu Aliero urged the Senate to revisit the report of its security summit during the eight Senate. Aliero said: “If you recall, in the 8th Senate, we had one whole week where we had security summit. “In that summit, we invited everybody that is supposed to be invited from service chiefs to traditional institutions. “We came up with every good recommendations, I don’t know what happened to those recommendations. “We should go back, adjust it and then send to the executive. All that is supposed to be said has been said at that seminar. “On the issue of state police, we are putting the cart before the horse. For us to have state police, we have to amend the relevant sections in our constitution.” On the other hand Senators Adeola, Elisha Abbo, Betty Apiafi, Matthew Urhoghide, among others called for the sack of the Service Chiefs. Adeola said: “The Service Chiefs have done well. We thank them for what they have done. It is time for them to go.” Senator Apiafi said: “Most of us we will agree that by the time they came into position, things were not really bad. They have done their bits and their tenure has expired. They are illegally occupying the seat. It will be good for the government to allow the security chiefs go and bring in new people to add vigour to the fight against insecurity.” On his part, Senator Urhoghide said: “These service chiefs have overstayed. If it is true that these service chiefs after we confirmed them over five years ago, they are still on the saddle, I have no apologies, they have done very well. They have overstayed their welcome and they are bereft of ideas. Others should come in. The Service Chiefs include Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, Chief of Naval Staff, Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas and Chief of Air Staff, Sadique Abubakar Earlier, we reported how the governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom narrowly escaped death after he was shot at by herdsmen, a consequence of the present state of insecurity in the country.

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Inside The Worlds Of Melaye, Dickson And Co

Azu Ishiekwene Defeat is an orphan. Nothing illustrates its orphanage status as vividly as the fate of two politicians involved in last week’s elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states: Senator Dino Melaye and Governor Seriake Henry Dickson. As he went down, Melaye, the PDP candidate in the Kogi West senatorial election rerun, deployed his video-making talent to its utmost. Even before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the process inconclusive, the senator had manufactured two videos, each with the distinctive ring of a drowning man, to plead his case. In one of the videos adapted from a Channels TV interview, Melaye described the election as helicopter election. “For the first time,” he said, “rigging has been advanced to the level that now the use of helicopter in perpetuating this electoral atrocity manifested yesterday.” He suggested that the helipad and control tower might be in Lugard House, under the control of Governor Yahaya Bello. He had barely finished making this first video when, out of the necessity to find another scapegoat, he produced a sequel entitled, “I have been rigged out.” The world never saw a more desolate, broken and contrite Melaye as the one portrayed in this I-have-been-rigged-out video. Almost in tears, Melaye moved from blaming Bello to excoriating INEC for his looming defeat. Never in the history of elections in Nigeria, he said, had there been anything like this – when the umpire not only appeared to be taking sides, but actually helped the incumbent to stir up deadly violence and steal votes, while security forces provided cover or conveniently looked the other way. A devasted Melaye swore that the blood of the dead and the gods of the disenfranchised would rise up and avenge his defeat, as if he was an innocent bystander in the political battlefield. While Melaye was mourning his likely defeat, the outgoing governor of Bayelsa, Dickson, had not even cast his vote when he declared that Saturday – the same day he was supposed to crown his ambition as Bayelsa’s ultimate political godfather – was a sad day, accusing his opponents of being “too hungry” for victory to play by the rules. In a follow up statement, Dickson declared definitively, that the election in Bayelsa was a “military coup”, orchestrated by the ruling the party, ostensibly with the acquiescence of INEC. A common thread among the losing candidates, which also appears to find increasing sympathy among segments of civil society groups, is that INEC has the lion’s share of the blame for the shabby outcome of last weekend’s poll. It’s easy for politicians to find scapegoats when elections do not favour them. If, however, they take just one quick look at the man in the mirror, they might just find that the desperation for power for its own sake, the quest for a zero-sum game, and the utter contempt and disregard for due process; that is to say, the sum total of what politicians stand for, is the single biggest threat to free and fair elections. Whatever credit Professor Attahiru Jega may get for the conduct of the 2015 election, the determination of voters to remove the PDP, and President Goodluck Jonathan’s gracious concession even before the final results were officially announced, were perhaps the single biggest success factors. Unfortunately, politicians have been regressing since. Melaye’s hubris may not exactly be at the far end of the scale of political violence, but Dickson’s odyssey like that of politicians on the other side that he is trying to disparage, is hardly inspiring. He may have forgotten, but a few still remember how he emerged as the PDP’s candidate eight years ago. Timipre Silva, who was in his first term as Bayelsa governor at the time, had fallen out with President Goodluck Jonathan in a dispute in which the National Security Adviser, late Patrick Aziza, was determined to show Silva who the boss was. To ensure that Silva did not present himself at the PDP primaries in Yenagoa he was barricaded in his Abuja home in a military-style operation. He was kept under house arrest of sorts, effectively ruling out his participation in the primaries and therefore blocking his return for a second term. Dickson, then in his second term as a member of the House of Representatives, was flown to Yenagoa. His name was wangled to INEC in the middle of the night and everything else from then on, including the courts, was pressed into Dickson’s service. It’s hardly the kind of antecedent that should lend itself to any complaint about due process or one that should embolden the victim this time to lament a hostile takeover, much less a military coup. But here we are, the beneficiary of 2011’s assault on due process but now a victim is not just complaining about a hostile takeover, he says the state was overthrown in a military coup. And his complaint is coming after he hijacked the party primaries and fielded, singlehandedly, both the candidate and his running mate, against the run of play. In the end, the governorship candidate lost, and to compound Dickson’s misery, his plan to cut a deal with his stooges for a bye election that might have taken him to the Senate has also ended. The party primaries that produced Dickson in 2011 is just as shambolic and militaristic as the one by which he manufactured the two PDP candidates in last week’s election. Yet, Dickson – or Countryman as he fondly calls himself – does not see the log in his own eye. Rather than chasing shadows, we should put the blame for shoddy electoral outcomes and violence where it is – at the doorstep of politicians, with the security agencies, and increasingly, the courts, in that order. And politicians, meaning politicians of all stripes, are the two biggest instigators. The APC may have won the governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi, but the party cannot be proud of its record in the run up to that election. The poor performance of Bello, which made Governor Nasir El-Rufai carry him on his back and kneel down to beg Kogi voters, meant that Bello already knew he was walking a tightrope before the election and had to rely on desperate measures, including going on all fours and suborning the security agencies, where possible, to survive. It’s hardly an atmosphere conducive to free and fair elections, however well-intentioned the umpire may be. In Bayelsa, the sham party primaries in APC that forced one of the aspirants to go to court; the desperation that forced two APC governors to abandon their states and camp in Yenagoa three days before the election; and the increasing cases of eleventh-hour court rulings, imperiled planning and compounded the climate of fear and tension. Whereas off-season elections are supposed to help INEC deploy more resources and manage elections in the affected states more effectively, it appears to be having the opposite effect. In the zero-sum, do-or-die struggle for power, politicians now deploy overwhelming violence to subvert the process and use social media to spread fake results, only to look for scapegoats elsewhere. The CSOs must call them out. It is easy to forget where we’re coming from. Only four years ago, 80 election results were nullified by the courts after the general elections in that year alone, compared with three court-ordered elections out of 178 three years later. Also, when INEC proposed, among other amendments to the Electoral Act in 2016, that politicians who rig their way to power should be made to refund every kobo collected when they are found out, politicians promptly removed the amendment in the final draft sent to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. They want to get to power by hook and/or crook, knowing that no matter how they get there, in the end, they will still retain their loot. If the Kogi and Bayelsa elections were held on separate days, what happened last weekend might have been child’s play. It appears that the more the electoral umpire tries to keep politicians on the straight and narrow path, the more ungovernable they have become, believing that if the outcome does not favour them they would either call for cancellation or win in court. The law is clear about the grounds on which elections may be suspended or cancelled. Stage-managing violence or crying wolf in order to force INEC’s hand is a slippery slope. Since politicians have learnt to fly without perching, INEC must learn to shoot without missing. It must continue to perform its role as umpire without fear, favour or ill-will and spare no cost to prosecute more electoral offenders. The odysseys of Melaye and Dickson are sad reminders of how far we still need to go. Yet, the distance is worth going to strengthen and preserve our institutions. Those who think they have won – or would win – by bending the system, would find a rich harvest of what they have sown down the road. Ishiekwene is the Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview Read the full article

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APC might be no more by the time Buhari’s tenure is over- Rochas Okorocha says

Senator Rochas Okorocha has expressed fear that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), may go into extinction by the time President Buhari's tenure expires in 2023. Okorocha said this while reacting to the crisis rocking the party in Edo state where the state governor, Godwin Obaseki and APC National chairman and Obaseki's predecessor, Adams Oshiomole, are battling for control of the party in the state. Just yesterday, political thugs attacked the state governor, the Oba of Lagos and some dignitaries that attended a function at Oshiomole's residence. Speaking to journalists in Kano state yesterday November 2nd, Okorocha said any political party that has the level of internal crisis being experienced in the ruling party is bound to fail. A political party should be a group of people who share common political interest and beliefs; people who pursue a common goal or common objective for the good of the common man. That will be my understanding of a political party, but any political party that is full of internal crisis is no longer a political party in the real sense of a political party. “This idea of crisis and idea of commotions show that the said party does not have a common ideology. If the ideology is one and you believe in one thing, there should not be reason for disagreement at that level. You might have a minor disagreement, but when it comes to the issue of do-or-die, it is no longer a political party. “So, let us see what we can do in this country to redefine what we mean by internal democracy. This is why people have options; this is why we don’t believe in one party system. We must have different political parties and identify the one that is in line with our vision, the one that is line with our political belief. “Talking about what is happening in Edo State, it is unfortunate but a true political party cannot work against itself. So, I want to advise that they reconcile and relax their differences. The truth is that a party that is divided among it can never stand. I have said this earlier, APC is a party that we hurriedly put together when we were governors because we felt that the government at that time was not living up to expectation and we wanted to make sure that we brought about change at that time. “That is why we came together and formed the All Progressives Congress and we ensured that the party got power in 2015. That was how it was then and we achieved that. “Right now, I think we should continue with the same pace that we started with in 2015 election but that does not seem to be the case. President Muhammadu Buhari gave character to APC. He brought his integrity to bear on the party. He made the party what it is in the northern part of the country and the masses of the North who saw him as a true leader, and we all rode on that to achieve that victory, but after the credibility of Buhari into this party, there seem to be no alternative in the same manner that will drive this party to 2023 victory. “This is why I expressed my concern that if we are not very careful, APC might go with Buhari in 2023, and that will be a very unfortunate situation for the founding fathers of APC. The party needs to show purposeful leadership, show character,” Okorocha said

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APC Condemns US riot, Urges Trump to Emulate President Buhari

The All Progressives Congress has urged US President Donald Trump to emulate his Nigerian counterpart, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), After losing an election.