By Fred Edoreh From time, I had never been excited about Gen Olusegun Obasanjo’s personality and his letters. I am very conversant with the fact that, besides training in handling of weapons, military generals are deft contrivers of lies, propaganda, decoy and deception with which they can win wars by simply confusing and creating disaffection across lines even before firing a shot. From the coups of Major Kaduna Nzeogwu through Gens Murtala Mohammed, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha, the sing-song that sustained them was the propaganda of corruption against the civilian class of leaders while, in actual fact,…
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The Delta North Citizens For Good Governance (DNCFGG) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu to stop including Senator Peter Nwaoboshi in it’s list as the All Progressives Congress Candidate for Delta North Senatorial District. The Coordinator of the Forum, Chief Onwuka Mordi Stated this on Tuesday when speaking to journalists in Asaba, Delta State Capital. According to the Coordinator, INEC’s continuous parading of Nwaoboshi as APC’s Senatorial Candidate for Delta North Senatorial District in the forthcoming 2023 election is a misnomer and an aberration because of his conviction and sentence by the Federal Appeal…
By Dele Alake On the whole, the latest epistolary misadventure by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is a gratuitous insult on the collective intelligence of Nigerians. In particular, his laborious attempt to prey on the innocence of much younger generation constitutes a grievous assault on public morality, seeking to force morsels of sheer falsehood down the throats of a demography perhaps too young to comprehend events which Obasanjo furiously tried to misrepresent. It is noteworthy that it was the Obasanjo administration that abolished the teaching of history in Nigerian schools ostensibly to aid this kind of historical revisionism he routinely engages in;…
Top Itsekiri leaders on Tuesday advised President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Umana Okon Umana, to resist the urge to defy the judicial process by refraining from conducts which will render nugatory issues presented by Chief Edward Ekpoko, and Engineer Victor Wood who are representing the Itsekiri Leaders of Thought and Mr. Edward Omagbemi who is representing Omadino Unity Forum to the Court. ‘We have done all that is required of them by submitting for judicial consideration and determination their grievances against the Executive and Legislative Arms of Government, it behooves these Arms of Government to…
Thanks for seeking our reaction. Former President Obasanjo is so well known to all that no one needs to describe who he is. But, four things we will like to say: One is that he will not stop attacking President Muhammadu Buhari because the former President won’t stop being jealous of anyone who beats him to a new record in the nation’s development process. President Buhari is ahead of Chief Obasanjo in all fields of national development and to do that is cardinal sin to Obasanjo whose hallucinations tell him that he is the best ever to lead Nigeria and…
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has been accused of obtaining $300,000 from his Deputy, Mr Philip Shaibu, under the false pretence of settling the cost of procuring the governorship ticket of the PDP in the state following his late and controversial switch to the party in 2020 to seek re-election. The allegation was made by Chief Dan Orbih, the South-South National Vice Chairman of the party who led the PDP in Edo State for several years and managed Obaseki’s switch in 2020. He made the shocking revelation to some party stakeholders who visited his residence seeking an explanation on…
By SUNDAY WALE ADENIRAN Tinubu was the target. But after all the schemings and conspiracies, he still won the ticket with a margin that only discerning minds could see. Those who led the schemings and conspiracies today, Obaseki no longer see them. They are biting their nails in their closet. They have not only laboured in vain, they have given the good people of Edo another 4 years of non-performance and complete waste. But the schemers and the conspirators can’t be blamed alone. The people too are guilty. And Edo PDP? Their songs of victory was short lived. And the…
Less than 56 days to the presidential election, the Vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has dismissed the chances of the Labour Party (LP), saying it is heading nowhere. Okowa made the claim on Friday when he led the Delta State PDP campaign train to Ndokwa West and Ndokwa East Local Government Areas of the State. The Governor urged PDP supporters to make members of the LP return to the party, so it will not be easier for the All Progressives Congress, APC, to win next year’s election. He said, “We all know that…
By Onoriode Etatsemi. Residents of Okeregbagha Garden Estate Okirighwre in Sapele local government area of Delta State, have appealed to Government and relevant authorities to Urgently come to their rescue by supplying them with brand new electricity transformers . Mr Omamogho Daniel one of the Landlords in the area who decried their plight having suffered in darkness for months at the moment owing to bad transformers which he said, the management of Benin Electricity Distribution Company has refused to change appealed to the government to supply them with two transformers for the fast developing area. He explained that the only…
We read with amusement the endorsement of Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party Presidential Candidate by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his New Year message on Sunday. Following calls by journalists from various media houses who asked for our reaction we decided to make this preliminary statement, though we didn’t consider the so-called endorsement to be of any value. We respect the democratic right of former President Obasanjo to support and endorse any candidate of his choice in any election. Except that he made it known formally in his new year message, any discerning political watcher in Nigeria knows that…