Author: Naomitheboss

The leader of the All Progressive Congress Party and former Governor of Lagos State, His Excellency, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu has called on Igbos and Yorubas ethnic groups to join force with him to salvage this country from corruption.

Tinubu who made the call during a press briefing today at Lagos, admonishes the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, otherwise known as IPOB and the leader of the Oduduwa succession group to jettison the struggle for Biafra and Oduduwa independence.

It was gathered that Asiwaju Tinubu, popularly as Jagaban earlier last year made similar call to ndi Igbo living in Lagos to forget Biafra agitation and join hands with the All Progressive Congress (APC) to rid this country off corruption.

However, Tinubu Maintained that the hour to rewrite the history of Nigeria is now and that is why he’s calling the Southern part of Nigeria to forget secession and join him to lead the country to the promise land.

According to him, “I am calling on IPOB and Oduduwa secessionists to calm down and drop their weapon of anger so that we can move Nigeria forward.

“This country belongs to all of us and it is our duty to get things properly done here. Nobody can do it for us, that is why we have to come together as one to get it right this time around.

“IPOB and Oduduwa should drop the agitation so that the South can produce a better leader come 2023.” he said

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday evening arrested a former Imo Governor Senator Rochas Okorocha.

Officials of the Commission laid siege to the former Governor’s private office at Nkwerre Street in Garki area of Abuja and picked him up shortly after he returned from a trip.

EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwajuren, confirmed the arrest to The Nation. He however could not give reasons for his arrest.

“Nigerian Soldiers are the most unprofessional soldiers in the world.”

“If a hoodlum kills a soldier, millions of soldiers will invade the community, kill innocent people and burn down houses.”

“What has the innocent people have to do with the death of a soldier?

What has people’s houses have to do with the death of a soldier?”

“If a soldier is killed, the “Intelligence Unit” of the military should do investigation to capture the killer, not terrorising the whole community.

“If you look at what soldiers did in Imo State, Akwa Ibom State and Benue State, you will agree with me that Nigeria is a failed count

Bola Tinubu, using his self-named non-governmental organisation, has begun distributing bags of rice and other foodstuffs to Kano residents.

The All Progressives Congress’s national leader was in the news in March for donating to Katsina (President Muhammadu Buhari’s hometown) market fire victims.

People were handed ‘Jagaban’ bags of rice, as seen in a video that surfaced on social media.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday attributed annulment of June 12, 1993, presidential election presumably won by late philanthropist, Moshood Kashimawo Abiola by former Military President General Ibrahim Babangida on “bad belle.”

Obasanjo said the annulment robbed Egbaland and Ogun State the rare privilege of having three of its prominent sons occupying the number one seat at different times.

The elder statesman, who was referring to former Head of Interim National Government(ING), Chief Ernest Shonekan, himself who was first a military Head of States and elected President, apparently noted that Abiola would have become the third if the 1993 poll was not annulled.

He spoke on Sunday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State shortly after his investiture as a trustee of the Abeokuta Club, a sociocultural organisation of Egba people of Ogun State.

Obasanjo was honoured alongside MKO Abiola who was awarded a posthumous vice-patron of the club.

The former President, who recalled Abiola was his schoolmate at the Baptist Boys High School (BBHS) Abeokuta, said the late politician richly deserved the award bestowed on him by the Abeokuta club.

Obasanjo said: “When Abeokuta Club was in the process of being birthed, things in Abeokuta were not as rosy as they are today. And the sons of Abeokuta who were in Lagos put their heads together in late Chief Sobo Sowemimo’s house to think of what they could do to improve the development of Abeokuta as a city. I pay tributes to all those founding members, those who have departed this world and those who are still here.

“I want to thank the club for this honour being bestowed on me and the honour being bestowed on my school mate MKO Abiola which he richly deserved.

“Kabiyesi, the Alake (of Egbaland) alluded to it. Normally when you win a cup three times, you keep that cup. Isn’t it? If not for bad belle, Abeokuta would have produced President of Nigeria three times, in which case we should have kept it permanently.

“But be that as it may, we have a great heritage. And we should be proud of our heritage. On this note, I will say on this occasion, I thank the President, the patron and grand patron, members of the Board of Trustees, the executive; I want to say this, I will continue to contribute my quota to the development and growth of this club and by extension, the development and growth of Abeokuta, of Ogun State, of Nigeria, of African and indeed the of the world in whichever way I could.”

Obasanjo pledged his continuous commitment to the development of the club, Ogun state, Nigeria and the world.

Alake of Egbaland Oba Adedotun Gbadebo while presenting the plague to Obasanjo, described Obasanjo and MKO Abiola as proud sons of Abeokuta, adding some “bad blood” didn’t allow Abiola to emerge President.