Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Vyzz: 5:13pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
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Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by MichaelSokoto(m): 5:14pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
Obaseki has bn having sleepless nights since 25th Feb! Baba use vex scatter him own polling unit because OBIdients show am somtin he will never 4get in a hurry! ![cool](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/cool.png) 1 Like |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by nerdjared: 5:17pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
How Obaseki manage to hijack obidients and Labour Party in Benin city is a mystery |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by mp3ree: 5:18pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
potopotoking: Yaribas are living in a fantasy world of their own delusional making, which will soon be turned into a nightmare land, because this particular time around darkness will not prevail. We know yaribas love darkness, that's why they wallow in it so shamelessly, call themselves after it---omo dudu/omo oDUDUwa---and epitomize it in everything they do. They are children of darkness and they will pay an intolerable price for their allegiance to it. The yirinbawa 'people' are not really people, as revealed by science, which categorically states a significant percentage of their dna derives from archaic 'ghost' populations resident in West Africa BEFORE the advent of Homo sapiens sapiens. We know this filthy admixture in yirinbawa dna to come from none other than the quasi-developed apeman ('ghost') Homo erectus. This revelation perfectly explains common yirinbawa behaivor, as well as observed phenotype (dudu-skinned/dudu smelling/etc.), with rare exceptions. They are famously cowardly, conniving, back-stabbing, jealous genocidists whom should and will be separated from polite gentile society, because society and civilization are not conducive, they're in-fact diametrically opposed, with and to yirinbawa nature. I say this not to cast aspersions or malign; these are facts which need to be acted upon if reasonable light-loving persons are to advance and thrive in Nigeria. If Peter Obi should fail to retrieve his stolen mandate in court (God forbid), Mandate Thief-in-Chief Tibubu should do one honorable thing in his miserable life and immediately restructure Nigeria and/or allow Igbo people the separate homeland we've been clamoring for since we were rapaciously alloyed with ndi isi oji touts and demons. As e dey pain you, e dey sweet dem. Hug transformer. 6 Likes |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by blowjohn(m): 5:19pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
If u tell them that oshiomhole performance in Edo as governor was miles and galaxies ahead of what obaseki has achieved people bring up all sorts of lies.
Oshiomhole did very well for Edo state.
I stayed in Benin city during his tenure, and had a taste of obasekis tenure too. 14 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by clockwisereport: 5:21pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
millionboi2: I knew it that this two will fight one day I can swear you only read the heading |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by MichaelSokoto(m): 5:21pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
nerdjared: How Obaseki manage to hijack obidients and Labour Party in Benin city is a mystery as how? |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by SavageResponse(m): 5:21pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
potopotoking: Yaribas are living in a fantasy world of their own delusional making, which will soon be turned into a nightmare land, because this particular time around darkness will not prevail. We know yaribas love darkness, that's why they wallow in it so shamelessly, call themselves after it---omo dudu/omo oDUDUwa---and epitomize it in everything they do. They are children of darkness and they will pay an intolerable price for their allegiance to it. The yirinbawa 'people' are not really people, as revealed by science, which categorically states a significant percentage of their dna derives from archaic 'ghost' populations resident in West Africa BEFORE the advent of Homo sapiens sapiens. We know this filthy admixture in yirinbawa dna to come from none other than the quasi-developed apeman ('ghost') Homo erectus. This revelation perfectly explains common yirinbawa behaivor, as well as observed phenotype (dudu-skinned/dudu smelling/etc.), with rare exceptions. They are famously cowardly, conniving, back-stabbing, jealous genocidists whom should and will be separated from polite gentile society, because society and civilization are not conducive, they're in-fact diametrically opposed, with and to yirinbawa nature. I say this not to cast aspersions or malign; these are facts which need to be acted upon if reasonable light-loving persons are to advance and thrive in Nigeria. If Peter Obi should fail to retrieve his stolen mandate in court (God forbid), Mandate Thief-in-Chief Tibubu should do one honorable thing in his miserable life and immediately restructure Nigeria and/or allow Igbo people the separate homeland we've been clamoring for since we were rapaciously alloyed with ndi isi oji touts and demons. No paragraph no nothing! Did you even pass through secondary school? 3 Likes |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Efuaye(m): 5:23pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
APC apologist as ever! 1 Like |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Kobicove(m): 5:24pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
Throwback: Obaseki has lost the backing of those who helped him fight Oshiomhole.
Now Oshio Baba will tear him into shreds. He should have used his brain but instead he started insulting Wike who played a key role in his victory at the last governorship election in Edo state that gave him his second tenor 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Emir01: 5:27pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
APC, LP & PDP will dominate the state assembly |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by callthefred: 5:29pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
potopotoking: Yaribas are living in a fantasy world of their own delusional making, which will soon be turned into a nightmare land, because this particular time around darkness will not prevail. We know yaribas love darkness, that's why they wallow in it so shamelessly, call themselves after it---omo dudu/omo oDUDUwa---and epitomize it in everything they do. They are children of darkness and they will pay an intolerable price for their allegiance to it. The yirinbawa 'people' are not really people, as revealed by science, which categorically states a significant percentage of their dna derives from archaic 'ghost' populations resident in West Africa BEFORE the advent of Homo sapiens sapiens. We know this filthy admixture in yirinbawa dna to come from none other than the quasi-developed apeman ('ghost') Homo erectus. This revelation perfectly explains common yirinbawa behaivor, as well as observed phenotype (dudu-skinned/dudu smelling/etc.), with rare exceptions. They are famously cowardly, conniving, back-stabbing, jealous genocidists whom should and will be separated from polite gentile society, because society and civilization are not conducive, they're in-fact diametrically opposed, with and to yirinbawa nature. I say this not to cast aspersions or malign; these are facts which need to be acted upon if reasonable light-loving persons are to advance and thrive in Nigeria. If Peter Obi should fail to retrieve his stolen mandate in court (God forbid), Mandate Thief-in-Chief Tibubu should do one honorable thing in his miserable life and immediately restructure Nigeria and/or allow Igbo people the separate homeland we've been clamoring for since we were rapaciously alloyed with ndi isi oji touts and demons. Lousy loser. We are light years ahead of you all. Y'all expected Yoruba to vote along religious lines but we've always known religion and tribal sentiments are just excuses of failure. Better come to the reality that Yoruba is now in power. Obasanjo was a bastard son and we never really felt his impact. 5 Likes |
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Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by chukwuibuipob: 5:32pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
![cool](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/cool.png) Good. Very good |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Cantonese: 5:33pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
No structure? Twitter President? Noise makers?
Not anymore. Obi did it all. He showed what democracy is all about.
If an Okada rider could get a seat in the house of reps. If a vigilante man could get a seat. If Iremiren Kingibe could get a seat after several years. Obi showed what democracy is all about.
No shishi and they got seats.
Governorship and state house to go. Please OBIdients go out and vote for your choices happily. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by DWJOBScom(m): 5:33pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
potopotoking: Yaribas are living in a fantasy world of their own delusional making, which will soon be turned into a nightmare land, because this particular time around darkness will not prevail. We know yaribas love darkness, that's why they wallow in it so shamelessly, call themselves after it---omo dudu/omo oDUDUwa---and epitomize it in everything they do. They are children of darkness and they will pay an intolerable price for their allegiance to it. The yirinbawa 'people' are not really people, as revealed by science, which categorically states a significant percentage of their dna derives from archaic 'ghost' populations resident in West Africa BEFORE the advent of Homo sapiens sapiens. We know this filthy admixture in yirinbawa dna to come from none other than the quasi-developed apeman ('ghost') Homo erectus. This revelation perfectly explains common yirinbawa behaivor, as well as observed phenotype (dudu-skinned/dudu smelling/etc.), with rare exceptions. They are famously cowardly, conniving, back-stabbing, jealous genocidists whom should and will be separated from polite gentile society, because society and civilization are not conducive, they're in-fact diametrically opposed, with and to yirinbawa nature. I say this not to cast aspersions or malign; these are facts which need to be acted upon if reasonable light-loving persons are to advance and thrive in Nigeria. If Peter Obi should fail to retrieve his stolen mandate in court (God forbid), Mandate Thief-in-Chief Tibubu should do one honorable thing in his miserable life and immediately restructure Nigeria and/or allow Igbo people the separate homeland we've been clamoring for since we were rapaciously alloyed with ndi isi oji touts and demons. This is a horrible write-up Let's take it easy o Nigeria belongs to us all The tribunal will soon be open and I will submit my evidence which I have tons of. All these divisive writeups should cease 2 Likes |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by ppogba: 5:35pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
juman: Oshiomhole is strong as iroko tree in that state politics. And the idiot in his write-up attributed his success to " stroke of luck". Someone was crisscrossing the length and breath of the entire landscape for campaign and delivered 100 out of 144 thousand and yet he mentioned luck. |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Mylove55(f): 5:37pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
candidbabe: Its labour party or no one else all those idiotic pigs will not come out again to vote, Apc all the way |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by madapcmod: 5:40pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
Nonsense write up from APC sponsored urchin.
Both PDAPC are going to be kicked out. Don't think gaslighting PDP will give APC upper hand in Edo 1 Like |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Cantonese: 5:42pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
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Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Mylove55(f): 5:44pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
blowjohn: If u tell them that oshiomhole performance in Edo as governor was miles and galaxies ahead of what obaseki has achieved people bring up all sorts of lies.
Oshiomhole did very well for Edo state.
I stayed in Benin city during his tenure, and had a taste of obasekis tenure too. idiotic pigs also agreed that oshiomole is far better than obaseki, I always silent idiotic pigs with one question, I do ask them if oshiomole was not better than obi.diot, They'll agree that oshiomole is far better than obi as governor 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by MichaelSokoto(m): 5:44pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
juman: Oshiomhole is strong as iroko tree in that state politics. only 4 Uzairue. Who dash monkey banana ๐? ![cool](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/cool.png) |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Faber(m): 5:46pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
BAZ001: Will obidence happen to him or did he do well in Edo ? Iโm seriously waiting to see what will happen to sanwo olu on Saturday ![grin](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/grin.png)
Sanwo come for Governorship debate he ignored Sanwo who gave the order, he ignore
Oshomole and Tinubu go dey corner dey look dey thank God say dem win (certificate wey dem go either return or keep ) Obi have changed Nigerian politics forever. Henceforth, any results that were not transmitted immediately from the polling units, that particular election will be cancelled. Waiting to get his mandate back |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by nelsonose: 5:46pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
oikirodah: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Their Lives ย As Oshiomhole, Obidient Sends Them To Oblivion Source iReporteronline Never say never". Obaseki was too quick to say "never" forgetting that, no man is God. Those who occupy public office should learn to always remember that power comes from God and it belongs to the people. This is just my two cents advice to all who care to hear. 1 Like |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by asksteve(m): 5:47pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
dgmoni123: The last election prove to me that obaseki is a pepper weight politician How can a politician move from Governor to state House of Assembly , not even National Assembly? Is that not self demotion? Invariably u are a local champion. 1 Like |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Mylove55(f): 5:47pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
Cantonese:
A serial liar, Olodo and a Muntula OP.
Now he tries to discredit LP.
Next week all the seats will fall to LP and they will remain OBIdient thereafter. go and hide in one corner, Upon the tsunami, apc still won 2 senate seat and 8 reps. This time, idiotic pigs are not interested to come out again, It is Apc all the way 3 Likes |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by abusurv(m): 5:49pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
๐พ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ต ๐ป๐ฏ๐ฐ๐บ ๐บ๐ป๐น๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ถ๐น ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ด๐ถ๐ช๐น๐จ๐ช๐ ๐พ๐จ๐บ ๐น๐จ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ, ๐พ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐น๐ฌ ๐พ๐ฌ๐น๐ฌ ๐จ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ผ & ๐ท๐ฌ๐ป๐ฌ๐น ๐ถ๐ฉ๐ฐ
๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ป ๐๐ ๐ต๐ฌ๐พ๐บ. ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐
๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ When were you arrested?
๐ป๐๐๐๐๐. I said we would continue to struggle until we had democracy. We had a group of 30 senators called the G-30. The G-30 was determined to actualise the mandate on the floor of the Senate. Suddenly, Abacha came and General Oladipupo Diya and Babagana Kingibe were also running around. Diya was one of the most respected and credible military officers then, and he later approached us that there might be change in government. Abiola was around. General Chris Alli met us and said there would be a change of government, which would be in favour of June 12, because they were tired of the shenanigans of the ING. That night, Abacha changed the government. He outsmarted everybody. They met with me, Dele Alake, Segun Babatope and Doyin Abiola. We were asked to write the terms and conditions, which they would broadcast after a change of government. We wrote it and gave it to Diya. They are all alive. On the night the government was to be changed, Abacha outsmarted everyone and installed himself. These people I mentioned are all alive to testify to what I have said. I can say categorically that I was even called to leave my office because, as they claimed, that night was a dangerous night for them and that everyoneโs life might be in danger. Abiola was told not to sleep at home until the broadcast had been made. We were all fooled! Big time deception. When we heard the broadcast the next day, there was no mention of June 12 and no proclamation of Abiola. I was mad, but was still determined. I rushed to Diya and he was still saying that there was no problem and that they were planning to announce the cabinet containing eminent June 12 people. Abiola said what? I said no, announce Abiolaโs victory. Diya told me that I didnโt know the military and that things were not done like that in the military. But I insisted that it was deception. I said I know the military. I called Okadigbo to my office in Lagos and I put the plan before him that we had to confront the military and we had to declare Abacha himself illegal. I got members of our group together; we wrote the script declaring Abachaโs government illegal. Since we could not get to the National Assembly, we opted to hold our session at the Tafawa Balewa Square. We had gotten Dele Alake to be the media coordinator. We told him to get the CNN and other foreign media ready. I put the coat of arms on a rod! That was the mace. We created our own mace. We reconvened the Senate here in Lagos and declared Abacha illegal before the international media and others. My colleagues had scattered. After we assembled, and having drafted the resolution, they still didnโt know where we would hold the session. I told them to relax, this is Lagos. After the broadcast, everybody took off, because the SSS and other security agents were combing everywhere for us. I went underground, using the 090 mobile phone. I was still granting press interviews to foreign media. The military people were mad. I became a thorn in their flesh and they arrested some of my colleagues, including Abu Ibrahim, the late Polycarp Nwite, Ameh Ebute and Okoroafor. I was still underground, holding press conferences. The military declared me wanted. Suddenly they granted bail to the arrested senators. I thought I would be a beneficiary, but I was not. Then, there was a manhunt for me by the police and the SSS. Meanwhile, my late uncle, K.O Tinubu and the present Oba of Lagos, Oba Akiolu, who was then a police officer, were pressuring me to disclose where I was. My uncle called to ask where exactly I was. I did not disclose my whereabouts. I told Akiolu that even though he is my relative, I would still not tell him where I was since he was a police officer! He said: โHa!โ My uncle advised that the military would kill me if they found me underground and no one would be able to locate my whereabouts. He said it was better I surrendered myself because he wanted me to be alive. I told him that I would call him back, that I was to hold a press conference at the time. And he shouted in amazement: โYou are holding press conference when your life is in danger.โ I told him I would surrender, but would not tell him when. I disguised perfectly, dressed like a malam, and went to the police at Alagbon. The officers didnโt even know me when they saw me. I went in, deposited my phone and my charger. Senator Abu Ibrahim was with us. The officers were wondering why I, a Mallam, could not speak Hausa! I removed my turban, showed up at the front desk and declared that I had come to surrender. And there was pandemonium among the officers, as to how I got there. The AIG then was very nice and they put me in the cell. They poured water into the cell room and said, โsleep thereโ. That was the nastiest experience I had within first 48 hours that I was there. It was on a weekend. I told them I would embark on a hunger strike. The late Anthony Enahoro was on the stairway and Beko Ransome-Kuti was at another angle on the stairway. They brought me out repeatedly for interrogation. They asked me to renounce but I said no, I would not recognise Abacha. They took me and my colleagues to court. People who were supposed to meet their bail conditions were stopped from doing so immediately they saw me. They cancelled everybodyโs bail because they could not isolate me. They gave an order that we should be taken out of court, but kept in the police custody at Alagbon. They kept about eight of us in a photocopying room, an eight-by-eight room. We were sleeping across one another. It was a matter of the first to sleep would maintain the position. If your head was this way, your leg would be there and so on. It was a nasty experience. There were a lot of interrogations, with a lot of carrot and stick. I can never forget the role and determination and sincerity of a compatriot at that particular time. They made an exception to uphold the earlier bail granted to Senator Abu Ibrahim. He was asked to go. He was the only Hausa-Fulani man with us. The late Hassan Katsina had intervened. But Senator Ibrahim said he would rather stay, except every one of us was granted the same bail conditions. He said he would not leave his colleagues behind. He is a courageous and a detribalised Nigerian, who had a vision of what Nigeria should be. He refused to accept an isolated bail. They started sending emissaries to us in detention, offering us all sorts of appointments and opportunities to renounce our positions, but we refused. The judiciary was still very courageous then. We went to the Court of Appeal. An incident occurred at the lower court. Market women turned out hugely to support us when we were brought to the court. The day they refused my bail, some of the market women appeared naked and so they stopped taking us to the court. The court sessions were usually interesting for us because of the scenes. At Alagbon, we bathed in the open between 4 and 5 a.m. The condition started improving when they began to bring officials of the failed banks. Those ones contributed money to repair the generating set at Alagbon and we started enjoying electricity a little longer than we used to. It was during the time that the protest became intense. Nigeria was playing at the World Cup then. Italy defeated Nigeria and the security people lied to us that it was otherwise. Eventually, the Court of Appeal courageously granted us bail in enforcement of our fundamental human rights. Our passports were confiscated and deposited with the court. Later, the High Court ruled that our passports be released to us. That night, they finally announced our bail and conditions attached to it. The presiding judge then is today the Emir of Ilorin, Sulu Gambari. We heard that they put so much pressure on him (Clement Akpamgbo was the Attorney-General) not to release us, but he ordered our release. They were going to re-arrest me and I suddenly went underground to continue my protest. They would throw bombs and say it was us. Mobil called me to come back to my job, but I refused. They bombed my house, but luckily, my wife and children had been evacuated. I would not want to reveal how they were evacuated because there was a diplomatic involvement. They told me that my life and those of my family were in clear danger. Suddenly, they announced that I was wanted again. They alleged that I was going to bomb the NNPC depot at Ejigbo. Ah! I was still being tried for treason, which carries a sentence of life imprisonment, and I was again accused of trying to bomb an NNPC depot. I couldnโt go back because my photograph was all over the place that I was wanted. A diplomatic source advised me that I should leave the country if I wanted to continue the struggle. Dan Suleiman, Alani Akinrinade were in danger. We asked Bolaji Akinyemi to leave the country and promote the struggle at the international level.
๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ That was the National Democratic Coalition thenโฆ
๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ Yes. I was at the forefront of the struggle at that level. When I went to see my uncle, K.O Tinubu, at home, he shed tears that night. He said he didnโt want to lose me and that I was about to be killed. He begged me to leave Nigeria and affirmed that, being a former police officer, he was sure I would be killed. He said that I couldnโt return to my house since they had bombed it. I went to a friendโs house. Before then, there was an incident that made them believe that I was at Ore Falomoโs hospital. They went to the hospital to look for me. Eventually, I left Nigeria for Benin Republic by NADECO route.
๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ How did you make it across the border?
๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ I disguised with a huge turban and babanriga and escaped into Benin Republic on a motorbike. My old Hausa friend gave the clothes to me. In fact, when I appeared to Kudirat Abiola, she didnโt know that I was the one! I gave her some information and some briefing. I left at 1 a.m. While in Benin Republic, I was still coming to Badagry to ferry people, organise and coordinate the struggle with others on ground. We put a group together, ferrying NADECO people across. It was a very challenging time. I canโt forget people like Segun Maiyegun and other young guys in the struggle. I would come from Benin to hold meetings with them and sneak back. The military created a whole lot of momentum around me. They took over my house, guest house and carted away all my vehicles and property to Alagbon. That is why today, I donโt have old photographs. They took eight of my cars away. My wife and my two toddlers were dropped in a bush; nowhere to go. Beko and the diplomatic missions came to our aid and ferried my wife and kids to the United States. I was still in Benin Republic. Besides, I didnโt have a passport and couldnโt have been able to travel. At a stage, they discovered our routes, because they had spies all over, including Benin Republic. Twice I was caught and I fortuitously escaped. They traced me to one dingy hotel I was hiding. The day they came for me at the hotel, I had gone out on an Okada to buy amala at a market, where Yorubas are dominant. I was also to meet Akinrinade and the rest of them. The spies went to the hotel and as I was approaching, I saw two people wearing tajia (skull caps) at the front desk, asking questions. The man attending to them at the reception (I had been very nice to the receptionist) winked to me and I turned back. I contacted a friend in Benin Republic, who was an architect, and had very strong sympathy for us. Professor Wole Soyinka and Alani Akinrinade, who lodged in a better hotel, were fortunate to have escaped that night, too. The people on their trail pursued them to the hotel, but fortunately missed them. Then the British High Commission got proper information through the Consular-General that my life was in danger. He stamped a visa on a sheet of paper and did a letter, authorising the airline to pick me from Benin Republic to any port of entry in Britain. I didnโt know how they got to me. A lady just walked up to me and handed me an envelope. She said I had been granted an entry into the United Kingdom. She said I could be killed if I failed to leave in the next 48 hours. It was Air Afrique that took me from Benin Republic to London. Meanwhile, my wife was still in the United States. I landed in Britain and worked my way back to Benin Republic. I picked up my passport from somewhere. I went to an African country and through their connections, they gave me a diplomatic passport as a cultural ambassador.
๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ What country was that?
๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ No, please! The African country that helped us with the diplomatic passport was showing gratitude for the help Abiola had done to its president before. So, you can make your deduction. Then, I was shuffling and coordinating our activities in the UK, Benin Republic and Cote dโIvoire. I used the passport to travel to Cote dโIvoire to hold meetings at the Hotel Continental, because we were planning to make another broadcast that would be aired in Nigeria. By the time I returned to the hotel, the military assailants had broken into my hotel room and taken away my briefcase and diplomatic passport. They dropped a note, saying: โYou cannot be twice lucky.โ I was taken over by panic. Fortunately, in my back pocket, I had the photocopy of the sheet of paper on which the British had stamped a visa for me to travel out of Benin previously. I took that to the British High Commission in Abidjan. They listened to my story and asked me to come back at night. They did all their verification and found my story to be true. I returned to them and they gave me another sheet of paper and wrote the number of the flight that would take me out of that country. But I had no money. Somebody suddenly drove in. The person is a well-known name I donโt want to mention. I met him and explained my condition. He had a travellerโs cheque, but the money was not enough. I went back to the British High Commission and the woman said she could assist me with her own personal money to bridge the shortfall in cash. We founded and coordinated Radio Kudirat and Radio Freedom and we continued to organise. I didnโt see my family for two good years. They were in America. Bayo Onanuga, who also was part of the struggle, joined us there in December 1997. The law of political asylum stipulates that your first country of landing and acceptance is the safe haven, so itโs not transferable. That was how Cornelius Adebayo was stuck in a United Nations camp. My wife had to invoke a family clause that exists in America to fight for her husband to join her before they granted me a special privilege to leave UK to join my family in the United States.Announcement Announcements.
I implore everyone to read, digest and post to other platforms so that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tunubu's enemies will know that this man is truly a democrat who fought for the democracy we all enjoying today. He had long paid the price for the PRESIDENCY of this great country. Indeed and in fact Oun lo kan, Bola lo kan, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) lo Kan.
To God alone be the glory.[/quote] Thank you |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by fjjc(m): 5:53pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
potopotoking: Yaribas are living in a fantasy world of their own delusional making, which will soon be turned into a nightmare land, because this particular time around darkness will not prevail. We know yaribas love darkness, that's why they wallow in it so shamelessly, call themselves after it---omo dudu/omo oDUDUwa---and epitomize it in everything they do. They are children of darkness and they will pay an intolerable price for their allegiance to it. The yirinbawa 'people' are not really people, as revealed by science, which categorically states a significant percentage of their dna derives from archaic 'ghost' populations resident in West Africa BEFORE the advent of Homo sapiens sapiens. We know this filthy admixture in yirinbawa dna to come from none other than the quasi-developed apeman ('ghost') Homo erectus. This revelation perfectly explains common yirinbawa behaivor, as well as observed phenotype (dudu-skinned/dudu smelling/etc.), with rare exceptions. They are famously cowardly, conniving, back-stabbing, jealous genocidists whom should and will be separated from polite gentile society, because society and civilization are not conducive, they're in-fact diametrically opposed, with and to yirinbawa nature. I say this not to cast aspersions or malign; these are facts which need to be acted upon if reasonable light-loving persons are to advance and thrive in Nigeria. If Peter Obi should fail to retrieve his stolen mandate in court (God forbid), Mandate Thief-in-Chief Tibubu should do one honorable thing in his miserable life and immediately restructure Nigeria and/or allow Igbo people the separate homeland we've been clamoring for since we were rapaciously alloyed with ndi isi oji touts and demons. Thunder ๐ฅ you and your Yemeri generation |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by pretydiva(f): 5:56pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
Exactly what I told my mom this morning. Omo! The jingle on Radio is becoming very annoying like every 10 seconds ![grin](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/grin.png) We the good people of Edo state are fully obidients. As for obaseki, we await him next year governorship election. He betrayed Edo people, and we go treat him f.ck up |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Nolevel666: 6:01pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
The only reason why oshiomole won in Edo north is because of the good deeds he did in his home town while he was a governor.
Your good will always speak for you.
If he had behaved like tinubu or obaseki he would have lost to LP woefully! 1 Like |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Shattuck(m): 6:03pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
Okealaaye: ๐พ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ต ๐ป๐ฏ๐ฐ๐บ ๐บ๐ป๐น๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ถ๐น ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ด๐ถ๐ช๐น๐จ๐ช๐ ๐พ๐จ๐บ ๐น๐จ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ, ๐พ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐น๐ฌ ๐พ๐ฌ๐น๐ฌ ๐จ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ผ & ๐ท๐ฌ๐ป๐ฌ๐น ๐ถ๐ฉ๐ฐ
๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ป ๐๐ ๐ต๐ฌ๐พ๐บ. ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐
๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ When were you arrested?
๐ป๐๐๐๐๐. I said we would continue to struggle until we had democracy. We had a group of 30 senators called the G-30. The G-30 was determined to actualise the mandate on the floor of the Senate. Suddenly, Abacha came and General Oladipupo Diya and Babagana Kingibe were also running around. Diya was one of the most respected and credible military officers then, and he later approached us that there might be change in government. Abiola was around. General Chris Alli met us and said there would be a change of government, which would be in favour of June 12, because they were tired of the shenanigans of the ING. That night, Abacha changed the government. He outsmarted everybody. They met with me, Dele Alake, Segun Babatope and Doyin Abiola. We were asked to write the terms and conditions, which they would broadcast after a change of government. We wrote it and gave it to Diya. They are all alive. On the night the government was to be changed, Abacha outsmarted everyone and installed himself. These people I mentioned are all alive to testify to what I have said. I can say categorically that I was even called to leave my office because, as they claimed, that night was a dangerous night for them and that everyoneโs life might be in danger. Abiola was told not to sleep at home until the broadcast had been made. We were all fooled! Big time deception. When we heard the broadcast the next day, there was no mention of June 12 and no proclamation of Abiola. I was mad, but was still determined. I rushed to Diya and he was still saying that there was no problem and that they were planning to announce the cabinet containing eminent June 12 people. Abiola said what? I said no, announce Abiolaโs victory. Diya told me that I didnโt know the military and that things were not done like that in the military. But I insisted that it was deception. I said I know the military. I called Okadigbo to my office in Lagos and I put the plan before him that we had to confront the military and we had to declare Abacha himself illegal. I got members of our group together; we wrote the script declaring Abachaโs government illegal. Since we could not get to the National Assembly, we opted to hold our session at the Tafawa Balewa Square. We had gotten Dele Alake to be the media coordinator. We told him to get the CNN and other foreign media ready. I put the coat of arms on a rod! That was the mace. We created our own mace. We reconvened the Senate here in Lagos and declared Abacha illegal before the international media and others. My colleagues had scattered. After we assembled, and having drafted the resolution, they still didnโt know where we would hold the session. I told them to relax, this is Lagos. After the broadcast, everybody took off, because the SSS and other security agents were combing everywhere for us. I went underground, using the 090 mobile phone. I was still granting press interviews to foreign media. The military people were mad. I became a thorn in their flesh and they arrested some of my colleagues, including Abu Ibrahim, the late Polycarp Nwite, Ameh Ebute and Okoroafor. I was still underground, holding press conferences. The military declared me wanted. Suddenly they granted bail to the arrested senators. I thought I would be a beneficiary, but I was not. Then, there was a manhunt for me by the police and the SSS. Meanwhile, my late uncle, K.O Tinubu and the present Oba of Lagos, Oba Akiolu, who was then a police officer, were pressuring me to disclose where I was. My uncle called to ask where exactly I was. I did not disclose my whereabouts. I told Akiolu that even though he is my relative, I would still not tell him where I was since he was a police officer! He said: โHa!โ My uncle advised that the military would kill me if they found me underground and no one would be able to locate my whereabouts. He said it was better I surrendered myself because he wanted me to be alive. I told him that I would call him back, that I was to hold a press conference at the time. And he shouted in amazement: โYou are holding press conference when your life is in danger.โ I told him I would surrender, but would not tell him when. I disguised perfectly, dressed like a malam, and went to the police at Alagbon. The officers didnโt even know me when they saw me. I went in, deposited my phone and my charger. Senator Abu Ibrahim was with us. The officers were wondering why I, a Mallam, could not speak Hausa! I removed my turban, showed up at the front desk and declared that I had come to surrender. And there was pandemonium among the officers, as to how I got there. The AIG then was very nice and they put me in the cell. They poured water into the cell room and said, โsleep thereโ. That was the nastiest experience I had within first 48 hours that I was there. It was on a weekend. I told them I would embark on a hunger strike. The late Anthony Enahoro was on the stairway and Beko Ransome-Kuti was at another angle on the stairway. They brought me out repeatedly for interrogation. They asked me to renounce but I said no, I would not recognise Abacha. They took me and my colleagues to court. People who were supposed to meet their bail conditions were stopped from doing so immediately they saw me. They cancelled everybodyโs bail because they could not isolate me. They gave an order that we should be taken out of court, but kept in the police custody at Alagbon. They kept about eight of us in a photocopying room, an eight-by-eight room. We were sleeping across one another. It was a matter of the first to sleep would maintain the position. If your head was this way, your leg would be there and so on. It was a nasty experience. There were a lot of interrogations, with a lot of carrot and stick. I can never forget the role and determination and sincerity of a compatriot at that particular time. They made an exception to uphold the earlier bail granted to Senator Abu Ibrahim. He was asked to go. He was the only Hausa-Fulani man with us. The late Hassan Katsina had intervened. But Senator Ibrahim said he would rather stay, except every one of us was granted the same bail conditions. He said he would not leave his colleagues behind. He is a courageous and a detribalised Nigerian, who had a vision of what Nigeria should be. He refused to accept an isolated bail. They started sending emissaries to us in detention, offering us all sorts of appointments and opportunities to renounce our positions, but we refused. The judiciary was still very courageous then. We went to the Court of Appeal. An incident occurred at the lower court. Market women turned out hugely to support us when we were brought to the court. The day they refused my bail, some of the market women appeared naked and so they stopped taking us to the court. The court sessions were usually interesting for us because of the scenes. At Alagbon, we bathed in the open between 4 and 5 a.m. The condition started improving when they began to bring officials of the failed banks. Those ones contributed money to repair the generating set at Alagbon and we started enjoying electricity a little longer than we used to. It was during the time that the protest became intense. Nigeria was playing at the World Cup then. Italy defeated Nigeria and the security people lied to us that it was otherwise. Eventually, the Court of Appeal courageously granted us bail in enforcement of our fundamental human rights. Our passports were confiscated and deposited with the court. Later, the High Court ruled that our passports be released to us. That night, they finally announced our bail and conditions attached to it. The presiding judge then is today the Emir of Ilorin, Sulu Gambari. We heard that they put so much pressure on him (Clement Akpamgbo was the Attorney-General) not to release us, but he ordered our release. They were going to re-arrest me and I suddenly went underground to continue my protest. They would throw bombs and say it was us. Mobil called me to come back to my job, but I refused. They bombed my house, but luckily, my wife and children had been evacuated. I would not want to reveal how they were evacuated because there was a diplomatic involvement. They told me that my life and those of my family were in clear danger. Suddenly, they announced that I was wanted again. They alleged that I was going to bomb the NNPC depot at Ejigbo. Ah! I was still being tried for treason, which carries a sentence of life imprisonment, and I was again accused of trying to bomb an NNPC depot. I couldnโt go back because my photograph was all over the place that I was wanted. A diplomatic source advised me that I should leave the country if I wanted to continue the struggle. Dan Suleiman, Alani Akinrinade were in danger. We asked Bolaji Akinyemi to leave the country and promote the struggle at the international level.
๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ That was the National Democratic Coalition thenโฆ
๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ Yes. I was at the forefront of the struggle at that level. When I went to see my uncle, K.O Tinubu, at home, he shed tears that night. He said he didnโt want to lose me and that I was about to be killed. He begged me to leave Nigeria and affirmed that, being a former police officer, he was sure I would be killed. He said that I couldnโt return to my house since they had bombed it. I went to a friendโs house. Before then, there was an incident that made them believe that I was at Ore Falomoโs hospital. They went to the hospital to look for me. Eventually, I left Nigeria for Benin Republic by NADECO route.
๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ How did you make it across the border?
๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ I disguised with a huge turban and babanriga and escaped into Benin Republic on a motorbike. My old Hausa friend gave the clothes to me. In fact, when I appeared to Kudirat Abiola, she didnโt know that I was the one! I gave her some information and some briefing. I left at 1 a.m. While in Benin Republic, I was still coming to Badagry to ferry people, organise and coordinate the struggle with others on ground. We put a group together, ferrying NADECO people across. It was a very challenging time. I canโt forget people like Segun Maiyegun and other young guys in the struggle. I would come from Benin to hold meetings with them and sneak back. The military created a whole lot of momentum around me. They took over my house, guest house and carted away all my vehicles and property to Alagbon. That is why today, I donโt have old photographs. They took eight of my cars away. My wife and my two toddlers were dropped in a bush; nowhere to go. Beko and the diplomatic missions came to our aid and ferried my wife and kids to the United States. I was still in Benin Republic. Besides, I didnโt have a passport and couldnโt have been able to travel. At a stage, they discovered our routes, because they had spies all over, including Benin Republic. Twice I was caught and I fortuitously escaped. They traced me to one dingy hotel I was hiding. The day they came for me at the hotel, I had gone out on an Okada to buy amala at a market, where Yorubas are dominant. I was also to meet Akinrinade and the rest of them. The spies went to the hotel and as I was approaching, I saw two people wearing tajia (skull caps) at the front desk, asking questions. The man attending to them at the reception (I had been very nice to the receptionist) winked to me and I turned back. I contacted a friend in Benin Republic, who was an architect, and had very strong sympathy for us. Professor Wole Soyinka and Alani Akinrinade, who lodged in a better hotel, were fortunate to have escaped that night, too. The people on their trail pursued them to the hotel, but fortunately missed them. Then the British High Commission got proper information through the Consular-General that my life was in danger. He stamped a visa on a sheet of paper and did a letter, authorising the airline to pick me from Benin Republic to any port of entry in Britain. I didnโt know how they got to me. A lady just walked up to me and handed me an envelope. She said I had been granted an entry into the United Kingdom. She said I could be killed if I failed to leave in the next 48 hours. It was Air Afrique that took me from Benin Republic to London. Meanwhile, my wife was still in the United States. I landed in Britain and worked my way back to Benin Republic. I picked up my passport from somewhere. I went to an African country and through their connections, they gave me a diplomatic passport as a cultural ambassador.
๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ What country was that?
๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ No, please! The African country that helped us with the diplomatic passport was showing gratitude for the help Abiola had done to its president before. So, you can make your deduction. Then, I was shuffling and coordinating our activities in the UK, Benin Republic and Cote dโIvoire. I used the passport to travel to Cote dโIvoire to hold meetings at the Hotel Continental, because we were planning to make another broadcast that would be aired in Nigeria. By the time I returned to the hotel, the military assailants had broken into my hotel room and taken away my briefcase and diplomatic passport. They dropped a note, saying: โYou cannot be twice lucky.โ I was taken over by panic. Fortunately, in my back pocket, I had the photocopy of the sheet of paper on which the British had stamped a visa for me to travel out of Benin previously. I took that to the British High Commission in Abidjan. They listened to my story and asked me to come back at night. They did all their verification and found my story to be true. I returned to them and they gave me another sheet of paper and wrote the number of the flight that would take me out of that country. But I had no money. Somebody suddenly drove in. The person is a well-known name I donโt want to mention. I met him and explained my condition. He had a travellerโs cheque, but the money was not enough. I went back to the British High Commission and the woman said she could assist me with her own personal money to bridge the shortfall in cash. We founded and coordinated Radio Kudirat and Radio Freedom and we continued to organise. I didnโt see my family for two good years. They were in America. Bayo Onanuga, who also was part of the struggle, joined us there in December 1997. The law of political asylum stipulates that your first country of landing and acceptance is the safe haven, so itโs not transferable. That was how Cornelius Adebayo was stuck in a United Nations camp. My wife had to invoke a family clause that exists in America to fight for her husband to join her before they granted me a special privilege to leave UK to join my family in the United States.Announcement Announcements.
I implore everyone to read, digest and post to other platforms so that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tunubu's enemies will know that this man is truly a democrat who fought for the democracy we all enjoying today. He had long paid the price for the PRESIDENCY of this great country. Indeed and in fact Oun lo kan, Bola lo kan, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) lo Kan.
To God alone be the glory. lol there are rules to democracy a democrat does not steal mandates or use thugs to harass and intimidate voters a democrat does not use bullion vans to influence voters, tinubu is criminal has always been will always be. |
Re: Obaseki, Shaibu In Battle For Edo State House Of Assembly by Tzar(m): 6:04pm On Mar 04, 2023 |
You have stopped using your madness medicine! Chai! I feel so sorry for your parents. I hope they have the sense to chain you down before you run to open market. potopotoking: Yaribas are living in a fantasy world of their own delusional making, which will soon be turned into a nightmare land, because this particular time around darkness will not prevail. We know yaribas love darkness, that's why they wallow in it so shamelessly, call themselves after it---omo dudu/omo oDUDUwa---and epitomize it in everything they do. They are children of darkness and they will pay an intolerable price for their allegiance to it. The yirinbawa 'people' are not really people, as revealed by science, which categorically states a significant percentage of their dna derives from archaic 'ghost' populations resident in West Africa BEFORE the advent of Homo sapiens sapiens. We know this filthy admixture in yirinbawa dna to come from none other than the quasi-developed apeman ('ghost') Homo erectus. This revelation perfectly explains common yirinbawa behaivor, as well as observed phenotype (dudu-skinned/dudu smelling/etc.), with rare exceptions. They are famously cowardly, conniving, back-stabbing, jealous genocidists whom should and will be separated from polite gentile society, because society and civilization are not conducive, they're in-fact diametrically opposed, with and to yirinbawa nature. I say this not to cast aspersions or malign; these are facts which need to be acted upon if reasonable light-loving persons are to advance and thrive in Nigeria. If Peter Obi should fail to retrieve his stolen mandate in court (God forbid), Mandate Thief-in-Chief Tibubu should do one honorable thing in his miserable life and immediately restructure Nigeria and/or allow Igbo people the separate homeland we've been clamoring for since we were rapaciously alloyed with ndi isi oji touts and demons. |