The thing is Olusegun Abraham had the confidence of most of the delegates and national leadership of the party because of his integrity and revered competence value.

Tinubu is a head hunter of great minds that make good leaders. He has done his bit by singling out Olusegun Abraham to revive Ondo economy

It's sad the Ondo citizens are being distracted with this much falsehood

RE: ONDO APC WOMEN LEADERS WARN TINUBU AGAINST IMPOSITION

The attention of All Progressives Congress (APC) at all levels have been drawn to a recent publication in the "Punch Newspaper of Tuesday August 16th 2016" that women leaders across the eighteen (18) local government areas of Ondo state, warning the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu against imposition of any aspirant as the Governorship candidate of the party in the forthcoming gubernatorial election.

In a rebuttal, Chief (Mrs) Omolara Atiba, the state Woman leader of the party has come out to say that the publication is an embarrassment to the whole women folk in the party.

She posited that there has never been a time that women in the party made such agreement to give an order for such publication, noting that those behind such publication did it in bad faith, and with malicious intentions to malign, stain and drag the leadership of the party into disrepute.

According to her, all the women of the party (APC) are solidly behind every move and action to entrench progressive development of leadership in the party within the state, and in Nigeria as a whole.

On behalf of the entire APC women folk in the state, the, the state Woman leader went further to state displeasure at the malicious and unfounded publication in question, especially considering the notion that the Punch Newspaper is noted for positive and balanced journalism. The reporter whose byline appears on the story is not the assigned reporter to Ondo state, so, one wonders how the said reported of the story came about it, apparently, without hard facts.

Her statement moved on to state, that, the entire women leadership of the party (APC) reiterate our sincere support and cooperation to the party in Ondo state, at seeing the prty to victory come November 26th, 2016 governorship election in the state, while we warn our women in the state to refrain from any action that can cause unnecessary crisis among the women helm of the party and the party as a whole in Ondo state.

Our resolve to move APC to a greater level in Ondo state and Nigeria as a whole stands unshakeable with determination, peace and tranquility as women, mothers and role models in the society, she concluded.

Statement was signed by:
Chief Mrs Omolara Atiba, State Women Leader
Chief Mrs Lola Sesay, Senatorial Women Leader (Central)
Mrs. Toyin Ajinde, Senatorial Women Leader (South)
Alhaja Fausat Kazeem, Senatorial Women Leader (North)

AN OPEN LETTER TO DR. OLATUNJI ABAYOMI

Dear Dr. Abayomi:

You will not be wrong if, after reading this letter, you wonder why I should be concerned about responding to a letter that was addressed not to me but to your bosom friend of many years Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Party (APC). You described in the letter how your friendship with Asiwaju is far from a fleeting relationship but a togetherness anchored on deep personal affinity for each other as well as a time-tested progressive political philosophy that the rabidly urbane political colossus can locate your birthplace of Okeagbe in Ondo State in the map with his eyes closed, having visited the rural community just for your sake.

Unlike your friend Asiwaju whom you may have broken breads with on several occasions not to talk of the life-threatening struggle you both engaged in for the entrenchment of democracy in Nigeria, I am willing to admit that I do not have anything in common with you except that we’re both from Ondo State. As a lawyer of repute, you occupy a comfortable place in one of the prominent ‘avenues’ in the Third Estate of the Realm while I am just an ordinary resident in the Fourth Estate. Therefore, our worlds are very far apart. Even in the state that gives us our only shared commonality, Akure is still quite a distance from Okeagbe. I am sure you never met me. But due to your twin vocations as a politician and an activist that constantly puts you on the spotlight, my familiarity with you was only made possible by the nation’s newspapers except on a couple of occasions when I saw you in close proximity because I happened to be present in the same public space with you in Ibadan where your presence was announced.

It occurred to me to also write this letter to you after reading your letter to Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu which jumped at my face on SaharaReporters, that hard-to-ignore news portal on a bright Saturday, August 13, 2016. There was no doubt that you’re obviously incensed and sufficiently riled by Asiwaju’s audacity to endorse an aspirant in the Saturday, August 27, 2016 APC primary election in Ondo State in which you’re also a very interested aspirant in the election. I wouldn’t have been bothered if this letter had been written by some fly-by-night neophyte in politics such as one Niran Sule who was reported to have ‘re-defected’ to PDP probably because he had spent the nomination fees given to him by his PDP master in the state on other pressing needs. But you indeed have a track record and a special place as a committed progressive who have never wavered to see a just and equitable society more so in our state of Ondo, which probably has been your driving force in running for the state’s highest political office since the advent of the Fourth Republic as far as I can remember.

Sir, as a faithful of the progressive party, I see your letter to Asiwaju as very disturbing in more ways than one. On the one hand, the premise on which your letter was based was patently faulty that an erudite lawyer like you could not see its emptiness. On the other hand, I felt disheartened that the letter was issued from a personage of high intellectual pedigree who should ordinarily have known that political endorsement is a legitimate instrument that is integral to politics in democracies the world over. More worrisome to me was also your inability---with all due respect---to think about the damage that your letter was capable of doing to party cohesion which is of utmost importance going not only into the primary election process but also the governorship election slated for November 26. You seem to have taken your political activism way too far with that letter. I also hope that your letter was not indicative of some emotional instability or a mischievous mind that seems bent on destabilizing the entire primary process for the All Progressives Party, if not trying to deliberately truncate the party’s robust chances in the governorship election.

Much of what was said in the letter was a display of temper tantrum and a logically inconsistent academic exercise that has no bearing whatsoever. Pray sir, since when an endorsement has become a clog on “the right of the people to choose their leaders through and unduly influenced free and fair primary electoral process” that close to 3,000 independent-minded adults who will vote as delegates will be involved. How would Asiwaju’s endorsement---who’s just one among equals in the APC Southwest leadership---have given the entire votes on the day of the primary election to his endorsee when there’re other members in the leadership who also have their preferred aspirants they believe should clinch the APC ticket? Did you not see this as insulting to the collective sensibilities of not only the APC leadership, but also the delegates who may have been fully convinced by now without being goaded who among the aspirants is more likely to better steer the ship of the state should APC win the governorship election? Would you have protested that Asiwaju should retrieve his endorsement if you had been the one endorsed? I doubt seriously if you would have taken your activism that far in repudiating your own endorsement.

Based on the deep relationship you obviously have with the National Leader, I would have thought that his endorsement of someone else should have given you reason to pause and reflect on whether there’re some leadership attributes that the astute head hunter is looking for that you may have lacked, and that he might have seen in copious amounts in his alleged choice. And I sincerely hope that there’s no iota of truth in the rumour making the rounds in and around Bourdillon that some monies allegedly given to you by the National Leader to seek a legal redress in a case were diverted which, if true, may have given your bosom friend a second thought in giving you his endorsement. I also hope that your serial running for the highest political seat in our state has not affected your clarity of thought in which everyone else around you has become suspects in another imminent loss at the primary election rather than to scrupulously look at what you may be doing wrong that makes the trophy to pass you by every four years. By crying wolf where there’s absolutely none, you may have inadvertently conferred on Asiwaju the power he does not have.

As a veteran player of politics who may have actively participated in running for political office probably far more than you have attempted, if you ever did, to become the president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), I expect you to have a significant level of familiarity with international politics. If you have been conversant with how politics is played in advanced democracies you most likely wouldn’t have written that letter. Please permit me to contribute to your knowledge of politics by citing a couple cases of endorsements in advanced democracies most specifically the United States, since it is the country from where we did much of the cut and paste of our own constitution. Two weeks before the 2008 US presidential election, Gen. Colin Powell, then one of that nation’s most prominent and highly-regarded Republicans announced that he would be supporting the Democratic candidate for president, Barack Obama. Sen. John McCain, Obama’s Republican rival never questioned Powel’s right to endorse whomever it pleased him to support. The Republican candidate never for once believed that---although as much as he would have loved to get the general’s endorsement---Americans would be so gullible to unilaterally sway their votes to his Democratic rival just because of one man’s endorsement. Most importantly, McCain never doubted the general’s loyalty to the GOP and neither his fidelity to the electoral process. In the recently concluded US primaries, Senator Bernard “Bernie” Sanders is, by all accounts, a veteran in the Democratic Party far more than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. But President Obama pitched his political tent with Mrs. Clinton with his endorsement. Yet, Sanders was never bothered by the president’s endorsement of his arch Democratic rival. He did not accuse the president that his endorsement would unduly influence the primary electoral process.

Despite his endorsement of an aspirant, the primary election will take place on Saturday, August 27, 2016 and it will not only be free, fair, credible and transparent, but will be seen to be so. I find it difficult to see how Asiwaju will “be diminished” because he did not “wrong democratic ideals and due expectations.” His place in history is already assured as not only one of the few greatest gifts to our country Nigeria, but also a pathfinder in our Southwest geo-political region that without him, what would happened to us as a people is better imagined.

Sir, I respectfully submit to you that you’ll be the diminished one, in case you already have not been reduced in status with that unfortunate letter. You will be irredeemably diminished and history will not be kind to you if it subsequently turned out that your letter was responsible for the disaffection in the party that aided the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to hold on to power in our state for further subjugation and oppression of the common and ordinary people whose plight probably drove you into politics in the first place so that you can be part of the “change agents” they sorely need in the state.

I send you greetings!

Best Regards,

Femi Odere
Femiodere@gmail.com

meforyou1:
where is the proof of the forgery? U are just talking about beer parlour rumours.

just simply concerend about how rife the rumour is in ondo. And the fact that Boroffice's camp should have beaten down this rumour with harder proof. The claim that he, a Professor of Zoology was called upon by Gen. Babangida to fill a slot and head a technology based institiute, is even being used against him in discussions in Ondo right now.

I personally want a denial of this report. This rejoinder attests to the fact that he was merely picked by Babangida as a square peg to fit a round hole? Or what engineering background did he possess to merit that call up?

Adewolu15:
FYI: Professor Boroffice did not forge any certificate ‎
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‎Senator (Prof) Robert Boroffice was appointed Coordinating Director Science in the NATIONAL AGENCY FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING INFRASTUCTURE (NASENI) in 1992. ‎

The task was to oversee the Directorate of Science Infrastructure.

NASENI was established when the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology was scrapped and replaced with NASENI. ‎
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There are three directorates in NASENI namely Engineering,Science and Administration.

Professor Boroffice did not apply for the job. 
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He was invited to take up the job on the directive of the then President Ibrahim Babangida to represent the interest of Yoruba‎ race.

WHY?‎
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The Chief Executive of NASENI, Professor Gordian Ezekwe was from the South East. Dr Tim Obiaga from South East was the coordinating Director for Engineering. Engineer Dawaki from Kano State was the Coordinating Director for Administration.

President Babangida decided that the 4th principal office should be occupied by a Yoruba man since Nigeria stands on three legs.
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It is therefore ridiculous to say that Professor Boroffice fraudulently got the job with forged credentials. 

He justified the confidence reposed in him because he midwifed three Agencies namely National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) and National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) from the Directorate of Science.‎
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He was eventually given the opportunity to head NASRDA which is the Space Agency.

Before he was appointed as Coordinating Director of Science at NASENI, he was the Dean, Faculty of Science in the Lagos State University, Lagos State.

But there's no denial about the forgery

The claims by Professor Ajayi Boroffice, a sitting Nigerian Senator and also a gubernatorial aspirant in the Ondo 2016 election, that he took legal means to head the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), have come out to be criminally false.

The mandate with which NASENI was founded clearly stipulates that only an engineering expert, with a broad engineering background and mastery, and even preferably registered with Nigerian Council of Enginners, can head such Institute in order to carry out the mandate competently.

It is clearly stated that the mandate of NASENI is specifically in the area of production and reverse engineering with respect to six broad areas which include, Engineering materials (notably irons, steel, non-ferrous metal and alloys, plastics, glass, ceramics, polymer, electronics and nanotechnology); Industrial and analytic chemical materials inluding industrial gases; Engineering accessories (mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical and electronic);
Scientific equipment including, electronic components, communication equipment and computers; Power equipment (generation, transmission, distribution, prime movers); and Mechanical Engineering tools (power tools, hand tools, cutting tools and machine tools).

It is evidently clear that NASENI is a solely technological and engineering institute, not where rabbits and crossbred with rats. This irrefutable fact above lends huge credence to the information making rounds in and outside Ondo state that the Professor of Zoology forged a certificate to apply and fraudulently get the NASENI job. That he actually superimposed his name on an engineering certificate of his younger brother to apply for the NASENI role.

It is now an obvious fact that if Professor Boroffice hadn't lied about his certification and truly disclosed his zoological background instead, he wouldn't have smelled the job, talk more, head the Institute. But, no, he is Boroffice, an alleged perennial liar and image launderer, especially as this shameful certificate theft confirms.

Should this information keep making rounds and remain unrefuted with tenable facts, then, this is a slap on Nigerians whose taxes are being used to run the NASENI, this is a slap on the body itself and this act brings shame to Prof Boroffice's home state of Ondo, especially as it of note, that no major accomplishment was recorded in his forged tenure, expectedly so, as he wasn't fit for it.

Our attention has been drawn to the spurious claim of some arm-chair analysts, falsehood addicts and mischief maniacs, who are willfully trying to twist facts to soothe their principal and representative in the forthcoming gubernatorial primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of the Ondo election. In a bid to score cheap political points, they have decided to slander our most distinguished Senator Oluremi Tinubu and a frontline gubernatorial aspirant of the APC, Dr. Olusegun Abraham, through a widely circulated false report, which surfaced on some online platforms recently, claiming that the Senator publicly berated the soaring governorship aspirant at a private party in Lagos.


According to the story, "the wife of former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the APC, told Olusegun Abraham, who is one of the leading contenders for the APC governorship ticket in Ondo State, to forget his ambition because the ticket has been reserved for Senator Ajayi Boroffice. Specifically, Mrs. Tinubu allegedly declared that “Senator Boroffice is the next Governor of Ondo State…” And therefore advised Abraham “to stop wasting his time and money.”

This is not only blatantly false, it is also libelous and perfidious.

What is perfidious about the opinion in real sense is the fact the piece lacks tenable credence and merely begs for audience in the space of busy campaign activities. As laughable as it is, the writer who probably is sleeping on clutch chair right now on the assumption that he has done a hatchet job, whereas, he has only succeeded in showing their weakness and celebrated our strength. For records, he had punctured reality, therefore, we should have ignored; but the shape and mood of our activities so far is forbearing and deeply radical that we, the concerned citizen of Ondo State cannot afford to accommodate any misguided jibe or rumors that will quell our peoples morale since it has been established that the perpetrators and supposed benefactor are fast losing ground and hold in the gubernatorial race, and have resorted to grappling with the ropes.

Therefore, the need to caution the utter falsehood being perpetrated becomes pertinent.

The article is titled, "Ondo Gubernatorial Polls: Waterloo Beckons at the Progressives Again", and written by one named Yemi Olowolabi.

Setting the record straight, Mr.Yemi is a media consultant whose works don't traverse beyond the sentiment of reshaping death trap public figure. He was the former Chief Press Secretary to the late Dr Olusegun Agagu. His credibility on any shape of issue in Nigeria does not measure anything other than merely farcical. But, it will be very unfortunate and accidental on our part to ignore and allow these infallible lies against the integrity of our national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his wife Senator Oluremi Tinubu, and the party, who in essense have severally assured the people of Ondo State of a credible election, whereby, all legible aspirants are required to measure up to the task of building and selling their programmes and projections to the delegates.

More considerably, Senator Oluremi Tinubu is a widely- known responsible woman and leader who exudes respect and admirable honour. This attempt by a group of desperate politicians to paint her a persona as a brash one is outrightly condemnable and disrespectful.

There is just no iota of truth in the circulated rumour. The governorship aspirant himself, Dr Olusegun Abraham, is a man most of us have met severally. A man who describes his aspration not as a political ambition per se, but, a selfless mission to serve Ondo state with his vast experience, business savvy and exposure has endeared his candidacy to a host of hearts in the state and therefore explains the gale of endorsements he keeps receiving state-wide. Our party philosophy is there for the taking. And that is the hallmark on which his campaign promises so far are built.

Olusegun Abraham

With that sponsored diatribe, we are now at peace with our activities so far while we gather more, not placing doubt on our chances. Dr. Olusegun Abraham, is largely becoming a factor and front liner in the race, and of course, his decision to contest the elections are expectedly going to be confronted by clear mischief makers that have no foundation, we just didn't expect that severe desperation could overshadow personal ambition, such that caution could be thrown into the wind to launder the image of the national leader of the party and his amiable wife.

That was just a riddle garnished by fiction to accede relevance and make meat of what only existed in the figment of a disgruntled element lost deep in his or her mischievous imagination. It baffles us the least that Yemi Olowolabi, a limelight Journalist, could resort to believing the lies extorted from the Capital online magazine. The publication itself, from reeks of bellyaching unprofessionalism from the end on the online magazine.

We know what the game looks like. We also understand the size of their cards, we have only come to tell him and his bounty losers that their time is not only up but that 'the Gods are Wise".

Senator Oluremi Tinubu is our mother-general and wife of the National leader, believing she said that in the first place is a ruse. The writer is hell-bent at casting a striking shadow at Dr Segun Abraham's rave making popularity that has been in leading context for months in Ondo. Thus, this defeatist slander can only come from a loser with his or her bunch of fellow confused political hustlers.

But, we are not moved.

As concerned Ondo state citizens and patriots, some of who were present at the strictly private event, we advice, no, demand, that the online magazine, The Capital, and the Boroffice faithful who chose to perpetrate this unfounded falsehood, and who chose to hinge this blatant falsehood on the personality and honour of the distinguished Senator Oluremi Tinubu and Dr. Olusegun Abraham, tender an unreserved apology to reverse the effect of their folly.

We also urge the good people of Ondo State, delegates and our teeming supporters to disregard stories like this one which is reeled to fan a divided ember at us. It's a targeted attempt that failed before its arrival. For the sake a better Ondo, the sake of reversing the rot in a state so blessed but yet poor, we urge the delegates of the great party APC, and also the enduring citizens of Ondo state, to strongly ignore these political desperados and just remain resolute on achieving a truly blessed Ondo state.

The vision to make Ondo blessed indeed will stand.



Olusegun Abraham endorsement

Signed,
Concerned People of Ondo State

I think the national leadership of the APC should caution the mischief makers in the party....and prevent a self-shot in the leg

what is wrong with these Boroffice people sef....

shouting falsehood upandan likes inhumane adults. .must they lie all the time

Who is this Olusegun Abraham man though ..he seems to be the one gathering the most moss for the right reasons....

Who sabi am abeg make we know. ...

DeWorlex45:
With d hapenings at dis moment frm d APC-led fedral govt, i dnt think a sane & reasonable fellow in Ondo State would vote APC. because its now crystal clear dt APC's change is a confirmed scam!

Abeg, no be scam. They are just having a hard time trying to forestall the bullshit that has be on in the country for a while... they are not a scam...

For Ondo ehn, they need a practical leader, not a career politician again...else, that state will just peme sharperly

TlekeA:

Some people just mumu sha....lol
PDP is dead on arrival in Ondo state

Very dead....Dr. Mimiko mess up gan!

mikolo80:
anybody just campaigning now is not serious. wey e suppose de share rice since 4 years ago

Hahahaha. ..you nor serious oh

Asiri1991:
PDP!

PDP?? Hahahaha

Ko le werk

Of the states in the South West Region, attention would be shifted towards Ondo state this year as the governorship election is scheduled to hold therein by October. The two-term tenure of the incumbent governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko will lapse and a new chapter in the life of the state would be opened. On-going alignment and re-alignment within the two leading political Parties APC and PDP will definitely shape events in this election year.

But, as the present distasteful situation in Ondo state would have it, the major actors of this election should be the Ondo people themselves, the common voters and party delegates alike. The opportunity to make a better decision about who will lead them in the next four years has finally come, it is time for them to be the master of their fate beyond depressing sentiments.

For any indigent and truly concerned individual from Ondo, it is clear as day that the state has been ran on a retrogressive pace especially in the past 7 years under the stewardship of Governor Mimiko of the PDP. While it is true that Mimiko's government has been able to record only pockets of development so far despite the undeniable influx of cash, it is not a satirical truth that Ondo hasn't been able to maximize its many prospects at greatness because of this kind of leadership that has glaringly proven to lack the know-how to lead effectively.

And as always, the sufferers have been the Ondo masses who constantly decry their perennial poverty and who haven't been given the infrastructure to create self-worth and wealth despite the prospects of bliss which sadly remain untapped in the land. The government so far has not been for the people, it has been widely tagged largely elitist and insensitive.

At 40 and with her abundant resources, Ondo state shouldn't have the habit of owing its own workers; Ondo state shouldn't really stack up debts, especially not to the tune of a 100 billion; Ondo state shouldn't haven't any difficulty creating jobs and avenues for empowerment..more so, Ondo shouldn't even be heavily reliant on Abuja money. But sadly, all these sickening strangeness are Ondo's harsh and daunting reality at the moment especially in this 7 years of the Mimiko administration. Development has been pegged, and it's no doubt painful.

All these have seem to give the APC an edge in the scheme of thoughts and opinions among Ondo citizens as they head to the polls.

While the ruling PDP in the state is losing some of its chieftains to the opposition APC ahead of the coming governorship election, the opposition party itself is bedevilled with serious internal squabbles which may spell doom for it at the polls. Interested aspirants in the two parties have kick-started their campaigns across the 18 council areas of the state, an indication that they mean serious business.

As expected, an avalanche of names have sprung up from different coffers, politically-minded groups and spurious political permutations, each rightly or otherwise, touting one or two names as possible successors to Mimiko.

As this race gathers momentum, it's getting obvious by the day, that the candidacy of one of the APC aspirants largely described in and around Ondo state as an incurable philanthropist, consummate industrialist, and a long-serving progressive loyalist, Dr. Olusegun Abraham, is gathering the most steam. His popularity in core Ondo mainstream is not unconnected to the fact that he has effectively, albeit silently, contributed to the development of Ondo state and her citizens for over 30 years. Having run a similar campaign on the same APC platform 4 years ago, Olusegun Abraham his being heavily tipped by truly concerned and informed Ondo people to make the much-needed difference from the Alagbaka house. Olusegun Abraham is from Ikare-Akoko, Akoko North East Local government, the zone also tipped to deservedly produce the next governor in the state.

Other names that have shown interest and who have started gathering gradual moss include, Senator Ajayi Boroffice, who won his second term seat to the senate in 2015 elections. He is from the Akoko South West local government; also is former Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Victor Olabimtan is also eyeing the seat. He is equally from Akoko South West local government. He defected from the PDP to APC before the last general election.

The list also includes former governorship candidate of the defunct ACN, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu SAN, is also not backing out of the next year poll. The APC stalwart is from Owo local government. It will be recalled that Akeredolu in a recent interview published by a National daily boasted that he will be the next governor of the state.

The National Secretary of Labour Party (LP) Kayode Ajulo may likely contest the seat under LP platform. Ajulo who is known to be one of Mimiko’s confidants is the Board Chairman of Ondo State Radiovision Corporation (OSRC).
Ajulo is from Ifira-Akoko.

Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye, a member of PDP from Akoko North East is one of those eyeing the seat. He was a former House of Representatives lawmaker, representing Akoko North East/West.

Dr. Olu Agunloye, from Akoko North East, may likely contest. He was among the defunct ACN governorship aspirants in 2012. He dumped the party for LP after he was not given the ticket. He also joined PDP in 2014. He teamed up with old PDP group led by Barr. Jimoh Ibrahim to frustrate Mimiko’s return to the PDP.

Another person interested in the seat is Alhaji Jamiu Ekungba. He is a leader of APC and a member of the Board of Trustees of the party. He is from Owo local government.
Relatively, Niran Sule from Owo local government is also eyeing the seat.
He was among the defectors who joined APC from PDP.

Akinfehinwa Awodeyi A.K.A Apata, also from Owo local government indigene, has never hidden his interest to rule the state. During the general elections, as he was campaigning for his party candidates, he was also building his political structures ahead of 2016.

Mrs. Jumoke Aniwofose, the daughter of the first Civilian Governor of old Ondo State, late Adekunle Ajasin is also interested in the seat. She was the former State Chairman of the defunct ACN before she resigned to contest as governorship aspirant of ACN in 2012.

Well, for all Ondo citizens, and even Nigerians at large, I believe it is high time we all stopped allowing shallow parameters peg us back and blur our sense of judgment. One thing that is sure is that, when bias-based parameters reflective of short-sightedness are embraced, they clearly expose the shallow-mindedness of the general Nigerian followership, and as a result, impede the chances of getting consummate and people-oriented leadership.

As already stated above, time is now for the enduring people of Ondo to make a better decision as touching electing a new leader. This decision should be based on the test of integrity, compassion and godliness.

The much-deserving Ondo people must know that after all is said and done, the power belongs to them, and as the 2016 gubernatorial election beckons, they must get ready to employ their constitutional right to make the Sunshine state actually shine.

Olubi Olasogba wrote from Akure

An All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial aspirant in the forthcoming governorship election in Ondo state, Dr. Olusegun Abraham, has ruled out mere personal ambition as one the reasons why he is in the race to govern his people in Ondo state, underlying the role of selfless service in ridding the state of corrupt governance, and making it great again.

He stressed this point during the local government familiarization tour he had in some parts of the state recently.

Olusegun Abraham, popularly referred to as “O’Abraham” amongst the Ondo populace, has been a staunch critic of the awful level of governance that has beaten the great state of Ondo and her citizens into a pulp of poverty and economic retrogression.



While interacting with the leaders and members of his party during the familiariazation tour of Ile-Oluji, Abraham spoke assuredly about his selfless intention to govern the state and lead his people into wholesome development and greatness by employing his vast managerial experience alongside the values of integrity and most importantly, godliness.

“I don’t need to lie to you my people. My promise of better governance is beyond a promise, it is my practice. I’ve always been practically passionate about the growth of this state, and the general wellbeing of my dear Ondo people. It hurts me to see us wallow in poverty, it is even strange to our culture”, Abraham said.

DSC_2255 My gubernatorial aspiration is hinged on integrity, compassion and godliness - Olusegun Abraham Politics

He added, “All my life, I’ve been privileged to master the values of integrity, compassion, and godliness in both my professional and personal dealings. This has been pivotal in my relationship with Ondo state and all her people for years, and this is what this present gubernatorial mandate I have accepted is founded upon”.

The rousing reception he received during his local government tour of Ile-Oluji, Oke-igbo, Mobolorunduro and Ikare, in all attested to Olusegun Abraham’s longstanding relationship of love and service with the people. Apart from the many academic scholarships, both local and foreign, that most of them and their wards have enjoyed for years courtesy of Olusegun Abraham, the experienced engineer and industrialist has deliberately worked pro Bono for Ondo state in any capacity he has been called upon to oversee.

An elder statesman and APC party chieftain in the state, Chief Noah Olorunsola Adesoji, didn’t mince words while leading his people at Ile-Oluji to express confidence in Abraham’s ability to lead Ondo with integrity and use his experience to lift the state out of a dormancy among the comity of states in Nigeria

“We welcome you with open arms. Your antecedents as a loyal party man and compassionate leader already speaks for you. Ondo state needs people with your kind of experience and clout at the helm of affairs to make life better for our people”, Adesoji said.

Reiterating Chief Adesoji, another respected elder in the state, Chief Nathaniel Fapohunda, lauded Olusegun Abraham’s loyal service to the development of Ondo state while they warmly received him at Oke-igbo. “We are loyal progressives here in Oke-igbo, and Abraham has been one of us. Ondo needs to just get better, get moving, and this man’s experience fits for that task. We are ready to support you with hopes that Oke-igbo and this state as a whole gets better”.

At Mobolorunduro, ONDO East Local government area, the group of people and party faithful who received him corroborated Olusegun Abraham’s point about the urgent need for a godly leadership in the state, as they blamed their poor situation of the state on years of mismanagement and sheer greed by the present leadership. Abraham went on to assure them that the state and it’s people need not suffer further, and that the state is blessed enough to create wealth for all and sundry, stressing the need apply the same values his mandate is all about.

“Ondo state is blessed with so much natural resources. It hurts to see that we still reel in this pool of poverty. For us to maximize our resources and develop, apart from the experience and know-how, we need leaders who are God-fearing and compassionate about the people and not their pockets. And, this is all I bring to the table as touching this aspiration”, Abraham said endearingly.

Olusegun Abraham is a trained and experienced mechanical engineer with a Masters degree in technology management, as well as several international trainings with notable institutions and organisations; among which are Tyndale University College and Seminary, Canada, Institute of Directors, UK (Dynamics of Negotiations), UNIDO (Joint Venture Industrialization), Ingersoll-Rand, UK (International Business Management), Lagos Business School (Chief Executive Program), Institute of Advanced Technology and Management (Leadership through Innovation).

He describes himself as a consummate politician and experienced industrialist who is compassionately committed to the welfare of all the people of Ondo state, especially the poor.

I wish him well
He has started on a right foot kinda
Pragmatic servanthood,promising decisions,and a prolific purging of the civil service from the top all for productivity sake....

I wish him well

ANBAKO:
Life expectancy in Lagos to me is 30 years!!! Spend 6 hours of your life in traffic jam, Breathe dirty and polluted air, live in noise pollution, Run for LASTMA, harrassment from KAI, Armed robber at night, Filthy society...

Loooooool, ANBAKO don vex oh

Hahaha

LAGOS AND LIFE EXPECTANCY
By Sayo Aluko

Link: http://sayoaluko..com/2015/06/lagos-and-life-expectancy.html

Life expectancy (L.E), according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is defined as the average number of years that a person or animal can expect to live, or the average life span of an individual. It is derived for each country or state by considering living and working conditions/standards therein. The World Health Organization (WHO) puts this figure at 52 years in Nigeria, while biblical (and probably also quranic) tenets procure 70+ years for every faithful. Unfortunately, for a majority of Lagosians, it seems improbable to attain these quite relatively low figures, simply because, both living and working conditions set in present day Lagos produce one major thing - unabashed and unabating STRESS, thus, an even lower life expectancy for Lagosians. (By Lagosians, I mean any man or woman resident in Lagos; I'm averse to "lagoon" lingo)

As it said in this part of the world, Lagos is an "happening" place. It is a cosmopolitan city that has had a lot working for it, especially since the turn of democracy. The city has seen improvement in terms of governance delivery and has developed a booming self-sustaining economy; but, there remains these 3 inter-reliant and interwoven harbingers of STRESS that make life considerably unlivable in this mega city. Traffic, Premature Population Explosion, and Pollution, 3 inter-reliant but highly solvable challenges.

Lagos deservedly counts as one of the world's busiest and biggest cities such as New York (L.E 80.5), Hong Kong (L.E 83.48), Beijing (L.E 76.1) and Tokyo (L.E 80.21), where there occurs a steady influx of people. And, thanks to the application of definitive governance and the metronomic advent of 21st century technology, heavy vehicular and human traffic have since ceased to be the signature trait of all these cities but Lagos, because unfortunately, unerring traffic is still the city's cynosure. It has remained an hellish reality to say the least.

Be it inside a factory-fitted air-conditioned car or inside the "Halloween locomotives" otherwise known as Yellow buses or Danfo, one must just feel the hit and heat of Lagos traffic. Official figures from a reliable data company put the amount of human hours lost daily to traffic by an average Lagosian at a minimum of 4 hours on a normal day. It adds that the figure could be as high as 8 hours, especially for 80% of Lagosians whose work places are at least 7 kilometres away from their abodes. This infers that some Lagosians spend more time in traffic than the hours they actually spend at work. A crazier fact is that, after enduring this excrutiation of traffic on major roads, most Lagosians in places like Ikorodu and Alimosho for example, are further subjected to the writhe of bumpy inner roads leading to their respective homes. This stress accrued from the typical Lagos traffic affects the trinity of human existence - body, mind and soul; and just to put it mildly, a majority of Lagos roads, be it in size, usage or access, are not wellness-friendly.

The population explosion in Lagos, though totally precedented, is unfortunately premature - too much influx of people, with too little facilities to cater for such. Lagos still suffers from an infrastructural deficit, the speed of influx is not compensated with accelerated development, and this quite explains the jungle-like jostle for virtually everything, mostly, space. From breathable air, to safe and affordable shelter, health facilities, electricity, to road access, or even as simple as pedestrian port, all can be unnecessarily herculean to get, especially when Lagos rears it's ugliest head.

Furthermore, while half of the pollution source in Lagos is self-inflicted (a majority of Nigerians are indiscriminate and undisciplined litter agents), the other half is due to the demerits of traffic and overcrowdednesss, underlining the inter-reliance. The Fashola administration did its bit to curb pollution, but a visit to a rough, scraggy and crowded Obalende or Badia or even parts of the city capital, will give an insight into this overpopulation-derived pollution. And oh! how "helpful" are the fumes emanating from the countless generators....The fearful thing about pollution is that it ushers stress to a deeply cellular level in humans, causing gradual and invisible damage of internal organs.

Speaking critically, this cycle of stress hauled at Lagosians due to ceaseless traffic, the burden of population and the attendant pollution, is clearly undeniable and has surely threatened the possiblity of a relatively tenable life expectancy in a megacity of Lagos' worth, and that's excluding the other national stress markers.

On a sadder note, most Lagosians have been primed by this peculiar notion of hustle to erroneously believe that stress is adaptable. But, the truth is that the human body cannot "adapt" to stress, it can only "accommodate" stress to a certain threshold before it bucks. Scientific studies have also proved that stress is apoptotic, that is, it causes human cell death when unchecked, just as it is with Lagosians.

What can be done?

Frustrating, yes, mostly immobile, yes, but perhaps, the word that best describes the pain of Lagos traffic is "avoidable". A lot can be done rightly within the dictates of good governance to truly avoid traffic, save people its trauma and then, stymie its stress effects.

First, the Lagos state government must embark on ingenious, massive and audacious road-network construction and maintenance reforms, in order to reduce traffic to a bearest minimum. The ongoing Mile 2 Light-rail project and the Ojo-Badagry expressway expansion are both commendable; but more needs to be done. There are easily identifiable areas within the state, where new or more flyovers, axial roads and/or alternate routes, will do the magic. A think-tank in Lagos has continuously called for the construction of a 4th Mainland Bridge to lessen the burden on the 3rd; that is another plausible solution that should see light of day without political delay. I believe it is high time government dropped the over-beaten rhetoric of insufficient funding and get audacious with more construction in Lagos. The Chinese recently built the longest over-the-ocean bridge in the world, 26 miles, over a period of 4 years and with "just" 1.5 billion dollars. That's enough cue for any serious-minded government poised at eliminating stress factors in this great city. (The 4th Mainland Bridge is expected to be roughly 4 miles in length ....pls, kindly do the maths)

Secondly, more cars will be taken off Lagos roads when urban transit systems get elite-friendly, especially the government-powered ones. In addition to the expansion of the relatively successful BRT scheme, the introduction of reliability, security, precision, timeliness and technology, will make more elites identify with and patronise the scheme; such move will fill Lagos roads with lesser number of vehicles and reduce the susceptibility to traffic.

Stricter enforcement of transport/traffic laws is imperative to traffic management. Most of the traffic logjam in Lagos is hinged on Danfo nuisance, displayed mostly in the form of lawless parking, greed-made bus-stops, and wanton disregard for driving rules. The Lagos State Transport Management Agency (LASTMA) must do better in maintaining order on Lagos roads. The LASTMA officials themselves should be retrained to understand true order, the thin lines between overzealousness and forthrightness, and the difference between official thoroughness and brute behaviour, in their charge towards productive traffic prevention and management.

In addition to the suggestions above, one probable way to fix the influx challenge is by building new and economically-viable cities within Lagos, employing the method of urbanisation. This will cause an almost even redistribution of the congested population across the 5 major divisions in the state, improving living and working conditions of Lagosians in the process. The need to decongest the main towns is at its all-time high, and Lagos needs to act. Why can't we have another LUTH/LASUTH in Ikorodu or Lekki, or another 1004 estate in Badia or Alimosho, why can't there be a decentralisation of state ministries also across the divisions. Truth is, the city's skeletal architecture seems already built, but the possiblities of restructuring are are quite endless, if the option of intelligent town planning is fully explored.

Then, I suggest strict punitive measures for indiscriminate waste disposers to further consolidate on efforts against pollution. But, for cleanliness, the magic will be achieved also through decongestion. Decongestion is the way to make waste management more effective and less incinerative in Lagos state.

For sense's sake, the Lagos megacity can be beautiful, livable and damn fine. It boils down to a few but massively promising steps; fluent accessibility, accountable security, accelerated development, urban remix, rural upgrade and thorough restructuring. I choose at this point to drive home a point. I don't know if it is pride or mere "agidi", but whatever it is, I believe it is high time we dropped it and copy the Chinese model for making things work. Those guys are performing wonders especially as touching construction, and they've got "1.4 Billion" reasons to do so. As said above, timely construction is the core of the solution to the stress in Lagos, then no doubt, the Chinese steel and precast engineering revolution will be of mammoth help and also accommodate the complexities associated with it. I mean, these Chinkos recently built a 57-storey housing estate in just 19 days! Ki la wan wa kii?

Well, I'm quite optimistic about the chances of Lagos becoming more livable for the human cells under this new dispensation that has fervently relayed its promise to make Lagos safer, cleaner and more prosperous.

So, either at 52 or 70, the attainment of better life expectancy will simply remain elusive in the city of aquatic splendour if there's no awakening against the threats posed by stress that has made itself synonymous with the city.
Surely, there are exceptions, Lagosians who have lived long enough despite the city's setbacks; but, that is merely what they are, exceptions, and it shouldn't be so. Should it?

Link: http://sayoaluko..com/2015/06/lagos-and-life-expectancy.html

Dear sisters, what is this BFP , a lot of acronyms used here that ain't familiar with. Forgive my jjcness

praisefulmum:
Wife was diagnosed with pcos 3 months ago. We've been married for a year now without conception. Her menstrual cycle had been irregular and ovulation had been affected; that was the doctor's explanation for the lack of conception. Since the diagnosis, she's been using M2tone and FertilAid and Ovaboost and Folic acid and visogron and most recently Clindamycin hydrochloride. (She also took Primolut N at a point, but stopped after 10 days). Most importantly, we've been praying too. We haven't conceived yet, she's still taking the drugs. We are quite hopeful, I just felt the need to share this here in good faith, and hear your views about

@ Finekunlex, is your wife overweight? If she is encourage her to cut down her calories and do some exercise so she can lose some weight, it helps with pcos.
She needs proper follow up with a Gynaecologist. Ask your Gynaecologist if he could consider Clomid, metformin and timed intercourse but she must have done HSG to ascertain the patency of both Fallopian tubes. Hormone profile to be sure no hormone is below or above the expected normal value.You also should do your seminal fluid analysis and m/c/s and please do not just ingest medications just like dt. Forget the Evergreen until you have done your SFA. Some men with normal seminal fluid parameters who have taken one medication or the other to increase their spermatozoa count have ended up reducing or gotten zero count. It is a good multivitamin but you shouldn't use unless it is necessary. Cheers!!!

Thank you so much praisefulmum. We will explore all the options with our gynaecologist ASAP. God bless you

Thank you all dearies.

@Miraclebaby what is "ACV" though

tatacherie:
@ Finekunlex ure welcome.may ur stay b positively short.I believe ur wife is on track wit d management.however always ask Dr questions partaning to drugs.cos all d drugs ure listing she has been taken dem since 3 months ago.pls always ask.Google is der too.let her not overflood her system with drugs.she can relax her system for a month to b able to get rid of all d drugs.u knw its d liver dat suffers everytin afterall.she can detox wit fruits for a short period/other mamas will tell u tinx she can use for detox.
If u've not done a fluid analysis pls try to so dat ur Syd can b cleared.Talk to ur Dr abour HSG to check her fallopian tubes too.if uve not been using Ovulation prediction test strips pls buy some.dey re not so expensive compared to drugs we buy.it cud help her know if ovulation will occur as she's taking all these drugs to help her ovulate.d M2 Tone she's using cud help as its a natural/herbal supplement.at least it helped in regularizing my cycle.all d best.u will testify soon.

Thank you so much tatacherie. Your points are duly noted. Duly. We'll talk with the doc to explore the HSG. Thing is, at the point of diagnosis, the pcos cysts were shown on both ovaries from a scan, but, after drug administering for a month, another scan showed that the pcos cysts on the left ovary had cleared. No menses nor ovulation yet. We use that ovulation strip to check. Hoping for a full reprieve soon.
On my side, I wanna take a product called "evergreen men" meant to take care of sperm issues if there were any. I feel uncomfortable with the nature of the sperm analysis procedure kinda weird ...I know..lol.
The detox, I feel you are quite on point about that. We'll Google and suggestions from experiences here too will help as u said.
Amen to your prayer dear.
Thanks

venizia:
You are welcome on board finekunlex. i dont know why your pofile is saying female though. Anyway, very soon the sabi sabi mamas will respond to your post and i am sure you will find helpful suggestions

Thanks venizia, the "female " status things is mere oversight. Thanks

Hello everyone. I am new here. I'm also happy to read most of the inspiring comments here that date back as far as 2013. Big ups women!
I need your views about my own story too.

Wife was diagnosed with pcos 3 months ago. We've been married for a year now without conception. Her menstrual cycle had been irregular and ovulation had been affected; that was the doctor's explanation for the lack of conception. Since the diagnosis, she's been using M2tone and FertilAid and Ovaboost and Folic acid and visogron and most recently Clindamycin hydrochloride. (She also took Primolut N at a point, but stopped after 10 days). Most importantly, we've been praying too. We haven't conceived yet, she's still taking the drugs. We are quite hopeful, I just felt the need to share this here in good faith, and hear your views about it.

Thanks.

temitemi1:
I will open it later but GEJ till 2019 for now.

GE what?.....pls, perish the thought

nicely-worded piece; objective to a fault!

a must read

2015 and the APC Presidential Primary Election: Before shouting a Buhari-ous Hallelujah

http://sayoaluko..com/2014/12/2015-and-apc-presidential-primary.html

nicely-worded piece; objective to a fault!

a must read

2015 and the APC Presidential Primary Election: Before shouting a Buhari-ous Hallelujah

http://sayoaluko..com/2014/12/2015-and-apc-presidential-primary.html

http://sayoaluko..com/2014/11/of-nigeria-and-mathematics.html

There is no doubt that Nigeria has had a longstanding romance with Mathematics, the mother of all sciences. Since 1914 when Lugard merged the protectorates, unequally, as though equal, calling that which was not as though it were, Nigeria and Nigerians have been solving, rather inconsistently, the two-thirds of simple numbers. For instance, if the North is about twice as large as the South, and consequently makes about two-thirds of the entire landmass, should they still be merged as equals?

Of course, by now we realise that that unequal merger was the beginning of our woes, with some people believing in utero and afterwards that they are born to rule. Hence, the first coup and the ones thereafter. Hence the attempt by some to secede either with Maitatsine bow and arrows, or with Biafran war guns, or more recently with Boko Haram bombs. Hence, the belief that no measure, however extreme, even insurgency, is too farfetched. We must be equal to be heard, after all...

So that by the time Obasanjo came in '76, it was glaring that we needed a lesson in Arithmetic, we needed to know how different two-thirds is from half; how significant a two-third majority is, especially since we have a constitution of two-thirds; and more importantly, how to derive the two-third of such numbers as 19, 35, 26– numbers not easily divisible by three; to be sure, a number is only divisible by three IF the sum of its digits is itself divisible by three.

This, Obasanjo sought to inculcate by establishing the Universal Primary Education, launching it in Lagos in September '76. But it was a case of too little, too late, for three years later, on the 26th of September, '79, the justices of the Supreme Court in the legendary Awolowo vs Shagari suit effectively ruled that two-thirds of 19 states was 12! But, just to be certain, ⅔ of 18 = 12, and since 18 ≠ 19, ⅔ of 19 can veritably not be 12!

The constitution dictated that to win a presidential election, the candidate needed to have at least a quarter of the votes in at least each of two-thirds of the states, 19 at the time. Shagari had had that prerequisite in 12 states, and had believed himself fulfilling of the law, especially since he had more than a quarter of the votes of two-thirds of Kano, the thirteenth state; how a state was to be divided into thirds however became the isu-ata-yán-an-yàn-an, yam-pepper-scatter-scatter. Awolowo had tried to make Shagari see that his Arithmetic was flawed. Of course, the Supreme Court agreed with Shagari!

In retrospect, if Obasanjo had launched his UPE in Sokoto, the home state of the Turakin Sakkwato, just maybe Shagari would have saved us future generations that ugly precedent. Just maybe Turakin would have known how two-thirds of 19 could not have been 12. Even the Mathematical Segun Odegbami knows that a shot one foot short of the goal post is no goal, however much it might be eight inches, two-thirds of a foot, close...

Anyway, come '99, Obasanjo expectedly inaugurates his Universal Basic Education scheme in Sokoto, apparently to forestall another episode of arithmetic deficiency. It was a good attempt, notwithstanding, but history cannot be rewritten... It is another case of wrong place, wrong time...

This time, he probably should have gone to Otuoke, wherever that is. Had he done that, just maybe that man born in '57 and who recently clocked 57 would know that 16 is never greater than 19, until inverted, and members of the Nigerian Governors' Forum were humans, and not ballot boxes; that two-thirds of Ekiti's 26 is never 7, neither is that of River's 33, and our courts are better at Arithmetic these days, thanks to UPE; that stealing ≠ corruption, not in Mathematics at least; and that not every money in $ is America's, America does not have to know that our money is missing, or that our subsidies are yet unaccounted for, even as there are plans to take more...

Of course, Mr. Speaker too must know that the Speaker is chosen from the majority party in the House, and is not a familial title, even if he is born to rule. That when he defected, he left the majority party in the House. That the height of that fence his supporters scaled gave them enough potential energy to lose their balance, become immensely attractive to the earth, and meet the floor in rapture-like shock... Just saying; in case they plan to do more of (such) jungle gymnastics...

But then, what happened when the Chlorophora excelsa of Ondo defected beneath the umbrella, did he lose it all?


Perhaps Mummy Ngozi too needed to brush up her Arithmetic to have known we were (going to be) broke right when she was singing All-iz-well like those characters in 3 Idiots...; to realize that pushing for a cut in our legislators' cut of the national cake is a more effective austerity measure; to convince Mr. Clueless & Mrs. Back-from-the-Dead to let go of most of our Presidential Fleet– àbí e nefa too cost ni...?

Ah, yes, the bogus, sorry, extreme remuneration with which they have re-numerated, sorry, over-prioritized themselves must also go. That way, there'd be less incentive to scale fences, and less invective in the hallowed Chambers:

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"SALARY OF NIGERIAN SENATORS

Basic Salary (B.S) - N2 484 245.50
Hardship Allowance (50 per cent of B.S) - N1 242 122.70
Constituency Allowance (200 per cent of B.S) - N4 968 509.00
Newspapers Allowance (50 per cent of B.S) - N1 242 122.70
Wardrobe Allowance (25 per cent of B.S) - N621 061.37
Recess Allowance (10 per cent of B.S) - N 248 424.55
Accommodation (200 per cent of B.S) - N4 968 509.00
Utilities (30 per cent of B.S) - N828 081.83
Domestic Staff (70 per cent of B.S) - N1 863 184.12
Entertainment (30 per cent of B.S) - N828 081.83
Personal Assistants (25 per cent of B.S) - N621 061.12
Vehicle Maintenance Allowance (75 per cent of B.S) - N1 863 184.12
Leave Allowance (10 per cent of B.S) - N248 424.55
Severance Gratuity (300 per cent of B.S) - N7 452 736.50
Car Allowance (400 per cent of B.S) - N 9 936 982.00

TOTAL MONTHLY SALARY = N29 479 749.00 ($181 974.00)
TOTAL YEARLY SALARY = N29 479 749.00 x 12
= N353 756 988.00 ($2 183 685.00)
EXCHANGE RATE: $1 = N162

LEGISLATORS PAY WORLDWIDE PER ANNUM
Britain - $105 400.00
United States - $174 000.00
France - $85 900.00
South Africa - $104 000.00
Kenya - $74 500.00
Saudi Arabia - $64 000.00
Brazil - $157 600.00
Ghana - $46 500.00
Indonesia - $65 800.00
Thailand - $43 800.00
India - $11 200.00
Italy - $182 000.00
Bangladesh - $4,000.00
Israel - $114 800.00
Hong Kong - $130 700.00
Japan - $149 700.00
Singapore - $154 000.00
Canada - $154 000.00
New Zealand - $112 500.00
Germany - $119 500.00
Ireland - $120 400.00
Pakistan - $3 500.00
Malaysia - $25 300.00
Sweden - $99 300.00
Sri Lanka - $5 100.00
Spain - $43 900.00
Norway - $138 000.00

In terms of lawmakers’ salaries as a ratio of GDP per capita, the gap is even much wider. While the salary of a Nigerian lawmaker is 116 times the country’s GDP per person, that of a British member of parliament is just 2.7 times.

The average salary of Nigerian worker based on the national minimum wage is N18 000.00,
So the yearly salary is N18 000.00 x 12 = N216 000.00 ($1 333.00)
Remember, Yearly Salary of Nigerian Senator = $2 183 685.00

Proportion: $2 183 685.00/$1 333.00 = 1 638

It will take an average Nigerian worker 1,638 years to earn the yearly salary of a Nigerian Senator."

Source: The Economist [as edited by: #Ayk_EDIT]
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Are Senators and co no longer public servants? Shouldn't they be on the Civil Service Salary Scale? Why not?! One only prays these figures are wrong; but are they?

Let us stop calling the spoiling of the plantain its ripening; ògèdè nbàjé, e ló n pón... Let us starve their protuberant tummies, and see who really want to serve... Let us solve Mathematics...

Any questions?

http://sayoaluko..com/2014/11/of-nigeria-and-mathematics.html

Ayk Fowosire
@adelayok