The Oba of Lagos, Rilwanu Akiolu, on Monday vowed to make startling revelations that will shake the country after the 2015 general election. Akiolu’s outburst at the public presentation of a book: “Corruption and Human Rights Law in Africa,” authored by Dr. Kolawole Olaniyan was in response to a statement credited to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade, that only two out of the country’s renowned monarchs are free of corruption.


Akiolu said he would reveal top secrets that cannot be disputed by those who think their hands are clean, but refused to give further details when approached after the event. He lambasted the monarch who alleged that he lifted oil and collected contract during the late Gen. Sani Abacha regime, noting that he was a serving policeman in that era.


On the issue of corruption, Akiolu said over 90 percent of Nigerians are corrupt, adding that the way out was for all hands to be on deck. “I will shake this nation after the election in February. The man who made the statement that I lifted oil should cover his face in shame because I was still a serving police officer. Those who collected Abacha money know themselves and I will quote witnesses.


“Let us stop apportioning blames, forget the past and work towards a better future for this country. “Do not put 100 percent blame on President Goodluck Jonathan because the person who caused the problem knows himself,” said Akiolu.

ehie:
Law 42 48 Laws of Power

Trouble can often be traced to a single strong individual—the stirrer, the arrogant underling, the poisoner of goodwill. If you allow such people room to operate, others will succumb to their influence. Do not wait for the troubles they cause to multiply, do not try to negotiate with them—they are irredeemable. Neutralize their influence by isolating or banishing them. Strike at the source of the trouble and the sheep will scatter.

Within any group, trouble can most often be traced to a single source, the unhappy, chronically dissatisfied one who will always stir up dissension and infect the group with his or her ill ease. Before you know what hit you the dissatisfaction spreads. Act before it becomes impossible to disentangle one strand of misery from another, or to see how the whole thing started.

identify and Shut the Hell Raisers Down

1. First, recognize troublemakers by their overbearing presence, or by their complaining nature.
2. Once you spot them do not try to reform them or appease them—that will only make things worse.
3. Do not attack them, whether directly or indirectly, for they are poisonous in nature and will work underground to destroy you.
4. Do as the Athenians did: Banish them before it is too late.
5. Separate them from the group before they become the eye of a whirlpool.
6. Do not give them time to stir up anxieties and sow discontent.
7. Do not give them room to move. Let one person suffer so that the rest can live in peace.
8. Once you recognize who the stirrer is, pointing it out to other people will accomplish a great deal.
9. Understanding who controls the group dynamic is a critical realization.
10. Stirrers drive by hiding in the group, disguising their actions among the reactions of others.

Who Should You Isolate

· Find powerful people who have alienated themselves from the group.
· People whose power has gone to their heads, and they consider themselves superior.
· Those people who have perhaps lost their knack of communicating with ordinary folk.
· Search out people who hold high positions yet who find themselves isolated on the board.
· Find the one head that matters—the person with willpower, or smarts, or, most important of all, charisma.


Why Isolate?

· They are vulnerable to you, and your presence becomes magnified.
· It can prove a powerful way of bringing people under your spell to seduce or swindle them.
· Here they feel weak, and succumb to deception more easily, which makes them vulnerable.
· Powerful though they may be, people like this can be turned to use.
· It is often better to isolate your enemies than to destroy them—you seem less brutal.
· They are like apples falling into your lap, easily seduced, and able to catapult you into power yourself.
· To dishearten the sheep beyond any rational measure.
· Cancer begins with a single cell; excise it before it spreads beyond cure.

How to Isolate

· Render their actions visible and they lose their power to upset.
· Separate your victims from their power base or their usual social context.
· The result, though, is the same, for in the game of power, isolation spells death.

What Kind of Isolation

· Physical (banishment or absence from the court).
· Political (narrowing his base of support).
· Psychological (alienating him from the group through slander and insinuation).

PointB:


You see, 48 Laws of Power also provide countermeasure to it's own laws. If you are smart, you will know better than quote these laws in isolation. Let me school you a bit!

Law 42 (Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter) can only effective is used in conjunction with Law 15 (Crush your enemy totally!), provided you can even find the shepherd. Otherwise the collateral damage will result in a zero-sum game winner (you should also read up game theory)!

Countermeasure to law 42
Singular use of law 42 can be countered using simultaneous application of Law 17 (Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability ) and Law 22 (Use the surrender tactic --- transform weakness into power!). A single countermeasure to your preferred law 42 is law 44 (Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect).


And if you really must use law 42, beware of law 19 (Know who you are dealing with --- do not offend the wrong person)!

Don't mess with the wrong guy!

ehie:
Shitface...this is how am really feeling now

Ekaka1:
Hey, hey, hey, are you guys still on about this issue. Some body has ordered lots of life vests and must fuel this.
I am even surprised that Buhari has joined those campaigning for Agbaje when we were told that the Oba was just jesting around with His Igbo friends. Pat utomi even confirmed it inferring that Jesting is the Oba's real job. I mean...lagos having a palace jester for a king ok oh... .
So Abeg make una forget all this talk jare and prepare for the next circus session with special presentation by Jagaban, Chief jester Akiolu and all the other palace clowns of Eko circus

PointB:


Actually I don't give a rat ar/se how you are feeling; it isn't my business!

SeverusSnape:

The Oba is a big fool then.... Pride goeth before a fall.

Thunder04:
U must be mad painful loser if u like vote Agbaje's dog loser is still ur surnme noisey slave.

onyenkuzii:
The Oba was feeling lonely in his palace and decided to crack jokes with his guests.

I've lived in Lagos for 16 years. Never have I felt like I'm being discriminated against for being Igbo. Let's not vote with sentiment. APC has done a good job in Lagos. Let's allow them to continue. The Oba is a fool. But it's not him I'm voting for. I'm voting for Ambode

Idrismusty97:
I know how it feels when your pay master lose an election, Ndo. Is Buhari still a "certificateless cattle rearer" or whatever you were programmed to say?

Idrismusty97:
If you like don't move on, it doesn't change anything. The highest you can do is vote for Agbage and that still won't be enough to make him win. Move on or go to hell!

halix239:


the hausas n yorubas re voting ambode, so ur single votes re irrelevant

derecho:
the yorubas are not voting Ambode,def not all igbos,SS and other minority groups will vote Agbaje.
What the Oba did is test the resolve of those who hate intimidation,detribalised,sympathisers of PDP and opposition parties,desatisfied civil servants and Lagosians,etc
The Oba decided to pick on the Igbos who unfortunately are not represented by those (politicians) that visited him.
For your information, resident in lagos are different ethnic groups from the North,not under the influence of some Seriki,who detest Tinubu,who the Oba represents.Just wait till Saturday.
Oba Akiolu,by his statement, did not represent
what the Yorubas in Lagos want.Many even believe Tinubu is his paymaster.Many Prefer Agbaje who will liberate Lagos.
So My Bros no be tribal thing.tnx

onyenkuzii:
The Oba was feeling lonely in his palace and decided to crack jokes with his guests.

I've lived in Lagos for 16 years. Never have I felt like I'm being discriminated against for being Igbo. Let's not vote with sentiment. APC has done a good job in Lagos. Let's allow them to continue. The Oba is a fool. But it's not him I'm voting for. I'm voting for Ambode

Billygee2u:
Buhari,when GEJ deafeated you in 2011,did you forgive,forget and move on?

yorke1:
Thunder that will fire Buhari has gone on an errant. Bleep you Buhari. Your tenure will not be successful. Tinubu plan will come to pass.

Idrismusty97:
If you like don't move on, it doesn't change anything. The highest you can do is vote for Agbage and that still won't be enough to make him win. Move on or go to hell!

waternogetemeny:
[size=14pt]Buhari is also a biggot, so wat else can we expect him to say?[/size]

aderonila18:


It is an abomination in Yoruba land for an Oba to apologize publicly. It will have negative effects in his people, so forget Oba apologizing because it won't happen. The best thing that can be done is others apologizing in his behalf which is what APC leaders are doing

petkoffDrake:
BuhAri will b more clueless cos he should know U can't 4give someone that neva asked for 4givness.
Anyways I won't blame him. That's what we should expect from one who don't know d full meaning of INEC

titilayur:
in Yoruba land it is forbidden for a king to apologize publicly even if he want to do it, d tradition of d land does not allow that and I. know each tribe Across d globe respect their traditions. mark 11:25 said we should forgive others whether they ask for forgiveness or not so that our Father in heaven might forgive us all our tress passes beside those who knew d tradition of d land has apologized on his behalf it is not about pride and we are also not happy about d statement so pls and pls my dearest ndigbo brothers and sisters if not for any other thing but because of Christ resurrection which we are still celebrating forgive and forget so that d country can move forward. Thank u

aderonila18:


You don't get it, it's not that the man doesn't want to apologize, he is forbidden to do so. Doing so will endanger his people as it can anger the land.

halix239:



n for ur mind u think the yorubas ll dump apc at this crucial moment when they ve finally become a ruling party, ok

DuchessLily:
Forgive and move on If it was an Igbo person who made DAT statement would d oba forgive??

If it was buhari DAT statement was directed to would he 4give?? Did he forgive his own wife??

Has d oba even shown remorse or apologized?? Nope! Instead he was denying, 'he didn't make d statement'

halix239:



atleast he ll b far more better tthan ur weakling who with his acclaimed phd cannot deliver a nation for 6 yrs, no oba ll opologize, its an insult for him to apologize to an irrelevant, a nobody set of beings like u, so pack well

aderonila18:


It is an abomination in Yoruba land for an Oba to apologize publicly. It will have negative effects in his people, so forget Oba apologizing because it won't happen. The best thing that can be done is others apologizing in his behalf which is what APC leaders are doing

aderonila18:


It is an abomination in Yoruba land for an Oba to apologize publicly. It will have negative effects in his people, so forget Oba apologizing because it won't happen. The best thing that can be done is others apologizing in his behalf which is what APC leaders are doing

Demdem:
am fed up with this issue.
Akiolu said what he ought not to say and not APC/Ambode.
APC/Ambode has come out to dissociate themselves from such and to remind ibos of what they have done in the past to suggest to them that their actions doesnt reflect the words of Akiolu yet some ibos still arent satisfied.
To these ibos who are still wallowing in pain, i advise u to vote for ur APGA candidate.
Next.