WHILE presenting the 2017 Appropriation Bill to the Ekiti State House of Assembly last Tuesday, Governor Ayodele Fayose was as animated and bohemian as ever. Never for once enamoured of conformism, the governor took delight in indulging his unusual nature by appearing before the legislators in a black T-shirt, military camouflage pair of trousers and also camouflage face cap. Had he truly intended to ape the manner of a wartime leader, the similitude would have been grossly overdone. As it turned out, his intention was nothing more than a partial mimicry, perhaps intentional parody, to satisfy his yearning for imposing leadership. But in his own words, his dressing was appropriate to the wartime situation Nigeria had found itself. “We are at war in Nigeria,” he said with his customary magniloquence.

That was, however, not the only drama the legislature witnessed on Tuesday. As he presented the budget, he also declared delusively that the bill was as good as passed because the Speaker, Kola Oluwawole, might very well be his alter ego. “I’m the Speaker,” said the governor grandly, “he (Oluwawole) is on that seat on my behalf. He is the Acting Speaker, therefore, he cannot be wrong. If he is wrong, we will take it to the Government House and resolve it. Therefore, I will pass the budget myself.” Since Mr Fayose won the governorship some two years ago, he has deliberately and systematically suffocated dissent from all sectors of the society, from the legislature to the executive, and from the civil society to the judiciary. Even the unions have either been castrated or infiltrated and disembowelled.

All Mr Fayose needed to do more last Tuesday to look and feel like the wartime leader he so casually tried to ape was to have a red star embossed on his camouflage face cap to remind the nostalgic socialists among his audience of the inimitable Chairman Mao Zedong, the late iconic leader of modern China. But since the hood does not make the monk, Mr Fayose’s evocation of wartime imagery, such as suffused the world in the roaring epochs of the last century, appeared a little overdone, if not entirely surreal. Of course, the happy-go-lucky governor does not give a damn what anyone thinks. If he says Nigeria is in wartime, then so it is. Indeed, if there is no war in actual fact, if Nigerians do not think recession and hunger amount to war, why, he could easily furnish them one, if not in deed, then at least in word. And, boy, does Mr Fayose gibber.

In a way, Mr Fayose’s soldierly dressing last Tuesday was a predictable progression from the ‘war’ his fecund imagination had continually engendered since he first took office after flamboyantly defeating the then incumbent, Niyi Adebayo, in 2003. A little more than three years later, he was impeached. But shortly before the impeachment in October, 2006, Mr Fayose had entered into war mode. As he scurried from one rat hole to another pursued by the agents of state unleashed against him by the Olusegun Obasanjo presidency, the beleaguered governor occasionally emerged on the stump to rally his bewildered supporters. The electorate honoured his summons and humoured him with rapt attention as he declaimed, eyes blazing and mouth frothing, upon difficult and unfamiliar democratic concepts. He managed in the process to ladle out boiling oil on Chief Obasanjo whom he accused of betrayal despite selling himself rather cheaply to the former president as errand boy. As he hurled abuses at his enemies, some of them imaginary, many observers thought the frightened and cornered Mr Fayose had taken leave of his senses, perhaps stimulated by something ghastly and unearthly.

Now, 10 years after that impeachment, and barely two years after his return to office through another election, Mr Fayose is once again feeling cornered and frightened. He had won an election on the back of one of the most controversial and induced governorship elections ever. But win he did, nevertheless. However, with nearly all his accomplices in the induced 2014 poll intercepted and questioned by the anti-graft agencies, and the secret service breathing threats against him and down his neck, Mr Fayose is filled with alarm as the dossier of his sins grows fat and the prospect of his date with nemesis looms larger than his imagination can contain. It was perhaps in anticipation of this doomsday scenario that he did his damnedest to avert the election of Muhammadu Buhari as president. His instincts were right, for President Buhari is uncompromising.

Before the last presidential election, Mr Fayose spoke loudest, abused most vitriolically, and warned frantically of the fate that awaited the country under a Buhari presidency. He was right in most parts. But no one paid heed, for it was clear he had neither the disposition of an ethical leader himself nor showed that his past struggles were carried out altruistically for the good of the people, having exploited them intensively and extendedly using dangerous artifices and emotions. He did not spare President Buhari before the 2015 presidential poll, just as he did not spare the opposition before and moments after his own election in 2014 when he orchestrated the most vicious assault on the justice system, particularly in Ekiti. In consequence, the Ekiti legislature became castrated, and the judiciary tamed. Reacting to the tyrannous environment, the opposition fled the state and sought shelter elsewhere, only finding its voice now when the political weather has seemed expansive and clement.

Mr Fayose’s military dressing last Tuesday before the Ekiti lawmakers is beginning to look like a re-enactment of his agonising last months in office in 2006. He says he is in war mode. It has little to do with the content of his 2017 budget, nor with the plentiful needs his state’s paltry resources can hardly accommodate. Before his very eyes, and in strict nonconformism with the laws of the land and the constitution, the Department of State Service (DSS) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have become deadlier than they ever were, and eager to pounce on the president’s enemies. The instinctive Mr Fayose knows he tops the list of wanted men.

He has therefore contemplated bailing out of the ship of the deeply troubled Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) without indicating where he would berth. The All Progressives Congress (APC) port would not countenance his bill of lading, not to talk of allowing him in, his opponents suggest gleefully. If the mega party being contemplated by the Ahmed Makarfi faction of the PDP should materialise, he would gladly berth there. But more intriguingly, the boisterous Ekiti governor has decided to implement a two-part strategy to insure his own future and mitigate the almost certain fate he believed would befall him in 2018 when his second term ends. His first approach is to treat the Ekiti people much better than he had planned or desired. To this extent, Mr Fayose has suddenly become a much better politician than his jejune ‘stomach infrastructure’ politics predisposed him in the past. Second, and more crucially, he has begun a rapprochement with the Southwest power elite in whose hands he seems keener to put his fate and destiny.

Whether these tactics will avail him much or not remains to be seen. But he hinges his survival on the alienated Southwest power elite already giving subterranean battle to both President Buhari and a possibly chequered and weakened APC. This is a difficult gamble, for at the moment no one in the Southwest but Mr Fayose himself seems eager for an open warfare when tact and discreteness would suffice. So far, too, the APC has managed to sustain a tenuous truce in its internecine conflict, with many erstwhile enemies of the president within and outside the party being wooed by presidential tactical committees in brazen defiance and subsumption of the president’s ethical codes. It will grieve Mr Fayose to see that the president is having a head start in putting together alliances for 2019. But this is unavoidable.

War footing or not, Mr Fayose will leave office nearly a year before President Buhari. Except the president’s hands are debilitated by political and economic circumstances, a cruel and inescapable fate awaits the Ekiti governor the moment he vacates office. Mr Fayose has consistently played to the gallery and thrown caviar to the general with considerable aplomb, and has in turn become somewhat a darling of a gullible section of the Southwest electorate. He will likely intensify his famed gambit for needless and reckless excesses, and continue to troll the recesses of his dark mind for extra supply of caviar to nurture his warmongering and addictions. But there is nothing in his ideas or background, not to say his present and future, to make even his friends and potential allies let down their guards.

http://thenationonlineng.net/irascible-bohemian-fayose/

fayose is only having fun. he seems a flamboyant guy to me. he is lively, I think.


the writer of this piece truly deserves my respect. they simply remind me of Funke Egbemode (not sure of this last name) of Sunday Sun newspaper.

HungerBAD:
[s]WHILE presenting the 2017 Appropriation Bill to the Ekiti State House of Assembly last Tuesday, Governor Ayodele Fayose was as animated and bohemian as ever. Never for once enamoured of conformism, the governor took delight in indulging his unusual nature by appearing before the legislators in a black T-shirt, military camouflage pair of trousers and also camouflage face cap. Had he truly intended to ape the manner of a wartime leader, the similitude would have been grossly overdone. As it turned out, his intention was nothing more than a partial mimicry, perhaps intentional parody, to satisfy his yearning for imposing leadership. But in his own words, his dressing was appropriate to the wartime situation Nigeria had found itself. “We are at war in Nigeria,” he said with his customary magniloquence.

That was, however, not the only drama the legislature witnessed on Tuesday. As he presented the budget, he also declared delusively that the bill was as good as passed because the Speaker, Kola Oluwawole, might very well be his alter ego. “I’m the Speaker,” said the governor grandly, “he (Oluwawole) is on that seat on my behalf. He is the Acting Speaker, therefore, he cannot be wrong. If he is wrong, we will take it to the Government House and resolve it. Therefore, I will pass the budget myself.” Since Mr Fayose won the governorship some two years ago, he has deliberately and systematically suffocated dissent from all sectors of the society, from the legislature to the executive, and from the civil society to the judiciary. Even the unions have either been castrated or infiltrated and disembowelled.

All Mr Fayose needed to do more last Tuesday to look and feel like the wartime leader he so casually tried to ape was to have a red star embossed on his camouflage face cap to remind the nostalgic socialists among his audience of the inimitable Chairman Mao Zedong, the late iconic leader of modern China. But since the hood does not make the monk, Mr Fayose’s evocation of wartime imagery, such as suffused the world in the roaring epochs of the last century, appeared a little overdone, if not entirely surreal. Of course, the happy-go-lucky governor does not give a damn what anyone thinks. If he says Nigeria is in wartime, then so it is. Indeed, if there is no war in actual fact, if Nigerians do not think recession and hunger amount to war, why, he could easily furnish them one, if not in deed, then at least in word. And, boy, does Mr Fayose gibber.

In a way, Mr Fayose’s soldierly dressing last Tuesday was a predictable progression from the ‘war’ his fecund imagination had continually engendered since he first took office after flamboyantly defeating the then incumbent, Niyi Adebayo, in 2003. A little more than three years later, he was impeached. But shortly before the impeachment in October, 2006, Mr Fayose had entered into war mode. As he scurried from one rat hole to another pursued by the agents of state unleashed against him by the Olusegun Obasanjo presidency, the beleaguered governor occasionally emerged on the stump to rally his bewildered supporters. The electorate honoured his summons and humoured him with rapt attention as he declaimed, eyes blazing and mouth frothing, upon difficult and unfamiliar democratic concepts. He managed in the process to ladle out boiling oil on Chief Obasanjo whom he accused of betrayal despite selling himself rather cheaply to the former president as errand boy. As he hurled abuses at his enemies, some of them imaginary, many observers thought the frightened and cornered Mr Fayose had taken leave of his senses, perhaps stimulated by something ghastly and unearthly.

Now, 10 years after that impeachment, and barely two years after his return to office through another election, Mr Fayose is once again feeling cornered and frightened. He had won an election on the back of one of the most controversial and induced governorship elections ever. But win he did, nevertheless. However, with nearly all his accomplices in the induced 2014 poll intercepted and questioned by the anti-graft agencies, and the secret service breathing threats against him and down his neck, Mr Fayose is filled with alarm as the dossier of his sins grows fat and the prospect of his date with nemesis looms larger than his imagination can contain. It was perhaps in anticipation of this doomsday scenario that he did his damnedest to avert the election of Muhammadu Buhari as president. His instincts were right, for President Buhari is uncompromising.

Before the last presidential election, Mr Fayose spoke loudest, abused most vitriolically, and warned frantically of the fate that awaited the country under a Buhari presidency. He was right in most parts. But no one paid heed, for it was clear he had neither the disposition of an ethical leader himself nor showed that his past struggles were carried out altruistically for the good of the people, having exploited them intensively and extendedly using dangerous artifices and emotions. He did not spare President Buhari before the 2015 presidential poll, just as he did not spare the opposition before and moments after his own election in 2014 when he orchestrated the most vicious assault on the justice system, particularly in Ekiti. In consequence, the Ekiti legislature became castrated, and the judiciary tamed. Reacting to the tyrannous environment, the opposition fled the state and sought shelter elsewhere, only finding its voice now when the political weather has seemed expansive and clement.

Mr Fayose’s military dressing last Tuesday before the Ekiti lawmakers is beginning to look like a re-enactment of his agonising last months in office in 2006. He says he is in war mode. It has little to do with the content of his 2017 budget, nor with the plentiful needs his state’s paltry resources can hardly accommodate. Before his very eyes, and in strict nonconformism with the laws of the land and the constitution, the Department of State Service (DSS) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have become deadlier than they ever were, and eager to pounce on the president’s enemies. The instinctive Mr Fayose knows he tops the list of wanted men.

He has therefore contemplated bailing out of the ship of the deeply troubled Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) without indicating where he would berth. The All Progressives Congress (APC) port would not countenance his bill of lading, not to talk of allowing him in, his opponents suggest gleefully. If the mega party being contemplated by the Ahmed Makarfi faction of the PDP should materialise, he would gladly berth there. But more intriguingly, the boisterous Ekiti governor has decided to implement a two-part strategy to insure his own future and mitigate the almost certain fate he believed would befall him in 2018 when his second term ends. His first approach is to treat the Ekiti people much better than he had planned or desired. To this extent, Mr Fayose has suddenly become a much better politician than his jejune ‘stomach infrastructure’ politics predisposed him in the past. Second, and more crucially, he has begun a rapprochement with the Southwest power elite in whose hands he seems keener to put his fate and destiny.

Whether these tactics will avail him much or not remains to be seen. But he hinges his survival on the alienated Southwest power elite already giving subterranean battle to both President Buhari and a possibly chequered and weakened APC. This is a difficult gamble, for at the moment no one in the Southwest but Mr Fayose himself seems eager for an open warfare when tact and discreteness would suffice. So far, too, the APC has managed to sustain a tenuous truce in its internecine conflict, with many erstwhile enemies of the president within and outside the party being wooed by presidential tactical committees in brazen defiance and subsumption of the president’s ethical codes. It will grieve Mr Fayose to see that the president is having a head start in putting together alliances for 2019. But this is unavoidable.

War footing or not, Mr Fayose will leave office nearly a year before President Buhari. Except the president’s hands are debilitated by political and economic circumstances, a cruel and inescapable fate awaits the Ekiti governor the moment he vacates office. Mr Fayose has consistently played to the gallery and thrown caviar to the general with considerable aplomb, and has in turn become somewhat a darling of a gullible section of the Southwest electorate. He will likely intensify his famed gambit for needless and reckless excesses, and continue to troll the recesses of his dark mind for extra supply of caviar to nurture his warmongering and addictions. But there is nothing in his ideas or background, not to say his present and future, to make even his friends and potential allies let down their guards.

http://thenationonlineng.net/irascible-bohemian-fayose/[/s]

Nobody takes the Nation Newspaper serious.
They always write as their pay master wants.

Most senseless junk paper ever!

Okay, I'll read when I wake up

Is that Tinubu's Newspaper? Dear Atiku I think it's time you establish a Newspaper Company too

#JosephGoebbels

Op wetin u smoke

Buhari can present the budget in herdsman attire if he likes. We know the writer,where he works and who pays him

“I’m the Speaker,” said the governor grandly, “he (Oluwawole) is on that seat on my behalf. He is the Acting Speaker, therefore, he cannot be wrong. If he is wrong, we will take it to the Government House and resolve it. Therefore, I will pass the budget myself.”

Can someone tell me what exactly is wrong with the typical Nigerian politician? How did we end up with such crop of useless, uninspiring, uncouth, and intellectually handicapped bandits as "leaders"?

Lord, what exactly did we do wrong to deserve this most severe punishment?

bigFOOTcaveMAN:


Nobody takes the Nation Newspaper serious.
They always write as their pay master wants.

Most senseless junk paper ever!

Learn to make reference to yourself alone when making such usseless statements. I doubt your name is "nobody". An "i" in place of "nobody" would have made alot more sense. Or perhaps you'd like to tell us the paper to take "seriously". Trent maybe

[quote author=Corrinthians post=51790196]Learn to make reference to yourself alone when making such usseless statements. I doubt your name is "nobody". An "i" in place of "nobody" would have made alot more sense.

Mr Fayose has consistently played to the gallery and thrown caviar to the general with considerable aplomb, and has in turn become somewhat a darling of a gullible section of the Southwest southeast electorate

Apart from Ekiti, fayose has no followerhip or support from the south west.

Spits on ponmo!

bigFOOTcaveMAN:


Nobody takes the Nation Newspaper serious.
They always write as their pay master wants.

Most senseless junk paper ever!

So please give us the list of newspapers we should take serious.

seunmsg:
Mr Fayose has consistently played to the gallery and thrown caviar to the general with considerable aplomb, and has in turn become somewhat a darling of a gullible section of the Southwest southeast electorate
[s]
Apart from Ekiti, fayose has no followerhip or support from [/s]the south west.

Fayose is more popular and loved than Awolowo

Mujaheeeden:
Fayose is more popular and loved than Awolowo

He is more popular and loved in the south east than the combination of Azikiwe and Ojukwu. He is the leader that iPods crave for daily.

Atiku2019:
Is that Tinubu's Newspaper? Dear Atiku I think it's time you establish a Newspaper Company too
#JosephGoebbels

nairalanders should support Nigeria's most successful gay...

This reporter must be sacked!!! Why he wasted so many words, space and the time of readers, by discussing an educated illiterate and a political toddler, he would have to explain to the board of directors, at the next general meeting!!!

Stupid writeup brought to the fore by one of Tinubu's slaves.

Like Afonja like Tinubu!

Seun, this is one of the reasons we need unlike button on NL, just give it a trial gaddemmit

seunmsg:
Mr Fayose has consistently played to the gallery and thrown caviar to the general with considerable aplomb, and has in turn become somewhat a darling of a gullible section of the Southwest southeast electorate
Apart from Ekiti, fayose has no followerhip or support from the south west.

Na them wey dey for the state know wetin they dey enjoy



Us wey dey outside na to sit down - Watch


who knows, his state might be better and it's the media that is demonizing him
(like the case of libya and Gaddafi)

na to sit down - Watch sure pass oo
we go understand as the movie play out

bigFOOTcaveMAN:


Nobody takes the Nation Newspaper serious.
They always write as their pay master wants.

Most senseless junk paper ever!

Yea! The guys @thenationonline have failed to realize Nigerians can't be easily fooled by their propaganda.

bigFOOTcaveMAN:

Nobody takes the Nation Newspaper serious. They always write as their pay master wants.
Most senseless junk paper ever!

must u quote that long Epistle
u get time ooooo

SINGLE BABES! Christmas is by the corner and I know 99% are preparing for it. 'Ndi nnata' (home-coming people) will be coming around. Events will be holding. You wanna look good and be at your best peradventure..... (you know the rest). It is very good to look good not just at Christmas but everyday. However, this is what I want to say. SHINE YOUR EYES. Don't be desperate. Don't let any nigga come and wash your head with 'ogbo na ncha' (sponge and soap). They all have good stories to tell o...no doubt. Some, true. Most, lies. But dont get carried away. I would prefer that you just be your good and presentable self with God leading you. Do not allow the flesh and its desires (emotional, psychological, financial, social, etc) lead you. I know the strenght of the flesh can be overwhelming. But be determined. 'Application letters' will come. Please be very careful when reading them. Some bad intentions come with beautiful 'application letters'. So, don't get carried away with how well it is written. Don't be too fast. Test every spirit. They will tell you what you want to hear. Please don't fall for it. Dont also grace their beds. If he leaves because of that, that's good riddance. Most of them are actually after that. Again, do not forget that most of them have serious relationships wherever they are coming from. Some are even married! They won't tell you. Few may be open about it. That, then depends on what you want for yourself. Beware! You musn't get him at Christmas. If after Christmas,you feel that you didnt get a genuine 'Application letter' or that you can't go all the way with any of the 'writers'. Please, don't despair. God has a nice package for you. Just be patient. Emmm....let me stop here for now. Just some words of advice to my beautiful single ladies in the house.

Unchained Mad Dog

Fayose will b arrested and detained but d judge wil still grant him bail as usual
Except if d general decided yo give him d dasuki and nnmadi kano treatment.

i know bohemian as a football team and i always carry them straight win....and they dont fall my hands....
meaning that fayose is a sure win....lol

Very apt.

Most commentators up there probably didn't read the article.

Lol