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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by bluefilm: 6:15pm On Mar 16, 2019
Dele is a political prostitute.

Ho ha.

I'm so glad that this time around, his gamble to mount and suck the dîck of that Cameroonian has failed him completely.

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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by Nobody: 6:20pm On Mar 16, 2019
YourbaAreSlaves:
Afonja. They will always jump out to defend the midget 666 illuminati fake pastor. We Nigerian's know he is not a man of God, we are going to show them pepper come 2023. If Gbenga Daniels like let him join Tinubu , Yoruba, oduduwa, sango put all of them together, they will crash painfully like Ethiopian Aircraft politically come 2023, no time...

your head is purely me empty....what's gbenga , tinubu , Yoruba and co stakes on this ? you need brain surgery

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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by koladebrainiac(m): 6:26pm On Mar 16, 2019
tommykiwi:
Just full of trash!
because it doesn't suit your narrative? I get it bro. Go drink water, it will calm u.

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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by purpledferanmi1: 6:26pm On Mar 16, 2019
Because that's not what you wanna read. idiot.
Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by Akolawole(m): 6:36pm On Mar 16, 2019
YourbaAreSlaves:
Afonja. They will always jump out to defend the midget 666 illuminati fake pastor. We Nigerian's know he is not a man of God, we are going to show them pepper come 2023. If Gbenga Daniels like let him join Tinubu , Yoruba, oduduwa, sango put all of them together, they will crash painfully like Ethiopian Aircraft politically come 2023, no time...

Are we not obediently atikulating again?

As if Internet noises win election

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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by bling01: 6:47pm On Mar 16, 2019
So u expect me to read this? U dey kolo
Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by largeman4u(m): 6:51pm On Mar 16, 2019
Nice response

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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by Gaffass(m): 6:55pm On Mar 16, 2019
Laolu is only trying to defend his boss and party. His attempt to demonize the past administration fall short of the fact. If the election conducted by previous administration was so bad. How come his party was able to come into government.

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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by mosh2035(m): 6:57pm On Mar 16, 2019
Dele Momodu should be crying after reading the reply, Laolu placed him in the trash can forever. He is a political b##### filled with massive greed, self interest, seeking attention in the corridors of power. It seems it runs in their family when Sophe intentionally "fell pregnant for Davido" (Linda's new phrase..... lol) all in the name of getting money for child support. My advice to Dele "focus on how to grow your business rather than how to lick asses to get government contracts/ slush funds".

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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by 13october: 7:01pm On Mar 16, 2019
YourbaAreSlaves:
Afonja. They will always jump out to defend the midget 666 illuminati fake pastor. We Nigerian's know he is not a man of God, we are going to show them pepper come 2023. If Gbenga Daniels like let him join Tinubu , Yoruba, oduduwa, sango put all of them together, they will crash painfully like Ethiopian Aircraft politically come 2023, no time...
Biafra brainless have started, flat head full of ego

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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by 13october: 7:02pm On Mar 16, 2019
Akolawole:


Are we not obediently atikulating again?

As if Internet noises win election
Oooh you mean the lefenlandum People
Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by integrity16(m): 7:10pm On Mar 16, 2019
babamadiba:
Obasanjo finally has an heir in letter writing. Glory be to God.


An heir in spirit and in truth...LMao!

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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by Atirolaoluwa: 7:21pm On Mar 16, 2019
Plz can somebody summarize it for ?
I need a rest
Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by tommykiwi(m): 7:23pm On Mar 16, 2019
Jodesky:


It can't make any sense to an illiterate....
illiterate like you I guess? Is it only in Lagos that they experience free and fair election? So if the write up is not trash why did he talk of Rivers state election?
Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by Chikpat(m): 7:39pm On Mar 16, 2019
This is sound and simply ok. It shows there are very able hands in the presidency who can keep emotions, sentiments aside and work professionally. Laolu, you are noticed!

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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by ihatesycophant(m): 7:45pm On Mar 16, 2019
tommykiwi:
Just full of trash!
It would be trash because he didn't praise your God's forsaken party, PDP.
Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by oluwasegun007(m): 7:51pm On Mar 16, 2019
etrouble:


Laolu Akande said that Dele Momodu has a big body but small and useleess brain like that of imPatience Jonathan the megalomaniac narcissistic thieving sheppopo.


Thank you..

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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by oluwasegun007(m): 7:52pm On Mar 16, 2019
brightalo17:
They Buhari to call Atiku to congratulate him for losing the 2019 election to Buhari.

Lol.... grin, OK thank you for the summary.
Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by ihatesycophant(m): 7:54pm On Mar 16, 2019
Gaffass:
Laolu is only trying to defend his boss and party. His attempt to demonize the past administration fall short of the fact. If the election conducted by previous administration was so bad. How come his party was able to come into government.
Bad belle! APC was able to win because people were determined for a change in 2015 and that was why they did all they could that year to subvert the wish of the people by killing number of people. 2015 election recorded highest number of deaths in any election in Nigeria and these deaths were more in south south, specifically Rivers and Akwa-Ibom.

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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by duwdu: 7:57pm On Mar 16, 2019
Frankonuche:
Laolu Akande Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President

My dear Bob Dee!

One could have easily made up his mind not to read or respond to anything you wrote after seeing the rather unprincipled queuing up behind Senator Bukola Saraki and then abandoning him, moving on to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and then deserting him as well.

But I felt one should respond to your attempts to create a false narrative from the very hollow lamentation of the recent elections as the “worst in our history”.

In my view, those like your good self, veteran journalists, who have built a formidable platform in the public arena must strive always to use the platform for the larger public good. There have been several interventions from you that reflect such true public spirit, but some of us stridently disagree with what at times could be perceived as a self-serving journalistic conduct. Many would seem to agree that this was obvious in your recent open letter to the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.

But first, let me thank you for your gracious words of congratulations to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Vice President, and your admiration for the VP’s commendable performance in office. I am certain that your quest for public accountability derives from that admiration.

It is important to state that a citizen’s open letter to public figures or government authority is always welcome here and not necessarily a matter of right or exclusive access. For us, such matters of access for the people to their elected leaders is of normal cause and ought not to be a matter of exclusivity nor should we make a play of it as so special.

As is typical of your propaganda machinery, it begins with an outrageous lie by the principal then the operatives like yourself repeat it ad naseum. It appears you were not in this country when foreign and local observers accepted the results.Independent Foreign Observers commended the transparency and credibility of the Presidential and National Assembly elections.

Also, the Independent ElectionMonitor group, supported by the French Embassy, concluded that “based on the analysis carried out in this document as well as the actual observations of the election activities across the country, it is Election Monitor’s considered opinion that the 2019 Presidential Election results are consistent with the will of the majority of voters who took part in the elections notwithstanding the various infractions which also occurred as they were not on a scale significant enough to affect the overall outcome of the election.(ElectionMonitorNG)

YIAGA Africa’s Parrallel Voting Tabulation, relied on by international agencies, embassies and funders also said its “findings show that for the presidential election the All Progressive Congress (APC) should receive between 50.0 per cent and 55.8 per cent of the vote.” And that “the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) should receive between 41.2 per cent and 47.0 per cent of the vote; these figures are consistent with the official results as just announced by INEC.

“For both APC and PDP, the official results fall within the PVT estimated ranges.” That YIAGA AFRICA results statement was based on reports from 1,491 polling units which are 98.4 per cent of sampled polling units. YIAGA AFRICA’s projections were reportedly also consistent with the officially announced vote shares for the other 71 parties who contested in the presidential election. It is also believed that the group’s projections were based on the results announced in the polling units and would have detected any significant manipulation occurring during collation at the ward, local government area, State and national levels. Also, “INEC’s official results for turnout and rejected ballots were also generally consistent with YIAGA AFRICA WTV estimates.” (Vanguard)

These are empirical facts, my dear Bob Dee, especially if you your analysis through any rigorous tests. Propaganda and falsehood only need a willing sponsor.

Yes, observers mentioned pockets of violence and some malpractices, but none felt that these were sufficient to affect the credibility of the elections or its results. Frequently cited is Ago Palace in Lagos. One unit in a city of 20 million! In any event, the real question is, how did the violence in the comparatively few places where it happened favour the President? And how come the strong allegations of foul play by the likes of Godswill Akpabio in Akwa Ibom, George Akume in Benue and Ndoma-Egba in Cross River State (all APC Senatorial aspirants!) escaped your eagle eyes?

It is sometimes forgotten, and Bob Dee , you chose to forget, that for the previous 16 years before 2015, the PDP governments had conducted elections. Everyone is familiar with the incredible excesses of the elections and the election-observer reports so poignantly describe some.

In the 2003 elections which gave Atiku Abubakar and his boss a second term, Wikipedia observes that “Millions of people voted several times. The police in Lagos uncovered an electoral fraud, finding five million false ballots.”

But the 2007 elections got even worse reviews: “Following the presidential election, groups monitoring the election gave it a dismal assessment. Chief European Union observer Max van den Berg reported that the handling of the polls had “fallen far short” of basic international standards, and that “the process cannot be considered to be credible”, citing “poor election organisation, lack of transparency, significant evidence of fraud, voter disenfranchisement, violence and bias.”

They described the election as “the worst they had ever seen anywhere in the world”, with “rampant vote rigging, violence, theft of ballot boxes and intimidation”).One group of observers said that at one polling station in Yenagoa, in the oil-rich South-South, where 500 people were registered to vote, more than 2,000 votes were counted.”

Your choice of words such as “theatre of war” to describe the presidential polls is not only inaccurate and questionable by and large, but also surprising considering the recent history of past presidential polls. And you have to tell us who described the elections as “the most dreadful and desperate”?

Besides this facts that you carefully chose to ignore, the contents of your letter read in part like a brief for the opposition, and, at other times, a judgment of an electoral tribunal in favour of the opposition. And such bias undermines the credibility of the author such as yourself.

It could even render the write-up confusing rather than informing the readers. For good measure, Bob Dee, maybe we should just remind our readers that not only are you an active member of the opposition, you have also benefited from significant business relationships with some in the opposition circles. And this is entirely within your right.

But that certainly discounts your assessment about the direction of our administration. It also devalues your criticism of the narratives that hold those who raped this country in the past responsible for the consequences of their corrupt activities while in government.

One also wonders whether it is your well-known personal relationship with the opposition that has beclouded you so much that you seek to assail the anti-corruption efforts which ordinary and well-meaning Nigerians have embraced.

Let me make it clear that the facts show that while some old members of the opposition have joined APC, that has not shielded those responsible for corruption and graft. In any case, even if old PDP members are now APC members, the current leadership of the country under the APC stands out as it is made up of two gentlemen with impeccable integrity.

Old PDP members and all Nigerians are welcome just like sinners are embraced in the church, Inf act, the church was opened for sinners to be converted. And what is skewed about the anti-corruption campaign when the two governors who have now been convicted for corruption are both APC?

Having said that, be rest assured that the APC as a party will articulate its defences to any allegations. For the records, it is an obvious fact and this must be reiterated that the Buhari administration has a commendable record of respecting the independence of INEC, a clear departure from what occurred under previous administrations. This government also ensures that it provides all the support INEC requires, as well as respects the independence of the judiciary and has ensured that security forces act within the ambits of law. Even international observers have made their comments accordingly and positively.

As the Buhari administration always noted, every single loss of life is sad and lamentable. And previous elections have regrettably caused even far more losses. We must achieve an electoral system that doesn’t result in any such loss of life. However, the record of improvement from the past is clear as it were.

To characterize the will of the people as Pyrrhic victory represents what exactly needs to change in and about our nation. Indeed, our privilege as elites imposes the responsibility of trustees of power, wealth, values and direction of and for a nation in the interest of the people upon us. To narrow this interest or substitute our amplified voices as the vocal minority for the silent majority is not only taking liberties a little too far, but also losing tune and touch with our national realities. As leaders, we must reflect introspectively on how we have prioritized the people, and how we must continue to do so going forward.

This is what President Muhammadu Buhari is known for and it is what played out in the elections. It is the voices of the few and the devices of the privileged that the Opposition regarded and expected to hold up. That did not happen.

We respect the right to disagree and exercise that right through the established mechanisms, but we reject any denigration and the diminishing of the electoral outcome which is the true voice and expression of the people of this country.

As you noted, the whole concept of sin in the worldly context is a violation of the law of the land, and in the spiritual context, a violation against God. That you judge either as a matter of law, or ecclesiastically when you by yourself determine that this administration is “committing sin” is a departure from what your letter identifies as its objective. Victory in an election is a nation speaking up, while the victor is the symbol of that nation’s victory.

Both life, by its temporal nature, and the Constitution, by its term limitations and periodic elections, already ensure that we all know that everything but eternity is transient, and the example of that in our nation today is the rejection of the old order four years ago, and the most recent confirmation of that rejection by preferring the new and current order, and the Next Level of our national restoration and growth.

Finally, thank you for declaring your belief that the APC “would have won” a handsome victory because that was exactly what happened! It is your equivocation about Atiku’s loss expressed in the same letter where you said you expected an APC “handsome victory” that left me and other readers confounded. What are we to believe?

Again, thank you for your open letter. Be rest assured that the Vice President and the President would continue working for the good of all Nigerians in the Next Level.

Laolu Akande is Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President

This is an excellent piece of work! Thank you for this civil, factual, and intelligent response and discuss, Laolu Akande; you're carried!

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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by duwdu: 8:07pm On Mar 16, 2019
Honor10:
Ooo! why should starboy reply this Davido's boy, useless Agbaya.

*if u believe this election was rigged in the north and was not rigged in the south, then ur head is full of saw dust.

* If u believe it is rigging that made Atiku to even lose his polling unit, then u need to be flogged.

*If u think saraki was rigged out, but the same machinery failed to rigged Adelabu in, then ur brain is empty.

* if u think the election was rigged in the K- states for Buhari, and u don't believed the same machinery can successfully rigged for their respective APC candidates, u need to refund ur sch fees.

* if u think 2007 election with over 9 million margin with less population than now is better than 2019 election, then u are hypocrite.


*And lastly, if u think it is only when PDP win that the election is free and fair but rigged when APC win, then u need deliverance.


Osibanjo 2023.

Well said.

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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by Naija4love(m): 8:08pm On Mar 16, 2019
Who go read all this post..
Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by Kfed4ril(m): 8:08pm On Mar 16, 2019
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Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by PanickMode(m): 8:41pm On Mar 16, 2019
Naija don too write letter, e do! sad
Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by arsenal33: 10:04pm On Mar 16, 2019
tommykiwi:
Just full of trash!
you didn't read it
Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by babamadiba(m): 2:50am On Mar 17, 2019
integrity16:



An heir in spirit and in truth...LMao!
lol
Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by jaxxy(m): 6:47am On Mar 17, 2019
TheAngry1:
I wonder why anyone would EVER consider replying Dele Momodu. He is just a baby in an adult's body. He is as inconsistent as they come. One moment he is saying crucify him, the next, he calls you messiah. I am glad Momodu and his likes have been politically retired forever.


Everybody knows Dele momodu states the facts and his writing was way more articulate and coherent than this junk I just read by whoever. I won’t say if Atiku or buhari wud have won or not bt the election was a big sham compared to the 2015 general elections done by Jonathan. It was like taking us back 12 years in such archaic and crude fashion. There is nothing great or honorable in copying/repeating mistakes of the past to justify actions of the present.
Re: Right Of Reply To Pendulum Open Letter To The Vp By Laolu Akande by ihatesycophant(m): 10:21am On Mar 17, 2019
jaxxy:



Everybody knows Dele momodu states the facts and his writing was way more articulate and coherent than this junk I just read by whoever. I won’t say if Atiku or buhari wud have won or not bt the election was a big sham compared to the 2015 general elections done by Jonathan. It was like taking us back 12 years in such archaic and crude fashion. There is nothing great or honorable in copying/repeating mistakes of the past to justify actions of the present.
I do believe you were in your mother's womb in 2015, so you must have gotten your view from the gutter. The 2015 elections recorded the highest number of deaths in the history of Nigeria. The 2011 election was a child's play to 2015 election. We know the deaths recorded in Rivers and Akwa-Ibom before, during and after election and how desperate they were to over rigged for Jonathan. The result of this year's election has really exposed them. The same Rivers that gave Jonathan up to 1.5M could not muster 1M for all parties this year. Same apply to Akwa-Ibom. The results of both gubernatorial and presidential elections have shown how they've been rigging elections in south south. We also know what happened in 2003, 2007 and 2011. How election is still ongoing and result announce in Abuja. We know the number of elections nullified by tribunal in this period and even in 2015. Virtually all elections in Rivers state in 2015 were nullified and you're here writing rubbish.

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