Oroyo10:
I thought leadership was about service? Clearly, our Nigerian politicians think differently.

they want power

Oroyo10:
Yes oo. That is the bone of contention now. 12 out of the 17 have not being had not being sworn in before.

But they are constitutionally, no more members of the house, by virtue of their seats, been declared vacant.
More over, they took the matter to court, do they not have confidence in our legal system again?
Why should Buhari allow this? This may consume this democratic era

honeyB2018:


But they are constitutionally, no more members of the house, by virtue of their seats, been declared vacant.
More over, they took the matter to court, do they not have confidence in our legal system again?
Why should Buhari allow this? This may consume this democratic era

You are very right.

kerryemudiaga:
Now policemen are just political tools. No form of protocol observed. A bunch of poor and hungry gun-carriers

no b today e start

But the President has really not cared before. You saw what happened in Osun.

kerryemudiaga:
What might we have done to deserve all of these hardship n power-recklessness

until d youths decide to not be elements or objects of destruction

NEWACADEMY:
And they must tone down. It is not their children they will use to fight. Come to think of it. How many of their children even vote.

let d children of others have sense na



let them stop being used for few thousands

Ninjanaija:
What happened today is just shows us the battle ahead. Election is war now in Nigeria. Thinking about what happened in Kano and Osun is still unbelievable.

shinanigans

Ninjanaija:
If someone told me he will not resign when terrible elections were conducted as as the chairman of the ruling party l would have argued then.

everything na politics

Ninjanaija:
There are very few people since 1999 that can say they have fought for Nigerians like Oshiomole did as NLC president.

oshiomole of then



oshiomole changed



power changed him

Earlier , following Idiaye’s impeachment on Wednesday , Speaker of the House , Frank Okiye , said Idiaye was impeached because he allegedly planned with the leaders of the All Progressives Congress and the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma , “to illegally and violently take over” the Assembly.

Ninjanaija:
I think about Jonathan, l see a leader who is intellectually sound, loves his country but poor in the Nigeria political skills. In this government, they understand the political skills and they are over using it at the detriment of the nation. For intellect and love. You judge yourself.

leave Jonathan for his people



Nigerians rejected him


now we all want him urgently

We call on Edo State people , whose mandate and interest the state legislature holds and protect, to rise against this attack and plot to subvert their will and subjugate them using external forces .

We urge lovers of democracy across the world and institutions that uphold democracy and value, as well as pro-democracy groups to denounce this planned illegality that seems to distract a duly constituted authority .

With about six weeks to the September 19 governorship election in Edo , the political atmosphere gets turbo- charged day after day .

The deputy speaker of the Edo House of Assembly Yekini Idiaye has been impeached on Wednesday.

Idiaye is the lawmaker representing Akoko-Edo Constituency I in the assembly.

His impeachment by lawmakers in the assembly comes days after he declared support for Osagie Ize-Iyamu, an opponent to the current governor Godwin Obaseki in the Edo State governorship election

Keeping a grip on the levers of power is vital for the governing party as its opponents in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) draw attention to the failures of the federal government.

At the state and regional levels, the APC wants to hang onto Edo State, the only state in the south-south that it controls.

On a personal level, the battle in Edo State is between Governor Godwin Obaseki and his erstwhile political godfather Adams Oshiomhole, the ousted national chairman of the APC.

Obaseki won the 2016 gubernatorial election in Edo on the APC ticket but then fell out badly with Oshiomhole




what caused d fallout??



power tussle

Oshiomhole used his power within party structures to block Obaseki’s nomination for a second term as governor in this year’s election.

For Oshiomhole, Ize-Iyamu is an ally of convenience. In 2016, Oshiomhole spurned Ize-Iyamu’s campaign for the governorship in Edo in favour of Obaseki. Now it is the other way around. And in 2012, Ize-Iyamu led Oshiomhole’s campaign for a second term as governor of Edo.

That triggered Obaseki’s defection to the opposition PDP, although he remains the incumbent governor, with all its powers of patronage, until the September election.

And Oshiomhole has shoe-horned in his protégé Osagie Ize-Iyamu as the APC’s candidate for the Edo governorship. This is much more than a battle between incumbent Obaseki and challenger Ize-Iyamu

If Obaseki wins, he is likely to run his governorship in the same way and with the same policies as he did his first term, regardless of the fact that he is now representing the opposition. Parties matter mostly as campaigning machines.

What is the future for Oshiomhole in Edo? As a trade unionist who entered politics, he has kept support from workers, as well as picking up new and important political allies, such as Tinubu, along the way.

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State said on Thursday that the state would resist any attempt by anybody to forcefully take over the state House of Assembly.

to what end when Nigerians are d ones suffering from all d political wars and imbalance?

we need to calm down in this country oo

Ninjanaija:
This morning some people went to remove the maze at the house of Assembly.

there's no security at the house of assembly?

Ninjanaija:
You will see brazen use of Federal might against opposition and Mr President will not say anything.

where is Mr President??

Ninjanaija:
With all of these, how do you expect a soldier to stand when he hears the screaming sound of Anti Aircraft gun from BH.

oga go jakpa

Ninjanaija:
Meanwhile 17 members of the house went to an hotel and impeached the speaker who is with the Governor.

what happened to d house of assembly?


d house wasn't locked then