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What is Tinubu Hiding from Nigerians, Covering from the Global Community?

What is Tinubu Hiding from Nigerians, Covering from the Global Community?

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By Citizen Bolaji O. Akinyemi





A Presidency of Paradox


When Bola Ahmed Tinubu rode into power under the slogan of Renewed Hope, Nigerians expected a restoration of governance at home and credibility abroad. But two years down the line, what do we see? A President constantly on the move—shuttling between world capitals—while the very springboards of Nigeria’s diplomacy, its embassies and high commissions, remain headless and hollow.


This paradox begs the question: what is Tinubu hiding from Nigerians, and what is he trying to cover from the global community?




The Intellectual Spark: Dr. Ola Olateju’s Intervention


This question is not raised in a vacuum. It emerges from the detailed and courageous analysis of Dr. Ola Olateju in Political Panorama, Issue No. 17 (June 2, 2025), titled “Nigeria Without Ambassadors: A Silent Crisis in Tinubu’s Foreign Policy Vision.”


Olateju, a seasoned political scientist with a PhD from Swansea University and an impressive record of scholarship and civic engagement, laid bare the subsisting emptiness of our foreign embassies. His piece, meticulously researched, stripped away the excuses of “financial constraints” and “security vetting delays,” showing instead how Nigeria’s prolonged absence from global representation is a self-inflicted wound.


It is his intellectual labour that provides the canvas upon which I now paint this sharper, more conscience-pricking interrogation: if our embassies are empty, while our President is busy globe-trotting, then should we not ask—what exactly is being hidden, and from whom?




The Empty Embassies: Silence as Strategy


Since September 2023, Nigeria has had no substantive ambassadors in most of its foreign missions. As Olateju’s essay demonstrates, the cost is more than administrative; it is strategic self-sabotage.


Ambassadors are the eyes, ears, and voices of the state abroad. Their absence reduces Nigeria’s foreign presence to shadows. It silences our voice in multilateral forums, weakens our hand in negotiations, and abandons our citizens abroad.


This silence is not oversight; it is strategy. And therein lies the hidden truth: a deliberate personalization of diplomacy.




Personalization of Statecraft


Tinubu’s foreign travels, devoid of ambassadorial structures, centralize negotiations in his person. Trade deals, bilateral talks, and multilateral commitments—normally institutionalized through embassies—are reduced to presidential handshakes and fleeting announcements.


What happens when the President returns to Abuja? Who follows up in those capitals? Who drafts the cables, negotiates the details, and locks in Nigeria’s interest?


By refusing to appoint ambassadors, Tinubu ensures that accountability rests nowhere but his office. This creates room for cronies to monopolize opportunities that should be national in character. As Olateju rightly observed, diplomacy without diplomats is nothing but theatre—and costly theatre at that.




The Cost of a Silent Nigeria


1. Strategic Marginalization:

Nigeria, once the conscience of Africa, is absent in key multilateral spaces. Who represents us on ECOWAS’ crisis over the Sahel? Who lobbies for our developmental interests in Geneva? Silence has become our policy.



2. Diaspora Abandonment:

With 15 million Nigerians abroad contributing over $20 billion annually in remittances, embassies should be their shield. Instead, citizens are stranded in detention cells, without an ambassador to escalate their cases.



3. Economic Self-Sabotage:

Investment thrives on credibility. Ambassadors open doors, lobby investors, and defend national interest. Nigeria’s absence has meant lost opportunities while smaller African states like Rwanda and Ghana punch above their weight.



4. Institutional Demoralization:

Dozens of career diplomats languish in Abuja, waiting for deployment. The President’s indecision is their exile. What message does this send about merit, professionalism, and service?






What is Being Hidden?


The refusal to appoint ambassadors hides three things:


Weak Institutions: Nigeria’s institutions are so hollowed that governance depends on personal performance. Tinubu cannot trust the system, so he centralizes it in himself.


Crony Advantage: By bypassing ambassadors, he shields sensitive trade and diplomatic dealings from institutional scrutiny, allowing cronies to corner opportunities.


Diplomatic Paralysis: The absence covers the fact that Nigeria has no coherent foreign policy doctrine under this government—only episodic travels and empty rhetoric.





Covering from the Global Community


Every handshake abroad is a performance, a mask to cover the dysfunction at home. But global actors know. They see the absence of Nigerian envoys. They note the void in negotiations. They sense the weakness.


And the danger is this: in diplomacy, vacuums do not remain empty. Other powers step in. Nigeria’s silence opens the door for France, China, and even smaller African states to dictate the terms of continental politics.




The Moral Reckoning


Nigeria once led the anti-apartheid struggle. We brokered peace in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Our diplomats were legends of courage and clarity. Today, our embassies are ghost houses.


“Ilu ki i wa lai ni olori” — no town exists without a leader. Yet Nigeria’s missions exist without ambassadors. Our nation wanders without a diplomatic head.


Olateju’s intervention is timely. It is a scholarly alarm bell. But beyond scholarship lies the moral reckoning: will Nigeria continue to drift leaderless in global politics while our President performs at summits?




Call to Action: Let Nigeria Speak Again


Tinubu must:


1. Immediately nominate ambassadors for Senate confirmation.



2. Appoint on merit, not patronage.



3. Rebuild a coherent foreign policy doctrine.



4. Restore embassies as the springboard of diplomacy, not presidential theatrics.






Conclusion: The Question that Haunts Us


Dr. Ola Olateju has done the intellectual heavy lifting, exposing the silent crisis in Tinubu’s foreign policy vision. My task has been to translate that intellectual diagnosis into a political and moral charge.


So, what is Tinubu hiding from Nigerians? That our institutions are too weak to function. That diplomacy has been hijacked for personal advantage. That Nigeria, in truth, is absent where it most matters.


And what is he covering from the global community? That Africa’s so-called giant has lost its roar.


But history has ears, and silence is never permanent. Nigeria will speak again—if not through this government, then through the people’s eventual awakening.


Dr. Bolaji O. Akinyemi is an Apostle and Nation Builder. He’s also President Voice of His Word Ministries and Convener Apostolic Round Table. BoT Chairman, Project Victory Call Initiative, AKA PVC Naija. He is a strategic Communicator and the C.E.O, Masterbuilder Communications.


Email:bolajiakinyemi66@gmail.com

Facebook:Bolaji Akinyemi.

X:Bolaji O Akinyemi 

Instagram:bolajioakinyemi 

Phone:+2348033041236



By Citizen Bolaji O. Akinyemi





A Presidency of Paradox


When Bola Ahmed Tinubu rode into power under the slogan of Renewed Hope, Nigerians expected a restoration of governance at home and credibility abroad. But two years down the line, what do we see? A President constantly on the move—shuttling between world capitals—while the very springboards of Nigeria’s diplomacy, its embassies and high commissions, remain headless and hollow.


This paradox begs the question: what is Tinubu hiding from Nigerians, and what is he trying to cover from the global community?




The Intellectual Spark: Dr. Ola Olateju’s Intervention


This question is not raised in a vacuum. It emerges from the detailed and courageous analysis of Dr. Ola Olateju in Political Panorama, Issue No. 17 (June 2, 2025), titled “Nigeria Without Ambassadors: A Silent Crisis in Tinubu’s Foreign Policy Vision.”


Olateju, a seasoned political scientist with a PhD from Swansea University and an impressive record of scholarship and civic engagement, laid bare the subsisting emptiness of our foreign embassies. His piece, meticulously researched, stripped away the excuses of “financial constraints” and “security vetting delays,” showing instead how Nigeria’s prolonged absence from global representation is a self-inflicted wound.


It is his intellectual labour that provides the canvas upon which I now paint this sharper, more conscience-pricking interrogation: if our embassies are empty, while our President is busy globe-trotting, then should we not ask—what exactly is being hidden, and from whom?




The Empty Embassies: Silence as Strategy


Since September 2023, Nigeria has had no substantive ambassadors in most of its foreign missions. As Olateju’s essay demonstrates, the cost is more than administrative; it is strategic self-sabotage.


Ambassadors are the eyes, ears, and voices of the state abroad. Their absence reduces Nigeria’s foreign presence to shadows. It silences our voice in multilateral forums, weakens our hand in negotiations, and abandons our citizens abroad.


This silence is not oversight; it is strategy. And therein lies the hidden truth: a deliberate personalization of diplomacy.




Personalization of Statecraft


Tinubu’s foreign travels, devoid of ambassadorial structures, centralize negotiations in his person. Trade deals, bilateral talks, and multilateral commitments—normally institutionalized through embassies—are reduced to presidential handshakes and fleeting announcements.


What happens when the President returns to Abuja? Who follows up in those capitals? Who drafts the cables, negotiates the details, and locks in Nigeria’s interest?


By refusing to appoint ambassadors, Tinubu ensures that accountability rests nowhere but his office. This creates room for cronies to monopolize opportunities that should be national in character. As Olateju rightly observed, diplomacy without diplomats is nothing but theatre—and costly theatre at that.




The Cost of a Silent Nigeria


1. Strategic Marginalization:

Nigeria, once the conscience of Africa, is absent in key multilateral spaces. Who represents us on ECOWAS’ crisis over the Sahel? Who lobbies for our developmental interests in Geneva? Silence has become our policy.



2. Diaspora Abandonment:

With 15 million Nigerians abroad contributing over $20 billion annually in remittances, embassies should be their shield. Instead, citizens are stranded in detention cells, without an ambassador to escalate their cases.



3. Economic Self-Sabotage:

Investment thrives on credibility. Ambassadors open doors, lobby investors, and defend national interest. Nigeria’s absence has meant lost opportunities while smaller African states like Rwanda and Ghana punch above their weight.



4. Institutional Demoralization:

Dozens of career diplomats languish in Abuja, waiting for deployment. The President’s indecision is their exile. What message does this send about merit, professionalism, and service?






What is Being Hidden?


The refusal to appoint ambassadors hides three things:


Weak Institutions: Nigeria’s institutions are so hollowed that governance depends on personal performance. Tinubu cannot trust the system, so he centralizes it in himself.


Crony Advantage: By bypassing ambassadors, he shields sensitive trade and diplomatic dealings from institutional scrutiny, allowing cronies to corner opportunities.


Diplomatic Paralysis: The absence covers the fact that Nigeria has no coherent foreign policy doctrine under this government—only episodic travels and empty rhetoric.





Covering from the Global Community


Every handshake abroad is a performance, a mask to cover the dysfunction at home. But global actors know. They see the absence of Nigerian envoys. They note the void in negotiations. They sense the weakness.


And the danger is this: in diplomacy, vacuums do not remain empty. Other powers step in. Nigeria’s silence opens the door for France, China, and even smaller African states to dictate the terms of continental politics.




The Moral Reckoning


Nigeria once led the anti-apartheid struggle. We brokered peace in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Our diplomats were legends of courage and clarity. Today, our embassies are ghost houses.


“Ilu ki i wa lai ni olori” — no town exists without a leader. Yet Nigeria’s missions exist without ambassadors. Our nation wanders without a diplomatic head.


Olateju’s intervention is timely. It is a scholarly alarm bell. But beyond scholarship lies the moral reckoning: will Nigeria continue to drift leaderless in global politics while our President performs at summits?




Call to Action: Let Nigeria Speak Again


Tinubu must:


1. Immediately nominate ambassadors for Senate confirmation.



2. Appoint on merit, not patronage.



3. Rebuild a coherent foreign policy doctrine.



4. Restore embassies as the springboard of diplomacy, not presidential theatrics.






Conclusion: The Question that Haunts Us


Dr. Ola Olateju has done the intellectual heavy lifting, exposing the silent crisis in Tinubu’s foreign policy vision. My task has been to translate that intellectual diagnosis into a political and moral charge.


So, what is Tinubu hiding from Nigerians? That our institutions are too weak to function. That diplomacy has been hijacked for personal advantage. That Nigeria, in truth, is absent where it most matters.


And what is he covering from the global community? That Africa’s so-called giant has lost its roar.


But history has ears, and silence is never permanent. Nigeria will speak again—if not through this government, then through the people’s eventual awakening.


Dr. Bolaji O. Akinyemi is an Apostle and Nation Builder. He’s also President Voice of His Word Ministries and Convener Apostolic Round Table. BoT Chairman, Project Victory Call Initiative, AKA PVC Naija. He is a strategic Communicator and the C.E.O, Masterbuilder Communications.


Email:bolajiakinyemi66@gmail.com

Facebook:Bolaji Akinyemi.

X:Bolaji O Akinyemi 

Instagram:bolajioakinyemi 

Phone:+2348033041236

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LABOUR PARTY PRESS STATEMENT: OPEN NOTE TO DEJI ADEYANJU — AMBITION WITHOUT PRINCIPLE IS WORSE THAN SUBSTANCE ABUSE

LABOUR PARTY PRESS STATEMENT: OPEN NOTE TO DEJI ADEYANJU — AMBITION WITHOUT PRINCIPLE IS WORSE THAN SUBSTANCE ABUSE

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By Prince Tony Akeni, 

Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)




Deji Adeyanju & Prince Tony 

Substance abuse go far beyond narcotics intake, meth, _colos,_ heroin or other cerebrum invading and dementing hard drugs. 

Ambition without principle is worse than substance abuse. Any mental activity conceived in the labyrinths of ambition-damaged mind which distorts rational thinking and actions, either at a cost to the individual or to society at large, is as dangerous or more dangerous than substance abuse. 

These include uncontrollable drive for material acquisitions instead of society serving legacy, typical of officials of the ruling administration. It accounts for the pathologically obsessive attack rabies Deji Adeyanju harbours in his blood streams against His Excellency Peter Obi.

When ambition is unbridled and abused, blackmail becomes a strategy. The French social philosopher Oscar Wilde captured this when he wrote: "Ambition is the last refuge of the failure." George MacDonald was even closer home on Deji Adeyanju about greed driven hatred in his defining words: "Ambition is the evil shadow of aspiration."

Learning from mentors, Daniel Bwala and Reno Omokri

With the advent of the emilokan Presidency in 2023, Deji has learned crucial financial lessons. He learnt from his new mentors, the once merciless scorners and critics of President Tinubu, Daniel Bwala, the president's Special Adviser on Media & Public Communications, and Reno Omokri, the lynch pin of Nigeria's stomach infrastructure pseudo-critics. 

Deji learned that the shortest route to Tinubu's lake of federal treasury, bloated by the removal of subsidy, is to volunteer bootlicking services in either Tinubu's sycophancy orchestra or enlist in his infantry of attack dogs trained for the jugulars of APC's opposition leaders, chief of whom is Mr. Peter Obi. 

It is therefore not difficult to understand why, over the last several months, Deji Adeyanju frequently digs into Omokri's and Bwala's bags of heathen lies and blackmail manuals in pursuit of Tinubu's pockets and Tinubu's support for Deji's 2027 ambitions. 

One will, however, advise that Deji should not let the lures of corrupt administration politicians acquiring estates, plazas and mansions all over the capital and countryside make him succumb to unbridled ambitions for same.

Appointment or wealth by blackmail of the Labour Party's presidential phenom, Mr. Peter Obi, should not blind him to the true depths of the multi-dimensional sufferings of the Nigerian people on whose behalf he once claimed to be an activist for good governance, neither the excruciating urgency for the rescue of the Nigerian nation from second colonization by the ruling APC.

A good Nigerian 

Fortunately, there are still good Nigerians contrary to the view that holds otherwise. Fair-minded and upright citizens who do not need inducement, personal benefit or bribe to stand up for the truth.

One such Nigerian, Mr. Ike Abonyi, a reputable journalist and author, was present in July 2022 when the Labour Party's presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, His Excellency Peter Obi, in his uncommon humility, simplicity and amity, met Deji Adeyanju for a mutual conversation about their political interests in the 2023 elections. This involved Obi running for Nigeria's Presidency on the platform of the Labour Party, and Deji for the Abuja Municipal Federal Constituency seat in the National Assembly potentially also on the platform of the Labour Party. 

It was Mr. Abonyi, a common friend of both Obi and Deji, who brokered and witnessed the meeting from its first minute to the end. With a rational, psychologically stable individual, it was the kind of privileged private conversation between two citizens that ought to have been treasured and kept that way eternally. But not so with Deji. Instead Deji turned it into a feedstock of garbage fiction for his imaginary social media empire. 

On his part Abonyi has since publicly attested that not one moment in the entire meeting which he moderated was Obi involved in any act or confession of corruption involving investing Anambra state's money in his private family business while he was governor of the state. Deji has not countered or contradicted him.

Traditional "welcome" kola, logistics goodwill

In most parts of Nigeria and many African societies, it is age-old tradition to offer a guest the traditional kola nut fruit, complemented with supporting physical cash called "wedge" down south. Where the kola nut is not available, the custom is these days commonly monetized.

In modern times, this tradition has expanded into logistics goodwill, and sometimes affinity empathy where a host extends money support to a visitor that may have travelled some distance or denied himself other activities of the day to visit a host, especially a financially well-off host.

It is not called bribe but custom because it is not given to cover up, solicit or co-opt the visitor into an act of corruption, crime investigation or scandal. 

Thus, even if, without conceding, Peter Obi had offered Deji Adeyanju a physical kola nut or the monetized version of the custom, it is not an act of corruption but a courtesy of custom.

It therefore amounts to an extremely malevolent, duplicitous and despicable misrepresentation of an African tradition for Deji to convert the gesture to an arsenal of political blackmail as Deji has notoriously set out to do against Peter Obi before the world. 

To garnish his fairy tale with a facade of credulity in his double-down on a Channels TV interview, Deji added that during the conversation with Peter Obi, Obi confessed to him that he invested Anambra state funds in his private family business, the bases upon which Deji accuses and defames Peter Obi as "corrupt." An illogical, infantile, apparent concoction.

However, from all over Nigeria and far beyond our borders, the Labour Party is delighted with and thankful for the feedback we are receiving from millions of Nigerians on Deji's self-immolating tinder of lies.

Nigerians are asking: what did His Excellency Peter Obi give Deji a "bribe" envelope for, two months after winning his own Presidential ticket of the Labour Party at Asaba? Was it to help Deji bribe his way through party primaries over which Obi had no control and did not assert one? 

What, in Deji's poorly woven imagination, led Obi to confess to him that as governor he dipped his hands into Anambra state treasury? Was it for forgiveness of sins because at that time Deji was the in-house catechist of Anambra Government House Chapel and Treasury?

Deji knows this.

In every election of Nigeria since 2023 to date, Tinubu sets the tone for violent brigandage, killings and mayhem against opposition voters and citizens throughout Nigeria. 

The traumatic memory of countless pro-Obi voters lynched, bloodied and some gunned to death, including pregnant victims and housewives during the 2023 elections are still fresh. This anomaly has been emphatically entrenched as the norm in Nigeria's elections especially following Tinubu's political philosophy of "snatch, grab and run" away with ballot results and power. Deji Adeyanju knows this.

On the contrary, all over the country, rightfully loud and strident against bad governance, members of Peter Obi's Obidient movement peacefully type their views on public governance, protests and dissenting opinions from keyboards and digital space from the quiet of their homes. They do not bear guns, hurt a soul or kill. Deji  knows this.

On the other hand, Tinubu's APC youths and zealots run wild committing mayhem, murder, myriad havoc and life threatening violence against dissenting voices all over the country, especially during election activities. Deji Adeyanju knows this. 

On November 24, 2024, over mere NURTW drivers union election conflict, a conflict over which the Appeal Court of Nigeria had already delivered judgment against President Tinubu supported faction of MC Oluomo, thugs of the President's violence and mayhem generalissimo, Oluomo, audaciously stormed in broad day the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) headquarters in Utako. 

Armed with guns and other dangerous weapons, MC Oluomo's thugs broke into the NUJ headquarter conference hall where the Appeal Court victorious drivers faction were holding a press meeting. 

The thugs seized and beat up everyone within their grip, violently chased out the participants and in the process destroyed the cameras and equipment of several journalists who were covering the event. A felony committed with impunity before the eyes and right in the hive of the Nigerian press. Adeyanju knows this.

Yet Deji obsessively and frequently but wrongly label the peaceful Obidient movement of Peter Obi as an unruly, abusive and intolerant body, as he disingenuously depicted in his recent Channels TV interview. Only sheer hypocrisy and his vaulting narcotics-like ambition to join Reno Omokri and Daniel Bwala for Tinubu's employment, contract or consultancy showers can be responsible for that.

Otherwise, how could Deji switch his once copiously confessed preference for the benevolent dove personality, sterling economic intelligence and towering character content of Peter Obi whom Deji has hailed numerous times as the best presidential choice in the entire country, suddenly switch preference and campaign for President Tinubu whose violent supporters massacre voters and send some to early graves in virtually every election since 2023? 

Doesn't Deji know this?


Tony Akeni Le Moin
Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)

Tuesday September 2, 2025

By Prince Tony Akeni, 

Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)




Deji Adeyanju & Prince Tony 

Substance abuse go far beyond narcotics intake, meth, _colos,_ heroin or other cerebrum invading and dementing hard drugs. 

Ambition without principle is worse than substance abuse. Any mental activity conceived in the labyrinths of ambition-damaged mind which distorts rational thinking and actions, either at a cost to the individual or to society at large, is as dangerous or more dangerous than substance abuse. 

These include uncontrollable drive for material acquisitions instead of society serving legacy, typical of officials of the ruling administration. It accounts for the pathologically obsessive attack rabies Deji Adeyanju harbours in his blood streams against His Excellency Peter Obi.

When ambition is unbridled and abused, blackmail becomes a strategy. The French social philosopher Oscar Wilde captured this when he wrote: "Ambition is the last refuge of the failure." George MacDonald was even closer home on Deji Adeyanju about greed driven hatred in his defining words: "Ambition is the evil shadow of aspiration."

Learning from mentors, Daniel Bwala and Reno Omokri

With the advent of the emilokan Presidency in 2023, Deji has learned crucial financial lessons. He learnt from his new mentors, the once merciless scorners and critics of President Tinubu, Daniel Bwala, the president's Special Adviser on Media & Public Communications, and Reno Omokri, the lynch pin of Nigeria's stomach infrastructure pseudo-critics. 

Deji learned that the shortest route to Tinubu's lake of federal treasury, bloated by the removal of subsidy, is to volunteer bootlicking services in either Tinubu's sycophancy orchestra or enlist in his infantry of attack dogs trained for the jugulars of APC's opposition leaders, chief of whom is Mr. Peter Obi. 

It is therefore not difficult to understand why, over the last several months, Deji Adeyanju frequently digs into Omokri's and Bwala's bags of heathen lies and blackmail manuals in pursuit of Tinubu's pockets and Tinubu's support for Deji's 2027 ambitions. 

One will, however, advise that Deji should not let the lures of corrupt administration politicians acquiring estates, plazas and mansions all over the capital and countryside make him succumb to unbridled ambitions for same.

Appointment or wealth by blackmail of the Labour Party's presidential phenom, Mr. Peter Obi, should not blind him to the true depths of the multi-dimensional sufferings of the Nigerian people on whose behalf he once claimed to be an activist for good governance, neither the excruciating urgency for the rescue of the Nigerian nation from second colonization by the ruling APC.

A good Nigerian 

Fortunately, there are still good Nigerians contrary to the view that holds otherwise. Fair-minded and upright citizens who do not need inducement, personal benefit or bribe to stand up for the truth.

One such Nigerian, Mr. Ike Abonyi, a reputable journalist and author, was present in July 2022 when the Labour Party's presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, His Excellency Peter Obi, in his uncommon humility, simplicity and amity, met Deji Adeyanju for a mutual conversation about their political interests in the 2023 elections. This involved Obi running for Nigeria's Presidency on the platform of the Labour Party, and Deji for the Abuja Municipal Federal Constituency seat in the National Assembly potentially also on the platform of the Labour Party. 

It was Mr. Abonyi, a common friend of both Obi and Deji, who brokered and witnessed the meeting from its first minute to the end. With a rational, psychologically stable individual, it was the kind of privileged private conversation between two citizens that ought to have been treasured and kept that way eternally. But not so with Deji. Instead Deji turned it into a feedstock of garbage fiction for his imaginary social media empire. 

On his part Abonyi has since publicly attested that not one moment in the entire meeting which he moderated was Obi involved in any act or confession of corruption involving investing Anambra state's money in his private family business while he was governor of the state. Deji has not countered or contradicted him.

Traditional "welcome" kola, logistics goodwill

In most parts of Nigeria and many African societies, it is age-old tradition to offer a guest the traditional kola nut fruit, complemented with supporting physical cash called "wedge" down south. Where the kola nut is not available, the custom is these days commonly monetized.

In modern times, this tradition has expanded into logistics goodwill, and sometimes affinity empathy where a host extends money support to a visitor that may have travelled some distance or denied himself other activities of the day to visit a host, especially a financially well-off host.

It is not called bribe but custom because it is not given to cover up, solicit or co-opt the visitor into an act of corruption, crime investigation or scandal. 

Thus, even if, without conceding, Peter Obi had offered Deji Adeyanju a physical kola nut or the monetized version of the custom, it is not an act of corruption but a courtesy of custom.

It therefore amounts to an extremely malevolent, duplicitous and despicable misrepresentation of an African tradition for Deji to convert the gesture to an arsenal of political blackmail as Deji has notoriously set out to do against Peter Obi before the world. 

To garnish his fairy tale with a facade of credulity in his double-down on a Channels TV interview, Deji added that during the conversation with Peter Obi, Obi confessed to him that he invested Anambra state funds in his private family business, the bases upon which Deji accuses and defames Peter Obi as "corrupt." An illogical, infantile, apparent concoction.

However, from all over Nigeria and far beyond our borders, the Labour Party is delighted with and thankful for the feedback we are receiving from millions of Nigerians on Deji's self-immolating tinder of lies.

Nigerians are asking: what did His Excellency Peter Obi give Deji a "bribe" envelope for, two months after winning his own Presidential ticket of the Labour Party at Asaba? Was it to help Deji bribe his way through party primaries over which Obi had no control and did not assert one? 

What, in Deji's poorly woven imagination, led Obi to confess to him that as governor he dipped his hands into Anambra state treasury? Was it for forgiveness of sins because at that time Deji was the in-house catechist of Anambra Government House Chapel and Treasury?

Deji knows this.

In every election of Nigeria since 2023 to date, Tinubu sets the tone for violent brigandage, killings and mayhem against opposition voters and citizens throughout Nigeria. 

The traumatic memory of countless pro-Obi voters lynched, bloodied and some gunned to death, including pregnant victims and housewives during the 2023 elections are still fresh. This anomaly has been emphatically entrenched as the norm in Nigeria's elections especially following Tinubu's political philosophy of "snatch, grab and run" away with ballot results and power. Deji Adeyanju knows this.

On the contrary, all over the country, rightfully loud and strident against bad governance, members of Peter Obi's Obidient movement peacefully type their views on public governance, protests and dissenting opinions from keyboards and digital space from the quiet of their homes. They do not bear guns, hurt a soul or kill. Deji  knows this.

On the other hand, Tinubu's APC youths and zealots run wild committing mayhem, murder, myriad havoc and life threatening violence against dissenting voices all over the country, especially during election activities. Deji Adeyanju knows this. 

On November 24, 2024, over mere NURTW drivers union election conflict, a conflict over which the Appeal Court of Nigeria had already delivered judgment against President Tinubu supported faction of MC Oluomo, thugs of the President's violence and mayhem generalissimo, Oluomo, audaciously stormed in broad day the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) headquarters in Utako. 

Armed with guns and other dangerous weapons, MC Oluomo's thugs broke into the NUJ headquarter conference hall where the Appeal Court victorious drivers faction were holding a press meeting. 

The thugs seized and beat up everyone within their grip, violently chased out the participants and in the process destroyed the cameras and equipment of several journalists who were covering the event. A felony committed with impunity before the eyes and right in the hive of the Nigerian press. Adeyanju knows this.

Yet Deji obsessively and frequently but wrongly label the peaceful Obidient movement of Peter Obi as an unruly, abusive and intolerant body, as he disingenuously depicted in his recent Channels TV interview. Only sheer hypocrisy and his vaulting narcotics-like ambition to join Reno Omokri and Daniel Bwala for Tinubu's employment, contract or consultancy showers can be responsible for that.

Otherwise, how could Deji switch his once copiously confessed preference for the benevolent dove personality, sterling economic intelligence and towering character content of Peter Obi whom Deji has hailed numerous times as the best presidential choice in the entire country, suddenly switch preference and campaign for President Tinubu whose violent supporters massacre voters and send some to early graves in virtually every election since 2023? 

Doesn't Deji know this?


Tony Akeni Le Moin
Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)

Tuesday September 2, 2025
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Access Holdings appoints new GMC/CEO, 18 months after the demise of Mr. Herbert Wigwe

Access Holdings appoints new GMC/CEO, 18 months after the demise of Mr. Herbert Wigwe

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Innocent Ike

Access Holdings Plc has appointed Innocent Ike as its substantive Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, effective August 29, 2025, following regulatory approval.


His appointment ends an 18-month interim leadership period under Ms. Bolaji Agbede, who will now return to her substantive role as Executive Director, Business Support.


Ike, a distinguished banker with over 30 years of industry experience, brings deep expertise in corporate, commercial, and public sector banking.


A First-Class graduate of Accounting from the University of Lagos, he is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), and a Certified IFRS expert.


He previously served as Managing Director/CEO of Polaris Bank (2020–2022), where he launched VULTe, the award-winning digital banking platform recognized as Digital Bank of the Year by BusinessDay BAFI and Nigerian Fintech Awards in 2021 and 2022.

For Innocent Ike, he now leads an organisation defined by Wigwe’s bold expansionist vision and Agbede’s stabilising hand.


“I am honoured to take on the role of Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer,” Ike said after his appointment was confirmed. “I look forward to building on the strong legacy established by Herbert Wigwe and Bolaji Agbede and driving our vision forward, ensuring we continue to deliver exceptional value to our shareholders and stakeholders.”


Source: social media 

Innocent Ike

Access Holdings Plc has appointed Innocent Ike as its substantive Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, effective August 29, 2025, following regulatory approval.


His appointment ends an 18-month interim leadership period under Ms. Bolaji Agbede, who will now return to her substantive role as Executive Director, Business Support.


Ike, a distinguished banker with over 30 years of industry experience, brings deep expertise in corporate, commercial, and public sector banking.


A First-Class graduate of Accounting from the University of Lagos, he is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), and a Certified IFRS expert.


He previously served as Managing Director/CEO of Polaris Bank (2020–2022), where he launched VULTe, the award-winning digital banking platform recognized as Digital Bank of the Year by BusinessDay BAFI and Nigerian Fintech Awards in 2021 and 2022.

For Innocent Ike, he now leads an organisation defined by Wigwe’s bold expansionist vision and Agbede’s stabilising hand.


“I am honoured to take on the role of Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer,” Ike said after his appointment was confirmed. “I look forward to building on the strong legacy established by Herbert Wigwe and Bolaji Agbede and driving our vision forward, ensuring we continue to deliver exceptional value to our shareholders and stakeholders.”


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Iranian President In China as SCO Sets to Address Trump's Economic War with the Rest of the World

Iranian President In China as SCO Sets to Address Trump's Economic War with the Rest of the World

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The summit will address Trump's economic war with the rest of the world


This visit is very important as talks with China on a USD 400 billion investment in Iran will take place


Further separate meetings between Pezeshkian and Vladimir Putin are planned


The summit will address Trump's economic war with the rest of the world


This visit is very important as talks with China on a USD 400 billion investment in Iran will take place


Further separate meetings between Pezeshkian and Vladimir Putin are planned

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Osun State leads as over 1.3 million Nigerians pre—registered for their INEC permanent voter cards one week after commencement

Osun State leads as over 1.3 million Nigerians pre—registered for their INEC permanent voter cards one week after commencement

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Osun, Lagos and Ogun States are currently topping the list as Over 1.3 million Nigerians pre-register for their INEC Permanent Voter Cards one week after the exercise was opened by INEC


States breakdown from highest to lowest:



1. Osun: 393,269

2. Lagos: 222,205

3. Ogun: 132,823

4. FCT: 107,682

5. Oyo: 66,951

6. Kaduna: 61,592

7. Kogi: 58,546

8. Kebbi: 35,009

9. Yobe: 34,888

10. Kwara: 33,726

11. Ekiti: 29,685

12. Niger: 24,818

13. Delta: 24,421

14. Borno: 21,045

15. Bauchi: 13,066

16. Sokoto: 12,478

17. Akwa Ibom: 12,373

18. Nasarawa: 11,555

19. Rivers: 11,314

20. Katsina: 11,004

21. Kano: 10,166

22. Jigawa: 8,243

23. Benue: 7,305

24. Plateau: 6,586

25. Bayelsa: 4,638

26. Gombe: 4,103

27. Cross River: 4,055

28. Ondo: 3,426

29. Zamfara: 2,947

30. Edo: 2,875

31. Taraba: 2,395

32. Adamawa: 2,155

33. Abia: 772

34. Enugu: 484

35. Imo: 481

36. Ebonyi: 261


Osun, Lagos and Ogun States are currently topping the list as Over 1.3 million Nigerians pre-register for their INEC Permanent Voter Cards one week after the exercise was opened by INEC


States breakdown from highest to lowest:



1. Osun: 393,269

2. Lagos: 222,205

3. Ogun: 132,823

4. FCT: 107,682

5. Oyo: 66,951

6. Kaduna: 61,592

7. Kogi: 58,546

8. Kebbi: 35,009

9. Yobe: 34,888

10. Kwara: 33,726

11. Ekiti: 29,685

12. Niger: 24,818

13. Delta: 24,421

14. Borno: 21,045

15. Bauchi: 13,066

16. Sokoto: 12,478

17. Akwa Ibom: 12,373

18. Nasarawa: 11,555

19. Rivers: 11,314

20. Katsina: 11,004

21. Kano: 10,166

22. Jigawa: 8,243

23. Benue: 7,305

24. Plateau: 6,586

25. Bayelsa: 4,638

26. Gombe: 4,103

27. Cross River: 4,055

28. Ondo: 3,426

29. Zamfara: 2,947

30. Edo: 2,875

31. Taraba: 2,395

32. Adamawa: 2,155

33. Abia: 772

34. Enugu: 484

35. Imo: 481

36. Ebonyi: 261


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2027: Between Politics, Ambition And Country First I — Pro Chris

2027: Between Politics, Ambition And Country First I — Pro Chris

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With the flurry of politicians indicating interest to run for the high office of President come 2027, and the incumbency of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Presidency, one would expect Politicians to prioritize the call to put Country before individual politics and ambition.


If we agree that the present watch has done badly, and continues to lower all known leadership bars. If we agree that Nigerians are poorer and hungrier today than before. If we agree that the present government is spending far more resources with far less impact than previous administrations. If we agree that corruption under the present administration has become intractable and Olympic. If we agree that BAT and his Team are largely uneventful, underwhelming and underperforming. If we agree that Nigeria needs urgent redemptive surgical attention. If we agree that except something drastic and urgent is done to save Nigeria now, we are all in trouble. And if we agree that Statesmen must be concerned about the next generation and not just the next election, then we must rise above individualistic politics and ambition, and put Country First.


In one week I have been inundated with calls and messages about the way forward for our nation. I understand that I should attend to my health for which I'm about 10,712 Kilometres far away, but my Country is also of great importance, and our politics ditto our leadership recruiting protocol equally important. What must we therefore do to salvage Nigeria?


Where are the Patriots, where are the Statesmen, where is the league of well-meaning and public spirited citizens, and where are those who truly want a Nigeria that works for all? Yes, this is a clarion call to Countrymen and women, we must rise up and challenge for the soul of our Country. We must ask politicians to stop trading with our destiny as a people and as a nation. We must decide now to hew out of the present stone of despair a nation that cares for her citizenry. We must call out those seeking the high office of President come 2027, we must insist that they come together, that they work together, and that they all elect to support and work with the most formidable 'candidate' that can trounce Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Polls come 2027. We must berth a Ballot Based People's Revolution NOT a Bullet Based one which the underperformers are almost making plausible.


The present challenge is more than individual politics and ambition, it is about Nigeria. The challenge is more than ethnicity, geography and or religion, it is about our collective well-being. The challenge calls for strategic engagement, it demands that we cease henceforth to agonize and proceed to organize, for only through concerted deliberateness can we save Nigeria from the rampaging buccaneers and soulless Power-mongers that prey on our collective patrimony.


Do not allow those who prey on our fault lines to determine what happens in 2027. Do not allow those whose god is money play with the future of our Country. Do not side with men and women of ambition whose conscience is dead to our collective humanity to determine our morrow. And do not believe that WE, THE PEOPLE cannot break the chains of wickedness that they have woven over our Dear Nation. Do not forget that the Power of the People is stronger and mightier than the power of those in power.


Folks, because I must have you follow, enjoy, internalize and critique this series, I must make it short and reader friendly, I pray that I am able to do so.


I shall duel on the potential aspirants, their politics, their passion, their ambition, 'the persona' and their humanity, and hope that together we can decide on the best person for the high office of President. And this promises to be a long series surely.


God Bless Nigeria.


Prof Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia Jnr

Convener COUNTRYFIRST MOVEMENT. A Good Governance Advocacy Group.

For Feedback... E-mail: nthmatrix@gmail.com

Whatsapp: 09014873031


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With the flurry of politicians indicating interest to run for the high office of President come 2027, and the incumbency of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Presidency, one would expect Politicians to prioritize the call to put Country before individual politics and ambition.


If we agree that the present watch has done badly, and continues to lower all known leadership bars. If we agree that Nigerians are poorer and hungrier today than before. If we agree that the present government is spending far more resources with far less impact than previous administrations. If we agree that corruption under the present administration has become intractable and Olympic. If we agree that BAT and his Team are largely uneventful, underwhelming and underperforming. If we agree that Nigeria needs urgent redemptive surgical attention. If we agree that except something drastic and urgent is done to save Nigeria now, we are all in trouble. And if we agree that Statesmen must be concerned about the next generation and not just the next election, then we must rise above individualistic politics and ambition, and put Country First.


In one week I have been inundated with calls and messages about the way forward for our nation. I understand that I should attend to my health for which I'm about 10,712 Kilometres far away, but my Country is also of great importance, and our politics ditto our leadership recruiting protocol equally important. What must we therefore do to salvage Nigeria?


Where are the Patriots, where are the Statesmen, where is the league of well-meaning and public spirited citizens, and where are those who truly want a Nigeria that works for all? Yes, this is a clarion call to Countrymen and women, we must rise up and challenge for the soul of our Country. We must ask politicians to stop trading with our destiny as a people and as a nation. We must decide now to hew out of the present stone of despair a nation that cares for her citizenry. We must call out those seeking the high office of President come 2027, we must insist that they come together, that they work together, and that they all elect to support and work with the most formidable 'candidate' that can trounce Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Polls come 2027. We must berth a Ballot Based People's Revolution NOT a Bullet Based one which the underperformers are almost making plausible.


The present challenge is more than individual politics and ambition, it is about Nigeria. The challenge is more than ethnicity, geography and or religion, it is about our collective well-being. The challenge calls for strategic engagement, it demands that we cease henceforth to agonize and proceed to organize, for only through concerted deliberateness can we save Nigeria from the rampaging buccaneers and soulless Power-mongers that prey on our collective patrimony.


Do not allow those who prey on our fault lines to determine what happens in 2027. Do not allow those whose god is money play with the future of our Country. Do not side with men and women of ambition whose conscience is dead to our collective humanity to determine our morrow. And do not believe that WE, THE PEOPLE cannot break the chains of wickedness that they have woven over our Dear Nation. Do not forget that the Power of the People is stronger and mightier than the power of those in power.


Folks, because I must have you follow, enjoy, internalize and critique this series, I must make it short and reader friendly, I pray that I am able to do so.


I shall duel on the potential aspirants, their politics, their passion, their ambition, 'the persona' and their humanity, and hope that together we can decide on the best person for the high office of President. And this promises to be a long series surely.


God Bless Nigeria.


Prof Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia Jnr

Convener COUNTRYFIRST MOVEMENT. A Good Governance Advocacy Group.

For Feedback... E-mail: nthmatrix@gmail.com

Whatsapp: 09014873031


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Oyo State Obidient Movement Calls on Governor Seyi Makinde to Investigate LCDAs’ Alleged Corruption in World Bank-Sponsored Teachers’ Seminar

Oyo State Obidient Movement Calls on Governor Seyi Makinde to Investigate LCDAs’ Alleged Corruption in World Bank-Sponsored Teachers’ Seminar

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The Oyo State Obidient Movement, under the coordination of Hon. Dele Abiola, has expressed deep concern over the disturbing revelations surrounding the treatment of teachers enlisted for the World Bank and BESDA-sponsored seminar workshops in the state.


It is now a matter of public knowledge that several LCDA administrators allegedly engaged in corrupt practices by deducting a substantial portion of the stipends allocated to teachers who participated in the program. Shockingly, beyond these unlawful deductions, teachers were further compelled to pay ₦2,500 each to their zonal coordinators as a so-called “appreciation fee.”


An anonymous source also revealed that during the first batch of the program, enlisted teachers received tablets and power banks provided by the World Bank in partnership with BESDA to enhance effective teaching. However, the distribution of these devices for the second and third batches was handed over to LCDA authorities, many of whom allegedly manipulated the process by removing original names from the list and replacing them with others.


Furthermore, when stipends were disbursed to the LCDAs, the amounts meant for individual teachers were reportedly slashed, in clear violation of the program’s guidelines and the principles of accountability.


In light of these alarming reports, the Oyo State Obidient Movement is calling on Governor Engr. Seyi Makinde to urgently investigate these allegations and ensure that any LCDA administrator found culpable is brought to book. Failure to act swiftly, the Movement warns, could tarnish the reputation of his administration and undermine public trust in governance.


The Oyo State Obidient Movement, under the coordination of Hon. Dele Abiola, has expressed deep concern over the disturbing revelations surrounding the treatment of teachers enlisted for the World Bank and BESDA-sponsored seminar workshops in the state.


It is now a matter of public knowledge that several LCDA administrators allegedly engaged in corrupt practices by deducting a substantial portion of the stipends allocated to teachers who participated in the program. Shockingly, beyond these unlawful deductions, teachers were further compelled to pay ₦2,500 each to their zonal coordinators as a so-called “appreciation fee.”


An anonymous source also revealed that during the first batch of the program, enlisted teachers received tablets and power banks provided by the World Bank in partnership with BESDA to enhance effective teaching. However, the distribution of these devices for the second and third batches was handed over to LCDA authorities, many of whom allegedly manipulated the process by removing original names from the list and replacing them with others.


Furthermore, when stipends were disbursed to the LCDAs, the amounts meant for individual teachers were reportedly slashed, in clear violation of the program’s guidelines and the principles of accountability.


In light of these alarming reports, the Oyo State Obidient Movement is calling on Governor Engr. Seyi Makinde to urgently investigate these allegations and ensure that any LCDA administrator found culpable is brought to book. Failure to act swiftly, the Movement warns, could tarnish the reputation of his administration and undermine public trust in governance.

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DEXTER: AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL OBIDIENTS IN OYO STATE

DEXTER: AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL OBIDIENTS IN OYO STATE

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My dear brothers and sisters on the nission,


Now that the elections are behind us, I have taken time to reflect deeply on where we stand today as a movement in Oyo State. And with all sincerity, I must confess that my heart is heavy. Not because of defeat, but because of what threatens to destroy the very house we are trying to build.


Three things, if not urgently addressed, will scatter us before 2027 even arrives.


First is disunity. We are disadvantaged in numbers already, yet instead of closing ranks, we have allowed factions to grow among us. We quarrel, we slander, and we are too quick to pull each other down. My brothers and sisters, how can we win if we keep fighting ourselves?


Second is the mad rush for power and control. Too many want to lead, but very few want to serve. Yet true leadership is service, not titles, not positions, not personal empires. If our movement becomes about who controls what rather than who sacrifices most for the cause, then we are no different from the old order we are seeking to replace.


Third, and most painful, is the spirit of profiteering that has crept in. Some among us seem more interested in money than in the mission. When meetings are dominated by “who gets what” instead of “how do we build,” when funds meant for the struggle become the subject of endless quarrels, how then do we claim to be different from those we condemn?


I speak these words not to condemn, but to call us back to the path of truth. I must also pause here to offer a sincere apology. In the heat of the smear campaign launched against me, I reacted harshly at times. That was wrong. I take responsibility for those outbursts. As a leader, my duty is not to retaliate but to reconcile. One thing that the event has shown though is the depth of the ills I have highlighted above which I sincerely did not know about before now.


And so, I make this pledge to you today: my priority going forward is to unite this movement in Oyo State. I have reached out to other elders even those who are older and more experienced than me to also join hands with me in this regards, so that together we can heal these wounds. My office will also begin to contact every faction, every camp, every group. Because if we truly love our principal, His Excellency Peter Obi, then we must come together not as rivals, but as one family.


My beloved Obidients, the 2027 journey is not far. The old order is counting on us to destroy ourselves before we even get to the battlefield. We cannot let them win that way. Let us prove to them, and to the world, that we are different. That we are a people who can put ego aside, silence greed, and embrace one another for the sake of the greater good.


Let history record that the Obidient Movement in Oyo State chose unity over division, service over ambition, sacrifice over selfish gain. For only then can we truly deliver the new Nigeria we all dream of.


I extend my hand to every one of you, regardless of past disagreements. Let us begin again, in peace, in humility, in love.


With deep respect, hope and commitment,


*Dr. Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu*


My dear brothers and sisters on the nission,


Now that the elections are behind us, I have taken time to reflect deeply on where we stand today as a movement in Oyo State. And with all sincerity, I must confess that my heart is heavy. Not because of defeat, but because of what threatens to destroy the very house we are trying to build.


Three things, if not urgently addressed, will scatter us before 2027 even arrives.


First is disunity. We are disadvantaged in numbers already, yet instead of closing ranks, we have allowed factions to grow among us. We quarrel, we slander, and we are too quick to pull each other down. My brothers and sisters, how can we win if we keep fighting ourselves?


Second is the mad rush for power and control. Too many want to lead, but very few want to serve. Yet true leadership is service, not titles, not positions, not personal empires. If our movement becomes about who controls what rather than who sacrifices most for the cause, then we are no different from the old order we are seeking to replace.


Third, and most painful, is the spirit of profiteering that has crept in. Some among us seem more interested in money than in the mission. When meetings are dominated by “who gets what” instead of “how do we build,” when funds meant for the struggle become the subject of endless quarrels, how then do we claim to be different from those we condemn?


I speak these words not to condemn, but to call us back to the path of truth. I must also pause here to offer a sincere apology. In the heat of the smear campaign launched against me, I reacted harshly at times. That was wrong. I take responsibility for those outbursts. As a leader, my duty is not to retaliate but to reconcile. One thing that the event has shown though is the depth of the ills I have highlighted above which I sincerely did not know about before now.


And so, I make this pledge to you today: my priority going forward is to unite this movement in Oyo State. I have reached out to other elders even those who are older and more experienced than me to also join hands with me in this regards, so that together we can heal these wounds. My office will also begin to contact every faction, every camp, every group. Because if we truly love our principal, His Excellency Peter Obi, then we must come together not as rivals, but as one family.


My beloved Obidients, the 2027 journey is not far. The old order is counting on us to destroy ourselves before we even get to the battlefield. We cannot let them win that way. Let us prove to them, and to the world, that we are different. That we are a people who can put ego aside, silence greed, and embrace one another for the sake of the greater good.


Let history record that the Obidient Movement in Oyo State chose unity over division, service over ambition, sacrifice over selfish gain. For only then can we truly deliver the new Nigeria we all dream of.


I extend my hand to every one of you, regardless of past disagreements. Let us begin again, in peace, in humility, in love.


With deep respect, hope and commitment,


*Dr. Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu*

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PRESS STATEMENT: DON'T TRY IT! LABOUR PARTY WARNING TO RMAFC ON PROPOSED SALARY INCREASE FOR POLITICIANS

PRESS STATEMENT: DON'T TRY IT! LABOUR PARTY WARNING TO RMAFC ON PROPOSED SALARY INCREASE FOR POLITICIANS

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Prince Tony

By Prince Tony Akeni, National Publicity Secretary (Interim), Labour Party, Thursday August 21, 2025


This press briefing is to serve the sternest warning to the chairman of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Mohammed Shehu. 


Every Tinubu minister and head of agency wants to leave government in 2027 richer than Dangote, but not necessarily through hard work and industry. The chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Mohammed Shehu, for his personal benefits, appears to have joined the list as the latest addition to Nigeria's unfortunate story of the insensitivity of government and its agencies to the hydra-headed plights of Nigeria's citizens. 


On Monday August 18, 2025 Mohammed Shehu woke up on the wrong side of his bed and decided to take his own pound of flesh from the long suffering but pliant Nigerian people by adding his own dimension of nightmares to the treasury bunkering of the ruling APC government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. 


You will recall that in a press conference he held in Abuja on the aforementioned date, the fiscal allocation commission's chairman served Nigerians a menu of fallacies to insult the intelligence of Nigerians by claiming that all Mr. President receives for his office in an entire year is a paltry #18million at a salary of #1.5million per month, while his ministers receive #1million per month or #12million per annum. This mischievous and obnoxious lie of figure juggling was corroborated by the CBN Governor, Mr. Olayemi Michael Cardoso, who, according to unrefuted information in the public domain, enjoys unheard-of Eldorado luxury living which, beside his monumental monthly salary, includes a #1b (one billion naira) annual housing allowance and $15million or #24billion global flight tickets and single-handedly appointed a bevy of lady consultants who receive #35million and #50million per month, (not per year). For avoidance of doubts, two of the bevy who receive these Olympian and outrageous salaries in the office of the Nigerian CBN Governor, according to the unchallenged reports, are Ms. Daphne Dafinone and Ms. Nkiru Balonwu who is facing EFCC investigations for alleged egregious financial conduct. 


The above infantile Disneyland story of the RMAFC's chairman, Mr. Shehu Mohammed, is further starkly contradicted by the fact that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's wife has suddenly, after 2023 swearing-in of Tinubu, found fortune which enables her to donate to events as much as #1billion in a single occasion when her husband receives a miserable paltry sum of #18million per annum as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


When we say every actor of fortune under the Tinubu-APC maladministration is out to out-Dangote Dangote by the time the Labour Party and the good people of Nigeria boot them out of office in 2027, it is both a moral and institutional duty that we supply background to prove our assertion. I urge all Nigerians to join our party follow the trail of this locust swarm called APC by reading this to the end and rising to act.


We shall forerun our engagement of the chairman of the revenue allocation commission and his campaign for salary increase for politicians with the facts and figures of epic public finance abuses we present below to help Nigerians reflect, evaluate afresh and to stand up against the dangers posed to their lives by the current APC administration. The chronicle of government promoted corruption among heads of agencies which the Labour Party delivers below are for just 2025, and the year is still running.


1. In the 2025 Federal Government budget figure of #54.99trillion signed into law on February 8, 2025, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, needed to buy a nuclear station that produces electricity for the common good of Nigerians. So, he inserted an amount that will cost Nigerians #266million per street light; an unseen type of streetlight that would probably come with a Maikano power plant and a piece of the sun each. The APC rubber-stamp Senate of Mr. Godswill Akpabio approved it. When yam falls into a palm oil bowl, what do you expect? The above budget for mere streetlights was in addition to Minister Bagudu tucking into the 2025 budget what BudgIT, the public finance tracking agency, called "ghost projects" amounting to #6.93 trillion.


2. On June 10, 2025, the APC's FCT sheriff, Minister Nyesom Wike re-commissioned the now re-named Abuja International Conference Centre after a solo renovation cost submission of #39billion. The renovation went through contract award without competitive biddings required by Nigeria's Due Process laws. This is an amount of money that would have built for Nigerians a minimum of nine modern equiped health centres in each state of the federation or approximately three health centres in every senatorial district of Nigeria, including Abuja FCT. To comfort Nigerians for their pains and complaints, Nyesom Wike has been singing the lullaby to the public against critics' umbrage that the conference centre, which is actually a ghosts' haven 90% of the year, is now churning mountainous revenues into the coffers of the government after its renovation, and that it is fully booked up to 2027. Of course, it is fully booked by ghosts for ghost activities. 


Meanwhile, in contrast to Minister Wike's #39billion windfall for a conference hall renovation, only #10billion was budgeted for Nigeria's entire land border security covering 4,047 kilometers, a whopping #150billion was set on fire to purchase a used presidential jet for President Tinubu and another #5billion for an idle presidential yacht. 


3. On June 11, 2025, the Minister of Agriculture, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, approved a portion of the ministry's 2025 budget of #636billion for a fasting and prayer programme for all its staff to boost agriculture and vanquish hunger in Nigeria. The circular to all staff on this epic event summoned staff to come to work fasting for "a solemn session for God's guidance and success in supporting the (Tinubu) government's efforts to achieve food security." Nigerians, where on earth except APC's Nigeria is modern mechanized farming and food security attained through budget financed prayers and fasting? Is this also the model for governance of nations which China, Japan, Singapore, The Netherlands, Israel, even war-torn Ukraine and other successful Agric pillared economies used to achieve food security?


4. On August 5, 2025, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, dutifully molested Nigerians' ear drums with the news of renovating Lagos Airport at a cost of #712billion or $447million. Again, this airport could be renovated fit and proper to world standard with a much smaller fraction of that cost with ample room to build a maternity annex in the peri-urban communities of every of Nigeria's 774 local government council areas.   


5. On August 14, 2025, the APC Works Minister, Engr. David Umahi, ruthlessly shocked Nigerians by announcing that his ministry needed #3.6trillion to demolish and build, brand new from scratch, the 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos or, ironically, a higher amount of #3.8trillion to repair the existing one. What Minister David Umahi is audaciously asking to renovate the Lagos 3rd Mainland Bridge is 1.97% or nearly 2% of Nigeria's entire 2025 federal government budget. Let us take stock.


i. The Lagos 3rd Mainland Bridge is 11.8km long, and has insignificant physical obstacles by marine engineering standards, which involve mere water depths ranging from two to ten meters, the deepest point, it is said, being at the entrance of the Commodore Channel. 


ii. The longest bridge in the world, the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge (DKG Bridge) is 168.8km. Considerable engineering obstacles to its construction involved about 150 river channels. Additionally, it had to be designed with ferro-concrete bastions to support the famous Beijing-Shanghai high speed railway which intercepts it.


iii. The cost of constructing the DKG Bridge of 168.8km was $8.5b or #13trillion. This brought the average cost of one kilometer to #79billion. Nigeria's Minister David Umahi's cost of $2.35b for mere 11.8km brings the average cost of one kilometer of his 3rd Mainland Bridge to $198.8m or #305b. This is 3.8 times or nearly 400% higher than China's DKG Bridge. It is ok to aspire to be as rich or to out-rich Dangote, but Labour Party insists that it should not be at the death of Nigerians through phantom budgets and corruption facilitated mass burials.


6. Before the above, Nigeria's PDP and APC governments from 1999 to 2023 had burnt $18b in refurbishing and rehabilitation claims of the country's three refineries in Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna. In less than 15 months of being sworn into office, Tinubu and his APC cabinet set another $2.8 on fire on a failed wild goose rehabilitation scheme which was sold to the Nigerian public in barefaced deceit and ended in a catastrophic flop. Shockingly, without formal admission of failure and expenditure audit, the Tinubu Administration is quietly out to put the decorated skeletons of the refineries for sale to cronies. In a recent fatalistic undertaker's verdict by Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the private owner of Nigeria's only working and largest refinery in Africa, the Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna refinery ghosts of Nigeria can never work again. 


7. Also before now, rewind to May 26, 2023, three days to late President Muhammadu Buhari's hand-over of power to the Tinubu Administration. Nigerians will recall that Buhari and his then Aviation Minister, Mr. Hadi Sirika, chartered an Ethiopian Boeing 737 commercial jet in Addis Ababa, painted it into a sham Nigeria Air courier colours and logo and flew it into Nigeria. On the said May 26, 2025, the static plane was decorated in ribbons at the Nnamdi Azikiwe airport in Abuja and displayed to the press as a ceremony commissioning the new Nigeria Air courier, with other jets to follow soon after. After the unveiling it was flown back to Ethiopia, the Nigerian colours and logo washed away and its Ethiopian colours restored. It immediately resumed operations with the Ethiopian fleet after its one-day scam ceremony by the APC government in Nigeria. In Buhari's eight years of annual budgets for the aviation sector and the phantom "Nigeria Air" swindle, his APC administration swindled from the Nigeria treasury #85.42billion. No trial to conviction has been recorded till date on this massive, flagrant, in-your-face public fraud.


8. In the light of the above, the Labour Party hereby emphatically declares that the unsolicited, self appointed campaign by the chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Mohammed Shehu, for salary increase for politicians, who are already clearly over-indulged in the eyes of civilize democracies of the world, is suspect. We are compelled to agree with millions of Nigerians that Mr. Mohammed Shehu has hidden unpatriotic motives in flying this audacious, unconscionable and insensitive scheme, especially at this time when countless Nigerians are passing through untold economic hardship and its accompanying privations, vagaries and indignities. 


9. Our party's advice to the chairman of the RMAFC and his unseen collaborators, in and outside the commission, who are behind this misadventure is that they should immediately retrace their steps in their best interest. This is so that the commission will not confirm the suspicion and incur the wrath of outraged Nigerians across the country and beyond who believe that given the unscrupulous, unprosecuted and regime pampered corruption of APC administrations in general, officials of the are aiming their hands for the jar of the Tinubu Administration's unchecked APC corruption orgy at the expense of suffering Nigerians, expected to come through picking kudos commission from thousands of grateful Nigeria politicians nationwide who he may be in conspiracy with them to pay commission's chairman and his team financial homage for a job well-done, as well as other goodwill exchange within the corridors of power.


Furthermore, it will be callous remiss for the revenue allocation commission not to realize that rewarding politicians with more public funds from Nigeria's public treasury, which is already bleeding profusely from corruption, will keep Tinubu in his present mode of marathon borrowings and future short-changing foreign debts.


If anything, the campaign RMAFC should consider urgent, pressing and patriotic to join is to increase Nigeria's workers minimum wage from its present miserable paltry sum of #70,000 per month. In case the RMAFC's chairman is not aware, the United States of America just empathically issued a statement from across the Atlantic to appraise and advocate for improvement of Nigeria's pathetic miniuwage. If a foreign nation could should demonstrate such empathy towards our suffering citizens, the RMAFC's chairman and his administrative directors have no valid excuse not to do more.


Given the above corrosive corruption, grinding penury and retarded development potentials of Nigeria, it is painfully curious, an excruciating irony, that in her recent visit to Nigeria and the Presidency, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Nweala, the Nigerian born Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), should compliment the non-accounting administration of Bola Tinubu as doing well. Labour Party joins Nigeria in asking: will the WTO Director-General find the same benchmarks of corruption, pandemic official fraud, non-compliance with due process laws, flagrant inflation of infrastructure funds and sweeping insecurity plaguing Nigeria under the APC administration of Tinubu in any European, American, Asian countries or other regions of the world and honestly acclaim that they were doing well? Certainly not.


*Conclusion*


Fellow Nigerians, those who burn down a country and those who watch them do so in silence, complacency from privileged insulation and inaction are equal culprits.


The fight to dismantle the structure, superstructure and architecture of corruption is not Peter Obi's fight alone. It is not Labour Party's fight alone. It is the fight of all of us 200million Nigerians. It is a fight for our children, their own children and generations unborn.


APC is burning down our country with never before seen monstrosity of corruption in virtually every sector of our economy, national life and the daily petrifying insecurity of lives and properties that now hold our country's citizens hostage, wether in the cities or rural countrysides and farms where majority of our food and sustenance come from.


It takes a village to tie down a mad relative to give him medicine or put him in stocks for the safety of others. In 2027, let us rise together in communal unison as one people, irrespective of tribe, religion and region to see out of our land the wolf packs ravaging our flock, values and destiny as a great country.


SIGNED:


Prince Tony Akeni

National Publicity Secretary, Labour Party (Interim)

Prince Tony

By Prince Tony Akeni, National Publicity Secretary (Interim), Labour Party, Thursday August 21, 2025


This press briefing is to serve the sternest warning to the chairman of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Mohammed Shehu. 


Every Tinubu minister and head of agency wants to leave government in 2027 richer than Dangote, but not necessarily through hard work and industry. The chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Mohammed Shehu, for his personal benefits, appears to have joined the list as the latest addition to Nigeria's unfortunate story of the insensitivity of government and its agencies to the hydra-headed plights of Nigeria's citizens. 


On Monday August 18, 2025 Mohammed Shehu woke up on the wrong side of his bed and decided to take his own pound of flesh from the long suffering but pliant Nigerian people by adding his own dimension of nightmares to the treasury bunkering of the ruling APC government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. 


You will recall that in a press conference he held in Abuja on the aforementioned date, the fiscal allocation commission's chairman served Nigerians a menu of fallacies to insult the intelligence of Nigerians by claiming that all Mr. President receives for his office in an entire year is a paltry #18million at a salary of #1.5million per month, while his ministers receive #1million per month or #12million per annum. This mischievous and obnoxious lie of figure juggling was corroborated by the CBN Governor, Mr. Olayemi Michael Cardoso, who, according to unrefuted information in the public domain, enjoys unheard-of Eldorado luxury living which, beside his monumental monthly salary, includes a #1b (one billion naira) annual housing allowance and $15million or #24billion global flight tickets and single-handedly appointed a bevy of lady consultants who receive #35million and #50million per month, (not per year). For avoidance of doubts, two of the bevy who receive these Olympian and outrageous salaries in the office of the Nigerian CBN Governor, according to the unchallenged reports, are Ms. Daphne Dafinone and Ms. Nkiru Balonwu who is facing EFCC investigations for alleged egregious financial conduct. 


The above infantile Disneyland story of the RMAFC's chairman, Mr. Shehu Mohammed, is further starkly contradicted by the fact that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's wife has suddenly, after 2023 swearing-in of Tinubu, found fortune which enables her to donate to events as much as #1billion in a single occasion when her husband receives a miserable paltry sum of #18million per annum as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


When we say every actor of fortune under the Tinubu-APC maladministration is out to out-Dangote Dangote by the time the Labour Party and the good people of Nigeria boot them out of office in 2027, it is both a moral and institutional duty that we supply background to prove our assertion. I urge all Nigerians to join our party follow the trail of this locust swarm called APC by reading this to the end and rising to act.


We shall forerun our engagement of the chairman of the revenue allocation commission and his campaign for salary increase for politicians with the facts and figures of epic public finance abuses we present below to help Nigerians reflect, evaluate afresh and to stand up against the dangers posed to their lives by the current APC administration. The chronicle of government promoted corruption among heads of agencies which the Labour Party delivers below are for just 2025, and the year is still running.


1. In the 2025 Federal Government budget figure of #54.99trillion signed into law on February 8, 2025, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, needed to buy a nuclear station that produces electricity for the common good of Nigerians. So, he inserted an amount that will cost Nigerians #266million per street light; an unseen type of streetlight that would probably come with a Maikano power plant and a piece of the sun each. The APC rubber-stamp Senate of Mr. Godswill Akpabio approved it. When yam falls into a palm oil bowl, what do you expect? The above budget for mere streetlights was in addition to Minister Bagudu tucking into the 2025 budget what BudgIT, the public finance tracking agency, called "ghost projects" amounting to #6.93 trillion.


2. On June 10, 2025, the APC's FCT sheriff, Minister Nyesom Wike re-commissioned the now re-named Abuja International Conference Centre after a solo renovation cost submission of #39billion. The renovation went through contract award without competitive biddings required by Nigeria's Due Process laws. This is an amount of money that would have built for Nigerians a minimum of nine modern equiped health centres in each state of the federation or approximately three health centres in every senatorial district of Nigeria, including Abuja FCT. To comfort Nigerians for their pains and complaints, Nyesom Wike has been singing the lullaby to the public against critics' umbrage that the conference centre, which is actually a ghosts' haven 90% of the year, is now churning mountainous revenues into the coffers of the government after its renovation, and that it is fully booked up to 2027. Of course, it is fully booked by ghosts for ghost activities. 


Meanwhile, in contrast to Minister Wike's #39billion windfall for a conference hall renovation, only #10billion was budgeted for Nigeria's entire land border security covering 4,047 kilometers, a whopping #150billion was set on fire to purchase a used presidential jet for President Tinubu and another #5billion for an idle presidential yacht. 


3. On June 11, 2025, the Minister of Agriculture, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, approved a portion of the ministry's 2025 budget of #636billion for a fasting and prayer programme for all its staff to boost agriculture and vanquish hunger in Nigeria. The circular to all staff on this epic event summoned staff to come to work fasting for "a solemn session for God's guidance and success in supporting the (Tinubu) government's efforts to achieve food security." Nigerians, where on earth except APC's Nigeria is modern mechanized farming and food security attained through budget financed prayers and fasting? Is this also the model for governance of nations which China, Japan, Singapore, The Netherlands, Israel, even war-torn Ukraine and other successful Agric pillared economies used to achieve food security?


4. On August 5, 2025, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, dutifully molested Nigerians' ear drums with the news of renovating Lagos Airport at a cost of #712billion or $447million. Again, this airport could be renovated fit and proper to world standard with a much smaller fraction of that cost with ample room to build a maternity annex in the peri-urban communities of every of Nigeria's 774 local government council areas.   


5. On August 14, 2025, the APC Works Minister, Engr. David Umahi, ruthlessly shocked Nigerians by announcing that his ministry needed #3.6trillion to demolish and build, brand new from scratch, the 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos or, ironically, a higher amount of #3.8trillion to repair the existing one. What Minister David Umahi is audaciously asking to renovate the Lagos 3rd Mainland Bridge is 1.97% or nearly 2% of Nigeria's entire 2025 federal government budget. Let us take stock.


i. The Lagos 3rd Mainland Bridge is 11.8km long, and has insignificant physical obstacles by marine engineering standards, which involve mere water depths ranging from two to ten meters, the deepest point, it is said, being at the entrance of the Commodore Channel. 


ii. The longest bridge in the world, the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge (DKG Bridge) is 168.8km. Considerable engineering obstacles to its construction involved about 150 river channels. Additionally, it had to be designed with ferro-concrete bastions to support the famous Beijing-Shanghai high speed railway which intercepts it.


iii. The cost of constructing the DKG Bridge of 168.8km was $8.5b or #13trillion. This brought the average cost of one kilometer to #79billion. Nigeria's Minister David Umahi's cost of $2.35b for mere 11.8km brings the average cost of one kilometer of his 3rd Mainland Bridge to $198.8m or #305b. This is 3.8 times or nearly 400% higher than China's DKG Bridge. It is ok to aspire to be as rich or to out-rich Dangote, but Labour Party insists that it should not be at the death of Nigerians through phantom budgets and corruption facilitated mass burials.


6. Before the above, Nigeria's PDP and APC governments from 1999 to 2023 had burnt $18b in refurbishing and rehabilitation claims of the country's three refineries in Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna. In less than 15 months of being sworn into office, Tinubu and his APC cabinet set another $2.8 on fire on a failed wild goose rehabilitation scheme which was sold to the Nigerian public in barefaced deceit and ended in a catastrophic flop. Shockingly, without formal admission of failure and expenditure audit, the Tinubu Administration is quietly out to put the decorated skeletons of the refineries for sale to cronies. In a recent fatalistic undertaker's verdict by Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the private owner of Nigeria's only working and largest refinery in Africa, the Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna refinery ghosts of Nigeria can never work again. 


7. Also before now, rewind to May 26, 2023, three days to late President Muhammadu Buhari's hand-over of power to the Tinubu Administration. Nigerians will recall that Buhari and his then Aviation Minister, Mr. Hadi Sirika, chartered an Ethiopian Boeing 737 commercial jet in Addis Ababa, painted it into a sham Nigeria Air courier colours and logo and flew it into Nigeria. On the said May 26, 2025, the static plane was decorated in ribbons at the Nnamdi Azikiwe airport in Abuja and displayed to the press as a ceremony commissioning the new Nigeria Air courier, with other jets to follow soon after. After the unveiling it was flown back to Ethiopia, the Nigerian colours and logo washed away and its Ethiopian colours restored. It immediately resumed operations with the Ethiopian fleet after its one-day scam ceremony by the APC government in Nigeria. In Buhari's eight years of annual budgets for the aviation sector and the phantom "Nigeria Air" swindle, his APC administration swindled from the Nigeria treasury #85.42billion. No trial to conviction has been recorded till date on this massive, flagrant, in-your-face public fraud.


8. In the light of the above, the Labour Party hereby emphatically declares that the unsolicited, self appointed campaign by the chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Mohammed Shehu, for salary increase for politicians, who are already clearly over-indulged in the eyes of civilize democracies of the world, is suspect. We are compelled to agree with millions of Nigerians that Mr. Mohammed Shehu has hidden unpatriotic motives in flying this audacious, unconscionable and insensitive scheme, especially at this time when countless Nigerians are passing through untold economic hardship and its accompanying privations, vagaries and indignities. 


9. Our party's advice to the chairman of the RMAFC and his unseen collaborators, in and outside the commission, who are behind this misadventure is that they should immediately retrace their steps in their best interest. This is so that the commission will not confirm the suspicion and incur the wrath of outraged Nigerians across the country and beyond who believe that given the unscrupulous, unprosecuted and regime pampered corruption of APC administrations in general, officials of the are aiming their hands for the jar of the Tinubu Administration's unchecked APC corruption orgy at the expense of suffering Nigerians, expected to come through picking kudos commission from thousands of grateful Nigeria politicians nationwide who he may be in conspiracy with them to pay commission's chairman and his team financial homage for a job well-done, as well as other goodwill exchange within the corridors of power.


Furthermore, it will be callous remiss for the revenue allocation commission not to realize that rewarding politicians with more public funds from Nigeria's public treasury, which is already bleeding profusely from corruption, will keep Tinubu in his present mode of marathon borrowings and future short-changing foreign debts.


If anything, the campaign RMAFC should consider urgent, pressing and patriotic to join is to increase Nigeria's workers minimum wage from its present miserable paltry sum of #70,000 per month. In case the RMAFC's chairman is not aware, the United States of America just empathically issued a statement from across the Atlantic to appraise and advocate for improvement of Nigeria's pathetic miniuwage. If a foreign nation could should demonstrate such empathy towards our suffering citizens, the RMAFC's chairman and his administrative directors have no valid excuse not to do more.


Given the above corrosive corruption, grinding penury and retarded development potentials of Nigeria, it is painfully curious, an excruciating irony, that in her recent visit to Nigeria and the Presidency, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Nweala, the Nigerian born Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), should compliment the non-accounting administration of Bola Tinubu as doing well. Labour Party joins Nigeria in asking: will the WTO Director-General find the same benchmarks of corruption, pandemic official fraud, non-compliance with due process laws, flagrant inflation of infrastructure funds and sweeping insecurity plaguing Nigeria under the APC administration of Tinubu in any European, American, Asian countries or other regions of the world and honestly acclaim that they were doing well? Certainly not.


*Conclusion*


Fellow Nigerians, those who burn down a country and those who watch them do so in silence, complacency from privileged insulation and inaction are equal culprits.


The fight to dismantle the structure, superstructure and architecture of corruption is not Peter Obi's fight alone. It is not Labour Party's fight alone. It is the fight of all of us 200million Nigerians. It is a fight for our children, their own children and generations unborn.


APC is burning down our country with never before seen monstrosity of corruption in virtually every sector of our economy, national life and the daily petrifying insecurity of lives and properties that now hold our country's citizens hostage, wether in the cities or rural countrysides and farms where majority of our food and sustenance come from.


It takes a village to tie down a mad relative to give him medicine or put him in stocks for the safety of others. In 2027, let us rise together in communal unison as one people, irrespective of tribe, religion and region to see out of our land the wolf packs ravaging our flock, values and destiny as a great country.


SIGNED:


Prince Tony Akeni

National Publicity Secretary, Labour Party (Interim)

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The True Cost of Selling and Buying Votes — PO

The True Cost of Selling and Buying Votes — PO

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Peter Obi

Vote-buying is one of the greatest dangers confronting our democracy. It is never an act of kindness; it is a calculated investment in corruption. Those who buy votes do so with only one intention—to gain access to public funds. By bribing voters today, they are purchasing a licence to plunder tomorrow. And when they get into office, the money meant for schools, hospitals, roads, and jobs is diverted into private pockets. Such people are not leaders—they are looters. Their actions rob our society of dignity, development, and even life itself.


But those who sell their votes are not innocent either. When you exchange your ballot for money or material gain, you are not just selling a vote—you are selling your future. You are selling away the schools your children should attend, the hospitals that should save lives, and the jobs that should lift families out of poverty. In truth, you mortgage your tomorrow for a token that can not sustain you today.


The reality is simple: looters can only loot when we hand them the key. If your vote had no value, nobody would be desperate to buy it. The fact that millions are spent on vote-buying shows that your ballot is priceless. The real power does not lie in their money. It lies in your conscience, your courage, and your vote.


The choice is ours. We either keep selling our votes and remain trapped in poverty and bad governance, or we rise above temporary gain and reclaim the future of our nation. Every Nigerian must take responsibility. Let us reject the politics of bribery and embrace the politics of service. Let us elect leaders who will build, not loot.


A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

Peter Obi

Vote-buying is one of the greatest dangers confronting our democracy. It is never an act of kindness; it is a calculated investment in corruption. Those who buy votes do so with only one intention—to gain access to public funds. By bribing voters today, they are purchasing a licence to plunder tomorrow. And when they get into office, the money meant for schools, hospitals, roads, and jobs is diverted into private pockets. Such people are not leaders—they are looters. Their actions rob our society of dignity, development, and even life itself.


But those who sell their votes are not innocent either. When you exchange your ballot for money or material gain, you are not just selling a vote—you are selling your future. You are selling away the schools your children should attend, the hospitals that should save lives, and the jobs that should lift families out of poverty. In truth, you mortgage your tomorrow for a token that can not sustain you today.


The reality is simple: looters can only loot when we hand them the key. If your vote had no value, nobody would be desperate to buy it. The fact that millions are spent on vote-buying shows that your ballot is priceless. The real power does not lie in their money. It lies in your conscience, your courage, and your vote.


The choice is ours. We either keep selling our votes and remain trapped in poverty and bad governance, or we rise above temporary gain and reclaim the future of our nation. Every Nigerian must take responsibility. Let us reject the politics of bribery and embrace the politics of service. Let us elect leaders who will build, not loot.


A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

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Bye-Election: Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu Makes More Revelations on his Election Spendings, Says hungry opportunists and fraudsters in the name of obidients Sell Out

Bye-Election: Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu Makes More Revelations on his Election Spendings, Says hungry opportunists and fraudsters in the name of obidients Sell Out

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Dexter 

The ADC House of Representatives candidate in the just concluded Bye-Election in Ibadan North Dr. Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu has made more Revelations about the poor outing of the party in the last Saturday Bye-Election.

 

Femi Dexter in a news statement shield more light on his campaign spending which many considered outrageous especially with the total 256 of votes scored and not 88 Votes as earlier rumored and publicized.


His latest message in response to critics on his election spending and donations received from donors especially from Peter Obi, opined that hungry opportunists and fraudsters in the name of obidients that worked with him in the course of his campaigns sold out after  money to work against him.



His full statement:


 Good morning all. I have made 3 statements already since the election concluded, and it has stated clearly all that any right thinking person needs to know. Whilst I have also seen a lot of bickering by the angry and hungry opportunists who feel they have a right to my campaign funds after selling out and receiving money to work against me, fraudsters in the name of obidients, people giving the movement a bad name, I am yet to see exactly any question apart from people questioning how my money was spent during the elections, opportunists that did not even show up for campaign Rallies that have suddenly turned themselves into stakeholders. They first claimed I received 10 million from PO, now when it is obvious I did not rather that eat their words and apologise, they are bickering over how I spent 77 million or whether I spent 77 million on a campaign I opened since September of last year from a campaign office I opened in Mokola since then. All the questions I see is why we have 88 votes, which by the way is actually 256, the answer is simple because people like those complaining sold out, got money to destroy the election and even after the election they have not stopped. Criminals with no integrity. What exactly is my crime ? Find me one ward chairman that was not mobilised for this election, find me the LG government chairman and let him come and say he wasn't mobilised, find me an agent that did not collect 5k with his tag and another 5k on submission of results. @⁨~agborjm@gmail.Com⁩, at least you are here, tell me if you did not employ 51 agents in Ward 12 alone. I dare you to produce 1 agent who did not receive their money. But the greedy opportunists who did not even leave their house on election day haven received funds to mobilize against us are here talking, they will rather the money was shared for them than use it well and when that does not happen they resort to cheap blackmail without substance. Any one apart from @⁨~agborjm@gmail.Com⁩ who I know received 20k out of the 80k sent to Tony to get 4 people to monitor the agents in Ward 12 alone. For the records I paid all agents from ward 1 to 12, 10k each and I paid 4 supervisors in each ward 20k each, I mobilised chairmen in 9 of the 12 wards 100k each, only the 2 wards where we did not have a chairman yet did not get it and BASA who was there when all this was done promised to pay the 100k of ward 5. I mobilised on average about 10 people in each ward between 20k and 100k on Friday night/ Saturday morning, most of this was done with a POS owned by Lolade of ward 5, for any one that is really interested in the truth this can be confirmed. 

Let anyone who wants to ask how we got 256 votes firstly tell all of us where they worked on election day to clear their name that they are not part of those who sold us out before they have the right to question the people who worked hard how we got 256 votes. This coordinated smear campaign is nothing but an attempt by hungry and angry sell out olitrickcians and fraudsters who have been exposed trying to change the narrative, but I promise you this are not the ones to birth a new Nigeria except we are fooling ourselves. I will repost the 3 statements here, one of which gave a full account of our campaign expenses since I opened the campaign office in September, and for the records every single naira apart from the donations of 11.4 million was from my personal sweat haven never held a political office or executed a government contract in my life.


Dr. Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu

20th August, 2025

Dexter 

The ADC House of Representatives candidate in the just concluded Bye-Election in Ibadan North Dr. Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu has made more Revelations about the poor outing of the party in the last Saturday Bye-Election.

 

Femi Dexter in a news statement shield more light on his campaign spending which many considered outrageous especially with the total 256 of votes scored and not 88 Votes as earlier rumored and publicized.


His latest message in response to critics on his election spending and donations received from donors especially from Peter Obi, opined that hungry opportunists and fraudsters in the name of obidients that worked with him in the course of his campaigns sold out after  money to work against him.



His full statement:


 Good morning all. I have made 3 statements already since the election concluded, and it has stated clearly all that any right thinking person needs to know. Whilst I have also seen a lot of bickering by the angry and hungry opportunists who feel they have a right to my campaign funds after selling out and receiving money to work against me, fraudsters in the name of obidients, people giving the movement a bad name, I am yet to see exactly any question apart from people questioning how my money was spent during the elections, opportunists that did not even show up for campaign Rallies that have suddenly turned themselves into stakeholders. They first claimed I received 10 million from PO, now when it is obvious I did not rather that eat their words and apologise, they are bickering over how I spent 77 million or whether I spent 77 million on a campaign I opened since September of last year from a campaign office I opened in Mokola since then. All the questions I see is why we have 88 votes, which by the way is actually 256, the answer is simple because people like those complaining sold out, got money to destroy the election and even after the election they have not stopped. Criminals with no integrity. What exactly is my crime ? Find me one ward chairman that was not mobilised for this election, find me the LG government chairman and let him come and say he wasn't mobilised, find me an agent that did not collect 5k with his tag and another 5k on submission of results. @⁨~agborjm@gmail.Com⁩, at least you are here, tell me if you did not employ 51 agents in Ward 12 alone. I dare you to produce 1 agent who did not receive their money. But the greedy opportunists who did not even leave their house on election day haven received funds to mobilize against us are here talking, they will rather the money was shared for them than use it well and when that does not happen they resort to cheap blackmail without substance. Any one apart from @⁨~agborjm@gmail.Com⁩ who I know received 20k out of the 80k sent to Tony to get 4 people to monitor the agents in Ward 12 alone. For the records I paid all agents from ward 1 to 12, 10k each and I paid 4 supervisors in each ward 20k each, I mobilised chairmen in 9 of the 12 wards 100k each, only the 2 wards where we did not have a chairman yet did not get it and BASA who was there when all this was done promised to pay the 100k of ward 5. I mobilised on average about 10 people in each ward between 20k and 100k on Friday night/ Saturday morning, most of this was done with a POS owned by Lolade of ward 5, for any one that is really interested in the truth this can be confirmed. 

Let anyone who wants to ask how we got 256 votes firstly tell all of us where they worked on election day to clear their name that they are not part of those who sold us out before they have the right to question the people who worked hard how we got 256 votes. This coordinated smear campaign is nothing but an attempt by hungry and angry sell out olitrickcians and fraudsters who have been exposed trying to change the narrative, but I promise you this are not the ones to birth a new Nigeria except we are fooling ourselves. I will repost the 3 statements here, one of which gave a full account of our campaign expenses since I opened the campaign office in September, and for the records every single naira apart from the donations of 11.4 million was from my personal sweat haven never held a political office or executed a government contract in my life.


Dr. Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu

20th August, 2025

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OUTRAGEOUS: ADC Candidate in Ibadan North Bye-Election, Dexter Akin-Alamu Spends Over N77M, Got 88 Votes

OUTRAGEOUS: ADC Candidate in Ibadan North Bye-Election, Dexter Akin-Alamu Spends Over N77M, Got 88 Votes

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The candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the last Saturday Bye-Election organized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ibadan North of the Oyo state, Dr Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu has put his total expenditure at an over N77M. 


This disclosure by the candidate is considered outrageous especially by the Pharrell faction of the Obident associated to him and many other reasonable thinkers.


Also, the issues of non disclosure of the fund received from Mr. Peter Obi for the election and abysmal outing has been a concerned among many in the state who have become weary of the so called Obident group and their candidate who are known as cash and carry transactional politicians in the state.

The fund was said to have been facilitated by Dr. Yunusa Tanko and Aisah Yesufu.


Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu scored around eighty eight votes in the said election.


Bellow is the breakdown and acknowledgment of donations and expenditure as made public by the candidate:


Dexter 

*Campaign Financial Disclosure – Ibadan North, 2024/2025 Bye-Election*


In line with my earlier promise of transparency and full accountability, I am making a public disclosure of all funds received and expenses incurred during our campaign.


*Funds Received*

We received *₦11,400,000* in cash donations. We also received donations of campaign materials. Contributors include:


Dr. Michael Omuruyi

Dr. Kazeem Abidikugu

Dr. Kingsley Okundaye

Architect Folu Bademosi

Pastor Muyiwa Bamgbose

Mrs. Temitayo Ogunsanya

Hon. Casimir Biriyok

Dr. Kashim Imam

Hon. Bolanle Amina Sarumi (BASA)

Mrs Fadekemi Oni

*For the avoidance of doubt and to counter false rumours, I want to clearly state that I have never received a dime from His Excellency, Mr. Peter Obi — not during this election, nor during the 2023 general elections.*


*Campaign Expenditure*

Total campaign expenditure stood at *₦77,358,000*. Below is the breakdown:

Payment of Agents – ₦4,732,500

Payment of Canvassers – ₦962,800

Ward Exco Mobilization – ₦901,200

Political Groups Mobilization – ₦3,452,750

Individual Mobilization – ₦2,971,300

Transportation & Logistics – ₦1,894,600

Security – ₦1,862,400

Media (Radio, Online, Print) – ₦5,788,250

Rallies & Townhall Meetings – ₦6,934,800

Community Engagement & Welfare (foodstuffs, health outreaches, support packages) – ₦21,647,950

Printing (handbills, banners, fliers) – ₦2,182,400

Campaign Materials (caps, souvenirs) – ₦4,926,150

Staff Allowances & Operations – ₦14,771,900

Communication (calls, bulk SMS, data) – ₦3,299,500

Miscellaneous – ₦919,500


*Grand Total: ₦77,358,000


This is a full account of our campaign financing. Despite the outcome, our integrity remains intact. We will continue to stand for transparency, accountability, and the people.


Yours in the service of our nation,


Dr. Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu




The candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the last Saturday Bye-Election organized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ibadan North of the Oyo state, Dr Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu has put his total expenditure at an over N77M. 


This disclosure by the candidate is considered outrageous especially by the Pharrell faction of the Obident associated to him and many other reasonable thinkers.


Also, the issues of non disclosure of the fund received from Mr. Peter Obi for the election and abysmal outing has been a concerned among many in the state who have become weary of the so called Obident group and their candidate who are known as cash and carry transactional politicians in the state.

The fund was said to have been facilitated by Dr. Yunusa Tanko and Aisah Yesufu.


Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu scored around eighty eight votes in the said election.


Bellow is the breakdown and acknowledgment of donations and expenditure as made public by the candidate:


Dexter 

*Campaign Financial Disclosure – Ibadan North, 2024/2025 Bye-Election*


In line with my earlier promise of transparency and full accountability, I am making a public disclosure of all funds received and expenses incurred during our campaign.


*Funds Received*

We received *₦11,400,000* in cash donations. We also received donations of campaign materials. Contributors include:


Dr. Michael Omuruyi

Dr. Kazeem Abidikugu

Dr. Kingsley Okundaye

Architect Folu Bademosi

Pastor Muyiwa Bamgbose

Mrs. Temitayo Ogunsanya

Hon. Casimir Biriyok

Dr. Kashim Imam

Hon. Bolanle Amina Sarumi (BASA)

Mrs Fadekemi Oni

*For the avoidance of doubt and to counter false rumours, I want to clearly state that I have never received a dime from His Excellency, Mr. Peter Obi — not during this election, nor during the 2023 general elections.*


*Campaign Expenditure*

Total campaign expenditure stood at *₦77,358,000*. Below is the breakdown:

Payment of Agents – ₦4,732,500

Payment of Canvassers – ₦962,800

Ward Exco Mobilization – ₦901,200

Political Groups Mobilization – ₦3,452,750

Individual Mobilization – ₦2,971,300

Transportation & Logistics – ₦1,894,600

Security – ₦1,862,400

Media (Radio, Online, Print) – ₦5,788,250

Rallies & Townhall Meetings – ₦6,934,800

Community Engagement & Welfare (foodstuffs, health outreaches, support packages) – ₦21,647,950

Printing (handbills, banners, fliers) – ₦2,182,400

Campaign Materials (caps, souvenirs) – ₦4,926,150

Staff Allowances & Operations – ₦14,771,900

Communication (calls, bulk SMS, data) – ₦3,299,500

Miscellaneous – ₦919,500


*Grand Total: ₦77,358,000


This is a full account of our campaign financing. Despite the outcome, our integrity remains intact. We will continue to stand for transparency, accountability, and the people.


Yours in the service of our nation,


Dr. Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu

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Press Statement: Lies, smear campaigns, outright blackmail being orchestrated against Dr Dexter by a few hungry individuals hiding under the banner of the Obidient Movement in Oyo State can not stand

Press Statement: Lies, smear campaigns, outright blackmail being orchestrated against Dr Dexter by a few hungry individuals hiding under the banner of the Obidient Movement in Oyo State can not stand

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Dr Dexter 

It has become necessary to once again address the lies, smear campaigns, and outright blackmail being orchestrated against Dr. Dexter by a few hungry individuals hiding under the banner of the Obidient Movement in Oyo State.


Let us set the record straight:


They claim Dr Dexter received 10 million naira from Peter Obi, this is a total lie, The donation in question was from Alhaji. Kashim Imam and the donation neither came through the effort of Tanko or the obidient movement, Tanko himself was only contacted to verify the chances of Dr. Dexter at the elections. The donation came from a call Dr Dexter made by himself in the presence of witnesses on Friday morning to Aisha Yesufu who as at then had not been contacted by anyone about Dr. Dexter's election, it was after that he called Tanko to verify the details he was given by Dr. Dexter.


!. It is amazing that I am being asked as His DG Media what has been Dr. Dexter's contribution to the Obidient movement in Oyo state.


1. Leading to the 2023 elections. Dr. Dexter gave the Obidient Movement an office for use. on Ring road. That alone is more than many so-called leaders have done for this movement.


2. Just days to his own elections, Dr. Dexter still put the movement first by singlehandedly providing the air-conditioned hall, sound systems, screens, cameras, and every other equipment used for a recent seminar organized by the Obidient Movement. Their entire contribution was a mere ₦30,000 for diesel, which Dr dexter still added N100,000 to so the generator he provided for them can be put onl to power the event.


3. On the very day of his primaries, when Dr. Dexter asked the movement to help mobilize just 40 people, they bluntly said they could only do it if he first paid them ₦200,000 for “logistics.” He paid it. They only moved after collecting money. And now the same people have the audacity to question his loyalty to the Obidient cause? Laughable.


4. Ahead of the election, when rallies were put together just one week to voting day, these same people demanded ₦15,000 per car for fuel if any of their members were to drive around Ibadan North. When they didn’t get it, they disappeared. No mobilization, no participation.


5. As if that wasn’t enough, they shamelessly asked for ₦20 million for “mobilization for the election.” When Dr. Dexter refused to release such an outrageous sum, they went missing in action. But today, they cry that the ₦11.4 million donations he received— of which almost all the donors were Dr. Dexter's Family and friends.


Let us stop deceiving ourselves: many so-called Obidients are nothing but opportunists, using the name of His Excellency Peter Obi as a cover for scams and extortion.


And to crown the absurdity of it all, the loudest voice behind this smear campaign—Mr. Jeje Ibukun, who parades himself as “PRO” of the movement in Oyo State—was recently sacked by Christ Ambassadors School after being caught diverting funds meant for the school’s football field grass. Staff of the school and even those at Wells Radio confirmed his fraud. This same man is now sending threats to Dr. Dexter promising to “destroy his image.” Is this not laughable? A fraudster turned PRO is now the self-appointed judge of integrity?


Enough is enough.

The public deserves to know the truth: Dr. Dexter has given more to the Obidient Movement than many of the same people now trying to destroy him. This smear campaign is nothing but the cry of rejected stomach politicians who see the movement as a money-making machine.


The question is simple: if people who must be paid before they lift a finger call themselves “Obidient,” then who are we deceiving?


The time has come to expose opportunists hiding under the Obidient name for what they really are.


— Ayodele Olatunbosun

DG Media - Femilafe Campaign Organisation

For Dr Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu

Dr Dexter 

It has become necessary to once again address the lies, smear campaigns, and outright blackmail being orchestrated against Dr. Dexter by a few hungry individuals hiding under the banner of the Obidient Movement in Oyo State.


Let us set the record straight:


They claim Dr Dexter received 10 million naira from Peter Obi, this is a total lie, The donation in question was from Alhaji. Kashim Imam and the donation neither came through the effort of Tanko or the obidient movement, Tanko himself was only contacted to verify the chances of Dr. Dexter at the elections. The donation came from a call Dr Dexter made by himself in the presence of witnesses on Friday morning to Aisha Yesufu who as at then had not been contacted by anyone about Dr. Dexter's election, it was after that he called Tanko to verify the details he was given by Dr. Dexter.


!. It is amazing that I am being asked as His DG Media what has been Dr. Dexter's contribution to the Obidient movement in Oyo state.


1. Leading to the 2023 elections. Dr. Dexter gave the Obidient Movement an office for use. on Ring road. That alone is more than many so-called leaders have done for this movement.


2. Just days to his own elections, Dr. Dexter still put the movement first by singlehandedly providing the air-conditioned hall, sound systems, screens, cameras, and every other equipment used for a recent seminar organized by the Obidient Movement. Their entire contribution was a mere ₦30,000 for diesel, which Dr dexter still added N100,000 to so the generator he provided for them can be put onl to power the event.


3. On the very day of his primaries, when Dr. Dexter asked the movement to help mobilize just 40 people, they bluntly said they could only do it if he first paid them ₦200,000 for “logistics.” He paid it. They only moved after collecting money. And now the same people have the audacity to question his loyalty to the Obidient cause? Laughable.


4. Ahead of the election, when rallies were put together just one week to voting day, these same people demanded ₦15,000 per car for fuel if any of their members were to drive around Ibadan North. When they didn’t get it, they disappeared. No mobilization, no participation.


5. As if that wasn’t enough, they shamelessly asked for ₦20 million for “mobilization for the election.” When Dr. Dexter refused to release such an outrageous sum, they went missing in action. But today, they cry that the ₦11.4 million donations he received— of which almost all the donors were Dr. Dexter's Family and friends.


Let us stop deceiving ourselves: many so-called Obidients are nothing but opportunists, using the name of His Excellency Peter Obi as a cover for scams and extortion.


And to crown the absurdity of it all, the loudest voice behind this smear campaign—Mr. Jeje Ibukun, who parades himself as “PRO” of the movement in Oyo State—was recently sacked by Christ Ambassadors School after being caught diverting funds meant for the school’s football field grass. Staff of the school and even those at Wells Radio confirmed his fraud. This same man is now sending threats to Dr. Dexter promising to “destroy his image.” Is this not laughable? A fraudster turned PRO is now the self-appointed judge of integrity?


Enough is enough.

The public deserves to know the truth: Dr. Dexter has given more to the Obidient Movement than many of the same people now trying to destroy him. This smear campaign is nothing but the cry of rejected stomach politicians who see the movement as a money-making machine.


The question is simple: if people who must be paid before they lift a finger call themselves “Obidient,” then who are we deceiving?


The time has come to expose opportunists hiding under the Obidient name for what they really are.


— Ayodele Olatunbosun

DG Media - Femilafe Campaign Organisation

For Dr Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu

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BYE-ELECTION: DEXTER KNEW HE WOULD TRADE ADC, OBIDIENT, AND IBADAN NORTH VOTERS, HE WAS NOT A SERIOUS CANDIDATE FROM DAY ONE

BYE-ELECTION: DEXTER KNEW HE WOULD TRADE ADC, OBIDIENT, AND IBADAN NORTH VOTERS, HE WAS NOT A SERIOUS CANDIDATE FROM DAY ONE

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Dexter 

I have seen a lot comments since Saturday, and Yesterday . Some congratulating and praying and all that for Hon. Dexter Akin Alamu.


But the truth is this, Dr. Dexter Akin Alamu traded us all for his own selfish and personal gain. 


The man traded the entire structure of ADC, the entire work force of the Oyo state Obidient Movement and the unsuspecting innocent voters of Ibadan North.


With evidences well available to us now. Akin Alamu despite collecting a huge amount of #10m from His Excellency, Peter Obi on Thursday/Friday of the just concluded election of Ibadan North he failed to mobilised or pay for agents and canvassers who could have helped him and ADC probably won that election. Instead he pocketed the money and the results was that that there were no agents nor fund to mobilised credible ADC supporter and the Obideints structures to the field of votes on Saturday.


Mind you, it wasthe Obideint Movement in Oyo state through their leadership Ayo Akinyemi that facilitated how Peter Obi released pooping sum of #10m to Dr. Dexter through the National President of the Obidient Movement in Nigeria, Dr. Yinusa Tanko on Friday and the Dr. Tanko Yinusa immediately called Com. Ayo Akinyemi to inform him that the Oyo state Obideint wish and solicitation for fund for Dexter's has been approved and that a sum of #10m has been sent into Dexter's account for his elections.


Ladies and Gent, up until yesterday , Dr. Dexter Akin Alamu did not disclose to the leadership of ADC, Obidients or his campaign team that he received #10m from Peter Obi.


So because he was playing too smart on his part, the ADC was stranded, canvassers , agents of ADC and Obidents were helpless and stranded in that elections and so we all got that shameful, abysmal result ADC /Dexter got.


The truth is that Dexter Akin Alamu used ADC /Oyo Obidents to cash out #10m from Peter Obi and probably sold out to PDP also in that election.


The evidences are with us for anyone who may be doubting or thinking it is a fabricated story. 


ADC/Obidents in Oyo State must be weary and at alert of these opportunists, hungry politicians coming innthe name of Peter Obi into their midst.


Hon Dexter Akin Alamu was tagged a traitor in Lp and again he has shown same in the election of Saturday.


The truth is that he may not have lost if he had channeled the money given to him on the election and not pocketed it. It is a big shame that the first major election of ADC in Oyo state went in this way because of the greediness of a man whose ambition is not to savage the masses really but to psyphone the collective money gathered for him to win election. 



Se ri oju aiye bayi oo.


Some of us are worse than these PDP /APC guys that we abuse everyday.


Ire o.


Jeje Ibukun.

Media/PRO Oyo State Obideints Movement 

18th Aug.,2025

Dexter 

I have seen a lot comments since Saturday, and Yesterday . Some congratulating and praying and all that for Hon. Dexter Akin Alamu.


But the truth is this, Dr. Dexter Akin Alamu traded us all for his own selfish and personal gain. 


The man traded the entire structure of ADC, the entire work force of the Oyo state Obidient Movement and the unsuspecting innocent voters of Ibadan North.


With evidences well available to us now. Akin Alamu despite collecting a huge amount of #10m from His Excellency, Peter Obi on Thursday/Friday of the just concluded election of Ibadan North he failed to mobilised or pay for agents and canvassers who could have helped him and ADC probably won that election. Instead he pocketed the money and the results was that that there were no agents nor fund to mobilised credible ADC supporter and the Obideints structures to the field of votes on Saturday.


Mind you, it wasthe Obideint Movement in Oyo state through their leadership Ayo Akinyemi that facilitated how Peter Obi released pooping sum of #10m to Dr. Dexter through the National President of the Obidient Movement in Nigeria, Dr. Yinusa Tanko on Friday and the Dr. Tanko Yinusa immediately called Com. Ayo Akinyemi to inform him that the Oyo state Obideint wish and solicitation for fund for Dexter's has been approved and that a sum of #10m has been sent into Dexter's account for his elections.


Ladies and Gent, up until yesterday , Dr. Dexter Akin Alamu did not disclose to the leadership of ADC, Obidients or his campaign team that he received #10m from Peter Obi.


So because he was playing too smart on his part, the ADC was stranded, canvassers , agents of ADC and Obidents were helpless and stranded in that elections and so we all got that shameful, abysmal result ADC /Dexter got.


The truth is that Dexter Akin Alamu used ADC /Oyo Obidents to cash out #10m from Peter Obi and probably sold out to PDP also in that election.


The evidences are with us for anyone who may be doubting or thinking it is a fabricated story. 


ADC/Obidents in Oyo State must be weary and at alert of these opportunists, hungry politicians coming innthe name of Peter Obi into their midst.


Hon Dexter Akin Alamu was tagged a traitor in Lp and again he has shown same in the election of Saturday.


The truth is that he may not have lost if he had channeled the money given to him on the election and not pocketed it. It is a big shame that the first major election of ADC in Oyo state went in this way because of the greediness of a man whose ambition is not to savage the masses really but to psyphone the collective money gathered for him to win election. 



Se ri oju aiye bayi oo.


Some of us are worse than these PDP /APC guys that we abuse everyday.


Ire o.


Jeje Ibukun.

Media/PRO Oyo State Obideints Movement 

18th Aug.,2025

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How Federal High Court Interprets Supreme Court's Judgment on LP Leadership Crises: Declares Abure's Tenure Expired, Affirms INEC's Rejection of Abure's NEC!

How Federal High Court Interprets Supreme Court's Judgment on LP Leadership Crises: Declares Abure's Tenure Expired, Affirms INEC's Rejection of Abure's NEC!

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 Comrade Tony Akeni, Interim National Publicity Secretary, Labour Party


Senator Nenadi 

The Federal High Court in Abuja today put paid to the protracted confusion trailing the Supreme Court judgment delivered April 4 this year on the tenure of the Julius Abure led National Executive Council (NEC) of the Labour Party. 


The judgment has consequently also put to rest the ensuing furore of the judgment's true interpretation by contending parties.


Delivering its verdict today in the federal capital, the court unequivocally also upheld INEC's rejection of the Julius Abure leadership of the party contained in the electoral commission's affidavit on oath which asserted that Abure's tenure as national chairman of the Labour Party terminated on June 8, 2024, and that the purported Nnewi convention which Abure and his defunct council hitherto clung to was inconsistent with INEC's rules and regulations governing political party convention, the country's Electoral Act, illegal and therefore null and void. 


The development which gives the Nnenadi Usman council the clear and puts her squarely in the reins of the Labour Party leadership was made known today in Abuja by Sen. Usman Nenadi herself in an official statement on the judgment and spirited commendation of the judiciary on the party's leadership disputes and INEC. 


Below is the full statement.



I WELCOME THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT JUDGMENT IN SUIT NO. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025 AND INEC’S SWORN CONFIRMATION OF THE EXPIRATION OF MR. JULIUS ABURE’S TENURE AS NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE LABOUR PARTY


I received with profound relief and deep satisfaction the news of the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025, which today dismissed in its entirety the case instituted by Mr. Julius Abure against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This decision stands as yet another unambiguous and authoritative affirmation of the rule of law and the judiciary’s steadfast consistency in upholding the binding pronouncements of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.


This latest judgment aligns squarely with the earlier decision of the Supreme Court, delivered on 4 April 2025 in Appeal No. SC/CV/56/2025, which unequivocally nullified all previous recognitions of Mr. Abure’s purported leadership of the Labour Party. In its wisdom - and in strict adherence to the Supreme Court’s final pronouncement - the Federal High Court in Abuja rightly struck out the originating suit for want of jurisdiction. That decision of the apex court remains binding on all persons and authorities in Nigeria pursuant to Section 287 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


I must also commend the Independent National Electoral Commission for the clarity, courage, and institutional integrity reflected in its Counter Affidavit during the pendency of the case. In that sworn testimony before the court, INEC categorically confirmed that the tenure of Mr. Abure, along with that of the entire National Executive Committee, expired in June 2024. The Commission further affirmed that it neither monitored nor recognised the purported National Convention held in Nnewi on 27 March 2024, having found it to be in flagrant breach of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the Electoral Act 2022, INEC’s own Regulations and Guidelines for Political Parties 2022, and the Labour Party Constitution.


This unequivocal position, rendered under oath by the nation’s electoral umpire before a competent court of law, removes all lingering doubts and reinforces the imperative for every member, officer, and stakeholder of our great party to submit, at all times, to the supremacy of our Constitution and the dictates of the rule of law.


With this judgment - and INEC’s clear, unambiguous stance - it is time for all members of the Labour Party to put this needless distraction behind us and to recommit ourselves to the urgent task of rebuilding and repositioning our party into the credible, disciplined, and people-centred political movement that Nigerians deserve.


Under my leadership as Interim National Chairman, I remain unwavering in my commitment to ensuring strict compliance with our party’s Constitution, entrenching transparent internal democratic processes, and restoring unity, discipline, and shared purpose as we prepare for the political contests ahead.


_SIGNED:_


*Senator Nenadi Usman, PhD*

Interim National Chairman, Labour Party

15th August, 2025

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 Comrade Tony Akeni, Interim National Publicity Secretary, Labour Party


Senator Nenadi 

The Federal High Court in Abuja today put paid to the protracted confusion trailing the Supreme Court judgment delivered April 4 this year on the tenure of the Julius Abure led National Executive Council (NEC) of the Labour Party. 


The judgment has consequently also put to rest the ensuing furore of the judgment's true interpretation by contending parties.


Delivering its verdict today in the federal capital, the court unequivocally also upheld INEC's rejection of the Julius Abure leadership of the party contained in the electoral commission's affidavit on oath which asserted that Abure's tenure as national chairman of the Labour Party terminated on June 8, 2024, and that the purported Nnewi convention which Abure and his defunct council hitherto clung to was inconsistent with INEC's rules and regulations governing political party convention, the country's Electoral Act, illegal and therefore null and void. 


The development which gives the Nnenadi Usman council the clear and puts her squarely in the reins of the Labour Party leadership was made known today in Abuja by Sen. Usman Nenadi herself in an official statement on the judgment and spirited commendation of the judiciary on the party's leadership disputes and INEC. 


Below is the full statement.



I WELCOME THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT JUDGMENT IN SUIT NO. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025 AND INEC’S SWORN CONFIRMATION OF THE EXPIRATION OF MR. JULIUS ABURE’S TENURE AS NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE LABOUR PARTY


I received with profound relief and deep satisfaction the news of the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025, which today dismissed in its entirety the case instituted by Mr. Julius Abure against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This decision stands as yet another unambiguous and authoritative affirmation of the rule of law and the judiciary’s steadfast consistency in upholding the binding pronouncements of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.


This latest judgment aligns squarely with the earlier decision of the Supreme Court, delivered on 4 April 2025 in Appeal No. SC/CV/56/2025, which unequivocally nullified all previous recognitions of Mr. Abure’s purported leadership of the Labour Party. In its wisdom - and in strict adherence to the Supreme Court’s final pronouncement - the Federal High Court in Abuja rightly struck out the originating suit for want of jurisdiction. That decision of the apex court remains binding on all persons and authorities in Nigeria pursuant to Section 287 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


I must also commend the Independent National Electoral Commission for the clarity, courage, and institutional integrity reflected in its Counter Affidavit during the pendency of the case. In that sworn testimony before the court, INEC categorically confirmed that the tenure of Mr. Abure, along with that of the entire National Executive Committee, expired in June 2024. The Commission further affirmed that it neither monitored nor recognised the purported National Convention held in Nnewi on 27 March 2024, having found it to be in flagrant breach of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the Electoral Act 2022, INEC’s own Regulations and Guidelines for Political Parties 2022, and the Labour Party Constitution.


This unequivocal position, rendered under oath by the nation’s electoral umpire before a competent court of law, removes all lingering doubts and reinforces the imperative for every member, officer, and stakeholder of our great party to submit, at all times, to the supremacy of our Constitution and the dictates of the rule of law.


With this judgment - and INEC’s clear, unambiguous stance - it is time for all members of the Labour Party to put this needless distraction behind us and to recommit ourselves to the urgent task of rebuilding and repositioning our party into the credible, disciplined, and people-centred political movement that Nigerians deserve.


Under my leadership as Interim National Chairman, I remain unwavering in my commitment to ensuring strict compliance with our party’s Constitution, entrenching transparent internal democratic processes, and restoring unity, discipline, and shared purpose as we prepare for the political contests ahead.


_SIGNED:_


*Senator Nenadi Usman, PhD*

Interim National Chairman, Labour Party

15th August, 2025

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Bolaji Akinyemi responds to faceless Yorùbá Elders Progressive Council

Bolaji Akinyemi responds to faceless Yorùbá Elders Progressive Council

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- Asks Gov. Sanwo-Olu to speak up as his silence is encouraging Igbophobia.


Lagos Is a Land of Law, Not Tribal Lords: A Rebuttal to the So-Called Yoruba Elders Progressive Council (YEPC)


I read with deep concern the unsigned and shameful document issued in the name of “Yoruba Elders Progressive Council (YEPC)” titled “Our Land, Our Identity: Lagos State Government Must Act Before We're Made Strangers at Home.” It is unfortunate that in 2025, in a democratic Nigeria where the Constitution reigns supreme, some cowards cloaked in the name of Yoruba elders still find it acceptable to publish ethnic bile and incite division without the courage to sign their names.


As a proud Yoruba son, a senior citizen, and a disciple of the progressive school of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, I cannot keep silent while these masked agitators try to drag the Yoruba identity into the mud of tribal bigotry and reckless political opportunism.


Let me now respond, point by poisonous point, to their disturbing and dangerous narrative.


1. The Igbo Presence in Lagos Is Lawful, Not Provocative


To suggest that Ndigbo are provoking anyone by living, working, or acquiring property in Lagos is contrary to the Nigerian Constitution. Lagos is not a tribal empire — it is a federated state within the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Every Nigerian has a constitutional right to live, own property, and vote in any part of the country.


The suggestion that Igbos are "excessive, disrespectful and provocative" for exercising this right is not only false, it is evil. It is this same thinking that once led to pogroms, and eventually, civil war. Do we want to return to that dark path?


2. Property Ownership Is Not a Declaration of War


The alarmist claim that the Igbos are buying up land in “clusters” to dominate Lagos politically is mischievous and misleading. Are we now criminalizing commerce and development? Is it only when Yoruba buy land that it is called investment, but when Igbos do, it becomes an ethnic threat?


Let us be honest: Lagos thrives today because of the inclusive spirit that allowed diverse people — Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Ijaw, Efik, foreigners — to bring their best to this city. To attack people for being industrious and successful is nothing but the politics of envy, not indigene interest.


3. “Co-ownership” Is a Constitutional Reality, Not a Cultural Threat


The Constitution does not recognize “ancestral ownership” of federated states. The law recognizes citizenship, residency, and legality, not tribal roots. When Igbos — or anyone — say “Lagos belongs to all”, they are affirming constitutional truth, not rewriting history.


No matter how loud YEPC shouts, they cannot wish away Section 43 of the Nigerian Constitution that guarantees every Nigerian the right to own immovable property anywhere in the country.


4. The Land Tenure Proposal Is Xenophobic and Illegal


To propose that the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) for non-Yorubas be reduced from 100 years to 25 is not only illegal but ethnic apartheid disguised as policy. It is a direct attack on the Nigerian Constitution and cannot stand in any competent court of law.


What will happen if Anambra or Enugu enacts the same policy against Yoruba living there? What happens to Yoruba traders thriving in Sabon Gari, Aba, Onitsha, or even in Accra and Johannesburg? Must they now be punished for the crimes of land ownership?


This policy proposal reeks of the same mindset that once inspired Rwanda’s genocide.


5. Lagos Certificate of Origin Cannot Be Ethnically Weaponized


The idea of revoking Lagos Certificates of Origin unless “lineage” is traced is a laughable descent into ethnic nativism. It violates every tenet of modern governance, federalism, and democratic equality.


If Lagos wants to create a new form of tribal passport, then it must also create a new constitution — because the current one guarantees every Nigerian full citizenship rights wherever they live.


This proposal is not only unworkable, it is dangerous. It sets Lagos on fire under the false guise of heritage protection.


6. "Legal and Cultural Safeguards" Are Not Justifications for Prejudice


Using language like “guests claiming ownership of their host’s house” to describe fellow Nigerians is insulting, dangerous, and unpatriotic. The Igbo are not guests in Lagos. They are stakeholders — builders, contributors, citizens.


Indigbo are Nigeria citizens residing in Lagos, with the right to vote and be voted for, they pay taxes, run businesses, and contribute to the State's IGR. What else defines citizenship if not contribution?


7. The Call to Action Is a Call to Tyranny


YEPC says Lagos must not become a "no-man’s land." Let me respond clearly: Lagos is every-man’s land, as far as the Nigerian Constitution is concerned.


The attempt to romanticize tribal dominance with words like “ancestral identity” and “cultural preservation” is simply the old wine of ethnic supremacy in a new bottle.


8. On History and Heritage: Stop the Weaponization of Culture


History should enlighten, not inflame. Lagos was built by the collective sweat of many. From the Benin kingdom’s influence to the Awori and Ijebu settlers, the Brazilian returnees, to the colonial powers — Lagos has always been cosmopolitan.


The Yoruba are foundational to Lagos, but not exclusive owners of its future. Any group that claims otherwise seeks to build walls in place of bridges.


9. The Comparison with the East and the North Is Hypocritical


It is hypocritical to say, “In the East or North, others can’t own land,” while crying foul when people lawfully own property in Lagos. That is the same feudal mentality that has hindered progress elsewhere.


Lagos must lead by example, not regress into ethnic tribalism. We must not copy what is backward elsewhere; we must be the model of modern civility and legal fairness.


10. The Yoruba Elders Progressive Council Are Neither Progressive Nor Elders


Real Yoruba elders, the Omoluabi, are defined by wisdom, justice, and honor. Not anonymous hate speech. Not cowardly propaganda. 


The historical records of labour of heroes past in Lagos speaks against the position of this Elder of hate.

Herbert Macaulay (1864–1946) – Though not a formal governor, he was a nationalist and key indigenous political actor in Lagos. A Democrat who founded the NNDP (Nigeria's first political party) in 1923. Dr. J.C. Vaughan, Dr. Kofo Abayomi, and Sir Adeyemo Alakija – Were all key members of the Lagos elite who influenced policy through the Lagos Town Council. There is no record of a threat from them to other tribes residence in Lagos.


Under Regional Era – Western Region (1954–1967)


Lagos was the capital of Nigeria but still part of the Western Region until it became a separate federal territory.


Obafemi Awolowo (Premier of the Western Region, 1954–1959) — Though based in Ibadan, he had indirect administrative influence over Lagos.


Bode Thomas, Samuel Akintola, and others from the Action Group shaped policies affecting Lagos in this era. Federal Territory of Lagos & Military Era (1967–1979)


With the creation of Lagos State in 1967 under General Gowon, the state began to have Military Governors:


1. Brig. Gen. Mobolaji Johnson (1967–1975)


First Military Governor of Lagos State


Highly respected, helped develop early infrastructure.


Indigenous Lagosian, widely regarded as fair and progressive.


2. Commodore Michael Adekunle Lawal (1975–1977)


Continued the administrative structure post-Gowon.


Someone need to tell the bunch of Jokers that Ndigbo were among men who built morden Lagos.

1. Commodore Ndubuisi Kanu (1977–1978)


An Igbo man governed Lagos during Obasanjo's military government.


2. Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe (1978–1979)


Another Igbo, handed over power to civilian administration in 1979.


Civilian Era Begins – Lateef Jakande (1979–1983)


Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande


First Executive Governor of Lagos State (1979–1983) under the UPN.


An Awolowo disciple who implemented populist policies without discrimination, in education, health, housing, and transport. Widely regarded as the most impactful governor in Lagos history, he stood for equity and fairness, not ethnic exclusion.


The Labour of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu began the exploits of the 4th Republic in Lagos State, a citizen allegedly with ancestral roots originally from Iragbiji in Osun State, he was followed by Babatunde Raji Fashola and Akinwunmi Ambode, who did their best and left the rest to Babajide Sanwo-Olu under whom ethnic sanderling seems to be a political strategy of the political elites.


Is Mr Governor's body language suggestive of the support this uncanny Elders are offering? Mr Sanwo-Olu must issue a statement to dissociate himself and his administration from a bunch of cowards who published such a document without a signature. A proof of guilt. If you are bold enough to peddle hate, be bold enough to put your name to it.


Conclusion: We Must Not Let Tribal Madness Become State Policy


Let me be clear: the Lagos State Government must distance itself from this dangerous document. It must not allow tribal entrepreneurs to drag our state into the pit of ethnic cleansing through policy.


This is not a time for silence. All true Yoruba sons and daughters — the Omoluabi — must rise and publicly disown this tribal gang.


Let me end with the words of our sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo: “Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression.” Yet, he spent his life building unity across that geography. He never advocated exclusion or hatred. Those hijacking his progressive legacy to propagate tribal hate are retrogressive opportunists.


I call on the media, civil society, the Lagos State House of Assembly, and every peace-loving Nigerian to reject this tribal nonsense.


If we fail to act now, we may soon wake up in a city where fire rages and nobody knows who lit the match.


Signed:

Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi 

Yoruba Elder, Democrat, and Citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria


- Asks Gov. Sanwo-Olu to speak up as his silence is encouraging Igbophobia.


Lagos Is a Land of Law, Not Tribal Lords: A Rebuttal to the So-Called Yoruba Elders Progressive Council (YEPC)


I read with deep concern the unsigned and shameful document issued in the name of “Yoruba Elders Progressive Council (YEPC)” titled “Our Land, Our Identity: Lagos State Government Must Act Before We're Made Strangers at Home.” It is unfortunate that in 2025, in a democratic Nigeria where the Constitution reigns supreme, some cowards cloaked in the name of Yoruba elders still find it acceptable to publish ethnic bile and incite division without the courage to sign their names.


As a proud Yoruba son, a senior citizen, and a disciple of the progressive school of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, I cannot keep silent while these masked agitators try to drag the Yoruba identity into the mud of tribal bigotry and reckless political opportunism.


Let me now respond, point by poisonous point, to their disturbing and dangerous narrative.


1. The Igbo Presence in Lagos Is Lawful, Not Provocative


To suggest that Ndigbo are provoking anyone by living, working, or acquiring property in Lagos is contrary to the Nigerian Constitution. Lagos is not a tribal empire — it is a federated state within the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Every Nigerian has a constitutional right to live, own property, and vote in any part of the country.


The suggestion that Igbos are "excessive, disrespectful and provocative" for exercising this right is not only false, it is evil. It is this same thinking that once led to pogroms, and eventually, civil war. Do we want to return to that dark path?


2. Property Ownership Is Not a Declaration of War


The alarmist claim that the Igbos are buying up land in “clusters” to dominate Lagos politically is mischievous and misleading. Are we now criminalizing commerce and development? Is it only when Yoruba buy land that it is called investment, but when Igbos do, it becomes an ethnic threat?


Let us be honest: Lagos thrives today because of the inclusive spirit that allowed diverse people — Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Ijaw, Efik, foreigners — to bring their best to this city. To attack people for being industrious and successful is nothing but the politics of envy, not indigene interest.


3. “Co-ownership” Is a Constitutional Reality, Not a Cultural Threat


The Constitution does not recognize “ancestral ownership” of federated states. The law recognizes citizenship, residency, and legality, not tribal roots. When Igbos — or anyone — say “Lagos belongs to all”, they are affirming constitutional truth, not rewriting history.


No matter how loud YEPC shouts, they cannot wish away Section 43 of the Nigerian Constitution that guarantees every Nigerian the right to own immovable property anywhere in the country.


4. The Land Tenure Proposal Is Xenophobic and Illegal


To propose that the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) for non-Yorubas be reduced from 100 years to 25 is not only illegal but ethnic apartheid disguised as policy. It is a direct attack on the Nigerian Constitution and cannot stand in any competent court of law.


What will happen if Anambra or Enugu enacts the same policy against Yoruba living there? What happens to Yoruba traders thriving in Sabon Gari, Aba, Onitsha, or even in Accra and Johannesburg? Must they now be punished for the crimes of land ownership?


This policy proposal reeks of the same mindset that once inspired Rwanda’s genocide.


5. Lagos Certificate of Origin Cannot Be Ethnically Weaponized


The idea of revoking Lagos Certificates of Origin unless “lineage” is traced is a laughable descent into ethnic nativism. It violates every tenet of modern governance, federalism, and democratic equality.


If Lagos wants to create a new form of tribal passport, then it must also create a new constitution — because the current one guarantees every Nigerian full citizenship rights wherever they live.


This proposal is not only unworkable, it is dangerous. It sets Lagos on fire under the false guise of heritage protection.


6. "Legal and Cultural Safeguards" Are Not Justifications for Prejudice


Using language like “guests claiming ownership of their host’s house” to describe fellow Nigerians is insulting, dangerous, and unpatriotic. The Igbo are not guests in Lagos. They are stakeholders — builders, contributors, citizens.


Indigbo are Nigeria citizens residing in Lagos, with the right to vote and be voted for, they pay taxes, run businesses, and contribute to the State's IGR. What else defines citizenship if not contribution?


7. The Call to Action Is a Call to Tyranny


YEPC says Lagos must not become a "no-man’s land." Let me respond clearly: Lagos is every-man’s land, as far as the Nigerian Constitution is concerned.


The attempt to romanticize tribal dominance with words like “ancestral identity” and “cultural preservation” is simply the old wine of ethnic supremacy in a new bottle.


8. On History and Heritage: Stop the Weaponization of Culture


History should enlighten, not inflame. Lagos was built by the collective sweat of many. From the Benin kingdom’s influence to the Awori and Ijebu settlers, the Brazilian returnees, to the colonial powers — Lagos has always been cosmopolitan.


The Yoruba are foundational to Lagos, but not exclusive owners of its future. Any group that claims otherwise seeks to build walls in place of bridges.


9. The Comparison with the East and the North Is Hypocritical


It is hypocritical to say, “In the East or North, others can’t own land,” while crying foul when people lawfully own property in Lagos. That is the same feudal mentality that has hindered progress elsewhere.


Lagos must lead by example, not regress into ethnic tribalism. We must not copy what is backward elsewhere; we must be the model of modern civility and legal fairness.


10. The Yoruba Elders Progressive Council Are Neither Progressive Nor Elders


Real Yoruba elders, the Omoluabi, are defined by wisdom, justice, and honor. Not anonymous hate speech. Not cowardly propaganda. 


The historical records of labour of heroes past in Lagos speaks against the position of this Elder of hate.

Herbert Macaulay (1864–1946) – Though not a formal governor, he was a nationalist and key indigenous political actor in Lagos. A Democrat who founded the NNDP (Nigeria's first political party) in 1923. Dr. J.C. Vaughan, Dr. Kofo Abayomi, and Sir Adeyemo Alakija – Were all key members of the Lagos elite who influenced policy through the Lagos Town Council. There is no record of a threat from them to other tribes residence in Lagos.


Under Regional Era – Western Region (1954–1967)


Lagos was the capital of Nigeria but still part of the Western Region until it became a separate federal territory.


Obafemi Awolowo (Premier of the Western Region, 1954–1959) — Though based in Ibadan, he had indirect administrative influence over Lagos.


Bode Thomas, Samuel Akintola, and others from the Action Group shaped policies affecting Lagos in this era. Federal Territory of Lagos & Military Era (1967–1979)


With the creation of Lagos State in 1967 under General Gowon, the state began to have Military Governors:


1. Brig. Gen. Mobolaji Johnson (1967–1975)


First Military Governor of Lagos State


Highly respected, helped develop early infrastructure.


Indigenous Lagosian, widely regarded as fair and progressive.


2. Commodore Michael Adekunle Lawal (1975–1977)


Continued the administrative structure post-Gowon.


Someone need to tell the bunch of Jokers that Ndigbo were among men who built morden Lagos.

1. Commodore Ndubuisi Kanu (1977–1978)


An Igbo man governed Lagos during Obasanjo's military government.


2. Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe (1978–1979)


Another Igbo, handed over power to civilian administration in 1979.


Civilian Era Begins – Lateef Jakande (1979–1983)


Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande


First Executive Governor of Lagos State (1979–1983) under the UPN.


An Awolowo disciple who implemented populist policies without discrimination, in education, health, housing, and transport. Widely regarded as the most impactful governor in Lagos history, he stood for equity and fairness, not ethnic exclusion.


The Labour of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu began the exploits of the 4th Republic in Lagos State, a citizen allegedly with ancestral roots originally from Iragbiji in Osun State, he was followed by Babatunde Raji Fashola and Akinwunmi Ambode, who did their best and left the rest to Babajide Sanwo-Olu under whom ethnic sanderling seems to be a political strategy of the political elites.


Is Mr Governor's body language suggestive of the support this uncanny Elders are offering? Mr Sanwo-Olu must issue a statement to dissociate himself and his administration from a bunch of cowards who published such a document without a signature. A proof of guilt. If you are bold enough to peddle hate, be bold enough to put your name to it.


Conclusion: We Must Not Let Tribal Madness Become State Policy


Let me be clear: the Lagos State Government must distance itself from this dangerous document. It must not allow tribal entrepreneurs to drag our state into the pit of ethnic cleansing through policy.


This is not a time for silence. All true Yoruba sons and daughters — the Omoluabi — must rise and publicly disown this tribal gang.


Let me end with the words of our sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo: “Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression.” Yet, he spent his life building unity across that geography. He never advocated exclusion or hatred. Those hijacking his progressive legacy to propagate tribal hate are retrogressive opportunists.


I call on the media, civil society, the Lagos State House of Assembly, and every peace-loving Nigerian to reject this tribal nonsense.


If we fail to act now, we may soon wake up in a city where fire rages and nobody knows who lit the match.


Signed:

Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi 

Yoruba Elder, Democrat, and Citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

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Ukraine's Fate to be sealed as Trump meets Putin on August 15 in Alaska

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US President Donald Trump has announced that his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin will take place on August 15 in Alaska, with details to be disclosed later.

 Trump's ultimatum to Putin to end the war against Ukraine ended yesterday. 

No tariffs were imposed on buyers of Russian oil. Russian Special military operations continue in Ukraine as the Russian army is advancing. 

Finally, Next week, Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska to watch moose and ratify the fate of the Ukrainian State.

However, Ukrainian Leader Zelensky rejected Trump and Putin meeting. He refused any concession to Russia. 

According to British media, Zelensky spoke by phone with European leaders, fearful of being sidelined from a direct deal between the United States and Russia."


US President Donald Trump has announced that his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin will take place on August 15 in Alaska, with details to be disclosed later.

 Trump's ultimatum to Putin to end the war against Ukraine ended yesterday. 

No tariffs were imposed on buyers of Russian oil. Russian Special military operations continue in Ukraine as the Russian army is advancing. 

Finally, Next week, Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska to watch moose and ratify the fate of the Ukrainian State.

However, Ukrainian Leader Zelensky rejected Trump and Putin meeting. He refused any concession to Russia. 

According to British media, Zelensky spoke by phone with European leaders, fearful of being sidelined from a direct deal between the United States and Russia."
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