Falana said this on the side-line of the NLC at 40 in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja
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Duke made the statement in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
Majority of our youths are badly deformed by material aspirations and good life value video projection of Davido, 9ice, Wizkid, Teckno, Patoranking, Sarkodie, Olamide, Wande Coal and Ade Gold so much that if this nation should swing the political leadership pendulum to them, then we are doomed to a more savage banalisation of the political space never seen in this nation
“We intend to place an advertorial in the national dailies to respond to the issues he raised,” Masari told newsmen, shortly after he led the elders on a condolence visit to President Buhari in Daura.
This situation may be summarized this way: From the 1979 general election onwards the genuinely Leftist parties could participate in electoral contests in Nigeria only by liquidating themselves as they were and as they presented themselves
Obasanjo has a divine desire to remotely micro manage any elected Nigerian president
Besides, the group maintained that the Obasanjo’s Coalition’s intent, modus operandi and composition is at variance with its noble objectives, warning Nigerians to see it as those who have soiled their hands in wrecking the country.
Obasanjo completed the membership form of the Movement and handed it over to former Governor of Osun State, Colonel Olagunsoye Oyinlola (retd), who is the National Coordinator of the group.
The group, Civil Society and Professionals Coalition for Nigeria, was represented at the inauguration of the Coalition for Change on Wednesday in Abuja by the trio of Kayode Samuel, a journalist and a former Chief of Staff to former Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State; Dr. Wale Okediran, former House of Representatives member, medical doctor and ex-President of the Association Nigerian Authors; and Adamu Ayuba, a Bauchi-based management consultant.
The former president in a lengthy and critical public statement on January 23 suggested the formation of the movement and advised Buhari against seeking a second term in office.
The former Senate President in a letter addressed to Obasanjo, titled: “Re: The Way Out: A Clarion Call For Coaliation For Nigeria Movement,” advised the former leader to tow the path of statesmanship by thinking of solutions to help solve the problems he created in the eight years of his presidency.
Suffice it to say that late Dr. Alex Ekwueme was a man of many parts, the likes of whom are very rare and the type that societies that crave for progress and development, hanker after
The exchange of banters comes a few days after the two ex-military rulers engaged in a face-off
Obasanjo-Bello said this in reaction to the re-publication of a note she wrote to her father based on a letter the former president made public in 2013
Sadly, the reality is that Obasanjo’s statement, letter or whatever other forms he chooses to meddle in national affairs usually amounts to huffing and puffing, a childish attempt to massage his own ego and akin to high fiving himself. If memory serves us well, we would realize that the only time that the author of “This Animal Called Man” has not written or meddle to irk a serving leader was the short term of Abdulsalam Abubakar as Head of State and that was possibly because he was still reeling from incarceration for his indiscretion of attempting to subtly unseat a then dictator.
Yet, in my view, today the Ebora Owu has absolved himself of this grave and monumental error by standing up to speak truth to power at great risk to his safety, fortunes and welfare and by sending our President an explosive, damning and much-awaited missive, telling him that he has failed woefully, admonishing him to get off his “high horse of leadership” and advising him not to attempt to run again in 2019.
Obasanjo had in a letter written to Buhari said the country is falling under his leadership.
Obasanjo in the letter advised Buhari to consider a deserved rest at this point in time at his age.
Kalu told newsmen at the Murtala Muhammed Airport 2, Lagos, that Obasanjo lacked the moral right to comment on such national issues.
In a week when her husband was under the most severe attack in recent times for fiddling as widespread killings brought the country to its knees, praying for his intervention that would not come, Aisha’s retweet piled on Abuja’s incompetence