Browsing: Tunde Rahman

Specifically for us in Osun, next Saturday’s election is significant for what it portends for the future of the state in the next four years. It will determine who takes over from Governor Aregbesola who in eight years laid a solid infrastructural and socio-economic foundation for the state to move to the next level, which is economic development and industrialisation level

As the tenure of the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led executives drew to its natural conclusion, some sought for that group an unnatural extension. Odigie-Oyegun and his allies sought to subvert the national and party conventions by forgoing internal party elections in order to give themselves an extra tenure without recourse to the will of the majority of the party

Tinubu made the assertion in a message entitled: “The Immortalisation of Chief MKO Abiola”, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos by his Media Officer, Tunde Rahman.

In a birthday message to the duo, Tinubu described Falana and Ajibade as icons in their chosen fields, whose contributions would continue to mean much to the country.

Tunde Rahman of Tinubu’s Media Office said the visit by Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande, former governor of Osun State, to the Presidential Villa was scheduled since last week.

President Buhari was in Cote d’Ivoire for the just ended 5th African Union-European Union Summit, which took place from November 28 to 30, 2017. Buhari had entered the Sofitel Hotel venue of the conference from around 9am on Wednesday, the day the conference officially opened. And about midnight, precisely 12.26am, that is Thursday morning, the President was still on his feet. This writer saw him coming out of a dinner hosted by Ivorian President Alassane Quattara and his wife in honour of visiting heads of state and government and other heads of delegation, and entering into another round of meeting for multilateral talks with some heads of state at past midnight.

So the writers deduced that the visit was to reconcile the Afenifere leader and Asiwaju, as if Tinubu and Pa Fasoranti were at daggers drawn

While it must be emphasized that it was not every stakeholder in Yorubaland that attended the summit let alone agreed with the entire proposition, the question whether this makes the submission any less valid is a moot point. In the North, some of the region’s leaders including governors are also talking and demanding devolution of powers and other variants of restructuring. Also, the National Assembly, which had curiously dumped devolution of power as an item on its constitution review plan, is now having a rethink. 

Asiwaju Tinubu said in the statement: “For all Muslim Brothers and Sisters and indeed for all Nigerians, may this be a happy and peaceful Eid-el-Fitri

Tinubu, who spoke on Friday in Lagos at the launch of a book: “Against the Run of Play,” written by the Chairman of the Editorial Board of ThisDay, Olusegun Adeniyi, said his book will soon be out

Tunde Rahman considers the growing intrigues of the politics of the South West in this opinion article

In the article, King identified three categories of people-the traditional chiefs who abused their influence as the interface for their people in the demand for developmental projects, the government officials from the area who colluded with multinationals and MDAs to get mere fractions of the funds that would have developed their communities and the militants who got cash handouts under the amnesty programme and spent a portion of the funds in acquiring more sophisticated arms- all of whom he said had helped to drag the Niger Delta down

In a recent interview with African Independent Television, the embattled chairman accused Governor Nyesom Wike and former PDP Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, of plotting to hand over the party’s presidential ticket to a prominent leader of the All Progressives Congress

Representatives. And of course, Jibrin has been hugging the headlines. The allegation that the leadership of the House, particularly Speaker Yakubu Dogara, Deputy Speaker Yusuff Lasun, Chief Whip Ado Doguwa and Minority Leader Leo Ogor, engaged in heavy padding of the 2016 budget is not entirely strange though. Budget padding is something many had always suspected, but with little or no evidence to back it up

‘Sometimes I wonder how the electoral system threw up a man of questionable character like Melaye to represent Kogi West in the Senate, as opposed to a more decent Senator Smart Adeyemi, who contested on the Peoples Democratic Party platform…’

Indeed, God gave Ekiti governor a second chance after his disastrous first time. Fayose was forced to abruptly leave the governorship seat and the country after he was impeached

The decision of the hawks at Aso Rock Presidential Villa to hide the real health situation of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua from the public, pretending that the man was well, and blocking then Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, from taking over power as acting president landed the nation in darkness for many months until the National Assembly saved the day with its Doctrine of Necessity

One of the policemen was said to have been thrown into River Niger. The South-east leaders met with Buhari under the aegis of South-east Group for Change and the 18-man delegation was led by former Senate President Ken Nnamani

But let not the PDP issue detain us here; let’s focus on President Buhari and the promised change

According to a statement by the management of the newspaper published by Western Post Nigeria Newspaper, the launch will take place at Bashorun Hall of Civic Centre in Agodi, GRA, Ibadan, Oyo State