First, let me apologize to Esan families, friends, and associates that I canvassed to vote for Mr. Godwin Obaseki during his second Term election Campaign. Many of us were hoodwinked by his eloquence, oratory, and his portrayal as the underdog in the tussle between him and the Adams Oshiomhole camp. Our reconning at the time was“how could Oshiomhole, who had previously maligned Ize Iyamu, come back to sell his candidacy?”And why should he be playing the “Godfather of Edo politics’’, reminiscent of the Tinubu factor in Lagos, even inviting Tinubu to Edo as an interloper; hence the Slogan, “Edo No…
Author: Peter Omonua
News outlets and social media is awash with the ripple effects of the invasion of the Oyo State Secretariat by Yoruba Nation agitators, rumored to be the faction led by Mrs. Modupe Onitiri-Abiola. Several of the frontline leaders in the Yoruba self-determination struggle have dissociated themselves from the occurrence and outrightly disowned Mrs. Abiola. Mrs. Abiola is one of the leaders in the forefront of Yoruba Nation agitation. She emerged, like a bolt out of the blues, in the heat of the “struggle’. She took everyone by storm, her vibrancy, articulation, and message seemed to resonate with a lot of…
Someone forwarded an audio recording to me few days ago which must have been preserved for more than 57 years. It was the voice of Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola (SLA), the last Premier of the Western Region and the 13th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland The voice was unmistakable, in his distinctive Ogbomosho accent. The summary of what he said, which I have transcribed from Yoruba to English as best as I could was: “…. Let us the Yorubas come together. Let the Ibos not ‘disorganize’ us with this election. We must not allow them to use this election to destroy…
Sometime in early 2021, news filtered out that Bola Ahmed Tinubu had assured the northern APC leaders that he would sell a Muslim/Muslim ticket to the Southwest and they would buy it. Report has it that at the meeting where the commitment was made, they asked him how he was going to convince the South-east to vote for same ticket. He was alleged to have responded that the Southeast did not really matter in the calculation, that as long as he could convince his people in Yoruba land and they (northerners) could get the northern support, they would cruise to…
Britain, Nigeria is lying prostrate under your weight, it is choking and can no longer breath. We are aware you have always been the enabler of Fulani, even now as they ravage southern and Middle Belt Nigeria. Nigerians also know that when you pretend to promote good governance, you actually profit from ineptitude in our governance structure. You seek for misgovernance because a stable and well managed Nigeria would block the loopholes that benefits your economy. This is why you are “pulling strings” to ensure the agitation for independent Nations of Biafra and Oduduwa don’t materialize. If it takes the…
South-South women on Friday described the threat to issue a warrant of arrest against Senator Godswill Akpabio as a ploy to coerce the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs to toe an odd line and the Federal Government into accepting to pay for inflated, bogus and fictitious projects in the past. ‘’This is a threatening measure designed to retard the progress of the region, strip the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) of the transparency qualities it had developed in the last two years and return it to its most corrupt days’’. They also commended stakeholders in the Niger Delta region for…
It is no longer news that there is an unprecedented upsurge in the migration of southern Nigeria professionals over the last 5 years. The best brains in Southern Nigeria are leaving in droves, while those that have not left are making all necessary arrangements. They are making enquiries about the process involved from those that have succeeded in leaving. Some people may argue this is not uniquely Nigerian, that universally, people have always migrated around the world. One such persons compared our experience to the children of Israel during their migration from Egypt to the promise land. He failed to…
