The Saturday meeting held at the private residence of a former of governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, has been described as a gathering for ambitions without any intention whatsoever of reconciling aggrieved members of All Progressives Congress (APC) or moving the party forward in anyway in Oyo state. A group within the party, The APC Core Progressives Forum, said in a release made available to journalists, in Ibadan yesterday, the meeting was “suspect” and should be disregarded by the national secretariat of the party, as none of the known APC leaders and aggrieved people were in attendance. According…

A screenshot of an April 13, 1997 interview Bola Tinubu granted ThisDay with the headline “I Don’t Believe in One Nigeria” trended on social media this week. In my social media commentary on the headline, I pointed out that, “Nigerian politicians are shamelessly situational ‘patriots.’ They're irredentists when they're outside the orbit of power and exaggerated ‘patriots’ when they have access to the public till. A man who didn't believe in Nigeria when he didn't have his way now wants to lead it. Ha!” Tinubu’s defenders said his repudiation of Nigeria was informed by Sani Abacha’s brutal dictatorship, which disillusioned…

Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has described the call by senate for proposals and memoranda seeking a review of the 1999 constitution as “a waste of time, energy and resources”. NEF expressed its reservation on the proposed constitution review in a statement issued on Sunday by director, publicity and advocacy, NEF, Mr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed. On February 12, 2020, senate inaugurated an ad hoc committee on the review of 1999 constitution, chaired by Mr Ovie Omo-Agege, deputy senate president. Also, a statement issued last Thursday by Omo-Agege on behalf of the committee had requested the “general public, executive and judicial bodies, civil…

PRESS RELEASE After a week of total silence and discreet consultations with various Yoruba Leaders and Traditional rulers, the apex organ of the Yoruba World Congress has painfully but patriotically relieved Banji Akintoye, a retired Professor of history, of his position as Protem Leader of the global organization. In a statement jointly signed by four of the co-founders of the world wide organization, namely Amos Akingba, Tola Adeniyi, Solagbade Popoola and Anthony Kila, and shared with all registered members of YWC, Akintoye is charged with gross incompetence, indecisiveness, obnoxious dictatorship, and absolute disregard for laid down rules, order, structure, consistency…