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Jagaban: Welcoming A UK Patient, Discharged For Presidential Race

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Jagaban: Welcoming A UK Patient, Discharged For Presidential Race

 

By Bolaji O Akinyemi.

 

Sahara Weekly Reports That Jagaban Welcoming A UK Patient, Discharged For Presidential Race. Our journey into the 4th republic started with hope. 1999 began the race with the rest of the world. Obasanjo was the man at the center, Tinubu, the man at the Center of Excellence. No other word can describe the opposition provided by BAT under AD. The dice was cast and Tinubu beat the progressives Elders in the game they thought him. ACN was formed as an offshoot of the progressive family.

 

HON DIPO OLORUNRINU FINALLY SUBSTITUTED: AN APPEAL TO ASIWAJU BOLA TINUBU.

 

 

If all virtues of progressivism were lost by Asiwaju one was left, the skills and dynamism of opposition. It was simply excellent! PDP was tackled on the streets and Obasanjo was taught several times in court, lessons in the rule of law and in constitutional democracy.

 

But ACN was slow paced in its conquest drive for political control of the South West, but for advance tribunal methodology, that saw to it that Osun, Ekiti and Edo States were taken over, it would have been restricted to Lagos!

 

By 2015, a political propaganda machinery of unequal proportion in the history of the world was supervised by the enigmatic Bola Ahmed Tinubu. PDP was battered on all media, and Buhari was successfully sold for what he wasn’t!

 

If today is a regret to all, I doubt if it is, to Jagaban! He knew what his fellows in the new ship of APC were capable of, but he presumed he will have no problems outwitting them in the game, but alas, they are not as dull as they look!

 

Respect must be given to Tinubu against PDP, but I don’t see him surviving the civil war in APC between CPC and the ACN components in the party.

 

Sentiments is one thing we must not allow to drive our decisions as we approach 2023! Over dose of it drove us to the brink we are in today. My opposition to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ambition for 2023 presidential race has absolutely nothing to do with hatred. Truth be told, he is too burnt out for the dynamism to be provided, bruce and beaten by the code of conduct to escape the oligarchy prows without something to pick. Though, he is the tongue tagged progressive leader of the Yoruba people of South West Nigeria. But my understanding and experience of progressive leadership of Lagos State under the leadership of Lateef Kayode Jakande makes him look like nothing but a capitalist hidden behind progressivism to fester his nest!

 

The lion of Boudillon is too old to hunt and if left to it, the horn of an antelope may hurt it and end its life!

 

Let me pull a paragraph from my last article on him, titled, “A Tripling Jagaban”, that makes me a prophet to the nation of Nigeria. “To save us from the risk of fostering any invalid on ourselves in 2023, I will suggest that a bill should be drafted by the office of the Attorney General of the Federation and should be forwarded to the National Assembly insisting on a comprehensive medical examination for everyone offering themselves for service to our nation who are above the age of 60, which must be made public”. Malami is too busy with how to keep the list of sponsors of terrorism away from the public to bother about this all important issue!

 

The decision of APC to zone Presidency to the South is a welcome development, but the fatal consequences of a President who has passed his/her flower must be kept in focus. The decision of Atiku Abubakar to withdraw from 2023 race on the grounds of being 77years old, though still looking smart and fit, is to help us avoid the parable that Joe Biden has become to United States of America!

 

Atiku, though 77 has not shown the aging signs that BAT has become. It was first revealed at a book launch in the comfort of the banquet hall of the Presidency, where though big, but the retina of Jagaban captured the image of Mrs Osibajo but the memory affixed a different name!

 

Then came the figure muddling in Kano, where an accountant of no mean repute substituted 50,000 with 50 million!

 

Then came the straw that broke the Carmel’s back, the event was the 2021 Arewa House Lecture,, the 11th Saudana Leadership lecture series, where he was the Chairman of the occasion, all eyes were on him, he was there at the city of the man with the little finger in the Nigeria game of thrones who once showed up in Lagos to teach Muiz Banire and his co-political travellers how to sack political Godfathers which he boasted he has done successfully in Kaduna State!

 

If Tinubu must trip, why should it be in Kaduna? The threat to sack him from politics remained an empty threat until ageing showed its hands. Tinubu was walking by the high table, exchanging pleasantries with other dignitaries when the unexpected happened!

 

From a close study of the video of the event available, it was his left knee that buckled, then the right followed, the struggle that followed showed a body that was hopelessly following his knees, though he staggered, his security details rescued him in time from what would have been the fall of a southern grace on a northern grass!

 

Eye witness says, the drama was plotted by a sudden decent in the floor level. This however has been generating some concerns for his health and has become a public debate of the state of his health fitness for what lies ahead!

 

Ageing comes to us in different forms particularly from age 60, this may become pronounced at 70, a recent research has shown that at 70 to 71 a man is considered old, the women have two years advantage over their male counterparts, theirs is pegged at 73. There are however exceptions to this research findings.

 

In preparation for my mother, late Dorcas Aduke Ogunseye’s 70th birthday in 2010, I had travelled to Ibadan in company of one of my sisters to make necessary arrangements for a successful event, one of which was to decide the event Center and make payment. We were received at our family house by my father who was then 79, he advised that we should leave the cars to make our movements and connections with different events easier. We chased after our 79 years old father all through the movements in the terrain of Apata Ganga, if you know what I mean!

 

He was very fit while our mother, was already a pitiable sight of her articulate self. Mama teacher had memory challenges. My father recently celebrated his 90th, still showing fitness, I wish President Muhammadu Buhari can. I am sure his driver can’t get him to sign any documents, nor take any undue advantage of him!

 

Ageing is not a curse but the reality of challenges we are bound to face at certain periods in our lives, it comes with joint changes, raging from minor stiffness to severe arthritis, bones are easily broken at this period if a fall occurs. Memory loss is the worst of it.

 

What Jagaban displayed in Kaduna was not different from General Muhammadu Buhari’s experience in the build up to 2019 elections, the then Presidential candidate of the APC tripped in Lokoja at the campaign ground, whether it was caused by sudden stiffness of his joints or severe arthritis, no one could tell, for our joke of a nation never provided us a second opinion, if only for political reasons as in Asiwaju’s case!

 

The President went on to show several other signs of ageing during his electioneering campaigns.Loss of memory, with difficulty to recognize faces was his bane in Delta State, where he mistook the party Chairman for the State Gubernatorial Candidate and raised his hands to a bemoaned crowd! The situation came to a head when on the set with the candidate hosted by Kadara live on NTA. His obvious ageing sign will later inform my question to the Vice President at the Grill, a platform for campaign with Pastors in Lagos.

My question was coloured without sentiments; Sir, given the embarrassments Nigerians were thrown into by the incoherent responses of Mr President on the candidate, and your attempts at allaying his thoughts in the direction of the questions without success, will you before God and man say that the President is mentally and physically fit for the rigours of duties, if elected as the President? The answer to that question posterity has given contrary to what the Vice President made us believe.

 

If only ours is a country where the health of our President matters, if only ours is a country where democracy is practised, the state would have carried out the duty it owes us of making known our President’s state of health then, failure to do that should have led to our demand for medical investigations into the reasons our President, tripped in Kogi, fumbled in Delta and showing dementia symptoms when he lifted the hands of the party chairman as that of the candidate. We however carried on as usual as if nothing had happened. The consequences of our inaction is a President deceived by his driver to sign a multi million naira contract!

 

How many of such deceptions our President had and will suffer before he will hand over in 2023 is left to the days ahead to reveal!

 

President Mohammadu Buhari, in his honest state of mind had informed us after his election in 2015, that he will serve for a term of four years. He gave the toil of age on his body and mind as his reasons. However a man known for one thing, which is keeping to his words, changed it and his life time earning of integrity was squandered!

 

What Buhari informed us of by words, Asiwaju has, with incoherent and fluttering speech at the Presidency, 3 years earlier of his chance. 50 million for 50,000 and with his trippling in Kaduna!

 

But ọmọ Alhaja is not the type that will give up on his goal. What Buhari fixed in medical tourism in over a 127 days with direct payments from our taxes, he generously, as usual, probably fixed with over flow of Lagos taxes from Alpha Beta and in less than a 100 days!

 

With a knee worked on, stuttering tongue, unattended to and memory bank untouched, our patient is discharged to come and become President in 2023! It isn’t about whether he will win or not, but the impact of a patient after another on our Presidency and future as a nation should be weighed by APC Delegates. They will do well to give us a body fit for the job, a brain balanced for the duty.

 

Nigerians must avoid a repeat of Buhari’s incompetence which is compounded in this 2nd term by his being incoherent. We are obviously under a President whom decisions are taken for and duties discharged by proxy!

 

On the fall in Kaduna, I wrote, “without doubting the floor excuse, Tinubu’s tripling in Kaduna is worrisome, probably a sign of old age that cooperated with the floor, which must have been as a result of knee buckling, also known as knee instability or weak knees. Frequent knee buckling raises the risk of falling and serious injuries. How often this has been happening is left to Asiwaju to let us know. This should be investigated medically, so that we can figure out the underlying causes. Nature has a way of showing its impact on us with aging differently. While I have nothing against old men and women of Asiwaju’s age who want to serve the nation. But everyone who truly loves them should be worried when tripping becomes regular”.

 

 

 

This 90 days sojourn in UK has confirmed that his spoke person lied to us when he said it was the floor, for the floor has not been operated and may never be. Asiwaju’s knee’s operation has finally confirmed that it wasn’t the floor that gave way, but his knee that buckled.

 

The roles of spoke persons have have started in earnest. High Chief Raymond Dokpesi confirmed the confusion of our political elites, when in one speech he echoed the right of the north to 2023 supported by PDP zoning, in the same, he reminded us his support will be for Bola Ahmed Tinubu on APC zoning to the South, not for competence but for that which they shared in the past and will continue to share. If “Share” is it for them, what is it for us? Our elites are party less, they are only interested in places where their share are preserve. We also must learn that whichever the party or candidate, good governance should be it for us.

 

We can’t but hope that APC Delegates will put the interest of a healthy nation first and give consideration to the need for a healthy Presidential candidate!

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Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi, an Apostle focusing on revival in the church and revolution in the nation, the BID, as he is fondly called, is also a communication strategist.

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Prophecy for 2025: A Year of Vengeance, Harvest, and Divine Shifts By Pro. Kingsley Aitafo

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Prophecy for 2025: A Year of Vengeance, Harvest, and Divine Shifts By Pro. Kingsley Aitafo

 

 

Sahara Weekly Reports That Prophet Kingsley Aitafo, under the grace and spiritual leadership of His Eminence Rev. Pastor Samuel Belehou Oshoffa, founder of the Celestial Church of Christ, has unveiled 25 prophecies for the year 2025. These revelations call for vigilance, prayer, and alignment with divine purpose. Below is the detailed list of the prophecies:

 

 

1. A Year of Divine Justice

2025 will be a year of vengeance upon the wicked and a season of abundant harvest for the righteous. This is a time for reflection and spiritual alignment.

 

2. Weather Disasters to Pray Against

The world must unite in prayers against severe weather disasters, including excessive winds, water overflow, floods, earthquakes, and tsunamis. These natural calamities threaten to disrupt lives and properties globally.

 

3. A Major Technological Advancement

WhatsApp is predicted to receive a significant upgrade, potentially integrating email functionalities. This innovation will redefine digital communication.

 

4. Nigeria’s National Football Team

The Nigerian national football team should be prayed for, as a painful defeat could occur.

 

5. A Great Man of God in Danger

One of the most celebrated men of God is at risk of sudden death. Prayers are needed to avert this tragedy.

 

6. Sunday Igboho

The activist should be prayed for to avoid heart-touching news that could cause widespread concern.

 

7. Nnamdi Kanu

Freedom is within reach for Nnamdi Kanu, but prayers are needed to ensure he lives to see it.

 

8. Fire Disasters Worldwide

Serious fire disasters are foreseen and must be prayed against to protect lives and properties globally.

 

9. NYSC and PHCN Reforms

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) will be empowered and reshuffled for greater effectiveness.

 

10. Global Police Forces

The police worldwide are warned of potential brutal revolts from the masses. Prayers are needed to prevent such events.

 

11. African Nations and Coups

Several African countries are advised to pray against unexpected coup plots.

 

12. Goodluck Jonathan’s Political Path

Former President Goodluck Jonathan is encouraged to follow God’s leading and refrain from contesting future elections.

 

13. Changes in EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will be more empowered, but significant transformations will occur within the agency.

 

14. Passing of Aged Leaders

Several aged ex-presidents, traditional rulers, and military leaders will pass on in 2025.

 

15. New Religious Leaders

New leaders will emerge in white garment denominations and the Catholic Church, marking significant transitions.

 

16. Churches in Danger of Scandals

Great churches like RCCG, Winners Chapel, Christ Embassy, Mountain of Fire, and COZA are urged to pray against confusion and scandals that could lead to divisions.

 

17. Exposure of False Churches

Churches that operate under the guise of Christ without genuine faith will be exposed.

 

18. Protection of Yoruba Entertainers

Yoruba actors and actresses should pray against strange illnesses, while English-speaking entertainers must pray against sudden deaths.

 

19. Plane Crashes

A major plane crash could occur, causing widespread pain. Prayers are needed to prevent this disaster.

 

20. National Unity in Nigeria

Despite ongoing agitations, Nigeria will remain undivided.

 

21. The Monarch and Pope’s Seat

Prayers are required to prevent sudden vacancies in the monarchy of England and the papal seat.

 

22. Deadly Disease and Global Conflict

A new, more deadly ailment than COVID-19 and the potential of a mini-war loom on the horizon. The world must unite in prayer to avert these crises.

 

23. Rising of True Last-Day Churches

The emergence of last-day churches will bring forth spiritual giants and miraculous powers reminiscent of the apostles of old.

 

24. Business Tycoons in Nigeria

Successful Nigerian business magnates should seek divine protection against untimely death.

 

25. Christ’s Return is Near

Finally, Prophet Kingsley reminds the world that the return of Jesus Christ is near. Embracing holiness and righteousness is the only path to prepare for His coming.

 

Prophet Kingsley’s prophecies serve as a divine reminder for individuals, nations, and institutions to seek God’s guidance and protection. Let 2025 be a year of faith, reflection, and readiness for what lies ahead.

 

Let us watch, pray, and align with God’s will.

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Peter Obi Offers to Fulfill Bail Conditions for Dele Farotimi, Advocates Justice

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Peter Obi Offers to Fulfill Bail Conditions for Dele Farotimi, Advocates Justice

The global coordinator of the Obidient Movement has announced that Peter Obi, former presidential candidate and leader of the movement, has stepped forward to fulfill the bail conditions for human rights lawyer Dele Farotimi.

Farotimi, a prominent activist known for his bold stance against systemic issues in Nigeria, was recently granted ₦30 million bail by a Federal High Court following charges filed against him. The case has attracted significant public attention, with widespread support for Farotimi from various quarters.

In a statement, the Coordinator revealed that Obi expressed his gratitude to the judiciary and all stakeholders involved in the legal process. The former presidential candidate emphasized the importance of fairness, transparency, and the rule of law in resolving the matter.

The Obidient Movement, known for championing justice and accountability, has remained vocal in its support for Farotimi. The group reiterated its commitment to upholding the principles of justice and transparency in Nigeria’s judicial system.

The next hearing in Farotimi’s case is scheduled for January 2025, with supporters hopeful for a resolution that upholds the integrity of the legal process.

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Breaking: Speaker Obasa Debunks Allegation Of Spending N17b On Assembly Gate

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Breaking: Speaker Obasa Debunks Allegation Of Spending N17b On Assembly Gate

 

The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, on Thursday described the allegation that the House spent N17 billion on the fixing of a gate as spurious and funny.

Breaking: Speaker Obasa Debunks Allegation Of Spending N17b On Assembly Gate

A self-proclaimed group, Lagos State Anti-Corruption Coalition, had accused the Assembly of spending the amount to construct a gate. The group also sought investigation of the claim.

Speaking at plenary, Dr. Obasa said the allegation stemmed from the fear of some people over 2027 which is still more than two years away.

Obasa further debunked the claim that the House spent N200 million on its recently organised 22nd thanksgiving service for staff.

“It is so funny. How much is the allocation of the Assembly in the whole year that we will decide to spend N17 billion on a gate? They even claimed that we expended 200 million on thanksgiving that did not hold.

“We are aware that at a period like this when we are approaching elections in 2027, we should expect such things. I think some people are scared and I don’t know why.

“This House did not and has not embarked on any such project. We are not that reckless. We had our thanksgiving last Friday and dignitaries from various parts of the State attended it,” the Speaker said.

Addressing further claims by the group about the alleged relationship between him and the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, the Speaker denied attending the latter’s screening and confirmation by the National Assembly.

“They said that I was at the National Assembly when they were confirming the EFCC chairman. I want to believe that there are CCTV cameras at the National Assembly to identify those who attended the event. The press must have written about it too. So the group should do more to confirm if I was there.

“This is just to deny the allegations in the interest of the public and not the writers because the writers are not those we should be joining words with,” the Speaker said.

Earlier, the House, through its spokesperson, Hon. Stephen Ogundipe, had addressed the allegations noting that the Assembly bases its activities on integrity, transparency and accountability.

“It is ludicrous the claim about constituency intervention funds and constituency project funds and their handling by Speaker Mudashiru Obasa and Clerk of the House, Barr. Olalekan Onafeko as claimed by the group.

“One would have expected a self-acclaimed anti-corruption crusading group to do its groundwork before jumping across the fence with conviction that it hit a jackpot to malign an institution of repute in the name of politics.

“Simply put, the Lagos State House of Assembly does not have any such funds. The Assembly does not embark on constituency projects. Instead, once every year, the House holds stakeholders’ meetings simultaneously across the state where constituents have the opportunity to tell the lawmakers their expectations and make requests for the betterment of the state.

“These requests and expectations are compiled and sent to the executive arm of government for consideration as inputs in subsequent budgets. If this is what the group takes as constituency intervention or project funds, we are sure this explanation has given the required education, moreover, it is common knowledge that it is the responsibility of the Executive arm to execute such projects,” the earlier statement by Ogundipe read.

Eromosele Ebhomele
Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly.

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