National Assembly Leaders, Saraki, Dogara off to London to see Buhari

A Profile Picture of
President Buhari and  National
Assembly Leaders, Saraki, Dogara, 

Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara have reportedly travelled to London to see President Muhammadu Buhari. A very reliable source confirmed that the two principal officers of the National Assembly travelled on Wednesday to meet with Buhari who is on extended vacation for medical reasons.

After the initial ten-day vacation President Buhari earlier requested for which was to end on February 6, he wrote the Senate on the eve of resumption that he will be staying back in London to complete some required tests.

Re: Tinubu’s unfinished business

PAUL Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was Adolf Hitler’s Propaganda Minister in Nazi Germany. He also served as Chancellor for one day, following Hitler’s death. He was known for his zealous and energetic oratory and virulent anti-Semitism. One of his famous quotes is that if you repeat a lie often it becomes the truth and if you tell a lie so big enough people would start to believe it. 

That came rushing in my memory as I read Ochereome Nnanna ‘s “Bola Tinubu’s unfinished business” (Vanguard, April 4, 2016) where he repeated the untruth that has been told against the memory of the late Afenifere Leader, Senator Abraham Adesanya in the years after his demise. He wrote and I quote:”One of Tinubu’s rare acts of political vision was his refusal to join the other five AD Governors of the South West under the directive of Afenifere, to support former President Olusegun Obasanjo for a second term in office.  Incidentally, all the governors who took Obasanjo’s poisoned bait – Lam Adesina of Oyo, Bisi Akande of Osun, Niyi Adebayo of Ekiti, Adebayo Adefarati of Ondo State and Olusegun Osoba of Ogun State – lost their states to Obasanjo’s PDP, with Tinubu (who had formed his own political party, the Action Congress) the last man standing. Not only did the Afenifere-propelled AD governors lose, the Afenifere itself, which Tinubu had distanced himself from because of their hobnobs with Obasanjo – collapsed as a political force” 

Iyanyan May Day Blast: Jonathan, Sambo to Storm Osun for PDP Governorship Campaign

The Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and the Vice President Namadi Sambo are scheduled to storm Osogbo, the Osun state capital for PDP rally and campaign to reclaim the state in the August 9 Governorship election

Osun State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyiola Omisore confirmed this while expressing his readiness and determination to to wrest power from the incumbent Governor of the state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. He added that the national secretariat of the party in Abuja had already constituted national campaign council for Osun election, aimed at ensuring landslide victory for the PDP at the governorship poll slated for August 9 this year.

The President and the Vice President as well as the top PDP stalwarts are expected to  to storm the state even amidst the everyday bombing, killing and kidnapping of the Nigerian. The another Iyanyan May Day blast also claims many lives while scores of others were severely injured.