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Senator Danjuma Goje has withdrawn from the 9th Senate Presidency election expected to hold on June 11.

According to Vanguard, the lawmaker also endorsed the Senate Leader, Ahmad Lawan, for the position.

This was disclosed by the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, after their meeting behind closed doors with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday.

El-Rufai was accompanied by Senators Lawan, Goje and the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang, while briefing State House Correspondents on the latest development.

By Ojo Dolire

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.” ~Martin Luther


Something occur to me haven placed keen interest observing how Nigerians ferociously decry lack of good leadership. One would laterally suggest that they’d be appreciative of anyone who promotes and sustains good governance, but rather they’d become hypocritical to achieving the deserving quest in its truest pursuit of society’s growth; yet mendaciously alluding the dearth of all-the-round development to the existence of poor leaders and leadership at the helm of affairs. What do we want!


Again, when opportunity places leaders who parade cognate moral excellence; wearing the face of the society, bearing the burden of social  service and speaking the conscience of humanity, also, delivering gains of democracy to constituents and constituency on a real time duty, our people are still at quick ease to demystify such leader. Terrible jokers.


It is so unfortunate that commoners in the Nigerian society have no conscience of their own, whereas, they are direct victims of poor leadership. Self deluded.


Truth be said, Hon. Omogbehin is a man whose political adversaries and arch rivals could and would not deny his stellar record of unprecedented performance even when they’d became so rash and rabid at the slightest reminder to their ears the need to rally support for his second term aspiration.


The masses oriented deliverables that were championed and delivered en-mass to constituents and constituency remain the sins he deliberately and profusely committed, and remained ensconced doing so. Quite commendable. 


He was, unwittingly, committing “sin” because he refuted coaxing attempts to key into the mindlessly established sharing tradition of the people’s wealth with a very few individuals.


Often times, one is tempted to exonerate political office holders who engage in sharing what belongs to the masses with big wigs just to ensure re-election bid seamlessly return to the office.


In its truest sense, one cannot help but to ask; what do we really want as country men and women? As a people, how sincere is the desire to achieving a better society? 


Fortunately, MAN knows full well the characters of these shadowy persecutors. “They’re familiar strangers on a familiar mission,“ our early morning one-on-one conversations would suggest. 


The pundit remains a personal correspondent to courage, strength and disrupt and yet accessibility lacks sophistication. Attending to queries and suggestions from constituents on media platforms and one-on-one. No barrier. 


“Ethical leaders never ask for loyalty. Those leading through fear require personal loyalty. Ethical leaders care deeply about those they lead, and offer them honesty and decency, commitment and their own sacrifice. They have confidence that breeds loyalty,” James Comey avid description fits into MAN’s leadership fashion.


MAN would never forcefully demand for loyalty, rather own innate conviction should do the do. It would never occur to an ethical leader to bluntly ask for loyalty. 


Those who are critical of him and his style of leadership are whom help had come their way through him. One can easily infer how human nature slips away kind gesture. I make bold to say that, that out of 10 ruthless critics, 9 have enjoyed at least one benefit from the limited benevolence which office of any member of House of Representatives can offer constituents.


The bulging quest of time leaves memories of history for men to dwell on during a dueling time. The time draws nigh than much anticipated. Mike Omogbehin represents the barometer of performance against which succeeding federal legislators would be measured in the federal constituency office of Ikale and Irele Local Governments.


It is true that the verdicts of history arise from matters before the temple of prosperity which  public court will resolve. Without any innate prejudice to the would be dispositions of interrogators of history at the turn of future; verdict of history will definitely be kind to Hon. MIke Adeniyi Negwo (MAN) Omogbehin.


This active assertion is premised on the consistent affirmation, by his constituents, the novel performance and first-of-its-kind deliverables he delivered to the constituency. 


“Negwo is a good man, truthfully, he has performed so well, ” that is a tone of randomly sampled political adversaries. None has ever disputed his candour to the merits of a second term, but, every now and again, they shunted the second term aspiration when debate arose. Probing why? The responses are shrouded in a long-winded dumbbell tracks. 


The above is a clear corroboration of the earlier posturing of the future verdict of history, and, hereby, stated in clear and unambiguous and yet assertive words; “the rare verdict of history favours Omogbehin.”


It is, therefore, not the meat of this piece to discuss elements of these perfunctory praises as such responsibility is left for the constituents to continue to dwell on as effusive nature of time delivers to us moment of history.


I am convinced beyond any iota of doubt  that there’s nothing sympathetic to  despairing about as MAN is completely enamoured by the joy contained in little beginning. 


As the Valedictory Session of 8th National Assembly holds today commemorating end of tenure, Hon Mike Omogbehin remained the game-changer of Ikale/Irele Federal Constituency; an undisputed star material, a valiant, who will never walk work alone.


I’m always humbled by your uncompromising  leadership stance and disrupt talent. 


June 6, 2019.

To get started on its long-planned coastal railway from Lagos to Calabar, the government of Nigeria will seek loans worth $1.8bn from China.

The outgoing Federal Lawmaker, representing Okitipupa/Irele Federal constituency, Hon. Mike Omogbehin has Felicitated with Muslims faithful on Eid-el-Fitr celebration.

Omogbehin in a statement made available to the media in Abuja urged Muslims faithful to extend benefits of Ramadan, which are love, peace and justice to their daily activities.

“I felicitate with all Nigerians, especially our Muslim brothers and sisters on the auspicious occasion of this year’s Eid-el-Fitri celebrations. I congratulate all of our Muslims brothers and sister who have successfully undertaken the purifying Ramadan fast.

“As we celebrate Eid-el-Fitri, it is my hope and prayer that Ramadan’s spiritual lessons and the Holy Prophet’s teachings of piety, love, justice, fairness, equity, peaceful co-existence with others, tolerance, honesty and dedication to duty will remain with us all for the benefit and greater glory of our dear nation.”

Speaking further, the federal Lawmaker reminded all Muslims brothers and sisters that “Ramadan is not only a symbol of our submission to the Will of Allah, it is also a reminder of what our conduct towards others should be  throughout the rest of the year.

May the lessons and blessings of the Holy Month also permeate into us all, and positively influence our attitudes towards our fellow countrymen and women, irrespective of religion or place of origin; and promote greater commitment to the peace, unity and stability of the nation.

Nigerian Soldiers Took To Their Heels After A Tough War With Boko Haram Over Borno Town

Boko Haram, on Sunday, captured Marte, headquarters of Marte Local Government Area of Borno State, dependable sources have confirmed in Maiduguri.

One of the sources said the insurgents stormed the Marte military base, 153 Task Force Battalion, shooting sporadically and, in the process, razed “everything.”

“The insurgents seem not to have intended harming any civilian, but only to capture the town; so they stormed the military base, taking troops there unawares at about 6pm, much less than an hour to break fast time,” the source confirmed.

“We engaged them in a fierce encounter for about an hour,” a source who fled the base unscathed to Maiduguri, narrated to Daily Trust on Monday, adding that, “initially, we were about getting victorious over them, but they overpowered us, and all troops in the burning base were set asunder, with all of us fleeing in all directions in the bush.”

He stressed:

“I can tell you that we were about defeating them; but God knows the tactics they later deployed and the defeat turned against us; we all fled; they are in control of the town now.”

According to another fleeing source, “casualty figures cannot be confirmed on both sides, with all of us fleeing in all directions into the bush, and many of us finding their way to Maiduguri, and majority still roaming in the bush.

“Many of us who are lucky to find our way to Maiduguri or any safe community will elope to their home states across the country to relieve themselves of the trauma for a few weeks before returning to Maiduguri for the convergence of the troops,”

The source, who was on his way to his home state in the Northwest region said.

Though security agencies in Maiduguri have not yet issued any statement on the incident, Daily Trust has made efforts to reach the military authorities and will update the story as soon as reactions are received.

Source – Daily Trust

A civil-society group, Ondo State Committee on Ethics and Good Governance, has called on the Body of Benchers to probe the Call to Bar of the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi, over perjury allegations, in the interest of the law profession.

The group headed by Olabanji Orogbemi, asked the Benchers to withdraw the law degree and the practising certificate issued to the deputy governor, which qualified him as a lawyer in 2010 on the grounds that the politician lied on oath.

In a strongly-worded petition written by Oluwagbenga Adeosun, a legal practitioner, on behalf of the group to the Benchers, the petitioner alleged that the Ondo State deputy governor lied on oath to secure his admission into the Nigerian Law School in the document he submitted to the authorities of the school.

In the petition dated May 28, 2019 and received at the registry of the Body of Benchers, May 30, 2019, Ajayi was accused by the group of being on a full time employment of the Government of Nigeria at the time he secured the law school admission and his eventual call to the Nigerian Bar in 2010 to become a bonafide and full-fledged legal practitioner.

A copy of the letter sighted by THISDAY, revealed that the petitioners anchored their claim on the profile of the deputy governor published in the Ondo State Government web page: www.ondostate.gov.ng, wherein he (Ajayi) claimed that he obtained his Bachelor of Law at the Igbenedion University, Okada, Edo State and that he was called to bar in 2010 after his graduation from the Nigerian Law School.

The grouse of the group against the deputy governor was however predicated in another claim that he was elected between 2007 and 2011 into the House of Representatives for Ilaje/Ese-odo Federal Constituency of Ondo State.

While in the House of Representatives between 2007 and 2011, the deputy governor was said to have served as Chairman of the House Committee on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and also served as a member of the House Committee on Gas, Habitat, Justice and Committee on industry.

The group, while citing several authorities claimed that admission into the Nigerian Law School was on full-time basis and that the membership of the deputy governor to the National Assembly during the period was also on a full-time basis and as such he (Ajayi) could not have successfully combined his attendance at the Law School with his attendance in the House of Representatives

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