The Oyo State governor Mr Seyi Makinde has been appointed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to head the campaign committee of the opposition party for the Ondo State election in which the PDP candidate Eyitayo Jegede is slugging it out with the APC candidate Rotimi Akeredolu.

Actually, the Oyo State governor would use every strategy and approach he knows to win the 2020 Ondo State governorship election but all his plans will be in vain. His primary assignment in Ondo State is to get victory for the party and Eyitayo Jegede’s election.

However, there are some mistakes Mr. Seyi Makinde should avoid in Ondo State.

Makinde must not use Oyo State funds

Although the Oyo State governor Seyi Makinde will be determined to win the Ondo State election for the PDP and Jegede but he will lose eventually, he must never be tempted to use any money meant for Oyo State Government.

The people of Oyo State are keenly watching the governor and he might be questioned for any form of spending in Ondo State.

Winning an election in another state may involve using money for campaign and other logistics. No matter what, the Oyo State governor must avoid a mistake of spending the Oyo State Government money to finance the election.

The reason for this is that Seyi Makinde made transparency and accountability his watchword but not reflect in his sakamanje administration and his way of life and he must know that he will be under a serious scrutiny in Ondo State election as the head of the PDP campaign team.

So, I am hereby warning the governor not to spend our money on the election.

Written by CyberProf

Abuja Music Record Label, AbbeyCity_Empire founded by Abbey Afis Kamar in the year 2017 known for discovering of young talent in Music has just signed Kaduna Based artist Beeman Babanla into his label fold.

In his remark, the new signee Beeman Babanla expressed the deepest appreciation for the opportunity.

“Let me start by first of all thank my CEO Abbey Afis Kamar for believing in me this much and I also thank all the entire team ACE for the love they’ve shown to me throughout this process, may God continue to uplift us #Ahead_Ahead ” Beeman Babanla

Legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola says Nigeria may go out of existence before the 2023 general election if the 1999 Constitution is not discarded.

He said the constitution symbolised all that was wrong with the country and must make way for a people’s constitution.

Babalola explained that the people’s constitution could only be produced through a Sovereign National Conference and not by amending the present one.

Babalola, the Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), stated this in an interview published by Saturday Sun.

“People are hungry for a sovereign national conference and they will vote certainly for a constitution that will change the current constitution, not amending it.

“We need a new and total change in the constitution, representing the people’s constitution, with true federalism, or alternatively, let us return to the 1966 constitution with just few amendments.

“Without that, we may never have a Nigeria nation. We are getting farther, farther away from being a Nigeria nation now,” the elder statesman noted.

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Babalola revealed how he was approached by several presidents and heads of state, including late Sani Abacha, to take up political appointments but turned them down.

On Abacha’s offer, he said, “I remember I was in my house, usually I go for break between the hours of 3pm and 6pm and have a short sleep, so my wife came to knock the door at about 6pm that there was a call from Dodan barracks.

“I said to her ‘but I told you not to wake me up no matter who called me’ and she said ‘This is important, the caller is Abacha’.

“I woke up reluctantly, took the telephone, he knew me as a lawyer for soldiers who were put in court martial, so he asked, did you hear that I have taken over?

“I answered yes sir. He then said. ‘I want you to be my Attorney General’ and I said ‘Yes sir’. ‘Now, I want to see you in Dodan barracks tomorrow at 9am.’

“So, the next morning before I dressed up about six vehicles had come from Lagos with soldiers; they said they came to pick me up.

“I told them I won’t like to go in their vehicle; I would drive my own car, it didn’t matter whether I was in the front or at the back.

“They said ok and we went straight to Dodan barracks and I saw Abacha. He said ‘do you know the reason I have called you? I want you to take up the position of Attorney General’ and I said yes sir, let me go and tell my family.

“I left Dodan barracks, drove back to Ibadan, because as at that time I was driving myself, I didn’t allow any driver to drive me.

“I got home, I told my people and my mother said ‘you want to be minister for soldiers?’

“I said even myself I didn’t want such a position and that I told him I was going to consult my family and I phoned him, I said sorry sir, my family is objecting to my taking up the position of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, that was how I turned that one down.”

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, yesterday complied with the repeated orders of the Federal High Court in Abuja, compelling him to produce a governorship candidate in the November 16, 2019 governorship election in Bayelsa State, Vijah Opuama.

Opuama who was the Liberation Movement’s governorship candidate, was arrested by the policemen from the IG’s monitoring unit on the premises of the state’s Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja, on August 15, 2020 while waiting for judgment to be delivered on his petition challenging the outcome of the disputed poll.

The IG had ignored the two previous orders issued by Justice Taiwo Taiwo on August 3, 2020, and subsequently on September 2, for the production of the detainee in court.

The judge had on Monday issued the third order, directing the IG to produce Opuama in court yesterday.

The judge had threatened to summon the IG to personally appear in court should he fail to obey the third order.

But following the court’s third order, the detainee was finally produced in court yesterday.

He was produced from Suleja prison where an Upper Area Court in Zuba, Abuja, ordered him to be remanded after the police filed charges of resistance of arrest against him at the court on September 4.

Opuama’s lawyer, Danaba Pius, told Justice Taiwo yesterday that the police rushed to arraign his client at the Upper Area Court after they were served the September 2, 2020 order, directing the production of the detainee in court on September 7.

But the police lawyer, Miss T.O. Amalaha, told the judge that the police had charged the detainee at the Upper Area Court before receiving the court order for the production of the detainee.

Justice Taiwo fixed today (Thursday) for ruling.