Hours after the conclusion of GCFR posthumous award to Late MKO Abiola, President Muhammadu

Hours after the conclusion of GCFR posthumous
award to Late MKO Abiola, President Muhammadu
Buhari, has approved the renewal of the tenure of six
chief executive officers of federal agencies.
Buhari also approved the appointment of two
new chief executive officers of federal agencies
and one senior special assistant.
The appointments are:
1. Renewal of Appointments:
Federal Road Safety Corps - Dr. Boboye Olayemi
Oyeyemi MFR
Corps marshal/ chief executive officer.
Second and final term of four (4) years with
effect, from 24th July, 2018.
National Hospital, Abuja - Dr. Jafaru Alunua Momoh
Chief medical director
Second and final term of four years, with effect,
from 5th July, 2018.
National Orthopedic Hospital, Enugu State - Dr.
Nwadinigwe Cajetan Uwatoronye
Medical director
Second and final term of four years, with effect,
from 30th May, 2018.
Energy Commission of Nigeria - Prof. Eli Jidere Bala
Director general.
Second and final term of five years with effect
from 6th May, 2018.
National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI) - Dr.
Mohammed Jibrin.
Director general.
Second and final term of four years with effect
from 9th April, 2018.
National Agency for Science and Engineering
Infrastructure - Prof. Mohammed Haruna.
Executive vice chairman
Second and final term of five years with effect
from 3rd April, 2018.
2. The new appointments are:
Federal College of Education (Technical), Gombe,
Gombe state - Dr. Ali Adamu - Provost
Initial period of four (4) years with effect from
25th May, 2018
Federal Medical Centre, Keffi, Nasarrawa state. - Dr.
Yaya Baba Adamu
Medical Director
Initial period of four (4) years with effect from
1stApril, 2018
3. The president also approved the appointment
of Yahaya Lawal as senior special sssistant to the
president on Foreign Affairs and International
Relations. The appointment is with effect from
April 1, 2018.

Breaking: President Buhari announces new appointments

Hours after the conclusion of GCFR posthumous
award to Late MKO Abiola, President Muhammadu
Buhari, has approved the renewal of the tenure of six
chief executive officers of federal agencies.
Buhari also approved the appointment of two
new chief executive officers of federal agencies
and one senior special assistant.
The appointments are:
1. Renewal of Appointments:
Federal Road Safety Corps - Dr. Boboye Olayemi
Oyeyemi MFR
Corps marshal/ chief executive officer.
Second and final term of four (4) years with
effect, from 24th July, 2018.
National Hospital, Abuja - Dr. Jafaru Alunua Momoh
Chief medical director
Second and final term of four years, with effect,
from 5th July, 2018.
National Orthopedic Hospital, Enugu State - Dr.
Nwadinigwe Cajetan Uwatoronye
Medical director
Second and final term of four years, with effect,
from 30th May, 2018.
Energy Commission of Nigeria - Prof. Eli Jidere Bala
Director general.
Second and final term of five years with effect
from 6th May, 2018.
National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI) - Dr.
Mohammed Jibrin.
Director general.
Second and final term of four years with effect
from 9th April, 2018.
National Agency for Science and Engineering
Infrastructure - Prof. Mohammed Haruna.
Executive vice chairman
Second and final term of five years with effect
from 3rd April, 2018.
2. The new appointments are:
Federal College of Education (Technical), Gombe,
Gombe state - Dr. Ali Adamu - Provost
Initial period of four (4) years with effect from
25th May, 2018
Federal Medical Centre, Keffi, Nasarrawa state. - Dr.
Yaya Baba Adamu
Medical Director
Initial period of four (4) years with effect from
1stApril, 2018
3. The president also approved the appointment
of Yahaya Lawal as senior special sssistant to the
president on Foreign Affairs and International
Relations. The appointment is with effect from
April 1, 2018.

Obasanjo should be investigated and sent to jail if found guilty of any offence - Oshiomole

Former governor of Edo state, Oshiomole, called for
the investigation of ex-President Obasanjo
- He said the former president should be sent to jail if
found guilty of any offence
- Oshiomole lambasted the ex-president for claiming
that President Buhari wanted to frame and arrest him
Former Edo state governor and a top contender
for the office of the national chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams
Oshiomole, has said that former President
Olusegun Obasanjo should be arrested and sent
to jail if found guilty of any offence.
Oshiomhole spoke in a pre-June 12 event he
organized in honour of late Chief Gani
Fawehinmi SAN and acclaimed winner if the
June 12 1993 Presidential Election, Bashorun
MKO Abiola, The Nation reports.
The former governor dismissed reports credited
to ex-President Obasanjo that President Buhari
wanted to frame and arrest him.


He added that when Obasanjo was in power, he
also arrested and detained people, thinking that
he would be president forever.
Oshiomhole said Chief Obasanjo should be
investigated and sent to jail if found to have
dipped his hands in the pie.
He said: “Gani is not here today, but his spirit is here.
Falana is here and today, I am standing. Even the president
who was in charge then, he is now complaining that they
want to harass him. He was harassing me and he got me
arrested. He thought he himself would not be arrested?
“If I were the president, I would arrest him. We are all
Nigerians. I remember one day I told him, I said ‘President
Obasanjo, we made you president. You did not make me a
Nigerian. You are our creation; I am not your creation. You
must listen’.
“But he thought he would be in power forever and he tried
to take us on the way to Zimbabwe. He was a reluctant
Head of State, became president for two terms and he
wanted to do a third term because a cockroach licking
palm oil would never lick enough.
“I remember when I was accused by former president
Obasanjo of behaving as if I was an alternate president;
that I was running the NLC like a parallel government, that
I wanted to overthrow his government. A small man like
me, completely powerless.
“If I am dark like this, it is because of Obasanjo’s teargas.
When I now hear these same people saying they are trying
to arrest them, why shouldn’t they be arrested? He should
be arrested if he has committed any offence. He arrested
many of us.
“So, if we are celebrating Chief Gani Fawehinmi, we have
compelling reasons to do so. In all of these, we didn’t pay
any money to Gani or Falana. They defended us pro bono.
“The late Abiola would be smiling not just for the honour
done him by the president, but that Frank Kokori who was
very young then, deployed the instrumentality of oil
workers to support the progressive mission of the civil
society.
“It is not the position you occupy, but the role that you play
that will define your place in history. This man was never
an NLC president, but he is the only unionist invited to the
investiture.
“So, we just consulted among ourselves, few of us who
benefited from Gani’s leadership by using the instrument of
the law to confront evil leaders. At the NLC, we were so
efficient at causing troubles, but too poor to procure the
services of legal titans like Gani and Falana, but who would
always come and defend us pro bono. So, we felt that on the
eve of his investiture, we should gather and celebrate him.
“On June 12, the late Abacha asked us to tell Abiola to do a
national broadcast to renounce his mandate. Pascal Bafyau
advised him to take the bail conditions because he got
information that the regime was ready to keep him in jail
indefinitely, but Abiola said he wouldn’t mind dying, that if
you are already in the river, you can no longer complain of
being wet.
“Abiola died, but Abacha also died and today,
Abiola’s children can go anywhere and say I am
Abiola. But I am not sure of other persons”.

EFCC boss threatened to deal with me - Senator Nwaoboshi

The senator representing Delta North in the National
Assembly, Barrister Peter Nwaoboshi, has raised an
alarm
- Nwaoboshi is currently being prosecuted by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
- The senator however says what he is being
persecuted for is pure business transaction
The senator representing Delta North in the
National Assembly, Barrister Peter Nwaoboshi,
has said what he is being persecuted for by the
EFCC is pure business transaction.
Nwaoboshi who made the claim while addressing
selected journalists in Asaba on Monday, June
11, said he would never be muzzled, cowed or
intimidated by anybody to keep quiet and betray
the leadership of the National Assembly since he
did not launder money except that EFCC boss,
Ibrahim Magu once threatened him.

He disclosed that his persecution by Magu’s EFCC
is because of his position and stand at the
National Assembly meant to curtail dictatorship
in Nigeria, allow rule of law to prevail, sustain
our democracy, allow dissenting voices and
encourage investors
Nwaoboshi who is the chairman of the Senate
committee on Niger Delta affairs, maintained
that the issue that led to his being arrested,
detained and arraigned in the court by EFCC, has
nothing to do with fraud and corruption,
His words: “If anybody thinks he can muzzle me or cow
me, he is wasting his time because I can never be cowed, I
can never be intimidated and I believe that justice will be
done; I believe in God and I will be vindicated at the end.
“I want you to be upright in your report. I never laundered
money; I am a pure business man. My company is paying
the loan, servicing it. When we finish the matter, Nigerians
will know whether money borrowed from bank and
guaranteed is a laundered one.”

Meanwhile, Senate president, Bukola Saraki, has
thanked Nigerians all over the country for their
support and encouragement towards the work of
the 8th Senate, since it was inaugurated three
years ago.
In a statement issued from Saudi Arabia where
he is on lesser hajj, Saraki acknowledged that the
achievements of the Senate would not have been
possible without the backing of Nigerians, who
have played a more active role in the activities of
the legislature since June 9, 2015.

FLASHBACK: Full results of June 12 1993 election that gave Abiola victory

Moshood Kashimawo Abiola won the mandate of the
people on June 12, 1993, when Nigerians of all walks of
life shunned religious and ethnic affiliations to cast
their votes for him.

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However, the election, which is still regarded as
the freest and fairest in Nigeria, was annulled by
the then military president, General Ibrahim
Babangida.
adegokblog.com brings the full results of the election.
MKO Abiola won in 19 states and the Federal
Capital Territory, while his opponent, Bashir
Tofa, won in 11 states.

Recall that NAIJ.com previously reported that
President Muhammadu Buhari announced that
June 12 would be celebrated as the new
Democracy Day.
The president also announced that the late Chief
Moshood Abiola who was adjudged the winner of
the cancelled June 12, 1993 election will be
posthumously awarded the highest Honour in
the land, GCFR.
See full results below:

List of MKO Abiola's businesses ruined after June 12 presidential election

Without disputation, late MKO Abiola was a successful
businessman during his days, but so much turned
against him after his great financial fame and political
ambition went down the drain when in 1993 he was
denied the right to the presidential seat by the then
military head of states, General Sani Abacha.
MKO Abiola's investments cut across major
sectors in Nigeria's economy, such as banking,
telecommunication, education, aviation, oil and
gas. Most of these were at best drastically
affected and at worst put to an end with the
supposedly ill-fated June 12 presidential election.
Almost all his businesses collapsed twenty-five
years after his death. A list of some of Abiola's
defunct businesses are listed below, Vanguard
reports.

Habib Bank
The bank, which got its license to operate in
1982, was founded by Abiola and late Shehu
Musa Yar’Adua. It was formed in partnership
with Habib Bank of Pakistan, which holds 40
percent shareholding of the bank.
The bank lost its operating license in 2011 owing
to its inability to cope with the recapitalisation
scheme instituted by the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN) the same year.
Summit Oil
Summit Oil was an oil and gas firm formed by
the late business tycoon in 1990. The company
obtained Oil Prospecting Lease (OPL 205) and
was located at the Anambra basin, north of the
Niger Delta. Summit Oil was a top contributor to
Nigeria's oil and gas industry at the time.
However, after Abiola death, not much came out
from the OPL 205 in terms of actual production
even till presently. Economic experts report that
its license would have expired by now, with little
or no activity going on at the firm.
Concord Airlines
With so much expectation and funfair in the
Nigerian aviation industry, Concord Airline came
into existence in 1990. The airline, which had
close to four fokker27 aircraft and Abiola’s
private jet in its fleet, flew high with the
popularity of its owner.
Regrettably, before it could be counted among
the serious players in the sector, it flew into the
crisis that came after the 1993 presidential
election and met its doom.
Abiola Bookshop
What now remains of the once famous bookshop
located at No. 362 Herbert Macaulay Way in
Yaba area of Lagos, is a building, which
according to many, has not felt the stroke of
paint brush for many years. Visitors at the
bookshop reported that the premises is unkempt
and looks like a place left uncatered for.

Concord Press
Concord Press came to the media space in the
early 1980s. It rose to eminence soon after it was
established, with its sale of copies of daily news
amounting to more than 400,000 per day. It was
also a victim of ill-luck as it saw its fall soon
after the June 12 presidential election.
Banuso Fisheries, Berec Batteries and ITT company
The above-named investments which dealt in
animal husbandry, energy and communications
respectively, were also hugely affected after the
presidential election in 1993 went against late
MKO Abiola.
Meanwhile, adegokblog.com reported that late Chief
MKO Abiola made his supposed inaugural speech
on Saturday, June 11. This move by Abiola cost
him his freedom and chance to rule as Nigeria's
president.

Why IBB annulled June 12 election - Ezeife opens up

Chukwuemeka Ezeife has said that the declaration of
June 12 as democracy day by President Muhammadu
Buhari is self-serving
- Ezeife said Ibrahim Babangida was under threat to
annul the election
- According to Ezeife, Nigerians and her leaders are
yet to learn from lessons of June 12
A former governor of Anambra state,
Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has given details into the
annulment of the June 12, 1993 which produced
late Moshood Abiola as president-elect.
Ezeife said Ibrahim Babangida who was the
military head of state at the time was under
threat to annul the election.
Vanguard reports that the former governor said
that many Nigerians were shocked over honour
awarded Abiola by President Muhammadu
Buhari over the price paid for the election
results. Ezeife alleged that many Nigerians have
known the government for negative things.
Calling for the honour of electoral umpire at that
time, Ezeife said Nigerians and her leaders are
yet to learn from lessons of June 12.


Ezeife: “ We have not learnt any lessons from June 12. But
what I am hearing now, it is as if nothing happened,
anything can repeat itself many times over before we learn
a lesson."
"It was a traumatic period especially for those of
us who were directly involved. As for the
importance of it, as you know a Muslim/Muslim
ticket cleared the whole thing including Kano
where the opponent came.
" So, nobody knows the whole truth but I was close to
Babangida and he was telling me that the military were
opposed to (the declaration of Moshood Abiola as winner of
the election). He said ‘will you like me to be killed?’ as if he
had recognised the victory of Abiola and that if he (Abiola)
is made president, people will kill him and kill the new
president.
"So I said this one it is your job to do it but protect yourself
as you do it. Of course he tried it didn’t work.
"So if we stand 20 years from now and look at this decision,
it will be commended, many people will commend it,
nobody will be opposing it. And now nobody is against the
President except that most people don’t believe that it was
done in the interest of the nation. Some people think it is
some plot to harvest Yoruba votes in 2019. It may not be
and it may also be.”

Describing the declaration of June 12 as Nigeria’s
democracy, the former Anambra state governor
said President Buhari’s actions are self-serving.
“This is too positive to be expected from there. What
normally you see is some negative actions that are not
popular but this one is a good one. That is where one
problem exists. Somebody conducted that election that was
so good and I think that it is the problem where we are
thinking narrowly or about our self-interest.
"If we are looking at June 12 and we recognize the
significance of June 12, the person who was the INEC man
who conducted that kind of election should have been
remembered along with Abiola and Kingibe and other
person. That is one indication that the look was not
comprehensive by its own merit.”
"I think a good decision should be applauded but should be
done well. I am sure any mistake can even be corrected
now. Of course I am not a lawyer, I have heard of
posthumous award and I don’t know what was wrong with
this one.
"But in a place where things are working, the government,
executive especially and the legislature will take glory in
doing the right thing and then do it together. But this one
was not done so. I have read comments but as I said I am
not a lawyer so I am not vast to comment in being able to
comment on that,” Ezeife concluded.
Meanwhile,  previously reported that an
elder statesman and a leader of the Afenifere
group, Ayo Adebanjo, has said that Nigerians
from the southwest region will not be deceived
by the declaration.

Adebanjo said the declaration of June 12 as
democracy day is a political gimmick ahead of
the 2019 presidential election. He said even
though some people in the southwest have been
praising the move, it would not swing votes in
the president’s favour.

Key suspects of Offa robbery transferred to southwest for firearms recovery

Gang leaders of Offa robbery have been moved back
to southwest from Abuja by the police
- The move, according to the police, will enable them
in the investigations for the recovery of firearms used
in the robbery
- The gang leaders have also reportedly disclosed their
hideouts in five states in the southwest to the police
The Nigeria Police Force has moved the key
suspects of the April 5, 2018, Offa bank robbery
from the police headquarters in Abuja back to
the southwest to enable the recovery of firearms
used in the deadly robbery.
According to a report by The Punch, the gang
leaders have also revealed to the police five
hideouts where this firearms are hidden in
Kwara, Ondo, Osun, Oyo and Ekiti states.
Adegokblog .com gathers that those moved to the
southwest for the firearms recovery are Ayoade
Akinnibosun, Ibukunle Ogunleye, Adeola
Abraham, Salawudeen Azeez, Niyi Ogundiran,
Kunle Ogunleye, 35, a.k.a Arrow, and Michael
Adikwu.


A source who spoke to the press said the gang
leaders are assisting police by leading them to
places where the firearms are being kept.
The source said: “We announced during the press
briefing in Abuja that we had arrested 22 suspects and we
paraded 15 while seven suspects are helping us in the
investigation and recovery of arms in the Southwest.
“When we are through with the investigation, we would
present all the suspects to the public. Opadokun and others
are alive and helping us with the investigation. Reports of
their death are false information emanating from the social
media.”
Police spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood, is yet to
comment on this.


Recall that NAIJ.com earlier reported that Senate
president Bukola Saraki was invited by the police
over the deadly robbery that took place at Offa in
Kwara state.
The Senate president was invited to answer to
allegations surrounding his links to the armed
robbers behind the deadly robbery in April.
Jimoh Moshood, the force public relations officer
disclosed this in Abuja on Sunday, June 3, while
parading 22 suspects in custody for the robbery