ARMY MUST DEFEND NIGERIA, NOT THE TENURE OF ANY POLITICIAN – OSHIOMOLE -

Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole says that the Nigerian Army must remain loyal to the nation and not to defending the tenure of an individual.

The governor said this while receiving the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 2 Division of the Nigerian Army, Ibadan, Major General Sanusi Muazu. He noted that no political office holder should get so desperate and try to use the military to boost personal ambition.

“The reason this has become an issue is because of the nature of our politics and the way political actors have put their personal interests over and above national interest. Presidents and governors would come and go, whether they are good or bad. Even the Armed Forces commander would come and go but the institution of the Nigeria Armed Forces will remain. Once we can distinguish between the person and the office, the institutions and the player, we may not have crisis.

“I believe that the forthcoming elections with all the tension that people are raising, the speculation that Nigeria will have crisis, to me I have seen all these before and the God that created this country will ensure that after all the fog, the weather will be clear. Nigeria will remain.

“It is the peace and security of the part that determine the character of peace and security of the whole. The Armed Forces must see themselves as the Nigerian Armed Forces and not the Armed Forces of the Commander in Chief, or of the governor. The Commander in Chief is to be elected by very ordinary people.

“The right of the people to vote for who will be president is a right that must be defended and upheld. Once the process is clean, the outcome does not matter. In a democracy, the people deserve the kind of president they want. He is a product of election and not an imposition.

“So, I ask you to do all you can to keep that confidence, that the army understands that its mandate is to defend the territorial integrity of the Nigerian nation and not the tenure of any political office holder regardless of the level,” Oshiomole said.

POLLS: 6MILLION OPC MEMBERS WILL VOTE FOR JONATHAN – GANI ADAMS

NATIONAL Co-ordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams, yesterday, said that six million members of the group have resolved to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan at the March 28 presidential polls.

He said OPC members took the decision at their National Co-ordinating Council meeting after taking time to assess President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd) of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

 

He made the disclosure at his Lagos residence while hosting Special Adviser to President Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, Hon Kingsley Kuku, who came to solicit his and OPC’s support for Jonathan’s re-election.

Adams said OPC is rooting for Jonathan because of his human rights records in not arresting or detaining any activist since he came to power, convocation of national conference and promise to implement the 633 recommendations that will help to restructure the country, which he said is in the interest of the Yoruba and South-west.

He said: ‘’OPC is a group of six million people. We sat down at our National Co-ordinating Council to decide on who to vote for between President Jonathan and Buhari and the support for Jonathan is unanimous.”

”Now, we have come out to support Jonathan because of the National Conference.

We have been clamouring for National Conference since 1992, even our leaders could not organise it.

President Olusegun Obasanjo organised the National Political Reforms Conference with a lot of no-go areas.

In the end there was a stalemate. ”Now a minority, Jonathan, did it. The only no-go area is the unity of the country.

He gave us open cheque to decide the future of Nigeria.”

Source: Vanguard

 

“BEING GΑY IS A TOUGH JOB, BUT SOMEONE’S GOTTA DO IT “- DENRELE AA

Award winning Controversial TV personality Denrele Edun has declared he is a Sexual Outlaw.

 

He revealed this during a tweetchat with Award winning presenter Kimani Adekeye (@cutekimani) using the hashtag #KimaniOffAir.

Denrele who cheerfully answered all the questions made it known that he doesn’t have any Tatoos or piercings because his Body is the temple of God, also revealed that the General Overseer of MFM, DR. D.K Olukoya is his father in the Lord.

 

When asked on the tweetchat about his most embarrassing social media moment, he said they were plenty but his retweeting power is 2nd to none and he laughs them off.

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