From Charles Adegbite, Ado-Ekiti
The Minister of Police Affairs, Navy Capt Caleb Olubolade, at the weekend described the re-election of the Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko in the October 20 governorship election as a testimony that the era of electoral manipulation was over in Nigeria.
Olubolade, who hailed the electorate and the security agencies for the peaceful conduct during the hot political contest, said Mimiko’s victory had attested to the fact that President Goodluck Jonathan was sincere with the institutionalization of credible electoral system in Nigeria.
The minister, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), while briefing journalists in Ado Ekiti after the party’s stakeholders’ meeting aimed at proffering solutions to the internal crisis rocking the PDP in the state, said: “With this victory, our electoral system is moving away from the era of imposition.”
He described Mimiko’s victory as a reward for good performance in office and urged other leaders to learn how to manage both human and material resources in their care for them to be celebrated in and out of office. Former governors Ayodele Fayose and Segun Oni were missing at the meeting, but both were reported to have sent their apologies for not attending .
Olubolade submitted that, “President Goodluck Jonathan believes in free and fair election because flawed elections bring about wrong leaders and a waste of resources, so Mimiko’s victory is good for our democracy.” He said: “If you serve the people very well, your re-election will be a walk-over and the gains of democracy will continue to increase among the populace that you are elected to serve.”
On the rumour that he has interest in the 2014 governorship election in the state, the minister said his ambition could not override the position of his party. He said he was still keeping his ‘ambition in the pocket’ pending the time the party leaders would decide on the election.
The PDP Chairman, Mr Makanjuola Ogundipe, who commented on the reconciliation move being made by the party leaders, said the efforts were already yielding positive results.
He added that the trio of Olubolade, Fayose and Oni, who parted ways after the crisis-beleaguered March 18 Congress election were now united . Ogundipe hinted that the party machinery had started mobilizing the people at the grassroots, assuring that the party would surely reclaim the state from the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)in 2014.
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GEJ, the situation has become so terrible than in the past. My brother was first of graduate Sales driver in Nigerian Bottling Company, Plc (Coca-cola) in 1996.. He had master degree and many of his 1st set had master degrees from first generation universities but drove sales truck for 2/3years before promotion. Many of Commercial Managers in NBC today started from grass-root graduate-driver scheme. The current trends in UNEMPLOYMENT in Nigeria calls for URGENT attentions from REASONABLE leaders, if the trend continues, 2015 election will witness revolution. Many senators and other categories of politician looting our treasury should start count their years/months especially the greedy ones. Goodluck, Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) NIGERIAN YOUTHS are not happy with you and your vision-less team. Your vision this, vision that, are yet to yield any result .Dangote Company, has stopped revamping process of RAILWAY CORPORATION in Nigeria again.Please, do not waste the young men life. I could recollect vividly that in NBC.Plc (COCA-COLA) at the beginning of thier Graduate Salesmanship Scheme, There was high rate of accidents from the gentle men of the scheme, many become handicapped, deformed, lost of life etc. GEJ, do something good now, stop promising. PDP as a party, need to call all your looters politicians for a reform meeting. DAVID MARK, MINISTERS, ARMY OFFICERS all should fear God. Posterity will judge you ALL.
THE BEST THING TO DO FOR NIGERIA NOW IS DIVIDE NIGERIA LET THAT 19 STATE FROM NORTH GO THEIR OWN WAY, NIGERIA IS IN A CAGE OF GUN POWDER WAITING TO EXPLODE, SINCE THE 1967 GENOCIDE AGAINST SOUTH-WEST, WHAT IS THE FACE OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA TO SOUTH EAST? SINCE WE SAID WE ARE ONE NIGERIA WHAT MAKES US ONE NIGERIA? EVERY THING IS SEND TO LAGOS, WHY CANT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DI CONGEST LAGOS?? MUST NIGERIA BUILD EVERYTHING IN LAGOS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OTHER PART OF SOUTH EAST? NOW THEY WANT TO BUILD BIG REFINERY IN LAGOS WHY? THEY CRY FOR BOKO HARAM SOON IF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PAYS BOKO HARAM AS THEY SAID, ANOTHER BIG BOKO HARAM WILL EMERGE, IS ONLY IN NIGERIA THAT GOVERNMENT PAYS TERRORIST WHY? ARE WE SURE NIGERIA WILL EXIST IN 2015?? BIG SHAME TO USELESS PERSONAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, BIG SHAME TO YOU ALL FOOLS IN POWER
IN THE YEAR 2003, when BENUE STATE COMPANY PLC was pravitize. To DANGOTE GROUPS, ONLY 18% of our intitlement was paid 2 us, and the remaining 82% Of our intitlement was eaten by Dangote and the former governor of benue state Sen. Dr. GEORGE AKUME, IN Nov. 2003 we took Dangote and Akume to Fedral high court makurdi, in march. 2005, we won our case in fedral High court makurdi. 2006, The former Benue state Governor & Dangote took us to apple court in Jos, this is the 6th year now, the case is still in apple court in Jos, they keep on adjoining the case in court of appel for no reason, we are dying of hungry, we cant pay our house rent, hospital bill & phcn bill anymore, our children cant go to school anymore, We have lost about 59 of our members(the former staff of B.c.c plc) due to high blood presure, we work for the money & is our money..6yrs in Appel court now, nothing have been done about it. we dont have anybody 2 help us. Please somebody should Help….Dangote is above the Law