Ikubese replies NCP, says Yunusa, Akele destroying the party
Says Yunusa, Akele behind alleged rejoinder by Ibu-Owo
Presidential hopeful of the Alliance for New Nigeria party, ANN, Dr.
Thomas Wilson Ikubese, has replied an alleged rejoinder credited by one
Mr. Fatai Ibu-Owo whom, according to him, claims to be the Lagos State
chapter’s Chairman of his former party, the National Conscience Party
(NCP), saying the rejoinder is one of the means engaged by both the
National Chairman of NCP, Mr. Tanko Yunusa and the General Secretary,
Ayodele Akele to destroy the party. Dr. Ikubese also said that the
rejoinder was illegal and violates NCP’s constitution.
He said Ibu-Owo is a faceless stooge of Messrs. Yunusa and Akele both
of whom, he said, have been violating NCP’s constitutional provision.
Dr Thomas-Wilson Ikubese
The Convener of YesWeFit movement said the alleged rejoinder “ought
to have been signed by the National Publicity and Publications Director
(of NCP) in line with Article 4.4.10 (c) of the
Constitution of the NCP” and not what he described as by an “illegally
imposed State Chairman, whose position is currently being contested in
court.”
He said the rejoinder was orchestrated by the duo of Mr. Tanko Yunusa
and Ayodele Akele to further their alleged plot of foisting Yunusa as
the flag-bearer of the NCP.
Below is the full statement:
BEING A RESPONSE TO THE REJOINDER BY NCP TO THE PRESS CONFERENCE ADDRESSED BY DR THOMAS-WILSON IKUBESE ON 14th MAY 2018.
Our attention has been drawn to the rejoinder written by one Fatai
Ibu-Owo, who claimed to be the Lagos State chapter’s Chairman of
National Conscience Party (NCP), to the Press Conference addressed by Dr
Ikubese on 14th May 2018, wherein he announced his exit from the Party
because the National Chairman Tanko Yunusa and the General Secretary
Ayodele Akele violated the provisions of the NCP constitution and are
scheming to instal Tanko as the 2019 Presidential Candidate of the Party
through the back door, while he yet remains in office as the National
Chairman.
First, let’s state here that we are very much aware that Fatai
Ibu-Owo’s name, a stooge of the National Chairman of the National
Conscience Party, Tanko Yunusa and the General Secretary, Ayodele Akele,
was just written at the bottom of the release. There is no doubt that
the release was written by the duo of Tanko and Akele who have decided
to hide behind one finger.
A rejoinder to a press conference which accuses the National Chairman
and General Secretary of compromise ought to have been signed by the
National Publicity And Publications Director in line with Article 4.4.10 (c) of the Constitution of the NCP, not an illegally imposed State Chairman, whose position is currently being contested in court.
Tanko and Akele could not get the National Publicity And Publications
Director or any National Officer to sign the rejoinder because the
National Officers know that the concerns raised by Dr Ikubese in his
press conference are valid and have themselves expressed their
reservations on these matters severally.
DETAILS OF THE PRESS CONFERENCE
For the records, we reproduce below unedited, the content of the Press Conference addressed by Dr Ikubese on 14th May 2018:
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WHY I’M QUITING THE NATIONAL CONSCIENCE PARTY (NCP)
BEING THE TEXT OF THE PRESS CONFERENCE ADDRESSED BY DR THOMAS-WILSON IKUBESE AT THE NUJ PRESS CENTRE AKURE ON 14TH MAY 2018
Protocols.
I declared to run for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on
24th July 2017, because the recommendations in my book tittled MY
PRESCRIPTIONS FOR NIGERIA written in 2011 which I sent to our political leadership
wasn’t implemented. These recommendations/prescriptions if implemented will
bring about the much desired positive change in our dear nation, and position her
where she ought to be; amongst the best nations of the world.
Premised on these, I decided to run for the office of the President using my book to
benchmark governance.
My followers who are scattered around the 36 states of the Federation decided
thereupon that we join the National Conscience Party (NCP) and pursue the
actualization of the birth of the new Nigeria of our dream therein, because the
ideologies of the Founder of the Party, late icon Chief Gani Fawehinmi, which
centered around fairness, equity and justice were in tandem with mine.
I then joined the NCP on 16th September 2017.
Because of my respect for the memory of Chief Gani Fawehinmi, I will not want to go
into the fine details of the happenings in the NCP and the various hostilities I have
suffered from the leadership of the Party, except unfolding events in the coming
days make it expedient for me to do so.
I will however state two reasons why it will be difficult for me to remain in the NCP;
The National Chairman Yunusa Tanko and the National Secretary Ayodele Akele
drafted a document (attached herein) directing that any Presidential Aspirant who is
less than 2yrs in the party should pay the sum of N7.04 million naira to the Party,
which is against the age-long tradition laid down by Chief Gani Fawehinmi that party
members who seek to run for offices should do so at no cost, as a populist Party, as
to encourage the masses to thereby participate actively in politics. The argument
advanced by the duo is that this money will serve to finance the Party. Conversely
however, Article 9.4.1 of the constitution of the NCP clearly stipulates how the party
shall raise funds, i.e membership fees, donations and/or contributions from well
meaning individuals or bodies, proceeds from sale or auction of party materials and
publications and income from investments. Nowhere is it stated in the constitution
that funds shall be generated by levying aspirants mandatorily!
This action is in further breach of Article 4.1.3 (c) of the NCP which stipulates that a
National Congress must be convened to discuss the affairs of the Party and to take
such decisions and/or give general guidelines as may be necessary for the progress
and proper working of the Party. A National Congress was not called, as this decision
was taken exclusively by the National Chairman and General Secretary.
The National Chairman, Yunusa Tanko formerly declared to run for the office of
the President on the 23rd April 2018, without resigning
his position as National Chairman. As at today, he doubles as the
National Chairman and a Presidential
Aspirant of the NCP to the disadvantage of any other Aspirant in the Party who will
be “screened” by a committee that will ultimately report to him.
He thus upholds the power to approbate and reprobate.
You cannot be in charge of the Party, control its machineries and resources and also
be an Aspirant without fairness, justice and equity being compromised. Tanko
erected a barricade, mandating me to pay N7.04million as a Presidential Aspirant,
while he is not making any such payment, even though we are running for the same
office.
Since the National Chairman and General Secretary of the party have obviously
compromised the integrity for which the party is known, I hereby withdraw my
membership of the NCP forthwith, for if I remain in the Party, it is obvious that the
duo will use the Party machinery to the advantage of Tanko. And should I defeat him
in the primaries, he and his accomplices will most likely work against me in the
general elections.
I call on members of the NCP to rise and protect the legacy of justice and equity in
the Party for which Chief Gani Fawehinmi lived and died.
For me, I shall move on and continue to join forces with genuine progressive-minded
individuals and groups to birth the new Nigeria of our dream.
A New Nigeria is possible
Together we can
#YesWeFit
Dr Thomas-Wilson Ikubese
2019 Presidential Aspirant
14th May, 2018
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It was this Press Conference that the duo of Tanko and Akele
responded to in a rejoinder signed on their behalf by their illegally
imposed stooge, Fatai Ibu-Owo.
We shall proceed to address each of the issues they raised in their
rejoinder under sub-headings for easy comprehension and analysis.
FATAI IBU-OWO AS AN ILLEGALLY IMPOSED CHAIRMAN OF LAGOS NCP
It is expedient that we start by addressing the controversy
surrounding the imposition of Fatai Ibu-Owo by Tanko and Akele as the
Chairman of Lagos NCP, which is currently the subject of litigation at
the Federal High Court, Ikoyi Lagos state, in suite numberFHC/L/CS/864/17 as to have a foundational
understanding of how Tanko and Akele are destroying the NCP by
divide-and-rule antics and installing stooges who are willing to execute
their selfish agenda in brazen violation of the constitution of the NCP
for their personal benefits and pecuniary gains.
Article 9.2.3 of the constitution of the NCP clearly states that “all elections shall be conducted at the ANNUAL CONGRESS of the concerned level of the Party”.
On the 18th March 2017, the NCP Lagos chapter led by Comrade Tunde
Agunbiade as the State Chairman conducted the State Annual Congress and
election of new excos in accordance with the above constitutional
requirement, having fulfilled Article 9.2.5 which
states that “all elections shall be organised by Electoral Panel which
must be set up not later than 4 months before the annual meeting of the
Congress at which it is to conduct an election, while it shall stand
defunct on the completion of the election”.
Comrade Agunbiade invited the Independent National Electoral
Commision (INEC) to witness the election, but was told that Tanko and
Akele had written to them to boycott the event for a later date, hence
the absence of INEC at that Congress.
That congress/election which had nine out of ten functional
out-going exco members in attendance was conducted peacefully and
produced a new exco led by Comrade Bayo Ogunleye as the State Chairman.
A week later, 25th March 2017, Tanko and Akele organised a fresh “election” where Fatai Ibu-Owo was the only member of the previous exco in attendance.
Comrade Agunbiade, the immediate past Lagos state NCP chairman and
Comrade Bayo Ogunleye, the newly elected Lagos state NCP chairman sent
the newly elected P.R.O, Comrade Kehinde Adeoye to the event with a
letter so duely signed to be handed over to the representatives of INEC
at the event, notifying them of the illegality of the process.
However, Comrade Seeni Ajayi, who bullies for Tanko and Akele,
snatched the letter and tore it in the presence of all in attendance!
It took the intervention of law-enforcement agents to return calmness to the venue.
It was that kangaroo election which was an obvious breach of Articles 9.2.5 and 9.2.3 of the constitution of the NCP that produced Fatai Ibu-Owo, the stooge whose named was used to sign the lie-ladden rejoinder.
The Lagos state scenario is just one of the several cases of how
Tanko and Akele disparage credible, visionary comrades and install their
stooges to fulfil their pecuniary desires.
THAT DR IKUBESE IS NOT A FUNCTIONAL MEMBER OF NCP, THAT
HE NEVER PAID A KOBO AS DUES AND THAT ALL THE PROMISES HE MADE TO ONDO
STATE NCP WERE NOT FULFILLED.
Upon joining the NCP, Dr Ikubese inquired from Tanko how much the
monthly dues of the party was. Tanko replied by saying that the annual
dues is one hundred naira (N100) per month or one thousand two hundred
naira (N1,200) per annum, as the Party is a populist/humanist party.
This conversation took place on phone, in the presence of the Ondo state
chairman of the NCP, Comrade Davis Oluwasuyi, who made the account
details of the party available to Dr Ikubese upon the advice of Tanko,
immediately after that conversation.
Dr Ikubese therefore on his own volition decided to pay the sum of
two thousand naira ( N2,000) instead of the statutory one thousand two
hundred naira (N1200) per annum on the 6th October 2017 through teller
number 2326337 at U.B.A in favour of NCP account number 1000598812.
This payment was acknowledged by Tanko and Akele, upon which Dr Ikubese was issued a Membership Card with number 0356 by Comrade Davis Oluwasuyi, the Ondo State Chairman of the NCP, having fulfilled his membership obligation.
Looking back now, Dr Ikubese was in the Party for eight months
(September 2017 to May 2018). The two thousand naira thus translates
into two hundred and fifty naira monthly, which is one hundred and fifty
naira in excess of the one hundred naira that the National Chairman
asked Dr Ikubese to pay as monthly dues.
The rejoinder also stated that Dr Ikubese did not pay for the
Membership Card given to him. This is another deliberate distortion of
facts aimed at confusing members of the public who they know will ask
them how Dr Ikubese came about his Membership Card if he didn’t pay his
dues!
In the NCP like several other parties, once you pay your dues, you
qualify as a member and automatically collect your membership card. There’s no separate amount paid for membership card, differently from the dues!
It is a shame that Tanko granted an interview to Premium Times
shortly after the Press Conference of Dr Ikubese saying that the only
amount paid by Dr Ikubese is two thousand naira, without stating that
the sum was for his annual dues in line with his directive. It’s a pity
that the National Chairman of a party such as the NCP that preaches
uprightness and accountability is deliberately distorting facts for
percuniary gains. In that interview he said Dr Ikubese paid only N2,000.
In his rejoinder signed by his stooge Fatai Ibu-Owo, Tanko again said
Ikubese “has not paid a kobo ” to the party.
Which do we now believe? Two different statements, from the same individual!
The Spirit of Chief Gani Fawehinmi must be turning in his grave right
now, seeing what unstable characters like Tanko and Akele have turned
his Party into.
On the allegation that Dr Ikubese did not fulfil all the promises he
made to the Ondo state chapter of NCP, it’s expedient to put the record
straight.
When Dr Ikubese joined the Party, the Ondo State Chairman, Comrade
Davis Oluwasuyi told him that the party was in need of a secretariat,
where its activities can be managed.
Dr Ikubese told Comrade Davis to look for a befitting property in the
high brow business district of Oba Adesida through Oyemekun road for
the purpose of the party’s secretariat.
Comrade Davis eventually located a substandard property around the
Osolo Palace, which Dr Ikubese did not approve as he deemed it not
befitting for the Party.
Eventually, Dr Ikubese located a befitting property along the high
brow business district at No. 82 Oke-Ijebu Street, Akure. He informed
comrade Davis and took him there for inspection. After Comrade Davis
certified the property fit for use, Dr Ikubese proceeded to make full
payment for same from his private purse and equally transferred the sum
of twenty thousand naira to the FCMB account number 3368653014, being
the personal account of Comrade Davis for the purpose of placing a
vacancy advertisement slot in Trace News Magazine for the secretariat
staff who would work in the office.
Dr Ikubese and an excited Comrade Davis thereupon posed for a photograph in
front of the building, to commemorate the birth of a new dawn for the
Ondo state chapter of NCP. The picture is in our archives.
The receipt issued by the Landlord for the full payment of the property is also in our archives.
This event was reported by NigerianCableNews, an online media outfit.
This was followed by a State Executive Committee (SEC) meeting called
by Comrade Davis Oluwasuyi, where he and members of Ondo SEC thanked
Dr Ikubese for his benevolence to the Party.
How so unfortunate, that the mischievous duo of Tanko and Akele could
now turn around and lie so shamelessly that Dr Ikubese did not fulfil
any of the promises he made to the Ondo state chapter of NCP!
Tanko and Akele have since been mounting pressures on Comrade Davis
Oluwasuyi the Ondo State Chairman, to distort facts and generate
orchestrated falsehood against Dr Ikubese so as to discredit him in the
eyes of the public.
THAT SCORES OF CORRUPT BOURGEOISIE POLITICIANS, SCAMMERS,
FAILED POLITICIANS FROM APC/PDP AND SEVERAL AGENTS OF THE NIGERIAN
RULING ELITES ARE TRYING TO COME IN, HIJACK AND DERAIL THE NCP.
This is another concorted lie by Tanko/Akele meant to massage their
ego and make the Party look worthwhile in the eyes of the uninformed.
The truth is that the NCP is a party with great potentialsby
virtue of the legacy enshrined thereof by the late Chief Gani
Fawehinmi, the founder . However, since Yunusa Tanko and Ayodele Akele
took over the leadership of the Party as National Chairman and General
Secretary respectively in 2012, the fortunes of the party has since nose
dived, because these duo are not after the development of the Party,
but are only using the Party as a tool of merchandise for their selfish
interest.
Today, no state chapter of the NCP has a secretariat, except Lagos
state which occupies the Gani Fawehinmi Memorial Organisation’s
(GAFAMorg) office space as its secretariat. Even the FCT chapter
occupies the kitchenspace of the unbefitting two-bedroom apartment used as the national secretariat of the Party in Abuja.
How can such a poorly managed Party which has been raped sore and ran
aground by the duo of Tanko and Akele be an attraction to “bourgeoisie
politicians” and “agents of the Nigerian ruling elites”?
Truth is, as it stands today, the NCP is a moribund Party, no thanks to Tanko and Akele.
The coming of Dr Ikubese into the party, with his several town hall
meetings across the various states of the federation, coupled with many
media appearances and press releases on burning national issues, caused a
monumental rebirth of the party as people were asking to know about the
party as though it’s a new Party, while those who had known about the
Party were surprised to know that it is still in existence!
No serious minded aspirant to any public office today will run under the National Conscience Party. Not even human rights activists who
should naturally feel at home with the Party, because Tanko and Akele
have turned the Party to their private enterprise and tool of
merchandise since they took over its leadership in 2012. This explains
why the immediate past National Chairman of the Party, Mr Femi Falana resigned
from the Party so as not to have his good name soiled by this duo who
have constituted themselves into principalities in the NCP.
So who wants to “hijack” an empty shell with no political worth and value?
* A party that has no state secretariats.
*A party whose card-carying membership is not up to two thousand in a
nation of 186 million people, and keeps loosing her few members by the
day due to bad, uninspiring, selfish leadership.
*A party that does not control a single seat in government at any level.
*A party where only the National Chairman and General Secretary take decisions in their bedrooms and it becomes law.
* A party whose national body has no functional website in twenty first century.
* A party that has refused to maximise the gains of social media in twenty first century.
* A party where the few great minds who stray in there are
deliberately frustrated and chased away so that Tanko/Akele can continue
to have a field’s day, unchallenged.
* A party that is not interested in growing its membership base or
winning elections, but is rather interested in using their candidates as
a bargaining tool for self enrichment.
Who wants to “hijack” a comatosed liability?
There are 68 registered political parties in Nigeria today. Of these,
the NCP falls far behind in the line of serious political parties. All
those who associate with the party today still do so because of the
memory of late Chief Gani Fawehinmi. But none of these people will ever
consider the NCP as a party of choice should they decide to run for
elective office, because they know better.
NCP under Tanko/Akele has thus become an artefact, fit only for the museum.
THAT DR IKUBESE EMBARKED ON SEVERAL ANTI-PARTY ACTIVITIES BY VISITING PRESIDENT OBASANJO AND CHIEF FALAE
AND DROPPING THE NAME OF THE PARTY EVEN THOUGH HE IS NOT
AN OFFICIAL OF THE PARTY AND THAT THE PARTY ISSUED A STATEMENT TO
DISSOCIATE ITSELF FROM HIS DEALINGS.
Article 2.1 of the constitution of the NCP states
that “all members shall have the right to participate fully in the
activities of the Party and to aspire to any position of responsibility
within the Party or any public office on the platform of the Party “.
Dr Ikubese by virtue of this provision, having joined the party
formally and paid his dues and given a membership card, is entitled to
run for the office of the President and be so publicly identified as a
“Presidential Aspirant” of the NCP. He doesn’t have to be an official
of the Party to make a statement in respect of his aspiration. At no
time did he speak for the Party. He rather spoke variously in respect of
his aspiration and manifesto for a new Nigeria. It is therefore
distortingly mischievous to accuse him of “dropping the name of the
party”, whatever that means.
The duo of Tanko/Akele should mention a single “anti-party” activity
embarked upon by Dr Ikubese, who has actually been going round the
country popularizing the Party which has since become moribund from the mismanagement of Tanko/Akele.
President Olusegun Obasanjo is not a dignitary that just anybody can
have audience with. Many try for months to have appointment with him
without success. Yet, he granted express audience to Dr Ikubese because
he’s aware of his integrity, the genuiness of his aspiration and his
huge followership across the federation as the very first young person
to declare to run for the office of the President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria as far back as 24th July, 2017, prompted by the need
to make Nigeria work, with a spelt-out agenda.
His visit to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, was well publicised
by the press who were in the know of the purpose of the visit.
For the records, Dr Ikubese visited President Obasanjo on two grounds;
(i) He thanked him for the letter he wrote, urging President
Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019 as that letter echoed
the yearnings of the masses on the street, who are victims of the
lack-lustre leadership style of President Muhammadu Buhari.
(ii) He persuaded him that the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM)
floated by the former President and its subsequent political
metamorphosis should not field a recycled politician in the 2019
Presidential election, stating specifically that should the Coalition
field an “ex-this, ex-that”, it would no longer qualify as a Third
Force, urging him therefore to encourage the emergence of a young,
fresh, visionary candidate who has not hitherto been stained by the
murky waters of Nigerian politics.
Which of these two points contradict the spirit of progressivism and
the ideology of the NCP or runs contrary to the expectations of the
Nigerian masses?
Recall that the 2015 Presidential Candidate of the NCP, Engr Martins
Onovo visited former President Obasanjo during the build-up to the 2015
Presidential election. Till this day, nobody knows the purpose of his
visit and the subject of discussion. When asked, he said it was a “private visit”. Yet, there is no record of the NCP taking any action against him.
Ikubese’s visit to Chief Olu Falae is also in the open, covered by
the press. For Chief Falae, an elderstatesman and the National Chairman
of another Party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to have granted
audience to Dr Ikubese, a presidential aspirant of another Party, goes
to show the quantum of respect he has for the young revolutionist.
Again, the content of the meeting is in the open, covered by the press,
reproducible by Google. Dr Ikubese admonished him that his party, which
many political big wigs were defecting to, should not field a recycled
politician for the 2019 Presidential election.
Again, how does this admonition run contrary to the ideology of the NCP or the common good of the masses ?
The rejoinder also stated that the NCP “issued a statement to
dissociate itself from the dealings of Dr Ikubese”. This is another
deliberate falsehood!
We challenge the duo of Tanko and Akele to produce a copy of the said “statement”.
In their characteristic manner, it is easy for them to quickly
conjure a fake letter and back-date it to that effect. However, we are
waiting to puncture their lie as usual. Letters, statements, memo etc
are sent to members of NCP via NCP Hq e-mail. Let them screen-munch and
show to the world the date on the “sent” compartment on the official
e-mail address of the NCP revealing the purported “statement” therein.
This electronic data cannot be manipulated, as they could easily do with
a hard copy.
It’s most unfortunate that while Dr Ikubese was busy traveling round
the country, organising Town-Hall meetings, issuing press statements,
granting press interviews addressing Press Conferences and invoking the
consciousness of the Party in the minds of Nigerians, the duo of Tanko
and Akele were busy scheming how to edge him out and hand over the
Party’s Presidential ticket to Tanko through the back door for their
selfish gains.
Dr Ikubese is the kind of candidate that any serious political party
would desire to fly its ticket in a Presidential election. But for the
duo of Tanko and Akele, Dr Ikubese is bad news because NCP under Tanko
and Akele fields candidates in elections, not with the intention of
winning, but with the intention of using such candidates to bargain for money and favour.
Seeing that Dr Ikubese is a principled, successful and serious-minded
technocrat who will not agree to participate in such political
merchandise, the only way they could continue with their trade was to
edge him out of the Party by manufacturing unconstitutional barricades
and refusing to call a National Congress, where their illegalities can
be thwarted.
THAT NCP IS NOT INTERESTED IN GOING INTO ALLIANCE WITH
ANY POLITICAL PARTY AND THAT THIS IS WHAT DR IKUBESE WANTED TO IMPOSE ON
THE PARTY
This is another deliberate falsehood which again reveals Tanko and Akele as persons not worthy of public trust.
In 2010, fifteen political parties (including NCP) that faced
deregistration from INEC came together to form Coalition for New Nigeria
(CNN), went to court and got a judgement in their favour.
In July 2017 (before Dr Ikubese even joined the NCP), these fifteen
political parties (including the NCP) again came together with the aim
of presenting a CONSENSUS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE in the
2019 Presidential election as a means of wrestling power from the APC.
The coalition which has increased its membership to about thirty
political parties as at January 2018 has Yunusa Tanko who is the
National Chairman of the NCP as its Spokesperson, while
Alhaji Abdulkadir Salam of the Labour Party (LP) was appointed as
Chairman and Barrister Godson Okoye of the United Democratic Party (UDP)
as Secretary.
Yunusa Tanko in his capacity as the spokesperson of the Coalition for New Nigeria (CNN) has
granted several press interviews in this regards. A simple Google
search will so reveal. Recently, in the first week of April 2018 on
Sunrise Daily, Maupe Ogun of Channels television asked Tanko about the
disposition of the NCP to forming alliance with other parties with the
aim of wrestling power from the APC. Tanko, in that live telecast again
confirmed that the NCP is involved in forming alliance with other
parties as to “rescue Nigeria” in 2019. The footage of that interview is
on YouTube.
On 21st March 2018 at the Nicon Luxury Hotel Abuja, venue of the
Grand National Summit & Official Launch Of Grand Political Coalition
On The Future Of Nigeria by the Nigeria Intervention Movement, Yunusa
Tanko was conspicuously present in his capacity as the National
Chairman of NCP and Spokesperson for the Coalition of New Nigeria. We
have pictures of him at that event in our archives.
How can the duo of Tanko and Akele now turn around to say that the
NCP is not interested in forming alliance with other parties and go on
to accuse Dr Ikubese of wanting to “impose” alliance on the NCP, when
the NCP had gone into alliance before Dr Ikubese even joined the Party
and Tanko himself is the Mouthpiece of the alliance!
Isn’t it obvious that Tanko and Akele are perpetual liars who are
bent on distorting history and deliberately misinforming members of the
public for their selfish interest?
THAT DR IKUBESE HAS NO SINGLE FOLLOWER IN LAGOS NCP
Please recall that as at today, there are two factions in Lagos NCP,
courtesy of the manipulations of Tanko and Akele. The authentic faction
led by Comrade Bayo Ogunleye, which is the exco that followed the
constitutional provision of the Party and the faction that was
illegally imposed by Tanko/Akele, led by Fatai Ibu-Owo.
While Dr Ikubese has interacted severally with the Comrade Bayo
Ogunleye led exco and has enjoyed tremedous comradeship from them, he
has been careful not to encourage illegality by distancing himself from
the illegal exco led by Fatai Ibu-Owo. So, of a truth, he has “no single
follower” in the illegal faction of Fatai Ibu-Owo, but has one hundred
percent followership in the authentic Comrade Bayo Ogunleye led exco, as
well as all other state chapters of the NCP all of whom are excited,
seeing that the coming of Dr Ikubese into the Party gave the Party a new
lease of life.
THAT DR IKUBESE HAS ONLY TWO THOUSAND LIKES ON FACEBOOK.
It’s unfortunate that Tanko and Akele who are vested with the
responsibility of leading a Party such as the NCP have degenerated so
low to the point of triviality, by making a mountain out of the mole
hill of Facebook “likes” in an attempt to denigrate the highly
respected Dr Ikubese.
It is thus expedient that we put the records straight.
Dr Ikubese has the following Facebook accounts:
(i) Dr Thomas-Wilson Ikubese (5,000 friends)
(ii) Dr Thomas-Wilson Ikubese for President 2019 (15,000 likes)
(iii) Dr Thomas-Wilson Ikubese for President 2019 (13,000 members)
(iv) Dr Thomas-Wilson Ikubese for President 2019 (194 likes)
(v) Dr Thomas-Wilson Ikubese for President 2019 (170 likes)
The summation comes to over thirty three thousand followers. While we
acknowledge that this is a far cry from our target and yet are working
daily on increasing our social media presence, it has become necessary
to set the record straight, that we currently have a followership of
over thirty three thousand and not two thousand as mischieviously put by
Tanko and Akele in their rejoinder. This is without prejudice to the
almost fully subscribed over three hundred and fifty WhatsApp platforms
of the Ikubese Campaign networks across the 36 states of the federation,
Abuja and the diaspora. Ditto for other media windows.
Perhaps, since Tanko has decided to go in search of Facebook “likes”,
we may need to turn the search light on him and the Party under his
leadership. Tanko Yunusa and the NCP have the following facebook
accounts;
(i) Yunusa Tanko (2,391 friends)
(ii) Yunusa Tanko NCP 2019 ( 179 likes)
(iii) National Conscience Party (277 likes)
(iv) National Conscience Party (161 members)
(v) National Conscience Party (53 members)
(vi) National Conscience Party (106 likes)
(vii) National Conscience Party Lagos state (194 likes)
(viii) National Conscience Party Lagos state (755 likes)
(ix) NCP Enugu state (277 friends)
(x) National Conscience Party Osun chapter (41 likes)
(xi) NCP – National Conscience Party (305 members)
(xii) National Conscience Party (NCP) (10 members)
(xiii) National Conscience Party (NCP) Benue state chapter (22 members)
(xiv) National Conscience Party – NCP Sunshine State Chapter (102 likes)
The summation of Facebook followership of Yunusa Tanko and the entire
NCP in Nigeria and in the diaspora under his leadership is less than
five thousand, yet he is ridiculing Dr Ikubese with over thirty three
thousand followers!
THAT IF DR IKUBESE WERE SERIOUS, HE WOULD HAVE JOINED A POLITCAL
PARTY IMMEDIATELY HE WROTE HIS BOOK TITTLED “MY PRESCRIPTIONS FOR NIGERIA”
This is another fallacy.
Dr Ikubese is not a political jobber. He is a successful Medical
Practitioner who has been practicing conscientiously for about two
decades now, contributing his quota to nation building by offering
charitable medical services to Nigerians, an act that has earned him
several medals and awards over the years.
He had sent the book and its recommendations to the Nigerian
leadership over the years hoping that they will implement its content,
which is a sure recipe for a functional Nigeria. It is the failure of
the implementation of the content of the book by our leadership that has
prompted Dr Ikubese to declare to run for the office of the President
of the Federal Republic on 24th July 2017, using the book as benchmark
for governance, before he eventually joined the NCP on 16th September
2017.
So, must every social commentator who profers solution to Nigeria’s
many problems join a political party and seek elective office
immediately?
The likes of Prof Wole Soyinka, Charly Boy, Chinua Achebe etc who
regularly criticise govt and profer solutions to Nigeria’s many problems
without joining political parties and running for elective office must
be discountenanced then, going by the yardstick of Tanko and Akele!
What a jaundiced submission!
THAT THE N7.04 MILLION THAT DR IKUBESE WAS ASKED TO PAY IS THE “OFFICIAL POSITION” OF THE PARTY.
On 1st December 2017, an e-mail was sent to Dr Ikubese, which was back-dated by three months to
read September 2017 from the NCP National Headquarters (to give the
impression that the information therein preceded when Dr Ikubese joined
the Party) , stating that any member who is less than two years old in
the Party should pay the total sum of N7.04 million to the Party.
Dr Ikubese reached out to the stakeholders in the Party, all of whom
told him that the purported letter generated by Tanko and Akele was
illegal as its content is alien to the Spirit of the NCP and did not
follow due constitutional process, as it is in clear violation ofArticle 4.1.3 (c) which
states that “a National Congress must be convened to discuss the
affairs of the Party and to take such decisions and/or give general
guidelines as may be necessary for the progress and proper working of
the Party”.
They promised to address the issue and throw the illegal letter to the dustbin at the National Congress.
However, since Tanko assumed his second term in office as the Chairman of the Party in 2016, he has refused to convene a National Congress of the Party in line with Aticle 4.1.3 preface which states that “An Annual Meeting of the National Congress shall be convened NOT LATER THAN the thirteenth month after the preceding Annual Meeting”.
It’s been two years now since Tanko and Akele resumed their second
term in office as Chairman and General Secretary of the NCP
respectively, yet they’ve deliberately refused to convene a National
Congress of the Party, running NCP as a private property and taking
decisions from their bedrooms.
Their plan is to edge out Dr Ikubese who is the major contender in
the Party and instal Tanko as the presidential candidate of the Party
before calling a National Congress, by which time it will be too late to
reverse the illegality in view of INEC’s time table for 2019
Presidential election .
Tanko and Akele again exposed their schemings unknowingly by playing
with words which run conversely to each other in their rejoinder.
In one line, they said there is “an on-going discussion within the party” about the N7.04 million, in another line they said the sum is the “official position”
of the Party. How can an “on-going discussion” transmit into the
“official position” without a formal meeting as prescribed by Article 4.1.3 (c) of the Constitution of the NCP?
Tanko and Akele in the rejoinder said that “it is generally agreed
that anybody who wants to run for office must have spent at least two
active years within the Party”. When was this “agreement” made? This is
not in the NCP constitution. Which National Congress was this matter
tabled and adopted? Where is the minutes of such
meeting/Congress/agreement?
Article 9.9.1 of the constitution of the NCP
clearly stipulates the order of a constitutional amendment which was
not complied with herein, thus invalidating the release.
A party that cannot boast of two thousand members nationwide, which
should be embarking on vigorous membership drive is here conjuring
stringent conditions to scare people away just to favour the political
ambition and pecuniary indulgence of the National Chairman and General
Secretary.
It’s unfortunate that the more they try to use words to cover this
illegality, the more they contradict themselves and expose their
insincerity to the world.
Paragraph twenty of their rejoinder states thus; “all cadres of
the Party who are paying the least amount in Party dues are eligible
to run for any office including the Presidency of Nigeria in the NCP
free of charge”.
What a contradiction?
What’s the highest amount of dues? What’s the least amount? Which Article of the constitution of the NCP states such? Where’s the minutes of the National Congress where dues were stratified among members?
Tanko and Akele trickishly avoided mentioning how much the dues is in
NCP in their rejoinder. Yet, they are struggling hard to confuse the
public with “cadres” and“least amount of dues”, all of which are alien to the Spirit and letters of the NCP and indeed non-existent in its constitution!
We challenge Tanko and Akele to publicly produce the teller with
which they paid their current annual dues to the Party and let the whole
world see, ditto for all the Deputy National Chairmen, NEC members,
State Chairmen, Secretaries et al, taking cognisance of the date of
payment!
THAT THE N7.04 MILLION THAT DR IKUBESE WAS ASKED TO PAY
IS TO PUT AWAY “SCAMMERS, CORRUPT BOURGEOISIES AND FAILED POLITICIANS
FROM OTHER PARTIES” .
This claim is most laughable!
This again goes to show that Tanko and Akele are bent on shoving dust
down the throat of members of the public. This is why we have
painstakingly decided to put the record straight.
How much is N7.04million to a corrupt politician,
scammer and bourgeoisie? That sum certainly cannot stand as a barrier to
one who has looted the nation’s treasury in the order of “corrupt
politician, scammer and bourgeoisie” as painted by Tanko and Akele that
seek to thus further consolidate thereof in the Presidency.
By the way, who qualifies more as a “scammer”, is it a successful,
respectable multiple award-winning, highly celebrated Medical
Practitioner or Tanko and Akele both of whom have no veritable source of
livelihood, but feed fat from political schemings, party merchandise
and crumbs that fall off the table of selfish political gimmicks?
In another interview, Tanko said the N7.04 million was to generate funds for running the activities of the Party.
Article 9.4.1 of the constitution of the NCP clearly
states how monies shall be generated by the Party. It says
unequivocally that the Party shall be financed from “membership fees,
donations/or contributions from well-meaning individuals and bodies,
proceeds from sale or auction of party materials and publications and
income from investments”.
Why are Tanko and Akele not exploring the above stated constitutional provisions to generate funds?
No where is it stated in the constitution that funds shall be
generated by levying aspirants mandatorily in millions as the NCP is a
populist party and this has NEVER happened since 1994 when the party was founded.
In any case, no “failed politician” who couldn’t get his party ticket
will ever cross to the NCP to seek such a ticket as they alleged. It
has NEVER happened and is not about to happen soon under the leadership
of Tanko and Akele because the NCP has no structures and is not out to
win elections, but to trade with offices and enrich the pockets of Tanko
and Akele.
THAT TANKO DOES NOT NEED TO RESIGN BEFORE RUNNING FOR THE
OFFICE OF PRESIDENT BECAUSE CHIEF GANI AND COMRADE OBAYUWANA DID NOT
RESIGN.
In 2003, Chief Gani Fawehinmi was the National Chairman of the NCP. Since no other aspirant came up under the Party, he was adopted as the consensus candidate with
nobody calling for his resignation since there was no primary election,
wherein he would have been accused of possible manipulation.
In 2007, Comrade Obayuwana was the National Chairman of the NCP and the same scenario as in 2003 played out. No other Presidential Aspirant came up and he was adopted as the consensus candidate for the Party. So no need to resign since there was no primaries to superintend over.
In 2011, Mr Femi Falana, SAN was the National Chairman of the Party.
That year however, there were three Presidential Aspirants under the
NCP; Mr Atei Peredugo, Engr Martins Onovo and Chief Dele Momodu. The
National Chairman therefore did not run for the office of the President
since there were members of the Party who had indicated interest in
running for the office of the President, unlike 2003 and 2007
when there were no aspirants. Dele Momodu eventually emerged as the
Party’s flagbearer following a free and fair primaries supervised by the
National Chairman .
In 2015, Yunusa Tanko was the National Chairman of the Party. That
year, two aspirants ran for the office of the President under the NCP;
Pastor Obaseki and Engr Martins Onovo. Yunusa Tanko who was the
National Chairman of the Party then did not run for the office of the
President because two members of the Party had already shown interest in
the office. A free and fair primaries was eventually conducted
and Engr Martins Onovo emerged as the Party’s flagbearer, in a primary
election supervised by the National Chairman Tanko Yunusa..
However, as at the 23rd April 2018 when Tanko declared to run for the
office of the President, there were at least three Presidential
Aspirants under the party, with Dr Ikubese as the most promising.
So the current situation is unlike 2003 and 2007 when Chief Gani
Fawehinmi and Comrade Osagie Obayuwana respectively were adopted as the
consensus Presidential candidates of the Party because there were no
other aspirants that showed up in the NCP. This explains why they
retained their seats as National Chairmen and yet doubled as
Presidential Candidates at that time.
In all the previous years when members showed interest to run for the
office of the President as in 2011 and 2015, no National Chairman ever
threw his hat in the ring to wrestle with people he should be
superintending over for the sake of equity!
As it stands now, there is going to be primaries amongst the
Presidential aspirants, with Tanko participating as an Aspirant and at
the same time the National Chairman. He shall sit atop the screening
committee and decide who deserves to be granted “waivers”, who should be
disqualified and who should proceed to the primaries proper. And of
course his influence in determining who eventually gets the ticket
cannot be over-emphasised in a process where he is a player and referree
at the same time, having gone round the states to instal his stooges as
State Chairmen and Secretaries of the Party who shall lead their
various state delegates, where other Aspirants are to pay N7.04million
and Tanko will be exempted from paying same!
Chief Gani Fawehinmi would certainly not allow such an anomaly in his life time. He must be turning in his grave right now!
It is therefore laughable when Tanko and Akele made reference to 2003
and 2007 as their benchmark, when the National Chairmen ran as
Presidential Aspirants without resigning their previous positions. Such a
comparison is rationally invalid and mischievouosly misleading!
NCP’S ROMANCE WITH PDP AND APC
In the public space, Tanko and Akele would condemn the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) as looters of
Nigeria’s treasury, but associate closely with them behind closed
doors.
It’s on record that the National Congress of 2012 held in Osogbo,
capital of Osun state. That Congress was bankrolled by Ogbeni Raufu
Aregbesola, governor of Osun state, an APC stalwart!
In 2016, Tanko and Akele again organised a National Congress in
Akure, capital of Ondo state. That Congress was bankrolled by Dr
Olusegun Mimiko a PDP stalwart, who was then the governor of Ondo state.
In many instances, what Tanko and Akele declared to the Party
was always a far cry from what these governors actually gave out to the
Party, since the monies were handed over in cash and not cheque.
Governor Mimiko was particularly benevolent to the Party on several
occasions, because he hails from the same town with late Chief Gani
Fawehinmi, founder of the NCP. Tanko and Akele however abused this
privilege, enburdening the governor serially as if he was a member of
NCP. Yet, what they declared to the Party was always far less than what
the governor handed over to them, causing a lot of rumbles in the Party.
The records are there in the governor’s office.
In 2012, the PDP-led Presidency of Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan gave
out money in millions for the support of the memorial event organised by
Gani Fawehinmi Memorial Organisation (GAFAMorg) which held on 5th
September 2012. Akele was the Chairman Board of Trustee, Comrade Tunde
Agunbiade Secretary and Venerable Folorunso Ogini was the Treasurer.
Other members of the five-man board were Bar Bamidele Aturu and Comrade
Michael Omuya. The Organising Committee was made up of Comrade Kive
Kokori, Comrade Gbajumo Afolabi, Comrade Bayo Ogunleye and Comrade
Babalola Medayedupin. However, Akele went about collecting the money
alone, without carrying along the Secretary or any member of the the
board of trustee or the Organising Committee. When the matter was tabled
for discussion, a member of the Organising Committee, Comrade Gbajumo
revealed that Akele collected the sum of twenty million naira on behalf of GAFAMorg. However, Akele tactically denied the allegation, stating that what he collected was five million naira. Yet, what Akele paid into the Keystone bank account of GAFAMorg was N2.5million, which was even paid in piecemeal. Till this day, Ayodele Akele and his Co-manipulator sat on the rest of the money, threatening whosoever raises the issue!
We call on the EFCC, the Nigerian Police and the Department of State
Service to conduct a thorough investigation into this matter in the
interest of Nigerians and the memory of Chief Gani Fawehinmi.
HOW TANKO DECEIVED IKUBESE
When Dr Ikubese decided to join the NCP, his first contact was
the National Chairman of the Party, Tanko Yunusa whom he called on
phone. He discussed with him and explained to him why he intends to run
for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as a
prelude to implementing the content of his book tittled, MY
PRESCRIPTIONS FOR NIGERIA, which resonates with the ideology of the NCP.
Yunusa Tanko then sent him the cell number of the Ondo state
chapter’s Chairman of the NCP, Comrade Davis Oluwasuyi. Dr Ikubese soon
linked up with Comrade Davis and they got talking.
However, on the 16th September 2017 when Dr Ikubese was to pick
up the form and formally join the NCP, he coincidentally saw a Facebook
page tittled “Yunusa Tanko NCP 2019” which suggested that the National
Chairman was going to run for the office of the President in 2019.
Dr Ikubese immediately called Tanko and asked him if he was
planning to run for the office of the President in 2019. But Tanko
quickly denied it and said the page must have been put up by some of his
mischievous admirers and that Dr Ikubese should proceed with his
activities as he had no such intention.
As at that time, two different political parties had approached
Dr Ikubese, offering him their presidential tickets on a platter of
gold. But Dr Ikubese decided to go with the NCP because of the ideology
of Chief Gani Fawehinmi, founder of the Party and the assurances given
him by Yunusa Tanko.
Upon joining the party, Dr Ikubese requested the contacts of all
the state chapters’ Chairmen from Tanko so that his followers across the
federation could join the Party in their various states. Tanko
responded by directing him to the General Secretary, Ayodele Akele for
the contacts. On calling, Akele told Ikubese that anyone who wishes to
join the Party should call him (Akele) so he could direct such persons
appropriately.
Dr Ikubese found this as strange and decided to report it to
Tanko. In a funny twist, Tanko told Ikubese to scan a copy of the
membership form and send it to those who are willing to join the Party.
After such persons have filled the form, they should send it to the
National Headquarters by e-mail!
Ikubese later got to realise much latter that Tanko and Akele were
deliberately keeping him away from establishing contact with the State
Chairmen of the Party, so that he would not market his Presidential
ambition to them ahead of Tanko who was yet to declare his own
Presidential ambition formally at that time.
All of these schemings by Tanko and Akele were at the expense of the
growth of the Party as new members who were due to come into the party
with Dr Ikubese across the 36 states of the federation and the diaspora
were technically barred from doing so.
This duo deliberately refused to host a functional website for the
NCP or open up public space for the Party so that vibrant minds cannot
come into the Party, while the operations of the Party would be
restricted to their bossom! This is why the NCP can not make progress
under the leadership of these two political traders.
On three different occasions, Dr Ikubese asked to know if Tanko was
going to run for the office of the President. On all the occasions he
denied any interest in the Presidency, only to call Dr Ikubese four days
before he formally declared, telling him that he had decided to call
him “out of respect” and that he had just decided to run for the office
of the President.
What a dishonourable man, a schemer who should not be found in an ideological party such as the NCP, talk less of leading it!
So all the while he knew he was going to run and had actually been
scheming to edge out Dr Ikubese for his own selfish gains, after using
him to popularize the Party!
Little wonder he gave a stern instruction to the Local Organising
Committee of the 80th posthumous birthday celebration of Chief Gani
Fawehinmi not to invite Dr Ikubese for the event which held in Lagos on
21st April 2018, two days ahead of his official declaration to run for
the office of the President.
CHALLENGE FROM NEW PARTIES
Today, the NCP founded in 1994 is about the oldest existing
political party in Nigeria, but is not viable because Tanko and Akele
choose to run the Party aground so that it doesn’t attract vibrant
people who will seek to do things right and challenge the status quo.
Many new political parties which were registered by INEC barely a
year ago are now doing so well and attracting vibrant members. Many of
them have online portals from where you can join them and even make
online donations to the Party.
The Alliance for New Nigeria, ANN, one of the 21 political parties
newly registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC
in 2017 recently mobilised N50 million from membership dues through its
online registration portal. Interim national chairman of the party, Dr.
Jay Samuels revealed to newsmen recently that the party which collects
N1,000 as membership dues had mobilised 50,000 members fetching the new
political party at least N50 million in membership dues alone. This is
the kind of innovation that Tanko and Akele should bring into NCP
rather than scramble for crumbs from the system at the expense of the
Party.
But Tanko and Akele are not ready to float this kind of transparent
fund raising platform where all monies pass through the Party’s bank
account and pilfering is almost impossible. They are interested in state
governors and the Presidency dolling out millions to them in cash, so
that they can take their own sumptous share and pass on the left-over to
the Party.
The excuse that Tanko has been giving for not calling a National
Congress Since 2016 when the last congress was held is that the Party
has no money. Yet, he refused to open up the Party for people to come in
and make contributions for its growth. His stock in trade is moving
from one governor’s office to another in search of “sponsorship” to
organise a National Congress of the Party, bargain for candidate swap in
favour of incumbent state governors at a fee, and dinning with powers
that be behind the curtains!
When Tanko and Akele field a gubernatorial candidate in any election,
it is not with the intention of winning, but as a tool for negotiation!
What does it take to host an online portal for the Party where people
can join the Party and even make free-will donations and pay dues
online? What does it take to organise a stakeholders meeting and discuss
how to raise funds for the Party?
But no, Tanko prefers that the Party be in a comatose state and
unattractive to progressive minds so that he can continue to have a grip
on the Party in order to satisfy his selfish interests and hand over to
Akele as the new national chairman .
IKUBESE DONATES TO CHECKMATE THE EVICTION OF NCP FROM PROPERTY USED AS NATIONAL SECRETARIAT.
This kind of embarrassing situation ought not to be mentioned
concerning the NCP but for the bad leadership represented by this duo,
wherein they perpetually enrich themselves, using the NCP and the highly
respected name of Chief Gani Fawehinmi, while keeping the Party
moribund so that they can have the final say at all times.
It’s a shame that the NCP is pushed into a dingy two-bedroom
apartment as its national secretariat, where the FCT chapter uses the
kitchen of that flat as its office, because Tanko and Akele want it so!
Hosting a functional national website where members can join the
Party, pay dues and make voluntary donations online will solve this
simple problem, just like the Alliance for New Nigeria did. But Tanko
and Akele don’t want that to happen!
Dr Ikubese will continue to savour the memory of late Chief Gani
Fawehinmi and support the course of his vision whenever the need arises,
provided those who manage such benevolence do so transparently.
TANKO’S PRESIDENTIAL AMBITION
Listening to Tanko at the recently concluded Emerging Politcal
Leaders (EPL) summit on 8th May, 2018 at the Musa Yar’Adua centre in
Abuja, where he was the only Presidential Aspirant who was not listed to
speak in the brochure but obviously forced his way in at the very last
minute out of desperation, everyone saw that he has nothing to offer
Nigerians. He spent the first half explaining how he was conferred with a
honorary “doctorate” tittle after acquiring Polytechnic education, how
he is still a student and went on to reel out the Ten Care programme of
Chief Gani Fawehinmi without a single clue of how to achieve any of it,
causing the audience to murmur during his boring, lack lustre
presentation.
It was obvious even to the blind that he forced himself into the
race, because of what he hopes to get from it in terms of monetary and
positional compensation and not because he has anything better to offer
Nigerians!
His presidential ambition is the icing of the cake. He is simply out
to grab his last chunk, using the Party before moving on, same way he
abandoned the NCP in 2011 even as a serving National General Secretary
to Mr Femi Falana, SAN who was then the National Chairman, only to
defect to the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) to run for House of
Representatives in Kano. He later abandoned the CPC and ran back to the
NCP like a prodigal son, after a disgraceful outing.
Accepting Tanko back into the NCP, allowing him to retain his number
two seat and letting him become the National Chairman a year after he
defectedly abandoned the Party is the greatest undoing of the NCP, for a
leopard does not change its skin. In deed, he has acted true to type!
CONCLUSION:
We hereby call on members of the NCP to rise up and defend the legacy
of Chief Gani Fawehinmi by showing the duo of Tanko and Akele the way
out of the Party, for as long as they both remain in the leadership of
the Party, nothing good will come out of the NCP.
If they choose to write another lie-ladden rejoinder to this
write-up, then we shall have no option than to proceed to tender
documentary evidences, such as the financial dealings of Tanko as the
National Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (I-PAC) in the
last administration of President Goodluck Jonathan and many more!
It would have been better if Tanko and Akele had not written that
distorting, misinforming rejoinder as all of these dirty details about
their dealings would not have been revealed to members of the public.
We hereby call on members of the NCP to invoke the spirit of Article 4.1.4 of the constitution of the NCP and convene an Extra Ordinary Meeting of the National Congress to birth the provisions of Article 9.8.1 (b) and (c), retrieving thereby the Party from the clutches of Tanko and Akele, so that the labour of Chief Gani Fawehinmi will not be in vain.
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Join me live on OSRC television today, 4/7/12 as I speak on Mixed Grill.
Topic: Caesarian section
Time: 9.05am
INVITATION
Join me today,1/7/12 as i speak. Topic: National Security:The Role Of Young Active Citizens. Venue: SUB, Federal University Of Technology, Akure (FUTA). Time: 4.00pm. Courtesy: FUTA Jaycees. Be there!
THE NIGERIAN YOUTH
Join me today, 16/06/12 as i speak. Venue: Owena Int'l Motel. Time: 11.00am. Topic: The Nigerian Youth, Violence & Electoral Thuggery. Courtesy: Nigeria Eagle Platform
VOTE OF THANKS
I wish to humbly show my appreciation to all of you who took time out to honour my invitation and graced the occasion of the dinner/award two days ago. Some of you had to travel several kilometers to come and honour me. I had the privilege of meeting some of you in person for the first time! And for those of you who could not make it by virtue of other engagements, I yet appreciate you. May the Lord honour you all in Jesus name.
DINNER/ AWARD
At the Trace Magazine Dinner/Award Nite held on 11/05/12, where I was conferred with Humanitarian Excellence Award. Left: myself. Middle: my wife. Right: Hon Tayo Abidakun(Jaja), presenting the plaque and medal on behalf of Trace Magazine.
INVITATION
I invite all my facebook friends as I am being conferred with an Award of Honours tomorrow. Venue: NUJ Press Centre, Akure. Date: Friday, 11th May, 2012. Time: 6pm. Thanks for honouring me.
AWARD OF HONOUR
The National Association of Polytechnic Students (South West Zone) yesterday, 5/5/12 presented me with this award.
INVITATION
Join me tomorrow(Saturday 21/4/12) as I speak: Topic: Are You Mad? Venue: RCCG, World Changers' Sanctuary, beside Ondo West Secretariat, Fagun, Ondo. Time: 10.00am. To be MAD is absolutely NORMAL... Don't Miss It!
INVITATION
Join me today, 18th April, as I speak. Topic: Managing stress and Hypertension. Venue: Christ Apostolic Church, Grace Chapel(City of God), Prosperity Plaza, Opposite NIDB, Alagbaka, Akure. Time: 5pm. There will be FREE blood pressure check at the venue from 4.30pm. Don't Miss It!
ENTERPRISE CULTURE
Join Niyi Adesanya at Loves Domain Family,Aroma House,opposite BTO Hall,Ilesha garage,Akure,Ondo State for ENTERPRISE CULTURE on the 24th and 25th of march for a time of lifting in your business,profession and career. Connect with people of like minds. To attend, send ENTERPRISE to 08029732419 or 08067374909.
LIVE ON AIR...
Join me live this morning (14/3/12),
at 8.30am on OSRC-tv in continuation of the series FAMILY PLANNING.
LIVE ON AIR...
Join me live on OSRC TV this morning 22.02.12 @ 8.30am on MIXED GRILL, as I discuss a topic which is fast becoming a sudden killer in Nigeria I.e LASSA FEVER. Don't Miss It!
LIVE ON AIR...
Join me live today 17th of February, 2012@ 7.45am on FUTA Radio 93.1FM, as I round off on the series I've been speaking on since Monday this week; "Will the new emerging Akure put money in your pocket or take money out of your pocket"?
DON'T MISS IT !
NAMING CEREMONY
This is to invite all my facebook friends to the Naming Ceremony of my triplets. Date: Sunday, 29th January. Time: 2pm. Venue: My residence, 11 Orimolade Street, Ijapo Estate, Akure, Ondo state. Description: Enter Ijapo Estate through Oke-Ijebu. Go straight. Second junction by the left. You will see canopies and chairs there. My family will be glad to receive you.
Join me LIVE on air on 25th of January for the following programmes:
1. FUTA 93.1FM: @ 7:45am, I will continue my new series on "Life's Champion" with TFK, on the topic: WILL YOU SMILE IN DECEMBER?
2. OSRC tv: @ 8:20am, I will continue my medical series on "Mixed-Grill" on the topic: SEXUAL DISORDERS IN MALES
Join me LIVE on FUTA radio 93.1FM today 23rd January @ 7.45am on "Life's Champion" as I commence a one-week series on the topic:" WILL YOU SMILE IN DECEMBER"?Don't Miss It!!!
Join me @7pm tonight on FUTA Radiio 93.1FM as I join other prominent Nigerians live on House Of Opinion with TFK, to discuss the way forward for our nation...13th January, 2012.
Being Presented with the award of "Doctor Of The Year 2011" by the Ondo State Youth Initiative. Venue: A&T Presidential Hotel. Date: 2nd December, 2011
VOTE OF THANKS
I wish to thank all of my facebook friends who took time out to be present at the award ceremony yesterday, as I was being conferred with the award of "Most Outstanding Medical Practitioner Of The Year 2011". I appreciate u all. Shalom
SPECIAL INVITATION
Join me on 18th Dec,2011 @ the Love Domain's hall, opposite BTO Hall, Oyemekun road, Akure, by. 3pm for the Youth Empowerment Summit(Y.E.S. 2011). Don't Miss It.
Join me this weekend as I speak on Friday and Saturday: Friday: 2nd Dec, Venue:A&T Presidential Hotel, Time:11am.Topic:Transformational leadership & good governance. Courtesy:Ondo State Youth Development Initiative. Saturday: 3rd Dec, Venue:Helena Hotel Ijapo, Time:4pm.Topic:Leadership & Entrepreneurship: a catalyst for national development. Courtesy:FUTA JAYCEES, annual convention
Join me @ A&T Presidential Hotel on 2nd November 2011, as I speak on "Transformational Leadership And Good Governance". Time: 11.00am. Courtesy: Ondo State Youth Development Initiative. Plan to be there!!
At the Annual Thanksgiving service of the Celestial Church Of Christ, Solution Parish today, being handed the microphone to speak on "cholera"
At LEAD ACADEMY yesterday, after the last class for the session.
At LEAD ACADEMY today, delivering a lecture on: "Rudiments of LEADERSHIP"
SEMINAR ! SEMINAR!! Join me @ Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria on Tuesday 22nd November @ 10am, as I speak on ENTREPRENEURSHIP:the key to national transformation. Don't Miss It!
At LEAD ACADEMY today, delivering a lecture on LEADERSHIP
SEMINAR! SEMINAR! SEMINAR!
Join me at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba (AAUA) tomorrow by 2pm @ the Annual Convention of the Junior Chambers International (JCI) as i speak on "The Nigerian Youth And The challenges of Unemployment". Dont Miss it!
COURTESY VISIT
The Thomas-Wilson Family Unit of the Junior Chambers International(JCI) of the Federal University of Technology Akure, paid me a courtesy visit @ home yesterday, as the family-patron. Guess what they presented me with...RED WINE!
SEMINAR! SEMINAR!! Join me at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba(AAUA) on 29th October 2011, @ 2pm at the Annual Convention of the Junior Chambers International(JCI) as i speak on the topic "The Nigerian Youth And The Challenges Of Self Employment". Dont Miss It!
VOTE OF THANKS.
On behalf of Impact Network Int'l' i wish to thank all of you that contributed one way or the other to the succes of the Arise Nigeria 2011 programme. When we did the Street Walk on saturday oct 1st, most people felt we were sponsored by the state govt or some political godfathers, or that we were scheming to feild candidates for 2013. We are a group of distinguished professionals who believe in Project Nigeria. We are apolitical.GOD BLESS NIGERIA!
ARISE NIGERIA 2011. Delivering a seminar today on "The Place of Career in Nation Building".
Join me at 11am today, with other great Nigerians, at BTO hall as we chart a new course for our nation. GOD BLESS NIGERIA!!!
ARISE NIGERIA !!! Join me, with other great Nigerians @ 11am today October 1st, as we celebrates Nigeria's 51st Indepence. We shall be taking the Independence Walk from BTO hall, along Oyemekun road Akure to Adegbemile. Put on dress with a touch of green and white. GOD BLESS NIGERIA!!!
Join me LIVE at 7.45am today, on "Life's Champion" on FUTA radio 93.1FM, as I discuss THE NIGERIA OF MY DREAM, as we celebrate the Independence Day of our great nation tomorrow.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA !
At the Annual Youth Convention in TREM headquaters in Akure today; speaking on "The Power Of Vision". GREAT meeting!!
Join me by 2pm today, 17th Sept at TREM by Ado-Owo garrage @ the Annual Youth Convention, as I speak on: "The Power Of Vision".
It promises to be loaded.
Don't miss it!
LIVE on FUTA Radio 93.1FM, with TFK, on the motivational programme, "life's champion"
With His Lordship, Bishop Joshua Ketiku, state Chairman Pentecostal Fellowship Of Nigeria(PFN), in a function.
Join me today, in a few minutes time, 7.45am, on FUTA radio 93.1 FM on life's champion with TFK. As we look foward to October 1st to celebrate Nigeria's independence, I will be unveiling "the Nigeria of my dream". Don't miss it ! Join me on FUTA radio 93.1FM at 7.45am tomorrow Monday 12th September, on Life's champion. Together with TFK, I shall be discussing " the Nigeria of my dream". Don't miss it.! DANCING TIME ! At Akure City Hall, during Akure Day, organised by the National Association Of Akure Students(natioanal body). L to R: Mr Jegede the Attorney General and Hon Commisioner for Justice(representing the governor), His Royal Highness The Deji of Akure Kingdom, Hon Abegunde(Abena) Member House of Representative Abuja, myself(the guest lecturer).
At the send forth party today, for the two undergraduate students attached to the Laboratory Department of Sckye hospitals and Diagnostics Ltd, Akure Ondo state, Nigeria. L to R: tech officer Wunmi, Niyi from University of Lagos, myself, Kemi from Federal University of Technology Akure, chief lab scientist, Omon
THE SINGLE TERM DEBATE
In my guest lecture to the National Association Of Akure Students at Akure City Hall in 2010, one of my recommendations for a stable and progressive Nigeria was a single term of 6yrs to our political office holders.The greatest distraction to governance is the politics of second term.
At 2011 Annual General Meeting of the Nigeria Medical Association(NMA) Ondo state, Nigeria. Left to right: Dr. Oke(vice chairman), Dr. Adetan(chairman), myself(publicity secretary) and MD Inland hospital, Dr. Oni
Join me on FUTA radio this morning as I unveil the second pillar of distinction, with TFK, on "life's champion" ; 7.45am' continuation of the series 3 PILLARS OF DISTINCTION. Don't miss it !!!
I will be co-presenting “life champion” with TFK on FUTA radio 93.1FM this week Monday, Wednesday and Friday(22, 24 and 26th august) at 7.45am. Topic: The Three Pillars of Distinction. I will be discussing each pillar per day. Don't miss it !!!
At the presentation of “outstanding professional award" by Sunshine Standard. I dedicate this to all staff of Sckye Hospitals and Diagnostics Ltd Akure, ondo state Nigeria. Your dedication and hard-work made it possible
days ago. Some of you had to travel several kilometers to come and honour me. I had the privilege of meeting some of you in person for the first time! And for those of you who could not make it by virtue of other engagements, I yet appreciate you. May the Lord honour you all in Jesus name. 
