2023: Abundance United Movement Lagos State mobilises for Tinubu, Obasa

Cyriacus Nnaji

Abundance United Movement Lagos State is leaving no stone unturned in her quest to ensure that Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu becomes the President of Nigeria by 2023.

The group is also behind the aspiration of Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa, the current Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, to become the senator representing Lagos West in the National Assembly by 2023.

The Movement on Sunday, April 11, 2021 gathered who is who in Lagos political firmament at Ijigbo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) Secretariat, to garner support for both Tinubu and Obasa.

Leader and Founder of Abundance Movement, the Lawmaker representing Oshodi/Isolo Constituency 02 at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon (Dr) Jude Chukwuemeka Idimogu, said Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is eminently qualified to be President of  Nigeria.

“Asiwaju came out with a formula that today made Lagos what it is in terms of internally generated revenue (IGR) and today you cannot beat Lagos in terms of internally generated revenue. Besides he is somebody who can pick up talents, he makes a lot of people; he picked me and I know some of us here also benefitted from him. He is also somebody who has been fighting for democracy, remember the era of NADECO. These are qualities you cannot take away from this man.”

Idimogu also stressed that Tinubu being a former Governor and Senator, is connected within and outside the shores of Nigeria, insisting that these are qualities that stand him out “Apart from that, Tinubu has people all over the country, both Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, for me he is a detribalized Nigerian, and like I said, I have not seen anybody that is capable as he is as I speak to you, I don’t know what will happen by 2023. As far as I am concerned as of today he is the best candidate.

“The experience is there, he has once been a governor, a senator, and besides, Lagos is performing, he is internationally connected, for you to be a president of Nigeria you must have international connection, people that can go and assist you in making the country what you want it to be, Asiwaju has that,” Idimogu added.

On the call for President of Igbo extraction he said, “You see before you can achieve at that highest level, you must have prepared well. The truth is that, with due respect, I am a proud Igbo man, but I have to also tell you from what I have seen, I am not God, but from what I have seen, the Easterners are not yet ready.

“Right now APC occupies both national level and state levels including Lagos, in the eastern states how many APC states do you have there? One, and that is Imo State, Ebonyi only joined, the governor, and most of his other lieutenants did not leave with him to join APC.

 “Power is not given alakat, nobody dashes you power, you must have the number of people that are ready to vote. The easterners, God forgive me, they are not ready.”

Speaking on Hon. Obasa, Idimogu said “We are using this opportunity to also support our own speaking Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa Ajayi, the number One Speaker in Nigeria, his ambition aspiring to go for Senat; he has worked so hard in Agege where he represents. Go and see Agege Pen cinema the way it is today, it is the hand work of National Leader as well as the support of Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa Ajayi.

“Today he has done so much and we believe that Lagos West Senatorial Zone which he is aspiring to be a Senator in 2023, he will help transform every other local government like what he has done in Agege 1. So we are calling all of us to give him massive support and by the grace of God he is going to achieve his aspiration,” Idimogu maintained.

Chairman of the occasion, Lagos Socialite Alhaji Musiliu Ayinde Akinsanya (MC Oluomo) who is also the state chairman of the Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Lagos State, said that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a man of the people; and that he has done a lot not just for Nigeria but the whole world at large.

While pouring encomium on Hononable Idimogu for packaging the event, Akinsanya said “Before 1999 things were not going well in Lagos, but when Tinubu entered as Govenor, everything changed in the state. He maintained that it is God that will crown Tinuubu’s efforts with successes, “I know Bola Ahmed Tinubu; he will get what he wants to get, by the grace of God,” he stated.

 

Bishop Ighele clocks 66, says Nigeria needs a nation builder as leader …Stressing that a failed nation can still rise again

Success Damian:

Bishop Charles Ighele of Holy Spirit Mission, Akuwonjo, Lagos clocked 66 years today, April 8, 2021.

Looking at all the indices that make great nations of the world, which he said Nigeria is currently lacking, Ighele passed a verdict that the only panacea that would liberate Nigeria from the status of a failed nation is when a nation builder is enthroned as leader.

The highly revered Bishop, who still looks under 50, took the position when members of Association of Christian Correspondents of Nigeria (ACCoN) paid him a courtesy visit at his residence in Akuwonjo on Wednesday.

Ighele who said that a nation which has failed can rise again stressed that while he wanted President Muhammed Buhari to succeed in office, maintained that at moment the president has reached the peak of his capacity and that he should read and seek ways to increase his capacity, adding that the president should consult other nations on how they extricated their nations from their own problems.

He also disclosed that Nigeria’s political structure has been configured in such a manner that no honest youth or professor can penetrate.

Ighele maintained that there is a class war currently going on in Nigeria. He added that the rich has eaten the poor enough and now it is the turn of the poor to eat the reach. He called for urgent action by the government to jettison divisive polices and body language, so as to ensure peace in the land.

He said social institutions like banks, army, police, others should be made inclusive rather than exclusive, adding that no nation grows by the philosophy of ‘who you know rather than who is qualified.’

While decrying the current state of Nigeria, he proffered solutions to bring the country out of it malady.

Ighele stressed that the nation’s educational standard should be raised in line with that of other nations of the world, adding that education plays important roles in the life of citizens. He advocated that all the out of school children in Nigeria should be found and brought back to school.

“All Primary school drop-outs should be gathered for vocational training, the same with secondary school drop-outs, they should also be assembled and equally given formal and vocational training at their own level.

“University drop-outs and unemployed graduates should also be retrained and employed.” He maintained that if his proffered solutions were given attention that in the next 10 years Nigeria will be stabilizing, and the problem of banditry, kidnapping and other social malaise will begin to ebb.”

On the issue of 2023 Presidential Election, he gave his nod to rotational presidency until such a time, according to him, when the issue of where you come from does not matter again.

Lagos Diocese Anglican Communion holds Maiden Edition of Emmaus Experience at Centenary City

 Cyriacus Nnaji:

The Diocesan and Missioner, The Rt. Rev. (Dr) Humphrey Bamisebi Olumakaiye, Mama Lagos, Prof. (Mrs.) Motunrayo Olumakaiye and the entire members of Lagos Diocese converged at the Centenary City on April 5, 2021 for the maiden edition of the Emmaus Experience in celebration of Easter Monday (Galilee).

The Diocesan wished the people a joyous celebration while explaining to them the meaning of the Emmaus Experience.

According to a press release, the event featured amongst others, presentation of songs and dance in different dialects and culture by the Archdeaconries in the Diocese.

At the end of the presentation, Marine Beach Archdeaconry, Victoria Island Archdeaconry and Lekki Archdeaconry emerged first, second and third positions respectively.

The peak of the Emmaus Experience was the visit to "Jerusalem" by everyone where notable places in Jerusalem such as the Sepulcher, Garden of Gethsemane, Golgotha were replicated. It was a beautiful sight to behold.

The program was graced by eminent personalities among whom were the erstwhile Bishop of Lagos Diocese and Dean Emeritus, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, The Most Revd. Dr. Ephraim Adebola Ademowo and his wife, Mama Oluranti Ademowo; the Bishop Theologian, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion and the immediate past Vice Chancellor of Ajayi Crowther University, Prof. Dapo Asaju.

The release also thanked and prayed for the entire diocese saying “We pray that as God has started yet another new thing in the Diocese, may He do new things in your life in Jesus name. Happy celebration.”

LASU: Balogun Eko's latest attack on Chairman, Governing Council, a passing distraction

Success Damian:

Lagos State University (LASU) has stated that the latest attack of Balogun Eko on the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of the institution, Prof. Adebayo Ninalowo, is a passing distraction 

In a press statement signed by Ademola Adekoya, Coordinator, Centre for Information, Press and Public Relations (CIPPR) of LASU, said it welcomes constructive criticism which helps to build institution, but detests criticisms embedded in falsehood.

“We acknowledge that criticisms, especially constructive ones, are necessary to strengthen institutions and that is why the authority of Lagos State University has always maintained a positive posture to constructive criticism from stakeholders. However, what the University does not view favourable are destructive criticisms, especially ones bordering on personal attacks against its name and respected officials of the University,” the statement said.

On the latest falsehood against the institution was Balógun Eko's latest salvo against the person of Prof. Adebayo Ninalowo, the quintessential Pro -Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of our University.

The statement said in recent post Balógun Eko threw every caution and decorum to the wind and exceeded all boundaries of reason and restraint to engage in a personal attack/character assassination against the person of Prof. Ninalowo.

It read that in the said video, Balógun Eko pilloried the respected Professor of Sociology, “Calling him unprintable names, in what we consider a new low, even in his own standard of tactlessness,” the statement read.

The statement maintained that as a responsible and responsive institution, “It is incumbent on us to meet such embellished falsehood, which often tends to excite, with facts, in order that the rod of the wicked may not successfully rest on the lot of the righteous.

“In the video, BalógunEko is right on one count: that Lagos State University is a great institution that should be competing with some of the top institutions in Nigeria. But what he failed to add, or perhaps deliberately omitted, is that LASU is already competing and out-competing some of the institutions he so gleefully mentioned in the video.

The fact that the university which was hitherto unrated in the global space, was ranked second best in Nigeria by Times Higher Education, is a common knowledge; it is also common knowledge that the accomplishment was engineered in a spate of five years during the Administration of the immediate past Vice Chancellor, Prof. Olarewaju Adigun Fagbohun, NPOM, SAN, under the leadership of the 10th Governing Council of the University Prof. Ninalowo.”

In further refuting the unsubstantiated claims, LASU said “Not only does he provide no substantiable proof of his wild allegations against Prof. Ninalowo, he also made no pretence of his moral bankruptcy in the process; surely, a man who could call an elder such unprintable names is not an Omoluabi.

“We therefore use this opportunity to urge all well - meaning stakeholders and the general public to ignore the post as another passing distraction,” it read.

The statement disclosed that Prof. Ninalowo has time and time again demonstrated his exemplary leadership and integrity. Not only did he supervise a seamless process that produced the 8th substantive Vice Chancellor, he worked tirelessly with the administration to meander the University from its inglorious past to become one that is now recognized and celebrated among the comity of universities in Nigeria.

“Indeed, Prof. Ninalowo's appointment for a second term as a Chairman of the Council, by the Governor and Visitor to the University, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu is an eloquent testimony of his unblemished performance in the first term.

Such an individual does not deserve the kind of ridicule that Balógun Eko attempted to subject him to and such an act should be roundly condemned by all,” the statement read.

 

 

 

Lagos Diocese Anglican Communion holds Maiden Edition of Emmaus Experience at Centenary City

Cyriacus Nnaji:

The Diocesan and Missioner, The Rt. Rev. (Dr) Humphrey Bamisebi Olumakaiye, Mama Lagos, Prof. (Mrs.) Motunrayo Olumakaiye and the entire members of Lagos Diocese converged at the Centenary City on April 5, 2021 for the maiden edition of the Emmaus Experience in celebration of Easter Monday (Galilee).

The Diocesan wished the people a joyous celebration while explaining to them the meaning of the Emmaus Experience.

According to a press release, the event featured amongst others, presentation of songs and dance in different dialects and culture by the Archdeaconries in the Diocese.

At the end of the presentation, Marine Beach Archdeaconry, Victoria Island Archdeaconry and Lekki Archdeaconry emerged first, second and third positions respectively.

The peak of the Emmaus Experience was the visit to "Jerusalem" by everyone where notable places in Jerusalem such as the Sepulcher, Garden of Gethsemane, Golgotha were replicated. It was a beautiful sight to behold.

The program was graced by eminent personalities among whom were the erstwhile Bishop of Lagos Diocese and Dean Emeritus, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, The Most Revd. Dr. Ephraim Adebola Ademowo and his wife, Mama Oluranti Ademowo; the Bishop Theologian, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion and the immediate past Vice Chancellor of Ajayi Crowther University, Prof. Dapo Asaju.

The release also thanked and prayed for the entire diocese saying “We pray that as God has started yet another new thing in the Diocese, may He do new things in your life in Jesus name. Happy celebration.”

We must promote justice, righteousness, love to sustain Nigeria’s unity, says Bishop Olumakaiye

Cyriacus Nnaji

The Lord Bishop and Missioner of Lagos Diocese, the Right Revd Humphrey Bamisebi Olumakaiye, has stated that the only criterion for the realization of a truly united Nigeria is the promotion of justice, righteousness and love.

Bishop Olumakaiye made the disclosure in his Good Friday message titled ‘Give us Barabbas’. 

He said “If we want to get it right there is need for us to promote justice, righteousness, love, and that is the only way we can sustain the unity of this nation, or else we will be deceiving ourselves.”

Olumakaiye called all the people of the nation to return to Christ “Every one of us should return to the lord, and I believe that at the end of the tunnel there will be light, return to the lord and allow the light of the gospel to prevail over this nation.”

He decried the preference of the bad over the good in the nation saying that it was the same thing that happened during the time of Jesus Christ when the Jews asked for the release of Barabbas at the expense of the Lord, Jesus Christ. “What I will like to say to our nation today is to ask ourselves why do we prefer evil to good? And this has been in existence since the beginning of creation. Today the people where asking for Barabbas at the expense of our Lord Jesus Christ. They were saying give us Barabbas and let Christ be crucified.

“In summary they were asking for the evil over the good, that evil should triumph over good. And when you look at what is pervading, ravaging our nation today, talk about greediness, militancy, insurgency, kidnappers, bandits, Boko Haram, all these, they are evil, and you see people following them, people listening to them, and even the government, they are not doing anything as if they are promoting evil.

“When we said we want to give amnesty to Boko Haram, bandits, those that kill anyhow, murderers, it is a big surprise, and there is need for us to have a change of heart if we don’t want to pull this nation down, if we are not rubberstamping evil, there is need for government to come out with the full wrath of the law and make sure that justice prevails in this nation, let righteousness reign in this nation, the revered Bishop stated.

He called on Nigerians to vote for the righteous people in the 2023 elections “You see today, who are the politicians? The righteous people will not be voted for, people that are clean will not be voted for, we have been voting for dishonest people, greedy people, corrupt people, some of ^them from prison even to the House of Assembly, from prison to the House of Representatives, from prison even to Senate, they use their money to subvert justice, they use their money to silent the righteous people.

“I think that enough is enough, if we want this nation to progress, if we want development, we should now champion the cause of good people,” Olumakaiye stated.

We must promote justice, righteousness, love to sustain Nigeria’s unity, says Bishop Olumakaiye

Cyriacus Nnaji

The Lord Bishop and Missioner of Lagos Diocese, the Right Revd Humphrey Bamisebi Olumakaiye, has stated that the only criterion for the realization of a truly united Nigeria is the promotion of justice, righteousness and love.

Bishop Olumakaiye made the disclosure in his Good Friday message titled ‘Give us Barabbas’. 

He said “If we want to get it right there is need for us to promote justice, righteousness, love, and that is the only way we can sustain the unity of this nation, or else we will be deceiving ourselves.”

Olumakaiye urged all the people of the nation to return to Christ “Every one of us should return to the lord, and I believe that at the end of the tunnel there will be light, return to the lord and allow the light of the gospel to prevail over this nation.”

He decried the preference of the bad over the good in the nation saying that it was the same thing that happened during the time of Jesus Christ when the Jews asked for the release of Barabbas at the expense of the Lord, Jesus Christ. “What I will like to say to our nation today is to ask ourselves why do we prefer evil to good? And this has been in existence since the beginning of creation. Today the people where asking for Barabbas at the expense of our Lord Jesus Christ. They were saying give us Barabbas and let Christ be crucified.

“In summary they were asking for the evil over the good, that evil should triumph over good. And when you look at what is pervading, ravaging our nation today, talk about greediness, militancy, insurgency, kidnappers, bandits, Boko Haram, all these, they are evil, and you see people following them, people listening to them, and even the government, they are not doing anything as if they are promoting evil.

“When we said we want to give amnesty to Boko Haram, bandits, those that kill anyhow, murderers, it is a big surprise, and there is need for us to have a change of heart if we don’t want to pull this nation down, if we are not rubberstamping evil, there is need for government to come out with the full wrath of the law and make sure that justice prevails in this nation, let righteousness reign in this nation, the revered Bishop stated.

He called on Nigerians to vote for the righteous people in the 2023 elections “You see today, who are the politicians? The righteous people will not be voted for, people that are clean will not be voted for, we have been voting for dishonest people, greedy people, corrupt people, some of ^them from prison even to the House of Assembly, from prison to the House of Representatives, from prison even to Senate, they use their money to subvert justice, they use their money to silent the righteous people.

“I think that enough is enough, if we want this nation to progress, if we want development, we should now champion the cause of good people,” Olumakaiye stated.