That simple observation should not be ignored! I'd have ignored your comment if
you had said, "Ignore Daniel Elombah"....Yes, ignore me but don't ignore my
words.
You see, that is the beauty of being non-partisan, Because we stand above the
fray, we are able to call it as it is...like Lord Denning's impartial Judge, we
don't descend 'into the arena lest our vision be clouded by the dust of
conflict'.
Yes, we are happy that the injustice committed by the PDP has been corrected in
Osun State, but those who are truly OSUN DEFENDERS should also watch out, lest
the wheels of justice be clogged by the criminal act of forgery.
How could you be sure but that the guy that forged documents to win election
victory at the courts would also not forge documents to loot the state treasury.
Daniel Elombah
Publisher: www.elombah.com
(A Nigerian Perspective on world affairs)
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From: Adebayo Adejuwon <adeadejuwon@yahoo.com>
To: OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com; naijaintellects@googlegroups.com
Cc: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com; nigerianid@yahoogroups.com;
naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com; ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com;
ekitipeoplesvoice@yahoogroups.com; naijaelections@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, November 26, 2010 6:19:15 PM
Subject: [NaijaElections] Re: [OmoOdua] On the Little Matter of Aregbesola's
Forgery Case {Re: [Naijaintellects] Re: STAR INFORMATION: Rauf Aregbesola is new
Governor of Osun State; Oyinlola is Out, Says Appeal Court!
So as far as you know, Aregbesola is as bad as Oyinlola?.....Prof Aluko
Prof:
I do not se why Elombah Daniel's comment on Aregbesola's vedict should not have
been ingnored.
What I think is important is for all sons and daughters of Odua without
excluding our cousins in Edo,Kogi and Kwara to start reflecting on the events of
1999,2003 and 2007, a period when the most notorious bastard and political
megalomaniac ever in Yoruba land in person of Mathew Olusegun Okikiolapo
Obasanjo, in company of some gready and blindly ambitious ones among us,also in
collaboration with their co-conspirators from other sections of the country
started the process of undoing what AWO and his colleages intiatiated from 1951.
That Lagos, Ekiti,Osun, Edo and Ondo are no longer in the hands of Ebora Owu's
PDP is nothing but the doing of the lord and the doggedness of Bola Ahmed
Tinubu(BAT).
I imagine that the name BAT may not be what some of my beloved brothers and
sisters may want to hear, and maybe, for good reasons. But, if the truth must be
told, if BAT had slept with his two eyes closed, just like his other AD
governor colleagues and the Afenifere chiefatins did, I am not sure we will have
cause to be rejoicing on the verdict of Osun today.
While I congratulate ACN and BAT and all lovers of justice and fairness on
Aregbesola's victory, I will hasten to add that this is just the beginning of
vigilance. Why this?
My reason is very simple. Available evidence confirms that all the brood of
vipers in the southwest PDP are the desperate mainstreamers from the fold of
Afenifere/AD who are nothing but fair weather politicians and political
merceneries who, seeing the handwriting on the walls in the southwest, will
start crawling back into ACN. We know them. They may be governors and they may
be legislators. They may even be some SSAs or rented cyber merchancts or in
some instances, they may be some misguided Afenifere chieftains who sold their
bithrights to PDP because of filthy lucres.
They must be identified and kept at bay in the emerging scenerio if we are not
to be back in the abyss too soon.They are serpents and they are poisnous. They
are progressives when it is convenient to say so but in reality, they are
opportunists and political harlots. They may be old and they may be young. Their
trademark is greed and theiry symbol is synchophancy.
Yes, ACN has done well in reversing the gains of PDP/OBJ in Yoruba land. What
this tells us is that OBJ and PDP never won in the Southwest in the first
instance. This being so,my take is that every resources, I mean every legitimate
resources must be deloyed to put a terminal stop to the reign of PDP in both
Ogun and Oyo states come 2011.
The above notwithstanding, ACN and BAT must, at this moment, do some soul
seraching. Not doing so will ultimately be counterproductive. The Yoruba are
true lovers of democracy no doubt and will be willing to tow the part of
democracy any time any day. What should not be ignored is that Yoruba are not a
people to be bought over with money in all cases. Yes, and truly so, a few of us
have sold us into slavery on account of money, these few do not, and I stand to
be corrected, respresent the generality of our people.
Consequently therefore, I will challenge BAT and the leadership of Afenifere on
whether or not the effort of regaining all the southwest states is about
welfare of the people or the promotion of the ambition of an individual in the
person of Bola Ahmed Tinubu? Also, the people of southwest will rather that ACN
becomes a clear and distict alternative different from PDP. At this point, it is
hard to say so and what this translate to in practical terms is that for ACN to
truly represent the wishes and aspiration of the people of southwest, it must
commence a comprehensive process of transforming into a party of the people by
the people set out to promote the ideals of AG,UPN and AD.
As presently constituted, ACN is not perceived as such by majority of our people
even as they delight in the achievements of ACN.The general perception is that
ACN is the personal property of Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
And this is where BAT and his former AD colleages namely Niyi Adebayo, Segun
Osoba, Lam Adesina, Pa.Akande must come clean with actions and operational
strategies which will truly and sincerely debunk this perception that ACN may
not be anything other than the personal property of Bola Ahmed Tinubu with
headquaters at Boudillon Road, Ikoyi with Lagos State government as sole
finacier.
I do not expect any response in the affirmative on this by ACN or from ACN
apologists. What I am suggesting is that this impression must be erased if ACN
wants to be taken serious as a better party which the people of southwest must
commit their political future.
The people of southwest are waiting to have PDP replaced in Agodi and Oke Mosan
in 2011. And I am sure they are not looking elsewhere other than the direction
of ACN. But, our people are not prepared to exit from the den of PDP into BAT
den. It is for this reason that ACN must commence the process of transforming
into a real political party where transparancy and internal democracy is the
rule and not an exception.
For in the immediate future, not many days away, our people, in an attempt to
take political stand at both regional and central levels, and as the necessity
to embcrace a Coaltion of Alternative Parties(COAP) to dislodge PDP from Aso
Rock begins,one major consideration will be whether or not ACN truly represent
the true alternative.
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From: Akinyemi Olusegun Fasakin <yemifash@yahoo.ca>
To: omoodua@yahoogroups.com; naijaintellects@googlegroups.com
Cc: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com; nigerianid@yahoogroups.com;
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Sent: Fri, November 26, 2010 9:06:33 AM
Subject: Re: [OmoOdua] On the Little Matter of Aregbesola's Forgery Case {Re:
[Naijaintellects] Re: STAR INFORMATION: Rauf Aregbesola is new Governor of Osun
State; Oyinlola is Out, Says Appeal Court!
Broda mi Diipo Famakinwa, Komolafe, Eric Ayool ati in-law wa Gen. Afis....a ku
orire oni o. God bless our new Governor in Osun State. God bless Ijesaland.
Akinyemi
Chicago.
On Fri Nov 26th, 2010 11:50 AM EST Mobolaji ALUKO wrote:
>Elombah Daniel:
>
>So as far as you know, Aregbesola is as bad as Oyinlola?
>
>Wonders will never cease....
>
>Oh well, on a more serious note, Aregbesola's immunity will commence
>tomorrow, I believe, November 27, 2010, courtesy of the 1999 Constitution.
>The full trial of the case that you mentioned was supposed to start on
>November 29, 2010.
>
>So while late Fawehinmi won a continuation of investigation case under
>immunity, the case in court that you mentioned can return in full force only
>after four - or possibly eight - years of Rauf Aregbesola as Governor of
>Osun State.
>
>Talk of being saved by the judicial bell in this case! :-)
>
>I can assure you that there was some trump-up-ed-ness in the accusation -
>but I ain't the judge in the case - and no one has contacted me by
>text-messaging.
>
>And there you have it.
>
>
>
>Bolaji Aluko
>Shaking his head
>
>
>http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69754:forgery-police-line-up-witnesses-against-aregbesola&catid=43:news&Itemid=799
>
> Forgery: Police line up witnesses against Aregbesola
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>
>Friday, 12 November 2010 00:00 *Joshua Dada *
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>Joshua Dada, Osogbo
>
>SIX key witnesses have been lined up by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) for
>the trial of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governorship candidate in
>Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, and one of his lawyers over an alleged forgery
>of a police document. The full trial starts on November 29, 2010.
>
>The prosecution witnesses include judicial workers and police officers who
>have all filed their statements on oath at the registry of the Federal
>Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja.
>
>The judicial officers are those who had, at various points, been in custody
>of the fake document in the course of their official engagements at the
>tribunal of first instance and at the Court of Appeal.
>
>It was gathered that police authorities are not taking the case with levity
>going by the fact that those who forged the document alleged that it
>emanated from the office of the Inspector-General of Police.
>
>The Security Report, allegedly written by the police, was one of the fulcrum
>upon which the Court of Appeal, sitting in Ibadan on March 30, 2009, ordered
>for a re-trial of the election petition because it was rejected by the
>tribunal.
>
>After the Appeal Court judgement, Oyinlola, in a letter with reference No
>EG/OS/ABJ/123 dated April 1, 2009, to the then Inspector-General of Police,
>Mr Mike Okiro, sought the release of the author of the report to give
>evidence whenever the retrial started.
>
>However, Okiro, in a reply to the letter, said that “the purported Final
>Security Report did not emanate from ‘B’ Department (Operations) of the
>Nigeria Police Force.�
>
>According to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), the security report,
>which the AC candidate submitted as evidence, was a fake document as the
>purported police officer who signed the document was not a member of the
>Nigeria Police Force.
>
>The IGP, while stating five reasons why the report was fake, said: “The
>report is fake as it does not reflect the style of police intelligence
>report. The letter head used by the author is forged, the reference No
>CL2341 reflected on the report does not exist in Nigeria Police Policy
>files. CSP Ahmed Mohammed, who signed the report and DSP Odiga Ame. J, who
>purportedly certified the report, are not members of the Nigeria Police
>Force.�
>
>Okiro continued: “In this regard, therefore, I am not in a position to
>oblige the appearance of the author at the tribunal when the retrial comes
>up.�
>
>In October, 2007, Aregbesola’s counsel, Mr. Kola Awodein (SAN), had prayed
>the tribunal to issue a subpoena to bring Mohammed, the author of the
>report, to tender it before the tribunal.
>
>The subpoena was issued but up till May 15, 2008 when Awodein himself
>tendered the report before the tribunal, the said author was not brought to
>the tribunal by the AC.
>
>Before the fake police report was tendered at the Justice Thomas Naron-led
>tribunal by Aregbesola’s lawyer, it was first published by the AC in the
>March 10, 2008, edition of The News Magazine and on Page 30 of The Nation
>edition of Monday, June 23, 2008, respectively.
>
>
>On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:38 AM, elombah daniel <elsdaniel@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> While we are at it. I thought Engr Raufu Aregbesola was once accused of
>> forging the police report to support his evidence. Can someone pls confirm
>> the status of the accusation. #There's no difference between 6 and half a
>> dozen
>> Osun forgery scam: Aregbesola loses case against police,
>>others<http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24561:osun-forgery-scam-aregbesola-loses-case-against-police-others&catid=43:news&Itemid=799>
>> -
>> Compass
>> EFFORTS by the Osun State governorship candidate of the Action Congress
>> (AC) in the 2007 elections, Rauf Aregbesola, to stop the police from
>> inviting him... for questioning over the alleged forgery of a police report,
>> failed yesterday.
>> A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, dismissed his suit.
>> Justice Akinjide Ajakaiye said he could not bar the police from performing
>> their constitutional duties of arresting or investigating a suspect.
>> Aregbesola had instituted a N20 billion fundamental human rights
>> enforcement suit against the police and the state government after he was
>> accused by the immediate past Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mike Okiro,
>> of forging a security report to prosecute his case at the election petitions
>> tribunal in Osun State.
>> Dismissing the case, Justice Ajakaiye, however, warned that Aregbesola must
>> not be impeded from prosecuting his petition against the victory of Governor
>> Olagunsoye Oyinlola at the tribunal sitting in Osogbo, the state capital
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