2023 NIGERIAN ELECTION AND THE EMERGENCE OF DISHONEST NIGERIAN INTELLECTUALS

[Salimonu Kadiri]

Prior to the February 25, 2023, Presidential and National Assembly elections in Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), charged with the responsibility of planning and conducting the elections informed the world that although its register contained 93, 469, 008 Nigerian voters, only 87, 209, 007 Nigerians had collected their permanent voters' cards (PVCs) and would be entitled to participate in voting. For the elections, INEC said it had 176,846 polling units spread all over the country. The logistic and security problems of transporting election materials to polling stations and guaranteeing safety of personnel from attacks by bandits and criminals, already operating throughout the country, were enormous. If two security guards were considered enough to be posted to each polling unit, that would have required 353,692 armed men to safeguard all the polling units in the country besides the general security problems. To compound the problem further, fuel shortages in Nigeria which used to start in December every year, due to Christmas travels, began already in September 2022, and endless queues at petrol stations pervaded the country. Yet, Nigeria is not only a crude oil exporter, she has four crude oil refineries that are allocated 450,000 barrels of crude oil per day to refine for domestic consumption but the nation enjoys zero refined crude oil per day and the daily allocated barrels of crude oil are never publicly accounted for. Therefore, it was no surprise that logistical nightmares confronted INEC in getting personnel and voting materials to many polling units on election day. Added to that nightmare was the decision of the federal government to re-colour naira which turned out to be naira grab or confiscation to ordinary Nigerians, resulting in voters' apathy and constituting hindrance to take part in voting. 

Conditions under which the February 25, 2023 presidential and national assembly's elections took place were certainly not conducive to produce hundred percent perfect elections. In spite of the unfavourable circumstances, INEC did its best to announce to the whole world on March 1, 2023, that out of the 87,209,007 Nigerians that collected their permanent voter cards (PVC), 25,286,616 actually cast their votes (28.63%) and the actual valid votes cast was 24,025,940 implying 27.55% of the eligible voters with PVC. Of the eighteen political parties and their presidential contestants in the election, four candidates secured more than one million votes. According to the INEC the four top political parties and their candidates were : APC - Bola Ahmed Tinubu (70 years) who got 8,794, 726 votes; PDP - Atiku Abubakar (75years) who got 6,984,520 votes; Labour Party - Peter Gregory Obi (61 years) who got 6,101,533 votes; and NNPP - Rabiu Kwankwaso (66 years) who got 1,496,687 votes. Having considered that Bola Ahmed Tinubu election result satisfied the provisions of Section 134 (2) (a) and (b) of the Constitution of Nigeria, INEC declared him President elect. 

In what was reminiscent of June 12, 1993, while collation of election results was still going on, the self-declared father of the nation, Olusegun Obasanjo, wrote a statement on Monday, 27 February 2023 and titled it, "2023 Nigeria Presidential Election: An Appeal For Caution and Rectification." According to Obasanjo, the Saturday, 25 February 2023, presidential election failed (his own) integrity test. Therefore, he asked INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, to save Nigeria from what he seer as looming danger and disaster waiting to happen. Obasanjo also called for the cancellation of the Presidential and National Assembly Elections in what he termed 'all violent-prone areas. He did not name all the violent-prone areas. On the same day, Party Agents of the PDP and Labour Party walked out of the National Collation Centre in Abuja after accusing INEC of not posting results on its web portal (IREV) in real time from the Bimodal Voters' Accreditation System (BVAS).  IREV is an INEC online portal where polling unit-level results can be uploaded directly from the polling unit, transmitted and made available for public monitoring. On the other hand, BVAS is a technical device that allows for identification and accreditation of voters through fingerprints and facial recognition. However, INEC continued collation of the results and was able to announce final results as specified above to the disappointment of those waiting for replication of June 12, 1993, election annulment to happen.

The ignoble role played by Arthur Nzeribe with his Association of Better Nigeria (ABN) in obtaining a midnight court injunction granted on June 11, 1993, by Justice Bassey Ikpeme restraining the National Electoral Commission (NEC), headed by Professor Humphrey Nwosu, from conducting the June 12, 1993, election which was eventually deployed to annul the election was about to be replicated in 2023. The only difference this time around is that there was neither a court injunction preventing the election to take place nor stopping the counting of votes. Instead, there is a Free Nigeria Movement (FNM) led by one Dr Moses Ogidi-Paul and they marched to the National Assembly to demand for interim government and later to the Defence Headquarters to urge the military to take over the government.  Although there is no constitutional provision for interim government or military take-over of the government under any circumstance, including when election result is disputed, dishonest intellectuals emerged after the 2023 presidential and national assembly elections in the form of creatures who would never accept any election result except one that favours their preferred candidate.

One of the emerging dishonest Nigerian intellectuals after the February 25, 2023, Nigerian election is a radical Nigerian feminist and a fiction writer based in the U.S.A., Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who in a letter to President Joe Biden, titled, 'Nigeria's Hollow Democracy'  queried, "Why is America congratulating the winner of this disastrous election?"  Introducing her desired/preferred winner of the February 25, 2023, Nigeria's presidential election to President Joe Biden, she wrote, "Nigerian democracy had been a two-party structure-power alternating between the APC and the Peoples Democratic Party- until this year, when the Labour Party, led by Peter Obi, became a third force. Obi was different: he seemed honest and accessible, and his vision of anti-corruption and self-sufficiency gave rise to a movement of supporters who called themselves *Obi-dients*." Here, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie fraudulently presented Peter Gregory Obi as a new-comer in Nigerian politics and who was to break what she falsely stated as alternation between the APC and PDP in 'a two-party power-structure.' The Presidential election of 1999 was a contest between the PDP and a coalition of two parties, AD and APP. Thereafter, the April 2003 presidential elections was contested by 20 different political parties; in 2007, it was 25; in 2011, it was 20; in 2015, it was 14; in 2019 it was 47 and in 2023 it was 18. APC participated in Presidential election for the first time in 2015, having been registered in 2013.

In 2002, Party for Social Democracy (PSD) was formed in Nigeria but it changed its name to Labour Party in 2003, the same year that Peter Gregory Obi contested for the Governorship of Anambra State on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance (UPGA). Although Obasanjo's PDP machineries rigged Obi out of that election, subsequent disputes between the riggers and the benefactor of rigging paved way for Obi to retrieve his mandate through the courts in 2006. Peter Gregory Obi was, therefore, APGA governor of Anambra state from 2006 to March 2014, when his 8 years tenure expired. Seven months after handing over to another APGA governor of Anambra state, Willie Obiano, Peter Gregory Obi defected from APGA to PDP on October 7, 2014. In 2019, Peter Gregory Obi was vice Presidential candidate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on the platform of the PDP. On 29 April 2022, Peter Gregory Obi was among 15 members of the PDP screened and cleared to contest in the PDP presidential primary as the flag bearer of the party in the 2023 Nigerian presidential election. On Tuesday, 24 May 2022, Peter Gregory Obi resigned from the PDP four days before the party's presidential primary for which he had been screened and approved to contest. Three days later, Friday, 27 May 2022, Peter Gregory Obi joined the Labour Party and on Monday, May 30, 2022 he emerged Labour Party presidential flag bearer at the party's primary held at Asaba where 185 delegates were accredited to vote.    https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/533601-updated-peter-obi-emerges-labour-party-presidential-candidate.html 

From the foregoing narratives, and contrary to Chimamanda's presentation of Peter Gregory Obi as a new political figure in Nigeria, he (Obi) is not even a new wine in an old bottle but an old wine repackaged in another old bottle. In Chimamanda Adichie's world where ethnic affinity is stronger than telling the truth, she must tell lies in favour of Peter Obi with whom she shares ethnic and state origin in Nigeria. Therefore, she was wilfully dishonest in proclaiming Obi to be a new political phenomenon in Nigeria even when she knew that he had governed Anambra State as a Governor for eight years (2006-2014) under the platform of APGA. However, the interesting question one should ask is, what did the political hero of Chimamanda Adichie, Peter Gregory Obi, do during his reign as eight years governor of Anambra State that would have made him attractive to be elected President of Nigeria now?

Governor Peter Gregory Obi of Anambra State invested $20 million of the state's fund in beer brewery but he refused to pay salaries of workers in Anambra State Water Corporation and Environmental Protection Agency. The investment in brewery which was N50 per share then is, according to Charles Soludo the current Governor of Anambra State, worth N5 today. On September 20, 2011, Governor Obi threatened to sack 3,000 workers demanding minimum wage and he carried out the threat eventually. He allowed doctors in Anambra State to go on strike from January 2011 to 27 February 2012 when the strike was called off by the doctors and the state's owned Universities teachers were on strike for six months without the concerned glance of Peter Obi's administration. On Tuesday, August 11, 2011, Peter Gregory Obi made an unexpected appearance at a workers rally at Aloma Junction in Awka, the capital of Anambra and he was jeered with a hostile song in Igbo thus: IKWUSIGO, INABAGO, 419/EZIGBO ONYE ORI AZULU AZU K'IBU 419, meaning, "Have you finished speaking, are you leaving, 419/ A well-trained thief is who you are, 419." https://todaynatoday.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/anambra-workers-declare-war-on-governor-obi 

In the online Sahara Reporters of 28 August 2011, Jon Chikadibie Okafo authored an article titled "Peter Obi's Government Magic and Cheeky Claims." A part of the article reads, "Health workers in Anambra State have been on strike for about eight months now, there is no functional water scheme anywhere in the state, and most importantly, armed robbery and kidnapping has brought the commercial town of Nnewi to its knees." In fact, it was not until July 18, 2014 that the court ordered First Bank of Nigeria Plc., Awka branch to pay N1.5 billion, owed by the immediate past governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, to the staff of Anambra State Water Corporation and Environmental Protection Agency. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/court-orders-anambra-to-release-n1-5bn-workers-salary-arrears/ 

As Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi unleashed poverty on the people as a weapon of submission and he warehoused the funds of Anambra State in Fidelity Bank, a bank in which he was a majority shareholder. Throughout his political life, Peter Obi has never associated or sympathised with the toiling and suffering workers in Nigeria. Yet, he joined Labour Party on Friday, 27 May 2022, and on Monday, May 30, 2022, he emerged Labour Party presidential flag bearer at a primary where 185 delegates were accredited to vote even when the Home Page of Labour Party boasted of over 30 million members!! It is only in Nigeria that a 61-year-old Peter Gregory Obi can claim to be the leader and representative of Youths without anyone raising eyebrows. To crown his usual fraud-combined hypocrisy, the 61-year-old Peter Obi answered in a conversation with the 68-year-old Bishop David Oyedepo, 'Yes Daddy' when he saw opportunity to use religion as a weapon of mass deception, politically. Biologically, Bishop Oyedepo, a 68-year-old Bishop, is too young to be a dad to the 61-year-old Peter Obi but a deceptive opportunist like Obi will even call a cow a brother for the sake of wanting to eat beef. Yet, the Christian Bible in Mathew 23 : 9 prohibits the word 'Daddy' which is equivalent to the word 'Father' thus, "And do not call anyone on earth your father; for one is your Father, He who is in heaven." 

Chorusing the music of Peter Obi, Chimamanda Adichie in his letter to President Joe Biden averred that inability of INEC to upload election results into its result viewing portal in real time at the 2023 February 23 presidential election constituted a breach of the Electoral Acts that paved way for rigging against Peter Obi, the Labour party candidate, in the election. Interestingly, in a case marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1454/2022 filed by the Labour Party on August 22, 2022, at an Abuja High Court and which had INEC as a sole defendant urged the Court to issue an order directing INEC to comply with the Electoral Act 2022, on electronic transmission of result in the then forthcoming elections. INEC was not represented in the court case argued by Labour Party counsel, Monday Mawah. The presiding Judge, Justice Emeka Nwite, while delivering judgment on January 23, 2023 said, "From the argument of the learned plaintiff's counsel, I am of the humble opinion that the bone of contention or the Sections that he seeks for interpretation are actually Sections 50(2), 60(5) and 62(2) of the Electoral Act 2022. Section 47(2) as cited by the learned Counsel to the plaintiff only deals with accreditations of voters using Smart Card Readers, but not collation or transmission of result as postulated by the learned Counsel." Dismissing the case against INEC, Justice Emeka Nwite said, "By the provision of Sections 50(2) and 60 (5) of the Electoral Act 2022, the correct interpretation of the said Statutes is that the defendant (INEC) is at liberty to prescribe the manner in which election results could be transmitted." In fact, under Sections 50(2), 60(5) and 64(6) of the Electoral Act, it is stipulated that both uploading and transmission of election results are at the discretion of the Electoral Commission. Therefore, INEC did not violate Electoral Act 2022 by not uploading election results directly from the polling units into its IReV portal as long as the election was conducted with BVAS technical device. 

As if she were a house-Negress who by accident had escaped the damnation of cotton picking in the plantation, Chimamanda reported Nigerian election to her master, Joe Biden, as a hollow democracy. Is the US democracy perfect? Back in the US presidential election of November 7, 2000, Albert Arnold Gore won 50,999,897 votes while George Walker Bush won 50,456,002 votes of the so called popular votes. In the US democracy it is a group of 538 persons from electoral college whose votes would decide who should be president. George Bush who got 543,895 votes less than Albert Gore in the popular vote was declared elected by the electoral college's votes of 271 against 266 for Al Gore. Fast forward in the American presidential election of 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton won 65,853,516 votes against Donald Trump who won 62,984,825 so called popular votes. However the Electoral College gave Donald Trump who won 3,868,691 less popular votes than Hillary Clinton 304 votes to become president elect. As of today, Donald Trump is still claiming that Joe Biden stole his victory in the US November 2020 presidential election. And what will the house-Negress say about the US democracy being a two-party structure that has been alternating between the Republican and the Democratic parties for centuries? The coming of Barrack Obama to American Presidency demonstrated that the racial demography in the US had changed to the effect that it no longer guaranteed only a Caucasian President. So, by 2013, the US Supreme Court ruling in Shelby versus Holder removed protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Since then, more than 361 Bills that would restrict voting access for African Americans have been introduced in 48 out 50 States in the US, reducing number of ballot boxes in communities of African Americans, limiting voting hours, and adding additional voter ID requirements. Should Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie have the guts to label the US democracy as hollow in view of the afore-mentioned democratic infractions, US Caucasians would have urged her to return home to her hut in Nigeria.

On Saturday, 18 March 2023, the online Nigerian Vanguard published a letter written by Peter Gregory Obi about the Presidential election of 25 February 2023. He wrote among other things, "History has taught us that the destruction of a society can be gradual or sudden through deliberate manipulation of the rule of law and suppression of the will of the people. ... It is very obvious that it (the Presidential Election of February 25, 2023) was deliberately conducted in gross deviation of agreed rules and regulations." On reading Peter Obi's letter, I wondered if he did not deliberately manipulate the rule of law to emerge as the presidential flag bearer of the labour party or if the Labour Party's presidential primary of 30 May 2022 was not conducted in gross deviation from Electoral Act 2022. Section 77 (2) of the Electoral Act 2022 mandates every political party to maintain a register of its members in soft and hard copy. Section 77 (3) compels each political party to forward the register containing its members to INEC not later than 30 days before the date fixed for its primaries, congresses or convention. The implication of Section 77(3) is that for one to be sponsored by a political party to contest for an elected office one must have been a member of that party, at least, for 30 days. Peter Obi was screened and cleared on April 29, 2022, to contest in the PDP presidential primary election scheduled for May 28, 2022. Four days to the PDP's presidential primary, Peter Gregory Obi resigned from the party even though his name as a member of the PDP was in the register that had been forwarded to INEC on or before 28 April 2022 in accordance to Sections 77 (2&3) of the Electoral Act 2022. Peter Obi resigned from the PDP on May 24, 2022 and joined the Labour Party on Friday, May 27, 2022, only to become LP's presidential flag bearer on Monday 2022. If membership register of the Labour Party had been forwarded to the INEC as required by the Electoral Act on or before 30 April 2022, it could not have contained the name of Peter Obi who as of that date was still a member of PDP where he had been screened and cleared, on 29 April 2022, to contest in its presidential primaries. Peter Gregory Obi was only three days old in the Labour Party when he emerged as the Party's presidential flag bearer on 30 May 2022 contrary to what are required in Sections 77(2&3) of the Electoral Acts 2022. 

Meanwhile, the manipulation of Electoral Acts 2022 by the Labour Party to produce its candidates in the last elections has been highlighted by the restraining order issued by a Federal Capital Territory High Court, presided over by Justice Hamza Muazu, barring the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, and National Secretary, Farouk Ibrahim, from parading themselves as national leaders of the party. Also restrained by the order of the Court from parading themselves as the national officers of the labour party are the National Organising Secretary, Clement Ojukwu, and Treasurer, Oluchi Opara. The ex-parte application which was argued by James Ogwu Onoja (SAN) claimed that Labour Party National leaders allegedly forged several documents of the Federal Capital Territory High Court to carry out unlawful substitutions in the last general elections. The forged documents include the receipts, seals and affidavits of the court to carry out criminal activities. That brings to mind the case of Professor Ifagbemi Awamaridi whose name, INEC published, on 25 July 2022, as the gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party in Lagos, but was suddenly replaced by Gbadebo Chinedu Rhodes-Vivour on August 4, 2022. The National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Arabambi Abayomi, claimed that after Awamaridi had withdrawn from the contest, he was substituted with Rhodes-Vivour. Awamaridi denied ever withdrawing as Labour Party gubernatorial candidate for Lagos. He emphasized that a candidate could only withdraw on a signed Letter of Oath or Form11B of INEC, none of which he claimed to have done. Interesting days are awaiting Nigerians to know from the Court who actually manipulated Nigeria's Electoral Act 2022 in order to participate in the February 2023 general election.

In his contribution to the discussion on an article by Niyi Akinnaso in which Obi's refusal to accept electoral defeat was compared identical to Trump's behaviour in like manner in the USA, Professor Moses Ochonu wrote among other things on Bola Ahmed Tinubu thus, "We literally have a president-elect who is a confirmed, documented former drug baron; who lied under oath that he attended primary and secondary schools he did not attend; whose name is fake; who forged the Chicago State University certificate he submitted to INEC for the 2023 election; who patently lied about the source of his wealth; attributing the millions of dollars US investigators found in his accounts and tracked as he laundered it for his drug trafficking cartel to savings from his $2,000 a month salary at Mobil; who has multiple dates of birth, the latest date of birth putting him only about 9 years than his eldest daughter. The list of frauds associated with this man goes on. We have a president-elect who is manifestly unfit for the rigour of the office of president of a country of 200 million people because of physical and cognitive infirmities that cause him to tremble like a leaf in the wind, slur his speech, struggle with comprehension and speak incoherently." Moses Ochonu is a psychotic historian who is incapable of distinguishing between reality and his imagination. Therefore, he was unable to tell his readers when and where was it confirmed and documented that Bola Ahmed Tinubu was a drug baron. Tinubu moved back to Nigeria in 1983 but he neglected to file a US income tax returns after 1984 despite having sizable interest-generating deposits in First Heritage Bank Account Nr. 263226700 and City Bank NA with account Nr.39483134. On January 10, 1992, a Special Agent with the United States Internal Revenue Service, Kevin Moss obtained court order freezing Tinubu's accounts at First Heritage Bank and City Bank respectively. On January 13, 1992, the Special Agent with the United States Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Moss, contacted Tinubu in Nigeria and informed him about the freezing of his US accounts pending forfeiture. Tinubu secured a US lawyer to litigate against the attempt of Mr. Kevin Moss to forfeit his US bank accounts. A settlement was reached whereby the Honourable Judge , John A. Nordberg, on September 15, 1993, ordered that the sum of $460,000 held by Bola Tinubu in the First Heritage Bank account be forfeited to the United States Government. Anything in excess of $460,000 at First Heritage Bank, the Court ordered, should be handed over to Tinubu as well as all funds at City Bank. The total amount in the two bank accounts was $1.4million (one million and four-hundred thousand dollars). If it were a drug case, FBI would have prosecuted the case and a tax collector from the internal revenue service of the US would not have been involved. Contrary to the hallucination of professor Moses Ochonu, stating that the US investigators found millions of dollars in Tinubu's accounts, it was only Mr. Kevin Moss of the US Internal Revenue Service who was the investigator, and not for drug but, for tax on bank deposits totalling $1.4million only.

Professor Ochonu informed his readers that Bola Ahmed Tinubu forged the Chicago State University certificate he submitted to INEC for the 2023 election and at the same time he told readers that Tinubu was on $2,000 (US dollars) monthly salary as an employee of Mobil before he decided to be brain-gain for Nigeria in 1983. Tinubu is said to have graduated in Accountancy in 1979 from the University in question which qualified him to be employed in Mobil in the US. Is Professor Ochonu claiming that Tinubu secured his $2,000 salary per month job as an accountant at Mobil in the US with forged University of Chicago certificate? Alternatively, did the same certificate, according to professor Ochonu, become forged when it was submitted to INEC to contest 2023 election? Does professor Ochonu know that the minimum qualification to contest for any elected office in Nigeria, according to the 1999 constitution (if it has not been amended after 2019 elections) is for the candidate to satisfy INEC that he or she can communicate fluently in spoken and written English language? Since, Section 55 of the 1999 constitution recognises English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba as Languages in which the official business of the National Assembly can be conducted there is no need for anyone to engage in padding of educational qualification in order to contest election.

Professor Ochonu asserted that the latest date of birth of Bola Ahmed Tinubu makes him older than his oldest daughter by 9 years!! However, the learned professor failed to tell readers the latest birth date Bola Ahmed Tinubu has claimed to determine his age as well as the birth date of his eldest daughter. The manner in which professor Ochonu presented the alleged age falsification by Tinubu is typical of habitual fraudsters with the only exception that fraudsters always see to it that their intended victims don't detect being defrauded, at least, immediately. Bola Ahmed Tinubu was born on March 29, 1952 and Folashade was born on June 17, 1976. While Tinubu is now 71-year-old, his eldest daughter, Folashade, will be 47-year-old in June this year, which arithmetically indicates age difference of 25 years, 2 months and 19 days between Tinubu and his eldest daughter. Professor Moses Ochonu is like a man ridiculing fish for not being able to fly but ended up ridiculing self for not knowing that fish by nature can only swim in river and can never fly. It is somehow curious that Professor Isi Nkita who is a resident alien in a country where citizens are free to choose which gender they want to belong irrespective of the biological organ in between their legs; and where the president is 80 years of age and was born a stutter is not barking whereas he is barking furiously because, in Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu allegedly chose his own birth day.  

 Moses Ochonu is a professor of History and not of Medicine. Even if Moses Ochonu were to be a physician treating Bola Ahmed Tinubu, he ought to know that the Hippocratic oath sworn to by all physicians forbids him from narrating the ailments of his patients for public entertainment. Nigerians reading Professor Moses Ochonu's postulation on Bola Ahmed Tinubu's health are likely to believe that he is medical professor but he is not. Nigerian hospitals are filled with quacks whose academic titles are in history, geography and English language. In his quackery, Professor Moses Ochonu from his alien residence in the US could diagnose Nigeria's president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, unfit for the office of the president because of physical and cognitive infirmities without meeting him physically. APC, the political party that Bola Ahmed Tinubu belongs, had its presidential primary on June 8, 2022, with over 2,000 party delegates in attendance. Ten candidates contested in the primary and Bola Ahmed Tinubu won 1,271 votes, whereas the nearest candidates to him won 316 and 235 votes respectively. For Professor Moses Ochonu to stay in the US and claim a better knowledge of the health of Bola Ahmed Tinubu more than members of his political party that voted for him to be their presidential flag bearer, is nothing but to be schizophrenic symptoms of which psychologists say are hallucinations - hearing or seeing things that do not exist, and delusions - believing in things that are untrue.

S. Kadiri  

      

[Toyin Falola]

Dear sir:

Why use the word “dishonest” for those you disagree with? This is not necessary. Differences in opinions should not lead to labeling others as dishonest.

TF

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[ogunlakaiye]

My dear Professor,

A professor of history diagnosing people for ailments is a quack and as such is dishonest. The indisputable fact is that a professor of history is not licensed to practise medicine. A fiction writer who knowingly presents a former 8-year-governor of a state in Nigeria (2006-2014), that has been in politics for the past 20 years as a new politician with a new ideology to President Joe Biden is a liar and as such is dishonest. The list can be made longer. We can all agree and disagree about the ways to make Nigeria prosper industrially and economically but if in the process of discussion we resort to telling lies, then we are not honest and that is description of a character and not a label.

S. Kadiri  

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

I would recommend that Tinubu invite Kadiri and place him on his media team.

but do i have such goodwill towards Tinubu's politics? 

thanks

toyin

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The fact one does not like a particular politician does not necessarily warrant telling lies about him.

 I think Kadiri is right by calling such intellectuals dishonest. We need to tell the truth, and Truth is the hallmark of Omoluabi in Yoruba and academic integrity. 
Segun Ogungbemi. 

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