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Date: Monday, December 21, 2015, 11:06 AM

Nigerian Tribune Newspaper Fires Reporter, Editor
Over Concocted Interview Berating
Buhari
The Nigerian
Tribune, a newspaper owned by the family of late
Nigerian political sage, Obafemi Awolowo, has fired a senior
reporter, Olakunle Timothy Taiwo, for concocting an
interview with Itse Sagay, a constitutional lawyer, and
scholar. Senior reporter at the Tribune,
Olakunle Timothy Taiwo.
The paper’s
Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief, Edward Dickson, confirmed
Mr. Taiwo’s sack in a response to a text from
SaharaReporters. Our correspondent had sent a text asking
the MD to confirm the authenticity of information that the
paper was about to issue an apology to Mr. Sagay and to
formally retract the report based on a non-existent
interview with the legal scholar.

Senior
reporter at the Tribune, Olakunle Timothy Taiwo
In a
widely circulated report in the paper’s online edition,
Mr. Taiwo claimed that Mr. Sagay had reportedly berated
President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war. However,
in an interview yesterday with SaharaReporters, Mr. Sagay,
who chairs President Buhari’s advisory team on
anti-corruption, denied that he granted any interview to the
reporter or the Tribune. He also challenged the reporter and
newspaper to provide proof that he spoke to
them.
The
Tribune’s MD said he was at the newspaper’s annual
general meeting and, therefore, could not offer further
comments on the forged report. However, another source at
the paper told SaharaReporters that an editor had also been
fired early today over the same scandal.
The Nigerian
Tribune is one of the newspapers named as
beneficiaries of a payout from funds that were meant for the
purchase of weapons to fight Islamist insurgent group, Boko
Haram. The revelation of a widespread dole-out of cash to
media groups, including the Tribune, is part of a growing
financial scandal involving former National Security
Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (ret.). Mr. Dasuki is accused
of diverting more than $2 billion budgeted for the purchase
of weapons for the Nigerian military. Much of the looted
defense funds were then shared among officials of the then
ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for campaign
purposes. 
In
addition, Mr. Dasuki funneled billions of naira to Raymond
Dokpesi, proprietor of African Independent Television
(AIT), and Nduka Obaigbena, owner of ThisDaynewspaper. Mr. Obaigbena
also became the alleged conduit for distributing cash to at
least 12 newspapers, according to findings by agents
investigating the NSA’s illicit disbursements of defense
funds. 

abiodun
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Oga Claver,
I am abiodun KOMOLAFE.
Did you mean PDPigs?
But what I'm seeing below are ... monkeys, I
guess.
So, what do we call them?
May God save us from ourselves!

abiodun
KOMOLAFE, AMNIM,020, Okenisa Street,
PO Box 153,
Ijebu-Jesa, Osun State.
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On Dec 21, 2015, at 09:31, Peter Claver Oparah <petercl...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Hahahaha
Oga Abiodun,
Restraint from contributors? By contributors, I
hope you don't include the crying bush babies, I mean
the inconsolable Wailing Wailers, who have wept their
Buhsriphobic brains out and are in dire search for newer
wailing points, as The Tribute phantom
provides? 
See them here;
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On Dec 21, 2015, at 9:03 AM, "'abiodun
KOMOLAFE' via OkonkwoNetworks" <okonkwo...@googlegroups.com>
wrote:

Oga
Claver,
I am abiodun KOMOLAFE.
Thank you, jare!
But 'Tribune' or
'Tribute': what's the difference as far
as its disposition towards the Muhammadu Buhari-led
government is concerned? 
As for me, that's why I have always urged
restraint on the part of contributors. This is a solid
example of why contributors must be 'quick to read
but slow to respond.' 
Thank God, I've never joined the
fray!
In any case, please find below Sahara
Reporters' account of Professor Sagay's
disclaimer:
------------------------------I Never
Granted Any Interview To Nigerian Tribune About Buhari’s
Anti-Corruption War—Itse Sagay
Itse
Sagay, a legal scholar, has denied ever granting an
interview to the Nigerian Tribune to deride President
Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption
efforts.

Speaking
with a correspondent of SaharaReporters by telephone from
Lagos, Mr. Sagay, a professor of law, well known
constitutional lawyer and head of President Buhari’s
advisory committee on anti-corruption, said he was shocked
to read a report concocted by the newspaper, crediting him
with sharp criticism of the current administration’s
anti-corruption strategy. According to him, the
newspaper’s report on his purported interview represented
a desperate attempt to discredit President Buhari’s
anti-corruption war. 
 
Mr. Sagay told our correspondent
that he had stopped granting interviews to the Tribune after
the paper’s editors had twisted an interview he granted
them in August. According to him, the paper’s account of
his August interview was tailored to suit the devious agenda
of its editors hence his rejection of all efforts by the
newspaper to speak with him on record for an
interview.
The
Nigerian Tribune is one of the newspapers named as
beneficiaries of a payout from funds that were meant for the
purchase of weapons to fight Islamist insurgent group, Boko
Haram. The revelation of a widespread dole-out of cash to
media groups, including the Tribune, has emerged as part of
a scandal involving former National Security Adviser,
Colonel Sambo Dasuki (ret.), who is accused of diverting
more than $2 billion budgeted for
weaponry. 
Investigators have revealed
that several Nigerian newspapers received N10 million each
from the slush fund overseen by Mr. Dasuki. At least 12
newspapers were paid from the fund through Nduka Obaigbena,
chair of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria
(NPAN), according to investigators. Even though the Tribune
denied receiving the funds, subsequent disclosures indicated
that the newspaper’s editors took part in a meeting where
it was agreed that the booty should be
accepted. 
In
dismissing the opinion attributed to him by the Tribune, Mr.
Sagay said he had never met or spoken to the journalist who
wrote the report, insisting that the interview was made up.
He challenged the reporter and paper’s editors to provide
the public with a tape recording of the so-called
interview.
 
The late Obafemi Awolowo founded the
Tribune, and his family still owns the paper, which is one
of Nigeria’s longest surviving daily
newspapers. May God save us from
ourselves!

abiodun
KOMOLAFE, AMNIM,020, Okenisa Street,
PO Box 153,
Ijebu-Jesa, Osun State.
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Oga Abiodun,
Is it Nigerian Tribune or Nigerian
Tribute? 

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Fellow
Nigerians,
I am abiodun KOMOLAFE.
First and foremost, thank God the erudite
professor has written a disclaimer to the interview he's
reported to have granted Nigerian Tribune. The truth here
is: someone, somewhere is trying to be clever by half and
one can only urge the learned professor to put his learned
wits into use here.
Having said that, one conspicuous portion of the
said interview was his classification, or categorization, of
President Buhari as a mere Primary School Certificate
holder.
In the said interview, purportedly granted by
him, Prof. Sagay was quoted as saying:
"We have highly intelligent people
in this country; we are not mediocres, but it is just that
mediocre people rule over us. I cannot just imagine
President Buhari, who has a primary school certificate,
ruling the country when we have loads of intelligential
great men and women."
But, the same Professor Sagay was said to have
granted the interview below in January, 2015.
A case of double-speak? Or 'I have just
seen what I couldn't see before'? Or blackmail?
Or
...? -------------------------
BUHARI’S CERTIFICATE
EQUIVALENT TO MASTER’S DEGREE, SAYS PROF
SAGAYJanuary
20th, 2015 | by administratorHEADLINES
Constitutional
lawyer, Prof. Itse Sagay, says the qualification Maj.Gen
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has is equivalent to a Master’s
degree.Sagay,
who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said this while
reacting to a claim by another senior advocate, Mr. Mike
Ozekhome, that Buhari was not qualified to contest because
he could not provide his certificate.Sagay
said there was nowhere in the constitution where it was
stated that a candidate of a political party must provide
his certificate.He said
Buhari attended the Military Training College in Kaduna; the
Mons Officer Cadet School in the United Kingdom; and the
Army War College in the United States.He said
anyone that did not have a secondary school certificate
could not have attended such prestigious military
schools.He said,
“This whole discussion of Buhari’s qualification is a
negative distraction from the legitimate process of
electioneering which should involve issues, records of the
candidates, their character, and their capacity to govern.
These are things we should be talking
about.“The
constitution is very clear on the issue of qualification. It
states that you are qualified to be a President if you have
achieved the level of school certificate or its equivalent.
Buhari has been to Military College in Britain, he has been
to colleges in India and USA, involving high level of
training and intellect.“We
need to ask if participation and completion of courses at
these levels and the basic officers training in Mons
Officers Cadet School are less than school certificates. On
the contrary, you need school certificate to attend those
courses. So, if he has attended all those courses, then
there is absolutely no need to be talking about secondary
school certificates anymore.“So,
this man attended secondary school and we hear he was even
the head boy. He has been to the Cadet School in Mons, he
attended the War College in the US and was given a
certificate which is equivalent to a master’s
degree.Sagay
said Nigeria had continued to worsen under the leadership of
President Goodluck Jonathan despite the fact that he was the
first doctorate degree holder to become the President of
Nigeria.“If I
may add, how has the Ph.D of the President helped this
country?” he said.
-------------------------------------
As stated above, thank God: SAN Sagay has now put
the issue in proper perspective.
May God save us from ourselves!

abiodun
KOMOLAFE, AMNIM,020, Okenisa Street,
PO Box 153,
Ijebu-Jesa, Osun State.
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  Buhari is not sincere with corruption fight
—Sagay

Professor
Itse Sagay, SAN, headed President Muhammadu Buhari’s
advisory committee on anti-corruption. He speaks with
OLAKUNLE TAIWO on the legal implications of the Kogi
governorship election, why some key institutions are
corrupt, the president’s integrity and his anti-graft
crusade, among others. Excerpts:




AS a
constitutional lawyer, what do you think would have been the
right thing to do in Kogi when the All Progressives Congress
(APC) governorship candidate, Prince Audu Abubakar, died
before the declaration of the results of the election?
You know
the issue is new and there was no provision for such at all
in the constitution, but somehow the decision should have
been at the discretion of the Attorney-General of the
Federation or the prerogative of the court to actually
decide which way to go. It was like a lacuna or lawless
case, where anybody can just act the way he feels, because
there was no provision for it. So, both parties can do what
they like and that is just it. Sincerely, there is an extent
to which the case can be prosecuted legally, because having
no provision for it, it has created a loophole for anybody
to act anyhow. We will just be making noise. Therefore, in
such a case, the judiciary or anybody can be
influenced. How do you
mean sir?   
You
should understand now. For instance, most of the political
judgments in court now will be tilting to the side of the
APC, because they are in power. That is the truth,
especially in a situation where there is a clear loophole
that gives any judge the leeway to give judgment he feels
like. Nobody will have any ground to query such judgment.
 
How best
can such issues be resolved then?
Of a
truth, the election was almost concluded before the death of
the APC candidate. It was a clear case that APC was winning,
and if that was the case, I think the decision should be
more to the APC and not to the PDP, because if we had any
cause to decide the election with that results, the APC had
already won but their candidate died. The only thing I am
not comfortable with was that when Audu died, it should be
his running mate that should have taken over and not
somebody who never campaigned or contested.
 
Many
legal experts have different views on this issue…
 

That is why we say there is a loophole. If that election had
been concluded and results announced, and Audu died, there
would be no argument. Honourable James Faleke, his running
mate, would have taken over. Unfortunately, the returning
officer said the election was inconclusive, and you know APC
is peopled by very clever and highly-intelligent, as well as
criminally-minded people. I am telling you sincerely, you
can hardly beat them in such an issue. They take advantage
of any slightest opportunity unlike the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP). Once the APC saw that the running mate, though
they accepted him as running mate, didn’t carry the kind
of weight to be their governor, they quickly exploited the
loophole. You know running mates, whether deputy governor,
vice-president or what have you, are just like stooges; they
don’t carry any political weight.  So, the fact that
they agreed to his becoming deputy governor didn’t mean he
would be acceptable to them as governor, because a governor
takes decision. And maybe they realised that Faleke would
not listen to them in their caucus. You know within a party,
there are always caucuses; so, the powers-that-be within the
party might not want him in power. That was why they had to
manipulate the whole situation, which nobody has any ground
to query. Let anybody take it to any court.Was the
position of the INEC the best option in such circumstance,
given the fact that Honourable Faleke and Idris Wada are
still kicking?
In fact,
that is the most intelligent position that could help the
situation then. It was a situation that nobody envisaged, so
the best way to it was to declare the election inconclusive.
But one thing is that both the INEC and principal actors in
the party knew that there was no provision for them in the
constitution. Therefore, all of them were depending on who
knows who. They would have quickly gone to press buttons in
the judiciary and the office of the AGF, because there is no
independent judiciary.No
independent judiciary?
Forget
about it. It is just a mere saying.So, who is
controlling the judiciary?
Who puts
them there? The executive, of course. But it is not peculiar
to Nigeria, maybe the whole of Africa. Even in developed
countries, the judiciary can be influenced, but the only
thing is that they are careful in all those
manipulations.What do
you mean by influencing the judiciary?

Influencing the judiciary may not necessarily be through
cash splash. For instance, a judge can be fired by the
person that puts him there if he gives a judgment that is
not pleasing to the party. And because the judge is still
interested in his job, he will want to act to the script.
So, it is very easy for the judge to compromise without
receiving any cash incentive. But you know that the party
will not do without giving you money anyway. Another reason
judges are easily compromised is because many of them
don’t have plans for life after retirement. So the fear of
developing stroke after losing their job is what actually
kills most of them; they allow the powers-that-be to have
their way.How then
can sanity be restored to the judiciary, given the fact that
the oppressed look up to the judiciary as the bastion of
hope?

I must tell you without prejudice that the consensus of the
2014 national confab must be implemented. I am telling you
the truth; the whole of Nigerians were well-represented at
that confab. Every geopolitical zone was represented and
they arrived at vital decisions. Let us implement those
decisions so that we can move forward. Another thing is that
we have a criminal situation everywhere in the country. For
instance, let’s look at the Senate. I doubt if their
salary is up to N1million but their allowances are up to N25
million per month. I don’t think there is any professor in
this country earning N1 million per month. Now, some
governors are saying they can’t pay the N18,000 minimum
wage, which is not up to the money some of them use to feed
their dog per day and some of them will have up to six. So,
who do you want to give N18,000 to? A secondary school
student will even spend more than N18,000 per month not to
talk of a man married with two kids and you now say the
person will not perpetrate fraud. They will. That is why you
can’t fight corruption successfully. It is not possible.
 Another example is that you will see a graduate being
paid N50,000 per month to secure N50 million and you will
say he should not commit fraud. The children will come and
bring ‘don’t come to school on Monday’ letter and your
wife will say if you know you want to sleep in this house,
drop money for us. That is the unfortunate thing.
Let me
tell give you another instance, I am very close to some of
the police officers and I know how much they collect. It is
ridiculous and that is why they can’t stop checkpoints,
because that is what they use to maintain their vehicles for
patrol and other expenses. The money that is supposed to go
to them doesn’t get to them. At the Police College, Ikeja
in 2013, the government said it was training the police for
security reasons and it gave them N150 per day; that is N50
per meal, an adult for that matter. This is the reality.
They would prepare a watery soup inside a bucket and 25
people would sit round it with only one big head of a fish.
What the government is doing is destroying their psyche and
even before they eat that food, they bribe their way to pass
and to be posted to the right place. Some policemen buy
their shoes and uniform themselves and it is not as if
allocations were not made for all these things and nobody is
talking. Afterwards, you will say you are fighting
corruption. We are not sincere with our anti-graft fight. It
is just on the media we see it. Before you can say you want
to fight corruption, you must put certain things in place,
because a hungry man will steal. Let us put necessary
infrastructure in place. Lt the people be well remunerated,
then you can now begin to impose sanctions. 
 
         
With the
way the Kogi and Bayelsa elections went, do you think INEC
will live up to expectations? 
Well, I
am very close to some of their top officials somehow and I
know that they dance to the tune of the politicians,
especially the incumbents. For instance, in Kogi, before the
election, the people and key PDP stalwarts didn’t support
the candidacy of Idris Wada. However, the APC should not
have got that kind of votes. And when that kind of a thing
happens, that is the loophole INEC takes advantage of to the
advantage of whoever it wants to support. People still buy
INEC and that is the truth. In Lagos State, for instance, no
other party can win except the APC.Why?
All the
INEC officials in Lagos are on the payroll of someone who
will ask you what it takes to win. Someone who is ready to
give you more than you ask for. It is everywhere but it
depends on who can spend more. And that is why you see a
civil servant who is an INEC official with so much money. I
have many friends among them and the salary of these senior
people is not more than N150,000 per month, but they have
houses everywhere.  Where did they get the money? One
of them, after the 2011 elections, bought a home of about
N100 million, where did he get the money?If the
judiciary and INEC are in such mess, what then is the place
of integrity in Nigeria’s society today?  
 

Integrity is very rare now; people no longer say ‘if I
die, I die.’ Though we still have people of integrity,
they are scarce. And where integrity is lacking, anything
can happen. Immediately President Buhari got to Aso Rock,
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the
Department of State [Security] Service (DSS), as if they
have not existed before, began to arrest and do all sort of
things. But, if you look at it holistically, are they saying
it is only PDP governors or public office holders that are
corrupt? No. One thing is that they are doing whatever they
are doing to please the president, who can hire and fire
them. Which of the governors, out of the 36 states, is not
corrupt? So, why is it that only PDP people are being chased
up and down?
 
Does that
mean that as the head of the advisory committee on
corruption, you are not satisfied with the whole
thing? 
As much
as I am not a politician, one thing I know is that the
anti-corruption crusade is selective, but most of the people
being pursued by the EFCC are corrupt. What we are saying is
that all others in the APC that are stealing should also be
chased if President Buhari is really serious about this
corruption of a thing. It is only then that the fight
against corruption can be seen as fair and balanced. When
there is no equity and justice, people will begin to doubt
your integrity in whatever you are pursuing. For instance,
if we recall 1983 when Buhari/Idiagbon came to office,
immediately they knew there was corruption, they changed
Nigerian currency so that all the people that had stolen
money and kept it at home had such rendered useless and all
corrupt officials were arrested. 
But you
also have to remember that Ambrose Ali died in prison;
Adelakun, who was deputy governor to Bola Ige, died in
prison; Olabisi Onabanjo developed kidney problem in the
prison. Most of these people were Unity Party of Nigeria
(UPN) governors. But in whose house was N50 million cash
belonging to the government was found? That person was only
given a house arrest, because he is a Northerner. No
Northerner was treated the way they treated the Southern
governors. That is why as much as I respect President
Buhari, I know that his sincerity is not total.In what
way sir?
If you
remember the case of the 53 suitcases, Abubakar Atiku was
the Customs officer in charge and it was through the back
door that they used to bring in the 53 suitcases to Nigeria.
But they were intercepted; Atiku was in Customs then. But
when he wanted to make trouble about it, he was sacked by
Buhari and nothing was done. What is [sance] for the goose
is [sance] for the gander. The only way people can respect
you or your integrity is when the children of the people you
don’t know at all and yours commit a crime and you deal
with them accordingly; people will respect you. Corruption
is everywhere. It is endemic, and that is why he should not
focus on one side. Our anti-graft fight is cosmetic; we are
not serious about it. I must be sincere with you. I think
the APC will try a little, but what is supposed to be done
with N50 billion, they will do it with N100 billion. But you
know the thing about Nigerians is that, if you tell them you
want to tar the road that leads to their house and they see
the road tarred, they don’t want to know how much you have
spent. The only thing you will hear is this is an action
man; he promised and he has done it. What people don’t
know is that the APC is more corrupt, but unlike the PDP,
they will do projects that people will see, although they
will not be of good standards. But people will still see
something. And if you try to probe into those projects, you
will realise that they have defrauded Nigerians they take
even more than the PDP, because they have a clever way of
doing that. That is the truth.    
 
What
lessons can we learn from the recent elections, especially
in Kogi?
In the
case of Kogi, I believe the National Assembly and the House
of Representatives must be working on constitution amendment
to make provision for such cases. But I know that before any
major election, it will be enshrined in the constitution.
The Nigerian Bar Association and the judiciary should sit
down and deliberate on it. We have highly intelligent people
in this country; we are not mediocres, but it is just that
mediocre people rule over us. I cannot just imagine
President Buhari, who has a primary school certificate,
ruling the country when we have loads of intelligential
great men and women. Many of these politicians are business
mayors and cannot handle any business successfully despite
the fact that they already have the resources at their
disposal. But because politics is a dirty game, those who do
not want to be rubbished will not be willing to come out,
and that is why the dirty ones will continue to
rule. 
But I
think the only way out is to bring sanity to our mode of
electioneering. It should be removed from the constitution
that any presidential aspirant should have a minimum of a
school certificate. And how this even find its way into the
constitution was when the Hausa people were in power. They
did that to accommodate themselves, because a lot of them
don’t go beyond primary school certificate and they
believe they are destined to rule, imagine.In case we
have another instance like that of Kogi, how best should the
constitution address it?
In a
situation where such thing happens, the normal thing is for
the running mate of the winning party to assume power. That
is the way I see it and the normal way I think it should be.
It shouldn’t be that somebody who never contested will now
be brought from somewhere to take over. But if the election
has to be cancelled and everybody now comes out to contest
again, then it is a different case.
 
What is
your take on the question of party supremacy, because Faleke
is still fighting his party’s decision, leading to the
National chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun
saying the party might move against him at some point?
When you
talk of party supremacy, it is too political. For instance,
in 2011, the PDP candidate for the Speaker of the House of
Representatives was not Honourable Aminu Tambuwal, but he
became Speaker. The same played out for the APC this year,
because the party’s candidate for the Senate Presidency
was Senator Ahmad Lawan, not Senator Bukola Saraki. The
party made all manners of noise forgetting they had been a
beneficiary of the same thing against the PDP, so, that is
why I said party supremacy is political and a game of power
play. It is because the party didn’t support Senator
Saraki that is why they are instituting all these
allegations against him. Can you tell me any of them that
have given accurate figures of his assets? None of them has
done it with utmost sincerity in this country. In Nigeria,
you are only a thief if your party isn’t in power, because
once the powers-that-be are not on your side, you are the
biggest thief. So, the question of party supremacy, to me,
makes no sense. Is the party’s constitution more supreme
than the Nigerian constitution?
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I Never Granted Any Interview To Nigerian Tribune About Buhari’s Anti-Corruption War—Itse Sagay

Itse Sagay, a legal scholar, has denied ever granting an interview to the Nigerian Tribune to deride President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption efforts.

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BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKDEC 20, 2015

Itse Sagay, a legal scholar, has denied ever granting an interview to the Nigerian Tribune to deride President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption efforts.

Speaking with a correspondent of SaharaReporters by telephone from Lagos, Mr. Sagay, a professor of law, well known constitutional lawyer and head of President Buhari’s advisory committee on anti-corruption, said he was shocked to read a report concocted by the newspaper, crediting him with sharp criticism of the current administration’s anti-corruption strategy. According to him, the newspaper’s report on his purported interview represented a desperate attempt to discredit President Buhari’s anti-corruption war. 
 
Mr. Sagay told our correspondent that he had stopped granting interviews to the Tribune after the paper’s editors had twisted an interview he granted them in August. According to him, the paper’s account of his August interview was tailored to suit the devious agenda of its editors hence his rejection of all efforts by the newspaper to speak with him on record for an interview.

The Nigerian Tribune is one of the newspapers named as beneficiaries of a payout from funds that were meant for the purchase of weapons to fight Islamist insurgent group, Boko Haram. The revelation of a widespread dole-out of cash to media groups, including the Tribune, has emerged as part of a scandal involving former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (ret.), who is accused of diverting more than $2 billion budgeted for weaponry. 

Investigators have revealed that several Nigerian newspapers received N10 million each from the slush fund overseen by Mr. Dasuki. At least 12 newspapers were paid from the fund through Nduka Obaigbena, chair of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), according to investigators. Even though the Tribune denied receiving the funds, subsequent disclosures indicated that the newspaper’s editors took part in a meeting where it was agreed that the booty should be accepted. 

In dismissing the opinion attributed to him by the Tribune, Mr. Sagay said he had never met or spoken to the journalist who wrote the report, insisting that the interview was made up. He challenged the reporter and paper’s editors to provide the public with a tape recording of the so-called interview.
 
The late Obafemi Awolowo founded the Tribune, and his family still owns the paper, which is one of Nigeria’s longest surviving daily newspapers.

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'Imo okunkun nii'!

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Imperial,

I agree that the reporter and his editor should be quizzed and prosecuted because this report was a violation of the constitutional duty of the media as it misinformed.

Nelson Ekujumi

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The reporter is criminal. 

He should be invited by the police/ SSS for a chat . 

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On 21 Dec 2015, at 17:06, abiodun KOMOLAFE ijeb...@yahoo.co.uk [AfricanWorldForum] <AfricanW...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Nigerian Tribune Newspaper Fires Reporter, Editor Over Concocted Interview Berating Buhari

The Nigerian Tribune, a newspaper owned by the family of late Nigerian political sage, Obafemi Awolowo, has fired a senior reporter, Olakunle Timothy Taiwo, for concocting an interview with Itse Sagay, a constitutional lawyer, and scholar. Senior reporter at the Tribune, Olakunle Timothy Taiwo.

The paper’s Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief, Edward Dickson, confirmed Mr. Taiwo’s sack in a response to a text from SaharaReporters. Our correspondent had sent a text asking the MD to confirm the authenticity of information that the paper was about to issue an apology to Mr. Sagay and to formally retract the report based on a non-existent interview with the legal scholar.

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Senior reporter at the Tribune, Olakunle Timothy Taiwo

In a widely circulated report in the paper’s online edition, Mr. Taiwo claimed that Mr. Sagay had reportedly berated President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war. However, in an interview yesterday with SaharaReporters, Mr. Sagay, who chairs President Buhari’s advisory team on anti-corruption, denied that he granted any interview to the reporter or the Tribune. He also challenged the reporter and newspaper to provide proof that he spoke to them.

The Tribune’s MD said he was at the newspaper’s annual general meeting and, therefore, could not offer further comments on the forged report. However, another source at the paper told SaharaReporters that an editor had also been fired early today over the same scandal.

The Nigerian Tribune is one of the newspapers named as beneficiaries of a payout from funds that were meant for the purchase of weapons to fight Islamist insurgent group, Boko Haram. The revelation of a widespread dole-out of cash to media groups, including the Tribune, is part of a growing financial scandal involving former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (ret.). Mr. Dasuki is accused of diverting more than $2 billion budgeted for the purchase of weapons for the Nigerian military. Much of the looted defense funds were then shared among officials of the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for campaign purposes. 

In addition, Mr. Dasuki funneled billions of naira to Raymond Dokpesi, proprietor of African Independent Television (AIT), and Nduka Obaigbena, owner of ThisDaynewspaper. Mr. Obaigbena also became the alleged conduit for distributing cash to at least 12 newspapers, according to findings by agents investigating the NSA’s illicit disbursements of defense funds. 

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Oga Claver,

I am abiodun KOMOLAFE.

Did you mean PDPigs?

But what I'm seeing below are ... monkeys, I guess.

So, what do we call them?

May God save us from ourselves!

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On Dec 21, 2015, at 09:31, Peter Claver Oparah <petercl...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hahahaha Oga Abiodun,

Restraint from contributors? By contributors, I hope you don't include the crying bush babies, I mean the inconsolable Wailing Wailers, who have wept their Buhsriphobic brains out and are in dire search for newer wailing points, as The Tribute phantom provides? 

See them here;

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On Dec 21, 2015, at 9:03 AM, "'abiodun KOMOLAFE' via OkonkwoNetworks" <okonkwo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Oga Claver,

I am abiodun KOMOLAFE.

Thank you, jare!

But 'Tribune' or 'Tribute': what's the difference as far as its disposition towards the Muhammadu Buhari-led government is concerned? 

As for me, that's why I have always urged restraint on the part of contributors. This is a solid example of why contributors must be 'quick to read but slow to respond.' 

Thank God, I've never joined the fray!

In any case, please find below Sahara Reporters' account of Professor Sagay's disclaimer:

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I Never Granted Any Interview To Nigerian Tribune About Buhari’s Anti-Corruption War—Itse Sagay

Itse Sagay, a legal scholar, has denied ever granting an interview to the Nigerian Tribune to deride President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption efforts.

Speaking with a correspondent of SaharaReporters by telephone from Lagos, Mr. Sagay, a professor of law, well known constitutional lawyer and head of President Buhari’s advisory committee on anti-corruption, said he was shocked to read a report concocted by the newspaper, crediting him with sharp criticism of the current administration’s anti-corruption strategy. According to him, the newspaper’s report on his purported interview represented a desperate attempt to discredit President Buhari’s anti-corruption war. 
 
Mr. Sagay told our correspondent that he had stopped granting interviews to the Tribune after the paper’s editors had twisted an interview he granted them in August. According to him, the paper’s account of his August interview was tailored to suit the devious agenda of its editors hence his rejection of all efforts by the newspaper to speak with him on record for an interview.

The Nigerian Tribune is one of the newspapers named as beneficiaries of a payout from funds that were meant for the purchase of weapons to fight Islamist insurgent group, Boko Haram. The revelation of a widespread dole-out of cash to media groups, including the Tribune, has emerged as part of a scandal involving former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (ret.), who is accused of diverting more than $2 billion budgeted for weaponry. 

Investigators have revealed that several Nigerian newspapers received N10 million each from the slush fund overseen by Mr. Dasuki. At least 12 newspapers were paid from the fund through Nduka Obaigbena, chair of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), according to investigators. Even though the Tribune denied receiving the funds, subsequent disclosures indicated that the newspaper’s editors took part in a meeting where it was agreed that the booty should be accepted. 

In dismissing the opinion attributed to him by the Tribune, Mr. Sagay said he had never met or spoken to the journalist who wrote the report, insisting that the interview was made up. He challenged the reporter and paper’s editors to provide the public with a tape recording of the so-called interview.

 
The late Obafemi Awolowo founded the Tribune, and his family still owns the paper, which is one of Nigeria’s longest surviving daily newspapers. 

May God save us from ourselves!

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On Dec 21, 2015, at 08:44, Peter Claver Oparah petercl...@yahoo.com [AfricanWorldForum] <AfricanW...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Oga Abiodun,

Is it Nigerian Tribune or Nigerian Tribute? 

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On Dec 21, 2015, at 8:32 AM, "abiodun KOMOLAFE ijeb...@yahoo.co.uk [AfricanWorldForum]" <AfricanW...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Fellow Nigerians,

I am abiodun KOMOLAFE.

First and foremost, thank God the erudite professor has written a disclaimer to the interview he's reported to have granted Nigerian Tribune. The truth here is: someone, somewhere is trying to be clever by half and one can only urge the learned professor to put his learned wits into use here.

Having said that, one conspicuous portion of the said interview was his classification, or categorization, of President Buhari as a mere Primary School Certificate holder.

In the said interview, purportedly granted by him, Prof. Sagay was quoted as saying:

"We have highly intelligent people in this country; we are not mediocres, but it is just that mediocre people rule over us. I cannot just imagine President Buhari, who has a primary school certificate, ruling the country when we have loads of intelligential great men and women."

But, the same Professor Sagay was said to have granted the interview below in January, 2015.

A case of double-speak? Or 'I have just seen what I couldn't see before'? Or blackmail? Or ...?

 

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BUHARI’S CERTIFICATE EQUIVALENT TO MASTER’S DEGREE, SAYS PROF SAGAY

January 20th, 2015 | by administrator

HEADLINES

Constitutional lawyer, Prof. Itse Sagay, says the qualification Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has is equivalent to a Master’s degree.

Sagay, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said this while reacting to a claim by another senior advocate, Mr. Mike Ozekhome, that Buhari was not qualified to contest because he could not provide his certificate.

Sagay said there was nowhere in the constitution where it was stated that a candidate of a political party must provide his certificate.

He said Buhari attended the Military Training College in Kaduna; the Mons Officer Cadet School in the United Kingdom; and the Army War College in the United States.

He said anyone that did not have a secondary school certificate could not have attended such prestigious military schools.

He said, “This whole discussion of Buhari’s qualification is a negative distraction from the legitimate process of electioneering which should involve issues, records of the candidates, their character, and their capacity to govern. These are things we should be talking about.

“The constitution is very clear on the issue of qualification. It states that you are qualified to be a President if you have achieved the level of school certificate or its equivalent. Buhari has been to Military College in Britain, he has been to colleges in India and USA, involving high level of training and intellect.

“We need to ask if participation and completion of courses at these levels and the basic officers training in Mons Officers Cadet School are less than school certificates. On the contrary, you need school certificate to attend those courses. So, if he has attended all those courses, then there is absolutely no need to be talking about secondary school certificates anymore.

“So, this man attended secondary school and we hear he was even the head boy. He has been to the Cadet School in Mons, he attended the War College in the US and was given a certificate which is equivalent to a master’s degree.

Sagay said Nigeria had continued to worsen under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan despite the fact that he was the first doctorate degree holder to become the President of Nigeria.

“If I may add, how has the Ph.D of the President helped this country?” he said.

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As stated above, thank God: SAN Sagay has now put the issue in proper perspective.

May God save us from ourselves!

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  Buhari is not sincere with corruption fight —Sagay

Professor Itse Sagay, SAN, headed President Muhammadu Buhari’s advisory committee on anti-corruption. He speaks with OLAKUNLE TAIWO on the legal implications of the Kogi governorship election, why some key institutions are corrupt, the president’s integrity and his anti-graft crusade, among others. Excerpts:

AS a constitutional lawyer, what do you think would have been the right thing to do in Kogi when the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Prince Audu Abubakar, died before the declaration of the results of the election?
You know the issue is new and there was no provision for such at all in the constitution, but somehow the decision should have been at the discretion of the Attorney-General of the Federation or the prerogative of the court to actually decide which way to go. It was like a lacuna or lawless case, where anybody can just act the way he feels, because there was no provision for it. So, both parties can do what they like and that is just it. Sincerely, there is an extent to which the case can be prosecuted legally, because having no provision for it, it has created a loophole for anybody to act anyhow. We will just be making noise. Therefore, in such a case, the judiciary or anybody can be influenced. 

How do you mean sir?   
You should understand now. For instance, most of the political judgments in court now will be tilting to the side of the APC, because they are in power. That is the truth, especially in a situation where there is a clear loophole that gives any judge the leeway to give judgment he feels like. Nobody will have any ground to query such judgment.
 
How best can such issues be resolved then?
Of a truth, the election was almost concluded before the death of the APC candidate. It was a clear case that APC was winning, and if that was the case, I think the decision should be more to the APC and not to the PDP, because if we had any cause to decide the election with that results, the APC had already won but their candidate died. The only thing I am not comfortable with was that when Audu died, it should be his running mate that should have taken over and not somebody who never campaigned or contested.
 
Many legal experts have different views on this issue…  
That is why we say there is a loophole. If that election had been concluded and results announced, and Audu died, there would be no argument. Honourable James Faleke, his running mate, would have taken over. Unfortunately, the returning officer said the election was inconclusive, and you know APC is peopled by very clever and highly-intelligent, as well as criminally-minded people. I am telling you sincerely, you can hardly beat them in such an issue. They take advantage of any slightest opportunity unlike the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Once the APC saw that the running mate, though they accepted him as running mate, didn’t carry the kind of weight to be their governor, they quickly exploited the loophole. You know running mates, whether deputy governor, vice-president or what have you, are just like stooges; they don’t carry any political weight.  So, the fact that they agreed to his becoming deputy governor didn’t mean he would be acceptable to them as governor, because a governor takes decision. And maybe they realised that Faleke would not listen to them in their caucus. You know within a party, there are always caucuses; so, the powers-that-be within the party might not want him in power. That was why they had to manipulate the whole situation, which nobody has any ground to query. Let anybody take it to any court.

Was the position of the INEC the best option in such circumstance, given the fact that Honourable Faleke and Idris Wada are still kicking?
In fact, that is the most intelligent position that could help the situation then. It was a situation that nobody envisaged, so the best way to it was to declare the election inconclusive. But one thing is that both the INEC and principal actors in the party knew that there was no provision for them in the constitution. Therefore, all of them were depending on who knows who. They would have quickly gone to press buttons in the judiciary and the office of the AGF, because there is no independent judiciary.

No independent judiciary?

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When this news broke, I didn't bother to read it because I told all who cared to listen that Prof. Itse Sagay is too serious a mind to be engaged in flippancy and one has been proved right because I knew, the truth will eventually come out.

Well, I just hope those who are engaged in similar venture of lies, mischief and misinformation will take a cue and repent before the consequences become devastating than this.

A word is enough for the wise.

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Where are the rain battered Wailers that quickly lapped on this forged interview and vowed to swear on its authenticity? Have they gone early to bed as another of their straws collapsed on them? 

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Nigerian Tribune Issues Retraction And Apology Over Purported Interview With Professor Sagay

The Sunday Tribune published an interview in its December 20, 2015 edition with the headline: "Buhari not sincere with corruption fight--Sagay." A lot of issues have since cropped up on that interview with the supposed interviewee disclaiming it through an online medium. We have done a preliminary in-house investigation into how the interview was conducted and on what could have gone wrong with it.

The fact of the matter is that the interview was conducted through telephone by one of our politics reporters on Thursday,  December, 17th 2015 calling the interviewee on TELEPHONE NUMBER 08023137144. The normal introductory formalities, according to the reporter, were observed before the interview commenced. In the course of the interview, the person on the other side answered all questions even when he was addressed as the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption.

Online reports quoting Professor Sagay as denying granting the interview were, therefore, received by us with a shock. We consequently listened to the audio recording of the interview and, regrettably, discovered the voice not to be that of Professor Sagay. 

While we are continuing our investigations on who the person on the other line actually was and what could have gone wrong along our own line of editorial control, a number of disciplinary actions has been taken against our key members of staff involved in the publication. Specifically, the reporter has been dismissed from the employ of the company and the Editor, Sunday Tribune, placed on indefinite suspension.

We have no reason whatsoever to put words in the mouth of the respected Professor Sagay. We apologise to him. We equally apologise to President Muhammadu Buhari and all other persons who were variously attacked in the publication. Our apologies also go to our esteemed readers. There was no deliberate action on our part to mislead our readers. We have an enviable pedigree and a long history of pioneering, in this country, a brand of journalism that upholds the truth as inviolable at all times. We have an institutional rigorous process in place that hitherto ensured this kind of unfortunate slip never took place. How this happened, escaping the control system, is part of issues we are addressing. We are taking a firm, corrective look at that mechanism again.

Once again, we promise our readers that this unfortunate incident will not happen again in our operations even as we retract the interview in its entirety.

-Management

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Alagba Viscount,

I am abiodun KOMOLAFE.

'Imo okunkun nii'!

May God save us from ourselves!

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Date: Monday, December 21, 2015, 11:06 AM

Nigerian Tribune Newspaper Fires Reporter, Editor
Over Concocted Interview Berating
Buhari
The Nigerian
Tribune, a newspaper owned by the family of late
Nigerian political sage, Obafemi Awolowo, has fired a senior
reporter, Olakunle Timothy Taiwo, for concocting an
interview with Itse Sagay, a constitutional lawyer, and
scholar. Senior reporter at the Tribune,
Olakunle Timothy Taiwo.
The paper’s
Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief, Edward Dickson, confirmed
Mr. Taiwo’s sack in a response to a text from
SaharaReporters. Our correspondent had sent a text asking
the MD to confirm the authenticity of information that the
paper was about to issue an apology to Mr. Sagay and to
formally retract the report based on a non-existent
interview with the legal scholar.

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      Oga Claver,
I am abiodun KOMOLAFE.
Did you mean PDPigs?
But what I'm seeing below are ... monkeys, I
guess.
So, what do we call them?
May God save us from ourselves!

abiodun

KOMOLAFE, AMNIM,020, Okenisa Street,

------------------------------I Never

Granted Any Interview To Nigerian Tribune About Buhari’s
Anti-Corruption War—Itse Sagay
Itse
Sagay, a legal scholar, has denied ever granting an
interview to the Nigerian Tribune to deride President
Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption
efforts.

KOMOLAFE, AMNIM,020, Okenisa Street,

SAGAYJanuary
20th, 2015 | by administratorHEADLINES

Constitutional
lawyer, Prof. Itse Sagay, says the qualification Maj.Gen
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has is equivalent to a Master’s
degree.Sagay,
who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said this while
reacting to a claim by another senior advocate, Mr. Mike
Ozekhome, that Buhari was not qualified to contest because
he could not provide his certificate.Sagay
said there was nowhere in the constitution where it was
stated that a candidate of a political party must provide

his certificate.He said

Buhari attended the Military Training College in Kaduna; the
Mons Officer Cadet School in the United Kingdom; and the

Army War College in the United States.He said

anyone that did not have a secondary school certificate
could not have attended such prestigious military

schools.He said,

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        Buhari is not sincere with corruption fight
—Sagay      

Professor
Itse Sagay, SAN, headed President Muhammadu Buhari’s
advisory committee on anti-corruption. He speaks with
OLAKUNLE TAIWO on the legal implications of the Kogi
governorship election, why some key institutions are
corrupt, the president’s integrity and his anti-graft
crusade, among others. Excerpts:

to query. Let anybody take it to any court.Was the

position of the INEC the best option in such circumstance,
given the fact that Honourable Faleke and Idris Wada are
still kicking?
 In fact,
that is the most intelligent position that could help the
situation then. It was a situation that nobody envisaged, so
the best way to it was to declare the election inconclusive.
But one thing is that both the INEC and principal actors in
the party knew that there was no provision for them in the
constitution. Therefore, all of them were depending on who
knows who. They would have quickly gone to press buttons in
the judiciary and the office of the AGF, because there is no
independent judiciary.No
independent judiciary?
 Forget

about it. It is just a mere saying.So, who is

controlling the judiciary?
 Who puts
them there? The executive, of course. But it is not peculiar
to Nigeria, maybe the whole of Africa. Even in developed
countries, the judiciary can be influenced, but the only
thing is that they are careful in all those

manipulations.What do

you mean by influencing the judiciary?

Influencing the judiciary may not necessarily be through
cash splash. For instance, a judge can be fired by the
person that puts him there if he gives a judgment that is
not pleasing to the party. And because the judge is still
interested in his job, he will want to act to the script.
So, it is very easy for the judge to compromise without
receiving any cash incentive. But you know that the party
will not do without giving you money anyway. Another reason
judges are easily compromised is because many of them
don’t have plans for life after retirement. So the fear of
developing stroke after losing their job is what actually
kills most of them; they allow the powers-that-be to have

their way.How then

N100 million, where did he get the money?If the

Buhari, I know that his sincerity is not total.In what

believe they are destined to rule, imagine.In case we

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[afis 'Deinde]

The reporter cannot be prosecuted in a civilized society. He has the right to be dumb. The only thing you can do to him is to fire him. If he's not fired, in a civilized society, readership of the paper will dwindle. 
Many times tabloid press have carried fake news about Obama planning to divorce Michelle.

Okay?

It's not a good thing, but the reporter is covered under free speech.

Shikena 

Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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Afis:

It is one thing for a reporter to state that he heard rumors of an impending divorce between Barack and Michelle Obama.  That he heard  a rumor might be true - and he is merely repeating a rumor that may be true or false.  It is another thing ENTIRELY to  publish a fake interview purportedly interviewing Michelle quoting her as saying that she was divorcing Barack.

What this Tribune reporter did to Sagay's name was criminal, and both the reporter and its reporter could be sued, even though they could claim that they were conned by an impostor - but they did not do due dilligence.  And wailing wailers were too happy to jump upon it and repeat it and start to analyze it.

I am a little tired of Nigerian newspapers, and here is a story......

Just the other day, four newspaper people came to interview me,  post-accreditation, at Otuoke.  At the start of the interview, one lady claimed to be representing one particular newspaper, despite the fact that the reporter of that newspaper had earlier given an indication to my PR staff that he could not attend.  Anyway, ten minutes into the group interview, another reporter came in, claiming to be representing that particular newspaper ALREADY at the table.  To make matters worse, he said that he was "Mr. Lagbaja Tamodu" - giving the actual name of the reporter of that newspaper who had said he could not attend, who I knew by face and name.  When I claimed he was not that person that I knew, he quickly said that no, really he was not, but that he had been sent by that person to represent him.  

So at one sitting, I had TWO newspaper persons being impostors in one interview....I felt disgusted and let them know it.  I later called Mr. Lagbaja Tamodu, who expressed surprise about the first person (the lady), but confirmed that he belatedly sent the second impostor, but wondered why he at first misrepresented his real identity.

Only one of the four newspapers has so far published the interview - to my knowledge....

And there you have it.

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Ehn VC Aluko,

Why would they show up to interview you if there is nothing in it for them? I don't get it.

WS - A revered prince of Mushin.

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[Rakangbe]

SACKED TRIBUNE EDITOR!!

 

                                                 This sacking is not enough and these are the reasons why..(1) The sacked reporter is not acting alone.(2) Some people of TIMBER AND CALIBER gave him the go ahead(3) This sacked Olakunle Timothy Taiwo is just one of the errand boys of this ORDER under siege of CHANGE.

  Ever heard of CORRUPTION FIGHTING BACK? this is the glaring example of how the very group of people who held the country by the jugular are fighting back and they will not go peacefully.

 

  Professor Sagay! Please, take this opportunity to do me the biggest favour of the year, SUE TAIWO OLAKUNLE TIMOTHY, the TRIBUNE COMPANY HOLDINGS for everything they are worth until they get OLAKUNLE TIMOTHY TAIWO to tell the world who gave him the instruction to FABRICATE, CONCOCT, CONJURE AND SLANDER and innocent Nigerian!

 

  Lastly, those who might think this putrid fabrication is an isolated case better think twice for..it is not. Back in February of this eventful year, some untrained and uncouth woman of Nigerian origin maliciously and hatefully printed that SAI BABA has testicular cancer!! Just imagine. the demented Ayo Fayose said SAI BABA is using diaper because his own mother is in her seventies and is using diaper...folks, when shall we put a break on this nonsense just because we don't like our fellowman?

  Am yet to see anywhere in the book of DEMOCRACY that says one can destroy another person just because you don't fancy their style anywhere, any place.

 

 

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