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SAS and Ikimi, must you always win?

It was reported that Abacha-era Foreign Affairs Minister Chief Tom Ikimi is being wooed by PDP because he failed to realise his aspiration to become…

It was reported that Abacha-era Foreign Affairs Minister Chief Tom Ikimi is being wooed by PDP because he failed to realise his aspiration to become APC’s first national chairman.
Ikimi was one of the three big men touted for the chairmanship including the eventual winner, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun. While one of the contestants, former Bayelsa State governor Timipre Sylva announced at the convention venue that he was stepping down, Ikimi held out until the last minute and simply failed to turn up at the venue.
Look here, Big Tom. In July 1990, when you were elected national chairman of the now defunct National Republican Convention [NRC], who told you that your opponent in that election Ibrahim Nasir Mantu was happy? But unlike you he did not boycott the convention. He attended it, he waited until the votes were counted and he congratulated you when you won. He even embraced you, and he never defected to the Social Democratic Party [SDP].  You, why can’t you do the same? Is it only you that must win election all the time? Just because you were not elected, you say that you are considering defecting to another party. If all the other people had defected from NRC just because they did not become the chairmen, will you have found anyone to lead for two and a half years?
The same with you, Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff, SAS or even GAS as people call you. Just because you were not able to impose your candidate Alhaji Kashim Imam as the party’s national secretary, your spokesman said you are unhappy and you are thinking of defecting to PDP. What kind of democracy is that in your vocabulary? All the time you were winning elections in this Nigeria, who told you that the people you defeated were happy? You won a Senate election in 1998. You won another one in 1999. Then in 2003 you defeated incumbent governor Alhaji Malah Kachallah in your party’s [APP] primaries. You then won the governorship of Borno State that year and won it again in 2007. Who told you that all the people you defeated were happy? Yet they did not defect to other parties.
I beg, the two of you, Ikimi and SAS, sit in one place and learn to accept defeat. This thing you are doing is not good, jumping from one party to another just because you or your proxy did not win an election. Haba!

Dis fake bride sef…

Have you read the story of the Nigerian woman who is now cooling her heels in a British prison after she faked a wedding with a White man in order to evade coming back home to Nigeria? Uzoma Onwuha, 30, was in Britain with a study visa but when she finished her schooling, she did not want to come back home. What did she do? She faked a wedding.
Miss Onwuha got a Czech man named Robert Horvath and paid him 1,000 pounds sterling. They then went to a marriage registry on an agreed date. There were no relatives of either the “bride” or the “groom” to grace the wedding, so they went to a nearby bus stop and invited six strangers to attend their “wedding.” You would have thought that when a marriage is solemnised, the couple will take off for honeymoon or at least to a matrimonial bed but this couple immediately split; each one took a bus home.
Now the Brits have captured them, jailed them 12 months each and fined them 225 pounds. After Miss Uzoma Onwuha finishes her jail term, she will be deported to Nigeria. Hopefully, she will now come here and do a proper wedding.

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