Author: Femi Olufunmilade, PhD

“A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. – William Shakespeare. This describes a campaign of calumny in the form of an old article in the 12th July, 2008, issue of The Sun newspaper making the rounds on social media to put a wedge between the writer, Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, and Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, the new Chief of Staff to President Buhari. The piece titled, “Gambari: The Slap Next Time” was unsupportive of Gambari’s appointment to broker peace between the Federal Government and the Niger Delta militants. He cited the professor’s stance on the…

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I listened to a lawless Miyetti Allah blabber famous for instigating his illegally armed Fulani kinsmen to unleash violence on fellow Nigerians on live TV programmes recently. He said the Yoruba should forget the 2023 presidency for setting up Amotekun. I said he was, probably, talking to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is believed to be nursing ambition seriously in that regard. Otherwise, I don’t know of any Yoruba, as things stand today, hankering after the presidency in 2023. If the presidency means anything to Yoruba people right now, I’m certain most right-thinking people would suggest Tinubu’s nominee for Vice…

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